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Q: What is the difference between single thread and non-blocking I/O operation in NodeJs? I've been reading up and going through as much of NodeJs code as I can but I'm a bit confused about this:
What exactly does Node being single threaded mean and what does non-blocking I/O mean? I can achieve the first one by spawning a child process and the second one by using async library. But I wanted to be clear what it meant and how non-blocking I/O can still slow up your app.

A: I'll try my best to explain.
Single-threaded means that the Node.js Javascript runtime - at a particular point in time - only is executing one piece of code from all the code it has loaded. In effect, it starts somewhere, and works it way down through all instructions (the call stack) until it's done. While it's executing code, nothing can interrupt this process, and all I/O must wait. Thankfully, most call stacks are relatively short, and lots of things we do in Node.js are more of the "bookkeeping" type than CPU-heavy.
Being single-thread though, any instructions that would take a long time would be a huge problem for the responsiveness in a system. The runtime can only do one thing at a time, so everything must wait until that instruction has finished. If any "I/O" instruction (say reading from disk) would block execution, then the system would be unnecessarily unavailable at that time.
But thankfully, we've got non-blocking I/O.
Instead of waiting for a file to be read:
console.log(readFileSync(filePath))
you write your code so that you DON'T wait for a file to be read:
readFile(filePath)
The readFile call returns almost instantly (perhaps in a a few nano-seconds), so the runtime can continue executing instructions that come next. But if the readFile call returns before the data has been read, there's no way that the the readFile call can return the file contents. That's where callbacks come in:
readFile(filePath, function(err, contents) { console.log(contents))
Still, the readFile call returns almost instantly. The runtime can continue. It will finish the current work before it (all instructions coming after readFile). Nothing is done with the function that's passed, other than storing a reference to it.
Then, at some later point in time (perhaps 10ms, 100ms, or 1000ms later) when reading the file has completed, the callback is called with as second argument the full contents of the file. Before that time, any number of other batches of work could have been done by the runtime.
Now I will address your comments about spawning child processes and Async library. You are wrong on both accounts.

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*Spawning a child process is a way to let Node.js use more than CPU core. Being single-threaded, a single Node.js has no purpose for using more than one core. Still, if you are on a multi-core computer, you may want to use all those cores. Hence, start multiple Node.js. processes.

*The Async library will not give you non-blocking I/O, Node.js gives you that. What Node.js does not give you itself, is an easy way to deal with data coming in from multiple callbacks. The Async library can help a great deal with that.
As I'm not an expert on Node.js internals, I welcome corrections!
Related questions:

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*asynchronous vs non-blocking

*What's the difference between: Asynchronous, Non-Blocking, Event-Base architectures?

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20 year-old Cameron Ward is in the Missoula County Jail for allegedly attacking another man with a knife.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Amber Henning asked Judge Marie Anderson for $20,000 bail.
"The defendant is alleged to have pulled a 12-inch folding knife on a man in the parking lot of Cash One Pawn, and having swung at the victim several times," Henning said. "The defendant was also carrying a can of Steel Reserve and smelled of alcohol."
Henning outlined Ward's criminal history as a continued argument for high bail.
"The defendant has a conviction for malicious mischief out of Washington and has a warrant out of Arizona for failure to appear," she said. "He was attempting to travel back to Arizona at the time of this offense, and presents a flight risk, as well as being a danger to the community."
Judge Anderson agreed and set bail at $20,000. His next court appearance was set for February 6.


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import {
  click,
  getBrowserAndPages,
  tabForward,
  timeout,
  typeText,
  waitFor,
  waitForFunction,
  waitForNone,
} from '../../shared/helper.js';
import {beforeEach, describe, it} from '../../shared/mocha-extensions.js';
import {
  CONSOLE_COMPLETION_HINT_SELECTOR,
  CONSOLE_TAB_SELECTOR,
  CONSOLE_TOOLTIP_SELECTOR,
  focusConsolePrompt,
  waitForLastConsoleMessageToHaveContent,
} from '../helpers/console-helpers.js';
import {openSourcesPanel} from '../helpers/sources-helpers.js';

describe('The Console Tab', async () => {
  beforeEach(async () => {
    const {frontend} = getBrowserAndPages();

    await click(CONSOLE_TAB_SELECTOR);
    await focusConsolePrompt();

    await typeText('let object = {a:1, b:2}; let map = new Map([["somekey", 5], ["some other key", 42]])');
    await frontend.keyboard.press('Enter');

    // Wait for the console to be usable again.
    await frontend.waitForFunction(() => {
      return document.querySelectorAll('.console-user-command-result').length === 1;
    });
  });

  afterEach(async () => {
    // Make sure we don't close DevTools while there is an outstanding
    // Runtime.evaluate CDP request, which causes an error. crbug.com/1134579.
    await openSourcesPanel();
  });

  // See the comments in console-repl-mode_test to see why this is necessary.
  async function objectAutocompleteTest(textAfterObject: string) {
    const {frontend} = getBrowserAndPages();

    const appearPromise = waitFor(CONSOLE_TOOLTIP_SELECTOR);
    await typeText('object');
    await appearPromise;

    const disappearPromise = waitForNone(CONSOLE_TOOLTIP_SELECTOR);
    await frontend.keyboard.press('Escape');
    await disappearPromise;

    const appearPromise2 = waitFor(CONSOLE_TOOLTIP_SELECTOR);
    await typeText(textAfterObject);
    await appearPromise2;

    // The first auto-suggest result is evaluated and generates a preview, which
    // we wait for so that we don't end the test/navigate with an open
    // Runtime.evaluate CDP request, which causes an error. crbug.com/1134579.
    await waitFor('.console-eager-inner-preview > span');
  }

  it('triggers autocompletion for `object.`', async () => {
    await objectAutocompleteTest('.');
  });

  it('triggers autocompletion for `object?.`', async () => {
    await objectAutocompleteTest('?.');
  });

  it('triggers autocompletion for `object[`', async () => {
    await objectAutocompleteTest('[');
  });

  describe('triggers autocompletion for maps', () => {
    async function typeMapGetter() {
      const {frontend} = getBrowserAndPages();

      const appearPromise = waitFor(CONSOLE_TOOLTIP_SELECTOR);
      await typeText('map.get');
      await appearPromise;

      const disappearPromise = waitForNone(CONSOLE_TOOLTIP_SELECTOR);
      await frontend.keyboard.press('Escape');
      await disappearPromise;

      const appearPromise2 = waitFor(CONSOLE_COMPLETION_HINT_SELECTOR);
      await typeText('(');
      await appearPromise2;

      await waitForFunction(async () => {
        const completionHint = await waitFor(CONSOLE_COMPLETION_HINT_SELECTOR);
        return await completionHint.evaluate(node => node.textContent === '"somekey")');
      });

      // Even though the completion hint has the correct contents, there are no atomic DOM updates
      // for the console input. This means that there is a race condition between when CodeMirror
      // has finished computing the completion hint (and written it to the DOM) and when it is
      // ready to receive further key inputs. This typically happens near instantly, but it is
      // possible for another task to be inserted in between these two events. Since we are
      // writing to the DOM, 100ms timeout is sufficient to flush the DOM and let all of the components
      // be in sync.
      await timeout(100);
    }

    it('can select the first key result', async () => {
      const {frontend} = getBrowserAndPages();
      await typeMapGetter();

      const completionPromise = waitForNone(CONSOLE_COMPLETION_HINT_SELECTOR);
      await tabForward();
      await completionPromise;

      await frontend.keyboard.press('Enter');
      await frontend.waitForFunction(() => {
        return document.querySelectorAll('.console-user-command-result').length === 2;
      });

      await waitForLastConsoleMessageToHaveContent('5');
    });

    it('can select the second key result', async () => {
      const {frontend} = getBrowserAndPages();
      await typeMapGetter();

      // Select the second key by pressing the arrow down.
      // Keys should be ordered by appearance in the original `Map.keys()` array
      await frontend.keyboard.press('ArrowDown');

      await frontend.waitForFunction(() => {
        return document.querySelectorAll('.console-eager-inner-preview').length === 1 &&
            document.querySelectorAll('.console-eager-inner-preview')[0].textContent === '42';
      });

      const completionPromise = waitForNone(CONSOLE_COMPLETION_HINT_SELECTOR);
      await tabForward();
      await completionPromise;

      await frontend.keyboard.press('Enter');
      await frontend.waitForFunction(() => {
        return document.querySelectorAll('.console-user-command-result').length === 2;
      });

      await waitForLastConsoleMessageToHaveContent('42');
    });
  });
});

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Dear voters, your views on foreign policy stink!
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Editorials Letters to the Editor Editorial Cartoons King Cartoons Opinion Columns
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 5:33 AM
Most of human history has been marked by war.
Between 1500 and 1945, scarcely a year went by without one great power fighting another. Then, in 1945, that stopped. Battlefield deaths have plummeted to the lowest levels in history. The world has experienced the greatest reduction in poverty in history, as well as the greatest spread of democracy and freedom.
Why did this happen? Mostly it was because the United States decided to lead a community of nations to create a democratic world order. It consisted of institutions like NATO, the U.N. and the World Bank. But it was also enforced by the pervasive presence of American power – military, economic and cultural power as well as the magnetic power of the democratic idea, which inspired dissidents worldwide.
Building any community requires exercising power. America's leaders made some terrible mistakes (Vietnam, Iraq). The nation never got to enjoy the self-righteous sense of innocence that the powerless and reclusive enjoy.
But the U.S. having been dragged into two world wars, leaders from Truman to Obama felt they had no choice but to widen America's circle of concern. As Robert Kagan writes in "The Jungle Grows Back," "Very few nations in history have ever felt any responsibility for anything but themselves."
This should be a source of pride for all Americans, but it is not. Researchers from the Center for American Progress recently completed a survey of American foreign policy views. They write: "When asked what the phrase 'maintaining the liberal international order' indicated to them, all but one of the participants in our focus groups drew a blank. Voters across educational lines ... did not understand what any of these phrases ... meant or implied."
That by itself is not a problem. The liberal order was built by foreign policy elites. The problem is that voters are now actively hostile to the project. Instead of widening the circle of concern, most Americans want the U.S. to simply look after itself.
The CAP researchers asked 2,000 registered voters what U.S. foreign policy priorities should be. The top priorities were protecting against terrorist threats, protecting jobs for American workers and reducing illegal immigration. These are negative aspirations: preventing things from hostile outsiders.
The lowest priorities were promoting democracy, taking on Chinese aggression, promoting trade, fighting global poverty and defending human rights. The things Americans care least about are the core activities of building a civilized global community.
After Iraq and other debacles, many Americans are exhausted by the global leadership role. Many have lost faith in the nation's leadership class. They say correctly that we have a lot of problems here at home.
But a big part of the shift is caused by many Americans having lost faith in human nature and human possibility.
Even after the horrors of World War II, most Americans said that people can be trusted. Building a community of nations seemed like a doable proposition because most people are basically good. Even today, people who express high social trust are much more likely to see America as an indispensable nation, much more likely to believe American values are universal values and much more likely to support the policies that preserve the liberal world order.
But social trust has collapsed over the decades, especially among the young. Distrustful, alienated people don't want to get involved in the strange, hostile, outside world.
There are two types of low-trust voters. On the right there are the Trumpian America Firsters, who want to cut immigration and break alliances. On the left there are the New Doves. These are young people who express high interest in human rights, but having grown up in the Iraq era, they don't want the U.S. to get involved in protecting them. A survey of American voters by the Eurasia Group Foundation reported, "People under 30 years old were the most likely to want the United States to abstain from intervening in human rights abuses."
The America Firsters and the New Doves may think of themselves as opposites, but they wind up in the same place: America should not be abroad preserving the liberal world order.
The CAP study estimates that less than a fifth of voters are traditional internationalists. The Eurasia Group study estimates that only 9.5% are.
America is withdrawing from the world; the results are there for all to see. China is cracking down on democratic rights in Hong Kong. Russia launches cyber-attacks everywhere. Iran is destabilizing the Middle East. The era of great power rivalry is coming back.
We're in a dark spiral. Americans take a dim view of human nature and withdraw from the world. Wolves like Putin and Xi fill the void, confirming the view and causing more withdrawal.
We need a leader who can grapple with failures like Iraq, build a younger, credible leadership class and embody an optimism that pulls us out of the spiral.
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times.
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"Hong Kong police have AI facial recognition system for demonstrators"
Taiwanese media say Tuesday that Hong Kong's authorities have an AI facial recognition system that can track the protesters. The free-time news quoted by Bloomberg News reported Tuesday that Hong Kong police have introduced Australia's AI face recognition system for three years ago to recognize people's faces and license plates through CCTV.
Taiwan's media reported Tuesday that Hong Kong's authorities are likely to have an artificial intelligence (AI) facial recognition system that can track the protesters.
A free time signal was quoted by Bloomberg News on the 23rd (local time). Hong Kong police introduced the AI face recognition system of Australia's iOmniscient three years ago to recognize human faces and license plates using CCTV. Reported.
But it is unclear whether the system was used to arrest protesters against Hong Kong's Criminal Extradition Act.
The newspaper explained that the Australian company's system is an intelligent surveillance system that incorporates software technology that can be used in traffic violations such as finding missing children, arresting arrests and speeding.
Meanwhile, Eric Rai, deputy leader of the Civil Rights Declaration, a late night organization, said Hong Kong's government has recently strengthened its surveillance and control to suppress protests in the Free Asian Broadcasting (RFA). We urged the release of information.
He also argued that the facial recognition system would have increased the number of arresters through the expansion of smart streetlights and the ban on masking.
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Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. New York: Longman, 1991.
Reuter, Timothy (trans.) The Annals of Fulda. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, .) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.

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Marc Cooper November 18, 2004
IT'S NOT JUST SQUISHY LIBERALS and ACLU lawyers anymore who cast
a wary eye toward the future of our civil liberties. Just as the White House
last week was announcing the replacement of Attorney General John Ashcroft by
Alberto Gonzales, I was having lunch with the former Republican attorney general
of New Jersey, John Farmer Jr., who most recently served as author of the 9/11
commission report.
"It's not much of a change," Farmer said flatly, referring
to Gonzales' nomination. "It's one thing to agree that a paradigm shift
is necessary," he said, referring to the expanded federal police powers
granted after the Twin Towers attack. "But it's quite another to get it
And any chance of getting it right, Farmer said, was blown when
the Bush administration went right over the heads of the courts and started
inventing categories like "enemy combatants" — that neat little pigeonhole
in which all civil liberties disappear.
We have Alberto Gonzales to thank in part for that. This young
Latino lawyer and Bush confidant has a compelling personal story of overcoming
poverty and racial discrimination that is overshadowed only by his willingness
to deprive others of basic human rights.
Not only did Gonzales play a key role in fashioning the enemy-combatant
conceit that allows for indefinite and unreviewed detention, but he also laid
down the legal foundation to create the kangaroo-court "military commissions"
authorized by Bush to try suspected terrorists. Then there was that January
25, 2002, memo he typed up for longtime buddy Bush in which he called the protections
of the Geneva Convention "quaint" and said there was no need, then,
to apply international law to prisoners seized in Afghanistan. A half-year later,
Gonzales was busy again, working on the now-infamous "torture memo"
assuring the commander in chief that there was nothing cruel or unusual about
sticking a prisoner's face down in a tub of water or a jagged pole up his rear.
Touching, isn't it, coming from the man who will now be America's
top law-enforcement official? Perhaps the only redeeming aspect of Gonzales'
record is proof that affirmative action really works. No longer can we suppose
that one race or another is genetically predisposed to do the right thing. When
Gonzales served as counsel to then–Texas Governor Bush, he authored 57 memos
on appeals for clemency from death row. Fifty-six wound up executed. Writing
in Slate magazine, Phillip Carter said these memos "would have barely
earned a passing grade in law school, let alone satisfy the requirements of
a job in which life and death were at stake. Perhaps more important, these early
memos from Texas revealed Gonzales' startling willingness to sacrifice rigorous
legal analysis to achieve pre-ordained policy results at the drop of a Stetson."
Much of Gonzales' handiwork as a White House lawyer has, fortunately,
not found such an easy glide path and is now being directly challenged in the
courts he obviously disdains. Even the Rehnquist Supreme Court has begun to
chisel away at the imperial powers Gonzales helped draft for the executive.
THE BIG QUESTION NOW IS how Gonzales' Senate confirmation
hearings will play out. Let's hope they will be as much of a riveting national
soap opera as were the Clarence Thomas hearings. Not to dwell on Mr. Gonzales'
video-rental list. But this will be the first opportunity for America to publicly,
and in detail, review and scrutinize the behind-the-scenes sausage making that
has resulted in such rancid plates as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Gonzales
should be forced to answer in detail how his notorious memos were engineered,
what precise role he played in their production, and what exactly were the outcomes
being sought.
If and when he is confronted with such challenges, you can be
sure that Gonzales and his own White House lawyers will cowardly retreat behind
a stone wall, claiming all sorts of executive privilege and arguing that too
much public debate will undermine national security, give aid and comfort to
the enemy, and so on ad nauseam.
The bottom-line Bush-Gonzales answer will be: "Trust us."
But why should we? Since 9/11, this has been the universal refrain
from the administration. As each new increment in police and investigative power
has been ratcheted up, instead of enhancing judicial review, the latter has
been further crippled. We are told to trust not in any process of review but
instead in the righteousness that resides in the hearts of George W. Bush and
his closest friends. A close-up look as to what actually constitutes the soul
of these folks was chillingly put on display last week as John Ashcroft made
his first public remarks after his resignation. As he spoke to the conservative
Federalist Society convention, Ashcroft took a parting shot at the American
legal system: "The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial oversight
and second-guessing of presidential determinations in these critical areas can
put at risk the very security of our nation in a time of war."
In other words: To hell with the law — just trust us.
As Senate Democrats and some of their more maverick Republican
colleagues privately ponder how "far they will go" in openly challenging
this Bush toady in a time of war, let them remember that in terms of physical
geography as well as by any moral measure, once you have decided to depart from
the boundaries of Geneva, it's but a very short trip to Nuremberg.


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Kőolaj és származékai
 1 amerikai hordó (bbl.) = 42 amerikai gallon = 336 amerikai pint = 9702 köbhüvelyk = 158,987294928 liter ≈ 0,136 tonna nyersolaj
 1 birodalmi hordó (bbl.) = 35 birodalmi gallon = 280 birodalmi pint = 9709,68075 köbhüvelyk = 159,113159869818 liter.

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Magyar eredetű mérték (1395), a tároló edény elnevezéséből a nagyobb borvidékeken alakult ki, és országos bormérték lett.
 1 hordó = 8-93 köböl = 80,5-930 l.

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 abaúji hordó
 bécsi hordó
 beregszászi hordó
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 egri hordó
 erdélyi hordó (három méretben: 1823-ig 218 l, 436 l, 872,1 l; 1823-tól 56,6 l, 113,2 l, 452,8 l.)
 gönci hordó (egész és fél: 17. század elejéig 352,5 l és 176,25 l; 17. század további részében 201,44 l és 100,72 l; 18. századtól csak egyféle: 151,07 l; 1807-től 147,73 l); 1 gönci hordó = 2,5 akó = 160 icce = 136 liter.
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 tokaj-hegyaljai hordó (18. század elejéig 134,29 l; utána 1807-ig 157,07 l; 1807-től 147,73 l.)
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World Cancer Day 2021: Improving the outcomes for children with leukaemia
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Dr Laurence Cheung is a Senior Research Officer and Cure Cancer researcher in the field of Leukaemia and Cancer Genetics. As a researcher, a community member and a father, Laurence reflects that we all have our role to play in supporting those on their cancer journey.
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Dr Laurence Cheung is a Senior Research Officer and Cure Cancer researcher in the field of Leukemia and Cancer Genetics. Currently based at the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth, Laurence and his team have developed a breakthrough preclinical model exploring why children with leukemia suffer from bone loss. As a researcher, a community member and a father, Laurence reflects that we all have our role to play in supporting those on their cancer journey.
Can you summarise your current research practice, and its impact on a global community?
My research is focussed on childhood leukemia, specifically looking at the leukemia microenvironment. This means we are looking at the neighbouring cells to the leukaemia cells, and observing how these interact.
In terms of cancer treatment more generally, the improvement in survival rates for childhood leukemia make it something of a success story. In 1950 the survival rate was 30%, and today it's over 90%. That's really significant. However, for children with high-risk leukemia, the survival rate is much lower, so this is the area we're exploring.
What has been the most significant outcome of your research over the past few years in terms of improving the outcomes for children with high-risk leukemia?
There is clinical data to suggest that children with leukemia have more fragile bones, and this is something we have been exploring over the past 5 years. We established a preclinical model to investigate the interaction between the leukemia cells and the surrounding cells. This model also faithfully replicates the bone loss that occurs in children with leukemia.
We have identified a protein produced by leukemia cells, and this protein tells the bone-eating cells to eat the bone away. We discovered this signaling pathway, and this shows us why children suffer from bone loss. I think this is an important finding, and this is what we're carrying on with our current research.
How do you think World Cancer Day empowers people all over the world to support a vision for a cancer-free future?
For scientists, healthcare professionals and community members alike, World Cancer Day is really important. It's a special day for us to reflect on how we can all play a role in striving for a cancer-free future. As researchers, we continue our battle with cancer. Healthcare professionals work with patients on the front line in guiding them through treatment options. We all play an important part.
In a way, cancer is scary, but it's very common now. As a society we are learning how to support each other through the unfortunate experience of a cancer diagnosis.
How can we as a community help to improve the outcomes for children with leukemia?
We can all play a different role in the support process for a person on their cancer journey. As community members it's important we are there for our family, friends or colleagues who are experiencing cancer, assuring them that they are not facing their journey alone.
What is one message you would like to send out to the global community this World Cancer Day?
We have to normalise conversations around cancer. We have to work together to achieve our goal for a cancer-free future. Researchers, healthcare professionals, and community members, everyone has their role to play.
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Godzilla review: Majestic but flawed
Diana Othman
[alert-announce] 3 out of 5 stars. The kaiju king turns 60 this year and he's looking good! Godzilla is atmospheric and delivers some stunning sequences and decently choreographed claw-to-claw combat. But unfortunately, it also takes itself too seriously. Burdened by a certain dreariness, dull characters and a crippling need to incorporate expected tropes, I fear director Gareth Edwards may have missed the most important point of making/ watching creature features, which is to just have fun with it! [/alert-announce]
Godzilla is back and he's bigger than ever. Endowed with a gigantic budget – an estimated US$160 million – both monster and film franchise are given an impressive makeover in terms of scale and visual fx.
Godzilla and his kaiju opponents (yes, you get THREE monsters) tower above nuclear power plants and city skyscrapers and when they fight, they leave chaos and devastation of epic proportions in their wake. Here, Edwards successfully achieves a specific effect he wanted for his Godzilla – that this monster flick should also feel like a colossal disaster film. Whenever the creature emerges from the ocean (his natural habitat), he generates tsunamis and large tidal waves which often signal his arrival.
Godzilla thus becomes a symbol of nature's fury that's unleashed upon a world struggling to contain it, another reminder of its awe-inspiring power. As Ken Watanabe's character Dr Ichiro Serizawa chillingly muses at one point, "The arrogance of man is thinking nature is in their control and not the other way around."
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This discourse on nature intertwines with one of the franchise's main devices, which is to function as a cautionary tale against nuclear experimentation and weaponry. This keeps the story relevant without having to abandon a core element of the original Godzilla lore. It is evident that the narrative and visuals draw from two real-world nuclear disasters: The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 as well as the recent 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan's eastern coast in 2011, which spawned fierce tsunamis and affected a nuclear power plant in Onahama city.
The film begins in the Philippines in 1999 where a gargantuan fossil and two egg-like pods are discovered in a quarry. Scientists Serizawa and Vivienne Graham (Sally Hawkins) are called in to investigate and they find that while one pod remains intact, the other has hatched and something big got out. Dun Dun Duuunnnn.
Around the same time, the Janjira Nuclear Plant near Tokyo is experiencing suspicious seismic activity, a phenomenon that worries American expat plant supervisor Joe Brody played by the magnificent Bryan Cranston. Joe sends his wife Sandra (Juliette Binoche) and a team to check on the core for any damages but an earth shattering quake causes an explosion and Sandra and team are engulfed by radioactive steam.
The power plant collapses, everyone – including Brody's young son Ford – is evacuated and the Janjira area is quarantined. Earthquakes were blamed for the disaster… but of course, we know better!
Fast forward 15 years to the present day, Ford has grown into Hollywood hunk Aaron Taylor-Johnson of Kick-Ass (2010) fame. He's a beefy explosive ordinance disposal officer for the US Navy and lives in San Francisco with his lovely wife Elle (Elizabeth Olsen) and five-year-old son Sam. It has to be said here… is anyone else feeling the heebie jeebies that Taylor-Johnson and Olsen are playing husband and wife in this movie and are portraying the Maximoff twins in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)? No? Ok, moving along then.
Not getting on as well is Joe who stays in Japan and becomes the stereotypical hermit conspiracy theorist who dedicates his days to investigating and extrapolating what actually happened at Janjira the day Sandra died. When he is arrested for trespassing into the quarantined Janjira area, Ford goes to Japan to collect him only to be suckered into accompanying Joe to the same place the very next day.
As they inspect their dilapidated former home for old data, they realise that there's actually no radiation in the quarantined zone before getting caught by the authorities. They are taken to a secret facility to be questioned but it also happens to be the same location where a familiar-looking pod is kept and examined. The pod, which gives out intermittent electromagnetic pulses that are getting stronger, soon hatches and, needless to say, chaos ensues. I don't want to give too much away although I suspect I may have already.
In keeping with the tradition of the most iconic creature features, Edwards puts in significant effort to build up the anticipation for the eventual big reveal. Like the notorious great white shark in Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) that shows itself in the last quarter of the film, we only get to see Godzilla in his full glory at the halfway point on.
I usually like a good build up but I find the overzealous attempt here rather tiresome. Not only are we made to wait for Godzilla's grand entrance but the earlier fights between Godzilla and his opponents (which look like Mothra from the Gojira canon) are deliberately shielded from the viewers. Just as the they are about to attack each other, the scenes cut away to television news or the camera's POV is placed behind a door that gets shut. What a buzzkill!
But when we do eventually get into the thick of the action, it is pretty glorious. One thing you can't deny is that Edwards has a really good eye for majestic wide shots: The panoramic view of a helicopter flying over the Philippine jungles, Godzilla and "Mothra" duking it out and leaving whole cities in shambles, and – perhaps the most thrilling sequence – airborne soldiers free-falling amid stormy clouds with red flares trailing behind them against the backdrop of titans battling to the death. These sequences are sublime and, dare I say it, pure cinema in terms of visual prowess.
It is unfortunate then that Godzilla is burdened by dull characters and an almost joy-sucking sense of gravity. Clearly, the filmmakers set out to avoid a repeat of the Roland Emmerich-directed Godzilla in 1998, which many critics and fans have mercilessly panned as being almost farcical.
Taking a cue from Christopher Nolan and his acclaimed Dark Knight Trilogy, Edwards and team ran in the opposite direction, shaping a Godzilla movie that is grounded in reality. But consequently may have gone too far and created a creature feature that is completely humourless and stripped of the bravura that made some of the best films from this genre like mecha vs. kaiju slugfest Pacific Rim (2013) so infectious and enjoyable.
I also find it difficult to root for the uninteresting characters who give me little to no reason to really care for them. Aside from the rare affecting one-liner, the dialogue/ writing is mediocre which is a shame considering the stellar ensemble cast they managed to snag for the project. Ken Watanabe, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoche and David Strathairn are sadly underutilised and the wasted opportunity is simply criminal!
This segues into my next point – the characters and various elements don't seem to come together naturally so the film feels a little forced. It's as if Edwards is highly conscious of the genre's expected tropes – like the military, the insightful scientist, conspiracy theorist, etc – and desperately tries to include them all even if, from the looks of it, he may not necessarily have a genuine purpose for them or feel absolutely confident executing them.
Generally, Godzilla is a flawed but worthy attempt at resurrecting the franchise. It leaves me wanting more – more epic kaiju smackdowns and more inspired human characters. Now that a sequel is already being developed by Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, I can only hope that the next outing is a truly satisfying one.
Godzilla is showing in theatres now. Have you seen it? Let us know what you think below!
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Film critics must always be on guard against the temptations of hyperbole. How easy it is to, in a fit of post-credits elation, declare that such-and-such a film is the "greatest ever" or at the very least the "movie of the year." And yet, I still feel myself drawn to an inescapable conclusion: Akira Kurosawa's High and Low contains everything there is to know about widescreen cinematography. Shot in stark blacks and whites, High and Low is perhaps Kurosawa's most visually evocative film. This is no meager claim considering that this is the director who gave the world the rain-drenched/sun-parched settings of Rashōmon (1950), the geometric mise-en-scène of Yojimbo (1961), and the static, detached scenes of slaughter and carnage of Ran (1985). And yet my statement remains. And I stand by it.
The literal translation of the Japanese title is "Heaven and Hell." And, indeed, the first hour of the film takes place in "heaven": an immaculate house on the top of a hill inhabited by the Gondo family. At the top of the family is Kingo (Toshiro Mifune), a wealthy business executive who worked his way up from an apprentice to one of the owners of a prosperous shoe company. The opening scenes of the film watch as Kingo and his wife sit nervously in their living room, waiting for a phone call that will hopefully confirm that his ploy to construct a leveraged buyout of the company from his corrupt co-executives who want to force him out has been successful.
But in a masterstroke of Hitchcockian misdirection, they receive a phone call that abruptly announces that someone has kidnapped their son and is holding him for 30 million yen. But when their son suddenly reappears in their living room, Kingo makes a horrifying realization: the kidnapper has mistaken his chauffeur's son for his own. But no matter, the kidnapper gleefully demands that Kingo pay the money anyway or he'll kill the boy. He is faced with a Herculean dilemma: should he sacrifice his fortune and ruin both himself and his family to save the life of somebody else's child?
Pay attention to how Kingo's spacious house remains orderly and sterile even in the midst of emotional cataclysm. When the police arrive to investigate, Kurosawa meticulously arranges his characters in 2- to 7-shots with almost surgical precision. The blocking is reminiscent of the early days of silent cinema where most everything was positioned within a single visual plane, almost like theater. But instead of evoking the stage, Kurosawa's images seem to exude the fastidiousness and beauty of ikebana, or Japanese flower arranging, where every element of a composition displays a deliberate, calculated weight.
After the first hour, the narrative shifts focus from the Gondo family to the tireless cops investigating the kidnapping. And from there Kurosawa's gaze morphs to fit the circumstances of the action: scenes of police officers going over evidence are as cramped as their offices, the drop-off of the money to the kidnappers is done in faux-documentary style, and the eventual pursuit of the kidnapper through the city slums devolves into frenzied bacchanalia.
That the film ends with the police hunting through bars stuffed with Americans and alleyways cramped with drug addicts is no coincidence. Here is the "hell" of the film's title. But it is more than just a title: it is an explanation. For within the hellish squalor of poverty and withdrawal, the only escape for the individual is crime. And the only escape for the individual soul is anger, resentment, and hatred. The film's chilling denouement where Kingo confronts the kidnapper is the final nihilistic twist. He didn't kidnap and extort Gondo's family because he needed or wanted money. He did it for hatred: of Gondo, his success, and his perfect little house high up on the hill.
High and Low isn't just a police procedural thriller; it is an indictment of capitalistic excess, of the supposed moralistic bankruptcy of post-War Japan that so many Japanese filmmakers feared, and of the people at the top of the world, content to let the masses below churn and break apart against the rocks. And all of this is done by Kurosawa with an eye for detail, composition, and imagery that remains nearly unparalleled in Eastern Asian Cinema. It's so striking that it almost completely distracts the audience from realizing that High and Low is one of the great master's most pessimistic and nihilistic films.
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"Harlem" Is a Show That You Sure Could Watch This Weekend
By Carmen Phillips
We've officially entered that part of the year where time has stopped mattering and everything is a downhill sleigh until the New Year (or completely frozen in stasis until the New Year, like I said time is fake). So I don't know your weekend plans! I don't know if you've traveled home already and could use a vaguely gay show to binge while you hide out from your bio family and miss your crew; I don't know if you've already cancelled everything due to the Omarion Omicron variant and could use a short binge to get you through the weekend while you eat every Christmas cookie in the house; hell I don't know if you have to do a double shift at your job and are looking for something you can watch on your phone to keep company — but what I do know is that Harlem, the new Black women's friendship comedy that premiered two weeks ago on Amazon Prime with a surprisingly large amount of gays, could be a show that you watch.
Did I necessarily love Harlem? I did not.
Did I at least enjoy the main lesbian character? I did not! (Though if it helps, there is a second, more unexpected, bisexual storyline that develops over the season that I got into much more).
Ok but did I hate it enough to write a detailed scathing critique? And once again, I did not!
Harlem is a show that exists.
And sometimes, like when it's Saturday morning less than seven days from the biggest holigay period of the year that's filled with the various pressures of maskless gatherings and gift giving and for so many of us the twin pressures of turning ourselves into less of who we are so we can "go home" in the first place, all against the backdrop of entering — eL OH eL — a global pandemic that just got picked up for its third year like it's a breakout drama on Netflix and epic waves of climate change that has left us at 70 degrees in December, in wait for it, Michigan!! —
I dunno, in a situation like that, for a casual and completely random example — then having a show that merely exists is enough.
Hahahaahaha. The world is ending.
Ok so the plot! Harlem follows four single friends in their 30s as they navigate careers and love, which isn't recreating the wheel here, so you know the deal. Meagan Good, a longtime master of romantic comedy, is the lead of the crew, Camille. Grace Byers (Boo Boo Kitty, if you remember Empire) is a small business owner trying to step out of her wealthy mother's shadow. Shoniqua Shandai never met a one-liner she couldn't love as Angie. For our very explicit gay needs, there is Jerrie Johnson as Tye and much like the show itself, Tye is a character that… exists.
(Hey! Maybe I'm being too harsh! She has a speech about compulsory heterosexuality in episode eight that I was here for. Good for Tye, out here existing.)
There's a few classic cameos of Black Hollywood throughout, but none more stunning than EGOT-GOAT Whoopi Goldberg, who sometimes carries the entire production on the back of her effortless comic timing. Plus, if you squint enough and believe in the reason for the season, the whole show has an aesthetically pleasing "it's Christmas without telling me it's Christmas vibe" with lots of twinkling lights, enviable coats, and an entire episode dedicated to the Winter Solstice (#gay).
To be honest with you, the first time I watched Harlem I thought I hated it. But I refused to believe that Tracy Oliver (you know that you love her without knowing it because she wrote Girl's Trip) could do me wrong like that, so I watched it again. Somewhere between episodes four-six I gave into charm and once I started laughing, I couldn't stop. There are more than it's fair share of cringe moments, especially when the show tries to engage in hot topics that come across more like a misread Twitter feed than anything approaching genuine dialogue between Black people (cancel culture, "woke," #MeToo, barbershop misogyny, the alarming amount of Black women who have fibroids, all Black Twitter topics of some point in the last two years, are present and none of it goes down easy). As I mentioned earlier, pretty much everything about Tye — the main lesbian — rubbed me the wrong way, at its worst it felt like the writers had never actually met a Black masc person in their life and instead watched Lena Waithe clips on YouTube.
BUT! The friendship between the core four is warm and believable. And because it's written by Tracy Oliver, the humor is raunchy and plentiful in really great ways. The quieter, surprise queer storyline is enjoyable. Maybe it's some kind of Stockholm Syndrome, but I ended up having a good time. I decorated my apartment for Christmas and Harlem made confident background noise. When it's done, you might wish you had just put on a rerun of Girlfriends or Living Single instead? Sure, you probably will, but much respect to #1 haver of 90s lesbian TV energy Khadijah James herself, none of those shows had a queer main character now did they?
In conclusion, three years ago (but emotionally, a million years ago) we wrote an article bravely titled Make It Gay, You Cowards — and in that article I complained about Issa Rae's Insecure, which coincidentally is going off into its sunset this very month. I very chill wrote in all caps, "IT MAKES NO SENSE THAT NONE OF THE BLACK GIRLS ON INSECURE ARE GAY." It's gobsmacking that in such a short period of time, we've moved ahead so quickly with Black queer storytelling on television (with miles to go before we sleep) that I can point to Harlem's mostly pleasant mediocrity and say, "it's fine."
It's fine. It's completely fine. You can watch it this weekend. It will only hurt a little. It's fine.
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CARMEN!!!! I have been waiting for a post about this show since it came out girl, thank you for delivering! To say that this show has "Cringe Moments" is an understatement in the extreme. At first I was swept away by Tye's Black power lesbian style, (can we please get a fashion break down of Black power stemmes BTW? Sorry, not you, Bette Porter) the fierce makeup, the hair cut, those stunning suits!!! And that masc on masc sex scene in the beginning had me laughing out loud!
But that was the only thing that felt genuine unfortunately… Tye taking a picture down her pants in public… to sext a new girl… that was not it. Tye showing off her head game by flicking her tongue out in between her fingers while at the table…. YIKES. WTF is writing this shit???? I only got through episode two and I might give the show another try on your recommendation, but this representation I almost wish didn't exist.
Ok but listen tho! I found the first two episodes to be the worst, so I completely understand getting off the train there. If you give it a second try (and I'm not at all saying you should!) I've learned that the key is to keep the bar of expectation on the floor, once I decided I already didn't like it, ironically that opened up at least some room for it to surprise me.
I will say my original version of this piece had the line "it's kinda hard when your least favorite character in the show is also the lesbian" 😞 SO MUCH ABOUT TYE MADE NO SENSE AT ALL!!!! And like you said, so offensive. They mellow out some of the offensive parts as the season goes but then new equally perplexing plot choices come instead. Fun!
Also sorry you had to wait so long for the review!! To be honest, I've spent the last two weeks even just trying to wrap my head around the show at all. whoops!
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Most of the storylines I could've truly dealt without, but these are the ones I related to wholeheartedly (Note: I've gotta stop writing these long ass comments on this site. I blame you, Carmen):
1. Tye's interracial relationship with Anna was like them talking extra loud about my past. Like a megaphone into a microphone loud. I distinctly remember thinking the same thoughts as Tye while dating my first white woman but I never spoke them out loud because I already felt guilty and traitorous and giving it words would make the feelings I had true to everyone. Finding out that Tye was also from the deep South, just like me, emptied the clip for me. I'm over it now but then I was such a pain in the ass because I was so conflicted.
Sidenote #1: Let me just say that I loved looking at Tye. She's beautiful and handsome and all things in between.
Sidenote #2: I think it's interesting the contrast between Tye the woman who was happy and in love but unhappy with her job and Tye the woman who is killing it but runs away from or sabotages anything that makes her happy. I wish they'd tackled that more but now I wonder what angle they'd take (e.g., the past never stays there or women can't have it all).
2. Quinn, the sweet, slightly scattered yet hopeful West Indian with mommy issues reminds me so much of a woman I've been seriously crushing on for a while now as she is quite literally Quinn minus the naivete, gullibility and thirst. I swear when she started mocking Angie in her West Indian accent, my knees buckled with nostalgia. The way in which they wrote her attraction to Isabella was very cute and I definitely looked forward to them sharing screentime (amazing chemistry) more than Tye and any of her messy entanglements.
3. Tye ignoring her pain because she knew she would get dismissed if she went to the doctor or the hospital was a THIS! moment. I cannot tell you how many times I've gone to doctors telling them my symptoms and/or armed with my medical records and surreptitiously having it all dismissed as something in my head or me seeking pain medication or sympathy. It's gotten to the point now where if I have to see a new doctor, I literally tell them up front that if they aren't going to listen to me and treat me like someone who matters then don't waste my time. One reaction I got was such comedy (the wrong kind but still comedy) that I almost burst out laughing in the doctor's face.
4. The friendships. Though about 1/3 of the dialogue was cringe, the other 2/3 were spot on. How they talk to, rib, counsel, etc. felt real to me and I loved that. Since COVID I have not been able to get that in-person feeling with my friends and I miss it deeply.
5. The outfits. Yes, they are a storyline in and of themselves.
6. The women. Also not a storyline but they are beautiful to look at.
I think because the show provided me with some palpable touchstones and because I'm really missing my friends and going out with them, I ended up liking it more than I disliked it despite its cringe and over-the-top wanna-be-wokeness. I'm pretty sure if I watched it again, I'll feel differently but for now, I'll take it.
cat-a-bat
I always appreciate the time and analysis you put into your long ass comments ❤
thisaintit
I second that you should not stop writing long ass comments on here.
I also found the treatment of Tye's interracial relationship relatable AF. I wish more queer shows that insist on having interracial couples (as a way of circumventing diverse casting) actually have the characters deal with those conversations that almost every Black woman who has a white partner has had at least once in the course of their relationship.
maraleia
FYI Carmen- small typo. It's Jerrie Johnson. Also, I actually really liked this show.
Ugh!! The "i" key on my laptop is broken! (I'm getting it fixed over the holiday break). Thank you!
I unabashedly loved this show. Yes it was all over the place, and I felt like the person who read the lesbian character did so after reading a few (cheesy) lesbian novels and/or by stalking Lena Waithe, but I loved how they supported each other through their trials and tribulations.
But then they made the okra comparison and they lost me again.
alchemille
I binged this show yesterday due to this headline and then I came back to read the article- 100% agree on the cringe and iffiness- AND it was still a good watch. Like lots of weird as heck things happening but I had fun wasting my time on it
"Harlem is a show that exists"
I hope this quote makes it onto their promotional materials
hahahahaaaaaa! thank you.
Kristen EJ
I know this post has been up for weeks (and I was waiting for it for weeks) and I was going to keep this comment to myself, but I realized not sharing, especially since I feel like I'm saying this respectfully, isn't helpful for me or anyone else who probably feels the same.
No, this show isn't perfect, but so many of our other shows aren't. However, how many Black-led queer shows (and TBH, Black-led shows on any site that does TV/Film recaps) get a proper episode-by-episode recap analysis?
I understand how recapping gets picked on this site. I even understand that lately making Black queer content has caused this site issues. However, I'm still an A+ member (for now) because of the variety and having somewhere to go and running out of spoons (and yes, I do have a condition that's relevant to relate to the spoons model) to create the thing I need to see.
As for the show, what I do want to see next season is for the now two queer cast members to navigate the awkwardness and challenges that presented themselves and for one or both or all of them to get to be a narrator. If we get another season and its still too wacky, then I'll be like cancel the show and the representation, but I still feel like there was room to discuss Black queer person things that Twenties and All-American and some of the other shows haven't given us the room to work through — i.e. being a stemme, religious trauma, moving to a Black(Queer) "Mecca" and finding it lacking/triggering, running a business/campaign as a Black queer person that's come into wealth regardless of presentation…
And I'm still rooting for y'all to continue to build this site, but I'm seeing bias issues still play out (and having edited a niche publication with similar issues around not just Black, but BIPOC content as a whole, I hope that growth continues to happen and I'm happy to share and talk more about it as a professional editor/writer)
Hi EJ,
I respectfully hear your frustration. I wanted to say a little more about how these decisions are made on our end, just to help with any miscommunications!
We covered two Black lead shows (Twenties, Batwoman) with full episode recaps this fall, both of which had queer Black leads (Tye and Quinn are not the lead characters in Harlem — Meagan Good's character, Camille, is the protagonist) and majority Black casts. Both of these shows also have multiple queer and/or Black people in their writers' room. I assume that Harlem had a majority Black writers' room, I didn't look into how many queer people wrote on the show — but the underdevelopment of Tye isn't promising on that front.
We'll be continuing Batwoman recaps this winter along with another queer Black led show (Euphoria), a show that we didn't cover with full recaps in it's first season — much like Twenties — but have decided to pick up with full recaps in its second season because we do want to have fuller coverage of Black queer content, among a variety of other factors. We are also doing episode-by-episode recaps of Yellowjackets at the moment, and though I haven't watched it (I'm a scaredy cat by nature and horror isn't my genre), it's my understanding that the main queer character in that show is Black as well. Though I respect that Yellowjackets and Euphoria are not shows with majority Black casts, designed for Black audiences, and that is different from a show like Twenties — which, again, we did cover with recaps — or Harlem.
There might be some confusion on this front, but we do not do episode-by-episode recaps of shows that drop all of their episodes in one fell swoop for streaming, as did Harlem. That's true across the board. We don't have enough writers on our team for to be able to handle that kind of quick turnaround! I think the last time we attempted it was for the fifth season of Orange is the New Black, all the way back in like… summer 2017? We try to cover "buzzy" shows on streaming networks that prefer binge formats, like Harlem, with full season reviews.
That said, you are correct that Harlem's review went up a few weeks later than I had hoped. To be honest with you, as you can tell from my review, I wasn't a huge fan of the show. The delay was, in part, because I had hoped to find a different writer to write about it. I wanted to give it as positive a light as I could — because I do care so deeply about Black queer projects, and even if I don't particularly like one, I still want to showcase it well for other folks to find the good in them! And as you mentioned, there are themes in Harlem that aren't in other Black queer shows and are worth discussing — such as stemme representation (though Tye identifies in the show as masculine presenting), religious upbringing (I thought her monologue on compulsory heterosexuality was one of the highlights of the show), and yes living in a Black "Mecca" like Harlem and confronting homophobia and sexism from within our own communities.
Unfortunately (and this is not an exaggeration) every Black queer writer I reached out to in my network and rolodox also did not have much interest in writing about Harlem. It happens that way sometimes. I don't have proof of this, but I think between running close to the holiday break and an overall lack of passion for the show, writers were just not prioritizing this project — I also think none of us really enjoy being critical about a Black work, you know? So! After two weeks of trying, I decided to continue through with the review myself.
And again, I am sorry to hear that you have felt frustrated by our coverage. Of past fall recap coverage, 50% of our shows had Black leads (Batwoman and Twenties, or two out of the four shows we covered this fall with full recaps. More if you count Bette Porter as the lead of Gen Q, for the purposes of the quick math I just did in my head, I did not). In our winter coverage, it will also be 50% of the shows (Yellowjackets, Euphoria, and once again Batwoman, or three out of the six shows we will be giving recap coverage too). I happen to know those numbers off of the top of my head because this is a topic (the racial equity and diversity in our recap coverage) I care deeply about, and I can tell that you do as well!
It's also worth noting that very little of the shows we cover on the site, across the board, get weekly recaps. The vast vast majority get either single standalone reviews, like this one, or weekly mini-cap coverage in our Boobs on Your Tube column — you're an A+ member, so I assume you already know what that is. When we are considering our coverage every month, we consider those other formats to be equally as valuable as weekly recaps.
The reasons we decide to go with a standalone or BOYT recap usually has to do with the format of the show (as I mentioned, shows that are designed to be binged don't get weekly recaps — other shows, like Queens on ABC or All American, have smaller weekly gay roles and are best served with mini-recaps in BOYT, just for another example). We next take into account our staff availability and interest. There's a matrix of other considerations as well, but the forefront of all of those are about equity in terms of QTPOC content and how we can stretch our team to make sure that content is getting the best light we can provide it.
I wanted to be as transparent — and lengthy! I apologize for the length! — as possible in response to your question because I recognize how important it really is. I hope you found this additional information about how we make decisions behind-the-scenes and stats about our coverage useful. If you have any more questions, please feel free to use the A+ inbox to let me know! I get the responses to that inbox directly, and there's more I'll be able to say in that format than I can in the comments of an article.
Thank you again for your feedback.
(Please excuse any typos in my response! I have a broken keyboard, and I haven't had a chance to get it fixed yet. Thanks.)
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Saturday, November 24th at 2 pm PTA will be doing Gingerbread House Making. This event is held during the OC Christmas on Main Street event and PTA will provide one Gingerbread House per family at no cost. Stop by the American Legion to join in on the fun.


Show your mat some love. Keep your yoga mats and props clean, germ-free and smelling fresh with this all-natural biodegradable cleaner. Made with bacteria-fighting organic tea tree essential oil and infused with lavender for a light, aromatic, and calming scent.
Directions: Shake well. Spray 3 times onto a damp clean cloth, wipe mat or equipment clean, then air-dry.


60 b-w + 12 color illus.
This is the first comprehensive study of the trombone in English. It covers the instrument, its repertoire, the way it has been played, and the social, cultural, and aesthetic contexts within which it has developed. The book explores the origins of the instrument, its invention in the fifteenth century, and its story up to modern times, also revealing hidden aspects of the trombone in different eras and countries.
The book looks not only at the trombone within classical music but also at its place in jazz, popular music, popular religion, and light music. Trevor Herbert examines each century of the trombone's development and details the fundamental impact of jazz on the modern trombone. By the late twentieth century, he shows, jazz techniques had filtered into the performance idioms of almost all styles of music and transformed ideas about virtuosity and lyricism in trombone playing.
Trevor Herbert is professor of music at the Open University. Formerly a professional trombone player, he is the author of The British Brass Band: A Musical and Cultural History and The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments.


Local performing arts and musical theatre studio Broadway Edge presents Little Women, based on the classic Louisa May Alcott novel. Book by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein. Directed and choreographed by Diana Kaarina and musical direction by Richard Coombes.
Broadway Edge presents Little Women from September 3 – 5, 2010 at the Revue Stage, Granville Island, Vancouver. Tickets are available online.


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Rebellion acquires TickTock Games to expand to four UK studios
Vikki Blake 3rd January 2019 Business News
UK developer Rebellion has acquired Yorkshire-based TickTock Games.
TickTock Games – which was founded by Arden Aspinall, Jonathan Wright and Paul Kelly in 2007 – have worked with Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Nvidia and BBC Worldwide, and recently worked with Rebellion on Rogue Trooper Redux and the Nintendo Switch version of Battlezone Gold Edition.
The acquisition – which will become Rebellion's fourth UK studio, rebranded as Rebellion North – was made for an undisclosed sum and joins Rebellion Liverpool and Rebellion Warwick as sister studios to the company's Oxford HQ. According to the press release, Rebellion North has already begun work on upcoming Rebellion games as the company "readies itself for another big year, with multiple unannounced titles set to launch in 2019".
"Bringing more great people to the company is a great way to start 2019," said Rebellion CEO and co-founder Jason Kingsley OBE. "The company continues to grow and it's important we bring in the right people as part of that process. We've worked with the team at TickTock Games for a while now, and we know they'll continue to prosper as Rebellion North."
Rebellion co-founder and CTO Chris Kingsley has received an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the Queen's New Year's Honours List. Kingsley – who also chairs TIGA's Education Committee and the Games Council at ScreenSkills – joins his brother, Jason, Rebellion's other co-founder, who received his OBE in 2012.
Rebellion also recently purchased a $100m, 220,000 square-foot facility near its Oxford base to transform into a film studio. The site of an old printing press will be able to "accommodate productions from TV drama to large-scale Hollywood productions" and is Rebellion's second film studio alongside its own motion-capture company, Audiomotion, reportedly Europe's largest performance capture stage. It's expected the new facility will create up to 500 new jobs across Britain's film and television industry.
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About Vikki Blake
It took 15 years of civil service monotony for Vikki to crack and switch to writing about games. She has since become an experienced reporter and critic working with a number of specialist and mainstream outlets in both the UK and beyond, including Eurogamer, GamesRadar+, IGN, MTV, and Variety.
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Charles Wesley Godwin
Wednesday December 15, 2021 09:30 pm EST 12/15/2021 9:30 pm
West Virginia is far more than meets the eye. A native of Morgantown, singer-songwriterCharles Wesley Godwin paints a rich and honest portrayal of his homeland and its people with his debut album.Senecais a moving snapshot of his 26 years of life and well-soiled roots in the Appalachian hills, a backdrop that has given birth to some of the most intelligent and hard-working people in the country.
At Eddie's Attic
515 N. McDonough St.
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The BEAN Quiet Sound Hearing Amplifier by Etymotic Research provides that one click of clarity.
As a personal hearing amplification device–also known as a Quiet Sound Amplifier–The BEAN features a built-in sensor that automatically adjusts to the surrounding noise level. It amplifies soft sounds, while keeping the volume steady on louder noises or even reducing it for extremely loud sounds such as fireworks or the strike of a drum. Moreover, it boosts soft high-pitched sounds heard in speech, which helps provide clarity for conversations, particularly in less-than-ideal listening environments. Etymotic Research offers two models–The BEAN and the T-coil BEAN.
The BEAN amplifies sounds and enhances your hearing experience so your conversations become more effective in the car, in social situations, and at a distance.
Superior audio quality: The BEAN has been meticulously engineered to produce the highest fidelity possible. The frequency response of the BEAN has been shaped specifically to improve speech intelligibility. When playing or listening to music, The BEAN can process peak inputs up to 115 dB without distortion. It also has a 16 kHz bandwidth, at least double the bandwidth of other personal hearing amplifiers on the market.
Clear, natural communication: The BEAN's unique circuitry enhances hearing only soft sounds amplified, and is acoustically transparent for louder sounds. It passes loud sounds through as if there were nothing in your ear. The BEAN employs adaptive compression algorithms and continuously-variable recovery times that allows the BEAN to constantly adjust to changing sounds in the environment. The transitions are so smooth, many people forget they are wearing them.
Easy to use: The BEAN has just one dual-mode switch for the user to adjust. Both versions of the BEAN will run up to 12 days on a single battery, and there is an audible indicator to let you know when the battery is running down. Everything needed to get started comes in the box, including multiple eartips for a comfortable fit, batteries, and a leather carrying case.
With deep roots in acoustic amplification research and the hearing aid industry, Etymotic invented insert earphones in 1984. Etymotic's original earphone design used balanced armature receivers, which established these speakers as the gold standard for high definition in-ear earphones. The first versions were used for diagnostic testing and precision auditory research (ER-1, 2, 3). Etymotic produced the first noise-isolating high-fidelity in-ear earphone, the ER-4 (1991), which became the basis of all subsequent in-ear earphones and in-ear monitors worldwide, and created an entire category of consumer electronics. The ER-4 earphones are still produced and channel-balanced to within 1 dB in Etymotic's labs in the US.
Innovation, education and hearing conservation are central to Etymotic's mission. Etymotic's products are used by scientists, hearing practitioners, hearing-impaired consumers, professional and amateur musicians, and others who insist on superior sound quality. Audio engineers, audiologists and musicians working together have generated over 100 patents issued and pending. A number of Etymotic's 60 employees are accomplished musicians. Etymotic Research is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
Choose from three finishes: Platinum, Bronze or Brushed Gold. T-Coil comes in Platinum only.
•	Loud sounds are heard naturally with no additional boost.
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import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;

import edu.wustl.catissuecore.bizlogic.SPPBizLogic;
import edu.wustl.catissuecore.util.global.Constants;
import edu.wustl.common.action.SecureAction;
import edu.wustl.common.util.global.CommonServiceLocator;

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ABOUT SIMC
2021 Call for Paper
Paper Submission and Presentation Guidelines
SIMC 2019
Conference Tracks
Bio-mathematical modeling
Mathematical Finance and Economics
Statistical Modeling
Data Science and computational intelligence
Workshop Abstract
Abstract format
Full paper format
Poster format
simc@strathmore.edu 0703 034 000, Ext: 2359, 2112, 2115
2021 Conference Theme: "Advancing Research and Education in Mathematical Sciences in the Big data Era"
Below are the details of three places you can visit while in Nairobi. Due to the situation with covid-19 we will not provide a group tour to these places during this year's conference
The Nairobi Animal Orphanage
The Nairobi Animal Orphanage is located in the Nairobi National Park. It serves a treatments and rehabilitation centre for wild animals. The Orphanage hosts lions, cheetahs, hyenas, jackals, serval cats, rare Sokoke cats, warthogs, leopards, various monkeys, baboons, and buffalo. Various birds can also be viewed including parrots, guinea fowls, crowned cranes, and ostriches.
For more information go to http://www.kws.go.ke/content/nairobi-animal-orphanage-0
Steadmark Gardens and Recreation Centre
Described as a Snake 'Watchers' paradise, it is fairly a 10 minutes drive from the Galleria Mall, Karen. They also host an animal sanctuary with crocodiles, monkeys, and ostriches.
For more information go to https://www.stedmakgardens.co.ke/
Sheldrick Elephant and Rhino Orphanage
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust was established more than 40 years ago and is best known for its Orphans' Project, the first and most successful elephant orphan rescue and rehabilitation program in the world. The Sheldrick Trust is a pioneering conservation organisation, dedicated to the protection of wildlife and the preservation of habitats in East Africa by protect a number of threatened and endangered species across Kenya including black and white rhinos, as well as iconic animals like African elephants.
For More information go to https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/
Are you interested in attending the conference?
Strathmore University,
P.O. Box 58857 – 00200,
Nairobi, Kenya.
simc@strathmore.edu
0703 034 000, Ext: 2359, 2112, 2115
Copyright © Strathmore International Mathematics Conference


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import "github.com/appropriate/go-virtualboxclient/vboxwebsrv"

type Progress struct {
	virtualbox *VirtualBox

	managedObjectId string
}

func (p *Progress) WaitForCompletion(timeout int32) error {
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	request.Timeout = timeout

	_, err := p.virtualbox.IProgresswaitForCompletion(&request)
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		return err // TODO: Wrap the error
	}

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}

func (p *Progress) GetPercent() (uint32, error) {
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	response, err := p.virtualbox.IProgressgetPercent(&request)
	if err != nil {
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	}

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	return response.Returnval, nil
}

func (p *Progress) Release() error {
	return p.virtualbox.Release(p.managedObjectId)
}


a newborn aviator jacket and beanie, baby socks and an aeroplane soft toy. (soft toy design may vary according to availability) packed in medium wooden box.
girls lunch box filled with all a little girl desires – pink bath fizz balls, lip gloss, glitter s oap and some sweets. all packed in a re-usable tin lunch box.


Nordstrom's anniversary sale starts July 18, but Nordstrom cardholders can get early access on the 10th. Here's a tip from Amanda Ossmus, head stylist at the Westfield Montgomery Mall store: If there's something you have your eye on, don't wait. "North Face jackets are the number one thing that our customers buy at this sale, so those usually blow out right away," Ossmus says. "And when we restock them, they'll be back to the regular price." Meanwhile, Ossmus says the new Topshop line has been such a success at Montgomery Mall that it's influencing the merchandise mix in other departments. "People are supposed to be so conservative in this area, but Topshop is doing so well here that we're now starting to get a lot of other pieces that are trendy, modern and edgy," she says.
Apple products are back at Costco after a four-year absence that stemmed from a disagreement between the two companies. At our local store in Gaithersburg, iPhones were on the shelves at the beginning of this week — but the rest of the products were being held until Apple's official display cases arrived. The store will be carrying iPhones, iPads, iPods and iTunes cards at a discount, but it won't have Mac computers.
82 Steak Out, a cozy restaurant that opened last February next to Noodles & Company at Rockville Town Square, is expanding beyond its original steak-and-fries menu with a new selection of Italian foods. The move comes after the recent closing of Oro Pomodoro, an Italian restaurant that was one of the Square's original tenants. "We have a lot of people coming in for Italian dishes now, so we're starting to run with it," explains 82 Steak Out co-owner Shelly Galloway, who's been cooking up entrees like lasagna, eggplant parmesan and penne pasta with aromatic sauces. There's also a new kids' menu. "We don't want to be the place that you only come to for Date Night," Galloway says. On the other hand… maybe Date Night sounds pretty good about now? We thought so. That's why we're giving away a FREE dinner for two at 82 Steak Out. Like Store Reporter's Facebook page this week to enter our random drawing.


A few key updates have been made to the doctrine management process.
A search box has been added to make it quicker and easier to add fittings to the doctrine.
When you import a fitting under the management screen it is automatically added to the doctrine, saving you those extra few clicks.
In general, the screen operation has been polished and the full-screen refreshes have been removed.
A few small bugs and issues have been resolved.
To learn more about recent updates please review the version history.


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Home / World View / Religion / Judaism / What Are the Three Basic Teachings of Judaism?
What Are the Three Basic Teachings of Judaism?
By Staff WriterLast Updated Mar 25, 2020 9:17:54 PM ET
The three main principles of faith in Judaism are belief in a single, incorporeal and eternal god who created the entire universe; a set of moral principles that require people to treat one another with dignity and love, and ensure justice and equality; and the worship of a single god in prayer, study and adherence to the commandments set out in the Torah. The religion has 13 basic principles.
Judaism derives from the section of the Bible that Christians call the Old Testament. It comprises the books of the Torah and the Prophets. Jews believe that all text written by the prophets is true, including the writings of Moses, who they regard as the greatest of the prophets. They believe God knows men's thoughts and deeds and that he will reward the just and punish evil.
Acts of worship are based at home and include daily prayers that are said in the morning, the afternoon and after sunset. They also hold religious services at synagogues led by a knowledgeable member of the congregation, usually a rabbi or cantor. A rabbi is knowledgeable in yeshiva and conducts regular study sessions for members of the congregation. He also helps with the interpretation and application of Jewish religious principles in day-to-day life.