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Review: 'Whitney: Can I Be Me?'
By Maurie Alioff • Published May 4th, 2017Comments
Courtesy of Hot Docs
Whitney: Can I Be Me?
(UK, 100 min.)
Dir. Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal
Programme: Special Presentations (Canadian Premiere)
Like Amy and What Happened, Miss Simone?, Whitney: Can I Be Me? celebrates the brilliance of a great artist and charts her tragic downward spiral. The film originated with Rudi Dolezal, whose close relationship to Whitney Houston led to a documentary project in the late nineties. For various reasons, and after several efforts, the film was never completed and released. Much of Dolezal's footage forms the core of this collaboration with Nick Broomfield, who doesn't play a directorial character in Whitney: Can I Be Me?
The forceful opening of the film juxtaposes the night Houston died with images of her performing during her last tour. We see her power and beauty and vulnerability. Someone says that she died of a broken heart.
Broomfield and Dolezal recount the familiar events of Houston's life and her tumultuous relationships: her origin as a musician in church, a history encapsulated by footage of her singing gospel at age twelve; the inspiration of her mother, gospel and soul legend Cissy Houston, and their ambiguous relationship; the night she was devastated by getting booed on the TV show Soul Train because she was supposedly selling out black music with her crossover appeal. Black and white footage depicts her roots as a hood girl in Newark, New Jersey.
The Soul Train fiasco recalls the folkie attacks on Bob Dylan when he went electric and veered toward rock 'n' roll. As soon as Houston broke through creative barriers and became a pioneering forerunner of artists like Beyoncé, Houston had to navigate rough waters. But contrary to pop mythology, the doc does not suggest that her husband, singer and dancer Bobby Brown capsized her.
Dolezal's intimate footage of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown reveal a sunny, frisky relationship, not a scary violent one. For sure, he did not introduce her to drugs. Whitney, whose brothers say that the Houston kids, like everybody else, started drugs young, turned Bobby onto coke while he opened her up to alcohol. The film does not judge this behaviour as being typical of the music industry. It just shows it.
For whatever reason, perhaps the simple fact of addiction, perhaps deeper needs and impulses, Houston couldn't control her appetite for crack cocaine highs. People who don't live on her plane of excess and creative risk-taking have trouble understanding why such an extraordinarily beautiful woman with a voice like rich silk would hide in a closet pulling on her pipe full of poison.
Throughout the doc, Houston's bodyguard, a real-life counterpart to her fictional protector played by Kevin Costner in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, talks about the warning letters he wrote to people in her life. He insists that if they had listened to him she wouldn't have died on May 27, 2012.
The Houston estate does not like this film and has tried and failed to stop it. Through Dolezal's footage, some of it backstage material that so one has seen before, we get up close and personal with Houston. We see the tension on her face as she pushes herself to the limit, to the point where her mouth strains with pure emotional honesty and her back gleams with the sweat of her effort—and the impact of drugs.
Can I Be Me? is not a scandal flick that sadistically denigrates a great artist. It's raw, but also compassionate, and loving. The doc honours Houston's relationship with tall, powerful Robyn Crawford, who she loved and who made her feel safe. Brown and Crawford hated each other, and that's also part of this story.
The film allows Whitney Houston to be herself: sublime artist, caring human being, bi-sexual lover, and self-destroyer. Unfortunately, she took her place with Billie, Bessie, Nina, and Janis on the tragedy train.
Whitney: Can I Be Me? screens:
-Saturday, May 6 at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema at 12:45 PM
-Sunday, May 7 at Toronto Centre for the Arts at 9:15 PM
Visit the POV Hot Docs Hub for more coverage from this year's festival!
Maurie Alioff writes about movies for publications off- and on-line, and is a screenwriter currently collaborating on a documentary featuring Bob Marley's granddaughter while researching other Jamaica-related projects, including a magical-realist crime story drawing on stories he hears on the island. He has written for radio, journals and TV, taught screenwriting and been a contributing editor to various magazines.
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Q: What is the real difference between "Bastard Injection" and "Poor Man's Injection" From the Dependency Injection in .NET book I know that the object graph should be created at the Composition Root of the application which makes a lot of sense to me when you are using an IoC Container.
In all the applications I've seen when an attempt to use DI is being made, there are always two constructors:

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*the one with the dependencies as parameters and

*the "default" one with no parameters which in turn calls the other one "newing" up all the dependencies

In the aforementioned book, however, this is called the "Bastard Injection anti-pattern" and that is what I used to know as "Poor Man's Injection".
Now considering all this, I would say then that "Poor Man's Injection" would be just not using an IoC Container and instead coding all the object graph by hand on the said Composition Root.
So my questions are:

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*Am I understanding these concepts correctly or am I completely off track?

*If you still need to register all the dependencies in the IoC container vs. coding them by hand in the exact same Composition Root, what's the real benefit of using an IoC container?

*If I have misunderstood what "Poor Man's Injection" really is, could someone please clarify it?

A: When it comes to DI, there's a lot of conflicting use of terminology out there. The term Poor Man's DI is no exception. To some people, it means one thing and to others it means something different.
One of the things I wanted to do with the book was to supply a consistent pattern language for DI. When it came to all of those terms with conflicting use, I had two options: Come up with a completely new term, or pick the most prevalent use (according to my subjective judgment).
In general, I've preferred to re-use existing terminology instead of making up a completely new (and thus alien) pattern language. That means that in certain cases (such as Poor Man's DI), you may have a different notion of what the name is than the definition given in the book. That often happens with patterns books.
At least I find it reassuring that the book seems to have done its job of explaining exactly both Poor Man's DI and Bastard Injection, because the interpretation given in the O.P. is spot on.
Regarding the real benefit of a DI Container I will refer you to this answer: Arguments against Inversion of Control containers

P.S. 2018-04-13: I'd like to point out that I've years ago come to acknowledge that the term Poor Man's DI does a poor (sic!) job of communicating the essence of the principle, so for years, now, I've instead called it Pure DI.

P.P.S. 2020-07-17: We removed the term Bastard Injection from the second edition. In the second edition we simply use the more general term Control Freak to specify that your code "depend[s] on a Volatile Dependency in any place other than a Composition Root."

A: Some notes to the part 2) of the question.

If you still need to register all the dependencies in the IoC container vs. coding them by hand in the exact same Composition Root, what's the real benefit of using an IoC container?

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*If you have a tree of dependencies (clasess which depend on dependencies which depend on other dependencies and so on): you can't do all the "news" in a composition root, because you new up the instances on  each "bastard injection" constructor of each class, so there are many "composition roots" spreaded along your code base

*Wheter you have a tree of dependencies, or not, using an IoC container will spare typing some code. Imagine you have 20 different classes that depend on the same IDependency. If you use a container you can provide a configuration to let it know which instance to use for IDependency. You'll make this in a single place, and the container will take care to provide the instance in all dependent classes

*The container can also control the object lifetime, which offers another advantage.
All of this, apart of the other obvious advantages provided by DI (testability, maintainability, code decouplig, extensibility...)

A: We've found, when refactoring legacy applications and decoupling dependencies, that things tend to be easier when done with a two step process.  The process includes both "poor man" and formal IoC container systems.
First: set up interfaces and establish "poor mans ioc" to implement them.

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*This decouples dependencies without the added overhead (and learning
curve) of a formal IoC set up.

*This also reduces interference with the existing legacy code. Nothing like introducing yet another set of issues to debug.

*Development team members are never at the same level of expertise or understanding. So it saves a lot of implementation time.

*This also allows a footing for test cases.

*This also establishes standards for a formal IoC container system later.

*This can be implemented in steps over time by many people.

Secondly: Each IoC system has pros & cons.

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*Now that an application standard is established, an educated decision
can be made in choosing an IoC container system.

*Implementing the IoC system becomes a task of swapping the "poor mans" code with the
new IoC system.

*This can be implemented in steps over time and in parallel with "poor man". It is better to head this with one person.

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Q: How to triangulate a polygon with and without vertices and holes inside - delaunay triangulation possible? I got the following problem: I'm working on an algorithm and the output will be an arbitrary polygon. The polygon can be concave, have holes in it and also have vertices with edges that have an angle of 180 degree.
I need to triangulate said polygon with and without additional vertices inside it. Can the delaunay triangulation handle this, especially if I only have the polygon without vertices inside? I might be able to avoid holes inside the polygon, if that eases things.
Thanks for reading

A: You can do that using a constrained triangulation (Delaunay or not) to triangulate a polygon. There is an example using CGAL here.

A: You might have a look at these Fade2D examples:
https://www.geom.at/example4-zones-defined-areas-in-triangulations/
https://www.geom.at/boolean-operations-on-polygons-with-holes/
The student license is free.

A: You can use Triangle.
Running Triangle via the command line, you create an ASCII .poly file that specifies the vertices and edges of the input (i.e., your polygon) as well as any holes in the domain. Each hole is defined by its xyz location. For example, if I have a square domain with a triangular hole inside it, my input could look like:
7 2 0 0  # 7 vertices
1 1 -1
2 1 1
3 -1 1
4 -1 -1
5 -.5 -.5
6 .5 -.5
7 0 .5
7 0      # 7 segments: four for the square and three for the hole
1 1 2
2 2 3
3 3 4
4 4 1
5 5 6
6 6 7
7 7 5
1      # 1 hole
1 0.0 0.0

If you want to refine the mesh (i.e., add vertices inside), you can use either the -a option (limiting the maximum area of a triangle) or the -q option (controlling the quality of the triangles produced but not directly limiting the size). The documentation on command line switches is here.


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The Nationwide Caterers Association is delighted to announce that Jenny Morris MBE has joined the organisation as an advisor to the board on strategy and food safety. As the independent food sector continues to experience incredible growth, SME and micro businesses are offering more diverse food than ever and as their trade association we have taken this step to ensure our members get the best support possible.
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Q: Where is the EC2 Ubuntu RSA Certificate and private key located for use with SFTP? I've installed vsftpd on an Ubuntu EC2 instance but I'm not sure where the certificate files are to enter into vsftpd. The documentation says I need to add the following lines:
rsa_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
rsa_private_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key

However, when I try and login using the normal ec2-keypair.pem file I get the message invalid privatekey

A: You should ideally generate a new keypair.  There's lots of stuff via google about how to do that with openssl.  If you want to try using the ec2 keypair, which would mean placing your ec2 private key on this server (which I don't recommend for security reasons) you could try placing the key in the file ~ec2-user/.ssh/authorized_keys as the public key, and the ec2 private key you have on your own machine as the private key.
Again, not recommended, since this would mean that someone who had sufficient access to this server could then get the private key, and log into any of the ec2 instances you had brought up using this keypair.


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A: That's a side-effect of fixing https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1923. It has been fixed by using real/full name in the rule context (see https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1982). In unit tests, the file name used is "n/a", which is now interpreted as the file "a" in directory "n". RuleContext::getSourceCodeFilename returns just the filename and not the full path. To retrieve the full path RuleContext::getSourceCodeFile can be used.
Your rule UseQuietReferenceNotationRule checks the filename (UseQuietReferenceNotationRule.java:65) which is now not "n/a" anymore in the unit tests but "a". You can "fix" the unit test by simply changing UT_FILE_NAME to "a" (see UseQuietReferenceNotationRule.java:45).
Alternatively you can change the rule to use ctx.getSourceCodeFile().toString() to recover the full pathname in UseQuietReferenceNotationRule.java:62. Although the file doesn't exist, it still points to "n/a".
An alternative for checking the path names in the rule itself might be File exclusion/inclusion patterns.
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U.S. Wants Interstellar Travel in 100 Years
What will it take to build a spaceship capable of traveling to the stars? And what if you wanted it to be ready to launch in just 100 years? The U.S. military wants to find out.
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4 Damn Good Reasons to Startup in Ukraine
Kira M. Newman April 10th 2015 11:00 am
Although you might know Ukraine as the country that Putin invaded last year, locals see something else: a growing startup scene.
Ukraine is the home country of Viewdle, which sold to Google in October 2012 for a rumored $30-45 million. Jooble started in Ukraine and is now one of the three largest job search engines in the world, operating in 64 countries. PetCube is a recent Kickstarter success story, raising over $250,000 for a device to play with your pets when you're not at home.
They may not be household names, but successful companies like these are playing off Ukraine's strengths, which include a big pool of tech talent, enough capital to get started, and organizations and events to support them along the way.
1. Tech talent
Home to over 30 universities and research institutions, Kiev has built up a solid base of tech talent that other countries are turning to for outsourcing. Ukraine was named the #3 country for freelancers in 2013 by Elance, and one of the top 30 outsourcing destinations in 2010-2011. After putting their brains to work for foreign projects, these highly skilled workers are starting to see local startups who want to hire them.
Tech talent has made Ukraine a popular destination for big tech companies to set up R&D centers. Samsung, for example, employed over 1,000 people in its Ukraine office in 2014 and was planning to expand.
Based on various sources, AVentures Capital managing director Yevgen Sysoyev estimates that Ukraine has around 50,000 software engineers and 100,000 IT professionals.
2. Early-stage funding
Ukrainian entrepreneurs have many funding options to get their project off the ground. In 2013, $80 million was invested in 59 deals in Ukraine, 44 of which were seed rounds.
According to AngelList, as many as 89 angel investors live in the country. One of them is Torben Majgaard, the CEO and founder of Ciklum, another Ukraine success story. In September, he announced that his 2,500-person company would be starting an entrepreneur-in-residence program.
Various accelerators in Ukraine provide funding and encourage startups to have a global focus:
GrowthUP gives startups the option of spending a month at their campuses in Berlin or Silicon Valley. They also have a venture fund that invests in Ukrainian and Russian entrepreneurs who are targeting the global market in the Internet of things, robotics, 3D printing, or software industries.
Happy Farm also offers startups the chance to spend one month in the US.
Carrot is Ukraine's first accelerator for hardware startups. The three- to seven-month-long program helps them prepare for and begin production in Ukraine or China.
WannaBiz, based in Odessa, helps web and mobile companies targeting Ukraine first.
One of Ukraine's new experiments is FISON, a crowdfunded venture fund where regular people can contribute as little as $100 and see returns on their investments. Of course, there are also your typical VC firms, including AVentures (focusing on software, cloud, online services, ecommerce, and mobile) and TA Venture (consumer startups). Some entrepreneurs have trouble finding mentors in Ukraine, so TA Venture plans to launch office hours with its startup experts in 2015.
Another complaint you'll hear from Ukraine entrepreneurs is the lack of later-stage funding. "It is very much possible to get pre-seed, seed, and Series A funding. But unfortunately, it is impossible to get bigger amounts in Ukraine right now. If a company reaches this stage, it usually moves out to Europe or the US," says Bozhena Sheremeta, a tech journalist at the Kyiv Post.
3. Community & events
All those tens of thousands of techies in Ukraine need some place to meet, and there's no shortage of big tech events there:
IDCEE is an annual IT conference that attracts over 2,000 entrepreneurs, investors, and executives. The next one will be held in October.
iForum is even larger, expecting over 5,000 people at its annual event this April.
IT Evolution Meetings is a conference focusing on trends in IT and software. Over 300 people from Europe, the US, Israel, and Ukraine attended last year, and the next session is in June.
Ukraine Tech Gem is a tech conference that invites businesspeople from the US to get to know Ukraine startups.
4. Support organizations
The coworking trend has already reached Ukraine, and you can network with other entrepreneurs and find community at spaces like Chasopys, Bibliotech, iHub, KyivWorking, and Freud House (be sure to brush up on your Ukrainian and Russian).
KyivWorking is run by Startup Ukraine, a support organizations that helps entrepreneurs connect with the resources they need (and each other). Startup.Network has a similar goal.
For tech startups that are more tech than startup, the local Science Park helps facilitate collaboration between businesses and universities and promotes the commercialization of new technologies.
Ukraine's growing pains are typical of any early-stage startup scene, and the political climate doesn't seem to faze entrepreneurs. At IDCEE 2014, Swiss investor Florian Schweitzer said, "Our presence here proves that business and innovation can continue in spite of politicians' bullshit." I think many entrepreneurs would agree.
Thank you to Petro Bondarevskyi, CEO of Coppertino; Andriy Dovzhenko, managing partner at SMRK VC fund; Mykola Palienko of Prom.ua; Sofiia Shvets, CMO of ARQuest; Anton Karpenko of KARPOLAN; Yegor Anchishkin, CEO of Zakaz.ua; Artem Bilodid, founder and CEO of Multitest.me; Anton of Ecoisme; Alex Tarasov of Smile Expo; and Viktoriya Tigipko, managing director of TA Venture, for their input.
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Kira M. Newman is a Tech Cocktail writer interested in the harsh reality of entrepreneurship, work-life balance, and psychology. She is the founder of The Year of Happy and has been traveling around the world interviewing entrepreneurs in Asia, Europe, and North America since 2011. Follow her @kiramnewman or contact kira@tech.co.
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On 13th September, IBM Blockchain announced on Twitter that they have joined the HACERA as a founding member. The HACERA is a platform that uses zero-knowledge proofs to resolve existing problems linked to privacy and data confidentiality.
The IBM blockchain which was created to track digital currency transactions through the collaboration with the HACERA Unbounded Registry aims to list all the ever-increasing blockchain consortiums, networks, and applications on the HACERA registry. The partnership seeks to build a registry, unlike the famed Yellow Pages that emerged in the 1830's.
HACERA's Unbounded Registry is all set to provide a decentralized method of registering, researching, linking and transacting data as it is built on blockchain technology. Furthermore, the registry will consist of data covering several blockchain solutions that have been created to interoperate with present day distributed ledger technologies consisting of a large user base.
The Linux Foundation's Hyperledger Fabric, Hyperledger Sawtooth, R3 Corda, EEA Quorum and Stellar Network are some of the distributed technologies that the collaboration has already considered to include into its realm.
According to IBM, through the use of HACERA's Unbounded Registry, several problems such as the reserved naming and discoverability of networks, applications and consortiums could be resolved.
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A Brief History of Downtown Las Vegas And Fremont Street
Las Vegas came into being in 1902 when Senator William Clark bought an 1,800-acre ranch to make this spot a train stop on the rail line he was building at the time. Prior to the founding of Las Vegas in 1905, Fremont Street was the main travel route because of its proximity to the city's first train depot. It was also the same year that his railroad auctioned off some 1,200 lots within the townsite to investors who paid anywhere from $100 to $750 per lot and $1,750 for business lots.
Fremont Street was also the first road to be paved (1925) as well as the first street to have traffic controlled by a stoplight (1931). As a result, more than 1,000 prospective land investors traveled via train to Las Vegas from Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. Many never returned as they begin building on their lands almost immediately. As a result of the sale of these lots, Fremont Street would soon become what we now refer to as Downtown Las Vegas. Today the area is bustling with life 24/7 with live music venues, cafes and shopping destinations and pulls in the biggest crowds, every day of the week.
Fremont Street during the Early 1900's
During the early 1900's, casinos began to appear on Fremont Street. Unfortunately for many of these entrepreneurs, gambling was outlawed in 1910. Furthermore, the sale of liquor was prohibited unless it was sold at a hotel. Luckily, gambling became legal again in 1931 and shortly thereafter, construction began on the Hoover Dam.
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7 Days of Movies: 2014's Captain America–The Winter Soldier
Posted on 2015 January 14 2017 August 2 by The Man in Black (Bill Silvia)
Captain America was not one of my favorite superhero films. It was yet another hero origin retelling, so it already had an uphill battle to get on my good side. Perhaps more importantly, it was boring to me. It was a story about an unlikely candidate fighting in a war, winning the day and taking the MacGuffin away from the bad guy. I don't watch those types of movies, because I normally look for something a bit more engaging, with unique elements. When I do watch action movies, they are martial arts movies, and while Cap can fight, he's nowhere near as entertaining to watch as Jet Li. The only thing that made the movie stand out was a sub-plot designed to justify the costume, as though the filmmakers were a little embarrassed to include it. It wasn't the worst movie of Marvel's Phase One – that honor goes to Thor – but it was the least memorable.
Still, Avengers was a game-changer. It brought action, comedy and drama to the right levels to make it my favorite comic book film up to that point, and set a new standard for the Marvel Cinematic Universe to live up to. While Iron Man and Iron Man 2 continued a trend of uninspired, okay-but-not-great superhero films, Iron Man 3 met the standard set by The Avengers, taking the story in multiple directions with a primary crime of not being completely faithful to decades of not-always-coherent comic continuity. While I missed Thor: Dark World for personal reasons, I was still psyched to see the rest of Phase 2, Winter Soldier included.
Captain America: Winter Soldier follows the events of The Avengers with the continuing adventures of Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanov, Maria Hill, and Nick Fury in a world influenced by Tony Stark. One of Marvel's strengths as a comic book company has always been how easily Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Wolverine, and its other properties fit together (except for the occasional mutant prejudice strangeness) into a shared world that is different from our own but with key similarities, compared to the DC universe where it often feels like any crossover between Batman and Superman involves hopping between disparate worlds. That is on full effect here and, once faced with the idea that Stark is making suggestions and doing contracting work for S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Armed Forces, it's not too much of a stretch to believe that the military is running tests with the equipment that gives Falcon his name.
Amidst all this, plot-lines from Captain America return. Hydra gives Cap and his fellow agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. an external opponent while they also deal with internal issues of trust and identity. Identity also plays a role in Cap's personal struggle, in which he must go toe to toe with his cybernetically enhanced and memory-wiped former sidekick.
Did Winter Soldier live up to the bar set by The Avengers? I'd have to say it did. Unlike the standard action fare, there are enough elements to the climax to provide true suspense, as it seems almost impossible for the five heroes to faces the forces that have been arraying themselves against them for seventy years. Like Iron Man 3, the story bleeds personal drama, spy movie action and mystery, and super-heroics to create a balanced breakfast.
The only thing I'm not completely sold on is the titular subplot. While it's thematically appropriate and definitely a challenge that Cap will have to overcome, nothing came of the Bucky plot except for a few fight scenes and a lead-in for the next sequel. While this sort of lead-in would work perfectly for the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode this sort of is, it doesn't make for a very complete movie. It's almost enough to make the case that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is less a series of movies and more a premium version of something like BBC's Sherlock, a show that airs three feature length episodes per season.
Despite the thirty minutes of lead in for the next movie and the misleading title they lend the film, it's still great fun. The character interactions are handled excellently, and it is quite possibly the first thing to get me excited about Captain America. It also does the job of selling a Black Widow film, with the Widow having somewhere around the second or third most screen time of the five featured heroes. Despite this, the film doesn't feel crowded, and Steve Rogers has plenty of time to shine.
Captain America: Winter Soldier is a great film for anybody who loves superheroes – in film or comic form – or anybody who enjoys movies in general with a bit of action in them. As with any other comic film, there's a hearty bit of Science Fiction in there to go along with everything else, and of course plenty of fight scenes. With so much more to this film than the action scenes, though, you don't need to be a fan of the genre to find something to like.
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Meet Daisy, one of the new hens to replace Fran and Toots, who succumbed to the oldest story, the fox and the hen. Daisy came from Cold Antler Farm, and Jenna said she had my photography in mind when she selected these hens. Thank you, Jenna. Daisy and I are already spending time together. Wait till there's sun.


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La Salle des dangers (« Danger Room » en version originale) est un lieu de fiction présent dans l'univers Marvel de la maison d'édition Marvel Comics. Créée par le scénariste Stan Lee et le dessinateur Jack Kirby, la salle apparaît pour la première fois dans le comic book The X-Men () #2 en novembre 1963.

C'est le lieu d'entraînement de l'équipe de super-héros mutants les X-Men à l'Institut Xavier (Salem Center, État de New York).

Description
La Salle des dangers a été construite par Professeur Xavier à l'Institut Xavier. Elle a pour but d'entraîner les mutants au combat, principalement les membres des X-Men et des équipes connexes tels les Nouveaux Mutants, à tester ou améliorer leurs pouvoirs, ou bien tout simplement comme une forme d'exutoire. Elle est constituée de machines inventées par Xavier qui sont basées sur la technologie Shi'ar.

Lors des entraînements dans cette salle, il est possible de sélectionner un niveau de difficulté, de choisir si c'est un assaut de la part des X-Men ou de l'ordinateur Cerebro, et si les armes infligent de véritables dommages. Une fois le programme sélectionné, la machine génère un environnent holographique et des ennemis virtuels qui donnent l'impression d'être sur un véritable champ de bataille.

Les jeunes recrues de l'équipe qui s'y exercent sont surveillés par un mentor ; au début Charles Xavier, par la suite Scott Summers et les leaders successifs des X-Men.

Incarnation physique
En 2004-2005, le scénariste Joss Whedon fait de la Salle des dangers un des ennemis à part entière des X-Men : il s'avère que l'ordinateur qui constituait la salle était une intelligence artificielle sous à la domination du Professeur Xavier.

Se retournant contre les élèves du professeur, celle-ci, nommée « Danger », est désireuse d'être enfin libre. L'équipe réussit à la vaincre, mais blâme Xavier d'avoir traitée la machine comme une esclave.

Pouvoirs et capacités
La Salle des dangers comportait quatre ordinateurs de haute capacité conçus par la technologie Shi'ar, pouvant générer des environnements holographiques artificiels très convaincants.

Incarnation physique
En tant que « Danger », l'incarnation physique de la Salle des dangers, le personnage possède une force (capable de soulever environ 100 tonnes), une endurance, une vitesse et une agilité surhumaines.

 Le corps de « Danger » est composé d'un alliage de titane très résistant, capable de reproduire n'importe quelle arme ou bouclier.
 Étant donné sa programmation originale, Danger sait presque tout des X-Men et des mutants qui se sont entraînés dans la Salle des dangers : points forts, faiblesses et techniques de combat, ce qui lui permet de les traquer, les analyser ou d'anticiper leurs coups et d'élaborer une stratégie pour les vaincre.
 Danger pouvait « re-router » ses circuits électroniques pour gérer les dommages subis et pouvait télécharger sa conscience dans n'importe quel équipement doté d'une micro-puce. Cela lui permettait de communiquer avec ces équipements, de les contrôler et d'en prendre possession totalement.

Apparitions dans d'autres médias
La Salle des dangers était présente dans les scripts originaux des films X-Men (2000) et X-Men 2 (2003), mais dû être retirée par manque de moyens.

Elle fait finalement sa première apparition dans le film X-Men : L'Affrontement Final (2006) où, comme dans le comics, elle sert de salle d'entraînements pour l'équipe des X-Men. Elle réapparaît une seconde et dernière fois tout à la fin du film X-Men : Apocalypse (2016). Dans les deux films, les X-Men y affrontent des Sentinelles.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Institut Xavier
 Cerebro

Liens externes
  Danger Room sur la Comic Book Database
 « Danger » et la Salle des dangers sur Marvel-world.com

Univers de X-Men
Réalité virtuelle dans la fiction
Lieu dans la science-fiction

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Construction for the Route 208 (Pulaski Road) bridge, spanning McClures Run in Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, is scheduled to begin as part of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT) Rapid Bridge Replacement Project.
Construction is expected to begin during the week of August 13 and be complete in mid-September. During this time, drivers will be directed to follow a detour along Route 18 and Route 158 (South New Castle Street).
This bridge is referred to as JV-467 and is one out of the 558 bridges being replaced under the Rapid Bridge Replacement Project. JV references the joint-venture partnership between Walsh/Granite, which is leading construction for the entire project.


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Good twin or bad twin?
HS2's financial case gets weaker and weaker – but has its political justification held up any better?
New developments at ConservativeHome, as we build on the success of another record-breaking year
Simon Cooke: We need more politicians. It is the only way to tame the unaccountable bureaucrats.
Mark Wallace of the Taxpayers Alliance believes that town twinning may once have been a justified cause for municipal spending – but no longer.
It's become such a cliché for every possible town to be twinned with numerous obscure places around the world that it has become a joke, from The Simpsons to comedy club stand-up acts. But is there really a point to it?
Twinning originally kicked off in the aftermath of the Second World War, as a way of forging links between countries that had been mortal enemies. Against that background, there may have been a justification for introducing people from Germany to British cities and vice versa – (on the ground, rather than from the air, this time, though). It is certainly true that if you see people as humans rather than unimaginable aliens, it is harder to make war against them.
60 years later, though, what does twinning bring Britain's towns and cities in the 21st century? Many places are twinned with half a dozen or more municipalities around the globe, but the activity seems to have become self-perpetuating, something that is just done, without questioning why that should be the case.
More often that not, it does involve costs to councils and therefore to taxpayers. Councillors and council officers travel back and forth to the twin destinations. In the case of some towns, British taxpayers even fund trips by foreign representatives to visit the UK.
Gifts are exchanged, too – indeed, this happens so often that more than one councillor has told me that they have visited twin towns abroad and handed over a present that typifies their home area only to find that the recipients already have several identical gifts from previous visitors. It is hard to imagine a more absurd activity than travelling abroad only to give someone a gift that they already own, because you have given them exactly the same thing repeatedly in the past.
Some councils have started to scale back their twinning activities to being twinned in name only, putting an end to the international trips that cost so much but bring so little to their local taxpayers. Now Doncaster, under the leadership of directly elected Mayor Peter Davies, of the English Democrats Party, has cancelled its five twinnings outright.
So is there any real loss involved in putting an end to twinning?
The argument that council twinning is essential to keep peace doesn't seem to hold water any more. So far, at least, hostilities have not broken out between Doncaster and Herten, their divorced ex-twin in Germany. Indeed, many would argue that the updated version of the peace argument, that twinning adds to a sense of "global citizenship", means in reality that it is good propaganda for bodies like the EU, which taxpayers certainly shouldn't have to pay for.
But can twinned councils learn good municipal practice from each other? Well, perhaps they can, but in the age of the internet there surely is no need for the rigmarole and cost of twinning to learn how people do things abroad.
The argument in favour of twinning that has the most potential is that it helps international trade, but even that looks increasingly redundant. For a start, it is businesses that forge trade opportunities, not councils. Furthermore, there are already a plethora of private and public bodies, from the Chambers of Commerce to
Regional Development Agencies and UK Trade and Investment, working on the issue of building Britain's trade links. Adding crests to a town's "Welcome to…" sign and sending councillors on the occasional jolly is hardly likely to prove a deal breaker.
There are many traditions in British politics that are beneficial and useful, as well as historic. Twinning, whilst possibly justified when it was first conceived, is no longer one of them.
Mark Wallace Taxpayers Alliance
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