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Das Boot [1981)
Here we sit at the bottom of the ocean.
280 meters below Gibraltar.
On a high place.
In a film which (throughout) performs the strange trick of forcing us through cinematic language to sympathize with a boat full of Nazis.
Funny trick, that.
I challenge you to watch this film and see if you don't also end up pulling for the Nazi U-boat crew.
There is no shame in it.
For Das Boot is itself a propaganda film.
But to what end?
It seems, more than anything, like an intellectual exercise.
And it is precisely because it eschews convention that it is an enjoyable and riveting film.
Indeed, it comes close to being a masterpiece.
It is also a case study in personalities.
Nothing magnifies personality clashes like a claustrophobic metal tube.
I guess we all have to pay our dues.
And sometimes we have to pay them again.
Perhaps we are always paying dues.
Until we are dead.
The stress can drive you crazy.
And there are always people floating in the water.
Which is to say, life is war.
A war to feed ourselves.
To retain shelter.
To ward off the tax man.
To warm our bones.
To stay dry and clothed against the elements.
Urgent need to let some rest.
In need of medical attention.
Eating an orange like a scurvied maniac.
In which you root for the Nazis.
Like Godard as a boy in Switzerland.
In this strange, strange film.
And then the Allied hammer comes down.
And you are shown your sins.
You realize you have been rooting for the Nazis.
And as you watch them die, you are sad.
Because they were the stars of a good story.
And you became emotionally invested in them.
Even though they were (in reality) scumbags.
Or maybe they were just doing their jobs.
This isn't sympathy for concentration camp guards.
This is a portrait of the poor schmucks who were floating on (and beneath) the sea.
And if I remember correctly, 75% of the 40,000 U-boat submariners in WWII died.
These guys had a very slim chance of surviving this ordeal.
Hard to tell if this is a great film (elegant simplicity) or a shit film (clunky ending).
It's worth watching, though.
filed under UNited ations
tagged as allies, cinema, Das Boot, German, Germany, Gibraltar, Godard, military, navy, Nazis, personalities, propaganda, scurvy, stress, submarine, U-boat, war, WWII
택시운전사 [2017)
[A Taxi Driver (2017)]
I was unfamiliar.
With this amazing film by Jang Hoon.
Not a perfect film, but very close!
A very moving picture.
Very much due to he extraordinary performance of Song Kang-ho.
I am learning Korean.
And seven other languages.
But I am lagging behind.
So we dive in further.
Kim Man-seob (Song Kang-ho) has a daughter in the film.
She is very important.
Played by Yoo Eun-mi.
But the big story is that of Gwangju.
South Korea's sixth-largest city.
Something about "hope".
The "official story" is that "civilians raided armories and armed themselves".
That's what Wikipedia says.
So still you see that this movie is (whether true or untrue) at odds with mainline history.
None of the protesters are seen with guns.
Indeed, no protester in this film does anything but peacefully protest.
So we are looking at (perhaps beautiful) propaganda.
Or, on the other side, FAKE NEWS.
I am rather new to the subject at hand.
Modern Korean history.
But it begs a further question.
Why is an entire film dedicated to showing how bad the South Korean military coup government was in 1980 when the regime across the border (North Korea) is extraordinarily famous for their ruthlessness?
It is weird.
Who's funding this?
It wasn't the United States.
This is not American propaganda.
So who, then?
The most likely culprit is China.
Means, motive, and opportunity.
The idea would be to show the South Korean government as corrupt and (by extension) the American military as grotesque occupiers.
Funny enough.
In 1982 (two years after this incident took place), Gwangju was made a sister city with my hometown: San Antonio.
Military city.
Bringing it all back home, said Bob Dylan.
But, as Godard said (and I paraphrase), all propaganda can be beautiful.
i.e., it doesn't matter if it's true…it's still a good story.
Jürgen "Peter" Hinzpeter is framed to make us unquestionably worship reporters.
That is the propaganda showing through.
Excellent story.
About the politeness and honor of Koreans.
Honor a favor.
Bow.
Quickly.
And do not bring shame on your country by being greedy.
Stand up for your fellow countrymen.
Ahhh, those great balls of dough (?) in Honam.
Jeolla food.
I love Korean food!
Bibimbap.
So fucking good!!!
Before cell phones.
Left his 11-year-old daughter home alone in Seoul.
Because he's a widower.
And now he can't call to tell her he's alright.
Because the military has cut all the phone lines to Gwangju.
All she has is him.
All he has is her.
Nice acting by Yoo Hae-jin.
Taxi drivers.
Unite!
Like the ice factory workers in that Bruce Lee film.
The best Bruce Lee movie (probably).
The Big Boss.
Uprising.
Like in Hong Kong.
People take to the streets.
Very real threat of bodily harm.
Up against an immensely powerful military.
That doesn't want to be embarrassed.
In a precarious position.
CIA uprising in Hong Kong.
This film goes a little overboard with the schmaltz.
A few too many string swells (and lifted Mussorgsky licks).
Sometime around this point we enter the world of BATHOS.
Like a Schindler's List remake done in Korean.
Out to Suncheon.
This really is a fine film.
Even with its excesses.
A LONG film.
It almost comes apart.
But hangs together like a Bruckner symphony.
The dramatic arc is there.
The film just gets wobbly for a bit.
Threatening to collapse beneath its own weight.
Some genuinely great cinematography here and there.
Thanks to Go Nak-seon.
Definitely a cautionary tale here.
Certainly a danger that military might can be abused.
When military becomes police.
Gets a little "buddy film" with a strange Fast and Furious meets Thelma & Louise sequence.
As ridiculous as "Gangnam Style".
Yes, there may be some things lost in translation here.
I know not ALL South Korean films are like this, but are some of these mannerisms normal?
Put plainly, there are some CHEESY film gestures which cheapen this movie unnecessarily.
I'd like to find them endearing (and I kinda do), but they are mostly annoying when encountered.
The Gwangju Uprising.
Minjung.
Heartwarming story.
That a mere taxi driver (a humble rung of society) could make a huge difference.
Very inspiring!!!
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Sleeping Dogs [1977)
The year we were born.
My lady.
There are few things more odd and enjoyable than a New Zealand accent.
And few things more enjoyable than finally finding a decent movie after wading through piles of shit.
This is quite a good film.
And it starts off our survey of kiwi cinema.
Smith gets cucked, but he plays the Jesus figure at the end.
Profoundly weird.
Rebel without a reason.
The Wrong Man meets Godard's Week-end.
Will we attack Iran?
And what about the "resistance" that Hillary's loss spawned?
Sam Neill essentially plays Dennis Wilson.
Pacific ocean blue.
Operation Gladio.
Buried weapons caches.
This movie takes some really unseen plot turns.
Several WTF moments.
And the end we also get a bit of Jean Renoir.
"Boeldieu", shouts Erich von Stroheim.
"Boeldieu!"
Dig through film history.
With me.
Lots of false flagging here.
Brenton Tarrant?
Not sure.
Bloke had some odd travels, what?
North Korea.
Epic vomiting!
Fingers down throat.
Way to out-special New Zealand's special forces.
Not a country particularly known for that.
Shaves his beard.
We pull for him.
Root for him.
Hitchcock's mistaken identity foiled.
ANZUS.
Harewood Airport (Christchurch).
U.S. Antarctic Research Program (cover).
USAF Mt. John (Washdyke).
This was the intel as of 1974.
From a kiwi student newspaper.
Which segues into the communist guerrilla element of this film.
Which is to say, New Zealand probably did have some dumb fucks who wanted to fight the government.
AND…New Zealand (like most governments) probably has false-flagged when it's convenient.
Thus we find out the meaning of Sleeping Dogs.
In a fucking motel.
Kiwi special forces driving Toyotas.
Warren Oates does a pretty great job here.
Godard might know him from The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond.
Smith (Neill) shows the idiocy of radicalization.
But also the sense that it makes.
Poor saps with bleeding hearts.
Just trying to do the right thing.
Just trying to preserve true justice.
In the face of dirty governments.
This movie does not disappoint.
For my money, it is better than Fitzcarraldo.
The RNZAF make sure of that.
Kudos to director Roger Donaldson on a job well done!
filed under kiwi
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Le Livre d'image [2018)
And so I'm back.
With Godard.
Can we go from back to front?
After having gone halfway from front to back?
More importantly: WHAT THE FUCK DID I JUST WATCH?!?
I'm guessing JLG might relish such a reaction.
But really.
Le Livre d'image (The Image Book) is a thoroughly fucked-up film.
Music stops and starts.
Ok, standard Godard.
Images run and then go to black screen.
Again, standard Godard.
But something is further about this film.
Perhaps the most accessible touchstone would be the glitchy music of Radiohead circa Kid A and Hail to the Thief (to name my two favorites).
To wit: Godard seems to be enjoying fucking with his audience.
Every possible convention of cinema is destroyed and frustrated by his anti-art approach.
It is Swiss. It is dadaist (in a certain sense).
But it is stranger…
Which brings us to a crossroads.
Is Godard getting senile?
I mean, seriously: is this the work of someone falling apart?
It may be.
There is an achingly-sad moment near the end when we hear that trademarked Godard narrative voice break up.
Coughing.
Too many cigars.
Almost 90 years old…
But there are other possibilities.
Indeed, The Image Book hearkens back to the Godard of his Dziga-Vertov years.
Extremely obtuse.
Painful cinema.
A cinema of cruelty (for Artaud).
We catch glimpses (literally) of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
There is a pessimism here.
But mostly a hard reality.
And yet, is it reality?
The Image Book is surreal…while being mostly in a stark cinematography.
A bit like Picasso's Guernica.
But more boring.
Can I say that?
When you're 88 years old (like Godard), perhaps things move slower.
Perhaps you could call it "slow cinema".
But it is FAST and boring.
Many cuts.
Many, many cuts.
Painstakingly (painstakingly?) spliced.
It seems.
Also seems random.
Aleatory.
I Ching.
John Cage.
But onto another aspect.
That of revision.
Revisiting.
The Image Book is to Godard's oeuvre as Histoire(s) du cinéma is to film history as a whole.
Le Livre d'image could be said to be a sort of CliffsNotes to the work of Jean-Luc Godard.
But there's just one catch.
You would need to know the oeuvre in its totality to really make much of this pithy summation.
So it is, in a sense, useless.
But it still speaks.
Galileo.
And yet it moves.
Godard is not dead.
And he should know that he will never die.
Not with the timeless body of work he has contributed to humanity.
And yet, that tobacco cough says otherwise.
To live in those lungs.
To feel the weight of mortality pressing down.
Le Livre d'image is a frustrating piece of work.
It has very little (almost none) of the lyrical poeticism that its predecessor Adieu au langage had.
Indeed, perhaps this is a purposeful "let down".
Like Neil Young's On The Beach or Lou Reed's Berlin.
To extend the metaphor there, it is mostly like Metal Machine Music.
It is jarring.
Annoying.
It gets under your skin.
But it makes you think.
And perhaps that is the whole point.
Perhaps Godard is reaching for a new filmic language.
He may not be there yet, but he is reaching.
This is essential, cranky cinema.
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The Ladies Man [1961)
Here's a nearly-perfect film.
Which didn't do it for me at first.
Never had I seen Jerry Lewis be SO ANNOYING as he was in the start of this movie.
And so I gave it another chance.
All said, The Ladies Man ranks up there (for me) with The Nutty Professor and Cinderfella in the Lewis pantheon.
This is a real work of art.
This must be where Godard got the idea for the mise-en-scène of Tout va bien.
Doll house.
Two sound stages.
A huge production.
And so, in retrospect, I highly recommend this film.
You just have to adapt to Lewis's singular style.
It can be a bit grating–a bit jarring from film to film.
But it is worth the work.
Jerry Lewis was a true comedic and artistic genius.
Give him a chance.
Go deeper into the films.
You won't be sorry.
filed under Jerry
tagged as Cinderfella, comedy, Godard, Jerry Lewis, The Ladies Man, The Nutty Professor, Tout va bien
The Breakfast Club [1985)
Essential films.
As film accrues decades.
Perhaps another century.
Even Godard hired Molly Ringwald.
Likely because these films touched him in some sort of Rebel Without a Cause way.
Either that, or the producer forced her on him.
But this film is really special.
Emilio Estevez is a dead ringer for Michael Flynn.
Which brings us back again:
Is #QAnon real?
We are drip-dropping back to war mode.
Full-on, shit-slinging war mode.
Slowly.
Fear us.
But for cinematic purposes, it is most direct to point out the two essential personages in this film:
Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson.
And, boiled down, Judd Nelson.
Sheedy is attractive.
Mysterious.
Bat-shit crazy.
The Sheedy makeover is kinda lame.
The Estevez swoon mostly hollow.
But Judd Nelson is solid to the end.
This is a powerful film.
John Hughes created and directed the reality of John Bender (Nelson) onto the screen.
That's would have been enough verismo for an entire career.
filed under 80s comedy, aw-kward
tagged as #QAnon, Ally Sheedy, cinema, Emilio Estevez, film, Godard, John Hughes, Judd Nelson, Michael Flynn, Molly Ringwald, Rebel Without a Cause, The Breakfast Club, verismo
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World [2010)
Edgar Wright knows how to make a film.
Like Samuel Fuller said in Pierrot le fou:
"Film is like a battleground. There's love, hate, action, violence, death… in one word: emotion."
And that from a guy who was ACTUALLY a soldier.
Fuller.
The Big Red One.
U.S. 1st Infantry Division.
A soldier.
And then a director.
A formative influence on Jean-Luc Godard.
Scott Pilgrim… is a masterpiece.
I didn't think it would be.
It seemed too cutesy.
The signage.
Too hipster.
Faux cool.
Cookie cutter.
But it passes the test.
The moment is much like Simon Pegg's "Oh, fuck off you big lamp" in Wright's The World's End.
Derrida and all golden-ratio-seeking creators would likely pinpoint a line from the redhead drummer: "We are Sex Bob-Omb and we are here to watch Scott Pilgrim kick out teeth in!!! One two three four!!!!"
You've lost a lot.
Now you win.
filed under aw-kward, notre musique
tagged as 1st Infantry, Big Red One, Derrida, directors, Edgar Wright, emotion, film, Godard, golden ratio, hipster, masterpiece, Michael Cera, music, Pierrot le Fou, Samuel Fuller, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sex Bob-Omb, Simon Pegg, soldier, The World's End
Le Vent d'est [1970)
Film by Godard.
Dziga Vertov.
Group in Mozambique.
Marxist Western.
Cowboys and Indians.
I must be wrong.
Not Mozambique.
That was much later.
So this is just Italy.
But still.
Quite possibly the only Marxist Western ever made 🙂
And, yes: the Dziga Vertov Group.
With Jean-Pierre Gorin.
So here was the great filmmaker (Godard) subsuming himself in the communalism of group creation.
Like being in a rock band.
There might be a main songwriter (or two).
And there might be a lead vocalist.
But it is a group effort.
Rock bands are kinda like little democracies (in my experience).
So, does that mean that communism/socialism starts at its most cellular level as something resembling democracy?
It is an interesting thought.
Because Godard was most certainly a hardcore socialist at this point.
A communist.
A Maoist!
But we remember those strange counterintuitive phrases like "dictatorship of the people".
In other words, Marxist-Leninist thought was promising popular representation SO POWERFUL that the PEOPLE became a META-DICTATOR.
But it all kinda turned out like Tom Cruise's witchcraft 🙂
A big bollocks burger in Eastern Europe.
And a Soviet Union that collapsed beneath its own weight.
But China soldiered on.
And juche (North Korea).
Notice that "zhoosh or tjuz" means to "smarten up" or "stylize" in that Cockney code language known as Polari.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
And for my dear pizzagate researchers, you should be heartened by this further corroboration of James Alefantis' sick mind:
Why do I have a feeling about this?
Because of Bowie's last album: Blackstar.
But reinserting ourselves in history, it is rather obvious that communism soldiered on mostly in the East.
Let's not forget Vietnam and Laos (both still communist to this day).
Thus, Wind from the East.
Yes, Peter Wollen, there's definitely some Brecht in here.
Especially in that scene when a fucking horse finally shows up 🙂
Not much of a Western without a horse.
So there is eventually one horse for Gian Maria Volontè.
Volentè, of course, really WAS in Westerns (about five years previous).
A couple of those great Sergio Leone "spaghetti Westerners" with Clint Eastwood: A Fistful of Dollars and also For a Few Dollars More.
So kudus to Godard, Gorin, and the whole Dziga Vertov Group for getting Volontè.
But really the star is the beautiful redhead Anne Wiazemsky, who passed away just nine days ago.
It is no wonder Godard fell in love with her.
As he had fallen for Anna Karina previously.
But Wiazemsky was a mind.
A beauty, but a total 180 from Karina.
Of course, neither marriage worked out.
But Wiazemsky is lovely in this film.
Indeed, she is one of the few breaths of air in the whole picture.
There are certainly some suffocating scenes.
The opening shot is interminable.
Slight movements.
But eventually things get rolling.
Sorta.
Wiazemsky is splashed with blood as she is repeatedly choked by Volontè.
A bizarre scene.
Also part of this amalgam was Daniel Cohn-Bendit.
I thought I was seeing Mozambique.
It colored everything I was watching.
I was looking out for poisonous snakes.
Godard would eventually make it to Mozambique…later in the 1970s…but I was merely confused.
I mean, here's a film that until recently was available only as a Japanese DVD (with no English subtitles).
That is the version I watched.
I hear there is another release of this film recently with other of the Dziga Vertov work, but I am happy enough (for the time being) to have seen it as a Frenchman might have in 1970.
My French was tested.
Allors…
This is a rather experimental film.
Perhaps it is no great masterpiece.
But it teaches that we can go backwards or forwards through time by way of cinema.
Forwards with imagination, and backwards in reality.
We were already beyond this point, and yet we have been blessed to return.
To get one step closer.
To close a loop.
Solve a riddle.
Replace a missing stone.
It was a lot of work seeing this film.
That is love.
filed under Classic, Godard
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Borat [2006)
This may be the funniest film ever made.
An erudite film critic shouldn't admit such, should they?
But I learned long ago that I must have my own voice.
I can scour the Earth for every film to which Jean-Luc Godard made reference in Histories(s) du cinéma, but I still must contend with my own personal predilections.
We like stuff because it resonates with us.
For me, the realization was with the Romanian New Wave…and '80s American comedies 🙂
The serious, austere, heartrending, bleak works of the Romanian New Wave have not been canonized by Godard.
Godard, the man, will (sadly) pass away.
Which is a terrible thought to me.
Because he has made his best films [sic] in his "later" years.
But the Romanian New Wave was "mine".
I discovered it by accident.
And I dug a little deeper.
I would say about 90% of Romanian film resonates with me in a powerful way.
Almost as much as French film resonates with me.
But then I had to come to term with '80s American comedies.
These were the things on which I grew up 🙂
And there is no greater joy in my film-viewing experience than to see a film which elicits hyperventilating belly laughs 🙂
And so, Borat [directed brilliantly by Larry Charles].
If Sacha Baron Cohen never again makes a good film, he's still a genius in my book…based solely on this one masterpiece.
No, it is not Citizen Kane.
But it is something.
Something closer to Cohen's hero Peter Sellers.
And to the bent mind of Andy Kaufman.
Borat Sagdiyev is the epitome of awkward…once he is placed within American society.
He is from the "backwards" land of Kazakhstan.
[of course, there is a great deal of exaggeration in this film…because such caricature can be quite funny]
The special thing about Borat (and Cohen, working through Borat) is that HE INSULTS EVERYBODY 🙂
Borat very much prefigures the Trump Presidency.
Not to mention the young Trump supporters fond of Pepe the Frog 😉
The idea is, "Lighten the fuck up!"
Laugh a little.
Laugh at yourself.
And, naughty naughty, laugh at what you're not SUPPOSED to laugh at.
The forbidden subjects of laughter make us laugh the heartiest.
Our conscience kicks in.
We feel BAD about making light of such and such.
But it is a reflex: it just simply is fucking funny 🙂
Nothing is going to take the fun out of this world quicker than those who scrub history, those who censor films, those who impose sensitivity training liberally…
Let's get nitty-gritty.
Ken Davitian is excellent as Borat's assistant Azamat Bagatov.
Nothing like having to hairdry the balls of your boss 🙂
[not to mention "back pussy"]
Yes, the humor is SO WRONG.
So bad!
But, as I overheard two days ago at the video story, white guys still reminisce fondly about Eddie Murphy standup routines.
Not exactly my bag, but I get it.
[and black guys, hispanic guys…Eddie Murphy was very much a "taboo" comedian]
Which brings us to Lenny Bruce.
I love Lenny Bruce.
Guy was messed up.
But he was brave.
So the point is, crude humor is maybe not the smartest…maybe not the best influence on society…but we need a little of it, it seems.
Maybe it's because we're all sinners?
I don't want to get too theological.
If I was a better Christian, perhaps I would repudiate Borat.
But I simply cannot do that.
And so I'll keep it brief:
God works in mysterious ways.
I may be wrong.
But this film helps my heart with a laughter unlike any other.
filed under aw-kward, SBC
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Blondie's New York [2014)
So much I could say about this one.
But it's one of the few times where I can say, "I worked with that person."
Clem Burke.
Probably wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire.
Because I'm a Trump supporter.
But he was the best drummer I was ever in the same room with.
And drumming was the longest "career" I ever had.
I've played drums since I was a kid.
The set.
"Traps" 🙂
Orchestral snare drum.
Marimba.
The whole 4-mallet thing.
Jazz vibraphone.
But when I worked with Clem, I was a bass player.
That year.
For awhile.
It was the bass that took me to England.
To Scotland.
And to Spain.
And it was the bass that first took me to Los Angeles.
But this is about Blondie.
The band.
And what a band!
Based on my own experiences just mentioned, I can attest to the extremely high musicianship of Clem Burke.
And watching this relatively-short documentary (an hour) convinces me of just how special each of the band members were/are.
But perhaps my favorite part is seeing Mike Chapman work.
The record producer.
What a talent!
It was my dream to be a record producer.
Didn't really work out 🙂
Tough business.
Maybe you fuck up.
Or maybe no one helps you.
Or maybe you get one chance. And only one chance.
But that's ok.
Because life goes on.
Marilyn Monroe aged.
Lou Reed sang about it on the Velvets' "New Age".
And Godard wrote about it.
The aging of Marilyn Monroe must have been a traumatic phenomenon for the first generation of movie goers.
The first generation with that color reality.
And with the television buttress.
And Marilyn…
Even Elton John, a homosexual man, was in love with Marilyn…in a sort of way.
Which brings us to Debbie Harry.
The former cocktail waitress from Max's Kansas City.
Chickpeas and lobster.
Park Avenue South.
And brings us to the album Parallel Lines.
This documentary is almost strictly about that album.
About Blondie's breakthrough into the mainstream.
Yeah, they were punk…
Had the street cred.
But they transcended.
Mostly due to musicianship.
A bit like the Talking Heads.
The other bands were hopelessly arty.
Of this scene.
My favorite, Suicide.
[R.I.P. Alan Vega]
I met Alan once.
Changed my life.
But Suicide never really had a hit.
[Nooo…you don't say?!?]
The name.
Whoa mama!
But that was punk.
And my whole mission is a bit of a punk mission.
Pauly Deathwish.
Not a name I came up with.
But given to me.
I remember that day.
And the personages.
But my mission is also a bit like the mission of Greil Marcus.
And Lipstick Traces.
Now I'd just prefer to read Debord.
Or read Len Bracken on the Situationists.
But Greil tries (valiantly!) to pull it all together.
And I'm a bit like that kind of wanker.
Just hoping to SOUND like I know it all.
And someday have Harvard written on my spine.
But we've hardly discussed Blondie.
Or this excellent little film.
Which is currently streaming on Netflix in the U.S.
Again Kino Lorber's marketing team (?) seems to be absent behind this release.
There's no Wikipedia page.
And the iMDB page lists the title of this made-for-TV-affair as Blondie's New York and the Making of Parallel Lines.
Ok, so it's not Citizen Kane.
But it's well worth watching!
Directed by Alan Ravenscroft.
He does a fine job here.
It really is a magical story.
Punk.
New York City.
CBGB-OMFUG.
The Fugs! 🙂
New York, a magical place.
Hell, even mayor Ed Koch is in this.
And he's much easier to stomach than Bill Clinton.
I don't care…liberal, conservative…whatever.
Just don't be a dick!
And if you're a dick, have the schtick down!!
Like Trump.
He has the schtick down.
He's learned to lie.
In his many years.
"The babies, the beautiful babies…the innocent babies"…
There were no babies, my friends.
There was no chemical attack.
That footage was in the can for some time.
But it's a white lie in the world of geopolitics.
It's like telling your kids that Santa Claus delivered the presents.
There's no way to explain, "I've gotta bomb Syria to make an impression on China. And the bombing has to happen almost simultaneously with dinner…at Mar-a-Lago."
And McMaster must be lying too.
That's ok.
Just don't make a habit of it.
Because then you're CIA.
And that's a dark road.
To get wrapped up in lies.
But the white lies are synthetic terror where nobody dies.
Even the Russian/Syrian body count.
Likely false.
Especially the "four kids" detail.
Pithy.
The Democrats are really (I mean it, unfortunately) exceptionally dumb.
They only sense the general outline of the conspiracy.
Russia's faux indignation.
But they don't understand that their infantile foreign policy made such machinations necessary.
Blondie 🙂
And Quintilian.
See the documentary.
Forget about North Korea for a moment.
By all means, don't watch inferior propaganda.
The Propaganda Game?
Great film.
Songs from the North?
Cinematic equivalent of toilet paper.
The Cinémathèque Française knew the value of propaganda films.
Henri Langlois.
Back when they were educating "the five" (Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol, Rivette, and Rohmer).
And Godard understood the importance of "good", well-crafted, persuasive propaganda.
As Jacques Ellul wrote in 1962, "Ineffective propaganda is no propaganda."
In other words, it has no business calling itself propaganda.
It's less-than-worthless.
But kick back with some Machiavelli.
And The Art of the Deal.
And remember the unholy marriage of art and commerce that is and was Blondie.
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Delaware Aqueduct Repairs Begin
CityLaw, Department of Environmental Protection • Agency News • Newburgh, New York
03/08/2018 • Leave a Comment
Nora Machine is one of the world's most advanced tunnel-boring machines. Photo: NYC Water.
The DEP commences the largest repair project in the history of the New York City's water system. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has since 1992 been monitoring two leaking sections of the Delaware Aqueduct—one in the Orange County town of Newburgh, and the other in the Ulster County town of Wawarsing. The leaks release an estimated 20-30 million gallons of water per day. All of the data gathered shows that the leak rate has remained constant and the cracks have not worsened since DEP began monitoring the two leaks in 1992. In 2010, the City announced a plan to address the leaks by building a permanent 2.5 mile bypass tunnel around the leaking section of the aqueduct in Newburgh. The 2.5-mile bypass will be constructed 600 feet below the Hudson River—from Newburgh on the West Shore to Wappinger Falls on the East Shore.
The 85-mile Delaware Aqueduct is the longest tunnel in the world and supplies more than 500 million gallons of water per day to more than 9.5 million New Yorkers—approximately half of New York City's drinking water. The $1 billion 2.5 mile bypass tunnel project is the largest repair project in the 175-year history of New York City's drinking water supply system.
Work on the bypass tunnel began on September 8, 2017 and will continue 24 hours a day, five days a week for approximately 20 months. At this rate the tunnel should advance at the rate of about 50 feet of tunnel per day. The Delaware Aqueduct will stay in service while the bypass tunnel is under construction. Once the bypass tunnel is nearly complete the Delaware Aqueduct will be taken out of service and the bypass tunnel will be connected to structurally sound portions of the Delaware Aqueduct. The leaking sections will then be plugged and permanently taken out of service.
The six-month shutdown of the Delaware Aqueduct is planned to begin in October 2022. During the shutdown water supply augmentation and conservation measures via the City's Croton and Catskill systems will provide a reliable supply of water to meet the needs of the City. The project is expected to be finished in 2023.
One of the world's most advanced tunnel- boring machines will build the bypass tunnel. The tunnel-boring machine was named "NORA" in honor of Nora Stanton Blatch Deforest Barney, a suffragist and the first woman in the United States to earn a degree in civil engineering. "It is an honor for our grandmother, Nora, to lend her name to this unique tunnel boring machine," said Coline Jenkins, the granddaughter of Nora Barney. "Both Nora and NORA are ground breakers, here to overcome obstacles and create a stronger society for millions of citizens."
The DEP signed a project labor agreement in 2012 with the Hudson Valley Building and Construction Trade Council that promised that the vast majority of 200 jobs would be filled by local workers. The City expects to save up to $23 million. Under the project labor agreement which provides for a unified approach to shifts and time off, increased coordination, cost-effective scheduling and increased flexibility. The contract for the project was awarded as a joint venture. Kiewit-Shea Contractors was awarded the main $706 million contract for the underground construction of the bypass tunnel itself and Schiavone Construction was awarded a separate $101 million contract to construct entry shafts at both ends of the bypass tunnel.
Todd Diorio, President of the Hudson Valley Building and Construction Trades Council praised the project: "It takes care of the long overdue repairs to the water system supplying the City while at the same time creating hundreds of local construction jobs for members of the Hudson Valley Building and Construction Trades Council. This project will surely provide an economic boost to the local economy. I commend the City for its' efforts to achieve the labor agreement."
The bypass tunnel is the central component of DEP's $1.5 billion Water for the Future program. "The start of tunneling to repair the Delaware Aqueduct is a major milestone in the history of New York City's water supply system," newly appointed DEP Commissioner Vincent Sapienza said, "Repairs approaching this magnitude have never before been attempted. The effort to fix the Delaware Aqueduct is by far the most complex repair DEP has ever undertaken, and it highlights the absolute need to keep our public works in a state of good repair."
By: Thomas Columbia (Thomas is a student at New York Law School, Class of 2019).
Tags : aqueduct, delaware aqueduct, Newburgh, repairs
Category : CityLaw, Department of Environmental Protection

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Amazon Orders More 'Tumble Leaf,' Three New Series
Celebrate SpongeBob with Nick's 'Best 200 Episodes Ever' 30-Disc Set
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GKIDS Catches Masaaki Yuasa's 'Ride Your Wave'
Amazon Studios has reaped a new harvest from its latest fall pilot season, giving the green light to three original kids series and placing an order for a third season of Tumble Leaf, which this year picked up five Daytime Emmy Awards on top of other notable honors from Annecy, the Annies and Parents' Choice.
New series Danger & Eggs, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Niko and the Sword of Light will be available exclusively through Amazon's Prime members in the U.S., U.K., Germany, Japan and Austria. Tumble Leaf is created by Drew Hodges , and the third stop-motion animated season will again be executive produced by Hodges and Kelli Bixler of Bix Pix Entertainment.
Danger & Eggs for kids 6-11 is created by Mike Owens (Yo Gabba Gabba!) and Shadi Petosky (MAD). The show centers on fearless stuntwoman D.D. Danger and her hyper cautious best friend Phillip — a giant talking egg. The voice cast features Saturday Night Live comedians Aidy Bryant and Eric Knobel, and is produced by Petosky and Chris Hardwick's Puny Entertainment.
Niko and the Sword of Light (kids 6-11) was passed over earlier this year but now will go into production at Titmouse Animation Studio. Written by Rob Hoegee (Generator Rex, League of Super Evil) and based on the motion graphic comic from Imaginism Studios and Studio NX, Niko is an epic tale of a 10-year-old boy who is the last of his kind, set in a strange fantasy world.
And, a fresh animated series based on the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books by Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond will get a 26-episode season, aimed at preschoolers. The adaptation is being written and adapted by Ken Scarborough, whose credits include Arthur and Doug.
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Home » Selected Articles » Crime and Conscience
Crime and Conscience
Criminal lawyers walk the same streets as the rest of us and, presumably, also double-bolt their doors at night. But during the day, they are advocates for those who make us take precautions for our safety. How do those lawyers divide their lives so successfully? Or do they?
"How can you represent people who are guilty of committing terrible crimes?" Lawyers are asked the question so often, the answer comes as automatically as saliva from Pavlov's dogs: The accused has a constitutional right to a defense no matter how heinous the crime or how contemptible he is. The accused is innocent until the state proves him guilty and lawyers are there to protect his rights and to stand beside him against the awesome power of the People.
Although the response is based on principles of individual liberty we all hold dear, the answer nonetheless seems glib to those of us who still think the true guilt of a killer has little to do with how many times his Miranda rights were read to him after he pulled the dagger out of his victim's body.
And while we're barricaded behind iron gates and double-bolted doors, saddened by the pain and suffering of friends or family who have been raped or robbed or worse, we often wonder, how can those lawyers sleep at night?
Apparently, some of them can't.
Lincoln Mintz is a successful Oakland attorney who, in his twenty years of practice, has tried more than 3,500 criminal cases, representing clients who have included Symbionese Liberation Army member William Harris and Joseph Egenbrook, the man convicted of killing UC student Judy Williamson. He is currently representing convicted North Oakland rapist Marvel Wright, who is awaiting an appeal hearing.
Mintz comes on tough and confident — the prototypical criminal lawyer from whom you'd expect the party line. Yet when asked if his work as a lawyer conflicts with his values as a private citizen, he admits that the question has plagued him for years. Referring to his brethren as a "breed apart," he acknowledges that the profession of criminal law is frequently at odds with the mainstream.
"I was raised to know that crime is bad and good works are nice; that truth is good and falsehood is bad; that to steal deserves punishment. But because I believe in this system of justice, I stand up day after day, representing people who willfully, deliberately and with premeditation commit serious acts injurious to their fellow human beings. Day after day I stand up and say this case is an exception, in this case there are extenuating circumstances — every day I ask for individualized treatment for my clients."
And sometimes when he succeeds in getting it, his triumph is less than joyful. Like most lawyers, Mintz hates to lose, but he says he occasionally suffers more when he wins. "When I've gotten acquittals where my gut told me it shouldn't have gone down that way, I leave the courtroom in an emotional belly crawl."
A few years ago Mintz won an acquittal in a murder case, after which his client shot someone else. "While the victim's life hung in the balance, I was emotionally devastated. If that person had died, I don't know what I would have done. I knew that because of me he was not in jail," Mintz says.
Many lawyers are haunted by such memories. Ray Beitz represented Darlin June Cromer five years ago after she attacked a mother and her baby with a wine bottle in Golden Gate Park. Beitz worked very hard to keep Cromer out of jail, bringing in psychiatrists to convince the court that it would be safe to release her as long as she took her anti-psychotic medication. Two years later, Cromer kidnapped and murdered a five-year-old child from Alameda. "I felt terrible, even though at the time of the first offense, it seemed like the psychiatric program would work," Beitz says. "Things like that just keep hanging over you in this business." (Cromer was convicted of first-degree murder, found legally sane and sentenced to life in prison.)
This agonizing is not shared by all lawyers. Some adopt a professional detachment which precludes feelings of personal responsibility or regret over the outcome of a trial. "The lawyer is not the arbiter of fact," says Doug Schmidt, the attorney for Dan White who was convicted of manslaughter instead of first-degree murder for the assassination of George Moscone and Harvey Milk. "If the People fall down on their burden of proof, I don't think a lawyer should feel any personal responsibility — that's the system."
So goes the rhetoric, but what is his gut feeling as he watches a guilty-in-lay-terms (lawyerese to describe the judgment of those of us who think guilty is guilty) murderer or rapist who's just been declared "innocent" hit the streets? "I've represented some pretty reprehensible characters—some of the crimes I've seen floating through this office are cruel beyond belief. But I don't seek to protect society from these fellows. I don't think I can and properly represent them."
Tony Serra, the attorney who won an acquittal for SLA member Russell Little, the man charged with killing Oakland School Superintendent Marcus Foster, says it is not a lawyer's function to be concerned about the welfare and safety of society. "We're not social workers. Whether or not our clients did it is irrelevant. During a trial we are building an ideological castle based on precedent and symbolic justice. To do this, we come out of the sky with our law books to apply justice and then we return. It is immaterial what happens after. If a client repeats a crime, that's not our problem."
This kind of professional detachment is often made difficult by the realities of living in our society. San Francisco attorney Dennis Roberts came out to his car one morning and found a window shattered and the tape deck removed. "I felt enraged and violated," says Roberts, "but I had to get into the car and drive to court to represent a kid who had broken into a BMW just like mine. After court, I imparted a little folk wisdom of my own. I said, 'If I ever hear of you breaking into a car again I'll break your arm.'"
A recent event in Mintz's life has, as he says, forced him to, "face another god." His sixteen-year-old daughter was recently a key prosecution witness in a first-degree murder case: The accused had unsuccessfully tried to pick her up. "I have an emotional response to that even though he didn't even hurt my little girl. He is the enemy. I don't want the enemy treated: I want him hurt, punished, destroyed. Those are all human emotions and that's why we have a criminal justice system which seeks to impose a veneer of civilization on very emotional situations."
Most criminal trials, especially those involving violent offenses, are emotionally charged and sometimes sympathy for a victim or the circumstances of a crime strike a personal chord which makes performance during a trial difficult. Lawyers say they won't gratuitously badger a victim/witness during cross-examination under any circumstances because juries don't like it, but deftly casting doubt on the credibility of a victim's testimony is intrinsic to the adversary process. Hence, the victim is once again a victim.
When Oakland attorney Roger Patton worked in the Alameda County Public Defender's Office he was assigned to defend a man who had broken into an 85-year-old woman's bedroom and raped her. Patton had tried grislier crimes, but something about this situation — the age of the woman, the terror of the ordeal — made the prospect of cross-examining her extremely upsetting. "I was in absolute agony. I got the shakes, I couldn't sleep at night and the morning I was to cross-examine her I was close to a breakdown. I'd been through a lot and I thought I could handle anything, but this was terrible." (Patton pulled through and was able to perform his job. It is encouraging, however, that in spite of the counselor's recovery, the culprit was convicted.)
Despite the numbers of lawyers who "confess" to having similar reactions at some point in their careers, Serra says such feelings are forbidden to the legal professional. "A doctor operating on a bloody leg doesn't have license to emote; neither do we. No compassion, no empathy — it's clinical, it's objective. I couldn't function if I did a lot of worrying about these issues. There's no time to cry over man's inhumanity to man," he says.
Mintz agrees that lawyers are resistant to exploring the emotional and moral conflicts inherent in the profession, choosing instead to "avoid, rationalize and hide from," their feelings. "Some of my fellows turn to alcohol, others flip out and some, when they finally take the time to examine their feelings, declare themselves burned out." Mintz says his experience has been the opposite: "I'm better at my work and healthier now that I recognize the emotional aspects of my job."
In the everyday practice of law, most criminal attorneys are well-defended against personal feelings. Greg Pagan, a San Francisco public defender who in 1981 defended one of a gang of men convicted of raping a Golden Gate University law student and then running her over with a car, says a gradual process of desensitization takes place when you work in a public defender's office. "You start out with robbery cases, then you graduate to assault cases, then you proceed to assault with intent to commit great bodily injury. By the time you get to murder, you're immune to the lurid details."
For some, however, "lurid details" continue to be a problem. Pagan describes a former colleague who was called upon to represent a man accused of the mutilation murder of a child. The lawyer was afraid he would reveal his emotions in court when the prosecutor showed the jury pictures of the dead child, and to prepare himself, he plastered the walls of his office with enlargements of the mangled body.
In private practice, some lawyers minimize moral and personal conflicts by refusing to represent people who have committed certain crimes. Dennis Roberts, who has represented many clients in well-publicized cases, says he will not represent rapists he believes to be guilty. "I don't like recidivists. I don't represent them so I don't have to go around agonizing about what they're doing on the streets."
San Francisco attorney Ellen Chaitin defends people who have been charged with a variety of crimes, including ones involving violence, but she won't represent rapists either. "That poses too much of a contradiction for me. I like women too much and I view myself as a feminist. Everyone accused of a crime is deserving of a vigorous defense, but I think I would have real difficulty providing one [for a rapist]," she says.
Like rape, drunk driving poses a problem for some lawyers because it is an offense which, statistically, has a good chance of being repeated. "When I first started my practice, I wouldn't defend drunk drivers," says Martin County attorney Aron Kamins. "But with most of us there comes a transition from adolescent idealism to professionalism. I haven't changed my personal beliefs but I have separated them from my practice; I'm not in court as a citizen, I'm in court as an advocate," he says. Then he adds, "While I do represent drunk drivers, I'm not completely divorced from the implications of the crime. When a drunk driver leaves the courtroom, I do think, next time it could be my wife or my daughter he hits. That issue keeps cropping up."
Although Kamins has made the decision that his personal beliefs and ideals will not enter into his practice of law, he says the one thing he will no longer do is go to San Quentin to represent people at parole hearings. "I just can't bring myself to argue to the parole board that these people are not dangerous to society and that they deserve parole dates."
Sometimes the selection process reaches fine-line distinctions. Roberts, whose current practice consists primarily of drug cases, including heroin, will not represent PCP (angel dust) cases "for reasons I don't completely understand." One criminal lawyer tells about a former colleague who refused to defend heroin addicts unless they were minorities. "He believed that those people had more reason to turn to drugs than did other people."
One may wonder how someone can justify excluding drug dealers or rapists while representing murderers. But because it is so often a crime of passion involving friends or relatives, and one of the offenses least likely to be repeated, murder seems to be the least problematic category for most criminal lawyers.
In fact, attorneys are generally more concerned about the attitude and personality of their clients than about the crime they committed. The ideal client is one who is cooperative and easy to get along with, and lawyers in private practice will refuse clients who are too difficult. Mintz says the client's perspective on the crime is also important to him. "I was once asked to represent a man who was charged with raping a woman who had refused his sexual advances. He told me he did it and what's more he was entitled to do it because no woman had the right to say no to him. I wouldn't represent him."
Indeed, it is the personal connection with the client that best enables lawyers to put the horror of the crime he committed in the background. "I've represented murderers where I had nothing but contempt for what they did," says Mintz, "but when I get to know them I just see them as human beings who care and feel and hurt the same as you and I."
Patton, who has tried many death penalty cases, says that, almost by definition, murderers are the people in society with the least redeeming social value. "Standing up for those people is quite an experience, but after all is said and done you say to yourself, yeah, sure he's done horrible things, but the bottom line is this person is a human being—he's got blood in him."
Patton also says that representing these men is humbling. "I feel so fortunate about the kind of life I've had, that I had parents who cared about me. I represent people who were stomped on as children and discouraged and abused. I just don't know but that there for the grace of God go I."
It is the belief that most of their clients have not been given a fair chance, that they are society's backwash, which motivates many criminal lawyers and provides them with the moral justification to act as strong advocates for criminals. "This work does not really try your conscience a great deal if you have the basic orientation, as I do, that people are committing crimes because of situations they by and large don't have much control over," says Chaitin. "Most criminal law does not involve murder. It involves mostly theft and drugs — people who are victims of their own addiction and who have come from a pattern of life where crime is the only alternative."
Despite dramatic movie and television scenes where lawyers scream at their clients to tell them the truth and threaten to drop the case if they don't, real-life attorneys don't even ask their clients if they're guilty. "Tell me what happened," is the standard introductory remark, enabling the client to tell his story and the lawyer to determine if it will sound plausible on the stand. Lawyers can't support perjury so they don't want a confession. What's important is how much evidence against their client is available to the other side.
Some lawyers estimate that as many as 99 percent of their clients have been guilty of something (not always with what they're charged, since the prosecution often overcharges in preparation of plea-bargaining). But the conviction rate in California is also high: 85 percent of those charged with felonies are convicted.
While odds are stacked against defense attorneys, most are exhilarated by the combative aspects of the job. "During the critical moments of the trial, your blood is pounding, your heart is thumping — you know you're alive," says Patton. "You're like Don Quixote charging windmills. You get on your stallion and charge and get knocked off and trampled over and get up and do it again." Serra refers to lawyers as "semantic warriors": "Our heritage is combat; our weapons are words."
Although the contest is energizing, some lawyers acknowledge that the truth often gets lost somewhere on the battlefield. Berkeley Municipal Court Judge Ron Greenberg, once a criminal lawyer, says he's more comfortable on the bench than he was on the defense because of what happens to the truth-seeking process in the adversary position. "The first five cases I tried as a pubic defender, I gave factual presentations of the cases and each time the jury came back in twenty minutes with a guilty verdict," he says. "As I developed more techniques, as I got more theatrical and away from truth-seeking, the more cases I won."
So why do they do it? Most non-lawyers would probably say they do it for the money, but civil law is much more lucrative. Despite the mental anguish associated with their work, these criminal lawyers all say they believe in the system. "I've been in other countries and observed other legal systems at work and there's no doubt in my mind that ours is the very best," says Patton.
In his book, Lawyer's Ethics in an Adversary System, Monroe Friedman points out to critics of our system of justice that totalitarian countries do not have an adversary process. In those countries, the defense attorney acts in concert with the prosecutor and judge in pursuing the facts and resolution of criminal cases, all parties working in the best interest of the state. "The essential humanitarian reason for an adversary system," he writes, "is that it preserves the dignity of the individual even though that may occasionally require significant frustration of the search for truth and the will of the state."
Lawyers who are sensitive to the contradictions between higher principles and human feelings will always suffer to some degree under our system. Even a hard-liner like Tony Serra with his symbolic justice and cold, clinical perspective admits that his philosophy takes its toll. "A lot of us are alcoholics and drug fiends, and statistically, we're not supposed to live past 55. Those of us who survive wean ourselves from human frailty — but sometimes it makes you very lonesome."


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Q: sql server query for dynamic OPENJSON query by passing key name Want to make a dynamic query for inserting a json array into records
json= is as below
{
list:[
     {id:1,name:"abc"}
    ,{id:2,name:"xyz"}
]
}

Want to pass a value that matches with attribute(key) of JSON that match with the table value
the shortname has these attribute values)
For example purpose, I kept only two attributes, but I have around 20 attributes which I will be inserting into a table as 20 separate records
How do I make the JSON pick dynamic
set @shortname = (select shortname from @table )
loop through @shortname

insert into @targettable (field1,field1)
select (select key from master table where id=**@shortname**),
        @shortname
FROM OPENJSON (@json, '$.List')
           WITH (**@shortname** nvarchar(max))jsonInput;

 end

A: How about:
DECLARE @json nvarchar(MAX)
SET @json = N'{
"list":[
 {"id":1,"name":"abc"}
,{"id":2,"name":"xyz"}
]
}'

SELECT
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Note:
JavaScript/JSON is case-sensitive.
So '$.List' and '$.list' is not the same.
If you want to get a list of lists, you do it the same way, just on the '$' object.
Now, for example, if you want to limit that to all occurences of name, you'd do it like this:
DECLARE @json nvarchar(MAX)
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        SELECT
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            tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
            tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
        FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], '$') AS tArrayElement
        WHERE tArrayElement.[key] = 'name'
    ) AS tList

The problem is, all your values will be in rows instead of columns, so you'd need to either join each name separately, or you'd need to pivot, which can't be done dynamically, unless you want to use dynamic sql.
Like so:
DECLARE @json nvarchar(MAX)
SET @json = N'{
"list":[
 {"id":1,"name":"abc"}
,{"id":2,"name":"xyz"}
]
}'

SELECT
    tJson.[key] AS indexKey, tJson.[value] AS arrayValue, tJson.[type]
    ,tList.k1
    ,tList.v1
    ,tList.t1

    ,k2, v2, t2
FROM OPENJSON (@json, '$.list') AS tJson

OUTER APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            tArrayElement.[key] AS k1,
            tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
            tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
        FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], '$') AS tArrayElement
        WHERE tArrayElement.[key] = 'name'
    ) AS tList

OUTER APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            tArrayElement.[key] AS k2,
            tArrayElement.[value] AS v2,
            tArrayElement.[type] AS t2
        FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], '$') AS tArrayElement
        WHERE tArrayElement.[key] = 'id'
    ) AS tList2

And with pivot like this:
DECLARE @json nvarchar(MAX)
SET @json = N'{
"list":[
 {"id":1,"name":"abc"}
,{"id":2,"name":"xyz"}
]
}'

SELECT
     [key], [value]
    ,MAX([id]) AS id
    ,MAX([name]) AS name
FROM OPENJSON (@json, '$.list') AS tJson

OUTER APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            tArrayElement.[key] AS k1,
            tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
            tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
        FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], '$') AS tArrayElement
    ) AS tList
PIVOT
(
    MAX(tList.v1)
    FOR tList.k1 IN ([id], [name])
) AS tPivot

GROUP BY [key], [value]
;

Now you'd need "dynamic" sql to make the pivot columns "dynamic".
The list of names to pivot by, you can fetch dynamically, with:
DECLARE @json nvarchar(MAX)
SET @json = N'{
"list":[
 {"id":1,"name":"abc"}
,{"id":2,"name":"xyz"}
]
}'

SELECT
    QUOTENAME(tList.k1) AS k
FROM OPENJSON (@json, '$.list') AS tJson

OUTER APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            tArrayElement.[key] AS k1,
            tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
            tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
        FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], '$') AS tArrayElement
    ) AS tList

GROUP BY tList.k1

And so you make it fully dynamic, like this:
DECLARE @json nvarchar(MAX)
SET @json = N'{
"list":[
 {"id":1,"name":"abc", "foo":"bar"}
,{"id":2,"name":"xyz", "bar":"foo"}
]
}'

DECLARE @pivotFields nvarchar(MAX)
DECLARE @maxPivotFields nvarchar(MAX)

SELECT
    @pivotFields = STUFF(
    (
        SELECT
            ', ' + QUOTENAME(tList.k1) AS [text()]
            --', MAX(' + QUOTENAME(tList.k1) + ')' AS [text()]
        FROM OPENJSON (@json, '$.list') AS tJson

        OUTER APPLY
            (
                SELECT
                    tArrayElement.[key] AS k1,
                    tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
                    tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
                FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], '$') AS tArrayElement
            ) AS tList

        GROUP BY tList.k1
        FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
    ).value('.', 'nvarchar(MAX)')
    ,1,2, '')

SELECT
    @maxPivotFields = (
        SELECT
            ', MAX(' + QUOTENAME(tList.k1) + ') AS '
            + QUOTENAME(tList.k1) AS [text()]
        FROM OPENJSON (@json, '$.list') AS tJson

        OUTER APPLY
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                SELECT
                    tArrayElement.[key] AS k1,
                    tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
                    tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
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            ) AS tList

        GROUP BY tList.k1
        FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
    ).value('.', 'nvarchar(MAX)')

DECLARE @sql nvarchar(MAX)
SET @sql = N'SELECT
     [key], [value]
    ' +  @maxPivotFields + N'

FROM OPENJSON (@json, ''$.list'') AS tJson

OUTER APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            tArrayElement.[key] AS k1,
            tArrayElement.[value] AS v1,
            tArrayElement.[type] AS t1
        FROM OPENJSON(tJson.[value], ''$'') AS tArrayElement
    ) AS tList
PIVOT
(
    MAX(tList.v1)
    FOR tList.k1 IN (' + @PivotFields + N')
) AS tPivot

GROUP BY [key], [value]
;  '

-- SELECT @PivotFields, @maxPivotFields
-- PRINT @sql

EXEC sp_executesql
           @sql
          ,N'@json nvarchar(MAX)'
          ,@json = @json;

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Спомен-црква на Грађенику је православни храм који се подиже на брду Грађеник, у атару села Кадина Лука, посвећен ратницима и учесницима Колубарске битке, невино настрадалим житељима околних места током Првог светског рата и Светим мученицама Вери, Нади, Љубави и мајци им Софији.

Пројектом је планирано да се у крипти похране кости ратника које се још налазе у обележеним и необележеним гробљима.

Колубарска битка
Након Церске битке аустроугарска војска је, 6. новембра 1914. године, на челу са генералом Оскаром Поћореком поново кренула на Србију. Српска војска се тада нашла у безнадежном стању, недостајало јој је хране, одеће, обуће и поврх свега артиљеријске и пушчане муниције. После почетних неуспеха српске војске, генерал Живојин Мишић преузео је Прву српску армију од војводе Петра Бојовића, повукао своје трупе на положај Колубара–Сувобор-Љиг. После одмора, прегруписавања и попуне муницијом, покренут је 3. децембра 1914. године одлучан контранапад. Тада су десетковане 5. и 6. аустроугарска армија, ослобођен Београд и непријатељске трупе враћене преко Дрине и Саве.

Брдо Грађеник
У географском смислу Грађеник представља брдо које припада планини Сувобор, као њен истурени обронак на централном, северном делу. Врх Грађеника је Чардак, који се налази на 645м.н.в. У историјском смислу, Грађеник представља један од најважнијих положаја српске војске у Колубарској бици и као такав је неизоставан појам у стручној војноисторијској литератури, као и књигама о овој знаменитој бици.

Оперативна зона фронта Прве српске армије у дефанзивном делу битке је била "Гукош–Бобија–Грађеник-Шиљкова коса–Баћенац-Црни врх–Сувобор".

Подизање споменика и крста
У спомен на српске ратнике изгинуле у Колубарској бици, на брду Грађеник је 1985. године, подигнута је спомен-плоча, да би 2006. године био уређен парк и трасирана планинарска стаза (маркирана стаза бр. 8 "Љиг–Грађеник–Рајац", до планинарског дома), оним правцем куда је једним делом одступала Прва српска армија у Колубарској бици. Исте 2006. године, подигнут је на врху Грађеника и крст који је освештан од свештеника Станише Ђокића.

Идеја о подизању спомен-цркве
После остварених акција, иницијативом Младена Драшкића из Кадине Луке, кренуло се са реализацијом идеје да се испод врха Чардак, на месту српских ровова подигне спомен-црква са костурницом и видиковцем. На плацу који је поклонио Божидар Васиљевић, освештан је 2009. године камен темељац и током 2010. године пробијен је пут у дужини од 1.400 метара, кроз делове њива које су поклонили мештани села.

Црква се гради по идејном решењу архитекте професора др Предрага Ристића, који је он поклонио, заједно са својим сином Савом, уз материјалну помоћ правних и физичких лица. Планирано је да се гради каменом из локалних мајдана. После подизања темеља, насипања терена тампоном од камена, тренутно се ради сечење и обрада камена којим ће се подизати зидови цркве.

Галерија

Види још
 Колубарска битка

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Литература
 др Саво Скоко – "Колубарска битка", 66. и 67. страна
 Живко Г. Павловић – "Битка на Колубари, дефанзивни део", стране 526, 527, 528, 529, 538, 555. и 599.

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Цркве Епархије ваљевске
Православни храмови у Србији
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Културно наслеђе Западне Србије
Колубарска битка


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New Market Study, "Argentina Defence & Security Report 2015", Has Been Published
Recently published research from Business Monitor International, "Argentina Defence & Security Report 2015", is now available at Fast Market Research
Boston, MA -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/30/2015 -- President Cristina Fern?ndez de Kirchner has had an eventful year. With repeated visits to the hospital it has affected her mid-term elections results. Although her party remains in control of both houses, there is a distinct lack of power she now holds over proposing new legislature as well as amending the current two term limit on presidential elects. Due to failing health and her lack of influence within the Argentine government BMI expects her not to run for president again at the end of 2015. This will greatly affect any further procurements as well as military/defensive spending.
The Argentine President, Cristina Fern?ndez de Kirchner, has remained vocal in several areas and although losing a high court ruling in regards to 'vulture funds' has continued to cause strained relations for her country. None more so than against the United Kingdom for sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. Argentina refers to the Falklands as Islas Malvinas and has claimed sovereignty over them previously. Since fresh resurgence of the claims came in 2013 (marking the 30th anniversary of the Falklands war) this has continued to not only be heard but garnered massive support from her country over 2014. This has been hampered however, by the Falkland Islanders who took part in a referendum, voting by 1,513 to three to remain a British overseas territory.
This in all likelihood shall increase more so in 2015 and with Argentina's expanding armed forces tensions have raised with these new claims. However with a new election due in late 2015, and a likely return to a more conservative government, further action may be taken financially to bolster the economy after the 'vulture funds' ruling thus putting any military action on hold.
In terms of defence, much has happened in line with BMI's forecast. The Argentine government continues to upgrade and procure modern military weapons and equipment either through state controlled production or mainly US and Israeli companies....
The Argentina Defence & Security Report features Business Monitor International (BMI)'s independent forecasts for national and international security, the defence industry, military expenditure, employment in arms production, and arms imports and exports, as well as examining industry trends and prospects, national and multinational arms producers and the regulatory environment.
BMI's Argentina Defence & Security Report provides professionals, consultancies, government departments, regulatory bodies and researchers with independent forecasts and regional competitive intelligence on the Argentinian defence and security industry.
- Benchmark BMI's independent defence and security industry forecasts on Argentina to test other views - a key input for successful budgetary and strategic business planning in the Argentinian defence and security market.
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Global and Regional Political Outlooks
A strategic overview of the world?s major political risks, identifying countries facing leadership successions and nations at risk of upheaval, inter-state conflict, or separatism and insurgencies, plus a summary of the world?s ?wild card? low-probability high-impact risks.
Snapshot evaluation of the major issues affecting the defence and security sectors, economy and politics, with issues subdivided into Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats.
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Historic data series and forecasts to end-2019 for key industry indicators supported by explicit assumptions, plus analysis of key downside risks to the main forecast.
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Ricardo Royo-Villanova y Morales fue un médico y catedrático español.

Biografía
Hijo del también médico Ricardo Royo Villanova, estudió medicina en la Universidad de Zaragoza, licenciándose en 1922 y doctorándose en 1923. Ganó la oposición la plaza de catedrático de Medicina Legal por la Universidad de Valladolid en 1928, donde fue decano e interventor general, antes de conseguir la plaza en Madrid en 1951. Presidió la Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses y en 1953 se le nombró académico de la Real Academia de Medicina.

Fue director de la Revista de Medicina Legal.

Obtuvo la Orden del Mérito Civil en 1952.

Obras
 El derecho a morir sin dolor. El problema de la eutanasia. Madrid 1929.
 Crisis de la salud y defensa de la enfermedad. Madrid 1963.
 La responsabilidad médica y el nuevo código penal. Madrid 1930, Morata.
 Redescubrimiento de Don Juan. Madrid 1932, Morata.
 Muerte y accidente por fulguración. Madrid 1942, Morata.
 Lecciones de Medicina Legal. Madrid 1953.
 La enfermedad de Churchill (Divagaciones médico políticas). Madrid 1954.
 Cirugía Estética. Medicina Legal. Criminología. Delincuencia. Responsabilidad. Barcelona 1968.
 La crisis de la profesión médica.

Referencias
 Académicos numerarios del Instituto de España (1938-2004), Instituto de España, Madrid, 2005.

Enlaces externos

Real Academia de Medicina

Zaragozanos del siglo XX
Académicos numerarios de la Real Academia Nacional de Medicina
Nacidos en Zaragoza
Fallecidos en Madrid


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How does Fiat's 500-based crossover stack up?
Several body styles of the Fiat 500 have become available since the iconic little car's resurgence. Initial models were only available in Coupe or Cabrio form with only two doors. Now, there are four door versions that have joined the lineup. There's a Fiat 500L and there's this: the Fiat 500X.
Last year Fiat trimmed down the model availability of the 500X to three. There's the base Pop with a smaller 1.4-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine and a 6-speed manual transmission in FWD only. Then, you have the mid-level Trekking model that displays a more rugged persona with a more powerful 2.4-liter engine and a 9-speed automatic transmission. It also offers all-wheel drive as a $2,000 option. Finally, at the top of the range sits the flagship model Lounge. All 500X models come with a standard 7.0-inch touchscreen, as well as hill-start assist.
The Fiat 500X is closely related to the Jeep Renegade, though they exhibit very different personalities. The Fiat 500X's design was penned in Italy to appeal to American tastes. It showcases Italian style while delivering the versatility and functionality of an SUV.
The Fiat 500's focus was to capture the original car's allure in a smartly formatted no-nonsense design. In the 2018 Fiat 500X, overhangs are still short and the body consists of several superimposed layers, topped by a 'shell-like' roof. Up front, the 500's signature face incorporates projector headlamps and lower park lamps. The front fascia tapers outward toward the pronounced wheel arches, displaying a wide, road-holding stance.
The upper portion of the fascia features a horizontal cooling duct, while the lower 'honeycomb' style grille integrates stylish fog lamps. Wheel arches are flared and the body-side A-line slopes from the clean clamshell hood to fender cut. The sides are rounded and both head and taillamps are visible from the side. The 500's iconic profile is finished off by the roof pillars and shadow-line window molding, forming a gentle continuous arc that also hides the door's upper edges. In the rear, taillamps flank the rear-opening trunk lid.
Moving into the cabin, Italian elegance and simplicity take over with a subtle appeal. It is wide, comfortably seating four, although rear seat occupants will suffer of those up front are tall. The dashboard contains large, round gauges with large matching round climate control knobs. A small center touchscreen sits atop the dash. As with the small compact 500, body-color trim accents are available. The quality and texture of the materials and fabrics blend with straightforward practical design. The front seats are firm, and provide enough supportive bolstering to hold occupants in position.
The 500X is roughly five inches shorter than the tall Fiat 500L wagon, which doesn't have all-wheel drive. Although, the interior space and cargo space is roughly the same due to modern packaging. Cargo volume is 18.5 cubic feet with the rear seat up, and 50.8 cubic feet when folded down, but it doesn't lie quite flat.
An adjustable rear floor panel on Trekking and Lounge models inserts into a pair of slides raising the height and leveling with the front passenger fold-down seatback. Interior trim sets the 2018 Fiat 500X apart from competitors, with color inserts from brown to orange.
The Fiat 500X packaged two powertrains: a 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and a larger, naturally-aspirated 2.4-liter unit. The smaller engine makes 160 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque, mated to a six-speed manual transmission. The 2.4-liter engine manages 180 horsepower and 175 lb-ft of torque, and comes exclusively with a nine-speed automatic.
The 2018 Fiat 500X provides suitable road manners for a compact SUV, but it's not as agile as the original 500. The ride quality is firm, but not harsh The electric power steering is responsive enough, but would benefit from a little more feedback the 500X remains an entertaining example of the genre.
The 500X is generally quiet on the road, under a variety of conditions. it's a modern vehicle and more than acceptable for a utility vehicle whose shape works against noise suppression.
If you check off optional automatic emergency braking feature, the IIHS gives the 500X an "Advanced" rating for front crash prevention at an additional cost of $1,300 on the two upper trim levels.
Mid-level Trekking and Lounge trims offer an optionally available bundle of advanced active-safety features: lane-departure warning, forward-collision warning with automatic emergency braking, blind-spot monitors, automatic high-beam headlights, and rain-sensing wipers.
The low hood and shoulder line provide good front and side visibility, but rear three-quarter visibility is somewhat limited.
The 2018 Fiat 500X delivers sensible trim levels representing good value for the money with impressive content. It is a pleasing, small modern SUV that provides ideally satisfying attributes.
Brakes: Power-assisted four-wheel discs with four-wheel ABS.


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There's probably not a reader out there who has never been plagued with back pain. In fact, it's one of the top complaints that sends people running (or walking carefully) to the doctor's office.
Back pain is miserable, but can it actually affect your voice? You bet it can! Breathing is the energy for speech, and good breathing depends on good posture. Let's look at some of the common causes for back pain and see how they might also affect voice.
We also tend to look down at electronic equipment, which compresses the larynx, found right behind your Adam's apple, as well as putting more tension in the neck. Doctor's are reporting that this habit of looking down when using a phone, e-reader or tablet is becoming one of the main causes of back pain in younger adults.
For good voicing you want to sit or stand tall so that your lungs can expand freely. You also want to keep your chin parallel to the floor to avoid tension in the larynx. And guess what? This is the best posture to avoid back pain as well.
• First, stand and reach over your head as if you're picking apples just out of your reach first with one hand and then another. Do this for a few seconds.
• Next, roll your shoulders back by making big circles with your elbows. Focus on bringing your shoulder blades together. Do this about 5 times.
• And finally, stand and pretend you're rowing a boat. Keep your arms at armpit level and squeeze your shoulder blades together as you pull the oars back. Do this 5 times.
Use these exercises throughout the day, and you'll be sitting and standing tall without back pain! Plus you'll hear the difference in your voice.
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