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Q: iPhone: ASCII Art not displayed properly in Email API from Textview In my iPhone App, I create ASCII Art in UITextView and pass it to Email API.
The alignment of ASCII art is not coming properly.
What should I do to get it in Email API same as created in Textview?

A: Look at MFMailComposeViewController and it's method setMessageBody:isHTML:. Use it to create mail with HTML body with font with fixed width (like Courier, ...).

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NewTek Discussions > NewTek Forums > General Discussion > Geek at play tutorials-New free terragen 3 tutorials and others.
View Full Version : Geek at play tutorials-New free terragen 3 tutorials and others.
Geek at play started out with a lot of vue videos for free and seem to have expanded a lot, but also tutorials for sale.
There´s also tutorials on modo,cinema4d,dazStudio,poser,3d coat,worldmachine,vue,plant factory,city engine,carrara,photoshop...and some more.
I like their tutorials as good starting point, but since years there is no progress or advanced stuff. The topics are called "Create realistic terrain..." but it isn't. With their show settings and workflow there is no realism result possible.
And TG you can't learn with tutorials. Its mathematic, numeric based and not GUI based.
That may be as you say, as a starting point, I looked at some of the free vue tutorials, and they were mostly like that I think, but hard to tell since I haven´t purchased any commercial ones and if those goes further and more advanced, so how do you know that?
Im sure TG can be learned by tutorials, otherwise we are in danger of not being able to learn maths...at all, but I get your point I think, Terragen isn´t very nice on you as a user mostly, for some it might absolutly sense maybe..but I don´t like terragen UI, and the "new speed enhancements in previewer was a joke" couldn´t see much of enhancment speed there, and that is probably what kills it for me to invest in software or learning.
I think I have a little problem with the guy doing the tutorials as well, hard to follow his accent...and then there´s a girl too, slightly better accent to follow.
For terrain stuff I gues quadspinner and asileFx would be a better choice, I posted this thread anyway since it was free and might be of interes for others.
quadspinner (Dax Pandhi) worked on battlestar galactica chrome amongst others, and on his site is under development I think, a new plugin to enhance skies, called helios.


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Q: Dialog dispose behavior on IOS, lockup on re-entry second+ time My OS is Windows 10 Pro,
IDE: Netbeand 12.2,
Simulator is latest:
Issue is lockup in Dialog on second+ instantiation within same Form instance IOS Only.
Simulator and Android behaves as expected.
Very strange behavior.
Within a Form I click a button to instantiate a Class (A1MMASiteMeterReadDialog) of type Dialog, I pass in some Vectors of Data and perform Tasks. When Finished we execute dispose() on this.
a1SiteMeterReadDialog = new A1MMASiteMeterReadDialog(a1MMAHomePage, res, inc);
User can re-enter this Class (A1MMASiteMeterReadDialog) multiple times if they have not finished all tasks.
On IOS Only, re-entering a second+ time, the class appears unstable, some TextFields do not behave correctly and do not respond to the ActionListener, eventually after a few more operations in this instance, the App locks up.
Codename1 logs and Native logs do not reveal anything, no sign of an exception thrown.
Have to forcefully stop the app and restart it.
Very strange.
I am wondering if the dispose() on IOS behaves differently on IOS than Android or simulator.
Or is IOS holding a reference to the first instance of the class and re instantiating the class is not clean and explain the unstable behavior.
I have spent nearly 2 weeks working on this and am no closer to a solution.
Any Thoughts on this would be appreciated?
Regards

A: dispose() behaves the same but text input is very different so it's possible something is misbehaving on that sense. In general we recommend avoiding text input in Dialog classes as it's pretty problematic.


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Vítor Constâncio: Investment and growth in advanced economies - selected takeaways from the ECB's Sintra Forum
Contribution of Mr Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, Mr Philipp Hartmann (ECB) and Mr Peter McAdam (ECB) for VoxEU, 5 July 2017.
Central bank speech |
by Vítor Constâncio
| 16 pages
The European Central Bank's 2017 Sintra Forum on Central Banking built a bridge from the currently strengthening recovery in Europe to longer-term growth issues for and structural change in advanced economies. In this column the organisers highlight some of the main points from the discussions, including what the sources of weak productivity and investment are and what type of economic polarisation tendencies the new growth model seems to be associated with.
This year's ECB Sintra Forum on Central Banking focused on the major real economy developments that surround and interact with monetary policy. Policymakers, academics and market economists debated on the topics of innovation, investment and productivity as well as business cycles, growth and associated policies. In this post we summarise six of the main themes that were keenly discussed in Sintra in June 2017: explaining the global productivity slowdown; the implications of technical progress for employment; explaining the laggard post-crisis recovery; sources of weak investment; the complementarity between demand and supply policies; and relevant aspects of the broader societal context. The full set of papers, discussions and speeches can be found on the Sintra Forum website while video recordings of all sessions are on the ECB's YouTube channel.
Explaining the productivity slowdown: techno-pessimism, fading research effort or mismeasurement?
"Perhaps the most remarkable fact about economic growth in recent decades is the slowdown in productivity growth that occurred around the year 2000," said Chad Jones (2017) in motivating his Sintra contribution. This phenomenon, which has affected many advanced economies, has been widely argued for a number of years and may have become more pronounced following the financial crisis (e.g. OECD 2015, Adler et al. 2017). Jones suggests studying the sources of this slowdown via the two main forces that explain productivity in modern growth theory: innovation and the misallocation of production factors. Regarding the latter, Jones (2017) reports key results of the literature that associates the dispersion of marginal products of the same factors across firms in the US and in Europe with degrees of misallocation (e.g. Gopinath et al. 2017, highlighting deteriorating factor allocation in Italy and Spain). A recent paper by Bils et al. (2017) suggests, however, that if one corrects for measurement error, the entire increase of allocative inefficiency in US manufacturing since the late 1970s disappears. It may therefore be advisable to wait until measurement errors are also accounted for in the literature on non-manufacturing sectors and on Europe before drawing clear-cut conclusions.
Regarding innovation Jones argues that their contribution can either be driven by the impact of new ideas and processes on total factor productivity ("ideas TFP") or the research effort pushing new ideas (such as the number of researchers employed). Gordon (2016), for example, suggested for the US that ideas with the same productivity benefits are harder to discover today than in history. Jones - in joint work with Bloom, Van Reenen and Webb (2017) - finds that this is a rather general phenomenon across different sectors and products, detecting significant reductions in "ideas TFP". Over many decades, however, this was compensated by over-proportionate increases in research effort. As research employment growth has slowed down since the early 2000s - mostly in Japan, significantly in the US and to a lesser extent in the European Union (see Figure 1) - the phenomenon has become more harmful today than it used to be. This can explain the productivity slowdown and is consistent with Gordon's thesis. But it puts the emphasis on ways on how to maintain a sufficiently high research effort.
On historical grounds, Joel Mokyr (2017) challenged the view that it is the nature of today's innovations that accounts for the productivity slowdown and staged a forceful rebuttal of "techno-pessimism". First, economists' primary measures of innovation - estimations of total factor productivity and counting of patents - both underestimate their productivity effects. Second, in history humans have overcome the fact that the technological fruits that can still be picked are hanging higher and higher through building "taller and taller ladders". This "arboreal metaphor" illustrates a feedback from technology to science. The technological tools detected over centuries that made that possible included the telescope, the microscope, the eudiometer or, more recently, x-ray crystallography. Two prominent and powerful tools today are laser technology and computers. The "hot technology of the day" is machine learning - according to Hal Varian (2017) - and quantum computing is on the way. So, Mokyr does not see why the growth in economic welfare should slow down for technological reasons. In this context, it was interesting that an online poll showed that 72% of voting Sintra participants felt that the productivity gains from the ICT (information and communication technology) revolution will accelerate, given that its full potential has not emerged yet. Reinhilde Veugelers (2017) added that it is diffusion that makes innovation such a powerful growth engine. She referred to recent evidence produced by the OECD suggesting that the diffusion and adoption of the latest technology across firms may be more of a problem than a lack of innovation as such (Andrews et al. 2015). (This point had already been much emphasised by Mario Draghi and Catherine Mann at the 2015 ECB Sintra Forum; see Constâncio et al. 2015.) She reckoned that the most potent mechanism for the transfer of new know-how is when the innovating researchers move from frontier firms to other sectors or firms.
In addition to Mokyr, several other speakers also considered measurement problems affecting productivity assessments, e.g. through the underestimation of GDP (the numerator of aggregate productivity measures). Jones (2017) and Varian (2017) referred to software or services provided for free or at very low prices by ICT firms or not-for-profit institutions (e.g., Facebook, Google or Wikipedia). The problems are particularly pronounced in areas involving rapid quality change, such as photography, the global positioning system (GPS) or, more generally, the smartphones in which these and many other applications are embedded. At zero or near-zero prices, hedonic quality adjustments in nominal national accounts are difficult. Recent literature, such as Byrne et al. (2016) or Syverson (2017), however, argues that the "free" services and other ICT features only account for a small part of the productivity slowdown in the US. Based on the practice of statistical agencies to impute value developments of disappearing products from value developments of surviving products, Philippe Aghion presented in Sintra sizeable growth underestimation for France and the US, amounting to slightly more than half a percentage point of measured annual growth (see Aghion et al. 2017b for the US). But Jones (2017) points out that the authors do not find a substantial change over time, which would be required to provide an explanation for the measured productivity slowdown around 2000.
All this led to a debate about the relative roles of the private and the public sector in innovation. Reinhilde Veugelers (2017, Chart 1) showed that the European Union is particularly weak in business research and development (R&D; constituting only about 1% of GDP) relative to major advanced and emerging economies, having even fallen behind China over the last decade. Chad Jones (2017, Chart 3) showed that after large contributions in the late 1950s and 1960s, government R&D has become much less important in US intellectual property investments over the last decades. This evidence led Simon Johnson (2017) to identify the government as "a primary culprit" for the US losing its world technological leadership and the growth and employment that went along with it. He called for increased public spending on basic scientific research and the creation of new technology clusters, based on local expertise and specialisation, and co-funded by the federal government. Mariana Mazzucato promoted mission-directed government investments in innovation (one example being the US Apollo programme of the 1960s and early 1970s), which "co-shape and co-create markets" and benefit from patient long-term strategic financing (Mazzucato and Semieniuk 2017). She was sceptical of indirect forms of financing, such as tax advantages, which may enhance profits without necessarily ensuring "additionality". Dietmar Harhoff (2017) concurred that the preferential treatment of intellectual property, such as "patent boxes", amounted to beggar-thy-neighbour policies with little positive impact on innovation.
Does technical progress create or destroy jobs?
One of the fundamental tenets of growth theory, underlined by the discussion summarised in the previous section, is that technical progress makes long-term per capita growth possible in equilibrium (Solow 1956, 1957). But recently concerns have arisen that the technical advances of our times may be particularly destructive in replacing jobs (the dystopian variant of techno-pessimism, according to Joel Mokyr (2017)). David Autor and Anna Salomons (2017) forcefully argue that this has not been the case in history, despite such concerns having emerged periodically over the last 200 years. Covering 19 advanced economies between 1970 and 2007, they find that productivity growth has been mildly positive for aggregate employment. Their country-industry panel regressions suggest that - over long periods of time - the negative effect of productivity growth on employment in the same industry is more than compensated by positive "spillovers" in terms of expansions in other industries. Thus, structural change triggered by technical progress, ultimately, creates more employment in new sectors than it destroys in old ones.
Does this pattern change over time? Figure 2, taken from Autor and Salomons' (2017) Sintra paper, compares the estimated own ("internal") industry effects, the external effects on (or spillovers to) other industries and the net effects for four different decades. In line with the pooled results, the internal effects are consistently negative and the external effects consistently positive. In the 2000s, however, the positive external effects are so small that the net effects turn negative. Whether this means a reversal of the historical pattern is open to debate. The authors indicate that as early as in the 1980s negative and positive effects were basically cancelling each other out but strong positive spillovers returned in the 1990s. Moreover, preliminary follow-up work with a different database going up until 2014 seems to suggest that another recovery of the benign productivity-employment relationship may have emerged (though these results could be subject to change). Ultimately, only the future will tell. Indeed, another online survey showed that participants of the Sintra Forum were divided on this issue. 43% of voters indicated that technological innovation will have an insignificant impact on employment in the next 10 years. 28% felt that the net impact would be positive and an equal share that it would be negative.
Interestingly, the historical productivity-employment nexus is quite different across sectors. For example, the strongest positive employment spillovers originate from productivity growth in low-tech services (capturing e.g. car sales, real estate, hotels and catering or social and personal services). Significantly positive spillovers also emerge from high-tech services (e.g. telecommunication and financial intermediation) as well as health and education. Autor and Salomons do not find significant external effects of other sectors. More worrying, however, are their results on the effects of productivity growth on the composition of labour demand. They find clear evidence of "polarisation" in the group of 19 advanced economies in that most new jobs were - on average - created for highly skilled employees, whereas jobs for medium or low-skilled workers grew slowly (see Figure 3).
Explaining the slow post-crisis recovery: demand or supply?
While slower productivity advances may have been weighing on economic growth since the early 2000s, it cannot explain why recoveries towards potential growth were so weak and slow. Bob Hall (2017) tries to identify sources of stagnation tendencies in his Sintra paper by looking at developments in real earnings per member of the population in six major advanced economies (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States) between 2000 and 2014. He regards this as a particularly suitable metric, because it measures the well-being of a majority of populations. In the seven years following the start of the financial crisis, Germany in particular but also France appear to have experienced little stagnation, with positive annual growth rates of labour earnings. The most stagnating economies were Italy and Spain with negative annual growth rates of almost 2%, whereas the UK and the US saw more moderate stagnation.
Hall suggests assessing the plausibility of factors explaining stagnation tendencies by decomposing real earnings per capita into seven components (the labour share of total income, multifactor productivity, the capital-output ratio, hours per worker, the employment rate, the labour-force participation rate and the ratio of working-age population to total population). Table 1, taken from his paper, shows the annual growth rates for five of these components between 2007 and 2014. First of all, the many green (favourable, mostly positive values) cells in the first row illustrate the relatively positive developments for German workers. Second, the declining labour share in total income (see first column "Share") is a broad-based international problem, which Hall characterised as "the hot topic in quantitative macroeconomics". (Not only is it present in the US, many European countries and Japan but also in China; see Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014), Figures II and III, and Hall 2017, Figure 2). Third, protracted unemployment weighs particularly on labour earnings in Southern Europe ("Employment rate" column). The primary stagnation factor in France is the labour share while in the UK it is productivity. Finally, the single red (negative value) cell in the last column ("Participation") suggests that declining labour market participation is a problem that is very much in evidence in the US.
From the large diversity across countries and labour income components, Hall (2017) finds it implausible that "unitary theories" of stagnation can explain these empirical facts. Rather, each country seems to have its own story, involving particular patterns of factor shares, productivity growth, unemployment, labour supply and demographics. Moreover, many of the key factors are not of a cyclical nature and therefore cannot be effectively cured with expansionary monetary policy. Instead, some of them belong to supply components, such as labour participation or productivity, to which policy attention should turn, in Hall's view.
Gauti Eggertsson (2017) challenged this, based on a different reading of the facts. Referring to a host of previous papers, he argued that New Keynesian secular stagnation theory can make a valuable contribution to understanding the slow post-crisis recovery. First, the financial crisis may have involved an aggregate demand shock that lowered the real natural rate of interest, so that the effective lower bound of interest rates prevented central banks from exercising enough monetary policy stimulus. The resulting low inflation and growth in the euro area, the UK and the US would go hand-in-hand with sub-par labour income growth. Second, the effect of the crisis may have been asymmetric in the euro area, with Germany being less negatively affected. So, the common ECB monetary policy may have been consistent with the full utilisation of labour inputs in Germany, in Eggertsson's view, but insufficiently expansionary for Italy or Spain. Third, Eggertsson was not convinced that divergent labour market or productivity outcomes could not be explained by demand factors as well. For example, different labour market institutions could lead to different degrees of "labour rationing" across countries. Moreover, if innovation is endogenous hysteresis effects of a demand-led recession could lead to a protracted slowdown in productivity (e.g. Garga and Singh 2016).
An online survey suggested that 36% of voting Sintra participants thought that mostly aggregate demand and 18% that mostly declining supply trends were responsible for the slow economic recovery. Interestingly, 38% pointed to a protracted debt overhang that affects deleveraging and demand. The relatively favourable labour income developments in Germany prompted several Sintra participants to offer their own explanations. Volker Wieland explained that the phenomenon started before the financial crisis, around 2005, when the lagged effects of previous massive tax reductions, labour market reforms and a focus of the unions on job security rather than wage growth healed Germany's economy - at the time "the sick man of Europe". Thereafter, Germany developed a low-wage services sector that hurt productivity through a composition effect but at the same time greatly expanded employment. In other words, it was an example of a supply-side policy that created demand, supporting Bob Hall's conclusions. In a similar vein, Michael Burda added that Germany increased labour force participation via part-time work arrangements. Since total hours worked hardly changed, this acted like work sharing. There was an increase in wage dispersion but little movement in wage levels. Workers had to accept this due to the labour market reforms, which cut unemployment benefits and their duration, and thereby increased incentives through replacement rates (the ratio of unemployment income and expected income when employed). All not a miracle, Burda said, just neoclassical economics working the right way.
Investment gap? The roles of product market competition and intangibles
One of the distinct features of the deep and long recession caused by the twin (financial and sovereign debt) crises and the slow recovery in Europe has been weak investment. Thomas Philippon, in collaboration with Robin Döttling and Germán Gutiérrez (2017b), explored the causes of this phenomenon, comparing primarily a group of eight euro area countries with the United States. They first establish a number of stylised facts: 1) the corporate investment rate was low in both the euro area and the US, with the share of intangibles (investment in intellectual property such as computer software and databases or research and development) increasing and the share of machinery and equipment decreasing; 2) corporate profits were low in the euro area and relatively high in the US; 3) Tobin's Q (e.g. Tobin 1969) was relatively low in the euro area - explaining corporate investment well (in particular if one excludes Italy and Spain) - and relatively high in the US but underpredicting investment there. The latter finding - that there is an "investment gap" at the aggregate level in the US but not in Europe - is displayed in Figure 4, where in the upper panel the dashed red line tracks investment rather well and in the lower panel investment is lower than what Q would predict.
As is well known, Tobin's Q is defined as the market value of a firm's assets (typically measured by its equity price) divided by its accounting value or replacement costs. Under certain assumptions, it should capture the main economic fundamentals determining investment. Therefore, Döttling, Gutiérrez and Philippon (2017b) infer from fact 3) above that weak aggregate demand and low expected future growth must explain the low Q in the euro area, which in turn explains most of the aggregate euro area investment slump (notably in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands, but not in Italy or Spain). In contrast, the general economic environment as reflected in a high Q does not explain weak US investment, which must be due to other, more structural factors. Building on previous work (Gutiérrez and Philippon 2016), the authors observe that the opening of the aggregate investment gap in the US around 2000 coincides with the start of a trend in corporate concentration and a reduction in antitrust enforcement in the country. (Regulatory reforms in many euro area countries, however, made their product markets more competitive during the 2000s.) Moreover, given high corporate savings (see fact 2) above; see also Eberly 2017, Chart 2), it is not plausible that financial constraints played a large role in the US (except perhaps at the height of the financial crisis). Finally, the share of intangibles in investment is unlikely to explain the difference between the US and the euro area, because its growth was slowing in the early 2000s (see e.g. Eberly 2017, Chart 1, or Jones 2017, Chart 3) and Europe's share catching up since the late 1990s (Döttling et al, 2017b, Chart 15). In sum, Philippon et al. conclude that deteriorating product market competition is likely to be a major factor in explaining the aggregate US investment gap. But structural features, probably other than corporate concentration, also seem to be of relevance in explaining the investment gaps in Italy and Spain. There is no comparable corporate concentration trend in Europe, but Reinhilde Veugelers (2017) observed that research and development (R&D) expenditures become more concentrated in fewer firms. It needs to be determined whether this R&D concentration is simply a sign of the advantages that leading technological firms may have in terms of efficiency; or whether it may in fact become an obstacle not only to the diffusion of ideas but also to new entrants in the future.
As several Sintra authors elaborated, intangibles generally play an increasing role in investment. This is particularly a consequence of the prominent role that digitisation, information and communication technology play in what is often called the third industrial revolution. But in the US a pronounced trend started as early as in the 1950s (see Eberly 2017, Chart 1, and Jones 2017, Chart 3). Once the fixed costs of IT hardware have been paid, human capital and intellectual property gain importance relative to physical capital. This can affect investment and its determinants in various ways. First, as Philippon et al. suggest, intangible assets are more difficult to accumulate quickly, which is tantamount to higher adjustment costs. So, in equilibrium, rising intangible investment should lead to rising Q. Second, Enrico Perotti pointed out that high-intangibles firms pay highly skilled employees to invest their human capital (e.g. to develop software) and therefore do not need to undertake as much traditional investment spending as low-intangibles firms (see Döttling et al. 2017a). In fact, the investment share of some of the most innovative and rapidly growing sectors in the US, namely the high-tech industries, is rather stagnant (Eberly 2017, Chart 3). Third, intangible investments are beset with measurement problems, so that they could be underestimated in available data. All in all, the negative relationship between the share of intangibles and total investment that emerges from this list is consistently confirmed in empirical estimations (Eberly 2017), including (for cross-sectional industry data) in Europe (Döttling et al. 2017b). So, part of the low investment observed in countries with rapidly growing intangible shares, such as the euro area countries covered in Döttling et al., may not be a sign of economic weakness but a sign of structural change and difficulties in capturing intangible investment in available data. But growing intangibles could still be a contributing factor to labour market polarisation, because the employees producing them tend to be highly skilled and paid (see Section 2 above).
Relationships between demand and supply policies
The Sintra discussions about the slow post-crisis recovery and the role that investment played in it suggest that both supply and demand policies have a role to play, depending on the country and time considered. But demand and supply policies do not need to be substitutes: they can be complements. Philippe Aghion, in a joint paper with Emmanuel Farhi and Enisse Kharroubi (2017a), crystallised this with the example of monetary policy and product market reforms, bolstering President of the ECB Mario Draghi's (2014) view that "aggregate demand policies will ultimately not be effective without action in parallel on the supply side". With two different empirical approaches they find that countercyclical interest rate movements become more effective in stimulating output when product markets are more competitive. The first approach starts by estimating the countercyclicality of real short-term interest rates (for the euro area, the area-wide nominal rate divided by national inflation rates) in response to output gaps at the level of 14 advanced economies (9 euro area countries, 3 other EU countries, and Australia and Canada). The second step of this approach is to interact the estimated countercyclicality parameters with measures of firm financial constraints and product market regulation. As long as the 1998 level of the OECD indicator for barriers to trade and investment is low, it turns out in a country-industry panel regression of quarterly data between 1999 and 2005 that a sector with high labour costs to sales (as a measure of firms' financial constraints) located in a country with high interest rate countercyclicality exhibits a 1.6 percentage points higher real value-added per worker growth than a sector with low labour costs to sales in a country with low interest rate countercyclicality (see the left blue pillar in Figure 5). In contrast, when product market regulation is heavy, then this growth difference evaporates (right pillar in the figure).
The second approach takes the ECB's announcement of its Outright Monetary Transactions programme (OMT) in September 2012 as a laboratory. It first estimates forecast errors for 10-year government bond yields of 7 euro area countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain) for the periods 2011-12 and 2013-14, i.e. before and after the OMT announcement. The difference between the two is taken as surprise changes in firms' funding costs. Stressed countries, such as Italy and Spain, experienced sharp unexpected interest rate drops but the same did not apply to other countries, such as France or Germany. Then a difference-in-difference estimation of industry growth rates for 2013-14 for the 7 countries on industry growth rates for 2011-12, corporate indebtedness (measured in 2010 and 2012, respectively) and interactions between corporate indebtedness, product market regulation (same OECD indicator as in the first approach but for 2013) and the estimated OMT interest rate surprises is conducted. The results suggest that heavily indebted corporate sectors grew faster as a consequence of the large surprising interest reductions, but only when they were located in countries with relatively less regulated product markets. This effect works primarily via short-term debt, which firms can adjust more quickly than long-term debt. It may, however, be attenuated by an uncompetitive banking sector.
Marco Buti (2017) addressed the relationship between demand and supply policies from a fiscal policy angle. He juxtaposed two views on the relationship between fiscal consolidation and structural reforms, one where they are substitutes (e.g. because the temporarily unemployed from labour market reforms would have to be supported) and another where they are complements (e.g. because expansionary demand policies diminish governments' incentives for introducing politically costly structural reforms). Buti showed recent European evidence supporting the latter view. Before the crisis there was no clear relationship between primary cyclically adjusted budget balances and reductions in employment protection. But with the sovereign debt crisis a positive relationship emerged (see his Chart 2). He argued, however, that the complementary approach may not be the right model for the future, because of rising inequality and fiscal consolidation leading to reduced public education spending and the reforms that are most needed, i.e. the ones stimulating innovation and productivity, having significant budgetary costs.
When growth is not enough: inequality and the greater societal context
Introduced by a haunting plea from Ben Bernanke (2017) in his dinner speech "When growth is not enough", some of the Sintra discussions branched out to distributional issues and the societal context that influences the environment in which central bankers, much like other policymakers, act and economic policies are conducted. Bernanke stressed that the continuing structural change when the unusually prosperous post-WWII period in the US "normalised" as of the 1970s was not accompanied by supportive labour market and social policies. Over time, popular dissatisfaction about the economic situation emerged related to stagnating earnings per worker, declining social and economic mobility, social dysfunctions such as drug abuse and distrust of political institutions. Rectifying the situation requires interventionist policies, such as community re-development, infrastructure spending, job training and addiction programmes. For Europe, Bernanke recommended that the continuing labour market reforms that are necessary should be accompanied by training and other work force development; that structural reforms should be accompanied by demand policies; and that political legitimacy should be ensured through subsidiarity. Whilst against the background of ever faster technical progress and structural change it was relatively uncontroversial that the traditional "once-in-a-lifetime schooling strategy" has to give way to continuous updating of knowledge and skills ("lifelong learning"), Dietmar Harhoff (2017) warned that so far there is little systematic implementation and institutional development.
Sergei Guriev (2017, Chart 1) presented "elephant curves" (à la Milanovic 2016), suggesting that the crisis recession acted in a regressive way in southern European countries (see also Buti 2017, Chart 3), whereas in other euro area countries asset price declines implied that the recession's cost were mostly borne by the better-off. But in terms of popular support for economic policies, Guriev (2017, Table 1) provided evidence that it is not inequality per se but perceived "unfair" inequality (defined as uneven opportunities, such as parental background, gender, ethnicity or place of birth) that leads to the rejection of a market economy (and also corruption). Other factors captured in the residuals of the estimation, such as lack of effort or bad luck, do not have this effect.
Agnès Bénassy-Quére (2017) perceived an imbalance in Europe between trade and competition policies being centralised at the area-wide level but social and tax policies being left at the national level. When the federal level promotes free trade and competitive markets, then Member States are left to bear the social consequences. In her view Member States could be better empowered by coordination in tax and social policies. One idea is to make the EU's Globalisation Adjustment Fund more effective; another is to introduce US-style TTTTs (timely, temporary, and targeted transfers).
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Andrews, D., Criscuolo, C. and Gal, P. (2015), "Frontier firms, technology diffusion and public policy: micro evidence from OECD countries", The Future of Productivity: Main Background Papers, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris.
Aghion, P., Farhi, E. and Kharroubi, E. (2017a), "On the interaction between monetary policy, corporate balance sheets and structural reforms", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Aghion, P., Bergeaud, A., Boppart, T., Klenow, P. and Li, H. (2017b), Missing growth from creative destruction, mimeo, Collège de France, Paris, July.
Autor, D. and Salomons, A. (2017), "Robocalypse now: does productivity growth threaten employment?", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Bénassy-Quéré, A. (2017), "Making the European semester more efficient", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Bernanke, B. (2017), "When growth is not enough", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Bils, M., Klenow, P. and Ruane, C. (2017), Misallocation or mismeasurement, mimeo, Stanford University, 19 June.
Bloom, N., Jones, C., Van Reenen, J. and Webb, M. (2017), Are ideas getting harder to find?, mimeo, Stanford University, 11 July.
Buti, M. (2017), "Fiscal consolidation and reforms: trade-offs and complementarities", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Byrne, D., Fernald, J. and Reinsdorf, M. (2016), "Does the United States have a productivity slowdown or a measurement problem?", Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 47(1), pp. 109-182.
Constâncio, V., Hartmann, P. and Tristani, O. (2015), Selected takeaways from the ECB's Sintra Forum on "Inflation and Unemployment in Europe", VoxEU, 28 October.
Döttling, R., Ladika, T. and Perotti, E. (2017a), The (self-)funding of intangibles, mimeo, 12 May, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=2863267.
Döttling, R., Gutiérrez, G. and Philippon, T. (2017b), "Is there an investment gap in advanced economies? If so, why?", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Draghi, M. (2014), "Unemployment in the euro area", speech at the Annual Central Bank Symposium in Jackson Hole.
Eberly, J. (2017), Comment on "Is there an investment gap in advanced economies? If so, why?" by Robin Döttling, German Gutiérrez and Thomas Philippon, forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Eggertsson, G. (2017), Comment on "Sources and mechanisms of impaired growth in advanced economies" by Robert Hall, forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Garga, V. and Singh, S. (2016), Output hysteresis and optimal monetary policy, mimeo, Brown University, 11 November.
Gopinath, G., Kalemli-Ozcan, S., Karabarbounis, L. and Villegas-Sanchez, C. (2017), "Capital Allocation and Productivity in South Europe", Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
Gordon, R. (2016), The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War, Princeton University Press.
Guriev, S. (2017), "Impact of cycle on growth: human capital, political economy, and non-performing loans", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Gutiérrez, G., and Philippon, T. (2016), "Investment-less growth: an empirical investigation", NBER Working Paper 22897, December.
Hall, R. (2017), "Sources and mechanisms of impaired growth in advanced economies", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Harhoff, D. (2017), Comment on "Robocalypse now: does productivity growth threaten employment?" by David Autor and Anna Salomons, forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Johnson, S. (2017), "Increasing public support for research and development in the U.S.", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Jones, C. (2017), "A discussion: long term growth in advanced economies", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Karabarbounis, L., and Neiman, B. (2014), "The global decline of the labor share", Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(1), pp. 61-103.
Mazzucato, M., and Semieniuk, G. (2017), "Public financing of innovation: from market fixing to mission oriented shaping", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Milanovic, B. (2016), Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, Harvard University Press.
Mokyr, J. (2017), "Is technical progress obsolete?", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
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Schmidt, M. (2017), "Building an innovation ecosystem: lessons learned and a view to the future from MIT and Kendall Square", lunch speech held at the ECB Forum on Central Banking on Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Sintra, 27 June, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZHjiWQ_iA.
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Solow, R. (1957), "Technical change and the aggregate production function", Review of Economics and Statistics 39(3), pp. 312-320.
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Tobin, J. (1969), "A general equilibrium approach to monetary theory", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 1(1), pp. 15-29.
Varian, H. (2017), "Technology, innovation and industrial organization", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
Veugelers, R. (2017), "An innovation deficit behind Europe's overall productivity slowdown?", forthcoming in ECB, Investment and Growth in Advanced Economies, Frankfurt am Main.
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Learn about the work of the SSPX in Lebanon
Source: fsspx.news
The SSPX has continued to extend it's work in the middle East and has continued to grow its apostolate in Lebanon
See more information at their official SSPX site: https://liban.fsspx.org/en
The SSPX visits Lebanon on a monthly basis as it continues to expand it's work in the middle east.
Lebanon is a small country of 10,400 square kilometers. It is 50 times smaller than France, but is populated with almost 6.5 million inhabitants.
Although we have had contacts in Lebanon for nearly 30 years, our mission in this country is still a modest one.
The principal reason for that is that most of the Christians who are leaving there belong to an oriental rite: in general they are Maronite Catholic, Greek Catholic, or Greek Orthodox. Since the 6th century, Lebanon has been a refuge for all Christian communities that were persecuted in the Middle East. Those who belong to the Latin rite are only a small number, about 15,000. This means that it is not in search of the Tridentine Mass that many faithful in the region come to us, which is the usual way people seek our assistance.
The second reason our apostolate in Lebanon remains small is the war, which lasted 15 years (1975-1990) and the general insecurity that led many people to leave. Many of the first Christians we met in Lebanon have since fled to France, Canada, or Australia.
It is also important to keep in mind that the Christians in Lebanon are very involved in daily political and economic difficulties; they don't want to be involved in an ecclesiastical problem which they mainly see as a problem for the Latin Church.
That said, as things have continued to get worse in the Church, the faithful are looking for answers and clarity, and so the SSPX has been able to provide the faithful there with that clarity in these times of confusion.
The SSPX in Lebanon has taken on a number of activities and associations in order to help promote the faith while assisting the people in their various needs.
In order to see the extent of the work that is being done and the on going progress please the official sspx website that is now online
https://liban.fsspx.org/en
For more of the SSPX's on going work in Lebanon there is also now available their official facebook pages:
https://m.facebook.com/Vers-lOrient-traditionnel-101475289101275/ - Professional Assoication page.
https://www.facebook.com/AdOrientem.Association/ - Religious Association page.
The work of the Society of St. Pius X in Lebanon is currently serviced by the priests in Germany and France. Thanks to the continued generous support of the faithful in Europe the SSPX has been able to visit Lebanon on a regular and on going basis since the mid 1980's.
The work there has continued to grow as more and more people become aware of the present crisis in the Church and look to the work of the SSPX for guidance and direction.
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Temporary immigrant centres had atypical year in 2020
Temporary installation centres for immigrants had an "atypical year" in 2020, especially due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which restricted the arrival of immigrants, says the Ombudsman's Office, which praises the changes in the Lisbon centre.
By TPN/Lusa, in News · 27 Jun 2021, 12:00 · 0 Comments
The Ombudsman's Office, on 24 June, delivered a report on its 2020 activity to Parliament, accompanied by the activity as the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture (MNP), which is also the Ombudsman's responsibility.
In the NPM report, the Ombudsman's Office refers to the Temporary Installation Centres (CIT) and the Spaces Equivalent to Temporary Installation Centres (EECIT), recalling that in recent reports it has always signalled risk factors for the occurrence of ill-treatment.
The EECITs are detention spaces in international zones of airports, and have been mentioned in the reports for not having conditions, also because they were made when there was a much smaller flow of migrants than the one verified in recent years. The idea was that immigrants who could not enter the country would stay a short time and be directed to the CIT, and Portugal has only one CIT, in Porto.
"Currently, the creation of alternatives in the centre and south of the country is urgent, to avoid the perpetuation of inhumane detention conditions in EECITs. However, while this does not materialise, it is equally fundamental to ensure dignified conditions for foreign citizens who are deprived of their freedom in EECIT", says the report.
But it also says that due to the pandemic the reference year of the report was atypical for EECITs, either by restricting the number of flights and the arrival of far fewer people not authorised to enter the country, or by works in EECITs.
The Lisbon EECIT closed in April for works (following the death on the spot of a Ukrainian citizen, Ihor Homeniuk) and if it now has a capacity for 43 people the truth, the report says, is that today (due to the pandemic) it has an average occupancy of two to three people, the most common nationalities being Brazilian, Angolan and Guinean (Guinea-Bissau).
The Ombudsman notes that the EECIT "is now designed, and rightly so, for short stays", because it is not a suitable place to keep people for a long time, and says that there is "an enormous urgency to open a new CIT in the Lisbon area, which is all the more urgent because it is essential to enable compliance with the new EECIT rules, particularly with regard to this aspect of not staying for extended periods".
The report highlights the positive aspects of having now a family room at EECIT Lisbon, the fact that it is now possible to use a mobile phone in the rooms, although access to wifi network free of charge remains to be ensured, and the guarantee of access to a lawyer.
As for EECIT Porto, the report recalls, it also closed last year for works, after a violent protest in August by Moroccan citizens, with the Ombudsman pointing out that this was the time for works, but for requalification and transformation.
And works are also needed, according to the document, at Faro's EECIT, which is partially operational following an escape of people who damaged the installations last July.
Regarding the only real CIT, the Santo António Housing Unit, the Ombudsman's document stresses that general conditions are more satisfactory than those of the EECITs. And it recalls that the Covid-19 pandemic also affected the normal functioning of the place, both regarding visits and the use of common spaces.
In the document the Ombudsman says it is necessary to standardise procedures at EECIT, because the rules are not the same at the three airports.
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LA HABRA >> Colony High School's football team sported a No. 1 ranking in the CIF-SS Central Division entering Friday night.
The glaring No. 1 associated with La Habra was in the win column.
Fifty-five points and 389 rushing yards for La Habra running back Carlos Martin added up to win No. 2 for La Habra, which prevailed in a shootout, 55-48.
The Highlanders (2-3) watched a 19-point fourth-quarter lead slip away when Colony's Ryan Kinard broke a 75-yard touchdown run to give Titans (3-2) a 48-47 lead with 2:34 to play.
To cap a night of counter punching, La Habra scored in two plays, one a 42-yard Martin run, to regain a seven-point lead with 1:59 to play that would be the final margin.
Kinard, who finished with 201 yards on 15 carries, was stripped on the ensuing kickoff return and La Habra produced one first down, enough to run out the clock.
The Highlanders have played a difficult schedule thus far, an obvious explanation for the 1-3 mark entering Friday night one season after reaching the CIF-SS Southwest Division semifinals.
Colony's only loss against a formidable schedule came against Riverside Poly before La Habra added No. 2 in the Titans final nonleague game.
Colony appeared it was going to pull out another win when quarterback Josh Thompson, who threw for 287 yards and two touchdowns, ran for a pair of scores to cut a 47-28 deficit to 47-41 with 4:54 to play.
La Habra quarterback Eric Barriere, who finished 14 of 27 passing for 175 yards with three touchdowns, threw his only interception of the game with 5:31 remaining.
Colony couldn't convert the turnover into points, but forced a La Habra three-and-out to set up Kinard's 75-yard TD run.
The star of the night was undoubtedly Martin, the Highlanders senior running back. He finished with five touchdowns, including runs of 75, 45, 33 and 5 yards in addition to a 10-yard touchdown catch.
He had 226 yards on just 14 carries in the first half and finished with 389 on 30 carries.
Before its offense even took the field, La Habra jumped in front of Colony when Eric Lancaster-Garcia took a punt return 68 yards for a touchdown virtually untouched.
Colony needed just three plays to answer after a 66-yard kickoff return by Khalil Dorsey.
The shootout continued when Martin gave La Habra a 14-7 lead with a 33-yard touchdown run through the middle of the Colony defense.
The most dramatic stretch of the first half began when Colony stripped Martin on the tail end of what would have been a 39-yard touchdown run. The Titans recovered in the end zone only to throw an interception on the next play that was returned 43 yards by Maurice Barrett to set up a 5-yard touchdown run by Martin.
Colony responded on the next play when Zachary Fields took a short pass 82 yards up the sideline for a touchdown to pull within 21-14 with 30 seconds to play in the first quarter.
Each quarterback led a five-play touchdown drive in the second quarter, La Habra's Barriere capping a 73-yard march with a 21-yard strike to Edrick Flores and Thompson finishing a 67-yard drive with a 23-yard touchdown pass to Tommie Dorsey just 36 seconds before halftime to cut the La Habra lead to 28-21.


rauropi [ I II III ] exists as a complete but modular environment, where sculpture, sound and light occupy sonic and physical territory.
Berlin-based artist Susan Philipsz gives an overview of her practice in the context of her new installation at Adam Art Gallery, 'White Flood'. The Turner Prize-winning artist has exhibited widely, producing evocative sound works for unusual locations—for example, under a bridge, in an abandoned train station—and for major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and London's Tate Modern.
Please join us for the opening of Passages: Luke Fowler, Florian Hecker, Susan Philipsz, Adam Art Gallery's first exhibition for 2019 curated by Stephen Cleland.
The Gallery will be open between 5.30 and 7.30pm. A reception will be held from 6pm at Milk & Honey Café, located immediately opposite the Gallery, with speeches at 6.30pm.
The exhibition will be opened by Dugal McKinnon, composer and Deputy Director in Composition and Sonic Arts at New Zealand School of Music—Te Kōkī, Victoria University of Wellington.
On the eve of the exhibition opening for 'Passages' at Adam Art Gallery, we are pleased to partner with City Gallery Wellington to present a one-off screening of 'Pilgrimage from Scattered Points', a film by acclaimed Glasgow-based artist, filmmaker and musician Luke Fowler. This is Fowler's portrait of the enigmatic composer Cornelius Cardew who founded the Scratch Orchestra and was an important influence on New Zealand artist Philip Dadson.


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Q: Эффективные структуры данных для хранения пар ключ-значение Поступают данные типа key - value и мне нужно сохранить их для дальнельшей обработки. Только я хочу сохранить их так, чтобы key не повторялись, при этом key может быть любого регистра вплоть до записи типа SoMeKeY.
Как я могу огранизовать данные, чтобы вносить записи максимально быстро и получать доступ к полям также быстро?
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Data d1;
d1.key = "Tom";
d1.value = 20;
Data d2;
d2.key = "Tom";
d2.value = 35;

Set <Data> a;
a.insert(d1);
a.insert(d2);

Все равно добавит запись, хоча key один, но value разные. Также я забыл сказать, что мне нужно будет искать по key без учета value.
Использовать 2 массива также не подходит, потому что мы зарание не знаем сколько у нас будет записей.
Если использовать map, то нужно каждый раз проходить по ему в поисках наличия одинакового key, впрочем это делает и set.
Какое решения на ваш взгляд более оптимальное?
A: Если Вам регистр неважен, тогда используйте map и храните в нем ключи в нижнем регистре. Это и проще и легче.
Если регистр ключей важен - используйте кастомный компаратор (специальная функция, которая сравнивает две строки говорит равные или нет) - можно написать свой компаратор, который будет сравнивать две строки без учета регистра. Хотя, думаю, такие уже есть готовые.
Пример хитрого компаратора для "мультиключа".
Еще один вариант:
std::map<std::string, std::pair<std::string, int>> data;

как ключ - храните ключ в нижнем регистре. в pair первым параметром храните ключ в как он предоставлен, второй параметр - собственно значение. Памяти это будет потреблять больше, но скорость будет вполне приличная.


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In Northern Ireland we have a special little language. A lot of our words are derived from Ulster Scots language, and some areas it is used more than others. It's funny because I lived in Scotland for a few years as a child, and now I currently live in Northern Ireland, I think I'm a perfect candidate for using Ulster Scots. I do confuse some of my friends with my expressions.
Anyway, we use the word "wee" a lot. Wee does not mean pee, nor does it mean small, well it does, but here we use the word wee all the time with another meaning. "Wee" is a term of endearment, we use it when referring to almost anything that we are fondly talking of. Our wee village. The wee man who loves down the road. The wee shop up the street. Then sometimes we use the word wee at other times, it's really absurd if you analyse it, but if you are in a store they might say "give us your wee credit card". If you are confused, I am not surprised.
I went walking into Our wee village. Where I live is beautiful, it's a shameless brag here, but the sun has been out and I was able to take some nice photos again today. I want to share them with you. See that wee thatched cottage in the top photo, it's a little museum. It's closed up during the week just now, but in the summer it's open every day to the public. They cook traditional soda bread over a peat fire and the house is filled with relics.
I also spent a bit of the day helping the children with their school work, got to crack the whip, especially now. They have exams starting mid May, it's a hard time for them.
Aside from that I baked the weekend's bread today, plus a wee cake.
The cake is a custard cake, the recipe invented by me, I'd be keen for someone else to try it and give feedback. I'll post it in a separate post but here's what it looked like. I made two cakes, just as well as one is almost gone already.
The bread I baked was a regular yeasted loaf with 25% wholewheat and 75% strong white flour.
I also baked a sourdough loaf which I had been tending to since yesterday.
Both loaves are very different, I'm looking forward to trying some new recipes next week.
Thanks for reading once again, I'll be back tomorrow.
The cake looks divine! Well, they all do actually but because Im on a no carb diet, I'm fixated on the sweet! Lol I'd love to try your recipe! It looks delicious and in fact I've never had a custard cake!
Where in Ireland did you visit? It is nice here.
Quite a curious language, our English-with upwards of 400 dialects and who knows how many sub-dialects! The baked good look scrumptious.
Thankyou, baking is my thing 😆.
I understand the legs quip, we say things like that too. Thankyou for stopping by.
That's funny you are reading the word …. now you know 😉.


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Ochthebius nanus é uma espécie de insetos coleópteros polífagos pertencente à família Hydraenidae.

A autoridade científica da espécie é Stephens, tendo sido descrita no ano de 1829.

Trata-se de uma espécie presente no território português.

Referências

Ligações externas
 Ochthebius nanus - Biodiversity Heritage Library - Bibliografia
 Ochthebius nanus - NCBI Taxonomy Database
 Ochthebius nanus - Global Biodiversity Information Facility
 Ochthebius nanus - Encyclopedia of Life

Coleópteros polífagos de Portugal
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Coleópteros descritos em 1829

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Logan- Movie Review
Hugh Jackman gives a performance of a lifetime in this action-packed, brutal, somber, and beautiful movie that's a character study before superhero movie. Credit: 20th Century Fox
What is it about? Logan is the newest addition to the X-Men franchise, and is the story of an old, aging, Wolverine in a new, standalone, X-Men timeline. In 2029, a weary and hopeless Logan cares for dying telepathic Charles Xavier in a hideout on the Mexican border. All mutants have perished, and Logan is trying to escape somewhere safe with Charles. He soon finds a little girl named Laura Kinney, or X-23, with the same powers and deadliness as him, and is forced to (reluctantly) protect her from dark forces following them.
How is it? 8.9/10 Logan is an amazing movie. However, I have to put A DISCLAIMER: Logan is Rated R, and contains SEVERE violence, gore, and language, as well as dark and mature themes.
Logan marks Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart's final performances as Wolverine and Charles Xavier, respectively, and is a very satisfying and fitting conclusion.
Logan and Charles Xavier side-by-side. Credit: 20th Century Fox
The Ups: The overall tone of Logan is great. It knows what it wants to be and is unrestricted: it can be dark, grim, and hopeless, but can also be warm, funny, and uplifting.
The acting is top-notch throughout the cast. Hugh Jackman is fantastic and perfectly portrays just how hopeless, tired, and dying Logan is. Patrick Stewart is great, as he shows Xavier off-his-rocker, guilty, and sad. Finally, newcomer Dafne Keen, who plays X-23 is my favorite performance, as she manages to kick butt, and give a heartfelt performance just through facial expressions. She awakens the hero in Logan, which brings out his better, younger self.
Dafne Keen as X-23 in Logan. Credit: 20th Century Fox
The action is brutal (I really can't emphasize this enough), but executed spectacularly, and the cinematography and editing assists it. The score by Marco Beltrami was a small detail that I enjoyed, and it helped with the tone of the film.
Although I mentioned earlier that the movie could be grim, it still had humor from the dynamic between Laura and Logan, and even Xavier.
Logan in one of the quieter scenes, next to X-23 and Charles. Credit: 20th Century Fox
Logan never ceases to be enthralling and constantly keeps you on the edge of your seat, even when there isn't a huge action sequence: many of the movie's better moments are quiet, small interactions between the characters. Through these moments it manages to even bring emotion.
Logan during one of the more…vivid action sequences. Credit: 20th Century Fox
Logan explores many grim, sensitive themes that you want to talk about long after the credits have rolled. Through carefully exploring its characters, it delves into the ideas of death, aging, sadness, family, love, and even guilt. These really establish it as a drama first, and a comic-book movie second: it's very grounded.
The Downs: There are few problems I have with Logan. There is a minor pacing issue with this movie around the middle: sitting at a lengthy 2 hours and 21 minutes, there are certain scenes around the middle that could've been trimmed. However, the vast majority of Logan serves a point and all builds up to the finale.
It also slightly overuses it's R-rating. Even though most of the violence is well-deserved and built up to, there are certain aspects where the gore was overused. Also, there was a subplot that serves a purpose, but goes over-the-top. I understand why it was kept, but it causes the movie to lose some of its grounding.
Logan is not only one of the best comic-book movies of recent years, but also one of, if not the most meaningful. However, discretion is advised, as the movie can get quite violent and gory.
2 thoughts on "Logan- Movie Review"
I expected Logan to be a great movie from the start and now that it's out, I personally can't wait to see it. Also, hearing your minute criticisms really makes me think deeply about movies through these reviews. I'm glad to get someone else's perspective on the films that come out today. Keep it up!
Thanks for the review, think I'll check it out this weekend. Can you recommend some good movies on Netflix? I never know what to watch and could use some expert advice. Thanks! Keep the reviews coming!


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Q: Save order of SELECT result in complex query I need to sort selected_booking by cost first and then assign the index i to every row. My variant doesn't work properly (outer SELECT breaks the order):
SELECT (@i:=@i + 1) AS i, selected_booking.*
 FROM (SELECT * FROM booking ORDER BY cost DESC) AS selected_booking;
Is there any way to save the order of inner selection when doing outer one?

A: Q: Is there any way to save the order of inner selection when doing outer selection?
A: Absent an ORDER BY clause on the outer query, MySQL is free to return the rows in any order it chooses.
If you want rows from the inline view (derived table) returned in a specific order, you need to specify that in the outer query... you'd need to add an ORDER BY clause on the outer query.

NOTE: The behavior of user-defined variables as in your query is not guaranteed, the MySQL Reference Manual warns of this. But in spite of that warning, we do observe repeatable behavior in MySQL 5.1 and 5.5.
It's not at all clear why you need an inline view (aka a derived table, in the MySQL venacular) in the example you give.
It seems like this query would return the result you seem to want:
 SET @i = 0 ;
 SELECT @i:=@i+1 AS i
      , b.*
   FROM booking b
  ORDER BY b.cost DESC ;

Alternatively, you could do this in a single statement, and initialize @i within the query, rather than a separate SET statement.
 SELECT @i:=@i+1 AS i
      , b.*
   FROM booking b
   JOIN (SELECT @i:=0) i
  ORDER BY b.cost DESC

(This initialization works, again, because of the way the MySQL processes inline views, the inline view query is run BEFORE the outer query. This isn't guaranteed behavior, and may change in a future release (it may have already changed in 5.6)
NOTE: For improved performance of this query, if a suitable index is available with cost as the leading column, e.g.
... ON booking (cost)

that may allow MySQL to use that index to return rows in order and avoid a "Using filesort" operation.


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Five Favourite: Creepy Stories
It's getting to the time when I normally post about my favourite books of the year. But this year, given that I've now got books out in three different categories – young adult, horror and poetry – I thought I would post about my five favourite of each… ever! My most recent book is The Boy in the Burgundy Hood, a ghost story, so I'm going to start with my five favourite creepy stories.
First off, Frankenstein. One of my favourite books of all time, regardless of genre. Frankenstein is brilliant and can be read on many different levels. It can be seen as a political allegory for the French Revolution or the abolition of slavery; a lament for Shelley's own lost child; a cautionary tale on bad parenting; or a warning on the dangers of overreaching yourself with technology. Read this excellent article to see how.
I knew the book as a favourite of my grandma's, but only read it when I was doing an English degree at university. We studied Frankenstein not in Literature but in our English Language module, because the newly-created 'monster' gives a Saussurian view of the world without language to break it down and 'contain' it. There's a brilliant description of the monster staggering through the woods bewildered, his senses overcome by the sounds and sensations all around him. Eventually he sits down and manages to focus on just one thing – a slice of moon in the nighttime sky.
Whilst it's true the novel works on many levels, it's also worth stating that the one it works best on is as a gripping horror story. The horror comes from Dr Frankenstein's neglect as well as from the monster's crimes. This is a brilliant, claustrophobic suspense story, ranging from the civilised refinement of Geneva to the bleak icy wilds of Antarctica.
Mary Shelley is my standout novelist. Just remember, she wrote this, one of the greatest works of English literature, when she was eighteen years old. And she had to publish it anonymously, for fear of how it would be received were it known the author was a woman.
2. Salem's Lot
Where to start with Stephen King? Whilst I don't list myself among the true hardcore of fans who have read all of his novels, each time I do read one I marvel again at his skill and invention. Whilst he's a horror writer, I think of him alongside another great modern US writer from the North-Eastern states, John Irving. Like Irving, he takes time to lay out the table, recording his characters and (mostly) small town settings in detail that's loving but never laboured. Then, again like Irving, he strikes us with seismic, often catastrophic events that, due to the groundwork, you will have known are coming – although you will not have known how, when and where from.
I could choose many of King's novels – The Stand, Bag of Bones, The Girl who loved Tom Gordon, Green Mile – but I've decided to go with Salem's Lot, which truly scared the heebie-jeebies out of me as a teenager. That floating vampire kid scratching at the window? Give me a break. Or the iconic moment when the priest's faith fails him and the crucifix loses its power to keep the vampire at bay? I'd seen a hundred horror films but that never happened. I was totally blown away, my world view changed in one fell swoop. Awesome.
3. The Wine-Dark Sea
Want to be properly disturbed by your horror? Read Robert Aickman. I only came across him a few years ago when I saw this collection in a bookshop in Covent Garden. I wrote a short review of it here. Aickman is unlike any other horror writer I know. This quote sums up his approach:
"Nothing is more lethal to the effect that a ghost story should make than for the author to provide an alternative materialist solution. This reduces a poem to a puzzle and confines the reader's spirit instead of enlarging it."
His dark tales work like sinister magic, probing away at the depths of your subconscious. I've never had such strange dreams as those whilst reading this book (appropriately one of the scariest tales, Into the Wood, is all about insomnia). In most the stories the creep is left open-ended, in a deliberate attempt to stretch your mind, to keep you away from certainties, to open your eyes to the weirdness and mystery at the heart of living. Suggestive, dark, brilliant – but not for everyone…
4. The Cormorant
A couple relocate from the city to an isolated seaside cottage in Wales, an inheritance from an eccentric uncle. But there's one catch – they must look after his 'pet' cormorant. It seems a simple enough ask – but soon things start to go horribly wrong.
I read Stephen Gregory's story a long time ago when I was working in the Welsh valleys. I've always loved the strange, ominous atmosphere it creates and I'm planning to read it again soon.
5. The Little Stranger
A classic ghost story, with a twist (sound familiar?). Without wanting to give anything away, I'm not quite sure whether this counts as a ghost story – although it certainly has a very real supernatural element.
It starts off more like a piece of unsettling period literature – but then, with an incident of a dog and a little girl at a party, transforms into something altogether more visceral and terrifying. The novel deals skillfully with the feelings of injustice that class division arouse – coupled with the burning frustrations of love. I think the ending is one of the most satisfying I've read.
And finally… the ones that got away.
It was hard to make this list, and I was often left wondering why on earth I'd just settled on five. Was it purely because 'Five Favourites' sounded good? Probably. But I also wanted to give a bit more time to each book than I normally do.
So here's a few more I'd have liked to include, because I love them too:
The Terror, by Dan Simmons. Recently made into a superlative TV series, there's a supernatural beast in this but the real horror comes from two Victorian ships trapped in the Arctic ice without sunlight for six months of the year. For three years. Yes, three years.
Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, by Peter Ackroyd. One of my favourite authors, Peter Ackroyd brings the saturated history of London to life like no other. This is my favourite book of his, a horror mystery that has a mythical monster slashing Victorian Londoners to pieces (Pisaca, anyone?). Who is the dreaded Limehouse Golem?
The Accursed, by Joyce Carol Oates. A sprawling, multi-perspective vampire novel set in Princeton university in the early twentieth century. Real life characters including Woodrow Wilson and Jack London add to the zest.
Jaws, by Peter Benchley. The monster of the deep did more to damage the reputation of sharks than a thousand fishermen, but this novel is nevertheless superb. I burned through it when I was eleven, in probably the same amount of hours.
The Magician, by W Somerset Maugham. Whether there are any real supernatural elements is left up to the reader to decide, but this tale of an overbearing, repulsive occultist who steals a beautiful woman from her fiancee is as gripping as any poison love story. The character of John Thrush in The Lady in the Moon Moth Mask was partly inspired by this story.
If my five favourite creepy stories have whetted your appetite for the macabre, why not check out my own ghost story, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood – out now on Amazon:
This entry was posted in Blog entries, Reviews, The Boy in the Burgundy Hood, Uncategorized and tagged #aghoststorywithadifference, a ghost story with a difference, creepy stories, dan leno and the limehouse golem, five favourite, five favourite creepy stories, frankenstein, jaws, mary shelley, Robert Aickman, salems lot, sarah waters, stephen gregory, stephen king, the accursed, the boy in the burgundy hood, the cormorant, the little stranger, the magician, the terror, the wine-dark sea on December 12, 2019 by Steve Griffin.
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Q: Linear algebra [Intermediate level] I was wondering how to solve a linear algebra problem.
At first sight it looks easy. But 'between lines'. it isn't.
The problem:
Giving these matrices that are inversible, square (n x n) and are conmutable: A and I (Identity)
$$A^3 - 2A + I = 0$$
and
$$A^{-n} = \left(A^{-1}\right)^n = (A^n)^{-1}$$
Then, what are the values of $x, y$ and $z$, to obtain:
$$A^4 = xA + yI +zA^{-1}$$
Thanks to user141421 for solving it
Please, a last help with this point. Giving the same initials conditions, what are the values of $x, y$ and $z$, to obtain:
$$A^{-5} = xA + yI +zA^{-1}$$
Thanks so much in advance.

A: We have $A^3-2A+I = 0 (\star)$. Multiplying $(\star)$ by $A^{-1}$, we get
$$A^2 = 2I - A^{-1} (\dagger)$$
Multiplying $(\star)$ by $A$, we get
$$A^4 = 2A^2 - A$$
Plugging in $A^2$ from $(\dagger)$, we get
$$A^4 = 2(2I-A^{-1})- A = -A+4I-2A^{-1}$$

EDIT
Multiplying by $A^{-1}$, we get $A^{-1} = 2I-A^2$.
Again, multiplying by $A^{-1}$, we now have $A^{-2} = 2A^{-1} - A$.
Again, multiplying by $A^{-1}$, we now have $A^{-3} = 2A^{-2} - I = 4A^{-1}-2A-I$.
Again, multiplying by $A^{-1}$, we now have $A^{-4} = 4A^{-2}-2I-A^{-1} = 7A^{-1}-4A-2I$.


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