Your data model has started to stabilize and you're in a position to create a public API for your web app. You realize it's hard to make significant changes to your API once it's released and want to get as much right as possible up front. Now, the internet has no shortage on opinions on API design. But, since there's no one widely adopted standard that works in all cases, you're left with a bunch of choices: What formats should you accept? How should you authenticate? Should your API be versioned?
In designing an API for Enchant (a Zendesk Alternative), I've tried to come up with pragmatic answers to these questions. My goal is for the Enchant API to be easy to use, easy to adopt and flexible enough to dogfood for our own user interfaces.
A decent app helps you get the job done.
A good app helps you get it done faster.
A great app, however, makes it effortless.
... and those apps, the ones that make things feel effortless, are the ones we love the most.
But what makes an app feel effortless?
More importantly, how can you make your app feel effortless?
An API is a developer's UI - just like any UI, it's important to ensure the user's experience is thought out carefully!
If there's one thing that has gained wide adoption, it's RESTful principles. These were first introduced by Roy Fielding in Chapter 5 of his dissertation on network based software architectures.
The key principles of REST involve separating your API into logical resources. These resources are manipulated using HTTP requests where the method (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE) has specific meaning.
But what can I make a resource? Well, these should be nouns (not verbs!) that make sense from the perspective of the API consumer. Although your internal models may map neatly to resources, it isn't necessarily a one-to-one mapping. The key here is to not leak irrelevant implementation details out to your API! Some of Enchant's nouns would be ticket, user and group.
The great thing about REST is that you're leveraging existing HTTP methods to implement significant functionality on just a single /tickets endpoint. There are no method naming conventions to follow and the URL structure is clean & clear. REST FTW!
Should the endpoint name be singular or plural? The keep-it-simple rule applies here. Although your inner-grammatician will tell you it's wrong to describe a single instance of a resource using a plural, the pragmatic answer is to keep the URL format consistent and always use a plural. Not having to deal with odd pluralization (person/people, goose/geese) makes the life of the API consumer better and is easier for the API provider to implement (as most modern frameworks will natively handle /tickets and /tickets/12 under a common controller).
Alternatively, if a relation can exist independently of the resource, it makes sense to just include an identifier for it within the output representation of the resource. The API consumer would then have to hit the relation's endpoint. However, if the relation is commonly requested alongside the resource, the API could offer functionality to automatically embed the relation's representation and avoid the second hit to the API.
What about actions that don't fit into the world of CRUD operations?
Restructure the action to appear like a field of a resource. This works if the action doesn't take parameters. For example an activate action could be mapped to a boolean activated field and updated via a PATCH to the resource.
Treat it like a sub-resource with RESTful principles. For example, GitHub's API lets you star a gist with PUT /gists/:id/star and unstar with DELETE /gists/:id/star.
Sometimes you really have no way to map the action to a sensible RESTful structure. For example, a multi-resource search doesn't really make sense to be applied to a specific resource's endpoint. In this case, /search would make the most sense even though it isn't a resource. This is OK - just do what's right from the perspective of the API consumer and make sure it's documented clearly to avoid confusion.
Always use SSL. No exceptions. Today, your web APIs can get accessed from anywhere there is internet (like libraries, coffee shops, airports among others). Not all of these are secure. Many don't encrypt communications at all, allowing for easy eavesdropping or impersonation if authentication credentials are hijacked.
Another advantage of always using SSL is that guaranteed encrypted communications simplifies authentication efforts - you can get away with simple access tokens instead of having to sign each API request.
One thing to watch out for is non-SSL access to API URLs. Do not redirect these to their SSL counterparts. Throw a hard error instead! The last thing you want is for poorly configured clients to send requests to an unencrypted endpoint, just to be silently redirected to the actual encrypted endpoint.
An API is only as good as its documentation. The docs should be easy to find and publically accessible. Most developers will check out the docs before attempting any integration effort. When the docs are hidden inside a PDF file or require signing in, they're not only difficult to find but also not easy to search.
The docs should show examples of complete request/response cycles. Preferably, the requests should be pastable examples - either links that can be pasted into a browser or curl examples that can be pasted into a terminal. GitHub and Stripe do a great job with this.
Once you release a public API, you've committed to not breaking things without notice. The documentation must include any deprecation schedules and details surrounding externally visible API updates. Updates should be delivered via a blog (i.e. a changelog) or a mailing list (preferably both!).
Always version your API. Versioning helps you iterate faster and prevents invalid requests from hitting updated endpoints. It also helps smooth over any major API version transitions as you can continue to offer old API versions for a period of time.
There are mixed opinions around whether an API version should be included in the URL or in a header. Academically speaking, it should probably be in a header. However, the version needs to be in the URL to ensure browser explorability of the resources across versions (remember the API requirements specified at the top of this post?).
I'm a big fan of the approach that Stripe has taken to API versioning - the URL has a major version number (v1), but the API has date based sub-versions which can be chosen using a custom HTTP request header. In this case, the major version provides structural stability of the API as a whole while the sub-versions accounts for smaller changes (field deprecations, endpoint changes, etc).
An API is never going to be completely stable. Change is inevitable. What's important is how that change is managed. Well documented and announced multi-month deprecation schedules can be an acceptable practice for many APIs. It comes down to what is reasonable given the industry and possible consumers of the API.
Filtering: Use a unique query parameter for each field that implements filtering. For example, when requesting a list of tickets from the /tickets endpoint, you may want to limit these to only those in the open state. This could be accomplished with a request like GET /tickets?state=open. Here, state is a query parameter that implements a filter.
Searching: Sometimes basic filters aren't enough and you need the power of full text search. Perhaps you're already using ElasticSearch or another Lucene based search technology. When full text search is used as a mechanism of retrieving resource instances for a specific type of resource, it can be exposed on the API as a query parameter on the resource's endpoint. Let's say q. Search queries should be passed straight to the search engine and API output should be in the same format as a normal list result.
The API consumer doesn't always need the full representation of a resource. The ability select and chose returned fields goes a long way in letting the API consumer minimize network traffic and speed up their own usage of the API.
A PUT, POST or PATCH call may make modifications to fields of the underlying resource that weren't part of the provided parameters (for example: created_at or updated_at timestamps). To prevent an API consumer from having to hit the API again for an updated representation, have the API return the updated (or created) representation as part of the response.
In case of a POST that resulted in a creation, use a HTTP 201 status code and include a Location header that points to the URL of the new resource.
There are a lot of mixed opinions as to whether the API consumer should create links or whether links should be provided to the API. RESTful design principles specify HATEOAS which roughly states that interaction with an endpoint should be defined within metadata that comes with the output representation and not based on out-of-band information.
Although the web generally works on HATEOAS type principles (where we go to a website's front page and follow links based on what we see on the page), I don't think we're ready for HATEOAS on APIs just yet. When browsing a website, decisions on what links will be clicked are made at run time. However, with an API, decisions as to what requests will be sent are made when the API integration code is written, not at run time. Could the decisions be deferred to run time? Sure, however, there isn't much to gain going down that route as code would still not be able to handle significant API changes without breaking. That said, I think HATEOAS is promising but not ready for prime time just yet. Some more effort has to be put in to define standards and tooling around these principles for its potential to be fully realized.
For now, it's best to assume the user has access to the documentation & include resource identifiers in the output representation which the API consumer will use when crafting links. There are a couple of advantages of sticking to identifiers - data flowing over the network is minimized and the data stored by API consumers is also minimized (as they are storing small identifiers as opposed to URLs that contain identifiers).
Also, given this post advocates version numbers in the URL, it makes more sense in the long term for the API consumer to store resource identifiers as opposed to URLs. After all, the identifier is stable across versions but the URL representing it is not!
It's time to leave XML behind in APIs. It's verbose, it's hard to parse, it's hard to read, its data model isn't compatible with how most programming languages model data and its extendibility advantages are irrelevant when your output representation's primary needs are serialization from an internal representation.
I'm not going to put much effort into explaining the above breathful as it looks like others (YouTube, Twitter & Box) have already started the XML exodus.
Should the media type change based on Accept headers or based on the URL? To ensure browser explorability, it should be in the URL. The most sensible option here would be to append a .json or .xml extension to the endpoint URL.
Many popular JSON APIs use snake_case. I suspect this is due to serialization libraries following naming conventions of the underlying language they are using. Perhaps we need to have JSON serialization libraries handle naming convention transformations.
An API that provides white-space compressed output isn't very fun to look at from a browser. Although some sort of query parameter (like ?pretty=true) could be provided to enable pretty printing, an API that pretty prints by default is much more approachable. The cost of the extra data transfer is negligible, especially when you compare to the cost of not implementing gzip.
Consider some use cases: What if an API consumer is debugging and has their code print out data it received from the API - It will be readable by default. Or if the consumer grabbed the URL their code was generating and hit it directly from the browser - it will be readable by default. These are small things. Small things that make an API pleasant to use!
But what about all the extra data transfer?
In this example, the whitespace increased the output size by 8.5% when gzip is not in play and 2.6% when gzip is in play. On the other hand, the act of gzipping in itself provided over 60% in bandwidth savings. Since the cost of pretty printing is relatively small, it's best to pretty print by default and ensure gzip compression is supported!
To further hammer in this point, Twitter found that there was an 80% savings (in some cases) when enabling gzip compression on their Streaming API. Stack Exchange went as far as to never return a response that's not compressed!
There are a couple of justifications for doing this - it makes it easy to include additional metadata or pagination information, some REST clients don't allow easy access to HTTP headers & JSONP requests have no access to HTTP headers. However, with standards that are being rapidly adopted like CORS and the Link header from RFC 5988, enveloping is starting to become unnecessary.
We can future proof the API by staying envelope free by default and enveloping only in exceptional cases.
How should an envelope be used in the exceptional cases?
There are 2 situations where an envelope is really needed - if the API needs to support cross domain requests over JSONP or if the client is incapable of working with HTTP headers.
Similarly, to support limited HTTP clients, allow for a special query parameter ?envelope=true that would trigger full enveloping (without the JSONP callback function).
If you're following the approach in this post, then you've embraced JSON for all API output. Let's consider JSON for API input.
Many APIs use URL encoding in their API request bodies. URL encoding is exactly what it sounds like - request bodies where key value pairs are encoded using the same conventions as one would use to encode data in URL query parameters. This is simple, widely supported and gets the job done.
However, URL encoding has a few issues that make it problematic. It has no concept of data types. This forces the API to parse integers and booleans out of strings. Furthermore, it has no real concept of hierarchical structure. Although there are some conventions that can build some structure out of key value pairs (like appending [ ] to a key to represent an array), this is no comparison to the native hierarchical structure of JSON.
If the API is simple, URL encoding may suffice. However, complex APIs should stick to JSON for their API input. Either way, pick one and be consistent throughout the API.
An API that accepts JSON encoded POST, PUT & PATCH requests should also require the Content-Type header be set to application/json or throw a 415 Unsupported Media Type HTTP status code.
Envelope loving APIs typically include pagination data in the envelope itself. And I don't blame them - until recently, there weren't many better options. The right way to include pagination details today is using the Link header introduced by RFC 5988.
Link: <https://api.github.com/user/repos?page=3&per_page=100>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/user/repos?page=50&per_page=100>; rel="last"
But this isn't a complete solution as many APIs do like to return the additional pagination information, like a count of the total number of available results. An API that requires sending a count can use a custom HTTP header like X-Total-Count.
There are many cases where an API consumer needs to load data related to (or referenced) from the resource being requested. Rather than requiring the consumer to hit the API repeatedly for this information, there would be a significant efficiency gain from allowing related data to be returned and loaded alongside the original resource on demand.
However, as this does go against some RESTful principles, we can minimize our deviation by only doing so based on an embed (or expand) query parameter.
Of course, ability to implement something like this really depends on internal complexity. This kind of embedding can easily result in an N+1 select issue.
Some HTTP clients can only work with simple GET and POST requests. To increase accessibility to these limited clients, the API needs a way to override the HTTP method. Although there aren't any hard standards here, the popular convention is to accept a request header X-HTTP-Method-Override with a string value containing one of PUT, PATCH or DELETE.
Note that the override header should only be accepted on POST requests. GET requests should never change data on the server!
To prevent abuse, it is standard practice to add some sort of rate limiting to an API. RFC 6585 introduced a HTTP status code 429 Too Many Requests to accommodate this.
However, it can be very useful to notify the consumer of their limits before they actually hit it. This is an area that currently lacks standards but has a number of popular conventions using HTTP response headers.
Why is number of seconds left being used instead of a time stamp for X-Rate-Limit-Reset?
A timestamp contains all sorts of useful but unnecessary information like the date and possibly the time-zone. An API consumer really just wants to know when they can send the request again & the number of seconds answers this question with minimal additional processing on their end. It also avoids issues related to clock skew.
Some APIs use a UNIX timestamp (seconds since epoch) for X-Rate-Limit-Reset. Don't do this!
Why is it bad practice to use a UNIX timestamp for X-Rate-Limit-Reset?
The HTTP spec already specifies using RFC 1123 date formats (currently being used in Date, If-Modified-Since & Last-Modified HTTP headers). If we were to specify a new HTTP header that takes a timestamp of some sort, it should follow RFC 1123 conventions instead of using UNIX timestamps.
A RESTful API should be stateless. This means that request authentication should not depend on cookies or sessions. Instead, each request should come with some sort authentication credentials.
By always using SSL, the authentication credentials can be simplified to a randomly generated access token that is delivered in the user name field of HTTP Basic Auth. The great thing about this is that it's completely browser explorable - the browser will just popup a prompt asking for credentials if it receives a 401 Unauthorized status code from the server.
However, this token-over-basic-auth method of authentication is only acceptable in cases where it's practical to have the user copy a token from an administration interface to the API consumer environment. In cases where this isn't possible, OAuth 2 should be used to provide secure token transfer to a third party. OAuth 2 uses Bearer tokens & also depends on SSL for its underlying transport encryption.
An API that needs to support JSONP will need a third method of authentication, as JSONP requests cannot send HTTP Basic Auth credentials or Bearer tokens. In this case, a special query parameter access_token can be used. Note: there is an inherent security issue in using a query parameter for the token as most web servers store query parameters in server logs.
For what it's worth, all three methods above are just ways to transport the token across the API boundary. The actual underlying token itself could be identical.
HTTP provides a built-in caching framework! All you have to do is include some additional outbound response headers and do a little validation when you receive some inbound request headers.
ETag: When generating a response, include a HTTP header ETag containing a hash or checksum of the representation. This value should change whenever the output representation changes. Now, if an inbound HTTP requests contains a If-None-Match header with a matching ETag value, the API should return a 304 Not Modified status code instead of the output representation of the resource.
Last-Modified: This basically works like to ETag, except that it uses timestamps. The response header Last-Modified contains a timestamp in RFC 1123 format which is validated against If-Modified-Since. Note that the HTTP spec has had 3 different acceptable date formats and the server should be prepared to accept any one of them.
Just like an HTML error page shows a useful error message to a visitor, an API should provide a useful error message in a known consumable format. The representation of an error should be no different than the representation of any resource, just with its own set of fields.
The API should always return sensible HTTP status codes. API errors typically break down into 2 types: 400 series status codes for client issues & 500 series status codes for server issues. At a minimum, the API should standardize that all 400 series errors come with consumable JSON error representation. If possible (i.e. if load balancers & reverse proxies can create custom error bodies), this should extend to 500 series status codes.
"description" : "More details about the error here"
"message" : "First name cannot have fancy characters"
"message" : "Password cannot be blank"
200 OK - Response to a successful GET, PUT, PATCH or DELETE. Can also be used for a POST that doesn't result in a creation.
An API is a user interface for developers. Put the effort in to ensure it's not just functional but pleasant to use.
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A memoir of one young man's coming of age on a journey across America--told through the stories of the people of all ages, races, and inclinations he meets along the way.
Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing down, way down, in order to give my full presence to the extraordinary that infuses each moment and resides in every one of us.
At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen." He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide.
In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt. But he also encountered incredible kindness from strangers. Thousands shared their stories with him, sometimes confiding their prejudices, too. Often he didn't know how to respond. How to find unity in diversity? How to stay connected, even as fear works to tear us apart? He listened for answers to these questions, and to the existential questions every human must face, and began to find that the answer might be in listening itself.
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I grew up making gingerbread cookies with my (other) grandmother every year at Christmas and, honestly, other random times during the year when my childlike obsession with cookie cutters got the better of both of us. I remember all of the fun parts of making them and none of the faff, which is great in terms of childhood memories, but probably a little unfortunate when it comes to these days when I'm thinking making roll-out cut-out cookies should be a breeze, forgetting that I'm now the one who has to clean the counter after I've spent hours rolling dough on it and, since I don't have a dishwasher, also the one who has to wash all the dishes. Nevertheless, I love a good ginger cookie, so I was excited to test these two versions against each other... and boy, do we have a clear winner.
First off, we have the black treacle spice-eez. These roll-out cookies were... fine. They have a nice balance of sweet to spice, and a good snap to them as well. They pair well with a cup of tea and they made the house smell amazing. But... they were also difficult to handle, the dough expanded so much in the oven that NONE of the shapes were even close to being recognisable and there honestly wasn't much differentiating them from any other ginger biscuit I've ever had. In other words: forgettable flavour and not particularly appealing to look at.
Competing to best the spice-eez, we've got ginger wafers. These cookies are... well, they're stellar. Much like the Butter Wreaths I regaled you with yesterday, these are insanely easy (one bowl! No rolling! No chilling! No decorating!), difficult to mess up (the dough handles like a dream!) and best of all, they don't taste like any other ginger biscuit I've ever had. They're more spiced than sweet, they have a perfect crisp-around-the-edges-soft-in-the-middle balance, and because they're rolled in sugar, they literally sparkle. Also like the butter wreaths, they hold their shape in the oven, which means you don't have to worry about them expanding and running into each other, and they make adorable stacks you can give as gifts.
3 spoons out of five. The flavour is fine, if forgettable, but the massive expansion of the dough in the oven really wrecked what could have been adorable cookies.
5 spoons out of five. My new favourite ginger cookie!
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Add egg and vanilla, then beat well again.
Blend sifted dry ingredients into creamed mixture gradually.
Add molasses or black treacle, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg and blend well.
Chill at least 30 minutes or up to overnight.
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The Cave Alternative runs new maps introduced by different devlopers which are a great done of fun to play.
Blue Iris and I invite you to come check these servers out, we think you'll have a lot of fun!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Comedy Zone – Jacksonville's stage will be set for five showcases featuring Arnez J, from Aug. 7 through Aug. 9. The number of performance, dates and times are: one on Aug. 7 (7:30 p.m.), two on Aug. 8 (7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.) and Aug. 9 (7:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m.). He is an actor, writer and stand-up comedian.
Hailing from Atlanta—Arnez J began working at the age of14 at a gas station, after he lied about his age. While he worked, he attended school and had dreams of becoming a professional baseball player. While working as a flight attendant, he incorporated comedy into his profession. With the laughter by the passengers and the crew on the planes, his friends urged him to give stand-up comedy a try. He departed from the airline industry and pursued comedy.
With a background in sports and the ability to entertain onlookers, Arnez J was recruited by talent seekers on behalf of the Harlem Globetrotters. After months with the basketball team, he was sidelined with a knee injury and fully committed himself to comedy.
With Arnez J's full commitment, he generated buzz for himself on a local level was dubbed as one of "Hotlanta's" funniest newcomers. He entered the "Bay Area Black Comedy Competition" and became a finalist. He made his television debut on Showtime's "Comedy Club Network". More television works were presented to Arnez J and he made appearances on: BET's "Comic View Grandstand Hour Special", Comedy Central's "Make Me Laugh", "Louie Anderson's Comedy Showcase", NBC's "Friday Night Videos", "The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show" and "The Mo'Nique Show".
Credits in which Arnez J portrayed himself include: "Showtime Comedy Club Network", Russell Simmons' "Def Comedy Jam", BET's "Comicview", "Comedy Central Presents: Arnez J", "Shaquille O'Neal presents All Star Comedy Jam: Live from South Beach", "Comics Unleashed", "Arnez J: Racially Motivated" and "Upload with Shaquille O'Neal". Writing credits for Arnez J consists of "Def Comedy Jam" and "Comedy Central Presents". He has three credits in the following films: "The Maintenance Man", "Up Against The Wall" and "Plenty". He was uncredited for "Friends and Lovers".
Currently—Arnez J's comedy special, "Arnez J: Racially Motivated" can be streamed on Netflix. He can be followed on Twitter at @arnezjcomedy. Ticket prices for his shows at Comedy Zone – Jacksonville are: $25 (Aug. 7) and $30 (Aug. 8 and Aug. 9). The prices exclude taxes and service fees.


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Ladies Fashion Show and Pop Up Shop!
Lindal Ladies Charity Group have ordganised another fashion show to be held at Buccleuch Hall. These have proved very popular events in the past and they help the Ladies raise funds which are shared out to various local groups and organisations including our school. The Fashion Show takes place at the hall on Monday 15th October with doors opening at 7pm. If you would like tickets then these can be purchased from Lynne Satterthwaite.
Next Friday our children will be presenting prayers and poems in St Peter's Church for Harvest. The service will begin at 1:30pm. Unfortunately myself and Mrs Lawson are on a training day so we will not be attending. We are therefore appealing to some parents to help walk the children down to the church with staff to ensure the safety of the children. If you are able to come to school at 1pm and do this, then please let myself or Mrs Gallagher know. As usual we will be asking the children to bring in donations of food that the church will take to The Food Bank. The Food Bank are currently in need of tea, coffee, jam, sponge puddings, tinned fruit and UHT fruit juice.
We are holding our annual Harvest Afternoon Tea for Grandparents on Tuesday 16th October. Due to the small size of our hall and the space available, this will be a ticketed event. We have 50 tickets with only 1 ticket per child given initially and these will be available via Parentmail from Tuesday 9th October. First come, first serve so be quick to get yours if you need one.
Just a reminder of the Big Bang event for children in Squirrels and Badgers. This takes place on Wednesday 17th October and we will be transporting the children to Furness College by coach and asking for them to be collected at 3:30pm by parents. Because Mr Procter and Mrs Elliott will both be at the event, neither STEM or Hockey Club will take place that evening. However, Year 3 children who would have been in the Hockey Club are welcome to join Free Choice club instead. If you have a younger child in school then please feel free to collect them from 3pm if you need to be at Furness College to collect at 3:30pm. Thank you for your support.
Any parents of children who will be starting Reception in 2019 will need to complete applications forms by 15th January 2019. This is done online at www.cumbria.gov.uk/schooladmissions . If you have a child this age (or know someone who does) then we are open for visits anytime. Unlike some schools, we do not hold a specific open day as we prefer to show our prospective parents around individually so they can ask all the questions they need and get a feel for the school and see what it is like on any given day.


This HRN-RR-SU2 interface harness from iDatalink allows you to connect a new iDatalink-ready car stereo in select 2012-up Subaru vehicles, working in conjunction with iDatalink's Maestro ADS-MRR module. Once connected, you'll retain the use of your Subaru's steering wheel audio controls. You'll also keep your Subaru's amp and subwoofer (if present), plus you'll also be able to display engine performance data and other vehicle info on your receiver's screen.
The package includes three connectors that plug in between the Maestro module, your Subaru radio's wiring plugs, and your new car stereo. You'll have to solder or splice together this harness's power/ground, illumination, and speaker output wires to the corresponding wires on your aftermarket receiver's wiring harness. The iDatalink harness also supplies the outputs you'll need for a navigation receiver.
Worked perfectly for my 2015 Forester. It took a little time to sort out which cable went where, which ones weren't going to be used, etc. So glad I paid extra to have Crutchfield do the wiring for me (ReadyHarness service).
Subaru Installation Harness: The iDatalink Maestro HRN-RR-SU2 installation harness greatly simplifies the installation of the Maestro RR Car Radio Replacement Interface module (794ADSMRR, sold separately) in select Subaru, Scion, & Toyota vehicles when replacing your factory radio with an iDatalink Serial Port compatible head unit from Kenwood, JVC, Alpine, or Pioneer (click here for a list of fully compatible radios). This installation harness will not work with aftermarket head units that do not feature an iDatalink Serial Port.
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Brett, No, you don't need it, but I would highly recommend it. It is pain free to install and provides an array of features. Install it! 12v/6v depends on head unit, I believe.
Hi Brett. I recently upgraded the stereo in my 2018 Subaru WRX and this is everything that I purchased and needed for the job: Metra 40-LX11 Antenna Adapter, Scosche SU2031B Dash Kit Gloss Black, iDatalink Maestro ADS-MRR Interface Module, iDatalink HRN-RR-SU2 Interface Harness. With that I still have radio, backup camera, and steering wheel controls. Alex Z.
Hey Brett I wish I could give you a better answer then this but I went aftermarket with everything. I always have the OBD port occupied to receive vehicle info with my Kenwood 9905s. I did not have the oem deck and camera. My camera I installed and all works good. I maintained all steering wheel controls. I had to customize mine for personal use which is a plus for information you want. In addition to a single press of the stearing wheel buttons you can do a long press for an additional function. All information is accurate tire oresssure, RPMS, temps, etc... that is about as much information I can give you. Oh and yes I needed the subaru newest version harness which I have a 2012 outback.
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Q: What's the simplest way to call an exported function? I have a module dotenv which has a function config that I need to call once, first thing when the code runs.
With CommonJS, I could do:
require('dotenv').config()

But with ECMAScript, I have to do the following:
import { config } from 'dotenv'
config()

Right now I also have this config function which I will never use again.
Is there a better way to call the function?

A: You can try a async import and execute the imported config directly. Something like:
// say [yourConfigLibrary] exports
// export default { config: _ => ({a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, configDone: true,}) };
// then you can import and run it in one line:
const config = (await import(`[yourConfigLibrary]`)).default.config();

See this stackblitz snippet, same for nodejs

A: I should've done a bit of research before asking the question, it seems like there is no better way.

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Until coral molecular phylogenies were published, the genus Plesiastrea was traditionally part of the family Faviidae and considered by several authors to be closely related to the genus Montastraea. However, genetic data has shown that Plesiastrea versipora, the genus type species, is evolutionarily distinct within the Robust clade of the Scleractinia and does not belong to the large clade grouping most representatives of the families Faviidae, including Montastraea, Mussidae, Merulinidae, Trachyphylliidae, and Pectiniidae. Instead, P. versipora is closely related to non reef-dwelling taxa currently ascribed to the Oculinidae (Cyathelia axillaris) and Caryophylliidae (Trochocyathus efateensis). However, no discussion on the morphologic features of P. versipora compared to other taxa has been published yet. Moreover, no information is available about the phylogenetic placement of Plesiastrea devantieri, the only other species in the genus. The phylogeny of both Plesiastrea species was addressed through molecular analyses (COI and rDNA) and morphological analysis. Morphological differences between the two species included number of septa, cycles of vertical structures in front of the septa and septal micromorphology. On the basis of these data and nuclear and mitochondrial markers, P. devantieri belongs to the Faviidae-Merulinidae-Pectiniidae-Trachyphylliidae clade (Clade XVII sensu Fukami et al., 2008) and is most closely related to Goniastrea aspera and G. palauensis. The type species of the genus Goniastrea, G. retiformis, however, is not closely related to either G. aspera and G. palauensis, or to P. devantieri. Taxonomic implications of these findings and morphologic affinities between the two species and closely related taxa are discussed.


Dog owners in Nantwich have been urged to be vigilant following the attempted theft of a dog in a town park.
The incident was reported to police at around midday on Saturday (December 1) in the park near Waterlode and Riverside in Nantwich, where police said that two men had been hiding in bushes and waiting for dogs off leads to pass by them.
Writing on Faecbook on Sunday morning (December 2), Nantwich North and West Police said: "BE VIGILANT: Attempted theft of a dog between Waterload [sic] & Riverside. Midday yesterday.
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The Cheshire Police spokesperson said: "Between 12pm and 12.15pm on Saturday 1 December police two men were seen acting suspiciously at a park on Waterlode in Nantwich where they attempted to steal a dog.
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The White House predicted last year that frustrations spawned by airline traffic delays would grab the public's attention and force Congress to correct the misshapen results of lopping through federal budgets with a guillotine.
And they were right that air travelers would get the message, but wrong about Congress's willingness to avert the dreaded realities of budget sequester.
Suddenly this week, the chief executive who warned about turbulent air also began feeling the brunt of the blame. "Fix it, Mr. President" is now the message aimed at the White House from lawmakers, the airline industry, industry unions, the Transportation Department employees faced with furloughs, and from airline passengers inconvenienced by Washington's decisions.
President Obama, circling Congress in search of a hospitable policy runway at the start of his second term, was accused by conservative lawmakers this week of fabricating the impact of $1 billion in transportation budget cuts, and engineering Federal Aviation Administration furloughs as a way to dramatize his insistence that across-the-board cuts are bone-headed and should be eliminated.
The FAA's implementation of furloughs for 1,500 air traffic controllers is just another in a long line of executive headaches piling up at the White House. The Transportation Department has insisted it lacks legal authority to avert more than $600 million in FAA cuts ordered by law. Some legislators think the president has the power to shift existing accounts around at DOT, while others -- most prominently Obama himself -- say Congress must act to replace the sequester.
Senate Republicans gave the White House and the FAA an earful Tuesday. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking member on the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Transportation Department, is not usually a tart-tongued partisan, but she accused the administration of not playing straight with Congress or with the public when it comes to its capacity to soften the budget blows at DOT before October, which is the start of the new fiscal year.
Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who may be in Obama's company Thursday at an event honoring 14 people killed in the plant explosion, said he believed the airport delays blamed on the sequester were "phony" and "contrived. "This is entirely manageable by the executive branch," he added.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are beginning to concentrate on finding a fix as the traveling public gives all of Washington demerits for budget-related dysfunction. The industry has tried suing in federal court, without success. Happy to see Obama blamed by irate travelers, congressional Republicans said he is either exaggerating a problem that doesn't exist or has the power to fix whatever the problem really is. Other lawmakers have endorsed legislation to give DOT more flexibility to shift program appropriations to spare controllers from furloughs.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada floated an idea Tuesday to replace at least the $86 billion sequester this year with other "savings" -- that is, future appropriations considered unspent -- from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. His idea, quickly critiqued by conservatives as a gimmick, ignored Obama's repeated insistence that he stands ready to sign a larger budget deal that raises new revenues as part of a package curbing future deficits and jettisoning the across-the-board cuts currently in law for a decade.
Recognizing that long lines at airports heading into the summer travel season might not improve Obama's job approval numbers -- or legislative traction -- anytime soon, the White House said the president stands ready to work with Congress on Plan C.
Maybe so. But a short-term fix may be the only kind that can pull up to the gate in Washington. At least this spring.


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On March 7, 2022, a security researcher named Max Kellermann publicly disclosed "Dirty Pipe," a high-risk vulnerability in the Linux kernel that allows underprivileged users to leverage common processes to write readable files. "Dirty Pipe" weaponizes the piping communication mechanism in Linux, allowing adversaries to use it to gain write access and privilege escalation. Put simply, "Dirty Pipe" can give a threat actor full control over compromised devices.
What is "Dirty Pipe"?
"Dirty Pipe," given the name CVE-2022-0847, is a newly discovered Linux kernel vulnerability that can give root-level access, allowing threat actors to gain control over target systems and perform malicious actions.
Following other privilege escalation vulnerabilities like Polkit and local kernel flaws like "Dirty Cow," this newly disclosed "Dirty Pipe" attack is dangerous and easier for adversaries to exploit. The bug lies in the pipeline where OS processes communicate and transfer data.
Researchers have found that users can leverage an SSH key to quickly escalate privileges and gain root access within minutes. With these privileges, threat actors can do a lot of damage–executing ransomware attacks, collecting and exfiltrating sensitive data, and destroying assets.
What devices are at risk of being affected by "Dirty Pipe"?
"Dirty Pipe" only affects Linux-powered devices, including Google Home products, Android phones, and other output devices like displays and speakers. Devices running Linux kernel versions 5.8 and later are at risk. Most Android devices "live" on earlier kernel versions, meaning they are not impacted by the "Dirty Pipe" exploit. But any devices released later than 5.8, in 2020, including Android 12, are at risk. If you own an Android 11 or an earlier model, you are in the clear.
As of this moment, the known list of phones that at risk are:
Samsung Galaxy S22 Series
To determine if your Android device is at risk, navigate to the "Settings" app to look for the Android/Software version and then see the kernel version. If your version is higher than 5.8, you are at risk and should regularly check for security updates.
What is being done to mitigate "Dirty Pipe"?
Google has disclosed its full awareness of the threat presented by "Dirty Pipe" and has shared the necessary information with its partners to patch the issue.
The Linux kernel security team has already released a patch mitigating the threat on kernel versions 5.10.102, 5.15.25, and 5.16.11 (if you haven't updated your device, please do so immediately). It's reasonable to assume updates will be arriving in the coming months that will likely include fixes for a range of affected models.
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Work is underway transforming a 100-year-old former cinema in Leeds into a high-quality, technologically advanced, residential development consisting of 17 apartments.
The former Pavilion Cinema in Stanningley is being converted by Trinity Developments and Starfish Investments into a selection of luxurious one and two-bedroom apartments and duplexes. The scheme, which will be known as Pavilion Court, has been designed by Leeds based Brewster Bye Architects and is being marketed for sale by Aspen Woolf, with prices starting at £89,995.
It sits in a prominent position on the junction of Stanningley Road, Town Street and Half Mile Lane.
Work is due to complete in spring 2020 and as part of the development, major improvements are being made to the building's exterior, which will include repairs to its render, brickwork, windows and roof, as well as remedial landscaping work.
The development will incorporate car parking and secure cycle storage, as well as the latest smart home technology from Loxone, including motion and mood lighting, automatic blinds and smart heating.
Chris Austin, managing director at Brewster Bye Architects, said: "This building is steeped in history and to give it a new lease of life in its centenary year is a fitting tribute for such a prominent Stanningley landmark. Its stunning art deco styled front entrance is particularly well-known and this will continue to be a focal point of the completed development.
"There's no doubt it will be a great place to live, in a really popular area, close to plenty of amenities and with excellent transport links. It's just over a mile away from both New Pudsey and Bramley railway stations, it's on the bus route into Leeds city centre and sits alongside the Cycle Superhighway, which connects Leeds with Bradford, so it's in a great location."
The 644-seat cinema opened in 1920 but closed 50 years later and then became a bingo hall. The building then stood empty for several years before being converted into an office building known as the Pavilion Business Centre.
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Q: __init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self' I'm new to QT and I tried to create a Widget using the QT Designer.
I am now trying to connect buttons while also using inheritance to edit the Ui_Form class from another.
This is the main file:
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets, uic
from HunterVsBoar import Ui_Form

class PythonGame(QtWidgets.QWidget, Ui_Form):
    def __init__(PythonGame, self):
        def __init__(self, parent = None):
            super(PythonGame, self).__init__(parent)
            self.ui = Ui_Form()
            self.ui.setupUi(self)

            self.attack_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.start_attack)
            self.heal_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.heal_hunter)
            self.start_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.event_start)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
    Form = PythonGame()
    Form.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

This is the converted ui file:
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets

class Ui_Form(object):

    def setupUi(self, Form):
        Form.setObjectName("Form")
        Form.resize(1037, 885)
        self.horizontalLayoutWidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(Form)
        self.horizontalLayoutWidget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 819, 1031, 61))
        self.horizontalLayoutWidget.setObjectName("horizontalLayoutWidget")
        self.horizontalLayout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout(self.horizontalLayoutWidget)
        self.horizontalLayout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        self.horizontalLayout.setObjectName("horizontalLayout")
        self.attack_btn = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.horizontalLayoutWidget)
        font = QtGui.QFont()
        font.setFamily("Yu Gothic UI Semibold")
        font.setBold(True)
        font.setWeight(75)

        self.attack_btn.setFont(font)
        self.attack_btn.setObjectName("attack_btn")
        self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.attack_btn)

        self.heal_btn = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.horizontalLayoutWidget)
        self.heal_btn.setCheckable(False)
        self.heal_btn.setObjectName("heal_btn")
        self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.heal_btn)

        self.dmg_btn = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.horizontalLayoutWidget)
        self.dmg_btn.setObjectName("dmg_btn")
        self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.dmg_btn)

        self.verticalLayoutWidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(Form)
        self.verticalLayoutWidget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 1041, 311))
        self.verticalLayoutWidget.setObjectName("verticalLayoutWidget")

        self.verticalLayout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout(self.verticalLayoutWidget)
        self.verticalLayout.setContentsMargins(0, 0, 0, 0)
        self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("verticalLayout")

        self.textBrowser_2 = QtWidgets.QTextBrowser(self.verticalLayoutWidget)
        self.textBrowser_2.setObjectName("textBrowser_2")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.textBrowser_2)

        self.textBrowser_1 = QtWidgets.QTextBrowser(self.verticalLayoutWidget)
        self.textBrowser_1.setObjectName("textBrowser_1")
        self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.textBrowser_1)

        self.label = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(440, 790, 131, 16))
        self.label.setObjectName("label")

        self.hp_hunter = QtWidgets.QProgressBar(Form)
        self.hp_hunter.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(10, 790, 118, 23))
        self.hp_hunter.setProperty("value", 100)
        self.hp_hunter.setObjectName("hp_hunter")

        self.label_2 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label_2.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(40, 770, 47, 13))
        self.label_2.setObjectName("label_2")

        self.hp_boar = QtWidgets.QProgressBar(Form)
        self.hp_boar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(900, 790, 118, 23))
        self.hp_boar.setProperty("value", 100)
        self.hp_boar.setObjectName("hp_boar")

        self.label_3 = QtWidgets.QLabel(Form)
        self.label_3.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(930, 770, 47, 13))
        self.label_3.setObjectName("label_3")

        self.start_btn = QtWidgets.QPushButton(Form)
        self.start_btn.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(370, 630, 75, 23))
        self.start_btn.setObjectName("start_btn")

        self.stop_btn = QtWidgets.QPushButton(Form)
        self.stop_btn.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(520, 630, 75, 23))
        self.stop_btn.setObjectName("stop_btn")

        self.retranslateUi(Form)
        QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(Form)

    def retranslateUi(self, Form):
        _translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
        Form.setWindowTitle(_translate("Form", "Hunter vs Boar"))
        self.attack_btn.setText(_translate("Form", "Attack"))
        self.heal_btn.setText(_translate("Form", "Heal"))
        self.dmg_btn.setText(_translate("Form", "Damage potion"))
        self.label.setText(_translate("Form", "What do you want to do?"))
        self.label_2.setText(_translate("Form", "Hunter"))
        self.label_3.setText(_translate("Form", "Boar"))
        self.start_btn.setText(_translate("Form", "Start!"))
        self.stop_btn.setText(_translate("Form", "Stop!"))

As soon as I launch main.py I receive the following error:
__init__() missing 1 required positional argument: 'self'

while the Form = PythonGame() is being marked.
Anyone able to help me out here? Like I said, I'm relatively new to programming in Python and also new to Stackoverflow so pls don't kill me if I did anything wrong lmao
(Oh and to clarify any confusion with the connect statements = These functions exist, I just deleted them out of this code because I think they're not important (because they're not the problem) )

A: The self in __init__() is a reference to an instance of itself and is placed as the as the first argument of class methods. Additional arguments can be specified. In what you have, PythonGame is serving as what is traditionally self and it's looking at self as another parameter. Get rid of the PythonGame argument and you should be fine. Since it's a class method, it knows that it's part of PythonGame
def __init__(self):

From the documentation

Often, the first argument of a method is called self. This is nothing more than a convention: the name self has absolutely no special meaning to Python. Note, however, that by not following the convention your code may be less readable to other Python programmers, and it is also conceivable that a class browser program might be written that relies upon such a convention.

A: The __init__ function of PythonGame is wrong, it should be:
class PythonGame(QtWidgets.QWidget, Ui_Form):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
       QWidget.__init__(self, parent=parent)
       self.ui = Ui_Form()
       self.ui.setupUi(self)
       self.attack_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.start_attack)
       self.heal_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.heal_hunter)
       self.start_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.event_start)

A: Your outer self method is incorrect. You should just pass self and any necessary parameters for any class attributes.
You're code should look like this:
class PythonGame(QtWidgets.QWidget, Ui_Form):
def __init__(self):
    def __init__(self, parent = None):
        super(PythonGame, self).__init__(parent)
        self.ui = Ui_Form()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)

A: looks like there are two swapped parameters.
Instead of:
class PythonGame(QtWidgets.QWidget, Ui_Form):
    def __init__(PythonGame, self):

it should be:
class PythonGame(QtWidgets.QWidget, Ui_Form):
    def __init__(self, PythonGame):

But PythonGame is your class name, probably it should not be there, no?
That would make it
class PythonGame(QtWidgets.QWidget, Ui_Form):
    def __init__(self, parent = None):
        super(PythonGame, self).__init__(parent)
        self.ui = Ui_Form()
        self.ui.setupUi(self)

        self.attack_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.start_attack)
        self.heal_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.heal_hunter)
        self.start_btn.clicked.connect(self, self.event_start)


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Summer Season Impressions
July 14, 2010 by raito-kun
♦ Occult Academy
To my delight, this turned out every bit as good as expected. There wasn't this conventional and predictable feeling to it that almost all other anime of this season have, both episode 1 & 2 simply stood out in terms of directing and mood. I felt a whiff of old-school here and there, most likely it's Hiroyuki Kitakubo's influence, just like the slapstick comedy and hyperactivity in some scenes. They also go a little more cartoonishly than in your average anime at times, might be also Kitakubo's doing. I'm wondering how much he's been involved in this anime, so if he just planned out the scenario with Ito and Minakami or if he's still something like Ito's consultant in the background. There are rumors (or should I say speculation?) that Kitakubo was actually supposed to be the director of 'Occult Academy' at first, but then replaced by Ito due to various reasons. I guess that 'Planning Assistant' would be an appropriate title for a director who was kicked out at an early stage, so it might as well be true. In this sense it wouldn't be surprising if Osamu Kobayashi's harsh criticism of the first episode was based on frustration of being fired from the project (together with Kitakubo). Let's hope that Kitakubo has more luck with his 'Lone Wolf and Cub' movie adaptation, though I haven't heard anything new about it for quite a while, a bad sign?
Either way, Ito's tight directing made the first episode consistently entertaining through enjoyable pacing and a high density of fun and interesting cuts. And I thought it was quite convincing how he connected the comedy parts with the more serious scenes (such as Maya's talk with her father, the dramatic climax of the first episode) with perfect comic timing, an underlying sense of self-irony and a good feeling for accumulating momentum. Takahiro Chiba did a good job with the animation throughout the first episode with some nice bits of acting here and there, although I never really felt that it was on the level of 'Kamichu!' #1.
There were a good number of Madhouse animators involved in the first episode and OP/ED, most notably Tatsuzou Nishida (action animation director of 'Summer Wars', he did the cut in the OP where the cloud above 'Occult Academy' rips open) and Mieko Hosoi (character designer of the 'Hashire Melos' part of 'Aoi Bungaku'). Even Mamoru Hosoda helped out (credited with his usual pseudonym 'Katsuyo Hashimoto'), he made the photographs that are used in the ED. The staff list of the upcoming episodes shows that some more Madhouse people are going to participate, I'm particularly thrilled that they even brought Ryosuke Nakamura ('Mouryou no Hako) on board.
XEBEC was in charge of episode 2 which I liked almost more than the one before. The character dynamics were just perfect here, it was a real treat to watch Maya and Fumiaki interacting. Fortunately, the absurd plot was presented with enough self-irony to make it an enjoyable watch, too much seriousness would definitely hurt the unique atmosphere.
All in all, 'Occult Academy' could become the strongest offering of the 'Anime no Chikara' project so far, at least if they manage to sustain the quality of the first two episodes to some extent and make good use of the interesting scenario.
Episode Staff:
Episode Director
Hiroshi Ohnogi
Kei Tsunematsu
Tomotaka Shibayama
Kentarou Nakamura
Kazuya Fujimori
Yuuko Sera
Yuniko Ayana
Takahiro Harada
Tomohiko Ito
Masayuki Katou
Ryosuke Nakamura
Mieko Hosoi
♦ Seitokai Yakuindomo
Hardly the most original anime this season, but overall a through and through well-produced and fun comedy series nevertheless (the dirty humor may not be to everyone's taste, though). The first episode was nothing out of this world yet directed with enough technical proficiency to make it watchable. What really stood out was the very good animation quality (for this kind of anime), you can literally feel the animators' eagerness to make the animation interesting in the way the shots are framed and the characters and camera move. Studio GoHands is an assemblage of lots of great animators, so it's a pity that they produce anime which don't make use of their real prowess (but there's Mardock Scramble, of course). Opening and ending were the actual highlights for me, it's where you feel the animators' power strongest. The opening features animation by Hiroshi Ookubo (he did the long camera motion at the end), Kouichi Kikuta (fight scene), Tatsuya Yoshiara (not too sure what he did, but probably the beginning) and Shingo Suzuki. Kouichi Kikuta directed, storyboarded, supervised the animation and created the color concept of the ending, plus he even did some key animation. Incidentally, Kikuta was the animation/layout director for episode 2 and he drew all the layouts himself (the same was the case with 'Princess Lover!' #2), so the volume of work he's already done on this series is quite amazing.
Tomoko Koyama,
Makoto Nakamura
Yuuichi Sugio
Hiromitsu Kanazawa
Yuki Terano
Tomoko Koyama
Masaru Yasukawa,
Haruo Ogawara
Hiroharu Nagasaka
Makoto Furuta
♦ Shiki
A notch better than I expected, both on a visual level and script-wise. The dense atmosphere, setting and use of sound reminds me of 'Ghost Hound', but without really matching that show's quality in terms of directing and execution. I like how the writing doesn't give too much away and has a good sense of mystery to it, so 'Shiki' could well be the first horror/mystery anime in a long time that works how it's supposed to work. The first episode was handled by Yasuro Tsuchiya (director), a name I'm not familiar with, Yasunori Ide (storyboard) and Yasushi Shingou (animation director). The animation was solid with a few scenes of better quality sprinkled throughout (particularly Seiya Numata's parts had some nice linework), but overall nothing to be excited about. I was pleased with the designs, though, and the director was competent enough to leave an impression on me (the screen's texture looked surprisingly good here and there). Seiya Numata directed and storyboarded the rather low-key ending, his close companion Kyuuta Sakai animated it. I hope for another treat similar to their maniacal Needless #13. The ending animation of 'Needless' was also a joint effort of those two after all, hence I can well imagine that Numata and Sakai might pop up on the actual show as (animation) directors sooner or later.
'Shiki' is certainly not the best thing out there right now, but the first episode was enchanting enough to make me want to check out some more, hopefully the decline in quality in the coming episodes won't be too significant.
Kenji Sugihara
Takashi Kobayashi
Kazuhiro Ozawa
Ken'ichiro Yamamoto,
Naoyuki Owada,
Yumiko Kinoshita
Asami Ishikawa
Kiyoshi Fukumoto
Takashi Yamazaki
Natsuki Watanabe
Hirabayashi Sawako
Masahiro Okamura
Yasunori Ide
Akatsuki Koshiishi
Shintaku Jun'ichi
Shinsuke Terasawa
Mariko Ishikawa,
♦ Ōkami-san to Shichinin no Nakama-tachi
Basically, J.C. 'copy & paste' standard stuff, so you should already be familiar with the characters and most situations if you've watched a few other anime of their lineup. However, there was actually something new and I even liked the idea, namely breaking the fourth wall. Compared to the lackluster dialogue between the characters, some of the narrator's comments were actually witty, e.g. the scene in the bathroom where she apologizes for the 'bad' fanservice. The scene direction and animation weren't as polished as in Tatsuyuki Nagai's anime (Toradora, Railgun), yet good enough to keep me watching. I was surprised to see Gainax animator Megumi Kouno on the first episode, even though I knew that she had been involved with J.C. before ('Nodame Cantabile'). She did the only real stand-out scene – both in terms of style and animation – in the first episode (the whole pumpkin-bicycle-carriage chase scene). As far as episode 2 is concerned, the directing was still nothing to speak of, yet the animation throughout made a better impression than in the episode before. It was a solo (1st) key animation work by Hiroshi Tomioka, who is famous for his extravagant depiction of hair, though his trademark isn't that striking here, maybe there wasn't enough time for extra polish. Tomioka has probably been influenced by Hironori Tanaka's way of animating hair, who incidentally happens to be the storyboarder and animation director of episode 3. Up to now, Tanaka's only storyboard work on TV anime have been his solo key animation efforts (Saki #20, School Days #6, Akasaka #3), so I can well imagine that he also did the key animation for episode 3 all alone. By the way, Noriaki Akitaya (co-director of the upcoming 'Bakuman' anime) is directing, I wouldn't be surprised if episode 3 outclassed #1 and #2 by far.
Michiko Itou
Noriaki Akitaya
Hironori Tanaka
Hideki Shirane
Tomoyuki Kawamura
Yuuichi Nihei
Masahiro Fujii
Ken'ichi Matsuzawa
Masato Suma
Shigenori Taniguchi,
Emiko Kobayashi
Yutaka Hirata
Youhei Suzuki
Noriko Tsutsumiya,
Daisuke Endou
♦ Highschool of the Dead
The first episode was basically what I expected: gory action, lots of zombies, excessive fanservice and nothing much inbetween. Usually not a series I'd watch, but one can't deny that the quality is fairly high. Arakaki's direction really shines in the action scenes, particularly the framing and camera work left an impression. Araki is quite good at this (or Madhouse in general), I mean making up for the insufficient presence of talented animators by strong compositions and such. Not that the animation is bad or something, there are doubtlessly some moments of superbness here and there. The directing and storyboarding are reminiscent of Takayuki Hirao's style, even more so than in Araki's previous works. Not really surprising since Araki and Hirao have had a largely similar career up to now, which goes as far as even starting out on the same show and in the same capacity. While Araki has been exclusively working for Madhouse since the very beginning, Hirao changed over to ufotable after some years, though. Hirao directed episodes for Araki's previous works, maybe he'll show up on this one, too.
On the plot side of things, there's not much to say, I guess. However, judging by a recent interview, Araki seems to be well aware that most people don't care much about the story, but come for the breasts instead. Admittedly, it wasn't really the blunt fanservice that bothered me, but rather the attempt to include some more serious drama scenes. Didn't really work for me.
Overall, HotD is a mixed bag for me, on the one hand its technical quality surpasses most similar anime, on the other hand there aren't many other aspects worth appreciating. I'll keep watching for now, if only to find out whether there's more to it than slaughter and fanservice.
Yousuke Kuroda
Yasushi Muroya
Shigeyuki Miya
Hideki Inoue
Tetsuo Ichimura
Tetsuro Araki
Kyoko Kotani
Yuuji Kumazawa
Junko Watanabe
Posted in Animation, Impressions, Summer Season | 2 Comments
on July 14, 2010 at 22:00 | Reply braves
I actually did end up watching Occult Academy since Crunchyroll was streaming it and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Just like you said, the combination of all these different elements was great and I hadn't seen that kind of seamless amalgamation in an anime since Haruhi (though they were some things in Haruhi that I could have done without).
And is Kobayashi going to do anything for Occult Academy? I was looking forward to his episode….
Highschool of the Dead had a strong first episode, but Araki's directing was missed in episode 2. Not to mention that the animation dipped a bit and there weren't any nice touches that were sprinkled throughout ep. 1. I'd be interested in learning more of the Araki-Hirao connection. I've seen Hirao's name before, but never thought much about it.
Shiki was solid, though I can't say that I was scared– merely enjoying the atmosphere that it set up. It's apparently running for 22 episodes, so I don't know if it can keep it up for that long.
I was also morbidly curious and checked out The Legend of the Legendary Heroes. Sure didn't live up to its name.
on July 16, 2010 at 19:02 | Reply raito-kun
Well, I'm not too sure anymore about Kobayashi directing an episode of Occult Academy. I guess the episode he talked about on twitter is from a different show after all. Actually, I should have known better since Kobayashi said that he had been involved in Occult Academy as Hiroyuki Kitakubo's helper last year. I didn't know of the (possible) background story of Kitakubo leaving the project at that time, so it seemed somewhat logical that the episode he directed would be one of Occult Academy.
As for the Araki – Hirao connection, I plan to write a post about latter director sometime soon since he happens to be a favorite of mine. Stay tuned…
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