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Europa League Final Ends, But Still Under Spotlight
By Nazrin Gadimova June 3, 2019
Olympic Stadium in Baku, the site of the 2018-2019 football (soccer) season's Europa League Final played between the British teams Arsenal and Chelsea last Wednesday, attracted more than 51,000 spectators – ranking the game third in attendance in the past 10 years. / Getty Images
Olympic Stadium in Baku, the site of the 2018-2019 football (soccer) season's Europa League Final played between the British teams Arsenal and Chelsea last Wednesday, attracted more than 51,000 spectators – ranking the game third in attendance in the past 10 years. But some still discuss Azerbaijan hosting the game.
Some British media outlets criticized the Caspian country claiming Baku would not be able to bear the burden of heavy influx of foreign tourists and handle the transportation demands. Yet Baku had already repeatedly played a host to a series of major competitions, including First European Games and F1 races.
"Of course, there are many [soccer] fans in the U.K., and I read a lot of swearing about the venue chosen, but I think people sometimes forget that there are fans all over the world," said Australian fan David McKay, referring to the distance between the U.K. and Azerbaijan, according to reports by Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
Baku is served by three direct overnight flights from Heathrow, all at 10:05 p.m., flying on Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturdays via Azerbaijan Airlines. Indirect flights, resulting in transfers, were also an option for football fans wanting to attend the Europa League Final. Dozens of daily direct flights connect Azerbaijan with some of the main cities of other European countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Turkey. Some fans chose to fly to Tbilisi, Georgia and catch a bus or the night train to Baku, on the eastern side of Azerbaijan.
"Well, yes, direct flights are better," McKay said, "but it is not such a big deal to fly with a transfer in a few hours. It seems to me that they make too much noise in England," he added.
Meanwhile, European football's governing body, UEFA responded to the complaints, saying it would be unfair to exclude certain venues based on their decentralized geographical position.
"It's a pan-European Euro where we want to show that football can bring people together. Of course, it will be easier to come to London or to Rome to Munich, than to Baku or Bucharest or Bilbao, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't play there," UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said, according to The Washington Post.
Chelsea and Arsenal fans were shocked after they were greeted with bouquets of flowers and souvenirs at the airport in Baku. The organizers of the event worked hard to ease access to the stadium by launching special buses running between Olympic Stadium and the nearest metro station. Those who could not attend in person were able to watch it via large monitors installed throughout the city.
Fights and clashes amongst British football fans were not a problem, but that did not mean all forms of the dispute were avoided. Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Arsenal midfielder and an ethnic Armenian, did not play in the game due to it being held in Azerbaijan. Armenia and Azerbaijan, two post-Soviet countries and neighbors in the South Caucasus, have been at odds for almost three decades because of the conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region which is an internationally recognized part of Azerbaijan but has been occupied by Armenia since the early 1990s. About a week before the game, officials from Arsenal cited "reasons of personal safety in relation to political tensions between the two countries."
Azerbaijan's football association and the foreign ministry had issued statements before the big match stating that the security of everyone – team participants as well as spectators – would be ensured by local authorities, but Mkhitaryan still refused to come to Baku.
Mkhitaryan would not be the first Armenian athlete to come to a sports competition in Baku. Eighteen sportsmen from Armenia traveled to Baku to participate in the First European Games, which took place in 2015. Migran Arutunyan won a silver medal in men's Greco-Roman wrestling. Gevorg Manukian, an Armenian-descent wrestler representing Ukraine in European Games, received his silver medal personally from the country's president, Ilham Aliyev. In a post-awards interview, Arutunyan thanked the people of Azerbaijan for their good behavior toward Armenian athletes.
Oleg Blokhin, a former striker for the then-USSR's national team who attended the match, criticized Mkhitaryan for his decision.
"For me, his decision is nonsense. In his place, I would come and play," Blokhin told Azerisport.
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It is widely acceptable and you don't need to have an account with them to pay with a credit card. It is also the most expensive option.
Monthly fees depend on sales amount and number of transactions.
This option is gaining momentum but not as popular as Pay Pal. It offers the lowest per transaction fees – only 2% from the sales amount plus 20 cents.
Clearly Pay Pal option becomes more expensive as you sell more and have more transactions.
Initially, I have decided to go with the Option offered by Big Commerce. It becomes more attractive as the Sales Amount increases above $2,000 per month. Later, it was brought to my attention that some people really like the security that comes with PayPal. In this case, it might be a good idea to offer both options.
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In 2011, the South Park School District ranked 195th out of 498 Pennsylvania districts. The ranking is based on five years of student academic achievement as demonstrated by PSSAs results in reading, writing, math and three years of science. South Park School District was ranked 31st out of 105 western Pennsylvania school districts in 2010 by the Pittsburgh Business Times. In 2009, the academic achievement of the students of the South Park School District was in the 53rd percentile of Pennsylvania's 500 school districts. In 2010, the Pennsylvania Department of Education issued a new, 4-year cohort graduation rate. South Park School District's rate was 94% for 2010.
The district offers a wide variety of clubs, activities and sports. South Park High School competes in the PIAA's District 7, commonly referred to as the WPIAL. Athletic facilities at SPHS include two gyms, an indoor swimming pool, a football stadium, a baseball field, and a track.


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With technology rapidly advancing, the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare are increasing. Used effectively, AI can be a key tool in helping health services to deliver better outcomes.
Reform recently published a paper "Thinking on its own: AI in the NHS," supported by our CTO, Nasrin, on the paper's advisory board. The report describes areas where AI can help the NHS deliver better outcomes, highlights the barriers to implementation along with solutions, and sets out recommendations for AI in the NHS.
AI could reduce the demand on the system, but it's not going to happen overnight. The authors state that, "the NHS 'has a long way to go before AI can be effectively leveraged'. Both buy-in from patients and healthcare professionals needs to improve. This will be a factor of time for people to trust this technology and will also partly depend on the AI interface design and explainability. Increasing the user-friendliness and having a clear understanding of human-computer interaction can influence the adoption rate of this technology amongst healthcare professionals."
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More than US$ 500 million urgently needed to avert starvation in southern Africa
NEW YORK - The UN World Food Programme today launched a massive appeal to provide emergency relief food to six countries in southern Africa, where millions of people are threatened with starvation over the next nine months.
The agency is asking for US$507 million to fund close to one million tonnes of food, enough to feed 10.2 million people until the next main harvest in March 2003. WFP - which has been providing emergency food aid in the region since last year - has only one-quarter of the food it needs for the next three months.
"This is WFP's largest emergency operation but it needs donations to succeed and those donations are needed now," said James T. Morris, Executive Director of WFP. "Southern Africa is already facing an extremely severe crisis, which will only worsen in the coming months. However, it is still possible for the international community to avert a catastrophe by responding rapidly to this appeal."
The humanitarian crisis - which affects Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland - is the worst that southern Africa has experienced for a decade. However, unlike the devastating drought of 1991-92, a variety of factors, ranging from poor rains and floods to regional economic decline and governmental mismanagement, have contributed to the current shortages.
According to recent FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Missions in the six affected countries, approximately 1.2 million tonnes of emergency cereal relief will be needed to help around 12.8 million people stave off starvation over the next nine months.
WFP's appeal commits it to providing 67 percent of the region's cereal food aid, which will be targeted primarily at the most vulnerable households - such as families affected by HIV/AIDS and those headed by women, children and the elderly.
While formulating its emergency appeal, WFP took into account its capacity, as well as that of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which also plan to provide food aid. The ability of the region's commercial sector to import large quantities of additional food is of paramount importance and governments must cooperate with the private sector if there is to be enough food to stave off a crisis.
"The magnitude of the crisis demands that everyone rallies together to save people's lives," said Morris. "No single organisation can hope to deal with this crisis on its own."
Already, from June to September, seven million people need food aid, rising to just over 11 million from September to November, and peaking at 12.8 million from December until March 2003. Until now, WFP has been targeting 4.6 million people.
WFP warned that these numbers could easily rise as the crisis becomes more acute, requiring the agency to enlarge its appeal. Over the next few months, teams of experts will closely monitor the region's food security. The current figures are based on a number of assumptions on issues such as expected commercial food imports, effective government agricultural policies, winter harvest production, and affordable maize supplies. The food security situation in Namibia is being analysed, while the threat of another El Nino phenomenon is under continuous watch.
Each of the six countries has been affected by different problems and to a different degree. However, the severity of the overall situation has been exacerbated by the fact that the region is afflicted with high levels of chronic malnutrition and with the highest prevalence rates of HIV/AIDS infection in the world.
Coupled with rising levels of poverty and a succession of poor harvests, southern Africa finds itself facing a potential calamity.
Many donors have already recognized this and have contributed to WFP's previous appeals in southern Africa: United States (US$42 million), EC ($9.6 million), United Kingdom ($3.4 million), Germany ($4.1 million), Sweden ($4 million), Japan ($3.1 million), Australia ($2.4 million), Canada ($780,000), Finland ($675,000), Switzerland ($840,000), Ireland ($281,000), South Korea ($150,000), South Africa ($105,000), Israel ($4,000). These donations have already been accounted for in this latest appeal.
However, new donations are urgently required. It is vital to preposition enough supplies before October when the region's rainy season starts, when many rural areas will be rendered inaccessible. As part of WFP's role as overall logistics coordinator, the agency's strategy calls for one month's supply of food in country, two months in port and one more en route.
Once the food aid arrives, WFP will rely heavily on its implementing partners - including World Vision, Care, Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children and many others - to distribute it. In three countries, NGOs have already organized themselves into consortia, which will allow for a more coordinated and effective response to the crisis. There has already been much positive reaction to the work of the NGO consortium in Malawi and its success will hopefully be replicated elsewhere.
"Fortunately, the international community has already begun to respond to the crisis," said Morris. "However, a lot more needs to be done if the region is not going to have a disaster on its hands. We still have the chance to avert a major humanitarian calamity. But we must act now!"
WFP is the United Nations' front-line agency in the fight against global hunger. In 2001, WFP fed more than 77 million people in 82 countries including most of the world's refugees and internally displaced people.
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Q: Force render of ImageCanvas layer in OL3? I have an image layer that uses an ImageCanvas source.
I need to dynamically change things on that canvas surface and have them change on the layer, but unless I drastically change the extent, say by zooming, the layer ignores any changes I've made to the canvas.
Is there any way to force a given layer to render? I've tried map.render(), which works in some contexts, but not others
MapScholar.prototype.CreateCanvasLayer = function()
{
    this.canvasLayer = new ol.layer.Image( {
        source: new ol.source.ImageCanvas( {
            canvasFunction: function(extent, res, pixelRatio, size, proj) {
                if (!this.canvas)
                    this.canvas=document.createElement('canvas');
                this.canvas.setAttribute('width', size[0]);
                this.canvas.setAttribute('height', size[1]);
                return this.canvas;
                }
            })
        });
    map.addLayer(this.canvasLayer);
}

A: You can indicate that something has changed on a source by calling changed on that source. In your case:
this.canvasLayer.getSource().changed();

Calling changed basically invalidates the current canvas in the ImageCanvas source and triggers a change event, which will result in a re-render of the map.
Note that the changed function is not marked as "stable", so it may change in the future. You have to uncheck the "Stable Only" checkbox in the API doc to see that function. Here's a direct link: http://openlayers.org/en/master/apidoc/ol.Observable.html?unstable=true.
EDIT: the changed function is name dispatchChangeEvent in the v3.0.0 version. It is changed in the master branch.

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/*! \file model/eqbsdata.hpp
    \brief EQ component data for the cross asset model
    \ingroup models
*/

#pragma once

#include <vector>

#include <ql/types.hpp>
#include <ql/time/daycounters/actualactual.hpp>

#include <qle/models/crossassetmodel.hpp>

#include <ored/marketdata/market.hpp>
#include <ored/configuration/conventions.hpp>
#include <ored/utilities/xmlutils.hpp>
#include <ored/model/lgmdata.hpp>

using namespace QuantLib;

namespace ore {
namespace data {

//! EQ Model Parameters
/*!
  Specification for a EQ model component in the Cross Asset LGM (i.e. lognormal Equity with
  stochastic IR/FX differential).
  The specification applies to the volatility component (sigma) of the EQ model only.

  \ingroup models
*/
class EqBsData {
public:
    //! Default constructor
    EqBsData() {}

    //! Detailed constructor
    EqBsData(std::string name, std::string currency, CalibrationType calibrationType, bool calibrateSigma,
             ParamType sigmaType, const std::vector<Time>& sigmaTimes, const std::vector<Real>& sigmaValues,
             std::vector<std::string> optionExpiries = std::vector<std::string>(),
             std::vector<std::string> optionStrikes = std::vector<std::string>())
        : name_(name), ccy_(currency), calibrationType_(calibrationType), calibrateSigma_(calibrateSigma),
          sigmaType_(sigmaType), sigmaTimes_(sigmaTimes), sigmaValues_(sigmaValues), optionExpiries_(optionExpiries),
          optionStrikes_(optionStrikes) {}

    //! \name Setters/Getters
    //@{
    std::string& eqName() { return name_; }
    std::string& currency() { return ccy_; }
    CalibrationType& calibrationType() { return calibrationType_; }
    bool& calibrateSigma() { return calibrateSigma_; }
    ParamType& sigmaParamType() { return sigmaType_; }
    std::vector<Time>& sigmaTimes() { return sigmaTimes_; }
    std::vector<Real>& sigmaValues() { return sigmaValues_; }
    std::vector<std::string>& optionExpiries() { return optionExpiries_; }
    std::vector<std::string>& optionStrikes() { return optionStrikes_; }
    //@}

    //! \name Serialisation
    //@{
    void fromXML(XMLNode* node);
    XMLNode* toXML(XMLDocument& doc);
    //@}

    //! \name Operators
    //@{
    bool operator==(const EqBsData& rhs);
    bool operator!=(const EqBsData& rhs);
    //@}

private:
    std::string name_;
    std::string ccy_;
    CalibrationType calibrationType_;
    bool calibrateSigma_;
    ParamType sigmaType_;
    std::vector<Time> sigmaTimes_;
    std::vector<Real> sigmaValues_;
    std::vector<std::string> optionExpiries_;
    std::vector<std::string> optionStrikes_;
};
}
}


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How to Set Yourself Up for Success in the New School Semester
Getting Schooled on Preparing for the Next Term
Pulling off last-minute assignments, putting in all-nighters and juggling academics with everything else can be a lot. But some preparation for the new semester can bring some balance to student life.
It may seem like more work, when you already have a lot going on, but there's evidence to show investing some time now will pay off later.
Doing a little homework now can help you make the grade
We spoke to Kaylene McTavish, who is the New Student Orientation Coordinator at the Calgary-based Mount Royal University, about setting yourself up for success this semester.
What are some ways to prepare for the new semester?
"The Number 1 step would be to read your institutional emails and follow (your college or university) on Facebook or Instagram. There are a lot of different announcements coming out. It seems funny, but make sure you're registered in class and know where and how to find the course schedule and start planning your week where classes are and commuting time."
In other words, time management skills for students are important right?
"Yes. Assume that you're going to need three hours of study time per one hour of class. Either that's doing pre-reading or doing the assignments for the course. You should be roughly allocating three hours outside of class time — keeping in mind other priorities you might have such as work or family obligations or even something as simple as grocery shopping that needs to be accounted for."
What are some simple time management and other tips for students getting ready for a new semester?
Meal plan: "Healthy meals in the fridge can go a long way when you're feeling stressed. Go-to recipes that include veggies or protein can go a long way so you're not living off something like Kraft Dinner.
Get organized: "Have some kind of calendar to track what's going on. Set reminders in your phone and if your course syllabus is available, read it over the break. It might not be posted, so don't panic."
Make school a priority: McTavish says you can do that in various ways. Essentially, look at your life outside of school and ask yourself if those activities "are filling the bucket up to be a better student." If not, reassess. It could mean dropping your extracurricular activities for now and for some students could mean considering a student loan instead of continuing in a part-time job.
This isn't high school: Post-secondary studies demand much more accountability.
"Students need to take responsibility for every aspect of their success. If they have a learning accommodation in high school, the school sets it up for them. In university, you do it yourself. That's a huge shift," McTavish says. "Instructors don't remind you all the time when something is due. They don't call your parents if you missed class."
Plan ahead: That can mean reviewing communications from your school, visiting their website so you're up on the latest-and-greatest news and, if you're new, ensuring you have your student ID.
Look back: If you're a returning student, it's beneficial to look at how your last semester went to see how you can make improvements going forward."What needs to happen is reflection first," McTavish says.
"What worked well and what didn't work and really be honest with yourself about course load and if the program is the right fit."
She suggests writing it out to help you reflect on the experience and set new goals.
Access resources early: If you have an inkling of issues arising, the sooner you get on finding a solution, the better. McTavish says most campuses have a wide array of support for students. Find out what's available at your school and take advantage of opportunities to be the best you can be.
Keeping up with all the COVID-related chaos: Post-secondary studies can be a lot at the best of times. Constantly changing health-related protocols certainly can make it more stressful.
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Don't just show up: "Get excited to come back," McTavish says. "Feel the energy. It's exciting and there's always a buzz on campus in January after the holiday. Go with that. Keep your eyes open for student lifestyle opportunities.'
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package org.wso2.dss.integration.test.samples;

import org.apache.axiom.om.OMElement;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Factory;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import org.wso2.carbon.automation.engine.context.TestUserMode;
import org.wso2.carbon.automation.test.utils.http.client.HttpClientUtil;
import org.wso2.dss.integration.test.DSSIntegrationTest;

import javax.activation.DataHandler;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;

public class ResourcesSampleTestCase extends DSSIntegrationTest {
    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ResourcesSampleTestCase.class);

    private final String serviceName = "ResourcesSample";
    private String serviceEndPoint;
    private int productId;

    @Factory(dataProvider = "userModeDataProvider")
    public ResourcesSampleTestCase(TestUserMode userMode) {
        this.userMode = userMode;
    }

    @BeforeClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void serviceDeployment() throws Exception {

        super.init(userMode);
        deployService(serviceName,
                      new DataHandler(new URL("file:///" + getResourceLocation() + File.separator + "samples"
                                              + File.separator + "dbs" + File.separator
                                              + "rdbms" + File.separator + "ResourcesSample.dbs")));
        serviceEndPoint = getServiceUrlHttp(serviceName) + "/";
        //to avoid conflict of primary key violation in the database when running user and tenant modes
        if (isTenant()) {
            //add product form 50
            productId = 50;
        } else {
            //add product form 30
            productId = 30;
        }
    }

    @AfterClass(alwaysRun = true)
    public void destroy() throws Exception {
        deleteService(serviceName);
        cleanup();
    }

    @Test(groups = {"wso2.dss"})
    public void postRequest() throws Exception {
        addProduct();
        log.info("POST Request verified");
    }

    @Test(groups = {"wso2.dss"}, dependsOnMethods = {"postRequest"})
    public void getRequest() throws Exception {
        listProduct();
        log.info("GET Request verified");
    }

    @Test(groups = {"wso2.dss"}, dependsOnMethods = {"getRequest"})
    public void getRequestWithParam() throws Exception {
        OMElement response;
        for (int i = productId; i < productId + 10; i++) {
            response = getProductByCode(i + "");
            Assert.assertTrue(response.toString().contains("<productName>product" + i + "</productName>"), "Expected result not found");
            Assert.assertTrue(response.toString().contains("<productLine>2</productLine>"), "Expected result not found");
        }
        log.info("GET Request with parameter verified");
    }

    @Test(groups = {"wso2.dss"}, dependsOnMethods = {"getRequestWithParam"})
    public void putRequest() throws Exception {
        editProduct();
        OMElement response;
        for (int i = productId; i < productId + 10; i++) {
            response = getProductByCode(i + "");
            Assert.assertTrue(response.toString().contains("<productName>product" + i + " edited</productName>"), "Expected result not found");
            Assert.assertTrue(response.toString().contains("<buyPrice>15.0</buyPrice>"), "Expected result not found");
        }
        log.info("PUT Request verified");
    }

    @Test(groups = {"wso2.dss"}, dependsOnMethods = {"putRequest"})
    public void deleteRequest() throws Exception {
        deleteProduct();
        log.info("DELETE Request verified");
    }

    private void deleteProduct() throws Exception {

        HttpClientUtil httpClient = new HttpClientUtil();
        for (int i = productId; i < productId + 10; i++) {
            httpClient.delete(serviceEndPoint + "product/", "" + i);
        }
    }

    private void listProduct() throws Exception {

        HttpClientUtil httpClient = new HttpClientUtil();
        OMElement result = httpClient.get(serviceEndPoint + "_getproducts");
        Assert.assertNotNull(result, "Response null");
        for (int i = productId; i < productId + 10; i++) {
            Assert.assertTrue(result.toString().contains("<productCode>" + i + "</productCode>"), "Expected result not found");
        }
    }

    private void editProduct() throws Exception {

        HttpClientUtil httpClient = new HttpClientUtil();
        for (int i = productId; i < productId + 10; i++) {

            String para = "productCode=" + i
                          + "&" + "productName=" + "product" + i + " edited"
                          + "&" + "productLine=2"
                          + "&" + "quantityInStock=200"
                          + "&" + "buyPrice=15";
            httpClient.put(serviceEndPoint + "_putproduct", para);
        }
    }

    private OMElement getProductByCode(String productId) throws Exception {

        HttpClientUtil httpClient = new HttpClientUtil();

        return httpClient.get(serviceEndPoint + "product/" + productId);
    }

    private void addProduct() throws Exception {

        HttpClientUtil httpClient = new HttpClientUtil();
        for (int i = productId; i < productId + 10; i++) {

            String para = "productCode=" + i
                          + "&" + "productName=" + "product" + i
                          + "&" + "productLine=2"
                          + "&" + "quantityInStock=200"
                          + "&" + "buyPrice=10";
            httpClient.post(serviceEndPoint + "_postproduct", para);
        }
    }
}


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Q: Assembly little question When someone codes something for example in MASM, what is it called? Coding in assembly? What is it called when you look at the opcodes of some program debug part or when you dissassemble? What are their differences? I'm a bit confused.

A: When you write machine language using op-codes e.g ..
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    MOV  TMOD,#00100000B
    MOV  TH1,#0FDH
    SETB TCON.6

then you are coding in assembly language.
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I hope that answers your question.

A: "When someone codes something for example in MASM, what is it called? Coding in assembly?"
That's what I've always called it.
"What is it called when you look at the opcodes of some program debug part or when you dissassemble?"
If you're looking at the opcodes and converting back to assembly, then it's disassembling.
So, if I get your meaning, though I'm not sure that I do, the answer is that there are various activities that you're describing:  Coding in assembly, which is writing the code in basically human-readable form, i.e., JMP 0405, LDA 5, etc.  Assembling, which is running an assmebler on the human-readable form to convert it to a machine readable form, that is, the opcodes and along with their operands.  There's disassembling, which is taking the opcodes and turning them back into the human-readable form.

A: I will call it code in assembler, rigth. Anyway, it is strange to look directly at the opcodes as they're not intended to be human readable, usually you have a disassembler that transforms de opcodes to assembler instructions.

A: The act of writing code in assembler would be called "coding in assembly (langauge)".  The result of writing code would be called "assembly language".   Arguably, the result of disassembing during memory is assembly code, too, but clearly the assembly code you code is richer in detail (labels, comments, symbolic expressons) than the assembly code you get from a debugger, and thus is called "disassembly" to distinguish it.


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Unfortunately, by now he'd traded up to a multimillion dollar house in the Pacific Palisades, had both kids in expensive private schools, and was the principal investor in his wife's Pilates studio. His nut, as they say, is killing him.
"Know what I did yesterday?" he asks, managing a tight smile. "I put the Oscar out in the garage. I swear, that thing is cursed. Evil. Like the devil doll in that old Twilight Zone episode."
Larry says he knows for a fact that the Oscar was cursed, because it had already jinxed him once before. He'd hidden it away in a linen closet while he was rewriting a thriller for Sony, but his wife had taken it out and put it on the mantle when his in-laws came to visit. Soon thereafter Sony cancelled the whole project."I think that's the reason the picture never got made," Larry says, giving me a knowing look.
I smile. "In my business, Larry, we call that 'magical thinking.'"
"Yeah, well in my business we call that going four years without having a movie produced. If I don't totally nail this script for Warners, my agent says I'm not gonna get my asking price for the next one. If there is a next one."
He stops rocking long enough to take a swig from his Evian water. "My big mistake was winning the damn thing in the first place. If only I'd just been nominated . . . when you're nominated, you pick up a nice buzz, maybe get a better agent. You're hot, but not too hot. You're on the radar screen, but you're not blinking. Not drawing all the heavy fire, know what I mean?"
In fact, I knew exactly what he meant. I'd heard other award-winning clients—actors, writers, directors—say pretty much the same thing.
Because in Hollywood, where everyone's goal is to attract attention, there are some people for whom the worst thing that can happen is to attract attention.
Because in Hollywood, where everyone's goal is to attract attention, there are some people for whom the worst thing that can happen is to attract attention. And then there are all the other people, for whom the worst thing that can happen is not to attract any attention at all . . .
Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter myself for many years, I'm now a Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) in private practice in Los Angeles. My clients are primarily writers, actors, and directors in the entertainment industry. They range from the famous and successful to the unknown and struggling. And after 15 years of doing therapy in Hollywood, I can state one thing with complete confidence:
Doing therapy is the same everywhere. Except here, where it's different.
For example, my session with Larry illustrates one of the many paradoxes that creative people grapple with in the entertainment industry. Many of my most noted clients live for the big break, the surprise hit, the runaway success. But, when it happens, they often fear it's only a fluke—their talent fraudulent, their fabulous careers as fragile as the opulent houses precariously cantilevered over the earthquake-prone Hollywood Hills.
Of course, for my less-successful show business clients, Larry's "problem" is the kind of luxury they can only dream about. For these folks, it's a daily struggle just to maintain a career, much less an intact sense of self-worth, in the face of brutal competition, insatiable demands for the next new thing, and industry-wide contempt for the unyoung, unrich, and unbeautiful.
In such a roiling climate of soaring hopes, crashing defeats, and maddening near-misses, it's no wonder that my clients have an ambivalent, anxious love-hate relationship with the Hollywood Dream. They know the odds, but they're still driven to grasp for the shiny brass ring that's always, though sometimes just barely, out of reach. As one of my long-suffering writer clients remarked about Hollywood, "It's a place where anything can happen—and nothing ever does."
Doing therapy, of course, is doing therapy—whoever the client and whatever the locale. All human beings come with roughly the same emotional equipment and confront, with greater or lesser success, the same old dramas of love, fear, loss, anger, desire, ambition, and envy. And yet, the peculiar—not to say extreme—values and circumstances of Hollywood give these ordinary human dilemmas a unique twist that therapists are far less likely to see in, say, Toledo or Baltimore or Omaha. So
a lot of the therapy I do is to provide an opportunity for creative people to talk about their specific problems with someone who doesn't have an axe to grind and knows the intricacies of their business.
For example, notwithstanding Larry's troubles, everyone in town hungers after awards. This is why, after practicing here for a while, you notice that there's an almost seasonal quality to the work. Just as accountants get swamped at tax time, I've noticed severe spikes in my clients' career anxieties during the annual frenzy of award nominations.
In recent years, awards have proliferated like viruses. Besides the old standards—the Oscars and Emmys—there are now the Golden Globes, the People's Choice, and the MTV Awards, as well as less-publicized awards (but crucial to the industry) bestowed by venerable union organizations like the Writers Guild, Directors Guild, and Producers Guild. Falling roughly within a four-month period, this annual harvest of award nominations—"the season of envy," one of my clients calls it—gives people in the business a wonderfully rich smorgasbord of opportunities for bitterness, resentment, despair, and self-loathing.
This year's Oscars were particularly galling for some of my clients, who've managed to battle their way into the Hollywood mass-entertainment production machine, but have never lost their yearning to be artists. With one exception (The Aviator), the Best Picture nominees for this year's Oscar awards were all independent films. Developed and produced outside the conventional studio process, these movies were more idiosyncratic and "character-driven" (read: "artistic") than typical, mass-market-oriented Hollywood fare. "See, those are the kinds of films I want to make," a director client bitterly complained. "But what does my agent set up for me? The next Scooby-Doo sequel!"
A successful actress in my practice fumed with envy about Hilary Swank's second Academy Award for Best Actress. "Excuse me, but she got both of her Oscars for playing women who get beaten to death! What's up with that? Is this some kinda trend? Maybe that's my problem . . . Everyone I've ever played is still alive at the end of the movie."
This is life in Hollywood for most ambitious people in the business: living in a state of extreme self-consciousness, feeling that your entire worth as a human being is being judged by people who are technically your peers, but much richer, more successful, and probably a lot cooler than you. Meanwhile, you secretly think you're as good or better than they are (when not worrying that you're really not), and desperately want them to like and accept you. You also suspect that they mostly don't know you exist.
Sound familiar? It should. Because, from my perspective, Hollywood is just like high school.
In high school, you try out for a spot on the basketball team or the cheerleading squad or the drama club's latest play, and, if you're like most of us, you don't get it. You spend hours honing your particular "look" in the mirror, working on cool repartee, practicing smoking a joint without choking, and flaunting the latest electronic gizmos money can buy. But the girl you want to hook up with still thinks you're a dork, and the guys you want to impress just look at you with bored, half-closed lizard eyes before ambling away.
So, what do you do for comfort? What everybody does: rationalize. You tell yourself that these people aren't worth the grief; that they're basically dumb jocks or silly little girls. You ostentatiously ignore them or loudly disdain them.
Likewise, my show business clients, feeling ignored or unappreciated by their peers, boycott watching the awards shows, cancel their subscriptions to the "trade papers" (Variety and The Hollywood Reporter) and, in sessions with me, indignantly list the many worthy, though obscure, films and TV programs that should have been nominated, if the awards weren't such monuments to fraud, irrelevance, and blatant commercialism.
For my clients working in television, I'd guess the ultimate pinnacle of Hollywood-as-high school happened the night a few years back when writer-producer David E. Kelley won an Emmy award for Best Comedy (Alley McBeal) and one for Best Drama (The Practice). Then he got to go home to celebrate with his wife, Michelle Pfieffer.
The fallout from that evening went on for weeks in my practice. How could any of my clients, no matter how successful, top that?
The fallout from that evening went on for weeks in my practice. How could any of my clients, no matter how successful, top that? It's as though Kelley got to be both Class President and first-string quarterback, while making it every night with the Prom Queen.
Everyone remembers the rigid caste system of high school—the "royals" (the popular kids, good-looking girls, athletic stars, Big Men and Women on Campus) and the various lesser castes of brainiacs, greasers, and assorted wannabes.
Ditto Hollywood. For example, in the film business, there are those "above the line" (movie stars, producers, screenwriters, and directors) and those "below the line" (cinematographers, costume designers, makeup artists, etc.). While you might think such demarcations are only the concern of contract attorneys and accountants, the sociological ramifications of commingling these worlds can be huge.
Not too long ago, I had an initial session with a well-known movie actress, who burst into tears not 10 seconds after she sat down on my couch.
"I'm in love," she said with difficulty, "really in love for the first time in my life. We're engaged and everything."
"Congratulations," I said at a loss.
"But we can't get married!" She drew herself up. "I know I'm going to sound horrible, and like a total bitch, but I can't go through with it. I mean, everyone's telling me to call it off. My friends. My managers. And I love Gary, I really, really do . . . it's just . . . "
"He's a set decorator, and, well, I just don't think I should marry below the line!"
She was entirely serious.
"And I'm not just thinking about myself," she went on. "You know what the tabloids are gonna do with this. Look at what they did to Julia Roberts when she married that cameraman. They made her life hell—and his, too. I can't put Gary through that." She looked down. "Or me, either."
"Have you discussed this with Gary? I can see how it would be difficult, but . . . "
"He brought it up to me!" she exclaimed, eyes shining. "He worries that he won't fit into my world. He even worries about what it might do to my career. He's very thoughtful like that. Why do you think I love him? He's so unlike all the other guys I've been with. He wasn't even married when we started dating."
She put her chin on her hands. "I'm not stupid. I know we don't exactly make sense. I mean, he drives around in a Range Rover. He goes fishing. But I also know it shouldn't matter.
"But it does?"
She took a breath, then slowly nodded. "Yes," she said a last. "I feel really shitty about it . . . but yes."
I saw that her pain was real, her conflict genuine.
But we both knew the reality of life in Hollywood—and in high school. Prom queens don't go steady with the A-V guys. Not without paying a price.
I never saw her again after that one session. Then, months later, I read somewhere that she and her fiancé Gary had broken up.
Just as awards season is ending, something called "staffing season" begins. This is the three-month period when new and returning series are building their production staffs, negotiating with their returning stars, writers, and directors, and meeting with potential new employees. It's a harrowing ordeal for my clients, having their work evaluated by series producers and network executives, not knowing whether they'll have a chance at huge success or be thrown back into the oblivion of unemployment.
Again it's the unedifying spectacle of mature adults going through gruesome rituals that resemble nothing more than those that high-school seniors endure: taking SATs, writing endless college application essays, trying to impress college recruiters, wheedling recommendations from teachers, and waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting for their fate to be sealed . . .
Nancy was in her thirties, a single mother of two whose last job as an executive story editor on a sitcom ended when the series was cancelled the year before. She'd been out of work since then, and dreaded the arrival of another staffing season.
"God, it's like a nightmare," Nancy said, pushing her hair back from her forehead. "I can't stand talking to my writer friends anymore. All we do is obsess about staffing season. 'Did you get a meeting?' 'Is your agent sending out your new spec script?' 'I heard they're looking for someone at Hope and Faith.'" She shook her head. "Talk about desperate housewives. . ."
Nancy recited her litany of complaints (I'd heard variations of it from all my writing clients): her agent wanted her to give in and write scripts for the kind of lowbrow sitcom she couldn't even stand to watch, much less write for. She was also furious because she'd been turned down as a script-writer for 8 Simple Rules, a show about a single mother. "They said I wouldn't be right for it," she said, her voice dripping sarcasm. "Of course not. I'm a single mom with kids, so how the hell could I write about a single mom with kids. Those pricks!"
I hesitated, then brought up a writing job on a little-known cable series—a show we'd been referring to for weeks as her "fallback" position.
"Christ, I don't even want to think about it," Nancy said. "Talk about the bottom of the barrel. If only my kids hadn't got kinda used to eating regularly."
She looked up, letting me see for only a moment the pain, yearning and desperation behind the sarcasm
"So what do you think?" she asked at last. "If I even get a meeting . . . and if they even make an offer . . . and if it doesn't completely suck . . . should I take it?"
She did, they did, it didn't—so she took it.
There's one issue that virtually all creative people in Hollywood wrestle with on an almost continual basis, on a scale unimaginable to clients in practically any other field of endeavor: namely, should they leave the business entirely?
In most professions, career success follows a more or less predictable trajectory. If you're a lawyer, banker, computer programmer, doctor, or the like, you spend a number of years learning your profession, then you generally ascend—if your job isn't outsourced or your CEO indicted for fraud—to a reasonable level of security, seniority, and maybe even pretty decent pay.
For the creative professional navigating a show-business career, there's no such path. Triumph and failure follow one another—in fact, feed one another—in a maddeningly erratic way. Hollywood is a notoriously fickle industry, where you can earn vast sums for a few years, then face a sudden and inexplicable loss of marketability, followed immediately by a severe cash drought. Not surprisingly, creative professionals spend an inordinate amount of time in therapy discussing whether to ditch the whole thing and start over.
Of course, many people in their forties and fifties go through midlife crises during which they wonder if they, too, shouldn't leave their boring law partnerships or real estate businesses and try their hand at running a B&B in Vermont. But, for most of these people, the crisis passes—they get therapy, they join a fitness club, they work on their marriages, they make modest changes in their careers that give them a larger degree of contentment and peace. The whole process is a one-time thing, with a more or less definable resolution at the end.
For Hollywood entertainment professionals, however, this "midlife" crisis afflicts them throughout their careers. Wondering whether to continue struggling against repeated rejections, chronic frustration, and financial hardship on the off chance of "making it"—or else, giving up and getting into something, anything more dependable—is the name of the game in this town.
At least weekly in my practice, a veteran show-business client—perhaps with a family, five projects in development, and a vacation home in Bali—gives me a haggard look and admits, with undeniable sincerity, that the business is driving him crazy, that he "can't stand the bullshit anymore," and that he's wondering if this is really what he wants from life. "Is it always going to be this bad?" he asks wistfully. "I spend half the time hating my job and wondering what I really want to be when I grow up."
And yet, very few clients ever do leave the business, regardless of the perfectly sensible arguments against continuing to struggle in Hollywood. Take Phil, for example, one of my clients who declared to me in the most melodramatic, forceful—not to say weirdest—way possible that he'd had enough.
In his mid-forties, Phil was an established TV writer-producer in my practice who one day left five breathless messages within the space of an hour on my voicemail, while he was on vacation in Kauai.
I called him back at the number he'd left, a lone pay phone near a cluster of cottages at some small, exclusive resort. I could hear waves lapping the shore, but I could barely hear him. He seemed to be whispering.
"Can you speak up?" I said.
"I said, I'm not coming back."
"To therapy?" This surprised me; I'd thought we'd been making some progress.
"Therapy? No . . . I mean, I'm not coming back to L.A."
"What? And why are you whispering?"
"I gotta keep it down. My wife's in the cottage, but the walls here are made outta leaves or somethin'. She'll hear me."
"Oh." A therapeutic pause.
"Look, I don't want her to know. Not yet. In fact, I'm thinking of letting her and the kids go back to L.A. without me. Tell 'em I need a couple extra days on my own to relax, unwind . . . "
"Is this true?"
"Are you kiddin'? I'm exec producer on a lame-ass series in its second season, with a bad time slot, and a flaming psychotic in the lead. What do you think?"
"But that's why you're on vacation. Some much needed R&R. Remote cottage, right on the ocean, no phones or faxes. Sounded great when we talked about it in session."
"It is great. That's why I'm not coming back."
"For an extra couple days . . . ?"
"For the rest of my life, man. But I'm not stayin' here. Too civilized. You can still get here by boat, or helicopter."
"I'm not following you, Phil."
"Damn right. Nobody is. See, once I get Helen and the kids on that plane home, I'm leaving this place and heading for parts unknown. Some little island off New Guinea, or maybe the Hindu Kush. Didja know they got parts there that are still unexplored, that aren't on any map?"
"You're serious."
"Hell, yeah. Look, I'm overweight, overworked, and overstressed. Buried in debt. I got a wife who hates me, two kids who hate both of us, an agent, three attorneys, a business manager, a domestic staff that rivals Brideshead, four cars, and a black lab that sees a grooming stylist and a pet shrink. With the whole damn thing on my shoulders. That means putting in an 80-hour workweek, cranking out jokes and story beats, with the goddamn network breathing down my neck, all while negotiating office politics that would baffle Elizabeth I. Fuck it, I'm goin' over the wall."
"Okay, I get how stressed you feel, how trapped. It can be very demanding, and murder on your personal life. But, if you work at it, you can find a balance . . . "
He chuckled wearily. "Hell, I've been looking for that balance for 18 years. I'm starting to think it's like net profit points in your contract—some kind of urban myth."
I tried a different approach. "Okay, let's say you just drop out of sight. Live on some uncharted island somewhere. What'll you do all day?"
"I was thinking along the lines of drinking and chasing women. And sleeping. Yeah, I got about a dozen years' worth of sleep to catch up on."
"That could get old. What about your mind, your creativity?"
"What's it done for me lately?"
"Well, it takes imagination to plot an escape from your life. A certain aesthetic daring."
"Yeah, I'm like David Copperfield. One minute I'm here, the next I'm gone. The Man Who Dropped Out." He paused. "Hey . . . wait a minute." There was a long silence on the phone.
"Phil? Phil? What's happening?" I asked. I could almost hear his brain whirring.
"I was just thinking," he said, "with computers and the net and satellite tracking, how hard it would be for a guy to really disappear. But finally, after all these close calls, he pulls it off. He's out, he's free as a bird. But then, what if his wife had to find him—their daughter needs a kidney transplant or something . . . "
I noticed his voice rising with excitement.
"But . . . " I said.
"No, listen. What if the guy's ex-business partner is looking for him, too? Millions are at stake. They hire these mercenaries to find him. Every episode ends with a cliff-hanger. Will they get him, won't they? . . . Uh, look, can we talk about that other stuff when I get back?"
"If you want. But I thought . . . "
"Shit, this is a great idea for a series, 9:00 slot. I can work it off that development deal I got at Fox . . . Hey, I gotta hang up and make some notes. See ya next week, our regular time?"
"I'll be here."
There's an old joke about a man working in the circus, whose job it was to follow behind the elephants, sweeping up their droppings. When asked why he doesn't find some other line of work, he replies, "What, and leave show business?"
What makes the joke funny, of course, is the truth behind it. Creative and talented people, once having tasted the wild nectar of Hollywood success, find it almost impossible to quit the field, even when the odds are stacked against them. And nothing stacks the odds higher than committing the one unpardonable sin in Hollywood—getting older. As veteran TV writer Larry Gelbart said in a recent interview, "The only way to beat ageism in Hollywood is to die young."
At 58, my client Walter has been directing episodic television for most of his adult life—except for the past five years, during which, despite Herculean efforts to get work, he's been unemployed. He also got divorced and lost his house, and had to move to a condo in Thousand Oaks.
At a recent session, Walter announced more bad news. "My agent finally dumped me," he said quietly, without rancor.
"I'm sorry, Walter. I know you've been his client a long time."
"Twenty-one years. Lasted longer than my marriage. And the sex was better . . . " He managed a rueful smile. "Hey, I can't blame him. He busted his ass for me. But let's face it, nobody wants to see a gray-haired old fart like me on the set. Everybody there looks like my grandchildren. Hell, they could be my grandchildren."
As is often the case with clients in his situation, we talked about options. Walter agreed that he could probably teach, but that even teaching jobs were getting scarce and the money wasn't very good. Not that he was poor—he had a generous pension and some decent stocks. But the money wasn't really what bothered him. Right now, at 58, he felt he was a better director than at any time in his life. He knew his craft, he understood actors, he could keep his head in a crisis. But it seemed clear that nobody wanted to see a face much over 40.
"I might as well pack it in," he said gloomily. "My life in this town is over."
"Your life isn't over, Walter." I said to him. "Neither is your career. Unless you're ready for it to be over."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you don't have to let other people decide what you can do. Or how to feel about what you can do."
"Shit, don't get all therapeutic on me now."
"I'm not. I'm being pragmatic. If you want to teach, go teach. But if you still love directing, go find something to direct. A play. A short film. You say you have a few bucks. Okay, then hire someone to write something. Or rent an Equity-waiver theater down on La Cienaga for a week and put something up on its feet."
"Forget it. I'm used to working for studios. Networks. Guys with parking spaces on the lot, who at least have to pay me for the privilege of pissing all over my work."
"And I know how much you'll miss that. But at least you'll be directing. If that's what you still want to do."
"Hell, it's what I am." He sat back, stroking the edge of his trim, salt-and-pepper beard. Then he laughed. "Hey," he said, "remember that joke about the guy at the circus, cleaning up after the elephants?"
"One of my favorites."
"You think I'm that guy?"
"Walter, I think we're all that guy. These are the lives we lead, the things we do. If it's who we really are, all we can do is keep doing them.
As a colleague of mine said once, about trying to achieve in any profession: Keep giving them you, until you is what they want.
As a colleague of mine said once, about trying to achieve in any profession: Keep giving them you, until you is what they want."
He paused. "You know, Alvin Sergeant is in his seventies, and he wrote the two Spider-Man movies. Huge hits. For years, David Chase couldn't get arrested, and then he creates The Sopranos. Hell, John Huston directed his last picture in a wheelchair, sitting next to an oxygen tank."
"All true."
"I mean, maybe I'm just kiddin' myself, but . . . " He nodded toward the door. "There's gotta be at least one more elephant out there, right?"
I smiled. "I've never known a circus without one."
Copyright © 2008 Dennis Palumbo. All rights reserved. Originally published in Psychotherapy Networker, July 2005.
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Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter (My Favorite Year, Welcome Back Kotter, etc.), Dennis Palumbo is now a psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in creative issues in Southern California. His latest book is From Crime to Crime, a collection of mystery short stories narrated by a therapist. He has previously written Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within.
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