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Cyberpunk is a term used to describe a genre of science fiction writing that began to develop in the 1980s and has now developed into a specific style. Bruce Bethke first coined the term "Cyber Punk" in his 1983 science fiction novel "Cyberpunk". But it was William Gibson's Neuromancer in the 1980s that brought cyberpunk to the public eye.
Nowadays, "cyberpunk" and "steampunk" can be seen everywhere, and more and more punk elements appear in people's lives. It seems that without the illumination of neon lights, the whole world is not trendy at all. The living space of cyberpunk texts lies in the blurred zone between reality and virtual reality, with strong dystopian and pessimistic colors. The badly used cyberpunk seems to have lost the true punk spirit, and has become a unique example of catering to young people's aesthetics. Friends who are new to cyberpunk are generally attracted by the mechanical prosthetics under the neon lights, the treacherous world where AI controls humans, and the awakening and rebellion of lonely hackers. Indeed, the sharpness of these pictures is unique, and it is reasonable to capture the audience.
But when you look at it, you may find something strange: why does every cyberpunk work have some Japanese elements? For example, the mechanical girl suddenly pulls out a samurai sword; the hacker finds a stall to eat ramen after escaping from death; Seeing these pictures too much will make people wonder why there are not so many Japanese elements in the construction of the cyberpunk worldview? If we say, cyberpunk is a dish of chowder with a special taste. Neon lights, haze, mind control, artificial intelligence, urban jungle, mechanical prosthetics, virtual reality, and deprivation of human beings by large companies, these ingredients are all necessities, and the strange Japanese and Asian elements seem to have become an irreplaceable flavoring agent. How did this "recipe" come about? This starts from the founding period of cyberpunk.
Why cyberpunk is popular in JapanCyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction that focuses on advanced science and technology in a dystopian future, has gained popularity in Japan for a number of reasons.
One reason is that Japan has a long history of science fiction literature and media, and cyberpunk themes and aesthetics fit well within this tradition. Japanese science fiction has often explored themes of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and the intersection of technology and society, which are common in cyberpunk works.
In addition, Japan is home to a number of major technology companies and has a reputation as a leader in the development and adoption of advanced technologies. This has likely contributed to the popularity of cyberpunk in Japan, as the genre often portrays a future in which technology plays a central role in society.
Finally, Japan has a unique culture and aesthetic sense that has influenced the way cyberpunk is presented in Japanese media. This has led to the creation of a distinct subgenre of cyberpunk known as "Japanese cyberpunk," which combines traditional cyberpunk themes with elements of Japanese culture and aesthetics.
Overall, the popularity of cyberpunk in Japan can be attributed to a combination of the country's rich science fiction tradition, its status as a leader in technology, and its unique cultural influences.
1. The global cultural influence of the 1980s
In the world of cyberpunk, it is an eternal proposition that technology implants ideas and abilities into humans, and finally completes control. And Japan, a peculiar country, also cleverly implanted its own cultural will in the process of the rise of cyberpunk.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, YMO, composed of three musicians, Hosono Harutomi, Takahashi Yukihiro, and Sakamoto Ryuichi, was all the rage. They inherited punk music from the UK and fused it with electronic music and psychedelic styles. The expression of the unique concept of "music magic of the yellow race" has shocked the European and American music circles. A large part of the inspiration for YMO's creation at that time was the technology boom that had just begun in Japan. The national enthusiasm for robots, bionic devices, and computers has created a unique kind of technocracy. This atmosphere was imported into Europe and the United States through music, comics, movies, etc., forming a cultural confrontation beyond the economic and technological confrontation between the United States and Japan. William Gibson, who has drawn a lot of inspiration from YMO music and Japanese culture, expressed his familiarity with Japanese culture and fear of Japanese technology in his works. In 1988, the board game "Cyberpunk" appeared, which borrowed a lot of ideas and images from William Gibson. This board game world view depicting the collapse of the US government, the rise of large companies, and the Japanese company Arasaka fully infiltrating the United States is the original IP of "Cyberpunk 2077".
In "Cyberpunk 2077", Takemura said that his hometown is in Chiba, Japan, which is a tribute to the first chapter of "Neuromancer", "Sad Chiba City". Chiba City is the sea estuary of Tokyo, and it was the place where Japan had the most developed international trade and the most concentrated technology industry in the 1980s. Perhaps because it often appeared in international news, it was imagined by writers as a representative of Japanese-style dark night cities and technological jungles, and inexplicably became a "sacred place" for cyberpunk enthusiasts later.
2. The Birth of a Dystopian Mood
The theme of cyberpunk is to reflect on the dark side of technology and its relationship with human beings by depicting the decadent predicament of "high-tech and low life" after the over-development of technology in the future world. This kind of dystopian thinking has a huge sense of ambiguity and sadness, rather than a clear-cut denial and opposition to technology. All in all, cyberpunk has a highly unified sci-fi aesthetic system from form to content to theme.
More and more cyberpunk movies show that human beings are created by machines, and they "plant" people like potatoes, completely objectifying and enslaving people. Due to the perfect illusion of the maternal world, most people do not know the truth of the world. They work and live step by step, just like us. However, no matter how perfect the machine is, it will fail, and no matter how perfect the system is, there will be bugs—the bugs of the matrix, that is, a few people have discovered its secrets and started to rebel against this virtual world.
It expresses that the machine has not only learned the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature, but also learned the false, evil and ugly of human nature. When the two poles of human nature are combined, it is possible for human civilization and machine civilization to reach a consensus.
At that time, the Western world was falling into the vortex of the post-Cold War era. The economic crisis and the aftermath of the Cold War created strong pessimism and dystopian sentiments in the soil of public anxiety and worry. The all-round rise of Japan has made the Western world re-examine the distant Eastern civilization. "Since the late 1970s, an important concept has appeared in Western science fiction works, that is, Japan represents the future. Japan's weird culture represents an unpredictable future." American cyberpunk novelist Anna Lee Newitz (Annalee Newitz) said so.
Because of the strong opposition between Eastern and Western cultures, the construction of the cyberpunk world is often full of many interesting oppositions: the opposition between individuals and totalitarian organizations, the opposition between broken and advanced technology, the opposition between flesh and blood and steel and iron, and so on. The center of cyberpunk is "High Tech Low Life". Author Bruce Sterling summed up cyberpunk as: "Treat people like rats, and all measures against rats can be imposed on people equally." Therefore, the game Bopunk stories have always revolved around technology and individualism.
This is exactly the charm of cyberpunk. It allows us to examine ourselves and the present, so as to carefully choose our attitude towards technological progress. At the same time, it does not give a clear answer, but only presents various possibilities, so that the right to choose is always in your own hands.
3. The golden age of Japanese cyberspace is coming
The arrival of the golden age of Japanese cyberspace has a lot to do with the efforts of Japanese animation artists. And the Japanese society in the 1980s, especially the Japanese technology industry, also provided countless nourishment to these "human nature" painters.
In October 1981, Japan announced the launch of the development of the fifth-generation computer, with a total investment of 100 billion yen, saying that it would become a great change in the history of human computers. This incident was called "Pearl Harbor in the technological world" by the American media at the time, and it naturally aroused thousands of waves in Japan. Coupled with Japan's success in a series of industries such as robotics, bionic technology, and semiconductors, a society where human beings are dominated by high technology and terror and confusion seems to be in sight. AI is coming, robots are coming, and the will of big companies will monitor everything. All kinds of fantasies filled the Japanese cultural circle at that time. Then combined with the tendency of surprise and death in Japanese culture, a series of very hardcore Japanese cyberpunks were born.
In 1973, Sakyo Komatsu's "The Sinking of Japan" opened the creative curtain of technological destruction and the shadow of nuclear war. In 1988, the animated film "Akira" with cross-age significance was released. The theme of the post-nuclear city and technology dominating human nature reflected Katsuhiro Otomo's philosophical speculation and deep worries about the explosion of technology.
In 1989, "Ghost in the Shell" began to be serialized, and then in 1995, it was put on the big screen by the geek director Oshii Mamoru. This well-known work discusses various topics such as electronic brains, mechanical prosthetics, AI, and souls. It can be said that everything that can be cyberpunk is not missed. Paired with ethereal and mysterious Japanese-style music, text and screen expressions, it has realized the golden age of Japanese cyberpunk and has become a milestone that cannot be bypassed when it comes to cyberpunk.
Accompanied by the rapid development of Japanese animation, these peculiar expressions that fully infiltrated wasteland fear, electronic fear, and centralization panic into animation works were a great success in that special period, and then became the original classics of cyberpunk moving towards games and movies.
Whether in the horizontal or vertical direction, the disordered and excessive expansion, the fine-grained division of labor and organization, and the economic and cultural separation between people, these over-inflated three-dimensional urban characteristics are further spectacle in cyberpunk source of inspiration for the city.
4. Color Visual Conceptual
Visually, the cyberpunk-like cities are mostly cool tones, combining damp (rainfall), modernization (air vehicles), artificial landscapes (diversified architectural shapes, towering buildings), city lights (neon advertisements) , LED display) and other elements in one. And all of these make Japan the cyberpunk world that the creators most yearn for.
Tokyo has the characteristics of small space, every inch of land, and dense population; it is surrounded by giant skyscrapers, like a modern machine running at high speed; but Tokyo's urban construction follows the design standards of hard, industrial, and mechanical, and it has the image of an urban steel jungle. feeling, while the bustling crowd rushes through the urban jungle. Such visual effects will naturally put people under psychological pressure, and it also fits the core spirit of cyberpunk virtually.
Japan under the nightfall is more in line with the cyberpunk world construction. At night in Tokyo, when the densely packed signboard lights on the street are lit up, combined with the color of neon lights, it becomes another world completely. The dense flow of people, complicated streets and various neon signs make the whole city feel airtight, and human beings seem to live in a city built by signs.
In the design of Japanese-style signboards, the government has strict regulations on the signboards installed in the city. After the designer designs the name and information of the brand on the signboard, he also needs to carry out the saturation of the color matching of the signboard and the luminous degree of the light box according to the government regulations. Adjustment. Such regulations enable many signboards to retain the characteristics of their respective brands when they are displayed on the street, and can also be recognized with uniform brightness when there are many signboards.
In the urban space where every inch of land is expensive, the small and intuitive shop sign lights, flickering and blending in the dense urban jungle, seem to be the real cyberpunk world.Of course, the most exciting thing about cyberpunk is the iconic neon lights. It used to be the most luxurious lighting imaginable, but over time, the neon lights that appeared in the dirty bars and the sex shops on the sidewalk gradually became the symbol of the seedy city. The candy-flavored lights are often associated with words like "psychedelic" and "nothingness." When modeling a cyberpunk world, androgynous lighting is frequently chosen. This is because two-color lighting does not appear in nature visible to the naked eye, it can only be created artificially, and it is completely an optical illusion brought about by technology. Therefore, most science fiction films like to use pink, blue and purple. Especially at night, neon lights are dense and crowded, interweaving and rendering each other until they swallow all the original black and leave their own colors. Neon satisfies people's confusion between the old and new centuries.
5. Eastern Shadows
Looking back at the subcultural circle after World War II, we will find that the confrontation between countries and the advancement of globalization, these two naturally contradictory things have become cultural hotbeds time and time again. The U.S.-Soviet struggle for hegemony and the Iron Curtain of the Cold War promoted the rise of a lot of science fiction, spy wars, and ideology-related works in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of them have lost the imprint of the times and have been handed down to this day. The rise of Japan's economy, technology, and multinational corporations in the 1980s also provided such a contradictory and bizarre "cultural impetus." At that time, there was a sense of fear in the European and American cultural circles about the failure of technological competition and Japan's domination of the global economy. Especially at that time, the United States experienced economic stagflation, and Japanese multinational companies penetrated into all aspects of automobiles, home appliances, and electronics. The ubiquitous "Japanese tax" magnifies this psychological collapse effect.
On the side of Japanese creators, a kind of carnival and alienation psychology that technology will explode in an all-round way is deeply rooted. People began to look at everything from the perspective of technological development, and then there were predictions and panics about AI, robots, and electronic biochemistry.
These two emotions are intertwined, allowing cyberpunk to gain cultural consensus and recognition from both technological competitors. High technology, low life, and people being controlled by technology and society, these themes have become the clear legacy of the era of technological explosion. In addition to Japanese elements, the most common oriental element in cyberpunk is the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, China. The imagination of people being squeezed by buildings, trapped by neon lights, and living in dirty corners of the bustling city has been further deepened under the background of global technological competition. The Kowloon Walled City has become a "projector".
The Japanese genes of cyberpunk include the alienation of Orientalism from the Western perspective, the deep fear of human high-tech out of control, and the social indifference brought about by the huge city. Western authors firmly believe that Japan will inevitably follow this path in the future. And many Japanese seem convinced. It's a pity that the development of science and technology is not so scary, but the bursting of the economic bubble is really terrible.
The future cities depicted in cyberpunk sci-fi movies are not predictions and clear pointers to the current cities, but more like acting as a "mirror". The society's imagination of the city and its own destiny reflected in this mirror has aroused great resonance, and here is the source of this cultural prosperity. In fact, think about it from another angle. The time quadrant we are in includes a series of elements such as post-epidemic, Sino-US technological competition, entertainment globalization, and new energy transformation. It is actually a very good cultural hotbed.
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The crew at Time Monk Radio interviewed past life regression hypnotherapist, Dolores Cannon, who spoke about the changing energies, the New Earth and signs of the New Earth, who will get left behind on 3D Earth, physical symptoms of ascension, becoming a Light Body, what happens to people who get left behind, removing karma, duality on the New Earth, gridlines, timelines and points of convergence, Nostradamus, free will, moving into 5D Earth, why we're skipping the 4th dimension, the waves of volunteer souls, earth changes, the overlapping of 3D and 5D, the sun's relationship with the earth and whether or not the afterlife is a form of the 5th dimension.
Everyone has a different frequency and vibration, so it's going to react differently to these changes.
Cannon stated that people's diets are changing, most noticeably by eating less meat. "In order to move with this ascension as we go into the new dimension, you have to have the body be lighter." According to Cannon, eating heavy meats will hold the body down. Cannon stated that right now, "There are at least 30,000 people in the world that don't eat anything" which means that these people are advancing to the point of being Lightbodies.
Many people have told Cannon that all they want to eat is smoothies.
When asked about leaving loved ones behind, Cannon answered, "It's an individual decision of each sole in what they're going to do. You never know the actual development of any soul as to how advanced it is and how it is ready to go."
Similar to the in5d article, "So, Your Spiritual Awakening Cost You Some Friends," Cannon mentions that, for many people, old friends have moved out of their new lives as a new circle of like-minded friends have replaced them.
Cannon stated Earth's inhabitants are the only civilization in the Universe that have free will. Due to the Laws of non-Interference, other extraterrestrial races are not allowed to interfere unless we arrive at the point of self-destruction. On other planets, the inhabitants have different rules and regulations than what we have here on Earth.
Interestingly, if this is a planet of free will, it would make sense as to why so many people are tired of government running their lives, because as government increases, free will and liberty decreases, which creates a subconscious form of cognitive dissonance that naturally repels us from being controlled by the power elite.
As for when we will be in the 5th dimension, Cannon states that we are already there and we will see it when we believe it.
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Smallville Review – "Red"
Another staple of the Superman comics rears its head on Smallville.
Tom Welling as
Kristen Kreuk as
Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
as Lionel Luthor
Sam Jones III as
Pete Ross
Allison Mack as
Chloe Sullivan
O'Toole as Martha Kent
Schneider as Jonathan Kent
Written by Jeph
Loeb. Yes, this is the same Jeph Loeb that wrote the comics,
including Superman for all Seasons, which has just been
reprinted and will be available again on Wednesday, October 23.
Directed by Jeff
Woolnough.
Original Airdate
Red originally aired on Tuesday, October 15, 2002.
Clark's behaviour changes dramatically after buying a class ring.
The final scene in Lex's office, for so many reasons. The writing,
the acting, and the long-term implications of that scene were all
The set-up for the most important visual effect in the episode was
predictable, and the execution felt very forced. The visual effect
itself was positively awful.
This was a somewhat original episode. We've seen the
krypto-freak-of-the-week much too often, but at least it was Clark
this time. The crooked cop angle has also been done before on this
show and others. I give it 3 out of 6.
Most of the effects were good. The most important effect in
the episode was terrible. Since that was the only effect they haven't
done several times before, it was the only one that was really
challenging, and the only one that required any real work in the
design stages. I give the effects 3 out of 6.
The story was tightly-paced and nicely written. The "bad
boy" came across well, but some key events had just enough indication
of internal conflict to help the audience believe that certain lines
wouldn't be crossed. It's also nice to see Pete's increased role from
last week is still around this week. I give it 5 out of 6, for the
nice work to keep it interesting, and the ramifications it'll have in
future episodes.
The acting was good or great from everyone but Tom Welling.
He's even worse at playing the bad boy than he is at playing the good
boy. Kristen Kreuk didn't even seem as bad as she usually does here,
although that may just be because she was playing off of a sub-par Tom
Welling the entire time. Fortunately, the rest of the cast (including
John Schneider, Sam Jones III, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, and
John Glover) turned in some great work. I give it 4 out of 6.
The emotional response produced here included very little
suspense. There were some moments that drew me into the ongoing saga,
including every scene with at least one Luthor. The equestrian scene
was also intruiging due to the implications for future stories. The
crack about the way the wardrobe department dresses people was also a
source of great amusement. I give it 5 out of 6.
The production was up to its usual high. The camera work did
a great job of setting up Clark's new attitude by filming him from a
steeper angle than usual. The lighting contributed to this as well.
The directing, editing, score, etc. were competant, but not
spectacular. I give it 5 out of 6.
Overall, this was an entertaining episode that merits
rewatching when it's rerun. I give it 4 out of 6.
In total, Red receives 29 out of 42.
Published by W. Blaine Dowler, in Superman/Smallville.
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Alexius says:
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Which Effect Are You Referring Too?
fiziko says:
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The one in the corn field involving the sledge hammer.
The one in the corn field involving the sledge
That was pretty much the same effect they used when Clark got
stabbed. It was a bit more complex, but the effect looked very
similar.
Its not perfect, but it does the job.
vanyel says:
I could live with the effect itself, but the action that led to it was completely unbelievable. The character in question was trying to protect the item, and would not have deliberately made it vulnerable.
Tom's Acting
I Thought The Acting Was Pretty Decent From Tom, As A Bad Boy. It Seemed Prefectly Convincing To Me. If Anything, It's… Uh… Lex's Dad… Lionel… Forgot his Name. Anyways, Lionel's Acting Always Seems Halfassed To Me.
Trekkie says:
I Guess my thoughts are I liked it.
I guess I'm not picky, because I find most the characters believeable.
The effects aren't that bad, I looked at the sledge hammer as clark thinking that he was going to be smashed, and went to punch the hammer to mash it, and they hit his ring and got lucky.
Not that Jonathon Kent aimed for the ring hoping he'd hit it.
Hard to say, but I enjoyed it. But then I went from a smallville fest of watching the last three episodes back to back on the TiVo, so i was really into it by the time I watched 'Red'.
Though I must admit, I always hate these 'unrequited love' shit where you've got one character pining for another, and then something happens and it flips, then it flips again. It's so Friends to do something like that.
skytreader says:
Best episode EVER
OK, I don't care what you guys say, but this has been the BEST Smallville ep. to date. Granted, Nicodemus had about 10 min of EXCEPTIONALLLY great um….footage, but in overall acting and esp. story, this was the best.
I was so happy that they are finally introducing the RED Kryptonite, as well as adding a little more than just the flirtations between Clark and Lana. Now we actually have some depth to all this.
Despite the depth and the damaged relationship between the 2 that can now make things go in many directions, come on, Clark has saved Lana so many times and she is so unforgiving when he goes a little spastic. Forgive the guy, if nothing else, attribute it to Blue Balls.
Finally, I have to say that the Blond Chick (the guest star, not Chole) was especially hot. LOVE the bag girl attitude (e.g. Nicodemus)

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Eolo, aka John Stedham, was a chief of the Muscogee Native American tribe. His father was a white trader, Benjamin Stidham. In 1810, he lived in Edgefield, South Carolina.

Col. John [310] Stidham or Eola was second in command of the Lower Creeks. He was Headman or Chief of his village, Sowokeelan Town (in present-day Barber Co., Alabama), probably the hometown of his wife. Apparently Government agents gave his title, "Colonel," to him. These agents, ignorant about or insensitive to Native American political structures, would rank the chiefs in military order ... Eola, being second in command of the Lower Creeks, was called Colonel. On 12 Feb 1825, Chief William McIntosh, Head Chief of the Lower Creeks, signed a treaty to sell Creek ancestral lands without authorization of the Creek tribe. This became known as the Treaty of Indian Springs, Georgia. Eola and McIntosh were good friends, but Eola and most of the other chiefs refused to support McIntosh in signing the treaty. That proved to be a wise decision, for McIntosh was subsequently executed for the unauthorized act.

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1           3
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1           5
1           6
.           .
.           .

Vim has a script that does column-vise incrementing, VisIncr. It has gathered about 50/50 ups and down, perhaps tasting a bit reinventing-the-wheel. How do you column-increment stuff in Vim without using such script? Then the other question is, how do you column-increment stuff without/outside Vim?
Most elegant, reusable and preferably-small wins the race!

A: I don't see a need for a script, a simple macro would do
 "a   yyp^Ayy

then play it, or map to play it.
Of course, there is always the possibility that I misunderstood the question entirely...

A: The optimal choice of a technique highly depends on the actual circumstances
of the transformation.  There are at least two points variations affecting
implementation:

*

*Whether the lines to operate on are the only ones in a file?  If not,
is the range of lines defined by context (i.e. it separated by blank
lines, like a paragraph) or is it arbitrary and should be specified by
user?

*Are those lines already contain numbers that should be changed or is
it necessary to insert new ones leaving the text on the lines in tact?
Since there is no information to answer these questions, below we will try to
construct a flexible solution.
A general solution is a substitution operating on the beginnings of the lines
in the range specified by the user.  Visual mode is probably the simplest way
of selecting an arbitrary range of lines, so we assume here that boundaries of
the range are defined by the visual selection.
:'<,'>s/^\d\+/\=line(".")-line("''")+1/

If it is necessary to number every line in a buffer, the command can be
simplified as follows.
:%s/^\d\+/\=line('.')/

In any case, if the number should be merely inserted at the beginnings of the
lines (without modifying the ones that already exist), one can change the
pattern from ^\d\+ to ^, and optionally add a separator:
:'<,'>s/^\d\+/\=(line(".")-line("''")+1).' '/

or
:%s/^/\=line('.').' '/

respectively.
For a solution based on command-line tools, one can consider using stream
editors like Sed or text extraction and reporting tools like AWK.
To number each of the lines in a file using Sed, run the commands
$ sed = filename | sed 'N;s/\n/ /'

In order to do the same in AWK, use the command
$ awk '{print NR " " $0}' filename

which could be easily modfied to limit numbering to a particular range of lines
satisfying a certain condition.  For example, the following command numbers the
lines two through eight.
$ awk '{print (2<=NR && NR<=8 ? ++n " " : "") $0}' filename

Having an interest in how commands similar to those from the script linked in
the question statement are implemented, one can use the following command as
a reference.
vnoremap <leader>i :call EnumVisualBlock()<cr>
function! EnumVisualBlock() range
    if visualmode() != "\<c-v>"
        return
    endif
    let [l, r] = [virtcol("'<"), virtcol("'>")]
    let [l, r] = [min([l, r]), max([l, r])]
    let start = matchstr(getline("'<"), '^\d\+', col("'<")-1)
    let off = start - line("'<")
    let w = max(map([start, line("'>") + off], 'len("".v:val)'))
    exe "'<,'>" 's/\%'.l.'v.*\%<'.(r+1).'v./'.
    \   '\=printf("%'.w.'d",line(".")+off).repeat(" ",r-l+1-w)'
endfunction

A: If you want change 1 1 1 1 ... to 1 2 3 4 .... (Those numbers should be on different lines.)
:let i=1 | g/1/s//\=i/g | let i+=1

If some of 1 1 1 1 ... are in the same line:
:let g:i = 0

:func! Inc()
:    let g:i+=1
:    return g:i
:endfun

:%s/1/\=Inc()/g

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On Extending Lindor and Sustaining Success
Now that the Mets have Francisco Lindor on their roster, the next big question is how they go about trying to keep him past this season. I think we can assume that it's a given that they at least make a big effort at extending him. I've seen some in the media postulate that the Mets may want to wait until they've had a chance to see how Lindor reacts to playing in New York, which would obviously mean that negotiations wouldn't even start before the season got underway. I could understand the rationale for that thinking. Not every player thrives in this city. I might even feel the same way myself if Lindor was under contract for a couple of years. That's not the case, however, so if the Mets decided to go that route they would need to ask themselves how long they would be willing to wait to begin negotiations, and if Lindor would even be willing to negotiate during the season. At his press conference today he indicated fairly strongly that he wouldn't do that.
I think back to the Mets signing of Carlos Beltran back in January, 2005. Despite some injury issues at the end of his time in New York, signing Carlos Beltran was one of the best free agent acquisitions in Mets history. He's inarguably one of the top position players who ever played in New York, and as complete of a ballplayer as I've ever watched in a Mets uniform. But his first season in Queens was just plain awful. He was good but not great in CF, and struggled pretty much all season at the plate. But he bounced back to be a terrific player after that season. It's too bad the Mets clubs he played for were deeply flawed, and the way his injuries were handled go down as a huge black mark against the follies of the Wilpon era. But the fact remains that he was a great New York Met, and proof that sometimes you just have to give a player some time to settle into a new situation.
Francisco Lindor will need to get used to competing with a new team, in a new city, and in a new League. If he doesn't set the world on fire right away, that doesn't mean he can't play in New York. If the Mets really want to extend him, they shouldn't waste the time between now and the start of the season to see if they can get it done, even if Lindor could be convinced to negotiate with the season underway. Also, trying to extend Lindor should give them some clarity on where they stand financially as they consider what they will do with Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Marcus Stroman, and even Steven Matz. It seems quite certain that they will not keep all of those players and Francisco Lindor, but they're not going to let them all walk away.
For a team attempting to follow the path of clubs like the Dodgers, Yankees and Red Sox, maintaining competitiveness year after year without going into full rebuild mode, the decisions on which players to keep and build around going forward are pretty critical. We're going to learn pretty quickly about the Mets priorities this offseason as we watch how they decide to handle the upcoming free agency of Lindor, Michael Conforto and Noah Syndergaard. My guess right now would be that serious attempts are made to sign the first two, while Syndergaard probably makes it to free agency. Since it really seems unlikely that the Mets could keep all three long-term, I could only see a Syndergaard extension happening at all if the Mets strike out with one of the other two.
With the Mets finally in a position to run a big-boy payroll, they're going to be faced with more difficult choices, too. If a club overcommits to older, more expensive players, they have less room to bring in new talent or hold onto home-grown players in future years. It doesn't take too many large contracts before even a large payroll can get really top-heavy. Make the wrong decisions, and the Mets could wind up in a position where the Yankees are in now, where commitments to Gerrit Cole and Giancarlo Stanton have made it difficult for the club to bring back DJ LeMahieu and replace the starting pitching they've lost. The trade for Stanton never made sense to me. That contract, the propensity for getting hurt and the reality that he is becoming more of a full-time DH when he is healthy just don't add up, at least in my mind. It takes a lot of discipline on the part of teams in win-always mode not to paint themselves into a difficult corner like the team in the Bronx did.
I think the majority opinion in the matter is that the Mets will sign Lindor long-term as long as the contract he is seeking makes sense. I agree with that, and would expect it to happen some time fairly early in spring training.
I've been writing a lot about sustainability here since before the team was sold. Steve Cohen talked about it at his initial press conference, Sandy Alderson has discussed it, too. Most of us who follow the team closely understand that, for a well-run large market team, avoiding long periods of rebuilding is a realistic goal, as long as the team is run correctly.
The Dodgers are obviously the gold standard in sustaining winning. From 2013-2019, the LA ballclub has won over 100 games twice and were over 90 wins the other five times. Then last year they went 43-17. But the Dodgers have had some help in this regard. The Giants are their only real large-market competitor in the NL West, but they've struggled to recapture their magic from the early years of the past decade. The Padres were in a protracted rebuilding process, and the Diamondbacks and Rockies are small market teams that rarely manage to threaten LA's stranglehold on the division.
The Yankees and Red Sox are large-market clubs that have sustained success in a much tougher division, the AL East. In their worst years, the Yankees are a team that finishes a few games above .500. In their best years, they contend for a championship. Rebuilding for the Yankees looks like 2013-2016, when they only made the playoffs one time in those four seasons. Even in those three non-playoff years they won 84 games twice and 85 the other season. Still, missing the playoffs 3 out of 4 years was a big deal for a club that had only missed the playoffs once in 18 years heading into that stretch.
The Yankees are pretty unique, though. Their history and dominance of by far the largest market in the country for so long (thanks again, Wilpons) have put them in a financial position to sustain success in baseball's toughest division. Conversely, it's also made it extremely difficult for them to take a step backwards and retool. Particularly after missing the playoffs in 2013, 2014 and 2016, there is little willingness from that fanbase for another dry stretch like that. Just the fact that the Yankees haven't won the World Series since 2009 is enough to send the faithful into a fit.
The Red Sox are a different story, though, particularly since Theo Epstein departed in October, 2011 to take over the Cubs. Epstein was hired as the Sox' GM after the 2002 season. From 2003-2009, the Red Sox won the World Series twice and made the playoffs 6 of those 7 years. But in 2010 and 2011, the Red Sox failed to qualify for the playoffs. They weren't awful, amassing 89 and 90 wins, but that was good for only consecutive third place finishes. What was worse, the Red Sox suffered a collapse in September of 2011 of the kind Mets fans are only too familiar with — going from first place in the division to out of the playoffs with an abysmal 7-20 record in that month. Manager Terry Francona was reported to have a problem with painkillers and an ongoing split with his wife, and players were accused of quitting on the team. Details can be found here.
Francona wound up being let go after the collapse, and Theo Epstein was allowed to depart to Chicago. Since Epstein left, the Red Sox have not enjoyed a strong record in sustaining winning. They replaced Francona with Bobby Valentine and fell to last place the following season. Now, I've always felt that Bobby V. got an unfair share of the blame for that bad club, but what was never clear was why the Sox brain trust felt he was the right kind of manager to work with a very modern, analytics-driven front office.
They replaced Valentine with John Farrell and won another World Series title the following season, but then fell to back-to-back last place finishes in the AL East in 2014 and 2015. That got Epstein's replacement Ben Cherington a pink slip in favor of Dave Dombrowski, of who I'm told that, as a Mets fan, I should be deeply, deeply afraid.
That edition of the Red Sox made the playoffs three straight seasons from 2016-2018, culminating in the club's third World Series title of the 21st Century, but Dombrowski was canned the following season and the Red Sox have been trying to rebuild their farm system for the past two years. They don't look like a contender for 2021, either.
My point in all of this is that the Red Sox enjoy a reputation as one of the best orgs in baseball, but their history has been pretty checkered since Epstein moved on. They've made some curious decisions over the years, too. Those three championships were awesome, but they've spent years out of contention in that stretch, too. If I was one of the people interviewing Jared Porter and Zack Scott, I would have asked both men what they felt the Red Sox have done right and where they've gone wrong over the years. Porter left in 2015, but Scott's been there the whole time, and I honestly feel that the Red Sox offer lessons in both how to succeed and how to fail in a sustainability strategy.
When looking at large market clubs that have a strong record of staying competitive, the Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers offer different versions of how to accomplish that goal and also cautionary tales on the sort of missteps that can hinder a club trying to accomplish that. The Yankees and Dodgers have a better track record than the Red Sox of avoiding losing seasons, but the Sox have three titles compared to one each for the other two. All 3 clubs have depended on supercharging their farm system as a strategy of staying near the top. They all have made mistakes along the way that have hindered their efforts. All three, to some extent, also have to deal with the high expectations of their respective fanbases.
Provided they can keep him, the Mets have a superstar in his prime to build around now. They've come a long way towards the goal of being truly competitive in 2021, but there's work to be done this year and tons of work ahead if sustainable winning is to become a real thing in Queens. I'm sure I'll continue to come back to this subject often in the years ahead. I don't think there's any magical thing the Mets can do that can make this happen, nor do I believe there is one, single roadmap to accomplish this goal. The Mets can look at the successes and failures of the three clubs I've discussed here today and learn from them. I would certainly expect them to do exactly that.
After Theo Epstein moved on the the Cubs, he gave an interview with a Boston radio station admitting to some serious mistakes he made toward the end of his time there. Signing pitcher John Lackey and OF Carl Crawford were a couple of the big ones. Epstein felt that the pressure to try to keep winning caused them to lose patience and led them into mistakes that led to the subsequent failures of the team:
"If I have a regret about the way we handled that offseason (after the 2009 season), it was that instead of being more patient and saying, 'We'll strike when the time is right,' there was a lot of pressure in the environment at the time to do something," Epstein said. "If I learned a lesson from the offseason, it's never feel the need to do something. If you're trying to avoid one move that you don't think is going to work out, don't then settle for a different move that maybe doesn't check all the boxes. Be true to the philosophy and understand the bigger picture. There's always another day to fight. You don't have to get everything done in one offseason just because of what's going on in the environment around you."
Epstein is one of the greatest executives in baseball history, but he wasn't immune to making mistakes. That he brought championships to both the Red Sox and Cubs was truly amazing, but his record wasn't perfect in either place. The Cubs never built the sort of farm system that would allow for sustained success, and they're clearly heading into a rebuild. If you're a team like the Mets looking to move up, both Epstein's successes and failures should offer some valuable instruction.
While I believe there are many side roads that a successful organization can take, the basics really remain the same. Hire very good people. Implement a very good plan. Never stop trying to excel at everything you do, and never stop questioning if there's a way you can do it better. Never stop learning — from yourself and from others, from successes and failures. Enjoy your victories, but never allow yourself to be satisfied into complacency.
Thanks for spending some time with us here today. Please stay safe, be well and take care.
By Mike Steffanos at January 11, 2021
Labels: 2020-2021 Hot Stove, Boston Red Sox, Carlos Beltran, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Jared Porter, Marcus Stroman, Mets, Michael Conforto, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Zack Scott
Remember1969 January 13, 2021 at 8:00 PM
Great stuff, Mike!
They definitely need to focus more on player development, with different facets of that. I believe it was you that stated that just things like paying attention to the detail of making their minor league guys comfortable by helping with the language, living arrangements, nutrition, etc. is all very important. They cannot build a sustainable model without constant refresh from the top levels of the system. The Dodgers do that as well as anyone, with both position players (Bellinger, Seager, Smith) and pitchers (Bueller).
Also, a little luck has to be involved. The Dodgers seem to have that too. Justin Turner really had no business turning into the player he was in LA. They cut their losses at the right time with players like Ethier and Kemp. That reliever (Graterol) that Boston turned down in the Betts trade from Minnesota ended up in LA and look what he did in the post season. He will be a fine pitcher for them.
So they need to have Lindor stay healthy (and happy), build the pieces around him and while it looks like they are still a couple or maybe more years away from the sustained refresh of up and comers, they need to have wins with Allan, Baty, Crow-Armstrong, Ginn, Alvarez, Mauricio, and maybe find a lower level draft pick diamond in the rough like McNeil or deGrom. They must have better success than they showed in 2014-2015 timeframe.
Lots more to write, but I'll call it a night with this. . . always appreciate reading your writing.
Mike Steffanos January 14, 2021 at 9:48 AM
Thanks. Good points here. One aspect of luck is probably making solid evaluations of other teams discards like JT and then having some of them prosper


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require corporations to apply for federal charters to operate their businesses.
During October's democratic presidential debate held in Ohio, Warren charged, "Giant multinational corporations ... have no loyalty to America. They have no loyalty to American workers. They have no loyalty to American consumers. They have no loyalty to American communities. They are only loyal to their own bottom line."
And it isn't just campaign-trail politicians questioning the system. Billionaire Salesforce founder & CEO Marc Benioff recently said in The New York Times that "Capitalism, as we know it, is dead."
Fewer than 50% of millennials have a positive view of capitalism, and their views have apparently darkened in the past five years.
Economist Thomas Piketty, who wrote Capital in the 21st Century, a highly influential book on inequality, is advocating for "participatory socialism," stating, "The time has come to exit this phase of making property sacred."
Even a recent cartoon in The New Yorker shows a college financial aid applicant being asked, "So where do you see yourself fitting into "late-stage capitalism?"
"Late-stage capitalism?"
Are we in fact witnessing the twilight years of capitalism?
After the past 50 years, during which capitalism has spread across developed and developing countries around the globe and arguably helped to lift more than two billion people out of extreme poverty?
Even as capitalism has powered one of the longest and most sustained economic recoveries, as well as one of the most durable bull markets in our lifetimes, with the S&P 500 trading near all-time highs?
Economically speaking, the past 50 years have been as good a period in human history as has existed in human history. The so-called "Misery Index" – the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate (developed by Arthur Okun, a head chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Johnson) – is lower at any time since the 1950s.
But you wouldn't know it from much of what you read, watch and hear today.
So What's Going On?
If we dial down the animosity, overheated rhetoric and political partisanship, then these headlines and sound bites reflect one of the important debates we could be having: What societal goals do we want our free-market economic system to support?
It's not a new conversation. But it's been evolving and getting more intense in the 21st century. We can't seem to make up our minds about what we want.
Going into the financial crisis of 2008 – 2009, society was sending signals suggesting we wanted growth at any and all costs. Leverage was the tool used to jack up what had been sustainable growth to unsustainable levels.
Then after the world stepped back from the brink of financial collapse, we started introducing modifiers in front of the word capitalism – moral capitalism, inclusive capitalism, fiduciary capitalism, sustainable capitalism – modifiers signaling we didn't want growth that:
blows the system up every 10 years,
degrades the environment,
creates extreme disparities in wealth and income, or
bankrupts our children and grandchildren.
These modifiers seemed to convey a desire for growth balanced with economic stability, sustainability, equality and intergenerational equity.
Then along came Donald Trump, who promised in 2016 to deliver better standards of living for the middle class – people on the bottom 60% of the economic ladder who haven't had real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) income growth since 1980 – through his own version of "Ayn Rand capitalism," powered by a $1 trillion tax cut and one of the most sweeping across-the-board deregulatory initiatives we have ever seen.
Unfortunately, the design of the tax cuts, combined with low interest rates, has supercharged the wealth of the top 1%, whose outsized share of financial assets is now worth more than the bottom 99% combined.
At the same time, so-called "oligarchic drift" – the ability of corporate and individual actors to tilt the playing field in their favor and influence the writing of the rules of the economic game to their advantage – has become more and more pronounced.
These developments have energized many groups, including the progressive and more extreme political left, who are now calling to replace capitalism outright with "socialism."
Throwing the Baby Out With the Bathwater?
So, is it time to abandon the most successful economic system the world has ever seen?
In my opinion, that would be a huge mistake.
But we need to acknowledge that capitalism, as it exists today, is increasingly seen as failing to serve a broad-enough segment of society's needs.
An insightful analysis of how capitalism is falling short was recently offered by billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. In an article titled "Why and How Capitalism Needs To Be Reformed," Dalio proposed a critique of capitalism focused on inequality of opportunity:
"I have also seen capitalism evolve in a way that is not working well for the majority of Americans because it's producing self-reinforcing spirals up for the haves and downs for the have nots. ... This is creating widening income/wealth/opportunity gaps that pose existential threats to the United States because these gaps are bringing about damaging domestic ... conflicts [that] are weakening America's condition."
Among the many data points offered by Dalio is the fact that Americans whose fathers were in the bottom income quartile have a 40% chance of staying there. This fact is supported by The Economist's recent "Special Report – Poverty in America," which noted "child poverty often leads to adult poverty and all of its problems" and "where you grow up affects the trajectory of your life."
As participants in and beneficiaries of the most effective economic system the world has ever invented, we all need to help reframe the conversation about capitalism to balance negative narratives being amplified through the megaphone of the current presidential campaign.
Some of this is already happening. This summer, the Business Roundtable (a collection of more than 100 CEOs of the largest American corporations) issued a landmark statement endorsing a new definition of corporate purpose.
Corporations, the group stated, need to commit to delivering value to all stakeholders, including not just shareholders but employees, customers and clients, suppliers and host communities – as well as to "an economy that serves all Americans."
An important first step. But I think advocates of capitalism need to go further.
Our discussion should focus on the challenge of inequality of opportunity raised by Dalio. Opportunity is, after all, a core element of the American Dream, enshrined in our Declaration of Independence through the iconic clause, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Opportunity is the reason so many people come to America.
One of the most inspiring cases for capitalism is the Netflix documentary The Pursuit, which features Arthur Brooks, former President of the American Enterprise Institute.
In the documentary, Brooks describes capitalism as "an aspirationally based system." An ardent supporter of free markets, he calls himself a "warrior for opportunity."
Capitalism, he says, needs to start with "a want to lift people up." He also says, "Capitalism alone can't fix society. ... Morals have to come first ... based on the sense of social solidarity ... a sense that we are, in fact, our brother's keeper."
That's ultimately what will underpin capitalism's legitimacy: to be an engine of opportunity.
In that way, we all need to become warriors for opportunity.
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Q: Entity Framework delete child object I have two tables without any cascade deleting. I want to delete parent object with all child objects. I do it this way
//get parent object
return _dataContext.Menu.Include("ChildMenu").Include("ParentMenu").Include("Pictures").FirstOrDefault(m => m.MenuId == id);
//then i loop all child objects
var picList = (List<Picture>)menu.Pictures.ToList();

for (int i = 0; i < picList.Count; i++)
 {
  if (File.Exists(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(picList[i].ImgPath)))
  {
     File.Delete(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(picList[i].ImgPath));
  }
  if (File.Exists(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(picList[i].ThumbPath)))
  {
     File.Delete(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(picList[i].ThumbPath));
  }

  //**what must i do here?**
  //menu.Pictures.Remove(picList[i]);
  //                DataManager dm = new DataManager();
  //                dm.Picture.Delete(picList[i].Id);

  //menu.Pictures.de
  //_dataContext.SaveChanges();
  //picList[i] = null;

}

//delete parent object
_dataContext.DeleteObject(_dataContext.Menu.Include("ChildMenu").Include("ParentMenu")
    .Include("Pictures").FirstOrDefault(m => m.MenuId == id););
_dataContext.SaveChanges();

A: It is enough to set the <OnDelete Action="Cascade" /> for the master association end in the CSDL part of the model.
In this case your code will work.

A: My situation was slightly different, and it took a while to get it right so I thought it worth documenting.  I have two related tables, Quote and QuoteExtension:

*

*Quote (Parent, Primary Key QuoteId)

*QuoteExtension (Calculated fields for Quote, Primary and Foreign Key QuoteId)

I didn't have to set the OnDelete action to get it to work - but Craig's comment (if I could vote that up more I would!) led me to discover the issue.  I was attempting to delete the Quote when QuoteExtension was not loaded.  Therefore I found two ways that worked:
var quote = ent.Quote.Include("QuoteExtension").First(q => q.QuoteId == 2311);
ent.DeleteObject(quote);
ent.SaveChanges();

Or:
var quote = ent.Quote.First(q => q.QuoteId == 2311);
if (quote.QuoteExtension != null)
    ent.Refresh(RefreshMode.ClientWins, quote.QuoteExtension);
ent.DeleteObject(quote);
ent.SaveChanges();

Interestingly trying to delete QuoteExtension manually didn't work (although it may have if I had included ent.SaveChanges() in the middle - this tends to happen only at the end of a unit of work in this system so I wanted something that didn't rely on this.


Nepal has ordered more troops to patrol highways and warned against hoarding in an effort to break a Maoist blockade across the nation.
The blockade is the biggest challenge so far to King Gyanendra's seizure of absolute power earlier this month.
Traffic was thin on the ground on the second day of the indefinite transport shutdown called by Maoists rebels to force the king into a U-turn on his decision to sack the government, impose a state of emergency and suspend civil liberties.
highways to bolster public confidence, shaken by nine years of conflict that has killed more than 11,000 people.
immediate compensation if any vehicle was attacked while defying the rebel ban.
So far, there were no reports of violence.
"We have put out more troops, there are helicopters providing air patrols along the highways," Dhakal said.
"There is confusion and uncertainty among the people. We don't know how long this will last"
secretary in the supplies ministry.
will take action against the hoarders."
Life in Kathmandu appeared unaffected, and there was no sign of panic buying in city markets despite the blockade.
entered the capital through the main checkpoint of Nagdhunga, compared with 1659 vehicles the previous day, the Himalayan Times said, quoting the army.
running," said Madhav Khanal, a resident in the western town of Nepalganj. "There is confusion and uncertainty among the people. We don't know how long this will last."
constitutional monarchy with a communist republic, successfully enforced a blockade of hill-ringed Kathmandu last August through threats alone, without any physical show of force.
Meanwhile, the king, who has blamed the sacked government for failing to contain the Maoist revolt, ordered a crackdown on the Maoists in their remote mountain hideouts and thick jungles to force them to resume talks, cut off since August 2003.
had ended all possibility of early peace talks.
Instead, they urged the country's warring political parties to unite with them to fight the monarchy.
The king's decision to take absolute power prompted protests from many countries.


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VIA WEB CONFERENCE—At the start of the council's Mar. 12 business meeting, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye reviewed how courts over the past year have addressed challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Goal is to expand vital public services with better-informed decision-making
Judicial Council Meeting, October 1, 2021
VIA WEB CONFERENCE—The Judicial Council at its business meeting today approved a report summarizing innovative projects and a proposal for continued investment in technology solutions to improve court services and access for the public.
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Public Webinars: Language Access Services Available for Court Users
The Judicial Council and National Center for State Courts will host a series of free public webinars this spring to go over language access services and multilingual materials available for limited English proficient court users.
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Free public webinars this spring will provide overview of language access services and multilingual materials available for court users
Appointment Hearing
If confirmed, Judge Truc T. Do would be the first Asian American woman justice to serve on the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
Legislative agenda includes advocating for stable and reliable funding, securing more judgeships, and implementing pretrial detention reform
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Commission on Judicial Appointments
The hearing will stream live here. The Commission on Judicial Appointments will hold a virtual public hearing Oct. 13 at 1 p.m. to consider the nomination by Gov. Gavin Newsom of: Judge Victor A. Rodriguez, as Associate Justice of the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three (San Francisco)
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Were Barbara and the Camp Dogs a real band I'd be in the crush to hear them. Not since Hedwig and the Angry Inch has a rock musical been so close to a gig. The songs are strong, too, and would completely dominate this show were they not matched by the performances of Ursula Yovich as Barbara and Elaine Crombie as Renee.
Yovich, who co-wrote the play (with Alana Valentine) and the songs (with Valentine and Adm Ventoura), has had Barbara as a renegade alter ego for some years. In formalising the character into a text, she and Valentine have created a pressure-cooker of resentment and rage at the maltreatment of Aboriginal people. This reaches an apotheosis towards the end when Barbara describes Australia as "the meanest, pettiest, most ungenerous country in the world".
But this almost relentlessly negative character could wear thin were it not for Yovich's realisation. Enter the warmth necessary for us to care about her and share her anger empathetically rather than ideologically.
This is not an issue with Renee, Barbara's cousin and foster-sister. She has not received so many kicks in the teeth; is not a volcano ready to erupt at the slightest slight. Crombie ensures Renee's humour, magnanimity and moral compass are immediately appealing.
Even so, much of both characters' warmth comes from their singing. While the songs might crowd the action, they also illuminate the sisters' inner lives. Yovich and Crombie have the voices to beguile or impale as required – as does Troy Brady when he joins as Barbara's estranged brother Joseph (although Brady's acting lies somewhere south of his singing).
Leticia Caceres' production (with set design by Stephen Curtis) turns Belvoir's stage into a corner pub dominated by the Camp Dogs (led by bassist Jessica Dunn, with guitarist Debbie Yap and drummer Michelle Vincent). Around them stools, chairs, tables and couches accommodate a smattering of the audience.
Barbara's previously quoted speech continues, "… at the heart of this country is a theft, and … nobody fears being thieved as much as a pack of thieves". Yet for all its anger, ultimately this is a play about healing. Without the songs this might not be so, but with them it becomes a torch helping spread the understanding that will light the path to reconciliation.


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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling
Reading level: (early to mid-4th grade)
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again.
Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It's hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven's about to discover she can do it all... even without arms.
"I'm so excited for Denver students to get to know Aven, Connor and Zion, three children with their own unique challenges," says author Dusti Bowling. "I hope that by experiencing the hardships, triumphs, laughter and tears of these three characters, Denver children might finish this story with more understanding and respect for one another, and maybe even for themselves"
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Dusti Bowling grew up in Scottsdale, Arizona, where, as her family will tell you, she always had her nose in a book. But it wasn't until after starting down a couple of different career paths that Dusti realized her true passion was writing. She currently lives in Carefree, Arizona with her husband, three daughters, one bobcat, a pack of coyotes, a couple of chuckwallas, several rattlesnakes, and a few herds of javelina.
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Five Fun Facts about Dusti Bowling:
1. She loves punk rock!
2. She can speak German.
3. She has parachuted off a mountain!
4. She has won hula-hooping, bubblegum bubble blowing and whale-riding contests, though the whale was technically a whale-shaped raft.
5. When she was ten years old, she once saved a baby bunny in the desert from being eaten by a snake by hitting the snake with a stick.
"I was a voracious reader when I was a child. From the time I was eight until about thirteen, I was never caught without a book in my hand, and I easily read 2-3 books daily! Some of my favorite books were Red the Red Fern Grows, The Babysitter's Club series, the Sweet Valley High series, and Nancy Drew. I also loved scary stories, especially books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Though I loved to read, I didn't really start writing until I was an adult about ten years ago." – Dusti Bowling
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Tisha UnArmed – Tisha Shelton shares videos of how she does everyday tasks without arms.
Jessica Cox – Jessica is a motivational speaker, licensed pilot and holds a black belt in martial arts (and she knows how to use nun chucks too!).
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Educator's Guide for "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" (recommended for grades 3-5)
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Time passes relentlessly within the lives of the delicate characters populating the pages of Christine Schutt's notable selection of stories, revealing a lot yet frequently altering not anything. even if it brings a grandfather to the sorrowful cognizance that his daughter has handed on her lifelong emotional struggles to her personal daughter, or permits a baby to appreciate her mother's tragic disconnect from truth, the passage of days, months, and years deals depression realizing for these stuck in its float. but there could be a convinced grace within the painful knowledge introduced by means of experience.
These lyrical masterworks of brief fiction from an acclaimed American literary artist offer poignant appears to be like at the back of closed doorways, the place the lives of girls and males, little ones and households are outlined and decreased by means of love, loss, and misunderstanding.
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After a 64-44 victory over Cocoa High on Dec. 7, the stat line for Melbourne Central Catholic's Kayla Shepperd included 18 points, 5-of-7 shooting from the free-throw line and six steals.
There was also another number that stood out: 1,009.
During the game, Shepperd scored her 1,000th career point, ultimately ending up with 1,009 points once the game was finished. The junior is the 11th player to score 1,000 career points since head coach Candee Terry has been at MCC. Shepperd is the fastest in the school's history to reach the mark and is currently on pace to break the school's all-time scoring record held by Tina Thorpes, needing somewhere between 600 and 700 points, according to Terry.
Shepperd said she knew she was nearing the mark but wasn't exactly sure how many points she needed. That was, in part, because Terry purposely kept the number from Shepperd. When Shepperd was about 70 points away, she scored 33 points. With the possibility of her reaching that number again, Terry let her know where she stood.
"I think she had 16 in the first quarter, so then I had to call her out and say, 'Kayla you're close to your 1,000. If I tell you not to shoot, stop shooting, because we're on the road,' " Terry said.
It was a wise decision to let Shepperd in on it then. She didn't break the mark away from home.
Once the ball entered the hoop for the milestone-eclipsing basket, the MCC player was thrilled with the accomplishment.
Shepperd has made an impact at MCC as a scorer, but also is contributing in other ways. This season, she is averaging 24 points, six steals, six rebounds and four assists. The focus on affecting the game outside of scoring has been something Terry has emphasized to Shepperd. The MCC coach has noticed games where Shepperd's point production has increased due to getting her teammates involved.
"The thing that I'm trying to get her to understand is if she makes her teammates better, she's going to have a lot more open shots, because as long as teams can double-team her because they don't have the confidence of her teammates being able to score, then it's going to make it that much harder for her," Terry said.
One of her teammates she's known longer than any other at MCC and who was a part of Shepperd's journey well before high school is her twin sister, Shayla. The two push each other in practices and games, and though the siblings sometimes disagree with one another, their bond has led to an understanding of their roles on the court and how Kayla can get the ball to her sister.
Shepperd's time at MCC has seen growth, from learning to play with improved talent to being a team leader as a sophomore. As she further makes a mark in MCC's record books, there is a team award the scorer is looking to add to the collection.


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This is a list of heads of state of Mauritius since the independence of Mauritius in 1968.

From 1968 to 1992 the head of state under the Mauritius Independence Act 1968 was the Queen of Mauritius, Elizabeth II, who was also the monarch of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The Queen was represented in Mauritius by a governor-general. Mauritius became a republic under the Constitution of 1992 and the monarch and governor-general were replaced by a ceremonial president.

In 1992, Mauritius became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. Queen Elizabeth II ceased to be head of state, Queen of Mauritius; the last governor-general, Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, was appointed the first president of Mauritius. The president is elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term. In the event of a vacancy the vice-president of Mauritius serves as acting head of state.

Monarchy (1968–1992)
The succession to the throne was the same as the succession to the British throne.

Governors-general (1968–1992)

The governor-general was the representative of the monarch in Mauritius and exercised most of the powers of the monarch. The governor-general was appointed for an indefinite term, serving at the pleasure of the monarch. After the passage of the Statute of Westminster 1931, the governor-general was appointed solely on the advice of the Cabinet of Mauritius without the involvement of the British government. In the event of a vacancy the chief justice served as Officer Administering the Government.

Republic (1992–present)
Under the 1992 constitution, the constitution of the Republic of Mauritius, the president replaced the monarch as ceremonial head of state. The president was elected by the National Assembly for a five-year term. In the event of a vacancy the vice president served as acting president.

List of presidents
Parties

Timeline

Footnotes
 Served as Chief Justice of Mauritius.

References

External links
 World Statesmen – Mauritius
 Rulers.org – Mauritius

Government of Mauritius
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Wilders's argument is, in effect, that multiculturalism is the opposite of diversity. At a Koblenz conference hosted by Germany's Alternative für Deutschland, he warned in that the totalitarianism of the EU and political correctness would reduce the wonderful variety of nations to a "uniform multicultural society." (He also said that "women are afraid to show their blonde hair," which is new to me.) But he owes so much to the "politically correct" vocabulary of "rights" and "identity" that he claims to reject.
It's been a while since a President has had to speak of fascism as something that has a lure.
Also distracting was the image, revealed a few hours earlier, of the next President urging Russian prostitutes to pee on each other in a Moscow hotel bed where Barack and Michelle Obama had once slept.
In the narrative world of an Obama speech, the protagonist of every story is in some sense a generation, and the climax of every story is a moment. For Bush, time was always running out, like Jack Bauer's clock in 24. The decision point was that instant when one billiard ball hits the next, and God willing, your aim was true. But in the greatest Obama speeches, because of their eloquence and ceremonial grandeur, time itself slows.
How far beyond the academy do our commitments extend? Are we defending our right to teach and study things that might be useless? Or are we insisting on our usefulness?
Occupying the Maagdenhuis in protest is a minor tradition here. In 1969, students did so for five days. Now, it's been almost a month. Back then, students and teachers were generally on opposite sides of the barricades, or at least teachers represented the establishment. Now, teacher and student are allies against a new establishment—the university's Board of Directors (College van Bestuur, or CvB)—and against trends in Dutch academia and the broader world: the financialization of the university, something called rendementsdenken, neoliberalism itself.


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A WhatsApp bug could have allowed crashing of all group members
December 17, 2019 By Pierluigi Paganini
WhatsApp fixed a severe bug that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group.
WhatsApp addressed a severe vulnerability that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group.
An attacker could trigger the vulnerability by sending a maliciously crafted message to a targeted group, the message caused the app entering a loop that crashed the devices. The only way to recover a situation was forcing all group members to uninstall the WhatApp, reinstall the app, and remove the group, this will cause the users to lose the entire group chat history.
The flaw was discovered by researchers at Check Point, the issue affects the implementation of the XMPP communication protocol that crashes the app when a member with an invalid phone number sends a message to the group.
"The bug resides in XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), a communication protocol for instant messaging." reads the analysis published by CheckPoint.
"When we attempt to send a message where the parameter "participant" receives a value of "null" a 'Null Pointer Exception' is thrown."
"The parser for the participant's phone number mishandles the input when an illegal phone number is received. When it receives a phone number with a length, not in the ranger 5-20 or a non-digit character, it would read it as a 'null' string."
Every time a user in a WhatsApp group sends a message to the group, the application will examine the parameter participant to identify the sender. The experts used a tool to modify this parameter, they discovered that it was possible to trigger the bug by replacing the participant's parameter from the sender phone number to any non-digit character(s) e.g. 'c@s.whatsapp.net.'
The tool used by the experts is an extension of the Burp Suite penetration testing software that allows users manipulating the actual WhatsApp communication using their own encryption keys.
"By sending this message WhatsApp application will crash in every phone that is a member of this group. The bug will crash the app and it will continue to crash even after we reopen WhatsApp, resulting in a crash loop." continues the analysis. "Moreover, the user will not be able to return to the group and all the data that was written and shared in the group is now gone for good. The group cannot be restored after the crash has happened and will have to be deleted in order to stop the crash."
Below a video PoC published by the experts:
"The bug will crash the app, and it will continue to crash even after we reopen WhatsApp, resulting in a crash loop," concludes the researchers. "Moreover, the user will not be able to return to the group and all the data that was written and shared in the group is now gone for good. The group cannot be restored after the crash has happened and will have to be deleted in order to stop the crash."
The attack would not affect the sender.
The researchers responsibly reported the bug to WhatsApp in late August, and the company addressed the issue with the release of WhatsApp version 2.19.58 in September.
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