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Regarding the Datatables Plugin for jQuery (and raw JS)

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I figured out a way to get links in a table via the source spreadsheet. I'm not sure if there's another way that's better than this method, but, it's what I did.

So, here's what the end result datatable looks like vs its information.

As you can see, I have 2 more columns on the source sheet than I do the display sheet. That's because I didn't designate a column for them, but the plugin still has access to that information.

Meet: Linkit! [Demo] [jQuery.net Page]

LinkIt requires the word that needs to be automatically linked and the target URL. Which is what I have in those last 2 columns.

Linkit was used within the datatables function (in the callbacks), so it had access to the words I needed to link.

And, yeah, that's all well and good, but it only works for 1 link per cell. Otherwise, it just won't work.

Wellll, today, I figured it out!

I wanted to try and tackle this sort of thing eventually, and this was the perfect opportunity. How did I do it? A vanilla JS loop. That's probably not surprising, but you might be a little at a loss as to where to put it and how to execute it. At least, you would be if you're as inexperienced as I am.

Just after a conditional statement (verifying if the URL data exists) with the row and column within the loop.

There may be a method using each, with simpler syntax. Here's the thing: I'm absolutely terrible at getting those functions right. They reduce me to tears. So, this is definitely not gonna be the only approach. Just keep in mind that the row/column part will end up inside of the loop.

Also: DataTables is still being updated, though the LinkIt script was last touched like a decade ago. There are many plugins that do the same thing, however, so you might wanna use those if you get stuck using the one I suggested. EDIT: Have some code I made to make a list out of stuff in a cell.

Separated each "chunk" I wanted in a list with specific brackets (that I know I won't use later in the strings ever, you can do it w any 2 characters u want tho), and used this data rendering technique above. It separates the string into a list (well, more technically speaking, an array) by cutting sections off by the delimiter (the first square bracket, in this case.) Then, I knock off the one at the end. "Trim" gets rid of whitespace (space marks) at the beginning and end of a string, so that there's no chance I'll have a URL that's screwed up with an accidental space.

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On a sauvé le monde de Dominique Fernandez

 

Les habitués de ces pages savent combien la datation dans les romans est une question qui me préoccupe. Surtout lorsque ceux-ci ont pour fond des évènements historiques qui parfois prennent la première place dans le récit et influent grandement sur la destiné des héros, comme c'est le cas ici. Le narrateur, Romain ou Romano, comme l'ont surnommé ses camarades italiens, raconte sa vie, ou plutôt sa jeunesse, à un interlocuteur évanescent, nommé (une seule fois) Arturo; ce dernier n'interviendra que de rares fois et de manière fort laconique, trois ou quatre, durant les presque six cents pages de cette confession, faite à la première personne du singulier.

On apprend assez vite que Romano est né en 1911 (il nous informe qu'il a dix sept ans en 1928 lors de l'incendie de l'appartement des voisins de sa mère) et comme il nous a révélé, au tout début du livre qu'il a 70 ans quand il s'adresse à Arturo, qui semble être un ancien amant recyclé en scribe, il n'est pas bien difficile d'en déduire que le présent de cette remémoration se situe en 1981.

Une fois ces jalons chronologiques posés, que nous raconte Dominique Fernandez sinon le fourvoiement politique d'un jeune homme pour l'amour d'un autre. En fait Romano a été fidèle à ce mot d'E. M. Forster: << Si j'avais à choisir entre trahir mon pays et trahir mes amis, j'espère que j'aurais le courage de trahir le premier.>>.

Il faut néanmoins attendre la cent-vingtième page pour que Romano rencontre Igor. Nous sommes alors en 1933 et Igor à tout juste vingt ans. Romano est à Rome où il suit des cours d'Histoire de l'art. Il prépare une thèse sur Poussin, son peintre préféré depuis qu'il a été foudroyé par la vision à 18 ans, lors de son premier voyage à Paris et de sa découverte du Louvre, d' « Echo et Narcisse ». Il a fait de cette révélation, sa véritable naissance. Presque à chaque fois qu'il sera question d'une oeuvre d'art, et cela est fréquent, le texte sera accompagné par la reproduction de celle-ci, en petit format et en noir et blanc, ce qui donne un coté rétro au livre, bien en adéquation avec l'époque à laquelle cette histoire se déroule.

Durant la première partie du roman, Dominique Fernandez brosse un tableau assez complet, bien que très orienté, de la Rome après dix ans de fascisme. Mais le régime n'est pas vu par les yeux d'un européen d'alors mais avec ceux d'un écrivain parisien de 2014. En 1930, l'Italie fasciste était en grâce aussi bien à Londres, Churchill déclarait que Mussolini était le plus grand chef d'état européen, qu'à Paris où Pierre Laval se dépensait sans compter pour le rapprochement des deux pays. La France considérait alors l'Italie comme son meilleur allié. Outre cet anachronisme idéologique, on s'aperçoit, si on compare par exemple les descriptions de la Rome du Duce dans « On a sauvé le monde » à celles du Berlin nazi par Philipp Kerr dans sa trilogie berlinoise, combien Fernandez est un assez piètre paysagiste. Il ne sait pas sur ce point, comme sur d'autres, sortir des clichés. On apprend néanmoins beaucoup de choses sur le quotidien des romains de 1930; par exemple qu'il y avait une nourriture fasciste et une autre qui ne l'était pas, comme les pâtes par exemple! Il est probable que cette connaissance intime des détails de la vie quotidienne dans l'Italie mussolinienne viennent des recherches que Dominique Fernandez a entrepris pour écrire la biographie de son père, l'écrivain et critique littéraire Ramon Fernandez, laudateur éphémère du Duce... Cette connaissance du fascisme le conduit à faire des déclarations, elles, bien peu dans l'air du temps, comme celle-ci à la revue Transfuge: << Le fascisme est une pensée qui court à travers les siècles. Elle s'est cristallisée dans Mussolini, mais on la trouve après, on la trouve avant, c'est une façon de penser. Tout tableau peut donc avoir une interprétation fasciste.>>. 

Cet exercice d'admiration pour les sculptures du stade de Mussolini est totalement inattendu dans un livre qui par ailleurs baigne dans la morale convenue du jour. Tout aussi inhabituel est son plaidoyer pour le réalisme socialiste que Dominique Fernandez place dans la continuité de la peinture russe du XIX ème siècle, ce qui est très convaincant. Au passage il cite « La baignade du cheval rouge de Pedrov-Vodkine et bien sûr pour la période soviétique, Deineka (j'ai consacré naguère un billet à cet artiste. on le trouve à cette adresse: http://www.lesdiagonalesdutemps.com/article-alexandre-alexandrovitch-deineka-1899-1969-120342681.html). Les louanges que Dominique Fernandez déverse sur une peinture naturaliste, réaliste, témoin de son temps ferait passer son « ami » et confrère à l'Académie, Jean Clair pour un chantre de l'art contemporain... Il semblerait que cette, un peu amère constatation, que l'on peut lire page 34, soit autobiographique: << Celui qui se croit le plus libre ne voit que ce qu'il a été programmé pour voir: il faut du temps pour apprendre à se servir de ses propres yeux.>>.  

On ne sait que peu de choses sur Romain, ni du pays d'où il vient, ni même quel est son véritable prénom, pas plus à quoi il ressemble. Il ne doit cependant pas être trop mal de sa personne puisqu'il est d'abord, avant de tomber en extase devant Igor, courtisé par deux étudiantes, comme lui en histoire de l'art: Gulia, une froide beauté issue d'une famille de l'aristocratie romaine mais tombée dans la débine et Wanda une chaude et pulpeuse polonaise. Le parti pris de laisser dans le flou les origines du héros est contre productif en le privant de tout un arrière monde qui pourrait mieux expliquer ses réactions et ses motivations. Dés qu'il glisse vers l'espionnage, mais ne croyez pas qu' « On a sauvé le monde » soit une sorte de James Bond chez Mussolini puis chez Staline, Fernandez est assez peu convaincant; on peut subodorer que ce féru de Poussin est anglais et que pour construire son personnage Dominique Fernandez ait louché du coté de sir Anthony Blunt. Ce qui hélas se confirme à la fin du roman car le peu que dit l'auteur sur les presque cinquante années après les faits qui nous sont racontés dans le roman, qui se déroule en gros sur trois ans, est paresseusement calqué sur la vie du dit Blunt qui avait une autre envergure que le pâle Romano. Pour s'en persuader il suffit de lire la biographie de Blunt, écrite par Miranda Carter, "Gentleman espion, Les doubles vies d'Anthony Blunt" (Payot, 2006). Blunt a inspiré plus directement un autre roman, meilleur que celui que je chronique, bien qu'un peu trop cérébral, il s'agit de « La gloire du traitre » de Bernard Sichère (éditions Denoel 1986). Rien qu'en lisant le titre du roman de Sichère on sait qu'on n'y trouvera aucun dolorisme homosexuel qui encombre tant les romans de Dominique Fernandez. Si vous préférez les images à la lecture, il y a une excellente série britannique qui a pris pour héros Blunt et ses compères de Cambridge. Il s'agit de Cambridge spies, série à laquelle j'ai consacré un article sur le blog, trouvable à cette adresse: http://www.lesdiagonalesdutemps.com/article-cambridge-spies-reedition-completee-92508146.html.

Revenons à nos deux héros. Le personnage d'Igor est le seul à échapper quelque peu aux stéréotypes qui ne cessent de faire obstacle à la crédibilité du récit. Le paradoxe est que la véracité d'Igor pour le lecteur repose sur une situation possible, mais très extraordinaire: le retournement par les soviets d'un jeune russe blanc dont une partie de la famille a été massacrée par les rouges. Rhomer dans son film « Triple agent » avait suggéré une situation proche ce celle-ci mais de manière beaucoup plus subtile. Il reste qu'il y a bien eu des russes blancs "retourné", les écrivains Alexis Tolstoi et Mirsky en sont de bons exemples.

J'éclairerait volontiers le parallèle entre les méthodes policières fascistes et staliniennes que décrit Dominique Fernandez par une réponse qu'il a faite à une récente interview: << La Russie et l’Italie ont en commun l’incurie et le désordre. Dans les deux pays, la bourgeoisie ne tient pas une grande place, et c’est justement cette conception peu bourgeoise de la vie et de la culture qui m’attirent.>>.

Dans son roman, il n'hésite pas à faire d'autres parallèles audacieux: << En quoi la démarche de Mussolini diffère-t-elle de celle des papes? Ils ont la même ambition de faire servir l'art à une fin politique, la même volonté de contraindre l'artiste à sacrifier la plus grande part de sa liberté à un principe plus haut que celui de la liberté individuelle, ils partagent la même certitude qu'il est plus important pour la communauté des hommes et plus profitable à la civilisation de forcer le peintre et le sculpteur à annoncer une bonne nouvelle que de lui permettre d'exprimer son moi.>>.

L'auteur n'évite pas toujours les pièges du didactisme dans les passages dans lesquels Romain fait partager à Igor ses connaissances en Histoire de l'art, dont l'étendue est d'ailleurs un peu surprenante de la part d'un garçon d'à peine plus de vingt ans. Il reste que ses considérations sur la peinture de la renaissance sont fort intéressantes.

Je recommanderais de lire cet ouvrage à Rome (au moins les deux premiers tiers) où il pourra être pour son lecteur un guide original en ce qui concerne les musées, un peu à l'instar des écrits de Stendhal sur la ville éternelle. Je rappellerais aux étourdis que Dominique Fernandez est un fin connaisseur de l'auteur de « La chartreuse de Parme ». A croire que le romancier a pensé que son roman pourrait être utile aux touristes puisqu'il l'a découpé en courts chapitres, de cinq à dix pages chacun, auxquels il a donné des titres explicites comme, « Les marbres du stade », « La chapelle Alaleoni », « peinture italienne, peinture française »...

Si les réflexions sur la peinture sont érudites, pointues et paradoxalement iconoclastes, pas du tout dans la doxa de la tribu socialo-intello-bobo dont Dominique Fernandez est un archétype, ses diatribes sur la religion, que néanmoins j'approuve, sont elles assez primaires. En voici un exemple: << Sur un seul point, il resta affreusement rétrograde. Le sexe continua à être exclu de la prédication de François. Le sexe demeura banni et maudit. Logique avec lui-même, François aurait dû libérer le sexe également, célébrer aussi la joie du sexe. Il aimait la musique, la poésie, les paysages d’Ombrie, la marche sous le soleil, les haltes sous les oliviers, les gâteaux, mais, cramponné au préjugé biblique, il maintint l’interdit sur le corps. En condamnant le désir, il avalisa le discours catholique sur la répression sexuelle et engagea l’Europe pour des siècles de misère puritaine. En avance dans tous les autres domaines, il ne remit pas en question les lois édictées par Moïse ni l’enseignement de l’horrible saint Paul.>>.

Quand au plaidoyer de Dominique Fernandez sur la supériorité des gays sur les hétéros en matière d'art, s'il ne me paraît pas totalement absurde, il pâtit d'un ton très années soixante dix qui paraît aujourd'hui assez ringard, venant d'un autre temps aussi éloigné que celui des lectures communistes de la peinture que l'auteur propose via Igor. Il me semble que ce n'est pas faire preuve d'homophobie que de considérer comme bien réductrice la démarche de faire de l'homosexualité sa seule grille de lecture du monde...

Voir dans l'obligation de vivre dans la clandestinité pour les homosexuels au début des années trente une passerelle pour qu'ils deviennent des espions relève de la psychologie du café du commerce.

Dominique Fernandez est bien davantage, un biographe, un homme de récits de voyage qu’un véritable romancier. Par exemple la romance entre romain et Igor me semble fortement inspirée par l'aventure amoureuse qu'a connu l'écrivain Pierre Herbart avec un jeune russe à Moscou en 1936. Pour s'en persuader, il suffit de lire la biographie de Pierre Herbart par Jean-Luc Moreau (Grasset, 2014) et plus particulièrement le chapitre "La patrie du socialisme".

Les romans les plus convaincants de notre académicien s'appuient sur des personnages historiques: Pasolini, Tchaïkovski, Le Caravage. Ce qui n'est pas le cas dans « On n'a sauvé le monde ». Ses deux jeunes héros sont des personnages de fiction et il manquent cruellement d'épaisseur. Les acteurs de second plan de cette histoire ne sont pas plus conséquents. Ils vont de la transparence à la caricature comme la famille d'Igor, cliché du russe blanc en exil. Henri Troyat, ancien collègue à l'Académie de Dominique Fernandez a écrit sur cette tribu dont il était issu, des pages d'une toute autre densité.

On se demande tout de même, si on est un peu moins subjugué par l'amour de Romano pour Igor que l'auteur, si Igor, agent de l'URSS, ne se serait pas servi, dès le début de l'amour de Romano à son égard; on peut alors s'interroger sur la sincérité des sentiments d'Igor envers son compagnon. N'aurait-il pas envisagé dés leur rencontre de manipuler Romain pour qu'il récupére les plans secrets du prototype de l'avion futuriste italien ? Dans cette hypothèse, que Dominique Fernandez laisse entre ouverte, on peut en déduire qu'Igor n'a pas la fin que suppose Romain...

Pour résumer « On a sauvé le monde » est à la fois un livre ambitieux et paresseux. Ambitieux car il se veut roman total mélangeant roman d'amour, roman historique, roman d'espionnage et essai sur l'art tant classique que moderne. Certains de ces pans sont assez ratés comme la partie espionnage , n'est pas John Le carré ou Eric Ambler qui veut, d'autres assez réussis, toutes les considérations sur la place de l'art dans la société. On peut néanmoins savoir grès à Dominique Fernandez de son ambition, même si le livre manque de travail pour être tout à fait convainquant, mais il faut prendre en compte l'âge du capitaine. A plus de quatre vingt ans on sent plus l'urgence de publier que de peaufiner longuement son ours.

Le livre vaut surtout comme une visite dans un musée imaginaire d'une grande liberté de Rome à Moscou. Une fois refermé il donne envie de se précipiter au Louvre pour y aller admirer les toiles de Poussin et de Vouet, mais aussi de visiter Rome et Moscou dans les pas de Romano.

un tableau de Deineka

Commentaires de la première édition de ce billet:

ismau03/06/2014 22:19Répondre

Merci pour votre compte-rendu, comme toujours fort intéressant, et qui me donne ( tout de même ) envie de lire ce livre . Je vous rejoins dans la critique de l'écriture de Fernandez . &quot;Porporino&quot; m'avait emballée à l'adolescence ; mais deux de ses romans pourtant assez anciens &quot; l'Etoile rose &quot; et &quot; Dans la main de l'Ange &quot; lus assez récemment, m'ont déçue . Peut-être ont-ils mal vieillis ? &quot; L'Etoile rose &quot; avec une certaine lourdeur du propos et du style . &quot; Dans la main de l'ange &quot; bien que soi-disant biographie de Pasolini, use à mon avis de trop de stéréotypes romanesques usés, et remanie les écrits autobiographiques de Pasolini - que je venais de lire - en les affadissant et banalisant considérablement . Quand vous lui reprochez son dolorisme homosexuel je suis aussi d'accord, et je trouve amusant de me souvenir que c'est justement ce qu'il reprochait à Chéreau et Guibert pour leur film &quot; l'Homme blessé &quot;, avec des termes très durs - c'est dans &quot; Le rapt de Ganymède &quot; - . Mais, à la différence de ce que vous indiquez, je pense que sa connaissance intime de l'Italie mussolinienne est bien antérieure à l'écriture de la biographie de son père . Il ne faut pas oublier que Fernandez est &quot; spécialiste &quot; de l'Italie par ses études universitaires, agrégé d'italien, ayant vécu à Naples comme professeur à l'institut français . Et surtout, il a écrit une thèse sur Pavese ( en 68 ) qui l'a mené à étudier le parcours de l'écrivain, inscrit d'abord au parti national fasciste de 32 à 35, puis devenu communiste . Comme Pavese était aussi grand angliciste, je me demande s'il n'aurait pas pu inspirer une part du personnage de Romano ...

B.A.03/06/2014 23:04

Merci pour votre commentaire comme toujours très stimulant intellectuellement. Je sais que Fernandez est un italianisant de longue date, mais vu la période de ses humanités transalpines je doute qu'à l'époque on lui ait beaucoup parlé du quotidien de la Rome de 1930... Très intéressant votre rappel du passé fasciste de Pavese mais Romano n'est pas un italien au début du roman je l'aurais pensé autrichien ou praguois mais ensuite la similitude avec le parcours de Blunt fait écran avec une autre origine. C'est d'ailleurs à mon sens une grande maladresse pour ne pas dire paresse du romancier qui a une propension fâcheuse à reprendre des morceaux de ses anciens textes pour un peu les mitonner à une autre sauce (voir la citation que je fais du rapt de Ganymede; dans mon dernier billet (en cela il prend modèle sur son maitre Stendhal). Il reste que je le répète ce livre se lit bien et si au point de vue romanesque il ne parvient pas à s'abstraire des clichés il propose des réflexions sur l'art particulièrement ébouriffante loin de la doxa actuelle.

Bruno03/06/2014 16:05Répondre

Merci pour cette belle analyse. Longtemps, j'ai aimé les textes de Dominique Fernandez, disons, jusqu'au Rapt de Ganymède. Vous êtes dur, mais probablement raisonnable, sur l'âge de notre auteur et l'Académie rendrait elle académique ?.... Merci pour vos billets

B.A.03/06/2014 17:33

Pour faire court on peut dire que c'est un mauvais roman mais qui est très intéressant pour ceux qui se passionnent pour l'art et sa réception ainsi que pour les amoureux de Rome. Fernandez n'a jamais eu l'imagination qui en ferait un romancier d'autre part si son écriture est fluide et se lit facilement on y trouvera jamais les images et autres comparaisons qui peuvent ravir le lecteur par leur trouvaille.

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I'm working with DataTables @_@

Idk if I ever said it, but I've been messing around with my (mostly neglected) personal site. Mostly, I just do fun coding projects on it.

But! I found out about the DataTables plugin and have seen it does basically what I want the CSP sheets to do: allow for filtering without messing with permissions, AND a lightbox feature for thumbnails.

I'm toying with it now and working on making some pages on the site specifically dedicated to making use of this plugin to share. It's a whole bunch of new stuff I'm trying to get a grasp on (particularly, working with JSON data)

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Une autre étoile envolée

En janvier 2024, une nouvelle grossesse s’annonce.

Après une première fausse couche, cette nouvelle vie qui commence est à la fois une source d’espoir et une ombre d’incertitude pour mon compagnon et moi. Pourtant, je me sens sereine, convaincue que cette fois tout ira bien, après tout, ça ne peut pas nous arriver une deuxième fois.

Dès les premières semaines, une échographie précoce me rassure : pas d’œuf clair cette fois, tout semble se dérouler normalement. Alors que mon compagnon reste prudent, je choisis d’écouter mon intuition : ce bébé est là, et tout va bien.

Quelques jours plus tard, de petites pertes marronnées apparaissent. Inquiète, je contacte ma sage-femme, qui m’explique que cela peut être lié à l’implantation, un phénomène courant en début de grossesse. Pour me rassurer pleinement, je me rends aux urgences pour une échographie. À l’écran, je découvre avec émotion le petit cœur de mon bébé qui bat. Cette image reste gravée en moi. Je partage cette douce expérience avec mon compagnon qui est alors lui aussi rassuré pour la suite de cette grossesse.

Le choc inattendu L’échographie de datation arrive et cette fois, mon compagnon m’accompagne. Nous sommes impatients de voir à quel point notre bébé a grandi. À l’écran, je vois un embryon qui a gagné quelques millimètres. Mais quelque chose ne va pas. Je ne vois plus son petit cœur battre. Il est bien là, mais immobile.

La sage-femme, compatissante, propose un second avis médical. J’accepte, et bien que j’espère encore un mauvais diagnostic, au fond de moi, je sais déjà la vérité. L’espoir s’effondre, et avec lui, une nouvelle incompréhension. Moins de 48 heures auparavant, tout semblait aller si bien.

On m’explique que la grossesse n’aurait sûrement pas été viable, mais ces mots ne suffisent pas à apaiser la douleur. Dans un moment de désespoir, je dis à mon compagnon de me quitter. Je lui dis qu’il n’arrivera jamais à avoir des enfants s'il reste avec moi, des mots durs, prononcés sous l’emprise de la douleur. Encore une fois je me sens inutile et je ressens une grande culpabilité.

À la sortie de l’hôpital, je me ressaisis. Cette fois, il faut que je sois forte. Je refuse d’être un poids ou une source d’inquiétude pour mon compagnon. Je vois à quel point il est affecté. Il se replie sur lui-même, et se tourne vers ses anciens démons pour supporter le choc.

Malgré nos douleurs respectives, nous restons unis, le sujet n'est plus tabou à la maison et en communiquant nous trouvons du réconfort l'un envers l'autre et la force d'avancer. Nous parlons de cette nouvelle page qui se tourne et de l'avenir vers lequel nous désirons aller.

Se reconstruire en construisant Face à cette deuxième épreuve, nous avons ressenti le besoin d'avancer avec un projet concret. C’est ainsi qu’est né notre nouveau projet : construire notre maison.

Chaque étape de ce projet nous aide à nous recentrer : choisir les plans et imaginer la vie que nous y construirons. Nous transformons notre douleur en énergie pour créer quelque chose qui portera en lui la promesse d’un renouveau.

Même si la peur de retomber enceinte flotte autour de moi, nous voulons toujours devenir parents. Alors avant que notre projet de construction débute je m'entoure de professionnels en tout genre. Je prends rendez-vous auprès d'un nouveau gynécologue qui me prescrit des examens, auprès d'une micro-kiné et d'une praticienne reiki. J'ai besoin de savoir que tout va bien chez moi, que je peux compter sur mon corps et qu'il n'est pas mon pire ennemi. Les premiers retours me rassurent et je me sens plus forte pour envisager ce désir de grossesse.

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One frame and two halves Photo scan of Efke film, masked with a page from The Guardian. Srebrenica, 2004 / London, 2024

This work begins with a 35mm film strip I shot in Srebrenica in 2004—nine years after the massacre. The town was still visibly wounded. Bullet holes in walls, silence in the air. It felt like a place suspended in time.

The exhibition’s theme was cinema as a space for community. But I kept thinking: what happens when that space is gone? Not just metaphorically, but physically—absent, destroyed. What replaces it? Where do people come together to make sense of what happened, or to believe that it even did?

This strip isn’t presented as a composed photograph. It’s the raw film—unfolded, uncleaned. Flares, hairs, scratches. No attempt at perfection. I paired it with pages from The Guardian, dated 27 April. A record layered on a record. A trace of presence layered over a trace of history.

There’s something about that combination—film and print—that still holds weight. Or maybe held weight. Today, we see tragedies unfold in real time—streamed, posted, reshared. And yet somehow, we don’t believe them. Or we forget. The more we see, the less it registers. The texture of reality thins out.

That’s what I’m really interested in here: not just memory, but the very possibility of believing what we see.

This image—this strip—is a document, but also a question. A question about truth, mediation, and the spaces we’ve lost, physically and culturally, to gather and believe together. If this had been made today—would we trust it? Would we even think it happened?

The project BEYOND THE SCREEN - ART INVADES THE CITY is funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. It is organised by ANAC (National Association of Cinematographic Authors) in collaboration with Young For Fun, Associazione Palazzo del Cinema - Hiša Filma, and Altreforme. Policardo's work is displayed in Pordenone on Via Oberdan and in Trieste on the corner of Via dell'Istria and Via Baiamonti.

The billboard in Pordenone, Italy - July 2024

--- --- --- --- --- --- Questo lavoro nasce da una striscia di pellicola 35mm che ho scattato a Srebrenica nel 2004—nove anni dopo il massacro. La città era ancora visibilmente ferita. Muri crivellati di proiettili, silenzio nell’aria. Sembrava un luogo sospeso nel tempo.

Il tema della mostra era il cinema come spazio di comunità. Ma io continuavo a chiedermi: cosa succede quando quello spazio non esiste più? Non solo in senso simbolico, ma proprio fisicamente—distrutto, scomparso. Cosa prende il suo posto? Dove ci si ritrova per dare senso a ciò che è accaduto—o per credere che sia davvero accaduto?

Questa non è una fotografia composta. È la pellicola grezza—non tagliata, non ripulita. Ci sono flare, polvere, graffi. Nessun tentativo di “perfezione”. L’ho accostata a pagine del Guardian, datate 27 aprile. Un documento sopra un altro documento. Una traccia di presenza sovrapposta a una traccia di storia.

È questo accostamento—tra pellicola e stampa—che forse ancora trattiene qualcosa. O forse tratteneva. Oggi le tragedie accadono in tempo reale—trasmesse in streaming, postate, rilanciate. Eppure, non ci crediamo. O dimentichiamo. Più vediamo, meno resta. La trama della realtà si assottiglia.

È qui che si concentra il mio interesse: non solo sulla memoria, ma sulla possibilità stessa di credere a ciò che vediamo.

Questa immagine—questa striscia—è un documento, ma anche una domanda. Una riflessione sulla verità, sulla mediazione, e sugli spazi che abbiamo perso—fisici e culturali—dove poterci ritrovare e credere, insieme. Se questa immagine fosse stata realizzata oggi—ci crederemmo? Penseremmo che sia davvero accaduto?

Il progetto OLTRE LO SCHERMO - L’ARTE INVADE LA CITTÀ è finanziato dalla Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia. È organizzato da ANAC (Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici) in collaborazione con Young For Fun, Associazione Palazzo del Cinema - Hiša Filma e Altreforme.

L’opera di Policardo è esposta a Pordenone in via Oberdan e a Trieste all’angolo tra via dell’Istria e via Baiamonti.

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[sephirothmon]

infosec paper looks easy this time so i'll do it after i get back. things i need to do: *double check stats tables bc we keep getting different answers *if time, work a little on website before going to campus (set up last quick link page) *go to campus and finalize stats project *come home, do infosec paper and emate activities (any order) *when done, rewarded with working on website some more (finish datatable, create techs datatable)

[drawnecromancy]

I find myself thinking back on these characters my dad made up for my sister and I when we were kids.

He read us The Hobbit as a bedtime story, and when it was over, we asked him for more. So he thought, all right, I make TTRPGs, I have been a game master, surely I can create a story for my children.

And he starts, by telling us that there is a magical land, where the earth is hollow. There's the outside, which looks a lot like our world, but with magic ! And then there's the inside of this earth, which is inhabited by large, somewhat anthropomorphic mole people, and there's a sun made of jewels inside that brightens during the day and dims during the night. There's large holes linking the two sides, and they're great areas of trade between the outside and the inside ! Unbeknownst to most people, sometimes, tiny holes exist and can let people through.

And then he introduced us to Firolin, Odji, and Jennifer.

[Pictured : Odji, Firolin, and Jennifer. I don't know why i drew them in this order, when my dad would always start the list with Firolin.]

Odji and Jennifer live in a human village. Odji's the son of the... the blacksmith, I think, or the lumberjack, I am not very certain anymore. Jennifer is the granddaughter of the village's wizard, and her parents are convinced that she is developing magic, but she is certain that she isn't. They're both 12, which was older than my sister and I at the time.

Firolin is a catboy, pretty literally as he's an anthropomorphic cat and a boy. He's also 12, and his 13th birthday is coming up soon, where he's going to get his first feather on his hat ! The cat-people call themselves the roulotteurs, which I am choosing not to translate because I think it's cute. They're a wandering people, of merchants and loyal fighters, and I am only now realizing my dad saw that we liked the Puss in Boots from Shrek and decided he needed a character that was kind of like that but also a child like the others. Also, as you can probably tell by the length of this paragraph, Firolin's my favorite.

I don't remember all of the story. My dad obviously relied on twists and turns for the new chapter every evening ! So while I do have memories of plot points, I don't know if it's all of them, and... some of the following paragraphs might be partial reconstructions based on what i DO remember, really.

The story starts while all three kids are hanging out in the forest together, because they're best friends, and they love spending time with Firolin when he and his family are around. And then.. Jennifer falls in a hidden, tiny hole, and her friends follow her in.

They wander, lost in the insides of the earth, until they meet some kind mole-people who offer to help them get back out. But they discover that currently, the mole people are being ruled over by an evil prince, who wants them to dig jewels from the earth for him, and not give anything to anyone else !

Of course, our brave kids want to do everything to stop that evil prince, and they embark on an adventure. They meet sky pirates, with boats that can fly ! They get in a fight with them, the captain thinking he might get a ransom from their parents, until they convince him to help them with 1) telling him that if he helps them stop the evil prince, that will get him more money than asking random villagers for a ransom and 2) Jennifer IS magic actually and she IS accidentally summoning a WHOLE ASS STORM that risks killing the pirates.

And so, they befriend the pirates, and are on their merry way to fight the evil prince. There is an epic sky battle near the jewel sun at the center of the earth, where the three realize something ghastly : the prince wants to explode the sun to get all the jewels from it ! That won't do. They manage to get on his skyship, divert it from its course, and make it explode while they safely get back to the pirate ship, and the pirates steal all the gold and jewels that were also stashed on the prince's ship.

Eventually, they go through one of the big holes to get back home, still aboard the pirate ship, because the captain said he'd drop them off. When they get back, enough time has passed that all of their parents were worried sick, and a tearful reunion happens. They explain everything that happened, and their parents are incredibly proud - Jennifer's parents congratulate her for finding a way to use her magic to help her friends, Odji is praised for being brave, and Firolin gets his first hat feather, because he had a wonderful adventure, even if it's not quite his birthday yet.

I keep this story close to my heart still. I love these little buggers.

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[sugarchains]

LOVE getting left off work emails that they want my input on bc im head of a department BUT im not a teacher leader yet

why

im tired

i dont even wanna be a teacher leader its not more money its just more workUGH

[deadnaturalhistories]

12 October 2022 / More from East Sussex!

Today, I managed to pick out specimens and print out explanatory labels for one of the two displays I’ve developed for the museum. The other display has already been planned out and prototyped; I reprinted the labels for the new box, but I didn’t have time to move the material from the old box to the new one.

Revisions to the accepted paper from yesterday have been sent back, but despite how minor it all is, the editor decided to send the paper back to the reviewers. Completely ridiculous.

I’ve also gotten up to 14 pages of drafted chapter! Tomorrow, I need to read through a couple of sources and incorporate them into the draft.

I’ve also been called in for stats stuff on yet another co-authored paper - I was going to start working on it today or tomorrow, but I found a couple of serious issues with the datatable. So, I’m on hold for the time being.

[starfoxadventuresthecomic]

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[devourer--of--books]

tagatha dating simulator au

- It’s sunday night and local college student, Agatha, hasn’t sleep in two days, practically glued to her chair at the library, trying to absorb the maximum of information she possibly could before finals on monday morning.

- Sitting across from her is her roommate and best friend, Sophie, who doesn’t seem nearly as concerned, playing a game on her phone. Mostly because she already failed half of her courses and is considering dropping out of college to pursue a modeling career, why try at this point-

- Agatha appreciates that Sophie is keeping her company, she really does, but even if her friend was using headphones, Agatha can still hear the background music and the voice actors very clearly. That on its own was distracting enough, but it was always the same lines, with the background music looping as Sophie restarted the game prologue over and over again.

- Around the fifth time she hears the app-staring-exclamation ‘milady!’ her eye starts twitching.

- By the twelfth she slams her book shut, earning herself a glare from all the remaining students in the library.

- “How terrible do you have to be at a game to not be able to get through the prologue?” she whisper-shouts, taking the sit beside Sophie, looking at the screen.

- “That’s not the problem,” her friend defends, proceeding to explain the game.

- Trial by Tale is a recently released dating simulator that has managed to gather a cult-like following. The game was praised for its diverse range of LIs, well-written routes, stellar voice acting, high-quality art style and a beautiful soundtrack. It was apparently highly addicting as well, as Agatha had never seen Sophie be that invested in... any game... like, ever.

- Basically, the main character was transported inside a fairytale-fantasy-like world, where they were introduced as a ‘reader’ to compete in the ‘trial by tale’, a inter-worldly tournament, set up by a mysterious entity (a magical pen known as ‘the storian’), in which the winner would be granted an unconditional wish.

- “Original,” Agatha snorts.

- “Can you just shut up and listen?”

- During the prologue, the main character meets most of the main LIs and according to the player’s decisions, the game would put them into a specific route, based on affection levels with each datatable character.

- There were about thirty bad endings for the casual route (where the player either made stupid choices or didn’t gather enough affection with any LI), ranging from mildly sad to terribly gory. Then, each route had five early bad endings, that could happen during the trial, resulting in the main character’s death. 

- If the player managed to win the tournament with the LI, bargaining with the storian for the survival of two competitors, then two new endings would be unlocked: a normal ending, in which the reader would wish to go home and a happy ending, in which the reader wished to remain forever in the fairytale world living happily ever after with their partner.

- “And that’s where it gets weird,” Sophie pauses, opening up the Trial By Tale wiki page. “Every single LI has a walkthrough and seven possible endings.”

- She shows Agatha a bunch of characters, offering some commentary on their personalities and backstories. Then, she pauses at the last. "All but one." The character is the prettiest, if not a bit too perfect. ‘Tedros of Camelot’, it says on the top of his page, his basic info and biography listed to the side, but it’s full of gaps, blanks and ‘???’s. It was mentioned that he was a dateable character, yet no  walkthrough was provided.

- “Why doesn’t it say anything? Has he not been released?”

- “No one has managed to get his route so far, but according to the game developers, it’s possible. We don’t even know what his voice sounds like.”

- “And you think you will because…?”

- “I’m me. I’m getting Tedros’ route even if it’s the last thing I’ll do.”

- Agatha decides to leave her be, going back to the books, while asking for her to at least lower the volume.

- An hour or so goes by until Sophie grows hungry and decides to leave the library, going back to the dorm. After that, Agatha finally manages to concentrate, and time goes by in a flash.

- In fact, it passes so quickly that she’s not even sure what time it was. When did everyone leave?

- Her phone is dead and the clock on the wall is frozen at midnight. Probably broken, Agatha decides. It couldn’t be midnight, the lights were still on, the library closed at 10:30pm sharp and no one came to kick her out. She was tired, but she wasn’t deaf. She calls for the librarian.

- All the lights turn off at once. She’d be lying if she said it didn’t freak her out a bit.

- Then, she notices a blue glow from under the table. Please don’t let it be a demon.

- It’s a smartphone, with a bedazzled case, a loading blue screen emitting the light. Trial By Tale’s soundtrack starts to play and soon enough the words appear. Touch anywhere to start. That was Sophie’s phone. Which would be fine and normal and okay if Agatha wasn’t pretty sure Sophie left with it. 

- The music starts to loop, and Agatha uses the light to guide her to the entrance, only to find it locked. Every other exit was blocked as well. Ha. Funny.

- Eventually, she surrenders, clicking on the screen, trying to close the app. The last thing she hears is ‘milady!’ and everything turns black as she feels the floor disappear from under her feet, her consciousness fading as she fell into an abyss of darkness.

- She wakes up lying on grass, near a gate, the words Trial By Tale engraved on top of it.

- She pinches herself, feeling it sting as she stared at the gate, pinching harder and harder to the point she nearly screamed in pain. The gate was still there. Agatha focus on her senses. She’s never able to smell things on her dreams.

- This place smells like dirt, pines, dried blood and iron. 

- It’s a dream, she tries to convince herself. Very vivid dream, but it’s a dream.

- A bunch of floating text appears in front of her: Welcome, competitors!

- The storian tells Agatha everything Sophie already told her: it’s a tournament, in which 40 teens from different fairytale kingdoms, including the reader world, must compete amongst themselves for survival during 24 hours. You could pair up with someone, forming an alliance, but there could only be one winner. Then, the world froze, turning black and white, three options appearing in thin air:

A: I’m a boy 

B: I’m a girl 

C: I’m neither/both/something else.

- Agatha experiments. The text didn’t respond to her voice or gestures; she had to touch it. B. They disappeared up in smoke, being replaced by a new choice:

A: climb over the gate early 

B: go in as soon as the gong goes off

C: run into the woods

- All of those sound horrible, she’ll hang around here, thank you very much.

- Agatha decides to pick B, because it sounded the least likely to get her killed. Tapping the option, color returns and more texts appears, telling her the rest of the rules. Apparently, all forms of magic and weapons were allowed, as it was a tournament to the death.

- Well, she had neither a weapon nor any magic, geez, things were certainly looking up.

- A gong can be heard and Agatha waits for her legs to magically move according to her choice. 

- They don’t.

- She debates on staying put for a few minutes, maybe way too many, but then she remembers: casual route endings vary from mildly sad to terribly gory. Agatha doesn’t wanna find out which one she’d get by sticking around.

- Her future now depends on her romancing one of these pieces of code. Thankfully, it was just a dream, right?

- Inside the arena (?), she gets some other choices, which Agatha uses to her advantage, trying to figure out which LI she was going for and how to win them over.

- Hort, according to her friend, was the easiest to please and the most boring of them all. Nicola was efficient and Sophie had managed to unlock her happy ending without a walkthrough. Aric was a psycho, and so was Japeth. Don’t pick Rhian, her friend had warned. Anadil was a hard one to guess without the walkthough, Hester was super hot and Agatha’s type but that could go very wrong (clearly her type wasn’t working out, as she was painfully single) and-

- Is that Japeth or Rhian? She can’t tell, but he’s coming her way.

A: introduce yourself

B: try to kill him

C: hide behind the rock

- She chooses C, but climbs a tree instead, because he surely would be able to see her behind the rock, was he blind or something?

- “You sure are taking your time choosing,” a voice whispers from the branch above her, nearly giving her a heart attack, “...first time player maybe? Or just dumb?”

- Tedros, the mysterious character, was looking down at her, resting on a higher branch. 

- Agatha glares at him before blurting: “You’re shorter than you look on your CG.”

- He chokes. “You can hear me?” 

- “Why are you british?” she notices the accent, given how different it sounded from all the other voice actors. 

- “I’m bi,” he frowns at her in offended confusion.

- (The himbo energy in this bus is astronomical.)

- They bicker a bit and Japeth grows suspicious of the hushed conversation, nearing the tree. Tedros asks for her help taking him down. Agatha is like, sure, whatever at this point, just trying to forget that Tedros broke the fourth wall. It’s a dream, don’t overthink too much.

- She distracts Japeth, and Tedros tries to ambush him, but it backfires horribly, resulting in Tedros now being a few seconds away from dying a very very painful death.

A: run away

B: ally yourself with Japeth

- Agatha hesitates over option A, convincing herself that Tedros wasn’t a real person. He was a just a character in a game. But while the entire world is black and white waiting for her answer, she swears his eyes remain icy blue. 

- Trick of the light?

- She presses A but throws herself towards Japeth, colliding with him. Agatha ends up being stabbed in the arm, but otherwise fine, which is more than Japeth can say, as he fell into a conveniently located black hole. That hurt like a bitch, how is this a dream?

- Tedros is shook.

- “What did you do? How did you even-” he eyes the blood in her arm. “You’re bleeding!” Tedros rips his shirt to wrap it around the wound, and Agatha does her best not to stare at him while he tends to the wound.

- A blue ribbon in the sky tells Agatha she is now on Tedros’ route. A ribbon they can both read.

- “That’s… troublesome.”

- “What, is your route cursed or something?”

- “...”

- “It’s totally cursed, isn’t it?”

- They argue a bunch and Agatha tries to ditch him but ends up almost dying twice. Tedros saves her, and insists that since he accidentally gave her his route, he’ll help her stay alive for as long as he can. 

- Together they figure out that Agatha’s ability to disobey the game choices might be able to uncurse his route, hopefully sending her home by the end and resetting the game as it was meant to be, allowing people play his route.

- Agatha is pretty sure Tedros is not telling her something, but she kinda does owns him her life now (“2x1, sucks to suck, reader.”) and he offered to share some of his food and hiding spot with her. Doesn’t hurt that he clearly knew how to fight and had a big sword, while Agatha had.... free will and nothing else apparently???

- They end up talking over fruits and water (we love a healthy king) in a cave and Agatha finds out basically every other character’s backstory, learning a ton about the context of these trials as well as what the game felt like for the characters.

- According to Tedros, every other character was doomed to repeat the same route and actions following the reader’s choices, only to lose all memories by the end, as the game reseted. They were all blissfully ignorant of the fact that this was, in fact, a dating simulator. All of them but Tedros. When Agatha asks him why, he closes off:

- “Every single character has a core wish they want fulfilled. It can be the same wish every time, or it can change once your route resets. My original wish contradicted the memory reset, so no one has been able to play my route at all. And if no one plays, I can’t reset. If you go home and the game resets, I’ll make a different wish and my route should be fixed for good.”

- Agatha doesn’t ask what he wished for and he doesn’t tell her either; it feels like way too personal of a question for strangers eating berries in a cave.

- She does ask him what his new wish will be, though.

 - “I’ll restore my kingdom back to its former glory,” he starts, a certain sadness in his eyes. “They deserve a prince who doesn’t waste time wishing for-” Tedros interrupts himself, telling her about his kingdom instead.

- Agatha knows he’s related to King Arthur due to his name on the Trial By Tale wiki, but she’s surprised that he actually gives her that info willingly. He is indeed the prince of Camelot, but his mother abandoned the palace when he was nine and then his father died a few years later, sending the kingdom into despair and disgrace. 

- (“That’s rough, buddy.”)

- To lighten the mood, she decides to tell him about ‘the reader world’. 

- “To exist in your world might be something then,” he smiles, “I mean, beats hanging around here. You said you have a machine that can play music anytime you want?”

 - Tedros is fascinated with everything and asks her about all sorts of stuff, like about politics, lgbtqa+ rights, tik tok, food, the economy, school and fashion trends. Also, memes, lots of memes.

- They spend like 8 hours straight hidden in a cave, just talking, bickering and actually having a lot of fun. The lack of choices even makes her forget she was still in a game.

- Tedros notices how tired she looks and offers to keep watch while she sleeps.

A: say no as a joke

B: outright refuse

- Agatha taps A.

- “Sure, do you mind if I lean on you though?”

- Is this like a date or are we like doing my route and you’re sleeping on my arm platonically? Tedros is shook, part 2.

- Agatha tries not to fall asleep, but she does take a nap, leaning on his shoulder. Surprisingly enough, an hour later she’s still alive, but her head was now on his lap and he was petting her hair.

- “Hi.”

- “Hi.”

A: get up

B: kiss him

- She doesn’t wanna get up, but she doesn’t really feel like kissing him would be appropriate for the moment. She presses B, yet remains still for next few minutes. Tedros looks a bit disappointed, as if he was waiting for her.

- “Aren’t you going to kiss me?”

- “Do you want me to?”

- He doesn’t reply immediately, running his fingers through her hair. “Everyone wants to kiss me. I’m hot, I’m a prince and I’m rich.”

- “You’re gonna need to do better than that to get me to kiss you,” Agatha tells him. “If we survive this I’ll kiss you once, just before we unlock your normal ending and I go home. For a CG.”

- “But then I won’t remember it at all.”

- The comment makes her nervous. Once this is over and Tedros gets his route unlocked, he’s gonna be just another character. He’ll say things like that to everyone. Agatha has to chastise herself for growing attached to a video game character. He’s not real. He wasn’t yours to begin with, you’ve known him for less than a day. Get a grip.

- They stay in silence until another gong goes off, the storian’s text showing up in the air: “12 hours left. Only 10 competitors remain.”

A: stay in the cave

B: leave

- Agatha chooses B and they head out of the cave to see who else was alive, just in time to not be crushed under heavy rocks. Strangely they don’t bump into anyone. What they do run into, though, is a bunch of traps and creatures meant to randomly eliminate competitors. Great.

- Somehow, Agatha always chooses the right option and alters her actions just enough to save them at the last minute. Is she a pro-gamer? One can only marvel at how lucky she’s been getting in this game. No, but like, really, is she? Tedros is impressed.

- At the 6 hour mark, there’s 4 people left, including the two of them. He’s been eyeing Agatha weirdly and she doesn’t know what to think of it because she liked hanging out with him, but at the same time, he is a piece of code.

- There’s like, a dramatic confrontation with the other two competitors, which turn out to be Aric and Hester, not as a pair, but as individuals, and it ends up working out in Tedros and Agatha’s favor, as those two end up murdering each othe while Tedros and Agatha have the advantage of teamwork. It’s a great action sequence, but if you’ve read this far, I’m pretty sure you’re not here for the action.

- Anyway, the storian appears, but unlike the other routes, instead of giving Agatha the opportunity to bargain for them both to survive, her options are:

A: kill Tedros

B: kill Tedros

- Agatha doesn’t tap either. She stays still, glaring at the pen while the world remained black and white.

- Then, the entire arena starts to shake, the game glitching as Tedros moves, his colors fading in and out, his expression tortured, as if just smiling at her was painful, his eyes glowing unnaturally blue. “Let’s get you home,” he mouths, before stabbing himself with his own sword, falling to the floor as the colors returned for good.

- Agatha couldn’t breathe, kneeling beside him.

- “To meet someone who’d love me for me,” he admits, bleeding out into the ground, a single tear running down his face. “That was my original wish. And then I met you.”

- She kisses him on the lips, and as you know, true love’s kiss breaks every spell, heals every wound and transcends the limits of storytelling.

- Tedros’ chest is slowly healing, but just as he gets stronger, Agatha grows weaker, starting to disappear through his fingers in rays of lights, back to the reader’s world, leaving a lonely prince by himself in a bloody arena with a magical pen.

- “Unconditional wish for the winner, hm?”

- Back at the library, Agatha wakes up with a snap, falling off her chair.

- The clock on the wall reads 10pm and the few students left at the library glare at her. She hurries to gather her things in her arms, going back to her dorm trying to make sense of what just happened. It was all a dream. It had to be because her arm is intact. She has been running on too much caffeine, finals start the next morning, she was stressed, that’s all.

- Sophie is still playing the game once Agatha arrives at the dorm, and as soon as she walks in, her friend tells her the news:

- “See, darling, I told you I’d get Chaddick’s route eventually!”

- Chaddick’s route?

- Agatha doesn’t even reply, going straight to bed, still haunted. That night, she has no dreams of handsome boys in caves, neither does she dream of blue-eyed princes bleeding out.

- Monday afternoon, though, a distracted Agatha is walking back to her dorm after taking her exams, when she bumps into someone, nearly knocking her over. She is about to yell at the stranger when her voice gets caught on her throat.

- “To exist in your world might be something,” the familiar stranger smiles at her, “I mean, I’m Tedros Pendragon, nice to meet you.”

[bitfumes-blog]

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how to use datatable

How to use datatable tutorial Part 1

How to use Datatable: About Datatable

DataTables is a plug-in for the jQuery Javascript library. It is a highly flexible tool, based upon the foundations of progressive enhancement, and will add advanced interaction controls to any HTML table.

Pagination, instant search and multi-column ordering

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Avonlea e i suoi abitanti: note alla nuova e inedita traduzione italiana delle "Cronache di Avonlea" di Lucy Maud Montgomery

Avonlea e i suoi abitanti: note alla nuova e inedita traduzione italiana delle “Cronache di Avonlea” di Lucy Maud Montgomery

di Enrico De Luca

Akage no Anne, di Hayao Miyazaki

Nella chiusa alle molte pagine datate 24 ottobre 1911 del suo diario, Lucy Maud Montgomery fornisce per la prima volta informazioni sulle Cronache di Avonlea (Chronicles of Avonlea):

“In questo momento sto riscrivendo e rivisitando alcuni miei racconti pubblicati su rivista. Il signor Page farà uscire in primavera un volume di essi…

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UIPath Advanced RPA Developer Certification Questions with Answers

Check Exam Format at https://www.scrumprinciples.com/uipath-advanced-rpa-developer-certification/ 1). How many types of actions can be performed in the Variables panel in UiPath? Ans : – a). Changing Variable types b).  Adding new Variables c).  Setting default values for variables 2). What is the possible technique to get the content of a PDF document is available in UiPath? Ans. First to opening the PDF and using Screen scraping to get its data. Second to the Read PDF Text activity and providing the PDF file’s path. 3). Which activity is used to represent a decision inside a Sequence? Ans:- The If activity 4). How can you exit from a For Each activity in UiPath? Ans: – Break activity 5). During the running of workflow, how can you see the steps the workflow is executing? Ans : – a).Using Debug and inspecting the Output panel b). Using Debug with Highlight Activities option 6). How can execution be paused before a particular activity in UiPath? Ans: – a).First to use  a MessageBox activity b).Second to use a breakpoint in Debug mode 7). In Order to Save Attachments activity, it  can save all the attachments of an email to: Ans : – a). A relative path b). An absolute Path 8). What is the  Visual Basic property within the MailMessage class will you use to get the Date of an email? Ans : – a).Headers(“Date”) 9). Which is the best optimize navigation method to be used in a form within Citrix? Ans:- By sending keyboard commands/hotkeys 10). What happens if Find Image doesn’t actually find the desired image in UiPath? Ans: – An Exception is Throw. 11). Which recording profile is used to generate full selectors in UiPath? Ans: – Basic recording 12). Which activities can be used to mostly interact with the user? Ans : – a). Input Dialog b) Message Box 13).  In Which situation we have to use the  Flowchart workflow in UiPath? Ans : – a).When modelling a process that has loops to previous states b). When having a process with many decision blocks 14). In case if the PDF activities are not listed in your activities panel, how can you get them? Ans:-  You have to install pdf activities using Manage Packages features. 15). What should you use to click on a hidden IE browser? Ans:- a). SimulateClick 16). Why Timeout MS property is used in UiPath? Ans : – a). To define the amount of time during which the target of an activity must be found. 17). Why Queues are used in UiPath? Ans: – Distribute transnational load among multiple robots 18). Is it possible to click a button with Click Image Activity if the target is not visible on the screen in UiPath? Ans:- No, you could click a button which is not visible only using selectors 19). What is the way to send an image inside a MailMessage? Ans:- a).You can add the path to the attachment directly in the send activity. b). You can specify the relative path of the image in the Attachments property. 20). If you need to sort a table from a .xlsx file, which feature is used? Ans: – An excel Sort Table Activity. 1). Which recording wizard is used to automate UI interactions in an application that does not offer support for selectors in UiPath. Ans: – Citrix Recording 2). Which of the following phrases are true regarding Project Organization? Ans: – Saves time for all team members, Is a constant concern of the robot developer 3). how do you define to create a layout of business logic in complex process automation?  Ans: – Flowchart 4). Which activity is used to chain together multiple workflows in single automation in UiPath?  Ans: – Invoke workflow File Activity 5). How can you manage passwords for an automation project in UiPath?  Ans: – With Windows Credential Manager 6). Which activity is used to Get Outlook Mail Messages activity? Ans: – MailFolder 7). Which activities allow you to iterate through an array of strings in UiPath?  Ans: – a). while b). For Each c). Do While 8). Can you insert a Flowchart activity in a Sequence in UiPath?  Ans: – Yes 9). What is the use of The Orchestrator? Ans: – a)Remotely control robots b). Send Start commands to multiple robots c). Schedule robots to perform specific processes 10). How to check the UI Element is exist on the screen or not, which activity is used for this? Ans : – Element Exists 11). Where can you see the variables’ values when we execute the workflow in UiPath? Ans: – In the Locals Pane 12). What can you use to make sure that the execution continues even if an activity fails in UiPath? Ans : – Try/Catch Activity 13).  Which activity is used If you want to wait until a UI Element becomes available on the screen in UiPath? Ans:- Find Element 14). What happens if you use the Excel Read Range activity to read a .xlsx file that is already opened in UiPath? Ans: – This will read the document successfully. 15). What is the way to optimize accuracy when scraping with OCR a region that contains only digits? Ans: – Use Google OCR with  “Numbers Only” 16). Which property is used to make sure that the workflow continues even if an activity fails in UiPath? Ans :- ContinueOnError Property 17). Which property defines the amount of time in which the UI target of an activity must be found? Ans: – The TimeoutMS property 18). Why Attach Window used in UiPath? Ans: – Identifying the window you are working with. 19). What is the way to enable the (Clipping) Region selection mode when Screen Scraping in UiPath? Ans: – By Pressing F3 20). Which activity can be used to modify the value of an existing cell in a DataTable in UiPath?  Ans:- Assign Activity How does the Anchor Base activity work? It searches for an UiElement at a fixed anchor position.It searches for an UiElement using a relative coordinate position.It searches for an UiElement by using another UiElement as anchor. What direction can the arguments of a workflow have? In arguments.Out argumentsIn/Out arguments. At the end of the execution of Workflow1, which retrieves some items from a database, is the database connection closed automatically? Yes, the connection is closed after 30 seconds.The connection has to be closed using a Disconnect activity.Only the database admin can decide this aspect. Where can we see the logs generated by running robots? In the Output panel.In the local Logs folder.In the Orchestrator logs. Why is renaming activities considered to be one of the best practices? In case of an exception, to be able to find its source activityTo be able to understand the process logic without expanding each sequence or invoked workflow.To easily understand the high-level business logic from a workflow. What type of Output variable do all Get Mail activities return? (POP3, IMAP, Outlook, Exchange) MailMessageListList Is it possible to retrieve the color of a specific Excel cell? Yes, by using Get Cell ColorNo. The color cannot be retrieved from a workbook.Only with an OCR Engine. Can you store a Selector in a variable? NoYes, in a UiElement variable.Yes, in a String variable. What can be used to debug a workflow? BreakpointsHighlighting activities.The Slow Step option. How can a robot start an application in Citrix? By using a command line.By double clicking on a Desktop icon.By using an Open Application activity.By defining a shortcut key for the application and then triggering the app with a Send Hotkey activity. What is Orchestrator used for? Running Windows processes on the local machine.Remotely controlling any number of robots and performing workflow management.Designing workflows to be run by robots in a supervised mode.Designing workflows to be run by robots in an unsupervised mode. What happens when a new version of a package is published? The processes using the package are automatically updated to the latest versionThe processes have to be updated in order for the robots to run the latest version of the packageThe old version of the package is overwritten What types of assets can be stored in Orchestrator? Array, Datatable, Bool, StringBool, String, Integer, CredentialInteger, Password, GenericValue, String Where can you trigger an unattended robot from? Select all the options that apply. The UiPath Robot icon in the system trayUiPath StudioRemotely, from Orchestrator How can a process be executed on three different robots? By deploying the process in the environment of the robots, which run it automaticallyBy creating a job and selecting all three robotsIt is not possible to allocate a process to three different robotsBy scheduling the process and adjusting the settings in the Execution Target tab accordingly The best way of managing variable values within a workflow, so that they can be shared on different robots and environments is: Using Json config files.Using excel config filesUsing assets defined in Orchestrator. What robots can be selected when you start a job from Orchestrator? Any robot provisioned in Orchestrator.Any robot you have access to according to your role permissions.Any robot in the same environment as the process to be executed. What is the best way of restricting the access of a person to a limited number of pages in Orchestrator? That option does not exist. Everyone is able to see everythingBy changing the rights of the Administrator to the desired state.By creating a different account and role for that person. When creating a new role, restrictions can be applied. “Add Assets” in Orchestrator has the following option: Value Per RobotValue Per EnvironmentValue Per ProcessSingle Value

What robot state is displayed on the Robots page while a job is being executed?

BusyRunnningPending Where should credentials be stored? Select all the options that apply. In Windows Credential Store.In Orchestrator, as assets.Directly inside the workflows, as variables. Which one of the statements below regarding the GetAppCredentials workflow included in UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework is true? It first requests the credential from user.It first tries to fetch a credential from the Windows Credential Manager.It first tries to fetch a credential from Orchestrator. If a large item collection is processed using For Each, which activity enables you to efficiently exit the loop after a specific moment? No activity can be used. Instead, you have to create a Boolean variable based on which the For Each loop is brokenThe “Break” activity is the most suitable in For EachA While loop should be used instead of For Each Which of the following statements are true? Select all the options that apply. You cannot use a recorder in a Citrix environmentThe recorder is used to create a skeleton for the UI automationThe Desktop recorder generates partial selectors In UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework, what are the transitions of the Init state? In the case of Success, the transition is to the Get Transaction Data state.In the case of System Error, the transition is to the Init state.In the case of Success, the transition is to the Process Transaction state.In the case of System Error, the transition is to the End Process state. Which statement about the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template is false? The framework is meant to be a template that helps the user design processes.The framework can be used only if you get the input data from the UiPath server queues.The framework has a robust exception handling scheme and event logging. Which of the following are considered best practices? Select all the options that apply. Keeping environment settings hard coded inside workflows.Breaking the process into smaller workflows.Reusing workflows across different projects. In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, if a System Error is encountered in the Init state of the Main workflow, which state is executed next? Get Transaction DataInitEnd Process In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, in the Get Transaction Data state of the Main workflow, what happens before the next transaction item is retrieved? We check if the previous transaction has been completedWe check if a kill signal was sent from OrchestratorWe check if a stop signal was sent from Orchestrator When should an Attended Robot be used? Select the option that applies. When the processing of some input data relies on human decision.When a workflow needs to be modified and corrected.When the process might be interrupted by exceptions and errors. What happens in the Init state of the Main workflow, in the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template? The robot reads the configuration file and initializes all the required applications.The transaction items are extracted from the Queue.The robot checks if the previous transaction is complete and then starts the next one. How should exceptions be handled? Select all the options that apply. By using Try Catch activities inside the workflow for unexpected application exceptions.By validating data using conditional blocks for business exceptions.UiPath handles exceptions by default. In which workflow in the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template is the retry mechanism implemented? The SetTransactionStatus workflowThe Main workflowThe GetTransactionData workflow In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, in the Main workflow, the State Machine includes the following states: Init stateGet transaction data stateProcess Transaction StateSet Transaction StateEnd Process State Which of the following are considered best practices? Removing unreferenced variables.Deleting disabled code.Leaving target applications opened. In a Try Catch activity, how many times is the Finally section executed if no error occurs in the Try section? OnceThe Finally section is executed only when the Catch section is executed.Zero In UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework, the value of MaxRetryNumber in the Config.xlsx file should be set to a number greater than 0 to enable the retry mechanism in the following cases: Get data from spreadsheets, databases, email, web API.Do not work with UiPath Orchestrator queues.Get data from UiPath Orchestrator queues with Auto Retry disabled. The return value of the Get Transaction Item activity is of the following type: ObjectStringQueueItemList Which is the best way to navigate to a specific page in a web browser? Use the Navigate To activity inside an Attach Browser containerUse the Type Into activity inside an Attach Browser containerUse a Type Into activity with a full selector How should a UiPath developer handle frequent changes in the project files? By creating daily backups of the filesBy using a source control solution, such as SVN, TFS, etc.Old versions of the project files are not relevant What layout should be used for UI navigation and data processing? FlowchartSequenceState Machine In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, if a System Error is encountered in the Process Transaction state of the Main workflow, which state is executed next? Get Transaction DataInitEnd Process How can you pass data between workflows? By using arguments.By using variables.By using a pipe. In the UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework template, what happens if the processing of a transaction item fails with an Application Exception or a System Error? The process executes the End Process state.All used applications are closed and then re-initialized.The execution of the transaction item is retried if the MaxRetryNumber config value is greater than 0. Which of the following are required to have efficient execution of automation projects? Proper exception handlingRecovery abilitiesEffective logging mechanisms Read the full article