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Why We Love To Hate The Kardashian-Jenners
Effortless captivation by the (in)famous Kardashian-Jenner clan.
Katie Wallace
Let's start out with the essential question—why, as a country, do we care about the Kardashian-Jenner family so much? It seems as though Kim "breaks" the Internet every other day, and if not her, one of her family members is taking social media by storm. Their show on E!, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, is said to have once had 2.081 million viewers per episode.
The fact that 2 million-plus Americans sit on their couches and watch an hour in the life of a Kardashian-Jenner is so unfortunate. However, I, too, have sinned. It just sucks you in. WHY?! I don't think we will ever know the answer to this question. Is it because we are all so incredibly envious of their fabulous lifestyle? Is it because Kim could wear Aeropostale and instantly make it middle-school-cool again? Is it because Khloe's sass gives our nation life? Yes, yes, and obvi.
Kim made a sex tape with Ray J for her claim to fame. Kourtney has the cutest kids I've ever seen. Khloe just says whatever is on her mind. Kendall models. Kylie Instagrams a selfie every four minutes. Kris is a MILF. And it seems like Kanye (married to Kim) believes he is actually Jesus Christ.
With that being said, the Kardashian and Jenner ladies haven't done anything super awesome that should have Americans, or the rest of the world, so captivated by them. Nevertheless, we are, and here I am, writing an article about them, knowing much too much about their lives for being such a hater. Perhaps it's because I am guilty of following almost all of them on social media, something that most of Kim's other 40 million followers are guilty of as well.
I recently added Kylie Jenner on Snapchat, just to continue to "keeping up with the Kardashians" (though Kylie is actually a Jenner). I hate myself for doing so, but I have to. It's crazy. She's 17 (nearly 18) yet looks 25. Speaking of 25, Tyga, her speculated boyfriend (well, speculated ex-boyfriend now), is actually 25. It makes you wonder what kind of influences she's having on young girls who keep up with her just as closely as I do, but don't see why she's not the best role model. As social media showed us in the past, people will try anything to resemble Kylie. The "Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge" became popular on Twitter overnight and caused teens to suck on a shot glass to give their lips that full, plump look similar to Kylie's. *Universal sigh*
I could rant all day about the infamous Kardashians and Jenners, yet I'll still watch Kylie's Snapchat story of her driving and posing in her Range Rover later, and then look at Kim's Instagram and even skim through her book, Selfish, when I stumble upon it at Urban Outfitters. True story, people. It is a book dedicated to nothing but selfies of Kim over the years. (Again, WHY?)
You know what they say, though: "Don't hate me 'cause you ain't me."
11 Quotes From Matthew McConaughey's New Book 'Greenlights' That Will Help You Find Your Frequency In 2021
Alright, alright, alright, it's time to get relative.
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Ever since I watched "How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days," I've been a major Matthew McConaughey fan. I've seen most of his movies, and I definitely got way too excited when he finally made an Instagram! So when he announced he would be releasing a memoir titled "Greenlights," I knew I absolutely had to get my hands on this book. And so did the rest of the world, as the book began to flood social media.
Truthfully, I would much rather read a fiction book and dive into another world than read a nonfiction book - even if it is one of my favorite celebrities. But I had a feeling this book wouldn't disappoint or bore.

So I not only ordered it, but I went to one of his Zoom book tour events to hype myself up for it even more. I waited about a week before finally getting it in the mail, and when I started reading it, I literally could not put it down.

I've never read a nonfiction book that had the same effect on me as a fiction book, but McConaughey's exciting life and adventures, optimistic outlook, and determination were inspiring, intriguing, and relatable. I found myself writing down quote after quote after quote in one of my favorite book apps, learning so many lessons and ready to go on so many new adventures. Reading his book really was like being transported to another world. I often wondered if he was living on the same planet as me with all of his risk-taking, experiences, and adventures, which inspired me to make my New Year's resolution of the adventurous spirit.

At the end of the day, McConaughey's book is all about being relative and finding your frequency, and as the beginning of 2021 begins to round out, I feel like I have started to do just that. I feel like I have a clear idea of my goals and my journey, but my clearest idea yet is that I want to be guided down the path that life - that God - takes me down. To relinquish some of the control I grip so tightly to and to just start "livin." I feel more relative with this world, and with my life, than I did this time last year. And I am almost certain it is because "Greenlights" has helped me to discover my frequency. Hopefully the quotes that have made the biggest impact on my mindset and outlook can help to revolutionize your 2021, as well.

 1. "Sometimes which choice you make is not as important as making a choice and committing to it."

This really hit home with me. I've always been such an indecisive person, and I feel like my struggle to find the "perfect choice" has held me back from experiencing the exciting adventure that the choice is presenting right in front of me. I've had a lot of big life choices come my way recently, but instead of sitting around wondering if they were the rights ones, I'm going to focus on committing to them. Giving them my all. Making them the very best choices instead of searching or waiting for another option.

 2. "Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill, but first, answer the question, 'What is my hill?'"

In our society, we are constantly worried about what others think of us. I've fallen for this trope one too many times. But in reality, life itself is not a popularity contest. Your life is just that - YOUR life. No one else's. Just because you're popular to someone in one moment, doesn't mean you will be in the next. This quote reminds me to live my life for me, but in that process, to not forget what I am living for. To not forget what drives me - and only me.

 3. "It is not about win or lose, it is about do you accept the challenge. When you did that, you already won."

I loved this story, and I especially loved this quote from one of the men McConaughey was traveling around Africa with. As a competitive perfectionist at heart, I always want to win. It runs through my blood, but unfortunately, it makes failure much harder. This quote has inspired me to shift my mindset, to feel like a winner for simply taking the challenge on, no matter the outcome.

 4. "I am good at what I love, I don't love all that I'm good at."

I related to this a lot. My work, whether it's writing or related to my major, is my passion. I love it, and I think I'm at least halfway decent at it. I believe my abilities and my passion intertwine, that my skills have improved because of my dedication. But there are definitely other things that I'm good at it, or have been throughout my life, that I just did not enjoy doing. I think it's important we focus on our passions and on the things we love - there's no point wasting time on something that makes us unhappy just because we are "good" at it.

 5. "Sometimes we have to leave what we know to find out what we know."

Wow - POWERFUL. I felt like this quote was speaking to past, present, and future me. When I left for college, I was terrified. The idea scared the living daylights out of me, but I have discovered more about myself in the last few years than in any other chapter of my life. Maybe some of it I already knew about myself and the world, but it took leaving everything I consciously knew to open my eyes to these truths. And I was so amazed by what I found that I traveled to Europe to intern for an entire summer, once again leaving everything I knew. And now, I'm about to head off on another far away adventure. Every time I've been terrified, but every time I've come back to what I know and love eager to discover even more.

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 6. "It's really the secret to why Austin is so cool; all you have to be in Austin is you, and Austin appreciates it when you are."

So what is my next adventure to discover more of what I already know? Austin, Texas. I landed a job in the great state of Texas post-graduation, and the idea of moving so far away from what I know and am comfortable with to a city I have never been before has scared me since I accepted the job. But reading this book and seeing this quote was like a personal affirmation - Austin is a great place to build a foundation for my life; it's a place you can be yourself, a place you can find your frequency. This quote helped me get relative and realize I am going on this adventure whether it terrifies me or not. So I better shift my mindset away from fear and towards excitement.

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 7. "I think that's what we all want. To believe and be believed in. We must earn belief in ourselves first, then for each other. Earn it with you, then earn it with me, then we earn it for we."

In a world where the need for validation reigns supreme, this is a great reminder that we must believe in ourselves if we ever hope to have others believe in us. Once we believe in ourselves and are shining with our own confidence, we can believe in each other. We won't need the validation; it will just come naturally.

 8. "It was a crisis. I just didn't give the crisis credit. I treaded water until I crossed the finish line."

Talk about a relative quote - this one is a kicker, for sure! Whether it's in my own personal life or in society as a whole, it seems like absolutely everything is a crisis. A meltdown. A ruining. It's hard when something goes wrong or changes to not feel like we are going down. But it's about time we stop giving these crises, whether they are real or overblown, in our personal lives or societal, so much credit. I'm ready to start pushing forward, trampling them on the way to my goals as if they aren't there. I'm ready to stop worrying about the future and to start focusing on the present.

 9. "We are going to make mistakes - own them, make amends, and move on."

As a bonafide perfectionist, mistakes are hard to handle. I regret them, feel guilty for them. Whether it wasn't saying the right thing in the moment or saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, whether it was for getting a B in a class or botching a work-related task, it's hard to accept mistakes that I make with myself and others. But ever since reading this quote, I made one of my many 2021 missions to own my mistakes and move on from them. As McConaughey says, "turn the page."

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 10. "The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow. We must be aware of what we attract in life because it is no accident or coincidence. The spider waits in his web for dinner to come. Yes, we must choose what we want, seek it out, cast our lines in the water, but sometimes we don't need to make things happen. Our souls are infinitely magnetic."

As someone longing for a relationship after enjoying some independent, single years, this quote (or rather, passage) brought me so much peace. Instead of being constantly on the search for a boyfriend, like McConaughey was on the search for a wife, I'm ready to let the target draw the arrow. When my soul finds its force, the magnets will collide, no doubt about it. It's something that will happen when I stop trying to make it happen.

I do love how he mentions that we must still put in effort, still work hard, in our lives. We can't sit around and expect the world to wait on us hand and foot, but we also must accept that some things (like love) are simply out of our control. It's something we can't just make happen. It's something that will fall into place at the right time.

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 11. "The box office failures didn't dampen my love of acting. If anything they made me more feverishly committed to my craft."

FAILURES DO NOT DEFINE YOU. (Sorry, yelling that one at myself.) But his experience definitely solidifies this truth - the movie failures do not make him a failed actor nor a failure as a person. Rather, failures should make us more determined and committed to our passion. And while at one point in my life I would've said failures are motivating because of my drive to turn them into successes, now I believe they're motivating because if I fail at doing something I loved - well, at least I loved it! Keep doing what you love and what you are passionate about, and don't let any kind of failure put a damper on it.

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The Armie Hammer Scandal Discourse Is Kink Shaming And Harming Actual Victims
The rumors surrounding Armie Hammer has resulted in some very toxic and harmful discourse.
Rocco Papa
LGBTQ+ at Odyssey
Sex is something that occupies a very significant place in our lives. Even asexual people can have an active sex life. With the various types of people that comprise this world, it obviously results in various sexual interests. And unconventional people can engage in some pretty unconventional sex practices. Even the most conventional people on the surface might surprise us with their sexual fantasies.

Armie Hammer's name has been floating around the internet recently. Several screenshots of alleged direct messages were leaked by an anonymous user on Instagram. According to the user, these were screenshots of explicit sexual conversations with Hammer. They detailed various fantasies that were very extreme. The portions of the messages everyone is focusing on is when Hammer allegedly described rape and cannibalism fantasies.

Hammer has denied these screenshots are real. He has since dropped out of an upcoming romantic comedy with Jennifer Lopez, stating this isn't the right time for him to film a movie. More alleged screenshots were posted, where it appears the Instagram user admits they were fake. However, the user has since denied this and said their admission wasn't real.

Hammer's ex-girlfriend, Courtney Vucekovich, has spoken out since the alleged screenshots were posted. She claimed not to know if the messages were real, but said Hammer's sexual interests were in line with the messages. Vucekovich also claimed that Hammer was emotionally abusive and pained him as manipulative. She said the breakup was difficult to recover from and that she suffered PTSD from the relationship.

It's unclear as to whether Vucekovich is telling the truth or just capitalizing on a big story. What is clear, however, is that she is not accusing him of committing any crimes. The abuse she describes sounds like nothing more than a bad, toxic relationship. That doesn't mean these experiences didn't seriously affect her if true. But it doesn't make Armie Hammer a rapist or a criminal.

It's also worth noting that the alleged messages don't show any nonconsensual behavior either. Hammer hasn't been accused of sending these messages unsolicited. It sounds like nothing more than two consenting adults "sexting" or talking dirty. It sounds like things you say in the heat of the moment. In fact, there's even leaked audio of what sounds like Armie Hammer confirming just that. If this is just fantasy and nothing more, the collective outrage amounts to no more than kink-shaming.

People have sexual fantasies for very specific reasons. If you go to a sex therapist, you will find there is a root to your sexual thoughts, behaviors, and attractions. It doesn't matter how vanilla or kinky you are. A person's fantasy life is also very different from their reality. Just because someone has a particular fantasy, it doesn't mean they will act out said fantasy in real life.

Maybe someone went through a traumatic event in their past and their sexual fantasies are their only outlet. They shouldn't be judged for such fantasies, because that is invading their only way of working through their issues. Therefore, they might feel whatever permission and safety they had in their sexual realm is now taken away from them. Such unwelcome comments might make their situation worse.

So it's important to understand that while Hammer might be describing raping someone and eating their flesh, it's nothing more than role-play between two consenting adults. Sure, it's extreme. It might even be shocking. We may not understand it. But who are we to judge? Some are claiming that Hammer "liked" posts of BDSM porn on social media sites. So what? This is not the same thing as hurting, assaulting, or abusing someone.

When you read about the Armie Hammer story or listen to the way it's being talked about, it sounds like the public is treating this as another #MeToo story. Vucekovich's story has been picked up by several outlets, almost all of which use her quote about Hammer wanting to "barbeque and eat" her in the headline. In classic clickbait fashion, these sites make Hammer look like an actual cannibal. They completely ignore the context of dirty talk and sexual fantasy.

Even Hammer's own ex, Jessica Ciencin Henriquez, said in a tweet, "If you are still questioning whether or not those Armie Hammer DMs are real (and they are) maybe you should start questioning why we live in a culture willing to give abusers the benefit of the doubt instead of victims."

This doesn't seem like a fair way to approach this story. There is no "victim" or "abuser" in those direct messages. Equating consensual roleplay with sexual assault is so dangerous. It's disrespectful to actual victims of such crimes. This is how the general public starts laughing off actual allegations. This is what leads to victims not wanting to come forward, fearing they won't be taken seriously. In order for rape to be taken seriously, we must be clear on what it is and what it isn't.

Based on what we currently know, it looks like Hammer is a target due to being a heterosexual man in Hollywood. There are no doubt, actual men, in Hollywood grossly abusing their power. However, the outrage culture has given birth to a zone where anybody can capitalize on it to push a story. Look at what happened to Aziz Ansari. A woman who went on nothing more than a bad date with the actor told a detailed account of the evening, unfairly painting him as some perverted predator.

We need to think for ourselves and not blindly fall for an angle being pushed on us. It's so easy to fall into that trap with social media, but it's wrong. We also need to rid our society of its prudish nature. It's unhealthy, not only to adults who aren't hurting anybody but to actual victims of sex crimes. If we want to have a culture where victims can feel comfortable coming forward, conflating their experiences with consensual acts isn't helping.

The Top 10 'Sex and the City' Episodes You Need To Revisit Before The New Series
In anticipation for the upcoming series, "And Just Like That," here are the ten "Sex and the City" episodes you need to revisit.
"Sex and the City" has become quite the franchise since its premiere in the late nineties. The series lasted six seasons and even produced two films. Fans of the show were anxiously awaiting a revival, even if their hopes seemed futile. Kim Cattrall, who plays Samantha Jones, recently spoke out saying she would not return to the show. Cattrall explained that she was never friends with her co-stars and even had a difficult relationship with Sarah Jessica Parker.
In the wake of Cattrall's revelation, rumors swirled the series would come back without her. On January 10, a new teaser was posted on social media for the new series, "And Just Like That." Now that a revival is officially confirmed, here are the ten "Sex and the City" episodes you need to revisit.

 10. "The Turtle and the Hare"

This season one episode was a perfect example of the series' boundary pushing subject matter. Sex toys are a more common occurrence in the bedroom than some people would think. But it's not every day you see them as a storyline in a television series. The girls talk Charlotte into buying a vibrator and pretty soon it becomes clear that she might have a problem.

 9. "Ghost Town"

Running into an ex is something most people have to deal with at some point. The series captured that moment in several instances, but this episode dealt with those emotions the best. Carrie attends the opening of Steve and Aidan's new bar and spends the entire episode freaking out about it. In the end, she's left with the realization that her feelings for Aidan are still very strong.

 8. "The Perfect Present"

Charlotte was always a character that seemed to be in love with love. However, when she met her divorce lawyer Harry, she began to feel the real thing. At first, it was hard to tell if her conversion to Judaism was simply out of a desire to get married. However, in this episode, her sincere connection to the faith is extremely apparent.

 7. "All That Glitters"

One of the great things about "Sex and the City" is its incredible portrayal of the fun nightlife in Manhattan. In this episode, the girls go to a gay club after realizing their lifestyles are becoming a bit too domesticated for their liking. This episode also features an early appearance from Australian actor and "Looking" star, Murray Bartlett.

 6. "My Motherboard, My Self"

When Miranda's mother dies unexpectedly of a heart attack, the rest of the girls rally to be with their grieving friend. While the episode is sad, it stays true to the tone of the show and includes some tasteful humor. This is one of those episodes that shows how strong the girls' bond and friendship is.

 5. "Plus One is the Loneliest Number"

In this episode, Carrie is getting ready to release a book of her various columns. For its release party, Carrie realizes she is without a plus one. She recruits Samantha, who isn't quite the life of the party following a bad chemical peel. What makes the episode, however, is the very last scene when Carrie is being driven home from the party. It just goes to show how sometimes a stranger can unexpectedly brighten our day (or night).

 4. "Running with Scissors"

Samantha's sexual escapades and confident personality are the comic relief of the series. That confidence, however, was replaced by a twinge of fear in this episode. While taking an HIV test, Samantha's fears are brilliantly depicted. It offers a relatability to the character and a necessary safe sex message. Not to mention one of the funniest scenes in the show's history.

 3. "The Real Me"

Carrie was no doubt the star of the show and women everywhere wanted to dress like her. So when she gets selected to walk the runway in a fashion show, her insecurities seem hard to understand at first. But this episode does a great job of showcasing such insecurities in a relatable way. When Carrie trips and falls on the runway, her embarrassment is clear. However, she gets up and keeps walking, while treated to a round of applause. The episode's message is best said by Carrie in the end. "When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking."

 2. "Sex and Another City"

For a show which feels like a love letter to Manhattan, the L.A. episodes were surprisingly enjoyable. In this episode, the girls are enjoying their vacation in Los Angeles and Samantha unexpectedly meets her idol, Hugh Hefner. It results in the girls being invited to the Playboy Mansion and hilarity ensues, particularly when they get kicked out.

 1. "Anchors Away"

New York City isn't perfect. However, like any great love, it's unconditional. That couldn't be better depicted than in this episode. While Carrie is attempting to enjoy a day in the city, everything that could go wrong does. That night, the girls go to a party for the sailors, since it's Fleet Week. Towards the end of the episode, Carrie is talking to a sailor named Louis who begins bad-mouthing New York. As Carrie walks away, she narrates, "If Louis was right, and you only ever get one great love, than New York may just be mine. And I can't have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend." Amen!

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No other campaign, save the Somme epitomizes the senseless carnage of the War as does the battle of Verdun, which lasted ten months and took the lives of 700,000 men along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. This classic work, continuously in print since it was published is a profoundly moving, sympathetic study of the battle and the men who fought there. It shows that understanding Verdun is a key to understanding the First World War.
Written after the war on the eve of his quitting England this memoir traces poet Graves' solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. This dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes depicts the horrors and disillusionment of the Great War, from life in the trenches and the loss of dear friends, to the stupidity of government bureaucracy and the absurdity of English class stratification. Hailed by many as the greatest memoir of the war.
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Tuchman re-creates the first month of World War I: thirty days in the summer of 1914 that determined the course of the conflict, the century, and ultimately our present world. Dizzyingly comprehensive and spectacularly portrayed with her famous talent for evoking the characters of the war's key players, Tuchman's magnum opus is a classic for the ages.
Churchill's plan to smash through the Dardanelles and reopen the straits to shipping seemed, on paper, to have every chance of success. But what happened in the next nine months was a nightmare of lost opportunities, confused planning, and military incompetence. In this vivid chronicle Moorehead brings fully to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, un-mapped terrain.
The second volume of Sassoon's semi-autobiographical trilogy begins in 1916, with the young Sherston deep in the trenches of WWI. For his decorated bravery, and also his harmful recklessness, he is soon sent for officer training, then dispatched to the Somme. After being wounded he returns home to convalesce, where his questioning of the war and the British Military establishment leads him to write a public anti-war letter verbatim to the one Sassoon himself wrote. One of the best books written about the experience of WWI.
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, the cause of the War has been debated. Here Fromkin posits that hostilities were begun deliberately that German generals who, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of key moments in the War. A book to read alongside Barbara Tuchman.
If you only read one book about the War, this is the one you should read.
Who better than First Lord of the Admiralty and Minister for War and Air to describe the battles and politics of the War and how what happened in this first world crisis led to the second.
What happens when wars end and the winners divide the world? This magisterial book reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East and in that re-drawing sowed the seeds of modern conflict. You want to understand what is happening today, you need to read this book about what happened almost 100 years ago.


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Q: How can a Swing JWindow be resized without flickering? I am trying to make a custom UI based on a JWindow for the purpose of selecting an area of the screen to be shared. I have extended JWindow and added code to make it resizable and to 'cut out' the centre of the window using AWTUtilities.setWindowShape().
When running the code I am experiencing a flicker as the window is resized in negative x and y directions, i.e. up and left. What appears to be happening is that the window is resized and drawn before the components are updated. Below is a simplified version of the code. When run the top panel can be used to resize the window up and to the left. The background of the window is set to green to make it clear where the pixels I do not want showing are.
Edit: Improved the code to shape the window correctly using a ComponentListener and added a dummy component at bottom to further illustrate flicker (also updated screenshots).
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.ComponentAdapter;
import java.awt.event.ComponentEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
import java.awt.geom.Area;

import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.border.CompoundBorder;
import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;

import com.sun.awt.AWTUtilities;

public class FlickerWindow extends JWindow implements MouseListener, MouseMotionListener{

    JPanel controlPanel;
    JPanel outlinePanel;
    int mouseX, mouseY;
    Rectangle windowRect;
    Rectangle cutoutRect;
    Area windowArea;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FlickerWindow fw = new FlickerWindow();
    }

    public FlickerWindow() {
        super();
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        setBounds(500, 500, 200, 200);
        setBackground(Color.GREEN);

        controlPanel = new JPanel();
        controlPanel.setBackground(Color.GRAY);
        controlPanel.setBorder(new EtchedBorder(EtchedBorder.LOWERED));
        controlPanel.addMouseListener(this);
        controlPanel.addMouseMotionListener(this);

        outlinePanel = new JPanel();
        outlinePanel.setBackground(Color.BLUE);
        outlinePanel.setBorder(new CompoundBorder(new EmptyBorder(2,2,2,2), new LineBorder(Color.RED, 1)));

        add(outlinePanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        add(controlPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        add(new JButton("Dummy button"), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
        setVisible(true);
        setShape();

        addComponentListener(new ComponentAdapter() {
            @Override
            public void componentResized(ComponentEvent e) {
                setShape();
            }});
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        // un-comment or breakpoint here to see window updates more clearly
        //try {Thread.sleep(10);} catch (Exception e) {}
        super.paint(g);
    }

    public void setShape() {
        Rectangle bounds = getBounds();
        Rectangle outlineBounds = outlinePanel.getBounds();
        Area newShape = new Area (new Rectangle(0, 0, bounds.width, bounds.height));
        newShape.subtract(new Area(new Rectangle(3, outlineBounds.y + 3, outlineBounds.width - 6, outlineBounds.height - 6)));
        setSize(bounds.width, bounds.height);
        AWTUtilities.setWindowShape(this, newShape);
    }

    public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e) {
        int dx = e.getXOnScreen() - mouseX;
        int dy = e.getYOnScreen() - mouseY;

        Rectangle newBounds = getBounds();
        newBounds.translate(dx, dy);
        newBounds.width -= dx;
        newBounds.height -= dy;

        mouseX = e.getXOnScreen();
        mouseY = e.getYOnScreen();

        setBounds(newBounds);
    }

    public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {
        mouseX = e.getXOnScreen();
        mouseY = e.getYOnScreen();
    }

    public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {}
    public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {}
}

The overridden paint() method can be used as a breakpoint or the Thread.sleep() can be uncommented there to provide a clearer view of the update as it happens.
My problem seems to stem from the setBounds() method causing the window to be painted to the screen before being laid out.

Window before resizing, as it should look:

Window during resizing larger (up and left) as seen at breakpoint at overridden paint() method):

Window during resizing smaller (down and right) as seen at breakpoint at overridden paint() method):

Granted these screenshots are taken during aggressive mouse drag movements but the flicker becomes quite annoying even for more moderate mouse drags.
The green area on the resize to larger screenshot shows the new background that gets drawn before any painting/layout is done, it seems to happen in the underlying ComponentPeer or native window manager. The blue area on the 'resize to smaller' screenshot shows the JPanel's background being pushed into view but is now out of date. This happens under Linux(Ubuntu) and Windows XP.
Has anyone found a way to cause a Window or JWindow to resize to a back buffer before any changes are made to the screen and thus avoid this flickering effect? Maybe there is a java.awt.... system property that can be set to avoid this, I could not find one though.

Edit #2: Comment out the call to AWTUtilities.setWindowShape() (and optionally uncomment the Thread.sleep(10) line in paint()) then drag the top panel around aggressively in order to clearly see the nature of the flicker.
Edit #3: Is anyone able to test this behaviour under Sun Java on Windows 7 or Mac OSX ?

A: I admit this is not a particularly helpful answer, but understanding what exactly Swing is may help.
See, Swing does all its own work, short of actually getting a bit of space to draw on from the OS. All the drawing, widgets, etc are Java code. It's not so much that this is running to slowly, as that it's running without the benefit of the 2D graphics card acceleration and the OS rendering tricks.
Remember DirectDraw? Everything has it nowadays, and window ops are butter-smooth. But if you ever grab a computer that doesn't have it for some reason (say, a XP install with no drivers) you notice exactly this type of slowdown.
With Swing, because it manages all its own space, the OS can't do any of these rendering tricks to help you out.
Somebody may come along with some optimization that fixes your problem on your computer, but I'm concerned that it's just not really going to fix the base issue - Swing is slow and can't get faster.
You should look into native toolkits. AWT is OK, but missing a lot of widgets/etc. It's native, and built-in, so it should be plenty fast if that's all you need. I'm partial to SWT, which is what Eclipse, Vuze (among others) use. It combines the native-ness of AWT with the ease and features of Swing, and of course runs everywhere.
EDIT: It's pretty clear after reading some more of your comments that you absolutely understand how the windowing happens - I don't want to come off as condescending. Not only that, but you're more interested in resizing, which my comment doesn't have that much to do with. I'd still recommend SWT because it's native code and faster, but that's a different answer than the one above.

A: I have just tried your example. I really saw some small flicking when resizing the window. I tried to replace the code fragment starting from setBounds() and finishing at AWTUtilities.setWindowShape(this, newShape); by
setSize(newBounds.width, newBounds.height);

and saw that the flicking disappeared. So, I'd suggest you this solution unless you have any special reasons to use setBounds.

A: Another approach might be to wait for the user to complete their dragging/resizing before painting. Maybe use a bounding box to show the user the size of the window until after their resize event is complete.
I've noticed a lot of windowed applications will either take that approach or deal with the flickering. Just about all the apps I've tried an aggressive resize like that with has the same problem (non-Java) so the problem may just lie with the graphic subsystem rather than Swing itself.

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Deze lijst van historische kerken in Oost-Friesland bevat de kerken in Oost-Friesland, meer in het bijzonder de kerken in de Landkreisen Aurich, Leer en Wittmund alsmede de kreisfreie stad Emden. Opgenomen zijn de kerken die gebouwd zijn voor 1933.

Veel van de opgenomen kerken hebben een oudere voorganger gehad. Deze oudere kerken verdwenen als gevolg van sloop wegens bouwvalligheid, (in de oudste tijden werden houten kerken vervangen door stenen kerken), dan wel gingen zij ten onder door oorlogs- of natuurgeweld. Dat lot trof in de twintigste eeuw ook vrijwel alle synagoges. Enkel de synagoge in Dornum bleef gespaard.

Geschiedenis
Oost-Friesland is tegenwoordig een grotendeels protestantse streek. Het westelijke deel, de (Krummhörn, Emden, Reiderland, Moormerland en Leer) is overwegend hervormd, de rest is overwegend luthers. Daarnaast zijn er vijf gereformeerde gemeentes in het westen van de landstreek en meerdere vrije gemeenten, met name Baptisten en Mennonieten.

Voor de Reformatie maakte het westelijke deel van Oost-Friesland deel uit van het middeleeuwse bisdom Münster. Samen met de Groningse Ommelanden vormde dit deel het Aartsdiakonaat Frisia, dat werd onderverdeeld in proosdijen. Het oostelijke deel, grotendeels overeenkomend met het Landkreis Wittmund en een deel van het Landkreis Aurich, maakte deel uit van het toenmalige aartsbisdom Bremen.

Na de Reformatie was er lange tijd geen ruimte voor de katholieke kerk. Pas in 1776 werd de eerste nieuwe katholieke kerk gebouwd. De katholieke kerk kende een duidelijke groei na de Tweede Wereldoorlog toen nogal wat Heimatvertriebene uit de voormalige Duitse gebieden in Oost-Europa hier terechtkwamen.

Materiaal
De eerste kerken in Oost-Friesland waren van hout. Vanaf halverwege de twaalfde eeuw werden stenen kerken gebouwd. In het oosten van Oost-Friesland, het deel dat tot Bremen hoorde, werden de oudste stenen kerken van graniet gebouwd, de kerk van Marx is een goed bewaard voorbeeld. In het westelijk deel werden de eerste kerken van tufsteen gebouwd. De kerk van Arle is een van de weinige die bewaard zijn gebleven.

De grote meerderheid is echter in baksteen gebouwd. De introductie van baksteen was relatief laat, vanaf de dertiende eeuw. Net als in Noord-Nederland waren het de kloosters die een grote rol speelden in de herintroductie van de baksteen.

Architectuur
De oudste kerken zijn vaak eenvoudige zaalkerken in romaanse stijl. De kerken kenmerken zich door kleine rondboogvensters en een veelal inspringende apsis. Afhankelijk van de mogelijkheden van de steensoort worden versieringen aangebracht.

Typerend voor Oost-Friesland is de romanogotiek, hier ook wel "Frühgotik" genoemd, een overgangsstijl tussen romaans en gotiek die het deelt met het aangrenzende Groningerland. Een fraai voorbeeld is de kerk van Grimersum.

Kerken

Oost-Friesland, historische
Oost-Friesland
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The above marketing system begins with a lead generation website that captures visitor's details. For a local business to profit from this system, it is necessary to increase the traffic to the business website. There are many ways in which this can be achieved. Here are four local business marketing ideas which you can implement today.
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Dónal Clancy to Play in Rome NY
On May 4, you'll have a chance to see in concert the son of a legendary Irish musician. But this son is not just coasting on his father's reputation.
Dónal Clancy surely inherited a talent for music from his father, Liam Clancy, one of the famed Clancy Brothers. But he has earned his own fame as a musician himself. He was a founding member of Danú and a member of Solas. He toured and recorded with Eileen Ivers and was a guest with The Chieftains on their Tears of Stone Tours in Japan and the US.
Radio host and singer/songwriter Archie Fisher said, "Dónal Clancy is a consummate Celtic guitarist with a voice sympathetic to a range of different song cultures and with a sense of musical arrangement true to the great classical Irish tradition."
Clancy released his first solo guitar album Close To Home in 2006, which The Boston Globe dubbed "a sweet masterpiece of melodic grace and riveting groove".
The Irish Post awarded his next album, Songs of a Roving Blade, five stars, calling it "folk singing at its best" and "a smashing album that should help to ensure these songs will never be lost."
Clancy's latest album, On the Lonesome Plain, features traditional songs and two of his own compositions, A Strike for Victory commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising and an instrumental piece entitled Máirseáil na Conrach.
Reviews can help us form an idea of a musician's sound, but there's no substitute for hearing it yourself. So, here's a recent recording of Dónal Clancy singing his original song The Duke's Line:
Clancy will perform at the Rome Art and Community Center on May 4 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15.00 in advance, $20 at the door, and $12.00 for Craobh Dugan members current in their dues. You can buy tickets on Eventbrite or from Chris Hoke at either of our sessions.

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Presented by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Victorian Collections, this hands-on workshop provides an introduction to the principles of acquiring, storing, cataloguing and caring for born-digital material. This workshop is suitable for beginners who may have, or plan to acquire, digital images, media files or documents in their collection. Participants are asked to bring along their own laptop or contact the organisers to arrange a device upon booking. Morning tea and afternoon tea will be provided and we…
Seminar: EARLY MELBOURNE SUBURBS 1835-1880
The RHSV and the Genealogical Society of Victoria are delighted to co-present this full-day seminar which will give participants a deep understanding of the forces and influences which have shaped Melbourne's early growth. The seminar will be opened with a overview by Gary Presland on how Melbourne's Geography shaped its development. Then the following historians will explain the development of their locale Footscray by Carmel Taig Prahran by Steven Haby & Judith Buckrich Heidelberg by Graham Thorley "Up Sydney Road"…
John Marshall and Bounty Migration to Port Phillip
Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison AO, Chair of the History Council of Victoria, will launch Dr Liz Rushen's book, John Marshall: Shipowner, Lloyd's reformer and emigration agent. After the launch, Dr Rushen will deliver a paper which explores the significant role John Marshall played in the white settlement of the Port Phillip District. When Port Phillip was first opened up for settlement, Marshall was Britain's most active emigration agent: in the three years 1839-1841, he sent 21 ships containing nearly 5000 bounty…
Law, Lawyers and La Trobe
The A G L Shaw lecturer in 2020 will be leading legal history scholar, Dr Simon Smith AM FRHSV, who recently published "Solicitors and the Law Institute in Victoria 1835-2019: Pathway to a Respected Profession." Simon Smith is an Adjunct Professor with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre at Victoria University. He was Vice-President of the RHSV in 2009-2011.


Test your reaction time. Understand the path of the neurons to carry out this task.
Explain to students that they will be measuring how fast their neurons can transmit information in this activity. They will be their neurons that allow them to see and neurons that contract their muscles, as well as neurons that send messages between these two processes.
Give each pair of students a ruler. Demonstrate how one student rests their arm on the edge of a table their hand hanging over the edge, and holds their thumb and index finger a couple of cm apart. The other student of the pair holds a ruler so that the 0cm mark is between the thumb and finger. Without warning, the ruler is dropped and the partner closes their fingers on the ruler to stop it as quickly as they can.
Students should record the catch distance each time, doing 10 trials before switching roles with their partner.
Ask students to find the mean of their data, and record their average catch distance.
Hockey goalies, and other people in high-speed sports need to have very fast reaction times. They would be able to catch the ruler at about 11cm, giving a reaction time of 0.15 seconds. Some students might have reaction times this fast, but most will fall between 15cm and 20cm (reaction times from 0.18 - 0.2 seconds).
With our rulers, our students got average catch distances of 10, 23, 19, 15, 10, 16, 18, 18cm.
Discuss how with any reaction time, it is amazing how fast the processing happens.
Show image of pathway, then trace pathway on a real brain if possible: the eye sees the ruler drop and a message is sent along a neuron to the thalamus in the centre of the brain, from which another neuron sends a message to the visual cortex. Once the image of the ruler dropping is perceived, there is a signal to close the fingers, down one neuron from the motor cortex to the spinal cord. Then a second neuron all the way from the spinal cord down the arm to the finger muscle. Then the finger muscle contracts.
All this takes milliseconds. The slowest part is the message passing between neurons; the neurons themselves transmit the electric message very fast.


Nearly 40 per cent of 371 Boeing 737 Max 800 in operation globally have been grounded as Australia and Singapore joined the growing list of nations banning the use of the troubled aircraft.
This is despite assurances by the United States aviation authorities that the plane is safe.
Aviation industry publication said China, with 97 Max 800 planes in service, accounts for the bulk of the grounded planes, estimated at 148. There are 371 Boeing 737 Max 800 planes in service.
Ethiopian Airlines, which has four other 737 MAX 8 jets, said it was grounding them as a precaution.
Gol in Brazil temporarily suspended MAX 8 flights, as did Argentina's state airline Aerolineas Argentinas and Mexico's Aeromexico.
Singapore Airlines, whose SilkAir brand operates 6 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, said it has temporarily withdrawn its fleet and would re-accommodate affected customers.
Other airlines that operate Boeing 737 MAX aircraft to Singapore – China Southern Airlines, Garuda Indonesia, Shandong Airlines and Thai Lion Air – are also affected.
Although the United States later modified its position on the safety of the plane, by saying it will mandate Boeing to implement design changes by April for the 737 MAX 8, Australia and Singapore felt that precautionary steps are necessary after the second fatal crash of the plane, killing 157 people in Ethiopia.
Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority followed Singapore's lead with a temporary suspension to review the risks, citing the best interests of safety.
Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS) showed question-marks hanging over the aircraft after Sunday's disaster could not be dispelled so fast.
"During the temporary suspension, CAAS will gather more information and review the safety risk associated with the continued operation of the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft into and out of Singapore," the regulator said in a statement.
It was the first major regulator to order such an action, but the anxiety was also evident among air travellers, who rushed to find out from social media whether they were booked to fly on 737 MAX planes – the same model involved in the Lion Air crash off Indonesia that killed 189 people in October.
There has been no information yet to link the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines incidents.
On Monday, Indonesia, Ethiopia, China announced they were grounding their fleets of the U.S. planemaker' s latest model, after the second crash in five months.
Nearly 40 percent of the in-service fleet of 371 Boeing 737 MAX jets globally is grounded, according to industry publication Flightglobal, including 97 jets in the biggest market, China.
The scare has wiped billions of dollars off the market value of the world's biggest planemaker, as the Boeing Co share closed 5 percent down on Monday having fallen by as much as 13.5 percent at one point.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a "continued airworthiness notification" for the 737 MAX late on Monday to assure operators, and detailed a series of design changes mandated by Boeing.
Boeing issued a statement as well, saying it had been working with the FAA in the aftermath of a Lion Air crash to develop enhancements to flight control software that will be deployed across the 737 MAX fleet in coming weeks.
The new MAX 8 variant of the 737, the world's best-selling modern passenger aircraft, has bigger engines designed to use less fuel. It entered service in 2017.


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The Next Place Hackers Will Find You? Your Car.
Image credit: Ford Motor Co.
Nina Zipkin
Entrepreneur Staff
Staff Writer. Covers leadership, media, technology and culture.
February 9, 2015 2 min read
Driving is already dangerous enough, especially in this season of winter storm warnings, but it turns out your car may contain more hidden hazards than you realize. The next frontier for hackers could be the wireless and Bluetooth tech used in your car, according to a report commissioned by the office of Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass).
The report, called Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk, found that nearly 100 percent of vehicles on the market come with wireless entry points or WEPs that could be a way in for hackers. Those WEPs include Wi-Fi keyless entries, remote starts, radio, and navigation and anti-theft systems.
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Manufacturers collect information like fuel levels and tire pressure, as well as items like where the vehicle is parked, locations keyed into the GPS and how long the car stays parked at a destination are all recorded. They are often stored and sent to "third-party data centers" with varying degrees of security. When there are data collection policies, there is often not a clear-cut way, if at all, to opt out.
Most car manufacturers who were interviewed for the report "were unaware or unable to report on past hacking incidents." The ones that were able to respond offered varying solutions to how they would react to real-time hacking incidents.
Related: Companies Need to Take Responsibility for Protecting Sensitive User Data
For example, one company said it could disable the vulnerable features; another said that it could slow down and stop the hacked car if it was in motion and a third said similarly that it would remotely place the car in a "fail-safe mode."
Sen. Markey's office submitted queries about consumer security to 20 car manufacturers. The office says it did not hear from Aston Martin, Lamborghini and Tesla Motors, but did receive answers from BMW, Chrysler, Ford, MG, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, Subaru, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo.
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Let's start with a fairly sobering statistic. At least 40 per cent of fatal road accidents are caused by drivers losing control of their vehicle, and skidding into something – or someone – else.
ESC combines two other systems, ABS and traction control – working them together to improve handling stability whatever the situation. ABS and traction control already use wheel-speed sensors, and ESC adds a yaw sensor, a steering wheel angle sensor, and a lateral acceleration sensor to calculate whether or not the car is sliding, from which corner, and by how much.
By combining the data from these sensors, the ESC system then determines what needs to be done to bring the car back into line when it skids. Individual wheels can be braked, and power can be limited to the driven wheels to correct any unwanted sliding that might occur. The system reacts instantly, and with far greater accuracy than even a professional driver can achieve.
Does my car have stability control?
If you're buying a brand new car, then there is a very likely chance of it. Based on Euro NCAP's latest ratings, any car scoring a five-star rating needs ESC fitted to at least 90 per cent of the range, and for it to be optionally available on the rest.
All of these systems operate in much the same way. The statistics don't lie, and whatever you want to call it, we'd strongly recommend you check to see if your next car is equipped with ESC.


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Fourier Series Approximation to Equilateral Triangle
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This Demonstration shows Fourier series approximations to the function tracing an equilateral triangle, shown in green, in the complex plane. The vector representing each additional term (gray) is shown, along with its encompassing circle (orange). The blue curve represents a partial sum of the Fourier series, with the selected number of terms. The red dot shows the parametrization of the triangle.
Contributed by: Walden Freedman (August 2022)
After work by: Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown)
Let be the piecewise-continuous function giving a parametrization of the equilateral triangle in the complex plane:
The function is defined in the initialization code using the function UnitStep. The Fourier series is then given by .
The function defined in the initialization code produces the sequence ; the function then sums the terms of the Fourier series in the same order.
The slider marked "angle" controls the angle between the gray vector from the origin and the positive axis between and . The slider marked "number of terms" controls the number of terms in the partial sum, which equals the number of orange circles and gray vectors, from 1 to 50. The accuracy of the approximations, in the sense of the norm, improves as increases. But interestingly, the graph "wobbles" more when is odd. This is presumably because in that case the last term (which rotates in the positive direction) has no term with opposite rotation to compensate. The blue curve is the Fourier approximation, while the red dot shows the parametrization of the triangle.
This Demonstration is inspired by the videos on Fourier Series by Grant Sanderson of 3Blue1Brown. There are other related animations online, such as https://isaacvr.github.io/coding/fourier_transform.
[1] E. M. Stein and R. Shakarchi, Fourier Analysis: An Introduction, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
[2] F. A. Farris, Creating Symmetry: The Artful Mathematics of Wallpaper Patterns, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Fourier Construction of Regular Polygons and Star Polygons
Walden Freedman "Fourier Series Approximation to Equilateral Triangle"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FourierSeriesApproximationToEquilateralTriangle/
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Walden Freedman
Approximation of Discontinuous Functions by Fourier Series
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Fourier Series of Simple Functions
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A must see for adults is "Casino Jack." When The Film Strip asked Barry Pepper, who plays Michael Scanlon, just how relevant this movie is today when looking at how money runs the political game, he says it's very pertinent. "I wouldn't have involved myself in the project if I didn't think that it didn't have a certain moral or ultimately a cautionary tale about the fact that this is alive and well in Washington and our democracy is drowning. This is really what's driving it. Our democracy, sadly, doesn't seem to exist without this.
"Yes, absolutely. I was going to say campaign contributions, but six of one, a half dozen or the other, but you're absolutely right. I think material quality and liberty and our democracy is intrinsically connected. You cannot have all the great wealth in the hands of the few and nothing in the hands of the many and still have liberty and freedom. You and I can't be represented accurately or honestly or fairly if we don't have fifty million or a hundred million dollars to run a campaign. So how do you actually have liberty and freedom? You saw that in the recent midterm elections. It was record numbers of millions spent on these elected positions and the reason being that they wield so much power.
"They're such gravy train positions that these people are willing to wager their entire fortunes on the possibility of being elected because not a penny of that is spent for you and I and they'll recoup every dollar once they get in, either through the same practices, through legislative favors or lavish gifts or loopholes in contracts like no-bid contracts. They'll extort it from the public somehow, every penny of that fifty million dollar campaign will be paid back to them. So that's really why you go into a piece like this. As an artist sometimes that's how you can most effectively have a voice.
Playing the real life person Jack Abramoff, Kevin Spacey expressed his sentiments also about this film based on authentic people and factual events. "I am revolted by Washington," he say. "I am frustrated by the fact that there are good people there, and good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyist can serve a useful purpose. As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions and millions and millions of dollars for television ads, and that's all it is about, that it will be corrupt. And if we leave it up to the politicians to clean up the lobbying industry, and finance reform, nothings going to happen.
When DeNiro and Stiller left the room, Dustin Hoffman and Owen Wilson came in and the whole atmosphere changed because they were like a comedy act. Asked the same question, Wilson responded with, "What you just said reminded me of something. We were riding up on the elevator, and some strangers said that?" Hoffman, challenging his answer, pushed further with, "Yes, and," which prompted Wilson to continue his thought. "One of them kept looking at a map and his father told him, 'Put down the map and feel the city.' " Quickly reprimanding him, Hoffman retorts, "I'm curious how that relates to the question of marriage?" Looking at me he asks, "Didn't you say something about a map, a roadmap?" That acknowledged, Wilson made this request: "Put down the roadmap question and just feel these guys sitting here." That being said, Hoffman proceeded to talk about the family dynamic.
"There is nothing more unnatural than family or marriage," Hoffman quips. "They really are. That's why they're both so difficult, because they're not natural. We don't pick our family." Interrupting, Wilson weighed in on the subject. "I was saying that you don't choose your family and Dustin took it one step further and he says 'you don't even choose your wife.'" Meanwhile, Hoffman, surrendering to his hunger, ordered sandwiches for everyone and offered up his shared his fries.