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A show I once loved that didn't hold up
I'm always fascinated by how some things hold up over time and other things don't. You've all had movies you remembered loving as a kid and you see them now and go "Eeeewww. What did I like about that?" And other movies you love as much or more now as you did when you first saw them.
That goes for TV, music, theater, and radio shows.
Growing up, one of my favorite disc jockeys was Robert W. Morgan on KHJ. Great voice, smooth delivery, and a sneaky caustic sense of humor. Plus, he used to occasionally sneak in inside references for radio insiders. And since I was a radio geek I knew the references and loved them. It's always cool to feel like you're on the inside. Tech geeks get that I'm sure from SILICON VALLEY. I enjoy the show but know there are little asides that are going over my head. And that's okay, if it's kept to a minimum.
After 5 ½ years doing the morning show on KHJ Los Angeles in the '60s Robert W. left to work at WIND in Chicago. His last show on KHJ was in October 1970.
I got up early and listened to the entire show from 6-9 AM. And I loved every minute of it. He was particularly surly and rebellious and it was a radio geek's delight because ALL the jokes were inside, all the references were radio industry oriented. He made fun of the station's very tight format, had jocks from competing stations on the air (including Wolfman Jack who made an in-studio appearance), and put down the station's music.
I lapped up every minute of it. And for years held the memory that it was a hilarious show. Recently, a Facebook friend, Greg Barman, posted it, and I listened again for the first time in a gazillion years.
And I hated it.
You can hear it here. (The commercials and songs have been cut out. It's called a "telescoped" aircheck.)
When I listened this time it struck me that by playing almost exclusively to the radio industry Morgan was completely ignoring the listeners. What was once so audacious and hilarious now felt smug and self-indulgent.
I took it as a reminder of a great lesson. As a writer I have an obligation to think of my audience first. It's easy these days to do meta jokes or parodies of other shows. But who would I be serving? My friends? Maybe my fellow writers? I know we're in the age of niche TV but that's a pretty narrow target.
I would rather concentrate on exploring emotions, universal conflicts, relatable characters and situations, comedy that comes from reality and the human condition. One of the things I appreciated about Jimmy Kimmel's Oscar opening monologue was that the jokes were for America not the room. There were no Harvey Weinstein references.
As I was listening again to Robert W. Morgan's last day I thought, if I was just a general listener, why would I care? There was nothing in the broadcast to suggest that he cared about me. Never did he express any sadness that he was leaving so why should I be sad to see him go?
Instead, it was three hours of thumbing his nose at everyone. I found it very entertaining when I was a kid and passive-aggressive bordering on hostile today.
I still feel Robert W. Morgan was an extraordinary talent. He came back to Los Angeles a year later, and a few years after that I was privileged to be on the same station as him (K100). But on that one day in October 1970, what I originally thought was his best show, I now consider his worst.
And if I'm being honest, I have to confess I've done the same thing. When B100 San Diego went on the air in1975 they held a 100 hour commercial-free marathon and invited a lot of local jocks and radio legends to do hour segments. And I played primarily to the other jocks who were listening. I'm as guilty as Morgan. Now one can argue that the station had just gone on the air and there weren't many listeners, but that's no excuse. Airchecks of those B100 hours circulated throughout the industry and were very well received. Still, I think back and cringe.
The audience. Never forget the audience. It's not about entertaining me. It's about entertaining YOU.
Jim S said...
I have to say that I found Hawkeye of your show MASH to be an interesting character in that when I was young, he was cool. He told the man off and he put up with Frank Burns and Hot Lips.
When I watched MASH years later, I really began to appreciate the episodes where Hawkeye got his comeupance. Because, man what a jerk. A womanizer who treated the nurse like objects that existed for his pleasure.
I get that he was in a war zone, but so was everybody else. His pain wasn't special. So when Radar told Hawkeye, who when in charge actually failed in his duties to do things like order supplies in a timely fashion, that he felt real bad for the wounded too, but that actually didn't solve the problem Hawkeye created by not doing his job, I was delighted.
I even enjoyed the episodes where Frank Burns got sick of Hawkeye's pranks and pranked back. The episode of course ended with Hawkeye on top, but yeah he had what he got coming.
I also appreciated the episode where a patient went "sour" and Hawkeye freaked out. Henry Blake pointed out that there are lot of patients who need help and self-pity was a luxury. When the problem was found, Frank Burns said anyone could have missed what Hawkeye missed. I never saw Hawkeye be that gracious.
I have also been watching Hill Street Blues on H&I. Half of it holds up. The drama really works, but the humor, eye, yi yi. Talk about hamfisted and just lazy.
So that show half holds up. The "funny" characters really are caractures. A strange mix of great and weak sauce.
John in NE Ohio said...
I remember hearing Dennis Miller (many years ago) saying that he always had 3 punchlines in his standup/monologue. The first was very broad and everyone should get it. The second was for the average well informed person. The third was for himself and maybe one person at the back of the room. I remember at least on occasion him running through the punchlines in order, and it was very accurate. Didn't often understand the reference in the third joke, but when I did, absolutely the best joke.
My long winded point being that a joke for 4 people is ok when it is part of a bigger whole, and 1 missed joke shouldn't be a big deal. If all he told were those jokes, there would be times that nobody would laugh because none of us had seen whatever obscure sitcom that lasted 3 episodes in 1975 all the jokes were referencing.
Friday Question: I wondered if you had a take on this article about Frank Darabont seeking renumeration from AMC over The Walking Dead?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/walking-dead-lawsuit-spills-obscene-emails-tales-greed-tvs-billion-dollar-hit-1020061
There's a lot there, so any commentary would be enlightening, but in particular I noticed how some of these cases go on for decades -- have you ever been in the position of having to spend years recovering compensation? And the articles claim that a lot of formerly-hidden "Hollywood accounting" practices are now out in the open. Do you think that will lead to greater transparency overall?
Great post. lots of insight there. How lucky are the likes of Weiner and Gilligan who may write up to their own high-standards (pleasing themselves, essentially) and have it catch on to their audiences.
cd1515 said...
Good points Ken, I see a lot of the same thing today in podcasts where it's the host interviewing another person.
I get the feeling most podcast hosts will book a guest because "hey that person seems interesting to me, let's have him/her on."
Whether that guest will be interesting TO THE LISTENER never seems to matter.
Interesting comment about Hawkeye. I grew up loving him, not just for his humour but for his humanity, but I haven't watched the show in a long time. I hope I would still like him today.
Beau Weaver said...
I too, loved Robert W. Morgan's snarky inside baseball references. In retrospect, you are right, he had developed an arrogant, narcissistic focus that left the listeners out. And, I think that was allowed to develop unchecked after Ron Jacobs left the building. Jacobs was a big a bully as RWM, and was able to keep him more or less along the lines of the "preparation, concentration, MODERATION" orthodoxy of the format. There was always SOME latitude give to the morning man, but the PD's who followed Jacobs were no match for Morgan's pushing of the boundaries. He became a monster, in terms of his performances on the air and behavior behind the scenes. Ask anyone who worked with him. Airchecks from the early days of Boss Radio, with Jacobs standing on his neck produced some of the greatest work I have ever heard in this narrow realm. By 1970, you are right....he was out of control. Thanks for the object lesson. -Beau Weaver
Re: Hawkeye
At his core, he's a decent man, which is key. He can be arrogant and self-righteous but he's also kind and funny and charming.
I'd argue that the womanizing would hold up in the sense that TV series are more likely to have sex-obsessed leads (Christian Troy from Nip/Tuck is an example and he was *at best* a Jerk with a Heart of Gold whereas Hawkeye was more consistently nice). On the flip side, now such womanizing is depicted as a clear character flaw/weakness, which wasn't really the case for Hawkeye.
Robert W. Morgan never really made it in Chicago (Morgan in the morning).
In the late 1960's through the early 1980's Chicago had by far the best stable of jocks in the country between WLS and WCFL..
Lujack was the man, of course, but Fred Winston (that's him in Ferris Bueller), John Records Landecker (Records truly is my middle name),Joel Sebastian, J.J. Jeffries, Ron Britain, Bick Biondi, Barney Pipp, Bob Sirott (who is still on but has really gone downhill) and a little later on Steve Dahl with Garry Meier (see Demolition, Disco).
There were a couple of great female jocks Connie Szerzen, and Yvonne Daniels, and even the jocks on the urban station were great (Herb Kent "The Cool Gent" is a well-deserved legend)
To be honest Robert W. was Ok but could never match up to the best of those guys.
Sort of along the same lines, I thought all my air check tapes had been destroyed, gobbled up, etc. by malfunctioning tape players over the years. But going through some old cassettes I have had, some dating back to the late 60s, I discovered an old unmarked tape of me from my first day on the air of a station in Florida back in the early 80s and listened to it. OMG! I wanted to throw it into a wood chipper, burn the remains, dig a 30 foot hole, bury it and stick "biological hazard, do not dig here for 10 billion years" signs all over and around it, then after that amount of time dig up the hole and launch it into the hottest and furthest star I could find. I'm sure if RWM were still alive and listened to that tape today, he might disown it.
[In my defense, I was hired and the PD said "Congrats, you start overnights TONIGHT and you'll be playing cuts from the newest Little River Band album." So with no show prep, no info on the LRB [pre-internet days, remember them?] and basically resorting to reading the liner notes off the album cover I stumbled through it.]
powers said...
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was without question the coolest & greatest TV show among my pre-teen friends & I back when the series first debuted.
We would discuss the show & await the next new episode eagerly.
Recently saw some episodes...wow!The show does not hold up at all in spite of a fine cast & terrific guest stars.Part of the problem was that it went from cold war espionage adventure to silly,camp episodes during its run.
Shows I enjoy from the past to this day are:Mission:Impossible,The Wild Wild West,The Andy Griffith Show,Get Smart.So,some do stand the test of time while others wither away.Except in reruns.
Friday questions, Ken:
1. What do you think about doing a spec script of an older show as a possible reboot? Two years ago it would have been unthinkable to spec "Will & Grace," and now it's coming back in the fall. Similarly, "Arrested Development" has two more seasons coming from Netflix. In this day and age, when a show is never truly dead, is anything ever really off the table?
2. I've read that a good package for TV writing is a spec of an established show plus a pilot script. Should they be in the same format, though? For instance, a spec of a sitcom and a pilot for a one-hour comedy/drama? Or would it be better to do two half-hour sitcom scripts and two hour-long scripts?
I watched CONTACT with my son so he could share in the great movie I saw 20 years ago. Wow was it slow. Two and a half hours that could have been cut to 90 minutes. The cool parts were still super cool but the parts in between were sooooo sloooowww. I guess all that Transformer and Borne pacing has me expecting faster action.
Over time, Hawkeye became, if not a role model, less the old-school "bad boy".
At one point he realized he was slipping into alcoholism and pulled back (albeit not going on the wagon).
Likewise, the early notion that the doctors and nurses were constantly and randomly hooking up despite marital status was phased out. Marital and romantic fidelity were taken seriously. Married men BJ and Potter had to deal with temptations; Potter became aware his visiting son-in-law was cheating; Winchester found out a Frenchwoman he was attracted to was married; Klinger and other characters received "Dear John" letters. Hawkeye resumed an affair with a college girlfriend who'd since married, but ultimately couldn't handle it.
Part of that was because Alda himself seemed to be pressing for that. I recall he was often mocked for personifying the trendy feminist nice guy in real life. Still, Alda's attitude was in fact becoming mainstream; even James Bond was becoming less promiscuous and smoking was no longer universally acceptable. But I suspect the larger part was the need to make a long-running character not only sympathetic but plausible enough to support more stories.
Hawkeye the complete cynic was a dead-end street of silly pranks against the unquestioned cruelty of war. What were the stakes? Getting sent home, like he wanted? He had to care about his patients and friends for stories to mean anything. The show's anti-war edge dulled as Vietnam got pushed off the front page, and it became an odd but mostly successful mix of current issues and changing attitudes played out against a very specific historical backdrop.
Breadbaker said...
I'm reading Dick Van Dyke's memoir, and one thing he points out in his many compliments to Carl Reiner is how they had a hard and fast rule to avoid topical humor (though some things became topical over time, like musical choices). Which is one reason (the main other being the quality of the writing) why they can all be watched with enjoyment today).
Ah, but BJ gave in to temptation one time, and it disturbed him deeply. Trapper, on the other hand, was a rampant p-hound and it's the one thing I disliked about him. Well, that and his hair.
Douglas Trapasso said...
One of the best aspects of the Burns-for-Winchester tradeoff is that Hawkeye and B.J. now had an antagonist that could match them cut for cut in the O.R. I'm not a big fan-fiction dude, but I wouldn't mind reading a couple of specs where Burns overrode Hawkeye in the O.R. - and was proven right.
Very nicely summed up, Donald Benson.
Just read Curtis Armstrong's autobiography "Revenge of the Nerd" - and there's a shout-out to "Almost Perfect"!
Funny you mentioned how Morgan never cut it in Chicago, then talked about having to compete against the likes of John Landecker.
Landecker couldn't cut it in Toronto. He was snapped up by top 40 station CFTR with great fanfare in the early 80s -- and flopped. Whatever it was he had going on in Chicago, it came across as a bit desperate and phony to Toronto audiences, who never warmed to him. He slinked back to Chicago, tail between his legs, in under two years.
Another broadcasting legend seen a different way in Canada? A lot of Canadian folks only heard Vin Scully as he was broadcasting the '93 World Series. He was, quite frankly, rambling, not well prepared, and clearly not especially interested in the assignment -- what you got was a rather dull report about some phenomenally exciting baseball. There is simply no way, listening to his '93 World Series calls, to accept that this man was supposed to be some kind of broadcasting legend.
Of course, Landecker and Scully *were* legends in their own markets, and must have instinctively known how to tailor their personalities to those markets. Just because they succeeded at home, though, it wasn't a guarantee that they'd succeed anywhere. (On the other hand, just because they didn't succeed elsewhere doesn't mean they don't deserve their legendary status in their home markets!)
FRANK: "I'm a very good doctor -- just ask any of my patients!"
HAWKEYE: "You can't go digging people up just for that."
No matter how often I see that episode, I wind up missing the next few lines because I'm laughing out loud. Alda's delivery is classic.
To a previous poster's point, I did like that Winchester was a better surgeon than Hawkeye but not as *efficient* as Hawkeye (too obsessed with perfection). Frank had no positive traits -- he was an incompetent surgeon but he also didn't even care about his patients. Frank Burns was the most brilliant and complex 2-dimensional character on TV -- and we have Larry Linville's genius to thank in part for making him as likable as he was.
Ted Cruz also reminds me of Frank Burns whenever I see him (though Cruz is by all accounts a smart guy).
I never thought I'd get to pick up on a point from the legendary Beau Weaver, but here goes... There are lots of creative types who do their best work only when they have something or someone to fight against. A classic example is the cartoon Ren and Stimpy. When the show's creator John Kricfalusi was constantly battling Nickelodeon in the beginning over what would now be considered tame humor and visuals, he made some really trailblazing animation. Until he was fired. But then when Spike brought him back years later and gave him almost carte blanche, the result was unwatchable garbage.
David Letterman had a similar trajectory. He was never as good on CBS as he was on NBC, particularly after General Electric came into the picture. Once he had all the money and resources he could want and no new heights to which he could aspire, Dave's anger and self-loathing just seemed petty.
And speaking of being self-indulgent, I've been watching some NBC Letterman on YouTube lately. I prefer much of it to the overproduced and overedited talk shows that are on now, but still, it's hard to believe in hindsight how much I adored his frustrations and bungled jokes and "How're we doing on time?" loosey-goosey hosting back then. When he was on his game, no show was better, but when he got into a funk (which typically lasted for several weeks at a time), it was pretty dire watching Dave try to crawl to the finish line each night.
Morgan returned to KHJ 15 months after leaving. He only stayed a year and a half.Wonder how his second farewell show was? I did love Wolfman's appearance as Dick Whittinghill,his KMPC competition and saying Whit never gets up this early. Robert W always wanted to work at KMPC and he did on 1975 partvtime and replaced Whittinghill in 1979. He went to WIND to get an MOR station on his resume
KadeKo said...
Did MASH invent (or make popular, for network execs to emulate) an entire set of TV things we take for given today?
I was a kid when my parents watched it. I didn't get it, not all of it, but it just had a different tone from the rest of the grown-up shows I saw then.
Mike Schwartz said...
Re the last RWM show from Oct 1970, I have heard the entire show as well many times over the years and have long thought the he purposely let his feelings show (what you considered ignoring the audience) perhaps due to some residual anger or frustration over the way in which his contract holdout was handled the previous year. You didn't mention and one could easily hear at Real Radio, his first show back from the holdout in Aug 1969, which also had alot of inside radio geek stuff that simply went over the heads of the general audience. If a clairvoyant Ken Levine had been in the studio on that Oct 70 morning and cautioned Morgan that he should watch his words since he would return to the big 93 in Jan 1972, perhaps it would have been a very different "final" show and therefore, this discussion would never have taken place on your blog......
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South African born pianist Caitlyn Abbot began her studies with DeWet Bruwer (South Africa) and continued at the University of Capetown before immigrating to New Zealand in 2006. She was then accepted into the New Zealand School of Music for studies with Judith Clarke while she was a high school student. In 2010 she began studies at Auckland University with Stephen De Pledge (New Zealand) majoring in performance piano. Since 2014 Caitlyn has been teaching individual and group piano lessons as well as theory classes. Installing a love of music in students, whether classical or not, is her primary aim in lessons.
MARKO POP RISTOV – VIOLIN LESSONS
Marko graduated from the Royal College of Music (London) with a BMus in 2009. He attained his Masters in Chamber Music from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, during which time he also performed his Barbican debut in 2012. At 16 he was invited and awarded a scholarship to study with Prof. Pavel Vernikov at the "Scuola di Musica di Fiesole". Marko has been awarded first prize in several international competitions including "Performing Australian Music" (London, 2008), "Giovanni Batista Pergolesi" (Italy, 2003) and "Peter Konjovich" (Yougoslavia, 2001). With his ensemble, the 'Ristov Piano Quartet', Marko performed in festivals across the UK, France, Swizerland, Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia. Since his arrival in New Zealand in 2013 Marko is a regular player with the APO and ACO as well as section leader of "Bach Musica".
SCOTT WOTHERSPOON – DRUM LESSONS
Scott Wotherspoon is an Auckland based musician and tutor with a colourful musical history, taking up the drums and guitar at the age of 8 Scott has played in a wide range of genres including Stage, Concert, Orchestral, Latin, Reggae, Funk, Country Folk, Rock/Pop and Metal which has formed the basis of his solid and varied musical foundation. Scott currently plays in alternative rock band New Way Home who has developed a solid fan base through their tight live performances up and down the country and across Australia. Being handpicked by the likes of Meshuggah, Devin Townsend, Machine Head, Killswitch Engage and Slipknot to play in front of large stadium crowds is testament to their musicianship, the band is now signed with Warner Music.
ROBERT LORETZ – COMPOSITION CLASSES
A bit of humour, a dose of quirkiness and an element of performance: these are some of the ingredients that make Robert Loretz an inspirational teacher. Robert, who was head of the music at Massey High School in Auckland, was in 2012 crowned New Zealand's Most Inspiring Teacher. The University of Auckland alumnus, who has a Bachelor of Music (1992) majoring in performance piano and a Master of Music (1994), was chosen from 1100 teachers who were nominated by their students for the Warehouse Stationery award. He has a profound knowledge in many areas, in particular, music. he has a wicked sense of humour, which he uses to great effect and is highly creative resulting in high levels of student engagement and motivation. He is a superb musician in his own right as a pianist, composer as well as a chorister and commands huge respect from his students and colleagues.
"It is because what I want for my students is for them to have the same enjoyment and the same world of music open to them as I know exists."
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Is Black Lives Matter blowing it?
By John Blake, CNN
Updated 12:09 PM EDT, Tue August 2, 2016
Protester Ieshia Evans is detained by law enforcement officers near the police headquarters in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Saturday, July 9. Evans was among dozens of people protesting the death of Alton Sterling, who was fatally shot by police just a few days earlier. Click through the gallery to see memorable images from other protests throughout history.
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On March 12, 1930, Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi led a nonviolent protest against the British Empire. The march protested the British tax on salt, a necessity of everyday life. Gandhi called for Indians to illegally make salt or buy it illegally. More nonviolent protests against the tax were mounted in large cities across India, and Gandhi's methods eventually led to India's independence.
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Rosa Parks became an inspiration for the modern civil rights movement when she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955, after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a city bus. For 381 days, African-Americans boycotted public transportation to protest Parks' arrest and, in turn, segregation laws. The boycott led to a 1956 Supreme Court ruling desegregating public transportation in Montgomery. Soon after, Parks was photographed near the front of a bus in what became an enduring image of the civil rights movement.
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A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator, defying an anti-parade ordinance in Birmingham, Alabama, is attacked by a police dog on May 3, 1963.
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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.
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Jan Rose Kasmir stands in front of National Guard members outside the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam War march on October 21, 1967.
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Students in Paris hurl projectiles at the police on Boulevard Saint-Germain during the uprisings of May 6, 1968.
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Black Panther members protest in Chicago in 1968.
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A pacifist demonstrates in Santa Monica, California, on June 15, 1968.
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Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, raise their fists in the Black Power salute on October 16, 1968, in Mexico City.
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John Lennon and Yoko Ono give a press conference during their "bed-in" for peace at an Amsterdam hotel in March 1969.
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Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of student Jeffrey Miller during an anti-war demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970.
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Young Chinese demonstrators protest official corruption and urge democracy in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
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A man in Tiananmen Square stands in front of a column of T-59 tanks on June 4, 1989.
Police Lt. John Pike at the University of California, Davis, uses pepper spray to break up Occupy UC Davis protesters on the school's quad on November 18, 2011. This image sparked controversy amid the Occupy protests and fueled the flames for protesters. A judge ruled that the university must pay Pike $38,000 in workers' compensation for the depression and anxiety he suffered as a result of the backlash from the incident.
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Egyptian army soldiers arrest a female protester during clashes at Tahrir Square in Cairo on December 17, 2011. On January 25, people took to the streets in demonstrations against corruption and failing economic policies. From the beginning, the revolution in Egypt was propelled by the use of social media. The events in Egypt served as a flash point for journalists on the ground, too. For perhaps one of the first times, history itself has been recorded instantaneously, as reporters took to Twitter to share 140-character updates and personal stories from the protests.
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A riot police officer uses tear gas as people protest the destruction of a park for a pedestrian project in Istanbul's Taksim Square on May 28, 2013. The woman in red became the face of the protests.
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Protesters in Kiev, Ukraine, catch fire as they stand behind burning barricades during clashes with police on February 20, 2014. Kiev's Independence Square had been the center of anti-government protests since November 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych reversed a decision on a trade deal with the European Union and instead turned toward Russia.
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Riot police use pepper spray as they clash with pro-democracy protesters outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on September 28, 2014. Demonstrations began in response to China's decision to allow only Beijing-vetted candidates to stand in the city's 2017 election for chief executive. Protesters say Beijing has gone back on its pledge to allow universal suffrage in Hong Kong, which was promised "a high degree of autonomy" when it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. The umbrella has become the defining image of the protest movement, used to shield protesters from tear gas and the elements.
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A protester in Ferguson, Missouri, stands in front of police vehicles with his hands up on November 24, 2014. A grand jury's decision not to indict police Officer Darren Wilson in the killing of Michael Brown prompted waves of protests in Ferguson and across the country. The "hands up, don't shoot" gesture became a rallying cry and protest symbol.
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A man attempts to calm a fellow demonstrator as they face police in Baltimore in April 2015. Riots broke out after the funeral for Freddie Gray, who died of a severe spinal cord injury while in police custody. His death sparked protests in Baltimore and raised long-simmering tensions between police and residents.
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Tess Apslund, 42, stands with a raised fist in front of uniformed neo-Nazis during a Nordic Resistance Movement demonstration in Borlange, Sweden, on Sunday, May 1.
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Protests past and present
Here's a question for both supporters and critics of the Black Lives Matter movement:
What does Black Lives Matter want?
Not sure? How about this. Can you cite a moment in which a BLM leader passionately and eloquently denounced the recent shooting deaths of eight police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge? Can you name one or two leaders from the movement?
Chances are the answers to those questions fall all over the place. Four years after its founding, BLM is still a movement without a clear meaning for many Americans. Some see it has a hate group; others as cutting-edge activism and yet others as just a step above a mob.
"Most of the folks in the movement are young and we're black so they assume we're uneducated and uninformed and we're just angry and in the streets," says Johnetta Elzie, a leader in the BLM movement and Campaign Zero, another organization formed to fight police brutality.
Those assumptions may now get worse as BLM leaders confront a make-or-break moment that virtually all protest movements eventually face: What happens when your enemies and unexpected events do a better job of defining your movement than you do?
BLM leaders are under a new kind of scrutiny because of a whiplash of unexpected events: cell phone videos of two black men who died from police gunfire followed by the ambush and killings of five police officers in Dallas at a Black Lives Matter protest, and three police officers targeted and killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
As a result, activists and scholars say BLM is facing the same challenge that confronted striking steelworkers in the 19th century, gay activists blindsided by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, and Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in 2011. These movements initially captured the public's imagination, then their existence was threatened by something over which they had no control.
Some of these movements adjusted; others withered.
"The action is on page one; the retraction is on page 88," says Jerald E. Podair, a historian and author of "Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer." "If you cannot adapt you're simply not going to survive."
Can BLM adapt? The same organizing philosophy that has helped the movement grow may lead to its demise, some activists and historians say. They cite these four reasons:
Reason No. 1: The buck stops where?
BLM organizers made a bold decision when they organized as a hashtag on Twitter four years ago. It was going to be a "leaderful" organization; not one led by a single leader or a centralized leadership structure.
"We've always made it clear that we are one of many," Elzie says. "There's not one person who can be a leader of the movement. We're all leaders."
There's a shrewd pragmatism to that decision. Movements built around charismatic leaders evaporate when that leader is assassinated or discredited. The civil rights movement never recovered from the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Few today can name the organization that Malcolm X headed when he was assassinated by Nation of Islam members (It was called the Organization of Afro-American Unity).
The gay rights movement was almost halted by the AIDS epidemic but it adjusted with a bold and confrontational strategy. A member of the AIDS activist group ACT-UP yells during a protest at the Republican National Convention in 1992.
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The movement's decentralized form of leadership, though, can hurt it when responding to a crisis. Who does the media go to when protesters invoking BLM burn a police car or chant "Pigs in the blanket?" Who speaks for what BLM wants when it has 37 chapters nationwide that list varying goals in their mission statements?
"When something tragic happens, we're all blamed because there's no central leadership," Elzie says. "We all take a hit."
The recent police shootings led critics to call BLM a hate group. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, actually felt the need to release a report last week explaining why BLM is not a hate group.
BLM leaders took a step this week in defining their movement when they released a "Black Lives Matter Policy Agenda." The agenda is the result of a collaboration among at least 50 groups, BLM leaders say.
The list of demands is sprawling, but the proposed policies include six central demands: "end the war on black people," reparations, investing in the education and health of black people, economic justice, community control and political power.
Read BLM policy agenda
Even if people eventually agree on what BLM wants, people still don't know what it is.
In fact, there are at least two versions of BLM. There's the BLM network founded four years ago by three black female activists angry over the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer while walking home. They created the #blacklivesmatter hashtag. Then there's the BLM movement, a more amorphous collection of racial justice groups like Campaign Zero.
Elzie, for example, doesn't call herself a BLM network leader. Her group is Campaign Zero, but she does consider herself a member of the BLM movement.
Yet there are advantages to decentralized leadership as well. Consider what BLM has accomplished in four years.
It has illuminated complex issues like mass incarceration and racial bias in policing for millions of white Americans. BLM activists helped vote out the state's attorney for Cook County, Illinois, this year after it was revealed she waited over a year to file charges against a Chicago police officer who shot to death a black teen.
Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, has already adopted some of BLM's rhetoric, by talking about systemic racism and saying at one rally, "Yes, black lives matter."
And President Obama has publicly supported the group at a recent town hall hosted by ABC.
"The phrase 'Black Lives Matter' simply refers to the notion that there's a specific vulnerability for African-Americans that needs to be addressed," Obama said at the town hall. "It's not meant to suggest that other lives don't matter; it's to suggest that other folks aren't experiencing this particular vulnerability."
According to a Pew Research Center poll released last month – taken before the Dallas shootings – roughly 4 in 10 Americans support BLM. Still, a large number, 30%, said they have not heard anything or had no opinion about BLM. And about 40% of whites who have heard of BLM say they don't understand its goals.
Great leaders eventually emerge in most protest movements, says Timothy Patrick McCarthy, an activist and Harvard history professor who studies protest movements.
"Martin Luther King wasn't Martin when the movement began," says McCarthy, author of "Protest Nation: Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism." "We have yet to see perhaps a leader like King or Malcolm X or Ella Baker emerge. Maybe we have and we don't just know it yet."
Reason No. 2: They're not trying to speak White America's language
Here's something else that's striking about BLM: The movement is filled with passionate and eloquent speakers, but can anyone name a great speech or even a memorable soundbite by a BLM leader?
One speech and one image come to mind. The electrifying speech by actor and activist Jesse Williams defending BLM at the recent BET awards.
Actor Jesse Williams' BET Awards speech championing Black Lives Matter went viral but few other BLM speeches have captured the public's attention.
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And the viral photo of Ieisha Evans, BLM marcher, facing off against a phalanx of riot police. She is armed with nothing but a look of serene resolve.
But there's little sense yet that BLM has consistently come up with the type of reassuring language that has traditionally moved skeptical white Americans. It is a language King spoke to goad them into action, one historian says.
King grounded his appeals for justice in the language of the Bible and the nation's founding documents. In his "I Have a Dream" speech, King told his audience that his dream was "deeply rooted in the American dream." In others he urged Americans to "be true to what you said on paper," referring to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
"That's what made Martin Luther King Martin Luther King," says Podair, history professor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. "If you can do that in an eloquent way you can reach across to some white Americans and they will be moved. Then you're speaking their language."
BLM leaders, however, have made another tactical decision: They're not going to try to adjust their message to reach white America.
"Black people for too long have been forced to refine our message according to what is comfortable for the mainstream," says Brittany Packnett, one of the BLM movement leaders. "We have made a distinctive choice not to do it."
That decision, to not couch their message to get white buy-in, can be seen in the BET speech by Jesse Williams, who said "the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander."
"If you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down," Williams said.
Packnett says a movement can't call for black freedom if its leaders don't embody it:
"Our goal is to be free and authentic, not to pacify others."
Even if BLM adapted its language, it would still be difficult to reach beyond its core supporters, says McCarthy, the Harvard historian. When King spoke of his dream, most Americans got their news from three television networks and newspapers. Today, more people live in media cocoons where they listen only to political voices they agree with, he says.
The action is on page one; the retraction is on page 88. If you cannot adapt you're simply not going to survive.
Jerald Podair, historian, on the challenge of protest movement rocked by unexpected events
"You're not going to get that 18 to 20 minute powerful speech on the Mall where you have MLK talking his dream," he says. "We have so many more voices communicating in these spaces. Everybody tweets, Snapchats and posts on Facebook. Everybody has a platform."
Reason No. 3: They're not trying to mobilize the black church
Black protest movements have traditionally sought support from the black church. It is the most potent organizing force for political change in the black community. The most famous slave rebellion was led by a black preacher, Nat Turner. The black church powered the civil rights movement led by King. Today, contemporary black churches do everything from voting registration drives to educating people about Obamacare.
The BLM, though, is betting that a black protest movement can succeed without the explicit support of the black church. While BLM leaders work with individual black churches and pastors, they say on their website that "this current movement has a very different relationship to the church than movements past."
"Protesters patently reject any conservative theology about keeping the peace, praying copiously, or turning the other cheek," an unnamed essayist says on the BLM website. "Such calls are viewed as a return to passive respectability politics."
The BLM is wary of the black church for several reasons. One is the makeup of its leadership. Some of BLM's best-known leaders are women or gay, groups that have traditionally been marginalized by the black church.
And then there is the autocratic leadership style of many black pastors. Elzie says BLM has reached out to well-known black pastors who won't join because they want to be in charge.
Black people for too long have been forced to refine our message according to what is comfortable for the mainstream. We have made a distinctive choice not to do that.
Brittany Packnett, Black Lives Matter movement leader
"If you want to be involved and be in the streets in the protests, that means knowing that you're in the middle of the crowds and you're not the leader," she says. "It's hard for some to be at the table if they're not the one leading the conversations."
"Traditional" civil rights leaders have also given BLM a mixed reception. The Rev. Andy Young, a close aide to King, recently called BLM protesters "unlovable little brats" but later apologized. The Rev. Al Sharpton criticized BLM protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, for not voting to change their city government. But the NAACP has adopted some of BLM's rhetoric and even helped local BLM leaders organize. And Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said that BLM was "adding support and momentum" to the contemporary civil rights struggle.
A black protest movement, though, doesn't need the widespread support of the black church to be successful, one historian says. King proved that.
Large segments of the traditional black church rejected King, says Clarence Lang, author of "Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties: Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics." King was part of a "militant minority" in the black church because many of its leaders thought he was too radical, Lang says.
At a BLM rally it doesn't matter if you're straight, gay, well-dressed, white, transgender, young – all are welcome.
"One of the most promising aspects of Black Lives Matter is that it has been able to create a political space that allows African-Americans to participate openly from so many different identities and walks of life, including those outside the boundaries of what might be considered 'respectable,' " says Lang, a professor of African and African-American studies at the University of Kansas.
Reason No. 4: Movements that don't bend are broken
"No battle plan survives contact with the enemy."
Anarchist Alexander Berkman attempts to assassinate steel factory owner Henry Frick during the Homestead strike in 1892. The strike was going well for workers until a lone gunman derailed their movement.
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That's a military adage that underscores the unpredictability of warfare. Great battles are often won not by genius strategizing but by chance events: a freak storm destroys a fleet of warships; an absentminded soldier loses crucial battle plans; a general falls ill on the eve of a campaign.
Protest movements often face the same abrupt reversals of fate, says Podair, the historian. He cites an infamous defeat from the union movement, the Homestead steelworkers strike.
The steelworkers union initially looked like it had won a bloody battle against a ruthless figure of the Robber Baron era, steel titan Andrew Carnegie. On July 6, 1892, thousands of unionized steelworkers successfully beat back 300 armed detectives who had been dispatched to the Homestead steel mill by Carnegie to crush the strike. They were protesting working 12-hour days, and six to seven day work weeks, and their plight earned sympathetic newspaper coverage across the nation.
That sympathy evaporated about three weeks later because of the actions of one gunman. An anarchist tried to assassinate Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's plant manager at Homestead and his designated union buster. Frick's reaction – he and others subdued his would-be assassin after being shot twice and stabbed four times – made him a hero to the American public. The public then connected a mounting anxiety over anarchists to the striking steelworkers.
"The union disavowed the anarchist but it was too late," says Podair. "The strike fails and the steelworkers don't get a union going for another 30 years."
History turns on a hinge; movements that don't learn to adjust often fizzle, Podair says. He cites the example of Occupy Wall Street. It attracted support but didn't have a Plan B after occupying Zuccotti Park near Wall Street.
"They did not adapt," Podair says. "They were so protest- and spectacle-oriented that they never made the transition into electoral politics, which is where the power is in a democracy."
McCarthy, the Harvard historian, doesn't think Occupy Wall Street should be called a failure. Nor should it be judged by its power to get candidates elected.
"We wouldn't have had a Bernie Sanders campaign if it wasn't for the Occupy movement," he says. "We wouldn't have the language of the 1% or Democratic presidential candidates calling for more regulations of the banks."
McCarthy says a better illustration of a movement's need to adapt is the gay rights movement. It was devastated by the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. That's when the gay community realized that it had to develop more confrontational and theatrical forms of protest because the nation's political and medical community were ignoring the crisis, he says. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a new coalition of direct action groups, used high-profile demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience to further their agenda.
"The movement could have been derailed and died but they rose up, spoke up and acted up," McCarthy says. "And that movement is still with us today."
Will BLM still exist in the years ahead?
At least publicly, BLM leaders don't speak of changing their approach.
Packnett says BLM has repeatedly said that it's not violent or anti-police.
"We've all said that," she says after a big sigh. "People hear what they want to hear. It doesn't fit with the narrative that critics want to have."
The future may produce more unexpected narratives for the movement. What if another black shooter attacks police and invokes BLM? What if new cell phone footage shows police officers, not unarmed black people, being gunned down? What if the names of Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland and slogans like "I Can't Breathe" fade from public memory?
Will a "leaderful" movement that refuses to speak white America's language adapt? Or will it squander the momentum built the last four years?
If the latter is the case, BLM leaders may confront this question in the future:
"Hey, whatever happened to Black Lives Matter?"


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Vil\u00e9m Flusser was one of the most fascinating and original European thinkers of the late twentieth century. In this collection of his essays on emigration, nationalism, and information theory, he raises questions about the viability of ideas of national identity in a world whose borders are becoming increasingly arbitrary and permeable. Flusser argues that modern societies are in flux, with traditional linear and textual epistemologies being challenged by global circulatory networks and a growth in visual stimulation. Beyond globalization, Flusser's ideas about communication and identity are rooted in the Judeo-Christian concept of self-determination and self-realization through recognition of the other.


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package org.knowm.xchange.derivative;

import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.knowm.xchange.utils.ObjectMapperHelper;

public class OptionsContractTest {

  @Test
  public void testSerializeDeserialize() throws IOException {
    OptionsContract contractCall = new OptionsContract("ETH/USD/210719/34000/C");
    OptionsContract jsonCopy2 = ObjectMapperHelper.viaJSON(contractCall);
    assertThat(jsonCopy2).isEqualTo(contractCall);

    OptionsContract contractPut = new OptionsContract("BTC/USDT/210709/34000/P");
    OptionsContract jsonCopy = ObjectMapperHelper.viaJSON(contractPut);
    assertThat(jsonCopy).isEqualTo(contractPut);
  }
}

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Nanjing Automobile wants to revive the Rover name and is in talks with BMW to buy the rights to use the famous marque on its Birmingham-built models.
The Chinese company is one of several firms which has approached BMW to buy the right to call its cars Rover.
The name was licensed by BMW to MG Rover's parent company Phoenix Venture Holdings when the German firm pulled out in 2000.
But the licence agreement lapsed last year with the collapse of MG Rover, while Nanjing only acquired the right to use the MG name as part of the #53 million deal to buy the assets of the Longbridge carmaker.
Lin Xiaohu, preparing director at Nanjing, said senior executives from his company in China were talking to BMW about buying the Rover name.
He firmly dismissed reports that Nanjing was looking to sell the MG name or that it was looking to shift its manufacturing operations from Birmingham to Coventry.
He said: "It is impossible we would want to sell the MG name, absolutely impossible.
"We never want to sell any brands from MG Rover; in fact we want to own more. That's why we are talking to BMW about buying the Rover brand from BMW.
"The Rover name is very important; it is very famous in China and we want to develop in China and other markets."
Mr Lin said Nanjing remained committed to manufacturing at Longbridge, with the first cars - updated versions of the MG TF sports car due to come off the production line next year.
He said the rumours about moving to Coventry could have followed a visit by Nanjing executives to the city.
"We have been to a company called Stadco in Coventry, which produced the body-in-white shells for MG TF.
"We are are in discussions with them to move it from Coventry to Longbridge, which is our headquarters in the UK.
"A extra six month lease has been agreed with St Modwen for part of Longbridge and we are talking to them about a more long term arrangement.
"We are hopeful of getting a 35-year deal to make MG Rover cars at Longbridge - first MG TF and then ZT."
Mr Lin added that a delegation from seven Chinese banks had visited Birmingham last week to see the site.
These included representatives from Bank of China, China Commercial Bank and others, who Nanjing hopes will back its plans with an estimated #100Emillion to restart production in Birmingham.
Mr Lin would not be drawn on how much capital investment Nanjing was seeking, but said the company was expecting an answer "very soon."
He added that he did not understand why Project Kimber, the consortium led by troubleshooter David James, was saying it was now in talks to build sports cars under the MG name.
He said: "I do not know why Kimber would say this. There are no talks with Kimber."
Instead Mr Lin said that Nanjing was looking to exhibit its first car at the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon in Warwickshire.
He said: "We are restarting production of this car, and we want the first car we produce to go on show at the Gaydon.
"This car will be part of the new history of MG Rover."
A spokeswoman for BMW said: "We have been approached by several parties with regard to the possible purchase of the Rover trademark.
"We are not at liberty to disclose who we are talking to at the moment because we are bound by commercial confidentiality."


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Covid-19: US health agency shortens quarantine guidance
Published at 09:12 am December 3rd, 2020
File photo: A passenger walks past a coronavirus testing sign at Tom Bradley international terminal at LAX airport, as the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, US, November 23, 2020 Reuters
Studies show that people usually start showing symptoms of the disease within five days of exposure
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said a shorter quarantine period of seven days with a negative Covid-19 test and 10 days without a test would work for individuals showing no symptoms after virus exposure, providing alternatives to the current 14-day standard.
The CDC said it still recommends a 14-day quarantine period for those exposed to Covid-19 as the best way to reduce its spread, calling the shorter options alternatives it hopes will increase compliance.
"Reducing the length of quarantine may make it easier for people to follow critical public health action by reducing the economic hardship associated with a longer period, especially if they cannot work during that time," CDC official Henry Walke told reporters on a conference call.
People must still watch for symptoms for 14 days, Walke said.
Last week, a top US health official said people might be more likely to comply with a shorter quarantine period, even if it meant some infections might be missed.
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"I think it's the right move based on epidemiological data and the difficulty people have in adhering to 14 days," said Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The World Health Organization has recommended a 14-day period for quarantine.
Studies show that people usually start showing symptoms of the disease within five days of exposure, but the CDC had earlier said between 40% and 50% of people with Covid-19 are asymptomatic.
The CDC updated its definition of what constitutes close contact in October to include direct physical contact, sharing food utensils, or exposure of 15 minutes spent six feet (1.83 m)or closer to an infected person.
The two shorter quarantine period are based on analysis of new research and data, CDC said.
"Agencies like ours have to have the courage to change when we have data that says we need to change," CDC director Robert Redfield told the US Chamber of Commerce.
"Obviously, 14 days of quarantine has an impact on productivity; 14 days of quarantine also has an impact on whether people quarantined," he said.


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Q: How do I generate a SQL script(s) [file separated] from my diagram in MySQL Workbench? When investigation
I found following answer
How do I generate a SQL script from my diagram in MySQL Workbench?
BUT its generate ALL database tables code into ONLY ONE single SQL script
Any Help to generate the database tables code into Multi Separated SQL script(s)

A: There is no direct way to exclude or include a specific database in the output script, however you can use a workaround. On the SQL Object Export Filter page you can determine which objects to export. Since it supports multiselection and is sorted alphabetically (so all objects from one schema stay together) you can quickly collect object lists for each schema.

A: Open (Data Export) by selecting following menu item
Server -> Data Export
Then

*

*Choose your DB schema and its tables which need to be exported

*Choose Dump Structure Only

*Choose Export option Export to Dump project folder

*Finally after customize your export .. click start export

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'use strict';
const name = getName(__filename),
  tpl = hbs.compile('{{ truncate str len }}'),
  tplSuffix = hbs.compile('{{ truncate str len suffix=" TBC" }}');

describe(name, function () {
  it('returns emptystring if undefined', function () {
    expect(tpl()).to.equal('');
    expect(tpl({})).to.equal('');
  });

  it('does not change strings shorter than given length', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: 'foo', len: 5})).to.equal('foo');
  });

  it('does not change strings equal to given length', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: 'fooba', len: 5})).to.equal('fooba');
  });

  it('shortens strings longer than given length', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: 'foo bar bar', len: 5})).to.equal('foo b…');
  });

  it('trims whitespace when entire string is shorter than given length', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: ' fo ', len: 5})).to.equal('fo');
  });

  it('trims whitespace when non-whitespace string is shorter than given length', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: '  foo  ', len: 5})).to.equal('foo');
  });

  it('trims whitespace where non-whitespace string is longer than given length', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: ' foo bar bar ', len: 5})).to.equal('foo b…');
  });

  it('trims whitespace after truncating', function () {
    expect(tpl({str: 'foo bar bar', len: 4})).to.equal('foo…');
  });

  it('accepts a suffix to append', function () {
    expect(tplSuffix({str: 'foo bar bar', len: 5})).to.equal('foo b TBC');
  });
});


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In some way, dis does make sense. Because I think Hades was dat big compared 2 Hercs in the movie.
Ok fine, ur right. Had 2 look at a vid & yeah, fair point.
I don't think Hades height stays the same throughout the entire film. Which is probably dependant on his anger. I can imagine multiple points in Hercules when he seemed reasonably tall when he was in his suave, car-salesman mood. Then, when he completely loses his crap, he seems to tower over everybody. So I don't think the height difference is too bad.
Excellent observation, I noticed the same.
Thhe moment when Hercules turns his back, Hades is so mad he charges over their and has to stoop to stay at Hercules Eye sight lvl.
I guess this problem becomes common among characters… Jack S. should be a bit taller than Sally IMO.
Yeah? Sorry, thought it is about Herc being tiny.
And what about the truth, I checked the screenshot with a ruler, Jack and Sally have the same height.
The hero's actual height in the movie does not apply to this game. They are all equal except for babies like Jack-Jack and short heroes like Mike Wazowski. If Perblue applied their actual heights, then Toy Story characters should be like the size of Ralph's thumb.
You're right about those ones, but their sizes were needed to be changed for a fight. And Herc…He doesn't need those changes IMO.
And that is actually my point. We care for the hero's size but not too much. Maybe Hercules needs more muscles? Hahaha! Kidding.
Well,to top it off,I noticed that my Barbossa is a little taller than Ralph.
Were you reading about the body of a super chicken?
Okay okay enough about the height thing can't anyone say anything about how weird it is for Hades to be on higher ground than the rest?
Well . . . He's a god. He's meant to be this almighty, all-powerful patron of death and fire. So he may just have minor levitation abilities to help him float.
I Hades am a god herc is a demihuman , barbossa is from a proportional correct i.e. live action movie and Ralph from a video game and skellington and Sally are put forward and backward positioned!
Wondering if I should flag that as off-topic . . .


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Q: Binary Search Tree- deleting a node causes other methods errors c++ I have a problem with deleting node from BST. I wrote a method that searches a node, that works fine, and when I'm trying to delete a leaf (an only case that I wrote so far) it causes an error (0xDDDD...) in printing methods. I assume that is because printing methods encounter some kind of null, but I have no idea how to fix that. Here is the code...
Deleting node by value method:
void deleteNodeByValue(T val)
{
    cout << "\nElement to delete: " << val << " \n";
    Node<T>* tmp = root;
    while (tmp != NULL)
    {
        if (val == tmp->data)
        {
            cout << "Element found: " << tmp->data << " \n";

            if (tmp->right_child == NULL && tmp->left_child == NULL)
            {
                delete tmp;
                tmp = NULL;
                size--;
            }

            break;
        }
        else if (val > tmp->data)
        {
            tmp = tmp->right_child;
        }
        else if (val < root->data)
        {
            tmp = tmp->left_child;
        }
    }
}

and tree print:
string to_string()
{
    stringstream ss;
    Node<T>* tmp = root;
    queue<Node<T>*> q;

    while (!q.empty() || tmp != NULL)
    {
        if (tmp != NULL)
        {
            q.push(tmp);
            tmp = tmp->left_child; //debugger shows error in this place
        }
        else
        {
            tmp = q.front();
            q.pop();
            ss << "Data: " << tmp->data;
            if (tmp->left_child != NULL)
            {
                ss << " Left child: " << tmp->left_child->data;
            }
            if (tmp->right_child != NULL)
            {
                ss << " Right child: " << tmp->right_child->data;
            }
            ss << " \n";
            tmp = tmp->right_child;
        }
    }
    return ss.str();

It also causes error in other methods like getting tree height or getting trees in order, whatever.
What should I do?

A: Simple, you delete the node, but the parent of that node still points to it. So you are trying to print a deleted node.
You have to remember who was the parent of the node you delete and to update it to no longer point to it.
Many ways to do it, I personally would make tmp a double pointer if I was you but since your name is newbie here is a little easier to read solution:
cout << "\nElement to delete: " << val << " \n";
Node<T>* tmp = root;
Node<T>* parent = NULL;
while (tmp != NULL)
{
    if (val == tmp->data)
    {
        cout << "Element found: " << tmp->data << " \n";

        if (tmp->right_child == NULL && tmp->left_child == NULL)
        {
            if (parent == NULL) root = NULL;
            else {
                if (parent->right_child == tmp) {
                    parent->right_child = NULL;
                } else {
                    parent->left_child = NULL;
                }
            }
            delete tmp;
            size--;
        }

        break;
    }
    else if (val > tmp->data)
    {
        parent = tmp;
        tmp = tmp->right_child;
    }
    else if (val < root->data)
    {
        parent = tmp;
        tmp = tmp->left_child;
    }
}

Of course you have to add the handling for the case when node is not a leaf too, but it looks like you understand this.


We've been busy little elves this month delivering a fantastic Christmas campaign for our client Transport for Greater Manchester. We mixed a lot of JAM creativity and a little inspiration from the region we call home to capture the personality of Noel, TfGM's Mancunian elf.
After a couple of brainstorms and a lot of festive puns, we came up with a bespoke PR, social, digital and creative campaign showcasing all of the amazing things people can do all around Greater Manchester through the interactive map brought to life by our fantastic team.
The six themed routes give users the chance to follow Noel around Greater Manchester and explore the region's alternative Christmas offerings, such as 'Frosty the show-man' and 'An independent foodie Christmas'.
The map features illustrations and gifs developed by our fantastic Jammers and highlights TfGM's Metrolink and Metroshuttle transport options to get people to the various places.
To increase exposure for the map, we developed a series of quirky animations and gifs to be used across social media, a bespoke Snapchat filter, as well as a bank of social media content.
But we didn't just leave it there. We wanted to make sure every Mancunian knew about Noel, so we sent him all over the place with Key 103 and set up lots of giveaways with bars, restaurants and other hotspots around the region.
We hope you enjoyed everything our campaign had to offer as much as we enjoyed putting it together. And if you need a bit of last minute Christmas inspiration – have a nosey at the map, you might even spot a little piece of us in there! You can also check out #TfGMNoel on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see how people are getting involved.


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To say the Mass Effect series was good is a drastic understatement in my opinion. The series as a whole is in fact one of the best I've ever played. However, when the folks at BioWare decided they were tired of making Mass Effect games, they took it out on us fans.
To set the stage for my utter disappointment, I must tell you that I played all the Mass Effect games, and played ME3 right after release. That was before the extended endings were released, although they had little to no effect in "fixing" anything.
First, I go through the hybrid ending (green), figuring it would be an optimal ending. After seeing it, it twinged as slightly evil because you were forcing a fundamental change on the entire universe that no one asked for. Then I do the "good" (blue) ending thinking it would be... well... good. However, the "good" ending realized the goal of a power-hungry villain and leads your character to not only sacrifice himself, but also his moral center. Also, the cut scenes were the EXACT SAME with minor animation differences and a different color explosion. So I thought, "oh the colors must just be reversed or something". So then I did the red ending, thinking it would be the good ending. It also had the EXACT SAME cut scenes with minor animation differences and a different color explosion. The red ending was also bad and a temporary solution, but it seemed the only ending to fit with themes from the previous titles in the series. If you have enough war assets, it's also the only ending with even a hint of the main character surviving. There's also a fail condition that you could call an ending that simply kills every one and resets technology back to zero. And none of the endings made any sense in context with the rest of the series. They were explained away in the extended endings, but still didn't really seem to fit the way the previous games ended. The fact remained that in ME3, BioWare had decided to take a different direction with the series (i.e. push it off a cliff).
So basically, the series ends on the main character only having selfish choices which also force him to die for completely arbitrary reasons (because that's the way the star kid designed it, and the main character suddenly lacks the capability to come up with independent solutions). And since BioWare seemingly intended to converge all the endings around you being a jerk and dying, they only bothered to make 1 ending cut scene, with minor animation tweaks and color changes between them. The extended ending didn't change that, it just added more filler.
All this leads me to believe the Mass Effect team was tired of making Mass Effect games and sabotaged the ending. This way, they theoretically have less fans begging for them to make a sequel (the main character died and ended up being a tool anyway). However, this hit me as a betrayal by the characters and universe I had come to love. The "mass effect" for me has been to no longer be a fan of BioWare. Their games have some of the greatest story, which makes the series-ending betrayal all the more bitter.


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Q: Tomcat Server Error I am getting following error while starting my application:
SEVERE: Exception starting filter CSRF
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)

Tried to find jar for org.apache.catalina.filters.CsrfPreventionFilter on findjar.com but could not find anything.

A: You should check your tomcat installation, since this is a tomcat class.
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/filter.html#CSRF_Prevention_Filter