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Invasion of Alien Bikini, or, I Feel Sick
This entry is part 51 of 67 in the series SF in South Korea
So, I mentioned the Korean SF film Invasion of Alien Bikini a few weeks ago. Miss Jiwaku and I saw it tonight, and, well, to say it ruined out evening would be an understatement. I am going to tell you the whole plot here, so that you don't have to see it, and know why you should not, in fact, spend a single won on it.
The thing is, the film really didn't have to suck. The opening section was actually really interesting: I felt like I was seeing Seoul represented in a film in a way I'd never seen before: a different feel to the skyline, a kind of easy comfort with the grunginess of the place, an honesty about the trash on the sidewalk and coldness and loneliness of the city.
There was some fairly effective, if somewhat cheesy comedy, as a fellow wearing a fake mustache wandered about "doing good" — picking up trash and throwing it into bins, for example, which highlighted what a pathetic do-gooder he was. He stumbles on a woman being chased by a group of men, and intercedes… and somehow, he kicks their asses with his bizarre, almost satirical martial arts moves. Whatever the hell he is, he is able to take a beating and keep fighting.
Finally, having rescued the young lady, he brings her to his crappy apartment, and becomes extremely uptight. This part is, once again, full of cheeseball comedy — he's insanely uptight, to the point of not even wanting to look at the woman, and avoiding her gaze. But a bizarre game of jenga leads to a kind of semi-forced make-out session, and it becomes apparent the woman wants to sleep with him. Immediately. Oh, and her name is Harmonica. Which, you know, is surely a hooker's name (or, okay, a party-girl's pseudonym) if ever I heard one. Oh, and she's insanely strong. Like, insanely strong.
But the uptightness returns, and the man resists. That's when the woman goes nuts: she has a large tear i the skin of her back, and her spine emerges, just as you saw if you watched the preview, which I'll paste again here:
Okay, so, the spine-attack thing knocks the man out, and when he wakes again, he discovers he has been tied up. The woman desperately tries to get him aroused, though on some level she also seems to exult in torturing him. Fellatio doesn't turn him on, because, well, it's not so fun when it causes bleeding; and she uses a feather duster to tickle him, but then brutalizes his backside with it. He finally gets turned on, but then staunchly refuses to sleep with her, because of a chastity vow he has taken.
When he continues to refuse her, she finally resorts to a more severe form of torture: flooding his sinuses with a tonic of pure evil: raw garlic, wasabi, hot peppers, and hot sauce, if I remember right, fed in through a hose in one nostril, through which the man is supposed to breathe.
I'll cut ahead to the gist of what happens, because the torture goes on for some time: finally, she decides to choke him to death because, yeah, she's an alien inhabiting a dead body, and she needs some sperm tonight to give birth to a child — tonight is the perfect night for it, and she can't wait till tomorrow to be married to the man and get his sperm.
But at this moment, a flashback arises in the dying man's mind, of… well, a case of extreme abuse he apparently suffered from his own father, as a child. (I'm talking tied up outside in the rain in your underwear, with rope around your neck, beaten on the head with a shoe till you bleed, drive you so mad you kill your own father in self-defense kind of abuse.) So the guy finally fights back.
Which is — yes, this is it — the moment this film seems to have been written to feature:
The climax of the film arrives when the man finally, finally fights back against this alien attacking him. He beats her in the face, repeatedly and for a long time, until his own face is covered with blood. Then, believing he has killed her as he did his own father, he feels a rush of guilt, and begins to weep for his crime. And then she stirs, and he realizes she isn't dead… almost, but not quite. So then he rapes her. During none of this does she manifest any alien powers, any time-altering abilities, anything at all that would make her different than a human being.
So, yes, effectively, the film is a vehicle for a deeply misogynist beating-and-rape fantasy, inflicted by a geeky man upon a buxom, pretty young woman. That's it, folks.
Well, I wish that was it. The denouement of the film involves the guys who were hunting the alien woman, who infodump her species' history (plus some crap about their "speeeding up time" and "using up energy faster," none of which made any sense at all). There are disgracefully overt references to the famous — and absolutely wonderful — Korean SF film Save the Green Planet (which it pained me to hear, since this crap film doesn't deserve to even exist on the same Green Planet as that one), but those only made explicit what I'd already noticed: how much this film ripped off Save the Green Planet. And then the protagonist dies of old age while attacking another alien, who seems to have maybe killed Harmonica, except of course that it was the protagonist who beat her till she was crippled.
And then he dies. And that's basically the end.
So, what to say, other than this was a complete and total waste of money and time?
Well, for one thing: this was like a slush-pile film. SF magazines that mention things not to do, explicitly mention NOT to write stories where protagonists enact rapes, or brutal beatings of women, just for the sake of the wanton misogynistic indulgence. Hell, look at Strange Horizons' list of stories they've seen too often:
30. Brutal violence against women is depicted in loving detail, often in a story that's ostensibly about violence against women being bad.
Man is forced by circumstances or magic to rape a woman even though he really doesn't want to, honest.
The main reason for the main female character to be in the story, and to be female, is so that she can be raped.
In case you're wondering, yes, that is exactly my sense: the film suggests it will be a kind of amusing sex comedy, but at its core is a disturbingly misogynistic fantasy, portrayed in disgustingly loving detail.
Had Harmonica taken on an alien form — something nonhuman, that made clear her nature was not essentially that of a human woman — I would have been quite comfortable with him beating or killing his alien assailant. (Not guiltily raping it afterwards, in alien form, mind you, but the beating and killing would have been understandable, and non-misogynistic.)
Had Harmonica used her enormous and brutal strength to fend him off during this climactic scene, I might have believed it, and felt badly for the man as he resorted to violence, and discovered how puny and useless his emasculated male violence is in the face of a transcendent being from another corner of the galaxy.
A little blood would not have disturbed me so much if Harmonica had turned out to be truly alien, I guess, is what I'm saying. But in the crucial moment, Harmonica turns out to be nothing but a pretty chick — "bitch," really, is the word I imagine the filmmaker using, however — set up to be beaten bloody and raped before an audience. But then, that's not surprising given the track record for the treatment of women in Korean SF films, I suppose — they are almost all either depicted as grotesque, doomed to die pathetic deaths, or inhuman machines. (The woman with the bow in The Host being the one exception that comes to mind.)
As it was, I felt icky during and after the film, in the way you might feel icky watching a comedy show that suddenly turns racist and hateful and doesn't look back, or watching a history film and then discovering it's a pro-KKK paean.
But there's more disappointment than that to consider: there's the failure of yet another Korean SF film, when so much was possible. At first, I misheard the name Harmonica (with the familiar tag "sshi" appended to it) as Munakashi, which sounds a lot like the name of an alien in a famous Korean novella, Djuna's Daerijeon (Proxy War). (Apparently quick and slightly rough translation here.) I was excited, hoping that perhaps this film was an adaptation of that novella or novel, which after all featured the notion that alien sex tourists were visiting the earth (and occasionally running amok in hijacked host bodies). If only the filmmaker had thought to adapt — or, hell, even to to rip off — Djuna.
For the love of all that's holy, I wish would-be SF filmmakers in Korea would read some Korean SF, would talk to Korean SF authors, would maybe watch some SF movies. And I don't just mean stupid SF-skin flicks like Species. I mean the broad range of SF films that exist from a whole bunch of cultures.
Finally, and I am really struggling with this pattern this year: why is it that in order to be sympathetic, a "good" character protagonist must put up with incredible amounts of crap (usually violence and abuse) passively before acting? Why can't characters just lash out quickly, the first time someone hits them unprovoked, in self-defense? Why do they have to beg, and plead, and bow their head down as someone beats the crap out of them ten times, before standing up for themselves? Is this cultural, or does it annoy Korean viewers too? Is it some kind of melodramatic sympathy-overkill — as in, we won't feel sorry enough to forgive character violence unless they take a lot of crap? Is it tied to problems in the depiction of agency, as Charles Montgomery argues is a major issue in Korean fiction?
I am pretty sure most Westerners will react as I do, finding the passivity of these characters off-putting even when, as in a film like Musan Ilgi (which I wrote about here) we really do want to sympathize with the poor protagonist.
The problem for Alien Bikini is that, essentially, the moment when the male protagonist becomes "real" for us, becomes truly sympathetic because he is fighting for his life, he is also beating the living crap out of what was supposed to be an alien all along, but suddenly seems much more like a plain, defenseless, half-naked human woman. He is humanized, and dehumanized, at precisely the same moment.
What I couldn't help wondering was — why did the actress take the part? Also: well, should I really be surprised at misogyny in this film? It's a sex-comedy in which not one character is a woman (there is an alien inhabiting a female human's dead body, but that's it). Bechdel Test, anyone?
I'm afraid there's nothing more I can really say about this film. I am shocked that it got a theatrical release here, let alone having won a prize at any festival on Earth. (Though, frankly, if it was going to win anywhere, it would be in Japan; that's the only place I've ever seen anything comparably disturbing made.) For an (unsurprisingly inane) interview with the cast and director, go here. But why would you? Other than a little comedy at the beginning, and cleavage, what above interests you?
Okay, okay, cleavage, and tight clothes, and so on:
… but that does not make up for the film, really, it doesn't. You can have cleavage and a non-stupid plot. You can have tight-clothes without misogyny culminating in brutality and rape. (And while someone might argue that the word "rape" is the wrong word, I think it is; the alien is dying, and while the protagonist believes he's doing her an act of desperate kindness, it's a ridiculous idea… especially, as I noted, given how very human she seems at that moment.)
And while I can say seeing this film made me even more eager to try write something feature-length in the Lovecraftian-SF/horror genre for Miss Jiwaku and me to shoot in Korea, I must add that I did not come to this film seeing it as competition to be bashed. I wanted to love this film — I tried, because I think the more SF is made in Korea, the better chance we have of getting good Korean SF films made, and too few of the ones that have been made actually were any good. (I can count the worthwhile ones on the fingers of one hand.) But when it saw I cared, Alien Bikini kicked me in the groin, and pointed and laughed, and then spat in my face for good measure.
But yeah, as Justin Howe commented not too long ago — the thing to do is not to complain, but to "Make something new. Make something better." Still, this post was useful to me for working out exactly why the film disturbed me so much… as well as why I want to tell everyone I know not to go see it. That figured out, I shall move on to better, newer things to be made.
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Ireland, so small but so charming. There are many attractions, places to visit, as there are many possibilities for recreation and fun, enriched by new experiences.
To discover the charm of this island is to leave from Dublin and from major cities to plunge into a series of panoramas, landscapes and small towns as features and villages that show you back to years and years ago.
For thrill seekers, an event not to be missed is The Gobbins footpath, a magnificent journey of about 3 km on the cliffs overlooking the beautiful Causeway Coastal Route.
After years of maintenance work and after an unexpected period of closure due to bad weather this winter, the trail will again be viable as of this summer.
The Gobbins Path runs along the cliff along a stretch of sea; of Edwardian origins, this path has the same, lovely original architectural features dating back some 100 years ago. An unmissable and fascinating guided coastal route, unique in Europe. The restored path, presents a series of suspension bridges and tubes, a grand staircase, caves and tunnels dug into the rock and offers an adventure to thrill, to those who want to dare.
The trail is located a few kilometers from the city of Belfast – just over 32km – and consists in this path with some strategic points, which offer breathtaking views as "The Aquarium", the tubular bridge on the Wise's Eye, which takes its name from the man who designed the trail, designed to provide access to the most spectacular part of the original route, which runs through the raging waves to reach underwater caves and cliffs.


Gabrielle Hamilton is a memoirist as well as the chef and owner of PRUNE in NYC's East Village. She was nominated for Best Chef NYC in 2009 and 2010 by the James Beard Foundation, and in 2011, she won the category. She was the Season 4 host of the PBS show The Mind of a Chef. Gabrielle's New York Times bestseller Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, has been published in six languages and won the James Beard Foundation's award for Writing and Literature in 2012. Most recently, her cookbook Prune was published in 2014.


Asexual waif (remember Twiggy?) meets drab Laura Ashley. A real granny would never ever wear those dangly, embellished cuffls that could only interfere with her generational duties and pleasures.
I do want Apfel's boots, though.
those boots! are the best.
the cuffs are a barrier to work, i think, and a marker of the very fashiony impulse behind granny chic.
Oh, well, I was noticing that part — usability — as an actual granny, not as a fashion observer, now that I'm an old babe who can't wear high fashion. Without risking obloquy (love that word, thank you, had to look it up). You're right, of course.


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Atelier Robotiq experiments with fibers and robotic weaving techniques to make lightweight 3D fiber structures with geometrical weave patterns. The Fiber Pattern Lamp series are designed using mathematical models and wound with an industrial robot.
Atelier Robotiq is a Rotterdam (the Netherlands) based design company. They have an engineering-oriented culture using robots, 3D printers and laser cutters, which they combine with more traditional arts and craftsmanship. Atelier Robotiq produces everything themselves. The name Atelier Robotiq represents the two worlds of Crafts and Technology.


Tonight at 9 you will have a unique opportunity to (re)view the brilliant and engaging documentary film Être et Avoir by Nicolas Philibert. Award winning.
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The apartment is located in a new, clean, and modern building. Located in the heart of downtown Berkeley, close to shops, restaurants, 5-minutes walk from Downtown Berkeley Bart, and one block from UC Berkeley campus.
The first bedroom has one (1) bunk-bed with a pull-out bed and three (3) twin beds. While the second bedroom has two (2) full beds.
The apartment is located in a new, clean, and modern building. Located in the heart of downtown Berkeley, close to shops, restaurants. It is within a 5-minute walk from Downtown Berkeley Bart, and one block from UC Berkeley campus.
Apartment is in a newly constructed building with resident study and lounge with free high-speed internet available, a sundeck on the rooftop with panoramic views of the hill, the Golden Gate Bridge and the Bay.
Located in arguably the best part of Berkeley. It is close to downtown Berkeley where you can shop, go to the theater, 5-minute walk to the UC Berkeley campus, and hop on the BART to visit San Francisco and other parts of the Bay Area.
The location is within a 6-minute walk to Downtown Berkeley Bart, it is on an active street with many restaurants and stores outside the apartment, groceries within 5 minute walk (Safeway, Andronico's Walgreens), it is a safe neighborhood.
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Dentro de nuestro campo de estudio del arte prehistórico, las locuciones arte mueble y arte mobiliar se emplean indistintamente para el sentido amplio, realizada sobre un objeto de dimensiones limitadas y manejables; es decir, que pueden ser transportados por el ser humano. Ejemplos: ellos pueden ser las plaquetas, cofres, muebles, etc.

El concepto de arte mobiliar se compagina, pues, con el de arte parietal que no se puede trasladar porque está realizado sobre los muros o las rocas (arte rupestre). Tampoco debe considerarse arte mueble a las piezas de grandes proporciones como las estelas o las estatuas-menhir del Neolítico y la Edad de los metales.

En el mueble son utilizados la piedra, hueso o marfil.

Consecuentemente, el arte mueble es muy diverso ya que no solo comprende creaciones exclusivamente artísticas (como estatuillas u ornamentos), sino también objetos funcionales, herramientas y útiles decorados. Así, podemos encontrar el arte mueble paleolítico que incluye plaquetas grabadas, venus paleolíticas, adornos, arpones, azagayas, bastones perforados o propulsores decorados, por ejemplo. En epipaleolítico europeo son muy característicos también los cantos pintados azilienses.

En el Neolítico aparecen, además, objetos de barro cocido (es decir, vasijas decoradas, figurillas de cerámica...), idolillos, tejidos, esteras con motivos geométricos o figurativos, etc.

En la Edad de los Metales, a todos estos elementos se añaden objetos metálicos, piezas suntuarias y rituales, broches y armas; todo elaborado con técnicas decorativas enormemente sofisticadas como el nielado en plata, las filigranas, el repujado, el damasquinado el moldeo a la cera perdida, y, así, hasta nunca acabar.

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Chemical Society Reviews
New approaches from nanomedicine for treating leishmaniasis
Víctor Gutiérrez,a Amedea B. Seabra,b Rosa M. Reguera,c Jayant Khandared and Marcelo Calderón*a
a Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Takustrasse 3, 14195 Berlin, Germany
E-mail: marcelo.calderon@fu-berlin.de
Fax: +49-30-838459368
b Exact and Earth Sciences Department, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
c Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de León, León, Spain
d Maharashtra Institute of Pharmacy, MIT Campus, Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune 411038, India
Leishmaniasis, a vector-borne disease caused by obligate intramacrophage protozoa, threatens 350 million people in 98 countries around the world. There are already 12 million infected people worldwide and two million new cases occur annually. Leishmaniasis has three main clinical presentations: cutaneous (CL), mucosal (ML), and visceral (VL). It is considered an opportunistic, infectious disease and the HIV-leishmaniasis correlation is well known. Antimonial compounds are used as first-line treatment drugs, but their toxicity, which can be extremely high, leads to a number of undesirable side effects and resultant failure of the patients to adhere to treatment. There is also a reported increase in Leishmania sp. resistance to these drugs. Nanotechnology has emerged as an attractive alternative because of its improved bioavailability and lower toxicity, and other characteristics that help to relieve the burden of this disease. In this review we will present some of the recent advances in the nanotechnological research regarding the treatment of leishmaniasis. The preclinical results regarding the approaches for a biomedical treatment of the disease have been encouraging, but further efforts will still be necessary for this therapy to have greater clinical applicability in humans.
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CS00674K
Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016,45, 152-168
V. Gutiérrez, A. B. Seabra, R. M. Reguera, J. Khandare and M. Calderón, Chem. Soc. Rev., 2016, 45, 152
DOI: 10.1039/C5CS00674K
Víctor Gutiérrez
Amedea B. Seabra
Rosa M. Reguera
Jayant Khandare
Marcelo Calderón

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Sazerac and Casa San Matias launch mezcals
Sazerac has launched Los Vecinos del Campo, a family of mezcals in partnership with Casa San Matias.
The spirits are produced by 10 families in the Valles Centrales of Oaxaca who have been using traditional methods to create rich agave spirits for generations. The name Los Vecinos del Campo is a nod to those families and their communities, as it translates to "Neighbours of the Field."
Carmen Villarreal, CEO and owner of Casa San Matias, says: "While in Oaxaca, I learned the importance of supporting communities. By offering well-paid jobs, promoting their values and sharing profits of their work back into the community to support health, education and wellness, we can help communities for generations. We are excited that our friends at Sazerac share our enthusiasm for representing Mexican culture and tradition and rewarding the families and communities that make Los Vecinos Mezcal."
Megan Hurtuk, marketing director for Los Vecinos, says: "Over the past several years, we have fallen in love with mezcal and the people who bring it to life in Mexico. We are thrilled to partner with Carmen and do our part to strengthen the long-term sustainability of the category and support the people in Oaxaca who put their hearts and souls into these beautiful spirits."
Los Vecinos del Campo Mezcals hail from the Valles Centrales of Oaxaca and are produced by a group of 10 master mezcaleros who use processes passed down by their ancestors to distil the small batches of mezcal.
Los Vecinos del Campo is releasing its Espadin 90-proof expression in several markets, while two other expressions, Tobala and Ensamble No. 1, will be released in 2019.
Los Vecinos Espadin is available in 750ml bottles at a RRP of $34.
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Today's 2018 NCAA tournament round one schedule, results — March Madness
Michigan earned an automatic bid by winning the Big Ten conference tournament in New York City. | Elsa Getty Images
Lora Ball | 18 March, 2018, 20:06
The former president tweeted out his brackets for both the men's and women's tournaments on Wednesday, picking Michigan State to win the men's basketball title and UConn for the women's title.
First came the preseason NIT tournament.
On the women's side, Obama has the unbeaten overall No. 1 seed Huskies reaching the Final Four along with fellow No. 1 seeds Louisville, Notre Dame and Mississippi State. The Cavaliers lost to No.7 Michigan State as a No.2 seed in 2015, and they didn't reach the tournament's second weekend as a No.5 seed previous year.
Sports fans can also catch every game on the March Madness Live app which is available for download on iOS, Android, Windows, Amazon, Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.
Britain says its priority is looking after staff in Russian Federation
In Washington, 40 US Congressmen signed a letter to Ms May pledging "full support" in tackling the Kremlin over Salisbury. Around 10-15 percent of the 96 Russians on the so-called "oligarch list" published by the U.S.
This Explains Why Colin Kaepernick Was Seen In Houston Training
While anti-collusion rules which prevent owners from conspiring to keep a player out of the league exist. But NFL teams still have time to sign him because the free agency just started on Wednesday.
London choosing confrontation: Russian Federation on May firing of envoys over spy attack
Some in Russian Federation have suggested that the nerve agent could have come from another former Soviet country. The White House also issued a statement that the USA "stands in solidarity with its closest ally".
It's normal to see No. 1 and No. 2 seeds fall after the first and second rounds as the competition really starts to heat up, but perhaps this year is unlike any other when there is not a consensus, No. 1 favorite to win it all. In 2014, head coach Jay Wright's team was knocked out of the tournament as a No.2 seed in the second round. For reference, 13.73 percent of brackets picked Virginia to win the championship.
Ten teams have better odds than Xavier, who is the fourth No.1 seed.
The Tar Heels are the defending champions, and they were the NCAA runners-up in 2016. And that's before playing two more good teams in San Antonio. Duke won the 2015 national championship.
Along with Michigan State, Obama has picked North Carolina, Virginia and Villanova to make the Final Four, with the Spartans prevailing over Virginia in the final.
US must expedite steps for N. Korea talks despite top diplomat change
Spy Poisoning Row: Russia To Expel Uk Diplomats
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the poisoning. Moscow has now also opened their own investigation into the attack on Yulia , who is a Russian citizen.
United States must expedite steps for N. Korea talks despite top diplomat change
The entire USA , including major cities such as NY and Washington, D.C., are potentially within the range of the latest weapon. Following a request from Kim Jong Un , chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Trump has agreed to meet with Kim by May.
EU Powers Exploring New, Non-Nuclear Sanctions On Iran
To strike a balance, diplomats from the U.K., Germany and France drafted plans for new sanctions against Iran focused on its involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Man arrested after car drives into nightclub causing 'panic and chaos'
He claimed that "some guy wasn't let into the club or got kicked out so he drove his 4x4 into the tent we was all in". Footage from the incident shows security guards wrestling the driver to the ground as punters shout and react.
Drake and Ninja's 'Fortnite' battle sets a new Twitch record
In the so-called 'Fortnite Party Royale, ' 50 celebrities will be teamed up with 50 of the best Fortnite Battle Royale players. Fortnite Mobile is also heading to Android, but so far Epic Games have only released the iOS version.
Britain's Boris Johnson: 'Overwhelmingly Likely' Putin Ordered Poisoning of Russian Ex-spy
Johnson said Britain's National Security Council will meet this week to discuss what further measures the country might take. Britain has announced the expulsion of 23 Russian diplomats over the poisoning, and Russia said it would respond in kind .
UFC Fight Night 127: Preview and Predictions
Werdum then stood on the chair to look down on Volkov who usually towers above him. "I knew that his jiu-jitsu is very good". Volkov stalemated the fight on top and forced the fight back to his feet, and Werdum was just out of gas.
Life sentence to Jagtar Singh Tara sorrowful for Sikhs: SGPC
Meanwhile, tight security arrangements were made by the Chandigarh police outside Burail jail in the wake of Tara's sentencing. Beant Singh was killed in a bomb blast outside the Punjab and Haryana Secretariat in August 1995.
'Big Ragu' DiVincenzo provides right sauce for Villanova against Alabama
The Tide are an athletic, well-coached team, and Collin Sexton is as risky a player as Villanova has seen all year. Villanova will face the victor of West Virginia/Marshall next weekend with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line.
Beast of the East II causes chaos on mid Wales roads
Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Luton airports have advised passengers to check the latest flight information. Local media reported that most of the group were teenage girls, along with one adult in the safety vessel.
Powerball jackpot-winning ticket sold in Pennsylvania
Powerball officials estimate that the winnings from the Saturday drawing total $456.7 million; $273.9 million cash value. Three other tickets sold in California, Missouri and Texas matched the first five numbers in the drawing.
Three AIIMS, Delhi doctor killed in Mathura road mishap
Although the expressway is elaborately equipped with CCTV cameras and speed cameras, erring drivers are seldom brought to heel. Along with the three killed, four others were critically injured and taken to the nearby hospital.
FA Cup: Manchester United, Tottenham qualify for semi-finals One player who is yet to make an impact for United is January signing Alexis Sanchez. "You have the kid [McTominay] that didn't play well at all".
Renewed warning for motorists travelling in the Mini Beast from the East As always, we advise passengers to check their flight status with their airline before coming to the airport". Because of the bitter easterly winds, it will actually feel several degrees colder than thermometers show.
'Dog-in' protest at LaGuardia following death of dog on United flight According to United, compensation was offered to all passengers as a result of the diversion. Interested in United Airlines? United has been under fire lately for its handling of pets.
Russian diplomat hints United Kingdom lab could be nerve agent source Meanwhile, Russia's ambassador in London, Alexander Yakovenko, called for "cooler heads". The results should be known in about two weeks, Britain's foreign ministry said.
People celebrate Marathi New Year Gudi Padwa Not only Maharashtra but other states in India like Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh also celebrate the day with much fanfare. Rajya Sabha member and AIFF president Praful Patel wished the nation on the occasion of Gudi Padva, Ugadi and Navratri.
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If the pressure of business or other circumstances dictate, the board president may decide to eliminate this practice. The board president shall recognize these individuals to make their comments at the appropriate time. The orderly process of the board meeting shall not be interfered with or disrupted. Only those speakers recognized by the board president shall be allowed to speak. Comments by others are out of order. If disruptive, the individual making the comments or another individual causing disruption may be asked to leave the board meeting.
For the purposes of this policy disruptive behavior includes, but not limited to, the following: profanity, elevated voice volume or condescending tone, excessive sarcasm, intentionally interrupting the speaker or proceedings, using bullying, harassing, or threatening speech, etc. Individuals that are disruptive and prevent the meeting from continuing or operating in a normal way will be given a warning. If disruptive behavior continues, the individual may be asked to leave the meeting.
Individuals who have a complaint about employees may bring their complaint to the board only after they have followed board policy addressing citizens' complaints. Students who have a complaint may only bring their complaint to the board after they have followed board policy addressing students' complaints.


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Snack ads are not causing obesity
Seeing a Hula Hoops logo on a cricket kit is not going to make anyone fat.
Noel Yaxley
The Hundred is a new cricket tournament established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to attract more children and families to the game. It is a shorter, less demanding version of cricket where teams face just 100 balls each. The Hundred's first games will not be played until next year, but a sponsorship deal with KP Snacks, which owns brands including Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's and Butterkist popcorn, has already angered anti-obesity campaigners.
Caroline Cerny of the Obesity Health Alliance claims that KP wants 'junk-food products… to take centre stage in children's minds'. Barbara Crowther of the Children's Food Campaign said: 'Frankly we're stumped as to why the ECB would consider a salty, high-fat snack brand as an appropriate partner.' NHS boss Simon Stevens has also argued that the sponsorship deal undermines the fight against childhood obesity.
We have come to expect these kinds of responses from public-health groups. But there is scant evidence of any relationship between childhood obesity and advertising. At worst, adverts may encourage children to pester their parents to buy them something unhealthy. Surely we should trust parents to say no to such demands.
Advertising is designed to promote products, not to brainwash people. But the paternalists in the public-health lobby cannot see the difference between the two. The rise of the nanny state – whether in the form of taxes on unhealthy products or bans on advertising – poses a threat to freedom of choice.
It isn't a stretch to imagine that advertising products like snacks on cricket kits could be illegal in the near future. Labour's Tom Watson has already said his party, if it got into government, would ban gambling sponsorship on football kits. London mayor Sadiq Khan has banned adverts of so-called junk food on the underground.
Nanny-state types have such a low view of ordinary people that they think logos on sports kits are enough to turn us into overweight gambling addicts. No one is suddenly going to think Hula Hoops are healthy because they see them on a cricket kit. We should be trusted to make our own choices about what we eat.
What's more, advertising is an essential source of revenue for sport. KP says it intends to continue sponsoring The Hundred in the long term, which will be crucial to its development.
The backlash to The Hundred's harmless sponsorship deal illustrates the madness of the nanny state.
Noel Yaxley is a writer.
Picture by: Getty.
Tags Advertising Food & Drink Health Labour Party Nanny State Obesity Sport


It's fair to say, that if you find yourself thrown in at the deep end on a development project that is unfamiliar to you, the initial feeling, is something close to sheer panic.
On day one, there are so many things you don't know.
What architecture has been employed, which database technology is in use, what technology stack?
And perhaps even more importantly, you don't understand the business domain. You can start to investigate the software, but does the terminology employed in the code match the real-world?
The good news is, once you find yourself at this point, the very worst part is already over.
That feeling, that you know literally nothing, is brief. From here on in, your picture of the domain and the app can only become clearer.
I've found a few tactics that work for me when faced with that initial voyage of discovery.
It's tempting to skip this part.
After all, those colleagues are probably busy, they have their own work to be getting on with, you don't want to disturb them.
But it's so much easier to build up a picture by discussing it with someone else, than it is to sit there, locked in your own head with panic setting in, trying to fathom it all out by yourself.
If you have lots of questions (and you probably will), it may be better to batch them up then request a chunk of time to go through them.
This is much less disruptive for the other person than being interrupted every two seconds as you think of something else.
It's tempting to jump straight into the work but a high level overview of the project is always useful.
Try to get a feel for the business domain. Which people are involved, what are they trying to do and how does the software help them do it?
This all important context ensures the work you're about to undertake is anchored by an understanding of the bigger picture.
Depending on the nature of your role, the work (and the clients), this may or may not apply.
The thought of approaching the client with questions is daunting, but in truth they're best placed to answer any questions you have about the feature/bug fix you're working on.
It might be worth checking with a colleague that the client is approachable, but assuming they are, you'll get to introduce yourself and build up your knowledge of the business domain.
The client usually knows their business inside out and they're unlikely to reject an opportunity to go through it with you, especially if doing so increases the likelihood that you'll solve their problem.
Let's say you're looking at a database, full of tables, and a big web project. It can be really difficult to work out which pages interact with which database tables.
Prefix is perfect for this. It's easy to install and will then show you which web requests and database calls are being made.
Once it's installed, any requests to your local IIS (or IIS Express) web sites will show up.
You can see details of exceptions, database calls etc. by clicking on any of the requests.
A common issue when exploring any project is understanding the database schema.
If you point SchemaSpy at your database it will build up some documentation that shows which tables there are, and how they relate to other tables.
This is particularly useful if the database has well defined relationships.
It's daunting to approach any new (to you) project but hopefully these tips help.
Whatever happens, remember, that initial feeling of being completely lost is temporary and it won't be long before you're the "go-to" domain expert to whom everyone else turns for advice!


2019 Mercedes-AMG G63 SUV Release Date, Spy Shots, Redesign, & Price – Mercedes' new AMG-powered G-Class is not even close to getting the most functional SUV in the world. Not only can it cost a lot of cash, but it also isn't as comfortable as other, considerably less expensive large premium folks haulers, this kind of as the GLS 63 for case in point.
Nevertheless, with respect to Carwow editor Mat Watson, this most up-to-date-generation G63 is a good deal far more enhanced and easier to accept than its predecessor, a car that was significantly deficient in advanced onboard tech. Another significant distinction between the new and the aged model is the overall quality of the interior, which is now almost comparable to other luxury SUVs, despite the fact that you may still get portions of challenging plastic material on this page and there, reminding you of the G-Wagen's utilitarian nature.
In addition to its far better-built interior, there are also loads of storing spots inside the all-new G63, and you go for Mercedes' expensive 64-color ambient lighting system transferring during the cabin, in the front and rear. Talking of the rear, leg-room is more respectable given that well before, as the older model was not even close to remarkable whenever it emerged to total comfort – something we also discovered while looking at this 2019 G350d before this year.
On the road, the 2019 G63 will, in fact, brake and guide about challenges properly, affirms Watson, although saying that its predecessor noticed really wobbly and doubtful of alone whenever it got to anything at all resembling dynamic driving. As for straight line performance, there is plenty of it in the new G63, which is powered by a twin turbo 4.0-liter V8, excellent for 585 PS (577 HP) and 850 Nm (627 lb-ft) of torque. Even with its huge size and body weight, this SUV will hit 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 4.7 seconds, and if you decide for the AMG Driver's Package, you can increase its top speed from 220 km/h (137 mph) to 240 km/h (149 mph).


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Declan J Donovan (UK)
"A prime example of stirring acoustic balladry" - The Line Of Best Fit With an undeniable voice that draws the listener in from the moment he opens his mouth, it's instantly apparent that 19-year-old Declan J Donovan was born to make music. In an age where music is often manipulated and edited to an indistinguishable point of no return, Harlow, Essex-born Declan lays all his cards of the table with debut single "Fallen So Young." Written originally as a best man's speech for his brother's wedding, Declan's debut offering is a heartfelt, raw expression of compassion and love, penned from the point of view of his brother Michael. Declan explains: "'Fallen So Young' is about my brother Michael and his wife Hayleigh and how they've been together since they were 15. And still just as in love, 16 years later. It's written as a love letter from Michael to Hayleigh." Two years ago, Declan uploaded a home-recorded demo of the track to his SoundCloud page, not really expecting too much -- but wanting to give the song a life outside the confines of a performance at his Brother's wedding. To his surprise, the song instantly clicked -- the original demo has had reached over 1.75 million streams on SoundCloud and YouTube, with no promotion or backing. Now, a couple of years on, Declan's matured as an artist, and feels ready to bring his music to...
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From the time we decided to the time we started home school was about 7 months and well i felt like that was no time at all, thats why i was frantically researching and burning the candle at both ends, the time seemed to be speeding by at lightning speed into the unknown that God had called us into and i felt like i had little to no time to prepare, but He came through and i was grateful. After God revealed which way we were going, and i had bought all our items i just stopped all the reading and research, and i basically watched movies for about 3 months straight after that to unwind hahaha no definitely not obsessive in any way, shape or form *Wink wink*!
"Charlotte Mason" as our overall feel, style and philosophy of our home using the FREE Ambleside Online curriculum.
Why? The minute i laid eyes on her love for children to be outdoors, to love nature, to have great character and for that to be key, for them to learn from living books, to also do short lessons that are steeped in doing excellent work and for them to be fed a variety of knowledge that is not twaddle but strong in great ideas, my heart felt great peace that this is what God would want for our family, also given that i am an avid lover of books and so is Jordan whom we were bringing home to school well it just seemed right to go with this style, and we have two boys and being outdoors is just who they are at their core and Charlottes philosophy is that children should spend no less than 4 hours a day outside. Also i failed to mention that we do him study, art study, composer study and nature study as part of the curriculum as well as bible study which is so warming to my heart in this busy world, it helps us to slow down, take a step back in time and rest there a while. I chose Ambleside online as the curriculum because it is made by Charlotte mason moms that have been doing this for years and it was a love project from them to us to put this curriculum together.
Mind you i am only adding one thing in at a time as this year we are doing year 0 as Jordan is not 6 yet and it is a work in progress to get the right rhythm in the home and well i am 3 weeks in and no where near where i would like to be yet but i will have patience with the process.
For Math we are doing "The Life of Fred" and "Mathseeds".
Why? Because i was never very good at math after my teacher in junior school in Africa slammed my head against the board and put my tooth through my lip because i could not do a sum properly on the blackboard, from then on maths has been quite a mentally blocked subject for me… So i wanted a curriculum that would be fun, and accurate and easy to understand and well it was recommended by a lovely Charlotte Mason dad that used to be a maths teacher, so i researched it and loved it and felt peace about it. And The boys absolutely love Math Seeds on the I Pad and voluntarily ask to use it many times a day.
For English and Phonics we are using "Reading Eggs", both the worksheets and the I Pad App.
Why? Well Jordan was using that at school and lots of my homeschool friends said thats what the were using so i was familiar with it, the kids loved it already and so we went with that for now, as well as lots of reading and early readers etc… I also love using salt trays, sandpaper letters and visual and hands on tools for phonics.
Why? It is just AMAZING, well for us anyway, the lessons are done by ages and they are brilliant, easy to understand and really fun, and we got a free year of it last year, again a God thing i believe.
And i am about to purchase "Five In A Row" which I'm trying out this week from a friend and i am SUPER EXCITED about this program!
Why? I LOVE how we get to read the same beautiful living book for 5 days in a row and then glean lots of knowledge from it in a variety of subjects such as social studies, geography, maths, science and more. What i love the most is that i get to teach the boys about amazing places in the world and then put little story discs from the story about that country on the map and that way give them a connection with that place (Ill be telling you a lot more about this once we have started).
Anyway i think this is a long enough post for now, thanks for reading all the way to the end i LOVE hearing from you so lets connect and inspire each other.


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YOUNG CITY AT WAR
Young City at War: Stories from West Hollywood during the AIDS Epidemic features the dramatic and poignant story of a community's response to the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. In-depth interviews explore an important chapter of LGBTQ+ and Ally history and available online for LGBTQ+ youth, educators, and the general public.
During the outbreak of AIDS in the 1980s, diagnosis was a likely death sentence with the average life expectancy nine months. The general public viewed AIDS as a gay-related disease. As a result, the turmoil of loss and survival became integral to the identity of West Hollywood, a city created to be an oasis for the gay community. Those who survived this catastrophic epidemic hold a fragile cultural memory. Team Lavender produced several high quality interviews with individuals who played a key role in West Hollywood's battle against HIV/AIDS from 1984 to the present.
This project not only serves to illuminate the horrors of the AIDS epidemic, it provides inspiration and strength for those who are facing hardships today. By acknowledging this history, we hope it will not be repeated. These stories showcase the strength and empathy historically found in West Hollywood. Full interviews can be rented and streamed at http://vimeo.com/thelavendereffect/vod_pages.
This project is made possible with support from Cal Humanities (www.calhum.org), a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the City of West Hollywood (www.weho.org), and the generous individuals / businesses below.
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Q: Koa.js request-promise return [ The property , ' ' , in the request body is invalid ] I try to post json to Line' messaging api with koa.js and request-promise but got error as attached image :

I'm using heroku with koa.js to connect with Line messaging api.
Here is my code :
const Koa = require('koa');
const Router = require('koa-router');
const logger = require('koa-logger');
const bodyParser = require('koa-bodyparser');
const app = new Koa();
const router = new Router();
const port = process.env.PORT || 4000;
app.use(logger());
app.use(bodyParser());

app.on('error', (err, ctx) => {
    console.log('server error', err, ctx)
});

app.use(router.routes());
app.use(router.allowedMethods());

router
    .get('/', (ctx, next) => {
        console.log(ctx);
        ctx.body = ctx;
    })
    .post('/webhook', async (ctx, next) => {
        var reply_Token = ctx.request.body.events[0].replyToken;
        console.log('token = ' , ctx.request.body.events[0].replyToken);

var rp_body = JSON.stringify({
    replyToken: reply_Token,
    messages: [{
            type: 'text',
            text: 'Hello'
        },
        {
            type: 'text',
            text: 'How are you?'
        }]
    });
var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    url: 'https://api.line.me/v2/bot/message/reply',
    headers: {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Authorization': 'Bearer {xxxxxxxx}'
    },
    json: true,
    body: rp_body
};
var rp = require('request-promise');
rp(options)
    .then(function (parsedBody){
        console.log('rq success');
    })
    .catch(function (err) {
        console.log('server error', err, ctx);
    });
});

app.listen(port);
module.exports = { app }

After try to solving with changing variable but seem doesn't work at all. This is what I try to adapt from using Node.Js to Koa.js.

A: Solving the problems!, thanks to @num8er for pointing to it.
As the body entity has 'json : true' so the body is already stringify by this. There's no need to do stringify before.
So removing it like :
var rp_body = JSON.stringify({
replyToken: reply_Token,
messages: [{

to
var rp_body = ({
replyToken: reply_Token,
messages: [{

However after pull off stringify from body you might encounter 'Invalid Token' if process api.line.me verification.
It's what it should be, because api.line.me will throw zeros as reply token for verification and Koa.js look at it like an error.
So checking for if token is zeros then send status 200 to complete the verification, otherwise do the POST METHOD if token is not zeros.
if(reply_Token === '00000000000000000000000000000000') {
    ctx.status = 200;
} else {
    //POST METHOD
}

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#include <cstddef>
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#include <memory>
#include <utility>

#include "llvm/ADT/ArrayRef.h"
#include "llvm/ADT/SmallVector.h"
#include "mhlo/IR/hlo_ops.h"
#include "mhlo/transforms/map_mhlo_to_scalar_op.h"
#include "mhlo/transforms/passes.h"
#include "mhlo/transforms/rewriters.h"
#include "mhlo/utils/legalize_to_linalg_utils.h"
#include "mhlo/utils/mhlo_scatter_gather_utils.h"
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#include "mlir/Dialect/Func/IR/FuncOps.h"
#include "mlir/Dialect/Linalg/IR/Linalg.h"
#include "mlir/Dialect/Shape/IR/Shape.h"
#include "mlir/Dialect/Tensor/IR/Tensor.h"
#include "mlir/IR/BuiltinTypes.h"
#include "mlir/Pass/Pass.h"
#include "mlir/Support/LogicalResult.h"
#include "mlir/Transforms/DialectConversion.h"
#include "mlir/Transforms/GreedyPatternRewriteDriver.h"
#include "thlo/IR/thlo_ops.h"

namespace mlir {
namespace mhlo {

#define GEN_PASS_DEF_LEGALIZEMHLOTOTHLOPASS
#include "mhlo/transforms/mhlo_passes.h.inc"

namespace {

Value castToIndex(OpBuilder& b, Location loc, TensorType originalType,
                  Value value) {
  Type elementTy = originalType.getElementType();
  if (elementTy.isIndex()) return value;

  Type ty = RankedTensorType::get(originalType.getShape(), b.getIndexType());
  return elementTy.isUnsignedInteger()
             ? b.create<arith::IndexCastUIOp>(loc, ty, value).getResult()
             : b.create<arith::IndexCastOp>(loc, ty, value).getResult();
}

struct ConcatenateOpPattern : public OpConversionPattern<mhlo::ConcatenateOp> {
  using OpConversionPattern<mhlo::ConcatenateOp>::OpConversionPattern;

  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(
      mhlo::ConcatenateOp op, OpAdaptor adaptor,
      ConversionPatternRewriter& rewriter) const override {
    const int64_t concatDim = op.getDimension();
    const Location loc = op.getLoc();
    const Value anyOperand = adaptor.getVal().front();

    auto resultTy = typeConverter->convertType(op.getResult().getType())
                        .cast<RankedTensorType>();
    const ArrayRef<int64_t> resultShape = resultTy.getShape();
    const int64_t rank = resultTy.getRank();

    // Determine empty tensor size.
    SmallVector<int64_t> staticInitSizes(resultShape.begin(),
                                         resultShape.end());
    SmallVector<Value> dynamicInitSizes;
    for (int64_t i = 0; i < rank; ++i) {
      // No need to materialize anything for static dimensions.
      if (staticInitSizes[i] != ShapedType::kDynamic) {
        continue;
      }

      // For all dimensions other than the concatenation dimension, we can copy
      // the size from any operand.
      if (i != static_cast<int64_t>(concatDim)) {
        dynamicInitSizes.push_back(
            rewriter.create<tensor::DimOp>(loc, anyOperand, i));
        continue;
      }

      // For the concatenation dimensions, sum up the sizes of all operands in
      // that dimension.
      int64_t staticSum = 0;
      Value dynamicSum;
      for (const Value operand : adaptor.getVal()) {
        auto operandTy = operand.getType().cast<RankedTensorType>();
        if (operandTy.getDimSize(concatDim) == ShapedType::kDynamic) {
          const Value dynamicSummand =
              rewriter.create<tensor::DimOp>(loc, operand, concatDim);
          if (dynamicSum) {
            dynamicSum =
                rewriter.create<arith::AddIOp>(loc, dynamicSum, dynamicSummand);
          } else {
            dynamicSum = dynamicSummand;
          }
        } else {
          staticSum += operandTy.getDimSize(concatDim);
        }
      }
      assert(dynamicSum && "expect at least one dynamic summand in this case");
      if (staticSum != 0) {
        dynamicSum = rewriter.create<arith::AddIOp>(
            loc, dynamicSum,
            rewriter.create<arith::ConstantIndexOp>(loc, staticSum));
      }
      dynamicInitSizes.push_back(dynamicSum);
    }

    // Create empty tensor and the new concat op.
    auto emptyTensor = rewriter.create<tensor::EmptyOp>(
        loc, staticInitSizes, resultTy.getElementType(), dynamicInitSizes);
    rewriter.replaceOpWithNewOp<thlo::ConcatenateOp>(
        op, resultTy, adaptor.getVal(), emptyTensor,
        rewriter.getIndexAttr(concatDim));
    return success();
  }
};

struct DynamicBroadcastInDimOpPattern
    : public OpConversionPattern<mhlo::DynamicBroadcastInDimOp> {
  using OpConversionPattern<mhlo::DynamicBroadcastInDimOp>::OpConversionPattern;

  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(
      mhlo::DynamicBroadcastInDimOp op, OpAdaptor adaptor,
      ConversionPatternRewriter& rewriter) const override {
    auto loc = op.getLoc();
    Value outputDimensions = adaptor.getOutputDimensions();
    auto operandTy = adaptor.getOperand().getType().cast<RankedTensorType>();
    auto resultTy =
        typeConverter->convertType(op.getType()).cast<RankedTensorType>();

    // Only  apply to broadcasts that cannot be lowered to linalg, i.e. those
    // for which we do not know their expansion behavior at compile time.
    int64_t countKnownExpansionBehavior = 0;
    if (auto expandingDims = op.getKnownExpandingDimensions()) {
      countKnownExpansionBehavior += expandingDims->size();
    }
    if (auto nonexpandingDims = op.getKnownNonexpandingDimensions()) {
      countKnownExpansionBehavior += nonexpandingDims->size();
    }
    if (operandTy.getRank() == countKnownExpansionBehavior) return failure();

    // Create empty tensor as none of the operands are reusable/updatable.
    SmallVector<Value> dynamicDims;
    SmallVector<int64_t> staticShapeInfo;
    for (int i = 0; i < resultTy.getRank(); i++) {
      dynamicDims.push_back(rewriter.create<tensor::ExtractOp>(
          loc, outputDimensions,
          ValueRange{rewriter.create<arith::ConstantIndexOp>(loc, i)}));
      staticShapeInfo.push_back(ShapedType::kDynamic);
    }
    auto emptyTensor = rewriter.create<tensor::EmptyOp>(
        loc, staticShapeInfo, resultTy.getElementType(), dynamicDims);

    auto broadcastDims = rewriter.getDenseI64ArrayAttr(
        llvm::to_vector(op.getBroadcastDimensions().getValues<int64_t>()));

    DenseI64ArrayAttr knownExpandingDims;
    if (op.getKnownExpandingDimensions().has_value()) {
      knownExpandingDims = rewriter.getDenseI64ArrayAttr(llvm::to_vector(
          op.getKnownExpandingDimensionsAttr().getValues<int64_t>()));
    }
    DenseI64ArrayAttr knownNonexpandingDims;
    if (op.getKnownNonexpandingDimensions().has_value()) {
      knownNonexpandingDims = rewriter.getDenseI64ArrayAttr(llvm::to_vector(
          op.getKnownNonexpandingDimensionsAttr().getValues<int64_t>()));
    }

    rewriter.replaceOpWithNewOp<thlo::DynamicBroadcastInDimOp>(
        op, resultTy, adaptor.getOperand(), emptyTensor, broadcastDims,
        knownExpandingDims, knownNonexpandingDims);
    return success();
  }
};

// Rewrites simple gather patterns (as checked below).
struct GatherPattern : public OpConversionPattern<mhlo::GatherOp> {
  using OpConversionPattern<mhlo::GatherOp>::OpConversionPattern;

  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(
      mhlo::GatherOp op, OpAdaptor adaptor,
      ConversionPatternRewriter& rewriter) const override {
    if (!isCanonicalGather(op)) return failure();
    auto startIndicesType =
        adaptor.getStartIndices().getType().dyn_cast<RankedTensorType>();
    auto operandType =
        adaptor.getOperand().getType().dyn_cast<RankedTensorType>();

    if (!startIndicesType || !operandType) return failure();

    auto resultType =
        typeConverter->convertType(op.getType()).cast<RankedTensorType>();
    SmallVector<OpFoldResult> sizes;
    sizes.reserve(resultType.getRank());
    if (resultType.getDimSize(0) != ShapedType::kDynamic) {
      sizes.push_back(rewriter.getI64IntegerAttr(resultType.getDimSize(0)));
    } else {
      sizes.push_back(
          rewriter
              .create<tensor::DimOp>(op.getLoc(), adaptor.getStartIndices(), 0)
              .getResult());
    }
    llvm::copy(op.getSliceSizes().getValues<IntegerAttr>(),
               std::back_inserter(sizes));

    auto emptyTensor = rewriter.create<tensor::EmptyOp>(
        op.getLoc(), sizes, resultType.getElementType());
    rewriter.replaceOpWithNewOp<thlo::GatherOp>(
        op, resultType, adaptor.getOperand(),
        castToIndex(rewriter, op.getLoc(), op.getStartIndices().getType(),
                    adaptor.getStartIndices()),
        emptyTensor);
    return success();
  }
};

bool isInBodyOfThloOp(Operation* op) {
  auto* parentOp = op->getParentRegion()->getParentOp();
  return isa<thlo::ScatterOp>(*parentOp) || isa<thlo::SortOp>(*parentOp);
}

// Rewrites a mhlo::ReturnOp inside a thlo::ReductionOp to thlo::YieldOp.
struct ThloRegionReturnOpConversion
    : public OpConversionPattern<mhlo::ReturnOp> {
  using OpConversionPattern<mhlo::ReturnOp>::OpConversionPattern;

  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(
      mhlo::ReturnOp op, OpAdaptor adaptor,
      ConversionPatternRewriter& rewriter) const final {
    if (!isInBodyOfThloOp(op)) return failure();
    SmallVector<Value, 4> operands(adaptor.getOperands());
    auto loc = op.getLoc();
    for (size_t i = 0; i < operands.size(); ++i) {
      if (operands[i].getType().isa<ShapedType>()) {
        operands[i] = rewriter.create<tensor::ExtractOp>(loc, operands[i]);
      }
    }
    rewriter.replaceOpWithNewOp<thlo::YieldOp>(op, operands);
    return success();
  }
};

struct ScatterPattern : public OpConversionPattern<mhlo::ScatterOp> {
  using OpConversionPattern<mhlo::ScatterOp>::OpConversionPattern;

  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(
      mhlo::ScatterOp op, OpAdaptor adaptor,
      ConversionPatternRewriter& rewriter) const override {
    // Only canonicalized single-result scatter ops are supported.
    if (!isCanonicalScatter(op) || op.getNumResults() != 1) return failure();

    auto opType =
        typeConverter->convertType(op.getType(0)).dyn_cast<RankedTensorType>();
    if (!opType) return failure();

    Location loc = op.getLoc();
    auto thloScatter = rewriter.create<thlo::ScatterOp>(
        loc, opType,
        castToIndex(rewriter, loc, op.getScatterIndices().getType(),
                    adaptor.getScatterIndices()),
        adaptor.getUpdates().front(), adaptor.getInputs().front());

    Region& region = thloScatter.getUpdateComputation();
    rewriter.inlineRegionBefore(op.getRegion(), region, region.end());

    // Convert the signature of the body by inserting
    // tensor.from_elements/tensor.extract.
    TypeConverter::SignatureConversion signatureConverter(2);
    for (const auto& [idx, val] : llvm::enumerate(
             thloScatter.getUpdateComputation().getArgumentTypes())) {
      signatureConverter.addInputs(
          1 - idx, typeConverter->convertType(
                       val.cast<RankedTensorType>().getElementType()));
    }
    rewriter.applySignatureConversion(&region, signatureConverter,
                                      getTypeConverter());

    rewriter.replaceOp(op, thloScatter.getResults());
    return success();
  }
};

struct SortPattern : public OpConversionPattern<mhlo::SortOp> {
  using OpConversionPattern<mhlo::SortOp>::OpConversionPattern;

  LogicalResult matchAndRewrite(
      mhlo::SortOp op, OpAdaptor adaptor,
      ConversionPatternRewriter& rewriter) const final {
    Location loc = op.getLoc();

    SmallVector<Value> outputs;
    SmallVector<RankedTensorType> operandTypes;
    SmallVector<Type> resultTypes;
    if (failed(typeConverter->convertTypes(op.getResultTypes(), resultTypes)))
      return failure();

    for (auto [operand, resultType] :
         llvm::zip(adaptor.getInputs(), resultTypes)) {
      RankedTensorType operandType =
          operand.getType().dyn_cast<RankedTensorType>();
      if (!operandType)
        return rewriter.notifyMatchFailure(op, "expects known-rank operands");
      operandTypes.push_back(operandType);
      auto tensorResultType = resultType.cast<RankedTensorType>();

      Value emptyTensor = rewriter.create<tensor::EmptyOp>(
          loc, tensorResultType.getShape(), tensorResultType.getElementType());

      outputs.push_back(emptyTensor);
    }

    int64_t dimension = op.getDimension();
    // TODO(bchetioui): MHLO accepts dimensions in the range [-rank, rank),
    // while THLO accepts only dimensions in the range [0, rank). Ideally, they
    // should agree on the range of acceptable arguments, but while it is not
    // the case, this is a (reliable) workaround.
    if (dimension < 0) dimension = dimension + operandTypes.front().getRank();
    bool isStable = op.getIsStable();

    auto thloSort = rewriter.create<thlo::SortOp>(
        loc, resultTypes, adaptor.getInputs(), outputs,
        rewriter.getIndexAttr(dimension), rewriter.getBoolAttr(isStable));

    Region& region = thloSort.getComparator();
    rewriter.inlineRegionBefore(op.getComparator(), region, region.end());

    assert(thloSort.getNumDpsInputs() == thloSort.getNumDpsInits());

    // Convert the signature of the comparator.
    TypeConverter::SignatureConversion signatureConverter(
        thloSort.getNumDpsInputs() * 2);
    for (const auto& [idx, val] : llvm::enumerate(operandTypes)) {
      signatureConverter.addInputs(
          /*origInputNo=*/2 * idx,
          typeConverter->convertType(val.getElementType()));
      signatureConverter.addInputs(
          /*origInputNo=*/2 * idx + 1,
          typeConverter->convertType(val.getElementType()));
    }

    rewriter.applySignatureConversion(&region, signatureConverter,
                                      getTypeConverter());

    rewriter.replaceOp(op, thloSort.getResults());
    return success();
  }
};

class LegalizeMHLOToTHLOPass
    : public impl::LegalizeMHLOToTHLOPassBase<LegalizeMHLOToTHLOPass> {
  void runOnOperation() final {
    MLIRContext* ctx = &getContext();
    RewritePatternSet patterns(ctx);
    ConversionTarget target(*ctx);
    // clang-format off
    target.addLegalDialect<
        arith::ArithDialect,
        complex::ComplexDialect,
        linalg::LinalgDialect,
        math::MathDialect,
        shape::ShapeDialect,
        tensor::TensorDialect,
        thlo::THLODialect>();
    // clang-format on
    target.addLegalOp<UnrealizedConversionCastOp>();

    auto typeConverter = std::make_unique<LinalgTypeConverter>();

    populateScalarHloToArithmeticConversionPatterns(ctx, *typeConverter,
                                                    &patterns);

    // List of patterns.
    // clang-format off
    patterns.insert<
        ConcatenateOpPattern,
        DynamicBroadcastInDimOpPattern,
        GatherPattern,
        ScatterPattern,
        SortPattern,
        ThloRegionReturnOpConversion>(*typeConverter, ctx);
    // clang-format on

    if (failed(applyPartialConversion(getOperation(), target,
                                      std::move(patterns)))) {
      return signalPassFailure();
    }
  }
};

}  // namespace

std::unique_ptr<OperationPass<func::FuncOp>> createLegalizeMHLOToTHLOPass() {
  return std::make_unique<LegalizeMHLOToTHLOPass>();
}

}  // namespace mhlo
}  // namespace mlir

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MADERA, CA -- Police are asking for the public's help finding the gang members who brutally attacked a janitor in Madera, California. The attack happened Saturday night while the victim was cleaning aisles at the Save Mart on Howard and Pine Street.
"They approached him in the aisle," said Sgt. Brian Esteves with the Madera Police Department. "Began saying derogatory things to him, calling him a scrap because he was wearing a blue shirt.
The victim suffered injuries to his head, but according to police, he'll be OK.


TypoScript-setup plugin.tx_fpfractionslider_pi1 renamed to plugin.tx_fpfractionslider. See changelog.
Type: composer req fixpunkt/fp-fractionslider to get the latest version that runs on your TYPO3 version.
March 19, 2019 Ready for TYPO3 9.