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7th Annual Christmas Monkey Caption Contest
The Annual Christmas Monkey Caption contest began here on this humble but lovable blog Dec. 22, 2009. To be honest, so far, despite a weak handful of entries, my sample captions have always been better than any submitted by a reader.
The Christmas Monkey does not care what anyone says. The Christmas Monkey seen here, since 2009, has not been replaced or upgraded. The Christmas Monkey is beyond replacing. Do not mess with Christmas Monkey.
Christmas Monkey dares you to write a good caption.
Here's a couple to get you going:
"I'm gonna make Christmas great again!!"
"What did I get for Christmas? An orange, an apple, and three brazil nuts."
"Say "egg nog' one more time."
Labels: Christmas, contest, holiday, humor, Santa monkey
Royals and Dignitaries Warned 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'
How fascinating to watch the recent Nobel Prize ceremony awarding Bob Dylan. Dylan's designation as recipient of the Nobel for Literature was instantly incongruous.
Singer Patti Smith performed Dylan's apocalyptic warning "A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall", in the middle of a fantastically plush concert hall for an audience that included a King, his royal family, members of parliament, international dignitaries, all wonderfully arrayed in luxurious tuxedos and designer gowns, as bejeweled and regal as imaginable.
Dylan's words and a spare Philharmonic(!) arrangement filled the room as Patti sang before the very type of audience that the song seeks to challenge. The song from 1962, like much of his work from that decade, seethes with rage at the institutions corrupted and the decency abridged in the modern world. And Hard Rain especially forecasts the dire consequences of allowing corruption to flourish.
And while Patti became overwhelmed briefly at one point, she soulfully delivers Dylan's words with great power.
Dylan's writing galvanized protests around the world, demanding humanity become the best it could be, his love songs throb with desire and longing, his words express hopes, dreams and sorrows felt by all. More than that. the elegant and vivid poetry of his words is imminently distinctive, unique and startling.
Dylan submitted a speech to be read (I truly appreciate the fact that only Dylan's words were heard at the event and that he was not seen), and he said:
"As a performer I've played for 50,000 people and I've played for 50 people and I can tell you that it is harder to play for 50 people. 50,000 people have a singular persona, not so with 50. Each person has an individual, separate identity, a world unto themselves. They can perceive things more clearly. Your honesty and how it relates to the depth of your talent is tried. The fact that the Nobel committee is so small is not lost on me."
Awarding the prize, the host said "Alfred Nobel wanted to reward those who have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind." The prize committee did just that this year.
Take the time to visit Dylan's website to read his lyrics. It's a stunning collection.
A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL
Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin'
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin'
I saw a white ladder all covered with water
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin'
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin'
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin'
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley
Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony
I met a white man who walked a black dog
I met a young woman whose body was burning
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow
I met one man who was wounded in love
I met another man who was wounded with hatred
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall
Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin'
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten
Where black is the color, where none is the number
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin'
But I'll know my song well before I start singin'
Copyright © 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music
Posted by Joe Powell at 12:18 PM 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: absurdity, bob dylan, literature, music, news, website, YouTube
The Final Truth about the 2016 Presidential Election
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, puh-leeeze welcome the 45th President of the United States -- you know him as a middling brand name product made from toxic materials, the Kmart of Billionaires, the golden-toned skeezy Gordon Gecko leftover, the C-list TV actor popular in Soviet bloc countries - one Donald Trump - and here we go on a slippery and rapid descent into political madness.
There has been no mass repudiation of politics-as-usual despite claims to the contrary, since the vast majority of folks already in office were re-elected yesterday.
Anger, seething for 8 years, directed at all those who dared support a non-white male president, has flowered with poison.
Yes, only the man who was born with solid-gold privileges can save Americans from solid-gold privileged men.
As the British have just done, Americans now seek to withdraw from the world with a snarl for everyone else.
On a personal note, there is not one person in office in the state or nation that I voted for. Whatever is about to happen, it will not be my fault. I'll just be over here complaining and saying I told you so.
Labels: 2016 elections, politics, presidential race
What I Learned Watching The Presidential Debate
Let's see here ... the United States should
= Invade North Korea
= Or at least support a Chinese invasion of North Korea
= Stop US business expansion into overseas market
= Abandon NATO
= Support the collapse of the US housing market because "that's called business".
OK, what else do we have here? It strikes me how much Trump talks like a character in a David Mamet con man play ... like this one about his own income:
"The report that said $650 (million) — which, by the way, a lot of friends of mine that know my business say, boy, that's really not a lot of money. It's not a lot of money relative to what I had.
The buildings that were in question, they said in the same report, which was — actually, it wasn't even a bad story, to be honest with you, but the buildings are worth $3.9 billion. And the $650 isn't even on that. But it's not $650. It's much less than that.
But I could give you a list of banks, I would — if that would help you, I would give you a list of banks. These are very fine institutions, very fine banks. I could do that very quickly."
I did like this quote from Clinton, which was pretty much overlooked, but really cuts to the heart of what Trump himself considers his ultimate expertise, cutting business deals:
"Well, sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government."
There's the blatantly obvious racism from Trump, however I am sure he sees his comments differently, such as he calls anyone he thinks is a bum whatever slur comes to mind.
Overall, I learned that I remain perplexed at how some thoughtful and experienced people I know are ardent supporters for someone who is playing a dangerous game he has zero qualifications for.
Labels: 2016 elections, bad news, political debate, trump, weird
Happy Blog Birthday Number 11
11 years done, starting year 12.
A somewhat erratic and enthusiastic post launched this humble but lovable blog. Visions of multiple posts per day flew about my brain but pretty quickly I saw that would not be the case. Amid a cacophony of online voices and corporate blog productions, I realized I could take my time, my own sweet, sweeeet time. Not much clickbait here, no advertising, just me and you humble but lovable readers.
I am still here, many are no longer publishing.
Thousands of posts have been written and published by myself, thousands more never made the cut. For reasons I cannot offer, the most read post on this page has been this one right here. You are welcome to ponder on why that is so.
There have been many, many posts on politics - but sadly it seems Tennessee's governing bodies have successfully eliminated all but the voices of a single political party in Tennessee. Only Republicans dominate, all other voices are dismissed and demonized and most recently they have been flatly outlawed by the state legislature -- Tom Humphrey explains that every county election commission is forbidden currently from having a Democrat chair such a commission - no minority voices allowed.
"The cited law, enacted earlier this year by the Legislature to take effect on July 1, declares that all county election commission chairmen must be members of the political party representing a majority of the commission. Under separate state law, Republicans have a majority on all county election commissions and on the State Election Commission as well."
So, yay Freedom. I live in a state where a single political party rules and has ruled for some years. I'm not saying they are bad folks - I'm saying my views, my voice, and that of many more Tennesseans, are not heard, not acknowledged, not allowed and that reality comes at a price.
The other most common posts here over the years are about movies, and I recently watched again a comedy favorite which I shall share - it's called "The Impostors", a slapstick comedy following two dim-witted out-of-work actors forced to stow away on a luxury cruise headed to Paris. The cast is chock-full of great performers - Isabella Rossellini, Tony Shaloub, Allison Janey, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi, Oliver Pratt, Billy Connelly and many more. Worth a look --
Labels: blog birthday, movies, Tennessee politics
Even More Nonsense from Donald Tantrump
The stunningly ridiculous presidential race shows no sign of slowing down.
Honestly, the Trump thing takes daily and sometimes hourly leaps deeper and deeper into surreal and stupid and the just plain embarrassing. Those Republicans who helped build a "Tea Party" now have something more like the Mad Hatter's tea party, though the Hatter scene in Alice In Wonderland at least makes sense.
And it's amusing how folks who NEVER balked at speaking out claim the Trump Train is powered by the somehow brand spanking new idea of - you guessed it - speaking out.
Take this tidbit from aging celeb Clint Eastwood - Americans are pussies, apparently raised to be meek losers .... but hey Clint, didn't you help raise the generation you despise? Poor fellow, he's still haranguing empty chairs.
If the GOP campaign gets any more self-absorbed, the could create an implosive blast that could be seen and felt in the Andromeda galaxy.
We may need a new word to describe this 2016 season ... like ... The Full-Blown Tantrump.
'Cause he does love babies ... wait, I mean he hates babies. Or something.
Labels: 2016 elections, absurdity, politics
Gunfight at the We're Not OK Corral
Not to be negative, America, but we are not ok.
It is not ok to get armed far beyond the teeth or eyebrows or cowlicks, and shoot as many people as possible.
It is not ok to perceive every person who might be different from you as an immediate threat to Life As We Know It.
Some mistake in the brain's wiring, some horror repressed from an abusive relationship, something becomes not ok in the thinking of the deranged. I recently wondered, given the discovery of knowingly lead-poisoned water in one city's water supply - and the seemingly monthly massacre shootings we are confronting - how many cities across America for how many decades have had tainted water supplies?
Lead poisoning at low levels - especially in the young - have critical consequences, as noted here by the World Health Organization:
"Blood lead levels that were considered previously to be safe are now understood to compromise health and injure multiple organs, even in the absence of overt symptoms. The most critical consequence of low level lead toxicity in utero and during childhood is damage to the developing brain and nervous system. The immune, reproductive and cardiovascular
systems are also adversely affected by relatively low levels of exposure to
lead ...
The consequences of brain injury from exposure to lead in early life are loss of intelligence, shortening of attention span and disruption of behavior. Because the human brain has little capacity for repair, these effects are untreatable and irreversible. They cause diminution in brain function and reduction in achievement that last throughout life."
Nationally, easily more than 100 cities have aging water supply infrastructure that's likely also supplying lead. And that's just one potential source of toxins that could permanently damage cognition and other vital mental functions.
It is not ok for a society to be consumed with warfare for as long as we have been - and again, perception is filtered through a distorted lens. Military weaponry, tactics and strategies surround us.
It's not ok to execute a death blow to someone being arrested for traffic violations, even if the person is later learned to be a felon, because the death penalty is only to be exacted after the judicial system has examined the person. And while we're talking judicial system, it is not ok for prisons to be run by corporations for profit. The corporations demand inmates to make money, my god that's barbaric.
It's no ok to be a racist. A racist is not just ignorant, but actually dangerous to those around them, threatening social stability at every level. A racist politician is an even larger threat. It's not ok to be silent when you encounter racism - the ignorant who reveal such a characteristic desperately need education.
On a personal aside here, the recent weeks have been so very strange because the news of the day is so similar to a futuristic science-fiction dystopian society short story I wrote in my early teens. The tale followed events as a sniper, for some un-named protest, began shooting at random, but everyone is armed and some are eager to join in a gunfight because the media of the day celebrates the vigilante. The tale was gruesome (i was writing for shock value, and not that well). The society was constantly under fire, the population medicated with anti-anxiety pills, political views were always punctuated with a bullet. I'm horrified beyond words that the actual world I see today resembles in anyway my childish paranoid view of the future. That isn't ok either, the world deserves so much better than such a poorly written narrative.
Lastly, the jingoistic claim that all it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun is now a proven ridiculous notion. A giant chunk of armed police on the scene in Dallas when one shooter appeared could not prevent the killings. It is not ok to live every day like vengeful Earps and Clantons warring in the middle of town. Picking a side and joining in battle will never end the violence, it nurtures violence.
Labels: current affairs, guns, politics, race, violence
The Collapse of European Unity
Britain's decision to leave the EU signals the end of over 50 years of social and political order, a time of historical peace and economic growth, begs the question of what order will replace it?
For now, a powerful rising return of nationalism is seeking control - not to say wiser and perhaps better policies may arise - but since this anti-unity effort has grown from nationalism, then ....
An excellent essay at Washington Monthly comparing the most narrow of world views with the often demeaned policies of liberalism led by President Obama reveals stark contrasts. As he spoke in his Nobel Speech (quoted in the essay):
"I do not believe that we will have the will, the determination, the staying power, to complete this work without something more — and that's the continued expansion of our moral imagination; an insistence that there's something irreducible that we all share.
"We do not have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will make it a better place…For if we lose that faith — if we dismiss it as silly or naïve; if we divorce it from the decisions that we make on issues of war and peace — then we lose what's best about humanity. We lose our sense of possibility. We lose our moral compass."
Posted by Joe Powell at 3:39 PM 1 comment: Links to this post
Labels: England, ethics, Europe, history, politics
The Fans That Destroyed The Earth
Who should play the next James Bond?
Why should fans of 007 pick the next performer to play the role? Are they so scared in Hollywood or that lazy?
Too often the Internets gets blocked up with What Fans Want.
Well, if a Fan of some genre or media knows so much, why are they just Fans? Can't they get the jobs to make the stuff that gets Fans?
Fans churn out reviews of movies and tv and books that are old, new and unmade - like they're possessed, and yet it's always about someone else's works. Fans even make videos of themselves opening packages of what they are Fans of, and those videos have millions of Fans.
Perhaps we shouldn't have provided Internets space to Fan Fiction, Fan Movies and Mashups, just insane niches that feed Fan Entitlement. ("My Little Pony" has, for instance, expanded and distorted into a weird mix of Salvador Dali and Larry Flynt.)
I get it - we make things from the artifacts of our lives. I've done it, but not in any coordinated Fan Horde Attacks.
And the Internets is a machine that builds Fans. See this "Sexts, Hugs, and Rock'nRoll" article about the ongoing DigiTour of ... well, never heard of these folks until now so I'll call them Internets Idols:
"With full lips, Bieber bangs, and piercing blue eyes, Hayes has the unsalted-butter looks of the love interest on a CW show or the villain in a John Hughes movie. He dresses in the superficially alternative but fundamentally nonthreatening uniform popularized by Urban Outfitters and adopted by every (white) Cool Guy in every high school in America: jeans, skate shoes, graphic T-shirt or baggy tank top with the armholes cut low. He speaks slowly and indistinctly, with a soft North Carolina accent. He has beautiful teeth."
And all he (Hayes) does is make Fans.
Fan demands of casting and scripting are ridiculous, media makers use them for publicity, but it's too far - look what happened to the simple science fiction awards known as Hugos: a weird Fan Coup has butchered the proceedings.
You're a Fan of something? Great. Shut up. I'm working here.
Labels: fame, internet, media, movies, pop culture, science fiction, TV, useless rants
Racism OK If Agenda Moves Forward?
I apologize in advance for making another post re: Trump, but there's a few things he and the Republican Party have decided to place on the record that are worth noting.
One is hardly a secret - Trump's racism. Since his initial campaign announcement, he has regularly labeled his racism as "common sense", including his most recent statement about a Federal judge from Indiana whose parents were immigrants: When Mr. Dickerson said there was a tradition in the United States, a nation of immigrants, against judging people based on heritage, Mr. Trump replied, "I'm not talking about tradition, I'm talking about common sense, O.K.?"
The press has covered his racism, asked him about it, and he brushes such questions off.
Tennessee Senator also brushed aside criticism of Trump but did say Trump will now "change" because he'll have to. Right. Giving him the office of President is the solution to his racism.
Pitiful Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, said today Trump's racism is acceptable.
"Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment," Mr. Ryan continued. "I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable. But do I believe that Hillary Clinton is the answer? No, I do not."
"He said, "I believe that we have more common ground on the policy issues of the day and we have more likelihood of getting our policies enacted with him than with her."
"I do absolutely disavow those comments. I think they are wrong. I don't think they are right-headed. And the thinking behind it is something I don't personally relate to. But at the end of the day this is about ideas. This is about moving our agenda forward."
So I'm adding Mr Ryan's affirmation that the party accepts racism as long as his overall agenda moves forward.
Labels: 2016 elections
The Donald Trump Explained
It is no surprise the the wack-a-doodle candidate has won the day for Republicans, as that's pretty much been the New Standard for the GOP: rude, prone to wild exaggeration and outright deception, devotion to obsolete ideas, anger, anger and some more anger. Wack-a-doodle.
Such has been the norm since, oh, we all know it - since Barack Obama became the Democrat nominee and especially since his inauguration. It might have been labeled a non-stop Whisper-Smear Campaign, except they've never whispered their outrage. Only hyperbole fixes their rhetoric in place - policies are not opposed or debated factually, instead President Obama is Destroying America to the Point It Will Be Lost Forever and Ever Just Because He's Secretly a Something.
Who else could Republicans select from their field of bobble-headed pretenders? Ben Carson? Jeb!? No, not even the righteous indignation of Angry Senator Ted Cruz could capture the fervor of the faithful because he had a little too much piety in his patter. Piety? Screw that, says Trump. Screw everything - screw you, screw Mexicans, women, Muslims, well screw all brown folks, and screw the horse you all rode in on too. Get 'em outta here.
The faithful howl with derisive laughter at the wack-a-doodle peeing in the political punch bowl. And become loyalists.
Wisely, the GOP Machine applied only criticism to the Trump campaign since endorsing him would undercut his efforts - a convention floor fight, a new contender - none of that will appear. Better for the Machine to merely stand aside and watch until Trump's in power and reluctantly work with the fellow and should he fail spectacularly they'll shrug it off since "He's not one of us!"
He is, however, the candidate of our age - he's the Internet Troll who won't go away, who demands power, who claims to be an authority, who can't be argued with because he's just blustering a 160-characters per second per second and he's taken over the American Tumblr page and just ruined the page which used to be pretty cool. His followers like it though, akin to the way some folks like the way the Three Stooges would bake wallpaper paste into the bread rolls and serve it up the gullible rich establishment folk.
He's a perfect foil for Hillary Clinton - lifelong politician with a name the GOP despises. Truly, they should love her. She's like Nixon - driven to be in the White House, or in any office, hungry for it on a weird level. But she has her own Trump Outsider card - she's a woman who is wife of a despised man, and that's a powerful card never to be underestimated.
The Troll with a heart (hair? comb-over?) of gold is likely to win the day.
Labels: 2016 elections, America, politics, trump
Every 1970s Movie Reviewed
This website I'm linking to is so good I hardly know where to start. The name nails it well - Every70sMovie. Every day writer-filmmaker Peter Hanson posts a review of a 1970s movie, a task he's been at since October 2010.
So yes, big. And an incredibly wide range of theatrical and TV movies are here. Random sample One:
The Devil's Widow (1970)
Only movie directed by actor Roddy McDowell, starring Ava Gardner and Ian McShane
Based on a Scottish myth, "The film begins at the sprawling Scottish estate of Michaela Cazaret (Gardner), a middle-aged woman of unclear national origin who populates her castle and its grounds with swinging young people."
Sample Two:
(this is one of my favorite 70s movies by far)
The Last of Sheila
written by actor Anthony Perkins and Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, but this is no musical. The story is that Perkins and Sondheim and friends were game lovers, played many scavenger hunts, and this murder mystery movie grew from that. It's got a fantastic cast - James Coburn, James Mason, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon, and more rich-and-idle characters who find out too late they are all soon to be victims of revenge
Hanson calls it a "jet-set caper movie.
Not even the tip of the iceberg of this site, which also lists movies by title and a giant list of names of all the players. Just go read and get lost for a while.
Labels: 1970s, cinema history, cool, internet, movies, website
Come See "Alice In Wonderland" at LMU
As previously mentioned, offline living has kept me away from posting, however I do want to share some of that offline life -
The following pictures are from the current show I've directed, "Alice In Wonderland", for Lincoln Memorial University. There are three shows left, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday all at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $10 at the door, $5 with a reservation by calling 423-869-6203.
I am so honored to be working for LMU and with these students and staff - so much talent and hard work is consistently visible.
Posted by Joe Powell at 10:20 AM 1 comment: Links to this post
Where's My Cup of Joe?
Apologies again, Dear Reader and Humble Blog, for an extended absence. It's a dual whammy from being very busy working and utterly stunned by the depth of stupid in the political world.
Truly does any comment actually need to be made about the idiocy on display daily from Republican candidates and office holders who have yet to strike the bottom in their relentless effort to grind all governing to a halt?
Either you know what's up or you've not paid attention and gone dogmatically drunk along with the delusions.
Here, from October last year, my views on the state o' politics
"And the talking is being done by notably unqualified candidates here in the ol' U.S. of A, the sort of talking that cliched tin-pot dictators might spew from tiny podiums and dressed in over-decorated, ill-fitting military uniforms.Such candidates as Trump, Cruz, Carson, Fiorina, Rubio, Bush, and even whole rosters of state GOP candidates are the folks doing such talking today. It's pretty awful to hear and see.
On the Left, Hilary Clinton, even if elected will instantly be tarred with the 'unconstitutional presidency', as these talkers have labeled President Obama. And that would extend the current Insta-Rage crowd's fervor to even more unacceptable and unsustainable behaviors.
And there's Bernie Sanders, who has, for his career, been neither a Republican or a Democrat ...a pretty good indication he's probably the smartest guy in this particular political room of Potentials."
Things haven't changed much, so why repeat myself ad nausueum?
And yes, I have been busy in offline world creating imaginary worlds - directing and producing plays as Artistic Director for Morristown's Theatre Guild and as directing plays as Artistic Director at Lincoln Memorial University. I am beyond thankful to be so busy. The process of group collaborations for the shows I do is likely why I maintain a very positive outlook on our world today. See, people from all walks of life get together, work together and create something unique and special worth sharing.
Currently I'm helping produce a stage version of "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" as a schools program for some 1000-plus students and I am directing what I know will be an amazing version of "Alice In Wonderland" at LMU where Wonderland is of a Steampunk reality (or surreality) See, I am a very fortunate person to have such opportunities.
All that being said, I will step up the postings since politically the nation is in the grips of some dangerous folk and it seems more and more voices of reason are required.
I'm here for you - not to point out the obvious - to give volume to those voices.
Here, let me share this (and I encourage you to check out KnoxViews often) - it indicates how any voice other than one is being ignored in Tennessee.
"Tennessee Legislature 'Honored' as 'Most Conservative' at CPAC"
Also, read Tom Humphrey to stay up to speed on the Tennessee political landscape:
Marsha Blackburn as Trump's V.P.?
Labels: 2016 elections, blogging, live theatre, personal, political debate
The Hateful 8: American Politics 2016
The Hateful Eight will eventually be classified as one of director Tarantino's most outspoken political movies (even more than the one where his characters kill Hitler, which is more Grindhouse than political).
Like the sprawling views of the American political landscape in 2016, Tarantino goes as big as the camera allows, in 70 mm, and within the frame the characters are all deeply paranoid about one another, they all feel stuck, alone, confined, they have hidden agendas which have devastating consequences, and there's the visceral hatreds about race and then there's this letter from President Lincoln which is a herald for legitimacy and high-minded democracy. And much of what is rolled out - from characters to plot points - are all rather sketchy on the truth. It's like a pack of arguing Facebook commenters trapped in a room.
Women are bashed even more just for being in the conversation, worse if they speak. The way she is treated, the effort made by each of the characters to describe themselves via their roles in the social order, aren't really made to create comfort in viewers - the opposite in fact - we question everyone too. The status quo is up for grabs, a newer America is emerging.
Walter Goggins' character Mannix is, as he describes it, the one person in the group who is moving with the changing times and seeking his own answers:
" ... if you look at the course of that dialogue and the way he constructed that scene and how Mannix leans in and pulls back, he gets extremely aggressive and extremely passive. Mannix ends it with this vitriolic, defensive posture for his father and the institutions for the South and what the South stands for, and then Marquis pulls out his gun and Mannix says, "[Puts on the character's voice] Oh, no, no, no, you got me talking politics."
"Mannix is constantly shifting. He's a real interesting guy in an arrested state of development, and you feel that in the stage coach. Everything that comes out of his mouth, at least for me, is regurgitating a worldview he got from his father and the people around him. None of those thoughts are his own, because he's not a man; he doesn't have the ability to think for himself until later in the movie. It all starts in that carriage scene, man.
(One non-political realization from the movie - almost each time two people speak together, someone is gonna get killed.And even if not, that possibility haunts one-on-one conversation.)
Oh and no one really emerges well from the political swamp they are in - not much to be solved locked into this particular space and time, everyone is asking the wrong questions or not enough of the right ones.
It's a pretty damning social commentary. told like a Western yarn spun round the campfire.And yet, ever the cultural compiler in cinema, Tarantino also builds this tale through the tropes of a Mystery, a sort of Locked Room whodunnit. And that too underpins the political commentary - so many unknowns when living in such a paranoid world.
Here's a fascinating roundtable talk with Tarantino, Ridley Scott, David O. Russell, and other top directors talking about filmmaking - great stuff.
Here's a terrific interview with Jennifer Jason Leigh on DP/30's YouTube page, and he's got more with the whole cast.
Labels: movies, political debate, Tarantino, Westerns
TN Rep. Holt Fights Feds, Backs Militia Takeover
I don't know that I ever heard of Tennessee State Rep. Andy Holt prior to his being fined for a.) operating without a permit while b.) illegally dumping nearly a million gallons of pig poop into public waterways from his pig farm operations. Fined $177,000 by the EPA which he refuses to pay a few months later, now Rep. Holt is taking his fight against the federal government into high gear.
On Monday, he tweeted a question to the armed militants who have taken control of a federal bird sanctuary in Oregon "#bundymilitia Where can I send support to your effort?"
And today he sent a letter to President Obama, saying "take your gun control and shove it" and concluding with another hashtag "#MolonLabe" which is Latin for "come and take it", apparently he feels the President wants to send Federal agents to take away any guns he might have.
It wasn't long after reading about the above events, I recalled I had heard of Rep. Holt before - back when somehow he convinced the state legislature of pass a resolution inviting Right Wing talk show firebrand Sean Hannity to come to Tennessee to live. I found among my bookmarked pages this gem from the Nashville Scene from last February:
"And last month, when throngs of women chanted in the Capitol hallways over women's reproductive rights, the adamant anti-abortion Republican scribbled and carried around a sign that read, "I love women ... and their babies."
Labels: state politics, Tennessee, weird news
Laurie Anderson's Concert for Dogs and Return to Knoxville
2016 is bringing back one of my favorite people to Knoxville, artist Laurie Anderson, part of another impressive lineup at the Big Ears music festival March 31st to April 2nd. She and Phillip Glass will perform their most recent collaboration.
Anderson has the most unique, wide-eyed wonder and wisdom in her words and music and now film. Tonight in Times Square as part of a public arts series Midnight Moment, a 3-minute shortened version of her highly acclaimed new documentary "Heart of A Dog" will be spread all across the towering Times Square screens. And just prior to this screening, Anderson will perform a concert for dogs - I love this sentence from this NYTimes piece:
"Dogs and their owners are invited to sit on the red steps of Duffy Square while she performs music that, to passers-by in Times Square, may not sound like much because of the low frequency."
Yes, dogs are invited. Such a show (her 2nd actually) has such whimsy, and stands so far out away from what others do. I prefer to also imagine the dogs will likely be very pleased, unlike cats who would probably go online and start a twitter backlash about it.
Her movie features her dog of course, and also the dog's death, and that of her husband Lou Reed, and essentially deals with how we deal and do not deal with death and grief, and also life and love.
A fascinating interview with her in studio q is here and is well worth the listen.
Here's a trailer for her film.
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If your mala that was made in the US by Sakura Designs, (non imported or stretchy, not knotted) breaks within the 30 day warranty from date of order and has not been worn, or mishandled, we still offer restringing service, less shipping charges. If it is a warranty restring, please send it back to us with your Invoice Number.
Please do allow a maximum "cue" of 5-10 days for us to restring after we receive your mala. You will be emailed once your order is returned.
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Q: alter button properties in NSMutable array? How do I alter the properties of a button (at an index) in a NSMutable Array?
here's my code:
                [btnRange addObject:btn12Out];
                [btnRange addObject:btn13Out];
                [btnRange addObject:btn14Out];
                [btnRange addObject:btn17Out];
                [btnRange addObject:btn18Out];
                [btnRange addObject:btn19Out];
                //start ordering

                for (NSInteger i=0; i <= 5; i++) {
                    nxt = btnRange[arc4random_uniform([btnRange count])];
                    btnOrder[i] = nxt;
                    [btnRange removeObject:nxt];
                }

                //skipping down

    if ([status isEqualToString:@"Computer"]) {
        switch (level) {
            case 1:
                //here's where I want to edit the properties
                //of a buttonn in the array (at a certain index)
                nxt = btnOrder[current];
                UIButton *newbutton = nxt;
                [newbutton setBackgroundImage:@"buttonmem3" forstate:UIControlStateNormal];

                //Fin

But xcode likes to say there's no @interfae for "newbutton"
Can anyone help?

A: Correction:
UIButton method setBackgroundImage:forState: accepts UIImage as parameter and not NSString. Change the line as below.
[newbutton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"buttonmem3"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Assuming you have "buttonmem3.png" added in your app bundle.

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Andy Hall (1965) started in September as 'engineering & innovation manager'. His main areas of attention are: driving NPI & NPD projects for AMS customers in a more efficient & effective manner from 'proven principle' towards 'pilot build' from an engineering and project management point of view; based on clear product requirements, proven technologies and within realistic timelines.
Fabian Blake (1980) assumed the position as 'general manager China' per mid October 2017. Due to the growing number of customers and product programs, resulting in an organically growing organization, Fabian has been hired to further develop and manage this growth in AMS Chinese organization, together with the other management team members in China. Fabian will also act as the initiator and coordinator for the growing number of China based development & manufacturing customers of AMS.
Mr Farran Li started in November in AMS' Shenzhen based engineering team as plastic IM tooling engineer. Farran is an experienced plastic tooling designer and project manager. He has been working his entire professional career in Shenzhen; the heart of the global injection mould making industry.
From a tooling designer at a mould building company, he worked his way up to become a senior project engineer within Flextronics in nearly 10 years. Since November is a member of the Shenzhen based engineering team of AMS, which focusses on plastic injection mould making and parts production.
Mr Eric Huang started end of October as project engineer. Since 2004 Eric has been working in R&D, design and realization of household appliances. Amongst his previous employers there are names like Simatelex, E&E, Severin and Sunvalley. Eric will be involved in various NPD programs as project engineer.
Mr Ham Ho already started in August as project manager. Ham has a bachelor degree in automation from Xi'an University and prior to joining AMS in august 2017, he has been working 10 yrs in Zhongshan Galic Industries as 'manager engineering'. One of the products developed and manufactured there, under management of Ham is the 'Peugeot electric pepper mill', which is sold globally as an iconic peppermill. Within AMS, Ham will coordinate various NPI programs.
Mrs Urania Feng started in September as engineering assistant. She supports the engineering team with applying the right priorities to the various projects and assignments. She will also communicate with clients on progress and other project / product related matters. Urania further acts a pivoting hinge for ECR implementations and approvals.
As AMS we are sure that both our customers and our subcontractors will experience the positive impact from the experience of this new colleagues.
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Q: Clear custom input text field i have a custom search bar created using LWC in wich i can write something, but i have 2 problems:
1: I can't figure how to make a clear button that reset what it is inside the input search bar if the user press the X button
2: I would like that the consolelog visualize every text change and not only when i press enter
here is my HTML:
<template>

         something

            <svg class="slds-icon slds-input__icon slds-input__icon_left slds-icon-text-default" aria-hidden="true">
                <use xlink:href="/apexpages/slds/latest/assets/icons/utility-sprite/svg/symbols.svg#search"></use>
            </svg>

            <input type="text" id="text-input-id-74" placeholder="search something" class="slds-input" onchange={searchValue}>

            <button class="slds-button slds-button_icon slds-input__icon slds-input__icon_right" title="Clear" onclick={clearData} >
                <svg class="slds-button__icon slds-icon-text-light" aria-hidden="true" >
                    <use xlink:href="/apexpages/slds/latest/assets/icons/utility-sprite/svg/symbols.svg#clear" ></use>
                </svg>
                Clear
            </button>

</template>

My CSS:
.containerPadre {
    height: 10cm;
    width: 30cm;
    background-color: #001489;
    text-align: center;
}

.lgc-bg {
    text-align: center;
}
.labelText {
        text-align: center;
    padding-top: 0.5cm;
}

And my JavaScript:
import {LightningElement} from 'lwc';

export default class SearchBar extends LightningElement {

    function
    clearData() {
        document.getElementById("text-input-id-74").value = "";
    }

    searchValue(event) {
        {
            this.name= event.target.value;
            console.log(event.target.value);
        }
    };
}

A: using document.getElementById("text-input-id-74"). is not a good practice in LWC.
Access Elements the Component Owns
additionally, using id's to identify dom elements in the markup is also not a good practice, because id's are dynamically changed upon rendering in lwc.
this might be the root cause of your issue.

A: You should try using LWC input component, instead of the standard <input> tag, and then you can bind a variable to its value, something like this:
<lightning-input type="text" label="Enter some text" onchange={handleInputChange} value={searchTerm}></lightning-input>

then in your js controller, create a new variable (the one you used on the input's value attribute) and the proper handlers:
export default class InputTextAdvanced extends LightningElement {

    searchTerm;

    handleInputChange(event) {
        // gets updated every time you type a new character.
        this.searchTerm = event.detail.value;
        console.log(this.searchTerm)
    }
    clearData() {
        // this variable is bound to the input text, so setting it to null, will
        // clear input text
        this.searchTerm = null;
    }
}

So you don't need to look for any component's id in order to clear its value.
hope this helps!


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Q: how to implement a single device login in firebase app? I am developing app using firebase, and I want to make if a user login using a device, then if other devices should be logged out. how to do that ? can I track it based on their FCM token ? I have no idea how to do it

A: I had a similar problem and I solved it doing this:
on every sign in I get the device Mac Address and store it in the database for each user.
when the user logs in for the first time the field will be null, otherwise, it will contain a value( the mac address).
for each login check the database for mac address for that user, and handle those cases:
1- when the user has a mac address you can check it vs the device mac address if it equal then it's the same device, and let him in.
2- if the mac address stored is different then he is already logged in from another device, you need to log him out from the other device then store the current mac address. and log him in.
this should be enough to give you an idea of what to do.
I hope this is helpful.

A: The FCM token is not unique per device it could change that's why there's onTokenRefresh
Im thinking of a way to do this by storing the user's uuid in firebase database with Boolean value and also the fcm token
USERUUID:
    loggedIn : true
    Token : his_fcm_token

And whenever user logins you check his flag if it's already true means he's logged in on another device
Use his fcm and send that old device a data notification to logout
And then update fcm token in the database to the new device's token.


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About thirty years ago, before any of us knew what having a horse "on the aids" was all about, someone first showed me leg yielding. "You just put your inside leg behind the girth," they said, "and you push the haunches over." We couldn't do it very well since the horses were, at best, on passive contact, and we had no concept of "pushing and receiving aids" or the horse being in lateral balance. At the time it didn't mean all that much to me. We had more important fish to fry – like getting to the cross country course.
Then in the fall of '72, I witnessed a rather amazing spectacle. Col. Nybleaus of Sweden conducted an FEI Judge's Forum at the American Dressage Institute in Saratoga, NY. Nybleaus was a major proponent of leg yielding, while ADI was a bastion of Spanish Riding School emigrees, all firmly planted in the non-leg yielding camp. I remember, as a very humble novice dressage rider, sitting in a lecture room as tweedy, nattily dressed older men with European accents pounded their fists on the table, pointed fingers, and shouted back and forth, "Your ideas will be the death of classical dressage!" "No, yours will!" And so on.
The argument ran: why move your leg behind the girth and teach the horse to move over with him looking back the way he's coming from, when later on, the leg in the same position will be the aid for half pass? Isn't this just a contradiction in training that only confuses the horse?
Upon hearing that explanation, I distinctly remember wondering what everybody was so stirred up about the day before.
Several years later, with my eventing career sputtering along and my leg yielding career at a virtual standstill, I had some lessons first with Maj. Hans Wikne (from Sweden) and later with Col. Aage Sommer (from Denmark) and Col. Bengt Ljungquist (then the USET dressage coach and a former Swedish cavalry officer). All three insisted that to execute a leg yielding, one did not bring the inner leg back at all, but rather kept it at the girth.
To the Scandanavians, leg yielding is not just an obedience exercise to teach moving off the leg. It is also a suppling exercise during which the horse is invited to find his lateral balance. In the moment where he is de-stabilized laterally, he can also be re-balanced longitudinally.
Leg yielding is ridden forward to encourage the horse to step up under himself, not just to displace his hips to the side. And, most significantly, it is ridden with almost the same aids as for shoulder-in since it is the center of gravity that is being displaced, not just the hindquarters. The legs are placed the same for both movements – inner leg at the girth and outer leg behind – and only the relative proportions of the aids control whether the horse remains straight, bent a little, or bent as much as a classical shoulder in demands. If the outside shoulder pops and quarters trail, the inner leg is not drawn back. The advice, instead, is to make a half halt, using the outside rein supported by the forward-driving outer leg (still behind the girth) to make the shoulders "wait" so the quarters can catch up.
I have followed this advice for more than twenty years, using the leg yielding, not only for green horses, but to refresh and re-balance more advanced ones in conjunction with other exercises. It just makes sense!


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Complaints: Unhappy users can write a complaint.
...to which the complainee can an answer.
If a settlement or consensus is reached, then the users can delete their entry or change it.
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How can I add or manage availability on a Case and its Locations?
How do I access logos in cases?
How do I invite candidates to schedule using the Case Location Landing Page?
The interviewstream platform offers an advanced feature known as Cases, which allows users to collect together many different Locations in one single place. To create and manage cases, the Cases feature needs to be enabled on your account. Please contact your account manager if you need assistance enabling it.
In this article, we'll describe how to...
Add Locations to a Case
Add Availability to a Manual Location
Add Availability to a Pull-from-Calendar(s) Location
The course "Before Your Cases Interview" on our Training site might also help explain the Case workflow and adding availability.
After opening a newly-created Case, you will see a blank list of Locations, as shown below. Click "Add Locations" to create a new location.
There are two types of Locations available - Locations with Manually Added availability, and Locations with Pull from calendar(s) availability. We will demonstrate how to use both in this article.
It is possible to create multiple locations all at once, as shown below
After pressing "Add Locations", these Locations will then be visible on the case Locations view as shown below
Adding Availability on a Manual Availability Location
Note: Manual availability is also sometimes referred to as "Fixed" availability
To create availability for the first time on a Manual Availability Location, you must press the"Set Up" button shown in the Edit Availability column
Note: After the initial setup is completed, the button will be gray, and it will read "Edit" instead of "Set Up"
Press the "Add Sub-Location" button to create a new Sub-Location.
You will then be able to see the newly-created Sub-Location, which by default has no availability.
To add availability for this Sub-Location, press the blue "Add Availability" button. Doing so will open a pop-up window "Availability Management Demo". This window, allows you to customize Start and End Date, Start and End Time, meeting slot Length (unless this setting is locked on a per-case basis), Limit, and whether or not to exclude weekends. Participants controls which internal users should receive notifications when an external participant signs up for the time slot.
"Limit" is the cut-off number of how many external participants can sign up for an individual time slot. Example:
- With "1", only one person can use the timeslot.
- With "5", five people can use the same timeslot.
After hitting the blue "Save" button, you can now see the availability that you added on the Sub-Location calendar view as shown below.
Adding Availability on a Pull from Calendar(s) Location
Note: Pull from calendar(s) availability is also referred to as dynamic, calendar-based, or automatic availability.
To create availability for the first time on a Pull from calendar(s) Availability Location, you must press the"Set Up" button shown in the Edit Availability column.
Note: After the initial setup is completed, the button will be gray, and it will read "Edit" instead of "Set Up".
Then press the blue 'Add Sub-Location' button
You will then be prompted to enter the name or email address of the user you want to configure as a Sub-Location
After adding the user as a new Sub-Location, availability for that sublocation will then match the availability indicated on the user's calendar. For example:
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My calendar will not sync?
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La vicomté du Fenouillèdes ou Vicomté de Fenouillet, désigné comme comté de Fenouillet aux IX-XIe siècles, a existé du  et occupe plus ou moins le territoire actuel de la région naturelle de Fenouillèdes avec pour siège le château Saint-Pierre de Fenouillet. Ses limites sont à l'ouest les gorges de la Pierre-Lys où est fondée l'abbaye de Saint-Martin-Lys d'où elles remontent la rive droite de la haute vallée de l'Aude jusqu'à Escouloubre. Au-delà de l'Aude, à l'ouest, sont compris les territoires des villages actuels de Cailla, Artigues et Axat. Au sud c'est une ligne qui court depuis le sommet du massif du Madres jusqu'au Tuc ou Pic Dourmidou, puis qui passe au sud des communes de Rabouillet et Sournia jusqu'à Bélesta-la-Frontière, pour finir à Latour-de-France.  A l'est la limite est fixée à Latour-de-France et Maury qui sont en Fenouillèdes. Au nord c'est la première crête des Corbières qui sépare le Fenouilèdes du Peyrapertusès.

Histoire

Ancien pagus, la vicomté est peut-être issue du partage du comté de Razès vers 874, entre les familles de Cerdagne et de Carcassonne. Les frères Oliba II de Carcassonne et Acfred de Razès d'un côté et Miron Ier et Guifred le Velu d'un autre, se présentent comme cousins les uns des autres. Alors qu'Oliba II possède encore la région en 874, la vicomté, alors appelé comté, fait partie de l'héritage des comtes de Cerdagne à partir du règne de Miron Ier le Vieux (870-896).

Un autre hypothèse propose que le Fenouillèdes, déjà individualisé, est contrôlé progressivement par le comte Sunifred II de Cerdagne dans les années 950. En 954, il obtient un bulle du pape Agapet II en faveur de l'abbaye de Saint-Martin-Lys. En 958 ce même comte donne la vallée de Sainte-Croix et le roc où sera construit le château de Puilaurens à l'abbaye de Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa. Sunifred dote et protège les abbayes de Saint-Martin-Lys et Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet.

Le territoire passe ensuite aux comtes de Besalu à partir de Bernard Taillefer vers 988. C'est à cette époque que les premiers vicomtes héréditaires apparaissent avec Pierre Ier de Fenouillet, documenté en 992.

Vers 1000 Bernard Taillefer comte de Cerdagne fonde le monastère Saint-Pierre de Fenouillet et soumet celui de Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet à l'abbaye de Cuxa. C'est à cette dernière occasion que nous possèdons la première trace du vicomte Pierre Ier de Fenouillet.

De 1017 à 1020, le territoire de la vicomté est intégré à l'évêché de Besalú au détriment de celui de Narbonne notamment. Le comte Bernard Taillefer envisage un temps que le monastère de Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet accueille la cathédrale.

À la mort de Bernard III de Besalú en 1111, Raimond Bérenger III de Barcelone hérite de la suzeraineté sur la vicomté et l'inféode à son demi-frère Aymeri II de Narbonne. Les vicomtes de Fenouillet suivants seront vassaux de sa fille, la vicomtesse Ermengarde.

En 1162, le roi d'Aragon Alphonse II est le seigneur nominal, puis ses successeurs jusqu'en 1258, lorsque le traité de Corbeil signé par Jacques Ier le Conquérant entérine l'annexion du Fenouillèdes au royaume de France. En juin 1193, le roi inféode les vicomtés de Narbonne et de Fenouillèdes ainsi que le Perapertusès au comte de Foix, Raimond-Roger.

Il semble qu'en 1249 Chabert de Barbeira prenne sous sa protection la vicomté au nom de la vicomtesse Guéraude de Calders, alors que Pierre V de Fenouillet se fait Templier au Mas Deu. En 1255, Hugues de Saissac vicomte de Fenouillet rend hommage au vicomte de Narbonne pour le Fenouillèdes. Le dernier vicomte Hugues de Fenouillet meurt en 1261.

La vicomté disparaît et laisse place à la viguerie de Fenouillèdes et au bailliage de Sault, qui englobe le Roquefortès qui faisait jusqu'alors partie intégrante du Fenouillèdes. Les descendants des vicomtes de Fenouillet, les de Saissac, devenus vicomtes d'Ille en Roussillon mènent plusieurs procès pour récupérer leur héritage jusqu'au XIVe siècle.

Généalogie des vicomtes de Fenouillèdes
Arbre généalogique établi à partir de l'ouvrage d'Armand de Fluvià :

Liste chronologique des vicomtes

 Pierre Ier (992-1017)
 Udalgar (1017-1070)
 Pierre II (1070-1079)
 Arnaud Guillaume Ier (1079-1095)
 Arnaud Guillaume II (1095-1102)
 Guillaume Pierre (1102-1119)
 Udalgar II (1119-1164)
 Pierre III (1164-1165)
Arnaud Ier de Fenouillet (1165-1173)
Ava de Fenouillet, vicomtesse (1173-1229)
 Pierre IV de Fenouillet de Saissac, vicomte consort (1179-1209)
 Pierre V de Fenouillet de Saissac (1209-1248) règne entrecoupé en 1229-1242 d'un renoncement en faveur de Nunó Sanç de Roussillon
Interrègne ou régence de Chabert de Barbaira (1248-1255)
 Hugues de Fenouillet de Saissac (1255-1261)

Châteaux et fortifications de la vicomté de Fenouillèdes

 Château vicomtal Saint-Pierre de Fenouillet
 Château de Puilaurens
 Casteldos entre Escouloubre et Le Bousquet
 La tour de Triniac à Latour-de-France
 Château de Rabouillet
 Château de Montalba-le-Château

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie

Articles connexes
 Fenouillèdes
Abbaye de Saint-Martin-Lys
 Comté de Besalú - Comté de Razès - Comté de Cerdagne
 Nuno Sanche de Roussillon
 Traité de Corbeil (1258)

Lien externe
 Page patrimoine du site de la commune de Fenouillet


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Gavin looked up at the clock. Twenty past two. Time for a snack. His parents were sound asleep and would not be disturbed by the sounds of him whipping up a way after midnight snack. He shut the door from the living room to the stairs, and then quietly closed the kitchen door so that no cooking smells would permeate the upper floor. He had been caught out like that before. Despite the meticulous washing up and putting away of all the cutlery, crockery and kitchen utensils, his mother's face the next morning at a breakfast of rubbery scrambled egg and burnt toast, had said it all.
It was the silent reproach that hurt him the worst. He could parry the acid comments as they fell from her disappointed lips, but the look on her face, the look that told him how ungrateful he was for supplementing the food his mother so carefully ruined for him, it cut him to the quick and made him even more determined to hide his secret excesses.
There was no such reproach from his father however; locked inside the fantasy world that had descended long before the official diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease had been made, his father smiled through every day in a place where he shovelled in the burnt offerings as if they were ambrosia from the gods. A place where the TV held new delights every day and the operation of the remote control was a thing of wonder. Answering the telephone was slightly more problematic; Gavin's mother wasn't always quick enough to seize the handset before his father's querulous voice could begin interrogating whichever hapless PPI salesperson or accident insurance company had called. His mother dealt with all callers with a briskness at odds with her age and disabilities; cutting through the call centre scripts and dispatching the recorded messages with expediency. She was a formidable woman.
Hatches thoroughly battened down now, Gavin began assembling the foods for his favourite late night meal; chicken breast, salsa, onions, peppers, a soft tortilla or two, sour cream, grated cheese and oh, deep joy, guacamole. He was the fajita king!
Ready to rustle up his guilty pleasure before creeping back to his internet stalking on the laptop, he could feel his mouth fill with saliva that wasn't just due to thesmell of the food. He would savour every mouthful, washed down by an illicit bottle of fizzy drink that he had smuggled home in his briefcase with the fajita ingredients. His mother didn't approve of fizzy drinks having seen a programme where they left pennies in a glass of fizzy overnight and produced a batch of shiny metal in the morning.
"Just think!" she said. "Just think what that stuff is doing to your stomach! I didn't go through fifty-three hours of agonising childbirth to have your stomach ruined by fizzy drinks! Are you sure that you aren't drinking this rubbish at work? I can always ask your secretary!"
Gavin had briefed his secretary well. Anna was a good girl. Not bright but bright enough to understand that when Gavin's mother phoned she was to use the list he had made for her when replying to questions and not to deviate from the set topics. Yes, Gavin was in a meeting. No, she wouldn't forget to ask him to call his mother back, she was writing a note for him at the moment and would pop it on his desk for his return. Yes, she had seen Gavin eat the sandwiches his mother had prepared for him and she had only made him two cups of coffee this morning using the decaffeinated instant brand that his mother used at home. Gavin had made it quite clear to Anna what would happen if she revealed his mother's demanding ways to her colleagues and as a consequence, she gave a tight-lipped smile when asked about him and would only comment that he was very easy to work for.
Licking the sour cream from around his lips, Gavin searched hungrily for any mention of the woman he had set out to torment. He hadn't actually followed her online yet, that would come later. A nice piece of intimidation that would inevitably end up with his being blocked, so he had to work hard to rummage around in her brief and personal musings first. Music; she obviously liked music, and comedians, actors, journalists and writers. He sighed as he chewed on a particularly tasty piece of chicken; this account was not proving as fruitful as he had hoped. . Damn!
Fajita finished, he left the laptop on whilst he washed and cleaned the surfaces; removing every trace of his transgression, then moving silently out of the back door to hide the last pieces of evidence in their next door neighbour's bin. He had been doing this ever since his mother, wielding her stick, had gleefully produced the fruits of her wheelie bin grubbing; a bag containing the remnants of a KFC meal that he had consumed on the way home and needed to get out of the car because he was taking her out shopping the next day.
The mileage his mother got out of this heinous crime haunted him to the extent that his fast food intake was severely affected for over a month and his digestive system suffered from the penance of burnt offerings. He had grown wise now and all evidence was deposited in next door's rubbish or in a bin far, far from home where his mother and her stick could never venture.
Putting his briefcase up on the table; Gavin extracted the file that contained everything on the woman who had been his obsession for the past six days. He would see her crumble before him; begging for mercy with no sign of the cool and almost amused tone he had heard when he had spoken to her on the phone. She was not going to be as easy to deal with as some of his other victims. No matter. He loved a challenge.
He skim read the file again. Her qualifications annoyed him too. She had far too many, and she had a long and unblemished service record.
The profile picture had been changed recently to a selfie she had taken. He stroked the long hair with his finger; traced the shape of her large blue eyes hiding behind the glasses. He knew her; knew so much about her now that he was sure that the means of her downfall lay in his hands. This was his skill, the reason for his meteoric rise from a humble clerical officer to the head of his department. He had worked for six different employers in order to achieve this however and whilst he had left damage and resentment in his wake, Gavin Slime was headed for the top of his profession and was a man who was head-hunted for his ruthlessness and determination.
He looked up at the clock. It was twenty past three and time he went to bed. With a sinister smile on his thin lips he hit the follow button knowing that an email would be waiting in her inbox when she got up the next morning. An email announcing that he was following her on Twitter. His profile picture, in an attempt at humour, showed him eating a giant fajita with only his eyes and horn-rimmed glasses on show as a clue to the man within. He closed down the laptop and put it away so that the kitchen table would be pristine for his mother when she descended to her kitchen to prepare his sandwiches four hours later.
Following the routine he carried out every night, Gavin checked the doors and windows on the ground floor of the house. He checked every inch of the scoured worktops, cooker and table, even peering short-sightedly down the plug hole of the sink in case any fajita detritus remained to betray him to his mother. Nothing. He put his laptop bag and briefcase out into the hall and under the table where no one would trip over them, then climbed the stairs before he turned the corner and went into his immaculately tidy bedroom.
It was a room that was frightening in its sterility. The predominance of white prevented any undetected sullying of his domain; duvet cover, sheets and pillow-slips were pristine, starched and laundered to his specific requirements rather than thrown in the washing machine by his father's carer June. The sterile white vertical blinds gave the room an additionally medical feel that was enhanced by the uncluttered white bedside cabinet, part of a set from of white Swedish furniture that included a wardrobe, chest of drawers and two chests. One of these chests held fresh bed linen, still in its laundry packing and ready for Gavin to put on the bed once the sheets no longer felt clean and new. The other chest was closed with an iron hasp and weighty padlock to which only Gavin had the key. It contained secrets; the sort of secrets people cringe from, the sort of secrets that destroy lives and that would put Gavin in a position where at least a dozen people would pay to have him quietly removed from the earth.
They weren't just other people's secrets however. Gavin kept his own secrets in the chest, secrets that made him blush and rush to lock his bedroom door, secrets that lit up his pale grey eyes and made his pulse race. They were secrets that no one must ever know and the mere thought of anyone else discovering them gave Gavin chills of excitement and fear.
He got changed for bed into his crisp pale blue cotton pyjamas. He never wore the same pair for more than two days and then they too went off to the laundry. He slipped into the small en-suite that he had paid to have built into his room. The main bathroom was filled with the equipment and medication of two people who were dying by degrees and he wanted no part of it, no unnecessary clutter in his life. Not anymore. After brushing his teeth with the state of the art electric toothbrush, Gavin Slime went back into his room, placed his glasses neatly on the bedside table and slid between his glacial sheets, a sinister smile on his face as he thought of the woman's reaction when she got up and saw the email sent on his behalf.
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Ever Night Season 1 将夜1 Episode 33 Recap
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Sang Sang has been busy, either busy washing clothes or cold corn. Wei Guangming just sat and watched, and occasionally extended his hand to help. It seemed that asking Sang Sang was busy all the time wasn't it boring. Sang Sang was still busy with his own affairs. Wei Guangming told Sang Sang that it was an opportunity to meet someone. He had seen a dark shadow fall into the city with his own eyes several decades ago. Seeing is meeting each other, although I don't know exactly where he is. A few months later he actually found out that this person was still alive, and he was the only person in the world who could sense that he was still alive, but only knew that it was too late to miss his chance.
I didn't see him again until recently, so I wanted to come and find him again. Sang Sang asked what to do after he was found, and Wei Guangming seemed to be talking about a very casual thing, talking about killing him lightly, which made Sang Sang's heart bewildered. Continue to ask why Wei Guangming didn't kill him at the time. Wei Guangming claimed that both killing and saving people needed opportunities, and Haotian's arrangement was not mortal. He came here to understand this opportunity. Sang Sang was impatient. He asked Wei Guangming exactly what he wanted to say. Wei Guangming claimed that he wanted to accept Sang Sang as an apprentice. Sang Sang stated that she would consider it carefully. Li slowly looked up and couldn't see a horse thief in the distance. He began to worry about the young teacher Ning Que. The master didn't care to greet Li slowly to sit down and eat meat, and claimed that the killing of the horse thief should be Ning Que, here is his hometown should not be too embarrassing, Li slowly claimed that Ning was lacking,
He didn't know, but now Ning Que is his younger brother, and he can no longer see Ning Que. Mo Shanshan came to see the horse thief not far away to observe the movement of the other side. Ning Que came behind Mo Shanshan and both found that these people were not like horse thieves, but rather trained soldiers. Ning Que plans to take the initiative. Moshanshan's escorted grain and grass soldiers only wanted to escort grain and grass, and were unwilling to cooperate with Ning Que to sneak attack. Ning Que believes that while these people are not stable, they start sneak attacks, otherwise they will follow behind like wolves, so that they will fall into each other's mouth sooner or later.
Mo Shanshan expressed his willingness to support Ning Que, and everyone stopped saying anything. What I didn't expect was that when Ning Que and Mo Shanshan took people to sneak attack on the barracks, they found that it was only an empty battalion. As far as they knew, Ning Que took Mo Shanshan back to the camp, but found that it was one step late, and all the food and grass. Robbed by a horse thief. Some of the soldiers took the lead in wanting to escape, neither wanted to follow Mo Shanshan for his life, nor wanted to be executed because he had lost the grain and grass. Ning Que decisively killed the leader, and the rest were deterred. Mo Shanshan smiled comfortably and followed Ning Que behind him.
Sang Sang used Wei Guangming to sew up his clothes and made him hurry up, and his mouth was still lingering. Wei Guangming was an old man, and besides eating and sleeping, it was good for him to be active. Wei Guangming kept silent behind and followed Sang Sang. Sang Sang had no choice but to ask him what he could learn by following him. Wei Guangming claimed to be a divine skill, Sang Sang told Wei Guangming clearly that he didn't want to learn now, but he could ask for his opinion after the young master returned. Wei Guangming asked where the young master had gone. Sang Sang truthfully said that it was a wasteland. Wei Guangming just sighed that the wasteland was a dangerous place. Then he went to help Sang Sang Ti to take the initiative, but took Sang Sang to wash the dishes. I took it back again, and Sang Sang couldn't help but grumble. Wei Guangming looked at Sang Sang's back and smiled.
The masked Lin Ling commanded the people to Ning Que and Ning Que defeated many people with a rune, and then directed the people to fight Lin Ling. The two men and women fought together, but killed a group of people, and Lin Ling commanded another group to rush over. Mo Shanshan used his mind to urge the spell to kill many people of Lin Ling. Lin Ling planned to exhaust Mo Shanshan's After Nianli's attack, Ning Que asked Mo Shanshan to send a soldier to rescue soldiers. Luo Kedi received a distress letter, and there was also a cavalry of more than a hundred people nearby, so he asked Qu Ni's opinion.
However, Qu Ni destroyed the distress letter to prevent the rescue of Luo Kedi. Luo Ke claimed that these people came after the order of Xiling. After all, how could he see the dead and then go straight to the big account? Then came in. Qu Ni took out Tian Qing Zhi Bao and gave it to Rock Enemy. Rock Enemy didn't really want to rescue him, and he would stop when he achieved his goal. It was up to Qu Ni to handle it. At this time, Cheng Lixue came to the big account, and specially conveyed the instruction of teaching. This time, he wanted to reconcile with the barren. When Qu Ni heard this, he wanted to take back his treasure.
Luo Kedi could see Qu Ni's eyes, but got it. How could his meat be returned to him, Qu Ni regretted it. Mo Shanshan found that the cavalry of Xiling was not far away, but he saw that they were fighting with the "horse thief" and did not help. Lin Ling knew that the people in Xiling were only watching the lively and preparing to launch the last round of attack. However, Mo Shanshan was furious. He did not expect that he would come to his death after receiving the order from Xiling. Ning Que comforted Mo Shanshan at this time, and he could only rely on himself. Then he encouraged everyone to be brave and fight against himself for the last fight. Everyone also regarded death as home, and planned to follow Ning Que's final battle. Ning Que took Mo Shanshan and others to face the horse thief. His blood splashed all over his face. Ning Que took off Lin Ling's veil.
Lin Zero punched and flew Ning Que. Ning Que looked up at Lin Ling in anger. He followed Xiahou to destroy General Lin's door. Ning Que gritted his teeth and stared angrily, anxiously. The person in front. Lin Ling was also fierce. This time, Ning Que must die in his own hands. Both of them tried their best in the final battle. Ning Que vowed to avenge his family. He had already set aside life and death. However, Ning Que couldn't win Lin Ling at all. Until this time, Lin Ling was found to be a great teacher. Lin Zero was about to slash Ning Que with one stroke, and the rabbit rushed to stop Ning Que from being killed by Lin Zero and Mo Shanshan also rushed over to stop Lin Ling killing Ning Que, hitting Ning Que's body with his last thoughts, and Ning Que bounced to Lin Lin Zhenfei, who wanted to kill Lin Ling how Nai Lin had fled on horseback. Mo Shanshan watched the grief of the dead rabbit, leaving tears to send the body of the rabbit back to Mochi Garden, and led the people to salute the rabbit, Ning Que also bowed deeply, Mo Shanshan secretly vowed to die for these Grievances are justified.


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If you've been made to wear high heels at work, MPs are inviting you to share your experiences as part of a new inquiry. The inquiry has been launched after a petition titled "Make it illegal for a company to require women to wear high heels at work" attracted more than 142,000 signatures.
The petition was launched by Nicola Thorp, a woman who was sent home from a temp job at a London-based multinational because she refused to adhere to a dress code requiring her to wear heels of between two and four inches. After Thorp's story hit the headlines in May, we asked, "What do you high heels stand for in 2016?" Thorp's petition argues: "It's still legal in the UK for a company to require female members of staff to wear high heels at work against their will. Dress code laws should be changed so that women have the option to wear flat formal shoes at work, if they wish. Current formal work dress codes are out-dated and sexist." In a post on Parliament's website, the Petitions Committee says it wants to hear from women who have found themselves in a similar position to Thorp because their "experiences will help us understand the problem." "It will also give us an idea of how many people this affects and help us to decide what action to recommend to the Government," the Committee adds. If you wish to share your experiences, you have until 10am on the 16th of June to post a comment on the inquiry's web forum. You can post anonymously, if you wish, and the Committee asks you not to name any specific companies or employers.
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Q: Como pasar propiedades entre dos 'child components' a traves de Router Route en React.js? Aun estoy aprendiendo React.js y me he encontrado con este problema.
Necesito pasar propiedades desde el 'parent' a dos 'children', ya que es este el modo en que los 'siblings' se pueden comunicar entre ellos.
He intentado usar el render para pasar las propiedades, pero parece no funcionar, ya que una vez llamo la función en uno de los 'children', esta no puede encontrar cart o cartCopy y resulta undefined.
Aquí se muestra el parent component el cual tiene cart, setCart, cartCopy y setCartCopy, los cuales necesito pasar a los 'children'.
function App() {
  const [cart, setCart] = useState([]);
  const [cartCopy, setCartCopy] = useState([])

  return (

        <Router>

          <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
          <Route exact path="/products" component={Products} render={(props) => <Products {...props} cart={cart} setCart={setCart} cartCopy={cartCopy} setCartCopy={setCartCopy} />} />
          <Route exact path="/cart" component={Cart} render={(props) => <Cart {...props} cart={cart} setCart={setCart} cartCopy={cartCopy} setCartCopy={setCartCopy} />} />
          <Route exact path="/signin" component={Signin} />
          <Route exact path="/register" component={Register} />
        </Router>

  );
}

Aquí, uno de los child componentes, que necesita recibir del parent componente, para poder utilizar la información.
const Cart = ({ cart, setCart, cartCopy, setCartCopy }) => {

    const clearCartItem = (itemID) => {

        let cartCopy = [...cart]
        cartCopy = cartCopy.filter(item => item._id != itemID);

        setCart(cartCopy);
        let cartString = JSON.stringify(cartCopy)
        localStorage.setItem('cart', cartString)
        setCartCopy(cartCopy)
    }

Gracias,

I am still learning React and I was stuck with this issue.
I need to pass props from parent to two children as this is the way the siblings can communicate with eachother.
I tried to use render to pass the props, but it does not work.
Here the parent component which has cart, setCart, cartCopy and setCartCopy, which is what I need to pass to the children.
function App() {
  const [cart, setCart] = useState([]);
  const [cartCopy, setCartCopy] = useState([])

  return (

        <Router>

          <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
          <Route exact path="/products" component={Products} render={(props) => <Products {...props} cart={cart} setCart={setCart} cartCopy={cartCopy} setCartCopy={setCartCopy} />} />
          <Route exact path="/cart" component={Cart} render={(props) => <Cart {...props} cart={cart} setCart={setCart} cartCopy={cartCopy} setCartCopy={setCartCopy} />} />
          <Route exact path="/signin" component={Signin} />
          <Route exact path="/register" component={Register} />
        </Router>

  );
}

Here one child component, which needs to recieve from parent in order to use the data:
const Cart = ({ cart, setCart, cartCopy, setCartCopy }) => {

    const clearCartItem = (itemID) => {

        let cartCopy = [...cart]
        cartCopy = cartCopy.filter(item => item._id != itemID);

        setCart(cartCopy);
        let cartString = JSON.stringify(cartCopy)
        localStorage.setItem('cart', cartString)
        setCartCopy(cartCopy)
    }

Thank you!

A: Puede que el origen del problema, este en la forma de configurar el componente Route, se están usando dos propiedades component y render al mismo tiempo.
Consideremos el siguiente ejemplo:

//const Router = window.ReactRouterDOM.BrowserRouter;
const Route =  window.ReactRouterDOM.Route;
const Link =  window.ReactRouterDOM.Link;

function App(){
  const [cart, setCart] = React.useState([]);
  const [cartCopy, setCartCopy] = React.useState([]);

  return(

    <ReactRouterDOM.HashRouter>
      <Link to="/cart">Ve a Cart</Link>
      <Route path="/cart"
        component={Cart} //se pasa primero cart sin props custom
        render={(props) =>
            <Cart {...props}
              cart={cart}
              setCart={setCart}
              cartCopy={cartCopy}
              setCartCopy={setCartCopy} />} />
    </ReactRouterDOM.HashRouter>

  );
}

const Cart = ({ cart, setCart, cartCopy, setCartCopy }) => {
  console.log("cart", cart);
  console.log("cartCopy", cartCopy);
  console.log("setCart", setCart);
  console.log("setCartCopy", setCartCopy);
return
In cart

}

ReactDOM.render(<App/>, document.getElementById('root'))

Al ejecutar el ejemplo, dando click a Ve a cart, los console.log del componente Cart mostrarán undefined.
Se observa que Route da prioridad a la propiedad component sobre  la propiedad render, por lo que pasa Cart sin props personalizadas:
component={Cart} //aqui se pasa primero cart sin props custom

Por lo tanto el componente Cart no tiene capturas de ninguna prop personalizada como:
cart, setCart, cartCopy, setCartCopy

Entonces, para este caso usar las propiedades component y render al mismo tiempo no parece ser un patrón válido, pues Router da prioridad a component sobre render.
Solución
Cuando se necesitan pasar props personalizadas a un componente por medio de Route, el patrón que parece funcionar es usando la propiedad render:

//const Router = window.ReactRouterDOM.BrowserRouter;
const Route =  window.ReactRouterDOM.Route;
const Link =  window.ReactRouterDOM.Link;

function App(){
  const [cart, setCart] = React.useState([]);
  const [cartCopy, setCartCopy] = React.useState([]);

  return(

    <ReactRouterDOM.HashRouter>
      <Link to="/cart">Ve a Cart</Link>
      <Route path="/cart"
        render={(props) =>
            <Cart {...props}
              cart={cart}
              setCart={setCart}
              cartCopy={cartCopy}
              setCartCopy={setCartCopy} />} />
    </ReactRouterDOM.HashRouter>

  );
}

const Cart = ({ cart, setCart, cartCopy, setCartCopy }) => {
  console.log("cart", cart);
  console.log("cartCopy", cartCopy);
  console.log("setCart", setCart);
  console.log("setCartCopy", setCartCopy);
return
In cart

}

ReactDOM.render(<App/>, document.getElementById('root'))

En el ejemplo anterior yá se configuró el componente Route solo con la propiedad render, ahí es donde se especifica que el componente Cart va a recibir props personalizadas; al entrar a la ruta /cart, ya se observan todas las props capturadas en el scope, dentro de los console.log.
Notas de campo
Esta validación puede ser problemática:
cartCopy.filter(item => item._id != itemID);

Yo usaría el operador !== (not equal value or not equal type):
cartCopy.filter(item => item._id !== itemID);

Espero que esta respuesta sea de ayuda.