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Q: XML for child nodes showing without parent I have the following debug dump in XML, from a program i wrote. I want to show this formatted as a table and with sub exceptions nested(I havent gotten that far yet).
I'm new to XSL(T) so bear with me.
I have the three files debug.xml, debug.xsl and table.css. shown underneat
XML-file
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="debug.xsl"?>
<Root>
<Exception>
    <Type>DuplicateKeyPairException1</Type>
    <Message>Duplicate in the key/section pair found in the file. - [THRUSTERS/NRTHRUSTERS] already has a value.</Message>
    <Source>WindowsFormsApplication1</Source>
    <StackTrace>   at IniParser..ctor(String iniPath) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\IniParser.cs:line 110
   at CIniFile.Open(String sFileName) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\FileParser.cs:line 115
   at CIniFile..ctor(String sFilename) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\FileParser.cs:line 109
   at ScriptHost.RequestDocument(String qualifiedPath, enumFileType filetype) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\ScriptHost.cs:line 55</StackTrace>
    <TargetSite>Void .ctor(System.String)</TargetSite>
    <Data>
    <VSSFullPath>c:\vss\ERROR\vss\SRCSAFE.INI</VSSFullPath>
    <VSSFilename>xxx.ini</VSSFilename>
    </Data>
<Exception>
    <Type>System.ArgumentException</Type>
    <Message>Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'IniParser+SectionPair'  Key being added: 'IniParser+SectionPair'</Message>
    <Source>mscorlib</Source>
    <StackTrace>   at System.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add)
   at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
   at IniParser..ctor(String iniPath) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\IniParser.cs:line 95</StackTrace>
    <TargetSite>Void Insert(System.Object, System.Object, Boolean)</TargetSite>
</Exception>
</Exception>
<Exception>
    <Type>DuplicateKeyPairException2</Type>
    <Message>Duplicate in the key/section pair found in the file. - [THRUSTERS/NRTHRUSTERS] already has a value.</Message>
    <Source>WindowsFormsApplication1</Source>
    <StackTrace>   at IniParser..ctor(String iniPath) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\IniParser.cs:line 110
   at CIniFile.Open(String sFileName) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\FileParser.cs:line 115
   at CIniFile..ctor(String sFilename) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\FileParser.cs:line 109
   at ScriptHost.RequestDocument(String qualifiedPath, enumFileType filetype) in C:\Programming\CSharp\VisualSourceSafeInterface\Test2\WindowsFormsApplication1\WindowsFormsApplication1\ScriptHost.cs:line 55</StackTrace>
    <TargetSite>Void .ctor(System.String)</TargetSite>
    <Data>
    <VSSFullPath>c:\vss\ERROR\vss\SRCSAFE.INI</VSSFullPath>
    <VSSFilename>xxx.ini</VSSFilename>
    </Data>
</Exception>
</Root>

XSL-file
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <title>Cascading Style Sheet</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="table.css" title="Style"/>

            <xsl:for-each select="Root">
                <xsl:element name="table">
                    <xsl:attribute name="border">1</xsl:attribute>
                        <xsl:for-each select="*">
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
                        </xsl:for-each>
                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:for-each>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Root/Exception">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
            <xsl:attribute name="colspan">2</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:attribute name="class">Exception</xsl:attribute>
            Exception
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Type"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Message"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="VSSFullPath"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="VSSFilename"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Source"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="TargetSite"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="StackTrace"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Exception/Exception">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
            <xsl:attribute name="colspan">2</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:attribute name="class">Exception</xsl:attribute>
            SUB Exception
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Type"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Message"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Data"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="Source"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="TargetSite"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="StackTrace"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Type">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Type
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Message">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Message
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Source">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Source
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="TargetSite">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                TargetSite
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="StackTrace">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                StackTrace
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Data">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Data
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:element name="table">
                <xsl:attribute name="border">1</xsl:attribute>
                    <xsl:for-each select="*">
                        <xsl:element name="tr">
                            <xsl:element name="th">
                                <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
                            </xsl:element>
                            <xsl:element name="td">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                            </xsl:element>
                        </xsl:element>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="VSSFilename">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                VSS File
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

 </xsl:stylesheet>

CSS-File
table
{text-align: left;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 11px;
color: #fff;
width: 420px;
background-color: #666;
border: 0px;
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0px;}

th {
    font: bold 11px "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica,
    sans-serif;
    color: #6D929B;
    border-right: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
    border-top: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
    letter-spacing: 2px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 6px 6px 6px 12px;
    background: #CAE8EA url(images/bg_header.jpg) no-repeat;
}

th.Exception
{
    border-right: 1px solid #D7DAC1;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #D7DAC1;
    border-top: 1px solid #D7DAC1;
    border-top: 0;
    border-left: 0;
    border-right: 1px solid #D7DAC1;
    background: #EAE8CA;
}

td {
font-weight: bold;
    border-right: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
    border-bottom: 1px solid #C1DAD7;
    background: #fff;
    padding: 6px 6px 6px 12px;
    color: #6D929B;
}

td.alt {
    background: #F5FAFA;
    color: #B4AA9D;
}

My result shows the Exceptions, but it also shows the styles for the subnodes a second time
so i get a double set of exception-children in the list.
PS this is work in progress, if you see anything out of the ordonary i really appreciate it if you give me a hint or pointer to whats wrong or bad practice.
I do understand why it happens, as it runs all the templates but not how to stop it from happening.
Thanks in advance, for any help.

A:
My result shows the Exceptions, but it also shows the styles for the subnodes a second time so i get a double set of exception-children in the list.

The unwanted duplicates are caused by a wrong usage of xsl:apply-templates in your XSLT.
Normally, in the same sequence constructor, you use either xsl:apply-templates with select or without select, not both.
For instance, this code:
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Type"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Message"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="VSSFullPath"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="VSSFilename"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Source"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="TargetSite"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="StackTrace"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates />

Should be changed with:
    <xsl:apply-templates />

With this instruction, without select, you apply the templates by default to all children of the context node.
To obtain the wanted result you need to use  only <xsl:apply-templates /> in the template Root/Exception and Exception/Exception template. This is because is evident you want templates be allied to all children.

PS: Your code can be really improved, by removing unneeded xsl:for-each. For example, this your (let me say amazing) iteration:
   <xsl:for-each select="*">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
   </xsl:for-each>

is logically equivalent to:
   <xsl:apply-templates />

A: Could not resist in reviewing your stylesheet.
Here 53 rows vs. the original 161.
Cheers.
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

    <xsl:template match="/">

                <title>Cascading Style Sheet</title>
                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="table.css" title="Style"/>

                    <xsl:apply-templates />

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Exception[parent::Root]">

            Exception

        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Exception[parent::Exception]">

            SUB Exception

        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Data">

            Data

                        <xsl:apply-templates/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Type|Message|Source|TargetSite|StackTrace|VSSFilename|VSSFullPath">

                <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>

                <xsl:value-of select="."/>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

A: Your solution simply modified:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

    <xsl:template match="/">

                <title>Cascading Style Sheet</title>
                <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="table.css" title="Style"/>

                    <xsl:apply-templates select="Root/Exception"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Root/Exception">

            Exception

        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Exception/Exception">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                <xsl:attribute name="colspan">2</xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:attribute name="class">Exception</xsl:attribute>
                SUB Exception
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
        <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Type">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Type
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Message">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Message
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Source">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Source
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="TargetSite">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                TargetSite
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="StackTrace">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                StackTrace
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="Data">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                Data
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:element name="table">
                    <xsl:attribute name="border">1</xsl:attribute>
                    <xsl:for-each select="*">
                        <xsl:element name="tr">
                            <xsl:element name="th">
                                <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/>
                            </xsl:element>
                            <xsl:element name="td">
                                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                            </xsl:element>
                        </xsl:element>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </xsl:element>
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="VSSFilename">
        <xsl:element name="tr">
            <xsl:element name="th">
                VSS File
            </xsl:element>
            <xsl:element name="td">
                <xsl:value-of select="." />
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Also you can simply write

than
<xsl:element name="table">
    <xsl:attribute name="border">1</xsl:attribute>

to improve readability.

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Johan Camargo embraces utility duties, prepared for outfield
By Gabriel Burns, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Braves were happy with their infield. That wasn't a diversion. But when there was a clear opportunity to plug Josh Donaldson into the lineup, and that became the most feasible means of upgrading the offense while simultaneously strengthening the bench, the infield was altered.
Johan Camargo, who'd done everything the team could've asked as the starting third baseman, was bumped into a utility role once again. In today's climate, that's not a bad thing.
"When I heard the news about Donaldson, it was a moment where I realized I didn't even think about myself, I was thinking about the team," Camargo said through an interpreter recently. "With that being said, I think it's a great learning opportunity for me. He brings a lot of experience, he's a former American League MVP, All-Star. So it's an honor to play alongside him."
Camargo relishes his versatility. Swiss Army knives are that much more valuable as baseball's emphasis on flexibility grows. Charlie Culberson played in 113 games last season, and despite not having a defined position, he essentially was a regular.
The Braves want to give players – even Freddie Freeman – more rest in 2019. Rather than just relying on Culberson, Camargo gives them another with the same profile. It'll help them withstand injuries over the lengthy season and gives them reliable plug-and-play options if someone is slumping and needs a break.
"It's important to help the team in whatever way possible, and it's important to me as a baseball player to be able to play multiple positions and be a little bit more flexible," Camargo said. "Obviously if it's up to me, I always want to be in the lineup and help our team however I can, but I'm happy to just contribute in any way I can."
Camargo spent the offseason on his outfield skills. He's played just one major-league inning beyond the infield (in 2017), but lobbied the front office that he'd be comfortable expanding his duties. The Braves likely will add a clear starting corner outfielder before opening day, but Camargo as an occasional fill-in would be excellent from a depth standpoint.
Gold Glove outfielder Ender Inciarte had high praise for Camargo. Inciarte watched him taking fly balls in the outfield last March and came away thoroughly impressed. He even joked that Camargo was better than him.
"I don't know if I was lying or trying to encourage him," Inciarte said. "I know he's going to be able to adjust to whatever role they want him to play. He has the best arm on the team. Wherever you put him, he's going to be able to do great things. You put him in the outfield, and he has one of those opportunities to make a play with his arm or range, he's going to surprise a lot of people."
The 25-year-old Camargo hit .272 with 19 homers last season, though his first postseason showing (0-for-15) was a dud. He's hit .281/.343/.455 across his first 216 games, blossoming beyond his prospect status and becoming an integral cog for the reborn Braves.
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Exynos 2200 processor could be used in smartphones and laptops
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According to a new report coming out of South Korea via Korea Economic Daily, Samsung will launch its next flagship Exynos chipset (probably Exynos 2200) in the second half of this year, and that it will feature AMD Radeon GPU designed for low-power devices. Although it could first debut in an ARM-based Windows 10 laptop, it is being claimed that the chipset could also be used in smartphones and tablets.
This chipset will reportedly be manufactured using Samsung Foundry's own 5nm fabrication process. The report states that the upcoming Exynos processor will feature "extraordinary computing power and battery efficiency." If this information turns out to be true, Samsung could become the first brand apart from Qualcomm to launch an ARM-based processor for Windows 10 laptops. This chipset could also feature built-in 5G connectivity and advanced wireless technologies like Bluetooth 5.0 and Wi-Fi 6E.
The Exynos 2200 is rumored to rival Apple's M1 and Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8Cx Gen 2 processors. Apple's new chipset, which was unveiled late last year, stunned the whole world with its desktop-beating performance and twice the battery life of other laptop CPUs from Intel. Qualcomm, however, hasn't shown a huge improvement over the previous-generation Snapdragon processor for laptops.
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Q: Using Jest, how do I spyon an extended component's method when unit testing a single file component in vue.js I'm currently trying to get a single file component (ComponentB) unit tested using Jest and vue-test-utils. ComponentB extends ComponentA, which has a method update(product) defined in it.
/* -------- Component B -------- */
<script>
import ComponentA from './ComponentA'
export default {
  extends: ComponentA,
  props: [...],
  data: () => {
    productData: {foo: 'bar', baz: 'shiz'}
  },
  methods: {
    updateProduct() {
      this.update(this.productData)
    }
  }
}
</script>

/* -------- Component A -------- */
<script>
export default {
  props: [...],
  data: () => {...},
  methods: {
    update(productData) {
      ...
    }
  }
}
</script>

I then attempt a unit test in which I shallowMount() my ComponentB and try to jest.spyOn that update(productData) method that is defined in ComponentA. The test looks like this:
it('calls update with data when input is added to the field', () => {
  const spy = jest.spyOn(ComponentA, 'update);
  const wrapper = shallowMount(ComponentB, { propsData: { ... } });
  const contractIdInput = wrapper.find('#contract-id-input > b-form-input');

  contractIdInput.element.value = 'foobar';
  contractIdInput.trigger('input')

  expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(...someDataHere...)
});

When I run this test, I get a Cannot spy the update property because it is not a function; undefined given instead.
I'm not entirely sure why this isn't working, though I do have some ideas.
First, because I am shallowMount()ing my ComponentB, it isn't going to know anything about its parent component, and thus not have access to the update(productData) method that is defined on ComponentA.
Second, perhaps I'm not calling jest.spyOn() at the right time, and should instead call it after I create the wrapper object of ComponentB. However, I tried changing this around and didn't have any success or different behavior.
So my question is, how do I spy on a method that is provided by an extended component when I am shallow mounting the component under test?

A: ComponentA is a component definition with update as a child of the methods attribute so update will not be found on ComponentA or ComponentB. spyOn should be applied on the instance of the component instead.
const wrapper = shallowMount(ComponentB, { propsData: { ... } });

// create a spy on the instance method
const spyUpdate = jest.spyOn(wrapper.vm, 'update')

// replace the instance method with the spy
wrapper.setMethods({ update: spyUpdate });

// your tests ...

// verify the spy was called
expect(spyUpdate).toHaveBeenCalled();

// remove the spy
spyUpdate.mockReset();

A: Just to add to the answer above of @user2718281, SetMethods it's deprecated, so you better define the spyOn pointing to the ComponentB before instantiating like this:

// create a spy before the instance is created
const spySomeMethod = jest.spyOn(ComponentB.methods, 'someMethod')

const spyUpdate = jest.spyOn(ComponentB.methods, 'update')

const wrapper = shallowMount(ComponentB, { propsData: { ... } });

// your tests ...

// verify the spy was called
expect(spyUpdate).toHaveBeenCalled();

// remove the spy
spyUpdate.mockReset();

And about the question maybe you are forgetting to add the ComponentA.methods like this:
const spySomeMethod = jest.spyOn(ComponentB.methods, 'someMethod')

but if you want to test some lifecycle method event like mounted or created remove the .methods like this:
const spySomeMethod = jest.spyOn(ComponentB, 'created')


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Home » News » Habtoor Polo and UAE Polo Teams Make it to the Semi-Finals
Habtoor Polo and UAE Polo Teams Make it to the Semi-Finals
An exciting display of polo concluded on the grounds of Al Habtoor Polo Resort and Club today. Habtoor Polo faced Bangash Dodson & Horrell Polo at 14:00 followed by UAE Polo against Dubai Wolves by CAFU at 16:00.
Bautista Bayugar for Habtoor Polo scored first and, the team was quick to take the lead by the end of the first chukker. Bangash Dodson & Horrell Polo made their first goal courtesy of Benjamin Panelo during the second and narrowed the gap in scores by .5. The scores remain close until halftime with Bangash snatching the lead on their side. However, the Habtoor Polo team showed its class with goals from Bayugar made possible with the assist by Matias Gonzales. The team kept the momentum with its Patron Mohammed Khalaf Al Habtoor opening the final chukker with a goal. The team was unstoppable until the end, and they closed the game at 12 goals to 6.
Match Progression: 2 – .5 | 3 – 2.5 | 5 – 5.5 | 8 – 5.5 | 12 – 6.5
Top Scorer: Bautista Bayugar, 8 goals
UAE Polo found their redemption as they faced Dubai Wolves by CAFU again at the next match. The Wolves started strong as the 8-goal Argentine Alfredo Cappella carved a 3-goal lead for the team by the end of the second chukker. UAE Polo's Tommy Beresford and Lucas Monteverde Jr. closed in on the team by the end of the third. Both teams were eager to dominate the game rushed to secure a comfortable position in the fourth chukker. Lukin succeeded with the three consecutive goals delivered for UAE Polo. Dubai Wolves by CAFU managed to level the game at 7 goals. The possibility of a sixth chukker was crushed by Tommy as a penalty was called shy of 30 seconds before the end of the match. The nail-biting game ended at 8 goals to 7 in favour of the UAE Polo team.
Match Progression: 0 – 1 | 1 – 3 | 3 – 4 | 6 – 4 | 8 – 7
Top Scorer: Alfredo Cappella, 7 goals
The sub-semifinals of the Bentley Emirates Silver Cup is scheduled on the 2nd of February at 16:00 with a game between Bangash Dodson & Horrell and Clinova-Scone polo teams.


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Return the Elgin Marbles?
Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis
Last night the Director of the New Acropolis Museum in Athens, Professor Dimitrios Pandermalis presented a lecture entitled "Collections present and absent at the New Acropolis Museum, Athens" in the Ceramics Room of the National Museum on Kildare Street.
The talk itself detailed the building of the museum and explained some of the choices that had to be made and decisions that were taken in its design and construction.
However, while the lecture was ostensibly about the Museum itself there was an undercurrent throughout about the 'absent' artefacts mentioned in the title. Dr. Pat Wallace, Director of the National Museum of Ireland flagged this from the start, somewhat enigmatically assuring Prof. Pandermalis that while he was constrained by politics when talking about the controversial issue of repatriation of the Elgin Marbles, the Professor could be certain that he was 'among friends'.
Read more about the lecture on my Heritage Key blog here.


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The Vacuum - Issue 14 - Media
Johnny Adair Ate my Hamster
by Colin Graham
A drag queen known as Samantha finds his pet Chihuahua, Bambi, shot dead in a loyalist feud. The quality of the detail is the giveaway. The Peace Process brought celebrity to the previously faceless paramilitaries. Giving them little or no real political power meant that their visibility was often fated to be in the embarrassing sabbath vacuum between news and fluff. So while The Sunday Life was talking to Johnny Adair about allegations that he may have had a gay relationship ('There are hundreds of women who'll vouch for the fact that Johnny Adair is not gay', Adair told The Sunday Life reporter, speaking from Maghaberry), The Observer was managing to be only marginally more articulate and no less sensational. In keeping with its readership's presumably, or presumed, liberal interest in sexuality, it threw in the twist picked up from the details of David Lister and Hugh Jordan's book on Adair that Sam Duddy, one of Adair's 'associates', as the newspeak goes, had another life as a drag queen and that his dog's death had been the darkly comic moment in the nasty saga of the intra-loyalist conflict.
Whatever the difference in the size of the newspaper, or its readership, pets, sex and paramilitaries are an irresistible combination for the Sunday papers. Michael Stone's ponytail, Johnny Adair's shaved head (The Sunday Life, never missing a trick, reports rumours that it is kept shining with floor polish) are the quirks waiting to be made the trademarks of celebrity, a kind of visual catchphrase which sticks in the mind as long as celebrity itself. Of course the terrorist has always had the potential to turn into a caustic version of the photogenic celeb, living a life of intrigue and possibility beyond the view of the state. Belfast had its fictional versions at least as far back as James Mason in Odd Man Out. Since then dogs, both Mad and toy, seem to have played an unrevealingly significant role. The dissolute Belfast male celebrity role has had its supreme moments in George Best and Alex Higgins. With the postmodern uncertainty of the Peace Process the self-destructive sportsman has been replaced by the unedifyingly ironic, and yet altogether more destructiveicon of the paramilitary whose private life is gleefully laid out in public, raising the possibility that Geordie and the Hurricane were symptoms of a Belfast celebrity-wish treading water until the real thing appeared.
When Mo Mowlam went to the Maze the current terrorist celebrity became an inevitability. The cameras following sheepishly would soon learn their trade in these places, just as those being filmed would sharpen up for the cameras. In parallel we could trace the moments when apparently paramilitary lives started to become public, and note how uncannily this maps on to the Peace Process itself. So back in 1997, in the innocent old days before the Good Friday Agreement, An Phoblacht could happily carry the text of a speech by Gerry Adams setting out the republican agenda for future negotiations and in the same Issue publish an article on the environmental horror of new holiday homes springing up in County Clare. A few years later and such a juxtaposition would have a frisson, since Adams' holiday home in Donegal has become his pulp media equivalent of Stone's hair and Adair's lack of it. Adams' celebrity status is of course of a very different order to that of loyalism's sons. Such is his respectability that he has reached lists high enough up the alphabet for the holiday home controversy to be subsumed into his fame. So The Sunday Business Post, in a feature on holiday homes in Donegal in 2002, had this: 'Rossnowlagh, Portnoo, Bundoran and Dunfanaghy are among the most popular coastal locations with holiday home buyers in Donegal. Residents of the county, home to Ireland's largest Gaeltacht, include Gerry Adams and Daniel O'Donnell. Sex in the City star Sarah Jessica Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick recently paid over ¤60,000 for a two-bedroom cottage on the outskirts of the tiny village of Kilcar.' The irony is that Ken Maginnis may have started this nonsense in the first place. In 1996 he used the House of Commons to raise the vote-winning Issue of Gerry's out of town pad: 'It is no wonder that Mr. Gerry Adams has disappeared from our television screens. Perhaps he has gone to his holiday home one, I assume, he purchased out of the savings from his social security benefits down in Cooley in the Irish Republic.' Different house, same issue. But look what the years have done, turning Adams' private life from political outrage to style supplement material.
Loyalism, on the other hand, has tended to find its niche in either tabloid scandal or the broadsheet's equivalent, a faux disdain for tackiness which allows for coverage of the same story. In the days before he and Adair were non grata in Belfast, John White explained Adair's charms to CNN: 'He feels he has been made a scapegoat. Johnny Adair lives a charismatic life, verging on flamboyancy, but he has done nothing illegal.' All the structures of minor celebrity are here; we can take sides on the personality and be directed to its simple textures (though saying you're flamboyant is hardly the best way to be flamboyant). But the gnawing reminder is there, that illegality covers a multitude of sins.
The cult of paramilitary celebrity has become an act of willed Peace Process amnesia. The more ludicrously cartoonish Stone or Adair become, the more glossy magazine Adams is made, then the more we can forget what they stand for. Creating images of those a society previously couldn't admit within its ken can only, it seems, be done by the distant form of knowledge which is celebrity, even glamour. But this only reveals a society in which there are no co-ordinates for seriously placing these men. And such a desperate lack of a way to imagine or speak about the paramilitarism of our past in the present means the media makes it up as it goes along, and because of this gets it wrong. Wrong not only by indulging in chihuahua trivia and Gerry's holiday home redecoration, but seriously wrong enough to remind us, maybe, thatthis parodic version of fame is part of our society's current inability to remember or know itself. When Michael Stone's book None Shall Divide Us ('an explosive book on my life as a loyalist gunman') was published, UTV broadcast ads for it, swallowing the new found celebrity status Stone had achieved, forgetting who might be watching and why the man was famous in the first place. The ITC investigated complaints by relatives of those killed by Stone at Milltown and upheld their complaint UTV had already taken the ad off once the complaints had been lodged, and apologised for the hurt caused. But the momentary lapse tells us all. With no way to account for the past, Belfast and the North has its media as its conscience; so headlines will dazzle inanely for a while longer, and sex, dogs and drugs will always sell.


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Although email marketing is a popular strategy, a new Experian report indicates that marketers still struggle to reach their audience, as 73 percent of companies have faced email delivery issues over the past 12 months.
According to the data, poor delivery typically results in an inability to communicate with subscribers for 41 percent of respondents. Inadequate customer service (24 percent), regulatory hurdles (22 percent) and unnecessary costs (22 percent) were also consequences of poor email delivery.
Ninety-five percent of all companies attempt to track their email marketing campaigns. About 46 percent gauge their efforts based on leads or opportunities created from email. Forty-five percent do so by tracking revenue attributed to email marketing efforts.
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The "Email Marketing Trends" survey published by Ascend2 in May 2015 found that 53 percent of marketers consider low click-through rates to be their biggest issue. However, 65 percent of respondents said they were overcoming this obstacle with more meaningful calls-to-action. Forty-seven percent were resolving the issue with list segmentation, and 42 percent were using message personalization.
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Dec 11, 2020 - Economy & Business
Inside Disney's plans for streaming domination
Sara Fischer, author of Media Trends
Data: Company filings. Chart: Axios Visuals
Disney unveiled its most ambitious content push in its 97-year history, announcing more than 100 new projects, most of which will be available on its streaming service Disney+.
The big picture: In just over a year, Disney has gobbled up 86.8 million subscribers, making it nearly half the size (45%) of Netflix, which launched its streaming service over a decade ago.
Driving the news: In a four-hour investor presentation, Disney unveiled plans for 10 new Marvel and Star Wars series, as well as 15 new Disney live action, Disney animation and Pixar features to be released on Disney+.
Disney also announced a slew of new content for Hulu, including a new show with the Kardashians in late 2021.
Disney's strategy contrasts starkly with rival HBO Max. HBO's parent company, AT&T, said last week it would make all 2021 Warner Bros. films available on HBO Max at the same time that the films debut in theaters.
Disney, which owns 40% of the domestic box office, can't afford such a bold release strategy, but CEO Bob Chapek said it would try putting one film, "Raya and the Last Dragon," on Disney+ with a "premier access fee" in conjunction with theaters as an experiment in March.
The big picture: The pandemic has caused entertainment giants to embrace streaming faster than most were prepared to do, resulting in lots of reshuffling at top companies.
Last week, Discovery+ also joined the streaming wars, debuting a new global entertainment streaming service discovery+ for $4.99 monthly, focused on unscripted programming.
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Disney CEO Bob Chapek told media and investors on Thursday that its streaming service Disney+ now has 86.8 million subscribers.
Why it matters: The company's streaming success has helped to offset major losses in Disney's studios, parks and resorts divisions.
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Medication abortion reversal is "devoid of scientific support," judge rules in North Dakota
By Kate Smith
September 10, 2019 / 12:45 PM / CBS News
A judge in North Dakota ruled against the state's recent law requiring physicians to tell patients that their medication abortions may reversed, a claim he called "devoid of scientific support, misleading, and untrue."
In a 24-page decision issued Tuesday morning, Judge Daniel Hovland granted the American Medical Association and Red River Women's Clinic — North Dakota's only abortion provider — a preliminary injunction against North Dakota House Bill 1336, which would have required physicians to tell patients "that it may be possible to reverse the effects of an abortion-inducing drug if she changes her mind, but time is of the essence," according to the law's text.
"State legislatures should not be mandating unproven medical treatments, or requiring physicians to provide patients with misleading and inaccurate information," Judge Hovland wrote. "The provisions of [this law] violate a physician's right not to speak and go far beyond any informed consent laws addressed by the United States Supreme Court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, or other courts to date."
A spokesperson for the North Dakota attorney general's office said they were "reviewing the order" and declined to answer whether they would appeal the decision.
The state's claim that a medical abortion — colloquially called a pill abortion — can be reversed is based on a pair of studies that have been contested by The American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Access to abortion services in North Dakota is already limited. The 70,762-square-mile state only has one legal abortion provider and women seeking the procedure must undergo a state-mandated 24-hour waiting period, according to data compiled by the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion rights research group. Minors in the state are required to notify their parents if they receive an abortion and the state limits the ways in which private insurance carriers cover the procedure, according to Guttmacher.
Eight states have passed laws requiring abortion providers to tell patients about alleged medication abortion reversal. Five of those laws were passed this year. Tuesday's ruling is the first time this year that a court has ruled against one of those regulations, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, one of the legal groups involved in the case. A judge in Arizona struck down a similar law in 2016 and state lawmakers eventually repealed the law.
"We're seeing a trend across the country — anti-abortion politicians are trying to use doctors as mouthpieces for the state. But doctors have first amendment rights like everyone else," said Marc Hearron, senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, in an email sent to CBS News on Tuesday morning. "They cannot be forced to lie to their patients."
The lawsuit also challenges a separate state law that requires physicians to tell patients that abortion terminates "the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." That aspect of the lawsuit has not yet been addressed.
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A Rather English Marriage is a novel by Angela Lambert, first published in 1992, and later adapted for television by Andrew Davies for the BBC.

Plot summary
The book's plot concerns two retired men who are thrown together following the deaths of their wives in the same hospital.  Both have served in the armed forces, one, Reggie Conyngham-Jervis, being a former officer, the other, Roy Southgate, an ex-NCO.  The class differences lead to Roy moving in with Reggie and being treated as an unpaid servant.  The reader's sympathies are with Roy as he remains humble and faithful to his purpose until Reggie becomes too domineering.  Roy remarries, and Reggie, whose attempt to seduce a younger widow, Liz Franks, has ended in failure, is left alone.

Television adaptation

The television adaptation, first screened on BBC Two on 30 December 1998 and later released on DVD, is directed by Paul Seed.  It stars Tom Courtenay as Roy and Albert Finney as Reggie, and stays close to the plot of the book until the ending, when the two old men end up staying together.  The adaptation also starred Joanna Lumley as Liz, Ursula Howells as Reggie's wife, Mary, and Jeremy Clyde as Reggie's nephew.

The show won the BAFTA Awards for Best Actor (Tom Courtenay), Best Editing, Best Original Television Music and Best Single Drama. It also received nominations for Best Actor (Albert Finney), Best Actress (Joanna Lumley) and Best Sound.

It also received the Peabody Award and the Royal Television Society Award for Best Single Drama.

References

External links
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Key recommendations. Staff recommended a gradual increase in the primary surplus to 4½ percent of GDP, mainly through wage and pension reforms, to place the public debt on a firm downward path and reduce external financing needs. It also recommended continued actions to strengthen the financial system and welcomed improvements in the monetary policy framework. The authorities broadly agreed with the recommendations, particularly tostrengthen the banking system. They planned to seek consensus on needed fiscal reforms, but noted that, in the near term, social conditions strictly constrained the scope for fiscal consolidation.
The authorities seek to reinvigorate growth prospects and reduce the poverty rate to 35 percent by 2013. The development plan for 2010–13 focuses on job creation and identifies sources of growth in tourism, agro-industry, and fishing. It rests on five pillars: developing small enterprises; strengthening export trade capacity; enhancing human development; addressing social dislocations and reducing crime; and managing environmental and natural disaster risk. The plan seeks to strengthen competitiveness by addressing infrastructure bottlenecks, high costs of financing, and red tape. It contains investment and social plans that will be assessed and integrated into the multiyear budget and presented to donors later this year.
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Belize IMF report out - recommends more pain for Belizeans
The 2010 report on the annual International Monetary Fund (IMF) consultation with Belizean authorities was published on Friday, after a delay of almost six months due to challenges from the Government of Belize (GOB) to its contents.
The preliminary recommendations released in July 2010 asked GOB to restrain current spending, prioritize investment, place the pension system on a strong and sustainable footing, and improve tax and customs administration.
The IMF, in its full report, says it is recommending that in order for Belize to achieve a 3.5% growth in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the medium-term, plus halve its public debt to 40% of GDP by 2019, the government should raise the General Sales Tax—increased last year from 10% to 12.5%, as had been recommended by the IMF—to the regional rate of 15%.
Another measure it says the government could use to raise revenue is to put back the excise taxes on fuel, which had been reduced in 2008.
The report also presents a proposal to the government to stop increases in the wage bill and review what it describes as "generous contributions" for pensions and Social Security benefits.
With respect to the 2010-2011 budget, which will be in effect until the end of March, the IMF says the government should be more selective in its investment plan and intensify tax administration efforts.
According to the report, the Government of Belize has advised the IMF that putting the recommended revenue generation measures in effect would be difficult, given political and social conditions; however, they indicated a willingness to look at improved tax compliance and spending control.
"They acknowledged the need for fiscal reforms (mainly on wages and pensions), but explained that such reforms were strongly opposed by labor unions and the business sector," the report adds. "However, the authorities expressed their willingness to engage various stakeholders to develop consensus on these reforms."
The report also discusses the recent problems faced by Belize's banking sector, including the high rate of non-performing loans (NPLs) at the country's largest bank, the Belize Bank.
"The authorities recognized that the situation of the three banks [two domestic banks and an offshore bank], if not addressed, could threaten the stability of the banking system," said the report. "In response to staff's recommendations, they noted that these banks recognize the potential capital shortfalls associated with their NPLs, and have agreed to submit recapitalization plans to the Central Bank."
The report states that although Belize was adversely affected by the 2009 global recession, the Belize economy has modestly recovered in 2010.
"The authorities seek to reinvigorate growth prospects and reduce the poverty rate to 35 percent by 2013," it added. "The development plan for 2010–13 focuses on job creation and identifies sources of growth in tourism, agro-industry, and fishing."
The plan, said the IMF report, rests on five pillars: developing small enterprises; strengthening export trade capacity; enhancing human development; addressing social dislocations and reducing crime; and managing environmental and natural disaster risk.
"The plan seeks to strengthen competitiveness by addressing infrastructure bottlenecks, high costs of financing, and red tape," it added.
IMF releases 2011 report
A report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), based on a consultation completed in September last year, gives the Belize Government good grades for effort and for reaching a 2.4 growth rate of GDP in the second quarter of 2010 but recommends tough new measures that could end up costing Belizeans more.
The report expressed concern about the banking system with regard to overdue loans, stating that the equivalent of 20 percent of total loans in mid 2010 were non-performing.
After commending the Belize government for its prudent macroeconomic management in the face of the global crisis and the floods which struck Belize in 2009 and 2010, IMF examiners gave priority to protecting the stability of the banking system.
This protection, the report states "will require an agreement on recapitalization plans for a few banks and their early implementation."
The report goes on to say: (The IMF) welcomed plans to upgrade the regulatory and bank regulation framework, bringing prudential rules in line with international best practices, with technical assistance from the (IMF) Fund.
It noted that Belize's fixed exchange rate had provided an anchor for macro-economic policies and expectations. Long-term stability, the report said, depends on sustained fiscal consolidation, a disciplined monetary policy and strengthened financial stability.
On the flip side the report recommended that the government reverse "the upward trend in the wage bill" and streamline what it described as "generous benefits vis-a-vis contributions on the public officer's pension scheme.
The report also suggested phasing out the 2008 reduction in the fuel excise tax.
The report warned that it expects sluggish growth in exports and tourism, reduced access to external funding and limited prospects for growth and employment.
Thus it encourages the government to focus on strategies to achieve debt sustainability, protect banking system stability and strengthen the external position to create an environment for increased private investment.
The report was released in January of this year.
IMF recommends tax increase, wage freeze & employment cap
In 2010, the Barrow Administration hiked General Sales Tax by 25%. That
measure, which is still causing greater hardships for middle and low-income
earners and slower business, was a direct recommendation from the
International Monetary Fund in 2009.
Today, the Prime Minister is reviewing a set of new recommendations from the
IMF, which call for even higher taxes, among other austerity measures to
curtail GOB spending and increase revenue.
In its 59-page 2010 Article IV Consultation, the IMF issues a number of red
flags to the Barrow Administration, warning that if specific responsible
fiscal management steps and key policy decisions are not taken, things could
spiral out of control for the country.
The IMF warns that under the present policies of the Barrow Administration,
GDP growth would be restrained "below historical trends" which could also
"lead to high external financing needs" at about 8.5% to 10%of GDP.
Furthermore, the Washington-based group said foreign reserves would decline
gradually to under two months of imports by 2020.
To avoid those complications, the IMF has recommended measures that will be
painful to Belizeans, but which, as we have seen before, the Prime Minister
won't have a hard time in accepting.
Those measures include increasing GST to 15% (currently at 12.5), reducing
Government's wage bill, limiting growth in non-priority areas, capping
Government employment to where it stood in 2009, and possibly even
reintroducing the full fuel excise tax, which the Barrow Administration
claimed it removed.
While the nation's finances need improved management, the IMF also noted
that the banking system, which is supervised and regulated by the Central
Bank, has become unstable. ".the overall health of the banking system has
deteriorated, with three banks facing financial weakness. The authorities
recognized that the situation of the three banks, if not addressed, could
threaten the stability of the banking system."
The banks' instability is as a result of a high number of non-paid loans
(NPL). One of the banks, noted the IMF's report, doubled in NPLs to 34
percent of total loans from January to June of 2009. The high volume of
non-paid loans is indicative of the hard times Belizeans are living in.
Those hard times were discussed by the IMF Report which noted the increase
in poverty, the highest it's ever been at 40% of the population.
The IMF Report also made special mention of two legislative steps taken by
the barrow Administration which could adversely affect the economy. One of
them is the expropriation of Belize Telemedia Limited. The IMF said it is
necessary for an "early resolution" in the matter of negotiations between
Government and the previous owners, to avoid affecting the investment
climate, or pressure on public debt.
The IMF report was even more suspicious about the Government's legislation
on contempt of court, which was introduced in March 2010. The document says
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A History of Norwich City in 100 Goals No. 4: Teemu Pukki v Manchester City
Continuing his occasional series, Nick Hayhoe looks back to Saturday 14 September, 2019. Norwich City had an unprecedented injury crisis and were about to play the Champions of England. What happened next?
And sometimes just like that; all the pain, all the misery you experience supporting your football club, in one moment it all becomes worth it in 10 seconds of pure ecstasy.
On Friday 13 September 2019, Norwich City manager Daniel Farke spoke to the usual gathering of journalists for his pre-match Premier League press conference. His first words? "We have quite a few injury problems". This, as with so many things with the German, was as understated as one could get. Norwich's squad was decimated. Crippled. Slashed. For a club that often faces more than its fair share of injury woes, this one was almost like a parody. Farke rattled the names off: centre back Timm Klose, centre back Christoph Zimmermann, centre back Grant Hanley, centre back Benjamin Godfrey, defensive midfielder Tom Trybull, winger Patrick Roberts, attacking midfielder Moritz Leitner, full back Maximillian Aarons, centre midfielder Mario Vrancic. Goalkeeper Timothy Krul a mere 'doubt'. Most having played a part in City's tier two title winning season the previous year and most involved in Norwich's okay start to the Premier League that year. The team they are facing the next day? Manchester City. The oil-soaked rich billionaires of Manchester City. Title holders and generally regarded as one of the best football teams in the world.
While this was not an FA Cup 3rd Round David v Goliath match, and Norwich were most definitely in the Premier League on their own merit, this did not stop bookmakers from offering odds of up to 16/1 on a home win. They may have been in the same division on paper, but Man City were in, for all intents and purposes, a completely different league in the crazy cash throwing world of modern football. So, with the treatment room at the training ground, Colney, looking at having to add a new wing, Norwich had no chance.
The atmosphere that evening in the build up to the game, however, told an all together different story. While Norwich fans often bicker amongst themselves about modern Carrow Road's atmosphere, declare themselves tinpot, happy clappers, and all the usual Twitter reply adjectives, there is one thing they can always be counted on: giving it all when the arrogant, nouveau riche treat us with the disrespect they would an aggravating stone stuck in the sole of their shoe. Tottenham Hotspur 1959, Bayern Munich 1994, Manchester United 2005… They never like it up 'em.
Before the effects of the pre-match pints started to wear off (the game being a Saturday evening kick off), Norwich were ahead within 30 minutes – leaving all in the Barclay to check all the usual signs that this was, in fact, a lucid dream. Kenny McLean, the Mayor of Norwich, rose unmarked to nod Emi Buendia's corner home to the sound of a roar that could be heard all about the lanes, beaches, rivers and broads of Norfolk before Todd Cantwell danced, badly, after finishing off a delicious move that marked the peak of what had been dubbed "Farkeball" since his arrival at Norwich.
Man City nicked a goal back, as the top teams so often do even when not playing well, just before half time. And yet this was no start of a Man City comeback.
Nicolas Otamendi, who has played for Argentina 74 times and at two World Cups, dithered on the ball just outside of his own penalty area on the 50th minute and Buendia took advantage, pinching the ball off him, and rolling the pass across the six yard box to Teemu Pukki to tap home one of the easiest goals he would ever score.
And it is that moment, with the roar from the Carrow Road crowd greeting the players rushing over the Barclay to celebrate with the Finn, where everyone forgot about the 0-0 away draws against Burton Albion and the last minute home defeats, because that was what it was all about. From then, until the end of the game, not a single voice in Carrow Road, outside of the away end, wasn't being heard – culminating into a crescendo of pure white-hot noise like no other. No singing, no chanting, just a pure, raw wall of sound which did not stop until it erupted into a riotous scream of joy at the final whistle.
Of course, for Norwich that season, that was as good as it got. From that game on City, and subsequently the world itself, lurched from one crisis to the next. For the Norwich fan, that was the peak of it all for quite sometime as, three months later, reports started coming out of Wuhan in China that a very contagious and dangerous virus had been discovered – one that would change the world of football beyond all measure. Behind closed doors, in a final act of the season that could be described as Schodringer's Relegation, Norwich were thumped 5-0 by Man City at the Etihad Stadium in the return fixture.
But, on that day in September, the soon to be famous final image of Pukki, finger in air with the biggest grin on his face, as full internationals, FIFA Ultimate Team darlings and World Cup players John Stones and Ederson lay dazed and confused in the penalty box in front of the Barclay, sums up that old classic phrase as better than this piece or any other piece of written word can: Along Come Norwich.
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The ACN Podcast – Episode 61
Punt and Parsley are joined by former Little Yellow Birders, Clare Thomas and Dan Brigham. They debate Farke's new knack for substitutions, who is the most important player we couldn't be without and 7 points in 7 days. They also take your questions from the mailbag and round off with the as always factually inaccurate quiz....
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Norwich City's on-loan Spurs midfielder, Oliver Skipp, joins the boys to discuss cuddles with Mourinho, Farke pushing his buttons, playing in the era of empty stadiums and life without VAR.
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Rethinking the Paris Commune of 1871 | Arup Kumar Sen
Friday 14 January 2022, by Arup Kumar Sen
On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871, historian Laura C. Forster has raised fundamental questions about commemorating the great insurgency and what happened in its wake (See Laura C. Forster, 'Radical Commemoration, the Politics of the Street, and the 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871', History Workshop Journal, Vol. 92, Autumn 2021). The questions raised and observations made by Forster illuminate our historical imagination.
Forster characterized the Paris Commune of 1871 as "a radical experiment in government". To put it in her own words: "...Paris democratically elected a Commune council in March 1871. The Commune governed Paris for seventy-two days and passed measures such as the abolition of night work, free secular education, the separation of Church and State, and the cancellation of rent arrears accrued by starving Parisians during the Siege of Paris the year before. In May 1871 the Commune was brutally defeated during a week of bloodshed. More than ten thousand Communards were killed". (ibid.)
In fact, the Paris Commune of 1871 symbolized a protest against the bourgeois modernization of Paris: "The Communards themselves were rallying against the redevelopment and sanitization of revolutionary Paris. In the two decades before the Commune, Paris was restructured — narrow cobbled streets were destroyed to make way for wide boulevards that could be better policed and controlled if threatened by popular uprisings - in a massive urban renewal programme undertaken by Georges-Eugene Haussmann at the behest of Emperor Napoleon III. The radical social and political geographies and ecosystems of revolutionary Paris were diminished by these architectural transformations. Haussmann's project was a deliberate attempt to remove from Paris those elements deemed unsavoury by the ruling elite. The Commune, therefore, was in part a violent reaction against the physical and political violence of Haussmannization". (ibid.)
Forster reminded us how the governments of the Third Republic attempted to erase the memory of the Commune: "Immediately after the suppression of the Commune, the 'state obliteration' of its memory began. The early governments of the Third Republic attempted to eradicate the memory of the Commune through rigorous censorship. They wanted to leave the horrors of 1870-1 in the past, and refashion Paris as the capital of healthy, hygienic modernity." (ibid.)
Laura C. Forster's reading of different political dimensions of the Paris Commune enriches our understanding of the 'prose' of 1871-Insurgency:
The Commune itself was rooted in the local — it relied on neighbourhood-centred associational cultures and networks. It was a revolution in municipal autonomy and social relations that was intimately tied to the places of Paris but connected trans-locally to battles against imperialism and centralization elsewhere. In many ways the Commune was a battle for place as much as for people...The Paris Commune of 1871 has a lot to offer us — plans for political revolution, ideas of internationalism, and dreams of municipal utopias — if we can only set its message to a twenty-first century frequency. (ibid.)
The spectre of the Paris Commune will haunt the neo-liberal political regimes, particularly in the context of gigantic urbanization and modernization projects being undertaken by them, in different parts of the world in the 21st century.


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What's It Like to Play E.T., the Worst Video Game Ever? [Review]
Maurice Mitchell 2/20/2013 08:00:00 AM E.T., Movies, review, stuff
According to Rotten Tomatoes, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) is the greatest science-fiction movie ever made. According to PC World, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1983) is the worst video game ever made. How could a great movie make a horrible game? Is it really as bad as people say? Let's find out.
Above Image: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 Game Screen
In 1982, E.T. took the world by storm becoming the most popular movie of its time. The story of a boy would befriends a stranded alien was more popular than Star Wars. Atari, keen to cash in on the popularity, paid over $20 million dollars for the rights to produce a video game.
A game was made at a blisteringly fast pace, of twelve weeks, to sell by the holiday season. This is insanely short for a commercial video game, and it suffered from the lack of planning. Atari was so sure they were going to have a hit, they didn't even bother to have players test the game. Anticipation was high though, and it was the hottest selling game of 1983.
The game bombed.
While it sold well, it was nowhere near what they were expecting. Parents returned the game by the thousands and retailers discounted the game from $49 to less than a dollar just to get rid of them. A confusing storyline of guiding E.T. to find the pieces of his intergalactic cell phone to call his spaceship left players confused and angry. Kevin Bowen of GameSpy's Classic Gaming called the gameplay "convoluted and inane."
By some accounts this led to the video game crash of the 80's that almost destroyed the industry.
But the game can't be that bad right? Read on to find out...
Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, you can play the original Atari 2600 video game online. I'll give you a run-through of my first game experience.
He's not a goblin. He's a spaceman.
First, the theme music for E.T. begins and a pixilated image of the alien fills the screen. A ship drops a blob in the middle of the screen. It kind of looks like E.T. if you squint hard. You're left with no guidance except a small arrow at the top of the screen. Tension built as I wandered to the edge and crossed the threshold.
Next, I was presented by four blocky squares in another green field. I walk into one and find myself in a deep pit. Alone. Confused, I push the space key and his neck extends. After trial and error, I realize I need to hold down the space bar and use the arrow key to raise him out of the hole.
I can't explain how maddeningly confusing this control system is. Its kind of like trying to drive a stick shift with your feet. After the character drops several times, I manage to make him float out. I'm glassy eyed with boredom.
Just then, a man in a white coat (I call him "Lab Boy") comes on-screen and races towards me! He's faster than I am, and quickly overtakes me. Dragging my body away, I find myself on a new screen. Lab Boy drops me off in a Roman Colonnade and leaves.
There don't seem to be any guards or anything, so I shrug. Head off-screen and back to the hole room. So much for dramatic tension.
A guy in a trench coat is there, but he just wanders around aimlessly. I assume he's some kind of inept policeman and avoid him just to be on the safe side.
The Hole Truth
I head for another hole and drop in. Nothing there. I'm now five minutes into the game and have accomplished nada. So, I "neck-float" out and discover a design flaw. I have escaped on the edge of the hole and promptly fall back in. This happens three more times before he inexplicably stops falling in.
Mr. Trenchcoat is there and now I want him to catch me just to break up the monotony. He races towards me and then runs away like I'm made out of Kryptonite.
Now I find myself in the awkward position of chasing after my opponent hoping he catches me. I'm screaming at the screen, "Take me out of here!"
E.T. Phones Home
As I chase Mr. Trenchcoat around I accidentally fall in a hole. "Great." I mutter. Suddenly, I notice a squiggly line. it's a piece of E.T.'s phone! I touch it and an object appears at the top of the screen. It doesn't look like a phone, or anything else frankly, but its all mine. I levitate out of the hole and promptly fall back in.
There's another object in the hole and a smiley face appears on the screen when I touch it. "What does that mean?" I mutter and hit the space bar. It turns into a flower. That's it. Amazing. My good deed for the day I guess.
Ouuuuch!
As I pop out of the hole Mr. Trenchcoat nabs me. The cops are never around when you need them. Instead of taking me back to Rome, he touches me and walks away. "Whatever," I laugh and then realize he's stolen my phone piece. The one I just wasted a half-hour trying to find.
That did it. I shut the game off.
Let's review. The gameplay is clunky and awkward. The graphics are chunky and ugly. The challenge is lunky and unsatisfying.
I've played some bad games before, but this takes the cake. Truly, the worst game I've ever played.
I felt ripped off and I paid nothing for the game. Imagine if I'd been a small child and actually paid the steep game prices of 1983. I would have cried for days.
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Alex J. Cavanaugh February 20, 2013 at 8:03 AM
A friend had the misfortune of buying that one. He hated it.
Maurice Mitchell February 20, 2013 at 8:59 PM
So sorry for his loss Alex. I'll send flowers.
Pat Dilloway February 20, 2013 at 8:08 AM
Well to be honest most games on the 2600 were pretty awful, especially by today's standards. Of the ones I can remember Pitfall was probably my favorite, mostly for the imitation Tarzan noise when you swung on a vine. I did a whole breakdown of video games on the Grumpy Bulldog blog in 2011 or so. My favorite game is still "Conflict" for the NES. It can be annoying, but my brother and I used to spend hours trying to beat each other on each map. Anyway, there's a program called Console Classix I used where you can play most of the old Atari, NES, Genesis, and SNES games--though the latter two cost like $6/month. You soon realize most of the games are pretty lame, especially movie tie-in ones.
I bought an Atari 2600 console and 30 games a few years back at a yard sale. I had dreams of reliving those old classic games. Sad to say it didn't live up to my fantasies. On the other hand, I got an SNES emulator for my phone and those games hold up well.
Pat Dilloway February 20, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Ah ha I found my history of video games post from November 2011. http://grumpybulldog.blogspot.com/2011/11/grumpy-bulldog-vs-video-games.html
Mark Means February 20, 2013 at 10:36 AM
This one reminds me of the old "Raiders of the Lost Ark" game and sounds just as inane. Glad I was never an E.T. fan :)
nutschell February 20, 2013 at 10:51 AM
Never heard of this game! Thankfully enough :)
Worth missing Nutschel
Jamie Gibbs February 20, 2013 at 1:41 PM
You can play it online? I'm there!
*5 seconds later* MY EYES! MY EYES!
It really is that bad.
Is it true that they had to dump all the unsold copies of the game in a landfill somehwere in Mexico?
Thanks for being a part of the blogfest!
You can't look directly at the game Jamie. I hear that landfill rumor too, but can't confirm or deny. Fun blogfest!
A lot of movie based gamesare lame Mark, but this one is just awful.
Allison February 21, 2013 at 3:44 PM
Thank you for making me cry for the video game world. haha, it sounds terrible. But at least you had a bit of fun commenting on its terrible-ness, right? Thanks for joining in the blogfest!
Allyson, someone, somewhere lists E.T. as their favorite game. Not me though
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