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Pupa, Collected Episode Commentary Notebook (1 – 12)
April 3, 2014 Vintagecoats	Leave a comment
My episodic notes, reactions, and commentary from the second half of Pupa, which aired during the Winter 2014 anime season.
Everything is by and large as it was when I originally wrote them in the Hangers category when the show was airing. They have been sewn together and provided for the convenience of readers to look back on my feelings on this series specifically, without needing to click through numerous pages.
Check the Notebooks category or the appropriate Index page for additional posts like this one for other series.
Pupa (Episode 1)
The good news for Pupa is that after multiple network issues last season, the ensuing weeks of delays and "We'll let you know where we're showing this as soon as we actually know ourselves" level of hiccups, it well and truly finally got itself broadcasting.
…and promptly blew all of that potential lead-in hype right out of the window.
Unlike a lot of folks, I was not really miffed by the short format running time. I watch a lot of shorts every year, and I think it is a good place for a lot of things. Two of my favorite shows of last year were shorts! So I'm with it on that front, and there are definite ways one could approach a horror series in four minutes or less chunks every week.
This, unfortunately, is not one of them. Characters are haphazardly thrown in front of the screen, multiple cuts to material being handled in the most ham fisted of ways (chief among these likely the random shot that is supposed to tell us of the abusive father of our leading kids, but is handled with all of the subtly of a Family Guy cutaway gag), and a monster that looks about as convincing as the "Oh this was actually the silliest rubber monster suit with a zipper" antagonistic force from the Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo St. episode of, well, Doug.
And it was heavily censored to boot, with the primary gore scene of the episode covered in so many blobs of impenetrable darkness that I may as well have been sticking my hand in one of those mystery Halloween black boxes where you rummage around and try to figure out what the squishy object is. Man, if there is one thing this series potentially had going for it, it was the "Too Hot For TV" thing that likely intrigued a fair number of folks over the previous months and allowed for a lot of free word of mouth advertising, which is doubly great given that horror productions in general tend to get really minimal budgets for that kind of thing. I'd be really interested in seeing whatever the streaming numbers look like on the back end for things like Crunchyroll, as I imagine the viewership numbers are going to drop like a lead brick after this initial episode.
I'd like to think that Pupa will be improve, but, realistically this is likely not going to happen given the multiple levels of problems present in just this one showing. That's going to be hard for it to try to overcome. But, I suppose, even with cutting my shows back I will still have a weekly punching bag for the time being.
Oh deary dear dear dear.
Incidentally, "dear" is on letter off from "bear," and we sure did see some bears this week.
More specifically, we have little stuffed bears as placeholder representatives of the family household our leading brother and sister duo grew up in. And that, on the one level, is not a terrible idea, using a series of cute animal plushies as a means of representing what should have been a far happier childhood time that went to far darker places. That said, we end up with things like Utsutsu remarking on how his dad used to beat their mother, and it is visually portrayed via one stuffed bear kicking the other as if like a cardboard cutout. Complete with a little "cute" squeaky noise.
In better hands, a scene like that could even work as a means of attempting to juxtapose the horror and subject matter of domestic abuse in an unnerving and "adorable" visual fashion. What matters hugely to that though is timing and shot framing. And Pupa has no sense of either.
To give the best example from this episode, there was monster form Yume's concern that her brother may see her as this bloody and murderous beast after her rampage from the last episode. Immediately then, with no pauses or quietness for weight, we have Utsutsu show up just over her shoulder calling out to her, as the camera then pans back over to her eyes shifting to the side of the frame.
That's the kind of shot that begs for a "Whomp whomp whomp" comedic sound effect or something after the fact. Because it is very silly in how it is constructed and portrayed. But not in a "We set this up intentionally in a way so that you as a viewer would feel conflicted emotions as the narrative and visual storms compete in your mind." It's more akin to a bad screenplay a teen may write in a "goth" phase that really only involves them stopping by the local mall Hot Topic every now and again.
There's a way to do shot composition and editing so that if you are making something you know is going to be censored if you show it in full you don't have big censor blobs in the middle of the screen. You can cut away and the in-between bit will come back in later for the home video release for instance, or a fancier technique would be framing the shot in a way were it can be done in a way allowing the editing team to zoom in to a certain showable part and the full frames can show the more graphic content in the full version.
What is weird to me in cases like Pupa, where the team seems to have no real sense of what to actually do with the camera, the randomness occasionally ends up with well framed shots that are completely showable and yet wholly get their points across with a level of sexualization, gore, and public bathroom decency violations it clearly wants to be walking. One then wonders "Why can't you be like that all the time?!" before remembering it likely really only happened by chance anyway.
This all said, this is the most interesting episode of the series so far. It had an extraordinarily low bar to walk over, but regardless: the live action video of a fish being gutted on skyscraper televisions while Yume is in her inner mental city world I felt was intriguing as visual presentation.
You can't be rolling out more creepy teddy bear stuff and then have a human character give lines like "I'm so hungry I can't bear it!" though. That's just begging for me to spit out my beverage into hearty guffawing.
Maria has monitors in the random public bathroom to watch the siblings have psuedo gore sex?
"Researcher" indeed. I bet she isn't even approved for this study by her Social & Behavioral Sciences Institutional Review Board.
For a series that consists of roughly three minute long episodes though, my internal sense of where we are and what we are doing is being thrown for a right royal whiplashing. We have the bathroom scene, but we also have Yume outside being wrapped up in a blanket for transport to the facility. And Utsutsu is, understandably, in a body bag after being munched on by his sister. So when does the public bathroom scene happen? The ambiguous future, after he apparently slaughters the other monitoring scientists and somehow links back up with his sister after this confrontation with Maria? Where the scene blocking is awkward and haphazard enough where he was just standing in the middle of the room staring at the door like a robotic video game A.I. from two decades ago.
I mean my bar for this series is pretty low, but… it should not be this hard of a timeline of events to keep track of for what is in total less than about twelve minutes of footage if we add all the episodes together.
Given, our dialogue here is consisting of lines like "He didn't die. You killed him." and random cutaways to Abusive Yet Nebulous Father Figure Concept for cloudy "My blood flows through you after all" lines. So I dunno. Half the screen is routinely covered in black clouds, but I am not even sure what they are censoring with them this week, as the underlying gore doesn't seem any more extreme than dropping the two open slices of a strawberry jam and peanut butter sandwich on the floor.
Pupa (episode five)
Credit where credit is due: I actually understood some of the justifications behind the censoring mechanics this week.
A mother taking a box cutter to her baby and then showing some of what that handiwork led to is a subject area one can easily go "You can buy the home video release if you wanna see the whole thing."
In a move that honestly does not really help matters when it comes to how confused and jumbled up the timeline of this narrative has gotten to be, we switch gears yet again and move towards following Utsutsu and Yume's mother around during the pregnancy of her daughter years ago. On the one hand, that is quite useful to see, while on the other, I'm not sure about this really being the right time or place for it given how many plates it is already trying to spin.
In either event, Yume being born with a full set of teeth is certainly noteworthy in the sense of it being plenty unusual and definitely unnerving for a mother who was already more than psychologically freaking out about her child and considering it a monster. Then of course massively multiplied by baby Yume's ability to get back up again after being carved up by mommy. But I'm not really sure what it really means for, well, anything. Perhaps something about Utsutsu's unwavering defensive love of his sister being greatly misplaced, but to what end? How that they're over a decade older, is she some sort of sleeper satanic larva agent or… something?
It somewhat raises the issues, but rather than giving them a bit of the harder push it probably could really use right about now it jumps off to lines of "pain tells me that I'm living in reality. I don't need soft kisses." dialogue and I can practically hear the pop-punk mall rock lyrics crawling out of the speakers.
Pupa (episode six)
This was not really an episode.
It was a scene that belongs as a part of an episode.
It has no framing device at either the end or beginning to tell me where we are and how to got here. There are no transitions from the previous episode (mom's flashbacks to her pregnancy and taking a box cutter to her infant daughter), the one before it (involving cleaning up after Yume's murder spree and the research facility), or any of the others for that matter.
What we are left with then is about three minutes of out of context moaning, groaning, slurping, and "Onii-chan" cooing on an increasingly blood soaked mattress as Yume tries eating her brother. And, you know, that would be fine. It is sort of what one signs up for when intentionally watching a cannibalism incest show. So, you know, I don't have any issue with the show going there and doing that.
I feel kind of like how one does if they get into one of those fall asleep – wake up – fall asleep fits very late at night on a sofa with a dumb horror film on. You're only catching bits and pieces out of context here and there, so you really don't know why anything is happening. Except, in Pupa's case, there is no missing footage to go back to and fill in the blanks. It is exclusively out of context scene shenanigans.
Heck, the Corpse Party: Missing Footage OVA short is about as long as the number of Pupa episodes we've had, and it makes a lot more sense. Which is saying something, as a completely superfluous collection of random prelude character interactions for a product that wouldn't exist for another year.
Pupa (episode seven)
I really hope the home video version of this series comes with a reverse Operation style board game for the episodes where you need to figure out how to reassemble the patient that is this show.
With this week being a Maria focused episode, and harvesting the sperm and egg cells of our monster siblings to then insert within herself as a surrogate mother, I'm oddly in the position where this episode almost seemed borderline grounded. At least I knew what we were doing: sticking incest babies inside the crazy scientist lady. We nearly have a semblance of plot, even.
Yume being in monster form and chained up to a wall in a giant underground hotspring Maria was bathing in is admittedly radically confusing compared to our previous episode quaint bedroom sexcapades, as I am still not sure how this whole dynamic between the research group and the siblings actually works. I'm assuming the siblings have some sort of visiting hours or conjugal visit rights, or… something? With Utsutsu dropping lines like "Yet for some reason, every time she feeds on me, she looks so sad," I wouldn't be shocked if he needs a padded cell.
That there is an illegal medical research organization targeting our siblings seems warranted, I guess, but that does leave me wondering what in the hell the legality of the current research facility they are in is. I had always figured it was illegal, but the phrasing Hotoki uses would seem to indicate otherwise?
Incidentally, I hope we all enjoyed Hotoki making out of left field boob jokes and getting munched on by a cat with numerous sound effects to boot, because I figure he is dead as nails due to the whole "never betray me" agreement Maria put him up to.
Pupa (episode eight)
I feel like I am at a carnival, spun around on a baseball bat and then needing to hit a ball.
Except it is one of those weird gaudy nightmare carnivals where they spin you around way too many times. And everything is clowns. And all the clowns are Pupa.
If I didn't write about this show, I wouldn't be able to tell you which one of the episodes was last week given the scattershot continuity.
Apparently we left off with incest babies in Maria and monster Yume chained to a wall in an underground hot spring. So how on earth she and her brother are out and about walking around a school campus or something is beyond me. Even more jarring though is how the censoring in this program continues to make wildly inane choices. A character pulling a knife with a blinding large white bar on the screen. But, in the same episode, we can see the same guy get his eyes poked out. And we can even see the knife in other scenes, just not the pulling of it out. And it gets pulled out twice.
I should probably stop talking about pulling out and the cannibal incest gore show.
Between all this reeling from the ham fisted editing choices, there's a lot of haphazard scenes of flashbacks to Abusive But Nebulously Defined Dad and knife dude treating Utsutsu in as a carving toy, but there's no sense of why any of this matters. Is purple shirted knife guy from the illegal medical research team mentioned last episode, or are those the folks who showed up and tased him? How does he even know who the siblings are and where they would be, because I as a viewer want to know what he knows.
The series wraps in approximately twelve minutes doled out over the next four weeks. Maybe they'll go back to just doing comedic puppetry with stuffed bears again.
Pupa (episode nine)
Another episode where we have more of an individual scene than an installment of a weekly show.
This one hit me in a more heartbreaking manner though. Which is to say, I do not like to sound like someone who tells professional animation teams how to do their job but… this installment is just wasted potential all over the place. It could have been far more punchy and created less effort for the creative folks with just a few tweaks.
Yume spends most of this episode blindfolded and chained to a chair while her regenerating brother gets dissected. For a horror series, that is a fine setup, for someone to hear the screams and wails of something terrible and yet unseen. But the entire thing is shot with the camera dead centered on her fidgeting, and in a well lit room.
A first person sequence would not have been out of the question here to sell the mood and tension the episode was clearly going for. What slays me is this approach would have been easier to animate that way as well. Have her fidget around and be able to see only some fragmented things through cracks in the blindfold before breaking away. Corpse Party was able to try shot composition elements like that, the viewpoint of someone who can only hear the mutilation and screams, wondering when or if they would be next. And it heightened the scenes where it saw use.
You can even keep the jump cuts to the teddy bear scenes for Yume imagining what was going on. It would still work.
I feel like I'm teaching a remedial film school course. If I am horrified of anything, it is how much extra work it took to make this episode neutered and sterile, when the easier way out would have made it far more terrifying.
Pupa (episode ten)
Of all the things Pupa does, one thing I will defend it for is its use of a watercolor and sketchbook art aesthetic.
But, in design matters such as this, it is important to know when and where the style would tend to break down. To be more specific, generic uniformed military troopers in olive garb should not be a prominent visual part of an episode. You end up with a blurry, slurry mess of undefined blob shapes.
Boy, there sure was a big slaughterhouse fight that happened between last week and this week though.Shame we did not get to see any of it.
Instead we get Yume wandering around interchangeable corridors wondering where her brother is, as the guys with machine guns stand around and wonder what happened. Wouldn't you know it, this is the exact kind of team who have explicit orders from command to "dismember her and secure the severed flesh with metal."
So the fully armed guards surrounded by severed bodies… approach to an absurdly close range for what I can only imagine as an insane attempt to subdue her physically. Cue blood fountain.
Guns, guns everywhere, but not a drop of a single bullet to drink.
Pupa (episode eleven)
When I asked for the return of comedy stuffed bears several episodes back, I did not expect DEEN to actually do it.
"If we are alone, we'll fall. But as long as we're together, maybe we won't fall." Cue squeaky toy noises. I'm sorry to be the bringer of bad news Pupa, but given what I read around the internet you are in even worse shape than that. You are for certain not alone, given the viewership.
But you are primarily surrounded by people who mock you.
Since the show wanted to go down the route of "Which is a dream? Which is reality?" this week via juxtapositions between the slaughterhouse of a research facility and the whimsical brother-sister feeding at school, I'll play ball. Pupa again shows that vague abusive father figure they have always done minimal establishment for, and in his recollections he again says terrible things of our siblings while our leads endure their situation.
Now, what if the father was supposed to be like us? We, as viewers, are just so often consistently awful to these kids and the container they happen to reside within. If a show is intentionally designed to fail at various construction levels, in an attempt to generate horrible commentary and thus place the viewer in a position similar to that of the individual the protagonists fear so much, is that a valid artistic point or performance art? How would we even draw the lines on such a thing, between such a reality and an anime dream?
Note, this is a thought experiment more than anything: I do not think this is what Pupa is up to. Unless a massive change comes in the series finale, and not even that seems reasonable to expect. Maybe Maria's monster incest baby she has been a surrogate to is revealed to be us, the viewership, having gestated for so long and contemplating our terrible lineage or whatever. I do not know.
In a sense, this strained hypothetical is a slightly different version of what I come to end up personally calling The Cannibal Holocaust Defense.
Now, that movie is a vile piece of work, including multiple genuine animal deaths. The protagonists are horrible people of the highest order, and there is no earthly reason to root for anything they do. They cut a swath of absolute and total destruction in the name of trumping up how sensational they will be able to make their news story. As a viewer, one gets angry at them. Everything about their actions in the quest for ratings are repugnant. Yet the film takes the found footage concept to such a horrifyingly insane extreme it can be read as lambasting the entirety of exploitative journalism and the horrors of many modern consumer media fascinations like reality programming. And the stunt is dedicated and absolute, not unlike watching something akin to Genocyber on the anime end.
In the case of Pupa, the trick would need to come to be delivered on not necessarily from the character actions but from an actual construction standpoint. By and large, most of the flack I've seen (and participated in) comes less from Yume and her brother directly as protagonists but more regarding how the actual show is assembled. How it walks, talks, moves around the house, that sort of thing. Actions often lack in making sense due to poor context, and the way the narrative has flowed from the school and park in the beginning to Maria's facility to the borderline full sex scene episode to the "enemy" research lab to the present is incredibly convoluted.
Somebody, with a razor sharp three minute script, could attempt to make some sort of point about that. About anime and narrative structure and delivery and audience response and all being represented in a sense by a mocking in-universe figure. Hell, the director, Tomomi Mochizuki, was the director for one of the two episodes of Twilight Q! Admittedly the less interesting one because it was not the Mamoru Oshii episode, but that is a harsh comparison to be against. But at some point in his younger career, he could have figured a slick way out to tie up this material.
But I am pretty sure I just pitched a better idea for a screenplay.
Pupa (Episode twelve)
Lest I get ahead of myself, I recommend checking out what I wrote for Pupa last week.
Never let it be said that I did not try to give Pupa every possible fair shake this season to drag itself even a ledge higher from the abyss.
All the censoring, the haphazard semblance of a plot, even the sketchbook art style… it all goes out the window here for the finale. We get chibi children and a toy store lottery hosted by wacky animal suits saying things like "It must take real talent to lose this much" and "You only get one more try." This show, if only on a subconscious level, knows very well what it was up to, aiming to sass and storm its way out the door at the end of a big winter anime party. I tried to hypothesize on a way it could try and take a meta approach out. I did not consider the possibility DEEN would just troll away in the final minutes and mock any semblance of a viewership they had managed to retain.
We get a broken teddy bear of Yume's, a whole set of new named childhood characters who hand over lottery tickets, and her brother repeatedly failing to win her a new one at the store.
The only way this makes any sense as a finale message is if we view chibi Utsutsu reading the Pupa manga at home as more than a mere reference. His continued lottery losses and eventually being told compromise is a big part of growing up as the studio talking directly to us. That we may have wanted something so much more, and we were just going to have to deal with and accept what we got.
But anime production is not like trying to win the grand prize stuffed bear from the rolly ball lottery spinner and only winding up with the seventh place hair clip. Sure, I may have little personal direct involvement outside of where my money or ad dollars end up. So my picking the show up was a lot like a lottery ticket. But the studio sure could have done a lot more. Compromise is meeting halfway. It is a collaborate process of strengths and shortcomings to make something whole, that multiple parties can walk away from satisfied. It is not the studio presenting a package, the viewership having concerns with how it was lacking in various areas, then stomping them into the dirt and spitting on us while yelling we should be thankful.
Which is really what this last episode amounted to for me. A frustrated production crew, who went through their own hells trying to get this out the door back in autumn but failed, using the last episode to just scream at, mock, and otherwise take their anger out on us. This episode would have been a passing little omake on a normal home video release, and there perhaps it may have even been a little funny attached to a better program. Here, it is a hate fueled condemnation of anyone who dared to speak up about a troubled show.
There was an event in December where DEEN showcased the first eight episodes back to back. So they had been working on them during the autumn after getting their initial rejection from the television airwaves, and could show off a whole bunch at once. It did not screen so well. So they had time to perhaps make various alterations, if not so much for the front end then perhaps the back. Rather than make amends, they aimed to burn bridges.
And the Too Hot For TV angle really is a good free marketing hook for a horror series, if we look at it purely from a cold and calculating "Get people to watch the show" perspective. Which may really be the most horrific thing, that it did work so well to get folks like us to barrel through it.
As of this writing, it is almost a week after the finale, and it is pushing a 683 popularity rating on MyAnimeList, with a ranking of 6878. That has to be one of the largest divergent positions I can recall for anything on that website in quite some time.
I like the strengths some series can find in shorter runtime formats. Miss Monochrome and gdgd Fairies were each on my top ten list from last year. Pupa barely deserves to be in the same category filing section of the bottomless online anime video world. I feel sorry for whatever files are neighbors to it on Crunchyroll's servers.
The best part of this final Pupa episode for me was the opening tone which rings at the start is the exact same one Sunrise uses for its corporate logo in front of the likes of Gundam Build Fighters.
Let us take that lesson, and play with toys who want to be friends instead.
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Q: Uploading a file with YUI3 to a RESTful PUT url I'm trying to upload a file to a RESTful PUT url with YUI3, but when I set upload to true in the config to io it sends the file as POST not PUT. If I remove the upload setting in the config I just get the filename, but it does go to the PUT url. Can I use PUT with a file upload? Is there another way to do this?
I'm assuming this is a failure/fault in YUI3 or rather my use of it.
Form:
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Any help is here much appreciated.
I've also tried to find a resource on reading the file contents with javascript and then pushing that into the PUT data, but I can't seem to find anything about that. Does anyone know if that's a possiblilty?
Cheers,
Andy.

A: PUT is not a standard way of sending form data and most web browsers don't support it, unfortunately.

A: Check this example. https://github.com/chmouel/cors-swift-example
In this example, you can see how we can PUT files to RESTful PUT url.

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Soccer-FIFA welcomes CAS decision to uphold life ban on former Afghan soccer president
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July 14, 2020 — 12:43 pm EDT
Written by Arvind Sriram for Reuters ->
July 14 (Reuters) - FIFA has welcomed a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejecting an appeal against the life ban imposed on the former president of the Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF).
Keramuudin Karim was banned from soccer for life last June and fined 1 million Swiss francs ($1.07 million) after FIFA's ethics committee found him guilty of abusing his position and sexually abusing female players between 2013-18.
CAS on Tuesday confirmed the decision taken by FIFA and said that Karim's offences violated basic human rights and damaged the mental and physical integrity of young female players, destroying their careers and lives.
"In a case of unprecedented gravity, CAS has confirmed the importance of FIFA's zero tolerance policy against physical, mental and sexual abuses at all levels of football, as well as the adequacy of the strongest sanctions in such cases," FIFA said in a statement on Tuesday.
"FIFA commends the bravery of those victims who, under dreadful personal circumstances in their home country, have come forward and allowed for justice to be served.
"We trust that their example will encourage other victims and survivors of such terrible circumstances to report them in the future, knowing that they can count on FIFA's support at all times."
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Fire destroys Sandy home
A home in Sandy is destroyed after a late night fire Thursday.
Around 10 p.m. firefighters were called to the scene near 11000 South and 1050 East in Sandy. When crews arrived, the house was engulfed in flames.
Firefighters said they people inside heard noises coming from the garage and went to check it out. When they opened the door, flames came shooting out.
Crews said the fire spread quickly to the house, but there were able to keep the fire from spreading to neighboring homes.
"They won't be able to stay in the home tonight," said Chief Don Rosenkrantz, Sandy Fire Department. "It did a lot of damage to the main floor even though it started in the garage."
The family, including the dog, were able to get out safely.
Investigators said the cause of the fire is still unknown.


I was ludicrously lucky to be Mal Peet's editor. But not for long enough! And there are others who edited him for longer. And knew him much better. I was just last one up to bat.
So what was it like, editing Mal? A year or so back I drove down to Exmouth to talk to Mal about The Murdstone Trilogy. We had an initial conversation in his lovely airy light writing room, with only Pedro, his beloved dog, present. Then Mal, his wife Elspeth and I went to the pub. I drove. Did Pedro come? I'm pretty sure he did. We all talked more about the book. The three of us together with Pedro 'being good' below the table. We had a nice lunch, lots of laughter mixed in with the book stuff. It was such a delight and privilege to hear Mal talk about his work - or anything else for that matter.
Everything went swimmingly after that. But you could never be quite sure with an author as good as Mal. That was the great thing about him. Only someone as gloriously big-hearted as he could be so wickedly and truthfully funny. And only a writer of great power can imagine so far. Much further than most of us, Mal could see beyond our ken.
Mal lives on in all our heads now. Mal in all his guises and talents. And I don't know the half of them. But I would like to bang on about one thing. The bit of Mal I know a bit about. And I'll try to use Mal's voice to do so.
'I think I am a goalkeeper,' I said.
Swap the words 'keeper' for 'writer' and you have Mal Peet.
Be of no doubt, Mal Peet is a great writer. He emerged suddenly at the height of his powers at the comparatively late age of 52, then went on to write six of the finest novels written in English since the war. I kid you not. Straight off the reel.
The best way to honor Mal is to read him. For each and every one of you to go out and give a Mal Peet book to a reader. Give all of them. Talk about them all. Tell the world. Let no one be able to say ever again that he is the greatest author you've never heard of.
David Fickling delivered the full version of this eulogy at Mal Peet's funeral earlier this year. The Murdstone Trilogy is published in paperback by David Fickling Books Thursday 2nd July.


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Joan Miró: The Power of the Sol de Miró
Joan Miró spent his life in both his birthplace of Barcelona and his adopted home of Paris. He lived in turbulent times and saw his country ravaged by civil war, the fascist Franco regime and World War ll. He lived long enough to see Spain become a constitutional monarchy and to see himself become a national treasure, but not long enough to see the powerful impact that his art had on Spanish tourism. Miró helped to design the most successful and recognizable national logo ever created.
Joan Miró by Yousuf Karsh, 1966
Despite hard times, Miró's work remained fluid, colorful and optimistic, with a style all his own. He was aware of the chaos around him, but often saw a bigger picture.
Les Grandes Manoeuvres, 1973
Color Etching, Aquatint and carborundum
Edition: 27/50
"The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me." he said, "I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains – everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me."
The Power of the Sol de Miró
In 1983, just a few months before his death, at age 90, Joan Miró was asked to design a logo for Spain's struggling tourist industry. Though Franco had died in 1975, the country was still trying to shake off the dark cloud of fascism. The junior Minister of Tourism, Ignacio Varallo, planned to market Spain as a unified country with a wonderful climate and something for everyone. Varallo sent letters to Spain's three most famous and beloved artists: Salvador Dalí, Antoni Tàpies and Joan Miró.
Varallo met with Dalí, but nothing came of the meeting. He then went to visit with Miró, in Mallorca, at the end of the summer of 1983. Miró was ill and bedridden at that time, and though he couldn't paint the logo, he and Varallo came up with a plan to use elements from Miró's existing work to create a new design.
Sol de Miró
Spain. Everything Under the Sun, 1984
The ministry offered to pay Miró for the design, but Miró refused to accept payment, saying, "for the King and for the government it's all free". Before the Sol de Miró, most countries used their flag on tourist posters, and not a single other country had ever used an abstract design for a logo. The logo was first used in Europe and then in the U.S. It also became a well-known symbol in Spain, and its impact was powerful. In just five years, the Spanish tourism industry doubled its income.
A poster from the 'Bravo Spain' tourism campaign of 1998, designed by Pedro Alonso
The Sol de Miró logo is still used in Spain's tourism advertising. Miró died just a few months after donating his design and never knew the impact it had on his country. His star and sun was, Vasallo said, 'probably his last gift to Spain'.
Works by Joan Miró at Surovek Gallery
We have many wonderful examples of the work of Joan Miró available at the Surovek Gallery.
Available at Surovek Gallery:
JoanMiró
L'Equinoxe, 1968
Etching and Aquatint printed in colors
Signed in pencil and numbered
Please contact us if you would like more information about Les Grandes Maneuvers, L'Equinox or any of the other fine work available at Surovek Gallery.
See More Work from Joan Miró
Mark Sinclair. TM: The untold stories of 29 classic logos. Laurence King, publisher. September 8, 2014.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/20/joan-miro-life-ladder-escape-tate
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/11/joan-miro-tate-modern
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Dynamic Artists of the 1960s
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The extension of general information systems has brought about with itself a bunch of privacy and security concerns not only for separate users but also for huge organizations. Here several aspects may be considered: all the private employee data and the company's important information is recorded in computers, besides there ere organizations that perform all their management and business activities via internet. All these points confirm the necessity of an organization to be responsible and keep an eye on computing systems and find out the real way of protecting oneself. The best way to be safe is to investigate and understand what common tricks are, and how to avoid getting into the wicked trap of hackers. For more vividity let's see what these words hacker and cracker mean. The core of the hacker definition used (and as it is used according to the hacker's Jargon dictionary), a hacker is someone who just wants to know everything from a system just out of his pleasure, we with you as average users just acquire knowledge for using a system correctly and not exploiting it . People who apply this with the intention finding security flaws and holes in a system they are hackers. The other intruders who don't tend to vandalize the systems but to learn and apply some tricks to create viruses, break into system etc., are called crackers. They don't gain any new skills, knowledge or valuable information of an organization but make sure for themselves that they are apt to create a virus. To confront such problems in future, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was passed in 1984. It provided a number of legal measures to prosecute the "malicious" trespassers".
The concepts of INTERNET, its PRIVACY & SECURITY are surely interconnected.
Privacy determines to what extent the individuals are interconnected.
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One of the things the I love about Rotary is that you can step into a room and feel like you are coming home. Last night I had a miss, arriving well past the sunset time listed for all clubs in Bujumbura, only to find no one had arrived eat. I was glad to try again tonight.
The Club that I met with tonight was extremely welcoming and a highlight of my week. They all loved my name and many members recognized Dupont Circle from their time in Washington for something or other.
The presentation was on the youth oriented programs that Rotary offers, including the Rotary Youth Exchange Program that took me on my first international adventure.
I also love how international our club is. For those who aren't familiar, if you miss a meeting at your club, you can make it up anywhere in the world. From our club we had members in Beirut, Lebanon, Harare, Zimbabwe, and now Bujumbura, Burundi. When I saw the other posts from members, I knew I had to add myself to that list. I am so glad I did.
This was written last week in Bujumbura, but I couldn't get pictures loaded. Since I'll be missing my Rotary meeting in DC tonight, I figured I would schedule this post for Tuesday Rotary days. Tomorrow I will be visiting another club in Nairobi.


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Exclusive Interview with Brandon Routh
Six U.K. based Superman fans were chosen by Warner Bros. to submit questions to various cast and crew on "Superman Returns". Most of those chosen are Superman Homepage members, and we're pleased to present their exclusive interview with Brandon Routh.
Look for more exclusive interviews with Dan Harris and Mike Dougherty (Writers), and Louise Mingenbach (Costume Designer) in the next few days.
Q: How do you feel with knowledge that you're now a part of history? You must have a great sense of pride with the knowledge that you're carrying forward the Superman legacy.
Brandon: It's a great honor to join the Superman legacy. This is a character that people all over the world know and love and everyone who has been a part of the legacy will go down in history. I'm very proud to be able to bring such a positive character to younger generations and further enrich steadfast fans love and excitement for Superman.
Q: "Superman Returns" seems to delve deeper into the real person behind the tights - Kal-El. He seems to have flaws and misgivings, which as a result gives the character greater emotional resonance. Would you agree with this, and do you think this makes for a stronger understanding of Superman as a character?
Brandon: Well, I wouldn't say that the film highlights Kal-El's flaws, but it does highlight his naivette. He is not well versed in the ways of love and so there are some stumbling blocks. His journey in this realm results in more emotional resonance. Audiences will see him deal with emotions they've felt and they get to watch him mature. As we want to be like Superman, he wants to be like us!
Q: Which of Superman's powers would you most like to have and why?
Brandon: Flight. It would be awesome to be able to be anywhere I want, and if I'm strong enough I can take someone with me!
Q: What have you learned about yourself while playing this character?
Brandon: Well, this experience shone an even brighter light on the importance of being a kind, gentle, thoughtful, non-judgmental person. It has such an amazing impact on the world.
Q: Christopher Reeve was very choosy about which films to star in; do you feel you have a responsibility to choose film projects which do not hurt your Superman image?
Brandon: I do feel a responsibility to always keep the image of Superman as it should be. This includes future films. But in truth, I am an actor at heart, so I also don't want to limit myself.
Q: How does it feel to portray a journalist like Clark Kent and then be on the opposing side being grilled by journalists, all to do with "Superman Returns"?
Brandon: Hah, well, I don't do too much actual reporting in the movie, but I know that being relaxed when answering questions is the best approach for me. That way people who want to trip me up or get under my skin won't have the upper hand.
Q: Has it sunk in yet? That in two months time the rest of the general public and not just us super-nerd fans will know you as 'Superman'? (Am really excited for you!)
Brandon: Well, there are a lot of 'super-nerd' fans! Which is awesome, cause I can be very nerdy, so don't sell yourself short on the fan base. But yes I've thought about it for sure. There is no real way to conceive of how big it could be. I aim to take it in stride and have a good time.
Q: If you were in Lois' shoes would you be angry at Superman for leaving, and could you forgive him?
Brandon: Hah, YES. Just because you don't know the right words to say doesn't mean you shouldn't tell someone you are leaving. It's always best to communicate when heavy emotions are involved.
Q: As an actor playing Clark/Superman, is there any new challenge or scenario you think could be interesting to see Clark/Superman face?
Brandon: Maybe Superman being a teacher? And by that I mean for him to really speak to people and impart his philosophy on life to the masses rather than just by saving things.
Q: Publicity photos have shown that you're a virtual carbon copy of the young Chris Reeve when dressed as Clark Kent, will your portrayal of Clark be similar to Reeve's awkward nerd approach, or have you incorporated any characteristics of any of the other 'Clarks'?
Brandon: I think Clark is inherently what society would label 'nerdy'. But I don't play him that way. Any awkwardness or goofiness really comes out of his pure joy and excitement at being around Lois and other people.
Who are the six UK Superfans?
'Dharmesh'. Founder and Chief, Superman Cinema (UK-based site), based in Birmingham.
Dawn Jones. UK-based moderator for Superman Homepage, highly active member of Devoted to Smallville, Devoted Fans Network and other Superman sites, based in Central London.
Robert O'Connor. Highly active UK member of Superman Homepage, imdb, lcfanfic (Lois and Clark Fan Ficton) and other Superman sites, the youngest of the crew at 16 and based in Dublin.
Matt Fisher. Highly active UK member of Superman Homepage, Channel 4 forums and imdb, based in Birmingham.
Alistair Corbett. Highly active member of Empire Online, particularly in the Superman forums, based in South Wales.
Luke Barnard. Highly active member of Total Film forums and a regular poster on all things Superman, based in Reading.


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The exhibition tells a familiar story of aesthetic progress—from naturalism to abstraction to a plurality of contemporary art practices across media—but gives pride of place to the work of women and people of color. It is presented in a dramatically reconfigured museum space and combines beloved works from the Smart's collection with key loans from University of Chicago alumni and Chicago-area collectors.
Exhibition includes works by Kevin Beasley, McArthur Binion, Gustave Caillebotte, Jim Campbell, Nick Cave, Paul Delvaux, Dan Flavin, Sam Gilliam, Jeppe Hein, Rashid Johnson, Lee Krasner, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Alice Neel, Trevor Paglen, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, Sylvia Sleigh, Kara Walker, Jack Whitten, and Kehinde Wiley, among others.
Alison Gass, Dana Feitler Director of the Smart Museum, in collaboration with Jennifer Carty, Smart Museum Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Support for Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground has been provided by Mary Smart and the Smart Family Foundation of New York and by the Smart Museum's Pamela and R. Christopher Hoehn-Saric Exhibition Fund. Additional support has been provided by the Museum's SmartPartners.
Kerry James Marshall, Slow Dance, 1992-1993, Mixed media and acrylic on canvas. Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Purchase, Smart Family Foundation Fund for Contemporary Art and Paul and Miriam Kirkley Fund for Acquisitions, 2004.23. Art © Kerry James Marshall.


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You probably have no clue just how beneficial is drinking water on an empty stomach. The Japanese people practice this method since ancient times, knowing the numerous benefits it can provide.
If you are from those who have fat problems in the stomach and want to get rid of them, you should be prepared to make several lifestyle changes, and if you are a person of overweight, it would be difficult to achieve this goal.


On my mother's side of the family, East Tennessee connections to the land go back for generations to when the first pioneers were putting down roots in this part of Appalachia. In more recent history, my mom and my dad spent their first date in Cades Cove, after which my father declared that he would marry her. I grew up in Michigan, Washington State and Texas, but this is where we would come to see family...drive down the narrow roads, skirting creeks and rocks and new fallen snow. This is where we would bring picnics, and sit in quiet churches, and walk trails dotted with May apples and jonquils and honeysuckle.
This is where I bring my own family now—to Tremont or Alum Cave or Cataloochee or Metcalf Bottoms or Roaring Fork or the Chimneys or Rainbow Falls or Fontana Lake or Elkmont—to hike or swim or kayak or camp or just be still for a little while in sacred, familiar places. It remains a constant even as I move from house to house, my children grow up, life goes by in its unpredictable ebb and flow. Of course the park changes too. Season, fire, disease, storm, people themselves make their mark and take their toll. But whether scarred by tornado and flame or flaming with autumn color and speckled by spring wildflowers, it has always remained, heritage staked out for generations past, present and future. Always ours.
I've traveled all over the country, drawn by natural wonder. I've lived in the shadow of the Rockies, made annual pilgrimages to the Badlands, stood breathless on rugged coasts from Washington to California, lost myself in the Outer Banks' vast and sandy stretches, spent days paddling through rich and murky swampland. But we always return. And we exhale. And on the days we see three bears or watch wisps of cloud move swiftly through green-clad peaks after a summer rain, we count ourselves among those most fortunate to live in such a place. Because, it's home.


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This tour is all about the best of Asian food and you'll be savouring national dishes from different Asian countries (including Hong Kong of course)!
Please note that this store is closed on Wednesday and we'll substitute it with another food spot.
After that, we'll hit up Causeway Bay: Visit a snake specialty restaurant and taste some Cantonese roasted meat, nourishing Chinese soup (aka bone broth) and some snake soup if you dare!
We'll then finish off the night with Japanese shaved ice at a small shop run by a Japanese owner. See the pictures below to see what we're talking about!
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* Food and drinks are included.


A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel that could do for Palestine what "The Kite Runner "did for Afghanistan.
Forcibly removed from the ancient village of Ein Hod by the newly formed state of Israel in 1948, the Abulhejas are moved into the Jenin refugee camp. There, exiled from his beloved olive groves, the family patriarch languishes of a broken heart, his eldest son fathers a family and falls victim to an Israeli bullet, and his grandchildren struggle against tragedy toward freedom, peace, and home. This is the Palestinian story, told as never before, through four generations of a single family.
The very precariousness of existence in the camps quickens life itself. Amal, the patriarch's bright granddaughter, feels this with certainty when she discovers the joys of young friendship and first love and especially when she loses her adored father, who read to her daily as a young girl in the quiet of the early dawn. Through Amal we get the stories of her twin brothers, one who is kidnapped by an Israeli soldier and raised Jewish; the other who sacrifices everything for the Palestinian cause. Amal's own dramatic story threads between the major Palestinian-Israeli clashes of three decades; it is one of love and loss, of childhood, marriage, and parenthood, and finally of the need to share her history with her daughter, to preserve the greatest love she has.
Previously published in a hardcover edition with a limited run under the title "The Scar of David," this powerful novel is now available in a fully revised, newly titled paperback edition. The deep and moving humanity of "Mornings in Jenin "forces us to take a fresh look at one of the defining political conflicts of our lifetimes.


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Q: Consuming Delphi TFDJSONDataSets in c# We have built a JSON/REST server which communicates with a Firemonkey client (both written in Delphi 10).
Datasets sent by the server are consumed by the client like this:
procedure TrrClientModule.GetActiveUsers(const aCallingForm: TForm);
var
  LDataSetList: TFDJSONDataSets;
  LDataSet: TFDDataSet;
begin
  try
    LDataSetList := ServerMethods1Client.rr_GetActiveUsers;
    LDataSet := TFDJSONDataSetsReader.GetListValueByName(LDataSetList,
      'Users');
    FDMemTableActiveUsers.Active := False;
    FDMemTableActiveUsers.AppendData(LDataSet);
    FDMemTableActiveUsers.Open;
  except
    On E: Exception do
      HandleException(E, aCallingForm);
  end;
end;

This works fine, but now I want to consume this data set in C#. How can this be done?
The result I find in C# is something like this:
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$50 NLHE Full Ring: Busted by a fish or am I the fish ?
Marked my opponent as a fish as he did not rebuy automatically.
Excellent flop for my hand so I Cbet.
He called flop bet so what can he have ?
AA and KK are not likely as he did not 4-Bet preflop nor raised the flop bet (there is a flush draw out). Decided to stick by my first analyses he's is just a fish so I went all-in.
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I can't see folds by the fish otf. I like the bet otf but ott 4 completes so many draws he can has.
Still lots of over pairs and draws i would just shove the turn the effective stacks were only 82bb going into the hand and its only about a psb left.
82 BBs makes for a strange bet sequence, so you need to bet slightly more on the flop so you can easily shove the turn. Either that or you're betting small on each street, but this flop isn't conducive to that. You don't want to lose him.
True but he was only slightly more then a pot sized bet (villain only had 57 BB) and not 82 BB. So I made an over-sized bet which is polarized, but fish would not know. I used that size as it looks more like a bluff then sucking him in with a small sized bet on the turn.
re: Poker & $50 NLHE Full Ring: Busted by a fish or am I the fish ?
Flop: No problem. The sizing could be OK since you extract value from the 88, 99, TT hand and eliminate the hands of two over here. When he cold here I would range him as some lower pocket pair or flush draw such as KdQd, AdQd. Some loose players even will open 66 here, call 3bet, and trap your over pairs.
Turn: I don't see other more profitable option other than jamming. You are way ahead or way behind (cold QQ, 77). Still, the lower pocket pair is in tough spot which can balance your bluff like AK, some AQ.
River: Just a bad beat.
Feeling like you post this hand to try to get some comfort.....Not so many things to talk about this hand.... Just don't be tilt and play your A-game..
Marking that person as a fish does not make sense by only for the reason he doesn't reload the stack automatically.
Fish or no fish as the title explains is the main question I have.
My point here is that I don' t have many hands on him and that he does not reload. On the level I play one must identify fish quickly as there are a good amount of sharks that isolate those fish and try eat their stack. So the real question is not about the hand (just variance). Maybe not the correct thread here will move the question somewhere else.


Ex-Lieutenant Colonel Hyde gathers a team of crooked ex-servicemen, all specialists in their field, to rob a bank.
Something of an update on the Ealing tradition, The League of Gentlemen marked the debut release of the consortium Allied Film Makers (AFM), combining the former Ealing producer/director partnership Michael Relph and Basil Dearden , as well as Richard Attenborough , Bryan Forbes , Jack Hawkins and his brother. Almost all the AFM partners had a hand in the film, with Relph producing and Dearden directing, while Forbes wrote the script and acted alongside Hawkins and Attenborough . The National Provincial Bank, along with the Rank Organisation , provided much of the group's backing, which is rewarded in the film with an in-joke: contemplating his leader ex-Colonel Hyde's bank-robbing plan, ex-Major Race worries, "I do hope he hasn't the National Provincial in mind. They're being awfully decent to me at the moment."
With a star-studded cast and witty script, the film was a huge box office success, but beneath the comic caper's surface humour lay a subversive vision of disillusioned ex-officers prepared to steal a just reward for serving their country - a theme not dissimilar to that of Dearden and Relph 's earlier postwar drama, The Ship that Died of Shame (1955), which also starred Richard Attenborough . As Hyde wryly comments on their redundant military training, "...I think it's a crying shame for so much public money to be wasted. I intend to put it to some practical peace-time use." More akin to a band of crooks than a League of Gentlemen, their pretence of respectability masks a more dubious, avaricious nature, yet they remain sympathetic, with the League granting a new sense of purpose, albeit a dishonest one, to their fractured lives.
Despite the dark comic tone, sometimes bitter dialogue and the parody of army conventions, the film's resolution conforms to the moral status quo, with the League's members each falling prey to the police. As in Ealing 's The Lavender Hill Mob (d. Charles Crichton, 1951), however, there is little sense of justice having been done; our sympathies lie with the rogues, not the police. The League, ultimately, is less a malevolent criminal force than a boys' club, with its own rules and sense of camaraderie. When, at the end, Hyde sees his League accomplices waiting in the police van, ex-Major Race offers the respect society has withheld, saluting and informing the ex-Colonel "All present and correct, Sir."


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Q: Check whether Swift object is an instance of a given metatype I need to keep a collection of Swift metatypes and write a function which will check if a given object is an instance of one of them. I can do that easily in Java:
Class c = x.getClass();
c.isInstance(someObj)

However, I have no idea how to do that in Swift:
var isInt = 7 is Int.Type // compiles

let x = Int.self
var isInt = 7 is x // compiler error - Use of undeclared type 'x'

Is this even possible to be done in Swift?

A: Unfortunately, you can currently only use a named type with the is operator, you cannot yet use an arbitrary metatype value with it (although really IMO you ought to be able to).
Assuming you have control over the creation of the metatypes that you want to compare against, one solution that achieves the same result would be to create a wrapper type with an initialiser that stores a closure that performs the is check against a generic placeholder:
struct AnyType {

  let base: Any.Type
  private let _canCast: (Any) -> Bool

  /// Creates a new AnyType wrapper from a given metatype.
  /// The passed metatype's value **must** match its static value,
  /// i.e `T.self == base`.
  init<T>(_ base: T.Type) {
    precondition(T.self == base, """
      The static value \(T.self) and dynamic value \(base) of the passed \
      metatype do not match
      """)

    self.base = T.self
    self._canCast = { $0 is T }
  }

  func canCast<T>(_ x: T) -> Bool {
    return _canCast(x)
  }
}

protocol P {}
class C : P {}
class D : C {}

let types = [
  AnyType(P.self), AnyType(C.self), AnyType(D.self), AnyType(String.self)
]

for type in types {
  print("C instance can be typed as \(type.base): \(type.canCast(C()))")
  print("D instance can be typed as \(type.base): \(type.canCast(D()))")
}

// C instance can be typed as P: true
// D instance can be typed as P: true
// C instance can be typed as C: true
// D instance can be typed as C: true
// C instance can be typed as D: false
// D instance can be typed as D: true
// C instance can be typed as String: false
// D instance can be typed as String: false

The only limitation of this approach is that given we're performing the is check with T.self, we have to enforce that T.self == base. For example, we cannot accept AnyType(D.self as C.Type), as then T.self would be C.self while base would be D.self.
However this shouldn't be a problem in your case, as we're just constructing AnyType from metatypes that are known at compile time.

If however you don't have control over the creation of the metatypes (i.e you get handed them from an API), then you're quite a bit more limited with what you can do with them.
As @adev says, you can use type(of:) in order to get the dynamic metatype of a given instance, and  the == operator to determine if two metatypes are equivalent. However, one problem with this approach is that it disregards both class hierarchies and protocols, as a subtype metatypes will not compare equal with a supertype metatypes.
One solution in the case of classes is to use Mirror, as also shown in this Q&A:
/// Returns `true` iff the given value can be typed as the given
/// **concrete** metatype value, `false` otherwise.
func canCast(_ x: Any, toConcreteType destType: Any.Type) -> Bool {
  return sequence(
    first: Mirror(reflecting: x), next: { $0.superclassMirror }
  )
  .contains { $0.subjectType == destType }
}

class C {}
class D : C {}

print(canCast(D(), toConcreteType: C.self)) // true
print(canCast(C(), toConcreteType: C.self)) // true
print(canCast(C(), toConcreteType: D.self)) // false
print(canCast(7, toConcreteType: Int.self)) // true
print(canCast(7, toConcreteType: String.self)) // false

We're using sequence(first:next:) to create a sequence of metatypes from the dynamic type of x through any superclass metatypes it might have.
However this method still won't work with protocols. Hopefully a future version of the language will provide much richer reflection APIs that allow you to compare the relationship between two metatype values.

However, given the above knowledge of being able to use Mirror, we can use it to lift the aforementioned restriction of T.self == base from our AnyType wrapper on by handling class metatypes separately:
struct AnyType {

  let base: Any.Type
  private let _canCast: (Any) -> Bool

  /// Creates a new AnyType wrapper from a given metatype.
  init<T>(_ base: T.Type) {

    self.base = base

    // handle class metatypes separately in order to allow T.self != base.
    if base is AnyClass {
      self._canCast = { x in
        sequence(
          first: Mirror(reflecting: x), next: { $0.superclassMirror }
        )
        .contains { $0.subjectType == base }
      }
    } else {
      // sanity check – this should never be triggered,
      // as we handle the case where base is a class metatype.
      precondition(T.self == base, """
        The static value \(T.self) and dynamic value \(base) of the passed \
        metatype do not match
        """)

      self._canCast = { $0 is T }
    }
  }

  func canCast<T>(_ x: T) -> Bool {
    return _canCast(x)
  }
}

print(AnyType(D.self as C.Type).canCast(D())) // true

The case where T.self is a class metatype should be the only case where T.self != base, as with protocols, when T is some protocol P, T.Type is P.Protocol, which is the type of the protocol itself. And currently, this type  can only hold the value P.self.

A: Int.self does not always means holding Int.type.
The object returned from calling MyClass.self is the swift metaType of MyClass. This object exposes init function and all the method defined in this class as curried method (read Instance Methods are Curried Functions in Swift).
how about using isKindOfClass?
isKindOfClass: returns YES if the receiver is an instance of the specified class or an instance of any class that inherits from the specified class.
reference: https://medium.com/ios-os-x-development/types-and-meta-types-in-swift-9cd59ba92295

A: Ideally the following should work in your case with some changes as type(of: 7) instead of 7 and == operator instead of is. But swift has a bug which throws following error.
let x = Int.self
var isInt = type(of: 7) == x //binary operator '==' cannot be applied to two 'Int.Type' operands

Instead you can use the following code and it will work fine.
let x = Int.self
var typeOfX = type(of: 7)
var isInt = typeOfX == x //true

Apple engineers have confirmed this bug here:
Joe Groff - Twitter
First line in your question should be var isInt = 7 is Int. Notice Int instead of Int.Type. Otherwise Xcode will throw below warning.

Usually in most cases you could just do,
if z is String {
   //do something
}


BROCKWAY, Pa. – The AML named its boys' and girls' All-Conference teams.
Kane's Ella Marconi (23.2 ppg) and DuBois Central Catholic's Justin Miknis (21.3 ppg) were the top vote-getters.
Also named to the girls' team were Johnsonburg's Cassidy King (15.3 ppg), Maria Jones (11.0 ppg) and Lindsey Kocjancic (8.3 ppg), Elk County Catholic's Taylor Newton (17.0 ppg) and Sady VanAlstine (8.2 ppg), Kane's Hannah Buhl (9.5 ppg), Brockway's Danielle Wood (10.0 ppg), Curwensville's Madi Weber (20.9 ppg) and DuBois Central Catholic's Ashley Wruble (7.3 ppg).
On the boys' team were Ridgway's Daunte Allegretto (9.2 ppg), Jake Reynolds (11.3 ppg), Will Thompson (11.0 ppg), Elk County Catholic's Alex Breindel (12.8 ppg), Regis Wortman (12.1 ppg), Johnsonburg's Austin Green (18.0 ppg) and Isaac Schloder (9.9 ppg), Zane Puhala (12.2 ppg), Christian Bakaysa (17.0 ppg), Chad Greville (13.4 ppg).


The Atlantic hurricane season has ended on Nov. 30, and once again it went out with a whimper. That was good news for coastal residents in the U.S., since the "weak" 2014 hurricane season continued the nine year "drought" of major hurricanes making landfall.
But the broadcast networks practically ignored the "good news."
Hurricane forecasters predicted the season would be weak and the number of storms was in line with forecasts. Only two hurricanes reached major status of category three or higher.
"Only one tropical cyclone made landfall in the U.S. in 2014 — Hurricane Arthur, which came ashore in North Carolina in early July. 2014 continues an incredible lull in major hurricane landfalls in the U.S.," Capital Weather Gang said on Dec. 1.


If you do take a heart drug with lovastatin, your doctor may lower your dosage of lovastatin. The serum concentration of the active metabolites of Dabigatran etexilate can be increased when Dabigatran etexilate is used in combination with Pravastatin. However, these laws soon fell into desuetude. Amantadine hydrochloride capsules are also indicated in the treatment of uncomplicated respiratory tract illness caused by influenza A virus strains especially when administered early in the course of illness. Because only summary data were available, it was not possible to discern whether the same patient had both events. MetroPCS has chosen to offer wireless emergency alerts, within portions of its coverage area, on wireless alert capable Devices.


Shanti Kaur Khalsa is a wife, mother and business consultant who brings Khalsa values to every aspect of life. She is an engaging Sikh teacher and her involvement with Sikh youth has led to mentoring young people around the world. Shanti spent more than twenty years studying with Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji who inspired her on the path of Sikhism. She is an active kirtania and has traveled widely giving inspirational kirtan and lecture programs. She is a published historian and regularly contributes articles on both current events and Sikh history. Today, Shanti serves as the Executive Director for the Dharmic Public Affairs Office.


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New Bill Would Allow Alcohol To Be Delivered With Restaurant Food Order
The Statehouse News Bureau | By Jo Ingles
Ohio's bars and restaurants would be able to expand their seating and service into parking lots or public grounds under a new bill at the Statehouse. And they'd also be able to sell alcohol for delivery through third-party services such as GrubHub or Doordash.
Watershed Distillery in Columbus has a small restaurant on site. Its owner, Greg Lehman, says current social distancing requirements because of COVID-19 are tough.
"We don't have a lot of room for people to come in so by allowing us extra space on a patio or coverting a parking lot, it allows us to put more people in seats which lets us see a clearer path to economic viability," Lehman says.
The bill also permanently allows third party delivery services to deliver an unlimited number of drinks. Under current COVID-19 rules, customers are limited to two packaged drinks with pick up orders.
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Jo Ingles is a professional journalist who covers politics and Ohio government for the Ohio Public Radio and Television for the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. She reports on issues of importance to Ohioans including education, legislation, politics, and life and death issues such as capital punishment.
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Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star's Bubbly Birth
Supersonic jets burst out of a young star's cocoon in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
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Haunting images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show the disembodied remains of dying stars.
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NASA's Great Observatories Begin Deepest-Ever Probe of the Universe
NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural "zoom lenses" found in space, they should be able to uncover galaxies that are as much as 100 times fainter than what these three great observatories typically can see.
NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World
Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet beyond our solar system, a sizzling, Jupiter-like world known as Kepler-7b.
How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets
Even though NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was never designed to study exoplanets, it has become one of the world's premier telescopes for probing these far-off worlds.
Comet Found Hiding in Plain Sight
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered secrets of the "asteroid" called Don Quixote, revealing its true comet nature.
Coldest Brown Dwarfs Blur Star, Planet Lines
Researchers are getting to know some of our sun's closest and smallest neighbors.
NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canaveral, Fla., the fourth of the agency's four Great Observatories continues to illuminate the dark side of the cosmos with its infrared eyes.
Monster Galaxies Lose Their Appetite With Age
Our universe is filled with gobs of galaxies, bound together by gravity into larger families called clusters. Lying at the heart of most clusters is a monster galaxy thought to grow in size by merging with neighboring galaxies, a process astronomers call galactic cannibalism.
Spitzer Discovers Young Stars with a 'Hula Hoop'
A pair of stars peeks out from a tilted disk twirling around them, allowing astronomers to monitor their "blinking" pattern.
July 23rd, 2013
NASA's Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISON
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the inner solar system later this year.
NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming Countryside
New views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, far from its crowded core.
Galaxy's Ring of Fire
This galaxy's ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars.
NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish
Astronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to dissect the atmospheres of an exotic class of planets called hot Jupiters.
A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars
Stars sparkle in this lively new view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from NASA's Great Observatories.
NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes
Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious infant star that behaves like a strobe light.
NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star in northern night skies.
NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, creating the most detailed "weather map" yet for this class of cool, star-like orbs. The forecast shows wind-driven, planet-sized clouds enshrouding these strange worlds.
Have You Practiced Your Piano and Done Your NASA Research?
Did you know that students as young as 7th graders who are juggling soccer, dances, and homework can also conduct NASA research?
Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds
A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way Project, where everyone can help astronomers to sort and measure our galaxy.
Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves
A runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
NASA Observatories Find Most Distant Galaxy Candidate
By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in space, astronomers have set a new record for finding the most distant galaxy seen in the universe.
Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life
Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass.
NASA'S Spitzer Sees Light Of Lonesome Stars
A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light seen across the entire sky
NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion Of Universe
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced one of the most precise measurements yet of the Hubble constant, or the rate at which our universe is stretching apart.
Spitzer, Hubble See Galaxy-Altering Quasars Ignite
NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have caught sight of luminous quasars igniting after galaxies collide. Quasars are bright, energetic regions around giant, active black holes in galactic centers.
Spitzer Welcomes Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles
The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its specially-adapted 747, made a grand tour of the Los Angles basin on September 21st as part of its final journey. Following its arrival at its permanent home at the California Science Center in Exposition Park, NASA and Spitzer will be participating in a week-long first-viewing event (Oct. 30–Nov. 4) as Endeavour is revealed in its new display space.
NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy
With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from the young galaxy captured by the orbiting observatories first shone when our 13.7-billion-year-old universe was just 500 million years old.
Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller than Earth
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. The exoplanet candidate, called UCF-1.01, is located a mere 33 light-years away, making it possibly the nearest world to our solar system that is smaller than our home planet.
Astronomers Spot Rare Arc From Hefty Galaxy Cluster
Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion light-years away. The galactic grouping, discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, was observed as it existed when the universe was roughly a quarter of its current age of 13.7 billion years.


I had an adventure last week, I took a trip to New York City on my own to go visit my brother and to be the witness at his City Hall elopement. The word elopement once had negative connotations of couples who'd sloped off to Vegas to say I do without the approval of their parents. These days they're a popular alternative to a large, lavish and expensive wedding. I loved how intimate their day felt; just the two of them getting ready together, taking the subway and then standing in front of each other to say their I Do's with just me and their officiant in the room with them. It was an amazing gift to celebrate their day with them and to document it through a series of photographs. Intimate weddings and elopements are right up my street and although I don't shoot them often, I loved the opportunity to photograph something a bit different to my usual content.


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Boxer [CD]
Mistaken for Strangers
Squalor Victoria
Green Gloves
Slow Show
Apartment Story
Start a War
Racing Like a Pro
Alternative/Indie Rock,Indie Rock,Alternative Country-Rock,Sadcore,Chamber Pop,Alternative Pop/Rock
2603 seconds
Style(s)
Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Country-Rock, Sadcore, Chamber Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock
User rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars with 4 reviews.
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Calmacil20
One of contemporary indie rock's best
Everyone really started caring about The National with this album, and you can see why. The blueprint for what the band and the rest of the genre would be trying to match for years.
MoeMoe
Great indie rock album
My first National CD I listened to. Great flow to the album. Every song is good. The kind of music that grows on you after repeated listens
guitargirl
Beautiful album
Posted 14 years ago .
The National has quickly become one of my favorite bands. They mix sad and sweet lyrics with innovative rhythms and melodies for a product that is unlike anything available today in popular music. They deserve much more publicity than they've gotten, which will hopefully as more and more people notice their newest release "Boxer". Buy this cd if you are a fan of indie music in the vein of Spoon and Mike Doughty.
Howl9000
Slow but steady
Boxer is on several best of 2007 lists as it should be. While never actually breaking into a run the pace of each track ambles between a slow to power walk. As the front of the CD implies, it's a methodical slide into some very interesting subjects. Worth the ride, if you don't want to get there too quickly!