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Media Statements | 22 October 2021
Call for expressions of interest in running kiosks at High Wycombe and Redcliffe stations
Open to range of business types with five-year lease on offer
EOI period closes on December 2
McGowan Government has 15 METRONET projects planned, completed, underway or in procurement
Foot traffic at both stations is expected to be in the thousands by 2031, while broader planning to establish new community and development outcomes in the precincts around each of the stations will further improve the kiosks' catchment.
Similar single-tenancy arrangements are already in place across the rail network with Perth and Elizabeth Quay stations home to multiple businesses such as convenience stores, hairdressers, and general retail.
About 40sqm of space is available at High Wycombe Station and 35.5sqm at Redcliffe. Applicants will need to have previous retail experience and show financial stability.
The six-week EOI period will close on December 2.
Comments attributed to Transport Minister Rita Saffioti:
"Redcliffe and High Wycombe stations have been designed with these kiosk spaces, both for the convenience of our commuters and to give small businesses the opportunity to take advantage of the high foot traffic.
"This opportunity is open to the retail market such as newsagencies, convenience stores or any type of retail business that does not require on-site cooking and that would thrive in this prominent environment.
"With the commencement of passenger services on Perth's new METRONET Airport Line and planned future development outcomes in the precincts around each of the stations, this is a wonderful opportunity for local businesses."
Media line: (08) 9326 2526 or media@pta.wa.gov.au
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Our rail crews have hit the ground running in the new year, achieving a number of track laying-related milestones within the first month.
Most site operations over the Christmas and New Year period will stop on Thursday December 24 and recommence on Monday January 4.
With the end of the year in sight it's all hands on deck to finalise a number of jobs before the break.
While the majority of the new alignment is located underground, sections of track around High Wycombe Station and the adjacent stowage area, as well as at Bayswater Junction, are located at ground level.
METRONET Forrestfield-Airport Link steaming ahead
Work on the $1.86 billion Forrestfield-Airport Link is steaming ahead with almost four kilometres of track now laid within the two tunnels of the METRONET line.


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For Ireland to succeed, we need our regional cities to grow twice as fast as Dublin. I have paraphrased, but that was the gist of the Taoiseach's message in a November visit to Cork. It's hard to fault the commentary. Even if it does come from the person in the most powerful political position in the country who should be engaging in big action as well as big thinking.
Dublin continues to grow in an uncontrolled way. The housing crisis is a clear sign that all is not well. Homeless figures continue to rise and the price of housing is already at a level that means home ownership is an impossible dream for many. Home ownership is ingrained in the Irish psyche and the removal of realistic prospects of home ownership has a very demoralising effect on many people. I find it interesting that most of the people who I've seen arguing against the need for home ownership are themselves home owners. It's easy to argue for another way, as long as it's for someone else.
Renting is no easier and more and more people are being forced into long commutes because they can only afford to live miles away. Traffic in and out of Dublin is a nightmare and getting worse. The M50 is often likened to a carpark and there seems to be no plans in place to relieve it. The most obvious solution, an outer orbital route, would cost a mind boggling amount and would only postpone the problem. In any case even if they started planning it now, the timescale involved means it would arrive far too late.
Without corrective action, the problems are only going to get worse. The 'Ireland 2040' document published in 2017 showed that half of Irelands population growth over the last two decades has centred on Dublin. There are now Dublin commuter towns in 11 counties. The report projected that without radical action, 75% of population growth and new homes will be clustered around Dublin by 2040. What will the homeless figures be then? How much of people's lives will be spent sitting in traffic?
The government's 2040 plan lays out plans to deal with this growth. These plans lay out how balanced regional growth can be facilitated, but it is less clear how higher levels of growth outside of Dublin can be stimulated. Dublin's size and economic power acts like a huge magnet. Dublin generates 49% of national economic growth. This dwarfs London's 32%.
Spreading future growth around the country will require a counterbalance to this magnet effect. New roads and local committees will not be nearly enough. The 'Field of Dreams' effect only works in movies. Building it won't necessarily make them come.
Big problems often require radical solutions. We are in the mess we are in because successive governments have engaged in short term planning/thinking and have lacked the ability, inclination or courage to take radical action to shape the future of our Country. Effective Governing should incorporate big picture planning rather than just dealing with short term crisis after crisis. 'Ireland 2040' is a step in this direction but lacks a driver for regional growth.
In 2003 the then Fianna Fail government decided to take radical action of a sort. They decided to 'decentralise' government departments away from Dublin. This move is widely seen as a failure and it's not hard to see why. The Houses of Oireachtas are the centre of our Government and simply moving lower levels of government away from Dublin was never going to be a game changer. The magnet of power and authority remained in Dublin.
They should have moved the Houses of Oireachtas. The case to do this is much stronger now. Our houses of parliament are a magnet in their own right. If we are serious about balancing national growth then we have to consider it. This is not an anti-Dublin suggestion. Dublin is at bursting point and is of such a scale that it would not be a fatal blow. Dublin will continue to grow. Moving the Capital would give Dublin a fighting chance of catching up on its growth and becoming a functioning city that can cater for its residents.
Think of the boost that the new Capital would receive. This new Capital would be a viable location for much of the new growth that is projected. Nearby cities and towns would benefit from proximity. Our Houses of Parliament and associated activities would be a magnet for growth to counteract the huge magnet that Dublin will continue to be. It would not be a panacea, but it would be a real step towards achieving more balanced regional growth.
I am fully aware that this would be a mammoth undertaking. While there are many example worldwide of Countries moving their Capital's, this would be a truly radical move. But the growing problems Dublin is facing due to runaway growth, which is suffocating the rest of the country, demands radical steps. It is beyond time for those in charge to show leadership.
Choosing the new Capital would be no easy feat for tribal politicians. They say all politics is local. This is certainly true for many of our politicians. I imagine party lines would get particularly blurred in this debate. Our supposedly national T.D.'s would most likely engage in populist campaigns to see their area chosen. The Kerry contingent in particular would likely come up with interesting arguments.
I think I can offer a solution to this. Those of us lucky enough to live in Cork already know that Cork is the real Capital anyway. We have a growing City, a thriving Port and an International Airport already. Maybe the real Capital should really be the Capital.
Eric Nolan is the Labour Party's Local Election candidate for the Midleton Local Electoral Area. He is a father of three living in Midleton and work at Cork Airports Police and Fire Service. You can learn more on Facebook EricNolanLabour or Twitter @ericnolanlab .
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W polu czerwonym trzy kroje w rosochę.

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Juliusz Karol Ostrowski rozróżnia dwa kierunki nadawane ostrzom i wariant z odwrotnym skierowaniem ostrzy niż prawoskrętne, nazywa Kroje II.

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Q: The trait bound `T: std::default::Default` is not satisfied when using PhantomData In my current project, I am trying to write something that can be represented by this minimal example:
#[derive(Default)]
struct A<T> {
    field: std::marker::PhantomData<T>
}

struct B;

fn main() {
    let a = A::<B> {
        ..Default::default()
    };
}

However, this code does not compile.
error[E0277]: the trait bound `B: std::default::Default` is not satisfied
  --> src/main.rs:10:11
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10 |         ..Default::default()
   |           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ the trait `std::default::Default` is not implemented for `B`
   |
   = note: required because of the requirements on the impl of `std::default::Default` for `A<B>`
   = note: required by `std::default::Default::default`

error: aborting due to previous error

Which for me, is a little bit strange, as Default is derived for A and for PhantomData<T>, so why does it matter if it's not implemented for B?

A: Checkout the link from @mcarton, because manually implementing the default trait does compile.
//#[derive(Default)]
struct A<T> {
    field: std::marker::PhantomData<T>
}

struct B;

impl<T> Default for A<T> {
    fn default() -> Self {
        Self { field: Default::default() }
    }
}

fn main() {
    let a = A::<B> {
         ..Default::default()
    };
}

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Guy Lusadisu (born 28 December 1982) is a Congolese professional footballer. He last played as a midfielder for AS Vita Club.

In February 2019 he was named as manager of AS Maniema Union.

International career

International goals
Scores and results list DR Congo's goal tally first.

Honours
AS Vita Club
Winner
 Linafoot: 2014–15

Runner-up
 CAF Champions League: 2014

TP Mazembe
Winner
 Linafoot (2): 2011, 2012
 CAF Champions League (2): 2009, 2010
 CAF Super Cup (2): 2010, 2011

Runner-up
 FIFA Club World Cup: 2010

References

External links

1982 births
Living people
Footballers from Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of the Congo footballers
Democratic Republic of the Congo international footballers
Association football midfielders
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Tunisia
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia
Expatriate footballers in Gabon
Democratic Republic of the Congo expatriate sportspeople in Gabon
Expatriate footballers in Rwanda
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SC Cilu players
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21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people
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Despite research showing that a majority of Americans support legalized abortion, the Supreme Court is expected to overturn or limit Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
UCLA-led research shows majorities of both political parties support legal abortion
Two national surveys that spanned demographic groups showed opposition to complete abortion bans
Jessica Wolf | June 8, 2022
Regardless of race, ethnicity and even political party preference, two separate UCLA-led surveys reveal that majorities of people in each group support access to legal abortion in the United States.
Recent large-scale surveys of voters and non-voters by UCLA political scientists Lorrie Frasure, Matt Barreto, Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch took a pulse on a variety of policy issues, including abortion. These separate findings support previous research and literature that shows broad support for legal abortion.
Data from The Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project, led by Vavreck and Tausanovitch show broad support for abortion across political party lines. Nationscape was a weekly survey fielded from July 2019 through January 2021, reaching nearly 500,000 voters and non-voters representative of the U.S. adult population.
Most Democrats and Republicans — as well as independents — said they do not think abortion should be outlawed completely.
And, according to Nationscape data, most also agreed that abortion should not be limited only to instances of rape, incest or threat to the life of the mother.
Despite the two major political parties' platforms generally taking opposing positions on abortion — Democrats support, Republicans oppose — there are people aligned with the Republican party who support legal abortion and people aligned with the Democratic party who oppose abortion. But for these cross-positioned voters, it's important to note that abortion is not their biggest priority, Vavreck said.
Nationscape researchers know this because of a unique approach they employed to test what matters most to the electorate, essentially forcing survey respondents to make choices based on groupings of hot-button topics. The survey included 44 different policy statements and 8 hypothetical attributes of political candidates. A set of these statements were randomized into two groups of options. Survey respondents were asked to choose which group most aligned with their priorities.
For example, a Democrat who opposes legal abortion might be faced with two groupings of policy statements — one that included limiting or ending abortion. But, if the other group of policy statements held items that were more important to that person, like not deporting undocumented immigrants, they would select that option. The same held true the other way for Republicans who support legal abortion. If the other bucket of topics included things they cared more about than abortion, that was their choice.
"This happens on other issues beside abortion too, and what this tells us is that these voters and potential voters are not cross-pressured within their party. They're not torn. They just have other priorities — they are cross-positioned, but not cross-pressured," Vavreck said. "These surveys demonstrate that vast majorities support keeping abortion legal but that doesn't necessarily mean that this issue is going to be pivotal to their vote choice."
The fourth and largest installment of the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey, or CMPS, led by Frasure and Barreto, alongside Janelle Wong from University of Maryland, College Park, and Edward Vargas from Arizona State University, asked several questions about abortion, reporting results based on the race of respondents.
This survey is conducted after every presidential election, and its questions are drafted by a broad consortium of race and ethnicity politics scholars from across the United States. In 2020, the CMPS was offered in 10 languages to nearly 15,000 respondents.
CMPS data, by way of several questions, show broad support for abortion across four self-reported racial groups — Asian, Black, Latino and white.
Overall, majorities from all groups reported they either support legal abortion or are neutral on the issue, with broad margins of support across all racial and ethnic groups.
"Although the CMPS data was collected before news of the Supreme Court leak, it nonetheless reaffirms what decades of public opinion research has found —across every racial and ethnic group, Americans support safe and legal access to abortion," said Barreto, who added that there are very low rates of opposition to abortion rights for women.
"The CMPS study makes clear that among Black, Latino, Asian and White Americans alike, there remains strong support for maintaining the protections of Roe v. Wade," Barreto said.
When asked if limiting abortion was a specific priority for their racial community, most respondents said that it was a low priority.
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UCLA political scientists launch one of largest-ever public opinion surveys for run-up to 2020
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Oxford History of Western Music: Richard Taruskin
Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
Music in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Music in the Nineteenth Century
Music in the Early Twentieth Century
Music in the Late Twentieth Century
Resources for Librarians
My chapters (1)
The Carnival Show : Mu...
Chapter 1 Opera from Monteverdi to Monteverdi
Court and Commerce
From Mantua To Venice
Poetics and Esthesics
Opera and Its Politics
Sex Objects, Sexed and Unsexed
The Quintessential Princely Spectacle
The Carnival Show
Chapter 2 Fat Times and Lean
Some Organists
The Toccata
Sweelinck—His Patrimony And His Progeny
Lutheran Adaptations: The Chorale Partita
The Chorale Concerto
A Creative Microcosm
Luxuriance
Shriveled Down To The Expressive Nub
Carissimi: Oratorio And Cantata
Women In Music: A Historians' Dilemma
Chapter 3 Courts Resplendent, Overthrown, Restored
Sense And Sensuousness
The Politics Of Patronage
Drama As Court Ritual
Atys, The King's Opera
Art And Politics: Some Caveats
Jacobean England
Masque And Consort
Ayres And Suites: Harmonically Determined Form
Distracted Times
Dido And Aeneas And The Question Of "English Opera"
The Making Of A Classic
Chapter 4 Class and Classicism
Metastasio
Metastasio's Musicians
The Fortunes of Artaserse
Opera Seria in (and as) Practice
Chapter 5 The Italian Concerto Style and the Rise of Tonality-driven Form
Standardized Genres and Tonal Practices
What, Exactly, is "Tonality"?
The Spread Of "Tonal Form"
The Fugal Style
Handel and "Defamiliarization"
Bach and "Dramatized" Tonality
Vivaldi'S Five Hundred
"Concerti Madrigaleschi"
Chapter 6 Class of 1685 (I)
Contexts and Canons
Careers and Lifestyles
Roots (Domestic)
Roots (Imported)
Bach's Suites
A Close-up
"Agremens" and "Doubles"
Stylistic Hybrids
The "Brandenburg" Concertos
"Obbligato" Writing and/or Arranging
Chapter 7 Class of 1685 (II)
Handel On The Strand
Lofty Entertainments
Back to Bach: The Cantatas
The Old Style
The New Style
Musical Symbolism, Musical Idealism
What Music is For
Bach's "Testaments"
The Bach Revival
Cursed Questions
Scarlatti, At Last
Chapter 8 The Comic Style
The Younger Bachs
The London Bach
Sociability Music
Intermission Plays
The "War of The Buffoons"
Chapter 9 Enlightenment and Reform
Novels Sung On Stage
Noble Simplicity
Another Querelle
What Was Enlightenment?
The "Da Ponte" Operas
Late Works
Music As A Social Mirror
Music And (Or As) Morality
Chapter 10 Instrumental Music Lifts Off
Party Music Goes Public
Concert Life Is Born
An Army Of Generals
The Bach Sons As "Symphonists"
The Perfect Career
The Esterházy Years
Norms And Deviations: Creating Musical Meaning
Anatomy Of A Joke
The London Tours
Addressing Throngs
Variation And Development
More Surprises
The Culminating Work
Chapter 11 The Composer's Voice
Art For Art's Sake?
Psychoanalyzing Music
The "Symphonic" Concerto Is Born
Mozart In The Marketplace
Composing And Performing
Performance As Self-Dramatization
Fantasia As Metaphor
The Coming Of Museum Culture
Chapter 12 The First Romantics
The Beautiful and the Sublime
Classic or Romantic?
Beethoven and "Beethoven"
Kampf und Sieg
The Eroica
Crisis and Reaction
Chapter 13 C-Minor Moods
Devotion and Derision
The Music Century
Art Credits
See also from Grove Music Online
L'incoronazione di Poppea
Opera: Early opera, 1600–90
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ex. 1-10 Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo, Chorus ("Ahi caso acerbo")
In one of the most impressive feats of self-rejuvenation in the history of music, the septuagenarian Monteverdi, bestirred by the institution of public opera theaters, or else offered terms he could not refuse, came out of retirement and composed a final trio of operas for the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, one of several competitors that quickly sprang up to challenge San Cassiano, the original opera house. The first was Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Ulysses' Return to His Homeland), after Homer's Odyssey. The second, now lost, concerned another mythological subject, the wedding of Aeneas. The last was L'incoronazione di Poppea, not a mythological but a historical fantasy based on Tacitus and other Roman historians. The librettist was Giovanni Francesco Busenello, a famous poet who was active in the Accademia degli Incogniti (the Academy of the Disguised), a society of libertines and skeptics who dominated the early Venetian commercial theater and did their best to subvert the values of court theatricals for the greater enjoyment of the paying public.
Busenello's libretto celebrates neither the reward of virtue nor (as in Orfeo) the chastisement of vice. It is a celebration of vice triumphant and virtue mocked. The librettist's own argomento or synopsis, published in 1656 in his collected works, puts the story very concisely:
Nero, enamored of Poppaea, who was the wife of Otho, sent the latter, under the pretext of embassy, to Lusitania [Portugal], so that he could take his pleasure with her—this according to Cornelius Tacitus. But here we represent these actions differently. Otho, desperate at seeing himself deprived of Poppaea, gives himself over to frenzy and exclamations. Octavia, wife of Nero, orders Otho to kill Poppaea. Otho promises to do it; but lacking the spirit to deprive his adored Poppaea of life, he dresses in the clothes of Drusilla, who was in love with him. Thus disguised, he enters the garden of Poppaea. Love [i.e., the god Eros] disturbs and prevents that death. Nero repudiates Octavia, in spite of the counsel of [the philosopher] Seneca, and takes Poppaea to wife. Seneca is sentenced to death, and Octavia is expelled from Rome.14
Monteverdi's setting of this most unedifying—and in places virtually obscene—entertainment has the skimpiest of orchestras (just a little ritornello band notated in three or four staves for unspecified instruments, most likely strings), but it is cast throughout for flamboyant voice types that could never have existed in the court favole: two superbly developed prima-donna roles (the more virtuosic of them the fork-tongued, string-pulling title character, the more poignantly monodic one the wronged and rejected wife), two male parts for shrill castrato singers (the higher of them the feminized, manipulated Emperor Nero, the other the stoical wronged husband), and a quartet of low-born comic characters—one of them, a ghastly crone (Poppaea's former wet nurse Arnalta) often played by a male falsettist in drag—who spoof, intentionally or not, the passions and gestures of their betters.
As often in Shakespeare, Monteverdi's shorter-lived contemporary, the comic scenes are paired with the most serious ones. Thus, the scene in which Seneca carries out Nero's sentence of death by committing suicide surrounded by his loving disciples is immediately followed by one in which Octavia's page is shown chasing her lady-in-waiting, coyly singing the while that he is "feeling a certain something" (Sento un certo non so che) between his legs. And the opera's most tragic moment, Octavia's farewell to Rome as she boards the ship that is to take her into exile (Ex. 1-11), is followed immediately by the most farcical—Arnalta's gloating at her mistress's impending elevation, and her own (Ex. 1-12). Elsewhere the page, the opera's "lowest" character, directly mocks Seneca, its most exalted one (Ex. 1-13).
ex. 1-11 Claudio Monteverdi, Lincoronazione di Poppea, Act III, scene 6 (Octavia), mm. 1–18
ex. 1-12 Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act III, scene 7 (Arnalta), mm. 1–28
ex. 1-13 Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act I, scene 6, mm. 113–41
The relationship between Nero and Poppaea is represented frankly as lustful, and that lust is given graphic musical representation. In an early lovers' dialogue, Poppaea flaunts her lips, her breasts, and her arms at Nero, and the composer, taking on the role of stage director, seems to prescribe not only her lines and their delivery but her lewd gestures as well. Nero, in response, makes explicit reference to their sexual encounters, even to "that inflamed spirit which, in kissing, I spilled in thee" (Ex. 1-14). And in the opera's famous culminating number, the duet Pur ti miro, an arching, bristlingly sensual lust duet (for two sopranos, impossible to savor today at full outlandish strength even when the part of Nero is not transposed to the range of a "natural" man but sung by a woman), the music, in its writhing, coiling movements, the increased agitation of the middle section, and the dissonant friction between the singers' parts (or between them both and the bass: see especially the setting of the words più non peno, più non moro in Ex. 1-15), leaves no doubt that the lovers are enacting their passion before us, whether or not the stage director dares show them in the act.
ex. 1-14 Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act I, scene 10, mm. 1–38
ex. 1-15 Claudio Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea, final scene, no. 24 (ciaccona: Pur ti miro), end
This duet, of which the final, opera-ending section is given in Ex. 1-15, symbolizes and formally celebrates in the guise of a ciaccona, a slow dance over a mesmerizing ground bass (again a descending tetrachord at the beginning and the end, but in the lubricious major rather than the lamenting minor), a craving that has subverted all moral and political codes. (Its form, with a contrasting middle section and a reprise of the opening "from the top" [da capo], would become increasingly popular with opera composers and eventually replace the strophic aria.) Where Orfeo, the court pageant, celebrated established order and authority and the cool moderation that its hero tragically violates, Poppea, the carnival show, brings it all down: passion wins out over reason, woman over man, guile over truth, impulse over wisdom, license over law, artifice (in persuasion, in the singing of it, in the voice itself) over nature.
Scholars now agree that Pur ti miro, once thought to be the aged Monteverdi's sublime swan song, was not written by him at all, but by a younger composer (maybe Francesco Cavalli, Monteverdi's pupil; maybe Benedetto Ferrari; maybe Francesco Sacrati, now regarded as the prime suspect) for a revival in the early 1650s. Only that version, presumably one of many that circulated in the theaters at the time, has survived. And so it is now the standard text, but it had no such status in its own day. That is another difference between the court spectacles and the earliest real operas. The court operas, performed once only, were then printed up as souvenirs of the festivities for which they were composed in fully edited, idealized texts that resembled books. These scores could become the basis of later productions (and did so in the case of Orfeo), but that was not their primary purpose.
Commercial operas, by contrast, were not published at all until comparatively recent times. Like today's commercial (e.g., "Broadway") musical shows, they existed during their runs and revivals in a ceaseless maelstrom of negotiation and revision, existing in a multitude of versions—for this theater, for that theater, "for the road," for this star or that—and never attained the status of finished texts. It distorts them considerably even to contemplate them from the purely "poietic" standpoint that has become the rule for "classical music." They were esthesic objects par excellence, not texts but performances, embodying much that was unwritten and unwritable, directed outward at their audience, not at history, the museum, posterity, the classroom, or any other place where poietics is of primary interest.
Once again we observe that the fully textual (or textualized) condition we associate with "classical music" and its permanent canon of masterpieces came into being much later than many types of music that eventually entered its orbit, sometimes with distorting or invidious result. And yet the commercial opera never did altogether supplant the courtly, since they occupied differing social spheres and have only lately met, uneasily, on the modern operatic stage.
Ever since 1637, then, the world of opera has been a divided world, its two political strains—the edifying and the profitable, the authoritarian and the anarchic, the affirmational and the oppositional—unpeacefully coexisting, the tension between them conditioning everything about the genre: its forms, its styles, its meanings (or its attempts to circumvent meaning), its performance practices, its followings, its critical traditions. The same political tension lies behind every one of the press skirmishes, reforms, and "querelles" that dot operatic history (and that we shall be tracing in due course), and it informs the intermission disputes of today. Nothing else attests so well to opera's cultural significance, and nothing else so well explains the durability of this oldest of living musical traditions in the West.
(14) Trans. Arthur Jacobs, in Monteverde, L'Incoronazione di Poppea, Libretto by G. F. Busenello, English version by Arthur Jacobs (London: Novello, 1989).
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From Gareth Evans, the acclaimed director behind The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2, comes a film which shows a different side of Evans's talents. Apostle may not be the insane action fests that his Raid films are, but it certainly displays his gifts for striking visuals, surprising his audiences, and for 100% grade A gore. Evans and his casting director Louise Cross have also assembled an outstanding cast of talents that make Apostle totally watchable and striking despite its weaknesses.
Dan Stevens stars as Thomas Richardson, a man once estranged from his family, but compelled to reconnect after the kidnapping of his sister Jennifer (Elen Rhys) by a religious cult. It is the year 1905 and Richardson agrees to take the arduous journeys to rescue his beloved sister from her captors. He manages to infiltrate the cult who has built a commune on the island of Erisden. Though the hard-working community initially seems harmless, there are definite signs of nefarious dealings and bizarre rituals. In all honestly, nothing can prepare young Richardson from the insane truth behind this violent cult headed by the charming, but suspicious leader, Prophet Malcom (Michael Sheen).
Written and directed by Evans, Apostle mostly works well until some of the bizarre reveals are made. In fact, though Evans does offer some on-point commentaries about the lust and greed of humanity, I feel his messages get overshadowed by the outlandishness that he employs to shock and awe his audience. I honestly don't feel like most of it makes much sense, and it is definitely a spectacle to behold, but I feel that less could have offered so much more in terms of storytelling.
As I stated above, the entire cast delivers great work with Stevens and Sheen being the real standouts. Sheen, for sure, often steals the show as the seemingly charismatic, but untrustworthy Prophet Malcom. Malcm closely guards his secrets and the secrets of the island, and effectively uses fear to maintain his control and power. Stevens shines as Thomas Richardson, the troubled and ill prodigal son who returns for the sake of his sister. When his character gets pushed too far, Stevens goes fierce and feral like a lion forced to attack. The rest of the supporting cast all deliver solid work as well.
Though I liked this film overall, I feel it is my least favorite film by Gareth Evans so far. Still, I think it is definitely worth a watch for its solid direction and great acting. Apostle is scheduled for a Netflix release on October 12, but if given the chance, I would recommend watching it theatrically. The beautiful cinematography by Matt Flannery deserves to be experienced on a massive screen.


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I released 0.20 to SourceForge.
A new release candidate based on yesterday's GNU Classpath 0.18 release. Unless any showstoppers are found, these bits will become the official 0.20 release in a few days.
Added reusing temporary locals to compiler (to reduce file size).
Added optimization to compiler to remove recursive exception handlers that make synchronized block exit async safe (see http://weblog.ikvm.net/PermaLink.aspx?guid=3af9548e-4905-4557-8809-65a205ce2cd6).
Added optimization to compiler to turn synchronized block exit exception handlers into fault blocks.
Interned all member names and signatures (to save memory).
Made some minor optimizations to class file parsing.
Stopped "normalizing" tableswitch instruction to lookupswitch (since the compiler treated them differently already).
Corrected "cannot throw" bytecode metadata flag for ifnonnull instruction.
Changed ByteCodeMetaData.CanThrowException() to take NormalizedByteCode.
Removed non-normalized bytecode from Instruction structure.
Added support for throwing NoClassDefFoundError when accessing a type that previously failed static initialization.
Changed ClassLoader.findLoadedClass to also find array classes made of classes that are already loaded (for compatibility with Sun JDK 1.4).
Changed ClassLoader <-> ClassLoaderWrapper association from hashtable to using the vmdata field in ClassLoader.
Rewrote large parts of class caching by the class loaders to be more spec compliant and more compatible with the Sun implementation for unspecified behavior.
Added class and baseclass name to VerifyError message when a class extends a final class.
Removed broken mechanism that tried to doom entire classes when a method was unverifiable, instead of throwing the VerifyError when the method is actually called.
Fixed bug that caused critical error when compiling a class that contains a package private method that overrides a protected method in a base class.
Added more info to some of the loader constraints violated exception messages.
Fixed ikvmc to continue compilation when encountering a class that cannot be loaded (due to inaccessible or final base classes).
Fixed various bugs in FileChannel.lock()/tryLock().
Added error message when a typename occurs in multiple referenced assemblies.
Fixed VMFile.mkdir NullPointerException when trying to create a root directory.
Added ClassFile.GetClassName() to be able to sniff class name from class definition without fully parsing the class definition.
Removed ability to parse java.lang.Object from ClassFile.
Removed OuterClass property from ClassFile.
Moved accidental Finish trigger detection from JavaTypeImpl.Finish to ClassLoaderWrapper.OnTypeResolve, to facilitate new "finish as we go" strategy used by ikvmc.
Fixed a couple of places in FieldWrappers where FieldInfo.FieldType was used (which isn't available anymore after we bash the contents of the FieldBuilders to save memory).
Enabled Reflection.Emit private field bashing hack to conserve memory for static compilation as well.
Introduced IKVM_DISABLE_TYPEBUILDER_HACK environment variable to disable the hack that bashes Reflection.Emit private fields to conserve memory.
Changed the way inner classes are resolved by ikvmc to facilitate new "finish as we go" strategy used by ikvmc.
Fixed subtle miranda method bug when dealing with loader constraint violations.
Fixed method generator to set MethodAttributes.NewSlot when a mangled method name is used to override a method.
Introduced JVM.FinishingForDebugSave to save memory, simplify code and fix a theoretical bug.
Moved bytecode error handling from compiler to verifier, so that the verifier can now accurately track what code is reachable (bytecode that gets compiled as an exception (e.g. NoSuchMethodError) typically results in unreachable code following that instruction). This change allows "broken" constructors to be compiled into verifiable CIL.
Moved array cloning hack (to workaround a bug javac) from compiler to verifier.
Fixed some unloadable type bugs.
Restructed verifier into two separate steps. The first step computes the stack and local variables types and the second step does the actual verification and reachability determination.
Changed jniproxy.dll (created with -Xsave) from module to assembly to make the main assembly verifiable.
Fixed stack walking to skip HideFromJava methods.
Moved Name and Signature to MemberWrapper.
Fixed ikvmc to only generate __Fields inner classes for public interfaces.
Added IKVM.Runtime.Util.GetFriendlyClassFromType() method. This is dumb name and subject to change.
Added (limited) support to remapper for adding methods to Java classes.
Added implicit conversion operator to java.lang.Class to convert from System.Type.
Optimized line number table encoding yet again.
Fixed bytecode compile to trigger class initializer for "new" bytecode and for accessing constant fields.
Changed class loading to reduce chance of inadvertantly hiding exceptions caused by bugs in the IKVM runtime.
Improved replacing of ClassNotFoundException with NoClassDefFoundError during class loading.
Made delegate helper interfaces private. This solves an incompatibility between ikvmc generated assemblies and C++/CLI, but ultimately this wasn't the reason for this change, the helper interfaces don't have type identity, so they shouldn't be used in public interfaces (preferably they should only be used in delegate instantiation).
Fixed class loading bugs that caused Class.forName("cli.java.lang.Object") and Class.forName("System.EventHandler$Method") to work.
Fixed ikvmc to no longer generate unused delegate helper interfaces.
Changed java.version system property to 1.4.2.
Fixed ikvmc to open input files as read-only.
Changed JNI methods GetPrimitiveArrayCritical/ReleasePrimitiveArrayCritical to allow up to two arrays to be pinned instead of copied.
Fixed compiler to mark all methods with MethodAttributes.HideBySig, to use correct method name resolution semantics when using an ikvmc generated assembly from C#.
Removed "ikvm.cleanstacktrace" system property and introduced IKVM_DISABLE_STACKTRACE_CLEANING environment variable to solve initialization order problem.
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Complex Systems and the "Rashomon Effect"
I recently read a very interesting NY Times column, The Reality of Quantum Weirdness, by UC Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel. In the column, professor Frenkel discusses a very deep and important question: Is there such a thing as a true reality, or "is our belief in a definite, objective, observer-independent reality an illusion?" The article is about the strange world of quantum mechanics, a world that's very different from our everyday life experiences. But part of my fascination with the subject is that I often ask myself similar questions when thinking about the equally mysterious world of highly complex emergent systems, that is, systems where the whole can at times be quite different from the sum of their parts.
Frenkel is an author, - Love and Math is his most recent book, - and a filmmaker in addition to being a mathematician. He uses the so-called Rashomon effect to illustrate his points, an effect named after Rashomon, a classic 1950 film by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, one of the most prominent and influential directors of all time.
The movie is famous for its novel plot device. Near Kyoto, a samurai has been killed, but it's not clear why or by whom. Four different characters tell widely different versions of the same event: the samurai's wife who says she was raped by a bandit, subsequently fainted and then awoke and found her husband dead; a bandit who says he seduced the wife and then killed the samurai in an honorable duel; a woodcutter who says he witnessed the rape and murder but did not want to get involved; and the dead samurai, who speaking through a medium said that the shame of the events he witnessed drove him to kill himself.
The film is an exploration of multiple realities, where it's not at all clear if there is a real truth, let alone what it might be. The Rashomon effect has thus come to stand for the contradictory interpretations of the same event by different people.
In the deterministic world of classical mechanics, there's always a real truth. The same objects, subject to the same forces, will always yield the same results. Elegant mathematical models can be used to make perfect predictions within the accuracy of their human-scale measurements. Early in the 19th century, French mathematician and scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace observed that if we knew the precise state of the universe as represented by the position and speed of every one of its particles, classical mechanics would enable us to calculate all past and future states of the universe.
But, this predictable world began to fall apart in the early 20th century. Classical mechanics could not explain the counter-intuitive behavior of energy and matter at atomic and subatomic scales. 19th century classical physics was replaced by a kind of 20th century magical mystery tour, now ruled by the new principles of quantum mechanics.
At the atomic and subatomic scales that quantum mechanics deals with, the world is far from predictable. The behavior of a particle at this scale is explained by its wave function, which can only tell us the probability that the particle will be at a specific position at a given time. According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, it's impossible to simultaneously determine the exact position and velocity of an electron, - or any other particle at these scales, - no matter how good your measurement tools are. The concept of wave-particle duality further adds that the electron sometimes behaves like a wave and sometime like a particle, depending on what we want to know and what we do to find the answer.
Frenkel writes about a recent experiment aimed at answering a subject that's been long debated by quantum physicists. "Is there a fixed reality apart from our various observations of it? Or is reality nothing more than a kaleidoscope of infinite possibilities?" The results of the experiment support the latter scenario, namely, "that there is a Rashomon effect not just in our descriptions of nature, but in nature itself… What this research implies is that we are not just hearing different stories about the electron, one of which may be true. Rather, there is one true story, but it has many facets, seemingly in contradiction, just like in Rashomon."
Other recent papers attempt to explain the difference between a subjective, knowledge-based reality and an observer-independent reality using the metaphor of a meteorologist predicting tomorrow's weather. Using classical mechanics and all relevant information, the meteorologist should be able to make an exact forecast since predicting the weather is a deterministic process. The reasons meteorologists give forecasts based on probabilities is because, given how complex weather systems are, they in fact don't have access to all relevant information. Two meteorologist might give different forecasts for tomorrow's weather if each uses a different model and/or different data to make their predictions. This is an example of a subjective, knowledge-based reality.
However, unlike a weather forecast, at atomic scales future behaviors cannot be predicted with certainty even if a person had perfect information about the system in question. At atomic scales, nature itself is inherently random and probabilistic. "There is really no escape from the mysterious - some might say, mystical - nature of the quantum world," notes Frenkel.
This is all difficult to grasp because the weirdness of quantum mechanics dissipates in the world of everyday experiences. When dealing with large ensembles of particles, such as a table, a car or the flight of a baseball, we are back to being able to describe their behavior by the rules of classical physics.
But if so, why can't we gather enough data and use highly sophisticated models and powerful supercomputers to make precise short and long term weather predictions, figure out what the traffic will be like tomorrow in Manhattan, anticipate the ups-and-downs of the economy or come up with better medical treatments for diabetes and other chronic diseases? As it turns out, the quantum world is not the only one that exhibits counter-intuitive, somewhat bizarre behaviors. So does the world of highly complex systems, especially those systems whose components and interrelationships are themselves quite complex. This is the case with meteorology, systems biology and evolution as well as with sociotechnical systems whose main components are people and their varied interactions, such as healthcare, cities, transportation and economies.
While in principle such systems are deterministic, in practice our ability to predict their future or past behaviors is severely limited by their inherent complexity, the dynamic nature of their components, their intricate interrelationships, and their high sensitivity to initial conditions, a property called chaos. The sensitivity of chaotic systems to initial conditions is best captured in the so-called butterfly effect, a concept popularized by MIT meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz in a 1972 paper Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?, where he wrote:
"The question which really interests us is whether… two particular weather situations differing by as little as the immediate influence of a single butterfly will generally after sufficient time evolve into two situations differing by as much as the presence of a tornado. In more technical language, is the behavior of the atmosphere unstable with respect to perturbations of small amplitude?"
Their high sensitivity to initial conditions and their inherent instability means that chaotic systems, while deterministic, will in fact exhibit unpredictable, emergent behaviors. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, lots of things will likely be different and its impact may well be felt someplace else entirely, or not at all. This lack of predictability means that in practice, complex systems are inherently probabilistic, as is the case with weather predictions, the medical treatment of many chronic diseases, traffic patterns in large cities, economic decisions, and so on.
Despite their probabilistic nature, physicists have made huge progress in shedding light on the atomic and sub-atomic world, including the development of nanotechnology applications where quantum effects are important. Similarly, recent technological advances can help us better understand and manage highly complex systems. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of information about the real-time behavior of such systems, which can be quickly analyzed with powerful supercomputers to help us figure out what's going on, enabling us to make better informed, smarter decisions.
We are also better able to develop simulation models of these complex systems, so we can understand how they might behave under widely different conditions. Since these systems are inherently unpredictable, there is no one model that can accurately tell us about the future. But, reminiscent of quantum mechanics, we can map out the future states of the system, and compute the probabilities of the different states at different points in time. We do something similar today with hurricane prediction, where we are not able to tell precisely where the incoming hurricane will hit a few days from now, but we can calculate cones of probabilities reflecting the possible paths the hurricane might take based on the different assumptions and models.
In discipline after discipline, we are beginning to learn how to deal with the very messy world of data science and complex systems, and how to best apply our learning to make good decisions and reasonable predictions. One of the hardest parts of that learning is the need to let go of our preconceived notions of scientific determinism and get used to living in a world of probabilities, uncertainties, limits to how much we can know, - and Rashomon effects. Our 21st century magical mystery tour promises to be every bit as exciting as the one we embarked on over a century ago.
Posted on March 24, 2015 at 04:43 AM in Complex Systems, Data Science and Big Data, Innovation, Supercomputing, Technology and Strategy | Permalink
Nicely done Irving--an elegant story telling, despite the absence of mentioning the pioneer of complexity with our friends at SFI:) One of the reasons we are located in NM--have engaged with many up the hill since conceived my classic CAS in our lab in mid 90s--then in N AZ, but it's better being on the ground as I can participate regularly with visiting scientists from all over the world. I am constantly attempting to remind those who will listen that we need to be a bit careful about allowing the magical mystery tour to deflect away from the rigor and discipline of objectivity, as bias is ever present in the CAS we call humans.
Posted by: Mark Montgomery | March 28, 2015 at 07:51 AM
Implied in Irving's elegant and thought-provoking post is the ontology of quantum mechanics and in particular the reality of the wave function which is a fascinating subject. I feel a bit uncomfortable with Frenkel's statement that "There is really no escape from the mysterious - some might say, mystical - nature of the quantum world" which I perceive as opting-out from a deeper and objective discussion. Physics has quite abandoned a serious debate with philosophy as was the case in a not too distant past and I feel we are at a point, in fundamental physics, where this would need to be revamped as several scientists are now trying to. Moreover, cantoning to the framework of physics alone, my feeling is that when we take very seriously the essence of what the two physical theories of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity tell us about our world, when we take both of them to their extreme consequences and follow mathematical consistency leading to Quantum Gravity (e.g. with Loop Quantum Gravity), we might also have a base for clarifying the discussion on what being a "realist" means which is very much related to the reality of the wave function. It is not clear to me why we do not question reality of the macroscopic world while we seem doing it for the microscopic one. It is inspiring here to cite the intuition of Sir. Roger Penrose where a realistic (and testable) view of the wave function "reducing" to the physical state actually observed (what he calls "OR" or Objective Reduction, see his book The Road To Reality) is very profoundly linked to gravity and to other "mysteries" such as time reversal and the entropy law. I feel that in clarifying these connections will lie a lot of new 21st century science and I fully share Inving's last enthusiastic sentence!
Posted by: Pasquale Di Cesare | March 31, 2015 at 06:44 AM
Wave function collapse. Would have been nice to see some mathematics
The quantum state of a physical system is described by a wave function (in turn – an element of a projective Hilbert space). This can be expressed in Dirac or bra–ket notation as a vector.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse#cite_note-6
Posted by: DKlemitz | March 31, 2015 at 01:39 PM


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From tasting menus and refined tostadas to roadside carnitas, take an edible tour through Ensenada, Mexico.
A simple cilantro salad with crunchy snap peas, peanuts, and fried shallots is a delicious bite on its own, but would also be a great topping to sticky rice, fish, or noodles.
For a refreshing appetizer, serve fresh scallops with a bright onion, tomato, and lime juice topping.
A fresh romaine salad with an intense blue cheese is anything but boring. Enjoy with colorful jewels of tomatoes, sopressata, and pepperoncini.
Candied vegetables make this salad playful and the star of any tea party food table.