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From humiliation to glory: How Real Madrid won La Liga
By Euan McTear, from La Liga Lowdown
Published: 15:00, 20 July 2020 | Updated: 10:34, 23 July 2020
On July 26th 2019, Real Madrid were thrashed 7-3 by Atlético Madrid in New Jersey in pre-season.
On July 16th 2020, almost a full year later and in the penultimate round of the longest LaLiga campaign ever, they were crowned champions with a 2-1 victory over Villarreal at their Valdebebas complex in the Spanish capital. It has been quite the season, one that will never be forgotten, and it has been quite the turnaround for Los Blancos.
Zinedine Zidane has been convinced all along. Even after the pre-season derby disaster, the coach was still brimming with optimism. "We're going to be motivated and I am convinced that we're going to have a good season," he said in his post-match press conference at MetLife Stadium. "Obviously we can't be happy with this defeat, but I am convinced that I have a team that will compete. We have the necessary motivation and hunger to move forward."
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Few believed Zidane. The idea of Real Madrid winning the league was laughed off as folly. Yet, Real Madrid finished top of the table and even did so with a five-point advantage over second-placed Barcelona. As much as Barça have been in disarray this season, it's worth noting that Real Madrid's 87-point haul matches the tally Barcelona achieved last season. No matter which way you look at it, the capital city side have been imposing.
So, how did they do it? How did Real Madrid go from pre-season humiliation to LaLiga glory?
First and foremost, they did it through defence. By conceding just 25 goals over their 38 matches, Los Blancos finished the campaign with the best defensive stats of the whole division and this even saw Thibaut Courtois wrestle the Zamora Award – the prize for the goalkeeper with the best goals conceded numbers of the season – away from Jan Oblak's grip after four years. For Real Madrid, this is very rare. In the entire 21st century, their goalkeeper has won this prize just once, when a nimble Iker Casillas claimed it in 2007/08.
Courtois himself has won this award before, in 2012/13 and 2013/14 when he was at Atlético Madrid, but his record of 0.59 goals conceded per game in 2019/20 is even better than he managed in either of those campaigns he spent at the Estadio Vicente Calderón – 0.78 in 2012/13 and 0.65 in 2013/14. While the Zamora Award is an objective honour, the Belgian also passes the eye test as the best goalkeeper in Spain this year, making both super saves and simple saves as well as distributing the ball better than ever before with a pass completion percentage of 75.1%.
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As good as Courtois has been as a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency type of last resort, he hasn't been called upon too much thanks to his excellent back four. Dani Carvajal, Raphaël Varane and Sergio Ramos are arguably the best in each of their positions in world football, while Real Madrid have also had Marcelo, the former best left-back in the world, and Ferland Mendy, potentially the future best left-back in the world.
The individual talent is there and they also play as a cohesive unit, which makes sense considering Zidane selected a Carvajal-Varane-Ramos-Mendy back four 14 times and a Carvajal-Varane-Ramos-Marcelo back four on 10 occasions. There has been decent consistency even while alternating between the two left-backs.
As well as Ramos, the superhero captain who tucked in his cape just enough that we couldn't see it, there's been Casemiro. Often praise of a defence focuses on the defenders, but Real Madrid's defensive solidity cannot be explained without mention of their sharp-elbowed holding midfielder, who has had one of his very best seasons in white. It was fitting that the opening goal on the night when they sealed the league title was created by the Brazilian, who pinched possession back in the centre and then fed the ball to Luka Modrić for the Croatian to set up Karim Benzema.
Benzema, of course, is another who needs to be carved into the Mount Rushmore of this league title. With Eden Hazard and Mariano almost never fully fit, with Marco Asensio out with an ACL injury for the first 11 months of this long campaign, with Gareth Bale's mind on the golf course and with Luka Jović misfiring on and off the pitch in his first year in Spain, there was so much responsibility on Benzema's shoulders – and he wasn't weighed down by it.
The Frenchman is a No.9 with the soul of a No.10 and was able to score and create all season long. With 21 goals and eight assists, plus 1.7 key passes per 90 minutes, his numbers were good but even they don't tell the full story. Benzema did so much for his team that doesn't show up on a stats sheet, while he also appeared at decisive moments. On 10 occasions this season, Benzema scored the opening goal of the game and that is absolutely priceless.
An excellent season for Karim Benzema capped off with winning LaLiga. 🏆
All in all, it was the balance between defence and attack that steered Real Madrid towards this league title and prevented this side from toppling over. Zidane has repeatedly spoken about this in his press conferences, explaining that improving the defence and maintaining the club's historic threat in attack has been his priority since returning in March of last year. While it's true that Real Madrid's tally of 70 goals scored is well below the numbers posted between 2009 and 2017, when they hit over 100 goals every season, the goals conceded numbers are the club's best ever since LaLiga seasons have had 38 fixtures.
Balance has been achieved and enough goals are still being scored, partly because Real Madrid have so many goalscorers. 21 different players found the back of the net for Real Madrid this LaLiga campaign and this is another key explanation for their success. Only backup centre-back Éder Militão, backup right-back Álvaro Odriozola and backup winger Brahim Díaz failed to score out of all the outfield players within the squad. Even when Benzema got out of the wrong side of the bed and had an off day, somebody else usually stepped up.
It has been an impressive campaign overall from Real Madrid and especially so since the restart, as they chained together 10 consecutive victories before drawing in the final round against Leganés, after they'd already brushed the congratulatory confetti off their shoulders. They've been an unstoppable machine since returning from lockdown, full of the energy and hunger that Barcelona seemed to lack. They've been worthy champions.
Article produced by La Liga Lowdown – Your home for Spanish football in English with reporters based in Spain. Find them on Twitter @LaLigaLowdown
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What's new in Interventional Radiology – April 2021
Bariatric Embolization in the Treatment of Patients with a Body Mass Index Between 30 and 39.9 kg/m2 (Obesity Class I and II) and Metabolic Syndrome, a Pilot Study
Raphael Braz Levigard, Henrique Serrão, Camille Castro, Priscila Matos, Fernanda Mattos, Eduardo Madeira, Camila Lüdke Rosseti, Denise Pires de Carvalho, Joana Rodrigues Dantas, Lenita Zajdenverg & Miguel Madeira
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2021 Feb 1. doi: 10.1007/s00270-021-02776-7. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33527186.
Obesity is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is often coexistent with Metabolic Syndrome (MS). Treatment options include bariatric surgery with complication rates up to 25%, and most recently bariatric arterial embolization (BAE), a minimally invasive alternative capable of reducing serum levels of ghrelin, the "hunger hormone" through ischemia of the gastric fundus.
This study's purpose was to study the safety and efficacy of BAE in a female cohort with class I (BMI of 30.0 to 34.9) and II (BMI of 35.0 to 39.9) obesity and MS. 10 female participants between 21 and 48-years-old, median BMI of 36.37 ± 2.58 kg/m2 and MS were enrolled in this prospective single-center trial.
The procedure entailed angiographic studies of left gastric artery (LGA), gastroduodenal and splenic arteries followed by targeted embolization of the LGA, the dominant artery feeding the fundus, and in certain cases, additional feeding vessels (accessory left gastric artery, gastroepiploic artery, and short gastric artery ) with Embospheres 300-500 μm.
All participants were discharged on a liquid diet followed by a bland and hypocaloric low fat and low carbohydrate diet. Gastric protection was initiated with pantoprazole followed by omeprazole. Patients were screened by gastrointestinal endoscopy, performed before and one week and one month after BAE. 6 months after BAE, efficacy was assessed by changes in total body weight (TBW), ghrelin and Homeostatic Model Assessment-Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) levels and by changes in quality of life (QOL) and in binge eating scale (BES) scores.
Six months after embolization, TBW decreased by 6.8% (6.22 kg ± 3.6;p = .01), serum ghrelin dropped from 25.39 pg/ml ± 10.63 to 17.1 ± 8.07 (p = 0.01), and HOMA-IR decreased from 7.29 ± 5.66 to 3.73 ± 1.99 (p = 0.01). The QOL scores improved from 59.64 ± 5.59 to 69.02 ± 11.97 (p < 0.05) and in the BES from 21.50 ± 8.89 to 9.60 ± 4.40 (p = 0.01). In total, there were two Grade 1 (deep gastric ulcers) complications and one Grade 2 (puncture site thrombosis) complication according to the Clavien-Dindo scale. 9 out of 10 patients did not follow the proposed low-calorie diet after the first month following the procedure, with a consumption of 300 kilocalories more than the prescribed amount.
This study demonstrated that for a small population of obese women with class I and II obesity and MS, BAE efficiency reduced weight, insulin resistance, and ghrelin levels and improved BES and QOL scores without major complications.
Fig. 1 A Left gastric digital arteriogram (non-subtracted) in the supine position from the left radial approach showing arterial branches to the gastric fundus (*) and proximal body. B Left gastric digital subtraction arteriogram after embolization with Embospheres showing occlusion of the distal branches of the left gastric artery
Prostatic Artery Embolization for the Treatment of Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms following Transurethral Resection of the Prostate
Xu ZW, Tian W, Zhou CG, Leng B, Shi HB, Liu S.
J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2021 Feb;32(2):242-246. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2020.09.004. Epub 2020 Nov 25. PMID: 33248915.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is responsible for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Following a transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), up to 11.2% of patients need repeated treatment after intolerance of medical therapy or failure of primary TURP. Repeated surgery is associated with an increased risk of surgical morbidity and severe complications. Prostate artery embolization (PAE) has therefore emerged as a viable minimally invasive modality for the efficient management of LUTS in patients with BPH.
The purpose of this single-center retrospective study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of PA in patients with recurrent LUTS secondary to BPH who underwent a previous TURP. This study included 15 patients who had severe LUTS (International Prostate Symptom Score [IPSS] ≥ 18 and quality of life [QoL] score ≥ 3) refractory to medical treatment for at least 6 months from February 2014 and April 2019.
The procedure consisted of digital subtraction angiography of the prostatic arteries (PA) and its pelvic anastomoses followed by Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) particle complete embolization of both prostate arteries (90–180 μm (n=9) or 180–300 μm (n=6)). A foley balloon was placed in the bladder to obtain optimal visualization.
After the PAE, patients were asked on a questionnaire to record their perceived pain severity and to stay in the hospital for observation. Patients were followed by telephone or as outpatients, and PV was measured on MRI or US at 3 and 12 months after PAE. There were no major complications. 5 patients had minor complications which resolved spontaneously, including mild urethral pain during voiding, urinary frequency, pelvic pain, and fever.
The intervals from TURP to recurrent symptoms and from TURP to PAE were 4.3 y ± 3.2 and 5.6 y ± 3.8, respectively. Technical success was achieved in all patients. The clinical success rate for LUTS relief at 12 mo was 93.3% (14 of 15). IPSS significantly reduced from 22.5 ± 4.1 at baseline to 9.9 ± 4.9 at 12-mo follow-up, and QoL score improved from 4.7 ± 1.0 to 2.1 ± 1.1 (P < .05 for both). There was a significant mean reduction of 26.6% in PV at 12 mo, improving from 100.7 cm3 ± 38.5 to 73.9 cm3 ± 29.4 (P < .05).
The percentage of PV reduction was lower than reported by Wang et al (41.9%), Kurbatov et al (44.9%), and Bhatia et al (39.3%). One patient experienced recurrent LUTS at 12 months despite a marked reduction in PV, which indicates that symptom improvement could not be entirely determined by a decrease in PV.
In sum, this study reveals that PAE is a safe and effective procedure for recurrent LUTS post TURP.
Fig. 2. MR imaging and DSA in an 83-year-old man. (a) Axial imaging revealed an enlarged prostate gland with a prostatic resection cavity before PAE. (b) Sagittal imaging revealed a vertical diameter of the prostate (PV, 135.2 cm3). (c) Right iliac artery angiography showed the PA arising from the internal pudendal artery. (d) Postembolization angiography showed occlusion of the right PA. (e) Axial MR image at 3 months after PAE revealed a reduction of PV. (f) Sagittal MR image at 3 months after PAE revealed a vertical diameter (PV, 112.7 cm3; change from baseline, 16.6%).
Ergonomics in IR
Knuttinen MG, Zurcher KS, Wallace A, Doe C, Naidu SG, Money SR, Rochon PJ.
J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2021 Feb;32(2):235-241. doi: 10.1016/j.jvir.2020.11.001. Epub 2020 Dec 24. PMID: 33358387
This review article aims to summarize the existing ergonomic challenges faced by interventional radiologists, reiterate existing solutions to these challenges, and highlight the need for further ergonomic research in multiple areas.
Applying ergonomic principles is meant to maximize performance by reducing work-related injuries, performance errors, and lost productivity. There is a large body of research demonstrating high rates of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in procedural fields such as interventional cardiology, endoscopy, and surgery; however, there is a paucity of research in IR. A 2019 survey by Wells et al redemonstrated the increased need for leaves of absence or short-term disability related to MSDs in endoscopic/minimally invasive surgeons. Further, physicians in endoscopic/minimally invasive fields suffering from MSDs are at higher risk for burnout, with women in at-risk specialties demonstrating an increased risk for certain MSDs compared to their male counterparts.
To avoid the risk factors associated with the development of MSDs, procedure rooms and equipment should be designed and operated in a manner that optimizes the ergonomic considerations of the operator. Some of these ergonomic principles are depicted in Figure 3. Techniques, such as the use of insoles or cushioned floor mats, are yet to demonstrate any definite preventative or therapeutic effects on lower back pain. Moreover, more studies are required to assess the ergonomic benefits or protective effects of 2- versus 1-piece lead garments, and the long-term benefits of lumbar support belts.
There are a few solutions to reducing MSDs. An exercise regimen with strength/resistance training as well as coordination/stabilization exercises have been shown to be effective in alleviating chronic back pain. Microbreaks, for instance, 1-2 mins every 20-40 min, have also been used across many workplaces to improve worker productivity and prevent work-related discomfort.
There is currently no research that specifically delineates the types of MSDs experienced by female interventional radiologists compared to their male counterparts and the impacts of ergonomics and MSDs on physician wellness and burnout in interventional radiologists. Special considerations in female interventional radiologists include the differences in objective upper body strength when compared to males, and the design of laparoscopic or general surgical instruments, including the table height and grip-size, which were historically designed for a taller and larger-handed male demographic.
It is also important to note that optimal ergonomics are also beneficial for in-training physicians. Incorporating ergonomics education into interventional radiology residency training curricula may help to reinforce the importance of ergonomic principles among educators and trainees, particularly with regards to physician well-being and career longevity.
Interventional Radiology's Evolution Into a Clinically Based Specialty
Tai E, Graham T, Wong J, Mujoomdar A.
Can Assoc Radiol J. 2020 Dec 1:846537120975214. doi: 10.1177/0846537120975214. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33259225.
"If my fellow angiographers prove unwilling or unable to accept or secure for their patients the clinical responsibilities attendant on transluminal angioplasty, they will become high-priced plumbers facing forfeiture of territorial rights based solely on imaging equipment others can obtain and skill still others can learn."
– Dr. Charles Dotter, the father of interventional radiology (1968)
In Canada, the developing field of IR is supported by The Canadian Association for Interventional Radiology (CAIR). In 2016, IR was recognized as a distinct subspecialty of Diagnostic Radiology by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. This was followed by the recent development of a separate interventional radiology residency program and licensing examination.
IR has gradually evolved into a clinical practice. Clinical responsibilities include accepting referrals, performing a consultation before elective, urgent or emergent interventions, post-treatment follow-up, and educating patients and providers about therapeutic options that may be beneficial for patient care. Admitting privileges have been a cornerstone in many practices. In 2015, the number of interventional radiologists with admitting privileges was 46%, also increased from 29% in 2005. It demonstrates that IR is able and willing to be the most responsible physician while the patient is in hospital.
Advantages of this clinical progression have resulted in improvements in patient care due to increased inpatients and outpatients follow-up, and increased IR visibility with patients. It has also led to enhanced collaboration with clinicians, and in turn, increased referrals. Based on results of Canadian surveys of interventional radiologists in 2015, 90% of respondents were involved in longitudinal patient care which had increased compared to 42% in 2005. In turn, interventional radiologists must be allocated additional time for clinical duties and patient care. Radiology departments and hospitals should allow for such schedule flexibility.
Clinical interventional radiology is the new standard of care that should be adopted in IR practices. The model of the interventional radiologist solely as a technician is extinct.
Aline D. Khatchikian, MD
Mohammed Al-Natour, MD
Senior Editor - Interventional Radiology
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

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Diageo submits plans for Caol Ila revamp
Diageo has submitted plans to Argyll & Bute Council, to transform its visitor experience at Caol Ila Distillery.
The detailed Planning Application sets out proposals to expand and enhance the experience the distillery offers to tourists. The submission of formal plans follows a community engagement event in October, at which initial plans were shared with local residents. Pre-application consultation has also been carried out with the local authority.
If approved, the new state-of-the-art visitor experience will be created inside the Caol Ila warehouse, including a bar with views across the Sound of Islay. The visitor centre will be entered via a foot-bridge into the roof of the warehouse, linking to new parking facilities on the hill above the distillery, which will be discreetly located and carefully landscaped to manage visual impact and traffic movement.
Leigh Aitken, Caol Ila Distillery Visitor Centre manager says: "We are very pleased to take this important step in the exciting journey to transform our visitor experience at Caol Ila Distillery. We have had good engagement with local residents and stakeholders on our plans so far and we will continue to work with the local authority and the community as we progress through the formal planning process.
"We believe this investment will not only be great for Caol Ila Distillery but is another positive addition to the rich visitor landscape of the famous Scotch whisky island of Islay."
In April Diageo announced a £150 million investment programme to transform distillery visitor experiences across Scotland. The investment will see the creation of a global Johnnie Walker brand experience in Edinburgh.
Whisky from Diageo's distilleries all over Scotland contribute to Johnnie Walker, but four distilleries – Caol Ila, Glenkinchie, Cardhu and Clynelish — will be linked directly to a new Johnnie Walker global visitor experience in Edinburgh, representing the four corners of Scotland and the regional flavour variations that are part of Johnnie Walker.
Caol Ila has supplied single malt Scotch whisky for Johnnie Walker for over a century. Along with the Edinburgh global attraction, the Four Corner distilleries will create a Johnnie Walker tour of Scotland, encouraging visitors to the capital city to also travel to the country's rural communities.
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The soundness of any system of Philosophy depends on the logical foundations over which it is built. As such epistemology plays a crucial role in the course of its development. This book is an attempt at presenting the epistemology of the Visistadvaita Vedanta based on the thirteenth century classical text, Nyayaparisuddhi composed by the eminent poet philosopher Vedanta Desika. It deals with the pramanas as accepted by the system. After a brief introduction, the second chapter discusses the concept of knowledge. The following three chapters closely follow the text in their treatment of the pramanas. The sixth chapter analyses the desirability of other pramanas as independent source of knowledge and concludes by showing how these can be subsumed in the three main pramanas. The book represents an attempt at delving into an area that has not received much attention earlier.
Vedavalli Narayanan, a student of Visistadvaita Vedanta, obtained her PhD award from Dr. S. Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras, Chennai. She has been a general fellow of the Indian Council for Philosophical Research, New Delhi and a Research Associate with the University Grants Commission; she has also taught Visistadvaita Vedanta at the Sri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, for a few years. The present book forms a revised version of her PhD dissertation.
The Indian philosophical tradition makes use of three kinds of inquiry Ninquiry into the source of knowledge (pramana-vicara), inquiry into the objects of knowledge (premeya-vicara), and inquiry into the value system (prayojana-vicara). Of these, the first one is the basis for the other two. Every Vedantic system follows its own pramana theory making suitable modifications in the ground-work of logic and epistemology prepared by the Naiyayika. Like Advaita, Visistadvaita has worked out its pramana theory which is the basis for its metaphysics. The Nyayaparisuddhi of Vedanta Desika, which is comparable to the Vedanta Paribhasa in the Advaita tradition, is an excellent introduction to the epistemology of Visistadvaita. As the name indicates, the Nyaya-parisuddhi adopts and also modifies the pramana theory of the Naiyayika in order to make it acceptable. Though there are quite a few books dealing with Visistadvaita as a total and integral philosophy, the number of books which exclusively deal with its epistemology can easily be counted with fingers. Since pramana-vicara is the basis for both prameya-vicara and prayojana-vicara, scholars interested in Visistadvaita will welcome this book by Dr. Vedavalli Narayanan.
Originally prepared as a doctoral thesis of the University of Madras, this work discusses in six chapters the nature and validity of knowledge, perception, inference, and sabda as the sources of knowledge, and a critique of memory, comparison, postulation, and non-cognition. The presentation is lucid; the issues in epistemology are discussed in an analytical way: and the development of ideas is logical and coherent. I am happy to commend this book to scholars interested in Indian Philosophy in general and Visistadvaita in particular. We require more books like this focusing on the epistemology of Visistadvaita.
The present publication embodies an attempt at presenting the Epistemology of the Visistadvaita Vedanta. It represents the doctoral research work completed under the guidance of Dr. R. Balasubramanian, the then Director of Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras.
The study is mainly based on the Nyayaparisuddhi of Vedanta Desika and considerable material has been gathered from the Buddhisara section of the Tattvamuktakalapa of Vedanta Desika, as both discuss epistemological issues. I have mostly followed the Editions of Uttamur Sri T. Viraraghavacharya.
The scope of this book is to present the epistemological doctrines of the Visistadvaita system and bring out the importance the thinkers of the system attach to logic in arriving at their metaphysical conclusions. I have mostly tried to follow the traditional order while preparing the sequence of the chapters as it is the tried and proven method based on our own thought process in arriving at knowledge.
It is with a sense of deep gratitude that I record my obligations. I must first pay my respects to the late Abhinava Desika, Uttamur Sri T. Viraraghavacharya, who in spite of his old age and frail health explained in detail the text of the Nyayaparisuddhi.
I take this opportunity to express my respect and gratitude to Dr. R. Balasubramanian, for his guidance and help throughout my research and also for his illuminating foreword to this book.
I will be failing in my duty if I do not acknowledge my indebtedness to my father Sri K.R. Padmanabhan, who introduced Vedanta to me by teaching Vedanta Desika's Rahasyatrayasara and whose pro indebtedness to my father Sri K.R. Padmanabhan, who introduced Vedanta to me by teaching Vedanta Desika's Rahasyatrayasara and whose profound knowledge of the subject has always been a source of help and strength to me.
I am extremely thankful to Prof. V.K.S.N> Raghavan, Head of the Department of Vaishnavism, University of Madras, Chennai. But for his help and encouragement I would not have been able to publish this work.
I am highly obliged to my family members for constantly helping me during my research studies and publication thereof.
I also owe my sincere thanks to Sri R. Mukundan who in spite of his busy career as a computer professional, helped me prepare a camera ready copy with his excellent software skills.
Foreword ix
Preface xi
KNOWLEDGE 14
INFERENCE 64
SABDA 102
MEMORY, COMPARISON, POSTULATION, AND NON-COGNITION 147
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Q: When trying to retrieve JSONObject out of JSONArray is returning null? Im trying to do the following:
UserFunctions uf = new UserFunctions();
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...}
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JSONArray json = uf.getAllFreebies();
System.out.println(json + "blah1");

Now on the following lines when i tried to retrieve the JSONObject from the JSONArray and tried to print it out,it prints out "null" instead of the JSONObject at the particular index.
jo = json.optJSONObject(i);
System.out.println(jo + "blah2");

Can anyone pls tell me what am i doing wrong?I mean how can i get a null for JSONOBject when my JSONArray is not null?
Thank You.
Following is my JSONArray logcat:
05-31 21:02:57.156: I/System.out(318): [["viking","Art","Potrait","Potrait","Good","im giving out potrait 7325697","176 Fiat Ave","Iselin","New Jersey","USA","08830","2012-05-27"],["n00b","Books","Novels","Novels","Good","Im giving out novels 7325697","b9 maa krupa","petlad","Gujarat","India","388450","2012-05-27"],["n00b","Computers","laptop","laptop giveaway","Good","Im giving out laptop if you are interested than pls call on 7325697","B9 Ma  Krupa","Petlad","Gujarat","India","388450","2012-05-27"],["mista","Cameras & Photos","Camera","Camera GiveAway","Very good","im giving out camera .its kodak .pls email me on mista@gmail.com","Mista Lee elm street","seoul","Korea","South Korea","ha8 9sd","2012-05-27"],["panda","Gaming Consoles","XBOX","XBOX 360","Very Good","Im giving out xbox 360.if you are interested please email me on panda@gmail.com","435 Carmen Rd,","Buffalo","New York","USA","14226","2012-05-27"],["viking","Cameras & Photos","Camera","Kodak Camera","Good","Kodak Camera giveaway.Pls call on 732397","","Iselin","New Jersey","USA","08830","2012-05-28"],["viking","Books","Novels","Novel GA","Good","Novel give away.call on 7325697.","","Iselin","New Jersey","USA","08830","2012-05-28"],["viking","Automotive","Car","Car GiveAway","Good","Im giving out car.if you are interested pls call 7323697.","176 Fiat Ave","Iselin","New Jersey","USA","08830","2012-05-29"],["viking","Collectibles","Medallions","Medallion GA","Very Good","Im giving out medallion.if inetrested pls call 732697","176 Fiat Ave,","Iselin","New Jersey","USA","08830","2012-05-29"],["viking","Clothing & Accessories","cloths","cloths giveaway","Good","im giving out cloths if you are interested pls call on 735697","176 Fiat Ave,","Iselin","New jersey","USA","08830","2012-05-29"],["viking","Books","Novel","Novel GA","Good","pls call 735697","435 carmen rd","buffalo","ny","usa","14226","2012-05-29"],["viking","Books","TextBook","CHemistry 101","GOod","pls call 735697","176 fiat ave","iselin","new jersey","usa","08830","2012-05-29"],["mista","Books","Notebook","Notbook","Good","im giving out notebbok if you are interested pls call 48374288423","elm street","seaoul","na","South Korea","jfjafjk","2012-05-29"]]blah1

logcat output when trying to print out JSONOBject at index i
05-31 21:02:57.156: I/System.out(318): nullblah2

A: The JSON [[...], [...], [...]] does not contain JSON-objects, but it does have some JSON-arrays.
Thus optJSONObject finds a JSON-array (where it expected a JSON-object) and returns null because it is of the incorrect type. (opt is short for optional.)
Use optJSONArray (note Array and not Object). Alternatively, use getJSONArray, which will throw a JSONException on failure.
Happy coding.

Note that JSON keeps a strict distinction between Objects, Arrays, and the various Values. The concept of an Array being a special (sub)kind of Object (in the JSON sense) exists in JavaScript but does not necessarily extend to other JSON implementations. For instance, the JSONArray class has no relationship with the JSONObject class.

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The Making of the President, 1960 (La fabrique du président, 1960) est un livre écrit par le journaliste Théodore White en 1960 et publié par Atheneum Publishers en 1961. Il raconte et analyse les élections présidentielles de 1960 qui aboutissent à l'élection de John F. Kennedy comme Président des États-unis. Ce livre a remporté le Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction en 1962 et a été le premier d'une série de livres de White sur les élections présidentielles américaines. Il y a The Making of the President, 1964 (publié en 1965), The Making of the President, 1968 (1969), The Making of the President, 1972 (1973).

Le livre de 1961 retrace les primaires présidentielles du parti démocrate en 1960. John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey et le sénateur Stuart Symington se présentent. Après les primaires, JFK remporte les élections présidentielles face à Richard Nixon (à environ 120 000 voix près).

Une grande partie de la narration est écrite dans un style presque romanesque, décrivant les regards, les voix et les personnalités des politiciens. Mais il contient également des discussions stimulantes de diverses tendances de la vie Américaine et de la politique.

The Making of the President, 1960 a été un énorme succès, et reste sur la liste des best sellers pendant 40 semaines. Les critiques et les journalistes le considèrent comme une nouvelle façon de regarder ce sujet. Il a eu un impact énorme sur le journalisme politique et sur la politique américaine en elle-même. Comme l'a mentionné White, il s'agissait d'étudier de près les agissements d'un leader politique dans des circonstances de stresse intense rencontrées durant la compétition présidentielle Cette littérature journalistique apporte un point de vue dramatique, théâtral, spectaculaire sur le monde politique, ses stratégies, ses victoires et ses défaites. Un chapitre est consacré aux raisons cachées derrière le vote des Américains.

Ce livre de White ainsi que les suivants, inspirent la tendance du journalisme politique qui consiste à écrire davantage sur les personnalités et les rapports des politiciens que sur les mesures politiques en elles-mêmes. Dans ses dernières années, White dit regretter ce changement de vision auquel il a contribué activement.

David L. Wolper a produit une version cinématographique du livre The Making of the President, 1960. Il a été achevé peu de temps avant l'assassinat de JFK le 22 novembre 1963.

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Livre paru en 1961

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Celebrating Multicultural Children's Book Day (MCBD 2020)
This is my second year participating in the online event Multicultural Children's Book Day as an author and book reviewer. I am honored to be part of this, helping to raise awareness for children's books that celebrate diversity and inspire a love of learning. This time, I decided to present to you two women authors from my home country, Greece. I received a digital copy of the illustrated children's books 'Bel Bechamel' and 'The Secrets Hidden Beneath the Palm Tree' for review purposes. The first one is published only in Greek whereas the latter is available in English and Greek.
About the book 'Bel Bechamel' (picture book for preschoolers and early readers)
At first glance, Bel Bechamel can be described as a culinary adventure for aspiring chefs. But it's so much more than that. It feels like a classic fairytale, in a modern setting, with a heroine who travels the whole wide world before discovering her true self and how she wishes to live her life. Multi-layered with many topics weaved masterfully within the story's fabric. With handmade tortellini, traditional pies and warm bowls of soup as the background, the author Christina Konstandoudaki creates a delightful story about family love, values, humility, achieving goals, friendship, and solidarity. The illustrator Αlexandra Colombo also did an amazing job; vibrant, colorful illustrations and the most adorable characters.
Cooking activity inspired by 'Bell Bechamel'
Readers will find a recipe for traditional Cretan kalitsounia at the end of the book (my father comes from this island and I can assure you, they're worth the effort!). Here you can find a similar recipe in English.
You can order the book here.
Christina Konstandoudaki is from the island of Crete in Greece, she's a kindergarten teacher and a dreamer. She likes to write all sorts of stories both for kids and grown-ups. She is a volunteer at summer camps for kids, and she has won awards for her stories. Two of her books, 'To Arhigio' and 'Bel Bechamel', are published by Biblioscopio Books. Her life motto is to let kids be kids.
About the book, The Secrets Hidden Beneath the Palm Tree (picture book for preschoolers and early readers)
This early childhood book is written from a mother's point of view with the purpose of helping hard of hearing or deaf children and their families at the critical mainstream stage.
It is the story of Angelia and Jacob, two kids destined to be best friends, and it all begins on their first day at school. Angelia is curious about something behind the ears of Jacob (hearing aid), and the two kids engage in a very informative dialogue. Angelia learns how to be a good and helpful friend, and appreciates that Jacob is smart and able to succeed when his needs are met. Angelia is also introduced to a new set of vocabulary like hearing aids, sign language, audiologist, cochlear implant, a speech pathologist.
As the author addresses in her book "Mainstream schooling for strong kids with weak hearing requires information, acceptance, and support from young and old'. A must-have book for educators, caregivers, speech therapists, school libraries and public libraries. Through the story and the illustrations, we get to see how hearing impaired and non-hearing impaired students can thrive harmoniously both in and out of the classroom. When young children get exposed to differences in others, they learn tolerance, empathy and create new ways of learning.
You can buy this book here.
Angeliki Stamatopoulou-Pedersen was born and raised in Greece. She studied nursing and worked in this field. Since 1972 she has been living in the United States with her family. She is a past member of the board of directors at the Connecticut Chapter of AG Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Over the past twenty-five years, she has attended many training seminars for parents and professionals in the field of deafness. She has also been trained by the Parent-Child Education Program (PCEP) at the American School for the Deaf (ASD) in Hartford, Connecticut.
Multicultural Children's Book Day 2020 (1/31/20) is in its 7th year! This non-profit children's literacy initiative was founded by Valarie Budayr and Mia Wenjen; two diverse book-loving moms who saw a need to shine the spotlight on all of the multicultural books and authors on the market while also working to get those books into the hands of young readers and educators.
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This Saturday, I am setting off on a two-week long trip across the United States with a simple goal in mind: to speak only Spanish during the journey.
I am not trying to achieve or break any record. I just want to see what it is like to cross the country without uttering a word of English.
I am travelling with Carlos Ceresole, a video producer for the Spanish American section of the BBC.
Our trip will take us from San Agustin, Florida, to Los Angeles, California. We will visit a total of eight states and 12 cities along the way.
The name of the project is "¿Hablas español?" (Do you speak Spanish?), and that is the question we will be asking everyone we meet.
In fact, that is the question I have asked everyone I have contacted while planning this trip. I must admit, though, that the other day I was talking to an immigration specialist in Tallahassee, Florida, and only realised she spoke Spanish 15 minutes into the conversation.
That was an interesting reminder of the purpose of this project and it also showed me that there are a lot more Spanish speakers in the US than one tends to think. It's just a matter of asking: "Do you speak Spanish?"
Hispanics are the fastest-growing population in the United States. According to government figures, there are now some 42 million Hispanics in the US, some 14.5% of the population.
After English, Spanish is the most widely spoken language and is studied by increasing numbers of non-native speakers.
Experts believe that even if no one else from Latin America were to emigrate to the US in the coming years, the Hispanic population would continue to grow at a faster rate than other minorities.
This includes African-Americans who constitute 12% of the population.
But all the indications are that the US will continue to attract many Latin Americans, both legally and illegally.
Immigration, already a controversial and divisive issue in the country, is set to be one of the hot topics in next year's presidential election.
We are excited about this project, but are not too sure what to expect. Many people have written to us inviting us into their homes or businesses and saying that they want to meet us.
We are looking forward to that and we'll try to meet as many people as possible. But will everyone be so welcoming when we ask them "¿Hablas español?"
In Nogales, Arizona, we want to tackle the issue of cross-border crossings. We would like to talk to people who have done it and to those who try to stop them.
The trip will finish in Los Angeles, where we expect to hold a debate on the impact of Spanish in American society.
Some of our readers have criticised the project saying that millions of people already live and travel across the US speaking only Spanish, and that they do so with very little or no money.
The idea of this trip is to talk to those people and to see how they do it.
I'll be writing a daily blog as well as reporting on BBC Mundo Hoy, the BBC's flagship radio programme in Spanish.
You can leave a message using Skype with the account bbcmundohispano or join the group "¿Hablas español y vives en EE.UU.?" on Facebook.
So come join us on this journey and let us ask everyone we meet: "¿Hablas español?"


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'Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond' by Paul Sherman
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Book excerpt: 'Mystery Street'
We all know The Departed. But fewer of us know the other movie mentioned in Big Screen Boston's subtitle, Mystery Street. So here is an excerpt of the book's entry on this 1950 film noir, the first movie to predominantly feature location shooting in the Hub.
1950. Directed by John Sturges. Written by Sydney Boehm and Richard Brooks. Based on Leonard Spigelgass' story. With Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester, Marshall Thompson, Edmon Ryan, Betsy Blair and Jan Sterling. Cinematography by John Alton.
HOLLYWOOD FINALLY CAME TO Boston for this 1950 thriller, the first commercial feature to be predominantly shot in the area. Like the later (and lesser) Walk East on Beacon!, Mystery Street (also known as Murder at Harvard) rides the post-war wave of realistic crime dramas, pioneered by low-budget films like Anthony Mann's T-Men, many of which were shot on location. Director John Sturges' movie doesn't quite use the semi-documentary approach that Walk East and other similar movies did. In this case, that's all for the better. T-Men director of photography John Alton, one of the essential film noir cinematographers, is behind the camera here, bringing a sense of shadowy dread to the Boston locations in this pre-CSI police procedural in which a human skeleton is the only evidence with which an investigation starts.
Alton's work is most evident in the set-up for the detective work that will follow. The movie opens in a Beacon Hill rooming house where darkness dominates, except for the light that shines on desperate Vivian Helding (Jan Sterling, right in photo above; click on it for larger view), the house phone she's using and the ajar door of eavesdropping landlady Mrs. Smerrling (Elsa Lanchester). It turns out Vivian, a B-girl at a Scollay Square dive called The Grass Skirt, is pregnant, and the married Hyannis man who fathered the child is giving her the brush-off.
At The Grass Skirt, where Vivian's boyfriend has stood her up, she gloms onto drunk Henry (Marshall Thompson), "helps" him move his car and keeps driving it to the Cape, where she eventually ditches Henry and meets with the boyfriend, whose face isn't shown. He shoots her, dumps her body in the ocean and pushes the stolen car into a lake.
It's only months later, when a birdwatcher finds Vivian's skeleton sticking out of a sandy beach, that the investigation begins. Barnstable County investigator Pete Moralas (Ricardo Montalban) is on the case, which eventually leads him to Beacon Hill, Cambridge and Harvard Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine in Roxbury. That's where Dr. McAdoo (Bruce Bennett) helps Moralas identify the body and build a case against unwitting Henry, who initially denies he met Vivian because he's married and wasn't supposed to be in The Grass Skirt (he was supposed to be at the Boston Lying-In Hospital with his pregnant wife). But that changes when McAdoo discovers the cause of death was a gunshot, putting Moralas on a collision course with the well-to-do Hyannis boyfriend (Edmon Ryan). He is finally shown to the audience halfway through the movie, when snooping Mrs. Smerrling tries to blackmail him.
As crime thrillers circa 1950 are wont to do, Mystery Street climaxes in a public place, Trinity Station. This long-gone train station adjacent to Back Bay Station is a suitably bustling, urban backdrop for the end chase (its train yard is apparently now part of the Mass. Pike). Although the rooming house is on fictional "Bunker Street," the building used appears to be on Pinckney Street near Anderson Street (you can see the old New England College of Pharmacy there at one point). Suspect Henry lives in Charlestown (in a forward-looking movie connection, just a half-block from Monument Avenue), while The Grass Skirt exterior is on a studio backlot. Aside from the dunes footage (presumably) it's unclear if any of the Cape Cod action was done there; the gas station with the greasy spoon attached looks to be in California (its signs for Caloco Oil sure sound West Coast). There's also a Harvard Yard sequence that turns out to be rather inconsequential (since the cop finds out he has to go over to the Med School), but it adds to the movie's local color. Amusingly, co-star Thompson (later of TV's Daktari) appears on the movie's trailer to offer special thanks to Harvard for its cooperation, something the school generally doesn't offer anymore.
Like Alton's artful Hollywood cinematography, non-local flavor comes from the cast, with Lanchester, the bride of Frankenstein herself, practically stealing the show with her proper yet hypocritically opportunistic landlady. Years before he became kitsch, Montalban is a sturdy presence in this brisk B-thriller.
►Locations: Beacon Hill, Roxbury, Back Bay, Charlestown, Boston; Cambridge; Cape Cod.
►Accents: Back in a time when there probably were a greater percentage of area residents with Boston accents than there are now, Mystery Street generally refrains from including them. But there are generic New England accents from Cape Cod characters talking about the found skeleton. And we do get what might be Hollywood's first overdone Boston accent from Wally Maher, who plays the Boston detective Moralas teams with in the city. Maher, who also voiced the title character in Tex Avery's Screwy Squirrel cartoons, couldn't quite get the Boston accent.
►Local color: Over 50 years later, many of the shooting locations will have you wondering their exact whereabouts, especially Trinity Station. But the movie's issues also hit close to home at times, specifically the hypocrisy of the landlady, a self-righteous moral guardian who no doubt supported many a Boston book banning, and the elitism of Vivian's blue-blooded killer, who not only victimizes her, but also feels superior to first-generation American Moralas, and lets him know it.
Here's a link to the movie's trailer.
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