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Android catching up to the iPhone – anyone else to step up?
iPhone vs Droid
After reading Mobile Crunch's review of the Motorolla Droid device vs the iPhone, it finally seems like someone was able to catch up with Apple(feature wise).
Each phone platform has such tremendous merits. Androids got better navigation; the iPhone has a better browser. Androids got unbeatable expandability and flexibility; the iPhone OS is mind-numbingly easy to use and the rate of growth and drive behind the App Store is simply explosive.
Samsung is also making Android powered phones and we will soon see more Hardware makers jumping on the Android bandwagon.
I wrote before here and here how it would be awesome to have a Sony phone with an open operating system platform like Android. It finally seems like that its viable for Sony to compete with a unique value offering. Now that Sony has adopted the "It only does everything" line for the PS3, they should do the same with the PSP. A powerful handheld console like the PSP coupled with a smart phone functionality would be something I would buy in a heart beat.
By Moh • Posted in Tech, Video Games Industry	• Tagged Apple, Google, iPhone, iPSP, Motorolla, Sony
Resident Evil Degenration on the iPhone/iTouch
I bought the Resident Evil Degeneration game on the iPhone for $6.99 and tried it out. The graphics and sound effects are humble and the story does not really immerse you that much. The game design is very linear. The control scheme which uses a touch screen Directional Pad works and is actually quite impressive that they pulled it off without affecting the gameplay. You must play the game with the iPhone horizontally to give enough space for the D-Pad and the control buttons.
Overall, iPhone is great for games like Word Fu and Booty Blocks, but a game like Resident Evil IMO is best left on the big powerful consoles. Even a PSP version can be a lot more immersive. Capcom used the same control scheme from RE4 and RE5 but for an iPhone game. Well overall, its decent but as a fan of the series, this does not live up to my expectations. For someone who has never played the series before, this can be a good choice if they feel like putting up $7 for it.
By Moh • Posted in Video Games	• Tagged Capcom, iPhone, iTouch, Residet Evil: Degeneration
Playstation Phone a possibility (PSP+SmartPhone=iPSP)
In a previous post, I wrote a little about my dream PSP + Smart Phone combo. This might not be too far fetched. Hideki (Dick) Komiyama, president of Sony Ericsson says here:
He expresses interest in Sony Ericsson carving out a niche for itself based on Sony's strength in gaming. He says a PlayStation mobile, building on the Walkman and Cybershot phones, "could happen".
Sony Ericsson never developed anything to compete with Apple's iPhone. Being a Sony fanboy, I would love to see a PSP with smart phone capability. If Sony to have any chance in competing with the iPhone, they need to create a market for Independent developers to publish their applications. Creating an Operating system like the OS X for the iPhone is a huge undertaking. Sony is better off using an existing solution like Google Android.
The Palm Pre phone looks pretty compelling. It has multi-touch screen like the iPhone and the ability to have multiple activities open at the same time. Along with some advanced syncing for calendars and contacts and a full sliding keyboard.
Sony can attempt to copy Apple and offer two models. One that is for Gaming with no phone (same as iTouch) and one with a phone (call it iPSP). What do you think?
Update 5/25/09: If I was Sony, I would make sure that the new PSP can run most PS2 game out there. Imagine shadows of the colossus on PSP, that would be cool.
By Moh • Posted in Tech, Video Games Industry	• Tagged Apple, Ericsson, iPhone, iPSP, Palm Pre, Playstation, Playstation Phone, PSP, Sony
The next Gen of Gaming Consoles!
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are considering their options for the timing and features of their next generation consoles. In recent news we have heard several announcements about potential designs and human interaction technologies from several companies.
For example, Microsoft announced here that it will introduce a full body motion controller.
Sony registered a PS Cloud trademark here. Also Sony is speculated to announce a new motion sensing controller at E3 this year.
In GDC 2009, OnLive announced the first Cloud based Micro console for TVs which can also be accessed from any Win-based or Mac computer.
A startup company called Canesta specializes in electronic perception technology that enables products to sense, perceive, interact with, and understand the world around them has been gaining grounds in the consumer electronic market.
The layout of the industry keeps changing in light of new technologies and new offerings. The following factors have to be taken into consideration when designing and planning any new hand-held, home based, or even cloud based console (I will be adding more to this list):
People are open to trying new paradigms of interaction such as the WiiMote and the Apple iPhone touch screen interface. To differentiate your offering, you must come up with an immersive interactive input device
The Apple iPhone has proven itself as a viable gaming platform. The iTunes App Store just passed a billion downloads. Apple's investment in creating more robust Apps has paid off big time not only for Apple but for Indie developers as well
Indie developers and user generated content have to be taken seriously
The ability to quickly test and iterate the game on the target hardware is crucial. The Hardware can deviate from proven working paradigms (that developers are familiar with) only if it offers something that can't be achieved otherwise. If you require people to learn something new, it has to achieve something that they could not do before
The big players know that its all about content, ensure that great content will be available on your hardware and people are likely to buy it and developers are likely to spend more time developing for it
Publishers would rather use digital distribution rather than physical mediums. Piracy has been increasing and affecting software sales of many consoles
Price does matter. Offering a premium price will significantly narrow down your user base
The Wii has expanded the market and performed much better than the powerful PS3 and Xbox 360
Cloud based computing is getting more popular. It is still unproven for Games and only OnLive seems to have solved the problem. If you plan to make a console that competes against Cloud gaming, it must offer more than just gaming. More about this in the Sony section below
You can't expect people in the Middle East and China to pay $60 for a game. The only reason the PS2 sold so well there is that the software was pirated and games sold for $1/game
Study the numbers (based on http://vgchartz.com/):
8.02M Japan
22.93M America
18.38M Others Total = 49.33M
8.47M America
26.47M Japan
40.89M Others Total = 102.16M
17.98M Others Total 46.83M
Apple reported that it sold more than 30M iPhone and iPod Touch devices by the end of 2008
More than a billion downloads from the App store has been reported
Sony plays a major role in the Gaming Industry. It owns many of the best studios in the world and used to have exclusive content agreements with many publishers (namely Square Enix, Konami, & Capcom).
The PS2 did great, the PS3 is still trying to gain more grounds. The PSP has a unique position in the market (more on this below). Sony has always been trying to push the technology forward with innovations outside of the gaming domain; such as DVD capability in the PS2, Blu Ray in the PS3, movies/music/images/web in the PSP and PS3.
Now that the layout of the market is changing with new potential competitors entering the field such as OnLive, Sony's offering has to adapt. Sony's vision to rule the living room is still valid. I use my PS3 to store all my music, digital movies, pictures, and games (obviously). I bought a Tera Byte USB drive that connects to my PS3 and it acts my home desktop. I use my laptop for everything else and my home desktop has not been turned on for months. I heard that some people installed Linux on the PS3 and they use it as a DVR.
To compete against cloud based gaming like OnLive, Sony and even Microsoft need to enrich the experience surrounding their consoles. That applies to hand held devices as well.
The PSP is the only high end hand held gaming device available. The Nintendo DS is great but you can't play a 3D GTA on the DS. There has been rumors about the PSP 2 (check here as well)which is likely to include a touch screen and a sliding game pad.
For casual gamers, the iPhone games are good enough. But if you want more console quality games in a hand held device, right now your only choice is the PSP. Even though the PSP is filling the serious hand held gaming device niche, it has not been the dominant device in the market.
My dream PSP would be an iPhone with the gaming capability of the PSP. Are there enough people like me who want a high end gaming experience on a mobile device that is more than just a hand held console?
I was thinking about the Amazon Kindle and how it uses the mobile network to access books. What if my Mobile device accesses a cloud computer so I don't even have to run the game on my device locally. The video is transmitted to me in real time on the network and here you go. I get to play a game like Crysis on my cell phone. That would be cool!! hmmm sounds too ambitious. I wonder if there are tricks that can be applied so that the Cloud does not need to stream all the video frames to me.
I intend to write more about this topic in more detail. There are a lot of hot issues related to this. For example, the battle between Rasterization and Ray Tracing. Which will win in the next gen of consoles? What do these terms mean and what does that mean for the consumer?
What about Nintendo and Microsoft? Is OnLive going to deliver on its big launch during GDC? I guess many of these questions will have answers (at least partially) at E3 this year. I would love to hear what people think about this.
By Moh • Posted in Video Games Industry	• Tagged Apple, Canesta, Cloud Computing, DSi, iPhone, Microsoft, Motion Sensing, OnLive, PS3, PS4, PSP, PSP2, Sony, Wii, Wii2
Samsung Announces a new Google Android powered phone
Samsung announced a new Google Android powered phone. All Android phones can not have multi-touch gesture controls like pinch-zooming web pages,maps, and photos. According to the press release, here are the detailed specs of the new Samsung I7500 phone:
HSDPA 7.2Mbps / HSUPA 5.76Mbps (900 / 1700/ 2100MHz)
EDGE / GPRS (850/ 900/1800/1900)
3.2″ HVGA(320×480) AMOLED
Camera 5 MP Camera (Auto Focus), Power LED
Video: MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV
Audio: MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, RA
Full Web Browser with Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Android Market
Bluetooth® 2.0, USB 2.0, WiFi, MicroUSB, 3.5mm ear jack
Internal memory: 8GB
External memory: Micro SD (Up to 32GB)
The new phone will be available in Europe in June 2009. It seems that T-Mobile will be the carrier in the US. Recently T-Mobile claimed that a million people bought the G1 Google phone. This is in line with Google's vision to get as many people using the Mobile web using their apps and clicking on their ads. Unfortunately, even this new Samsung is still not good enough for me to get it. I'm using the BlackBerry Curve with T-Mobile and I'm happy with it but its no iPhone. I do have an iPod Touch and loving it. I think by the end of the year, Android should be able to catch up with the iPhone and then it would be a worthy upgrade for me. If by the end of the year, Android is not as good as the iPhone or even better, I will probably switch to AT&T or the Palm Pre. Palm announced a new touch screen phone called the Pre that will be carried by Sprint. The Pre has a sliding full keyboard and seamless integration features with all online apps. It has the ability to run apps in the background features just like the desktop which is not there in the iPhone.
I attached the CES2009 video of Palm Pre:
Here is the layout of Mobile Smart Phones with the carriers in the market:
Apple + AT&T
Palm + Sprint
Google + T-Mobile
BlackBerry + Verizon
Microsoft has not done anything to combat the iPhone. When Steve Jobs announced the iPhone a while back, Steve Ballmer laughed at it (video below). Who is laughing now?
By Moh • Posted in Tech	• Tagged Android, Apple, Google, iPhone, Palm, Pre, Samsung


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Q: Case in select after sum? I'm trying to assign a different column to a sum depending on the dates.
Here's what I have:
SELECT SUM(amount) CASE WHEN date BETWEEN '1/1/13' AND '1/1/14' THEN Last_yr_tot
        WHEN date BETWEEN '1/1/14' AND 'now' THEN YTD

My entire query.
select  fd.location_cd
    ,round(sum(case when fd.fs_dt between '1/1/13' and '12/31/13' then amount else 0 end)::numeric, 0) as Last_yr
    ,round(sum(case when fd.fs_dt between '1/1/14' and current_date then amount else 0 end)::numeric, 0) as YTD
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 1 then amount end)::numeric, 0) January_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 2 then amount end)::numeric, 0) February_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 3 then amount end)::numeric, 0) March_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 4 then amount end)::numeric, 0) April_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 5 then amount end)::numeric, 0) May_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 6 then amount end)::numeric, 0) June_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 7 then amount end)::numeric, 0) July_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 8 then amount end)::numeric, 0) August_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 9 then amount end)::numeric, 0) September_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 10 then amount end)::numeric, 0) October_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 11 then amount end)::numeric, 0) November_data
    ,round(sum(case when date_part('month', fd.fs_dt) = 12 then amount end)::numeric, 0) December_data

from financial_acct fa
    join financial_data fd
    on fd.acct_no = fa.acct_no

inner join (select sum(fd.amount)
    from financial_data fd
    where fd.fs_dt between '1/1/13' and '1/1/14'
    ) Last_yr
    on fa.acct_no = fd.acct_no

where fa.acct_no = '799-' and fd.fs_dt between '1/1/14' and 'now'
group by fd.location_cd
    ,fd.fs_dt
order by fd.location_cd

It was requested that I put my entire query into the post. I will comply, but it needs more details. acct_no is account number. fs_dt is the date. location_cd is where the code is going.

A: You need to split these out into two columns.  Each looking at the date range and returning the amount value or zero
select
  sum(case when datecolumn between '1/1/13' and '1/1/14' then amount else 0 end) as last_yr_tot,
  sum(case when datecolumn between '1/1/14' and current_date then amount else 0 end) as ytd
from
  myTable

Check this fiddle
Note that datecolumn and myTable must be replaced by your own date column and table names.  As date is a reserved word in postgresql, it doesnt look much like a column name.

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Un'area doganale è una zona circoscritta, solitamente posizionata in luoghi di confine, utilizzata per lo stoccaggio di merci che non devono essere sdoganate, ed è solitamente circondata da una 'cinta doganale'. Molti aeroporti internazionali e porti hanno definite aree doganali, a volte ricoprono l'intera struttura ed includendo ampi magazzini di stoccaggio.

Le merci all'interno della zona doganale sono trattati come se fossero al di fuori del stato, per cui non vengono applicati dazi doganali. Questo permette un più facile trasbordo verso un paese terzo, senza che le autorità doganali vengano coinvolte. Per questo motivo le aree doganali sono di solito accuratamente controllate e recintate per impedire il contrabbando.

Tuttavia, l'area rimane territorialmente parte del paese, così le merci all'interno dell'area sono soggette alle leggi locali (per esempio alle leggi sulla droga o alle norme sulla sicurezza biologica), e quindi possono essere soggette a verifica, confiscate o essere rispedite indietro.

Altri scopi
A volte il termine viene anche utilizzato per definire un'area (solitamente composta da diversi stati) che forma di una unione doganale. o per descrivere l'area di un aeroporto o di un porto dove i passeggeri vengono controllati dalla dogana locale.

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Voci correlate
Agenzia delle Dogane

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In informatica un text box, un text field (in italiano "campo di testo") o una text area (in italiano "casella di testo" o "area di testo") è un controllo grafico (widget) che permette all'utente di inserire o editare informazioni testuali che verranno utilizzate dal programma.

È rappresentato con un rettangolo (di qualsiasi dimensione), separato dal resto dell'interfaccia tramite dei bordi. Solitamente viene anche mostrata una linea verticale lampeggiante, detta cursore, che indica dove verranno inseriti i caratteri digitati. Prevedono l'inserimento sia di una singola linea che di linee di testo multiple; se il testo eccede la dimensione dell'oggetto sono anche supportate le barre di scorrimento.

Altre funzionalità
Alcune implementazioni prevedono una o più delle seguenti funzionalità.

 Auto uscita: dopo l'inserimento di un predefinito numero di caratteri, il "fuoco" si muove automaticamente all'oggetto successivo.

 Caratteri Password: i caratteri inseriti vengono "mascherati" con degli altri caratteri quali ad esempio • (punto mediano) o * (asterisco).

 Syntax Highlighting: gli errori di sintassi vengono evidenziati.

 Testo non editabile: il testo viene solo mostrato, è solitamente possibile effettuare la copia del contenuto.

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Paramedics get new north-end HQ in Waterloo
bySean Heeger
After years of waiting, paramedics in Waterloo Region now have a new headquarters.
Hosting the grand opening ceremony on February 28, local dignitaries turned out to cut the celebratory ribbon on the 'north headquarters' and take a tour of the 48,500-square-foot facility located at 1001 Erbs Rd.
Rob Crossan, deputy chief of the Region of Waterloo Paramedic Services, said he is ecstatic now that the new headquarters is open, as it's more functional for the employees who work there.
"It's fantastic, it's really a nice building," said Crossan. "We really tried to design it with employee wellness in mind."
Crossan says features like a patio, 'active crew' room and an abundance of natural light, are all things meant to help paramedics and staff get the most out of their time while on duty.
The new headquarters has been in the works for three years, with construction taking 18 months.
Highlights of the new building include an in-building truck wash, in-floor radiant heat and decontamination bays.
The new facility boasts many upgrades over the south headquarters located on Maple Grove Road, including space for 21 ambulances compared to 10.
A simulation lab where multiple scenarios can be practiced to ensure the best results in the field is one of the things Crossan enjoys having at the new facility.
He said paramedics can train on anything from accident extrication to loading a patient onto an ambulance and practice like they're on a call.
The opening of the facility is also coming at a good time, as Crossan says they outgrew the old headquarters and need the space to continue to keep up with the number of calls, which has doubled in the last decade, meaning more vehicles were needed to keep up with the demand.
Paramedics responded to 57,862 calls in 2019, employing 278 staff in the region.
Ron slovis says:
The property straddles either side of Wilmot line however the address itself is technically Waterloo.
its in Wilmot not Waterloo
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An Elmira resident who's been following the election expense woes that have landed half of Woolwich council in…
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Life through a teenage lens
The EDSS media studies class is going where no Waterloo Region high school class has gone before –…
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For some years already, ORTEC works together with Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague University of Applied Sciences) to offer a case that needs to be solved during a course of the study Toegepaste Wiskunde (Applied Mathematics).
During this second-year course, the students must develop a method to solve a 'real' business problem. For a long time, the problem that was solved was a Vehicle Routing Problem. However, this year ORTEC was asked to develop a new case.
Among several problems that ORTEC has solved these years, we chose to base the problem on an assignment problem that was solved for of our clients. The students were tasked to create an assignment of reservations to cottages that is feasible and optimized.
In April, the kickoff of the course took place. We introduced ORTEC to the students and we presented the case description. In the weeks that followed, the students were busy solving the problem. On the 20th of June, the group of around fifty students came to ORTEC to present their methods and solutions. Among them, some nice methods were presented. Hopefully, we will find some of the students solving real cases for ORTEC in the future.


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import os

from .client import EnsimeClientV1, EnsimeClientV2
from .config import ProjectConfig
from .editor import Editor
from .launcher import EnsimeLauncher
from .ticker import Ticker

def execute_with_client(quiet=False,
                        bootstrap_server=False,
                        create_client=True):
    """Decorator that gets a client and performs an operation on it."""
    def wrapper(f):

        def wrapper2(self, *args, **kwargs):
            client = self.current_client(
                quiet=quiet,
                bootstrap_server=bootstrap_server,
                create_client=create_client)
            if client and client.running:
                return f(self, client, *args, **kwargs)
        return wrapper2

    return wrapper

class Ensime(object):
    """Base class representing the Vim plugin itself. Bridges Vim as a UI and
    event layer into the Python core.

    There is normally one instance of ``Ensime`` per Vim session. It manages
    potentially multiple ``EnsimeClient`` instances if the user edits more than
    one ENSIME project.

    Args:
        vim: The ``vim`` module/singleton from the Vim Python API.

    Attributes:
        clients (Mapping[str, EnsimeClient]):
            Active client instances, keyed by the filesystem path to the
            ``.ensime`` configuration for their respective projects.
    """

    def __init__(self, vim):
        # NOTE: The vim object cannot be used within the constructor due to
        # race condition of autocommand handlers being invoked as they're being
        # defined.
        self._vim = vim
        self._ticker = None
        self.clients = {}

    @property
    def using_server_v2(self):
        """bool: Whether user has configured the plugin to use ENSIME v2 protocol."""
        return bool(self.get_setting('server_v2', 1))

    def get_setting(self, key, default):
        """Returns the value of a Vim variable ``g:ensime_{key}``
        if it is set, and ``default`` otherwise.
        """
        gkey = "ensime_{}".format(key)
        return self._vim.vars.get(gkey, default)

    def client_status(self, config_path):
        """Get status of client for a project, given path to its config."""
        c = self.client_for(config_path)
        status = "stopped"
        if not c or not c.ensime:
            status = 'unloaded'
        elif c.ensime.is_ready():
            status = 'ready'
        elif c.ensime.is_running():
            status = 'startup'
        elif c.ensime.aborted():
            status = 'aborted'
        return status

    def teardown(self):
        """Say goodbye..."""
        for c in self.clients.values():
            c.teardown()

    def current_client(self, quiet, bootstrap_server, create_client):
        """Return the client for current file in the editor."""
        current_file = self._vim.current.buffer.name
        config_path = ProjectConfig.find_from(current_file)
        if config_path:
            return self.client_for(
                config_path,
                quiet=quiet,
                bootstrap_server=bootstrap_server,
                create_client=create_client)

    def client_for(self, config_path, quiet=False, bootstrap_server=False,
                   create_client=False):
        """Get a cached client for a project, otherwise create one."""
        client = None
        abs_path = os.path.abspath(config_path)
        if abs_path in self.clients:
            client = self.clients[abs_path]
        elif create_client:
            client = self.create_client(config_path)
            if client.setup(quiet=quiet, bootstrap_server=bootstrap_server):
                self.clients[abs_path] = client
        return client

    def create_client(self, config_path):
        """Create an :class:`EnsimeClient` for a project, given its config file path.

        This will launch the ENSIME server for the project as a side effect.
        """
        config = ProjectConfig(config_path)
        editor = Editor(self._vim)
        launcher = EnsimeLauncher(self._vim, config)

        if self.using_server_v2:
            client = EnsimeClientV2(editor, launcher)
        else:
            client = EnsimeClientV1(editor, launcher)

        self._create_ticker()

        return client

    def _create_ticker(self):
        """Create and start the periodic ticker."""
        if not self._ticker:
            self._ticker = Ticker(self._vim)

    def disable_plugin(self):
        """Disable ensime-vim, in the event of an error we can't usefully
        recover from.

        Todo:
            This is incomplete and unreliable, see:
            https://github.com/ensime/ensime-vim/issues/294

            If used from a secondary thread, this may need to use threadsafe
            Vim calls where available -- see :meth:`Editor.raw_message`.
        """
        for path in self.runtime_paths():
            self._vim.command('set runtimepath-={}'.format(path))

    # Tried making this a @property, with and without memoization, and it made
    # plugin initialization misbehave in Neovim (only). WTF.
    def runtime_paths(self):  # TODO: memoize
        """All the runtime paths of ensime-vim plugin files."""
        runtimepath = self._vim.options['runtimepath']
        plugin = "ensime-vim"
        paths = []

        for path in runtimepath.split(','):
            if plugin in path:
                paths.append(os.path.expanduser(path))

        return paths

    def tick_clients(self):
        """Trigger the periodic tick function in the client."""
        if not self._ticker:
            self._create_ticker()

        for client in self.clients.values():
            self._ticker.tick(client)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_toggle_teardown(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.do_toggle_teardown(None, None)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_type_check(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.type_check_cmd(None)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_type(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.type(args)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_usages(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.usages()

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_toggle_fulltype(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.toggle_fulltype(None)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_declaration(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.open_declaration(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_declaration_split(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.open_declaration_split(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_symbol_by_name(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.symbol_by_name(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def fun_en_package_decl(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.open_decl_for_inspector_symbol()

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_symbol(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.symbol(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_inspect_type(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.inspect_type(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_doc_uri(self, client, args, range=None):
        return client.doc_uri(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_doc_browse(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.doc_browse(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_suggest_import(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.suggest_import(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_set_break(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_set_break(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_clear_breaks(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_clear_breaks(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_start(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_start(args, range)

    @execute_with_client(bootstrap_server=True)
    def com_en_install(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.en_install(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_continue(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_continue(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_step(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_step(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_step_out(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_step_out(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_next(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_next(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_debug_backtrace(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.debug_backtrace(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_rename(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.rename(None)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_inline(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.inlineLocal(None)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_organize_imports(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.organize_imports(args, range)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_add_import(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.add_import(None)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_clients(self, client, args, range=None):
        for path in self.clients.keys():
            status = self.client_status(path)
            client.editor.raw_message("{}: {}".format(path, status))

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_sym_search(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.symbol_search(args)

    @execute_with_client()
    def com_en_package_inspect(self, client, args, range=None):
        client.inspect_package(args)

    @execute_with_client(quiet=True)
    def au_vim_enter(self, client, filename):
        client.vim_enter(filename)

    @execute_with_client()
    def au_vim_leave(self, client, filename):
        self.teardown()

    @execute_with_client()
    def au_cursor_hold(self, client, filename):
        self.tick_clients()

    @execute_with_client()
    def au_cursor_moved(self, client, filename):
        self.tick_clients()

    def fun_en_tick(self, timer):
        self.tick_clients()

    @execute_with_client()
    def au_buf_enter(self, client, filename):
        # Only set up to trigger the creation of a client
        pass

    @execute_with_client()
    def au_buf_leave(self, client, filename):
        client.buffer_leave(filename)

    @execute_with_client()
    def fun_en_complete_func(self, client, findstart_and_base, base=None):
        """Invokable function from vim and neovim to perform completion."""
        if isinstance(findstart_and_base, list):
            # Invoked by neovim
            findstart = findstart_and_base[0]
            base = findstart_and_base[1]
        else:
            # Invoked by vim
            findstart = findstart_and_base
        return client.complete_func(findstart, base)

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10 things wrong with the Sonic trailer
May 3, 2019 /1 Comment/in Geeky, Lists, Movies /by Wordy von Writish
Can we talk about the Sonic trailer for a moment? You know the one. Where one of our most beloved game characters is brutally butchered into a CG abomination that makes us want to boil out our eyes. Here are ten things wrong with the Sonic trailer. We insist you watch it before reading this list.
Click here for the trailer. Note from author: this blog was written on may 3th 2019. There is a possibility the look of Sonic will have been updated to a less… cringeworthy version by the time you read this.
1 Sonic
There are so many things wrong with the design of this character alone, we could make a Ten things wrong with Sonic list. But we won't. Just look at it. Look.
We have played the game, of course, we have even watched the cartoon, back in the day. Nothing could prepare us for this kind of misrepresentation. The game character has evolved as the computers progressed, but how someone came to design this version of Sonic is beyond us. Look at his body, his teeth, his fur… Everything is just… wrong! That's why this is the number one spot. The funny thing is that the internet, led by Xennials and Millenials, sort of imploded after this hyperactive trailer came out and Jeff Fowler replied on Twitter. There might be some improvements on Sonic, but the internet doesn't forget.
2 Gangsta's Paradise
Are you kidding us with this song? Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise in a Sonic the Hedgehog movie? This song about a guy living in the ghetto is so wrong in a movie about a blue hedgehog, there are no words. This was the theme song for the nineties movie Dangerous Minds, with Michelle Pfeiffer, as you might recall. This 24-year old rap hit just doesn't fit anywhere in a Sonic movie. When Weird Al Yankovic parodied the song, Coolio was very much not pleased. We don't know his opinion about the use of the song now, but we raised all of the eyebrows.
3 Jim Carrey
We're not sure if the batshit crazy (and in our opinion very depressed) JC will either save or wreck this monstrosity, but time will tell. In the trailer his representation of Dr. Robotnik (who should be called Dr. Kintobor before changing into the bad guy, but who's keen on backstory anyway…) is as obnoxious as only Jim Carrey can play. Imagine the Cable Guy, but without the lisp, merging with Lloyd Christmas doing 'the most annoying sound in the world' and you're kind of there. We are cringing in advance. His initial look is off, but we see the endresult in the very last shot. At least they got the 'stache right.
4 The slo mo guided missiles scene
At one point in the trailer Dr. Robotnik fires off a buttload of guided missiles towards Sonic. (He has to destroy him, of course. Oh, please tell us how. Dr. Robotnik is probably be the real hero of this movie.) Sonic pulls a move we have seen in multiple movies; looking at his watch first, going überfast to redirect the missiles and saving the day. We saw Hammy doing the exact same thing in Over the Hedge, as well as Quicksilver in X-Men; Days of Future Past. Oh, and Jim Carrey as the Mask when he throws Cameron Diaz in the air. It's kind of a plot hole as well, because in the first few seconds a cop sees Sonic go 760mph. But sure. Sonic goes faster than the speed of missiles.
5 Failing to hide the creature
The protaginist has to sneak the weird creature in somewhere. Sounds familiar? That's because it is. Roger Rabbit was sneaked inside a bar trashing around and speaking loudly in the trench coat of detective Eddie Valiant. (A detective is kind of like a cop, right?) And nobody noticed. In the Sonic trailer cop Tom tries to sneak the blue abomination in in a duffel bag. Sonic doesn't shut up, of course, making it an awkward situation for the poor cop doing his best not to be caught with a wanted creature.
6 James Marsden
Don't get us wrong, we love James Marsden. We'd eat some rusk with this guy, given the chance. Wether he plays Cyclops in an X-men movie, a handsome writer in 27 dresses or a television host in Hairspray, he's fine. Marsden is a decent actor and quite a talented singer, did you know? He can pull off a nice Sinatra. But that's besides the point. To carry this load of crap is just an insult to an actor of his caliber. And he plays a cop. Cliché.
7 The military
There should be a rule number about this. In movies, if there is SOMETHING, the military gets involved. Transformers, a planet with Unobtainium, aliens, it doesn't matter. And there is always this unremarkable, snarky, bad tempered Major / Colonel / High Ranked guy. In this trailer his name is Bennington and he's só generic, we kind of fell asleep. Watching Jim Carrey talk over him in a done-to-death underminig way multiple times was just annoying, not funny.
8 Sonic the alien
Sonic: "Basically it looks like I'm gonna have to save your planet."
So Sonic is an alien in this story? He wasn't an alien in the original game and other adaptations. He was from Mobius, which was generally earth in the future, so an alternate version of earth, but still earth. Also, he lived with his 5 sisters and mother in Nebraska under a hegde. But now he has to 'save the planet'. *sigh* This probably explains why the military is involved: aliens.
9 "Meow."
Oh, come ON. Can we get a good guy and a weird creature meeting without it being this stupid? We've seen it, guys. In all the movies. The protagonist meets the weird creature(s), screams or whatever and the creature says something 'funny'. In this case it's "Meow." Ha. Ha. We kind of expexted the voice of Ryan Renolds. Apparently this is a nod to Sonic X, where Chris mistakes Sonic for a cat. In animation people are really really dumb, mistaking BLUE HEDGEHOGS for cats and creepy ass blue aliens for dogs.
10 Portals
In a very short part of the jam packed trailer we see Sonic throw a golden hoop and two people fall through it, like a portal. A closer look reveals that it's James Marsden and a woman, probably Tika Sumpter. Of course there is a stupid romance sub plot nobody cares about in garbage like this. Portals are a great deus ex machina in movies, to save the heroes in the nick of time from splattering on a sidewalk. Can we get a portal out of this movie?
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Scary: Black Mirror episode Nosedive vs. social ratings irl
February 22, 2019 /0 Comments/in Movies, Random, Uncategorized /by Wordy von Writish
Netflix Original series Black Mirror is definitely a must see. Social media and advanced technology play a big role in this dark, yet surprisingly gripping series. Today we'll take a look at one of the best episodes: Nosedive. SPOILER ALERT.
Bryce Dallas Howard plays Lacie Pound, a thirty-something woman in a very pastel looking futuristic version of the US. In the first shot we see the slightly overweight Lacie run at dawn, with something like a smartphone in her hand. We hear a sad piano melody play as backgroundmusic. As Lacie passes a group of other joggers, a guy says: "Hi, Lacie." She squeels: "Hi!" and appears to send something with her phone to the guy. Soon we see what is it.
A five-star rating
Apparently in the reality of Nosedive, everyone is on a kind of Facebook, slash Instagram-hybrid, rating each other with one to five stars. We cut to a scene of Lacie in her bathroom, practicing smiling and laughing at her mirror. In her eye is a kind of lens which projects information on the mirror about herself: Lacie, 4.243. This is her social score, as we discover soon after. Lacie lives with her brother in a small apartment, but her heart is on a new place. At a coffeeshop Lacie is still looking at the picture perfect posts of people she knows, rating them. The barista JJ offers her a free cookie, so Lacie replies with a high-pitched: "Sounds awesome!", after which she and JJ send 5 star-reviews to each other. A picture of Lacie's cup of coffee with a half eaten cookie next to it (she spits out the bite) gets her a number of 5 star ratings. They make her smile. Interacting with a disgraced co-worker, result in a few one-star ratings. To counteract this, she posts a picture of a toy she made with her childhood friend Naomi. Naomi, incidentally, has a 4.8 rating and a seemingly perfect life.
Real life rating
In real life we sort of seem to do everything for that kind of social rating as well. On social media we 'like' each others posts and we enjoy getting likes on our own. The more likes you get, the better it feels. Our succes is visible in the amount of followers on social media. This kind of social rating system is starting to take hold in other parts of life. In China there is a social rating system active already. With a lower rating, people have more difficulty to get loans, for instance. At the end of 2018 statistics say that already 17 million flights have been denied to people based on their rating and 4,5 million weren't allowed to get a train ticket. It's pretty scary that the world in Nosedive is closer than we think. The pretty lives people show on social media are not as pastel in reality. People choose to show the beautiful parts, like in this eposide. It's not yet the daily task we see here, but life does seem to get more 'online' and fake, like Lacie's disgusting coffee. How does it play out for her?
Fake everthing
Lacie wants to opt for a nice apartment, but she needs a 4.5 star rating to apply. That evening Naomi asks her to be her maid of honor because of her post. This will be great for her rating, so she applies for the house and transfers the deposit. "She fucked Greg!" Lacie's brother incredulously exclaims. Lacie starts practicing the perfect speech for the wedding, including a forced tear at the end. A fight with her brother about the fakeness of her life makes Lacie late for her cab to the airport and after she bumps into someone, her rating starts going down. From this point on the episode shows Lacie trying to make it to the wedding, all the while losing more points and getting increasingly more agitated.
Losing everything
At the airport she is denied a ticket because her rating isn't high enough, so she has to rent a car. Things go from bad to worse. It becomes painfully clear that having a lower rating means that everything is more difficult and that the people around Lacie even rate her based on her lower rating alone. As it turns out, Naomi only invited her to the wedding because of her rating. "When I asked you to speak, you were a 4.2, okay?" Naomi says on the phone, "And the authenticity of a vintage bond low four at a gathering of this caliber played fantastically on all the simulations we ran." She says Lacie isn't allowed to come to the wedding anymore with a 2.6 rating.
In a world where it looks like everyone has a big social network, Lacie turns out to be totally alone. Breaking down completely and sneaking into the wedding, Lacie ends up loses all her points. (Roll credits: Nosedive.) When she's arrested and put in a cell without her smartphone, she suddenly seems to experience… freedom. There is nobody to impress for a 5 star rating and there is no one to give a rating to. Losing everything she worked and faked so hard for, Lacie is finally free.
We wonder if we will ever be freed again of the social rating systems that imbedded themselves in our daily lives. We'll just have to wait and see.
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February 6, 2019 /0 Comments/in Movies /by Wordy von Writish
Did you know that beloved Disney princess and mermaid Ariel and ultimate fitboy and demigod Hercules share ancestors? They are cousins. How do we figure? Well, settle in for a bit of Greek mythological history.
Hercules's father was Zeus. As most of us know, Zeus was quite infamous for sleeping around with all kinds of lovely ladies (or not so lovely ladies and sometimes not even ladies at all) – producing offspring left, right and center. In the Disneyverse however, he's happily married to Hera, who is quite a nice lady in this adaptation. Hercules, by the way, is the Roman name of the mythological Disney-hero. In Greek mythology we know this dude as Herakles. All other characters in the Hercules-movie got their Greek names, but Disney might have liked the sound of Hercules better. That's curious, isn't it? Well, never mind. In mythology the married and mortal Alkmene bore demi-god Hercules. Zeus was such a player.
By the way, Hera wasn't just the wife of the adulterous grecian thundergod: she was also Zeus' sister. Lannisters approve, right? Anyway, how is Herc related to the red-haired beauty whose bottom side is all fishy? Well, take a look at the family tree of old Zeus.
His parents in mythology are the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and his brothers are Hades and Poseidon. Hades rules over the underworld and Poseidon reigns over the seas, leaving Zeus to be the lord of the heavens. Alright, you can already 'sea' where we're going, right?
One of Poseidon's sons is Triton, Ariels short-tempered and kind of racist father. So Hercules and Ariel share a set of ancestors in Cronus and Rhea. There we are. Triton is Hercules' uncle, which makes Ariel and Hercules cousins.
Well, that was easy. A bit of mythological lore, with a little Disney sauce on top, and nobody had to translate any texts from Old Greek. If Pixar movies are interconnected, Disney is going down that road as well.
This theory is discussed by The Film Theorists on YouTube.
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February 5, 2019 /0 Comments/in Movies, Quote of the Day /by Wordy von Writish
Said by: Simon Masrani in Jurassic World
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Seems like the Dude is back.
January 24, 2019 /0 Comments/in Movies /by Writey McWordish
Can't be living in the past, man. Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/zL2CLYhGAM
— Jeff Bridges (@TheJeffBridges) January 24, 2019
We're pretty sure this tweet speaks for itself. If you don't know what this is about, we just don't know what to tell you, man. This tweet from Jeff Bridges indicates that there's a sequel to the infamous Coen Brothers movie "The Big Lebowski" coming. Apparently, we're to expect something on 2 march 2019. Have they done an entire sequel in secret and are they releasing it? If it is, this must be the most minimalistic way to announce it. And knowing the Dude, that's exactly what he'd do.
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Hunger Games: How to make the odds in your favour
November 13, 2018 /0 Comments/in Geeky, Movies, Videos /by Wordy von Writish
In 2012 the film adaptation of The Hunger Games hit theatres. In a post apocalyptic version of the United States, 24 children from 12 districts are chosen and thrown into an arena to kill and survive. The evil Capitol uses the catchphrase: "May the odds be ever in your favour." But can you do that? How can you make the odds be in your favour so you have the best chance to survive?
First of all: don't volunteer if your name is not drawn. That will make your chances of survival a 100%. If you are chosen, however, there are things you càn do. Sulking around and being anti-social like Katniss will not improve your chances. Maybe you think that age or gender are big factors in the Hunger Games, but you would be wrong. It also doesn't really matter from which district you are either.
In this theory from the YouTube channel The Film Theorists they explain how you can actually turn the odds in your favour. If you want to survive the Hunger Games, you might want to pay attention. There are some pretty clever tips and tricks you can use and emerge alive, thus victorious!
How to survive the Hunger Games part 1
How to survive the Hunger Hames part 2
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October 26, 2018 /0 Comments/in Lists, Movies, Random /by Wordy von Writish
Netflix movie 'Sierra Burgess is a Loser' is the classic tale of the ugly duckling falling for the handsome jock-guy. In this cliché riddled modern teen drama the high school 'kids' are, as always, in their twenties and speaking like they have an autocue nearby. Fact: in real life people do not. And we never have. If you're planning on watching Sierra Burgess, SPOILER ALERT.
Believe me, we like the ugly duckling story just as much as any other former ugly duckling, but it's getting so damn stale by now. Truth be told, the ending was clear within the first ten minutes. If you mix She's All That, Ten Things I Hate About You, Mean Girls and 13 Reasons Why, you're pretty much there. Except the supposedly losery girl is actually quite obese in this movie, in stead of a damn supermodel wearing glasses or overalls. But Sierra is witty and intelligent as fuck, of course. And beautiful, in her own way. Of course. And she can sing. There is some Cyrano in there as well. (Or, Roxanne, which is basically the same story.)
We can sum up this movie in two sentences. 1 Witty Fat Girl is texting and calling Handsome Guy, who thinks he's texting and calling Dumb Pretty Mean Girl. 2 After some obvious misleading misunderstandings Mean Girl turns to Nice Girl and Witty Fat Girl gets Handsome Guy.
As someone who actually was that ugly (albeit slender) loser girl between the age of 4 and 15, this movie pisses me off. The volume of unrealistic bullshit is staggering and the amount of teen romcom drama cliches curled my toes. No, Netflix. It doesn't work like that in real life. Not in the late nineties, not today. No matter how witty or smart you are, you never get The Guy if there is a more pretty girl around who is also witty.
Sidenote:
As a pretty okay-ish looking adult, I actually asked my 'The Guy' what that pretty girl had that was so damn special. "Nothing." he said, "I don't even remember her. I remember you more than I remember her." It was quite satifsying to meet him after I grew into a normal adult, to be honest. It is also *very* satisfying to see that the popular girls who bullied me have turned into unattractive fat housewives… but I digress.
Back to high school drama. Real life doesn't work like all those movies and series show us. It's rare to be the ugly duckling and actually turn into that swan. Or rather a normal, happy, healthy duck. Quack.
Fake versus real: a list of things
I'm going to make a list about the… lets call them 'Fake High School Romance Drama's'. I have named a few movies (and another Netflix-serie) which are similar to Sierra Burgess is a Loser. Which boxes do they tick off and what is the difference with real life?
1 Age of the actors
The young actors having to play high schoolers are mostly in their early- to midtwenties, something that sticks out like a sore thumb. Of course we've seen this in Grease, when a 30-year old had to play 17. Come on, Hollywood. Is it so hard to find decent actors who actually look like teenagers? Apparently. The massive Shannon Purser, who plays Sierra (and Barb in Stranger Things), is born on june 27, 1997, which means she was at least 20 at the time SBiaL was filmed.
2 Way of talking
I've said this earlier. The way the 'kids' talk is way too mature and witty. Nobody talks the way the teenagers do in movies and series. The worst might be Ellen Page as Juno, (Juno) who talks like she's reading a philosophy book out loud all the time. In real life we mess up our lines. We stutter or shut down. We talk like human beings, especially when we're teenagers. Okay, we may get a few good lines every now and then, but it's mostly improvising the crap out of everything.
3 Peer groups
The jocks, the losers, the cheerleaders… It appears people fall into very sharp categories in Fake High School Romance Drama's. Real high school is less divided, at least where I'm from. Birds of a feather flock together, so you probably have some things in common with your friends, but in my experience it's not that extreme. The majority of us don't really fall in any category anyway.
The parents and/or teachers in the FHSRD's are mostly divided into two groups: understanding and cool or aloof and dense. They appear to be completely oblivious to the lives and struggles of their kids/students, giving the most unhelpful advice or grounding someone for no apparent reason. Adults in the real world are just people, in stead of stereotypes. Personally I have never even heard of someone who was actually grounded.
5 The same story
All those stories have the same premise. There is a high school where nearly everyone is ridiculously pretty. (Have you seen the actors and extra's in 13 Reasons Why? My. Effing. God. It's like a model bomb exploded over there.) There is an unpopular girl, she falls for a handsome guy and there are popular kids who act like assholes. In the end the unpopular girl overcomes her loserness and the mean ones learn their lesson. In real life this does not happen. Mostly because the mean jerks don't even realise what assholes they are and ugly losers just don't get their overly goodlooking love interests. They get other ugly losers and that's okay.
6 Prom
I'm sure you can name at least 3 scenes involving a prom. Carrie, anyone? The ugly duckling is wearing a lovely dress and has transformed into the beautiful swan she was meant to be. The love interest is stunned by her new appearance, after which there is a shared dance and/or kiss. Don't we just love extreme make overs… In reality nobody suddenly shines like a diamond at the prom. Either they were good looking to begin with or they stayed themselves, but in a better outfit.
7 Happy ending
Most endings are happy ones. Well, except for 13 Reasons Why, of course, but that's a whole other story. In reality there is no end. Life doesn't magically stop after the prom. Most people don't end up with their high school sweethearts anyway and the naive ones that did, have turned into single parents by now. I'm quite glad I didn't marry one of my high school sweethearts. The thing is: you're a child and your brain and personality are in no way finished before the age of 25. So it's fine to date and to learn what you want out of a significant other before tying the knot. There are no end credits in real life.
Why so serious? It's a movie, Wordy!
I hear you. In reality the guy would be appalled, hurt and offended by the blatant catfishing the girls pulled off. But this is a movie, so the pretty guy takes the loser girl to prom. Of course things are totally unrealistic in movies, because we enjoy watching the FHSRD's. We root for the loser to get the guy and we wish we could indeed turn out crazy pretty at our prom. I'm not saying I didn't enjoy watching Sierra Burgess is a Loser, but it was just so painfully predictable. I said: "Both of you." out loud at the exact moment the pretty boy did. Every plottwist came at the exact moment I expected it and the end was precisely as all those other movies. (Except for the obese thing, but the guy said he liked that. Real women have curves, y'all! If curves mean having your belly hanging over your belt… Muffin-tops are the new six pack, I guess.)
I'd like to see a FHSRD where the actors are actually teenagers, where not everyone is beautiful and where the lead just gets over his or her crush and goes on with life. We at Reasonish did and we turned out pretty fine.
Roll credits.
The title is stupid. Sierra does very well in school and she has a sweet best friend who's there for her. She's a tutor, she speaks multiple languages, she plays an instrument, she can sing and her parents are caring, wealthy, succesful and happily married. Sierra may be unpopular, but she is NOT a loser.
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October 21, 2018 /0 Comments/in Movies, News /by Writey McWordish
Anyone who has watched the entire first series of the Netflix-documentary "Making a Murderer" will at least vaguely remember the rollercoaster of emotions that is generated by watching this series. When the first season ended, viewers were left wondering about the guilt of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey, but anyone with an ethical bone in his body and anyone with any respect for the judicial process couldn't help but being marvelled, shocked and appalled by the way this investigation and its subsequent court proceedings ended with two persons being jailed.
Making a Murderer – Season 2 is that same rollercoaster of emotions. We'll try to summarize what we learned. If you're planning on still watching the new season: there will be spoilers. Lots. In this season Kathleen Zeller is hired as Steven's new lawyer to clear the charges for theft of a car. Remember that he tried to become his own lawyer in the first season of Making a Murderer? Well, she's taking over, and she's doing a tremendous job. Right from the start, she starts doing a serious investigation. She buys the same car as Teresa Halbach had. Then, she starts by trying to reproduce the narrative that got Steven convicted.
Not enough blood, too much DNA and way too clean
And she does that with attention to detail. The blood in the car? Turns out – it should have been on a lot of places, but not where there was blood. The DNA under the hood? Way more DNA was found there than opening the hood would explain. Also, the sample was squeaky clean. Not at all the way a swap from under the hood of a car would have looked. She then discovers that there was actually DNA taken from Steven's groin (try and unsee that). It was never entered into evidence. Yeah, it probably got swapped. The DNA on the key was also 10 times more than you would find on a key that a person held. And every time the results were way too clean for a normal crime scene.
Blood spatter patterns don't match the story
The blood spatters on the back door of the car matched a pattern that was different from what the DA said might have happened. She wasn't thrown in the back of the car. The blood doesn't have the right pattern. Someone probably hit her with a hammer while she knelt at the back of the vehicle. So, that rules out shooting her in the garage.
Bullet didn't have skull fragments
Which does explain the fact that there was no bone residue on the bullet that had her DNA on it, the one that supposedly went through her skull. It probably only went through a piece of wood. So how did her DNA get on it? Well, the DNA-samples that were taking from Teresa's apartment didn't follow the rest of the evidence but made their way onto the Avery-territory. And they included a chapstick, which probably explains the greasy substance seen on the bullet.
So now there's no murder bullet, the blood spatters indicate the murder wasn't inside, Steven's blood in the car couldn't be reproduced by someone bleeding from a cut and the DNA sample from the hood is too clean. Also, an expert on burning bodies indicates that the firepit Steven is supposed to have burned Teresa in with two tires isn't possibly enough to destroy an entire body. So what happened to the rest of Teresa?
Wait, there's more (bones)!
Turns out there were more human bones, far outside of the Avery property! Well, how convenient.. maybe somebody should have said so during the trial? I mean, human bones. With cut marks, even. They were spread out over the terrain near where the cell phone records said she was last – so, no longer on the Avery property. That means they found evidence that she was cut up and not burned in a huge fire. Leaving that out of the trial… at some point you can no longer conclude that "hey, maybe he did it and they were just incompetent?"
Pure, diabolical evil
During the 10 episodes that this season of Making a Murderer offered, the feeling of evil really started to take a hold. Pure, diabolical evil of the dark overlord-kind. The system decided that Avery was guilty and nothing could stand in the way of that. Not the lack of evidence, not the evidence to the contrary. At one point in the documentary, a witness came forward that had spotted Teresa's car by the side of the road. This was before they found it at the Avery site. Sure enough, he reported it to a cop. Which cop, you ask? That couldn't have been a cop involved in his previous wrongful conviciton, right? Well… you might very well think that, but you'd be wrong. Remember: Avery served 18 years for a previous crime that he didn't commit and was suing the police at the time. A detective had rung the officer in the 90s saying that he had found the real perp…. and the agent answering the phone didn't act on that information.
Of course it was!
Yes, that was the same cop who now got information from a truck driver on the whereabouts of Teresa's car. And he verified that it was Teresa's car via phone, but never reported seeing the car standing by the side of the road. IT WAS THE SAME DAMN COP!
The rollercoaster is real…
You can't help but be convinced that malificent wrongdoing got Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey into jail, not just astonishing incompetence. The above is just a summary of evidence that Kathleen Zeller collected. The season is so much more than just that. It tells the tale of the suffering of families, particularly the mothers of both Steven and Brendan. Zeller looks at possible other suspects. Making a Murderer makes you feel the frustration of the elderly Avery's as they are missing their son (56) who has now been in prison for more than half his life and the clock is ticking for them. It makes you feel anger at Ken Kratz, who has stepped down as DA for unprofessional behaviour, but is actively doing a media tour with the highlight of him doing a press conference at the day of an appeal where he has no business being.
The soundtrack does an amazing job of supporting this rollercoaster of emotions in what is, in essence, a slow-paced documentary. It's made to make you feel the importance of each discovery and it does exactly that.
No justice in Wisconsin
But the most astonishing thing about Making a Murderer – Season 2? At the end of the season, both Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are still in jail, wasting away their life while Zeller is bent on proving Averies innocence and Dassey's legal options to fight against the heartwrenching so-called "confession" have apparently run out. None of the facts line up and yet, it looks like no-one on the side of the prosecution is willing to take a stand and start looking for the real killer. Ultimately, it makes you feel like there is no room for justice in Wisconsin, and maybe not in America.
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February 14, 2018 /0 Comments/in Movies /by Wordy von Writish
Christopher Nolan's 2010 masterpiece Inception has a rather ambiguous ending, everyone who saw the movie knows this. There have been a lot of theories about it since the release, but we have found the definite answer to the biggest secret of Cobb's totem! (If you haven't watched Inception yet: major spoilers ahead, so be warned. Also: watch it as soon as possible!)
When I went to the theatre in 2010, a friend who had already seen the movie gave me the best piece of advice ever: "Just let it wash over you. Don't try to understand everything, just let it happen." Because I hadn't read anything about it yet, I was able to enjoy the movie immensely this way and it has been one of my favorites ever since. Inception is a mindfuck on every layer, so you have to pay attention to fully understand it and appreciate it's incredible premise.
The totem
A big plotpoint are the totems. To give the dreamer proof that he is dreaming, they are advised to have a totem. "You need a small object, potentially heavy which you can have on you all the time." Arthur explains how he has a loaded die of which only he knows the exact balance and weight. "That way, when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt that you're not in someone else's dream." Dom Cobb's totem is supposed to be a spinning top that belonged to his dead wife Mal. But is it?
Mal's spinning top totem used to spin infinitely if they were in a dream, but toppled over in reality. That way she could make sure she was dreaming or if she was awake. (Not that it helped, because she committed suicide nontheless.) It's implied heavily that Dom uses this same technique during multiple scenes. The thing is that Arthur tells Ariadne that she can't touch his totem, because that would negate the purpose. Dom, however, actively uses his wife's totem. Weird, right? We also never find out what his totem was before she died…
What if the spinning top isn't Cobb's totem at all, but just a memento? At the end of the movie, we see him spin the top on the table and then walk to his kids without a backwards glance. We, the audience, watch the top spin and spin and eventually give the tiniest of wobbles before the screen cuts to black. Ambiguous, right? Not really. (Besides Nolan having explained that Dom is indeed awake at the end of the movie.) Have you noticed that Dom is wearing his wedding ring whenever he is in a dream? When he is awake, there is no ring. Rewatch Inception and you'll see it's true. We think the wedding ring is Cobb's totem, not the spinning top. It makes more sense, because it is actually his own. He just has to look down at his hand to see if the ring is there to know if he's dreaming. That is even easier than spinning a top. So there it is; the big secret of Inception: the ring is Dom's true totem. That's why he doesn't have to look back at the spinning top on the table at the end.
Dom Cobb in Limbo with Saito, wearing his wedding ring.
Dom Cobb spinning his dead wife's totem, sans wedding ring.
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December 29, 2017 /0 Comments/in Geeky, Lists, Movies /by Wordy von Writish
We're going to take a look at nineties legends Hook, Liar Liar and Jingle All The Way today. The nineties were chuckfull of great movies with amazing plottwists (Fight Club), awesome special effects (Titanic) and loving patriotism (Armageddon and basically every movie situated in the US.) The failing dad-trope isn't limited to the nineties, as we could see in 2012, War of the Worlds and Interstellar, but it is one of the key components in the three movies we'll be comparing.
Meet the three protagonaist first. In Hook (1991) we have the overweight lawyer Peter Banning, played by Robin Williams. Another lawyer, but a smooth one, is Fletcher Reede in Liar Liar (1997), played by rubberface Jim Carrey. In Jingle All The Way (1996) Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the muscley salesman Howard Langston. [Spoileralert.]
Now let's take a look at the list of similarities.
1 Annoying sons
The failing dads in all three movies have an annoying little boy to disappoint. The kids are basically interchangeable with their nineties haircuts and whiney voices. We don't even know their names and we don't have to, because it doesn't really matter. The boys have only two traits anyway: they like a certain sport and they love their daddy.
2 Perpetually late
The dads are perpetually late to everything, especially important moments for the boys. Both Banning and Langston think they can make the sportsevent of their sons, even yelling: "I'm gonna make it!" and then arrive when the event is already over. As in: way over. Fletcher has some other things on his mind (and dick) that make him late.
3 Workaholic
The reason these daddies are late all the time is, of course, their job. The workaholic father is a special kind of failing dad. Howard even says "And remember, you're my number one costumer." to his wife on the phone. The positive part is that the fathers are rolling in dough, which makes their quests a lot easier.
4 The promise
Peter has a catchphrase about The Big Promise (to attend the ballgame): "My word is my bond." He missed the game, however, and when he actually uses this phrase again, the son answers: "Yeah, junkbond…" In Jingle all the way Howard promises his son to come to the parade: "I'll be there. I promise." Even though he eventually shows up as a part of the parade, he still breaks his original promise. Fletcher promises son Max that they can go play catch, which never happens, and he promises his ex-wife that he'll pick up the boy, but he fails. Even when he makes 'the mother of all promises', he messes up.
5 Generic mothers
The mothers in all three movies are pretty, brownhaired and generic. Boring, basically. They only display one charactertrait: disappointment in the dad. None of the mothers explain what 'workaholic' means, though, nor do they seem to make a lot of effort to get through to the fathers. But they love their kids and that's the most important.
6 Other fatherfigure who doesn't mess up
In all three movies there is a substitute fatherfigure who doesn't mess up like the biological one does. In Liar Liar the mom has a new boyfriend who's actually a nice guy. He tries to bond with his girlfriend's son and wants what's best for both of them. Captain Hook, played by Dustin Hoffman, tries to win over the son just to fuck with Peter Pan, and he almost succeeds. Howard's divorced neighbour does his best to seduce the mom and he maintains the façade of the perfect single dad. The other mothers in the street practically drool over him all the time. His son even mentions to his friend that maybe his parents should get divorced as well.
7 The gift
The boys all get a gift from their fathers. Fletcher doesn't know what's in the gift, because his secretary bought the 'baseballstuff', but Puddingbowl Haircutboy loves it. Peter gives his pocketwatch to son Jack, which functions as a kind of McGuffin in Hook. The biggest McGuffin is of course the Turboman action figure Howard keeps trying to get his hands on during Jingle All The Way. When tiny Anakin eventually gets the doll, he gives it away… because 'he already has the real one at home.' Really? A boy who gives away a special edition action figure? *sigh*
8 Antagonist
The antagonist in Liar Liar is probably Fletcher himself, but his bitchy boss fits the bill as well. We don't even have to explain the bad guy in Hook, but in Jingle All The Way Howard meets a mailman he keeps bumping into. This guy is also looking for the Turboman action figure and they keep battling for the toy until the bad guy goes to jail.
9 Flying
Howard and Peter's flying is pretty literal in Hook and Jingle All The Way. Peter Pan manages to fly eventually because he finds his 'happy thought' and Howard gets to don the Turboman suit with jetpack. Fletcher does a bit of flying when his stolen cart crashes at the airport.
10 Bonding
After all the danger and drama has passed, all fathers bond with their sons, bettering themselves and changing their ways. Or so we're to believe. Banning overcomes his fear of flying and open windows, while Reede finally realises he shouldn't take his son for granted and Langston admits he'd been neglecting his son and wife. "But noe moah!" They all live happily ever after.
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Home Business/Economics Ethiopia: 121 Investment Projects Commence Service and Production
Ethiopia: 121 Investment Projects Commence Service and Production
Clinton McDubus
The Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) has announced that 121 investment projects with capital of about 6.97 billion had started services and production during the first half of the current budget year, according to Walta Information Center.
Mr. Getahun Negash, Public Relations Director with the Commission, stated that the commission had planned to support 102 investment projects that had 10 billion birr capital to begin operational activities in the last six months. Out of a total of 121 investment projects, 11 are engaged in agriculture, 54 in manufacturing and 56 are in the service sectors.
The director added that these investment projects had created 9092 permanent and 2798 short term jobs with the potential to create more job opportunities whenever they would start work with full capacity.
He further added that the commission had planned to support 123 investment projects that had a total of 14 billion birr capital to reach the implementation stage in the first half of the budget year. The Commission was able to support 145 investment projects with the capital of 16 .97 billion birr to reach into the implementation phase in the period, which is beyond its schedule.
The Commission also cancelled investment licenses of 91 foreign investors in the last six months. The measure was taken on investors that are not able to enter into the implementation stage.
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Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC)
Getahun Negash
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Oakdale Cemetery was chartered on December 27, 1852 and has grown to 100 acres of natural beauty.
Dogs must be leashed in accordance with City Ordinance.
Of all the doomed spirits haunting North Carolina, few inspire heartsick tears more than Boss the tugboat captain's dog – devoted canine, dockside hero, fearless pooch who died for love.
She trotted at the heels of Capt. William Ellerbrock, tagging along for pints of ale or jaunts on the Cape Fear River, lending comfort to the rough-handed skipper. They made boon companions, ashore and afloat – a pair whose friendship endures in Wilmington folklore.
Then one night in 1880, she darted into a burning building after her beloved master, perishing beside him in the flames, a torn piece of his coat in her charred muzzle. To this day, her whine can be heard along the Wilmington waterfront, especially, it's said, to those being careless with fire.
So sacred is Boss' memory to the Port City, so hallowed her bravery, that her image appears chiseled on Capt. Ellerbrock's grave at Oakdale Cemetary, the only North Carolina dog so honored.
Stories differ on Boss' breed, a Newfoundland or a plain mutt. But history agrees that the two never parted, especially that April night when the alarm bells rang out over the waterfront. One account states that Ellerbrock handed Boss over to a bystander before he rushed in to help the victims, and that his dog broke free and chased after him. But Hirchak suspects that Boss wouldn't have parted from Ellerbrock even for a second.
When they inspected, they found the pup's teeth still clenched around her master's sleeve, torn off as she tried to drag him to safety.