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\section{Introduction}
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Choreography is a kind of art that designs a series of movements. In particular, in performing art, choreography extends to the use of human bodies to express movements, and these are often performed with music. The choreography suitable for music has significance in that it is not only an artwork itself, but also maximizes the expression of music. \cite{krumhansl1997can, gentry2004modeling} For this reason, choreography has become an essential element in many pop music works in recent years. Therefore, the process of creating choreography for music is also considered to be important, and research on a system capable of automatically generating choreography is actively conducted. However, automatic choreography generation is a challenging task because both music and dance are abstract art concepts, and the clear relationship between the two concepts is also not defined by established rules.

Recent advances in machine learning and deep learning techniques have led to a variety of attempts to study the relationship between dance and music.  Lee et al. proposed a choreography generation algorithm that retrieves the motions corresponding to the most similar pieces of music in the predefined motion-music-paired database for given new music segment. \cite{lee2013music}. This method selects dance motion from a predefined database, so choreography retrieved with high correlation with music is guaranteed. However, it has limitations in that it can not create novel dance movements that are not included in the database. Ofil et al. proposed a HMM-based model that categorizes the genre of music based on the Mel-Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients (MFCC) feature and generates matching choreography based on the results \cite{ofli2008audio}. But since the choreography is determined by the categorical value obtained through the genre classifier, there is a limit to generate a novel choreography. Omid et al. proposed a music-driven choreography model named Groovenet \cite{alemi2017groovenet}. They used pairs of music and three-dimensional motion data to train the Factored Conditional Restricted Boltzmann
Machines (FCRBM) \cite{taylor2009factored}. They attempted to directly train the relationship between music and dance by using the mel spectrogram in the training process. However, they reported that their model created awkward dance moves for unheard song, so they conclude that the model was overfitted and the dance moves according to music were not generalized enough.

Lee et al.'s and Ofil et al.'s studies have a limitation in that they can not create novel choreography because the former synthesizes motion by reusing the choreographic samples in a predefined database, and the latter creates choreography only for music input categorized by its genre. Omid et al. did succeed to create novel dance motion, but failed to yield good results mainly due to insufficient training data of merely 23 minutes. In this study, we propose a neural network-based model that can generate novel and natural choreography trained on large amount of data that is easily obtained from the online video sharing community. An overview of the proposed system is illustrated in Figure \ref{fig:network}.

The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section \ref{sec:cross}, we explain in detail our proposed method for choreography generation based on the encoder-decoder network. We describe the datasets for experiments and the training process in Section \ref{sec:exp}. The evaluation scheme and the results are presented in Section \ref{sec:eval}, followed by conclusions and directions for future work in Section \ref{sec:con}.

\begin{figure*}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{dance_figure1.png}
\caption{
A schematic diagram of the proposed music-driven choreography generation system.}
\label{fig:network}
\end{figure*}

\section{Listen to Dance: proposed approach}
\label{sec:cross}

In order to learn the relationship between the time-series data of two different modalities, i.e., music and dance, we need a model that performs multi-modal sequence-to-sequence transformations. We modified the Dilated Convolution Text-To-Speech model \cite{tachibana2017efficiently} that performed well in the text-to-speech domain and used it as a our choreography generation network. Our model consists of two encoders and one decoder, and the detailed structure is explained below.

\subsection{Causal Dilated Highway Conv. Block}

The encoders and decoder used in the proposed model contain causal dilated highway convolutional blocks (CDHC). \textit{Causal} means that only the input data from time $0$ to $t-1$ can be referred to when calculating the output at time $t$. We used a causal convolution layer because our network must be an auto-regressive model to generate the next frame that is not yet known from the preceding frames. In addition, we used the \textit{dilated convolution} used in the Wavenet \cite{van2016wavenet} to ensure that the model has a wider receptive field. Finally, to enable efficient training even in deep model structures, we used a \textit{highway network} architecture \cite{srivastava2015highway} where gated function could be trained. That is, the output of the CDHC block is calculated as:
\begin{equation}
    \textbf{output} = tanh(\text{H1}) \cdot relu(\text{H2}) + (1-tanh(\text{H1})) \cdot \textbf{input}
\end{equation}

[H1, H2] is the tensor calculated through the causal dilated convolution layer of the input tensor. The output channel of this convolution layer is twice the input channel, and the kernel size is 3.

\subsection{Encoder \& Decoder}

Both the skeleton encoders and the audio encoders all consist of three convolution layers and 10 CDHC blocks. The first convolution layer of each encoder increases the input channel to 256 dimensions, and the other two layers perform 1x1 convolution. Thereafter, the output values from last convolutional layer are connected in sequence to 10 CDHC blocks with a dilation factor of (1,3,9,27,1,3,9,27,3,3), and the corresponding operations result in audio and skeleton data are encoded to have a sufficiently wide receptive field to reflect sufficient past information.

A decoder is a network that generates skeleton data for the next frame from an encoded skeleton and an encoded audio. First, the encoded skeleton input to the decoder is combined with the encoded audio in the following:

\begin{equation}
    H1 = conv(\textbf{$E_{skeleton}$}) + E_{audio}[:128]
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
    H2 = conv(\textbf{$E_{skeleton}$}) + E_{audio}[128:]
\end{equation}
\begin{equation}
    \textbf{comb} = \sigma(H1) \cdot tanh(H2)
\end{equation}

Where $E_{skeleton}$ and $E_{audio}$ refer to the encoded skeleton and encoded audio, respectively, and $conv$ means the convolution layer with an output channel of 128 and a kernel size of 1. The combined \textbf{comb} tensor then goes through six CDHC blocks with a dilation factor of (1,3,9,27,3,3) and then through three 128-channel convolutional layers with a \textbf{tanh} activation function. Finally, after passing through a convolution layer with the same output channel as the dimension of the target, the final decoder output is obtained via \textbf{sigmoid} activation.

\subsection{Proposed network}
This network receives motion and music data from time $0$ to $t-1$ as input. Both data are encoded via encoders and combined at the beginning of the decoder. The final output of the decoder is compared with the ground truth motion data at time $1$ to $t$ and we used it as a $L1$ loss. Since all convolution operations included in the network are with kernel size 1 or causal operations, the $k$th value of output refers to only the $0$ to $k-1$ time step of the input during the operation. Therefore, the model satisfies the auto-regressive condition.

\section{Experiment}
\label{sec:exp}

\subsection{Data}

We have collected 100 YouTube choreography videos and corresponding audios. The genre was selected mainly for K-pop dance, and the total length of collected data was 6.26 hours.

\subsubsection{Skeleton data}
We extracted the x, y coordinates of 15 human body joints from each frame using the Openpose algorithm \cite{cao2017realtime} from the collected video as shown in Fig. 2. Next, we min-max normalize the extracted coordinate values for each video, and use the linear-interpolation for the unrecognized coordinate values.

Since we can not measure the exact 3d angle between the human body limbs using the 2d joint coordinate, we used the absolute coordinates values of each point as the training target. However, in this case, the length of each limb in the projected skeleton can vary, and awkward motion can be generated if the model learns it incorrectly. So we additionally calculated the lengths of the 14 main limbs together and added a loss to compare with the limb length of the skeleton that the model generated. Therefore, the x, y coordinates of the total 15 joints, and the total of 14 main limb length are used as skeleton data.

\subsubsection{Music data}
We separated the audio contained in the collected video and used it as music data. The mel-spectrogram was extracted from the audio waveform with the window size of 1024 samples, and 80 mel-frequency bins. Because we need time-aligned audio-video pairs for training, we adjusted the hop size when extracting the mel-spectrogram so that audio data has the same frame rate as that of video.

\subsection{Training}
We have trained proposed network that creates the next skeleton coordinate for a given previous skeleton sequence and music sequence. To do this, we first input skeleton data and music data from 0 to t-1 frames. Then, the output of the network is compared with the ground truth choreographic data corresponding to 1 to t frame by use L1 loss as a cost function. In addition, we calculated the length of each limb from the skeleton data of the generated frame, and compared with the actual ground truth length through the L1 loss. We used the adam optimizer \cite{kingma2014adam} for training and set the learning rate to 0.0002.

\begin{figure}[t]
\includegraphics[width=0.95\linewidth]{dance_figure2.png}
\caption{The process of extracting skeleton data from video frames.}
\label{fig:dataset}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Inference}
The choreography inference process is performed in an auto-regressive manner different from training. That is, the initial position of each joint is given as an input skeleton frame, and at the same time, the first frame of mel spectrogram is input to the trained model. When inference is performed once, estimated skeleton at $t=1$ is output. Then we concatenate skeleton at $t=0$ and $t=1$, then input them back into the model with mel spectrogram at $t=0$ and $t=1$ . After than, we get estimated skeleton at $t=1$ and $t=2$. Therefore, we can generate the choreography by repeating the above process for the length of music input, and used it to evaluate the generated choreography.

\section{Evaluation \& Results}
\label{sec:eval}

\subsection{User study}
We conducted a user study to evaluate whether the generated choreography was natural and whether it was produced in accordance with the music. First, we generated 20 videos for each of the three groups: \textit{Real}, \textit{Generated}, and \textit{Random}. Group \textit{Real} consists of music $A_i$ and actual choreography for music $A_i$. Group \textit{Generated} consists of music $B_i$ and novel choreography generated by our model given music $B_i$. Finally, the group \textit{Random} consists of music $C_i$ and novel choreography generated by our model but with randomly selected music rather than $C_i$. Music $A_i$, $B_i$, and $C_i$ were randomly selected among the songs included in the validation dataset that was not used in training, and the length of each audio/video was 16 seconds. \footnote{
The generated result can be found at: listentodance.strikingly.com.}

After mixing the three groups of videos in a random order, we asked the participants whether each video's choreography is natural (Question 1) and whether it fits well with music (Question 2), and to give a score in a Likert scale \cite{allen2007likert}. After collecting the responses, we performed isoquantity and normality tests using data averaging 20 responses from each group, to see if there was a difference in the mean of the responses of the groups. After evaluating significance through repeated-measure ANOVA test , further post-hoc analysis was performed to calculate the p-value, and the difference between the groups was examined \cite{girden1992anova}.

A total of 33 participants answered the questionnaire and the results are shown in the Fig.3. The results of the statistical tests confirmed that the mean scores between the three groups were significantly different for both questions. Average user score for both questions were highest in \textit{Real} group and lowest in \textit{Random} group. It is clear that the \textit{Real} group score is the highest, because it is made up of the choreography created by the human. The average score of the \textit{Generated} group surpassed the \textit{Random} group in both questions. If the proposed model generates choreography that is not associated with music, participants will have a similar response, regardless of what music is played with the generated choreography. However, from the fact that the video received a significantly higher score when played with the music used in choreography generation, we judged that the proposed model produced choreography that listen and reflects the music.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{dance_figure12.png}

    \caption{Average Likert-scale user scores on two questions (Q1: Is choreography natural? / Q2: Does choreography fit well with music?). The numbers on the bar graph are the mean score and standard deviation of the responses, respectively. The p-values for pairwise comparisons between the groups are also shown at the top. ***: $p < 0.001$; **: $p < 0.01$.}
    \label{fig:my_label}
\end{figure}

\subsection{Autocorrelation Analysis}

We also performed an autocorrelation analysis to further investigate the differences between the generated choreography and the actual choreography. Autocorrelation is a correlation between a given sequence with itself, reflecting the periodic properties of the sequence. We can identify the periodic component of a given sequence through the location of the peaks observed in the autocorrelation results. Using this, we analyzed the motion by calculating the autocorrelation on the x, y coordinates of the choreography movement and compared it with the tempo of corresponding music. Our hypothesis was that if the model can produce dance by listening to the music, the autocorrelation peak position of the motion will appear at the same point as the beat of the music.

Fig. 4 shows the autocorrelation results of two choreography samples along with the tempo of corresponding music. In actual choreography, a clear peak is observed in y-direction movement, but not in x-direction movement. This tendency is also observed in the generated choreography. From this we can determine that the proposed network has learned the periodic tendency of the real choreography used in training. Also, In actual choreography, the first or second peak of the y-direction auto-correlation appears at the same position as the music beat. This means that music and choreography have similar periodic properties. This tendency can be confirmed also in the case of the generated sample. From this, it is judged that the proposed model has generated the choreography that listen the music and reflects its periodic nature.

\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{dance_figure11.png}
    \caption{Autocorrelation of the x,y coordinates from real and generated choreography for two songs. The x-axis of each graph represents the time lag, and the blue vertical lines represent the beat positions of each song.}
    \label{fig:my_label}
\end{figure}

\section{conclusion}
\label{sec:con}

In this study, we proposed an auto-regressive encoder-decoder network that generates matching choreography for a given music input. We used audio-video pairs data obtained from YouTube for training. As a result, it was found that motions matching with the music were generated through comparison of user study and autocorrelation analysis. This study has a significance in that it shows a significant performance in the area of learning-based choreography generation, in which sufficient performance has not been secured yet. Also, it is meaningful not only to learn the movement of dance but also to use the relationship with music together for generation.

This research has limitations that generated choreography reflects only the periodicity among various properties of music. Ultimately, it is necessary to create appropriate choreography according to various genres, moods, and contexts of music as well as periodicity. In order to do this, we plan to establish data sets that satisfy various conditions and carry out further research. In addition, we use 2-d skeleton position for training, and it is difficult to use this type of data in case of needing actual implementation such as a robot. Therefore, the extension of the model to 3-d choreography generation using the improved 3-d pose estimation algorithm is also a future research topic.

\section{Acknowledgements}
This work was supported by LG electronics.\\

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In the Battle of Changjin Lake, the US military has the best general, and it is a long Smith, which is a teacher.
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Abstract; in the Battle of Changjin Lake, the US military against the volunteers, from the 10th Army to the 3rd, the 7th division, the Taiwanese, shoulder, the arms of the stars, and in this general It can be said that most of them are mediocrity, military commanding capacity is flat, only one person, whether it is the judgment of battlefield, or the decisive battle of the battlefield, it is excellent, he is a long Smith, Lu Wan 1 The teacher will eventually highlight the resiliation of the volunteer army, and Smith is also unable to work.
Figure 1: The four US military will take a group photo on the Yueshan town duck
In the Battle of Changjin Lake, the US military with the volunteer army, from the 10th Army to 3rd, the 7th division, the Taiwanese, shoulder, the shoulder, the stars, the stars, in this general, can It is said that most of them are mediocre, military commanding skills, only one person, whether it is the judgment of the battlefield situation, or the decisive battle of the battlefield, he is excellent, he is a long Smith, the land war 1, finally Can highlight the resilience of the volunteer army, Smith is also unable.
Speaking of the US military generals in Changjin Lake Battle, first start from the picture from the question. This photo is also more famous in the historical photo of the Korean War, you can see in many articles. This is the 17th incident of the 17th infantry division of the 10th Army, the 10th Army of the East Line of the East Line, in Huishan Town, who is on the side of the duck, here is the north of North Korea, the Baiyu City, Jilin Province, is already the north of North Korea. It is also the northernmost end that the US military arrives throughout the North Korean war.
Therefore, the 10th Army, the senior military officers of the 7th division quickly rushed to Huishan Town, and took this photo on the green river. However, for the four people in the photo, it is almost unsatisfactory. Here, the old week will give a correct answer to listen to the listening - from left to right: The 7th division of fortune group commander Holm Chelvo, the 7th division, Henry Henry, Heze, The 10th Army, Amond, the 7th Division, David Balmather.
Soon after this photo was taken, the Volunteers launched the second battle. After the US No. 17 found the volunteer army, she was deeply reflected in the side of the army. Therefore, she rushed from Huishan Town, and there was no longer Arrived over ducks.
What we need to introduce is that this photo is located in the C bit, and it is also a military position in the Battle of Changjin Lake. The highest military army, the highest military commander Edward Mall, and he also serves as "United Nations "General Commander MacArthur.
Almond was born in Virginia in 1892, graduated from the Virginia Military Academy in 1915, got the rank of the infantry. In 1918, he participated in the first battle with the fourth infantry division. After the end of the war, he adjusted to the Malifang Military Academy to serve as the Ningbao Infantry School in 1924, in 1930, he entered the University of Kansas, Worth Fort School of Command. From 1931 to 1933, served in the US military troops stationed in the Philippines, in 1934, I entered the Army Military Academy to study. From 1934 to 1938, in the intelligence department of the Army Staff Headquarters. In January 1941, he was sent to the Sixth Military Command to the Povendes in Rhode Island. In March 1942, he was promoted to the quasi-inquiry, and he was promoted to the 93rd Stewardegist Deputy Master in Arizona. In 1943, he lifted his 92r. The 92th teacher is the first for the US military, which is completely made by the black soldiers. In 1944, it was promoted to the Major General, and the parties participated in the battlefield battle of Italy. In just two years, I will rose to the quasi-will, and this is a large extent, which is the same as the virginian military school alumni, and when the Army staff, the US Triple Party Marshall. The spring breeze on the officialdom is proud, but it can't cover the mediocrity in the battlefield. The 92-teachers he ordered was lacking, and it was attributed to the quality of black soldiers in this.
Figure 2: Almond's promotion will receive Marshall's care
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In 1946, Almond was transferred to the Allied Headquarters (GHQ) of MacArthur, and served as the Minister of Personnel. In this case, the big tree of MacArthur was raised in January 1949, he was promoted to the generals of the Allies. Usually, the business is not strong, but the official transportation, the main reason is nothing more than a horses. McArthri just uses itself, just likes that Ah, Almond does have a set in this respect, so you will soon get the favor of MacArthur, successfully played the role of Mike Arthur shadow, Chengtian followed behind Mike.
In June 1950, the Korean War broke out, McArthur met the "United Nations" commander, Almond also became the "United Nations" staff. In September, MacArthur formed the 10th Army, let Almond servant. The 10th Army's first battle Incheon landed, and then transferred to Yuanshan to log in and put into the East Line Battlefield.
In the Battle of Changjin Lake, he had a non-contradiction in Smith with the Land War 1 division, while Almond's opinion later is later proven to be wrong. Since the 10th Army is in the Changjin Lake area, the deployment is too dispersed, so the 31st team of the US military has been hit hard, and the land warfare is falling into the resilience. If it is not a strong air support and the decisive director of Smith Master, even land warfare 1 teacher is to be buried in Changjin Lake, so Almond has been criticized.
After the Commune of the 8th Army, the US military conducted the adjustment and adjustment of the US military, and the 10th military scratch was made to the 8th Group Army. Although Almond is not good, the ability is mediocre, but Li Qi is still let Almond continue to stay for the 10th Army.
Figure 3: The US military general in the flagship in the flagship in Incheon, the left three-handed scallion is Mike Art, the left four fingers is Almond.
In April 1951, Li Qiyou took the dismissed MacArthur as the "United Nations" commander, and immediately revoke the position of the staff of Almond. In July 1951, Almond was transferred to the Dean of the Army Military Academy. In 1953, he retired and died in 1979.
In the Battle of Changjin Lake, Almond could contribute to McArthur who believed that China was just a mistake of symbolic veterans, and the enemy took into the endo lake area, and there is a big problem in the deployment of the force. Under the Strision of the Volunteers, the US military has to leave with division of 125 kilometers from the Changjin Lake area. He has been withdrawn from the Harbor, and then the ship is evacuated from the East Line. For the failure of the US military in the East, Almond naturally has unneaked responsibilities.
Speaking of Almond, in the case of the arrogant, Alexander Meigs Haig, Alexander Meigs Haig, was still a small lieutenant, and later the Tour Qingyun, in 1969, the presidential national security affairs assistant Henry Kissinger's senior military adviser, promoted from 1972, served as deputy chief of the Army, and then appointed the director of the White House Office by Nix Song. In October 1974, Ford was appointed as the general commander of the US European Command, two After a month, I was appointed as the highest commander of the European United Force, which was fully responsible for NATO Affairs. Decomited in 1979.
In January 1972, the black grouse of the US presidential national security affairs deputy residents lead to China to visit China's pre-station to visit China, and carry out technical arrangements, such a black grid will become the first American general of China.
In 1973, after the Water Incident, in the 16 months of Nixon resigned, the Black Gook helped Nicksong to deal with the prosecution, and the president was dealing with government affairs, so it was called "half president."
In 1980, Ragang was elected president, and the black ganya was appointed as Secretary of State.
In 1988, Black Gan is preparing to compete with Bush for the Republican presidential candidate, but later announced that it is far from the political transfer to the business community, and Blackg has served as a senior consultant of the United States, and the US online Times Warner, International Pharmaceutical Company, MGM Company , Director of the National Heart Surgery Research Foundation, MGM company.
It can be seen that the black gy is also a very capable person. Whether it is a military community, or a political, business, it is an elite entry into the top. More than his old superior Almond.
Figure 4: Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Alexander, Lu, later become four stars
Then talk about the photo of the US Army, the 7th infantry teacher of Almond, David Barr, this name is very strange, but his Chinese name is large, and people know more. That's right, Ma Divi is the head of the US military advisory group during the War of Liberation.
The performance of Ba David in the Battle of Changjin Lake is not high, but it is better than Almond. At that time, the task of the 7th division is to cover the side wings of the land warfare, but the whole division pulls the troops to pull the seven-zero eight, in the 121st team of the Changjin Lake area, only 2 steps camps with 1 guns Ying, once the 31st team was besieged in the emerging, the neighbors were far away, whipped, and there was no troops in the surrounding troops to reinforcement, and only glanced at the 31 group detachment was smashed. This stupid force deployment, as a teacher, the teacher's Bache, is naturally difficult. Therefore, after Li Qiyou, after ordering the commander of the 8th Competition, he withdrew the position of 4 division of division.
Some people will feel strange, how can I be a head of military advisor group in China?
The reason is very simple, because Chiang Kai-shell is guilty of the US military's big Marshall! When he was dispatched in the Chinese ancestors, he was sent as a staff member of the Chinese ancestors, and mastered the share of aid for the distribution of aid. It was said that "China Tong" in the US military will speak Chinese. It seems to understand China. In fact, I don't understand China's national conditions. I also want to change with the west. Most importantly, Stiwei and Marshall are not shallow, and when the Marshall is a head of Marshall, Stiwewei is the length of his hand. Stiway started to use the US military officer to replace the Chinese military officers at all levels in the print army, and was made by the army of the military army. Incident, Chiang Kai-shek rebounded strongly, and did not hesitate to withdraw from the union of the franchise camp. In this way, Stiwei finally had to leave China.
The younger brother Si Wei's gray face, as a big brother's Marshall natural face, this Liangzi is an end. During the 1946 military adjustment, as the Marshall Mile in Marshall, the Marshalli, the general representative of the stopper, was biased towards the CPC, and the United States has also implemented a year of military embargo on the Kuomintang government. The head of the military advisor group, also known as the passage of Badi, and a major general in the district. In contrast, the Military Adviser Charter of the Soviet Union during the Northern Expedition period, this is a pseudonym. The real name is the first batch of Wuher, the first batch of five marshals in the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, the German Military Advisory Mission, Saikte, Fasshausen, is a famous name, and will lead the general level. There is no contrast, there is no harm. The US military advisor group head is Batvi, whether it is a famous, military rank, or the ability, the gap is not a star half point, this can also see Marshall's attitude toward Chiang Kai-shek, no need to cover up. . The assistant when the head of the head of the consultant group in China, Don Carlos Faith, the Battle of Changjin Lake is the 7th division of 32 groups 1, or in Badi Under the hand. Fis's military capabilities, and the bigville is similar, very mediocre. On the day of the battle of Changjin Lake, on November 27th, Fis was a 31st Team Commander, 31 Mission, McLene, School (Fis's 32 group 1 battalion was transferred to 31 groups) 1 battalion continues from 1221 Highlands, entering the inside, so that we will continue to advance from the next day. McLean agreed to this suggestion, so 32 groups arrived in the afternoon of the day. The two-year-old inside of the day - after the war 1221 Highland is not only the most suitable defense in the emerging area, but also makes 31 groups that are not strong, and if the 32 group 1 camp is in the 1221 highlands and the 31st team follow-up force will be together. It may not be so passive later.
Figure 5:31 Meng Mai McLean (left) and 32 groups 1 Crowd Changz (right)
On the evening of the 28th, the 32nd group of inside, was violently attacked by the volunteer army. At 2 am, Fis and McLan were discussed, and it was difficult to support this evening, decided to break around at 4:30, withdraw to emerging inside. Fis is a centralized truck to transport wounded and replenish the supplier, starting through the 500 hours, withdrawn from the emerging, and the main force of the 31 team. On the morning, the 31st group, McLan, I saw that there was a troop activity in the South Bank of the Highway Bridge, thinking is the 31 group 2 battalion that came to the reinforcement, and the rush rushed to contact, and the results were returned to death. Due to McLene, 31 groups 3 camp long William Rilei Middle School and 57 artillery campaign Long Thunder Enbley's middle school is injured, so the US military in emerging is running by 32 groups 1 Central unified command.
On the afternoon of December 1, Fest led the 31st team's residual to break around, and if Feis was killed in overshoot, and the 31 group was collapsed. After the war, the US military believes that Although Feis has a handsome, the first-year-old palace is also pursued, and as a commander, it is really unqualified. The breakout plan is not careful, not only without a spare plan, and even the stage of the midway (For example, it is not possible to establish a position overnight before the blackness of the day. The timeout time of Fest Choose is also a problem. I decided to break through at 10 o'clock in the morning. At 12:45, I wanted to walk about 20 kilometers before the darkness (local sunset time), at the time of the troops Status and battlefield situations are impossible. The troops have suffered a lot of casualties in the next day, and the military officers and scholars have gradually lost the practical mastery of the troops. If the troops served as the side guards and the guards, there is no cover in the first broken bridge, so that the team is very Casual injury. Such a force gradually loses mastery, and it has been supported by individuals, and the breakout plans are not careless. Final failure will inevitably.
- Look at, Batvi, Fis, come to Chiang Kai-shek as a consultant, what can I make a good idea?
Here is the 31st team and the 31 group leader Allen McLan McLean, and there are two sentences. 31st Regiment Combat Team, Abbreviation 31RCT) is due to the distribution of the seventh division in the Changjin Lake area, and it is unable to assemble the 10th Army's combat plan, and will be around the surrounding area around Changjin Lake. The relatively concentrated troops temporarily grouped the 31st group of detail, and the McLean is unified. In some articles, 31 groups are called the strengthening group, which is obviously wrong. 31 groups include 31st group 3 battalion, 31st group 2 battalion (lack of E-connected, replacement of 1 camp B), 32nd regiment 1 camp, 57th field artillery camp (lack C even, take the 15 air defense camp D contingent replacement) and 31 groups forced guns and tanks, but 31 groups did not reach emerging. In the case of emerging, only 2 steps camps and 1 artillery battalion, a group built more than standard. (3 Steps Camps and 1 Artillery Camp) must be less than one-quarter, let alone is a strengthening group. Figure 6: US military officer in the Battle of Changjin Lake, left Almond, Badvi, McLean
McLean colleges are the highest level of military officers who have killed in the whole Korean war. Note that there is a post here, the US military has two positions and military ranks in North Korea.
The first is the No. 8 Army General Walton Harris Walker, the Walton Harris Walker (chasing the promotion). He was killed in a car accident in December 1950.
The second is the No. 9 military commander Bryant Moore, and in February 1951 because helicopter crashed accidents. These two generals are not dead on the battlefield, so it is not a death. In this way, McLene has become the highest level of military officers who are really dead on the battlefield.
Bas finally said that the protagonist of this article, Oliver Prince Smith, who is the main character of this article.
Smith was born in Texas, Texas in 1893. He graduated from the University of California, in 1916, in 1917, in 1917, he entered the Marine Corps to serve the rank. In 1921, he served as a "Texas" battles, in 1924, he adjusted the Personnel Group of the Marine Corps Command. In 1928, he served as a deputy officials of the Haitian Port Department. In 1931, he entered the Army Infantry School command to prepare, 1932 Untili Virginia Guan Tima Marine Team Series Embassy, in 1933, he was arrested by the Department of Marine War, 1934, adjusted the US Embassy in France, the Navy military officials in the Paris, in 1934, marked the Guidairo Team School Academy, 1936. In 1939, he adjudes the Shengdi Tento Base Base Officer. In 1940, he was the first year of operation of Lu War 6, 1942, from the deputy head of the Order Planning Policy Group, 1944, No. 5 of the Marine War 1st Long, 1944, Deputy Director of Lu War 1, 1944, as director of the 10th National Army, participated in the new British or Battle of Battle, Beritau and Okinawa. In 1945, he served as the head of Guan Tima Marine Team School, and he served as the Guimo base commander. In April 1948, he promoted to the deputy commander of the Marine Corps. In June 1950, the North Korean War broke out, and was at the end of the Director of the land, and the land warfare was attended by the Korean War.
Figure 7: Marine War 1 teacher Chang Smith
On the Korean battlefield, the land warfare 1 was first as the "fire brigade" of the Luodongjiang line, and the stability of the Luodongjiang line of sweating. Then by McArthrice in the Pioneer, the pioneer of the Incheon landing, successfully completed the inner landing of terrain in the least suitable landing - Incheon. In the Battle of Changjin Lake, Smith's military can get the fullest play.
Entering the Changjin Lake area, Smith immediately detected the dangerous taste, because there is only one simple road that is very complex from the rear base Xingnang to Changjin Lake Region, which is a simple road of earth and sand. The narrow path, more than 70 kilometers, walk through the mountain, can only be barely calculated on the road. Especially from the truth, I entered the mountainous area, and I went to the nearly 80 kilometers of road sections in Liu Tan. The road stenosis can only allow a car to pass, and it is on the mountainside, and it is steep on the mountainside. Abyss! All units and supplies have passed from this road, so that the entire line of army will dragging very long. Disperse, once the split is surrounded, it is easy to break through each one, from the military, it is stupid to the top of such terrain. So he immediately put forward different opinions, but was rejected by Almond, Almond was the belief of MacArthur, which was unable to reveal the disclosure against MacArthur. . And Almond also is full of optimism as McAri, thinking that it is already a steady win coupon! He even in Smith, he intended to build an airport in the next embarrassment in order to withdraw from the wounded of the wounded. "How could there be a casualty ?!"
Smith still does not care about Almond's opposition, insisting on building a simple airport in the ancient, under the miles, and Liu Tan. Liu Tan River is not available because of the firefighting of the volunteer army, and the airports built in the ancient soil can only be lifted and landing, and the effect is limited. But in the airport in the next, the retreat of land warfare 1, but also the air-air air investment, but also a variety of replenishment materials including ammunition, fuel, food, etc., a total of approximately 372 tons, but also after air transport After sending 4,468 wounded, add 444 wounded after airport in Ancient Suri Airport, and a total of 4,912 wounded by the air transport, which greatly reduced the burden of land war 1. From this point, you can see the foresight of Smith. Figure 8: Smith teacher on the "Time" magazine cover
For the "Christmas Attack" of the McArthur two-wire clamp attack, Smith believes that the East Line is in the cold area, in such a mountainous area, the success is completely based on the basis of luck. Smith will write a long letter to the Marine Corps commander Krift Kemato, in detail, the battlefield situation and the reason why you are very worried, he wrote in the letter: "We are the 10th army Left wing, and our left wing did not protect anything, our left-wing did not have any friendly presence in at least 80 miles ... I am very worried about providing replenishment to the troops in the mountains in winter. Snow melting and frozen will make the mountain road more difficult Parallel, winter vacancies are not sufficient to provide two regiments, due to the dispersion of climate and troops and the height of the altitude, even if the helicopter inspector is also difficult ... The staff of the 10th Army is one million maps. Submissing plan, we are performing tasks at 50,000 maps. The force is constantly dispersed, which makes them danger ... "Smith hopes to negotiate with McAri, fix the task, but after landing MacArthur's prestige reaches the peak of the day, so the result of coordination will not be.
Smith has always maintained a clear mind and did not have a victory to be stunned like a senior general of McAr, Almond. Therefore, Smith is very contradicted by the battle tasks of the land war 1. Although Almond is an emergency urgently urged it, he still controls the propulsion of the land war 1 is one or two kilometers, very cautious, and demanded by land war 1 Teacher Lee is responsible for guarding the supply route, which means that he attaches great importance to the back of the road.
After the start of the Battle of Changjin Lake, the retreat of the land of the land will stay in the next five days, and it is rest, but it does not stop in the ancient soil, which reflects Smith's accurate judgment and decision of the battlefield situation. action.
The land of the land will eventually highlight the resiliation of the volunteer army in the Changjin Lake area, both of the equipment, logistics, the cause of strong air support, and the outstanding command of Smith, there is no doubt that is one of the reasons. Imagine, If Smith is like Almond, Badvi is the mediocrity like Aermond, the land war 1 will be able to highlight a bigger price.
In May 1951, Schith was transferred to the Division of the Lu War, and visited Pendon Base Commander. In 1953, he served as commander of the Atlantic Marine Team, and the army was retired in September 1955. Dreaming December 25, 1977.
The so-called not afraid of not knowing the goods, I am afraid that the goods are fierce, after a comparison, the long Smith of the land war 1 is undoubtedly in the Battle of Changjin Lake, the best in the United States, the best, it will be talented.
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Q: How to write in SQL Server database in this case? I have two conditions :
list=['1','14','57','05','7','254','05']

y=10

for x in list :

  if x='05':
    cursor.execute('''Insert into table (code) values (?) ''', y)
  else :
    cursor.execute('''Insert into table (code) values (?) ''', y+1)

But all I find in my table is 10 when I should have 11 twice.

A: can you please frame the question correctly? And kindly add little more details like how is us result looking like and how do you expect it to be
Two things first:
is you are using the variable name as 'list', its incorrect use another name
second:
the condition should be if x =='05' and not x='05'

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"A few years ago, [manufacturers] used biological cotton which was then treated using potassium permanganate, said Marion Foret, in charge of fashion events at Première Vision. Nowadays, the entire value chain is being re-examined. The denim industry is regarded as pollutant and, especially for Asian manufacturers, it is crucial to be able to make claims that reassure both clients and consumers."
This is why companies like fabric manufacturer Artistic Fabric Mills or launderer M&J Group have developed software to ensure their products' traceability, as well as their natural resources consumption. Innovations like these can turn into strong marketing claims, appealing to consumers of high-end products.
But the trade show's most promising innovation was that presented by the Advance Denim group. The Chinese manufacturer is developing a process to recycle fabrics which blend cotton and polyester. Currently, only garments that are 100% cotton can be recycled but, with the advent of stretch fabrics, only a handful of latest-generation jeans can be recycled. Advance is working on giving a new lease of life to denim by using cotton blended with the 'green' yarn Solucell, and then employing an active agent to separate cotton from Solucell and allow the former to be recycled. Advance is hoping to fully develop the industrial process by next year.
My Rags wants to digitalise the industry - Fashionnetwork
Finally, the My Rags project too is set to revolutionise the denim industry. It is a software created for design departments, manufacturers and launderers, designed to digitally select fabrics, allowing greater creative freedom. "Nowadays, the war on costs has a big impact in the industry, and the range of end-products is highly uniform. It is possible to go an alternative route, by cutting down on air travel and on the loss of fabric through samples, only 20% of which are saved. This is what we are offering, said Umberto Brocchetto, co-founder of the My Rags project. Saving time and money, with more ecological solutions which will also make it possible to be original again." The software is likely to be available during the summer.
Though the majority of denim products are still standardised, a host of initiatives to refashion denim are being developed, and brands are well-advised to pick up on them right from the word go.


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NURTW chair to members: go for HIV/AIDS test
The Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Tajudeen Agbede, has advised commercial drivers in the state to go for HIV/AIDS screening to know their health status
He gave the advice in Lagos when he led members of his executive to undertake the HIV/AIDS screening
The NURTW boss said the screening was to help people to know their HIV/AIDS status to enable them undergo necessary treatment if they tested positive
He said the allocation of a screening centre to the state council secretariat showed the importance the state government attached to the transportation industry.
Agbede said Governor Akiwunmi Ambode has done a lot to improve the transport system.
"The state government has helped to repair most of the roads in the state and this has helped to boost our operation. Also, the operation 'Light up Lagos' has helped to improve night life in the state.
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Elizabeth Harvest: What Happens After Henry's Death Is Unexpected! Know The Ending Here.
Elizabeth Harvest came out about 2 years ago and it confused people on the grounds of it being a very awkward narrative and a story filled with so many subplots. Now Elizabeth Harvest did garner some amount of criticism but it wasn't all bad. The story is very confusing but fun to watch. Once you get a clear picture in your head, it is easy to understand the story in a better way. Let's get a clear picture then.
Elizabeth Harvest: Ending Explained
So, throughout the movie Elizabeth Harvest, you follow 2 important characters, Elizabeth and Henry. When Elizabeth the original died, Henry, the husband, and scientist couldn't handle it. So he decided to make clones of her. The initial clones though suffered the same fate as the original and died due to the same degenerative disease. So Henry Brings out one of his colleagues to help him. They develop the 3rd version of Elizabeth which was cured of the degenerative disease but now had amnesia.
At this point in the story of Elizabeth Harvest things start to get dark. After the 3rd version dies herself by choking on the pillow. The 4th version was just made by Henry to relive the experience of her wife until he kills this version and awaits another. The 5th version of Elizabeth though was not like the others, she had flaws too but she manages to one thing to break the entire loop of killing and regenerating. She killed Henry!
still from the Ending of Elizabeth Harvest
courtesy: Pinterest
Now that Henry is dead there won't be any trouble, right? Nope. Well, it turns out the Oliver guy (Blind) is but a clone of Henry himself. A younger version. Oliver tries to do the same old thing by trying to kill the 5th version and generating the 6th. The 6th one after being fed the memories and coming to life takes a wild turn and shoots the 5th version and the bullet also kills Oliver. Thus the entire second loop is destroyed. The 6th version is disease-free. She has no amnesia and now goes on to live in the world, free of any shackles.
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The story was compelling. But the narration styles botched it a little. Though it was fascinating to watch the events unfold – Elizabeth Harvest.
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Contemporary Collecting in a History Museum
By Nikki Sullivan
The History Trust of South Australia cares for literally thousands of historically significant objects, from trams to trinkets, printing presses to pin cushions, ketches to crockery. Nothing is too big or too small for our collections if it contributes to our mission to encourage current and future generations of South Australians to discover our state's history in all its richness and diversity. We believe that understanding and appreciating our connection with those who came before us, and the things they did and thought, is critical to who we are today and who we will become in the future. Understanding our present, the histories that are in-the-making, is no less important. Because of this the History Trust of South Australia collects contemporary as well as historic objects, images, and stories.
Contemporary collecting may not be something most people associate with history museums; in fact, it may even seem like an oxymoron. But what is the present for us will be the past for our children, and their children, and if future generations are to explore what it was like to live in 2020 we must collect and conserve this moment for them. Unlike much past collecting which tended to focus on the lives and stories of the rich and powerful, and in doing so to present a very one-sided view of history, contemporary collecting in underpinned by a commitment to diversity, inclusion, and engagement. What this means in practice is that museums like those run by the History Trust of South Australia (namely the National Motor Museum, South Australian Maritime Museum, Migration Museum, and Centre of Democracy) are keen to collaborate with communities to ensure that their stories are told and that the objects that illustrate them are collected. Collecting in partnerships with individuals and communities ensures that the process is creative and dynamic and the outcome is far richer, more diverse, and potentially more representative, than it could possibly have been if it were undertaken by a small number of museum professionals.
Without contemporary collecting, many stories – in particular those of more marginalised groups – will be lost. This not only impacts future generations, it also adversely affects current visitors who do not find themselves represented in museums and who, as a result, may feel unrecognised, not valued, stigmatised. People also visit museums in order to find out more about other people and cultures and so the more inclusive our collections, the better equipped our museums are to inform, delight, extend, challenge and inspire visitors.
Let's make #InclusiveMuseums the new normal!#MuseumFromHome https://t.co/KrfX7Jg0dP
— Museums Association (@MuseumsAssoc) April 30, 2020
Museums, it has been said, change lives, and one of the ways they do this is by providing spaces and opportunities for discussion and debate, reflection and sharing, learning and growth. These things occur most readily when the content museums present resonates with audiences, when it speaks to them 'where they are at'. Giving the past a future, then, means connecting it to the present, to the things that contemporary visitors care about, understand, and do. Similarly, contemporary events, ideas and practices become more significant when connected to the histories that made them possible. Contemporary objects play an important role in these forms of engagement and the diverse possibilities to which they give rise. Consider, for a moment, the kinds of discussions that are currently taking place around the COVIDSafe app: the past events and technologies it may be associated with, the kinds of futures to which it might contribute, the benefits and dangers with which different people associate it. This app provides us with a mean by which to gauge contemporary idea(l)s about the social good, and it is interesting to imagine how the app and the discussions and debates it engenders, might be viewed in the future, and to what ends they might be deployed.
Another, more practical, benefit of contemporary collecting is that collecting something soon after it is produced means that it's more likely to be in good condition than it would if it were collected years or even decades later. This is particularly true of objects such as flyers, stickers, placards, digital images and so on, that are not made to last and which people often don't think are worth keeping since they have little or no monetary value. In terms of the crisis in which we find currently ourselves it is easy to imagine that many of the things that have become part of daily life – signage outside shops and at beaches and parks, face masks, disposable gloves, and toilet rolls and hand sanitizer that have taken on a new significance – may well not be widely regarded as collectable. And yet, they (can) say so much about a time that is undoubtedly historically significant, and will not ever come again, as least not as it has for many of us, like a bolt from the blue. Contemporary collecting plays an important role in shifting public perceptions about what is museum-worthy, and by association, whose voices, stories, lives, matter.
But it is not only objects that can help us, and future generations, to understand this moment we are living through. COVID-19 has brought with it a plethora of new terms and neologisms – 'social distancing', 'new normal', 'self-isolating', 'super spreader', hand hygiene, PPE (personal protective equipment), WFH (working from home), lockdown, isolatte, covidiot, 'flattening the curve', 'drive-thru testing' – that have very quickly become part of contemporary vernacular. New forms of interaction have sprung up too – zoom meetings, webinars, Tik Tok lip synching and synchronised dance performances in lounge rooms across the globe, drive-in festivals, live happy hours, and remote learning – and like language, these things map the dynamic nature of society and its (un)becomings. So too does the shift from hand shaking to elbow bumping, the popularisation of air kissing, and the variety of other changed and changing gestures we make when we encounter others either in person (at a distance of course!) or online; and likewise, the donning of 'business wear' on the top and pjs on the bottom; 'dressing' for bin night; the newly fashionable 'regrowth'. Strange as it may seem to some, documenting and collecting these more intangible aspects of everyday life and culture is also part of what museums interested in contemporary collecting are busy doing.
The History Trust of South Australia is collecting all of these things via a number of different channels. One such is the Centre of Democracy's Stitch & Resist project which grew out of the question of how we can continue to resist injustice, engage in the everyday practice of democracy, and take care of our wellbeing in the midst of a pandemic.
Stitched by: Britt Pattern designed by: Britt
Stitch & Resist is a craftivist (craft + activism) project that invites individual change-makers, community groups and organisations from around the world to make and share political messages created in cross stitch. The works produced demonstrate that the 'gentle art' of hand stitching can be deployed as a powerful tool of active citizenship; a way to raise awareness about, and speak out against, the plethora of issues engendered, exacerbated, or highlighted by COVID-19 – housing and homelessness, domestic violence, climate change, inequality, and even kindness. Through partnering with organisations who run closed online workshops – safe spaces in which clients and members can discuss issues that are pertinent to them – Stitch & Resist also provides an avenue for self-care and the care of others: a sense of belonging is more important than ever during isolation, as are activities that are known to have meditative effects and to lower anxiety levels. The works produced by participants and uploaded to the Stitch & Resist online gallery constitute an archive that documents the historic moment in which we find ourselves, and it is our hope that many of the pieces will become part of the History Trust of South Australia's collection, either in digital form, or through the donation of the works themselves.
You can find out more about Stitch & Resist by visiting our website www.stitchandresist.com (which contains lots of amazing resources including free patterns) and following us on Facebook @stitchandresist.
About the author – Nikki Sullivan
Dr Nikki Sullivan is Manager of the History Trust of South Australia's Centre of Democracy. She is co-author, with Craig Middleton, of Queering the Museum (Routledge, 2019).
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German automaker Daimler on Thursday reported falling revenues and profits in the second quarter despite selling more cars, as trade war and the cost of refitting manipulated diesel vehicles gnawed at its financial results.
The Mercedes-Benz and Smart manufacturer booked net profit attributable to shareholders of 1.73 billion euros ($2.0 billion) between April and June, down some 29 percent year-on-year.
While the group sold 1.0 percent more cars and trucks, at 833,005 vehicles, revenues fell 1.0 percent, to 40.8 billion euros.
Operating, or underlying profits also fell 27 percent, to 2.6 billion euros.
"The automotive industry and therefore we too have many challenges to overcome," chief executive Dieter Zetsche said in a statement.
Daimler pointed to "temporarily weaker pricing including tariffs" as the main reason why revenues and operating profits fell at its flagship Mercedes-Benz cars division.
Like high-end rival BMW, the group has suffered as autos it builds in the United States have been met with border taxes when entering China, after Beijing retaliated against levies imposed on its goods by US President Donald Trump.
Also weighing on the division and the Mercedes-Benz vans unit were currency headwinds and the cost of refitting some 774,000 diesel vehicles across Europe that Berlin ordered recalled in June.
Authorities said the cars contained "illegal defeat devices", engine software used to make them appear to emit less harmful pollutants in the lab than in real on-road driving.
The mass recall dragged Daimler deeper into the "dieselgate" scandal that had previously mostly dirtied Volkswagen's image.
Meanwhile Daimler's financial services division suffered a collapse in operating profit, from 522 million euros in 2017's second quarter to 66 million this year.
One 418-million-euro charge arose over Daimler's role in a system set up to collect tolls on trucks on German highways.
After it suffered massive problems in its first 16 months of operation, a court ruled businesses involved in a must pay Berlin compensation.
Looking ahead to the full year, Daimler expects to report operating profit "slightly lower" than 2017's 14.7 billion euros.
It blamed the weak outlook on the impact of China's tariffs and the costs of new, more stringent emissions testing procedures known as WLTP, as well as the cost of the diesel recall.


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CCSO reported the suspects "conspired and stole cash and jewelry" from the resident Jan. 18. According to detectives, more arrests are pending related to the case. All four suspects tied to the alleged burglary were taken to Christian County Jail, where they were listed as being held this afternoon.
Jessica Luttrell, 37, was charged Feb. 5 with third-degree burglary, theft by unlawful taking ($10,000 or more) and possession drug paraphernalia.
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Padma holds a Post graduate in Business Management with a specialization in Finance and Marketing and brings with her an experience of 15+ years. She has also completed a course in Making Thinking Visible from Harvard and a Career Counselling course from Univariety.
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by Elizabeth Wetmore
From debut author Elizabeth Wetmore comes VALENTINE, a fierce and unflinching chronicle of a night of unspeakable violence and its effect on the women of Odessa, Texas, in 1976, as this small town stands on the brink of the next great oil boom.
The story begins with Gloria Ramirez, a 14-year-old who finds herself awake in the desert, carefully watching the unconscious body of the young man who has just raped and beaten her on Valentine's Day. Wetmore does not hold back in recounting the brutalities faced by Gloria, but goes a step further by describing the intense emotional pain she feels. She gets "the body" --- her own, but she can no longer claim ownership of it --- up and moving and walks three miles, barefoot, to the nearest home, praying for safety. If she doesn't, she knows the man will kill her.
"Endlessly haunting and unforgettable, VALENTINE is an illuminating celebration of the strengths and vulnerabilities of women, and a reminder that the truth will keep us alive, even when there are systems in place to take it from us."
From there, we meet Mary Rose Whitehead, a young mother who cares for her daughter and dreams of her unborn child while her husband works in the fields. When she hears a knock at the door as she and her daughter listen to a church sermon on the radio, nothing can prepare her for the battered, frightened girl she finds on the porch. Torn between wanting to protect any young girl and wanting to protect only her own, Mary Rose deliberates for just a second too long before letting a crying, thirsty Gloria into her home. Her hesitance draws the eye of Dale Strickland, who has just arrived in his pickup truck looking for his "girlfriend," a feisty Mexican --- because you know how those gals are --- who he claims stormed off after a quarrel. But Mary Rose knows the truth, and when she tells her daughter to call the sheriff and hand her a gun, she knows exactly the effect it will have on her life.
Jumping ahead a bit, we learn that Strickland has been arrested for his crime. The trial has not yet begun, but Gloria has been tried in the court of public opinion. Though they are all churchgoing husbands, fathers and sons, the men --- and even some of the women --- of Odessa have labeled her guilty. Guilty of going off with a strange man, guilty of having brown skin, and, perhaps most of all, guilty of being a woman. But it is not only Gloria who is being disparaged by her fellow citizens; Mary Rose is considered a race traitor for siding with Gloria, and even her own husband has turned his back on her for defending the little Mexican girl. The townsfolk are merciless, throwing around bigoted and prejudiced statements and sentences with little care for the fact that Gloria is just a girl --- a girl who very easily could be one of their own. And, as Wetmore shows us, is far more like the men's own mothers, sisters, wives and daughters than any of them will ever realize.
From this point on, Wetmore alternates between the perspectives of several women in town --- from Gloria and Mary Rose to crotchety old Corrine Shepard and the rest of her female neighbors on Larkspur Lane, and even Debra Ann Pierce, a young girl who has been left motherless and traverses Odessa searching for meaning. Through their eyes, we see the ways that the promise of oil (black gold) has drawn countless men to the small town, and how the ripples of violence and cruelty caused by them have forever made their mark upon the land and its women.
Corrine and Debra Ann drive much of the narrative with their heartbreaking stories that are fueled not by male violence or disregard, but rather by the unbearable pressures put upon women. Even though they have been largely untouched by the terror of Odessa, Wetmore reminds us that violence can come in many forms, including unrealistic expectations, poverty and a lack of opportunities. It is Mary Rose with whom we spend the most time, but with her serving as a link between Gloria and the other women, we come to know the backstory and reflections of each and every female inhabitant of Odessa, and we learn one thing: the men cannot be trusted.
The town of Odessa acts as a character in itself, with Wetmore so successfully transporting her readers to the desert and oil fields that I swore I could smell the dirt and sulfur in the air as I read. By weaving together so many histories and laying them against a deeply compelling contemporary story and legal trial, she provides the entire history and personality of the town in just over 300 pages. Let us not forget: Odessa is a scary place, as full of potential for success (or at least black gold) as it is opportunity for violence. Although it is painful and harsh, Wetmore never once allows us to forget that the two are intricately and indivisibly tied to one another. She is a careful writer who wastes no words, but still she manages to produce some of the most cohesive and shocking descriptions that I have ever read.
VALENTINE is a slow-burn novel that is nearly entirely character-driven. Wetmore is skilled at conveying each woman's backstory and finding the sometimes surprising links between them all. Though the book is predominantly about violence and male privilege, she also explores the deepest feelings and fears of womanhood: from finding one's identity in a career, to wanting more sex, and even the conflicting emotions of motherhood. What is remarkable is not that she has focused solely on the women of Odessa, but that she finds --- so easily, it seems --- the invisible threads that unite them as victims, warriors and victors.
Endlessly haunting and unforgettable, VALENTINE is an illuminating celebration of the strengths and vulnerabilities of women, and a reminder that the truth will keep us alive, even when there are systems in place to take it from us.
Reviewed by Rebecca Munro on April 24, 2020
Genres: Fiction
Publisher: Harper
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Q: Handling JSON Post request in Django rest framework I want to create model entity in database using POST request. GET is working fine but POST is not being triggered. views.py is as follows:

from django.shortcuts import render
from rest_framework import viewsets, generics
from server_app.serializers import DataSerializer
from server_app.models import DataModel
from rest_framework.views import APIView
from rest_framework.parsers import JSONParser
from rest_framework.renderers import JSONRenderer
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
from server_app.serializers import DataSerializer
import logging
import json
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.views.generic import View

class MyView(View):
    def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return HttpResponse('This is GET request')

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        return HttpResponse('This is POST request')

class JSONResponse(HttpResponse):
    def __init__(self, data, **kwargs):
        content = JSONRenderer().render(data)
        kwargs['content_type'] = 'application/json'
        super(JSONResponse, self).__init__(content, **kwargs)

    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@csrf_exempt
def DataModel_list(request):
    if request.method == 'GET':
        logger.error("GET DATA SERVER")
        queryset = DataModel.objects.all()
        serializer_class = DataSerializer(queryset, many=True)
        #return HttpResponse(json.dumps(serializer_class.data),content_type="application/json")
        return JSONResponse(serializer_class.data)
    elif request.method == 'POST':
        logger.error("POST DATA SERVER")
        json_data = JSONParser().parse(request)
        serializer_class = DataSerializer(data=json_data)
        if serializer_class.is_valid():
            serializer_class.save()
            return JSONResponse(serializer_class.data, status=201)
        return JSONResponse(serializer_class.errors, status=400)

And following is my urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from rest_framework import routers
from django.contrib import admin
from server_app import views
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^getDataModel/$', views.DataModel_list),
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
    url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
)

And serializers.py

from rest_framework import serializers
from server_app.models import  DataModel

class DataSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
    class Meta:
        model = DataModel
        fields = ('first_name', 'last_name', 'chapter', 'category', 'email', 'mantinada')

models.py

from django.db import models

# Create your models here.
class DataModel(models.Model):
    first_name = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    last_name = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    chapter = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    category = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    email = models.CharField(max_length = 200)
    mantinada = models.CharField(max_length = 200)

I have put logger in GET and POST requests. When I access url for GET I can see the results and logger consoles but for POSt request, i am not getting any logger information. Can anyone please tell me what I am missing?
Thanks in advance.

A: There was nothing wrong at the django server end. I was calling wrongly from the android-client side because the keys in the android json object were different from fields in models. Correcting the keys have solved the problem.