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Miscellaneous Movie Musings: Part XVII
Tags: Au Hasard Balthazar, Bill Sikes, Charles Dickens, Disney, Frank Capra, GK Chesterton, IFI, Marvel, MCU, Robert Bresson, Steven Spielberg, Twin Peaks: The Return, Uriah Heep
As the title suggests, so forth.
A supposedly fine film I'll never view again
I keep coming back of late to a thought by GK Chesterton that I can't seem to pin down anywhere in his voluminous writings. In which he said he didn't mind how far an artist dipped the human soul into the mire so long as he didn't break the mechanism. Well, Robert Bresson, J'accuse! You have broken the mechanism, and on purpose. I staggered out of Au Hasard Balthazar in the IFI this week considering that one ought not to praise excessive cynicism in art, because it is merely the other side of the coin of excessive sentimentality. If you want to criticise Spielberg or Capra or Dickens for sentimentality, that is to say painting in black and white with outrageous villains and suffering heroes, and no grey area of nuance, then you must also criticise Bresson for painting in black and black with outrageous villains and suffering jackasses (literally in this case) without any silver lining, a portrait painted entirely in black lacks also grey nuance, it is merely a picture of pitch. The rapist, thief, and murderer Gerard outdoes anything Dickens presents in Uriah Heep or Bill Sikes. He is pure evil, he inflicts suffering because he enjoys watching people and animals in pain, except that his blank face doesn't seem to register much enjoyment of it. I have no idea what Bresson was getting at it in presenting Gerard's rampage of brutality in southern France. And no interest in thinking more about this movie in order to find out.
The Wasp cries to be implicated in such mendacity
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
Kevin Feige et al boasted at Comic-Con yesterday that Avengers: Endgame had just beaten Avatar to become the most popular movie ever. No, it didn't. Because they didn't adjust for inflation. It's a lie. It's not that hard to adjust for inflation, go to boxofficemojo.com and then plug the relevant figures into westegg.com/inflation/. It shouldn't take you even two minutes. If you would be happy to never have your salary adjusted for inflation then by all means repeat this Marvel talking point. (Which is a lie.) If not…
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-endgame-passes-avatar-become-no-1-film-all-time-1225121
What is a film?
This may sound rather like a film critic having an existential crisis but it seems like a rather pertinent question now that we're drawing the curtain on two decades of the 21st Century. Not least because the idea that Twin Peaks: The Return is one of the best films of the 2010s seems to collapse all ideas into gibberish. The idea that a film is real physical action captured in camera on a piece of celluloid, with additional material added to it later as it's assembled into a coherent assemblage of images, before being run thru a projector and by flickering light taking up a huge space in a public place where an audience of strangers sit without interruption for 2 hours to watch a story that only needs 2 hours of motion doesn't seem to hold true anymore – it's a very 20th Century notion. What is a film now? By the year 2030 we might have to define it as something released by Disney into cinemas where disruptive, almost exclusively under-20s, audiences play with their phones while flickering light projects a digital record of a semi-coherent assemblage of digitally animated landscapes populated by digitally animated characters with occasional humans interspersed to keep the pretence that the digitally animated action unfolding onscreen means something. And as many of these pieces of art (sic) will not be remotely self-contained stories within 2 hours, the MCU having revived the idea of the matinee serial but made it into the main attraction, that won't even hold true for a definition of this brave new world.


Even though Blake is sick as a dog, that is not going to stop him from going to work. Rita goes from showing concern to enjoying killing Blake. I guess the prospect of millions will do that to you. Blake is so ill he cannot focus moving forward with the pipeline. It does not help that the focusing camera work makes it appear that Blake is having blurred vision. Blake cannot handle any more at a meeting with Dominique and Adam. Dominique agrees to take over and Blake puts her in charge.
It's good running the show.
Dominique does manage to have a meeting with Jonathan as head of Denver Carrington. She wants to correct things in his deposition. By the way, Dominique totally was not holding a deposition - those are lengthy transcripts. This looks more like an affidavit. No matter. Jonathan uses the opportunity to tell Dominique that he adores her (again). But, the two will just keep it strictly business.
Adam does not seem too concerned that Dominique is in charge even though that is his dream. He is going to get Blake to give him power of attorney. Lesson to everyone - do not show any illness around Adam because he will make you sign something for his benefit. Once Adam gets Blake to sign the document, Adam tells Claudia she does not need to be in Oklahoma to get title to that well. Claudia does not care. Adam is pissed and hangs up on her. Who cares? Adam can taste Denver Carrington.
Alexis is concerned about Blake's illness for several reasons and maybe one of them is altruistic. The main one, however, is that she does not want Dominique running the show. What does Dominique know about running an oil company? She lacks Alexis's vast knowledge that has been all of about three years. Dominique refuses to deal with Alexis as equals. Adam, on the other hand, assures his mother that he will gently push his aunt aside and run the pipeline deal on behalf of Denver Carrington. Alexis, of course, wants to run it herself.
I kind of wish that Galen and Michael get their country back just so they can leave Denver. Galen continues to plot and drain Alexis of her money, which does not sit well with Dex. Michael, meanwhile, is working too closely with Elena for Amanda's good. Amanda agrees to let Michael work with Elena, but she does not want to see her. So, what does Michael do? Invites Elena to have dinner with them. Amanda confronts Elena in the bathroom and Elena acts as if she is doing all of this out of shame, not for the love of Michael. In the end, Elena wins out on Michael's attention now that an entire cell has been snuffed out.
Caress arrives in Denver and she heads to the newspaper morgue to get all the research she can on Alexis from the last five years. Of course the place is run by some old queen who is in love with Alexis. He fills Caress in about Blake's murder trial and Alexis's marriage to Cecil on his deathbed. It seems that no one knows for sure that Alexis married Cecil moments before he died - just a lot of rumors. Caress is intrigued. Caress does have a close call at La Mirage but is able to escape before Alexis spotted her.
Joel is getting Krystle ready to bring to South America. Krystle is trying to get details so she can plot out her escape, but Joel is one step ahead of her. Joel is also several steps ahead of Rita and provides her with the final poison that will kill Blake. Rita administers the poison in his tea which she forces him to drink while he is lying in bed.
Joel is not that far ahead of Sammy Jo, however. Sammy Jo knows something is up and that her plan has gotten out of control since she never wanted anyone to get hurt. Sammy Jo learns that the poison Rita had been giving Blake was to slow his heart. Rita finally breaks down and admits to Sammy Jo that she and Joel are going to kill Blake. Sammy Jo rushes to tell Steven that Blake is going to be killed.
As Rita goes up the steps of the mansion, a very sick Blake reaches out to her for help, but Rita moves away. Blake collapses and rolls down the stairs. Out cold, Rita just ignores the dying Blake and continues up the stairs. Steven and Sammy Jo arrive at that moment (Rita hides) and Steven tries to save his father. Sammy Jo, meanwhile, sees the peeping Rita.
Steven arrives just in time - and where is the staff when you need them?
Alexis: You better look behind you because I'll be looking over your shoulder every step of the way.
Dominique: That is your privilege, Alexis, but please remember, I'm used to working with a knife in my back.
Adam: Well she's gone. I think she was staring at you.
Alexis: It's not unusual, Adam. People do.


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Resolved dust emission in a quasar at z = 3.65
Clements, D. L. and Petitpas, G. and Farrah, D. and Hatziminaoglou, E. and Babbedge, T. and Rowan-Robinson, M. and Pérez-Fournon, I. and Hernán-Caballero, Antonio and Castro-Rodríguez, Nieves and Lonsdale, C. and Surace, J. and Franceschini, A. and Wilkes, B. J. and Smith, H. (2009) Resolved dust emission in a quasar at z = 3.65. Astrophysical Journal, 698 (2). L188-L191. ISSN 0004-637X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20090807-153003396
We present submillimeter observations of the z= 3.653 quasar SDSS 160705+533558 together with data in the optical and infrared. The object is unusually bright in the far-IR and submillimeter with an IR luminosity of ~10^14 L_☉ . We ascribe this luminosity to a combination of active galactic nucleus (AGN) and starburst emission, with the starburst forming stars at a rate of a few thousand solar masses per year. Submillimeter Array imaging observations with a resolution ~1'' show that the submillimeter (850 μm) emission is extended on scales of 10- 35 kpc and is offset from the optical position by ~10 kpc. This morphology is dissimilar to that found in submillimeter galaxies, which are generally unresolved or marginally resolved on arcsecond scales, or submillimeter-luminous AGNs where the AGN lies at the peak of the submillimeter or molecular emission. The simplest explanation is that the object is in the early stages of a merger between a gas-rich galaxy, which hosts the starburst, and a gas-poor AGN-host galaxy, which is responsible for the quasar emission. It is also possible that jet-induced star formation might contribute to the unusual morphology.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/698/2/L188 DOI Article
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1538-4357/698/2/L188/ Publisher Article
Clements, D. L. 0000-0002-9548-5033
Farrah, D. 0000-0003-1748-2010
Surace, J. 0000-0001-7291-0087
© 2009 American Astronomical Society. Print publication: Issue 2 (2009 June 20); received 2009 March 10; accepted for publication 2009 May 11; published 2009 June 5. This work was funded in part by PPARC/STFC and NASA. The Submillimeter Array is a joint project between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is funded by the Smithsonian Institution and the Academia Sinica. The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope is operated by The Joint Astronomy Centre on behalf of the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and the National Research Council of Canada. Data were taken as part of JCMT project M05AU24. The authors thank Joe Silk, George Bendo, and Pierre Chanial for useful discussions and the anonymous referee whose comments have significantly improved the paper.
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galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: interactions; galaxies: starburst; quasars: individual (SDSS 160705+533558); submillimeter

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Schofield man, woman face multiple drug charges after search of home
A search warrant following a chase and suspicious behavior result in police finding drugs, guns in Schofield residence.
Schofield man, woman face multiple drug charges after search of home A search warrant following a chase and suspicious behavior result in police finding drugs, guns in Schofield residence. Check out this story on wausaudailyherald.com: https://wdhne.ws/2BF1YC5
Mitchell A. Skurzewski, Wausau Daily Herald Published 12:20 p.m. CT Aug. 24, 2018
Lawrence Lavergne Jr.(Photo: Marathon County Sheriff's Office)
SCHOFIELD - A 36-year-old Schofield man and a 30-year-old Schofield woman are facing multiple drug charges and a charge of possession of a firearm after police conducted a search warrant of their residence earlier in August.
According to police, the charges for Lawrence Lavergne Jr. and Kimberly Sisson include: possession with intent to deliver, possession of firearm by a felon and possession of drug paraphernalia for Lavergne, as well as fleeing an officer; and possession of marijuana maintaining a drug trafficking house, possession of a firearm and possession of drug paraphernalia for Sisson.
At 3 a.m. July 9, an officer was driving near Neupert Avenue and Normandy Street in Weston when the officer observed a vehicle idling in front of an apartment building, according to a Marathon County criminal complaint. The officer followed the Chevy Trailblazer and saw more "suspicious behavior," and he attempted to stop the vehicle. However, the operator of the vehicle sped up and the officer stopped chasing the car, according to the complaint.
Kimberly Sisson (Photo: Marathon County Sheriff's Office)
Another officer spotted the vehicle but the vehicle took off again. The vehicle eventually crashed into a car that was parked on the road. A short time later, officers located the abandoned Trailblazer, and it had significant damage to the front end.
Officers found the driver's license of Lavergne under the driver's seat; they discovered he had an outstanding felony warrant. There was another ID in the vehicle belonging to Sisson, according to the complaint.
Officers found fresh food purchased at Kwik Trip inside the vehicle and went to watch video surveillance at the convenience store, according to the complaint. The surveillance showed Lavergne making the purchases and getting into the Trailblazer just minutes before the chase.
About a month later after watching the surveillance video and conducting garbage searches of the residence, the Marathon County Sheriff's Department of Special Investigations searched a trailer that Lavergne and Sisson lived in on the 1700 block of Spring Street. Along with a firearm and ammunition found in his car during the search warrant, police found marijuana and cocaine in the home, according to the complaint.
Police found a shotgun with magazines of ammunition in a car belonging to Lavergne; they also found a glass pipe, marijuana, a scale, and a 9 mm handgun. Police also found over 400 grams of marijuana in the house and white powdery substance in a shoe, according to the criminal complaint.
If convicted, Sisson faces about 20 years in prison and more than $45,000 in fines. Lavergne faces over 20 years in prison and over $45,000 in fines. Both face even more time in jail due to being repeat offenders, police records show.
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For a few job-chasing years I have had limited studio space, thus the need to forgo large format painting & drawing, or what I sometimes like to think of as my real work. I now have several small series, some that seem like straight illustration, some that seem more appropriate for kids' rooms, and some lone cowboys.
Anyway, this is what happens when your 1300 sq. ft. warehouse space/studio morphs into a rental cabin in the woods or you decide to briefly pursue another grad degree because you realize an MFA is kind of like a 2nd English degree. The little works are a different, tighter process, and I'm now trying to translate some of that into oil and charcoal. You know, the real work. It's funny how artists get hung up on serious vs. commercial, as if there was some real difference in the end. Sometimes the doodles want to be paid attention to as well.


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Torin Pocock was born in Oxford, UK in 1992, where he grew up before leaving home aged 18. Prior to attending university, he traveled the US, Africa, Fiji and Vietnam. During this time, he decided that acting and presenting were what he would pursue as a full time career. However, coming from the academic backdrop of Oxford, he first attended the University of Birmingham where he studied for a degree in Political Science and Philosophy.
Following graduation, he began taking acting classes in Los Angeles and London with Anthony Meindl, and soon began landing roles in feature films. He has since worked in television, feature film and many short films as well as commercial campaigns for brands such as O2.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2017), Feature Film, Blockade Runner, Gareth Edwards
City of Tiny Lights (2017), Feature Film, Barman, Pete Travis
Prisoner (2017), Short Film, Bertram Ackermann, Kyle Jay
Still Timothy (2017), Short Film, MC DENZ, David Owootomo
Par (2017), Short Film, Dean, Henry Pickup
At Dawn (2016), Short Film, Lieutenent Barnes, Phil Stubbs
Battle of the Somme Centenary (2016), Charity Film, Tom, Louisa Wells
Sleepless Nights and City Lights (2016), Short Film, Buckley, Conner Pearce
Room to Rent (2016), Short Film, Nicholas, Scarlett Garland
The Mirror (2016), Short Film, Mark, Marta Palamidessi
Game of Death (2016), Short Film, Marko, Matthew Stallard
Proposals (2016), Short Film, Dr Jonathan Craen, Lee Chao
The Crown, Series 2 (2017), Netflix Series, Sergeant, Stephen Daldry
999 Killer on the Line (2016), C&I Network, Officer Martin, T. J. Sherbrooke
Made in Chelsea (2013), TV Series, Mark Francis' Footman, E4
ANTHEMIC (2017), Online & TV, Model, Ministry of Sound
En Route (2017), Online, Airline Passenger, EyeEye Media
Making Memories Magic (2016), Online, Groom, Magic Works Media Ltd
OISE Promo (2016), Online, Student, Oxford Digital Media
O2 Touch (2015), Online, O2 Ambassador, Jokoh Visual
Two and a Half Men (2013-), Lead presenter/producer, BURN FM
BMQs (2013), Presenter, BURN FM
David Lloyd Leisure - Service Excellence (2016), Corporate, Gym Staff Member, Stefan Georgiou
Baronics Bar (2014), DVD, Presenter, iVideo Production
The Tab Does Bodypower (2013), Journalism, Presenter, The Tab
Anthony Meindl Actor's Workshop (AMAW), London - 2013 onwards
Performing Shakespeare Outdoors, Creation Theatre Oxford - Youth Training


Perfect for the great breakaway to relax.
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Fantastic, I'm totally blown away by the service here at Elephant Guest House, thanks Ronel for a great experience.
It's the perfect solution for our business, easy to book a room and they always make my stay feel welcome.


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Boris Johnson: UK will 'easily cope' with no-deal Brexit
The British Prime Minister met Donald Tusk, the European Council President, at the G7 summit on Sunday
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the country could 'easily cope' with a no-deal Brexit. EPA/IAN LANGSDON
Jack Dutton
Britain will have no trouble coping with a no-deal Brexit, the country's Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday at the G7 summit in France.
After a round of talks in Biarritz, a town in the South of France, Mr Johnson said the chances of securing a new deal with the EU were improving.
He met Donald Tusk, the European Council President, at the summit on Sunday, after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel last week.
Mr Tusk told the British leader that the EU is open to alternatives to the backstop, which seeks to prevent the return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland by provisionally keeping the UK in the Customs union with the EU.
Despite signs that the EU was open to alternative arrangements, Mr Johnson said that the chances of a Brexit deal were "touch and go".
"It depends very much on our ability to co-operate and the common sense of our friends, EU leaders," he said.
Following talks with the UK leader, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was "convinced" Mr Johnson would deliver Brexit.
When he was running for prime minister, Mr Johnson said that the odds of a no-deal outcome were a million to one.
A leak of Downing Street's no-deal preparations, called Operation Yellowhammer, last week suggests the government would struggle to cope with crashing out of the EU and forecasts shortages of food and medicine.
British government braces for a no-deal Brexit
Banksy's anti-Brexit Dover mural covered in white scaffolding
But Mr Johnson sought to allay concerns of a shortage of supplies, saying that the government could guarantee there would not be a shortage of medicine in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
But he gave a warning that there would probably be unforeseen circumstances after Britain left the bloc.
During a breakfast meeting with Mr Johnson in Biarritz earlier on Sunday, US President Donald Trump raised the prospect of a "very big trade deal" with the UK, saying that such an agreement would happen quickly.
But Mr Johnson said that the US must open up its markets to British investment if a post-Brexit trade deal was going to be agreed on.
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As I already mentioned in The First post, my main interest is the evolutionary computation, so I decided I'll write about some basics of it.
Because evolution is in fact a sort of optimisation, what that one actually is? Generally, optimisation is a process of developing or tuning a solution to some problem such that the solution is as good as we can get.
... and the winner is... \(x = 1\)!
We might want to systematically try some points, e.g. in a grid, or pick them randomly and try luck... but what if the process of getting \(f(x)\) is expensive? What if \(x\) is a set of parameters of an aerodynamical body and evaluating \(f(x)\) means physically manufacturing the body and testing it in a wind tunnel? It is clear that we have to find some clever way of exploring the space of \(x\).
Believe it or not, natural evolution is a process of optimisation. What is the \(x\) and \(f(x)\) then? Well, in nature, \(x\) is the DNA that determines the organism (very simplified) and \(f(x)\) is the success of the particular organism of surviving and reproducing in the given environment. So natural evolution optimizes the organisms to surivive and reproduce well in the environment; it seeks the "solution" to the life in the environment.
Nature is, generally, quite successful in finding good solutions. We mimick nature all the time (insect-like robots, bat-like sonar...) and evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are no exception.
Genetic Algorithm (GA) is one particular type of EA. There are others but GA is probably the most famous and the one being extended and based upon the most. So how does the GA fit to the EA structure described above?
In GA, the genotype of a solution, or \(x\), is a string of 0s and 1s of predefined fixed length (depends on the problem we are solving).
Genotype is the representation of the solution in the evolution. In natural evolution it's the DNA. In GA it's the binary string.
Phenotype is the "thing" encoded by the genotype, the solution itself. In natural evolution it's the organism. In GA it's some solution to the problem we are solving, e.g. that aerodynamical body I mentioned earlier.
Genotype-phenotype mapping is the process of translating the genotype to a phenotype. Don't ask me to explain what does this mean in nature, I'm not a biologist :). Properties and aspects of this mapping may greatly influence the performance of GA (or any EA, in fact).
The population is a fixed-sized collection of solutions (the right word would be genotype but most of the time the difference is not important so I'll use solution or individual).
Selection is the crucial part of the algorithm. That's the part "where it all happens". Selection's job is to pick such individuals from \(P\) which are better than the others but in a non-greedy way. One of the most widely used selection strategies is the Tournament selection.
Generating children from parets is done by crossover. In general, crossover is a process of combining the genotypes of two (or more) parents to create a genotype of one (or more) child. One of the most simple (and also the most widely used) crossover strategy is the One-point (or single-point) crossover.
Mutation is the second crutial part of the algorithm (together with crossover). It's the part where new genetic material is created. Mutation consists of a small random change in the genotype. The easiest and the most simple mutation is just to randomly pick one (or more) bits and flip their values.
The last two steps, that are putting children back into \(P\) and killing some individuals in \(P\), are usually bound together. In a so-called generational GA, the process of selecting parents, crossing them over to children and mutating the children is repeated until there is a number of children equal to the size of \(P\) and then the \(P\) is discarded and replaced with the generated children. On the other hand, in a so-called steady-state GA, only a few parents are selected (usualy just enough so that crossover can be performed) producing only a few children (defined by the crossover method). These few children are mutated and then they are put back into \(P\) such that the size of \(P\) remains the same. This means that some individuals must be killed. The strategy of chosing those individuals is called replacement strategy and has to be chosen. A very simple strategy might be just killing the worst individual(s).
Both the crossover and mutation are usually applied probabilistically, i.e. there is a predefined probability (chosen by the user) of two parents being subject to crossover (if they are not, they are usually just copied so that the children are identical to their parents) and another probability (also chosen by the user) of a child being subject to mutation. Crossover probability is usually rather high (0.8 is a usual value) while the mutation probability is usually very low (e.g. 0.01 per bit).
GA is definitely the only EA in town. I also only scratched the surface. The Evolution in a Computer is probably going to become a little mini-series covering some aspects of evolutionary computation. In the next post I'll write about other EAs which are more suitable for continuous problems. And also await a post about evolutionary programming! But it is really too early for that one.


Bandai Namco has shared some new details on Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom today. While Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom was initially set for a release in 2017, it has been delayed to early 2018. The game is finally available for pre-order today on the PlayStation Network and there are two different editions of the game available to pre-order.
The digital pre-order for Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom comes with its own free goodies including an Avatar set and Pre-Order theme on the PS4. The pre-order exclusive items are also available for the regular edition of the game in addition to the Deluxe Edition.
The following items are a part of the digital pre-order for Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom on the PlayStation Store.
The Deluxe Edition also has Season Pass included with it in addition to various in-game pre-order exclusive items.
If you are interested in pre-ordering Ni No Kuni 2, you can either pre-order the standard edition at $59.99 or the Digital Deluxe edition at $79.99.
Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom is set to launch in early 2018 for the PS4 and PC.


Elaine R. Jones was a President and General Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund with 47 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1986 News Conference as a Deputy Director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. The year with the most videos was 1995 with six videos. The year with the highest average number of views per program was 2014 with an average of 1,213 views per program. Most appearances with Wade Henderson (8), Eleanor Holmes Norton (6), Jesse Jackson (4). Most common tags: African Americans, Minorities, U.S. History.


It's no secret we're big fans of the Yamaha FZ-09 around here. The three-cylinder, do-it-all motorcycle is a ton of fun and won't put a big dent in your wallet. However, we wouldn't mind if it came with a more comfortable seat. Turns out we aren't the only ones who think this way, and Saddlemen has heard our pleas with not one, but three new seats for the FZ.
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When he was 13, Connor Slavens picked up his mom's old camera and started taking pictures. "Ever since I was little, I always loved creating things," says Slavens. "Photography was my first love. I always thought that I wanted to do that for the rest of my life."
It started with a few photos taken on family trips. Before long, Slavens was traveling around Oahu honing his craft. Within a few years, he was taking photos for his high school yearbook, which won him his first national photography award.
At 18, his family took a trip to Mount Rainier in Washington. "That was the turning point for me in photography as far as my skill level," he says. "From there, I could see myself growing. I really want to take this seriously."
Photography became much more than a creative outlet; it became his career. He started his business, Connor Slavens Design, that year while he was still in high school.
Taking creativity for a spin
Photography may have been his first love, but Slavens has dabbled in jewelry making, upcycling clothes, and making music. Suddenly homebound after the onset of COVID-19 in Hawaii, Slavens needed a new creative project. He bought some paint at the hardware store and tried out a technique you may remember: spin art.
"I was always artistic, but I wanted to do something different," he says. "I came up with the idea to get a potter's wheel and find a way to attach canvases to it. I started doing spin art. The second I started doing it, I fell in love with it." He got creative, experimenting with different speeds, paints, and techniques. He's spent hundreds of hours turning his creative experiment into pieces of art that have garnered international interest.
Like many others, Slavens struggled when COVID-19 hit. He decided to clean out his family's shipping container and build an art studio. "Having the painting and having my own studio really helped me to be able to channel my emotions, whether it was the hunger to create or to do something artistic. Or if I was if I was feeling sad, happy. Having an outlet to channel that energy in a positive way is great."
The art of reprieve
The mental health benefits of art are well-documented. It reduces stress and can help people understand and express difficult emotions, skills that are especially useful during a pandemic. Many people are interested in art but think they're not talented or creative. Slavens says that simply doesn't matter.
"I think at a certain point in everyone's life they go through struggling times," he says. "Having an outlet to do something positive, to do something that's good for them, is really important." He encourages everyone to find their creative outlet without fear or hesitation. "If you want to create and if you want to do something artistic, go out and do it."
Photos: Connor Slavens
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Not so easy
Brisbane International presented by Suncorp
Men's Final: [CR2] Roger Federer (SUI) vs. [CR8] Milos Raonic (CAN)
Federer had the match won, in his head, after going up an early break in the second, having won the first set. Raonic however, was not quite ready to concede the victory. Federer knows the strengths and weaknesses of his opponent. His strategy, make Raonic move, something Raonic is still struggling with. In the first set, he executed his plan perfectly; yet Raonic found a way to turn the tide in the second set.
He served much better in the second set, hitting his groundstrokes with authority instead of rushed and panicked. He also cut down on his errors, forcing Federer to hit one more ball. It was now a match. Both players were thoroughly engaged and neither was willing to lose. Unfortunately, someone had to.
The third set was a mental battle, and the stronger will would prevail. Raonic felt the pressure mounting serving from behind. They both struggled to hold their serve initially in the third; yet just when it appeared that it would go to another tie-break, Raonic inexplicably cracked. He would double-fault to give Federer a break opportunity and a weak second serve would seal his fate. The more confident player won, Federer, 6-4, 6-7(2), 6-4.
Results	2015 Brisbane International, ATP results, Milos Raonic, Roger Federer
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The global smartphone boom is over — sorry Apple
The meteoric rise of the smartphone as a must-have device in the modern world has finally leveled off.
by David Gilbert
September 27, 2016, 2:35pm
Devant un Apple Store à New York, le 16 septembre 2016 (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)
It couldn't go on forever. A little less than a decade after the release of the first iPhone in 2007, the meteoric rise of the smartphone as a must-have device in the modern world has finally leveled off.
Smartphones aren't going anywhere; it's just that the global mobile phone market has plateaued, according to a new report out this week from CCS Insight saying that growth in the market is finished for the foreseeable future — even in once-high-growth markets like China and India, as everyone who can afford a smartphone now has one.
And that means tough times ahead for global electronics firms — Apple included — who've depended on the proliferation of smartphones for growth. CCS Insight predicts that as competition intensifies and component prices increase, only the really big players are safe.
"As growth is depleting, competition is intensifying, and it comes as little surprise that margins are being squeezed harder than ever," Marina Koytcheva, director of forecasting at CCS Insight, said. "Companies without the scale advantages of manufacturers such as Samsung, Apple or Huawei will find it much harder to make money."
The CCS Insight report says mobile phone sales have peaked at around 2 billion devices per year and will stay at this level until 2020. The smartphone component of that total will increase from 75 percent in 2016 to 90 percent in 2020, but the explosive growth we have seen in the past 10 years is over, with smartphone sales expected to grow just 4.1 percent this year.
Saturation in developed markets is the main reason for the massive slowdown. According to a report this week from Deloitte, "The smartphone user base is approaching an unprecedented peak. No other personal device has had the same commercial and societal impact as the smartphone, and no other current device seems likely to."
The last two years have seen the smartphone power base switch from the U.S. (Apple and Motorola) and South Korea (Samsung and LG) to China. While Apple and Samsung struggle to retain their market share, China's Huawei, now the world's third-largest phone-maker, is reporting huge growth and aiming to overtake its main competitors. Elsewhere in China, low-cost brands like Oppo, Xiaomi, OnePlus and Vivo have made major gains at the cost of more established brands like Sony, LG, HTC and Motorola.
Besides the sales slowdown, phone-makers are being hit by an increase in the price of components, with a recent report from TrendForce saying the displays used in budget smartphones could rise in price by as much as 50 percent by year's end. That's trouble in a market with tightening margins. In recent years, prices have plummeted and it is now possible to buy a decent Android-based smartphone for under $100; at this level, consumers will balk at any increase in price, forcing margins even tighter.
"This is the first time [in years that] we have seen component price rise," Koytcheva said. "Phone-makers with low volumes will find it almost impossible to turn a profit in these conditions without raising the prices of their products. It's a great opportunity for the big players like Huawei and Samsung to exploit their scale, apply pricing pressure and strengthen their leading positions."
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Q: Meaning of the word "result" in output when using 'this' as the global object When executing the following code on Chrome's console, it works as expected:
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var name = "john";
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and it prints "john is nice".
But when running it in JSFiddle, it gives "result is nice".
Where does result come from, and what is the reason for the difference between the environments/engines?

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Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire. Parts of this kingdom persisted until the 18th century, while a few others were under some rule by the Portuguese Empire since the 16th century. In the 19th century, it was colonized as Portuguese Guinea. Upon independence, declared in 1973 and recognised in 1974, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with Guinea (formerly French Guinea). Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence, and no elected president has successfully served a full five-year term.
Only 14% of the population speaks Portuguese, established as the official language in the colonial period. Almost half the population (44%) speaks Crioulo, a Portuguese-based creole language, and the remainder speak a variety of native African languages. The main religions are African traditional religions and Islam; there is a Christian (mostly Roman Catholic) minority. The country's per-capita gross domestic product is one of the lowest in the world.
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Bissau is the capital city of Guinea-Bissau. In 2007 Bissau had an estimated population of 407,424. Bissau is located on the Geba River estuary, off the Atlantic Ocean, and is Guinea-Bissau's largest city, major port, and its administrative and military centre.
The city was founded in 1687 by Portugal as a fortified port and trading center. In 1942 it became the capital of Portuguese Guinea.
After the declaration of independence by the anti-colonial guerrillas of PAIGC in 1973, the capital of the de facto independent territories was declared to be Madina do Boe. Bissau remained as the capital of the Portuguese-occupied regions, and the de jure capital of all of Portuguese Guinea. When Portugal recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau and decolonised in 1974 due to the military coup of April 25 in Lisbon, the two territories merged and Bissau became the capital of the new independent state. The city is known for its annual carnival.
The city, as the seat of government, was the scene of intense fighting during the beginning and end of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War in 1998 and 1999.
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