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This module includes all the steps for creating a BigQuery dataset and uploading data to BigQuery tables-

[1. Declare variables](05-create-bigquery-dataset.md#1-declare-variables)

[2. BigQuery Dataset Creation](05-create-bigquery-dataset.md#2-bigquery-dataset-creation)

## 0. Prerequisites

#### 1. Create a project new project or select an existing project.
Note the project number and project ID.
We will need this for the rest for the lab

#### 2. IAM Roles needed to execute the prereqs
- BigQuery Data Editor

#### 3. Attach cloud shell to your project.
Open Cloud shell or navigate to [shell.cloud.google.com](shell.cloud.google.com)
Run the below
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gcloud config set project $PROJECT_ID

```

## 1. Declare variables

We will use these throughout the lab.

Run the below in cloud shells coped to the project you selected-

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BQ_DATASET_NAME= #BigQuery dataset to be created

```

## 2. BigQuery Dataset Creation

We need to create a dataset for the tables to be created after the batch successful execution
In Cloud Shell, use the bq mk command to create a dataset under the current project using the following command:

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bq mk $BQ_DATASET_NAME
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Tata Steel : Lazy to blame China for global steel woes – Xinhua commentary
Blaming China for woes in the global steel industry is simply a lazy excuse for protectionism, and such finger-pointing will be counter-productive, China's official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary on Monday.The issue has shot to the top of the political agenda in a number of countries.India's Tata Steel has blamed a flood of cheap steel imports, including from China, for a decision to pull out of Britain, putting 15,000 jobs at risk.Last week, more than 40,000 German steel workers took to the streets to protest against dumping from China, among other issues such as industry consolidation that they fear will cost them their jobs.Xinhua, in an English-language piece, said it appeared "understandable" to think that China as the world's largest steel producer and consumer was the cause of the problems."Upon closer inspection, however, it's just a lame and lazy excuse for protectionism," it said."Blaming other countries is always an easy, sure-fire way for politicians to whip up a storm over domestic economic woes, but finger-pointing and protectionism are counter-productive."Such commentaries are not official policy statements, but they can be read as a reflection of government thinking.Xinhua said cheap Chinese steel had in fact created many jobs, as it is used by European companies, for example, who then use it to make products for export."It should be noted that overcapacity is a global challenge amid a sluggish world economy. China is one of the most hard-hit, but the government is facing up to the headwinds," it said."The last thing the world needs is a trade war over this issue. Far more jobs will be lost than gained if protectionism prevails."The Chinese government has said the issue is a global problem that should be resolved via dialogue and cooperation.Earlier this month, India initiated investigations into the possible dumping of cheap steel products into the country by six nations including China, Japan and South Korea."China is paying close attention to this and hopes the Indian ministry of commerce and industry conducts the investigation strictly according to World Trade Organization principles," China's Commerce Ministry said in a statement on its website.(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina; Editing by Himani Sarkar)
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Grandparents' Rights in St. Louis County, MO
Protecting Your Rights to Your Grandchildren
When spouses are going through a divorce or bitter custody battle, they are not the only people affected by the emotional fallout of divorce. Oftentimes other family members, such as the grandparents, will suffer the effects of divorce if their children create separation arrangements that jeopardize their relationships with their grandchildren. Sometimes parents will attempt to cut off grandparents from their grandchildren due to anger or bitterness.
What Options Do You Have as a Grandparent?
If you are a grandparent who has been a victim of such behavior, you have the right to do the following:
Request mediation with the parents to try to seek certain visitation time with your grandchildren
Petition the court to award you, the grandparents, certain rights of visitation with your grandchildren
Request custody or guardianship of your grandchildren, in certain situations where the children's parents are unfit to care for the children
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HomeBusinessThe Most Critical Economic Statistic
The Most Critical Economic Statistic
May 19, 2009 Larry Doyle
Which economic statistic is the most important? Unemployment? Housing starts? Trade deficit? Inflation? Retail sales?
Well, they are all important . . . but as I review the many statistics, the economic data that I believe most significant are loan delinquencies. Now, mind you a delinquency does not mean that the loan has defaulted and been foreclosed upon. A delinquency is merely a late payment. Typically loans are classified as 30 day, 60 day, or 90 day delinquent. There is a very high correlation between delinquent loans and those that default.
Loans become delinquent for a whole host of fairly typical reasons. That said, in this economy the nature and array of reasons are growing. As a result, the ability of lenders to forecast and manage delinquencies is increasingly more challenging. Lenders will typically increase reserves as loans become more delinquent in anticipation of a natural rate of default.
Loan delinquencies will often occur even before unemployment hits or sales falter. As individuals or companies feel increasingly squeezed, the monthly loan payment becomes more difficult to make and delinquency results.
While green shoots may appear across our economic landscape, the pace of delinquencies is surging. Some economists will assert that they have forecasted it; however, the government in the Bank Stress tests were clearly too conservative in their default assumptions. Over and above that, any self-respecting analyst will tell you that banks and other lenders (insurance, smaller thrifts) have significantly under reserved against future losses.
So how are these delinquencies doing? Market Watch reported yesterday that Fed Says First Quarter Delinquency Rates Surge:
The Federal Reserve said on Monday that delinquency rates on all loans jumped to their highest level since 1991, with delinquencies on credit cards hitting the highest rate on record. In addition, the Fed said, all consumer loans hit a delinquency rate of 4.7%, also the highest rate on record, while delinquencies on residential real estate hit the highest rate on record as well. Delinquencies on commercial real estate hit 6.4%, the highest rate since 1993, the Fed said.
This data is not a green shoot nor is it anywhere close to peaking. That fact would be less meaningful if banks aggressively reserved against future losses, but almost all of them have been negligent in setting aside the necessary reserves.
Loan delinquency data is not regularly highlighted for obvious reasons. In my opinion, however, a decrease in delinquencies will precede a turn in the economy with much greater precision than any other economic statistic.
About Larry Doyle	522 Articles
Larry Doyle embarked on his Wall Street career in 1983 as a mortgage-backed securities trader for The First Boston Corporation. He was involved in the growth and development of the secondary mortgage market from its near infancy.
After close to 7 years at First Boston, Larry joined Bear Stearns in early 1990 as a mortgage trader. In 1993, Larry was named a Senior Managing Director at the firm. He left Bear to join Union Bank of Switzerland in late 1996 as Head of Mortgage Trading.
In 1998, after 15 years of trading and precipitated by Swiss Bank's takeover of UBS, Larry moved from trading to sales as a senior salesperson at Bank of America. His move into sales led him to the role as National Sales Manager for Securitized Products at JP Morgan Chase in 2000. He was integrally involved in developing the department, hiring 40 salespeople, and generating $300 million in sales revenue. He left JP Morgan in 2006.
Throughout his career, Larry eagerly engaged clients and colleagues. He has mentored dozens of junior colleagues, recruited at a number of colleges and universities, and interviewed hundreds. He has also had extensive public speaking experience. Additionally, Larry served as Chair of the Mortgage Trading Committee for the Public Securities Association (PSA) in the mid-90s.
Larry graduated Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa in 1983 from the College of the Holy Cross.
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(JTA) — For the second time this week, Bernie Sanders named an inflated number for Palestinian civilian deaths in Israel's 2014 war in Gaza.
But the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs puts the Gaza civilian death toll in the 2014 war at 1,423, while Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, gives a similar number, 1,462. Israel has argued the number of civilian deaths is likely lower.
In the interview, Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, echoed a previous statement by his campaign, saying: "As someone who is Jewish, who has lived in Israel for a few months when I was a young man, who has family in Israel, of course, the security of Israel, the independence of Israel, the right of Israel to live in peace and security, is paramount but you have to recognize the plight of the Palestinians.
On Thursday, Sanders' campaign spokesman defended the senator's overestimate in the interview with the New York Daily News editorial board published Monday, and accused critics of "distortion" in presenting it as a definite assertion. Michael Briggs commented on the issue in response to the Anti-Defamation League's request for clarification.
During the New York Daily News interview, Sanders said he thought 10,000 Palestinians were killed during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict, though he added that he did not "remember the figures" and asked for his interlocutors to check, accepting their correction that 2,104 were killed, including 1,462 civilians. He said Israeli bombings in Gaza were indiscriminate.


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Have just had something for breakfast, EVERY TIME I pour myself a bowl of cereal, both of them instantly become my best friend and come over to me. Kayla will sit right next to me and say "more daddy, more". Brielle crawls over, climbs up my leg, looks at me, and opens her mouth. I'd say for the last few months, I've only been eating about half of the cereal I put in the bowl originally.


Last Tuesday evening, I started feeling like I was getting a bit of a sore throat. By Wednesday afternoon, I was crawling into bed feeling like I'd been hit by a truck. I never nap, it's not in my DNA, it's like I'm allergic to napping. So the fact that all I wanted to do was to lie in bed all day, was a pretty big deal. Here we are, nearly a week later and my ears are still ringing and my throat is still sore. But I'm functioning like a normal human being and that my friends, is a pretty awesome feeling. Man, what a cold that was.
One upside to being sick is that you literally have no choice but to slow down and take it easy. Well, as much as you can when you're a parent (I'm so thankful that hubs wasn't away on a trip, so that I could rest up for the most part). Anyhow, a few days earlier I hard ordered the "hey I'm all over instagram and instagramers don't lie when they say a book is good, so you better buy me" book #GirlBoss.
I wasn't too sure what to expect because truth be told, I wasn't even sure who Sophia Amorusa was.
It's true though, I didn't. Low and behold, she is one of the most successful entrepreneurs eva! And well, she's pretty darn awesome and I mean pretty darn awesome.
Her book is pretty much her story, she doesn't hold back, she has no excuses. She has worked hard, she has figured it out along the way, she has made mistakes, she has taken chances and she is a #GirlBoss. What I loved the most about this amazing read is that she really stresses how hard one has to work if they really want something. There is no easy road, but there's a way to get what you want. Hard work always pays off in some way or another. I also loved how she doesn't apologize for not always fitting in, that she had the confidence to continue and push even though she didn't always fit into "society's mould". If something didn't work for her, she figured out how to make it work or why it didn't work and tweaked it accordingly. She doesn't settle.
It was truly an inspiring read. I could relate to so many points she made, it was almost unreal.
So if you're looking for a little inspiration, take a peek at her book. It may be just what you need to give you that little nudge to go for your dreams.
I'm a huge fan of hers and cannot wait to get my hands on this book. Great post :) Hope you're feeling better!
this might be my next read !


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Q: How to convert SQL datetime stamp to human readable time? I have a datetime stamp from the server in the form of 2017-12-27 03:31:31.243 and would like to extract the time part for display as say 3:31 am. The actual date aspect is irrelevant for my current requirements.
I realize that the Date class has been deprecated and I know how to format the date into human readable form but have not been able to figure out extracting only the time.
Any insight is appreciated.

A: I found this to do the trick!
String dateStamp = "2017-12-27 03:31:31.243";
Timestamp timestamp = Timestamp.valueOf(dateStamp);
SimpleDateFormat fmt = new SimpleDateFormat("hh:mm a");
String formattedTime = fmt.format(timestamp);
return formattedTime;

output:
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Construction Chemicals Market Report, published by Allied Market Research, forecasts that the global market is expected to garner $40,154 million by 2022, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.6% during the period 2016 2022.
Construction chemicals are chemical compounds that optimise the performance of concrete and increase the life of end products. These additions provide further value for end users by reducing labor cost and minimising wastage.
The key elements that drive the construction chemicals market growth include rise in construction industry, increase in urbanisation, and growth in conformity with latest manufacturing standards.
However, change in regulatory environment and low consumer awareness inhibit the market growth.
Concrete admixtures and water proofing and roofing chemical segments together dominated the construction chemicals market in 2015, accounting for around two-thirds of the market share collectively.
The concrete admixtures segment is expected to grow with a high CAGR of 9.9%, in volume terms, owing to the increased compressive strength and enhanced workability, so as to provide higher moving and positioning time.
Residential and infrastructure end-user segments collectively accounted for three-fifths of the market share, in terms of volume, in 2015. Infrastructure segment is estimated to grow at the fastest rate with a CAGR of 7.7% during the forecast period.
Infrastructure segment is projected to grow at the fastest rate with a CAGR of 9.7% (volume terms).
Flooring, a type of construction chemical, is projected to grow with a CAGR of 9.6% (volume terms) during the forecast period.
Residential segment accounted for around half of the market share, in terms of value, in 2015.
LAMEA is projected to occupy the highest market value, registering a CAGR of 5.8%.
Asia-Pacific amounted for more than two-fifths of the market share, by volume, in 2015, growing at a CAGR of 10.2%.


On May 20, during its General Meeting, Global Compact France recognized Groupe SEB's commitment and actions in terms of social responsibility with the 2013 Best communication of progress Award in the category "Large company".
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Marta Remškar, slovenska baletnica, * 3. avgust 1907, Ljubljana, † 29. oktober  1984, Ljubljana.

Baleta se je učila leta 1919 pri Václavu Pohanu, nadaljevala je pri Petru Golovinu in bila do leta 1945 članica Ljubljanskega baletnega ansambla, nato pa je še dve leti vodila Mariborski baletni ansambel. Učila je na Srednji baletni šoli v Ljubljani. Kot solistka je bila najboljša v klasičnih koreografijah. Plesala je v baletih, operah in operetah. V Mariboru je leta 1947 koreografirala prvi tamkajšnji baletni večer. V mladih letih se je ukvarjala z moderno baletno akrobacijo. Najbolj odmeven je bil njen večkratni solistično baletni nastop v Valpurgini noči. Valpurgin balet je ples koreografa Georgea Balanchina in Charlesa Gounoda. Tematika Valpurgine  noči se pojavi v zadnjem dejanju Fausta ter prikazuje praznovanje pred prvim majem, ko imajo duše dovoljenje, da za kratek čas zapustijo telesa umrlih. Balet namesto neposrednega prikaza noči gradi na občutku veselja ob prvomajskem praznovanju. V Mariboru pa je leta 1947 nastopila na nastopu z naslovom Umirajoči partizan, kjer je z lastno koreografijo plesala na glasbo Rahmaninovega Prélude.

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Remškar, Marta. Osebnosti: veliki slovenski biografski leksikon. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2008.
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Can You Close a Sale and Get a New Care Management Client ?
Doing a successful client intake takes two Aging life /geriatric care management skills- knowledge and experience in geriatric care management and something that few aging life care managers have – a sales background and knowing how to close the sale .
Let's touch on the first. All geriatric care managers must have a degree in the health care field such as nursing or social work. An advanced degree is optimum. Care managers also need a background in family therapy- specifically the aging family system. You rarely work with just the elderly or disabled client. Most of your work is with the family system-adult children, the older person, and the extended family. That takes knowing family therapy.
But you need to know business practices. You own a business. Doing a successful client intake takes two Aging life /geriatric care management skills- knowledge and experience in geriatric care management and something that few aging life care managers have – a sales background.
You started a private aging life business to help older people but in order to successfully help them, yourself and your own family, ( kids need braces- you need to pay your mortgage) you have to know how to sell your product to make money.
But here is a deal breaker, most care managers did not know they must have. You the care managers salesperson- most know the important part of marketing and sales- Close The Sale. You need to do an intake and close the sale by asking them are they ready to sign a contract and give you a deposit for your services. That is what makes you money.
What is Your ALCA GCM Sales Plan?
GCMs or Aging Life Care Managers rarely see themselves as salespersons. However, this is a fatal error. You may have a product, but to make money from that product, you have to sell it. In the beginning you yourself may have to sell your geriatric care management product. To begin to put together a sales plan you need to identify who makes the decision to buy your geriatric care management products. With older adults over age 85, the buying decision is generally made by the adult children or the third party (trust officer, etc.). Many times young older adults (65–85 years of age) make their own buying decisions.
You then need to identify what criteria the person making the buying decision uses to evaluate your geriatric care management product. For example, you have to figure out whether the decision to purchase your product Move Management to help move and the elder is made by the adult child based on price, features, or availability. How will you give your customer, the adult child, enough information to say yes? Does this buying decision require personal contact in intake by a GCM, a Move Management sell sheet you dropped off at the parent's physician's office, word of mouth, paid advertising, through social media- if so what – blog, website – the what described your sales plan? It will have to go in your business plan plus- be good enough to get you, customers.
What is Your GCM Sales Plan?
GCMs rarely see themselves as salespersons. However, this is a fatal error. You may have a product, but to make money from that product, you have to sell it. In the beginning you yourself may have to sell your geriatric care management product. To begin to put together a sales plan you need to identify who makes the decision to buy your geriatric care management products. With older adults over age 85, the buying decision is generally made by the adult children or the third party (trust officer, etc.). Many times young older adults (65–85 years of age) make their own buying decisions.
You then need to identify what criteria the person making the buying decision uses to evaluate your geriatric care management product. For example, you have to figure out whether the decision to purchase your product Care Management Plus product is made by the adult child based on price, features, or availability. How will you give your customer, the adult child, enough information to say yes? Does this buying decision require personal contact in intake by a GCM, a Care Management Plus sell sheet you dropped off at the parent's physician's office, word of mouth, paid advertising, through social media- if so what – blog, web site – what Describe your sales plan. It will have to go in your business plan plus- be good enough to get you customers.


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Luton Town's victory in 1988 is still widely recognised as the greatest day in the club's history, and is still up there among the best cup finals in the last 100 years. Luton took an early lead, but normal service resumed when Arsenal scored a quick-fire double in the second half. Arsenal then had the opportunity to close the game off with an 80th minute penalty, but stand in goalkeeper, Andy Dibble, thought otherwise and turned Winterburn's penalty around the post. Minutes later, Danny Wilson headed home to equalise and send the game to extra time. But, as Arsenal prepared for another 30 minutes, Stein sneaked in to score a 90th minute winner and hand Luton their first major trophy.


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Yacouba Traoré, né en 1965 à Sikasso, est un économiste et homme politique malien, ministre des Affaires religieuses et du Culte dans le gouvernement formé par Cheick Modibo Diarra le .

Économiste diplômé de l'Université d'économie et des finances de Saint-Pétersbourg en Russie, il a été professeur à l'École nationale d'Ingénieurs de Bamako.

Yacouba Traoré est l'auteur de plusieurs publications parmi lesquelles :
 Femmes et contraceptions dans les pays du Sahel
 Les mouvements migratoires de la population malienne

Polyglotte, Yacouba Traoré parle le français, l'anglais le russe, l'arabe et le bambara.

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Ministre malien des Affaires Religieuses et du culte : Yacouba Traoré (Portail officiel du Gouvernement)]

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Q: JS (ES6): Merge arrays based on id and concatenating sub arrays I have two arrays, which look like this:
const persons = [
  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Peter',
    job: 'Programmer'
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    name: 'Jeff',
    job: 'Architect'
  },
];

const salaries = [
  {
    id: 1,
    salary: 3000,
    departments: ['A', 'B']
  },
  {
    id: 1,
    salary: 4000,
    departments: ['A', 'C']
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    salary: 4000,
    departments: ['C', 'D']
  }
];

Now I need to somehow merge this arrays to one, so that every id only exists once. Same keys should be replaced, except it is an array, then I want them to add/concat. So the desired result should look something like this:
const result = [
  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Peter',
    job: 'Programmer',
    salary: 4000,
    departments: ['A', 'B', 'C']
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    name: 'Jeff',
    job: 'Architect',
    salary: 4000,
    departments: ['C', 'D']
  }
];

I have already tried:
// double id's, arrays get replaced
Object.assign({}, persons, salaries)

// loadsh: double id's, arrays get concatenated
_.mergeWith(persons, salaries, (objValue, srcValue) => {
    if (_.isArray(objValue)) {
        return objValue.concat(srcValue);
    }
});

// gives me a map but replaces arrays
new Map(salaries.map(x => [x.id, x])

Does anyone have an idea how to accomplish this?

A: You can use map(), filter(), reduce(), Object.assign() and Spread syntax to achieve required result.
DEMO

const persons = [{
    id: 1,
    name: 'Peter',
    job: 'Programmer'
  }, {
    id: 2,
    name: 'Jeff',
    job: 'Architect'
  }],
  salaries = [{
    id: 1,
    salary: 3000,
    departments: ['A', 'B']
  }, {
    id: 1,
    salary: 4000,
    departments: ['A', 'C']
  }, {
    id: 2,
    salary: 4000,
    departments: ['C', 'D']
  }];

let output = persons.map(obj => {
  let filter = salaries.filter(v => v.id == obj.id);
  if (filter) {
    let departments = filter.reduce((r, v) => [...v.departments, ...r], []);
    Object.assign(obj, {
      salary: filter[filter.length - 1].salary,
      departments: departments.filter((item, pos) => departments.indexOf(item) == pos).sort()
    });
  }
  return obj;
});

console.log(output)

A: You could use a Map and iterate all properties and check the type for adding unique values to the arrays.

var persons = [{ id: 1, name: 'Peter', job: 'Programmer' }, { id: 2, name: 'Jeff', job: 'Architect' }],
    salaries = [{ id: 1, salary: 3000, departments: ['A', 'B'] }, { id: 1, salary: 4000, departments: ['A', 'C'] }, { id: 2, salary: 4000, departments: ['C', 'D'] }],
    result = Array.from(
        salaries
            .reduce(
                (m, o) => {
                    var t = m.get(o.id) || {};
                    Object.keys(o).forEach(k => {
                        if (Array.isArray(o[k])) {
                            t[k] = t[k] || [];
                            o[k].forEach(v => t[k].includes(v) || t[k].push(v));
                        } else if (t[k] !== o[k]) {
                            t[k] = o[k];
                        }
                    });
                    return m;
                },
                persons.reduce((m, o) => m.set(o.id, Object.assign({}, o)), new Map)
            )
            .values()
    );

console.log(result);
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A: You can concat the arrays, than combine all items with the same id using Array.reduce(), and a Map.
to combine objects with the same id, get the object from the Map. Iterate the new Object.entries() with Array.forEach(). Check if existing value is an array, if not assign the value. If it is an array, combine the arrays, and make the items unique using a Set with array spread.
To convert the Map back to an array, you can spread the Map.values() iterator.

const persons = [{"id":1,"name":"Peter","job":"Programmer"},{"id":2,"name":"Jeff","job":"Architect"}];
const salaries = [{"id":1,"salary":3000,"departments":["A","B"]},{"id":1,"salary":4000,"departments":["A","C"]},{"id":2,"salary":4000,"departments":["C","D"]}];

const result = [...persons.concat(salaries)
  .reduce((r, o) => {
    r.has(o.id) || r.set(o.id, {});

    const item = r.get(o.id);

    Object.entries(o).forEach(([k, v]) =>
      item[k] = Array.isArray(item[k]) ?
        [...new Set([...item[k], ...v])] : v
    );

    return r;
  }, new Map()).values()];

console.log(result);


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Rating 2.5 stars
What to make of Circe? Madeline Miller's re-imagining of Greek mythology is a curious thing. I wanted to love it but I barely liked it.
I'm not a fan of Greek mythology. The Greek gods are, without exception, a bunch of self-centred arseholes. The heroes whose lives they disrupt on a whim aren't all that heroic, unless hero stands for blood thirsty warmongers obsessed with pretty women and infinite riches.
The reason I wanted to love Miller's Circe is that I wanted her retelling to turn that mythology on its head and give us the perspective of one of the many women found in it, in such a way that the women come out better. Because surely the point of retelling a mythology forged by the male bards of an earlier time, a mythology that gives women a very particular role, is to tell it from the perspective of the women and explore how they feel about their situation in a way that empowers women.
I didn't get the sense that this is what Miller had done. Instead, I was brought face to face with a central character who spends most of her time feeling like a victim, feeling martyred to the whims of the men in her life, feeling antagonism towards the women in her life, and not acting in any way empowered despite being a goddess.
Miller writes beautifully. I was gripped at times because the writing is so good. It's like a river rushing along, fleet and silvery. And yet, somehow the book is ugly. Nobody who appears within its pages is likeable, not even our heroine. Every one of them is self absorbed. Miller's true to the original in that sense.
At the start of the book, we meet the Titans. Helios and his father-in-law Oceanos lead the pack of gods who have been usurped by Zeus and the other new gods who live on Mount Olympus. Circe is the child of Helios and the nymph Perse. The way Circe is treated by her parents and siblings, even the brother who allegedly loves her, is abusive.
Over the first 80 pages or so, Circe is a disappointment to her family, meets Prometheus on his way to having his liver eternally pecked out, turns a mortal into a god so that he could marry her, turns her rival for his attention into a monster, and is banished to an uninhabited island as punishment for using witchcraft. That makes it sound exciting. In actuality, I found the opening chapters devoid of feeling. Not even Circe's dad turning his fire on her until she blistered made me feel anything. Circe at that point was too wet, too docile, too bland.
I was puzzled by Miller's take on Circe's entanglement with Glaucos. I had to study some of the Aeneid at school for my Latin O Level, mainly Song 4 about Dido and Aeneas, but I also read the bit which features Glaucos the sea god in love with Scylla seeking out a potion from Circe to make Scylla fall in love with him. Circe falls in love with Glaucos herself and, when he rejects her, turns Scylla into a monster in revenge. A bit different to what plays out in Miller's version.
Of course, the thing about the Greek myths is that there are loads of variations and then the characters cross over into Roman mythology and nothing is clear because nothing is factual, so it doesn't really matter.
The problem I had throughout was, I wanted Circe to be stronger, triumphant, independent. Instead, Miller renders her as someone who accepts others' account of her as a fool and speaks of herself that way often enough that I believed her. She's a victim and a martyr to her victimhood. I find it hard to read books where I hate the main character. The last time it happened, her name was Catelyn Stark and she caused my abandonment of the Game of Thrones books after volume two. It still rankles because people still tell me that I'd love the Game of Thrones books, that they get better, and then I have to tell them that there are more books in the world that I want to read than I have time for, and I'd rather not read books that make me want to punch characters in the face.
Miller's version of Circe's tale is a story of loneliness, of wanting to be loved, of being constantly used and rejected or abandoned, but it doesn't offer any alternatives. It's a book where men are utterly selfish and women are favour seekers who fall into two camps – the pathetic pleasers and the manipulative takers. It depressed me. I wanted Circe to be outside the trope. Instead, she is the witch who lives alone, falls over herself to accept the merest sliver of attention from a man, and resorts to the petty revenge of turning men into pigs when they come to her island with rape and pillage on their minds.
Maybe I'm crediting Miller with more than she intended, but I sensed an allegory about the island where Circe is banished being representative of a time when news and current affairs weren't streamed into our lives 24/7 and then, through the arrival of chattering, shallow nymphs being banished there by their fathers, being representative of a time when we only hear the limited things that bounce round our echo chambers. I got the bit about there being a time when not all men were bastards and now all men seem to be bastards because that's who comes to Circe's island/is presented as such to us on social media. I got it and that made me feel depressed as well.
I'm tired of this story. It plays out in the media every day. If it is to be incorporated into the fiction I read as well, then I want it to have a more positive outcome. I'm tired of women being victims in fiction, and especially tired of their victimhood being dressed up as resilience by female as well as male authors. I'm tired of them being martyrs to a cause of their own obsessive invention, dressing it up as their fate. I'm tired of the tale being about women unable to resist a bad boy, women thinking they can save a man (Circe's refrain is This is something torn that I can mend), women claiming that sleeping with whomever they choose is liberation when really what they want is a steady relationship, those same women condemning their sister women, who genuinely do feel liberated by transient relationships, as hard hearted bitches. I'm tired of all the female judging.
I've had enough of the men in such literature being portrayed as enigmatic, strong silent types when actually they are selfish and dull. Even the passages in this book where it seems as though men, Daedalus and Odysseus in the main, are interested in Circe because she has a brain and isn't your standard vacuous, scheming nymph, show that they're mostly interested in how she makes them feel, how her interesting aspects reflect back on them. It shows them as the fools they are, but it doesn't show Circe as being strong in the face of it. It shows her as insipid, actionless, fettered.
Almost everyone in the book uses someone else for their own purpose. Happy endings are hard to find when everyone is scheming. What a depressing state of affairs.
The only characters who don't use others for their own purposes are Odysseus's sons Telemachus and Telegonus. Telegonus, Circe's son by Odysseus, is from his birth a raging ball of frustration kept prisoner by his overprotective mother. His existence, his individuality, brings out the worst in Circe, drawing to the surface her whining martyrdom, her belief that she can keep him safe by not letting him live freely in the world. She's a fucking maniac. Telemachus, son of Penelope and Odysseus, is a boy who waits for a hero who never returns from war and grows into a man disappointed by his father, excluded by his mother, and more sure of what he wants as a result. Penelope is a silent presence in his life, scheming over her loom, waiting for others to reveal their natures rather than taking action to change her and her son's lives for the better.
And when the chance of a happy ending appears for Circe, what does she do? She moans. First about how hard it is to be immortal and have to watch the mortals you love die, knowing your divinity will stop you seeing them in the afterlife. Second about how the gods might ruin it all anyway if she transforms herself into the mortal she wants to be. How about living in the moment and enjoying it, Circe? How about letting go of your dreary pessimism for a bit and being the sort of woman others might find a smidgeon of inspiration in?
The ending redeemed the rest of the book a little bit. Circe finally does something for herself and imagines a different future, one in which she's happy, loved and fulfilled. What a shame that the bit I enjoyed was less than 1% of the book.
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3 thoughts on "Circe"
Kate W says:
I'm not a fan of reading Greek mythology either but this book popped up on so many 'Best of 2018' lists that I've been tempted..,
Jan Hicks says:
That's why I read it. It has surprised me how negative a response I had to reading it. I'm trying to work out whether it's my general impatience with the world at the moment that made me more impatient with the author and the characters or whether my personal judgement is right and it really isn't the book for me.
If you read it, I hope you enjoy it. I know plenty of people who have, including the person who lent me her copy.
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A special moment for me every New Year's Day is when I take the old year's calendar off the wall and put up the new calendar. I revisit the old calendar pictures a bit wistfully, before turning to the unexplored images of the untouched, New Year.
In particular, I remember that moment on the morning of January 1, 1964.
I was a kid. For me, 1963 had been a really good year. So, on New Year's morning, instead of throwing the old calendar in the garbage (the curbside blue box wouldn't be invented until 1977), I surprised my mom by carefully putting the old calendar in a drawer. She asked me why I wanted to keep it.
"I'm going to keep it until it's 1963 again," I replied.
Ah, the innocence of youth! Between the one-and-only 1963 and today, I've learned a bit about time. It's long been obvious to me that you can't recycle it. You can't reuse it. You can't revisit it. The 56-year-old Dave can never again be the 7-year-old Dave.
I've been retired about two years now, which has given me an opportunity to step back from the hurly-burly world of work and raising kids and paying for houses and stuff, to broaden my perspective on other things, such as time.
My second epiphany is this: I wasn't entirely wrong that cold January morning, so long ago. No matter how much time has passed, you can rediscover — maybe even relive — many of the things that you've learned from experience make you happy. Things you haven't had time for. Things that got crowded out by the other priorities of a busy life. And you don't need to go back in time to reacquaint yourself with those under-developed aspects of your own life.
Curling: I went curling for the first time since 1975. For years, my brother Steve had been trying to get me out to an annual family bonspiel and I'd never had time. Last year, I did, and I loved re-experiencing this great sport!
Photography: I became serious again about photography. Thirty years ago, I was an award-winning photojournalist. Over the years, I'd become so jaded about photography that I didn't bother bringing my camera to family gatherings. But in the past two years, I've rediscovered my earlier enthusiasm. And today's digital photography is cheaper, greener, easier to share, and vastly more flexible and creative than what I'd experienced in my darkroom years ago.
Exercise: I've rediscovered fitness after years of being too busy or too lazy to bother. I'm amazed at the benefits!
No matter what your job is, the working years are incredibly busy and your time is beyond valuable. You're likely constantly scurrying — multi-tasking, living in constant sleep-deficit, maybe making do with fast food, perhaps skipping exercise and feeling guilty about missing out on important things.
Review how you've spent the time that's gone by. What time was well spent? What time did you miss-spend?
Rediscover what you've been missing or haven't found enough time for. Make time to renew yourself.
Discover what else you want to do with your time. It's an amazing world and there's a lot to do.
I wish you a 2013 that's both a Happy New Year and a fulfilling year of renewal!


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Q: How does assignment into function return value work? I have stumbled apon this code:
colnames(dataFrame) <- c("firstCol", "secondCol")

which renames columns of given dataframe dataFrame. What is happening there? How can I possibly assign something to return value?
Corresponding R-fiddle

A: Example 1:
> `setvalue<-` <- function(x,value) value
> x <- 0
> setvalue(x) <- 1
> x
[1] 1

Example 2:
> `add<-` <- function(x,value) x+value
> x
[1] 1
> add(x) <- 3      # x <- x+3
> x
[1] 4


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Landlords unite to oppose pub business rates hike
Fraser Whieldon
St Albans pub landlords sign an open letter to the chancellor of the exchequer. Picture: Danny Loo
Danny Loo Photography 2017
The Save St Albans Pubs campaign has presented their petition against business rate increases to Parliament.
Landlords, politicians, and businessmen met at the St Albans Beer and Cider Festival to discuss the changes to business rates.
Campaigner and landlord of The Boot, Sean Hughes, said: "It was absolutely brilliant. We had a number of landlords down, and representatives from St Albans council, and the St Albans Business Improvement District team, who are a cross-section of all the businesses in town.
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Earlier this year, St Albans publicans were alerted to a rates increase in the hundreds of thousands after the government revalued business properties.
This led to an outcry from both Save St Albans Pubs and the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
CAMRA representative and festival organiser John Bishop said: "Pubs all over England are being hit by spiralling business rates and it is great to see landlords in St Albans leading the charge for a fairer deal for our pubs.
"Without action in November's Budget to address this problem, many well-loved community pubs could be forced to close their doors for ever - and sending that message to the Chancellor is what our #KeepPubsAfloat campaign is all about.
"More than 500 visitors to the St Albans Beer Festival supported the fight by sending a postcard to their MP, and we call on everyone else who supports pubs to add their voice online at camra.org.uk/keeppubsafloat."
St Albans pub Ye Olde Fighting Cocks landlord Christo Tofalli signs an open letter to the chancellor of the exchequer. Picture: Danny Loo
While CAMRA's and the Save St Albans Pub campaigns are separate, both condemn the rates increase which could mean some pubs having to shift an extra 600,000 pints a year.
Sean said: "With pubs the formula being used is so wrong, and it needs to concentrate on profit, rather than being based on turnover.
"Because someone selling a drink for a pound might sell a million drinks, but only make £10,000 and pay £100,000 in tax."
He believes each different model of pub needs a different formula for rates, be they freehold, tenancy, or leasehold.
"It's a challenge, but the government needs to get a hold of it."
To find out more, visit www.facebook.com/savestapubs
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Q: RAII Failure - Why Does this C++ Code Leak? - throw in ctor in try block prevents dtor The output of the program below is:

begin try
  Object() ctor
  begin catch

Why is the Holder class's destructor not called?  Is this a memory leak?  Is it possible to call the Holder class's destructor without rethrowing?
#include <iostream>
#include <exception>

class Object
{
public:
    Object() { std::cout << "Object() ctor" << std::endl; }
    ~Object() { std::cout << "~Object() dtor" << std::endl; }
};

class Holder
{

public:
    Holder() :myObjectP( new Object() )
    {
        throw std::exception();
    }
    ~Holder()
    {
        std::cout << "~Holder()" << std::endl;
        delete myObjectP;
    }
private:
    Object* myObjectP;

};

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    try
    {
        std::cout << "begin try" << std::endl;
        Holder h;
    }
    catch ( ... )
    {
        std::cout << "begin catch" << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

A: In this case, your Holder object h is not fully constructued, that is that h's constructor had not finished its construction before the stack unwinding process had begun.

C++11 15.2 Constructors and destructors
(2)
An object of any storage duration whose initialization or destruction
is terminated by an exception will have destructors executed for all
of its fully constructed subobjects (excluding the variant members of
a union-like class), that is, for subobjects for which the principal
constructor (12.6.2) has completed execution and the destructor has
not yet begun execution.


For many that keep their vehicle past the century mark and above that didn't seem to think that the 60,000 mile service wasn't significant enough to keep their vehicle running in top condition, now seem to be plagued with constant repairs & break downs as well as vehicle they just can't trust. At 60,000 the average vehicle will be at least 5 years old while most others will be six. Manufacturers' maintenance requirements set forth in an owner's manual are based on time and mileage. The time and mileage is what makes this a pivotal maintenance interval.


Victory Venkatesh Next Movie With Puri Jagannath?
Victory Venkatesh, Who is one of the top hero in tollywood from last 30 years.
Every one knows that he is the hero with most success rate, Which fans gave him nick name like victory.
Now after hit movie like babu bangaram which collected around 30 crores, Now he started GURU, Official remake of irdhi sutru, super hit film of tamil in 2016 and got many awards in kollywood.
He just completed movie with same Tamil team in just 2 months with less than 20 crores.
Guru is in post production and set to release for January 26th 2017.
Now everyone is waiting for venkatesh's new movie, Before many people announced in social media that nenu sailaja film director kishore is directing next film.
But now puri jagannath who gave hits like pokiri, businessman and temper is on the line.
Industry sources also tweeted that film with puri is under process.
According to sources, Official confirmation for venkatesh next movie with puri or kishore will come in January first week.


The Pararoos are the Australian Paralympic Football Team representing our country in international 7-a-side competition for athletes with cerebral palsy, acquired brain injury or symptoms acquired from stroke. The Pararoos are the sporting example of proud Australian tradition of a fair go, demonstrated in how they train, play and behave on and off the field.
The Pararoos receive no government funding so we want to make sure they can raise enough to compete at next years World Cup.
Each Hands of Inclusion Soccer Ball will have your name written on it and put on the Pararoos Hands of Inclusion Wall at the headquarters of the Football Federation of Australia (FFA) in Sydney.
Please note: The hands of inclusion cards are sent straight to FFA headquarters with your name on it they won't be sent to your home address.
Each card is 13cm in diameter and the art and message is done by a child with a disability who strives to play for the Pararoos, just like their heroes.


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76ers Rumors: Philly Considering Rockets' Daryl Morey, Pacers' Kevin Pritchard
Tim Daniels@TimDanielsBRTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistSeptember 17, 2020
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The Philadelphia 76ers reportedly have interest in the Houston Rockets' Daryl Morey and Indiana Pacers' Kevin Pritchard to become their president of basketball operations.
Keith Pompey of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the news Thursday and noted the Portland Trail Blazers' Neil Olshey may be interested if the Sixers are offering full control of the front office.
Other names that have popped up include former Atlanta Hawks general manager Danny Ferry and the Golden State Warriors' Bob Myers, but neither is a likely hire. Myers in particular "isn't interested in coming to Philadelphia," per Pompey.
The 76ers already have a general manager in place with Elton Brand, whose duties were increased to open the offseason, with team executives allowing him to singularly lead the search for a new head coach.
"And I've grown as a leader, I've grown as a general manager," Brand told reporters in August. "I was put under fire. I had so many great, tough decisions to be a part of. But now, I'm looking forward to putting my stamp on this thing and take full accountability for whatever happens next."
The dynamics of already having a GM in place with ample decision-making power could make it difficult for Philadelphia to attract a big-name candidate as a president of basketball operations.
Pompey noted the Sixers may allow Brand to serve as the public "face of the franchise," while the new president would have more power to make decisions behind the scenes. It's unclear what the team's GM thinks about that potential arrangement, though.
It's a situation that seemingly falls under the old adage "too many cooks spoil the broth."
Regardless of how Philly handles the front office, it's facing a crucial offseason with the hire of a new head coach and continued speculation about whether to move forward with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons as the main building blocks.
A blockbuster move could be needed to rebuild the core after the Sixers, who've been faced with annual championship-level expectations in recent years, haven't advanced beyond the conference semifinals since 2001. They were swept in this year's first round by the Boston Celtics with Simmons sidelined by injury.
It sets the stage for what could be a headline-making offseason in Philadelphia.
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A Mixed Martial Arts fight that has been years in the making will happen this weekend at Sheffield Arena and we have a knockout prize - tickets to be won every day this week to see it for FREE.
Battle Of Britain ACB 70 will feature Yorkshire's own Scott Askham, from Hemsworth, going toe-to-toe with 'The Bigslow' Luke Barnatt, in what has been dubbed Britain's biggest domestic cage fight of all time.
It all happens at Sheffield Arena on Saturday, September 23.
And every weekday - until Friday - we are giving away tickets to see the action in our easy to enter free draw. Full details below.
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Both British main event fighters - Askham and Barnatt - have had illustrious careers with their paths intertwining, overlapping but never meeting, until now.
Having both achieved titles in promotions domestically and abroad and with them both having fought in the UFC prior to joining ACB the question has often been asked as to who would take the win if these monster middleweights ever did collide in the cage.
That is a question that will have an answer come September 23.
The war of words has been intense on the run up to this fight and when they met in the cage at ACB 65 to announce this fight back in July those words almost came to blows as the intensity and genuine dislike for one another was almost too much for the two fighters to contain.
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What became clear on that night, and what is on the line on September 23, is much more than just victory and another notch on one of their prolific records.
This is about cementing their place as one of the greatest British middleweights of their generation.
One will leave with their legacy intact and the bragging rights that come with it while the other will leave not just with the burden of defeat but with the shadow of their opponent that will loom over them and their careers from that day forward.
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Askham and Barnatt have both flown the flag for the country in the middleweight division at home and abroad but this is the first time they have met and fans have been calling for the fight to settle sll bragging rights.
Some thought the clash was set to be filed in the 'what if' section of UK MMA after Barnatt made the move to Light-Heavyweight for his most recent fight against Swedish Man Mountain Max Nunes.
But after the Cambridge fighter dispatched Nunes in under a round he took to the mic to call out Askham.
Barnatt, the higher ranked fighter of the two, said 'The fight's not the hard part, the weight cut is the toughest part of me fighting at middleweight but I will make that weight one more time, knock him out and then get back to chasing down that light-heavyweight belt'.
A full night of MMA fights will fill the undercard.
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India's digital transformation initiatives driving citizen engagement: Avaya
India's dynamics have changed in the last five years led by digital transformation
Government-led digital services delivery initiatives such as Smart City and Digital India programs are driving the opportunity to engage with 1.3 billion citizens, the US-based communications technology company said.
"Following the programs such as Smart City and Digital India, citizen engagement through government-to-citizen (G2C) services is gaining momentum," Vishal Agrawal, Avaya India managing director told ETTelecom, and added that India would continue to be a strategic research and development (R&D) location for the multinational company.
"India's dynamics have changed in the last five years led by digital transformation," he added.
Agrawal further said that the country's Internet penetration is surging allowing the drastic growth in the digital adoption of people's personal lives and the proliferation of fourth-generation or 4G networks has made mobility much pervasive in India.
Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel is one of the largest customers for Avaya in India, and the company expects aggressive cloud adoption in mid-commercial markets over the period of next couple of years. On the back of aggressive strategy for 2020, the company is also eyeing more tie-ups with big-ticket organisations.
"A lot of companies investing in technology needs to scale up. More cloud adoption is going to take place. Sectors such as banking, e-commerce and service provider business are likely to be prominent ones," Agrawal said.
The contact center addressable market that stays as the company's core business, is doubling and is expected to reach $10 billion by 2021, according to industry statistics.
Vlad Shmunis-headed RingCentral has recently invested $500 million in Avaya taking nearly a 5% stake in the communications technology major, and the two companies are expected to co-develop solutions in the unified communications as a service (UCaaS) space.
The organisation with large customer base, according to him, would invest heavily in digital customer experience, and he believes that employee engagement is becoming agnostic to physical location, and that could be a coffee shop or home, or can be on the phone, chat or email, and it is all about how one can seamlessly integrate.
Avaya is currently offering emergency communication services such as 'Dial 100' and medical response systems in few Indian states, in addition to software-backed unified communications and collaboration products to mid-and-large enterprises.
(The author is in Dubai to attend Avaya Engage at the company's invitation).
Vishal Agrawal
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Little Labors of Love: The craft is apparent at the Toy Theater Festival at Links Hall
February 22, 2010 at 2:02 pm by Monica Westin
by Monica Westin
February 22, 2010 February 23, 2010 Filed under:
Recommended Performance
Great Small Works' "Marcovaldo Planets"
It's a big weekend for Seth Bockley. In addition to his highly-anticipated performance promenade "The Twins Would Like to Say" with Dog & Pony opening at Steppenwolf Garage on Sunday, Bockley has curated the impressive lineup of artists at Links Hall's Toy Theater Festival this weekend.
Bockley champions toy theater for its populist roots in nineteenth-century paper theater, which could be made in anyone's living room as a precursor to television. The form has morphed from living-room entertainment to a cheap, DIY way of making performance that Bockley loves because it's "not rarefied art." We spoke to Bockley about this form he wants to be reclaimed as an everyday act.
Toy theater seems to be an exciting and increasingly popular form lately—I'm thinking of companies like Great Small Works, who I know are going to be part of this show. Why do you think there is such a strong interest in toy theater today? When did you personally become interested in the medium?
I became interested in toy theater, and puppetry more generally, through work with Redmoon back in 2004 during my mentorship with Frank Maugeri, now the artistic director there. I originally was more interested in writing and had no intention, really, of getting involved with puppetry, but through seeing what Frank was able to do with the medium, I became extremely excited and interested in this form of storytelling. So oddly, I had become involved as a writer for puppet theater, which was a strange thing to be, and our collaboration allowed me to see the potential of this form. I see it as a form that can both be in dialogue with and in competition with cinema—working with puppetry is closer to the work of a filmmaker rather than a theater director. One of the many cool things it allows is a way of performing animation—performing film really—by other means.
So toy theater is similar to film, and one of the reasons I really like it is because it's this kind of live animation. I think audiences are really excited about it these days because we live in an age where labor is so concealed behind glowing screens, with no human touch in entertainment. In a similar way to the handcraft movement, toy theater allows us to value the crafted. That's another part of it. In toy theater, which was originally a paper, a flat medium, we have a new way to see animation the way we would in a cartoon, but we also see the labor, and I think we love to see the labor behind something. We love to be in the presence of the labor. It wakes us up out of passivity.
You've got a lot of really exciting names in the show, from Great Small Works to Blair Thomas. How were the pieces chosen, and do you see them working together in any particular ways?
Well, these are artists who excite me, and except for Great Small Works, all the work they brought is new, so I began with artists rather than pieces. In this medium, I think it's especially important to allow the imagination of these artists to go where it needs to go, and these are artists I trust deeply and want to give a platform to in order to build new work. The limitation of the form—if you can look at it that way—is enough of a limit. But if there is a through-line, a theme that keeps coming up again, it's the uncanny, for example in Blair's piece where he's adapted a sermon from "Moby Dick" but he, as the puppeteer, is the devil. There's always a bit of uncanniness and dislocated estrangement in these works, because the puppeteer is visible and not part of the story. That distance, between the puppeteer and the distance they're manipulating the story from, is a theme in all these works. In addition to just seeing the labor, a lot of times these artists will make themselves in a character responding to or in tension with the piece. The best example would be Meredith [Miller], who's doing a piece of toy theater meets burlesque, where this tension is all happening on her body itself.
"The World is Flat" runs February 25-28 at Links Hall, 3435 N. Sheffield, (773)281-0824
Femaleness Without Borders: A Review of Marginalia at Links Hall Khecari's new evening-length dance performance builds a dreamlike world of female tenderness, menace and transcendent intimacy.
Player of the Moment: Roell Schmidt and Links Hall It's the story of artists.
Working Through Past Pain: A Preview of "Volledig" at Links Hall The culmination of a year of research and development.
Redefining Body: A Preview of Blackbird's Ventriloquy at Links Hall A meditative reflection on sound and body, movement and mind.
Everyday Framework: A Preview of "Performing Home" at Links Hall Local dance curator Cynthia Bond presents an Illinois Humanities-supported partner program of space, memory, and the invisible social bonds and barriers that inform them.
A Terrible and Beautiful Time: Performances at Links Hall Capture the Creative American Zeitgeist January at Links Hall is an intensive course in the complexity of our American identity.
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Clothes of Deception (偽れる盛装, Kozaburo Yoshimura, 1951)
October 26, 2017 by Hayley Scanlon Leave a comment
Japan at a crossroads. East/West, past/future becomes a conflict between Kyoto and Tokyo in Yoshimura's exploration of two women pulled in surprisingly contradictory directions in the new post-war world, Clothes of Deception (偽れる盛装, Itsuwareru Seiso). Working from a script by Kaneto Shindo, Yoshimura frames his tale as one of progress and resistance but the divisions are not as simple as they first seem. Machiko Kyo turns in another wonderfully nuanced performance as a Kyoto geisha trapped by the unchanging nature of her city yet yearning for an end to its slavish devotion to tradition.
Kumicho (Machiko Kyo) is the daughter of a longstanding geisha house currently operated by her mother. Though working as a geisha, Kumicho is not universally popular with the older generation thanks to her money first attitude which sees her prioritise earnings potential through having an unlimited number of clients rather than relying on a single patron. Kumicho is tough where geishas are generally soft and accommodating. She doesn't take orders or nonsense from anyone, not least her push over of a mother.
Kumicho's sister, Taeko (Yasuko Fujita), is not involved in the geisha trade and has a regular office job in the local tourist office. Unlike Kumicho, Taeko is mild mannered and reserved, dressing in regular Western fashions and travelling everywhere by bicycle. Taeko is engaged to a colleague, Koji (Keiju Kobayashi), who just happens to be the adopted son of another geisha house run by a woman with a long standing grudge against her mother.
Kyoto, a former capital, is famous for its historical qualities – a living museum to old-time Japan, but as a friend visiting from Tokyo points out perhaps that's not altogether a good thing. Unlike Tokyo, Kyoto escaped much of the wartime destruction allowing it to be seen as a symbol of cultural resilience but lack of destruction also robs of it the chance for rebirth. History has survived, but so have lots of "tired old ideas", according to Taeko's friend Yukiko who urges her to forget the stagnant city and head for pastures new in Tokyo where the exciting post-war future is already underway.
Those old fashioned ideas are embodied within the rigid codes of the geisha world which Kumicho, on the surface the more traditional of the sisters but in actuality less so, has been breaking. Kumicho cares about money and she cares about survival which has made her unsentimental. Despite being involved in the "traditional" Kyoto occupation with all of its elegance and complicated ritual, Kumicho is a modernist who secretly hates the trade and holds each of her customers in deep contempt. Thus she thinks her mother, Kiku (Hisako Takihana), is a soft touch for continuing to bankroll the feckless son of her former lover, but is as heartbroken as anyone when one of the geishas becomes gravely ill. Kumicho's manner maybe brash and brassy but her heart is as warm as her mother's who continues to visit the widow of her former patron and makes sure the sickly geisha is cared for properly without resenting either the costs involved or the loss of earnings.
Taeko's engagement to Koji opens up old wounds and exposes the less genial side of geishadom in the grudge bearing rivalry of Kiku and Koji's mother Chiyo (Chieko Murata). Chiyo tries to put the kibosh on Taeko's marriage as a way of getting back at Kiku, claiming that Taeko simply isn't good enough for her son, but her authority is also dependent on those tired old ideas of hierarchy and filial piety. Koji, an adopted child, feels himself beholden to his mother's needs in having been raised exclusively to fulfil them and vacillates in indecision regarding his marriage. Spineless and cowardly, Koji cannot find the strength to tell his mother no but also refuses to definitively break things off with Taeko.
Younger than Kumicho and a part of the "modern" world thanks to her regular office job in the tourist office, Taeko is comparatively more socially conservative reacting with horror when the increasingly strained Koji makes desperate, aggressive advances towards her whilst refusing to confirm his intention to marry against his mother's wishes. Taeko and Koji have imprisoned themselves within Kyoto's oppressive system of social codes in refusing to seize their chance of individual happiness and stride forward into the bright future being offered everywhere else except in the unchanging city.
Kumicho's machinations eventually land her in hot water when an obsessed client ruins himself and then turns violent, demonstrating the less publicised dangerous side of life in the geisha trade. Kyoto, with all of its elegant refinement, can still be a place of rancour and regret where decades old grudges and more recent resentments threaten to disturb the peace. Kumicho's innovations have shown up the geisha trade for what it is through her thoroughly unsentimental seduce and discard philosophy but she is, if nothing else, essentially truthful in her "modern" desire to call a spade a spade. The old ways are changing, though perhaps not fast enough. Kyoto, with its rigidity and stagnation is eventually rejected as Kumicho, unable to extricate herself, makes sure that her sister is first in line for all the opportunities the new world has to offer – by sending her to Tokyo, the capital of the future.
Posted in BFI Tears and Laughter: Women in Japanese Melodrama, JapanTagged 1950s, 1951, Akira Ifukube, Asakazu Nakai, Chieko Murata, Chigusa Maki, Daiei, Eitaro Shindo, Emiko Yanagi, Hisako Takihana, Ichiro Sugai, Japan, Japanese, Kaneto Shindo, Keiju Kobayashi, Kozaburo Yoshimura, Machiko Kyo, Seizaburo Kawazu, Taeko Kitakouchi, Taiji Tonoyama, Yasuko Fujita


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Media Advisory: President Cyril Ramaphosa to Answer Questions in the National Assembly
Parliament, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 – President Cyril Ramaphosa will tomorrow, Thursday, 3 November appear in the National Assembly's (NA) hybrid plenary session to provide oral replies to questions from the NA Members of Parliament (MPs) at 2 pm.
Section 92(2) of the Constitution stipulates that cabinet members are accountable collectively and individually to Parliament for the exercise of their powers and performance of their functions. Questions for Oral Reply by the President and the Deputy President are one of the mechanisms that Parliament consistently uses to hold the Executive to account.
To access the complete list of the six sets of questions that President Ramaphosa will provide the oral reply to, please click: https://www.parliament.gov.za/storage/app/media/Docs/quest_pap/36e95d50-2d0d-4a17-98bb-fb222faf890f.pdf
DETAILS OF THE NA PLENARY SITTING ARE AS FOLLOWS:
DATE: THURSDAY, 3 NOVEMBER 2022
Meanwhile, the National Assembly led by Speaker Mapisa-Nqakula will tomorrow convene its Programme Committee meeting to plan for the business of the House. Bills before the House, Committee Reports and the NA Draft Programme are among the items on the agenda.
DETAILS OF THE NA PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEETING ARE AS FOLLOWS:
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Joint Constitutional Review Committee
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