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10 Years Later, 'The Host' is Still One of the Greatest Monster Movies Ever Made
Posted on Friday, April 28th, 2017 by Karen Han
When The Host was first released, it broke box office records in South Korea, and received critical acclaim upon its festival and stateside debut. It's been a decade since then, and in the intervening years, the movie's reputation as a masterpiece has only solidified.
Directed by Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, Mother, and more recently Snowpiercer), the film centers on a family thrown into chaos after a monster emerges from the Han River and kidnaps its youngest member. It's a monster movie, a family movie, a tragedy, a comedy, and a sociopolitical commentary; its elements should be at war with each other, but instead, they coalesce into a remarkable whole. A decade after release, it's better than ever.
Meeting the Monster
Bong Joon-ho seems to have an affinity for monsters, particularly when it comes to subverting the usual conventions in putting them up on screen. The biggest divergence from genre conventions occurs less than 15 minutes into the film. Instead of coming after a belabored build-up, the reveal of the monster is the first act's opener: the creature appears on the banks of the Han River in broad daylight and immediately begins eating every human in its sight. It's a horrifying sequence, from the shot of hands grappling desperately with the chained doors of a shipping crate as blood streams out onto the concrete beneath, to the way the monster labors in swallowing bodies. But the most harrowing part isn't the carnage the monster wreaks. Instead, it's the simple revelation of our hero having grabbed the wrong hand.
There's a lot packed into The Host. The monster, of course, dominated the marketing. Then there's the fact that the very first scene in the movie, in which an American military staffer orders his assistant to pour out 200 bottles of formaldehyde into a drain leading to the river, is based on real events (though they didn't result in a monster), and the portrayal of American diplomats as either incompetent or willfully destructive. It's a movie that could be dissected any number of ways, but there's one core to all the layers: the family.
We follow along with three generations of the Park family. There's Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong), who runs a small snack shop by the river with his son, Gang-du (Song Kang-ho), while his daughter Nam-joo (Bae Doona) competes in archery and his other son Nam-il (Park Hae-il) tries to sort out his life after having graduated from college. All of them dote on Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung), who seems to be the sharpest out of all of them despite only being in middle school. Though the movie has about as many branches as its monster has tails, it still pays a remarkable attention to detail, and there's not a single end left dangling. It's this level of detail that immediately ties us to the family, which in turn makes the scene on the riverbank devastating despite how early it happens in the film.
As the monster continues to wreck the riverside park, Gang-du spots Hyun-seo and grabs her hand in order to keep her with him as they run for their lives. In the chaos, he trips. The camera follows the movement of his arm as he fumbles in the grass to take Hyun-seo's hand again. When he does, he resumes running, but slowly, the camera pans back to reveal that the hand he's holding doesn't belong to his daughter, but to another young girl. Hyun-seo's still trying to get to her feet behind him, and then, within the next second, she's gone.
Again, this works as an opening gambit, not just because we now know what the stakes are, but because we've already been made to care. We've seen Gang-du walking behind Hyun-seo and holding up her backpack even as the straps are still around her arms, just to save her from carrying the weight. There's the empty ramen bowl he's been using as a piggybank, too, as he tells her he's been saving up to buy her a new cellphone; we see him cradling it in numb silence in the immediate aftermath of the attack. This sort of detail also manifests in one of the movie's funniest — and most upsetting — scenes. As the family gathers in front of the memorial that's been set up for the victims of the monster's attack, their sheer emotions cause them to collapse, deteriorating into wailing and writhing as a pack of paparazzi close in. Even through the grief, Hee-bong can be seen trying to pull down Nam-joo's shirt in a bid to preserve some of his daughter's dignity.
The Comedic and the Tragic
One of the most remarked-upon aspects of The Host is the balancing act it pulls off between comedy and tragedy. Much like the bulk of Park Chan-wook's work, or (for my money) one of last year's best films, Na Hong-jin's The Wailing, The Host finds humor in what seem like the bleakest of situations, from the memorial scene to the fact that Gang-du is utterly out of his depth when it comes to dealing with the tragedy that's befallen them. There's something idiotic about the image of him running behind a truck as it sprays disinfectant in an attempt to keep himself free of the supposed virus that the monster is carrying, but the explanation for it makes laughter a little harder to muster up. He's trying to keep himself from infecting his daughter if/when they find her.
The film's score underlines the thin genre line that the movie treads (the truck scene is scored by music that could have come out of a Ghibli film, given how well it conveys a sense of adventure). It hits all of the usual adventure/horror movie beats, but it seems to be less about building up tension through use but making it more obvious when it drops out. The warmest and the most horrific moments are both set to silence. The Host kills off two of its principal cast (and this is a spoiler, if you haven't seen the movie yet), and both scenes use silence to drive the emotion home. The first time the family confronts the monster, Gang-du tosses his father a rifle that he says has one bullet left. Hee-bong goes down to the riverbank to finish off the creature, but as it comes charging down the path and he pulls the trigger, there's silence. Gang-du has miscounted. That silence persists as Hee-bong turns around; there's no panic in his face, just a sort of acceptance as he waves to his children to keep running. It's a sickening lack of noise, particularly as the next sound we hear is the monster mowing Hee-bong down, killing him instantly. In a wrenching parallel, the blocking and editing of the sequence is copied at the end of the film when Gang-du confronts the monster himself, just after pulling his daughter's dead body from the monster's maw.
That Hyun-seo doesn't survive is a shock, not least because the whole movie centers on her attempted rescue. It reflects Bong's refusal to take the easy way out, grounding fantastical stories through inherently human — and sometimes difficult — details. For instance, the last scene of the whole family together is a fantasy rather than a reality. They sit around a small table to eat in near-darkness, with a hole in their midst now that Hyun-seo's been taken. But as they eat in silence, she materializes between them. There are no words exchanged, no statements made — quietly, they feed her, fix her hair, treat the idea of her just as they would if she were really there. It's a last respite. There's nothing else so supernatural in the movie — even the monster is explained away — but it still fits (no pun intended) like a dream.
Other Creatures
The themes of family and monsters are common in Bong Joon-ho's work. Generally speaking, the same could probably be said for most directors, but there's no one else who can mix and subvert genres so deftly. Mother, released in 2009, is maybe the best of his other works. It tells the story of an old woman trying to prove her son's innocence after he's supposedly tricked into confessing to a murder. It's a masterpiece in bringing a small-town drama up to near-gothic heights as, again, no detail goes forgotten, with the movie tying itself into a neat circle that's just as likely to tear you apart as satisfy. How this will work out with Bong's upcoming feature, Okja, remains to be seen, but what we already know about the movie promises great things. At its core, it seems to be the story of a girl and her monster, but what we know of the forces pursuing her (corporate greed and the perpetual question of coexistence between man and nature — even the monster in The Host is just trying to survive) and the images we've seen from the set so far suggest that it may hew closer to The Host in terms of variety in scale and the themes it addresses.
A River, a Family, and a Monster
That The Host still occupies such a prominent space in the pantheon of monster movies — let alone movies in general — is an impressive feat. But it's with good reason. It's a film that reaches sublime heights with seemingly incompatible parts, skipping through different genres while keeping a single idea at its center. It's also aged well; arguably the only thing that really dates it are the cell phones. The monster is still terrifying, though it plays second fiddle to the themes of growing up, losing a parent or a child, and moving on. Much like its monster, The Host is a mutation, and while parts of it are grotesque, it's ultimately a beautiful creature.
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Making India a great nation, can happen only through the participation of 130 crore Indians: Prime Minister
Sep 30, 2019, 11:24 am IST
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Chennai to take part in the 56th Convocation of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He addresses the media at Chennai International Airport.
Speaking on the occasion, the PM said, "this is my first visit to Chennai after the General Elections of 2019. I have come to attend the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of IIT Madras, but I am highly indebted to all of you for coming in such large numbers to welcome me".
When I spoke in Tamil to the Indian Community in America during my recent visit and told that Tamil is the oldest language in the World it was widely reported in all the media in the USA, he added.
He said that "during my visit to the USA, I realised that the World is looking up to India with great expectations and that the expectation is increasing by the day. Now it is our responsibility to not only make India a great nation but also to see to it that it meets the expectations of the World community".
Modi said that this cannot merely be done by the Union Government it can happen only through the 130 Crore Indians. It can happen only with effort of every Indian in every nook and corner of the country, either rich or poor, either rural or urban, young or old.
He said that we have achieved many a success through Public Participation and in the same way we should rid the country of the Single Use Plastic. Some people by mistake are misinterpreting that I wanted India to be rid of Plastic, I did not say so, What I said was that I want the country should be rid of Single Use Plastic. This plastic can be used only once and it creates a lot of problems later.
On 2nd October, the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi we shall take up a Padyatra, and shall spread the ideals of Gandhi through these padyatras, he added.
He said, "I once again thank you for coming in such large numbers to welcome me".
He will also address the Singapore India Hackathon 2019 at the IIT-M Research Park and will visit the startups at the pavilion there. He will deliver the Convocation address at the institutes's Students Activity Centre.
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Kerala Governor joins fast against practice of dowry
Pak LeT commander among three militants killed in Pulwama encounter
Ramesh Bais takes oath as new Governor of Jharkhand

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Q: APEX Line of Best Fit im trying to plot Line of Best Fit on my apex chart.
The problem is, i need to do it dynamically, not trough XML (i mean, i can (but shouldn't) just plot the line directly in XML).
Here is the result of SQL, which later create points on my Scatter Chart:
S       F       P       V
1.09    1   0.02326 -1.32474
1.1     2   0.06977 -0.97930
1.13    1   0.09302 -0.86496
1.14    3   0.16279 -0.59624
1.15    2   0.20930 -0.44723

Here is how this chart should look like-ish

The thing is, i need to build a line of best fit, and i cant to do this through SQL.
Here is the initial SQL, to get data, which i've provided on top of this topic:
SELECT
  ROUND(sum(cny) over(ORDER BY ny) / ('&P8_COUNT.' +1),6) p,
  cny f,
  ny s,
  ROUND(-ln(ABS(ln(ROUND(sum(cny) over(ORDER BY ny) / ('&P8_COUNT.' +1),6)))),5) v
FROM
  (SELECT ny,count(ny) cny
   FROM
     (SELECT t.ny
      FROM test.test4 t
      WHERE COMMENT LIKE '% &P8_DATA./%'
        OR COMMENT LIKE '% 0&P8_DATA./%'
      ORDER BY date DESC)
   GROUP BY ny)
WHERE ROWNUM <= 30

Is there any way, to plot this line directly from SQL, and not manually?
P.S. Here is the example how to build it directly in XML: AnyChart.com Scatter Graph Charts

A: There is only one option, its the one you suggested already:

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*Build the XML dynamically via an Application Process in combination of a AJAX Request (that't what we do mostly for our more complex productive applications)

*Using the 2. data series as a second source for a line doesn't work as the data source is fixed if you use the default APEX form for building graphs for AnyChart

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Local time: 20:40 PALAESTRA
Zalgiris put one foot in the Top 16 from complicated Group B on Wednesday with a thrilling 70-74 overtime road win against Montepaschi in Siena, Italy. Zalgiris raised its record to 7-6, tying Montepasch and AEK, all of them in third place. Dainius Salenga put Zalgiris ahead for good with a three-pointer late in overtime, then Mindaugas Timinskas sealed the victory with 4 perfect free throws in the final minute. Tanoka Beard was the anchor once again for the winners, with 20 points and 13 rebounds. Salenga added 13 points, Timinskis 11, Robert Pack and Paulius Jankunas 10 each. Carlton Myers led Siena with 16 points. Efthimios Rentzias and Vrbica Stefanov added 13 each, Bootsy Thornton 12 and Mindaugas Zukauskas 10.
Beard drilled 6 points early to show Zalgiris was read. Myers opened the scoring for Montepaschi with a triple, then Thornton blocked Pack and finished at the other end with a reverse layup to get the Siena crowd going. Salenga sank a shot from downtown to start a 0-7 reaction by Zalgiris that he also closed with a layup that put the guests ahead 8-15. By making 3 steals, Montepaschi was able to come back as Thornton scored to make it 14-15, just before Salenga lighted the night with an amazing reverse dunk from the baseline.Myers closed the first quarter with a basket-plus-free throw after driving on big Martynas Andriuskevicius, but Zalgiris still escaped with a 17-18 edge after 10 minutes.
Rentzias and Stefanov erased the Zalgiris lead and put Montepaschi ahead 21-18 to start the second quarter, but that lasted only until Ainars Bagatskis fired from the arc for the guests. Montepaschi continued to make a move as Rentzias drilled 2 layups and Stefanov a triple to boost the difference to 34-25. Zalgiris reacted with a pair of fastbreaks by Timinskas, who made a fine one-on-one move in traffic to complete a 0-8 run that put his team within 34-33. Rentzias stepped out to the arc and buried a triple, but Beard rocked the rim to end the half with the scoreboard showing a 37-35 Montepaschi advantage.
Myers began the second half with a triple, but the focus now switched to the battle in the paint. Rentzias scored 4 points in a row, but Beard and Paulius Jankunas led Zalgiris to a new lead of 46-47. Vidas Ginevicius added a triple to the visitors' lead and forced a Montepaschi timeout. Defensive big man Benjamin Eze joined the hosts on the court and started a great duel with Beard. Montepaschi now seemed able to limit the great effort of Zalgiris's frontcourt, but Salenga simply moved to the perimeter and closed the third period with an incredible triple to give the guests a 50-55 advantage.
Montepaschi tried to react with Mindaugas Zukauskas and Stefanov to start the final quarter, but again Zalgiris answered from the arc as Bagatskis faked and hit an off-balance shot from downtown. The hosts stayed close as Zukauskas also blasted a triple, then took a 59-58 lead with 2 free throws by Stefanov. Beard came back and worked for a turnaround jumper in the low post and Zalgiris switched to a 2-3 zone on defense. Eze tied at 60-60 with 3 minutes to play and then Pack fired a sweet stop-and-pop jumper for Zalgiris. Myers tied again with free throws and the game remained even after 39 minutes. The scoring pace quickened as Timinskas made it 62-63, Montepaschi took back the lead with a triple by Zukauskas, but Pack tied again with a powerful drive. He left 9 seconds on the clock, and with only 1 left, Zalgiris fouled Eze, who missed both his free throws, sending the game to overtime, 65-65.
Salenga's big triple made it the 65-68 and Pack upped the lead to 4 points with a drive. The game was still open when Thornton made a layup for 68-70 layup, but Timinskas was sure at the line, hitting twice with 31 seconds to play, and again after that to put Zalgiris on the brink of the Top 16.
Stefano Sensi, Siena
Referees: COELHO, ANTONIO; ARTEAGA, JUAN CARLOS; ANKARALI, RECEP; BALDINI, LUCIANO
Montepaschi Siena 15 22 13 15 5
Zalgiris 18 17 20 10 9
Montepaschi Siena 15 37 50 65 70
Zalgiris 18 35 55 65 74
Montepaschi Siena
4 STEFANOV, VRBICA 37:45 13 4/9 1/3 2/2 3 3 2 2 2 2 4 13
5 ZUKAUSKAS, MINDAUGAS 20:15 10 2/2 2/5 0/1 2 2 4 2 1 1 3 13
6 GALANDA, GIACOMO 10:45 0/2 1 1 2 -3
8 EZE, BENJAMIN 17:15 1 0/1 1/4 4 4 8 2 2 3 3 5
9 VANTERPOOL, DAVID 15:30 1 0/2 1/2 1 2 3 1 3 3 5 2 -1
10 MYERS, CARLTON 35:00 16 2/7 3/9 3/3 3 4 7 2 4 4 1 1 2 14
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15 KAKIOUZIS, MICHAILIS 20:45 4 2/4 0/1 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 1 6
18 LAMMA, DAVIDE 2:15 1 1 1 1
20 RENTZIAS, EFTHYMIOS 22:00 13 5/6 1/3 1 3 4 1 2 1 2 1 17
Totals 225:00 70 19/40 7/26 11/20 14 26 40 13 22 20 3 2 21 21 77
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4 GINEVICIUS, VIDAS 24:45 4 0/1 1/2 1/2 2 2 2 1 1 5 2 2
5 PACK, ROBERT 32:15 10 5/12 1 4 5 4 4 6 2 1 4 11
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7 LAVRINOVIC, DARJUS 6:00 1 -1
8 BAGATSKIS, AINARS 15:30 6 2/6 2 2 4
9 SALENGA, DAINIUS 42:00 13 2/5 3/7 1 2 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 9
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15 SERAPINAS, SIMONAS 3:00 0/2 0/2 2 2 1 -3
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Published On: Wed, May 2nd, 2018
Cancun / Headlines | By Riviera Maya Times
The Cancun Paradox: record occupation figures in the middle of an insecurity crisis
As published by Riviera Maya News, while the city of Cancun celebrates its 48th birthday with the best tourist numbers in its history, several voices agree that it is also experiencing the worst crisis of insecurity.
In hard numbers, the city rang in its 48th anniversary with 37,300 rooms and an average occupation of 79.8 percent for the end of 2017. It also recorded a record number of tourists, exceeding 5 million last year for the first time with the airport counting 23 million passengers.
Even the State Tourism Secretariat is reporting that between 2018 and 2019, the region is anticipating the construction and opening of 8,622 additional rooms between Cancun and Puerto Morelos. Of that total, 5,155 will be built in the Cancun Hotel Zone.
Yet, the city continues to deal with violence and insecurity that affects not only tourism, but also those who live and work in the region. Carlos Cardín, former Benito Juarez mayor, says that while the 48th anniversary of Cancun reflects the success of the city, it also reflects the problems that are growing.
Although it's true that Cancún has been an economic engine for the state and in turn a generator of jobs, it is also beginning to experience control problems such as social and security factors.
While not an exclusive problem to Cancun, Cancun is showing signs of insecurity being a top global destination, climbing its way to the top, but at a price.
(Photo: wikimedia commons)
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography recently announced that Cancun is among the five cities in the country with the highest perception of insecurity by its citizens with 93.2 percent of residents saying they do not feel safe in Cancun.
Carlos Cardín said that this figure is not surprising because every day there is Cancun news about violence and criminal acts. Added to this is the palpable loss in the quality of life, he added, as the population continues to grow, it creates a deterioration of social fabric.
Click here for full article on the Riviera Maya News
Source: Riviera Maya News
El Chapo asks AMLO to bring him back to Mexico, he claims to suffer from psychological torture in the U.S.


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> Demo some of the popular sorting methods w/ JS on canvas!

## Try it!
Visit the projects [GitHub IO Page][github-io] and play around.

## Install and develop
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git clone https://www.github.com/p1100i/jsorted
npm install
./grunt setup
```

## License
[MIT License][git-LICENSE]

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Q: Facebook - Stream.publish I want to programmatically publish messages to my site user's facebook page on their behalf, whenever certain events are triggered from my site. I'll have a cron that executes stream.publish when needed.
I am looking at stream.publish to accomplish this, which requires extended permission from the facebook user. Since the user will not be engaged in the publishing, how would I go about getting publish_stream extended permission from my user base? Can they do it while they are signing up on my site or if they provide me their username & password, can I do it for them?
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Using_the_Open_Stream_API#About_the_publish_stream_Permission

A: The only way to do this is via a permissions dialog.  If you are using facebook connect check out FB.Connect.showPermissionsDialog otherwise you can easily include FB:prompt-permission in your fbml.
If you are using an iframe/facebook connect you can probably invoke FB.Connect.showPermissionsDialog without any user action (so the will see the dialog on page load).  In the FBML case you will need to direct your user to click on the link that brings up the window.

A: You need to prompt for both the offline_access and stream_publish extended permissions.  You can do this when they signup for your app.  Maybe you have a settings page where the user turns on these notifications, and when they turn it on you can prompt for the extended permissions.
When you are granted offline_access by your user, their Facebook sessionkey will change and the expires value will switch to zero.  This is known in Facebook circles as an "infinite sessionkey"  You need to save this sessionkey for later use in your cron job.  You can then call stream.publish using the infinite sessionkey as a parameter, and it will go through even though the user is not logged into your site or facebook at the time.


David Malouf: The Complete Stories.
Kindle. An assembly of Malouf's short stories. I particularly enjoyed re-reading those previously in Every Move You Make and Dream Stuff, and some of Antipodes. Nothing in Child's Play struck a bell. I think Malouf generally got better as he went. He's totally across his flora, and his colours ("celestial blue", the colour of a builder's new shirt).


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Josep Gudiol i Cunill, né en 1872 à Vic et mort en 1931 dans la même municipalité, est un historien de l'art espagnol, archéologue et conservateur de musée.

Biographie
Né en 1872 à Vic, Josep Gudiol i Cunill est profondément impliqué dans la renaissance culturelle nationaliste qui a lieu en Catalogne à la fin du XIXe siècle. Ses publications comprennent une monographie sur l'art catalan du XIVe siècle, qui accompagne une étude antérieure de S. Sanpere i Miquel sur l'art catalan du XVe siècle. Une grande partie de l'œuvre de Gudiol i Cunill sont cependant centrée sur le Museu Arqueologic Artistic Episcopal, Vic, fondé en 1889 et inauguré en 1891 avec une superbe collection de 1300 objets, dont la plupart sont des exemples d'art catalan médiéval. Nommé conservateur en 1898, Gudiol i Cunill y travaille jusqu'à sa mort. Il écrit beaucoup sur le musée et produit divers guides de la collection. Il meurt en 1931 à Vic

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Archéologue espagnol du XIXe siècle
Archéologue espagnol du XXe siècle
Membre correspondant de la Section d'histoire et d'archéologie de l'IEC
Historien de l'art espagnol
Naissance en septembre 1872
Naissance dans la province de Barcelone
Décès en avril 1931
Décès à 58 ans

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Review Summary: Celebrate the Americas.
Damien Jurado is an incredibly prominent musician, whose career spans over two decades and over a dozen albums. This is a man, who doesn't appear to be a superstar artist from aside, nor does he have the appeal of stadium headliner. Damien is never detached from reality with his stardom and he mostly poises the appeal of someone you'd most likely go out for a beer with. That is his charm, that is his vibe; he is someone just like you, a down-to-earth bloke with his own problems, a job, a hobby, probably a mortgage, a car that keeps breaking down, a headful of bittersweet memories and coincidentally a prolific musical career and massive lyrical ingenuity.
Thematically, this album is down-to-earth, but musically it is like levitation. You feel an incredible rush of looseness and calm. The songs are subdued, but they never come off as depressed, depressive or trying hard to tear you up. The vocals are quiet and echoic, but never downtrodden, rather trying to –with lyrical help – engulf you with warmth and safety of the nostalgia they dedicate these canticles to. And while in the past, Damien has been keen on experimenting with more typical indie rock influences on I Break Chairs, slightly orchestral arrangements on Saint Bartlett, country influence of Caught in the Trees or something downright psychedelic Visions of Us on the Land, The Horizon Just Laughed is easily his most non-explosive (apart from its closer) and soulful record yet, where he barely has a loud moment. Everything here is about the calm, the quiet and the free-flowing haziness.
"Allocate", the album's opener, is quite possibly (and surprisingly) the most extravagant cut on the whole record, featuring background strings, somewhat fuzzy lo-fi production of some of the instruments and foggy atmosphere. But right after that it is as if Damien set himself a challenge to make that very arrangement work the exact opposite way, creating atmosphere as simple as possible, with "Dear Thomas Wolfe" being rather a feel-good catchy little sweetness than a heavy ambitious piece. All the while, that song also serves as this album's entry into Damien's ever continuing love letter to American states, this time cheerfully proclaiming "I'm off to Nebraska, I'm off to Maine." And much in the same vein, "Percy Faith" is another catchy tune of a man and the America.
With that pretty much ends the playful part of the album and kicks off the serene melancholy The Horizon Just Laughed truly is all about. "Over Rainbows and Rainier" caresses with its gentle simplicity, all the while managing to come off as absolutely gorgeous, what with Damien's vocals mixed in a way that makes them sound like he's right next to your ears. "The Last Great Washingotn State" also checks many of the same boxes, but also adds a distant string background. Returning to guitar-led kindness-galore, "1973", which is also one of album's brightest crown jewels with its melody most exquisite, instrumentation most charming and lyrics most touching. Afterwards it is a variation of the same, with lounge-folk of "Marvin Kaplan", guitar tenderness of "Lou-Jean" and near-rock influenced "Florence-Jean". All of that then elegantly finished by "Random Fearless", a closer relying mostly on bluesy influences and for once some more-or-less engrossing song-writing.
If there's anything this album is a proof of, then it's of Damien's 'regular guy' persona; a regular guy, who just has an incredible neck for poeticism and fondness of America in its most natural and sentimental way. The Horizon Just Laughed is about as grandiose as a cup of tea on a winter evening. It is difficult to say, whether it is Damien's most mature effort yet, but it is definitely his most mellow one.
just to remind folks that it is finally online.
In which I am The Horizon.
oh hey, Doof. is this what you are now?
Nice review Uni, this really is nice. I can see it growing into a 4.5 for me.
It might be. I've heard about 200 albums this year already, it is possible that I liked some of them.
To be honest, Joe has the most reasonable listening rate of all of us here.


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Draft bill on transparency of civil society organizations: foundations and associations must publish donations and financial data
On December 21, 2018, the Minister for Legal Protection published the draft bill on the Civil Society Organizations Transparency Act. The proposal provides for, on the one hand, insight into cash flows to civil society organizations by publishing information about donors who donate or make gifts of EUR 15,000 or more per year and, on the other hand, the obligation for foundations to disclose certain financial information.
Objective of the bill
According to the Explanatory Notes to the bill, the government hopes to increase the transparency of cash flows to civil society organizations. This should prevent the financing of civil society organizations from being associated with undesirable influence and the abuse of democratic freedoms. It is also intended to stop the misuse of these organizations for financial and economic purposes. Non-compliance with the obligations will be punished.
It is a very broadly worded bill and will potentially affect many foundations (stichtingen) and associations (verenigingen), for example public benefit organizations (Algemeen Nut Beogende Instellingen; ANBIs), sports clubs, churches and possibly also trust office foundations (stichtingen administratiekantoren; STAKs). This bill is thus extremely important for directors of foundations and associations.
Proposed measures
The bill focuses on civil society organizations that have the form of a foundation, an association or a church, as well as comparable foreign legal forms that are permanently active in the Netherlands. In principle, all foundations and associations fall under the term 'civil society organization'. This also applies to churches and church organizations and to the aforementioned organizational forms of comparable foreign entities that perform activities in the Netherlands on a permanent basis.
These civil society organizations must disclose all donations with a value of at least EUR 15,000, which the organization received in a financial year. In publishing this information, the organization must disclose details such as the amount of the donation, the date on which it was received and the donor's name and where they reside. All the directors of civil society organizations, as well as the members of a supervisory body insofar as there is one, must sign the donation statements.
The bill also seeks to oblige foundations to disclose their balance sheets and income statements. This applies to all foundations that are not already required to publish their financial statements. To date, foundations were already obliged to prepare balance sheets and income statements. The disclosure of these documents in the Trade Register is a new requirement. It is striking that the disclosure obligation in respect of the Trade Register does not apply to associations, churches or foreign entities comparable to a foundation, church or association.
The bill offers scope to use an Order in Council to exempt civil society organizations from the obligation to disclose the donation statement or the balance sheet and income statement. This could include, for example, organizations that are already accountable or already fall under some form of external supervision. It is however still unclear which organizations will be exempted. In the Explanatory Notes the government stated that objective criteria on this will follow.
Possible consequences and ambiguities
The first measure that has been proposed means that it will no longer be possible to make anonymous donations to civil society organizations for amounts of EUR 15,000 or more in a financial year. The privacy of the donor is also curtailed by the disclosure of personal data and the donated amount. The argument used to justify this curtailment of the right to privacy is unconvincing. For example, it could suffice if only certain institutions (e.g. the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Dutch tax authorities, banks and notaries) are able to inspect the donations. It is unclear why the public has to be aware of individual - substantial - donations to civil society organizations.
A potential consequence of the proposed threshold of EUR 15,000 is that there will be a decrease in donations of such a size. It is unclear how this legislation will affect regular gifts or donations occurring over a longer period.
The mandatory disclosure of financial documents, in principle, affects all foundations that are not already obliged to disclose documents. It is still unclear whether managing foundations (beheerstichtingen) (for example, foundations acting as the general partner of a limited partnership (commanditaire vennootschap; CV) or as manager/custodian of a mutual fund (fonds voor gemene rekening)) or a trust office foundation will be affected by the bill. It seems illogical to have these types of foundations fall under the legislation, because they do not generally have a 'societal' objective.
The draft bill also does not make clear whether, for example, ANBIs may be eligible for any exemptions from disclosing their balance sheet and income statement. This is because they are already obliged on other grounds to disclose these documents on their website.
Furthermore, non-compliance with the timely disclosure of the donation statement or balance sheet and income statement could lead to directors being held liable on the grounds of mismanagement. In addition, late disclosure may also be an economic offense within the meaning of the Economic Offenses Act (Wet op de economische delicten), with possible penalties being a maximum six-month custodial sentence, community service or a pecuniary penalty. At present, we do not know how the Public Prosecutor will deal with this in practice.
The consultation on the bill closes on February 22, 2019. The government has not yet made any announcements about the date on which the Act is intended to take effect. The bill does however state that donations made before the Act takes effect will not fall under its scope. The bill also states that the disclosure obligation for foundations applies to the balance sheet and income statement for financial years commencing on or after the first day of the sixth month before the date on which the Act takes effect.
Meijburg Legal will closely follow developments on this bill and inform you accordingly. We would of course be pleased to answer any questions you may have about how the bill could affect you as donor or as organization.
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Hillary Chybinski: how-to . . .Getting Gorgeous . . .
how-to . . .Getting Gorgeous . . .
On Saturday I had the opportunity to attend the Getting Gorgeous with Degree event in NYC. What is Getting Gorgeous? It's the brain child of the talented and lovely Audrey McClelland and Vera Sweeney. It is an opportunity for women (MOMS) to get a break and be good to themselves, as well as an opportunity to bring brands and bloggers together in the name of both internal and external beauty.
This was my first experience with an event of this size (smaller than a conference but bigger than a networking event). And it was wonderful. As a recap I thought I'd give you my highlights and some things I learned for next time.
Make a plan - like bridge, you should take a few minutes at the beginning to plan you hand.
If there is swag you are particularly excited about-check it before you leave. I am still bummed that I got 2 different sized shoes from FlipOutSandals.
Do not bring more than you need it's just extra weight to carry around - and who needs THAT? Take pictures! I know - I scrapbook - seems obvious. . .
Eat breakfast before starting out! Or pack snacks.
Overall is was a great experience and a wonderful event! I came away with lots of great information as well as swag - and it was so much fun to hang out with already friends and make new ones, learning about different businesses and bloggers. A special shout out to the PSMMs for being such a wonderful network and group of friends.
Did you go to Getting Gorgeous? What did you learn?
note: I received an invitation to this event and a swag bag for attending. I was not requested or required to write a post. As always all opinions expressed on this blog are my very own.
I learned I love hanging out with a sassy fun girl named Hillary! You were so much fun working that side of the room and bonding and enjoying our delightful cupcakes together.


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Q: Mediawiki disable Talk pages from public viewing I recently started using Mediawiki and I am currently on version 1.17.
I would like to disable Talk namespace pages from viewing from public. I already disabled UserCreation as I would like only me to edit the pages. So, I am basically using it as a CMS.
My question is, how can I disable view access for Talk pages for public.
PS: I already disabled the tab bar, so the Discussion link doesn't appear, but if some one manually types Talk:PageName, it opens up. This is what I want to disable.

A: This will only hide the talk pages. People can still use them by going to the URL directly.
In addition add this to your LocalSettings.php to prevent people from editing talk pages:
for($i = 1;$i < 12; $i += 2) {
  $wgNamespaceProtection[$i] = 'noedit';
}

A: MediaWiki is not designed for this kind of usage since Talk pages are inherent to the system. One possible way for you would be to hide the talk page links by editing your skin.
The following CSS will hide the top talk links:
li#ca-talk {
 display: none;
}

A: In LocalSettings.php set:
$wgDisableAnonTalk = false;
According to the Manual:$wgDisableAnonTalk this 'disables links to talk pages of anonymous users (IPs) in listings on special pages'.

A: Hide the talk pages like in the other answers and additionally disable access to the talk pages by blacklisting URLs matching that pattern in your web server or WAF.


Alex isn't negative. He just enjoys taking the ■■■■ and upsetting everyone. Definition of a troll.
That sure was the worst game I've ever seen, somehow worse than last year.
I forgot this was on and when flipping the channels came across it last night.
Watched a couple of tippas possessions then changed channels again.
It was like kick to kick up and down the field.
Could barely tell who was who,stupid teams, tops etc.
Little interest in concept, give me a practice match any day.
Crowd was like 23,500 they probably gave away more Tickets than that.
@Catherine_Lio ask Xavier if he can arrange a practice match against the pies or Richmond in Launceston next year. Doesn't have to be jlt.
Free entry would be great.
Betts was again the target of online racism during AFLX. When will this crap stop?
Yes it's true. You take the cake…and then you complain about it.
They already know it's rubbish but they don't care.
They will stick with it and you will like it.
It was really just a marketing opportunity to gather the cream of the crop together, let them enjoy each other's company for a day or two then have a few sessions practising pin pointing kicks. I am pleased there was no tackling (gather this was a rule??) as it would have been devastating to get an injury in this fairy floss game.
The players seemed/pretended to enjoy it.
Only benefit I can see is for the likes of McGrath & Walla to rub shoulders with some of the older stars.
326,000 metro viewers – 201,000 in Melbourne.
how many of those people paid. I'd be very surprised if more than a quarter of them paid, based on all the freebies that were apparently being handed out.
I remember reading the cost to do it often makes it pointless unless it's a big crowd.


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"Very Pop!": An Excerpt from the Memoir of John Giorno, Andy Warhol's '60s Muse and Lover
By John Giorno
In the early '60s the poet and artist John Giorno was Andy Warhol's lover. Here, in an excerpt from his new memoir Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment, he recounts the patrons that surrounded the artist and his first glimpses of Warhol's box structures.
On March 14, 1964, Andy and I went to the opening of Cy Twombly's show at the Leo Castelli Gallery. The work was lyric Abstract Expressionist paintings on primed canvases where the imprint of the artist's fingers and hand marked the void.
"What do you think?" I asked. The paintings were wonderful, but I had a knee-jerk response to feel neutral, because they were not like the works of Andy and the Pop artists, Bob and Jasper and the others I liked.
"Oh, they're so creative," said Andy, his ultimate put-down.
It was a cheerful night, and of course I had no idea that this was a cataclysmic moment in Cy Twombly's life—that he would receive bad reviews for the exhibition, and be rejected by the art world for not being in tune with the times.
Andy and I left the gallery and stood outside on the sidewalk with about twenty people. It had been an unseasonably hot day and the evening was warm.
"It's what they call a false spring," I said.
John Giorno, depicted here in a still from Andy Warhol's silt 1964 film, Sleep. Giorno was Warhol's lover at the time. ©2020 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, a museum of Carnegie Institute.
Photo: © CNAC/MNAM/Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
We were talking with the Pop Art collectors Bob and Ethel Scull, as well as Roy Lichtenstein. "Let's have dinner together," said Ethel.
"Oh, yes!" said Andy.
"Where?" said Bob Scull. "La Côte Basque, but they probably won't have a reservation. I'll try." He went back inside the gallery, telephoned, and returned. "No reservation, completely full." I also thought perhaps, understandably, he did not want to pay for everybody.
There were lots of suggestions of restaurants and nobody made up their mind. About ten of us walked to Madison Avenue and Seventy-Seventh and stood on the corner, trying to decide. The indecision went on interminably, and everyone left, except Ethel and Bob, Andy, and me.
"I know a place," said Andy. "On Lexington and Eighty-Sixth."
"Let's go there," said Bob.
We were relieved a decision had been made, took a taxi, and got out on the corner of Lexington and Eighty-Sixth, in front of Sabrett's Hot Dogs, in all its red and yellow and white glory. It was near Andy's house and he and I had eaten there on occasion, when we were hungry and in a hurry.
Ethel and Bob were very surprised. We laughed and laughed, Bob with tears in his eyes.
Andy Warhol painted the collector Ethel Scull for his first piece of commissioned art. Ethel Scull 36 Times.
© 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
"Very Pop!" I said obnoxiously. And it was very appropriate, since the Sculls were nouveau riche and quite vulgar. She was overbearing, and he was probably a crook, having made a small fortune from a fleet of taxicabs. Years later, it was revealed that he was addicted to prescription drugs and connected to the mafia. But their shortcomings were overlooked because they were buying the right art.
We ordered hot dogs and orange sodas. Andy asked me, "How many do you want?"
"Just two," I said. We had come two nights before, and I had ordered three hot dogs, as I hadn't eaten all day and was starving.
That night Andy had sighed sexually, "Ohhh, will they fit in there?!"
Now, the Sculls were thrilled that Andy had taken them to a hot dog stand. "Andy always surprises ya," said Bob. "Fabulous!" We joyously ate the hot dogs. The Sculls and I were a little drunk from the opening at Castelli. Andy was very pleased with himself. As we said good night, Andy told the Sculls, "Come to my studio on Saturday, I want to show you my new work."
Andy, we saw that Saturday, had officially entered his "box" period. In a pile on the floor were about twenty white cubes, each advertising in red and blue lettering: "Brillo soap pads . . . 24 Giant Size Pkgs." He had silk-screened them days before, so they were fresh. They radiated greatness. Elsewhere were several other similar works: supermarket packaging for Heinz Tomato Ketchup and Campbell's Tomato Juice; not the bottles and cans themselves, but the boxes that would contain them. A small crowd of friends and critics just stood around looking.
"You've done it again," I said. The work was inconceivably wonderful.
Andy had been playing with the idea of boxes for some time—the cans stenciled on a cube the year before, another ketchup box just this past January. It was a little bit a parody of Bob Morris, whose seminal show of cube sculptures Andy and I had seen the previous Halloween. By chance, the art dealer John Weber happened to see Andy's first Heinz box and asked to borrow it for a show of boxes he was putting on at the Dwan Gallery in February in Los Angeles. Instead, Andy started on a series of different boxes, sending one of the Heinz boxes and three Brillo boxes to Dwan, then expanding his work to what we were seeing that day. The Sculls arrived. Ethel was thin and chic, wearing a blue pantsuit and gold jewelry, and sporting a Miami Beach suntan. Bob wore a polyester leisure suit. They were too good to be believed. Ethel walked right up to the Brillo boxes and said, "They're fabulous! I want some." Everyone laughed. "Bob, how many should we get?"
Andy Warhol, photographed in front of his work.
Photo: Lasse Olsson / Pressens Bild, courtesy FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
"As many as you want!"
"And some of those." She pointed to the Heinz Tomato Ketchup boxes.
The Sculls were lucky. They were in the right place at the right time, and even though they weren't particularly sophisticated, they were smart enough to seize the opportunity. They weren't enormously wealthy but had just enough money to indulge their passion.
Ethel and Bob had come from their Saturday rounds visiting the art galleries. "We bought this at Knoedler's," said Bob, pulling a small bronze statue of a male god from ancient Greece from Ethel's handbag. "I just liked it!"
"Oh, it's so beautiful," said Andy. Everyone was astonished and laughed. We all looked at it.
I whispered to Andy, "Only a gay man buys a statue of a Greek god."
"I know," said Andy. Bob Scull was a hunky, refined truck-driver type. "I can see him cruising the baths."
When the Brillo boxes opened at the Stable Gallery in April, they were a great success. The Sculls offered to pay for a party at the Factory. I went, made several walks through the crowd, chatting, but the loud noise made it difficult to hear anything. Everybody was trying to get his or her picture taken, trying to be famous. Many were high on speed, and the level of adrenaline aggression was overwhelming. It was a nightmare and I left abruptly.
Bob Scull complained that nobody was taking Ethel's picture. And the next day in the newspapers, there was a photograph of the southern-belle scenester Marguerite Lamkin at the party, but no Ethel. The Sculls were furious and refused to pay for the party after all, and it was wonderful gossip. Weeks later, Andy whined, "They still haven't paid for the party. I think that's terrible."
I encouraged him to delight in their outsized crassness, but he wouldn't.
A few years later, when the really rich collectors bought Pop Art, the Sculls were completely eclipsed and forgotten, and their world collapsed.
Excerpted from Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment by John Giorno published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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So I am going to pick up a gun for my apartment....something along the lines of home defense. I have a friend setup who is going to show me all the basic information...being as I know almost nothing about guns and he has about 200.
There have been a LOT of armed robberies in my neighborhood lately...so I want a gun that is going to make someone think twice, but is a good beginner gun...and doesn't cost a fortune.
What are you looking to spend? And what kind of gun?
A handgun can run about $600 and is more compact and I don't know if CO has open carry or what their gun rights are.
I was thinking a handgun honestly, but I was hoping to keep it under 500 bucks.
If you're looking for a handgun, I strongly recommend looking at the Springfield XD line. They generally retail in the $400-$500 range, they often come with multiple magazines (and occasionally a magazine and case), and they're incredibly reliable. I used a Springfield XD Service (4" barrel) chambered in .40S&W as my primary carry weapon for several years, and it has been my main home defense weapon since I bought it six years ago.
My favorite aspect of the XD is that it's incredibly accurate right out of the box. It points very naturally for me (as opposed to Glocks) so I didn't really have to "learn" to shoot that particular weapon.
XDs come in a number of chamberings (9mm to .45 ACP), barrel lengths (3" to 5"), and grip sizes (regular XD and the higher capacity XDm model), so the sky is really the limit. If you're looking primarily for a home defense weapon, I'd recommend going for the "middle of the road" across the board. The XD .40 Service (4") is small enough to be manageable, powerful enough to stop pretty much anything, and offers a high enough capacity to put down a group of bad guys.
Thanks Bob. I will look into their website and see if I like what I see. The price seems to be right on the limit of what I was hoping to spend, but if its reliable and comes with some bonus bells and whistles then i will definately consider it!
I think a .40 XD would be perfect for your price and what you may need it for. Just don't forget to get hollow points!
So, Wes, did you ever pick up anything?
I would say a shotty and a cheap handgun, two is better than one. I like to have a gun everywhere in the house, you never know where you will be when someone kicks in your door.


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Q: Convert a pandas dataframe from rows to columns Updating to get the correct answer:
My data frame is in the format. Below is just the dummy data
A         B
'Animal'  'Tiger'
'Speed'   '1'
'Mammal'  'Yes'
'Animal'  'Elephant'
'Speed'   '10'
'Mammal'  'No'
'Animal'  'Leapord'
'Speed'   '30'
'Mammal'  'No'

Desired output
Animal   Speed Mammal
Tiger    1     Yes
Elephant 10    Yes
Leapord  30    yes

how can I achieve this?

A: You can achieve this like so:
import pandas as pd
d = {'A': ['col1','col2','col3'], 'B': ['val1', 'val2','val3']}
df = pd.DataFrame(data=d)
df = df.set_index("A")
df = df.T
print(df.head)

Output:
A  col1  col2  col3
B  val1  val2  val3


The Dvorak technique was developed in the 1970s and early 1980s. At that time, most satellite images were viewed on paper using black and white printers. To accommodate this medium, Dvorak developed the "BD Curve". This curve assigned each satellite brightness temperature value to a specific shade of black, white, or gray.
The Dvorak technique relies on the analyst's ability to identify each of these shades. Trained experts can usually do this relatively quickly. The BD Curve can be confusing, however, especially to newer analysts. Some colors are repeated, and it can be difficult to discern one shade of gray from another. We have developed a new full-color satellite enhancement for the Dvorak technique to address these issues. In addition to using this new color scheme for Cyclone Center, we plan to share it with tropical analysts around the globe.
The image above compares our color scheme with the BD Curve. Both schemes use gray shading to highlight clouds warmer than 9°C (48°F). The BD Curve then uses a second series of grays, while we give it a pink tint to help differentiate it from the warmer values.
Both color schemes use solid shades at varying intervals for temperatures colder than -30°C (-22°F). In our scheme, this begins with a dark red (which flows naturally from the pink). The colors become progressively less warm (orange, yellow, then shades of blue). Where the BD Curve is forced to repeat Medium Gray and Dark Gray shades, our colorized scheme is able to use unique colors throughout.
Note that the BD Curve uses black for temperatures from -63°C (-81°F) to -69°C (-92°F). This bold color marks a transition from moderate to tall clouds. This same transition is marked by the change from warm to cool colors in our scheme.
We have also included an additional color (white) for temperatures colder than -85°C (-121°F). This color is never used by the Dvorak technique, but it provides us additional information about the coldest clouds.
The images above show two views of Super Typhoon Gay (1992). The one on the left uses the BD curve; the one on the right is our color scheme. All features are identical in both color schemes, but we believe the colorized scheme makes them easier to identify.
We also wanted to ensure that our imagery could be easily interpreted by everyone, including people with color vision deficiencies. We were guided by the principles laid out by Light and Bartlein (2004). Specifically, we avoided any color scale that included both red and green. We also sought a scheme that varied in both hue and intensity. Our ultimate selection was inspired by the "RdYlBu" scheme from colorbrewer2.org.
The images above simulate how Super Typhoon Gay would appear to these users. These simulations are performed using vischeck.com. The one on the left simulates Deutarnopia, and the middle simulates Protanopia. These are both common forms of red/green deficiency. The image on the right simulates Tritanopia, a rare form of blue/yellow deficiency. These simulations suggest that any analyst, regardless of color deficiencies, would be able to identify the same features in our imagery.
In Cyclone Center, one of your first tasks is to: "Pick the cyclone type, then choose the closest match." You may be wondering how we found the images that you're matching against.
Each of these patterns gets stronger as we move from left to right, similar to in Cyclone Center. We could have used these patterns in Cyclone Center. However, the strengths are irregularly spaced, and there are only two levels of strength for Eye storms. We chose instead to use real satellite images to identify each pattern.
The last criteria was particularly important since we wanted to show a clear progression from weakest to strongest in each cyclone type. So if you are ever debating between two images to select, remember that they go from weakest to strongest and see if that helps.


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The Russo Brothers Beautifully Deconstruct 'Captain America: Civil War'
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The first trailer for Captain America: Civil War hit the Internet a couple of days ago thanks to Jimmy Kimmel Live and it is a wonderful, almost joyous look at what's going on in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There's no big alien cloud threatening the world, it's just what we're willing and eager to do to one another regardless of the consequences. That means this movie is a lot more about characters and their motivations, but don't worry, just like the trailer showed us, there will be plenty of fighting action. The Russo brothers are the creative force behind the camera on Captain America: Civil War and they talked with Empire about the movie, deconstructing the main plot lines. (more…)
Marvel's Cinematic Universe Phase Two Collection Is Out Of This World
While it started with Iron Man 3 and ended with Ant-Man, Marvel's Phase 2 water was carried by the Russo brother's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy. Both of those films really kicked it out of the park and raised the bar on what people expect from their superhero movies. Now Marvel is releasing the Blu/Ray DVD boxed set that collects Phase 2 in all its glory. (more…)
Christmas in July! Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Two Collection Announced
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Start saving your nickels and dimes. Shoot, even get those pennies out from the bottom of the sofa cause Christmas comes early for all you Marvel fans. Amazon's exclusive "Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase 2 Collection" is on its way.
Captain America & Crossbones Go Toe-To-Toe In On Set Videos
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Meet Quicksilver & The Scarlet Witch In This New 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Video
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ILM Releases 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Sizzle Reel
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'Captain America: Civil War' Moving On Spider-Man-Less
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Technically Competent != Qualified
by snoofle in Feature Articles on 2013-04-02 Edit
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After surviving 35 years, dozens of languages, hundreds of projects, thousands of meetings and millions of LOC, I now teach the basics to the computer-phobic
When I interview people, part of my observations include whether they can be understood, and whether they can understand me. After all, a huge part of working with someone, anyone, is communication; if you can't communicate with a person, you and that person are not going to be able to work effectively together.
We've all had to deal with programmers who came to our teams from foreign lands where languages other than our own are spoken. With some effort, one can learn to understand these folks, even through their sometimes heavy accents. However, it is required that they can understand and communicate in the language that we speak.
Sean X. is a developer who hails from Elbonia. After a short career in mud-farming, he tunneled out and escaped to America. He learned to speak English (or at least the American dialect thereof). He does so with only a minimal accent, and is easily understood. Sean also learned to be a top notch software engineer: he plans ahead, takes performance into account, as well as limiting and oddball circumstances, and he attempts to handle errors gracefully. You'd never know it today, but Sean still cherishes his Elbonian roots.
Sean recently interviewed a candidate for a mid level developer position. He began... "So, tell me a little bit about yourself."
The candidate was obviously nervous and self conscious, and hesitated to respond. Sean tried to ease the tension by giving the guy a chance to answer an easy question: "What is your background in software development?" The guy continued to fidget: "Me developer. Writer of code. Work in mud."
Somewhat perplexed, Sean continued: "This is a mid level developer position. What types of projects have you done that might qualify you for this position?" The candidate was clearly uncomfortable, and attempted to answer: "I... I... $*#%&!"
Somewhat floored, Sean recognized a damning expletive - in ELBONIAN! Sean, being a really nice guy, started speaking in Elbonian to put the guy at ease, and conducted the rest of the interview in their native Elbonian tongue.
The candidate nailed the interview and passed the technical and "likability" tests with flying colors. Sean recommended him for hire.
Normally, several folks would interview any given candidate, but due to folks being on vacation, out sick, and two family emergencies, nobody else was available. There was a political sense of urgency to fill the position so the usual multiple interviews were skipped and since Sean was well regarded, based solely on Sean's recommendation, the person was hired.
On the candidates' first day, Sean happened to be out sick. The guy showed up and started speaking in Elbonian. Of course, nobody on the team spoke Elbonian, so he was asked to speak in English. He proffered a piece of paper with a scrawled note: "I speak minimum English."
After 30 minutes of attempting to communicate with this guy, it was painfully obvious that he could not communicate with anyone on the team (except Sean). He was also unable to explain what a simple piece of code did because he couldn't understand English variable names such as "productCache" or function names like "addProductToCache". Yes, he could program in the language used on the project, but he would create variable and method names using the transliteration of Elbonian words. This was not going to work, so it was bucked to HR.
"But the guy has already been hired and he quit his job; we can't just pull the job offer at this point!"
"So what can be done? He will be of no use if he can't take directions or respond in normal conversation, let alone in technical discussions, or worse, debugging production problems. And if the code he writes is as incomprehensible as is Elbonian (to everyone else on the team), nobody except him and Sean will be able to understand it, let alone work on it - a potential critical point of failure."
The poor guy was made to sit at a desk and stare at the wall for his whole first day. Perhaps it was an improvement over mud farming, but still...
The next day, Sean returned to a wall of evil piercing stares and a flood of angry sounding emails from HR and upper management, and was ordered into a conference room - NOW!
After long and painful meetings with HR and management, the guy was put on another team where about half of the folks on the team spoke Elbonian, reasoning that half the team would never all be out at the same time.
HR would not create a formal policy - apparently because it might be construed as discrimination. So there is now an informal policy on the team that all interviews must conducted in English, and the person must be able to effectively communicate - in English.
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Citrus Durham has submitted a reserved matters application to Durham County Council for the delivery of the next phase of industrial development, to be known as Evolution@Integra61, within its £300m mixed-use development at J61 of the A1(M).
Evolution@Integra61 will comprise of 24 new industrial units totalling 50,921 sq ft and ranging in size from 1,205 sq ft up to 4,625 sq ft. The units, which will be available to purchase or lease, have been designed to address the regional shortage of modern small units to satisfy strong demand from local and regional occupiers seeking high quality industrial/warehouse units in a prime location immediately adjacent to the A1(M) in the centre of the County.
The units within each terrace can be occupied individually or combined to satisfy larger requirements. Those occupiers seeking space from 15,000 sq ft upwards have additional options at Integra 61 where design and build packages are available for units up to 600,000 sq ft.
Integra 61 agents Avison Young and Colliers International are now taking reservations on the units which, subject to planning consent, will be ready for occupation by Q4 2021.
Already home to Amazon's new 2m sq ft Fulfilment Centre, the pioneering development will also house circa 300 new homes and significant roadside opportunities including drive-thru's, a 70-bed hotel, family pub/restaurant, nursery, car showrooms and trade counter/retail units. Fronting onto the newly upgraded A688 and Durham Services, Integra 61 is just 4 miles away from the City of Durham and has the potential to deliver some 4,000 jobs in total.
Recent research by Avison Young demonstrates the critical lack of new build space in the North East where there has been an average provision of under 150,000 sq ft per annum of speculative new build space over the last five years, which is well below what is needed to satisfy demand. Avison Young's research shows that all the small unit schemes recently built in the region are fully occupied and are achieving record rents. All of these schemes have been available on a leasehold basis only, whereas the units at Evolution@Integra61 will be available for companies to lease or purchase, giving occupiers much needed flexibility.
Danny Cramman, Director at Avison Young, commented; "Our research clearly demonstrates the regional need for these new units. They are ideally suited to local and regional businesses and crucially offer companies the opportunity to own their own premises which is very rare in this size range. Occupiers can also take advantage of the wider benefits of being part of one of the region's most dynamic new employment hubs which, together with the roadside elements and new homes now being delivered, will provide an exceptional offering for employees, residents and visitors alike."
David Cullingford, Project Lead for Integra 61 and Citrus Durham, said; "The creation of the smaller units makes Integra 61 a truly inclusive scheme, with wide ranging opportunities for businesses of all sizes. This further significant investment will generate yet more jobs and we are pleased to be able to support regional occupiers with their growth ambitions and be part of this unique project in County Durham."
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A Brief Report from Clinton.com
Not much accumulation since yesterday, however, Politico covers The Strange Gaps in Hillary Clinton's Email Traffic - An analysis of the released emails raises questions about whether Clinton deleted a number of work-related emails—and if she did, why. Because she thought she had secrets to hide, and thought she could get away with it.
. . . Based on the emails the State Department released, Clinton sent or received an average of 21 work emails per day during her tenure—including on her numerous trips overseas, when email must have been a lifeline for communication. But there are numerous odd low-traffic days in the email record during her foreign travel. For example, from July 17-23, 2009, Clinton made a high-profile visit to India and Thailand. She not only issued a pivotal joint statement with the Indian government on nuclear technology, she also met with Indian billionaires at the start of her visit. On July 22, she met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Thailand to discuss arms control. And yet, if you look at what she claims is her complete email record released by the State Department, on July 18 and July 20 of this trip, she did not send or receive a single email that was deemed work-related.
Could it be that Team Clinton avoided email while she was traveling as a security precaution? Her pattern during other travels doesn't support that possible explanation. During her 2010 visit to Ukraine on July 1-2, for example, she sent and received 38 emails over both days. During her June 27-29, 2012, visit to St. Petersburg, Russia, she sent and received 65 emails over those three days.
Could it be that her BlackBerry didn't work in certain countries? No. The server back in Chappaqua would still be receiving emails whether the BlackBerry was connected or not. Short of the server going down, for which there is no evidence, there is no technological explanation for this gap.
There are other anomalies. The email traffic for the secretary of state seems for the most part to be event-driven. For example, during Muammar Qadhafi's removal from power in Libya, on Aug. 22, 2011, Clinton received 133 work-related emails, way more than average. However, there are some important events with virtually no corresponding email traffic. One useful approach in determining what emails might be missing is to overlay the Clinton emails with State Department cables that were released via WikiLeaks. As one might expect, the volume of cables and the volume of emails about specific events tend to rise and fall together. (Obviously, we cannot account for emails redacted prior to public release.) Consider these examples: the earthquake and rebuilding of Haiti, the Copenhagen climate treaty, the military coup in Honduras and diplomatic matters concerning the Lisbon Treaty. As we demonstrate below, the number of State Department cables and Clinton emails either sent or received that mention these matters rise and fall together.
But then there is an instance where the State Department cable traffic rises and there are few if any Clinton corresponding emails. It's the case of Rosatom, the Russian State Nuclear Agency: Clinton and senior officials at the State Department received dozens of cables on the subject of Rosatom's activities around the world, including a hair-raising cable about Russian efforts to dominate the uranium market. As secretary of state, Clinton was a central player in a variety of diplomatic initiatives involving Rosatom officials. But strangely, there is only one email that mentions Rosatom in Clinton's entire collection, an innocuous email about Rosatom's activities in Ecuador. To put that into perspective, there are more mentions of LeBron James, yoga and NBC's Saturday Night Live than the Russian Nuclear Agency in Clinton's emails deemed "official."
The media has spent a lot of time parsing through the Clinton emails that already have been released—compiling lists, looking for specific names or discussion of particular issues. But they ought to pay more attention to the holes. Bob Woodward has declared that Hillary Clinton's email scandal "reminds me of the Nixon tapes." He's right. In that case and here, it's not what's in the record that's most troubling. It's what's not there.
Glenn Reynolds asks Can we ever trust the Democrats? In the the near term, probably not. It would help if they wouldn't nominate an unindicted felon, but the problems go deeper than that:
. . . One of the first signs that we were going to have problems with accountability in the Obama Administration was the firing of Inspector General Gerald Walpin in 2009. Walpin was investigating misuse of funds in Americorps. His investigation centered on NBA star, Sacramento mayor, and prominent Obama supporter Kevin Johnson, who had gotten $847,673 in federal money for a school called St. Hope.
The problem is, the money didn't go to the school, and Johnson also was using Americorps workers as, essentially, personal servants: "driving [Johnson] to personal appointments, washing his car and running personal errands."
Walpin recommended that Johnson and the St. Hope school be barred from receiving future federal funds. When, under pressure, Walpin refused to change his recommendation, he got a call from a White House lawyer telling him that he was fired. Walpin died recently, struck by a car as he crossed a street in New York City.
Likewise, Democrats have attacked an IRS watchdog, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, for investigating the IRS's abuses of Tea Party-linked groups. And the Homeland Security Inspector General's office was charged with whitewashing reports of Secret Service and other federal law enforcement officials patronizing prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia in connection with a visit by President Obama.
If Hoyer cared about trustworthiness, he'd back stronger protections for Inspectors General, instead of going along with the Obama administration's (successful) efforts to weaken them.
And even when people are caught doing wrong, there aren't consequences. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper faced no consequences for lying to Congress about spy programs. Hillary Clinton wasn't prosecuted for her handling of email and for running an illegal private server, leading even Maureen Dowd to comment, "If she were still at the State Department, she could be getting fired for being, as the F.B.I. director told Congress, 'extremely careless' with top-secret information. Instead, she's on a glide path to a big promotion." House Speaker Paul Ryan asked Clapper to block Hillary's access to classified information, but Clapper, having escaped consequences himself, didn't seem inclined to do anything. And, of course, all the way back at the beginning of the Obama Administration, Tim Geithner, was nominated and confirmed to be Treasury Secretary despite a history of tax-dodging. That didn't do much for trust.
Via Wombat-socho's "In The Mailbox: 07.14.16", Poll: 67% Think Hillary Clinton Is "Not Honest And Trustworthy," All-Time High… 33% still have their head's in the sand.
But thou shalt not criticize the queen-in-waiting to a national audience: MYSTERY: CNN loses feed as reporter critiques Hillary Clinton
Sure, it could be a coincidence . . .
All the rest is Hillary's bad polling: Another poll sees a drop in Hillary's numbers after the FBI announcement on Emailgate, Crumble: Hillary sinks in NYT/CBS poll over Emailgate probe, Oof: Hillary takes big hit in Florida Q-poll, and Democrats 'freaked out' about polls in meeting with Clinton. It's too early to take much stock in polls, but it does suggest that the win is within Trump's grasp. Expect the democrats/media to become increasingly shrill in their calls of racism.
Posted by Fritz at 10:13 AM
Labels: Clinton, Clinton.com, Donald Trump, email scandal, Hillary, MSM, presidential election, State Dept.
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Q: jQuery-UI dialog inside plugin using callback firing immediately I am using the jQuery-UI inside of a plugin and am trying to set a callback function for the close: event of the dialog. I figure I am doing this wrong since it fires immediately (2x) when the page is loaded rather than when the dialog is closed.
Plugin Code
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        type: 'text/css',
        rel: 'stylesheet',
        href: 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.7/themes/black-tie/jquery-ui.css'
    }).appendTo('head');

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