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Square Enix announces new idol game: Makoto Furukawa, Taku Yashiro, Yuto Suzuki, Tsubasa Yonaga and more join the cast
IDOL FANTASY is Square Enix's new project. The game features four idol units with a cast filled with experienced seiyuu/singers. Get to know more on the lineups and a little bit about the game's story through this article.
IDOL FANTASY mixes Idols and Adventure, real and fantasy world in the same place. According to Square Enix, each character, while aiming to be the number one idol is, at the same time, the typical RPG hero with powers and wielding swords. The player takes the role of a manager for a unique talent agency. The game, slated for release this Summer, is already gathering a lot of interest.
This game is going to feature four main units:
BRAVE HEARTS consist on Makoto Furukawa, Kentaro Kumagai, Toshiki Masuda, Arthur Lounsbery and Ayumu Murase. They don a J-pop sound.
E-lements consist on Taku Yashiro, Yuto Uemura, Yusuke Shirai and Junta Terashima. The group performs Dance-Pop / EDM pop music.
JINGI consist on Jun Osuka, Yuto Suzuki and Genki Okawa. They perform Pop with Japanese/traditional elements.
Sweets! Mon-Star! consist on Tsubasa Yonaga, Natsuki Hanae and Kazutomi Yamamoto. The group performs Electro-Pop/Techno-Pop.
All units are signed under ALEX Entertainment, fictional entertainment agency.
According to Square Enix, there will be rival units (currently unknown). More details on that will surface in the upcoming months.
Two short promotional videos featuring the song "REAL×FANTASY -Game Size ver.-" performed by ALEX Knights, emsemble that features all four units under ALEX Entertainment, is already up on Square Enix's official youtube channel.
More details on this project are going to be unveiled in the upcoming months. Be on the look out for more updates from us.
SOURCE: Idol Fantasy official website / Idol Fantasy official twitter account
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Good prices and specs but I recommend have more equipments.
First time I've been to a gym in 10+ and will definitely be back!
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It's a really good gym. It has a good selection of cardio equipment and helpful staff.
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January Wrap-Up: Race, Nation and the Black Atlantic
After finishing Ray Bradbury in early January (which was an interesting disconnect between the world of the book and the world outside) I accidently created a course syllabus for myself on race, nation and the contemporary impact of what Paul Gilroy calls the Black Atlantic. I basically found myself in a 2021 continuation of a seminar I took about 12 years ago in Freiburg. I already wrote about Claudia Rankine's Just Us here.
The Fateful Triangle is based on three Harvard lectures Stuart Hall gave in 1994 but which were only published posthumously. Unfortunately. These lectures are concise examples of Hall's work as a cultural think and include thoughts on race and ethnicity as "sliding signifiers", their impact on the construction of nations and the (African) diaspora. The lectures, almost 30 years old, at times read so contemporary that they could be mistaken for reactions to the 2010s. Oh, how I wish Hall was still around to bring his discursive analysis to the problems of 2021. The Trumpist problems aren't new, it's just the veneer that has covered white supremacy has been chipped away. This passage, for instance, made me think of the "America is better than this" rhetoric after the storm on the capitol or the "battle for the soul of the nation" in 2020:
"But, in fact, nations do not just emerge; they are formed. And national identites, more over, are not attributes we are born with, but are formed and transformed within discourses and other systems of representations. (…) Such discursive operations in the making of national cultural identities are always, of course, closely articulated to power and to the way power functions in society. We should think of the nation not only as a political entity but also as something that produces meaning and constructs identification."
I'm about four years too late to the party: Wow, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a stunning book.It's the most compact historical novel I've read. Every chapter is a different character, a different generation alternating between two family lines that diverged when on half-sister was captured and sold into slavery in America, and the other half-sister, in a way captured by lineage and power, is married to a white British slave trader, remaining on the 'Gold Coast' of modern-day Ghana.
It is also a compelling fictional expression of all the intracticies of the Black Atlantic: The intergenerational trauma caused by slavery, the slave trade, colonialism; racism in the US and what Rankine (and Homi Bhabha) call the trauma of the present. But not just trauma, but Black life in all its complexities. I read a few reviews who also called the book "healing", which I didn't quite get- but that might be because I'm a white European male. (In which case: Good.) The novel is an ambitious, ultimately successful, project as Marcus, the final character of the book, says:
"It was one thing to research something, another thing entirely to have lived it. To have felt it. How could he explain to Marjorie that what he wanted to capture with his project was the feeling of time, of having been a part of something that stretched so far back, was so impossibly large, that it was easy to forget that she, and he, and everyone else, existed in it not apart from it, but inside of it."
Three tremendous books!
I'm planning to expand my homemade course with the books I'm planning to read in February (not entirely accidental as it's Black History Month):
Farbe bekennen. Afro-deutsche Frauen auf den Spuren ihrer Geschichte, edited by Katharina Oguntoye, May Ayim, Dagmar Schultz
1919: Poems by Eve Ewing
and a February release that I'm really looking forward to: Adas Raum by Sharon Dodua Otoos
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The Man Who Spits on Patriots' Graves
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by Patrick J. Buchanan – January 8, 1999
Anyone raised in Catholic schools at mid-century often heard the term "invincible ignorance." Nuns used it to describe those benighted souls who lacked mental competence to grasp the truth. Whenever I read a column by Ed Koch, the old phrase comes to mind.
Koch recently cited as conclusive proof of my malevolence that I defend the America First Committee — an organization, says Ed, "that supported Hitler and the Nazis in 1941."
Where to begin? Is the man a total ignoramus? Does Ed Koch know nothing of the origins of America First? Its incubator was that hotbed of Hitlerism, Yale Law School. Its recruiting letter was signed by four students: Bob Stuart, Eugene Locke, Potter Stewart and Gerald R. Ford. The first two would become U.S. ambassadors; Stewart, a Supreme Court justice; and Ford, a president.
Among its earliest recruits were a future president of Yale, Kingman Brewster, future Sen. Peter Dominick, and Sargent Shriver, future ambassador and brother-in-law to JFK, who sent $100 to America First with a note: "What you are doing is vital."
In its statement of principles, the AFC declared that it stood for "an impregnable defense" and believed "American Democracy can best be preserved only by keeping out of the European War." It was open to all except "Nazists, Fascists, Communists or members of other groups that place the interests of any other nation above those of our own country." Its patriotism was unpartitioned and undiluted.
After studying America First for years, historian Wayne Cole concluded the AFC "was a patriotic and honorable exercise of democracy in action. … The Committee's leaders … barred Nazis, Fascists and anti-Semites from leadership, and tried to enforce those bans."
Supporters rallied from across America — Murray Kempton, Gore Vidal, Sinclair Lewis, World War I ace Eddie Rickenbacker, New Republic muckraker John T. Flynn and Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of Nation. Socialist candidate Norman Thomas spoke from its platforms; Sen. Robert A. Taft applauded it.
America First was chaired by Gen. Robert Wood, head of Sears Roebuck. On its National Committee were Gen. Hugh Johnson, a New Dealer; Alice Roosevelt, daughter of Theodore; humorist Irvin S. Cobb; novelist Kathleen Norris; and two wives of U.S. senators — Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler and Mrs. Bennett Champ Clark.
Motivating the AFC was a belief that World War I had been a calamity and must never be repeated. America had gone to war in 1917 to "make the world safe for democracy." But Europe was now safe for fascism in Italy, Stalinism in Russia, Nazism in Germany.
America had gotten nothing from the war but 116,000 dead, 200,000 wounded, a $25 billion debt and Allies who refused to pay their war debts; while the British Empire had gobbled up colonies all over the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific.
Renouncing the hateful Versailles treaty, Republicans swept the nation in 1920, ruled 12 years, then lost to FDR, who ran in 1932 against entry into the League of Nations. By fall of 1940, FDR was echoing America First, pledging in Boston, "(M)others and fathers … I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys will not be sent into any foreign wars."
FDR was, of course, lying. Even then, he was plotting U.S. entry into the war, and would use Ed Koch-like minions to smear America First; for he knew he would lose any open debate. In his Jan. 6, 1941, message to Congress, FDR even warned of "secret agents and their dupes" inside America's gates, ready to betray us.
And there were secret agents and dupes. Only they were not Nazis. They were communist traitors and Stalinist spies honeycombed through FDR's regime: Alger Hiss, Laurence Duggan and Noel Field at State, Harry Dexter White at Treasury, Lauchlin Currie in FDR's White House, Judith Coplin at Justice, Rep. Sam Dickstein, Julius Rosenberg and David Greenglass in the atom bomb project, etc., etc.
After Hitler attacked his ally, Russia, in mid-1941, even Harry Truman echoed America First: "If we see that Germany is winning, we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible…."
The most famous America Firster was the fearless Charles A. Lindbergh, who had flown the Atlantic alone into immortality in 1927. He was feared and hated by FDR. When war came, Lindbergh went as a civilian, flew in combat, shot down a Japanese Zero and would later be called an inspiration by America's first astronauts.
And Ed Koch isn't fit to carry the goggles of The Lone Eagle.
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Q: Open stream error in SimpleFTPSample provided in Apple documentation I want to upload images to server through ftp.
I found a SimpleFTPSample in apple documentation, and downloaded it.
When running the app(I'm using xcode 4.5.2, target iphone 5.0 simulator) it works fine.
I'm trying to create directory in my server through this app and succeeded.
But, when uploading the image provided in the app will result in "open stream error".
I didn't do any change in the app. Just typed the url,username and password. I think there is no issue with this, since, the directory which I specified was created succesfully.
While creating directory the url is "ftp://54.x.y.z/newfolder/"  it is created successfully.
But, while uploading the url is "ftp://54.x.y.z/TestImage1.png"
the filepath is "/var/folders/pn/8p0jc4qn70v37j58c1kwf8l80000gn/T/TestImage1.png"
url is got by appending the last component string with the ftp url which I specified.
So, what is the mistake in it?
In the fn,
 - (void)stream:(NSStream *)aStream handleEvent:(NSStreamEvent)eventCode
 {

case NSStreamEventErrorOccurred: {
        [self stopSendWithStatus:@"Stream open error"];
    } break;

was called and displayed Stream open error.
I googled a whole day and no needed results.
Its very urgent and I even can't start a bounty for this. Please help

A: Try this....
     - (void)sendDidStart
{
    // self.statusLabel.text = @"Sending";
    [[NetworkManager sharedInstance] didStartNetworkOperation];

}

- (void)updateStatus:(NSString *)statusString
{
    assert(statusString != nil);
    //self.statusLabel.text = statusString;
}

- (void)sendDidStopWithStatus:(NSString *)statusString
{
    if (statusString == nil) {
        statusString = @"Put succeeded";
    }
    [[NetworkManager sharedInstance] didStopNetworkOperation];
}

#pragma mark * Core transfer code

// This is the code that actually does the networking.

// Because buffer is declared as an array, you have to use a custom getter.
// A synthesised getter doesn't compile.

- (uint8_t *)buffer
{
    return self->_buffer;
}

- (BOOL)isSending
{
    return (self.networkStream != nil);
}

- (void)startSend:(NSString *)filePath
{
    BOOL                    success;
    NSURL *                 url;
    NSLog(@"localFilePathforImage..:%@",localFilePathforImage);
    assert(localFilePathforImage != nil);
    assert([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:localFilePathforImage]);
    assert( [localFilePathforImage.pathExtension isEqual:@"png"] || [localFilePathforImage.pathExtension isEqual:@"jpg"] );

    assert(self.networkStream == nil);      // don't tap send twice in a row!
    assert(self.fileStream == nil);         // ditto

    // First get and check the URL.

    url = [[NetworkManager sharedInstance] smartURLForString:@"ftp://80.544/"];
    success = (url != nil);

    if (success) {
        // Add the last part of the file name to the end of the URL to form the final
        // URL that we're going to put to.

        url = CFBridgingRelease(
                                CFURLCreateCopyAppendingPathComponent(NULL, ( CFURLRef) url, ( CFStringRef) imageString , false)
                                );
        success = (url != nil);
    }

    // If the URL is bogus, let the user know.  Otherwise kick off the connection.

    if ( ! success) {
        // self.statusLabel.text = @"Invalid URL";
    }
    else
    {

        // Open a stream for the file we're going to send.  We do not open this stream;
        // NSURLConnection will do it for us.

        self.fileStream = [NSInputStream inputStreamWithFileAtPath:localFilePathforImage];
        assert(self.fileStream != nil);

        [self.fileStream open];

        // Open a CFFTPStream for the URL.

        self.networkStream = CFBridgingRelease(
                                               CFWriteStreamCreateWithFTPURL(NULL, ( CFURLRef) url)
                                               );
        assert(self.networkStream != nil);

        // if ([self.usernameText.text length] != 0) {
        success = [self.networkStream setProperty:@"yourusername" forKey:(id)kCFStreamPropertyFTPUserName];
        assert(success);
        success = [self.networkStream setProperty:@"password" forKey:(id)kCFStreamPropertyFTPPassword];
        assert(success);
        //}

        self.networkStream.delegate = self;
        [self.networkStream scheduleInRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
        [self.networkStream open];

        // Tell the UI we're sending.

        [self sendDidStart];
    }
}

- (void)stopSendWithStatus:(NSString *)statusString
{
    if (self.networkStream != nil) {
        [self.networkStream removeFromRunLoop:[NSRunLoop currentRunLoop] forMode:NSDefaultRunLoopMode];
        self.networkStream.delegate = nil;
        [self.networkStream close];
        self.networkStream = nil;
    }
    if (self.fileStream != nil) {
        [self.fileStream close];
        self.fileStream = nil;
    }
    [self sendDidStopWithStatus:statusString];
}

- (void)stream:(NSStream *)aStream handleEvent:(NSStreamEvent)eventCode
// An NSStream delegate callback that's called when events happen on our
// network stream.
{
#pragma unused(aStream)
    assert(aStream == self.networkStream);

    switch (eventCode) {
        case NSStreamEventOpenCompleted: {
            [self updateStatus:@"Opened connection"];
        } break;
        case NSStreamEventHasBytesAvailable: {
            assert(NO);     // should never happen for the output stream
        } break;
        case NSStreamEventHasSpaceAvailable: {
            [self updateStatus:@"Sending"];

            // If we don't have any data buffered, go read the next chunk of data.

            if (self.bufferOffset == self.bufferLimit) {
                NSInteger   bytesRead;

                bytesRead = [self.fileStream read:self.buffer maxLength:sSendBufferSize];

                if (bytesRead == -1) {
                    [self stopSendWithStatus:@"File read error"];
                } else if (bytesRead == 0) {
                    [self stopSendWithStatus:nil];
                } else {
                    self.bufferOffset = 0;
                    self.bufferLimit  = bytesRead;
                }
            }

            // If we're not out of data completely, send the next chunk.

            if (self.bufferOffset != self.bufferLimit) {
                NSInteger   bytesWritten;
                bytesWritten = [self.networkStream write:&self.buffer[self.bufferOffset] maxLength:self.bufferLimit - self.bufferOffset];
                assert(bytesWritten != 0);
                if (bytesWritten == -1) {
                    [self stopSendWithStatus:@"Network write error"];
                } else {
                    self.bufferOffset += bytesWritten;
                }
            }
        } break;
        case NSStreamEventErrorOccurred: {
            [self stopSendWithStatus:@"Stream open error"];
        } break;
        case NSStreamEventEndEncountered: {
            // ignore
        } break;
        default: {
            assert(NO);
        } break;

    }
}

A: Adding this line before setting the networkStream delegate in PutController.m StartSend fixed the problem for me:
[self.networkStream setProperty:(id)kCFBooleanFalse forKey:(id)kCFStreamPropertyFTPUsePassiveMode];

Without the above line (or with the property set to kCFBooleanTrue instead of kCFBooleanFalse), I consistently got Stream Open Error.  I only tried with one FTP server, but it doesn't seem to support passive mode which is apparently the default.

A: I have same issue.
This is per the hosting provider.  I think the problem is that the code maybe getting confused by the "@" sign in the login name = dev@atoz.com.?
Are you using user name with @ sing ?

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Wall Street Firm: School Finances Are Good And Not So Good
Broward Public Schools financial picture is both good and not so good, according to Moody's Investors Service.
The service assigned an A1 rating to $268.7 million in Certificates of Participation (COPs), Series 2015A. That's the same rating as the rest of the school's $1.6 billion in outstanding COPs hold.
And its the same rating that recent Miami-Dade School Board COPs have been given by Moody's. The Wall Street rating service congratulated Miami-Dade for its "strong management team," an observation that was not made when analyzing Broward's debt.
COPs have been used by Broward (and other governments across the country) largely because they don't require approval of the voters. COPs don't need a referendum because they require a School Board to vote to repay them every year from the existing revenue streams.
The recent $800 million in bonds added to the revenue by increasing the millage. That's why those bonds needed voters approval.
The COPs rating announced last week is worse by one grade than the Aa3 rating on the district.
Aa3 is the lowest of the high-grade ratings. A1 is the highest of the upper medium grade.
Moody's says the school system's "stable outlooks reflect the slowly improving economy, expected financial improvement, and the sizable and diverse tax base." It applauded the recent passage of the $800 million bond issue as "a positive credit factor given the district's sizable short and long term critical capital needs."
Now the not so good news:
The system "challenges" over its "ability to maintain an adequate level of reserves as budget pressures," which persist and its continued "sizable capital needs." Moody's warns the rating would go down if there is "further financial deterioration" and continued "inability to adequately fund capital needs."
Broward's rating would improve if it had an "improvement in district cash and reserves" and "long-term capital funding sources and adequate funding of capital needs," according to the rating service.
The take away: Moody's believes Broward taxpayers need more debt to repair and replace deteriorating schools.
That's no surprise.
Superintendent Robert Runcie has warned repeatedly that the $800 million in new bonds would only cover about one-third of the needed modernization.
4 Responses to "Wall Street Firm: School Finances Are Good And Not So Good"
Ha Ha Ha says:
The Florida Lottery was approved by voters only because they were told that the proceeds would be used to fund K-12 education above and beyond the normal level of education funding. Then the "normal" level of funding got shredded and lottery money was effectively stolen to fund other programs, leaving K-12 education forlornly holding the empty bag.
Give K-12 education its normal funding level back and then the lottery proceeds on top of that, as voters were promised, and Moody's will very quickly advance school bonds statewide to its very highest rating.
Count LF Chodkiewicz Chudzikiewicz says:
Mr. Nevins, I understand you want efficient government that helps people, but since NO BANKER IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD SEND HIS CHILDREN TO A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN BROWARD COUNTY, or ANYONE ELSE WITH MONEY, NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE SCHOOLS any more than the "public" hospitals or any other "public" service like buses in Broward County. People with money, i.e. Whites except the elderly or sick or those with no education, couldn't care less. You see it on the School Board and on the County Commission. AND YOU SEE IT IN ELECTIONS where every piece of crude trash gets elected and RARELY IF EVER A DECENT PERSON RUNS, let alone GERTS ELECTED! The Financial Status of Bonds, yes, in an educated middle class or upper class county it would matter, but IN SOUTH FLORIDA? IN BROWARD COUNTY? The only thing about Bonds or Finance people care about is HOW DO I GET MY CUT!!!!!!!
Fredo says:
By the time the schools pay off these loans, they will need more money. It will never end.
We need a 21st century Teddy Roosevelt says:
At the last school board meeting, a new position was brought forward (agenda item CC-6) to be funded with bond money. I think it was tabled. Is this the first promise broken?


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Air travels electrify. Part 4
Sport electric airplanes are also elaborated: during Dubai Air Show that took place in December 2019 was presented electric airplane for races White Lightning created by Condor Aviation company.
White Lightning looks like common sport one-seat airplane but it is equipped with electric engine and may reach speed 186 kilometers per hour. Airbus is also sponsor of Air Race E – competition of races
on electric airplanes; it is expected that first tournament will take place in 2020.
About elaboration of flying taxi is being talked for several years now – on creation of small flying machines of vertical take-off work Uber, Boeing, Airbus and a lot of various start-ups and almost all of them are equipped with electric engines. This year Uber declared that in 2023 flying taxi with electric engine will start to be operated in Melbourne and some American cities. According to Deloitte forecasts market of such flying machines in USA will reach 17 billion USD in 2040.
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Cholera kills 23 out of 530 suspected cases in Borno – UN
Cholera has claimed no fewer than 23 deaths and 530 suspected cases in Borno, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA, said on Thursday .
The UN agency added in a statement that a cholera outbreak was first reported by the state's Ministry of Health, adding that the first case was recorded on Aug. 16, 2017.
"Over 530 suspected cases had been registered as of Sept. 5, 2017, including 23 deaths (4.3 per cent fatality rate).
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"The outbreak is mainly in Muna Garage, a camp hosting at least 20,000 internally displaced persons on the outskirts of the state capital, Maiduguri.
"Although most cases have been identified in Muna Garage camp, others have been identified in Custom House, Ruwan Zafi and Bolori II, all camps located near Muna Garage.
"There have also been reports of a suspected cholera outbreak in Monguno and Dikwa Local Government Areas, northeast and east of Maiduguri, respectively," OCHA said.
The latest figures suggested a 4.3 per cent fatality rate – well above the one per cent rate that the World Health Organization rates as an emergency.
The short incubation period of two hours to five days means the disease could spread with explosive speed.
However, the State Ministry of Health, the Rural Water and Sanitation Agency and humanitarian organisations, including UN agencies, are responding to the outbreak, OCHA said.
The UN agency added that an Emergency Operational Centre had been set up to manage the response.
The state's Ministry of Health has established one 30-bed Cholera Treatment Centre with the support of humanitarian partners in Muna Garage camp.
OCHA said two Oral Rehydration Points had been set up in Muna Garage while health organisations were also carrying out risk communications, including making regular and frequent visits to households to encourage individuals with cholera-like symptoms to be screened.
"By communicating at household level in this way, health partners have visited more than 1,300 households which resulted in the identification of 53 suspected cases of cholera.
"Hygiene promoters have carried out door to door hygiene sensitization and have distributed chlorination tablets.
"In addition, special interventions are being undertaken to prevent spread of cholera in the markets where people buy food.
"Humanitarian organisations have also repaired water points, distributed hygiene kits, carried out the water chlorination of water points and pumping units, and completed disinfection spraying of shelters and latrines," the office said.
OCHA stated that additional activities included soap distribution, and testing for Free Residual Chlorine at household level, while humanitarian organisations are working to dislodge latrines and repair damaged toilets as part of sanitation efforts.
OCHA said in Dikwa, about 80 kilometres from Maiduguri, there were also suspicions of a cholera outbreak.
"A total of 103 suspected cholera cases (including 17 confirmed through the rapid cholera screening test) had been reported in Dikwa's General Hospital, as of Sept. 5, 2017.
"Although an outbreak has not yet been declared officially, humanitarian partners have started taking the appropriate actions.
The UN agency said a Cholera Treatment Centre had been set up in the hospital while an Oral Rehydration Point would be set up in coming days.
OCHA said humanitarian partners were working to dislodge latrines, drain flooded locations in the area, distribute aqua tabs and chlorinate water sources, latrines and other infection-prone sites in the area.
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Webs of knowledge: untangling the practices of textile production in ancient Greece
Lin Foxhall (Leicester) delivered the John Penrose Barron Memorial Lecture on 3 June 2015. She explained that it was widely accepted that textile manufacture was women's work in the ancient Greek world (though this has been recently questioned for classical Athens). But, the hard evidence that does survive can be much trickier to interpret than has often been recognised. In fact, many different techniques and processes are collapsed together under the term 'textile production', and there is some evidence to suggest that these may on occasion have been performed by a range of different people - not everyone did the same things when they were 'making textiles'. The lecture explored the contexts of learning to make, making and distributing textiles, to reveal a far more complex picture of 'women's work'
The Minoan palace of Galatas: a major civil and religious centre in the Pediada region (central Crete)
Giorgos Rethemiotakis (Director Emeritus of the Herakleion Museum) presented the Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture on 20 May 2015. He gave an account of his excavations at the major new Minoan palatial site of Galatas located some 16 kms south-east of Knossos, in the Pediada region of central Crete. First occupied in the third millennium BC, the settlement expanded considerably in the early second millennium before suffering a major destruction. A large palace compound, displaying intense Knossian influence, was constructed in MM IIIA (c. 1700-1650 BC). Its architectural features include a large central courtyard, a Minoan Hall, and extensive use of fine ashlar masonry, gypsum slabs, and plastered floors. Religious and ceremonial activities are attested through an altar and libation pit, processional ways, and much evidence for communal feasting. Gradually deserted in MM IIIB and LM IA, the palace was utterly devastated by a violent earthquake at the end of LM IA (c. 1500 BC). Although the palace was never rebuilt, the settlement continued to flourish until LM IB (c. 1450 BC), when destructions affected most sites on the island.
ICS Pottery in Context Lecture
Who picks pursuit? Looking at subject choice in Athenian and Italian contexts
Mark Stansbury O'Donnell (St Thomas, ICS Visiting Fellow) presented a Special Guest Lecture on 18 May 2015 in association with the Institute's Pottery in Context Network. He considered the importance of shape and subject matter in the selection of vases. Most Athenian vase painting was exported, raising the question of the relationship between the production of various shapes and subject matter by Athenian potters and painters on the one hand and the consumer choices on the other hand. Did Athenian potters and painters differentiate among these different markets in their pottery? The lectured explored this issue by comparing the pottery and the appearance of pursuit scenes found in several sites, including the Athenian agora, Delos, Vassallaggi, and Bologna, to see if there are statistically significant variations in shape and style that suggest specific interests in vessels. While there is some overlap in the pottery from these sites, there are distinct variations in each group that show some selectivity in both subject matter and shape.
Whose grave is this? The ownership of grave plots in Ancient Greece
Rachel Abramovitz-Zelnick (Professor of Classics at the University of Tel Aviv and ICS Visiting Fellow) presented a Special Guest Lecture on 13 May 2015 examining the intricate question: Who owned the grave plot? Was it private, public or common land? If the grave plot was private, how could non-citizens and slaves be buried within the territory of the polis? These questions, which only recently has started to attract scholarly attention, are closely related to the concepts of 'public' and 'private', hence to the development of the polis. In this context we should also interpret the evidence pointing to the assumption by the polis of the responsibility to protect the graves.
Warburg Institute 7-8 May 2015
The conference (organized by the Warburg Institute, the Institute of Classical Studies and UCL) explored the impact of Cicero's writings and personality on intellectual and cultural history, on the visual arts, philosophy, politics, rhetoric and literature. Since so much of Cicero's writings is extant, they cover a wide variety of genres and topics, and we are also able to get a glimpse of his personality from his letters, Cicero has had an enormous influence on western culture. By examining a diverse series of significant case studies, the conference aims to make a contribution to assessing Cicero's impact more fully. The proceedings will be jointly published by the two Institutes as Supplements to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies.
Organisers: Peter Mack (Warwick), John North (UCL), Gesine Manuwald (UCL) and Maria Wyke (UCL)
Speakers: Virginia Cox (New York University), Nina Dubin (CASVA, Washington), Katherine East (Royal Holloway London), Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham), Matthew Fox (Glasgow), Luke Houghton (Reading), Catherine Keen (UCL), Andrew Laird (Warwick), Carole Mabboux (Savoie), David Marsh (Rutgers), Martin McLaughlin (Oxford) and Laura Refe (Venice)
This year's Rome-London Lecture - held at the Institute of Classical Studies in association with the British School at Rome - took place at 5pm on Wednesday 6 May. Professor Paolo Vitti presented a paper entitled The Mausoleum of Hadrian rediscovered: a new architectural study prepared in connection with the exhibition Apoteosi. Da uomini a dei (Apotheosis, from Men to Gods), held in Rome, December 2013-April 2014. The new reconstruction is based on information deriving from a recent, detailed and on-site examination of the structures preserved within the present-day Castel Sant'Angelo. The speaker estimated that nearly 80% of the original masonry survives, but is mostly concealed beneath later additions and transformations. Important additions to our understanding of the mausoleum include the original architectural layout, the construction methods and the route used to reach the top of the mausoleum, all issues hitherto unresolved.
The Afterlife of Greek Tragedy
Warburg Institute 5-6 March 2015
A conference organised by the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies.
The conference explored the impact of Greek Tragedy on intellectual and cultural history, on the visual arts, philosophy, politics, rhetoric and literature, including the development and character of European and other theatrical traditions. The proceedings will be jointly published by the two Institutes as Supplements to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies.
Organisers: Peter Mack (Warwick) and John North (Institute of Classical Studies)
Speakers: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Katie Fleming (Queen Mary London), Edith Hall (Kings College London), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary London), Valentina Prosperi (Sassari), Elina Pyy (Helsinki) Andrea Rodighiero (Verona), Hanna Roisman (Colby College), Ruth Webb (Lille) and Gerald Wildgruber (Basel)
Framing Victory: Salamis, the Athenian Acropolis and the Agora
Professor John K. Papadopoulos from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, presented a Special Guest Lecture at the Institute of Classical Studies at 5 pm on Wednesday 4 March 2015. His lecture focused on the monumental entrance/exit to the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Propylaia. In the 430s BC, Mnesikles, the architect of the Propylaia, changed the orientation of the building from that of the Old Propylon. What Mnesikles achieved was to capture, for eternity and in the architectural fabric of the city, a view of the greatest watershed event in Athenian history: the Battle of Salamis. This was only one part of the 'dissertation on victory' that the Acropolis represents; the Classical Agora was also part of the Athenian building programme after Salamis.
Institute of Classical Studies Autumn Lecture in association with the British School at Athens
This year's autumn lecture, entitled Mycenaean Elis in light of new evidence, was given by Olimpia Vikatou, Director of the 36th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in Greece. She spoke about new insights into the settlements and cemeteries of Mycenaean Elis following recent excavations. This district, best known for the famous archaic and classical site of Olympia, had been considered thinly-populated and backward in the Mycenaean period, overshadowed by larger palatial centres. Excavations during the past 20 years, and especially those following the tragic forest fires of 2008, have revealed substantial settlement evidence north of the Alpheios River, while extensive cemeteries with rich warrior graves provide insights into the socio-economic and military organization of Mycenaean Elis. The wealth of high quality pottery, including a vibrant pictorial style, and portable finds serves to emphasise widespread overseas contacts from the Ionian islands and Adriatic, ranging as far afield as Crete and Cyprus.
Annual TBL Webster Lecture
The 2014 TBL Webster lecture was given by this year's Webster Fellow, Athena Tsingarida from the Université libre de Bruxelles, on 5 November 2014. Her theme was: The phiale at the symposium: cultural interaction between Athens and the East.
Recent scholarship tends to change the Classical view that opposed Greeks and Persians, and proposes a more nuanced reading of the history of Persia and its relations with Greece. Regarding the contacts between Classical Athens and the Achaemenid Empire, several scholars convincingly suggested that receptivity might have worked on two-ways. In this perspective, it seems essential to study drinking vessels as a significant part of visual culture, material exchanges and social identity of people, such as Greeks and Persians, who adopt the symposium as a main practice during the Archaic and Classical periods. The conference examines Athenian receptivity to Achaemenid material culture through the uses of the phiale, a vessel of Near Eastern origin that remains rare in the Greek repertoire. While the shape is generally associated with ritual or dedicatory practices in Greek contexts, emphasis is laid on evidence attesting its distinctive use as a drinking vessel. Two complementary study cases are taken into account. One discusses evidence provided by Athenian iconography and ancient texts about the use of metallic phialai in the Athenian symposium already since the late 6th to the middle of the 5th centuries B.C. Another takes into account pottery studies and archaeological contexts and focuses on the production, distribution and uses of the Attic Achaemenid phiale in clay that forms the most striking and distinctive imitation of a Persian form by Athenian potters. Both cases provide evidence of a Non-Greek vessel either adopted in its Persian use, as a drinking vessel, by an Athenian clientele, or closely imitated by Athenian craftsmen in order to address overseas markets and be used in the banquet. They raise issues about the role occasionally played by the phiale in asserting a distinctive cultural and social identity.


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The pipeline created by the Infrastructure Commission is intended to increase co-ordination between procuring entities as planned works are made visible, and to enable 'smoothing' of the market.
The $21 billion pipeline is just the start, Allan Bollard, chair of the newly-established commission and former Reserve Bank governor, told Kathryn Ryan.
"We're picking up all the information we can from many of the agencies that are involved in this, and as you know infrastructure in New Zealand is quite fragmented.
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It's a tool that he hopes will smooth out the peaks and troughs of New Zealand's infrastructure sector.
"The aim in all of this is to make sure it's not just all gearing up then gearing down and going through big short-term cycles, we want to take much longer-term approach."
Bollard has spent the last 6 years in Singapore with the APEC secretariat, and says the city state and others in the region are powering ahead with infrastructure projects.
"There's a lot going on an infrastructure in APEC and the leaders there are the East Asians and some of the Latins. They're not the developed economies. So the US has got its problems, Australia's got some problems – although they're doing some interesting things now, Canada's got pipeline issues – and we're [New Zealand] are not that different from that.
"The ones that have pushed ahead are the ones that have been prepared to really take a national view, have been prepared to sometimes override local concerns, haven't worried too much about environmental issues, been prepared to put down a lot of concrete, and who don't consult very much on projects. So, there's a trade-off and all of that."
New Zealand is hampered by the multitude of agencies that have a hand in construction projects, he says.
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This bogs projects down, he says.
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The commission is working on a 30-year plan for major projects that can be broken down into five and ten year chunks, he says. That plan will have to be endorsed by parliament.
"To try and get away from any electoral cycle, from any fiscal cycle, from any boom bust sort of cycle and look for longer-term demand because you'll get a much better company response when you do that," Dr Bollard says.
New Zealand has unique problems when it comes to large-scale projects Dr Bollard says.
"I think you've got to realise that New Zealand is an expensive place to do these things. We've got a small population, spread out over a very big area, topographically it's a very difficult area.
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Bollard anticipates a mix of funding options will emerge to finance infrastructure over the next few years.
"There's a lot of capital in New Zealand, there's a lot of capital in Australia and around the world at the minute, actually given where interest rates, there's a lot of investors looking for yield. So, we're in a better financial position than we might have been 10 years ago."
Source: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018722854/21b-in-infrastructure-projects-in-next-10-years


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Standardul de calificare a fost de 5,80m.

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<small>Ora este ora SUA (UTC-7)</small>

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În finală s-au calificat toate sportivele care au sărit cu prăjina la înălțimea de 5,80m (C) sau cele mai bune 12 performanțe (c).

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Embarrassment works the same way. A person has an image that is projected outward, the way we want others to see us. Then something happens in our life-world that suggests we are not who we thought we were, or not who we have wanted others to believe we are. Embarrassment. Red-faced, we limp toward reality.
Over a week ago, I went to the lady who has been cutting my hair for about 6 years now. An immigrant from Vietnam, she and her family have made a life for themselves in the United States. Her elementary-aged daughter is often in the shop, reading books or working on coloring books. I have come to know her and her family, even through the challenges of language and cultural mores.
I'm an easy hair-cut. #3 clippers on the top, #2 on the sides. Years ago I gave up on styling my hair . . . just cut it down short, and I'll never have to see a comb or hairbrush for the rest of my days. The whole process, from getting into the barber's chair to shaking off the hair and moving on, takes about 7 minutes on a good day.
On this day, I slid into the chair and she began to pump the foot pedal to lower the chair -- this happens every time -- as low as it would go in order to #3 me evenly across the top. Only this time, when she got the chair as low as it would go, she said, "I need you to be lower in the chair."
In 6 years, I'd never needed to be lower before. But I accommodated her, scrunching down in the chair as much as possible. (You gotta get that #3 even on top, dontcha know?) Making conversation, I said -- good-naturedly, I might add -- "What happened? Did I grow taller?"
She said, "No, just fatter."
I was a little shocked. Didn't expect THAT! I mumbled something like, "Yeah, I've gained some weight," hoping we could move on to something else, like what was coming up after the commercial on "General Hospital."
She charged on. "Do you like being fat?"
"Does it make you uncomfortable, like when you try to sleep at night? How does it feel?"
"Uh, not very good, I guess." By this time, I'm tiny in the chair, a seven-year old could not have been hunkered down lower. "I know that I need to lose some weight," I whispered.
"You should try eating less."
The last 6 minutes, 30 seconds of the haircut went on in silence.
Then the moment of decision: Because the haircut is fairly inexpensive, I usually give her a substantial tip. So what should I do this day? A sizable tip, and a "Thanks for the humiliation"? Or -- as per usual -- puff up, say nothing, pay only for the haircut (and NOT the humiliation), and sulk home?
My friend -- and she IS my friend! -- gave me something to carry along for several days. Why did her comments feel so offensive? humiliating? embarrassing? The truth is, I've put on over 20 pounds in a relatively short period of time. I know it's a problem, and certainly the people around me know that it's a problem, but she is the first and only person to say something about it. And I know I should eat less, but I don't.
My first response to this humiliation -- it really is a MINOR humiliation on the grander scale of things -- was to eat a huge basket of onion rings that night. I showed her!
Over the next several days, though, I remembered Francis and his words about humiliation and embarrassment, about how humiliation often comes from very public assaults on our pride and ego, about how embarrassments often take our heads out of the clouds and ground us in our fundamental humanity.
The ego-self (self-interested, self-referenced, self-centered) is a ruthless dictator. Easily offended, it wants to defend its ground, to stake its selfish claims. But St. Francis knew that a small, undefended ego is very difficult to embarrass and almost impossible to humiliate. The large ego projects an image of ourselves (how we see ourselves or how we want to be seen), and when that image is shattered, we feel humiliated. But with the small ego, there is no image to protect or defend. Security and esteem do not come from outside ourselves.
So sitting in the barber's chair that Friday, I was humiliated to hear the truth. My clothing tells me that she is right. The mirror tells me that she is spot-on. I'm just not accustomed to someone coming right out with the obvious. She touched a place where I feel a little prickly (and vulnerable, and even helpless on some days). It's not that what she said was untrue or offensive, only that it struck at my large ego, my inflated sense of self, the self I want to believe in and the image I want to project to others.
How do you tip for that kind of humiliation?
I'm trying to imagine what St. Francis would do.


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You Won't Believe What Has the Highest Rating on Rotten Tomatoes
(I'm not proud of that click-bait headline. I feel dirty, in fact. But I'm curious to see if it actually makes a difference in traffic.)
So for no known reason, I will sometimes spend (or waste) time collecting information that only I probably care about. This might actually be interesting to more than me, so I thought I'd post about it.
In case you don't know, Rotten Tomatoes is a popular review aggregator of movies and TV shows. It's often cited when talking about a movie's critical reception, and also when people are trying to figure out whether something might be good or not. It has a lot of charts and different ways it presents its data but there isn't one central hub. So I thought it would be interesting to collect as much as I could find and see… what's the best reviewed thing on Rotten Tomatoes.
A few things to keep in mind. First, Rotten Tomatoes launched in August 1998 to collect consensus on movie reviews. In September 2013, they expanded out to television reviews. So the fact that consensus leans toward 21st century content is probably to be expected, even though it does have ratings on older movies, usually in regard to their home release.
The next factor is how Rotten Tomatoes presents their ratings. The site collects published reviews from critics. Reviewers at major publications are in a sub-set of that group, called Top Critics. Each review is assigned a rating from 1 to 10 based on the analysis of the Rotten Tomatoes staff. The Tomatometer shows the percentage of reviews that are positive. There are also audience reviews submitted by users on their website, where they rate the movie on a scale of 1 to 5.
And the final factor is that Rotten Tomatoes is a living, breathing aggregator of data that changes as new reviews are added, which is happening all the time. I pulled this data from their site on Monday night. I assume it's still true at the time of this posting, but you may notice a slight variation if you to Rotten Tomatoes to double check my work. (Oh and final-final factor: there could be typos in my spreadsheet that throw the numbers off.)
I have collected only entries that have 100% on the Tomatometer both for all critics and top critics. Then I sorted based on Audience Score and then the Average Rating of each reviewer type (all reviewers, top critics, and then audience). For the sake of a decent consensus, I only included movies and TV shows with 20 or more critic reviews and at least 5 top critic reviews. This is the minimum criteria Rotten Tomatoes themselves uses in determining whether something is "Certified Fresh" (a stamp of approval for everything that has over 75% on the Tomatometer).
OK, enough with all the boring data and backstory! So what has the best rating across movies and TV shows? Take a look for yourself:
You can also view the above in Google Sheets here, if the above embedded version is a little too claustrophobic.
Easily, Breaking Bad has the highest score on all of Rotten Tomatoes. (Yeah, the picture at the top kind of gave it away.) Seasons 4 and 5 are the closest to having a perfect score. Depending on how you sort the data, Seasons 2 and 3 also make the top 10. The first season is the only season of the show to not chart, with a 78% on the Tomatometer. This brings the entire series score down to 95% but looking at individual seasons, it basically blows everything else away.
Breaking Bad: Season 5 is the only entry to have a 99% audience score. Season 4 has an average rating of 9.9 out of 10 from 24 top critics, and a 9.8 when including all critics. The average audience rating is 4.9 out of 5 among 4,551 reviews. Audience scores are generally less critical but because there are so many more contributors to the audience score, it usually averages out. So these kind of near-perfect audience scores among thousands of users is rare, if not almost impossible.
I loved Breaking Bad too, but I was amazed to see that it out-paced so many critically acclaimed movies. In fact, aside from Seven Samurai, Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece from 1956, and 12 Angry Men, the original 1957 version directed by Sidney Lumet, the top 10 are all TV shows from 2010 or sooner.
I know TV is going through a renaissance, but that's crazy to me. Are TV reviewers just being overly enthusiastic because TV is actually half-way decent these days? Are film critics more nuanced or snobby or contrarian? Or is Sherlock and Hannibal really that good? Better than Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times? Better than Alfred Hitchock's Rear Window? Is BoJack Horseman: Season 3 really better than the poster child for Greatest Movie of All Time, Citizen Kane?
I have a hard time comparing movies against TV shows, since they're structured differently. Even comparing things so stylistically different is difficult, so things don't really have to be better, per se. But the collected consensus seems to indicate that people are really loving TV right now.
Quantifying opinions is always tricky business, and of course it's all to be taken with a grain of salt, but it's fun to see what made the list of nearly universally loved movies and TV shows. Did your favorites show up?
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Pretty coll data review.
Surprised that Game of Thrones didn't make the list
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My year in books: what I read and what I loved in 2020
December 22, 2020 ~ Iris
Is 2020 done yet? No? Maybe this blog post is just wishful thinking then. But I'm planning to coast to the end of my reading year on a gentle sea of escapist froth, and so don't think I'm likely to read anything else that would make me change my overall assessment of the year's reading, so let's do this.
Here are the books I loved the most, the book I liked the least, and just some general thoughts about how reading kept me going during this garbage year.
I liked a lot of the books I read this year, but only 8 that made me want to yell "AAAAHHHH!!! I love this so much!!!" and force everyone else I knew to read them.
Apparently what really gets me hyped are slightly wanky literary novels with dark themes and interesting narrative structures. Also I like it if they are funny, although many of these are definitely not funny.
Alternatively, I also love Victorian pastiches about dragons.
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
An incredible, one-of-a-kind book – part memoir about surviving an abusive partner, part metatextual analysis of abuse in queer relationships. It also has a unique narrative structure and digressions about Star Trek: The Next Generation. None of this would work if Machado wasn't a phenomenally talented writer, but she is – my God she's good, I would dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to read more of her writing – and the book is brilliant. I read this in one sitting.
Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
Another book that I had no choice but to devour in one go. Ghost Wall's protagonist, Sylvie, is the teenage daughter of a man obsessed with pre-Roman Britain. When her family joins a group of historians for a summer-long re-enactment of Iron Age village life, darker reasons for his obsession soon begin to emerge. The result is a visceral 150-page marvel that touches on themes of nationalism, class, and gender without ever feeling overloaded. Just writing about it now makes me want to read it again.
Milkman by Anna Burns
Milkman's protagonist is a young woman just trying to keep her head down during the Troubles. But in her claustrophobic society, nothing you do (or don't do) escapes the notice and judgement of the rest of the community. When a local paramilitary enforcer develops and interest in her, things begin to spiral out of control. The unnamed heroine has a unique and engaging voice, and the novel's dark content is spiked with surreal twists and unexpected humour. I loved it.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
The year is 1993. Paul Polydoris is a student with multiple bartending jobs, a zine ("Polydoris Perversities") and a secret – he's a shapeshifter, changing his physical form and gender at will. Paul uses this ability to explore the early 90s queer scene across America, from punk shows and leather bars to Act Up protests and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. The result is entertaining, funny and sexy, with an excellent soundtrack that I had to dig up on Spotify later.
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Recommended to me by a friend as "extremely dark and horrible". It is, but it's also really good. This novel is the memoirs of Dr Norton Perina, a disgraced researcher accused of molesting his many adopted children. Those children came from the same islands where Perina made his name as a scientist, whose people have discovered the secrets of eternal life, but at great cost. This is a twisty, unnerving story that will haunt me for a long time.
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Reading this book felt like making a new friend, as its titular heroine is one of my favourite characters of the year. This immensely readable novel follows Queenie during an especially difficult year of her life, as she struggles with everything from painful breakups and the London rental market to institutional racism. I was completely absorbed in her story, and its focus on mental health and celebration of female friendship even made me shed a tear. (Queenie, please let me join that groupchat because I have opinions about some of these trash men!!!)
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton
What if Victorian marriage plot novels were about dragons instead of people? Jo Walton was probably the first person to ask this question, and then answered it herself with Tooth and Claw. The result is an unexpectedly charming and funny book about country parsons, disputed inheritances, and devouring the weakest young.
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
This episodic novel focuses on the interwoven lives of 12 Black women and non-binary people living in the UK, from artists and student activists to a great-grandmother on a remote Yorkshire farm. Each chapter focuses on a single character's inner life, and while I was always sad to say goodbye at the end of a chapter, the next one always drew me in immediately. It's hard to summarise, but it's really good.
The book I liked the least
It's… Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey.
I'm not saying this is a bad book – I just didn't vibe with it at all and found it a real slog to get through. (Also I have to throw a Booker winner under the bus so I don't look like too much of a snob after that favourites list.)
I actually read a lot of genres which aren't represented on this list.
Despite making up a sizeable chunk of my 2020 reading, poor sci-fi doesn't get a look-in at all, and fantasy is only represented by Tooth and Claw. I did discover some authors this year whose work in these genres I really enjoyed – notably N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Nicholas Eames – but nothing that knocked my socks off enough to make the list.
In the early days of lockdown, a chance purchase of The Flatshare sent me down a romcom rabbit hole, and since then I've spent many hours enjoying various meet-cutes and will-they-won't-theys. My favourite of these was probably One To Watch, by Kate Stayman-London, about a plus-size fashion blogger who becomes a contestant on a Bachelorette-style reality TV show. (Also, reality TV shows? Great structure for a novel. Justifies all the artificial twists and drama you could want.)
I also read some self-help books, which gave me a few good ideas, all of which are hard to put into practice when you are depressed.
But overall, this was a good year for reading, and when things got rough I often found that books felt distracting and fulfilling in a way that other media often didn't. Maybe it's something about the active act of reading – unlike watching a film, I have to be present and focused for the story to continue. But at the same time, books also engage my imagination in a way that video games don't always manage. No shade to these other mediums, of course. I guess I'm just trying to say that in 2020, books were good for me.
Thanks, books!
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Celebrating Fantastical Inventiveness: Tarsila do Amaral at MoMA
Photography © Cnap / Ville de Grenoble / Musée de Grenoble – J.L. Lacroix. © Tarsila do Amaral Licenciamentos
Tarsila do Amaral, "A Cuca," 1924. Oil on canvas. 23-13/16 × 28-9/16 in. (60.5 × 72.5 cm). Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France FNAC 9459.
"Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil" is currently on view at the Museum of Modern Art and is the first exhibition of the artist's work in the U.S. Viewers are immediately introduced to Tarsila (1886–1973) via her cubist education. Indeed, it is important that Tarsila's career be seen with the understanding that she benefited from extensive European modernist training and mentorship. We are shown how her personal style and highly colorful visual language evolved: it was inspired by European developments in formal abstraction and coloration and only later by the artist's environmental and cultural milieu back in Brazil. The celebratory nature with which Tarsila came to depict her Brazilian surroundings comes across clearly in the show, though surprisingly little is shown of her late career works. As a result, MoMA's retrospective presents an exciting albeit slightly limited look into the work of one of the most eclectic and canonical South American female modernists.
© Tarsila do Amaral Licenciamentos
Tarsila do Amaral, "Abaporu," 1928. Oil on canvas. 33-7/16 x 28-3/4 in. (85 x 73 cm). Collection MALBA, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.
Tarsila (as she is most commonly addressed in modernist and Brazilian literature) explored the native flora and fauna in Brazilian regions far removed from the country's major metropolises. Many of her canvases depict quasi-invented creatures and scenes inspired by her encounters with environments that were just as new to the upper-class urban painter as they are to contemporary viewers. Her most well-known works, such as 1928's "Abaporu" and 1924's "A Cuca" showcase the crisp, almost glowing manner in which she molds forms and shapes out of color. Creatures and fantastical plants seem to pop off the canvases, and the combination of so many of these works in a small space makes the excitement with which Tarsila's collaborators and contemporaries responded to her work easy to share. It is also easy to forget that the artist was an outsider in many of the environments to which she traveled to paint. The celebratory exoticism with which Tarsila depicts places, scenes, and even native peoples is evident in 1924's "Morro da favela," a work that reduces an example of shantytown life to its patterns and vibrant colors.
Tarsila do Amaral, "Carnival in Madureira (Carnaval em Madureira)," 1924. Oil on canvas. 29-15/16 x 25 in. (76 x 63.5 cm). Acervo da Fundação José e Paulina Nemirovsky, em comodato com a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
Tarsila do Amaral, "Operários (Workers)," 1933. Oil on canvas, 150 × 205 cm (59-1/16 × 80-11/16 in.). Acervo Artístico-Cultural dos Palácios do Governo do Estado de São Paulo.
The exhibition ends with a very brief foray into the artist's passion for political activism in the mid-1930s. Her 1933 "Workers" sees her applying her penchant for crisp, smooth, almost bulbous rendering to dozens of diverse individuals, but none of her tendency for playful inventiveness is evident here. Tarsila's interest in communism is limited to this last room, perhaps anticipating that many viewers will be more drawn to those works for which Tarsila is more well known: the colorful canvases of the 1920s full of creatures in fantastical environments that fill the vast majority of the exhibition. MoMA follows in the wake of much contemporary scholarship in crediting her with "inventing" a distinctly Brazilian modernism.
"Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil" is on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through June 3rd.
Rachel Ozerkevich
Rachel Ozerkevich lives in Raleigh, NC and is a PhD student in Art History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her doctoral research focuses on athletic subject matter in French painting and news media immediately before the First World War.
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Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes will in fact report to James and Lachlan Murdoch when the sons of Rupert Murdoch assume control of 21st Century Fox on July 1.
The revelation comes after the Ailes-run Fox Business Network reported June 11 that Ailes would continue to report to Rupert even after Rupert handed official control of the company to his sons.
"Roger will report to Lachlan and James but will continue his unique and long-standing relationship with Rupert," 21st Century Fox spokesperson Nathaniel Brown said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter.
Rupert Murdoch will transition his CEO title to James, 42, who is currently co-COO, while Lachlan, 43, will become executive co-chairman, with their 84-year-old father focusing on his chairman role. Lachlan is currently nonexecutive co-chairman.
COO and president Chase Carey, with whom Ailes has worked closely, will become executive vice chairman once James takes over as CEO, but Carey is signed only until June 30, 2016 and is expected to leave or take on an advisory role. Ailes, 75, is under contract to Fox News only until next summer. He has admitted that he does not have much of a relationship with James and Lachlan.
"I don't interact with them on a daily or even weekly basis," he told THR in April.
Of course, that might now have to change. But Ailes is known to have clashed with Lachlan in the past, and he assumed control of the Fox Television Stations in 2005 when Lachlan left the company and returned to Australia.
Ailes was brought to News Corp by Rupert Murdoch to create Fox News in 1996 and he has run the wildly successful network ever since, building it into a $15 billion media empire that spawned a second channel, Fox Business Network, in 2007. SNL Kagan estimates that Fox News will generate $2.3 billion in advertising dollars and affiliate revenue in 2015.
It's Official: James Murdoch to Become 21st Century Fox CEO
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A friend of mine, who recently broke up with her boyfriend, asked me when I knew G was the one. I think she assumed there was some monumental moment that made me realize I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. But in reality, it was a small gesture - a sweet gift that signified much more than what arrived in an unmarked box on a Monday afternoon.
G and I first met through work. He was my client at a separate agency, but I knew early on that he was someone with whom I could see myself. I had gotten out of a long-term relationship only a year earlier though, and wasn't sure if I was ready to settle down. But the more time we spent together as friends, the clearer it became that I was falling for him. Each morning when I got to work, I had an email waiting in my inbox titled, 'SOTD' ("song of the day"). And despite our very different taste in music, he'd listen to dozens of singer/songwriters to find one song he knew I'd like. This had made me realize how thoughtful he was, but the feeling was solidified by what came next.
In early December (a few weeks before we started dating), I mentioned to him that I was always cold in my cubicle. The office usually hovered around 50°, which meant I was either wrapped in a blanket or a down vest while working. One morning I came in to find a package on my desk. I opened it up and inside was a little space heater. There was no card, but I knew who it was from.
It was that particular gift that made me realize I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him. Since we first met and ever since, G has been one of the most thoughtful people I've known.
P.S. I downloaded most of the songs he sent me as part of my 'SOTD' and created a playlist called '2007.' I still listen to it and it's the sweetest reminder of what it felt like when we first started falling for each other "as friends."


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namespace Jarvis\Command\Project;

use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Input\InputOption;
use Symfony\Component\Console\Output\OutputInterface;
use Jarvis\Project\ProjectConfiguration;

class PhpMetricsCommand extends BaseBuildCommand
{
    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $remoteBuildDir;

    /**
     * @var string
     */
    private $localBuildDir;

    /**
     * @{inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function configure()
    {
        $this->setDescription('Gives metrics about PHP project and classes for to one or all projects');

        parent::configure();
    }

    /**
     * @{inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function initialize(InputInterface $input, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $this->remoteBuildDir = sprintf('%s/metrics', $this->getRemoteBuildDir());
        $this->localBuildDir = sprintf('%s/metrics', $this->getLocalBuildDir());

        $this->getRemoteFilesystem()->mkdir($this->remoteBuildDir);
        $this->getLocalFilesystem()->mkdir($this->localBuildDir);
    }

    /**
     * @{inheritdoc}
     */
    protected function executeCommandByProject($projectName, ProjectConfiguration $projectConfig, OutputInterface $output)
    {
        $remoteReportFilePath = strtr('%build_dir%/%project_name%.html', [
            '%project_name%' => $projectConfig->getProjectName(),
            '%build_dir%' => $this->remoteBuildDir
        ]);

        // Analyse source project code
        $this->getSshExec()->passthru(
            strtr(
                'mkdir -p %build_dir% && /usr/local/bin/phpmetrics --level=0 --report-html=%report_file% %project_dir%/src'.($output->isDebug() ? ' --verbose' : ''),
                [
                    '%report_file%' => $remoteReportFilePath,
                    '%build_dir%' => $this->remoteBuildDir,
                    '%project_dir%' => $projectConfig->getRemoteWebappDir(),
                ]
            )
        );

        $localReportFilePath = str_replace(
            $this->remoteBuildDir,
            $this->localBuildDir,
            $remoteReportFilePath
        );
        $this->getRemoteFilesystem()->copyRemoteFileToLocal(
            $remoteReportFilePath,
            $localReportFilePath
        );
        if ($this->getLocalFilesystem()->exists($localReportFilePath)) {
            $this->openFile($localReportFilePath);
        }

        return $this->getSshExec()->getLastReturnStatus();
    }
}

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Q: stop jmsListener when message in MQ is empty I use the Listener to read the messages from MQ as mentioned in the link here
ExampleMessageListener :
This implements the onMessage method of Interface javax.jms.MessageListener
Listener :
   <bean id="messageListener" class="sample.ExampleMessageListener" />

   <bean id="msgListenerContainer"
      class="org.springframework.jms.listener.DefaultMessageListenerContainer">
      <property name="connectionFactory" ref="jmsConnectionFactory" />
      <property name="destination" ref="jmsQueue" />
      <property name="messageListener" ref="messageListener" />
   </bean>

   <jee:jndi-lookup id="jmsConnectionFactory" jndi-name="jms/CF1" />

   <jee:jndi-lookup id="jmsQueue" jndi-name="jms/jmsQueue" />

I want to stop the listener when all the messages in MQ are read? (In other words, stop the listener when no meessages in MQ)
Any best way to identify the unavailability of messages in MQ?

A: using jms Browser ?
session.createBrowser(session.createQueue("Q"))

https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/jms/Session.html#createBrowser-javax.jms.Queue-
https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/7/api/javax/jms/QueueBrowser.html#getEnumeration--
to start and stop the DMLC see here control-message-listener-container-to-stop-for-certain-period-and-start-again