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Reaction of aniline with FeOCl. Formation and ordering of conducting polyaniline in a crystalline layered host
C. G. Wu, D. C. DeGroot, H. O. Marcy, J. L. Schindler, Mercouri G Kanatzidis, T. Bakas, V. Papaefthymiou, W. Hirpo, J. P. Yesinowski, Y. J. Liu, M. G. Kanatzidis
A detailed study of the intercalative polymerization reaction of aniline with FeOCl, an extensive physicochemical and spectroscopic characterization of the products, and their oxidative behavior in air is presented. FeOCl reacts with excess aniline in CH3CN at 25 °C, in air, to form black microcrystalline products containing polyaniline (PANI) of the general formula (PANI)xFeOCl (I). X-ray diffraction from a single crystal of (PANI)xFeOCl shows that the polymer is intercalated in an ordered fashion that is commensurate with the FeOCl lattice. This ordering causes a doubling of the unit cell in the two in-plane directions (a- and c-) forming a 2a × 2c superlattice. The PANI can be extracted from (I) by FeOCl framework dissolution in acid. Molecular weight studies of extracted PANI via gel permeation chromatography (GPC) analysis suggest M̄w ∼ 6100 and M̄n ∼ 3500 versus M̄w ∼ 69 000 and M̄n ∼ 7700 observed for bulk PANI. Chain lengths of PANI in the intralamellar space are shorter than those of bulk PANI but show narrower length distribution. Variable temperature 2H-wide-line NMR of (PANI)xFeOCl shows that the polymer chains are significantly confined with respect to phenyl ring rotation, but the spectra are influenced by the electron paramagnetism of the host. The (PANI)xFeOCl was also characterized by infrared spectroscopy, Mössbauer spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, thermal gravimetric analysis, magnetic susceptibility measurements, and charge-transport measurements. Mössbauer spectroscopy suggests a mixed-valent FeOCl with a Fe2+/Fe3+ ratio in the material ∼1:9. Aerial oxidation of (PANI)xFeOCl yields an intimate mixture of PANI and β-FeOOH. The PANI after oxidation shows a molecular weight intermediate between that extracted from fresh (PANI)xFeOCl and bulk PANI. The electrical conductivity of single crystals is 1.5 × 10-2 S/cm and features a thermally activated temperature dependence consistent with a semiconductor. Thermoelectric power measurements show a positive Seebeck coefficient (∼10 μV/K) at room temperature which increases steadily with decreasing temperature, reaching the value of 100-400 μV/K at 150 K, consistent with a p-type semiconductor. The charge transport data suggest that in (PANI)xFeOCl the reduced FeOCl framework dominates the electronic conduction.
Polyaniline
Charge transfer
Seebeck coefficient
Wu, C. G., DeGroot, D. C., Marcy, H. O., Schindler, J. L., Kanatzidis, M. G., Bakas, T., ... Kanatzidis, M. G. (1995). Reaction of aniline with FeOCl. Formation and ordering of conducting polyaniline in a crystalline layered host. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 117(36), 9229-9242.
Reaction of aniline with FeOCl. Formation and ordering of conducting polyaniline in a crystalline layered host. / Wu, C. G.; DeGroot, D. C.; Marcy, H. O.; Schindler, J. L.; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G; Bakas, T.; Papaefthymiou, V.; Hirpo, W.; Yesinowski, J. P.; Liu, Y. J.; Kanatzidis, M. G.
Wu, CG, DeGroot, DC, Marcy, HO, Schindler, JL, Kanatzidis, MG, Bakas, T, Papaefthymiou, V, Hirpo, W, Yesinowski, JP, Liu, YJ & Kanatzidis, MG 1995, 'Reaction of aniline with FeOCl. Formation and ordering of conducting polyaniline in a crystalline layered host', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 117, no. 36, pp. 9229-9242.
Wu CG, DeGroot DC, Marcy HO, Schindler JL, Kanatzidis MG, Bakas T et al. Reaction of aniline with FeOCl. Formation and ordering of conducting polyaniline in a crystalline layered host. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1995 Sep 13;117(36):9229-9242.
Wu, C. G. ; DeGroot, D. C. ; Marcy, H. O. ; Schindler, J. L. ; Kanatzidis, Mercouri G ; Bakas, T. ; Papaefthymiou, V. ; Hirpo, W. ; Yesinowski, J. P. ; Liu, Y. J. ; Kanatzidis, M. G. / Reaction of aniline with FeOCl. Formation and ordering of conducting polyaniline in a crystalline layered host. In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1995 ; Vol. 117, No. 36. pp. 9229-9242.
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Volatility at an Historic High
By Patrick Ottenhoff
If Democrats and Republicans can agree on one thing, it's that they both want "change." Barack Obama called for it in 2008, and Republicans are calling for it now. What that "change" means is of course up for debate, but one thing's for sure: 2010 will be the third straight change election.
Chuck Todd made this observation recently and noted that "in 2006, Democrats won control of Congress. In 2008, Democrats won the White House. And in 2010, Republicans appear poised to take back control of Congress." Chuck added that only three times since World War I have 20 or more seats flipped in three straight elections -- after World War I, during the Great Depression, and after World War II.
The map below shows fairly steady voting patterns from 1976-2000 through most of the nation, with the Mississippi River Valley and the Ohio River Valley standing out as the nation's preeminent battlegrounds. The map is unfortunately somewhat outdated, but as recently as 2006, Stu Rothenberg wrote that "the Ohio River has become a focal point of American politics recently, and that isn't likely to change this year."
He was right--the Ohio River Valley is still a major battleground. The only difference is that the rest of the nation has embraced its thirst for change.

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Wuchereria bancrofti es un parásito nemátodo, causante de la parasitosis humana llamada filariasis linfática y transmitida por varias especies de mosquitos. Su nombre fue dado por razón de los científicos Otto Wucherer y Joseph Bancroft, afecta a más de 120 millones de personas, principalmente en África, Suramérica y otros países tropicales y subtropicales. De no tratarse la infección, puede resultar en una enfermedad denominada elefantiasis. Las modalidades de tratamiento son limitadas y no se han desarrollado vacunas preventivas.

Ciclo de vida
W. bancrofti completan su ciclo de vida en dos hospedadores: los seres humanos sirven como el hospedador definitivo y los mosquitos son los hospedadores intermediarios. Los parásitos adultos residen en el sistema linfático y son ovovivíparos, es decir, sus crías se desarrollan en el vientre de la hembra.

Microfilaria
El primer estado del parásito se denomina microfilaria y están presentes en el sistema circulatorio. Las microfilarias continuamente migran de la circulación profunda hasta la circulación periférica. Durante el día están presentes en las venas profundas y durante la noche migran a la circulación periférica, desde donde el gusano es transferido al vector. Los vectores artrópodos más comunes son los mosquitos de las especies Culex, Anopheles, Aedes, y Mansonia. Dentro de su segundo hospedador, la microfilaria madura a la larva motil.

Larva
Cuando el mosquito infestado se alimenta, deposita en la sangre del hospedador humano, la forma larval del gusano. La larva migra hacia los ganglios linfáticos, predominantemente a nivel de las piernas (la ingle) y el área genital, lugar donde se desarrolla en la forma adulta del parásito en el curso de aproximadamente un año. Para entonces, las hembras adultas pueden producir nuevas microfilarias.

Características
W. bancrofti demuestra una considerable diferencia de tamaño entre el macho y la hembra, o sea, dimorfismo sexual. El gusano macho adulto es largo y delgado (de allí su nombre, filaria), con una cola curveada, entre 4-5 centímetros de largo, y una décima de centímetro en diámetro. En contraste, la hembra mide de 6-10 cm y es hasta tres veces más gruesa que el macho. La desviación del tamaño puede ser atribuida al vasto número de microfilarias producidas a diario por la hembra.

Patología

La aparición de los síntomas es lenta, pero los efectos de una parasitosis pueden permanecer aparentes por años. Durante la fase inicial inflamatoria, un hospedador puede exhibir hinchazón, lesiones granuladas y circulación defectuosa. Luego, los ganglios se agrandan y dilatan, endureciéndose y tamponándose con tejido fibroso, que previene el sistema linfático opere correctamente. Las microfilaria causan también hinchazón, engrosamiento y descoloración de la piel. Sin un drenaje apropiado de fluidos, los tejidos afectados se expanden y la elefantiasis, con su característica expansión corporal, se instala, seguida a veces por la muerte.

Tratamiento y prevención
Los síntomas más severos pueden ser evitadas con el uso de drogas terapéuticas. Tanto la dietilcarbamazina y la ivermectina son usados para eliminar los gusanos y las microfilarias. La dietilcarbamazina es la más común y se administra por vía oral. La protección es similar a aquellas enfermedades transmitidas por otros mosquitos: el uso de barreras físicas como las mallas y químicas, como los repelentes de insectos.

Trivial
 Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", no estaba afligido por un parásito, sino por el Síndrome de Proteus.

Enlaces externos
 Oetinger, David. "Filaria." The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book Inc. 2000.
 "Elephantiasis." Human Diseases and Conditions. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 2000.
 David F. Oetinger, "Filaria." World Book Online Reference Center. , November 28, 2003.
 "Lymphatic filariasis." World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/ctd/filariasis/home/, November 28, 2003.

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Bodies of Yemeni Plane Victims Apparently Located off Tanzania
Several bodies apparently from a Yemeni airliner that crashed near Comoros last week have been found off the coast of Tanzania.
A Yemeni committee overseeing the crash investigation said Tuesday eight bodies were found in Tanzanian waters. Tanzanian authorities say they found the bodies and some wreckage near Mafia Island. It was not clear if the bodies have been identified as being from the plane.
A Yemenia Airbus A-310 with 153 passengers and crew crashed into the Indian Ocean on June 30 on a flight from France to Comoros via Yemen and Djibouti. A 12-year-old girl survived, but the other people on board are missing and feared dead.
A French submarine detected a signal from the plane's flight recorders on Sunday. But, French officials said it may take some time to reach the recorders because they are deep under water.
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Signal From Yemenia Black Boxes Detected
The French agency investigating last week's crash of a Yemeni airliner off Comoros says signals from the plane's black boxes have been detected. The BEA said in a statement the signals were picked up Sunday during an underwater search.Investigators continue to look for the boxes which contain vital information on the flight's final minutes. The Yemenia Air flight went down in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, killing 152 people. One passenger, a…
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A Yemeni Airbus 310 passenger plane traveling from Yemen's capital, Sanaa, to the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean, crashed early Tuesday as it approached the islands, killing most of the 153 people on board. A Comoros police official says a child has been rescued alive from the sea, but he knew of no other survivors. It was the second crash in just under a month involving an Airbus passenger jet. The Yemeni plane went down as it was…


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Berthoud Fire Calls: November 2015
Berthoud Fire Protection District
Incident Activity for November 2015
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call on Bein Street. The patient was transported.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call for an elderly male who had fallen on 4th Street.
BFPD responded to a motor vehicle accident on LCR 23E and LCR 2. This was a non-injury accident with mild damage to both vehicles.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call at Berthoud Living Center for a patient having seizures. The patient was transported.
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call on Monroe. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call on Branding Iron Way. The patient was transported.
BFPD and TVEMS assisted a patient who had fallen from bed on 4th St. The crews assisted the patient back into bed.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call on E. Colorado Avenue. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call on Bimson Avenue for a possible stroke. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 25 at mile marker 250. An eight-vehicle accident had occurred with minor to moderate damage to all vehicles. One patient was injured and treated on scene. The crew cleaned up a fuel spill and assisted with traffic control.
BFPD responded to a carbon dioxide alarm at a residence on Hummingbird Place. The crew found readings of carbon monoxide in the residence. The homeowner was advised to call Xcel and a HVAC company. The crew opened windows and doors throughout the house until Xcel arrived.
BFPD responded to a report of an odor investigation on Meining Road. The fire crew determined this to be a controlled burn bonfire.
BFPD responded to a report of a structure fire at Berthoud Living Center. The crew found what appeared to be smoke coming from the generator room which was coming from the exhaust pipe. The crew searched inside the entire building and there were no signs of fire. The crew turned their finding over to the maintenance personnel. .
BFPD and TVEMS assisted a citizen on Victoria Street who needed oxygen due to a power outage. The crew helped hook up their spare tank.
BFPD assisted a citizen on Welch Avenue for a patient who needed oxygen due to a power outage.
BFPD assisted a citizen with an alarming CO detector on 2nd Street. The crew did not find any readings of CO in the residence. The crew reset the alarm.
BFPD assisted a citizen on Victoria Street who was having problems with their oxygen tank and with a carbon monoxide detector. The crew assisted with changing the oxygen tank and also replacing batteries in the CO detector.
BFPD assisted Hays Market with starting a natural gas powered generator due to a widespread power outage affecting the town. The crew assisted workers on the roof of the building to charge a dead battery to the unit. Once power was restored the crew cleared the scene.
BFPD responded to a commercial fire alarm at Berthoud Elementary. The crew found a light haze coming from the mechanical room. Nothing else was showing in the building. After further inspection, the cause of the smoke was determined to be a malfunction of the air sending units motor. The school maintenance worker arrived on scene and took over the problem.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call alert activation at Hamilton Park Apartments. This was a false alarm triggered by power being restored following a power outage.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call on Hollyberry Street. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a report of two toddlers standing on a roof on Douglas Place. The fire crew raised a ladder to the roof and brought the children safely to the ground and they were returned to their mother.
BFPD responded to a medical call on Doyle Drive. The patient was deceased upon arrival. The scene was turned over to LCSO.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call for breathing problems on 2nd Street. The patient was transported.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call for possible seizures on Bunyan Avenue. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical emergency on LCR 23. The patient was transported.
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call for breathing problems on 5th Street.
BFPD responded to a reported residential structure fire on Schultz Lane. The crew found no signs of fire, but the smoke alarms were sounding. The fire crew found no signs of smoke or fire in the residence. They determined that the smoke alarms needed to be replaced.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to WCR 7 for a report of a female who had been bucked off a horse and was found unconscious. The patient was transported.
BFPD assisted a citizen on 14th Street who had fallen and needed assistance back into his chair.
BFPD responded to a single vehicle rollover on LCR 17. The vehicle sustained minor damage. The driver was transported for further evaluation.
BFPD responded to a reported gas odor on Alpine Avenue. A construction company had hit a gas line causing a leak. The fire crew assisted with evacuation of residents in the area. Once Xcel arrived the line was clamped and residents were able to return to their homes.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call on LCR 21. The patient was declared deceased after resuscitation efforts were determined unsuccessful.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call on 4th Street. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a two-vehicle rollover accident on I-25 at mm 250. There were no injuries reported. The fire crew assisted with traffic control and cleared the roadway of debris.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a request for medical care for a patient in a vehicle on I-25 mm 251 having chest pains. The patient was transported.
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call on E. CR 2.
BFPD responded to a single vehicle rollover accident on I-25 at mm 249. A pickup was found on its side. There were no reported injuries. The fire crew assisted with mitigating hazards and clearing roadway of debris.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call on Villa Lane for a male who had an allergic reaction from bee stings. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a report of a fire alarm at a commercial building on WCR 7. The building was clear with no signs of fire and It was determined to be a false alarm.
BFPD responded to a residential fire alarm on Turner Ave. The crew arrived to the residence and the smoke alarms were sounding but the residence was unoccupied. There were no signs of fire. It was determined to be a result of a faulty detector. The owner was notified and the alarms were reset.
BFPD responded with Berthoud Police and TVEMS to a medical call on 2nd Street.
BFPD responded to a commercial fire alarm at Summit Solutions on WCR7. The crew was met by the manager and reported they were having problems with the system and this was a false alarm.
BFPD assisted a citizen on Indiana Avenue with reigniting their water heater.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call on 2nd Street. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a gas odor in a residence on Welch Avenue. The fire crew did not find any indication of gas in the home. The fire crew advised the homeowner to install a CO detector and they replaced batteries in the smoke detectors.
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call for a person with breathing problems on 2nd Street. The individual was transported.
BFPD responded to a single vehicle rollover accident on Interstate 25 frontage road near mm 249. This was a non-injury accident.
BFPD responded to a single vehicle rollover accident on Interstate 25 at mm 252. The vehicle was found on its top with the single occupant out of the vehicle claiming no injuries.
BFPD responded to a motor vehicle accident on Highway 287 and LCR 4. This was a non-injury accident.
BFPD responded to a single vehicle accident on I-25 at mm 249 on the frontage road. There were no injuries reported.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call at Berthoud Living Center. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a two-vehicle accident on Highway 287. The fire crew assisted with traffic control. The three occupants of the vehicles were uninjured.
BFPD responded to a gas odor near the intersection of Highway 56 and I-25. The fire crew responded and surveyed the area and was unable to locate any odor.
BFPD responded to a reported odor in the area of WCR 3. The fire crew was unable to locate an odor.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call on 1st street for a possible stroke. The patient was transported.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call on Jones Place for a young male who sustained a head injury.
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BFPD assisted a citizen on Franklin Avenue with their smoke detectors.
BFPD responded to a motor vehicle accident on County Road 17 and Highway 287. This rear end collision was a non-injury accident.
BFPD responded to a report of a minor gas leak in a residence on Turner Avenue. The firefighters were unable to locate a reading of carbon dioxide. The crew searched the outside for odors and then cleared the scene.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call for chest pains on Wilfred Road. The patient was transported.
Tuesday, December 1
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call at the Berthoud Living Center.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call for occupants of a vehicle near E. LCR 2 and S. LCR 15.
BFPD responded to a medical call for a patient who had fallen on 8th Street. The patient was complaining of shoulder pain. Patient care was transferred to TVEMS when they arrived.
BFPD responded to a report of power lines down on Elm Drive. The crew found a fire burning at the base of a power pole, in a compost pile, a wood fence, a phone box and some trees. The fire was extinguished. Xcel responded to repair the damage to the power lines.
BFPD responded to a medical call on E. Iowa Avenue for a person with knee pain. Patient care was transferred to TVEMS when they arrived. The fire crew helped with loading the patient for transport.
BFPD responded to an auto vs pedestrian accident on 6th Street Court. The pedestrian was found sitting on the curb unharmed. The driver of the vehicle had fled the scene.
Friday, December 4
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call for a person with seizures on Bruce Drive. The patient was transported.
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call on 1st Street for a patient who had fallen out of a chair.
BFPD and TVEMS responded to a medical call on Yellowstone Road. The patient care was transferred to TVEMS.
BFPD responded to a report of a CO detector alarming in a residence on Arapahoe Drive. The fire crew did not find elevated readings of carbon monoxide in the building. The crew advised the occupant to replace the detector.
BFPD assisted TVEMS with a medical call on Keep Circle for a patient who had fallen. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a single vehicle accident on E. Highway 56. A vehicle was found with heavy damage. on its side, in a fence, against a power pole. The passenger was extricated from the vehicle and transported.
BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call at Berthoud Living Center. The patient was transported.
BFPD responded to a report of a bonfire on WCR5 and Highway 56. The crew found a 25' x 20' slash pile burning. This was an unauthorized burn. The crew remained on scene until the fire was extinguished.
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BFPD responded with TVEMS to a medical call on Welch Avenue. A female had fallen on the concrete and injured her head. The patient was transported.
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Even the bravest and most social three-year-olds can be nervous and hesitant about heading into a new environment with kids they don't know, new adults giving them instructions, and a new space with new processes. At the beginning of this school year, if you have a son or daughter who is ready to enroll in preschool, it's important to prepare them for the change ahead of time. Lil' Rascals Academy and day care in Pembroke Pines, Davie, Cooper City, or Weston want to ensure that there is a smooth transition so that everyone is comfortable and excited about learning. Here are some tips to help ease your child into attending a preschool.
While it's important to not start preparing too early for preschool or day care as this can create an expectancy and build up anxiety, it can help to establish a schedule at home that will mimic a real school schedule. Many children will learn more effectively when there is an existing routine and a daily schedule in place. Waking up at the same time, snack time, play time, and a learning time can give your child structure that will carry on to their time in day care.
Speaking of schedules, routines that are specific to morning and night time are an effective way of getting your child used to a routine. Create a chart with morning tasks including making the bed, getting dressed, eating, brushing teeth and hair, and gathering items that would be necessary for school, as well as night time tasks such as bathing, changing to pajamas, reading a book, and going through a tucking in process. These activities can help children realize what it expected of them.
Many activities at our day care include using scissors, drawing, and coloring. Set up your child for success by using child-friendly scissors to cut paper, use crayons to color, glue to create projects, and play with Play-Doh to create letters. These fun activities will not only help them focus, but will improve hand strength and dexterity so they can play along with other students.
Whether you're planning on attending our Pembroke Pines day care, or another of our locations, plan a time where you can visit the facility and meet the teachers. This will give your child an opportunity to become familiar with the surroundings, making it a much easier transition. If possible, set up a time to view the facility while a class is in session so your child can see what it's like. Show them where certain activities take place, such as reading time, a play room, and the outside.
The biggest fear for many parents is dropping off their child at day care and it results in a fit of crying. This is natural, so don't be afraid if this happens for a few days or even weeks. Be prepared to be as positive as possible to give your child an emotional support. Keep goodbyes short and try not to linger. Sticking around will make leaving even more difficult.
Starting preschool at a day care facility is an exciting time for young students, but they still need some preparation beforehand. Keep things simple and straightforward and everyone will be more than ready to begin this new adventure. For any questions or concerns, contact our day care staff today to learn more about making a smooth transition.


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Q: How to fetch data from a server running on localhost in flutter? I wrote an API in python and I'm running it on http://127.0.0.1:5000.
(Using Flask. Also, I'm currently running it on a development server for testing purposes)
But when I tried to get the response using the http package in Flutter, I got an XMLHttpRequest error.
void api() async {
  const String url = "http://127.0.0.1:5000/dosomething?query=This doesn't work!"; # this is an example
  Response response = await get(url);
  print(response.body); # I'm printing this for testing
}

Note: I have checked the URL too, it works.
What could be the problem? And how to fix it?
Important - The following answers work when I try with an API running on the web (in this case, WorldTimeAPI). But, when I try with my code, it somehow doesn't work. Although it works perfectly fine when I manually test it.
This is a simplified version of my API code -
from flask import Flask, request, jsonify

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/dosomething', methods = ['GET'])
def API():
     result = {}
     result['result'] = user_input = str(request.args['query'])
     return jsonify(result)

A: You have to first import this

import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

then for API call pass your HTTP extension and then pass your body type like post or get
  Future api() async {
    const String url = 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/dosomething?query=This doesn't work!';
    Response response = await http.get(url);  // here i passed http.get
    print(response.body); // You should get your result
  }

A: I'm not sure what function get does, but use http like this:
import 'package:http/http.dart' as http; //Import in the beginning of file

void api() async {
  const String url = 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/dosomething?query=This doesn't work!';
  var response = await http.get(url);
  print(response.body);
}

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Mega Man X is an action-platform video game developed and published by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It was the first Mega Man game for the 16-bit console and the first game in the Mega Man X series, a spin-off to the original Mega Man series that began on the SNES's predecessor, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Mega Man X was released in Japan on December 17, 1993 and was released in both North America and Europe the following year. Taking place a century after the original Mega Man series, Mega Man X is set in a futuristic world populated by both humans and "Reploids", robots capable of thinking, feeling, and growing like their human creators. Because of these complex attributes, many Reploids are prone to destructive, renegade activity and are thereafter referred to as "Mavericks". The plot of the game follows the protagonist X, an android member of a military task force called the "Maverick Hunters". With the help of his partner Zero, X must thwart the plans of Sigma, a powerful Maverick leader wishing to bring about human extinction.

With the transition to more advanced gaming hardware, series artist Keiji Inafune explained that the development of Mega Man X involved reinventing Mega Man through gameplay expansion and a more mature storyline while still maintaining the basic concepts on which the franchise was built. Much like the NES Mega Man games that came before it, Mega Man X is a standard action-platform game where the player takes control of the eponymous character and must complete a set of eight, initial stages in any order desired. Defeating the boss character at the end of each stage grants the player one new weapon that can then be toggled and used at will for the remainder of the game. However, Mega Man X adds a number of new features and makes radical changes to the original gameplay mechanics of previous releases in the series. These include allowing the player to dash along the ground, scale walls, and obtain armor attachments which grant special abilities.

Mega Man X has met with positive reviews for its gameplay, sound, and graphics, as well as its attempt to augment the aging Mega Man franchise. It is considered one of the greatest video games ever made. A longterm commercial success on the SNES, Mega Man X has since been ported to personal computers (PCs) and mobile devices, included in the North American Mega Man X Collection for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2 (PS2), and released on the Virtual Console download service for the Wii, the Wii U, and the New Nintendo 3DS. The game also received a remake on the PlayStation Portable (PSP) titled Mega Man Maverick Hunter X. Nintendo re-released Mega Man X in September 2017 as part of the company's Super NES Classic Edition, and a limited physical re-release for the SNES in celebration of ''Mega Mans 30th Anniversary due for release in September 2018 and published by iam8bit. The game is also included in the Mega Man X Legacy Collection for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC.

Plot

Mega Man X takes place in an unspecified time during the 22nd century (21XX) and approximately 100 years after the original Mega Man series. A human archaeologist named Dr. Cain discovers the ruins of a robotics research facility that had once been operated by the legendary robot designer Dr. Thomas Light. Among the ruins, Cain finds a large capsule which contains a highly advanced robot with human-level intelligence and emotions, and even free will, the likes of which the world has never seen before. Light had wished to instill within his creation reasonable sanity, good nature, and an understanding of the more controversial aspects of human morality. The robot was buried while running a 30-year diagnostic program to ensure these features. Cain spends the next several months studying the robot, who is named "X". Cain decides to duplicate X and, within several months, completes the first "replicate android" or "Reploid", a robot who can think, feel, learn, and grow exactly like a human. Within the year, the design is standardized and Reploids are mass-produced. However, with the free will given to a Reploid comes the possibility of criminal activity; such rogue Reploids are branded as "Mavericks" by law-abiding citizens.

As the public outcry against the few Maverick incidents becomes too great to deny, the government steps in, and under the advice of Dr. Cain, forms an elite military police organization called the "Maverick Hunters". The Hunters are to capture or disable any Reploids that pose a threat to humans, provide damage control at Maverick uprisings, help with disaster recovery, and perform other tasks as needed. To lead this group, Cain designs a very advanced Reploid, thought to be immune to whatever defect causes Mavericks. This robot, named Sigma, heads the Hunters for some time before ultimately becoming a Maverick himself, alongside the vast majority of the other Hunters, most of whom join him out of loyalty. Sigma seizes control of a small island, driving out all human occupants. Claiming that the humans are inferior and that they are limiting the growth and potential of Reploids, he calls for his followers to begin a massive extinction effort. X, guilt-ridden at having helped design such a dangerous race, joins forces with the only other remaining Hunter, Zero, in order to stop Sigma at any cost.

While on a mission involving a Maverick attack on a highway, X encounters Vile, a mercenary Maverick working for Sigma who pilots a mechanized tank called "Ride Armor". Unable to defeat Vile, X is saved at a critical moment by Zero, forcing Vile to retreat. Zero then offers encouragement to the less combat-savvy X after the battle. X proceeds to track down and exterminate eight of Sigma's most powerful Mavericks, then rendezvous with Zero outside Sigma's stronghold. Inside the compound, X finds that Zero has been captured by Vile. Another battle ensues, ending similar to their first meeting with X at Vile's mercy. Zero suddenly breaks free of his restraints, latches onto Vile, and self-detonates, destroying his own body and the Maverick's Ride Armor. Shocked over Zero's sacrifice, X regains his strength and finishes off Vile. Zero encourages his comrade once again, and succumbs to his damage. Now more determined than ever, X fights his way to Sigma, destroys the Maverick leader, and escapes the island fortress as it explodes and sinks. As he returns to base, X reflects on the events that have unfolded, questioning Zero's sacrifice, his own decision to fight, and the ongoing war with the Mavericks. After the credits, a message from Sigma reveals that X merely destroyed a temporary body, and that Sigma's spirit lives on. Sigma then says that he would gather new, stronger bodies to do his bidding, and he would see X soon.

Gameplay

The original Mega Man series on the NES consisted of 2D platform games that focus on run-and-gun gameplay. Mega Man X uses the same basic principles as its precursors but with many added options. The player takes control of the protagonist X, and, after completing an introductory stage, is presented with a stage selection screen that depicts eight boss characters. Each stage is littered with various enemies and hazards and ends with a boss battle against its respective Maverick. Defeating a Maverick allows X to use that Maverick's signature weapon. The player may attempt these eight levels in any order, using weapons gained in one level to overcome challenges in the others, although some bosses will be much easier if challenged after having beat another boss and obtaining their signature weapon.There are certain orders to challenge the eight levels that make it easier for the player. For example, clearing Storm Eagle's aircraft carrier stage will cause electrical outages in Spark Mandrill's power plant stage which removes several hazards throughout the stage. The player can return to the game at a later point using a password system; the password will retain any number of the eight stages cleared and most power-ups.  In certain stages, X can hop inside Ride Armors to fight enemies; ride Armors are bipedal tanks capable of powerful punches.

X's abilities are similar to those in previous Mega Man games, such as running, jumping, and a chargeable arm cannon named the "X-Buster". However, Mega Man X introduces a number of elements not present in the original Mega Man titles. One prominent feature is the ability to scale, slide down, or jump off nearly any wall. Certain stages contain Armor Part Capsules, which display a holographic message from Dr. Light when approached. Each capsule upgrades one of X's body parts—his legs, armor, or helmet, granting the player improved defense (armor), as well as new abilities, like a dash upgrade (legs) and the ability to smash blocks (head). The player can also collect hidden "Heart Tanks" that extend X's maximum life energy and "Sub-Tanks" that can store extra energy for later use. When certain conditions are met, a secret capsule can be unlocked which gives X the ability to perform the "Hadouken", an attack used by characters (Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Sakura, Gouken) from Capcom's Street Fighter series.

Development
Mega Man X was developed by a team at Capcom which had worked on the long-running Mega Man series for the NES. Lead artist Keiji Inafune (credited as a planner as Inemuryar) recounted that the development of Mega Man X required a lot of brainstorming for its storyline and content where the team's goal was to branch out from original Mega Man games while still maintaining their fundamentals. In the original Mega Man series, Inafune typically designed the protagonist while his protégé Hayato Kaji handled the supporting characters. However, their roles were reversed for Mega Man X. Kaji (credited as Rippa H.K) illustrated the protagonist X, but had a difficult time with the initial design. He was presented with much more freedom than he was accustomed with the SNES's larger palette of colors when compared to the NES. Inafune and Kaji worked simultaneously on the various designs for X with different pieces of armor attached. The idea for the armor parts came about because the game was planned during a time when role-playing video games were becoming extremely popular. Inafune felt that Mega Man had always represented a classic action game formula in which the hero earns his defeated enemies' abilities; the armor parts were added to supplement this concept.

Inafune created the character Zero, whom he originally intended to be the game's main, playable protagonist. "When the X series came out, I really wanted to redesign Mega Man," Inafune explained. "I wanted a totally different Mega Man. I'm a designer, a creator; I wanted something new. I didn't want to use the same old Mega Man." Fearing a negative reaction from fans, Zero was ultimately reduced to a role secondary to X. The development team additionally wanted the world of Mega Man X to be much more sophisticated than in the first Mega Man series. They wanted to accomplish this with Zero's "hardcore" personality and the game's antagonist Sigma. As stated by Inafune, the original series' villain Dr. Wily had "a side to him you couldn't really hate". Sigma, however, was written as a once-good character suffering an "unforeseen error" that leads him to be completely evil. The game's story went through several changes during development. Two allies of X, named RX and RY, appeared in previews for the game, but were later taken out. Mega Man X altered the franchise tradition of having themed boss characters with a "Man" moniker by replacing them with anthropomorphic animal-like androids. The art and pixelization for these eight bosses were divided among three illustrators: Inafune did Storm Eagle and Chill Penguin; Kaji did Spark Mandrill, Launch Octopus, and Sting Chameleon; and Kazunori Tazaki (credited as Ikki) did Flame Mammoth, Armored Armadillo, and Boomer Kuwanger. The team was careful in making the bosses distinct from one another in both stature and coloring. Tatsuya Yoshikawa (credited as Tatsunoko), a fourth artist who had recently been hired by Capcom, was given the task of assisting the rest of the team by designing, illustrating, and creating the sprites for the game's minor enemies.

The musical score for Mega Man X was composed by Capcom's Alph Lyla group. Setsuo Yamamoto (credited as Setsuo) was initially the sole composer assigned to the game, and contributed the vast majority of the soundtrack, but four other composers, Yuki Iwai (credited as Sato), Toshihiko Horiyama (credited as Kirry), Yuko Takehara (credited as Yuko) and Makoto Tomozawa (credited as Tomozou), were brought in late in production to help finish the soundtrack. The first three were responsible for one track each. These tracks were Chill Penguin, Password Screen, and Boomer Kuwanger, respectively. Tomozawa wrote two songs, these being Storm Eagle and Spark Mandrill. Iwai and Horiyama would later compose the soundtracks for Mega Man X2 and X4 respectively. The Japanese division of Sony Records published an arranged album featuring ten songs on March 9, 1994. Music using the SNES instrumentals was included as part of the Capcom Music Generation: Rockman X1 ~ X6 soundtrack released by Suleputer in 2003.

The success of the Mega Man series allowed Capcom to continue releasing NES titles well into the 16-bit era. A teaser for an SNES incarnation of the Mega Man series first made its way into a preview of Mega Man 6 in the spring 1993 issue of the Japanese Club Capcom fan magazine. Mega Man X was announced in North America in a March 1993 Game Players magazine interview with Capcom's Senior Vice President Joseph Morici.  The tentatively titled "Super Mega Man" was originally to have a "fairly large memory configuration and a battery backup". The autumn 1993 issue of Club Capcom announced Rockman X for a December 1993 release in Japan, divulged several plot and gameplay details, and showed Zero as a silhouetted "Blues-like character". Leading up to its release, the game was covered by the North American press surrounding the summer 1993 and winter 1994 Consumer Electronics Shows.

Reception and legacy

Mega Man X has been widely acclaimed by critics since its release. Gaming magazines in the United States and Europe including Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM), GamePro, Game Players, Nintendo Power, Super Play, and the German version of Total! consistently lauded the game's visuals, audio, control, and overall gameplay. Game Players summarized Mega Man X as "a near-perfect cart with classic gameplay, excellent graphics and sound and tons of hidden items and power-ups". Nintendo Power stated that the game had "great control and fun" along with "challenging play".

Websites such as IGN, GameSpot, GamesRadar, and 1UP.com retrospectively held Mega Man X as a successful milestone in transitioning the Mega Man series from its increasingly stale existence on the NES to the SNES. Brett Elston of GamesRadar stated, "X was a total reinvention of the series, a perfectly executed update that had fans anticipating its release with a fervor the franchise hadn't seen since the Mega Man 2 and 3 days."

Mega Man X received criticism from some publications as well. Ed Semrad, Danyon Carpenter, and Al Manuel of the EGM review panel all noted that the game may have too low a difficulty level; Semrad disliked the introductory stage and felt that the game was too short as well. Super Play editor Zy Nicholson lowered his review score of the game because he found the levels were neither large nor challenging. "A few elementary tricks like repeating easy sections to recoup energy and weapon power will see you through the harder bits," Nicholson explained. "Within the level you'll also find restart points, extra lives, and no harsh time limit to put pressure on your performance. Couple this with a password system that records your level completion, status and weapon accumulation and you'll see we're not looking at a lasting challenge for the experienced player." Nintendo Power criticized how little the game had changed stating that "the theme remains the same as the Game Boy and NES Mega Man titles."

The game's title initially proved a source of some confusion; the gaming media reported that many gamers mistook the "X" for the roman numeral 10.

Mega Man X was ranked number 58 in Nintendo Power'''s "100 Best Nintendo Games of All Time" in its 100th issue in September 1997, number 103 in the publication's "Top 200 Games" list for its 200th issue in February 2006, and the 11th best SNES game of all time in its August 2008 issue. Both GamesRadar and ScrewAttack listed Mega Man X as the eighth best game in the SNES library. GamePro similarly listed it as the eighth greatest 16-bit video game. Game Informer considered it the 120th best game of all time in its own 200th issue in December 2009. IGN named it the twelfth-best on its own top 100 SNES games list in 2011. In 2018, Complex listed the game 15th on their "The best Super Nintendo Games of All Time."  They felt the game was one of the  best Mega Man X games in the series. In 1995, Total! rated the game 28th on its Top 100 SNES Games.Mega Man X was a commercial success. The SNES version sold 1.165 million copies worldwide , making it the 41st best-selling Capcom game of all time. IGN's Jeremy Dunham speculated that the game's more mature storyline and its inclusion of numerous gameplay extensions over the original Mega Man series helped create a "unique cadre of fans". The game was followed by seven direct sequels and three related titles: Mega Man Xtreme, Mega Man Xtreme 2, and Mega Man X Command Mission. Another video game spin-off series, Mega Man Zero, began in 2002 on the Game Boy Advance handheld as a result of the immense popularity of the character Zero.

Re-releases and remakes

After the SNES version debuted, Mega Man X was ported by Rozner Labs to the IBM PC in 1995 and was packaged with a six-button game controller. Mega Man X received a separate PC release in Japan in 1996. Majesco Entertainment republished the SNES version of the game in 1997. Nintendo also republished the game in Japan on its Nintendo Power cartridge service in 1998. Mega Man X, alongside its next five direct sequels and Mega Man: Battle & Chase, was compiled and made available on the Mega Man X Collection in North America for the Nintendo GameCube and PS2 in 2006.
An enhanced remake titled Mega Man Maverick Hunter X, or  in Japan, was released worldwide for the PSP between 2005 and 2008. With the launch of the PSP, Keiji Inafune and his team debated on whether or not to create a Mega Man X9. "So, we decided that instead of going the X9 route, let's go back to the series' roots and rediscover what makes the X series so classic," Inafune concluded. "We felt that the best way to do that would be to make an X remake." Although the remake stays true to the original game in both gameplay and basic storyline, Maverick Hunter X features a total graphical overhaul with 3D character models and backgrounds, a remixed soundtrack, voice acting, and anime cutscenes. According to Yoshikawa, the character illustrations were updated to resemble both toys and the designs of Mega Man X8.

In addition to these changes, many power-ups in Maverick Hunter X, such as the armor capsules, are relocated to different levels. The remake also has a few extras including an original video animation titled "The Day of Sigma" (which serves as a storyline prequel) and an unlockable mode to play through the game as the character Vile. Inafune implemented this mode to offer players a new perspective on the game through the eyes of a villain, feeling it would be "too obvious and boring" given an option to play as Zero.

Like the original game, Maverick Hunter X has received very positive reviews from critics, accumulating aggregate scores of 82% on GameRankings and 79 out of 100 on Metacritic. Although the game did not meet sales expectations, it was later made available as a download from the PlayStation Network. The Japanese and North American versions were also bundled in a special compilation with Mega Man: Powered Up, a remake of the original Mega Man.

Capcom released a port of Mega Man X onto FOMA and i-mode compatible mobile phones in Japan in 2007. Mega Man X has also been made available for purchase on the Virtual Console service in Japan and North America in 2011 for the Wii, and later in Europe in 2012, as well as for the Wii U in 2013 and the New Nintendo 3DS in 2016. The game was ported to the Android operating system in Japan as a free download on November 18, 2011. Another remake of Mega Man X was released on the Apple iOS (iPhone and iPod Touch) on December 21, 2011. This version is based on the mobile phone version of the game and features touch controls, Game Center support, and a challenge mode with 80 levels. However, this version removed extra life power-ups, and separated the levels into chunks by black screen transitions, as opposed to the continuous scrolling of the original. Weapon and armor upgrades could also be purchased with actual money to ease the game's difficulty.

Nintendo re-released Mega Man X in September 2017 as part of the company's Super NES Classic Edition.Mega Man X was announced for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch as part of Mega Man X Legacy Collection (Rockman X Anniversary Collection in Japan) which was released on July 24, 2018 worldwide and July 26, 2018 in Japan and also possesses an optional high-resolution filter to create higher-resolution graphics for this game. In addition, the Day of Sigma OVA from Maverick Hunter X is available as part of this release,Mega Man X Legacy Collection 1 and 2 launch July 24th  -Capcom Unity which is also available on Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 as well.

A limited physical cartridge re-release was announced in May 2018 published by iam8bit in celebration of Mega Mans 30th Anniversary. The release will be limited to 8,500 copies, with 7,500 produced in opaque light blue cartridges 1,000 in glow-in-the-dark translucent blue, with each color in a random box. The game's instruction booklet will include a foreword by Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil and packaging restoration by Jango Snow Art & Design.

Notes

References

External links
Official Rockman website
Official Irregular Hunter X website

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Android (operating system) games
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    def get_measures(self):
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    def get_rhythm_stat(self, staff_num=None):
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Midnight Screenings: Trespass, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, The Trust
The often forgotten action poet Walter Hill stages kinetic, breathless pulp fiction with this modern-day Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a mixture of action-movie magnetization and post-industrial enervation. It's a near horror-movie visualization of urban strife punched-up with vigorous conviction, if not depth, by Hill's customary style – halfway between knuckle-dusting barn-burner and morality play where the near-amorality of the play is bracing without ever shuttle-cocking into sadistic.
Beckoned on by a mythic, clandestine treasure that turns out to be as much hoosegow as genuine find, the rum punch of the story kick-starts when two Arkansas firefighters hear tell of lost doubloons (well, gold of an equally quixotic caliber) trapped within the remnants of a ramshackle, hollowed-out East St. Louis building surrounded by a cemetery of similar factories and once-gleaming urban icons now little more than a mausoleum to the American Dream, a playground for gangs to lay down their own variant of the law in a society that has largely abandoned them.
Then again, the gangsters aren't so different after all in this screenplay by a pre-Back to the Future Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis (which unfathomably spent ten years in exile before being finally made). Although they appear as specters or hoodlums early on, the black gang fronted by the devilishly coiled king snake Ice-T and the more perturbed Ice Cube (early film roles for both) is treated with the same mix of melodramatic menace and nonchalant, off-the-cuff humanism as the two white buccaneers, played by Bill Paxton and a sadistic William Sadler.
Filmed in the torn-down wide emptiness of clutter and urban malaise that is a pre-Olympics Atlanta, the cinematography turns the building, an everyday marker of broken-down, denied post-industry America and urban emptiness, into something like a haunted house labyrinth containing a mythical treasure that everyone – regardless of race – can't wait to get their hands on. The film isn't exactly actively race-positive, but the rejection of the gangsters as the outright villains positions them as something like homeowners in an invasion film simply looking out for their territory. When conflict erupts, it isn't because the African Americans torture the whites, but because the whites believe the gold – which they live hours from, unlike the gang – is rightfully theirs.
The gold itself more or less occupies a corollary space to the gangsters as forgotten phantoms that most whites treat with a mixture of assumed ownership or disinterest. That other people might occupy the same geographic region – and the same forgotten, tucked-away social status – as the gold doesn't even interrupt the thoughts of these two firefighters. And it is ultimately this crisis of racial blindness and a failure to communicate, rather than racial hatred, that stokes the fire of a B-movie tragedy that Sam Fuller might have appreciated in his day.
Ultimately, though, everyone in the film – regardless of appearance – is equally prey to the predation of America's greatest fortune or foe: money. It's, essentially, a classic tale as old as dirt, of men of all walks of life united in their ability to be thrown into bad situations and their corruptible desires to move out of those situations. Rather shockingly, it isn't a story of two white crackers besieged by inner-city hoods. The only thing all-American about Paxton and Sadler is their embrace of the magnetism of money in a film that essentially shifts and swivels between perspectives with equal validity and empathy, if not real "sympathy" – something Hill has never especially been interested in – but his hard-scrabble tale bears an odd resemblance to his The Warriors, Southern Comfort, and 48 Hrs, all stories with race waiting and lurking in the wings even as it isn't the central focus.
In a vaguely post-racial way, the film proposes that the inner cities are, like anywhere in America, hot-beds of discontent and people with a craving in their eyes to rise above their surroundings. A modern-day Western, the film discovers in the inner city a frontier that once was, and may still be in spirit, a location where people exert their all to pursue opportunity, sometimes trampling on the lives of others in the process. Unlike Southern Comfort, the gangsters aren't unclassified, unseen "others" but men trying to protect their own – the leader's brother is hostage to the two white men – in a fable of elegant simplicity and straightforwardness, a world where everyone is equally a soul to suck out in the eyes of gold.
In the final wink, following but not foreclosing the shudder we've become privy to, the gold returns to the only man who really valued the down-trodden building as a beacon of life, or at least a stop-gap on the way to a certain demise, rather than simply as a circumstantial abode for gold. In the conclusion, the afflictions of greed and racial attrition are literalized as a self-propagating fire where the only escape is learning to weave in and out like a snake, not only within fire but within the mortal terror of a society hell-bent on rushing to its own success. In this story, the one who succeeds is the one who plays the others, the one who sneakily disrupts the status quo with an ostensible timidity and a secret cunning, the invisible one who utilizes the knife in the back rather than the axe to the head, the very man we are trained by middlebrow, middle-class norms not to look at, or even acknowledge he exists.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Recanting even the semi-logical cinematic jubilance of his coming-up-party Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico is writer-director Robert Rodriguez's nearly full-barreled reverie of animated cowboy gallantry, a tour-de-force of not caring. Denied the pit-stop of reason, Rodriguez speeds ahead until his film gloriously sputters out of control and, with a smirk, he tilts the narrative pile-up of unnecessary subplots and characters into a fracas of mayhem where the very point seems to be how arbitrary all of these characters actually are. His big-budget break was Desperado, a loose predecessor to this film, but if Desperado was more or less content to play around within action movie charisma, Once Upon a Time in Mexico feels less like his big break than his big breakdown. Whether or not that communicates a sense of derision or attraction to you is your prerogative, but don't say it isn't a recipe for a distinctive film.
The almost comically loose narrative would be impossible and useless to explain in a review, as explanation would be both more credit than the film deserves and somehow a way of actually discrediting its bon vivant razzamatazz that, honestly, has no use for a more diligent story that would only codify a film that is by and large crystallized by cartoon physics. The finale, a sudden-onset Mexican folk song where three pistol-whipping guitarists and raffish mariachi types save the day, is not only tongue-in-cheek, but tongue-ripped-out. The film can't talk to us, to try to convince us that any of it is worth a dime, mostly because, deep down, Rodriguez's crazed and cacophonous projection is more interested in raising a ruckus and enjoying the party than in making sure his audience was invited to the conversation about what is going on.
Case in point: Rodriguez is clearly infatuated with his acquisition of Johnny Depp, perhaps only for Rodriguez to flaunt his own name-brand status, as though reminding us over and over that he is a sufficient auteur to check A-listers like Depp off on his "to cast" list. Depp's presence in the film is narratively irrelevant, tenuous at best; he intrudes on the film like a matador trying to wrangle a rampaging bull of a film and only succeeding in rankling the beast further. That Depp doesn't belong in the film, though, is an animating principle for Rodriguez's rough-hewn, uncanny, antic wit, dousing the character in an inebriated take on a Faustian bargain and parading him around uninhibited through the streets of Mexico City now de-eyed (yes, you read that right) and fashioning himself into a playing-all-sides Eli Wallach to Antonio Banderas' Man With No Name.
Depp is the ricocheting spitball, the lone-wolf for whom a team is a temporary circumstance rather than a marker of infatuated allegiance. In Rodriguez's pile-on of Tex Avery and Chuck Jones, Johnny Depp's character can be Bugs, Daffy, even the Road Runner striding by a film that is Wile E. Coyote, trying to impede on him with toy after toy until Rodriguez's one-stop ACME shop just swirls the character up into its try-and-try-again insouciance where anything goes and we go along for the ride. Once Upon a Time is a fable, a parody of a fable, and an excuse for the director to have a ball sans expectation; insurrection and mutiny against the malady of conventionally good filmmaking is itself the purpose here. In what is undeniably a rust-bucket or a claptrap, the raffish zeal of the picture to go for melodrama with such loopy mental dislocation is endearing even when the film shifts from spinning around in kaleidoscopic circles to merely spinning its wheels. Even when it fails, it fails with such gusto that it succeeds.
The 21st century model Nicolas Cage, by and large, is a two-version creature. On one hand, we have the turgid action thriller lurking around every corner of the VOD landscape, threatening us with rummaging up reminders of Cage's once halcyon days. The other, more rarefied, luxury-model is the protoplasmic outré hysteria vintage Cage that one searches for with an Ahab-like intensity and monomania, cutting through the jungles of the lesser deities with a machete as sharp as Cage's razor-wire insanity. The Trust, a spry, lithe, genuinely undemanding passer-by, proposes a sort of third-way: borrowing the thawed-out barely-trying of the former Cage and the all-hands-on-deck insanity of the second variety for a mixture of bored and restless, miasma and carousel, a character whose life feels like a terrible VOD thriller suddenly enlivened by an insurgence of pandemonium.
An essentially pointless film that has a lot of fun being itself, The Trust is a garden-variety heist picture enlivened by an almost baroque commitment to the ticks and eccentricities of the two fugitives at its core. A little caffeinated by music video directors Alex Brewer and Ben Brewer in their debut feature film, this amusingly dysfunctional film is a hodge-podge more than a crystallized edict, a grease-painted monstrosity that isn't exactly fully-formed but never sediments into still-water because of its generally plucky nonchalance about its clandestine, slantwise weirdness.
Playing two Las Vegas cops with an evidence-collection job, Nicolas Cage and Elijah Wood more or less embody the waste-the-day-away slacker spirit so thick-on-the-ground twenty years ago and more content to wait in the wings of generally more manic films released today. The restful, almost placid, tone of the film that recalls those mid-'90s delights is a refresher course in cinema with an eye for tangents and ostensibly pointless moments that don't advance narrative but instead corroborate character or flex the fluctuations of mood. When the two lovable loners discover a diamond-mine locked in a store, they invade the hostile thief den overhead and tunnel down under in hopes of locating their piece of the American Apple Pie. Or, considering the prickly tone of the film, maybe a lemon tart in this case. You get the picture.
It's basically a light character piece about an agent and a passive understudy muscled around by Daddy Cage, who himself evolves along the Cage spectrum from genially discombobulated soul to disquietingly, disturbed, discombobulated soul with a Cageian charisma and aplomb. He restively discomforts the screen without having to turn himself into a Pavaroti-like bucket of electrons like he usually does; it's good Cage, but not pandering Cage, and although pandering is what the man has singularly elevated into an artform over the years, The Trust is a nice, shaggy-dog accompaniment to David Gordon Green's Joe for a more unassuming later-period work from an actor who still has the moxie when he wants to. Cage's unique brand of artifice, buried deep in concerns about social identity and the performance of one's external self, finds Cage burrowing within himself to exhume the underground layers of our beings and bring them all to the glorious surface. This isn't a great film, merely a passable diversion. But for Cage, it's an escape plan.
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Tian Tian Xiang Shang
The inspirational, conceptual comic exhibition and cross-cultural program Tian Tian Xiang Shang 天天向上 (TTXS) by renowned international artist Danny Yung, debuts in Singapore. The exhibition promises to be an exciting cross-sector and multidisciplinary display of art and creativity.
To literally mean 'looking up every day', TTXS was created in the 1970s by Danny Yung, the coartistic director and founding member of Zuni Icosahedron, and one of the most influential artist and cultural figures in Hong Kong and greater Asia who has been recognised internationally for his lifetime contribution to the arts and cultural exchanges. TTXS started out as a conceptual comic about a curious little boy, Tian Tian, who is always asking questions, and refusing to be a model student just focused on his books. Tian Tian's white three-dimensional body represents a blank piece of paper full of possibilities that people can write or draw on to express their thoughts, ideas and emotions. It also represents a platform for discussion, engagement and creativity.
For over a decade, the TTXS project has travelled to and has been represented in major cities like Tokyo, Seoul, Milan, Vancouver and Paris, to name a few. It has also been invited to prominent cultural institutions and events around the world such as the TODAY ART MUSEUM – Beijing, Museum of Contemporary Art – Shanghai, and the world-famous Smithsonian Folklife Festival – Washington DC.
From 28 July to 21 August 2017, Raffles City will be transformed into a major public art space, with more than a thousand Tian Tian figurines of varying sizes, displayed around the mall at Level 1.
Venue: Raffles City Level 1, Singapore
When: 28 Jul - 21 Aug 2017,
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Demand for greater security since September 11 has fuelled overseas sales of a Hamilton-made network-monitoring device.
Endace Measurement Systems' DAG range of PCI-based PC cards can be used for network monitoring, traffic characterisation, packet content capture and intrusion detection.
In the mid-1990s Waikato University computing and mathematical sciences dean Professor Ian Graham reprogrammed a network interface card as a low-cost way of capturing real-world data on network traffic.
Endace, which has commercialised the subsequent product, claims NASA, France Telecom, Sprint and the US-based National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) among its 40 customers. The company says these include the military, research organisations, ISPs and telcos, including three of the world's largest.
September 11 brought a change in buying behaviour, says Endace, which claims a "hell of a lot" of subsequent enquiries from customers wanting to be able to look at the content of full packets for the security of a network, company or country.
Overseas organisations, mostly in the US, increasingly want to know how their network is behaving, its transit times, delays and network intrusion, says Endace. They want to identify denial of service attacks and capture 100% of the data going through the network for storage and later analysis.
Endace's turnover is expected to top $10 million in 2002–03, treble what was budgeted for the previous year. And such is the demand that Endace manages without overseas-based sales forces, selling almost all its stock through the internet.
Endace chief executive Selwyn Pellett says the DAG cards — given the colloquiallism because they hang off the network, though overseas the term officially stands for data acquisition and generation — include a field programmable gate array, an integrated circuit that can be programmed after manufacture.
Endace says it provides the ability to capture full network packets sent across networks at up to 2.5Gbit/s. It reports all of its cards have been sold overseas to date, suggesting that domestic organisations don't have systems running at high enough speeds to benefit from them and the country doesn't have the same level of security issues.
Pellet says Endace is developing a number of network surveillance products.


Me: Auggs, could you please get your shoes on? (Auggie runs out of room).
Me: Right. So about those shoes? And did you put jammies back on?!
Auggie: I'm Boots and Bonner!
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Auggie: Do you want a hat too??
I think it's safe to say, 8 might be my favorite age.
This year has marked some big confidence growth for Miss. B. I didn't see it coming so when it plopped down in front me, I was left in awe. Watching her stroll into the first swim team practice of the season like a seasoned professional – no tears, no arguments – and literally dive in, was amazing.
She waltzed into a new camp with the same attitude. I was intimidated by the other kids, but not Baylor. She was by far the kid with the least dance experience and sadly her mother's gymnastic skills, and not only did that not stop her, she wasn't fazed in the slightest. She happily danced along the way she wanted to and at the end of the week announced "camp was fine. But I like the way I dance better".
I hope for the rest of your life, you always like the way you dance better, B Baby.