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Q: MAGENTO: Get id, image, thumb and price of the products in a subcategory in SQL I would like extract in SQL (no php) the id, image url, thumb url and price of all the products in a specific subcategory in Magento.
I'm using this approach but i don't know where I can find the other information (price, image url, thumb url).
Can you help me, please?
This is my approach:
    SELECT *
FROM mg_catalog_product_entity AS p
LEFT JOIN mg_catalog_category_product AS cp
          ON p.entity_id = cp.product_id
LEFT JOIN mg_catalog_category_entity AS c
          ON cp.category_id = c.entity_id
LEFT JOIN mg_catalog_category_entity_varchar AS cat_varchar
          ON     c.entity_id = cat_varchar.entity_id  AND cat_varchar.attribute_id = 111
LEFT JOIN mg_catalog_product_entity_varchar AS prod_varchar
          ON     p.entity_id = prod_varchar.entity_id  AND prod_varchar.attribute_id = 96
 WHERE 1
     AND c.entity_id = 4;

Thank you so much!

A: The simplest approach would be to left join all of
`catalog_product_entity_*` tables that exist in Magento

And use catalog_eav_attribute to get the keys to append the labels onto the left joined values from the eav tables.
After filter the data needed.
If you want to simplify the joining, turn on database debug, check the output when the you load a product page or admin product page and replicate the joins used by the orm:

m1\lib\Varien\Db\Adapter\Pdo\Mysql.php

Line 103:
protected $_debug               = true;

Line 117:
protected $_logAllQueries       = true;

Check output in:

m1\var\debug\pdo_mysql.log

A: You can use the following query for everything except the thumb, simply replace the category_id in the WHERE clause to whatever category you want to analyze:

SELECT DISTINCT catalog_product_entity_media_gallery.entity_id AS id,
                catalog_product_entity.sku,
                catalog_product_entity_media_gallery.value AS image url,
                catalog_product_index_price.price AS price
  FROM ((magento.catalog_product_entity_media_gallery
          catalog_product_entity_media_gallery
         INNER JOIN magento.catalog_product_entity catalog_product_entity
            ON (catalog_product_entity_media_gallery.entity_id =
                   catalog_product_entity.entity_id))
        INNER JOIN
        magento.catalog_product_index_price catalog_product_index_price
           ON (catalog_product_index_price.entity_id =
                  catalog_product_entity.entity_id))
       INNER JOIN magento.catalog_category_product catalog_category_product
          ON (catalog_category_product.product_id =
                 catalog_product_entity.entity_id)
 WHERE (catalog_category_product.category_id = '23')
ORDER BY catalog_product_entity_media_gallery.entity_id ASC

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Grover C
Bhattacharya S N
Sharma A
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Computer assisted Objective structured clinical examination versus Objective structured clinical examination in assessment of Dermatology undergraduate students
Richa Chaudhary, Chander Grover, SN Bhattacharya, Arun Sharma
Department of Dermatology, University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Date of Web Publication 5-Jun-2017
Chander Grover
Department of Dermatology and STD, University College of Medical Sciences and GTB Hospital, New Delhi - 110 095
DOI: 10.4103/ijdvl.IJDVL_587_16
Background: The assessment of dermatology undergraduates is being done through computer assisted objective structured clinical examination at our institution for the last 4 years. We attempted to compare objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) and computer assisted objective structured clinical examination (CA-OSCE) as assessment tools.
Aim: To assess the relative effectiveness of CA-OSCE and OSCE as assessment tools for undergraduate dermatology trainees.
Methods: Students underwent CA-OSCE as well as OSCE-based evaluation of equal weightage as an end of posting assessment. The attendance as well as the marks in both the examination formats were meticulously recorded and statistically analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. Intercooled Stata V9.0 was used to assess the reliability and internal consistency of the examinations conducted. Feedback from both students and examiners was also recorded.
Results: The mean attendance for the study group was 77% ± 12.0%. The average score on CA- OSCE and OSCE was 47.4% ± 19.8% and 53.5% ± 18%, respectively. These scores showed a mutually positive correlation, with Spearman's coefficient being 0.593. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between attendance scores and assessment score was 0.485 for OSCE and 0.451 for CA-OSCE. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for all the tests ranged from 0.76 to 0.87 indicating high reliability.
Limitations: The comparison was based on a single batch of 139 students. Such an evaluation on more students in larger number of batches over successive years could help throw more light on the subject.
Conclusions: Computer assisted objective structured clinical examination was found to be a valid, reliable and effective format for dermatology assessment, being rated as the preferred format by examiners.
Keywords: Assessment, attendance, computer assisted objective structured clinical examination
Chaudhary R, Grover C, Bhattacharya S N, Sharma A. Computer assisted Objective structured clinical examination versus Objective structured clinical examination in assessment of Dermatology undergraduate students. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 2017;83:448-52
Chaudhary R, Grover C, Bhattacharya S N, Sharma A. Computer assisted Objective structured clinical examination versus Objective structured clinical examination in assessment of Dermatology undergraduate students. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol [serial online] 2017 [cited 2020 Jan 20];83:448-52. Available from: http://www.ijdvl.com/text.asp?2017/83/4/448/206718
OSCE-based assessment of the clinical skills of medical students was first introduced by Harden and Gleeson in 1979.[1] Since then, its validity and reliability in evaluating clinical skills of medical students has been proven in numerous studies, across various subjects.[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7] Over the years, many modifications of the OSCE format such as group OSCE,[8] objective structured long examination record [9] and objective structured video examination [10] have been introduced. CA-OSCE was a modification introduced and evaluated in dermatology in 2012 by our institution.[11] Its validity and reliability as an assessment method has also been established.[11],[12]
The essential difference between OSCE and CA-OSCE is the presence of real patients versus "virtual" patients (computer-based presentation of dermatoses). Apprehensions have been cast that validity of CA-OSCE may be low as students are trained to examine real patients, and testing them on standard computer images may not be a true measure of assessment. However, various studies have found a good correlation of CA-OSCE scores with those on conventional clinical examination, thus validating this as an assessment tool.[12],[13] The present study was aimed at assessing the relative effectiveness of OSCE and CA-OSCE as assessment tools for undergraduate dermatology trainees.
This cross-sectional study involved 6th semester MBBS students undergoing 40-day clinical posting (as mandated by the Medical Council of India) in the department of dermatology, University College of Medical Sciences and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, New Delhi.[14] The students were posted in four batches on a rotational basis from January to June 2015. An end of posting assessment based on CA-OSCE format is being conducted in our institution for the last 4 years. For the purpose of this study, the students were also subjected to conventional OSCE simultaneously.
At the beginning of the posting, an introductory communication about the modified method of assessment was given to the batch. A meticulous record of their attendance was maintained. At the end of posting, all students underwent both CA-OSCE (50 marks) and OSCE (50 marks) based evaluations, and marks scored in both the formats were recorded. Both examinations were designed on identical formats, carried equal weightage and were aimed at evaluating students' knowledge and clinical skills. The examination was conducted in an institutional lecture hall offering comfortable seating for forty students and a good projection facility for the purpose of CA-OSCE. An antechamber was used for conducting OSCE, having stations with real patients.
The examination was conducted in two phases; Phase 1 of the evaluation was CA-OSCE (ten questions) while Phase 2 was in OSCE format having ten stations, with each student given 2 minutes per station. Preset instructions were given before each part of the examination. Feedback from individual students and examiners was collected thereafter, by means of a questionnaire designed for the purpose.
Phase 1 (CA-OSCE): A Microsoft PowerPoint ® designed evaluation, consisting of ten questions of equal weightage. Each question was in the form of a clinical problem with relevant clinical details and representative clinical image (two slides), followed by a set of questions pertaining to identification of dermatoses, its causation, associations, relevant investigations or management issues (five slides). Subsequently, the questions, which were of short answer type were projected. They pertained to the "must know" topics in dermatology as preordained in the university curriculum. The slides were designed to move in an automated manner at predetermined, standard intervals and it was not possible to navigate back. Phase 1 was completed in 35 minutes
Phase 2 (OSCE): This consisted of ten clinical stations, carrying equal weightage. The question format was kept identical to that of CA-OSCE to ensure comparability; the only difference being that instead of clinical images, real or simulated patients were used for evaluation. Each station was allotted a uniform period of 2 minutes, and students were required to physically move between the ten stations. One of the stations had a faculty member acting as a simulated patient and evaluated the students on the affective domain, while another had a commonly used drug or drug kit being used, with relevant listed questions. The remaining stations had real patients, who had to be examined and then the relevant short answer questions answered in a sheet. For a batch of forty students, it took approximately 100 minutes to complete Phase 2.
Following this, the exiting students were required to fill up an anonymous questionnaire seeking their feedback regarding both the examination patterns. Faculty members conducting/invigilating both the phases were also asked to enter their subjective feedback.
The attendance, as well as the marks in both the examination formats were meticulously recorded and statistically analyzed using SPSS version 20.0. (IBM Corp. Released 2011. IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 20.0. IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). The liability and internal consistency of both the formats was tested by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient using Intercooled StataV9.0. (StataCorp., 2005., Stata Statistical Software: Release 9. StataCorp. LP, College Station, TX, USA).
The batch comprised 156 students. After excluding the students on sick leave, those not regularly attending the posting due to supplementary examinations and those who did not appear for their final assessment, a total of 139 medical students were included in the final analysis.
The mean attendance for the study group (n = 139) was 77% ± 12.0% (range, 23%–98%). The average score of the students on CA-OSCE format was 47.4% ± 19.8% (range, 10%–94%) while on OSCE format it was 53.5% ± 18% (range, 2%–96%). It was seen that the students' scores on both the examination patterns had a significant positive correlation, (Spearman's coefficient = 0.593, correlation considered significant at the 0.01 level) [Figure 1].
Figure 1: Correlation between the two different assessment methods (*Spearman's coefficient = 0.593, correlation being taken significant at the 0.01 level)
Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between attendance scores and the assessment score was 0.485 for OSCE and 0.451 for CA-OSCE showing that the performance of students in both the formats significantly correlated with their attendance as well [Table 1] and [Figure 2].
Table 1: Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between attendance scores and the two different methods of assessment (n=139)
Figure 2: Correlation between the attendance scores of the students and their marks on both the formats
The students were further divided into two groups based on an attendance cut-off of 75% (the minimum essential attendance as mandated by the Medical Council of India).[14] A total of 89 students (64.1%) recorded >75% attendance (Group 1); while 50 students (35.9%) recorded <75% attendance (Group 2). The mean scores on OSCE and CA-OSCE of these two student groups are summarized in [Table 2].
Table 2: Mean scores on CA-OSCE and OSCE for the two student groups (Group 1 with >75% attendance and Group 2 with <75% attendance) and their correlation with the attendance scores
It can be seen that the mean assessment scores of Group 1 students were higher than those of Group 2 in both the examination formats. The Spearman's Rho for nonparametric data also shows that correlation between the scores on CA-OSCE and OSCE was better for the Group 1 students (attending >75% classes) as compared to those attending lesser number of classes.
The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for both the examinations was consistently high [Table 3] thereby proving the validity and reliability of both methods of evaluation.
Table 3: Evaluation of the conducted examinations using Cronbach's alpha coefficient of reliability
The feedback from students was collected by means of a questionnaire [Table 4]. The students graded their responses on a 3-point Likert scale (not prevalidated). Majority of the students rated OSCE as a better means of evaluation. Out of 139 students, a total of 102 students (73.4%) Found it easier to attempt an examination by viewing real dermatoses than by viewing clinical images. Sixty-eight students (48.9%) said that the time allotted per question was sufficient in OSCE but not in CA-OSCE; however, 26 of them (18.7%) were indecisive. On the contrary, though, 97 (69.8%) rated CA-OSCE as a systematic (less chaotic) examination pattern as compared to OSCE. When asked to choose, 86 (61.9%) students chose OSCE to be retained as the mode of assessment in future.
Table 4: Students' subjective feedback: Question-wise analysis
Examiners' subjective feedback was collected as an open-ended questionnaire. It showed that although both the examination patterns covered relevant topics well; CA-OSCE seemed less chaotic and easier to manage. Chances of cheating were negligible. Majority of the faculty were in favor of CA-OSCE as the mode of future assessments.
In medical education, OSCE has time and again been proven to be a valid and reliable assessment method.[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7] A properly designed OSCE is a great tool to assess students' knowledge and clinical competence.[15] It covers all the levels of Miller's pyramid and hence constitutes a valid examination.[1] At the same time, the traditional multistation OSCE format suffers from shortcomings such as excessive requirement of time, resources and workforce.[11],[12]
In recent times, CA-OSCE has been tried to overcome these shortcomings.[11],[12],[13] The time required to set up multiple stations is saved, and limitations such as patient non-cooperation and observer fatigue are bypassed. Dermatology departments usually face shortage of faculty; hence, CA-OSCE appears to be an effective and innovative assessment tool. We had introduced this format in our institution 4 years ago and it has been accepted well by both students and faculty.[11] Our institution had pioneered the replacement of traditional, theoretical, essay type questions being used previously with CA-OSCE in the year 2010.[11] The change was aimed at evaluating the higher cognitive skills of the students instead of purely theoretical knowledge. As "assessment drives learning," it was seen that the change in assessment pattern led to an improved attendance as well.[11] However, it fell short in assessing the psychomotor and affective domains. In a subsequent analysis, Kaliyadan et al. found a good correlation between CA-OSCE scores and overall academic performance of the students.[12] The big question still remains if CA-OSCE can completely replace the more exhaustive OSCE.
From an operational point of view, the study highlights certain basic differences in the examination formats. Based on the findings of the study, [Table 5] summarizes an overall comparative evaluation of both the examination patterns.
Table 5: Comparative evaluation of the two exam formats: computer assisted objective structured clinical examination and objective structured clinical examination
The results showed that students tended to score slightly better in OSCE as compared to CA-OSCE. This may be attributed to multiple factors. The more obvious explanation could be that the students were able to identify the dermatoses better in real patients than in clinical images. However, on close scrutiny, it was found that there could be other factors at work. In an OSCE, they reportedly got sufficient time to answer and thus could go back to a previous question in case they changed their mind upon seeing further questions. Admittedly, there were much better prospects of cheating too, because of the relatively chaotic atmosphere. Students tend to intermingle and discuss answers in an OSCE setting. Furthermore, with OSCE, the subjective bias of the examiner comes into play as the examiner could be sympathetic and award better marks. Previous studies have proved the validity of CA-OSCE in dermatology and shown a good correlation with the traditional evaluation system and overall academic performance of a student.[12],[13] Our study proved its effectiveness in comparison to OSCE as well.
When asked to choose, more number of students overall preferred OSCE over CA-OSCE; however, on individual points, the latter had more acceptance among students as well as faculty. Students found this system less chaotic and more uniform. All the required instructions are given to the whole batch simultaneously, avoiding any unnecessary confusion. The system was also less stressful for both examiners and examinees. We perceived that time constraints bothered many students; hence, in the future CA-OSCE could incorporate time-out or a timed rest interval after a some questions, so that students can go back and make changes in their answers, or attempt left out questions if required.[13]
Our findings also show that in both of these formats, the scores directly correlate with the students' attendance. This implies that the students who attend clinics regularly were able to score better in both the formats. They were better equipped to identify dermatoses and also tackle clinical management-related issues. Thus, both examination patterns reflected high validity, i.e., both patterns could assess true clinical knowledge. There was a marginally better correlation of OSCE scores with attendance as compared to CA-OSCE scores; however, this difference was not statistically significant. The assessment scores of both the examination patterns were mutually correlated, and it was found that a well-read, regular student performed equally well in both the patterns.
An ideal examination format should be able to assess all three domains of learning (cognitive, psychomotor and affective). CA-OSCE has limitations as it can assess only cognitive domain (though more objectively than standard written exams). OSCE stations having a simulated patient (a faculty member) enabled us to assess affective domain; however, psychomotor skill evaluation could still not be done as that would require stations asking students to perform a bedside test or procedure. Our resources did not permit this, but future studies can attempt to include such stations. Furthermore, ours was a cross-sectional study involving a single undergraduate batch; future longitudinal studies with multiple batches can throw more light on the subject.
OSCE is an effective assessment method in medical education, owing to its ability to test all domains of learning (cognitive, psychomotor and affective) simultaneously and objectively. However, our study found CA-OSCE to be an equally effective tool in assessing dermatology undergraduate trainees, and this could be the technique of choice for examiners in the setting of limited faculty and limited resources. Further acceptability can be improved by small, simple measures such as ensuring good quality images and incorporating rest intervals. It would be useful to incorporate innovations for assessment of psychomotor and affective domains within this system, by designing hybrid formats (limited station OSCE with CA-OSCE). Further studies with larger sample sizes can help in improving the effectiveness of these formats.
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The following weapons were used in the film The Saint:
1.1 Smith & Wesson Model 66
1.2 Smith & Wesson Model 586
2 Submachine Guns
2.1 Mini-Uzi
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Smith & Wesson Model 66
Ilya Tretiak (Valeri Nikolayev) uses a Smith & Wesson Model 66 throughout the movie. The character seems to prefer revolvers.
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Ilya Tretiak (Valeri Nikolayev) uses a Smith & Wesson Model 586 when questioning Simon Templar (Val Kilmer).
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Mini-Uzi
Ilya Tretiak (Valeri Nikolayev) uses a Mini-Uzi when chasing Templar in London.
Mini Uzi SMG with stock folded - 9x19mm
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Game 1 of the World Series took place in Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles Tuesday night. As members of sports teams continue to protest the national anthem by taking a knee, members of both the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros stood to give their respect.
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People v. Jackson , 36 Cal.2d 281
[Crim. No. 5105. In Bank. Oct. 27, 1950.]
THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. MONROE ARTHUR JACKSON, Appellant.
Richard E. Dafler, Public Defender, for Appellant.
Fred N. Howser, Attorney General, and Walter L. Bowers, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.
SPENCE, J.
Defendant was charged by information with the crime of murder, and with four prior convictions of felony, for each of which, it was alleged, he "served a term ... in a penal institution." Upon arraignment, defendant pleaded guilty and admitted the four prior convictions. At the request of defendant's counsel, the matter was referred to the probation officer for a report and recommendation as to punishment. Evidence directed to the degree of the murder was then heard, and the court fixed the crime as "first degree murder." Thereafter the probation officer's report was filed, with the recommendation of life imprisonment. Following the argument of counsel as to the sentence to be imposed, the court found defendant to be an habitual criminal under sections 644(b) and 3048.5 of the Penal Code, and judgment was entered imposing the death penalty. The cause comes to this court upon an automatic appeal. (Pen. Code, § 1239(b).) [36 Cal.2d 283]
As grounds for reversal, defendant argues these points: (1) the impropriety of his arraignment; (2) the inadmissibility of certain evidence at the hearing to determine the degree of the murder; (3) the misconduct of the deputy district attorney in his argument directed to the matter of the punishment to be imposed; (4) the illegality of the habitual criminal adjudication; and (5) the court's abuse of its discretion in imposing the death sentence. There is no merit to any of these objections, and the judgment must be affirmed.
[1] Defendant contends that he was not properly arraigned because the court, while "mention[ing] the matter of constitutional rights" at the time, did not then designate them nor advise him relative thereto. However, defendant cites no authority or provision of law, and independent research has not revealed any, indicating the desired enumeration to constitute, as he claims, "a regular course of judicial proceedings." The record shows that defendant was personally present at all times pertaining to the arraignment (Pen. Code, § 977); that the correctness of the information in its reference to defendant by name was confirmed at the first hearing on arraignment (Pen. Code, § 989); that defendant was "informed of his legal rights," and in response to his request for counsel, the Public Defender was "appointed ... to assist him" (Pen. Code, § 987); that copies "of the Information ... and ... the Reporter's Transcript of the preliminary hearing" was served upon defendant; that his counsel "waive[d] the reading of the information" in court; that defendant was granted two continuances "within which to enter a plea"; and finally after defendant indicated that he was ready to proceed, the court, upon observing that he had been "advised of all [his] rights," asked defendant how he would "plead to the charge set forth in the information ... guilty or not guilty," to which query defendant responded "guilty" (Pen. Code, § 938). It thus appears that defendant was duly arraigned in accordance with the requirements of the Penal Code, and, in particular, his constitutional right to have the aid of counsel (Const., art. I, § 13) was fully met. (People v. Miller, 137 Cal. 642, 645-646 [70 P. 735]; People v. Thompson, 41 Cal.App.2d Supp. 965, 966 [108 P.2d 105]; People v. Avilez, 86 Cal.App.2d 289, 293-296 [194 P.2d 829].) Accordingly, the legal sufficiency of defendant's arraignment is not open to dispute.
[2] Nor is there any merit in defendant's objection to the admission of certain evidence--a confession--at the court's [36 Cal.2d 284] hearing to determine the degree of the murder. Consideration of this point requires a brief recital of the factual background involved. It appears that on February 2, 1950, at approximately 7 p.m., defendant, about 33 years old, carrying a shotgun, approached the rear door of a small rural grocery store located on the outskirts of Porterville, with the intent to rob the proprietor, Alvin B. Holt. The latter, who was alone in the store at the time, attempted to resist defendant's entry. In the ensuing struggle, defendant pulled Holt out of the store and to a place about ten feet behind the rear door; the gun was discharged, Holt suffered a mortal wound in the stomach, and he died later that evening in the hospital. There were no eyewitnesses to the affray. Defendant was apprehended on February 4, and following his arrest, he made three confessions to the police. There is no contention that these respective confessions were not freely and voluntarily made, or signed by defendant under any threat of force or promise of immunity. (8 Cal.Jur. § 201, p. 109.)
Defendant made two confessions on the day of his arrest, February 4. The first was a one-page statement of his commission of the crime, a brief resume dictated by the sheriff from information received from defendant. The second was in the form of questions and answers, a more extended recital of the factual background and related circumstances, consisting of 14 pages. In both of these confessions, defendant claimed that the deceased applied an insulting epithet to him as they wrestled with the gun, and that he told the "old man" to let go of it or "I'll kill you"; that the struggle continued, the gun was discharged, and the deceased was mortally wounded. The third confession was made by defendant on February 7, also in the form of questions and answers. It concerned principally a "hold-up" in the same general vicinity committed by defendant on January 26, a week before the homicide here in question, but it also contained several references to the latter crime--particularly with respect to defendant's use of the same shotgun on both occasions and his style of dress at the time he was "trying to hold up Mr. Holt." Over defendant's objection, this third confession in its entirety was admitted in evidence. He claims that this was "highly prejudicial" and "improper," particularly in view of its "conflict with facts stated by defendant in his prior [second] confession," that is, with certain statements regarding the manner in which he came into possession of the "shotgun" in question and his disposition of it. [36 Cal.2d 285]
In support of his position defendant cites the general rule that evidence of other crimes is inadmissible for the purpose of showing criminal disposition or propensity of the accused to commit the specific offense charged. (People v. Westek, 31 Cal.2d 469, 476 [190 P.2d 9].) But an exception to the rule is recognized where the evidence in question "tends to prove a motive for the commission of the crime charged; where a felonious or fraudulent intent, being a necessary element in the crime charged, the evidence of other crimes tends to establish and fix the existence of such motive or intent; and in cases where the evidence tending to establish the crime charged is intermixed with the evidence of the other offenses." (Emphasis added; People v. Hermes, 73 Cal.App.2d 947, 957 [168 P.2d 44]; see, also, People v. Hatch, 163 Cal. 368, 378-379 [125 P. 907]; People v. Peete, 28 Cal.2d 306, 315 [169 P.2d 924]; People v. Dabb, 32 Cal.2d 491, 499-500 [197 P.2d 1]; People v. Pollock, 31 Cal.App.2d 747, 757-758 [89 P.2d 128]; People v. James, 65 Cal.App.2d 709, 710 [151 P.2d 572].) [3] Of course, the "relevancy of evidence that proves crimes other than that charged must ... be examined with care, due to the prejudicial nature of all such evidence," and the "possibility of severing relevant from irrelevant portions should, in every case, be considered, thereby protecting the defendant against reference to other crimes where it has no tendency to establish facts pertinent to the proof of the crime charged." (People v. Dabb, supra, p. 500.)
Within these legal principles, the confession in question was properly admitted in evidence. In the first place, the third confession was pertinent in shedding light on defendant's "motive or intent" to hold up small stores, as was the fact in the present case resulting in the deceased's murder, and with the use of the same "shotgun" as a connecting link in the successive "stick-ups." Moreover, the court expressly recognized that only certain parts of the entire confession were relevant to the circumstances surrounding the homicide here involved, and it was only "for the purpose of perusing that portion which [was] applicable" as well as to "clear up some admitted inaccuracies" in defendant's "second confession," that the third confession was admitted in evidence. Thus, in overruling defendant's objection to the admissibility of the third confession, the court stated: "The only reason for offering the confession in evidence is to assist the Court in determining the degree of the murder ... There are portions of the transcript, or confession, that have no bearing [36 Cal.2d 286] upon this issue but there are some in the transcript that do, I think." Defendant had already been sentenced on the prior robbery offense, pursuant to his plea of guilty thereto, and the court, with its attention having been drawn to the disposition of the earlier proceeding, presumably considered only those parts of the third confession as were material to the present case and disregarded the other parts, in line with its observations as above quoted. Under these circumstances, the relevancy of the third confession containing "evidence" material to "the crime charged," though "intermixed with the evidence" of the prior robbery admittedly committed by defendant in the preceding week, is not open to dispute. (People v. Dabb, supra.)
[4] Nor is there any force to defendant's claim that the deputy district attorney was guilty of prejudicial misconduct in his argument to the court with reference to the imposition of appropriate punishment on defendant. No objection was made by defendant at the time of such argument before the court. (8 Cal.Jur. § 321, p. 258.) As heretofore stated, in accord with defendant's request, the matter of his punishment was referred to the probation officer for specific recommendation, and while the latter's report is not a part of this record, it may be inferred from the argument of counsel, as appearing in the reporter's transcript of the proceedings herein, that such report was filed and that it carried a recommendation of life imprisonment "with all privileges of parole ... denied." In opposition to such recommendation and in advocacy of the imposition of the death penalty "in view of all the facts in this case," the deputy district attorney first noted that the court could not "actually pass a sentence of life imprisonment ... without any privilege of parole in the future," and then proceeded to cite several sections of the Penal Code bearing on a defendant's eligibility for parole under a life imprisonment sentence, as well as the effect of an habitual criminal adjudication by reason of "prior convictions." Defendant argues that the "judge and the district attorney" might recommend the denial of parole privileges in connection with a life imprisonment sentence (Pen. Code, § 1203.01), but nevertheless the ultimate determination of such matter rests with the Adult Authority in its fixing of sentence pursuant to the prescribed minimum and maximum limitations under our penal statutes. (Pen. Code, § 3000 et seq.) Accordingly, the deputy district attorney noted the "parole" feature of the probation officer's report as "beyond the scope of [the] [36 Cal.2d 287] Court's authority in pronouncing sentence." Under the circumstances, it would appear that the deputy district attorney was well within the legitimate scope of legal argument in pointing out the circumstances attending a life imprisonment sentence here. (Cf., People v. Sampsell, 34 Cal.2d 757, 762-764 [214 P.2d 813].)
[5] Likewise there is no merit to defendant's claim that his adjudication as an habitual criminal is without legal support in the record. As above stated, the information charged defendant with four prior convictions of felonies, as to each of which he was alleged to have "served a term therefor in a penal institution." At the time of arraignment the court, after specifically directing defendant's attention to each separate prior conviction in the precise wording of the charge, both as to the particular criminal offense named and the service of sentence therefor, expressly asked defendant as to each one, "Did you or did you not suffer the alleged ... prior conviction," and in each instance defendant replied, "I did." The minute order of defendant's entry of his plea states that "defendant pleaded guilty as charged in the information and to 4 prior convictions." Defendant now argues that such admissions were not sufficient under the requirements of Penal Code section 644, because he was not further asked by the court "whether or not he had served terms in penal institutions on said prior felonies." But such argument is a mere quibbling with the facts, for as the court precisely referred to each separate conviction and imprisonment as charged, it cannot be assumed that there was any misunderstanding on the part of defendant or his counsel as to the purport of his admissions to include the prior imprisonment as well as the particular conviction in question. (In re Valenzuela, 71 Cal.App.2d 198, 199-200 [162 P.2d 301]; People v. Houston, 88 Cal.App.2d 11, 15 [198 P.2d 53].) Defendant unavailingly cites cases for the proposition that where the information charges a prior conviction of a felony, but fails to allege that defendant served sentence therefor, it is held that his admission of the conviction as charged furnishes no evidence that he actually served imprisonment therefor. (In re Boatwright, 216 Cal. 677 [15 P.2d 755]; People v. Nicholson, 34 Cal.App.2d 327 [93 P.2d 223]; People v. Murray, 42 Cal.App.2d 209 [108 P.2d 748].) That is not the record here. Moreover, contrary to defendant's claim, there was evidence presented to the court during the proceedings on this precise point of defendant's imprisonment on his prior [36 Cal.2d 288] felony convictions. In his second confession, as above designated and admitted in evidence as part of the record to sustain defendant's conviction for the murder here charged, defendant particularly associated three of the alleged prior felony convictions with imprisonment terms in out- of-state penal institutions and separately identified them. "The confession of a prisoner at the bar of his guilt as charged as well as of the truth of the allegation of prior convictions is ... most satisfactory evidence upon which to convict and will support a judgment that he is an habitual criminal." (In re Gilliam, 26 Cal.2d 860, 866 [161 P.2d 793]; also In re Valenzuela, supra, p. 200.)
[6] Finally, there is defendant's argument that the trial court abused its discretion in imposing the death penalty upon him. The contention seems pointless. Admittedly the homicide here involved was committed in the perpetration of a robbery, and as such constituted murder of the first degree. (Pen. Code, § 189; People v. Bautista, 22 Cal.2d 867, 869 [141 P.2d 417]; also People v. Lindley, 26 Cal.2d 780, 791 [161 P.2d 227]; People v. Isby, 30 Cal.2d 879, 888 [186 P.2d 405].) While defendant urges that the killing was "accidental ... precipitated by the unfortunate attempt of the deceased to wrestle the gun from defendant," and that the "Probation Officer reported ... a recommendation of life imprisonment," these same matters were fully argued at the hearing to determine the degree of murder and the sentence to be imposed therefor. Their evaluation in the light of the entire record was for the trial court's consideration, and it unquestionably appears that the trial court, acting within its discretion and upon a consideration of all the circumstances, fixed the sentence in accordance with the statutory authority vested in it. (Pen. Code, § 190.)
Gibson, C.J., Shenk, J., Edmonds, J., and Traynor, J., concurred.
Carter, J., and Schauer, J., concurred in the judgment.
Fri, 10/27/1950 36 Cal.2d 281 Review - Criminal Appeal Opinion issued
1 THE PEOPLE (Respondent)
2 , v. MONROE ARTHUR JACKSON, Appellant. (, v. MONROE ARTHUR JACKSON)
Oct 27 1950 Opinion: Affirmed
SCOCAL, People v. Jackson , 36 Cal.2d 281 available at: (https://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-jackson-23951) (last visited Thursday January 20, 2022).


An estimated 30,000 eviction cases are filed in court each year against Los Angeles city residents. Many more tenants do not show up in court since they know "they have limited legal rights and they have limited access to legal representation," according to a recent report by Tenants Together, a renter advocacy organization.
Urged on by renter advocates, a Los Angeles City Council housing committee voted August 8 to support the creation of a 'right to counsel' law similar to ones that have been adopted by San Francisco and New York.
The committee approved a motion, authored by L.A. City Councilman Paul Koretz, which directs staff to craft a program that would give more tenants facing eviction access to attorneys.
"Basic fairness dictates that if one side of an eviction proceeding has legal representation, the other side should have representation, too, and that equality before the law shouldn't depend on income level," said Jerry Jones, director of public policy at the Inner City Law Center. Jones joined about a dozen speakers at the committee meeting.
Compared to the high cost of addressing the homeless crisis, eviction defense is a relatively inexpensive means to prevent people from becoming homeless, according to Jones.
County and city officials are struggling to find temporary and permanent housing for the tens of thousands of residents who become homeless every year. And while there has been a slight decrease in the county's homeless population since last year, the number of homeless – 53,000 – is still staggering, according to the last count. In addition, more people were homeless for the first time this year than last, suggesting unaffordable rents may be pushing people onto the street.
But a 2017 analysis of pilot programs that offered free legal service to tenants concluded that providing counsel does have benefits. Eviction cases involving represented tenants are more likely to end in settlement, and most of those settlements reduced back-owed rent or helped protect tenants' credit by keeping eviction notices off the public record.
The study, which was conducted by the Judicial Council of California, also found that 67 percent of cases involving represented tenants settled, as compared to 34 percent of cases in which people represented themselves. While all clients in the study received eviction notices, only 6 percent were ultimately evicted from their homes.
"There is no way this proposal could provide free legal service to every tenant faced with eviction, but we should start somewhere," he added. The motion is scheduled to be voted on by the full City Council on August 17.


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The threat of raids could be preventing some undocumented immigrants from sending their children to school.
For many, the New Year represents new beginnings, a chance to start fresh with a clean slate. But this was not the case for hundreds of undocumented adults and children swept up in deportation raids in the first days of 2016. Federal authorities, stepping up immigration enforcement, fanned out primarily into Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas to take unauthorized immigrants with deportation orders into custody. Immigration officers are focusing their efforts on some 100,000 families that flowed across the U.S. border in 2014, reportedly in an attempt to escape violence in their home countries like El Salvador, the current murder capital of the world.
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This research provides important insight given the current round of federal raids triggering deep-seated fears in the Hispanic community. As immigration agents target adults with school-age children in several states, even those exempt from the sanctions are anxious and scared.
"Fear is at an all-time high in the community. Parents are not going out unless they absolutely need to," said Zorayda Moreira-Smith, the senior director for schools and community development at CASA de Maryland, an immigration advocacy-and-assistance organization. Moreira-Smith said a consequence of the immigration raids is that parents are laying low, and if their child is at risk of being detained and deported, they're keeping them at home. In practical terms, this means children missing doctor's appointments, missing playdates, and of increasing concern to educators, missing school.
High Point High School in Beltsville, Maryland, nicknamed "Central American Ellis Island" by the principal, offers a snapshot of the challenges for schools and teachers amid swelling fears. In Maryland, Hispanics account for a rising share of the state's population, and in larger jurisdictions like Prince George's County, much of the growth is tied to an influx of Central American immigrants. In a recent NPR interview, the principle of High Point, Sandra Jimenez, reported a dramatic drop in attendance right after the winter break, attributing it in large part to heightened stress over the federal raids. Of the students who enrolled over the past year, only half are now coming to school; attendance for this same group, mostly unaccompanied minors, was at 90 percent or higher prior to January.
Moreira-Smith, the immigrants-rights advocate, advises teachers and school officials to recognize the fear and educate themselves about immigration actions impacting their students and families. "The reality is our teachers and our schools are busy teaching … and this fear is unknown to them. This is being heavily covered by Spanish media, but English media is failing to cover it [so] many teachers and schools are not aware that this is an issue." She also encourages school districts to be a source of stability for immigrant families by telling them that schools are welcoming and safe places for their children, as well as safe havens for the families as a whole.


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Around the League Archives
Nhl Offensive Records
By DA_Champion
March 2, 2009 in Around the League Archives
DA_Champion
Interests:Hockey, Exercise, Astrophysics, Film and TV.
I wonder if we'll see any NHL offensive records broken anytime soon. I recall a few years ago Gretzky thought Sidney Crosby might threaten his records someday, 4 years into Sid's career and I'm totally unconvinced.
Most goals, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 92 (1981–1982)
Most assists, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 163 (1985–86)
Most assists, one game: Billy Taylor (March 16, 1947), Wayne Gretzky (three occasions: February 15, 1980; December 11, 1985; February 14, 1986), all tied with 7.
Most points, one season: Wayne Gretzky, 215 (1985–86)
Most points, one game: Daryl Sittler, 10 (Feb. 7, 1976)
Best ± rating, season: Bobby Orr, +124 (1970–71)
Best ± rating, game: Tom Bladon, +10 (11 December 1977 against the Cleveland Barons)
Most power-play goals, one season for a defenceman: Sheldon Souray, 19 (2006–2007)
Most shorthanded goals, one season: Mario Lemieux, 13, 1988–89
Most shorthanded goals, rookie: Jordan Staal, 7, 2006–07
Most two-man shorthanded goals, career: Mike Richards, 3
Longest consecutive goal-scoring streak by a defenceman: Mike Green, 8 games (2008–09)
Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a defenceman: Paul Coffey, 28 games (1985–86)
Longest consecutive point-scoring streak by a rookie: Paul Stastny, 20 games (2006–07)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Natio...dividual)#Goals
MOST POINTS BY A DEFENSEMAN, SINGLE SEASON: BOBBY ORR, 139 (1970-71)
MOST GOALS BY A ROOKIE: SELANNE, 76 (1992-93)
MOST GOALS IN A GAME: JOE MALONE, 7 (January 31, 1920)
MOST GOALS SCORED BY A TEAM, SINGLE SEASON: EDMONTON, 446 (1983-84)
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FC..._30/ai_80678769
It should be pointed out that:
Between 1968 and 1979, the NHL expanded from 6 to 21 teams, and it played alongside the rival WHA. In the mid-1970s, there were more than 30 professional hockey teams in North America, resulting in talent dilution never seen before or since. This ushered in the era of higher-offense, as the NHL goal-scoring rate climbed throughout the 1970s. As AHL and IHL players began flooding the expanded NHL and WHA, their offense began to track those leagues, climbing at the same rates throughout the decade.
Goal-scoring reached its peak in the NHL at 4.01 goals per game in 1982 and held steady for several years. Nearly every modern offensive record was set during this time, including Wayne Gretzky's 92 goal season and 200-point seasons by both Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. The AHL and IHL became almost exclusively farm systems for the NHL, and their offensive levels began to track the NHL's more closely.
And then everything changed…After a long period of relative stability, the NHL expanded again, this time from 21 to 30 teams. The composition of the NHL changed, going from 85% Canadian players to just 50% in under a decade as European players entered the league en masse. New defensive systems and rules that turned a blind eye to obstruction pushed the game into an offensive decline. Offense reached a low of 2.64 goals per game in 1998 and has stayed within 5% of that mark since then. The AHL and the IHL (until it folded in 2001) continued to closely track NHL offensive levels.
http://www.behindthenet.ca/offense.html
It turned out there were some offensive records from the current era.
At this rate though, nobody will come close to the 200 point seasons of Gretzky and Lemieux, I wonder if Crosby, Malkin, Ovechkin will ever reach 150 points. Maybe after they hit UFA at 27, they'll sign with teams where they can have real scoring wingers.
SteenIsThaFuture
Records are misleading because of the eras they existed in. Gretzky doesn't get as many points in todays NHL as he did in his time.
He still wins the Art Ross trophy to first order, and by a mile.
215 points when the league average is 4 ppg means ~160 points when the league average is 3 ppg.
The Art Ross winners are typically getting 115 points recently. So he's doing like 40% better which is massive.
But see thats more attainable and I bet in his prime Malkin comes close to if not beats that.
Lynch_mtl
Don't lose faith in Crosby so fast, He's still young, and who knows when he is going to show his best games. Although, he and Malkin are greedy sons o' guns, having too much money to get good wingers, the difference between both Malkin/Crosby and Gretzky.
ruuvimeisseli
Give malkin and crosby a winger like kovalchuck and they'll beat gretzky records.
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Q: Getting result of an Activity synchronously I'd like to start an Activity and get a result synchronously (I own both activities).  Context.startActivityForResult is asynchronous.  And, Instrumentation.startActivitySync only works intra-process.  I would need it to work like startActivitySync, but across processes.
Is there an API to do so ?  If not, which of Android's IPC mechanism would work in a synchronous fashion...or at least I can mimic it to work synchronously ?

A: Why not add a static variable in the first activity and modify this variable from the second activity? Or a function? Then you can process. Or maybe you have other needs?

A: No there isn't.  Nor would Instrumentation be a good idea.  Either put your code in onActivityResult, or (if on a non-main thread) wait on a semaphore after calling startActivity and release the semaphore in onActivityResult.  Then process the result after the semaphore is released.


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Fear Index Jumps on North Korea Concerns; Dow, Nasdaq Drop Triple Digits
Gold futures surpassed a two-month high amid a massive flight to safety
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The Dow gave up more than 200 points as traders flocked to safe havens like gold
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) finished lower for the third day in a row, falling triple digits amid a sea of disappointing retailer earnings and growing tension between the U.S. and North Korea. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (COMP) also fell -- the latter suffering a triple-digit drop of its own-- as President Trump said his "fire and fury" comments may not have been "tough enough," and warned that North Korea should be "very, very nervous" if it "does anything in terms of even thinking about attack" on the U.S. or its allies. Against this backdrop, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) -- the stock market's "fear index" -- skyrocketed for its biggest gain in nearly three months, and safe havens like gold also surged.
Continue reading for more on today's market, including:
2 ETFs in a tailspin after North Korea threats.
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Plus, the crashing construction stock; the semiconductor stock that could soar; and Adobe options traders turned bearish.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA - 21,844.01) ended with a loss of 204.7 points, or 0.9%. Only three of the Dow's 30 stocks ended higher, led by a 1.1% rally for McDonald's. Apple paced the 27 losers, dropping 3.2%.
The S&P 500 Index (SPX - 2,438.21) lost 35.8 points, or 1.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite (COMP - 6,216.87) lost 135.5 points, or 2.1%. Both the SPX and COMP settled below their respective 50-day averages for the first time in roughly a month.
The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX - 16.04) gained 4.9 points, or 44.4% -- its highest close since Nov. 8, the day of the U.S. presidential election.
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President Trump's relationships with GOP senators have grown increasingly strained since healthcare plans stalled. Trump tweeted "Mitch, get back to work" indirectly to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after he made a comment about Trump having "excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process." (CNBC)
Former Uber CEO Ryan Graves has stepped down from his full-time position as senior vice president of operations at the company, but stated that he will remain on the board to help hunt for a CEO. Back in 2009, Graves was hired on as the first employee of the taxi company. He will relinquish his duties in mid-September. (Bloomberg)
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Oil futures fell after Russia considered resuming its crude output, and after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)said oil output rose in July. September-dated crude fell 2%, or 97 cents, to settle at $48.59 a barrel.
With rising tensions between North Korea and the U.S., gold futures rallied on safe-haven demand, reaching a two-month high. December-dated gold jumped $10.90, or 0.8%, to end at $1,290.10 per ounce.


Sony calls it a "Game Drive," but we're not idiots, it's just a hard drive.
Announced this week, the Sony Game Drive is a 2TB external hard drive from Seagate, a company that is no stranger to making quality hard drives. 2TB should be plenty for most gamers, so if you find yourself struggling with which games to keep on your PlayStation 4, this could definitely be helpful.
Sony claims it has been optimized for PlayStation 4 and to expect the same load speeds as those found on the internal hard drive. What those optimizations are, I do not know. I'd guess not much, and instead, you're just paying more for a licensed product.
The product is completely self-contained, just plug it into your console and you're ready to go. It is powered from the same USB that is used to connect it to the PlayStation.
Honestly, it's probably not worth the price. Coming in at $89.99, you can get the exact same hard drive (minus the PlayStation logo) for $59.99 on Amazon. Then, if you feel 2TB isn't enough, you can literally double that amount of storage with the same 4TB version for $94.
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Tartuffe: Double-Dealing in The Era of The Sun King
Book: Tartuffe
Tartuffe was written in the era of Louis XIV, the Sun King, a time when France was arguably the greatest nation in the Western world and a time when the intellectual and aesthetic development of society was in a stage of development called the Baroque.
It was a time of excess and a time of grandeur. It was not a time for small things – for small gestures, for small oeuvres. The great King himself reigned for years and years, having begun as an inexperienced boy beneath the hand of his mother, Anne of Austria, and the Cardinal Mazarin, and grew over time to a stature that led him to say "l' Etat, c'est moi" – "I AM the State. He built Versailles, waged many wars, had numerous mistresses and sons and daughters both natural and illegitimate, and ruled so long that he saw his grandchildren die.
The state that existed under such leadership was characterized to some extent by polarized opinion. There was worldliness – there had to be, considering that it was a time when marriages among the nobility were arranged for financial and political reasons, when sinecures were bought and sold, the same principle of purchase being true for churchmen, civil servants or soldiers, and when fortunes depended on the favour curried at court from the king and the women close to him.
It would take a large amount of cynicism, similar to that which informed Pascal's wager, to move in such a society. On the other hand, one was constrained by the powerful institutions of Church and State. One could, as a matter of fact, lie, cheat, steal and fornicate.
One could have one's enemies murdered in their beds, or sleep with a neighbor's wife, or bribe bureaucrats and court officials. It was, however, impossible to do so barefacedly. One had to move within the rules of polite society, and profess to uphold the kind of morality advocated by the Catholic Church. How did one survive such a world?
The answer would be bare-faced hypocrisy. In Tartuffe, the playwright Moliere presents the audience with an exaggerated depiction of a pious hypocrite, a man who professes to be the soul of perfection – indeed, as one who seeks perfection in his spiritual life – while he sets about a series of machinations that are ultimately designed to give him money and sensual pleasure, precisely the things that a good, a devoted Christian is supposed to shun.
Moliere sets out to show that hypocrisy, sadly, is often rewarded. As a character, Tartuffe manages to dupe his patron and his mother, although the other characters seem to be able to see through his pretences.
The playwright appears to be presenting the way in which the relationship between hypocrite and dupe hurt society: Hypocrisy is in itself abominable, but the ignorance and stupidity of those who allow themselves to be taken in by it magnifies the harm it does a hundredfold by giving power over to the pretender and helping him achieve his aims. It is bad enough to be a hypocrite, but it must be worse to be so shallow and simple-minded as to be taken in by him.
As the play opens Tartuffe is "discovered" by his patron Orgon at Church while he is engaged in a series of exaggerated devotions. Orgon says of him: "Each day he came to church meek as you please/ And right across from me fell on his knees/ He caught the eye of every person there/ Such warmth and zeal he put into his prayers."
To the critical eye of course the problem is quite apparent. Christ after all said that when one gives alms "Your left hand should not know what your right hand is doing." He even derides the Pharisees and those who tear their hair and look haggard and hungry when fasting, saying that whatever sacrifices one makes for one's soul is a matter between one's self and God.
Tartuffe, however, makes it a point to sit in front of the wealthy Orgon and treat his prayers as a species of performance. The man is so devout that people notice his devotion and his piety straight off – he seems very, very good, and too good, and what's too good is likely not true.
Orgon's brother Cleante sees this when he takes alarm at the declaration that Tartuffe even reproached himself when, having been interrupted in his prayers by an insect, "killed the creature much too angrily."
Orgon, however, is so convinced that he is ready to marry his daughter off to this gem of manhood, and refuses to believe that Tartuffe has, while trying to win the hand of Mariane, has tried to convince Elmire, Orgon's wife, to become his mistress. Moliere highlights Orgon's ridiculous infatuation in Act 1 by showing how the wife is distressed and sick and fatigued, yet the master of the house only has eyes and ears for Tartuffe's welfare.
In fact, it is worthwhile to note at this stage that Orgon and his mother have been totally taken in by Tartuffe, while the rest of the household ranges from indifferent to cynical to appalled. Ironically, it is the master of the household and his mother – who presumably has great influence upon him – who are the targets of deception, and it is they who wield the greatest power over this family.
Between Acts 3 and 4, Tartuffe's less-than-pure designs on the women of the household are exposed in typical comic fashion by people hiding under tables and overhearing what isn't meant for their ears at all. In this way Orgon is forced to come to his senses and confront the impostor.
The problem is that Tartuffe has had the foresight to ensnare his patron quite deeply – he knows things that will get Orgon into trouble, specifically through the possession of a strongbox filled with documents related to a fugitive friend. In the end, however, everything turns out all right.
Orgon is about to flee the country and Tartuffe arrives with a Gentleman of the King's Guard. When it seems that the game is up for Orgon, it turns out that the Guardsman has come to arrest not him but Tartuffe, for crimes formerly committed under an assumed name.
The play then, ends happily, even though it accomplishes this with a species of Deus-ex-machina. Being a comedy, it could reasonably have ended sadly, so this fortuitous event is a moot point. It is the proximity of disaster that is important here.
In the time when the play was written it created a great furore. Even though the representative of the Pope himself made it clear that he did not find it hugely offensive, many critics decried this seemingly sacrilegious depiction of piety.
The question many audiences, readers and reviewers find themselves faced with is this: Is Moliere ridiculing pious hypocrites or all kinds of pious people in general? If he confines himself to the first then it is reassuring enough, because it becomes easy for one to say that one is a good kind of pious – not a hypocrite, one whose devotion is real.
The second opinion confronts people with a more uncomfortable idea – it IS possible to have too much of a good thing, and what's worse, too much of a good thing does more harm than good. King Louis XIV himself did not find the work abominable; he even made Moliere's group of actors the King's troupe.
Greatness found no trouble with this work, and one can speculate upon whether or not Papal representatives and royalty have so much trouble with hypocrisy that they consider a satire upon it always well-timed and edifying. One can even argue that anything that really makes people think is bound to be taken badly, whether in 1644 or 2010.
Perhaps the best thing about Tartuffe is how Moliere takes displaces the blame – if a man is a hypocrite, then he is one because it is often an intelligent choice to be one.
And of course, it becomes a feasible and intelligent choice when there are Orgons and Madame Pernelles in the world – people who think there is good and bad but are not astute enough to see that no virtue is perfect, in the same way that no vice is ever so vicious that it does not have its saving grace.
Bulgakov, Mikhail. The Life of Monsieur de Moliere. USA: Funk and Wagnalls, 1970.
Goldstein, Claire. Vaux and Versailles: The Appropriations, Erasures, and Accidents That Made Modern France. USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Mitford, Nancy. The Sun King. London: Penguin Books, 1996.
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste. Tartuffe and Other Plays. London: Signet Classics, 1967.
Neal, Lisa. France, An Illustrated History. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2001.
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FX's Atlanta is a terrific comedy — and the best new show of the fall
It's a Louie-esque series set in the world of hip hop that's not quite like anything else on TV.
By Emily St. James@emilyvdw Sep 6, 2016, 10:00am EDT
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FX's Atlanta, about a man who hopes to manage his rapper cousin to the top of the hip hop world, is my favorite new show of the fall. And TV-wise, it's gonna be a really good fall.
(Atlanta is also the first new fall show to debut — so it's all downhill from here, folks.)
The series is a comedy, but in the Louie or Girls sense, where it aims less to provide a constant stream of laughs and more to present a skewed slice of life. Yet it's blessed with much sharper jokes than many other shows of its ilk — something that may not surprise you, given that creator Donald Glover cut his teeth writing on 30 Rock and starring as Troy on Community.
Atlanta made me laugh a lot, but the show is capable of wrenching drama, as when an otherwise meandering conversation in episode two is suddenly punctuated by an outburst of horrible violence.
There are a few things Atlanta needs to work on, but it's a great appetizer for the fall TV season to come, one whose best shows are dominated by very specific points of view and strong voices. Here are the five things I like best about the show.
1) All of the characters sound different from each other
Nobody on Atlanta sounds quite the same. That's a good thing.
This might sound strange, but it's not easy to pull off. Think of most TV comedies — even the ones you love. All too often, the characters seem as if they're speaking in roughly the same voice. They have the same rhythms and word choices. They make similar jokes. They gradually all collapse into each other, like they're different faces of the same person.
To some degree, this is inevitable in comedy, because the way comedy is written — with a big room full of people workshopping jokes and trying to settle on which ones are the funniest — is essentially a recipe for exactly what I describe above: homogeneity. And I don't want to badmouth that approach, because it leads to lots and lots of very funny shows.
But Atlanta maintains very specific voices and points-of-view for all of its major characters, including Earn, the soft-spoken, more philosophical young man Glover plays, and Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), the rapper whose career Earn is managing.
By the end of the first episode, I knew exactly what sorts of jokes Earn might make, as opposed to those Paper Boi or one of the other characters might make; it's incredibly rare for a comedy to distinguish its characters so well, so quickly.
And as Atlanta's first season wears on — I've seen four episodes so far — that same quality is applied to all manner of guest and one-off characters. Glover and the show's other writers make it possible to imagine a separate TV show suddenly springing up around any one of Atlanta's characters.
2) The show's direction boasts a terrific sense of place
Even the show's interiors are perfectly chosen.
Hiro Murai — best known for directing music videos by several artists, including Childish Gambino (Glover's hip hop stage name) — doesn't rewrite the rulebook when it comes to directing Atlanta. As with most TV shows, this one mostly features scenes where two people are talking, and he doesn't do anything radically new with them.
But check out how he uses wide shots and camera movement to immediately situate you in the show's milieu. From the soft glow of fluorescent lights interrupting the dark of night to a slow push in on Earn's face as he tries to convince his girlfriend that he knows what he's doing, Murai proves terrific at both building and shading in this world.
After all, the title of the show is Atlanta. It wouldn't work if viewers didn't get a sense of what the city adds to the overall story. Murai's camera is always there to find some interesting detail off to the side, or to keep the pace flowing. The series is leisurely, but never lethargic, and Murai is a big reason why that's the case.
3) The series employs a touch of the fantastical and surreal
Paper Boi has to deal with the very early trappings of fame.
Late in Atlanta's first episode, Earn has an encounter with a man on a bus that I won't say too much more about, for fear of spoiling, but it ends in a way that's at once perfect and ever so slightly surreal.
I don't want to imply that the series is full of weird and whimsical moments. But it definitely has a very slight sense of taking place in a universe where everything is slightly more heightened, where waitresses push just a little bit too hard to upsell you on dessert, and where people might deny you are who you say you are.
Everything that happens in Atlanta could really happen — and does really happen every day — but the show's perspective tweaks it just enough to make it feel slightly more surreal and unusual. It's like looking at life through a magnifying glass that only magnifies things by a tenth of a percent — barely enough to be noticeable, but you can feel it deep down.
4) The balance of drama and comedy is note perfect
The stakes are real for everybody, including Van, the mother of Earn's child.
At a recent press conference about the show, Glover said he wants Atlanta to capture how it feels to be black. He doesn't want to deliver long monologues about it, or feature passionate dissections of systemic racism. No, he wants the show to capture how a terrific moment can suddenly be interrupted by something horrible — the tension between the show's most comedic and most dramatic moments.
It's like that sudden outburst of violence that interrupts the otherwise normal conversation in episode two. The scale and suddenness of it are so out of proportion to anything else that was previously happening that it immediately and instantly fractures the scene into "before" and "after."
Except it really doesn't. The other characters mostly try to ignore what's happening, even as it takes place in the background of their lives. If there's one feeling Atlanta captures perfectly, it's the way that Earn and his friends constantly worry that something terrible might happen — and yet it doesn't define their lives. They're aware of their fear, on some level, but they're not constantly thinking about it. It's just another piece of who they are.
5) Above all, Atlanta is one of the most sneakily conventional shows you'll see this fall
Paper Boi and Earn just want to make it big. And that gives a show that could feel very experimental a conventional spine.
Lots of reviews of Atlanta have played up how different it is from everything else on TV, which I've also tried to discuss in the four points above.
But when you boil Atlanta down to its most basic self, it's just a series about young people chasing down what must seem like an out-there dream, hoping to make it come true. The "climbing the ladder of the hip-hop world" aspects of Atlanta aren't exactly foregrounded, but they're there, and they give the whole show something to hang onto whenever it embarks on one of its odder flights into the surreal.
But by giving Earn, Paper Boi, and everybody else in the series something to work toward, Atlanta avoids the easiest criticism of these sorts of wryly comic dramedies: that they don't have anything real at their center. What makes Atlanta special is the way it adds texture and flavor to a core you already know, and the reason the show is so compulsively watchable is that it perfectly executes that core.
Atlanta is about pursuing your dreams, sure — but it's also about how, when you're poor and disadvantaged, those dreams can start to seep into every corner of your life, until it feels like you're not so much a person but a vehicle for something else. Earn and Paper Boi have a long way to go as Atlanta begins, but the show they're on arrives as if it's already just about there.
Atlanta airs Tuesdays at 10 pm Eastern on FX. It debuts September 6.
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