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Q: Mapping the same input to multiple functions efficiently I am working with a large system of ODEs that I automatically construct. I have a state array of length n, and an equal number of differential equations also stored in an array. Here there are 2, but in the real system, there would be over 100. The differential equations are constructed as a class and called via __call__, alternatively, ODEs are created and called with functools partial. I need to send the exact same state and time t to each differential function in the array and fill the derivative state vector dstate. I am wondering what the cleanest, most pythonic and, most importantly, fastest way of doing that is.
import numpy as np
from scipy import integrate
import pandas as pd

class F1:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def __call__(self, state):
        return 2 - state[0]**2 * state[1]

class F2:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def __call__(self, state):
        return 3 - state[1]*state[0]

fs = np.array([F1(), F2()])
state0 = np.ones(2)*4

def change(t, state):
    """
    This is the function I would like to change for something better!

    Ideally there would be something like: dstate = map(input_to_apply, list_of_functions)
    """
    dstate = np.zeros(2)
    for i,f in enumerate(fs):
        dstate[i] = f(state = state)
    return dstate

sol = integrate.solve_ivp(fun = change, t_span = (0, 15), y0 = state0)
res = pd.DataFrame(sol.y.T, columns = ['A', 'B'])
res.index = sol.t
ax = res.plot()

A: As for coding, there isn't (IMO) significant improvements on what you have done. You can replace single line loops:
def change(t, state):
    return np.array([f(state=state) for f in fs])

As for efficiency, check Calling functions by array index in Python. The best thing you can do is bundle the functions in one. In your example:
class F_list:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def __call__(self, state):
        return 2 - state[0]**2 * state[1], 3 - state[1]*state[0]
    def change(self, t, state):
        return self(state)

F = F_list()
sol = integrate.solve_ivp(fun = F.change, t_span = (0, 15), y0 = state0)

Also note that using def or lambda is always faster than __call__, and if you want a class and unless you have a specific need for instances, you can use the classmethod decorator to avoid instantiating needlessly


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Iceland is known for having some of the most prolific fishing areas in the North Atlantic Ocean, which is why it comes as no surprise that the island has a great variety of seafood restaurants that are not to be missed.
Inside an old wooden house next to the Heritage Museum and amid the backdrop of the steep fjords of Ísafjörður, Tjöruhúsið is a great option when visiting the Westfjörds. However, they are only open during Easter and summer, offering outdoor seating and occasional live music. The various catches of the day come fresh off the boats at the harbor close by and their large portions come served in a hot skillet.
Við Fjöruborðið translates to 'at the seashore' in Icelandic – a very fitting name, as you can find a great selection of seafood here, most notably the langostino lobster bisque, which is probably the most famous in all of Iceland. The village of Stokkseyri (population 445), once an important trading and fishing center, is now mostly a tourist destination and is known for its beautiful seashore and bustling bird life. If you are on your way from Reykjavik to Vik, this small restaurant by the shore is definitely worth a visit – just remember to make a reservation ahead of time.
This is the first Icelandic restaurant to receive a Michelin star. The small restaurant, seating 20-30 people, holds great personality. Every week a new seven-course menu with wine pairings is arranged, using a mixture of traditional Nordic and Icelandic culinary roots with a modern twist. The head chefs, Gunnar Karl Gíslason and Ólafur Örn Ólafsson, are the pioneering creatives behind the restaurant. Enjoy a large selection of wines available by the glass that changes often.
Fiskfélagið, or The Fish Company, is well known for some of the best seafood in Iceland. Here you can try a very creative assortment of flavor and textures on offer on the tasting menu. Located under a bridge downtown in a former store built in the 19th century, Fiskfélagið offers an exciting blend of Nordic fusion. Enjoy the unique interior décor designed by Leif Welding and the owner, Lárus Gunnar. From the menu, try their fish soup with langoustine, coconut jelly and Icelandic seaweed.
MAR Restaurant enjoys a prime location in Reykjavik's scenic Old Harbour and is housed in a particularly interesting building, Hafnarbúðir. This was constructed in the 1960s with the specific purpose of providing a restaurant and accommodation for fisherman. Updated since then, MAR's interior was visualized by the Reykjavik-based designers Hafsteinn Júlíusson and Karitas Sveinsdóttir, in a style faithful to the area's old harbor houses. The restaurant also features artwork from Icelandic graphic designer Siggi Odds and crockery designed by Guðný Hafsteinsdóttir. Specializing in seafood that incorporates a range of international flavors, MAR offers dishes like the salted cod with zucchini, rucola and plum jam.
Þrír Frakkar, or Three Coats, has been managed by the chef Úlfar Eysteinsson and his family since opening in 1989. Located on a quiet street close to downtown, the restaurant offers a classic, laid-back atmosphere. Well-regarded as one of the best places for fish in Reykjavik, Þrír Frakkar offers a variety of dishes, including cod, halibut, catfish and plaice. The cozy restaurant is also apparently a favorite of Jamie Oliver's.
This is your quintessential seafood establishment with a cozy and laid-back atmosphere with fisherman memorabilia lining the walls. Here you can find the fresh catch of the day. The restaurant is set in a house where the main harbor was established around 1900. On the menu, you can find local Rainbow Trout, Bacalao from Hauganes, Cod and Langoustine.


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Q: MySQL Conditioning Query I was trying with writing a query to select a row from the table (attached screenshot). This is something peculiar, where * means any value. I need to select a row where Amount should be between Start Amount and End Amount and Department should be IT.
The condition for Country and Sub Department is a bit tricky. If the selected country is not in the Country column then the query should return me the record with * and same is the case with sub department.

I tried with a approach of selecting columns based on Department and amount like this
Select * from table_name where Department = 'IT'
and 1000 BETWEEN Start Amount AND End Amount

But, after this I am not sure how to get the result with below condition.
If country is not India then all * results I should get.

A: I believe you want something like:
  SELECT *
    FROM table_name
   WHERE Department = 'IT'
     AND 1000 BETWEEN `Start Amount` AND `End Amount`
     AND country IN ('India','*')
     AND `Sub Department` IN ('SD2','*')
ORDER BY country = 'India' DESC,
         `Sub Department` = 'SD2' DESC
   LIMIT 1

A: Use a union all to assign a group number in order of preference to every permitted combination of country/sub_department i.e. (India,SD1) (India,*) (*,*) then only select the rows with the lowest group number.
select t1.* from (
    Select t1.* ,
    if(@minGroup > groupNumber, @minGroup := groupNumber, @minGroup) minGroupNumber
    from (
        Select t1.*, 1 groupNumber from table_name t1
        where Department = 'IT'
        and 1000 BETWEEN `Start Amount` AND `End Amount`
        and country = 'India'
        and sub_department = 'SD1'

        union all

        Select t1.*, 2 groupNumber from table_name t1
        where Department = 'IT'
        and 1000 BETWEEN `Start Amount` AND `End Amount`
        and country = 'India'
        and sub_department = '*'

        union all

        Select t1.*, 3 groupNumber from table_name t1
        where Department = 'IT'
        and 1000 BETWEEN `Start Amount` AND `End Amount`
        and country = '*'
        and sub_department = '*'
    ) t1 cross join (select @minGroup := 3) t2
) t1 where groupNumber = @minGroup

A: Re-sending bcz, star is truncated
Select  NVL(tc.Country, '*') Country_Column_name,
        NVL(tsd.Sub_Dept, '*') Sub_Dept_Column_name
from    table_name tn
LEFT OUTER JOIN table_country tc
ON      tn.Country = tc.Country
LEFT OUTER JOIN table_sub_dept tsd
ON      tn.Sub Dept = tsd.Sub Dept
where   Department = 'IT'
and     1000 BETWEEN Start Amount AND End Amount
Note: Country & Sub Dpt table should have unique column and that should be used in the join.

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René S. Garcia, Jr.· September 26, 2009
Science fiction horror is probably my favorite subset of the horror genre, because of how high the stakes are raised for the characters as well as the screenwriters. Since most sci-fi horror is set in space, the characters have no choice but to deal with their situation or die. While it seems like there's an obvious answer in that binary choice, the odds are so stacked against our protagonists that there's little distinction between certain death and almost certain death. So watching the characters walk that razor's edge of hope and face unspeakable terror is both satisfying and dreadful at the same time, which I believe should be the two goals of the horror genre. I also enjoy science fiction horror because of the imaginative worlds the writers build to contain the story – or at least they should. Pandorum is one of the rare horror films that gets everything right and proves that no matter how scary monsters are, humans can be just as bad.
In Pandorum, the future of Earth is bleak due to overpopulation and scarce resources. As a way of saving humanity, the world's best send out probes to find another habitable planet, which is Tanis over 100 Earth years away. So a giant spacecraft called Elysium is created to bring settlers to the new planet and the crew is kept in stasis via hyper-sleep and awoken in yearly shifts to maintain the ship and pilot it along its course until arrival. Corporal Bower (Ben Foster) wakes from hyper-sleep only to find the ship seemingly deserted and almost no memory of who he is or what he's supposed to do. The only other person he discovers is Lieutenant Payton (Dennis Quaid) whose memory is just as spotty. Together, they have to discover what happened to the crew and get the Elysium on course to Tanis or else all of humanity is lost. Unfortunately, they're not as alone as they think they are. Strange humanoid life forms are hunting humans throughout the ship and the survivors are also contending with possible space dementia called Pandorum.
The horror in Pandorum is done fairly for the most part. The majority of the dread comes from realistic, deep-seated fears, like claustrophobia, isolation, loneliness and helplessness in the face of an overwhelming adversary. Granted, there are a few cheap scares, like featuring a silent, subdued scene immediately followed by a cut to something frantic with an ear-piercing stinger. Thankfully, these moments are kept to a minimum and nothing as cliché as the equivalent of a cat jumping out of nowhere. The gore is also subdued, with only a few appropriate scenes of limbs being hacked off and intestines being spilled – if those scenes can even be considered appropriate under any circumstances. The creature design is also refreshing without being outlandish. They are super tough, incredibly fast and hunt with tools that manage to be futuristic to the audience, but primitive in the film. Being attacked by creatures wielding spears with blowtorch flames for points will intimidate anyone.
The ship is well designed and lends itself to unique sets, like giant shipping containers, wiring ducts and hyper-sleep pod colonies. Ubiquitous metal corridors and a giant reactor room are also present, but are different enough to set them aside from other movies. The filmmakers also went out of their way to showcase the technology, bringing it to life beyond blinking lights on a dashboard. The little things like a communicator that can clip to clothing or machines that need cranking and weapons that need pumping go a long way to immerse the audience.
The acting is pretty standard for the genre. The characters look frightened when they need to and serious at all other times. That's not to discount any of the performances, mind you. It's the fact that the cast is as good as it is that makes Pandorum as fun to watch. Kudos to Ben Foster for devouring a live cricket without the camera cutting away. Also, Antje Traue gives a strong performance as Nadia who kicks ass while looking smoking hot. It's always an achievement when a female character can be tough without being manly and still be believable.
The writing and direction are also very well done and is wisely restrained and deliberate. The story unfolds slowly, allowing the audience to settle into the film and the writing doesn't feel the need to over explain small points. Also, the direction doesn't fall back on irritating conventions, like partial reveals. Once the creatures are introduced, the audience gets to see them in full – none of these glimpses of teeth or glowing eyes in the darkness or scary shadows on the walls. If anything, the film might be under-directed. Almost every shot is utilitarian, with only a few artistic scenes, like the eerie blue lights creeping in the dim light when the creatures first come on the scene.
Pandorum does lose its "scare-value" as the film progresses. This phenomenon might be due to several reasons, like understanding the creatures too quickly, not enough deaths of major characters along the way and heavy fighting sequences throughout. On the other hand, by the time the film molts into its sci-fi action self there's so much going on that you'll barely care that the movie just flipped genres. Pandorum is the kind of film that will engage you to the very end.
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District Health Boards are required to identify the health needs of their population, and to regularly monitor health status and service use. The Northland Health Needs Assessment aims to use current data to better understand the health of Northlanders, and also to identify groups that have greater health needs. This information helps us to guide service development, plan for future health needs, and to inform funding decisions.
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Tournedos-sur-Seine ist eine ehemalige französische Gemeinde im Département Eure in der Region Normandie. Sie gehörte zum Arrondissement Les Andelys und zum Kanton Val-de-Reuil. Die Einwohner werden Tournedosiens genannt.

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On Saturday, Communications Deputy Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams joined forces with the Serithi Campaign to provide menstrual cups to 61 learners at Tshegofatsong Special School in Mamelodi East.
The campaign is aimed at curbing the growing crisis of girls in schools facing absenteeism due to being unequipped for their menstrual cycle. The campaign is now providing girls a sustainable solution – the Mina Menstrual Cup. Girls are able to use the cup and not miss school because of not having sanitary towels.
Gugu Ntuli, who has a 17-year-old daughter, said she is impressed by this initiative.
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Serithi Campaign Co-Founder Reatlegile Mosiane said the Mina Cup is designed specifically for South African girls.
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This past Sunday I participated in the Edmonton Marathon. I had signed up for this event in hopes to qualify for Boston, as I failed to in June at Calgary. I felt better trained and prepared; my head was in the game. And the weather, other than the mugginess, was perfect-it did not feel like an August day! Starting race temps were around 50 F, and only got up to just above 60 F. However, this story did not have the exact fairy-tale ending I was hoping for….
My husband and I headed up to Edmonton Saturday morning. We had stayed in Red Deer the night before so this drive was relatively short, compared to the 5.5 hour straight drive from Edmonton back home to Lethbridge would be come Sunday. After checking in to our hotel (Coast Plaza Edmonton) we walked the ½ mile to the Shaw Conference Center where packet pick up was. This was a new location this year, and the facility was very nice. I don't know if it was crowded the first day of pickup, but by Saturday at 2:00 pm the place was dead. Not tons to look at either. I picked up my race bib, got my shirt, and back to the hotel to get things settled.
I made a plan with my husband of spots for him to try to be at during the race. I focused a lot on the second half of the course, as that would be when I would really need the help. I had pasta for dinner, laid out my clothes and food items for the morning and went to bed around 9:00 (didn't fall asleep until 10:00).
We walked back to the Shaw Conference Center that morning, as the start and finish lines were located here. I felt mentally and physically set for the challenge ahead. After kissing my husband, and my dog Snoopy, good-bye I filed in to the starting corral near the 3:30 pacer. I knew I had to start of strong and find my pace quickly, so when the race began, off I went. I got into a great groove and I was feeling positive about my pace. My first five miles clocked in at 7:41, 8:04, 7:52, 8:10, and 8:03. I was more than set!
I had seen my cousin Erin and her friend about mile 3, and that was a great boost of energy. I had been hoping to see my husband at mile 7 or 8, but he was nowhere to be found. After we did the turn-around, he still wasn't there. I was still doing great at my pace, running miles 6-9 in 7:51, 7:55, 8:13, and 7:58, but I needed a familiar face. The course is indeed flat, but you are curving through some neighborhoods quite a bit, and the streets aren't lined up with spectators. I started getting a leg cramp in my right leg (the leg that hasn't been causing me issues!) and there was a pain in my IT band area. I tried to avoid thinking about it.
I finally made it on a busier street, heading back towards the downtown Edmonton core, when I spotted Dan, Snoopy and Erin. This was a huge boost that I needed at that point to bring me to the halfway! I was still on track, though the pain was still there. I told Dan I needed pretzels and more Nuun tablets the next time I saw him, and off I went. Miles 10-13 were 8:05, 8:07, 8:15, and 8:16. I was beginning to slip, but I was still on pace.
Mile 18-22 were a struggle, but it was at mile 21 that I just became unglued. I knew I wouldn't quit, but I realized that as each mile passed, Boston was slowly slipping away. Miles 18-22 were ran in 8:31, 8:28, 8:21, 8:42, and 9:41. Those miles began after I saw Dan, Snoopy and Erin for the 3rd time, and as I ran by I yelled "I need you to run with me." Neither of them had a chance to get out there and help me at that point, and I don't think it would have done any good. I knew with how the route was, I would be looping back over to where they were stationed, so I hoped one would join me for the home stretch. Running through those neighborhood loops with my legs tightening up and being alone was extremely tough. When I made it back that way, I had about 4 miles left to run. I was hurting. Bad. Dan joined in with me as I was running, and he really thought I had a chance to still get Boston. If my legs weren't in the pain they were in, I could have potentially made up time. But I was slowly coming to the realization that my body just wouldn't let me do that.
Dan ran with me the rest of the race. In his blue jeans. And brown North Face canvas shoes. I use the term 'run' loosely because we had to walk at points, I had to stop at points, and I gimped at points. He kept telling me I couldn't quit—I wasn't going to quit. I was going to finish. As I realized Boston was gone, I did also come to the realization I could still get a personal best. It would be close, but I could.
I managed to get my last mile back under 10 minutes, which helped me get in to the finish at 3:44:59, beating my previous best by 1 minute and 23 seconds. Those final four miles were run in 10:50, 10:21, 11:30 and 9:50. I never full out lost it with tears that day, but as I came in to the finish my eyes swelled. I was thinking about my training, about this race, about how much my legs hurt, about how close my time had been to the correct pace, about the last 2 years of running, about my dad…There was so much going through my head. Sure, I didn't make the time I had come out to get, but I had calmly talked to Dan as we jogged the last 4 miles that I would be OK with it. I think he was actually surprised how calm I was, how I wasn't throwing a fit. Four years ago, when I was still all out of sorts about personal losses in my life, I would have lost it. But I am in a better place now.
This wasn't a true failure or defeat, though. I did not 'lose.' Hell-I got a personal best! I'll take that any day of the week! As for Boston-Boston will always be there; I have the rest of my life to qualify for it. I will qualify for Boston and run in Boston someday. I will, I can promise you that. It just didn't work out in the cards this weekend that I would be running in 2015.
The full marathon is a different type of beast, and it's very hard to tame. They have a mind of their own. I can barely move today, and my body feels like it is just shut down. I want to curl up in fetal and sleep for 24 hours. I am going to continue with my half marathons, 10 km races, Spartan Races, and other distances I can find. Maybe I'll do another full marathon in the near future, but it won't be for a Boston attempt at this time. There would have to be a special reason for me to sign up to do the 26.2 miles again anytime soon. I will keep searching out new races in the area to support and try, and also keep heading back to my old favorites. I am also hoping to get more people into the act of running, because it is something EVERYONE can do. I love coaching cross country, I love getting kids excited about long-distance running, and I love getting friends and family members involved who maybe otherwise wouldn't have. Running makes me happy, even when I am in as much pain as I am after doing 26.2 miles. The pain I feel in my body is worth it, because if I didn't keep running, I would be in more pain than this.


Throughout his professional career, Antoine Harfouche has reconciled teaching, research, community, and administrative requirements.
He is currently Professor of Information Systems. He teaches Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data analytics, Digital Business, and Quantitative Methods (Statistics, Data Science, Quantitative tools) for undergraduate and graduate level students.
Antoine Harfouche is the author of almost a dozen of articles (7 CNRS stars) on Artficial Intelligence and Knowkedge Integration. He is member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). He is the Past President of the MENA-AIS chapter, the President of the Lebanese AIS chapter (LAIS), and the Past President of the international association ICTO (Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society).
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I spent the last two weeks with the family on holiday in Spain and then driving back through France, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.
Whilst The Great Gatsby is usually cited as Fitzgerald's masterpiece, I prefer Tender is the Night. It is a more mature work, and Fitzgerald digs deeper into the characters and their relationships (especially their relationships) than in the earlier book. Every time I read it, I find something new to learn.
I do not like these generalities. Soon you will be writing little books called 'Deep Thoughts for the Layman,' so simplified that they are positively guaranteed not to cause thinking.
Franz's words made me think about the 'deep thoughts' expressed on Facebook and Twitter. Too many of them appear to be designed to suppress curiosity — they are deliberately simplified and sanitised to avoid causing offence (and so thinking).
The art of poetry is amply distinguished from the manufacture of verse by the animating presence of a fresh idiom. Language so twisted and posed in a form that it not only expresses the matter in hand, but adds to the stock of available reality.
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Joule Bergerson, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering is seen in this undated handout photo. New research concludes that Canada has one of the most carbon intensive oil industries in the world. But the same University of Calgary study says Canada is a world leader in regulations that could reduce the industry's global climate change impact. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
Study concludes Canadian oilpatch rules could cut global emissions
Canada's industry has rules that if adopted worldwide could make a big dent in global greenhouse gas emissions
Sep. 4, 2018 6:00 p.m.
Research suggests Canadian oil is among the world's most carbon-heavy, but Canada's industry also has rules that if adopted worldwide could make a big dent in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Joule Bergerson of the University of Calgary said emissions from oil production could be cut by almost a quarter if oil-producing countries adopted regulations similar to Canada's that limit the amount of gas flared or vented into the air.
"It could make quite a bit of difference," said Bergerson, a co-author of a paper funded by Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and published in the journal Science.
Bergerson and her colleagues from Stanford University in California analyzed how much carbon was contained in oil from nearly 9,000 oilfields in 90 countries, representing about 98 per cent of global production. Using data from satellites, industry, government and previous research, they also estimated how much methane and other greenhouse gases were released along with the oil.
They added the two sources of climate-changing emissions together and calculated how much of them were released per barrel of oil. That calculation showed Canada's oilpatch was the fourth most carbon-intensive on the planet behind Algeria, Venezuela and Cameroon.
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Canada's rating was nearly twice the global average.
"We've known that for quite some time, that it's a more difficult resource to get out of the ground," Bergerson said. "That results in additional greenhouse gas emissions."
What was surprising was the difference that flaring and venting made to carbon emissions. The paper concludes that about half of the highest-carbon oil comes from fields with high rates of flaring and venting.
Gas releases are why Algeria and Cameroon are more carbon-intensive than Canada, said Bergerson.
Gas flaring increased steadily between 2010 and 2016, the paper says. That includes countries such as the United States, where flaring has nearly quadrupled.
Those increases could be stopped if everyone took a more Canadian approach, which Bergerson described as world-leading.
The paper points out that in Canadian offshore fields, production restrictions are imposed if flaring is excessive.
In Alberta, flaring fell nearly two-thirds between 1996 and 2014.
The paper concludes that if minimal flaring standards were imposed worldwide, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from producing the average barrel of oil would fall by 23 per cent.
Duncan Kenyon of the energy think tank Pembina Institute agreed flaring in Canada's oilpatch is well-regulated.
"If we were to take Canadian regulations and applied them globally we'd be way better off," Kenyon said.
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But he pointed out several recent studies that have measured emissions in Canadian oil facilities have found much higher readings than industry estimates.
"We severely under-report our methane emissions," he said. "We're having a serious compliance and enforcement issue."
Kenyon said under-reporting is common around the world.
While most carbon from fossil fuels is released when they are burned, cutting releases from production also matters, Bergerson said.
"This is the evolution, to adopt much more stringent regulations."
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Zombies come to Webtoon Digital Platform in Rot & Ruin!
Jonathan Maberry's young adult post-apocalyptic zombie series, Rot & Ruin is not only getting developed for film but also is now available to read online through the Webtoon App (iOS and Android). This program allows users to choose what genres they like and also art styles. Since there's a huge diversity in how artists like to draw, this additional filter is welcomed. Various signup options are available to access the huge number of free comics available.
The comic book series was originally published back in 2014. While the first three issues are available to read for free, further releases will require purchasing. For those who don't want to wait, tracking down the comic books released by IDW Publishing shouldn't be too hard. Five issues have been released to date, and there's also the graphic novel, Warrior Smart.
WEBTOON™ continues to add great storytelling to its free platform with the debut of the comic adaptation of the award-winning book series Rot & Ruin (Simon & Schuster). Created by New York Times best-selling and five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry, the Rot & Ruin comic series brings his darkly imaginative story to life. The comic series is written and produced by two-time Bram Stoker Award Finalist, screenwriter, and development executive, Taylor Grant, with artwork by Alina Popovici (One A Tale of Bravery and Strength, Pragmatic Games, Bandai Namco Games). The series updates every Monday and will launch with an additional three episodes available via Fast Pass, WEBTOON's in app coin purchasing program. For more information please visit WEBTOON.com
"As a long-time fan of both Jonathan Maberry and the Rot & Ruin series, I am truly honored to help bring this thought-provoking and wonderfully imaginative post-apocalyptic story to life as a web comic series," said Taylor Grant, SVP IP Development. "It is yet another example of Webtoon's commitment to telling increasingly sophisticated stories that will continue to broaden our reach."
Rot & Ruin is a coming-of-age story set during a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where every teenager is forced to get a job by the time they turn fifteen. For Benny Imura, that job is the last one he ever wanted—to apprentice as a zombie hunter for his overbearing older brother Tom. However, on his journey through the post-apocalyptic wasteland, Benny discovers that zombies are not always the greatest thing to fear, and ultimately, what it truly means to be human.
Tags: Android, Comic Books, Coming of Age, Horror, iOS, Press Release, Supernatural, Young Adult, Zombies
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A Cold, Terrible World is Hidden at the Mountains of Madness Vol 2 & What's Next?
Buy volume one and two
on Amazon USA.
Gou Tanabe's adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness certainly delivers winter chills and shows this seemingly unadaptable work of HP Lovecraft can be tweaked for any cross media presentation. All it needs is some kind of resolution instead of a terrible revelation at the end.
Anyone who knows the original story will recall Danforth losing his sanity after seeing a Great Old One rise from the destruction. In what's key to making that moment work is will this artist attempt to draw this cosmic entity? I won't spoil what he sees. Instead, I can certainly say the city the Elder Things built may be gone for now, but I feel it also exists in an alternate dimension where Clive Barker's most hailed creation (the Cenobites) lives!
Tags: Dark Horse Comics, Gou Tanabe, H.P. Lovecraft, Horror, Manga
Categories Book Reviews, Comic Books, Japanese
The Stakes were Never Big in Netflix's Dracula
Just how many reimaginings of Bram Stoker's Dracula do we need? Let me count the works from this century: there's at least a dozen—Untold, Dark Prince, and Reborn are perhaps the closest they can get to the book's lore. The rest sticks around even after being "killed" so he remains a threat to humanity.
Mark Gatiss (Sherlock) and Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) developed this latest take and it's a curious mix of period drama and Hammer style horror. This three-part series has each episode nearly movie length. Like the novel, it begins conveniently enough with Jonathan Harker (John Heffernan) visiting the Count (Claes Bang) and Mina (Morfydd Clark) swearing her eternal love. The nobleman has other plans and his lust for both the male and female gender goes nowhere fast. Either he's too decrepit to get off, or those tones brought down for Netflix's broadcasting standards.
Tags: BBC, Claes Bang, Dracula, Drama, Horror, Mark Gatiss, Netflix, Steven Moffat, Supernatural
Categories Fandom, Feature, Reviews, Television
The Prognosis on Mike Flanagan's Doctor Sleep
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Could Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) be the Obi-Wan in Doctor Sleep to mentor Abra Stone (Kyliegh Curran)? She's a gifted psychic who can sense when trouble is afoot! Casting choices and Star Wars references notwithstanding, the sequel looks at what has become of the Torrance family surviving the events of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. After a very lengthy introduction, I was caught up since it's been years when I last saw the film.
Danny also has this gift and it's simply called The Shining. It can be used for good or evil and the movie's title is explained in what the boy, now a man, has become. He helps the elderly to comfortably pass on with his soothing voice and message of hope.
Tags: Ewan McGregor, Horror, Kyleigh Curran, Mike Flanagan, Rebecca Ferguson, Suspense
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Shooting Stars And Heartland Desperate For Points
Shooting Stars Vs Heartland FC
Shooting Stars and Heartland will be desperate for points when they lock horns at the Lekan Salami Stadium on Saturday.
In their last league outing, Shooting Stars were humbled two-nil by El-Kanemi Warriors, while Heartland edged Rivers United 2-1 in Owerri.
As usual, pressure will be on Kadiri Ikhana's charges to perform from their ever demanding fans.
Heartland will be hoping to get at least pick a point on their visit to the historical city of Ibadan.
Shooting Stars have scored 11 eleven goals and conceded 13 goals so far, with the visitors netting seven goals and letting in seven goals too.
Last season, Shooting Stars had the upper hand with a 0-0 draw in Ibadan and a 3-1 victory in Nnewi against the Naze Millionaires.
FC Ifeanyi Ubah Vs Warri Wolves
FC Ifeanyi Ubah will be looking to win in front of their fans at the Ifeanyi Ubah Stadium and they will hoping to carry out the task against Warri Wolves on Sunday.
The Anambra Warriors will not have things easy though as they come up against the Seasiders – a team that has won two matches in a row.
The hosts have 19 points from eleven games, while the visitors who have played one match less are ninth in the table with 16 points.
In head-to-head stats, FC Ifeanyi Ubah and Warri Wolves have met in 2 league matches since 2015, with both managing one win apiece.
Sunshine Stars Vs El-Kanemi Warriors
Sunshine Stars will host El-Kanemi Warriors on match day 12 of the NPFL, with the intention of maintaining their good form of two wins and three draws in their last five games.
Ahead of Sunday's game against the Maiduguri based club, the Owena Waves have been handed a massive boost as their strikers have started netting goals – as seen in the performance of Okiki Afolabi and Dele Olorundare in recent times.
Based on the points build up of 11 on the log sheet, Sunshine Stars need to win the week twelve game to move away from 16th spot which they currently occupy.
Warriors on the other hand aren't safe on the log sheet, as they are at the 14th position on the league log with 13 points and their aim on Sunday is to beat Sunshine Stars in order to improve their position on the log sheet.
In the ongoing season, Warriors form has not been impressive in their away games, playing one draw and losing the rest.
Sunshine Stars, who are yet to lose a game in the last five fixtures, having recorded a two victories and three draws. They would like to continue their fine form against Warriors who lost 5-0 in their last away visit to the Owena Waves in Akure.
In-form Sunshine Stars striker, Okiki Afolabi is optimistic of his side's win over El-Kanemi Warriors.
"We are not going to be complacent when we face them, so we must beat Elkanemi Warriors and I'm confident that we will win that game," Okiki told Goal.
"Getting the three points in the El-Kanemi Warriors' game can even push us up and we are much determined to achieve that, all we need is for the fans to fill the Akure Township Stadium and we will not disappoint them," the former Shooting Stars forward explained.
El-Kanemi Warriors will definitely depend on their in-form attacker, Ibrahim Mustapha who has registered 6 goals in the ongoing campaign and the goal poacher said his side must shock Sunshine Stars in Akure.
"We have to shock Sunshine Stars in Akure, they are playing at home, everything is to their advantage but we are not wary of the threat they will be posing, we are going into the game to shock them and we will do that at the end of 90 minutes," Mustapha told Goal.
Sunshine Stars have played Warriors 6 times in the league since 15th May 2013.
They have have won three and lost three in the six league encounters. Sixteen goals were scored with the Sunshine Stars leading the way with nine goals as against El-Kanemi Warriors' seven.
Nasarawa United Vs Plateau United
Nasarawa United will hope to move out of the 16th spot that they currently occupy when they take on fellow strugglers Plateau United at the Aper Aku Stadium.
However, the Jos-based side are looking to climb the table themselves and will try to secure back-to-back wins for the first time this season.
A few weeks ago, Nasarawa Unuted boss Kabiru Dogo suggested that his side were too good to be in the relegation zone and the ex ABS gaffer was in the mood to echo those comments after the 3-1 win over Giwa FC on Wednesday.
The Solid Miners' biggest problem has been a lack of goals, and they seem to have fixed that in recent games.
Plateau United gaffer Zachary Baraje is keen not to rest on his laurels after his side beat city rivals Giwa FC last week Sunday and he is already eyeing back-to-back victories.
They are still just outside the relegation zone, but they have been pointless on the road this season.
However, while Baraje has suggested that he is looking up the league rather than down, he also remains realistic about United's prospects.
That realism could be down to his team's defensive record, with only Ikorodu United having conceded more this season.
United do at least have a reasonably potent attack, with 11 goals since the start of the campaign.
Niger Tornadoes Vs Ikorodu United
Niger Tornadoes and Ikorodu United will go head-to-head in a league clash at the Lokoja Confluence Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The match is scheduled to get underway at 4pm.
The Minna-based team are flirting with relegation and come into this encounter on the back of a 2-0 win loss to Akwa United.
Abdullahi Biffo's charges occupy 17th position in the NPFL table.
Ikorodu United have endured a stuttering start on their top flight debut and come into this encounter, having drawn 0-0 with Sunshine Stars at the Onikan Stadium.
They are winless in nine straight games.
Sam Okpodu's team need to start winning matches or else they might be set for life in the Nigeria National League after just one year in the top flight.
The Lagos outfit are 20th in the league standings and could ease their relegation woes with a win in Lokoja.
Lobi Stars Vs Akwa United
Victory for either Lobi Stars or Akwa United at the Aper Aku Stadium will lift them into the firing line on the League table.
Lobi Stars have won four, drawn three and lost four, while Akwa United have recorded five victories, three draws and three defeats in the eleven-week old league season.
United sit six places ahead of Stars in fourth place.
The Pride of Benue have had an inconsistent start to the season.
Both sides recorded contrasting results in their last league outings. Lobi Stars lost 2-0 at Abia Warriors, while Akwa United defeated Niger Tornadoes 2-0 in Uyo.
This will be the seventh league meeting of the sides in the last four seasons in the top flight.
The head-to-head record is closely matched, as each side has won three games apiece. United have managed more goals (6) than Stars (5) in those six games.
Last season, in the corresponding fixture, Stars won 1-0 at the Aper Aku Stadium. The return game, however, saw United deal out some revenge, winning 1-0.
Coaches of the two teams are expected to have full-strength squads at their disposal for Sunday's game in Makurdi.
Giwa FC Vs Enugu Rangers
Giwa FC and Enugu Rangers will face-off at the Rwang Pam Stadium this Sunday in the Nigeria Professional Football League.
The two are miles apart in the on-going campaign, with Rangers occupying first spot on the ladder with 21 points while the Jos Elephants sit 12th with 14 points.
Gbenga Ogunbote's Giwa FC haven't looked convincing if we are to judge the team by performance so far in the season.
His wards need to start picking results, if not he might face the wrath of the impatient owner of the club, Ambassador Chris Giwa, who is known for firing coaches if results aren't favourable.
High-flying Rangers will fancy their chances of winning in Jos, due to the array of talents at the disposal of the team.
It's a game that should be of good value to fans of the two clubs on match-day.
In their last league outing Giwa FC lost 3-1 to Nasarawa United, while Rangers pipped FC Ifeanyi Ubah 1-0 at the Nnamdi Azikwe Stadium.
Enyimba FC Vs Abia Warriors
Enyimba International Football Club promise to attack with purpose as they seek a boost to their Nigeria Professional Football League campaign when they face brothers Abia Warriors in the Abia Derby at the Umuahia Township Stadium on Sunday.
The People's Elephants have won just one of their last three league matches and lost 2-1 to Sunshine Stars at midweek.
The Aba side have claimed nine points from seven matches this season and are placed 18th on the log.
Abia Warriors' approach will be to play an offensive and high-tempo game, take advantage of their speed, use their skills to penetrate the opposition's defence and go for goals.
The previously unbeaten Warriors were handed a baptism of fire when they lost 1-0 to Warri Wolves on Thursday.
The Umuahia side have claimed 20 points from eleven matches this season and are placed 2nd on the log.
In head-to-head stats, Enyimba and Abia Warriors have met in four league matches since 2014.
Both sides have claimed one win each, while two matches have been drawn.
Warriors have not beaten Enyimba since 30 March 2014.
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Disney Says Shanghai Park Attendance Has Exceeded Expectations, Despite Contrary Report
Christopher Palmeri and Brendan Coffey, Bloomberg
- Oct 06, 2016 4:00 pm
Official Disney attendance numbers may not be telling the whole story but long lines and high prices aren't the only thing the company needs to worry about in Shanghai. China will become saturated with more than a dozen new theme parks from competitors in coming years all looking to capture millions of theme park enthusiasts in the world's most populated country.
— Dan Peltier
Walt Disney Co. said that visitors to the company's new Shanghai park have "exceeded our expectations," playing down a recent media report that park attendance was below estimates.
"Our financial results during the first 100+ days of operation have exceeded our expectations, and guest feedback has been extremely strong, establishing a solid foundation upon which to grow," Disney's parks and resorts division chairman Bob Chapek said in an e-mail.
The South China Morning Post reported that the Disney Shanghai Resort, which opened in June, is generating attendance of 20,000 guests per day or about 7.3 million annually. That's half of what some analysts had projected. Disney faces intensifying competition in the race to capture China's $610 billion tourism industry. Billionaire Wang Jianlin, the chairman of Dalian Wanda Group Co., opened last month the second of 15 multi-billion-dollar theme parks that will sprout across the country.
Disney guests complained about high ticket prices and long waits for some rides, according to the newspaper. Chapek said the report is "meritless."
Disney Chief Executive Officer Bob Iger also reiterated his support for the $5.5 billion park at an event Wednesday at Boston College.
"The park that we opened has been doing extremely well," he said. "Millions of people have already gone."
Guest satisfaction was "very high," Iger said, adding guests were staying two hours longer per visit than Disney anticipated.
"It's a great moment for the company," Iger said. "It is already a decent business and it represents incredible potential for our company in the most populous country and its most populous city for many, many years to come."
This article was written by Christopher Palmeri and Brendan Coffey from Bloomberg and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network.
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The former JD (U) leader had on Thursday stoked a controversy after he called the Rajasthan chief minister "fat", while appealing to voters in the poll-bound state to not vote for BJP.
A day after Vasundhara Raje urged the Election Commission to take action against Sharad Yadav for body shaming her during an election rally in Alwar, the senior Bihar politician on Saturday said he will apologise to the Rajasthan chief minister.
Earlier, Yadav tried to downplay the controversy, terming it as humour. "I said it as a joke. I've old relations with her. It wasn't derogatory in any way. I had no intentions of hurting her. When I met her, I told her then also that you're gaining weight," he told news agency ANI.
Yadav, a former JD(U) Rajya Sabha member, while campaigning for Loktantrik Janata Dal in Alwar in Rajasthan on Wednesday, had called Raje fat and asked people to give her rest.
After criticism from various quarters, Yadav had said it was a joke and that he had no intention of hurting Raje and it was not meant to be derogatory in any way.
Reacting to his remarks, Raje had said, "I feel insulted. This is insult of women". The BJP leader said she was "absolutely shocked" and did not expect such a comment from an experienced leader.
It is important that the Election Commission takes cognisance of this and sets an example so people don't repeat such a thing in future, she had added.
A video of Yadav was circulated on social media with many labelling his comments crass and misogynistic.
CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat had echoed Raje's call for an apology from Yadav.
"A senior leader like Sharad Yadav making such a derogatory comment on a woman leader, who is also a chief minister, is extremely objectionable. He should withdraw his statement and offer an apology," she had said.
Yadav also met jailed RJD chief Lalu Prasad at Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences here. He, however, refused to reveal details of their meeting.
To queries on Prasad's health, he said that the former Bihar chief minister was much better now.
Yadav also condemned the Bulandshahr violence in which a police inspector and a youth were killed.


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Home › Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
An essay by T Fleischmann
June 4, 2019 • 5 x 7.75 • 176 pages • 978-1-56689-547-7
W.G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.
How do the bodies we inhabit affect our relationship with art? How does art affect our relationship to our bodies? T Fleischmann uses Felix Gonzalez-Torres's artworks—piles of candy, stacks of paper, puzzles—as a path through questions of love and loss, violence and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality. From the back porches of Buffalo, to the galleries of New York and L.A., to farmhouses of rural Tennessee, the artworks act as still points, sites for reflection situated in lived experience. Fleischmann combines serious engagement with warmth and clarity of prose, reveling in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity and community.
T Fleischmann is the author of Syzygy, Beauty and the curator of Body Forms: Queerness and the Essay. A nonfiction editor at DIAGRAM and contributing editor at Essay Daily, they have published critical and creative work in journals such as the Los Angeles Review of Books, Fourth Genre, Gulf Coast, and others, as well as in the anthologies Bending Genre, How We Speak to One Another, Little Boxes, and Feminisms in Motion.
Praise for Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
"Both provocatively and evocatively written, the book illuminates the process of becoming." —Kirkus
"A perceptive and compassionate narrative that beautifully breaks with the limits of genre and gender." —Publishers Weekly
"Fleischmann is not only staking out but literally inventing a territory of their own." —Los Angeles Times
"This is a book about paying attention and sometimes failing to, about showing the ways in which attention, no matter how well focused, can be or feel insufficient. Fleischmann is not wringing their hands but instead leaning into the world, constantly pressing at the corners of language . . . Watchful of its context and position, this book is able to pose increasingly interesting, urgent, and difficult questions. It holds us accountable to the world." —The Paris Review Daily
"Fleischmann excels at the integration of art and memoir . . . their theory of identity suffuses the book on every level, a framework that shows that the ability to exist in an uninscribed space is an exercise in resilience and progress." —The Nation
"Fleischmann's path through self-expression, gender fluidity, and self-understanding is well worth our attention." —Literary Hub
"A meditation on relationships, place, proximity and distance, belonging, community, gender, politics, the body and, well, love, and all the things that can mean, braided with digressive, descriptive passages about the work of Cuban-born American artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres." —Frieze
"The story of the author's own exploration of queerness and identity, this is an all-too-important book at a time when LGBTQIA+ rights are at risk of regression." —Bustle
"Meditative, beautiful, and revolutionary." —Book Riot
"With this book-length essay, T Fleischmann has given us a truly unique work. . . . poetic, powerful, and subversive." —Ms. Magazine
"Chicago-based writer T Fleischmann melds personal narrative and art criticism in a poetically titled, genre-defying work. Mining the interactive art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, this book-length essay explores power, desire, gender fluidity and subverting limitations." —Chicago Tribune
"Fleischmann combines serious engagement with warmth and clarity of prose, reveling in the experiences and pleasures of art and the body, identity and community." —The Rumpus
"It is this spirit of generosity that makes Fleischmann's book so luminous—a generosity towards the queer body and its existence, a generosity towards the work of activism, a recognition both of the work that needs to be done and the work that is being done." —Longreads
"The long, sprawling essay bends prose and language to seek both intimacy and the alive body." —The Brooklyn Rail
"Expansive. . . . Fleischmann's stories transcend the singular, giving the reader space to reflect on their own body, their own art." —Columbia Journal
"Interspersing frank personal narrative with lyrical, line-broken passages from an unfinished meditation on Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Fleischmann offers up pearls, pills, candies, and miniature portraits of their friends and lovers in acts of generosity that are self-questioning but never self-doubting. Rather, it's the notion of a unified self itself that splits and spills across these pages with honesty, empathy, and often stunning delicacy." —Barbara Browning
"By turns blunt, confrontational, eloquent, exciting, original, and somewhat indescribable." —The Gay & Lesbian Review
"T Fleischmann's new book explores art and relationships with a perceptive eye and beautiful prose." —Star Tribune
"Fleischmann blends their own experiences with the art of Felix González-Torres to meditate on loss, violence, love and gender." —Chicago Tribune
"Fleischmann's book is also generous in its refusal to wrap up or resolve, leaving a wealth of inquiries to be pursued, an endless supply of thoughts feeding thoughts." —The Arkansas International
"What Fleischmann finds here are possibilities for making and living away from the 'reification of identity' through González-Torres's art, searching out what the artist had described as 'the uninscribed.'" —The Expanded Field
"To eat the candy; it's candy from "Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.), Felix Gonzalez-Torres's 'spill' of wrapped sweets selected and arranged by the curator of the art museum in which it is displayed. In Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, this moment is protracted. It becomes both duration, the thing that varies time or stops it, and also a block of sensations that might be received by the reader and discharged by their own capacity to taste it too: 'The candy was very sweet, and it was melting.' T Fleischmann has written a book like this, one that is 'spilled and gestured' between radical others of many kinds. Is this love? Is this 'the only chance to make of it an object'? Is this what it's like to be here at all? To write 'all words of life.' And how intimate that is. A form of social privacy. Fleischmann: 'But maybe that's okay. Even when imagining takes us away, it still begins with what's already here.' Yes. It feels like that. It does." —Bhanu Kapil
Praise for T Fleischmann
"How to describe the indescribable might as well be the title of this blurb, if we titled blurbs, since like any good essay, cowgirl, or wandering ghost, T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty is electric and resists being fenced in. Sometimes solid, sometimes not, like magma or the household magic of corn starch and water, Fleischmann works and perforates the spaces between body and nobody; desire, declaration, and dream; whiskey, sex, and subjectivity; art, ecstasy, and surface tension. Spectral and spectacular, Syzygy, Beauty will haunt you in a way you'll remember." —Ander Monson
"T Fleischmann's Syzygy, Beauty shimmers with confidence as it tours the surreal chaos of gender, art, and desire. Its declarative sentences—seductive, abject, caustic, moving, informative, and utterly inventive—herald a new world, one in which we are blessedly 'here with outfits like strings of light and no future.' I hail its weirdness, its 'armpit frankess,' its indelible portrait of occulted relation, and above all, its impeccable music." —Maggie Nelson
"Let me say first that T Fleischmann's writing helps us see ourselves. Helping us see clearer what has been muddled in our lives is marvelous, and is the best possible endowment of strength. What better substance? Gluing fur to logic' as T writes. 'There is imagination in truth,' and while T brands this an essay I sense it as poetry because I live through poetry. Whatever you call it, you too will be transfigured. Those who say reading a book changes nothing have been wasting their time reading the wrong things. Do you also know someone who says so? Send them this one." —CA Conrad, author of The Book of Frank
"A complex, tightly wound (and wounded) cri de coeur that is simultaneously accessible and intensely, cryptically personal." —Star Tribune
"In Syzygy, Beauty, T Fleischmann re-imagines the essay, creating a spare little book that reads like a collection of prose poems. Moving between anecdote and observation, fantasy and memory, it traces the story of a relationship—or does it? For Fleischmann, ambiguity is the point, and the more we read, the more the lines here blur. 'By describing something,' [they write], 'we place it at a distance.'" —Los Angeles Times


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Q: Cant catch ConstraintViolationException on entity delete I have a problem deleting an entity that have some related data.
When i call the repository delete method in my service I have this exception:
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: update or delete on table "table" violates foreign key constraint...
The code is something like this:
@Transactional
public void delete(Long id) {
    Entity entity = repository.findById(id).orElseThrow(()->new Exception("not found"));
    try {
       repository.delete(entity);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

The problem is that this exception isn't caught by the catch block even if I try to catch Throwable or ConstraintViolationException.
Why is this not working? Is it possible to do what I want?
Thanks

A: This is due to JPAs write behind cache. JPA gathers all the changes you make to your entities and tries to execute them as late as possible against the database.
In your case the execution happens when the transaction is committed, which is after you left the try catch block.
The easiest way to fix this is to add a repository.flush after the repository.delete.

A: You can remove it directly with the id, you don't need to find it before. Try to catch a DataIntegrityViolationException if it is possible that it have foreign constraints.


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Week by week last fall, the number of violinists still remaining in my New York Philharmonic violin audition Challenge dwindled: sixty, thirty, twenty. By the time we got to the home stretch, the last few weeks of nearly four months of audition preparation, only fourteen violinists were left. It was pretty clear that those fourteen were going to take it to the finish. I wrote about thirteen of them here, and their stories are inspirational.
I knew that the winner would be someone who had not only shown up without fail, uploading my video assignments on a weekly basis, but who had demonstrated a real mastery of the concepts. In short, my winner would be a player who had whipped herself into audition shape at the end of fifteen weeks. So when I viewed Stacy LeSartre's final assignment, a one-take (first take, on the honor system!) video of the complete preliminary audition for the New York Philharmonic, my only disappointment was that she was playing for the camera and not for a real committee!
Instead, all of the Challengers were playing for me, hoping to score Challenge points. According to the rules, participants scored points for registering, completing assignments, showing improvement when pieces came back for a second assignment, and for standing out as my favorite video of the week. The biggest points, though, would come from two achievements: completing every single assignment on time; and delivering my favorite final video, to be recorded on the same day that the real New York audition candidates would be playing their preliminary round at Lincoln Center.
I quickly became overwhelmed keeping up with the various scoring categories, so I reluctantly eliminated the "most improved" points. Instead I awarded my "favorite" points for different reasons each week. Some weeks I rewarded accuracy; others, intuitive grasp of concepts; and still others, improvement. That way, the Challenge wouldn't be dominated only by the strongest players.
But I had always planned on judging the final video as I would a professional audition. And going into that final week, there were four or five players in position to win. I knew that I was asking a lot for that final video, but I was confident (based on our fifteen weeks together) that everyone was as prepared as they could possibly be. I can tell you from personal experience that your heart starts racing when you hit "record" knowing that you've got one take and one take only, just like a real audition. Stacy showed great poise throughout her take, demonstrating the strength, style and control that committees want to hear in a preliminary round.
After I posted the final standings, I was eager to hear the stories of the fourteen violinists who had finished. I was especially interested in how Stacy had grown so dramatically during the Challenge. How had she stayed motivated for fifteen weeks, and how had she kept raising the level of her playing? I came away with two main reasons, and the second was quite surprising to me!
Stacy embraced the fundamentals and worked on them the entire time. The very first week's assignment was to record a selection of etudes, by Schradieck, Kreutzer and Dont. They focused mostly on left-hand technique: intonation, even-ness, and fluency. I chose them because I knew that many violinists neglect proper left-hand setup for years at a time, and they're often startled at how quickly their technique improves once they start paying attention. Those who really understood the importance of these etudes knew that they would keep paying dividends for the duration of the Challenge.
I had watched Stacy's progress throughout the Challenge since she was a member of my school at ArtistWorks. Many of my members there were participating in the Challenge, so as I gave my feedback to them week by week, I was able to keep tabs on how they were doing. But I forgot about an interesting aspect of my school: members were actually able to keep tabs on each other!
At ArtistWorks, when a member posts a video to me, I respond with video feedback of my own, and the two videos are paired as an exchange. All violin members can watch all exchanges once they're complete. And unbeknownst to me, Stacy was eagerly taking in the feedback that I gave, not only to her, but to the other Challengers who were part of ArtistWorks. "Once in the swing of the routine, the Challenge highlighted the parts of taking an audition that are enjoyable for me: hearing many violinists play the same repertoire; going into great depth with the excerpts; and playing for people," she told me.
Stacy's statement is powerful because she taps into that sense of community that most of us had when we started the violin. Unfortunately, most of us have lost that sense, at least when it comes to preparing for our performances and auditions.
To some extent that's understandable. When it comes down to it, an audition is just you and your instrument, alone on a stage. Nobody else can play for you. Since in the end you must stand alone, it seems natural to prepare alone as well.
But have you noticed how often several students of the same teacher place at the same competition? Or how several finalists at an audition come from the same studio? It's natural to blame politics or outright fraud for these results. But there is another explanation: these players prepared together, forming a community, and they strengthened each other along the way.
All of us who started the violin as part of a large studio, perhaps as part of the Suzuki method, benefited from this community whether we knew it or not. Week by week, we got to hear our friends play the same songs we played. We got to see and hear them perform, gradually getting used to that peculiar blend of excitement and dread: I hope they play their best…just not better than me!
And in the end, when it was our turn in the spotlight, it was comforting to know that we were part of a team. This ordeal, public performance, was something that all of us had to go through when our number was called, and so it was no big deal.
For those of us who went on to music school or conservatory, this feeling of shared experience continued: we encouraged each other in the practice room, joked about etudes and concertos over pizza, and cheered at each others' recitals.
Compare that with the sense of isolation most candidates feel during their audition preparation. They practically seal themselves off from the outside world for months leading up to the big day! They may play a mock audition, or two or three if they're smart, but they are in essence flying solo, relying on their own energy and motivation to pull through. The very strongest players, technically and mentally, can make that work… but audition day doesn't always go the way they want. What happens if their best isn't good enough that day? Can they start over, alone, until they get a win? How much isolation can a musician take before just giving up?
That's why Stacy was smart to learn not only from me, and from her own ears on a daily basis, but from her fellow Challengers. "It was great to be part of a large online community working towards the same goal," she added. In the real world of professional auditions, it can be tough to seek out others who you'll be competing against, but at the very least you can team up with someone else who is working toward a different performance around the same time as your audition. Even if your community is just you and one other violinist, you can lean on each other when times are tough. And that post-audition celebration is always sweeter when you aren't drinking alone!
So what made Stacy take on the Challenge in the first place? "I had some unexpected downtime this summer and needed a project. The structure the Challenge offered was just right." I like that attitude. Stacy's willingness to take on a project on the spur of the moment speaks to her drive, and her results speak to her dedication.
Stacy's biggest difficulty during the Challenge was the same one the other finishers faced: time management. After the Challenge, in fact, I reassured all the participants that finding time to get things done remains my biggest obstacle. After all, I have three kids, all under 4 years old! So we all have different commitments, professional and personal. But if we want to reach our goals, we have to decide that they're important to us and then make the time to move towards them.
I've waited until the end to tell you more about who Stacy is and what she does with the violin, because her strategy for the Challenge is something you can use to take your playing to the next level, no matter how long you've been playing. But here's one last thing you should know about Stacy: she performs in front of people. A lot. And I believe that was the last piece of the puzzle for her. The camera doesn't intimidate her because she puts herself out there on a regular basis. She is concertmaster of the Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra, Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra, Larimer Chorale Orchestra, and the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. She is also a substitute with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
If you missed the New York Philharmonic violin audition Challenge, why not go through it at your own pace? Read about the Challenge and how to start it today?


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Modern Tech in a Familiar Package
December 1, 2022 Fluidinknee Daily Reporter
Science fiction fans divide stories into "hard science fiction" and "soft science fiction," a blurred line that Lightspeed Magazine can try to define, but we stick to cars. We only bring this up to indicate that electric vehicles could benefit from a similar subcategorization. For the die-hard sci-fi fans, those detail-hungry, all-in takers, we've got tech- and trick-heavy machines like the Rivian R1S, Lucid Air and Mercedes-Benz EQS sedan. For those who are just diving in, unwilling to learn a whole new language for the commute, there are the "soft" EVs, and here we find the Mercedes-Benz EQB350, an electric SUV that is so traditionally in feeling is that one could drive it for days and never realize there was simply a silent gas power source under the hood.
One of the reasons the EQB looks familiar is that it's based on the GLB, Benz's turbocharged four-cylinder small SUV. The EQB dresses up a bit hipper, with elongated LED headlights, blue-badged 19-inch wheels and a gloss black panel in place of a grille, but it shares the GL's squared-off rear and upright profile. More importantly, at least for those made uneasy by the all-screen future envisioned by many EV designers, the EQB interior offers plenty of hard buttons to go along with its digital displays and center touchscreen.
HIGH: Spacious interior, minimally challenging user interface, quiet running.
The base EQB300 uses two motors that produce 225 horsepower and 288 pound-feet of torque. We spent time in the higher-powered EQB350, which increases output to 288 horses and 384 pound-feet. Both come standard with four-wheel drive, a 400-volt architecture and a 66.5-kWh battery that can recharge from 10 percent to 80 percent in about half an hour at a DC fast charging station. Mercedes says the 350 offers 227 miles of range, while the 300 can go about 15 miles further.
Michael Simari|Car and Driver
Unsurprisingly, this small SUV is a rock star when it comes to acceleration. In our tests, it hit 60 mph in 5.4 seconds, which is a reasonable result for this segment and 0.2 seconds ahead of the Audi Q4 e-tron. Put the throttle down for a pass at freeway speeds, and the EQB will go from 50 to 70 km/h in 3.6 seconds (versus the Q4's 3.3 seconds). Unless you live near a notoriously difficult fusion point, you won't be pained by the EQB350's performance level.
Despite the EQB's compact footprint, the cabin is open, bright and comfortable. The EQB's tall windows and standard panoramic glass roof let in plenty of light, so even with the mostly black vinyl interior in our Premium trim car, it was neither stark nor claustrophobic. Microfiber and leather are options in all trim levels. Another benefit of the EQB's boxy shape is headroom for the rear passenger. Long-legged adults can not only stretch their limbs, but they won't find their head too cramped against the headrest, and the rear seats offer multiple angles of recline. It's a whole different story for the third row, which is an extra-cost option we wouldn't mind unless you like putting a seat belt in your grocery bags. It is certainly not roomy enough to transport people any distance. Without it, there's plenty of cargo space, despite the EQB losing several cubic feet to the underfloor battery.
One way an EV can cause tremors is the user interface for basic controls. Will you have to dig into a touchscreen to find the flash? Or perform magic to select a forward gear? Not in the EQB. Its infotainment features are minor and will be familiar to any modern Mercedes owner: overly sensitive buttons on the steering wheel and a touchpad on the console that could be better used for small storage. Other than that, we found the interior layout attractive and easy to use. It's plain and simple, with just enough detail to be interesting without being overwhelming. Mercedes Voice Control is one of the best we've experienced, but don't let your passengers know they can ask the car to tell jokes, or you'll spend the rest of the drive hearing a monotone voice like this one delivers: "Two fish were in a tank. One said to the other, 'Do you know how to drive this thing?'" Funny, Mercedes, but we'd rather have wireless Apple CarPlay, not currently an option .
LOW: 227 miles of range isn't great, third-row seating is pointless, MBUX joke-telling function is as cringeworthy as your Uncle Fred.
On the road, the EQB350 is just what a small electric SUV should be: quiet and smooth. It doesn't emit spaceship sounds or wind tunnel noises—the only sounds are the slight hiss of the tires and whatever music you're playing over the stereo. It steers and brakes with minimal drama. In testing, it stopped from 70 mph in 178 feet (a mere foot longer than rival Audi) and clung to the skidpad with 0.85 g of grip. One of the few obvious electric motor features the EQB350 showcases is adjustable settings for its regenerative braking, which is controlled on the steering wheel paddles. Otherwise, you might only remember that it's eating electrons when the screen warns that it's time to find a charging station.
2022 Mercedes-Benz EQB350 4Matic Premium
Vehicle type: front and mid-engine, four-wheel drive, 5-passenger, 4-door wagon
Options: Mountain Gray Metallic paint, $750; garage door opener, $280; charging cord, $250
POWER TRAIN
Front motor: induction asynchronous AC
Rear motor: permanent-magnet synchronous AC
Combined power: 288 hp
Combined torque: 384 lb-ft
Battery pack: liquid-cooled lithium-ion, 66.5 kWh
On-board charger: 9.6 kW
Peak DC fast charging rate: 100 kW
Transmissions, F/H: direct-drive/direct-drive
Suspension, F/R: struts/multilink
Brakes, F/R: 13.0-inch ventilated disc/12.6-in disc
Tires: Continental ProContact 6XSSR
235/50R-19 103T M+S Extra Load MOE
Wheelbase: 111.3 inches
Length: 184.4 inches
Passenger volume: 102 feet3
Cargo volume, rear seats up/down: 22/62 ft3
Results above show 1 foot deployment of 0.3 sec. away.
Roll start, 5–60 mph: 5.5 sec
Road holding capacity, 300-ft Skid road: 0.85 g
C/D FUEL ECONOMY AND CHARGE
Observed: 84 MPGe
Combined/City/Highway: 96/98/93 MPGe
C/D TEST EXPLAINED
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