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Q: Having isolated or non-reactive columns inside of a reactive dataframe I have a reactive dataframe (called selected_df()) in which I am trying to consolidate information from input$tableID_cells_selected and another dataframe.
The second reactive dataframe, called storage_df(), is 1 row and 2 columns. It collects the background color and text labels from action buttons that are pressed, and then that data stays static in storage_df() until a different button is pressed.
selected_df() then collects the info about whatever button was last pressed from storage_df() when a cell in the table is selected (or whenever input$plate_cells_selected is updated), and shows these data in the same row.
The problem is that the selected_df() must reference storage_df() inside of the reactive environment, so it updates all of the values in the cond_selected and color_selected columns from selected_df(). I don't want to have those old values from storage_df() updated and replaced with whatever new values exist in storage_df(). I want those old rows of selected_df() to keep those old values, and for the new rows of selected_df() to have the new values of storage_df(). So basically, storage)df() is updated upon button click, as it is reactive, but the references to storage_df() made by selected_df() would not be reactive.
I have a gif here that will hopefully explain what I am trying to do, in case this is confusing. This is a previous attempt but it is the closest that I have gotten to success. In the gif, the color and cond columns of selected_df() are set such as follows for example: cond_selected = isolate(paste0(rep(storage_df()[[1,2]]))), so that value changes when a new button is pressed. The first three rows of column cond_selected within selected_df() should ideally stay gse1, while the latter three rows should be cox8a. As you can see, this is not what happens.

In other words, this is what I have in these columns at the end of this gif:

And this is what I want in these columns:

With my latest attempt (included in my MRE). I thought if I were to only try to update the values of the last added row, as I think the selected_df() might be appended whenever a new cell is selected, then that might work. However, the app crashes and only gives this warning, which it usually gave because selected_df() had no rows before a cell was selected:
Warning: Error in [: subscript out of bounds

Also, here is my MRE and latest attempt, and what I currently need help trying to figure out:

library(shiny)
library(colourpicker)
library(dplyr)
library(DT)
library(glue)
library(shinyWidgets)

####Create the matrix and organization for the 96 well plate####
plate96 <- function(id) {
  div(
    style = "position: relative; height: 500px",
    tags$style(HTML('

        .wells {
            transform: translateX(50%);
        }

        .wells table.dataTable tr:nth-child(9) td { /*for the row 9, need to make it not look like a row*/
            border-bottom: unset;
        }

        .wells tbody tr td:not(:first-of-type) {
            border: 1px solid black;
            height: 15px;
            width: 15px;
            padding: 15px;
            font-size: 0;
        }
    ')),
    div(
      style = "position: absolute; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-100%);",
      div(
        class = "wells",
        DTOutput(id, width = "90%", height= "100%")
      )
    )
  )
}

####Create the matrix and organization for the 96 well plate####

renderPlate96 = function(id, colors = rep("white", 108)) {

  plate <- matrix(1:108,
                  nrow = 9,
                  ncol = 12,
                  byrow = TRUE,
                  dimnames = list(LETTERS[1:9], 1:12))

  colnames (plate) = stringr::str_pad(colnames(plate), 2, "left", "0")

  return(plate_return1 <-
           datatable(
             plate,
             options = list(dom = 't', ordering = F),
             selection = list(mode = 'multiple',
                              target = "cell"),
             class = 'cell-border compact'
           ) %>%
           formatStyle(
             1:12,
             cursor = 'pointer',
             backgroundColor = styleEqual(1:108, colors, default = NULL)
           )
  )
}

storage_df <- (data.frame(
  matrix(ncol = 2, nrow = 1),
  color_selected = NA,
  cond_selected = NA
))

# app code
ui <- fluidPage(

  plate96("plate"),
  tags$b("Wells Selected:"),
  verbatimTextOutput("plateWells_selected"),

  br(),
  helpText("Step 1: Add in a couple of buttons"),
  numericInput("num_conds",
               label = h3("Enter the number of treatments/ conditions"),
               min = 1,
               max = 20,
               value = 1),

  htmlOutput("cond_buttons", align = 'center'),

  helpText("Step 2: Type in any name for a condition for the buttons"),
  uiOutput("boxes_conds"),

  helpText("Step 3: Choose any color for the buttons"),
  uiOutput("cond_colors"),

  helpText("Step 4: Select cells from the table above"),
  DT::dataTableOutput("selected_table"),

  DT::dataTableOutput("storage_table"),

)

server <- function(input, output, session){

  ### ★★ ↓↓↓↓ PROBLEM AREA ↓↓↓↓ ★★ ###

  ####Storage data.frame for when the buttons are clicked####
  observeEvent(input$num_conds, {
    lapply(1:input$num_conds, function(x){

      observeEvent(input[[paste0("cond_buttons",x)]], {
        newdf <- tibble(
          color_selected =  input[[paste0("colors",x)]],
          cond_selected = input[[paste0("condID",x)]]
        )
        storage_df(newdf)
      })
    })
  })

  storage_df <- reactiveVal(tibble::tribble(
    ~color_selected, ~cond_selected
  ))

  output$storage_table <- renderDataTable(
    req(storage_df()),
    options = list(paging = FALSE,
                   ordering = FALSE,
                   scrollx = FALSE,
                   searching = FALSE,
                   stringsAsFactors = FALSE
    )
  )

  ####Create a DT that stores the values of the cells selected in the plate####
  selected_df <- reactive(data.frame(rows = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,1]),
                                     columns = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,2]),
                                     color_selected = 0,
                                     cond_selected = 0,
                                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE),
  )

####Take out this portion of the code if trying to reproduce my GIF###
  observeEvent(input$plate_cells_selected, {
    selected_df() %>% mutate(selected_df(), color_selected = replace(color_selected, color_selected== '0', isolate(paste0(rep(storage_df()[[1,1]]))))

  )})
####Take out this portion of the code if trying to reproduce my GIF###

  output$selected_table <- renderDataTable(
    req(selected_df()),
    options = list(paging = FALSE,
                   ordering = FALSE,
                   scrollx = FALSE,
                   searching = FALSE,
                   lengthChange = FALSE
    )
  )
  ### ★★ ↑↑↑↑ PROBLEM AREA ↑↑↑↑ ★★ ###

  #....#

  #Past here isn't as important to the question...#

  ####Input for user browse and data upload####
  output$contents <- renderTable({ req(input$data)  })

  #####Slider for frames per second####
  output$value <- renderPrint({ input$Frames })

  #####Check boxes for no-movement cell exclusion####
  output$value <- renderPrint({ input$emptyWell_checkbox })

  #####Number output for number of conditions#####
  output$value <- renderPrint({ input$num_conds })

  #### Condition boxes for UI text input####
  output$boxes_conds <- renderUI({
    num_conds = as.integer(input$num_conds)

    lapply(1:num_conds, function(i) {
      cond_names <- textInput(paste0("condID", i),
                              label = paste0("Treatment/ Conditions: ", i),
                              placeholder = "Enter condition..."
      )
    })
  })

  #### Color selection for UI input####
  output$cond_colors <- renderUI({
    num_conds = as.integer(input$num_conds)

    lapply(1:num_conds, function(i) {
      colourInput(paste0("colors", i),
                  label = (paste0("Select a color for condition ", i)),
                  show = c("both"),
                  value = "black",
                  palette = c("limited"),
      )
    })
  })

  #### Create action buttons for conditions to be selected####
  output$cond_buttons <- renderUI({
    num_conds = as.integer(input$num_conds)

    lapply(1:num_conds, function(i) {

      bg = input[[paste0("colors", i)]]
      style = paste0(
        collapse = " ",
        glue("background-color:{bg};
                  color:#ffffff;
                  border-color:#000000")
      )

      label = input[[paste0("condID", i)]]

      actionButton(paste0("cond_buttons", i),
                   label = label,
                   style = style,
      )
    })
  })

  ####Create the 96 well plate image####
  output$plate <- renderDT({
    renderPlate96()
  })

  output$plateWells_selected <- renderPrint({
    input$plate_cells_selected
  })
}
shinyApp(ui = ui, server = server)

UPDATE UPON REQUEST
Here is a portion of the code needed to reproduce what you see in the GIF. This is not my latest attempt and is not what I need help with troubleshooting, this is merely to give what I used to make the GIF that explains what I want. Just replace the similar version of the code with this in my MRE and take out the mutate function. The mutate function to remove has been marked by comments in my MRE.
####Create a DT that stores the values of the cells selected in the plate####
  selected_df <- reactive(data.frame(rows = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,1]),
                                     columns = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,2]),
                                     color_selected = isolate(paste0(rep(storage_df()[[1,1]]))),
                                     cond_selected = isolate(paste0(rep(storage_df()[[1,2]]))),
                                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
  )

UPDATE, REPONSE TO YBS

A: Try this
# app code
ui <- fluidPage(

  plate96("plate"),
  tags$b("Wells Selected:"),
  verbatimTextOutput("plateWells_selected"),

  br(),
  helpText("Step 1: Add in a couple of buttons"),
  numericInput("num_conds",
               label = h3("Enter the number of treatments/ conditions"),
               min = 1,
               max = 20,
               value = 1),

  htmlOutput("cond_buttons", align = 'center'),

  helpText("Step 2: Type in any name for a condition for the buttons"),
  uiOutput("boxes_conds"),

  helpText("Step 3: Choose any color for the buttons"),
  uiOutput("cond_colors"),

  helpText("Step 4: Select cells from the table above"),
  DTOutput("selected_table"),

  DTOutput("storage_table"),

)

server <- function(input, output, session){

  ### ★★ ↓↓↓↓ PROBLEM AREA ↓↓↓↓ ★★ ###
  # storage_df <- reactiveVal(tibble::tribble(
  #   ~color_selected, ~cond_selected
  # ))

  storage_df <- reactiveVal(storage)

  ####Storage data.frame for when the buttons are clicked####
  observeEvent(input$num_conds, {
    lapply(1:input$num_conds, function(x){

      observeEvent(input[[paste0("cond_buttons",x)]], {
        newdf <- data.frame(
          color_selected =  input[[paste0("colors",x)]],
          cond_selected = input[[paste0("condID",x)]]
        )
        storage_df(newdf)
      }, ignoreInit = TRUE)
    })
  })

  output$storage_table <- renderDataTable(
    req(storage_df()),
    options = list(paging = FALSE,
                   ordering = FALSE,
                   scrollx = FALSE,
                   searching = FALSE,
                   stringsAsFactors = FALSE
    )
  )

  selected <- reactiveValues(df=NULL,cum=NULL)
  df1 <- data.frame()

  observeEvent(input$plate_cells_selected, {
    n = dim(req(input$plate_cells_selected))[1]
    df1 <<- data.frame(rows = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,1]), columns = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,2]))

    ###Create a DT that stores the values of the cells selected in the plate####
    selected$cum <- rbind(selected$df,data.frame(rows = input$plate_cells_selected[n,1],
                                                 columns = input$plate_cells_selected[n,2],
                                                 color_selected = storage_df()[1,1], cond_selected = storage_df()[1,2]))

  }, ignoreNULL=FALSE)

  observeEvent(selected$cum, {
    n1 = dim(df1)[1]
    n2 = dim(selected$cum)[1]

    if (n1 > n2) { ##  add a row
      df <- selected$cum
    }else df <- left_join(df1, selected$cum, by=c("rows","columns"))
    selected$df <- df[!duplicated(df[,1:2]),]
    #print(selected$df)
  })

  ####Create a DT that stores the values of the cells selected in the plate####
  # selected_df <- reactive(data.frame(rows = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,1]),
  #                                    columns = req(input$plate_cells_selected[,2]),
  #                                    stringsAsFactors = FALSE) %>% mutate(color_selected = c(0), cond_selected = c(0))
  # )

  output$selected_table <- renderDT(
    #selected_df(),
    selected$df,
    options = list(paging = FALSE,
                   ordering = FALSE,
                   scrollx = FALSE,
                   searching = FALSE,
                   lengthChange = FALSE
    )
  )
  ### ★★ ↑↑↑↑ PROBLEM AREA ↑↑↑↑ ★★ ###

  #....#

  #Past here isn't as important to the question...#

  ####Input for user browse and data upload####
  output$contents <- renderTable({ req(input$data)  })

  #####Slider for frames per second####
  output$value <- renderPrint({ input$Frames })

  #####Check boxes for no-movement cell exclusion####
  output$value <- renderPrint({ input$emptyWell_checkbox })

  #####Number output for number of conditions#####
  output$value <- renderPrint({ input$num_conds })

  #### Condition boxes for UI text input####
  output$boxes_conds <- renderUI({
    num_conds = as.integer(input$num_conds)

    lapply(1:num_conds, function(i) {
      cond_names <- textInput(paste0("condID", i),
                              label = paste0("Treatment/ Conditions: ", i),
                              placeholder = "Enter condition..."
      )
    })
  })

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    num_conds = as.integer(input$num_conds)

    lapply(1:num_conds, function(i) {
      colourInput(paste0("colors", i),
                  label = (paste0("Select a color for condition ", i)),
                  show = c("both"),
                  value = "black",
                  palette = c("limited"),
      )
    })
  })

  #### Create action buttons for conditions to be selected####
  output$cond_buttons <- renderUI({
    num_conds = as.integer(input$num_conds)

    lapply(1:num_conds, function(i) {

      bg = input[[paste0("colors", i)]]
      style = paste0(
        collapse = " ",
        glue("background-color:{bg};
                  color:#ffffff;
                  border-color:#000000")
      )

      label = input[[paste0("condID", i)]]

      actionButton(paste0("cond_buttons", i),
                   label = label,
                   style = style,
      )
    })
  })

  ####Create the 96 well plate image####
  output$plate <- renderDT({
    renderPlate96()
  })

  output$plateWells_selected <- renderPrint({
    input$plate_cells_selected
  })
}
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So then what is it that you're suggesting?
So what is it exactly that you're trying to show me?
- So I'm working on that. - Listen to what you're saying.
So what's this presentation you're working on?
Is that what you're working on?
What is it you're working on?
So...what is this thing you're working on?
so we can work on that front end of yours.
See, that's what makes it so sweet.
So, what is it? Black, no sugar?
So, you're a mute, Baby? Is that what it is?
What's that thing you're working on?
Of course that's what you're working on.
It's so awesome that you're working here.
Now, whatever it is you're in on, I want in on it, too.
or it means that someone here is working with them.
So, that's what I've been working on.
Leo's furious. What is that doing on the table?
So this is it? That's what the plan is?
So what you're saying is that it happens overnight?


Aldon Smith will be out for the first nine games of the year, and NaVorro Bowman's injury will cause him to miss the beginning of the season as well, and isn't expected to be 100% until the home stretch.
While it seems like a red flag for a defense to miss two elite players for most of the year, but the Niners will remain one of the best teams in the league this year.
The defense should still be one of the best in the league without those two key players, because the front seven should still be great. Offenses will not be able to contend with Ray McDonald, Justin Smith, Ahmad Brooks, and Patrick Willis up front. And behind them, the secondary is okay, led by Eric Reid and Tramaine Brock.
The biggest difference between the 2014 49ers and the 2013 49ers is the offense. The offense improved greatly this offseason by acquiring Stevie Johnson to be the third receiver, and the prospect of a full season of Michael Crabtree. Colin Kaepernick had a down year statistically, but that's because the Niners ran the third most rushing plays in the league, and because Crabtree only played in 5 games. We've seen now great Kaepernick has been when he has legitimate help around him, and this season will be the first time that he'll have a full 16 games with weapons around him.
The Niners will be great offensively, and even better on defense when Bowman and Smith return to the lineup towards the end of the year, only improving one of the league's powerhouses.
Last year the Cards were the best team to miss the playoffs, but they lost three massive pieces on defense in Karlos Dansby via free agency, Daryl Washington due to a suspension, and Darnell Dockett to an injury, and are relying on John Abraham, who is something like 87 years old, to be their only pass rusher.
I liked their defense going into 2013, but without bothering to replace Dansby or Washington, the Cardinals will have to rely on Larry Foote to start at linebacker. And now, fifth round pick Ed Stinson will see a lot of playing time without Dockett.
They tried to improve the offensive line, but I don't think they did enough. I liked the Jared Veldheer signing, because he's a very solid tackle to protect Carson Palmer's blindside. Jonathan Cooper missed his entire rookie season due to injury, so he's effectively a rookie this year, and it's always hard to trust linemen in their first season. The biggest issue is guard Paul Fanaika, who is pretty bad.
The offense will be pretty average again, even though I expect Andre Ellington to have a big season as the feature back.
Playing in the NFC West is going to really hurt the Cardinals this year. In another division, I would probably have them as a .500 team.
The Rams were a bit lucky to win 7 games last year with Kellen Clemens starting 9 games, and a generally below average roster.
With the NFC improving as a whole, and Sam Bradford out for the year, the Rams will be worse.
I'm not a Sam Bradford fan, but he's better than Shaun Hill. And for that reason, it's going to be very tough for this team to score. I really like Zac Stacy, but the passing game is going to be brutal. The only hope is that Tavon Austin becomes a monstrous big play receiver.
Outside of Robert Quinn and Chris Long, both of whom are awesome, the defense is nothing special. Aaron Donald is expected to be a great pass rusher as well, so that should mask the deficiencies of the secondary somewhat.
The Rams are in for a tough season. They're good enough that very re-tooling through the draft, they should be ready to contend in 2015.
Percy Harvin will have 1,300 yards from scrimmage. I would increase the number greatly if I knew Harvin were to play 16 games, but I can't expect that to happen.
Colin Kaepernick will have 4,800 total yards, passing and rushing. I'm recycling my prediction from last year because he will have to have a big year in order for the Niners to go far.
Logan Thomas will start at least 3 games this season. The fourth round pick is very raw, but I think there's a good chance that Carson Palmer falls apart and Thomas will step in.
Zac Stacy will rush for 1,400 yards. He has to, because the passing offense will be terrible.


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Q: Uncaught ReferenceError: SyntaxHighlighter is not defined A very similar question was asked on this specific error (but within a multiple-question format!) but I didn not understand the answer given (not least because I'm not a programer, I'm adjusting a BS3 template done by someone else). This mistake came with the programming, however, I would prefer to fix it if possible!
This is the header code where an error is reported:
<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="js/libs/jquery-1.7.min.js">\x3C/script>')</script>
              <!--flexslider-->
              <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/flexslider.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
              <script defer src="js/jquery.flexslider.js"></script>
              <script type="text/javascript">
                $(function() {
                  SyntaxHighlighter.all();    // THIS IS WHERE THE ERROR IS REPORTED
                });
                $(window).load(function(){
                  $('.flexslider').flexslider({
                    animation: "slide",
                    start: function (slider) {
                      $('body').removeClass('loading');
                    }
                  });
                });
              </script>

The JS files that came in the folder are the following:
- easing.js
- jquery-1.11.1.min.js
- jquery.flexslider.js
- jquery.swipebox.min.js
- modernizr.custom.js
- move-top.js
Is there anything you would recommend I fix either in the index.html file the above code is from or any of the .js files that might fix the problem?
Thanks!!


On Saturday June 25, 2016 GSO once again teamed up with the Arthritis Foundation for our 4th annual GSOPEN held at Schaffer's Mill in beautiful Lake Tahoe. This year's event was another great success, we would like to thank the Arthritis Foundations for all their continued supports as well as all of the participants and volunteers. Without your continued support over the years we would not have been able to raise over $60,000 for the Arthritis Foundation. I would also like to congratulate this year's winner Tony Manning and Team. I hope to see you all in 2017 once again at Schaffer's Mill in Lake Tahoe.


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Dwar7s Fall Review
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I think I must secretly be a Dwarf. At 175 cm tall, it's hard to justify that statement, but I have a beard, I don't mind being underground, I like large stone structures, I enjoy drinking ale and I listen to loud music. So, I'm going with it. This kinship I've just made up is going to be used to thinly explain why I find Dwarfs' Fall from Vesuvius Media so appealing, at least the idea of it anyway.
Actually, there's a few reasons why I backed Dwarfs' Fall on Kickstarter and it wasn't entirely based on my affinity for rock. The artwork is very whimsical and I love its cartoon style. It's cute and serious at the same time. There is the other hefty reason that it is in fact a worker placement, so of course I gave it a looksee being the Euro-lover here are Collider Towers.
Dwarfs' Fall is a card-placement, area control, worker placement game, which is a bit of a combination to try to meld. As a Dwarf king, your job is to prepare for Winter (for it is coming) by acquiring as many jewels, foods and supplies as possible. Now, being of the English persuasion, it took me a few minutes (ok, days) to realise that by "fall" the title refers to the season, not the decline of a race of halflings. For those of you who don't live in a country that's butchered the English language, they're referring to Autumn although "Dwarfs' Fall" does sound better I will admit, especially as Autumn in England is a wet and windy period where the weather is about as consistent in form as Donald Trump's hair.
Each player begins with a hand of cards which depict different areas of a kingdom, which the players define as they play. You score according to how big your kingdom is so it needs careful thought. Map cards show your castle, shops, mines and enemies which you are free to place wherever you wish – even in enemy kingdoms so it does pay to be a little…aggressive…in your thinking. Some cards can even be placed over the top of others so you really can shape the destiny of both your own and your opponents' kingdoms. Everyone starts with the same nine cards so it's all fair. At least to start with.
Buildings have worker placement spots on them and you can spend actions to place or move your dwarves to obtain gold and jewels. These in turn are used to pay for provisions at the shops to feed your clan. You can even enlist the help of Ogres to further ruin your enemies' day and send them packing. It's all very interactive and the ways you can interrupt your opponents is many and varied.
There's a lot to Dwarf's Fall beyond just the cutsey-pie artwork – tactically it takes some thinking about as, whilst overriding your enemy's cards with your own seems like fun (and it very much is), it may not be the best thing to do – which is where the size of the playing area comes into it. The bigger it is, the more players can spread out and do their own thing, taking away a big element of the game.
Because of this, I don't think the game works at all with two players. Given the map size is 6x6 squares, which remains static regardless of player number, it can permit you to keep to yourself if you so wish even at four players. This is very much the sort of game you'll enjoy if you get a kick out of just being a pain in the backside.
Which leads me to the downside. I've played Dwarfs Fall a fair few times now and with player counts from two to four and I always have the same niggle – it's a bit…flat. I feel this flatness stems from the lack of interaction, or from too much freedom.
A big part of the game is is the interaction between players so you'll probably need to introduce a house rule to force a cosier arrangement. A forced kingdom size would certainly benefit the strategy a bit more as without one, there's scope for every player to do their own thing and never interact, thus undermining the point of the entire game.
Additionally, one of the scoring mechanisms is the size of your kingdom, which can be shared with other players. Given you'll almost never be able to build an individual kingdom that scores as many points as a shared one (both players score the same if they do share) then there's little point in keeping to yourself. Having said that, the moments when someone puts a Giant or a Dragon in your kingdom are a little vexing for the recipient, but since you can put your meeples in other kingdoms, it's less of a problem and more of an inconvenience at worst. If you're all sharing then putting a Dragon or Giant down ruins it for you too, so there's little incentive to do it.
It's an interesting dichotomy, but in every game I've played and tried to stick to my own kingdom, I've lost by a good 10 or more points compared to the players that shared. That said, there is a good chance that I'm a bad player so take that statement with a mountain of salt.
For a game with such a simple appearance, there is a lot of tactical depth to Dwarfs' Fall and it's worth a look, but I strongly recommend you house-rule the size of the board or you'll find that, like nerds at the school disco, there's not the interaction I feel the designers were hoping for. The expansions add additional mechanics add more tribes of Dwarfs to spice things up and there's a nice sense of Tête-à-tête once the chip-weeing begins, which is very entertaining if you're the vindictive type like me.
However, if you're a friendly gamer who sticks to themselves and doesn't like to poke the lion, you'll probably find that Dwarfs' Fall is an uninspiring, if functional game that does little to draw you back for another go.
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TBI Kids Survey 2016: will the main channels continue to dominate
By Stewart Clarke
21st April 2016 @ 11:33
The consensus in terms of the domination, or otherwise, of the existing kids channels is that they will continue to be central to the kids business, although perhaps not in the linear forms for which they remain best known.
"The future is now, and as we've seen across the globe, the 'main' kids channel for content ingestion isn't always a main [TV] channel," says Nina Hahn (left), senior VP, production and development at Nickelodeon. "Certainly, TV is king, continuing its reign as an incredibly integral platform. However, already now and looking ahead into the future, this is a kingdom populated with many kings: linear TV, digital, VOD and YouTube, and the list is only getting bigger."
"This is a landscape in constant evolution, and we have to face new competition from AVOD and SVOD services," says Lagardère Active's Caroline Cochaux. "We retaliate by being present on those digital platforms and offering a new way of consuming our content."
KiKa became the market leader in German-speaking territories last year, and Sebastian Debertin says that in this part of the world at least, the traditional kids channels will continue to hold sway. "The German-speaking market in Europe has always been special, as consumers have been very reluctant to accept new technologies or platforms," he says. "We all remember it took more than 20 years for pay TV to make money here. So, yes, I see that the kids channel in German-speaking Europe will for sure dominate the next 10 years, at least. Let's talk again then."
Disney XD's Marc Buhaj (right), meanwhile, says "the industry leaders will be the ones whose storytelling engines and staff are relentless in their pursuit of understanding their audience".
For younger viewers, parent power will ensure linear remains relevant for some time. "When choosing a suitable channel or programme for your children to watch, parents will favour the brands they know and trust, so established children's channels will remain strong globally," says Celestial Tiger's Ofanny Choi.
"At the same time, I think there is definitely room for channels that are differentiated and customised," she adds. "That is what we are doing with Miao Mi, offering a Mandarin edutainment channel created specifically for preschool kids across Asia."
For Saban Brands' senior VP, development and production, Rich Magallanes (left), in a world of choice, allegiances shift from channel to programme brands. "Today's kids have endless choices when it comes to content and, because of streaming services, are now used to instant gratification," he says. "Because of this, in a general sense, we're seeing a decrease in channel loyalty as viewer loyalty becomes more show-specific."
A seemingly limitless array of choice creates a risk for kids channels that face losing viewers.
The alternative view is that viewers flock to trusted channel brands that curate shows they know and love as a way to cut through the clutter. As of today, no other medium can deliver the number of eyeballs as TV, making it the place to launch shows and build awareness ahead of consumer product campaigns.
"TV continues to be the most important medium for establishing high awareness for a property, and is thus still crucial, especially for our merchandising and licensing partners," says Studio 100's Patrick Elmendorff. "We also notice, of course, the increasing importance of nonlinear offers. The development that in some countries broadcasters are even shifting their whole kids programming onto their online or VOD platforms underlines this trend."
The main kids channels are gradually creating their own on-demand platforms to leverage their brand and respond to the consumers' need to access content anytime anywhere
Oliver Dumont, eOne Family
In reality, it is not traditional platforms versus digital rivals, because the incumbents are all rolling out their own TV Everywhere and on-demand apps and services. "The main kids channels are gradually creating their own on-demand platforms to leverage their brand and respond to the consumers' need to access content anytime anywhere," says eOne Family's Olivier Dumont (right). "Combined with their strong abilities to create content which resonates with kids, I strongly suspect that they will continue to dominate the kids-content landscape."
Talk of 'channels' may be misguided in this brave new world, others suggest. "Many of the channel brands will still be really important –Disney isn't going away any time soon – but will running a channel be the most important thing Disney does in five years' time? No way," says Hopster's Nick Walters. "The existing dominant brands will be joined by new brands that grew up outside TV."
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Adam Selly from indie distributor Union Media envisages SVOD and traditional TV living side by side, for some time at least.
"My guess is that in most territories there will be a mix of the following dominating the landscape: the three studios, one PSB, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and YouTube, plus a limited number of local or regional commercial players, depending on how protectionist the regulators are, and how vigorous the local entrepreneurs are. This will vary by territory," he says.
Josh Selig (left), meanwhile, is clear that traditional TV is going the way of yesterday's hair metal bands.
"Linear channels will perish within five years unless they are propped up by governments," he says. "The parents will miss these channels. The kids will miss them only as much as they miss rotary phones, typewriters and Van Halen."
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The "Trial Baloon" is out floating.
The division of Yerushalayim is once again on the table.
"Yerushalayim Habenuiah" into an irrevocable reality.
[We shall now learn what is necessary for the rectification of permitted words not spoken for the sake of heaven].
As for innocent idle chatter, such as in the case of an ignoramus who cannot study, [he who is able to study is constantly obligated to fulfill the commandment of studying Torah; for him idle chatter is prohibited. For the ignoramus, however, idle chatter may be permissible. But] - he must have his soul cleansed from the impurity of this kelipah, through its being rolled in the "Hollow of a Sling," (5) as is stated in the Zohar, Parshat Beshallach, p. 59.
But with regard to forbidden speech, such as scoffing and slander and the like, which being prohibited stem from the three completely unclean kelipot, the "Hollow of a Sling" [alone] does not suffice to cleanse and remove the impurity of the soul, but it [the soul] must descend into Gehinnom (Purgatory - which is a greater punishment and thus more effective in cleansing the soul].
Moreover, the impurity of the science of the nations is greater than the impurity of idle speech; for the latter clothe and defile only the emotions [which emanate] from the holy element of ruach [Air] within his divine soul, [by tainting them] with the impurity of kelipat nogah contained in idle speech [which is derived from the evil element of ruach - Air, which is one of the components of this kelipah in his animal soul], as mentioned above.
[The G-dly soul and the animal soul are both composed of four spiritual "elements": Fire, Air, Water and Earth. The emotions, such as love and fear, which one expresses in idle talk, emanate from the element of Air. Thus, idle speech defiles the emotional attributes of the divine soul, which emanate from the holy element of Air, by using them in the service of the animal soul's element of Air, i.e., its emotional attributes - which are "impure", since they derive from kelipat nogah.
Idle speech does] not, however, [defile] the levels of ChaBaD [the intellectual faculties] in his soul, for it is but words of foolishness and ignorance, since even fools and ignoramuses can speak that way.
Not so in the case of the science of the nations; thereby one clothes and defiles his divine soul's faculties of ChaBaD [intellect] with the impurity of the kelipat nogah contained in those sciences, whither they [the sciences] have fallen, through the "shattering of the vessels," out of the "hinder-part" of Chochmah of holiness, as is known to those familiar with the Esoteric Wisdom.
[Thus the study of these sciences contaminates the intellectual faculties of the G-dly soul, and it is therefore much worse than idle speech, which contaminates only the emotional faculties], unless one employs them [these sciences] as a useful instrument, viz., as a means of earning a more affluent livelihood with which to be able to serve G-d, or [unless] he knows how to apply them [the sciences] in the service of G-d or to [his better understanding of] His Torah; [e.g., he utilizes mathematics to better understand the laws of the Sanctification of the New Moon].
This is the reason why Maimonides and Nachmanides, of blessed memory, and their peers, engaged in them [in the sciences - since they were able to utilize this knowledge in the service of G-d and Torah].
as out of the hollow of a sling."
Torah study, and its efficacy in "purifying the atmosphere").
basis of the passage in Likutei Torah cited in note 8.
special portions of food which are given to them by the people.
represent the people before HaShem, while fulfilling their holy tasks.
The priests support themselves and their families with these portions.
who may not eat from the priests portions.
-Leviticus 22:10 "No common man shall eat of the holy [food]"
tells us that any person who is not a priest may not eat "Terumah."
eat of the holy [food]"
in his house, they are still forbidden to eat from the Terumah.
Torah lessons: Chumash: Vayigash, Revi'i with Rashi.
came to their grandfather to be tested in this subject.
Fear not to go down to Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation. I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again.


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MEDIA ADVISORY: President of Joint Center available for comment ahead of racial equality lecture in Detroit
Spencer Overton, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, is available for comment ahead of Wayne Law's Seventh Keith Center Biennial Lecture on "Racial Equality and the Future of Work" on Friday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is the nation's black think tank, a non-profit based in Washington, DC that creates ideas that improve the socioeconomic status and civic engagement of African Americans. Overton's lecture in Detroit on "Racial Equality and the Future of Work" will include a discussion of automation, the rise of "gig-economy" independent contractors and other factors that are rapidly changing economic opportunity. According to Overton, these economic shifts could either deepen existing disparities or allow marginalized communities to leapfrog ahead, depending on today's legal and policy choices. Overton will discuss the challenges and opportunities these shifts present for the future of racial equity in Detroit and the nation.
In addition to the Joint Center, Overton holds numerous other appointments and is a former clerk of Judge Damon J. Keith.
Phone: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
In person: Friday
To schedule an interview: Kaylee Place, kaylee.place@wayne.edu or 313-577-4629
Additional media:
Event news release
Overton on MSNBC
Overton in The New York Times
Joint Center's findings on race and jobs at high risk to automation


Question: I fractured my right patella due to a fall off my bike. It's cracked, but not displaced. I should of had surgery, but I didn't have insurance and kept it straight in a cast for 2 weeks before seeing a specialist. It's been a little over a month and I literally can't bend it, physically it won't bend. Just wondering if I'll need a cane to walk with for the rest of my life or surgery to fix it?
Dr. Foreman: First of all, it is very likely that this fracture can be treated without surgery — with the knee extended (straightened) — it is quite possible that the fracture would be satisfactorily aligned. It can be maintained in a straightened position, either with a cast or a brace. However, it needs to stay straight for at least a month before you start trying to get any motion in the knee in order to allow healing of the bone. It is far too early for you to be worried about getting all the motion back in your knee, and in fact, trying to get a lot of your flexion (bend) back too early can slow down the healing of the fracture. Once it is safe to start working on motion and then finally strengthening, you may need the help of a physical therapist. You said you have seen a specialist; has he/she gotten new x-rays of the knee to look at the alignment and assess healing? Does he/she know about you trying to bend your knee so much so early? For your fracture to heal and for you to get your motion and strength back is a minimum 3 month deal, so you're going to need to be a patient. Thanks for the question.
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Beto O'Rourke Crashes SXSW Premiere of New HBO Doc 'Running with Beto'
RUNNIN' DOWN A DREAM
During the screening, his campaign team sent out an email teasing a 'big announcement.'
Matt Wilstein
Updated Mar. 10, 2019 5:47AM ET / Published Mar. 09, 2019 4:45PM ET
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AUSTIN, Texas—Revealing one of the worst-kept secrets at this year's South by Southwest festival, filmmaker David Modigliani introduced former congressman Beto O'Rourke after the world premiere of his compelling and emotional new HBO documentary Running with Beto on Saturday afternoon.
"David asked me if he could do this one day at breakfast in Austin," O'Rourke told the crowd after his standing ovation died down. "I was like, what the fuck, I mean, we're running for Senate and if you want to bring a camera along sometimes… I just didn't think it would be this."
The documentary, which appropriately had its world premiere at SXSW, chronicles O'Rourke's ultimately unsuccessful 2018 campaign to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). But Modigliani manages to create so much narrative tension that you start to wonder if this young, energetic, inspiring candidate might be able to pull it off in the end.
We see O'Rourke go from live-streaming to four and six people to getting thousands of viewers for his 24-hour marathon Facebook live session nearly a year before the first votes were cast. We see him figure out how to mold his appeal to voters in all 254 counties in Texas and get frustrated at his campaign staff when he doesn't have enough time to answer questions from reporters before events.
We see the behind-the-scenes machinations that led O'Rourke to briefly abandon his otherwise positive campaign and channel Donald Trump to attack "Lyin' Ted" at a debate, a move for which he later expressed regret. And we meet a series of dedicated and charismatic volunteers who worked their hearts out to elect him and are devastated when their dreams are dashed in the end.
The most illuminating moments in the film come in scenes of O'Rourke at home and on the road with his wife Amy and three young children. It helps put a human face to all of the jokes about how he entered a "funk" after losing to Cruz and has been slow to announce his pending decision to run for president.
As the documentary was airing, O'Rourke's campaign sent out an email to supporters teasing a "big announcement." "There's been an outpouring of speculation, excitement, and support from people across the country -- everyone eagerly waiting for the news," the email drafted by Cynthia Cano, former deputy campaign manager for his Senate bid, read. "Many of us are crossing our fingers and hoping that Beto has decided to run."
While there was no timeline on the pending announcement, it added to widely held speculation that the Texas Democrat is poised to announce a presidential bid soon. In late February, he said that he had made a decision and was "excited to share it with everyone soon." Aides to O'Rourke did not immediately respond to messages seeking further information from The Daily Beast on Saturday.
A likely 2020 run was on everyone's mind in the Paramount Theater on Saturday with multiple audience members standing up to practically beg O'Rourke to enter the race.
He deftly dodged those questions, not wanting make any news from the SXSW stage. Each mention of a 2020 run drew loud cheers from the crowd, but O'Rourke didn't take the bait.
Noting that the increased turnout in 2018 helped elect dozens of new Democrats across the state, he would only say, "We got to be part of this amazing thing in Texas over the last two years and it continues."
Additional reporting by Gideon Resnick.


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Regulatory update: Joint employer rule and IC test formally withdrawn
The US Department of Labor on March 11 announced proposals to rescind two final rules established under the Trump administration: the Independent Contractor Final Rule and the regulation determining joint employer relationships under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Independent contractor classification. The first Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposes the withdrawal of the Independent Contractor Final Rule issued by the department on Jan. 7. The reasons cited include:
The rule adopted a new "economic reality" test to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Courts and the department have not used the new economic reality test, and FLSA text or longstanding case law does not support the test.
The rule would narrow or minimize other factors considered by courts traditionally; making the economic test less likely to establish that a worker is an employee under the FLSA.
The FLSA requires covered employers to pay employees at least the federal minimum wage for every hour worked and overtime premium pay of at least one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for every hour worked over 40 in a workweek. An independent contractor has no FLSA protections, the department noted.
Joint employers. The DOL also seeks to rescind a current regulation on joint employer relationships under the FLSA, which took effect on March 16, 2020. In February 2020, 17 states and the District of Columbia had filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York against the department, arguing that the joint employer rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The court vacated the majority of the joint employer rule in September 2020, stating that the rule was contrary to the FLSA and was "arbitrary and capricious" due to its failure to explain why the department had deviated from all prior guidance or consider the effect of the rule on workers.
The department invites comments from the public on both proposed rules at www.regulations.gov. The comment periods end on April 12.
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Jota Have Faith | Portuguese Star Grabs Late Winner
Our on-loan Portuguese winger stole the headlines at Pittodrie on Sunday with a late winner which relieves the recent pressure on both his team-mates and on manager Ange Postecoglou.
Since signing on a season long loan deal on deadline day Jota has been one of our most consistent performers during what's been a fairly turbulent time and he could have picked no better time than the dying stages of a nervy game with Aberdeen to grab his first league goal for the club.
It's reported that the club have an option to buy from Benfica for a fee in the region of £6M and from what we've seen so far this would be money well spent. Great technique, a trick or two, and fantastic hair – what more do you want from your winger?!
The 2-1 win over the Dons was absolutely crucial (our first away league victory since a 2-1 win over St Johnstone back on 14th February) given the stuttering league form we've seen in recent weeks and all the more important that it now allows us to reset and refocus with a bit more confidence during this latest international break.
Ange will be desperate to see his internationalists return safe and will following the horrendous run of injuries we've seen recently and will be waiting anxiously on the return of Kyogo and co. towards the end of next week.
Ange himself has shown considerable resilience by persevering with a system that he evidently has complete faith in, and though it may have been easier to take a more pragmatic approach against the likes of Bayer Leverkusen and Aberdeen given the pressure he's been under it's clear that he's determined to do things his way.
If the Celtic board show the patience that he needs and that he deserves then we'll see notable success under the charismatic Australian.
Let's not forget the mess he inherited, and on that basis there's no quick fix here. Give him the time, give him the tools and we'll see the rewards.
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John Hervey, Baron Hervey
English politician [1696-1743]
John Hervey, Baron Hervey, (born October 15, 1696—died August 5, 1743, Ickworth, Suffolk, England), politician and wit whose Memoirs of the Reign of George the Second are of first importance and, along with the writings of Horace Walpole, are largely responsible for many of posterity's impressions of 18th-century England.
The eldest surviving son of John Hervey, 1st earl of Bristol, (1665–1751), he was educated at Westminster School and the University of Cambridge. He then made the customary "grand tour" of Europe and, at Hannover, Ger., became a firm friend of Frederick Louis (later prince of Wales), the eldest son of King George II. His wife, Mary (Molly) Lepell, whom he married in 1720, was a close friend of the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later George II and Queen Caroline, for whom he served as vice chamberlain of the royal household, 1730–40). Hervey was Whig member of Parliament for Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk (1725–33) and was then created Baron Hervey of Ickworth. He was disappointed in public life, for, though he was made lord privy seal in 1740, he fell with Sir Robert Walpole's government in 1742.
Hervey's renown, however, lay in the world of fashion and the court rather than in politics. He suffered from a feeble constitution, though his health improved after a visit to Italy, when he formed a close friendship with Stephen Fox (later Lord Ilchester). This friendship evoked scandalous allusions from Alexander Pope in his "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot," a satirical poem in which Hervey figures as "Sporus." His own outspoken Memoirs (published posthumously, 1848; edited by R. Sedgwick, 3 vol., 1931; rev. 1963) were, he said, written for those who prefer to see the great "dressing and undressing rather than when they are playing their part on the public stage."
Memoir, history or record composed from personal observation and experience. Closely related to, and often confused with, autobiography, a memoir usually differs chiefly in the degree of emphasis placed on external events; whereas writers of autobiography are concerned primarily with themselves as…
Virginia Woolf, English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary…
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon, English rationalist historian and scholar best known as the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88), a continuous narrative from the 2nd century ce to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Gibbon's grandfather, Edward, had made a considerable fortune…
George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, and critic famous for his novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), the latter a profound anti-utopian novel that examines the dangers of totalitarian rule. Born Eric Arthur Blair, Orwell never entirely abandoned his original name, but his…
August 5, 1743 (aged 46)
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Review: Looper (2012)
In this review of Rian Johnson's LOOPER, we describe how the film's attention to inconclusive detail reveals an unexpected commitment to living.
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We live in a time in which overreaching types chirp about illusory import in tentpole pictures, as if these massive movies with overcompensating budgets are akin to down-on-their-luck paraplegics seeking strangers in the streets to buy them hot meals. Slate's Dana Stevens tells us that Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy represents "war-on-terror allegories." Mark Ruffalo explains to the Wall Street Journal that The Avengers, which is little more than a very pleasant popcorn movie, is a complex take on American life. While I've never shied away from expressing enthusiasm for genre or well-crafted mass entertainment, there is nevertheless a clear distinction between what Jon Favreau and what Alejandro Jodorowsky are trying to commit to film.
Yet Rian Johnson's Looper won me over, despite a frustratingly paradoxical finale that contradicts two hours of story logic. Here is a film that isn't just interested in entertaining, although I must confess that I was thrilled by one late scene in which Bruce Willis blew away a considerable number of baddies. (When it comes to satisfying on-screen violence, I'm just as redblooded as the next guy.) Much as the underrated Daybreakers took care in establishing a consequential world (complete with homeless vampires holding cardboard signs which read STARVING NEED BLOOD), Looper is smart enough to understand that a good time travel movie is all about the peripheral deets. The Back to the Future trilogy remains a repeat viewing draw because we wonder if Doc Brown ever really said, "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything." (He doesn't, despite the characters crediting him as the source.) Then there are complicated films like Shane Carruth's excellent Primer, which contains so many interpretive possibilities that one can easily get lost in its low-budget, high-concept Chinese box.
Looper contains a narrative we'll eventually figure out. We learn that Joseph Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a "looper" who kills time travelers with a blunderbuss a mere instant after they appear out of nowhere upon a blue trap. These fidgety executions establish an inconsequential tone, which allows us to ponder why Joe's in this line of work. Isn't Arby's still hiring? Surely, given the film's barely touched steak and eggs specials, there's a need for crappy roast beef sandwiches in the year 2044. But the career is lucrative, although paper currency is nowhere to be found. (Has the dollar collapsed?) Joe's saving up his silver bars for a post-killing life. He's learning French. He keeps time to an old watch. He cannot let these time travelers escape. We learn that in thirty years someone will kill him. All part of the job.
This is a somewhat silly setup. If you think about it, a looper has to accept on faith that the future is fixed (we understand that time travel is forbidden because of a dangerous criminal syndicate, but, if it's so problematic, why doesn't anyone track down the guy who developed it?). A looper has to accept that the people who run the operation (this includes a grizzly gray-bearded Jeff Daniels) can be trusted. This is probably why Johnson has made Joseph somewhat dissolute. He wastes his hours with the inventive aesthetic of drugs he can plop into his eye with an eye dropper. That's certainly less messy than panics in Needle Park.
I'm giving Johnson a hard time, but he does manage to get performances from his cast. Bruce Willis, with a strangely satisfying fixed hairline this time around, juggles intensity and contrition as "Old Joe," the guy that Joseph Gordon-Levitt grows up to be (despite the two actors sharing quite different ears). I'm not the greatest Emily Blunt fan, but I'll take her firing bullets into the cornfields. There's an incredible kid with fierce eyes named Pierce Gagnon who will probably go places, assuming that he doesn't end up as some former child star shooting up in a seedy motel during his early adult years. Even Garrett Dillahunt, the quirky and misunderstood character actor who was the goofy T-888 in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, shows up endearingly befuddled. I don't feel any particular need to describe the plot. Let others do that. It's basically a showdown between Joe and Old Joe, with some twists coming late in the film. We get telekinesis and a number of impressive jet cycles. Geeky shorthand for the ADD crowd.
What impressed me about Looper was the way it depicts a future where today's everyday conveniences are missing. Some unknown upheaval has gone down between 2012 and 2044. The world here is a barely civilized place waiting to be overrun by desperate crooks. Touchpad technology is hidden behind secret panels. Smartphones have transformed into barely functioning squares, largely used by the loopers, and nobody whips these out while walking the streets. We see tents and homeless encampments on the outskirts of cities, with the word "vagrant" taking on a sinister tone. The unemployed have clearly expanded to include a larger and more invisible class of humanity, and I liked how the film made the daring choice of following those who were well off, further suggesting that one had to become terribly amoral to have a nice house. There are makeshift solar panels haphazardly affixed to cars (and at least one farmhouse) without any clear standard. And when you consider the black tubing leading to where a truck's gas tank used to be, you figure that there was some last-ditch effort to respond to a fossil fuel crisis. The loopers get the flashy sports cars. The jet cycles go to the authorities. The losers don't even get a set of steak knives.
And yet somehow it's possible to keep a diner operating in the middle of nowhere. It's still possible to maintain a farm with helpful insecticide-sprinkling robots. There are still upscale nightclubs kept alive by the looper class. I liked that the film offered no reasons for any of this, even as it resolved the main plot like some half-baked episode of Time Trax. It doesn't really matter what time we live in. Looper makes its own case for human connection and sacrifice, but it also suggests that the larger world is more fixed and unstoppable than we realize. Shouldn't we get down to the business of living rather than seeing what fits the given mood?


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Kim Garth stars but Ireland fall short against West Indies
Kim Garth of Ireland celebrates catching out Britney Cooper of West Indies during the Women's Cricket International between Ireland and West Indies at Pembroke Cricket Club in Dublin. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile
Ireland's stand-in captain Kim Garth was the stand out performer in Tuesday's second T20 international against the West Indies.
However her heroics were not enough to get Ireland across the line with the visitors now holding a 2-0 lead in the Hanley Energy T20I Series with one match to play.
After winning the toss, West Indies captain Stafanie Taylor elected to bat first – and the visitors got off to a flyer.
Hayley Matthews (33), Britney Cooper (20) and Sally Ann King (34) laid a solid platform for the visiting side, which at one stage threatened to finish northward of 180.
Good fightback bowling led by Garth (3-22 from 4 overs), complemented by single wickets to Celeste Raack (1-26), Sophie MacMahon (1-21) and Lara Maritz (1-35) helped stem the flow of runs in the latter overs, and despite a late flurry of big hitting the West Indies finished on 157-6 from their 20 overs.
The Irish run chase started with positive intent, with Mary Waldron (25) and Gaby Lewis (11) getting away to 24 from the first four overs.
However, the removal of both openers set in motion a middle-order collapse, with only Kim Garth (51* from 48 balls) flourishing.
Garth's fifty was her first half-century for Ireland in T20I cricket and the second time in successive matches she had posted her highest score, following her 46 in the last match.
Garth has now scored 52% of Ireland's runs total across the first two matches of the series, showing her good form with the bat.
Garth found some late support from MacMahon (11*) and the pair put on an unbeaten 45 for the 7th wicket to see out the innings, with Ireland finishing on 112-6.
The two sides meet again on Wednesday in the third and final T20I of the current series, with the match starting at 4pm at Pembroke Cricket Club.
Ireland Women v West Indies Women, T20 International, 28 May, Dublin
West Indies 157-6 (20 overs; S King 34, H Matthews 33; K Garth 3-22)
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Ireland 112-6 (20 overs; K Garth 51*, M Waldron 25; S King 2-15, A Fletcher 2-20)
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Posted on February 12, 2015	by Joanna Lerio
Be part of the biggest gathering of artists for the environment in the first ever Project Bakawan Arts Festival, a month-long series of exhibits, workshops, concerts, and events from February 5 to March 6, 2015.
The festival features multi-media installations, art exhibitions, film screenings, live art, music and dance performances, street theatre productions, and a unity concert in different areas within the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman). Admission is open to the general public.
Project Bakawan is a collaborative art festival and community-building initiative that seeks to increase awareness of current environmental issues and strives to foster a sustainable future. Spearheaded by Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development Recipient Emmanuel Garibay with fellow artists Boyet de Mesa and Wire Tuazon among others, the project engages artists of various disciplines in collaboration with the academic community in UP Diliman to formulate an acute analysis of our environmental situation and come up with creative responses that will engage the campus community. Artists envision this as a gathering of socially-concerned individuals—of spectators, students, professionals, and artists—supporting the cause to increase awareness of current environmental issues to foster a sustainable future.
The festival will allow students intimate access to the various installations, sculptures, multi-media projects, and performances by renowned artists and emerging talents by placing them within their environment—the university grounds. This is a rare opportunity for school groups to engage with contemporary artworks and artists up close and personal.
Submergence, Performance Art Festival
happens on February 19 – 24, 2015
A solidarity for land and environment performances by Talaandig Tribe of Bukidnon and Nick Aca of Cagayan de Oro.
Feb 19 / 4PM Performance at Stables, Carlos Garcia, UP Diliman
Feb 20 / 1-4PM Art Talk at UP Vargas Museum
Feb 20 / 5PM Performance at CAL Galleria Photo Exhibit
Feb 21 / 7PM Benefit Concert at Taas Bar
Feb 22 / Talk and Tour at Angono Rizal
Feb 23 / 4-6PM Submergence Performance at UP Sunken Garden and Academic Oval
Feb 24 / 5PM Solidarity Night @ Karumata 36,West Avenue
Project Bakawan is hosted by the University of the Philippines Diliman College of Arts and Letters, College of Mass Communication, College of Music, College of fine Arts and UP Film Institute in cooperation with the Center for Environmental Concerns, Vargas Museum, Canvas.ph, ArtLetics, ArtWork, Sipat Lawin and Concerned Artists of the Philippines. The festival is also made possible with the support of Japan Foundation, Philippine National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and media partner ABS-CBN.
For more information and the latest update, visit the Project Bakawan Website. You may also contact project coordinator, Ian Carlo Jaucian at mobile number +639178878956 or email at bakawanproject@gmail.com.
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Home Top News Pandemic shrinks Japan's travel surplus by a fifth in 2020
Pandemic shrinks Japan's travel surplus by a fifth in 2020
By Kathryn Wortley
/ Posted on 1 March, 2021 12:19
Japan's travel surplus in 2020 shrank by almost one fifth year-on-year as a result of international travel bans implemented to stop the Covid-19 spread, marking the first year of decline since 2015.
The travel balance, which reflects the amount of money spent by international visitors to Japan versus Japanese spending abroad, dropped from a record ¥2.7 trillion (US$24.5 billion) in 2019 to ¥562 billion (US$5.3 billion) last year, according to government data. It did, however, remain in the black, escaping a return to deficit that Japan's travel balance has experienced since data compilation began in 1996 until 2014.
Visitor arrivals to Japan in 2020 tumbled by 87 per cent year-on-year
A mere 4.1 million tourists visited Japan in 2020, the lowest level since 1998, as the country tightened up its borders in response to the pandemic. It marked a 87 per cent decline in arrivals from 31.9 million in 2019, which was a record high and the seventh consecutive year of growth, according to the Japan Tourism Agency.
The Japanese government had aimed to welcome 40 million tourists in 2020, a goal that had seemed within grasp as the number of arrivals had increased year-on-year up till 2019. Visitors from east Asian nations comprised more than 70 per cent of arrivals to Japan that year, with particularly high numbers from China (9.6 million), South Korea (5.6 million), Taiwan (4.9 million) and Hong Kong (2.3 million).
The hosting of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games was expected to inject a further US$300 billion in income from tourism. Postponement of the event to 2021 has given Japan hope to recoup some of the benefits of hosting, but with the ability to welcome international spectators still unclear, the travel trade remains subdued about the prospects for Japan's international tourism in 2021.
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What are the various applications of a telehandler?
The telehandler. Ideal to lift goods. It picks up a load on its forks and can consequently lift or move the load. Thanks to its telescopic boom, it can reach places other lifting equipment can't. Furthermore, it can be used on rough terrain, which is again not the case for all machines.
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A wide variety of tyres can be found on the market. This makes it hard to select the correct tyre. The choice for the right tyre is influenced by where and how you use the machine. It is very important to think in advance about what surface the machine is used on. Furthermore, also the maximum permitted speed and ambient temperature affect your search for the correct tyre.
Accidents with telehandlers happen on a regular basis. If you keep in mind the 7 tips below, you can avoid them from happening.
When you purchase a new battery charger, it is very important to take certain things into account before plugging it into the socket. If an incorrect action is performed, your new battery charger could fail. What exactly do you need to pay attention to? Let's give you a summary.
When working with batteries, it's not unusual to experience a reduction in battery life. Over 50% of all battery issues are not related to the battery itself but rather to the inefficient charging methods or an incompatibility between the charger and batteries, you can read more about this in the blog post How do I correctly charge traction batteries?
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Even today, in 2018, accidents with telehandlers are still a frequent occurrence. Statistics show that the main cause, accounting for 20% of the accidents, is due to the loss of control over a machine, vehicle, object or animal. That is why maintaining control over the telehandler is of great importance for the safety of yourself and your environment.
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