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The Little Prince (2015)
(2016) Animated Feature (Netflix) Starring the voices of Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Paul Rudd, Marion Cotillard, James Franco, Benicio Del Toro, Ricky Gervais, Bud Cort, Paul Giamatti, Riley Osborne, Albert Brooks, Mackenzie Foy, Jacquie Barnbrook, Jeffy Branion, Marcel Bridges. Directed by Mark Osborne
In 1943, French aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote the novella The Little Prince which while ostensibly a children's book has become one of the most beloved books of all time. Poetic, bittersweet in places, joyful in others, it examines the difficulties of growing up, the importance of love and the journey of life. It not only appeals to the young and the young at heart, but also reams of material have been written on the underlying themes. A 1974 live action film was until now the best-known adaptation of the book.
This, the first animated version of the film, pads out the original story with a framing story. A stressed out Little Girl (Foy) is pushed by her overbearing mother (McAdams) to ace an interview into the prestigious Werth Academy, which would guarantee her a productive future. Her mother, who wears business suits with ties in the style of men, is gravely disappointed when the Little Girl blows her interview when a question she didn't study for is asked.
Discouraged but not defeated, her mother moves the Little Girl to an area where she has a repeat chance of getting into Werth. There her mother outlines a Life Plan for her daughter that she expects the young girl to stick to, but fate has other plans. It turns out they've moved next door to an Aviator (Bridges) whose attempts to start his airplane ends up in disaster. In a neighborhood of block house conformists, he is the odd man out. Naturally he and the Little Girl bond and he tells her the tale of a strange thing that happened to him when he crashed in the Sahara desert years earlier.
There he'd met a Little Prince (R. Osborne) who had was visiting our planet from Asteroid B612, a tiny place which was always threatened to be overrun by insidious baobab trees. One day, he discovered a beautiful rose was growing on his tiny world. The Rose (Cotillard) implored him to protect her with a glass cover, which the adoring Prince did. He and the Rose were deeply in love, but he was disturbed by her vanity. At last, feeling abused by the Rose, he decides to leave his asteroid and see what else was out there. He discovered several other asteroids, each inhabited by an adult with a failing; such as the Conceited Man (Gervais) who took bows whenever he felt the need, or the Businessman (Brooks) who endlessly counted the stars so that he could own them all. Finally he had come back to Earth only to discover thousands of Roses and realized that his own Rose was nothing special.
=However, a Fox (Franco) that he'd tamed informed him that his Rose was special because he loved her and urged him to see things with his heart, which would allow him to see much more clearly. Desperately lonely and wanting to see his Rose again, he travels home to the stars the only way he knows how – to allow the Snake (Del Toro) to bite him and allow him to leave his cumbersome body behind. The Aviator grieves for the loss of his friend but is mystified when his body disappears.
The Aviator, now an old man, succumbs to illness and has to be hospitalized. Disillusioned and wanting to escape her life, the Little Girl goes in search of the Little Prince along with a fox stuffed toy which has magically come to life. Using the Aviator's plane, she flies to the asteroids and eventually finds the Prince (Rudd) who is no longer little and has forgotten everything. Can she help him remember?
Mark Osborne is best known for directing Kung Fu Panda which had to its advantage some cultural exploration. This is a much tougher sell; for one thing, while kids today are fairly familiar with The Little Prince it doesn't really translate well to the screen. It is also a short book; the 1974 live action version padded itself out with musical numbers and dancing. In some ways this is way more ambitious; not only does it add to the story with the Little Girl and the old man Aviator but it mixes techniques; the Little Girl's story is told in CGI, the Little Prince with stop-motion animation. The Little Prince section also takes as its inspiration the original illustrations Saint-Exupéry hand-drew for the book. It's not quite uncanny, but the stop-motion is enough like those original drawings to make one feel quite at home, especially if you grew up with them.
One of the chief complaints I have with the movie is one I have with the book; with the exception of the Aviator, all the adults in the book are pretty much jerks. They are way self-involved, uncaring of the needs of a child to be a child, they put far too much emphasis on achievement and material things and worst of all, they are soulless. The Little Girl's mom is completely unsympathetic and the Aviator is at best eccentric and at worst an utter lunatic. Even the grown-up Little Prince is frightened and spineless. Granted, some adults are some of these things but what the movie is in essence telling children is not to trust adults AT ALL. Not even their parents.
The animation is quite stylized and while the CGI looks pretty standard (even sub-standard in places), the stop motion is beautiful and wondrous, capturing the wide-eyed amazement of childhood. While some of the details of the original story are changed and some characters eliminated (for example, the drunkard is cut out of the movie), the essence of the story and more importantly the spirit of the story are both intact.
The movie enjoyed a successful theatrical run globally and Netflix gave it a fairly limited theatrical release and I have to say it's a bit of a shame. I'd love to have seen this on the big screen. Perhaps an enterprising art house near you will book it even if it is on Netflix. I suspect seeing this in a theater will make this an even more riveting experience for young and old alike.
REASONS TO GO: Much of the spirit of the beloved book is captured here. The mix of stop-motion animation and CGI is innovative.
REASONS TO STAY: The animation can be a bit primitive looking at times. Few of the adults in the film have any value to them.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some mild peril and violence and some adult themes.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is the highest-grossing animated film to be made in France to date.
BEYOND THE THEATER: Netflix
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Castle in the Sky
NEXT: Lights Out
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Posted on August 7, 2016 by carlosdev
Just one big happy family.
(2016) Animated Feature (Universal/Illumination) Starring the voices of Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Albert Brooks, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Chris Renaud, Steve Coogan, Michael Beattie, Sandra Echeverria, Jaime Camel, Kiely Renaud, Jim Cummings, Laraine Newman, Tara Strong. Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney
We all lead busy lives. We spend most of our waking hours at work or school, hanging out with friends, being everywhere but at home. Those of us who own pets know that one of the best things about leaving the house is coming back home to our beloved fur babies (and scale babies and feather babies). Dogs, with their over-the-top "I thought I was never going to see you again" greetings, cats with their indifference – it doesn't matter. We are always happy to see our pets. But have you ever wondered what your pets are up to while you're out earning a living?
Wonder no more. The filmmakers behind the Despicable Me franchise have figured it out for you. Max (C.K.) is a pampered terrier living in a New York apartment with his sweet owner Katie (Kemper) to whom he is absolutely devoted as only a dog can be. Elsewhere in the apartment complex are a menagerie of pets – a fluffy Pomeranian named Gidget (Slate) who has a major crush on Max, the good-hearted but not-bright bulldog Mel (Moynihan), the punk poodle Buddy (Buress), Chloe (Bell), a cat with the kind of appetite that would put a competitive eater to shame and Norman (C. Renaud), a guinea pig lost in the air ducts for two weeks.
Max's world is turned upside down though when Katie brings home Duke (Stonestreet), a shaggy bear of a dog who is a rescue pet. She introduces him as his new brother, but Max isn't so sure. The ginormous Duke quickly takes over all of Max's creature comforts from his plush doggie bed to his bowl of kibble. For his part, Duke sees Max as a rival for Katie's affection who needs to be put in his place. The two begin to conspire against each other, which leads to the two of them after a somewhat unlikely series of events being stranded outside of the apartment.
Chased by animal control and a group of pets who had been abandoned or flushed out into the sewers, led by a manic bunny named Snowball (Hart) who has a thing against pampered pets, the two flee through the streets of Brooklyn, trying to find their way back home to Katie. Forced to work together, they develop a grudging respect for one another. However, Gidget isn't letting Max down; she organizes the rest of the pets into a rescue team. Aided by Tiberius (Brooks), a hawk who is trying to keep his appetite under control, and Pops (Carvey), a partially paralyzed beagle who has "connections," will they find their friends before one of the two groups chasing them do, or will Max and Duke make it home on their own? Or will everyone fail, leaving the two "brothers" at the mercy of animal control or the homicidal bunny?
I was a little bit disappointed by the movie. The animation is top notch and is definitely a love letter to New York, which is rendered with charming detail. It's the idealized New York of Gershwin and dozens of sitcoms since, and it works as a believable environment for the characters. The cast of some of the best comedians working in the business today deliver their lines with snap and patter and there are plenty of moments that are laugh-out-loud funny for both parents and their kids.
The problems are however that you feel that you're watching a bunch of other movies. There are a ton of references to other films, stylistically, subtly, sometimes in your face and through little Easter Eggs. It's the kind of pop culture deluge that made some of the later Shrek films kind of a slog. While I liked the concept just fine, the execution was where it fell down. The middle third – which commences once Max and Duke leave the apartment – goes at a bit of a crawl. Yes, the animation is wonderful but I found it a bit of a bore to be brutally honest.
In a summer where it seems family movies are king, The Secret Life of Pets has been a blockbuster and a sequel has already been greenlit. I don't know that I liked this as much as some of the other animated features I've seen this year – to be honest few of them have really been better than average – but there is enough to satisfy the target audience nicely and not be too difficult for a parent to sit through multiple times. I certainly have no difficulty imagining that this will be a regular request for kids once it hits the home video market. Still, I would have liked it to be a bit less pop culture-oriented and a bit more timeless, like some of the films it paid homage to. The Secret Life of Pets had all the ingredients it needed to be a classic and at the end of the day, it's just a decent kid-flick. That's not nearly good enough given what it could have been.
REASONS TO GO: There are some really funny sequences here. The animation is superb.
REASONS TO STAY: The movie drags quite a bit over the middle third. It's a little too derivative for its own good.
FAMILY VALUES: A little bit of rude humor and cartoon action.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is the first film to gross over $100 million in it's opening weekend that isn't a sequel or based on previously released material.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Toy Story
NEXT: Equals
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Hank and Dory are informed there is a sushi chef nearby.
(2016) Animated Feature (Disney*Pixar) Starring the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Hayden Rolence, Ty Burrell, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Sloane Murray, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Bob Peterson, Kate McKinnon, Bill Hader, Sigourney Weaver, Alexander Gould, John Ratzenberger, Torbin Xan Bullock, Andrew Stanton, Bennett Dammann, Katherine Ringgold. Directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane
People with mental and emotional issues are all around us; sometimes within our own families. We see people who have these issues and sometimes they are the butt of jokes, sometimes objects of pity but only rarely do we see them as fellow human beings even if they're fish.
A year after Dory (DeGeneres) helped reunited Nemo (Rolence) with his father Marlin (Brooks), they are all living in the Great Barrier Reef seemingly as happy as…well, clams, but Dory feels there is something missing. She has vague memories of a mother and a father in…California! Yes, that's it! California!
If you saw the first film Finding Nemo you'd know what a big deal that is. Dory has a short-term memory issue that prevents her from remembering things that happened even five minutes earlier. In fact, she can barely remember anything at all. But this is the first time that she's had a very real memory and she feels the need to go to California and find her mom and dad. Though the journey is long, Marlin and Nemo feel that it's the least that they can do to help her be reunited with her mom and dad the same way she helped Marlin and Nemo reunite.
So off they go with the help of the Pacific current and Crush (Peterson) and Squirt (Dammann) get them to the Marine Life Institute – think the Monterey Bay Aquarium if it were a theme park (initially the movie was to be set at Sea World but that was before Blackfish was screened for the animators). Dory gets separated from Marlin and Nemo, and manages to get caught and brought into the Institute's rehabilitation wing. There she meets the octopus Hank (O'Neill) who points out he's actually a septapus – he lost a limb in an accident.
The Marine Life Institute, as narrated by Sigourney Weaver often throughout the film, has a three-pronged mission; rescue, rehabilitate, release. Hank wants nothing to do with release; he doesn't think he could make it in the open ocean. Dory has been earmarked to be sent to an aquarium in Cleveland and Hank wants the tag she's been given that's her ticket to Cleveland, which may be the first time in history anyone actually wanted to go to Cleveland. Clevelanders, I kid…I kid because I love.
Anywho, Hank agrees to help Dory find her parents but they are elsewhere in the complex so it will not be an easy journey, particularly since Dory can't, y'know, breathe air. But she and Hank are nothing if not inventive and they find ways to travel around the Institute, but can they find Dory's parents? Are they even still there? And will Marlin and Nemo manage to find Dory?
The sequel to the second (now third) largest grossing film in Pixar history is dominating the summer box office this year. It has already pulled in a billion dollars in global box office, one of only 24 movies in history to achieve that feat (and ten of those are Disney films). This is the year of Dory and you can bet it will be a lot sooner than 13 years before the next sequel is released (which is how long it took for this to get made).
In the interest of transparency, I'm not a big fan of the original movie. I recognize the technical proficiency (which is of course even more apparent here) but I never connected with it the way most others did. I also found the character of Marlin extremely irritating. Fortunately for me, he takes a backseat in the film to Dory and Hank, both of whom are far more interesting and far less neurotic. Dory has been described as a one-joke sidekick, but she is really front and center here and is a lot more than that. DeGeneres is one of the most empathetic people in show business and that empathy is very much apparent in Dory.
One of the biggest drawbacks to the movie is that the plot is essentially the same. There are some major differences, but I personally would have appreciated a little more inventiveness when it came to the storyline. I suppose for small children who have had the first movie around their entire lives, the familiar is somewhat comforting.
Certainly the movie should get some props because it gives kids, parents and teachers a discussion point to talk about people with mental and emotional problems, and how to deal with people who are different than they are. Kids are used to being cruel to anyone they perceive as different; perhaps having characters like Dory around will give them pause the next time they want to say something mean to the kid with a stammer.
As I said, I am not a fan of the first movie, although I found this one slightly better in many ways, both from an animation standpoint and from the standpoint that I find Dory far more likable a character than Marlin or even Nemo. That the characters and the environment appeal to mass audiences is abundantly clear and I'm sure that most people would give the movie a higher rating than I am. Take it therefore with a grain of salt and know that you'll probably find Dory a lot more interesting than you found Nemo.
REASONS TO GO: Less Marlin, more Dory.
REASONS TO STAY: Seems to be very much a rehash of the first.
FAMILY VALUES: Suitable for everybody. There is a tiny bit of peril but even the very young will be enchanted.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Elba appears in three different Disney movies this year, all as animals.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Finding Nemo
NEXT: Now You See Me 2
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New Releases for the Week of July 8, 2016
Posted on July 7, 2016 by carlosdev
(Universal/Illumination) Starring the voices of Louis C.K., Kevin Hart, Albert Brooks, Jenny Slate, Lake Bell, Ellie Kemper, Eric Stonestreet. Directed by Chris Renaud and Yarrow Cheney
From the humans that brought you Despicable Me comes this charming animated feature about what goes on with the pets in a Manhattan apartment building while the owners are off at work and school. For Max, a terrier whose whole life revolves around his owner, things take a turn for the worse when she brings home a new dog who Max simply doesn't get along with. When the two find themselves alone on the streets of the city, they must work together not just to get home by dinner time but to thwart the evil plans of a maniacal bunny to turn the pets of the world against their owners.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, promos and B-roll video here.
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: PG (for action and some rude humor)
(ESX) James Remar, Allison Paige, Lea Thompson, Jayson Blair. A beautiful young girl who is committed to the cause of animal rights joins an organization that lobbies for better laws that protect animals and conducts animal rescues. She is given an assignment to infiltrate a suspected puppy mill, but falls for the charismatic owner and realizes that there are shades of grey in this game. Based on a true story.
See the trailer and clips here.
Genre: True Life Drama
Now Playing: AMC Loew's Universal Cineplex
Rating: PG (for thematic elements, brief disturbing images and some language)
(20th Century Fox) Zac Efron, Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Adam DeVine. Two brothers, hard partier frat boy types, are given an ultimatum by their family; to bring nice girls as dates to their sister's upcoming wedding in Hawaii or be barred from attending. Not knowing any nice girls, they take to social media and daytime talk shows to find the right girls. Unfortunately the girls they find have an agenda of their own.
See the trailer, interviews, clips and B-roll video here.
Rating: R (for crude sexual content, language throughout, drug use and some graphic nudity)
(Yash Raj) Marko Zaror, Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda. Although shot in a documentary style, this is actually the story of a fictional wrestler who rose to be one of the most popular athletes in India. After falling from grace, he mounted a comeback as a coach and then, again as a wrestler defying all the odds as he has done his entire career.
Now Playing: AMC West Oaks, Touchstar Southchase
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New Releases for the Week of June 17, 2016
(Disney*Pixar) Starring the voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Diane Keaton, Albert Brooks, Ed O'Neill, Eugene Levy, Ty Burrell, Idris Elba, Bill Hader. Directed by Andrew Stanton and Angus MacLane
The sequel to Finding Nemo focuses on the fish with the memory issues, Dory. When she suddenly is able to remember that she has a family, she knows she must go on a quest to find them and her friends all volunteer to help her get there. But who are they? Where could they be in a vast ocean? And where did she learn to speak whale? Every kid you know is going to see this in the next few weeks.
See the trailer, interviews, a promo and a Mother's Day video here.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, IMAX
Rating: PG (for mild thematic elements)
(New Line) Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan, Aaron Paul. Back for a high school reunion, a former big man on campus looks back on his glory days with some wistfulness. He's an accountant now and lives a boring, quiet life. But into his world comes the former bullied fat kid, now a ripped deadly CIA assassin, who claims to be on a major case. But is he telling the truth or is he just psychotic? Either way, the ex-BMOC wants nothing to do with him – but he finds himself sucked into a world of intrigue and action he only could have dreamed about in his youth.
See the trailer, clips and a video feature here.
Rating: PG-13 (for crude and suggestive humor, some nudity, action violence and brief strong language)
(Broad Green) Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance, Miriama McDowell. Genesis Potini came out of the slums of New Zealand to become a chess champion. Overcoming the odds and a certifiable genius at the game, he grew up to be an inspiration to his neighborhood and the children of his community, despite having to contend with his own demons.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and B-roll video here.
Genre: Biographical Drama
Now Playing: Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for language throughout, and some violence)
(Roadside Attractions) Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney. It has been said (mostly by writers) that behind every successful writer is a great editor and Max Perkins was the greatest of the great. Discoverer of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, he had a long-time friendship and professional relationship with the enigmatic Thomas Wolfe. This is the story of that often-tumultuous relationship.
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic elements and suggestive content)
(Magnet) Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Jeremy Irons, Luke Evans. A high rise apartment building becomes the setting for a class war as the upper class tenants of the luxury apartments on the higher floors are set against the middle class tenants on the lower floors. Increasingly frequent power outages and disturbing flaws in the design of the building begin to show up, particularly on the lower floors. Based on a novel by J.G. Ballard, this film played at the Florida Film Festival this past April.
Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller
Now Playing: Enzian Theater
Rating: R (for violence, disturbing images, strong sexual content/graphic nudity, language, and some drug use)
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Posted on January 2, 2016 by carlosdev
The Fresh Prince of Pittsburgh.
(2015) True Life Drama (Columbia) Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Morse, Arliss Howard, Mike O'Malley, Eddie Marsan, Hill Harper, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Stephen Moyer, Richard T. Jones, Paul Reiser, Luke Wilson, Sara Lindsey, Matthew Willig, Bitsie Tulloch, Kevin Jiggetts, Gary Grubbs, Joni Bovill. Directed by Peter Landesman
Football is our modern coliseum and the players our modern gladiators. They are admired, respected and beloved pretty much throughout the United States. When a character here says that the NFL "owns a day of the week – it used to belong to religion, but now it's theirs," he isn't kidding. Football is a mania and nearly a religion itself.
But the game takes a toll. It is a game of violence, when behemoths smash and crash into each other like meteors in the asteroid belt. Helmets go flying, players wobble off, tottering on their cleats and sometimes, people get concussions. However, the National Football League takes precautions, don't they?
When Hall of Fame center Mike Webster (Morse) dies unexpectedly at the age of 50, the city of Pittsburgh mourns. That he died homeless and some would whisper crazy is glossed over in the torrents of grief marking the loss of the city's warrior. When it comes time to autopsy the body, the task is given to Bennet Omalu (Smith), a Nigerian immigrant who happens to be the forensic pathologist on duty at the Allegheny County Morgue.
What Omalu sees puzzles him. Apparently, Webster was in excellent shape. There were no toxins in his body that would explain his heart just stopping, or his erratic behavior in the years prior to his death. Why is this man dead, wondered Omalu although an antagonistic colleague (O'Malley) urges him to wrap it up. However, Omalu can't do that. He orders expensive tests – that he pays for himself – to look into the why of Webster's demise. What he finds is shocking.
Apparently repeated blows to the head can cause trauma that eventually causes early dementia, excruciating headaches, personality changes and suicidal tendencies. That condition is called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE for short) and as he passes on his findings to his sympathetic boss Cyril Wecht (Brooks), other players like Dave Duerson (Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Andre Waters (Jones) and Justin Strzelczyk (Willig) begin to show signs of the same problem.
When Omalu takes his findings public, at first the NFL ignores them but as the good doctor persists to the point where the issue can't be ignored, they go on the offensive and suddenly Omalu's competency as a doctor is question as well as his status as an immigrant. In the midst of building a life in America with his new Kenyan wife Prema (Mbatha-Raw), his American dream may be turning into an American nightmare.
In some ways this is a very important story. The safety of the players should be of paramount importance to the league (you would think) as the players are their commodity. However, the NFL chose to fight against the safety of their player, reasoning that these findings could kill the game altogether. Maybe the game should be killed in that case – no game is worth dying for. I'm sure many readers will find that sacrilegious.
However, Landesman chooses to frame it in the love story between Prema and Omalu and then they draw Prema up as support girlfriend 101, with very little character to the character. She's so bland that the only reason you can see Omalu falling in love is because Mbatha-Raw is so extraordinarily beautiful. However, the blandness isn't Mbatha-Raw's fault – she's proven herself an outstanding actress. The fault is of the writers who chose to put most of their efforts into Omalu but also the male supporting characters, like Dr. Julian Bailes (Baldwin), a former Steeler team physician who becomes one of Omalu's staunchest allies, and Dr. Wecht, whom Brooks imbues with a kind of menschiness, as New York Daily News reviewer Allen Salkin so aptly put it.
This is Smith's movie however and he runs with it like Adrian Peterson through the secondary. Smith is often underrated as an actor because of his laid-back charm and his Fresh Prince grin. One forgets that he has two Oscar nominations (for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness) and some truly memorable performances in other movies. While his filmography of late hasn't had the kind of success that he's used to, he still has skills and he could very well get his third Oscar nomination for this performance.
&The movie doesn't have the emotional punch that it probably should have, although being a non-football fan it might not resonate with me as much as it might. However, parents whose kids want to get into the game would do well to look into CTE and ways of preventing it (there are some excellent pads out there that protect players from concussions in the brain but also in the heart). The NFL certainly comes off here as a somewhat indifferent corporate entity more interested in maintaining the profits rather than the player's long-term safety. It makes me wonder how the movie got permission to show the logos of the various teams and helmets on-camera and use game footage of NFL games. However, this is a movie in which the performance is better than the overall film. That's not the last time you'll hear that particular analysis of a film this holiday season.
REASONS TO GO: One of Smith's best performances. An important issue for any fan or parent of a player.
REASONS TO STAY: Pedestrian in places. Wastes Mbatha-Raw.
FAMILY VALUES: Some disturbing images and harsh language.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Matthew Willig, who plays Steeler defender Justin Strzelczyk in the movie, played in the National Football League for 14 years for among others, the Jets, Packers, Niners, Panthers and Rams (twice).
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Imitation Game
NEXT: The Emperor's New Clothes
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New Releases for the Week of December 25, 2015
(Columbia) Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Morse, Arliss Howard, Mike O'Malley, Eddie Marsan, Luke Wilson. Directed by Peter Landesman
Dr. Bennett Omalu, a forensic Neuropathologist working in Pittsburgh, is presented with a strange situation; a favored son of the city, a former football star, dies suddenly penniless, his very personality rumored to have changed completely. As he investigates he discovers something shocking; repeated head traumas, such as those routinely suffered by football players, leads to some terrifying consequences. However in bringing his findings to the public, he finds himself in a fight with a corporation that owns a day of the week – the National Football League. However, Dr. Omalu refuses to back down and becomes maybe the greatest advocate that pro athletes have ever had.
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material including some disturbing images, and language)
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Genre: True Life Dramedy
Rating: R (for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity)
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Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements, crude and suggestive content, and for language)
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See the trailer, clips, featurettes and Q&A sessions here.
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Rating: R (for some sexuality and full nudity)
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See the trailer, clips, interviews, a promo, a featurette, B-roll video and a Q&A session here.
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Rating: PG-13 (for brief strong language)
(Warner Brothers) Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, Ray Winstone, Teresa Palmer. A young maverick FBI Agent infiltrates a group of extreme athletes who are suspected of pulling off daring robberies utilizing skills involving some of the most dangerous activities known to humans. The deeper the agent gets, the more he gets swept into their world. Eager to prove their innocence he begins to lose sight of his job and the protection of innocent lives. Can he bring these guys to justice before people die for their thrill-seeking ways – or will he ultimately prove their innocence?
See the trailer, clips, interviews, featurettes and B-roll video here.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D
Rating: R (for violence, thematic material involving perilous activity, some sexuality, language and drug material)
(Fox Searchlight) Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Jane Fonda, Rachel Weisz. Two lifelong friends vacation at a resort in the Swiss Alps as they contemplate oncoming retirement. Befriended by a young actor struggling to make sense of his latest role, one – a musician – is urged by his daughter not to retire just yet while the other – a screenwriter – labors to finish what may well be his last screenplay aided by his muse, who may or may not be true inspiration.
Rating: R (for graphic nudity, some sexuality, and language)
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Tank Knights Fortress (Hangul: 포트리스, Poteuliseu in short or 무한 전기  포트 리스, Muhan Jeongi Poteuliseu full name) is a Korean-Japanese co-produced animated series by SBS Productions, Dong Woo Animation and Daewon Media of South Korea in partnership with SUNRISE, NAS and Bandai Visual of Japan. This animated series was broadcast and shown in the Philippines and Taiwan. It also has an array of original merchandise such as manga, on-line games, toy figures and an audio CD soundtrack.

Media

Animation series
The animated series known as Tank Knights Portriss . This show was broadcast in Japanese language on TV Tokyo from April 5, 2003 to March 27, 2004. Five months after its Japanese telecast, the Korean language version, which was being shown on SBS, aired from August 6, 2003 to June 17, 2004 with 52 episodes.

On-line Games
One of the most-popular hit animation TV series was inspired by South Korea online game developed by AllStar and published by Softzen. Fortress 2 Blue (American name is BB Tanks). BB Tanks has 12 characters that were inspired by arms or tanks of the past, present, and future. Tank Knights Fortress has also hero or heroine what motivated from 12 characters of game. They are called 'Fortress Knights'. They are transform to human-like robot.

Series overview
This show revolves around the three Fortress Knights and a human boy named Yuma who are about to shape the Fortress Planet, known as the home where robots live in peace. But the harmony was disrupted because of the sudden presence of a dictator named Dark Fortress along with his evil schemes. Now it's up to the Fortress Knights and Yuma, who accidentally got into the Fortress Planet, to battle the evil forces and maintain peace throughout the Fortress Planet.

Prologue

Fortress World

 The Fortress has a long history of the planet. Almost like a human with a very long life (First Fortress organisms) constitute a high civilization had been living. One day, a meteorite crashes happening with, they will be destroyed. After the fortress was transformed into a planet goes into the world of the dead. However, you can not live life even more difficult that the natural environment, organisms have survived a first Fortress to adapt to harsh natural environment continues to be a quiet evolution. Fortress is a second life so it is finally born. This difference was apparently living with the human, it constitutes a body existed in the planet is as heavy metal minerals (mechanic) was set. Thus, the fortress planet, and prosperity in the birth of a new life out of the stage is changed.

Fortress World, and the wounds of war
 The day after hundreds of years from inception of the story, the dictator of the world because of confused riding pyureoro Fortress, a series of battles in the streets and the town goes pagoedoeeoman. Such an invitation would stand up with Fortress Fortress pyureoege revolt is the article. Their superior combat skills and a noble spirit Fortress pyureoreul down as a dictator, by a long war, conclude peace, nestled in the Fortress World is this.

Fortress of the article rally
 The Fortress World and lasts a long peace. This would appear suddenly in a world of peace, the Dark Fortress another dictator. Fortress World, to try to protect us from the clutches of evil 'Fortress article' to the gathering, and they invited an armed variant of the Fortress story take over capability and a strong fortress Rise (Changeling), possesses the ability, and humanoid robots from the tank during the battle It is also possible to change the mode. Moreover, convergence with the strain that can exert more power. The purpose of the Super Dimension Fortress Dark dictator Four complete destruction of the giant computer and fused them to dream them. Thus as God is opening an eternity. Dark Fortress Fortress articles defeated army rises to restore peace.

Inception of the story
 Dark Fortress Fortress army engineer's home base of the tower of Babel, Carrot, Duke, Digg is all that is undercover. Dark Fortress is our only chance and convinced tadohal and the Order of the fortress, but all were in the palm of a dark fortress. The interior of the tower was completely empty, the fact that this place was the launch of Super Dimension Four will be destroyed. Fortress of articles can be removed I think the great opportunity to destroy the Dark Super Dimension Fortress Four touching moment of the switch suddenly from heaven come down off the capsule containing the boy. Rise of the Fortress over Carrot yunghapha ability to exert a special boy. Dark Fortress gave a phenomenal show the power failure Super Dimension Fortress Four knights and the boy away from the area of the attack and sent away. Fortress of the Knights and the boys back to your party Passing through rugged battle zone is advanced toward the Tower of Babel.

Plot
 The Strain Dark Fortress Fortress reported that the fusion process, being pulled understand the mechanism of Lies. Thus, the black dragon named Dark Fortress Fortress Rise produces a life as possible.
 Knights came his way to the Dark City, would be attacked by a black dragon. The power of the mighty black dragon struggled during the Yuma novelties to the black dragon hadaga checks are being attacked by surprise. Strain the fruit from doctors around Yuma for me to hear the word energy and water, Carrot, driving alone, the strain that the strain that Yuma to obtain the fruit supply. Carrot and the strain that recovered energy to the fusion of the black dragon sseureotteurinda.
 After the name of the strain that comes from the fruit of 'Yuma' is to get the name. Yuma Knights of the fortress since the need to accompany with each Carrot and fused to contribute to the victory of the Knights Fortress.
 Fortress of the Knights captured the 25 I used to train the attack will be met during the Canon. Since then, Unicorn will meet in the woods. Unicorn Fortress combined forces with the Knights to victory in the battle in the woods, you reap. Unicorn after every flush of the other knights of the crisis does not spare his own life are helpful.

Fortress Infinite Union
 The committee, after escorting kaeteoreul jyadiseureul learns. Tate Fortress jyadiseuneun members are too young to save the world in the fight despite the feeling of fear, but Knights Fortress and help to restore confidence in Fortress World are fighting for freedom and peace.
 Beach towns are being bombarded by the news, Templars Fortress bombers and aircraft carriers in the cycle and undercover operations to try to attack and in the process, and encounter new articles section & Tritton will join. Bombing of the USS Triton assistance to be successful and will regain stability in the village.
 Since the Knights once again leave the fortress, but, during the dark of the new group will be staging a surprise attack missiles. The information group to smuggle missiles, missile factories to get into the dark, but there is working with researchers from the bulkan - teurakan brother was discovered to be standing at the crossroads of survival. However, his brother's knowledge of the fortress as a base article, get my life is.
 After Dark Templars were to find the underground station and the karma there be any way to rescue the citizens of defeat underground bases being built in large sublessee 'mega-tank, The Dark' is relative. Dark mega-tanks in the north to conquer the continent Gracia Dark Fortress is directly manipulating the tank. Knights of the operation, despite the dark to get to Garcia, but the mega tank, Fortress of the Knights of relentless attacks and destroys as diminishing tolerance for cold, dark fortress failed, and ends with the conquest of Garcia.
 Since a large amount of volcanic energy, and 22 groups Dark energy is collected intelligence to identify the Fortress a volcanic island to the Knights of the destruction of the energy will infiltrate. In the process, the energy is seen to Yuma, and reacting. Struck in the dark were cornered in the Fortress of the Knights bulkan - teurakan brother is back with the help of. Bulkan a new weapon and a bag Khan Yuma 'Yuma Revolver' and provide a bullet. Again after breaking into a volcanic island fortress of the Knights, Yuma, and reacting to the energy of the unknown could be due to super-Rise, and stands up more powerful groups in the form of Dark.
 This inspired the Dark Knights Fortress City of the journey in a hurry. Digg it neared the Dark City, Freud met his old friend to create a new, dark fortress invincible part of life is to obtain information about transportation. Fortress of the Knights, however, failed to destroy part of the train, the Dark Fortress with a part of life invincible 'jeokmaryong' is completed.
 Dakeusiti jingyeokhan the Fortress of the Knights fell in front of the left dakeusiti, Dark Yuma to Fort Lee, kidnapping killed. The Super Dimension running guns to complete destruction of vital energy needs because of Yuma. Dark Fortress in a Yuma succeeded in collecting a vital energy, the Yuma Yuma to escape with a revolver. Yuma Super Dimension to the destruction of their vital energy by heating the bubble toward our operations are interrupted by destruction of the Four. The Super Dimension Four, but the destruction was launched within 2 strain is summoning me. Article 2 of the Forest Ranger, Dark Fortress, Dark City, with dragon and jeokma to escape.
 The final match of the day after the former commander of the Dark's karma, yiohna, jinggoneun prisoners arrested, but escaped the camp Soon after the chatahnaseonda Dark Fortress. After the capture of the full City Council Dark Fortress Dark City, the name of the 'Peace City' after getting the redevelopment to proceed.
 Dark Fortress after fortress jyadiseurobuteo to find the best elder members go to Alta Roy called me to advise the Fortress of the Knights, will meet him. The Super Dimension prisoners this time due to destruction of the black dragon and the encounter is broken. Carrot to fight in the same conditions, anticipate accepting of the black dragon, black dragon chaos smoother fair fight and win the Carrot getdaneun disappear without a dream. After leaving the Knights of the black dragon, the past history of the planet Alta Fortress hear from me and the Dark Fortress, Roy learns of the plan. This past destroyed human civilization 'ultimate destruction of space weapons and reassemble the whole world to conquer a fortress in the process of the Forest Rangers 2 (Iowa) was to use the power of.
 Thus, the destruction of the weapons of knights fortress to stop the assembly lines in a much stronger convergence dahana Iowa jeokma dragon attacks and part of the Dark Fortress to gain favor from the back of obtaining all the dark military commanders have failed to interfere with parts are assembled to go destruction weapons (amheukdaemaryong) are finished. In this process, the former army commander Dark Carrot kidnapped in Ghana and to find the Dark Fortress is fit again rejected. Carrot and fell to the basement with all the Dark Knights Fortress soon other military commanders were rescued by military commanders before the Dark Knights Fortress and the separation will be.
 Dark Fortress Knights of hemp as a dragon with an enormous power to subdue. Thus, for the murder of a child coming to Yuma to the success of the Dark Fortress as a force trying to kill a black dragon to Carrot Top showed up again to rescue Knights Fortress. Fortress of the Knights of Yuma to sacrifice the time a child comes the sad strain that killed the only reason to be getting away from the Dark Fortress. They fused with the dark dragon marijuana to Iowa because of the vital energy needs of the Dark Fortress dwijjotneunda him. Children were rescued by following the Dark Knights Fortress Dark Fortress and Fortress World hemp destroyed by the dragon saw that do not step on the way of the previous era of thinking of giving their vital energy to live again makes use of Yuma. Dark Fortress, but the child is coming alive within the rest of Iowa using the vital energy itself and is fused with the dark dragon cannabis.
 Stronger than ever kiss in the dark dragon marijuana Fortress Knights will be back to the Peace City. Fortress of the Knights of the place the last day for many, the dark dragon ladies meant getting hemp is. Dark Fortress Knights at this point I joined the army commander and the Knights Fortress This is the power to restore. (The set of all 12 people) after the forces of darkness, Carrot Hemp as the vital energy of Yuma in the fusion dragon is to fight the Dark Fortress and directly agree about the rest of the Dark Knights Fortress hemp dragon killed by destroying the Dark Fortress to be successful. This Fortress World is a long war ended with the peace is coming back.

Characters

Dragon Blue/Karot
Japanese: ドラゴンブルー
Korean: 캐롯
 Voiced by: Katsuhiko KAWAMOTO (Japanese)/Seungjoon Kim (Korean)

"Calotte of Blue Dragon". Doragon Blue. The tank where it is honest the justice impression is strong. It is the leader of Fortress Knights . Besides the fact that individual the blue dragon is imitated it has shooting skill necessary, with the barrel and vin rose carry it draws out, cooperation attack "of the sword of triune light" and the "super unlimited union Omega violent bullet" etc. is used. As for the character which becomes the "Calotte Tank".

Tiger Barrel/Duke
Japanese: タイガーバレル
Korean: 듀크
 Voiced by:  Shunsuke SAKUNO (Japanese)/Seonghun Hong (Korean)

"Duke of White Tiger". White Tiger. At lustful house owner of light character. Also it has been deceived in confession of the fake of Karma. As for the character which becomes "Duke Tank".

Duel Rose/Dig
Japanese: デュエル・ロゼ
Korean: 디그
 Voiced by: Chafurin (Japanese)/Wonjoon Lee (Korean)

"Missile Phoenix". Dig. Substance part of missile tank. With the younger brother of the vin rose, you speak in the tone this like the woman. As for the character which becomes the cause "the missile".

Duel Carry/Dag
Japanese: デュエル・キャリー
Korean: 다그
 Voiced by: Hiroshi KAMIYA (Japanese)/Moonja Choe (Korean)

"Missile Phoenix". Dag. Missile part of missile tank. With the older brother of carry, you speak in the tone like the woman. As for the character which becomes the cause of "the missile".

Cannon Gum/Cannon
Japanese: キャノンガム
Korean: 캐논
 Voiced by:Kenta MIYAKE (Japanese)/Inseong Oh (Korean)

"Minotauros". As for character being bold, it is in the accident at the time of infancy. As for the character which becomes the cause  of "CANON".

Cross Dager/Unicorn
Japanese: クロスダーガ
Korean: 유니콘
 Voiced by: Takuma TAKEWAKA (Japanese)/Seunguk Jeong (Korean)

"The soldier of the forest". (Only 6th story "The cross bow of the unicorn"). Unicorn. As for the character which becomes the cause the "cross bow".

Catapult Patta/Cata
Japanese: カタパルトカタ
Korean: 캐터
 Voiced by: Fumihiko TACHIKI (Japanese)/Inseong Oh (Korean)

"Catapult of Fortress Military Affairs". Veteran of throwing a stone machine type. As for the character which becomes the cause "the catapult".

Posse Vayoot/Triton
Japanese: ポセバイユート
Korean: 트리톤
 Voiced by: Masato AMADA (Japanese)/Seunguk Jeong (Korean)

"Man of sea". As for the character which becomes the cause "Poseydon".

Mine Sporken/Vulkhan
Japanese: マインスポーケン
Korean: 불칸
 Voiced by: Inseong Oh (Korean) / Yutaka AOYAMA (Japanese)

"Wing of intelligence and courage". Chimera. Older brother of Trakhan. As for the character which becomes the cause minelander.

Multi Cocopa/Trakhan
Japanese: マルチココパ
Korean: 트라칸
 Voiced by: Daisuke KISHIO (Japanese)/Seunguk Jeong (Korean)

"Watch dog of science". Kerberos. Younger brother of Bulkhan. As for the character which becomes the cause "the multi missile".

Yuma
Japanese: ユウマ
Korean: 유마
 Voiced by: Ryoko Shiroishi (Japanese) / Seonju Yi (Korean)

Construction of a human boy popped through the warped space. Tate lost all memory of the past is unknown. Fortress as articles and fusion, the mechanism and unity, will become a special ability. Tianjin nanman, curious nature, hostile to the Dark Fortress bultaewoomyeonseodo other hand, enjoys traveling with Fortress article seems to be shaved. Ability to fuse with that machine, Yuma was a mutant, because the man in the world is dominated by the giant computer in his country's afraid of him, while all of his memories erased them tossed out of space. Yuma eat the fruit.

Other characters
 Dark Fortress (ダーク・ポトリス/다크 포트리스)
 Karma (카르마)
 Iona (이오나)
 Jingo (징고)
 Black Devil Tank Black Dragon/Black Dragon (ブラックデビルタンク・黒魔龍/흑마룡)
 IO (アイオー/아이오)

Production Staff
 Drafting: "Internet Online Game "FORTRESS Squirrel Pol"
 Planning Cooperation: Dong Woo Animation
 Story Editor: Iioka Zyuniti
 Series Composition: Shinzo Fujita
 Series Configuration: Huzita Shin
 Storyboard: Akira Shigeno, Ueda Hidehito, Kagawa Yutaka etc.
 Character, Animation Director: Seok-ho Yoon, Takaya Toshihiro
 Art Director: Hong You-Mi, Kwan Hee-Jae
 Idea Art: Aoki Satoshi
 Art: Hoeyoung Lee, Hisashi Touzyou Takashi
 Design Color: Saitou Satoshi
 Sound Director: Keiichiro Miyoshi
 Sound Producer: Rin Takashi, Oono Takuya
 Effect: Shiyozi Masahiro
 Music Producer: Noboru Mano, Nakamiti Hideo, Yoshikuni Maeyama Hiroshi
 Music: Shiina Kay, Hukushima Hiroko
 Music Publisher: TV Tokyo Music Ltd.
 Digital Editing: Morita Kiyotsugu
 Promotion Programs: Sasahara Nanae (TV Tokyo)
 PR: Mukai Takashi (Sunrise)
 Production Secretary: Chinatsu Kozai
 Production Coordinator: Kumnam Cho
 Producer: Aoki Toshiyuki (TV Tokyo), Naoki Sasada, Toru Hasegawa
 Animation producer: Junghyun Roh, Hongjun Cho
 Animation: Dong Woo Animation, SUNRISE
 Studio: SBS, Sunrise, NAS, TV Tokyo, Bandai Visual

Episodes
 The arrival at the Dark City of the Fortress Knights!
 Black Dragon, the Strongest Weapon !
 Duel in the mines!
 the wasteland knight, Cannon!
 Yuma is endangered!
 Knight of solitude, Unicorn
 Friendship with the wandering Knight
 Jadis, her challenge
 Man of the sea, Triton
 Pride of the Fortress Knights
 Secret of the underground camp
 Sudden mission, destroy the Dark Mega Tank
 Protect the Grasia!
 Betrayer's homeland!
 Armed corps of Vision!
 Yuma is predictor?
 Bridge of the Orimo River
 Fortress Knights's TV appearance!
 Shadow hunter, Deathmender!
 The bursting of anger!
 Timid Pipo
 the spy who I loved
 the truth of survival!
 the cursed Pyramid
 the secret of fusion energy
 Fortress super rise
 the Superspace-time operation
 the discarded thing by someone who's brave
 Today's friend, tomorrow's enemy
 the Battle between themselves
 Back-draft
 Dr. Kimbal shrinks The Fortress Knights
 the Undissuadable Marco
 the Silent Hill
 Charge, old man!
 We believe, Freud
 Super Express!
 the Fearful incarnation opponent! Red Dragon
 the Day when decisive battle happened
 Dark City, the last attack
 the Battle between dragons
 The secret of Stranger
 Stranger VS stranger
 the Last Thing that he has to do
 Large Escape! Dark Troop Three Staff
 the Race on the snowfield
 the Rebellion of Black Dragon
 the Choice of Black Dragon
 The Last scramble between components
 the Revival of the Great Dark Evil Dragon
 the Death of Stranger?
 Dark Fortress! the last judgment

External links
Official

 Tank Knights Fortress Facebook page
 Tank Knights Portriss official website (English)
 Tank Knights Portriss archive at Daewon Media
 Tank Knights Portriss website at SBS Global
Others
 Jel-TV, channel that broadcast the cartoon (Korean)
 Fan club of Tanks Knights Portriss on Naver (Korean)
 The Hero TV Forums article (Tagalog)

South Korean animated television series
Anime series
2003 Japanese television series debuts
2004 Japanese television series endings
2003 South Korean television series debuts
2004 South Korean television series endings
Terrorism in fiction
TV Tokyo original programming

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package edu.dartmouth.cs.dtutor;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.Dialog;
import android.app.DialogFragment;
import android.app.FragmentManager;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Typeface;
import android.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.util.TypedValue;
import android.view.Gravity;
import android.view.Window;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class DtutorDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {

    private static final String TAG = Globals.TAG + ".DtutorDialogFragment";

    /**
     * Keys
     */
    public static final String DIALOG_ID_KEY = "dialog-id";
    public static final String DIALOG_MESSAGE_KEY = "dialog-message";

    /**
     * Dialogs
     */
    public static final int DIALOG_ID_BASIC_MESSAGE = 1;
    public static final String DIALOG_ID_BASIC_MESSAGE_TAG = "basic-message";

    /**
     * This should be the primary method that any callers have to interact with. displayDialog will get a new
     * instance of DtutorDialogFragment and display the dialog associated with 'id'.
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     * @param fragManager FragmentManager for a particular view/context
     * @param id identifier for dialog to show
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    public static void displayDialog(FragmentManager fragManager, int id, String tag, String message) {
        DialogFragment dfragment = DtutorDialogFragment.newInstance(id, message);
        if(dfragment != null) {
            Log.d(TAG, "displayDialog() [id: " + String.valueOf(id) + "; tag: " + tag + "]");
            dfragment.show(fragManager, tag);
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            Log.e(TAG, "unrecognized dialog id " + "(" + id + ")" + " - unable to build dialog");
        }
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    /**
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    public static DtutorDialogFragment newInstance(int dialogId, String message) {
        DtutorDialogFragment frag = new DtutorDialogFragment();

        // Set dialog's ID
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putInt(DIALOG_ID_KEY, dialogId);
        args.putString(DIALOG_MESSAGE_KEY, message);
        frag.setArguments(args);

        return frag;
    }

    @Override
    public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        // Set Activity that the dialog is contained within
        final Activity parent = getActivity();

        // Requested dialog id
        int dialogId = getArguments().getInt(DIALOG_ID_KEY);

        // Requested dialog message
        String dialogMessage = getArguments().getString(DIALOG_MESSAGE_KEY);

        // Configure dialog(s)
        switch (dialogId) {
        case DIALOG_ID_BASIC_MESSAGE:
            Dialog dialog = new Dialog(parent);

            // Full-screen option
            final Window window = dialog.getWindow();
            window.setLayout(WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, WindowManager.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT);

            // Dialog background
            window.setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

            // Dialog contents
            dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
            TextView view = new TextView(parent);
            view.setText(dialogMessage);
            view.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);
            view.setTextSize(TypedValue.COMPLEX_UNIT_SP, 24);
            view.setTextColor(Color.WHITE);
            view.setTypeface(Typeface.create("sans-serif-light", Typeface.BOLD));
            dialog.setContentView(view);

            return dialog;
        default:
            return null;
        }
    }

}

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Q: Exception: Cannot assign two Admin() instances with same URL and subdomain to the same application I am trying to restrict access to admin panel using flask-admin but i am getting error. I have also tried changing url name but then it throws 404 error. When using flask-admin with ModelView getting the following error:

Exception: Cannot assign two Admin() instances with same URL and subdomain to the same application.

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from flask import Flask
from config import Config
from flask_sqlalchemy import SQLAlchemy
from flask_migrate import Migrate
from flask_login import LoginManager
from flask_bootstrap import Bootstrap
from flask_mail import Mail
import logging
from logging.handlers import SMTPHandler, RotatingFileHandler
import os
from flask_admin import Admin, BaseView, expose
from flask_admin.contrib.sqla import ModelView

app = Flask(__name__)
app.static_folder = 'templates/static/'
app.config.from_object(Config)
db = SQLAlchemy(app)
migrate = Migrate(app, db)
login = LoginManager(app)
login.login_view = 'login'
bootstrap = Bootstrap(app)
mail = Mail(app)
admin = Admin(app)

if not app.debug:
    if app.config['MAIL_SERVER']:
        auth = None
        if app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'] or app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD']:
            auth = (app.config['MAIL_USERNAME'], app.config['MAIL_PASSWORD'])
        secure = None
        if app.config['MAIL_USE_TLS']:
            secure = ()
        mail_handler = SMTPHandler(
            mailhost=(app.config['MAIL_SERVER'], app.config['MAIL_PORT']),
            fromaddr='no-reply@' + app.config['MAIL_SERVER'],
            toaddrs=app.config['ADMINS'], subject='Bhavtaal Failure',
            credentials=auth, secure=secure)
        mail_handler.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
        app.logger.addHandler(mail_handler)

    if not os.path.exists('logs'):
        os.mkdir('logs')
    file_handler = RotatingFileHandler('logs/bhavtaal.log', maxBytes=10240,
                                       backupCount=10)
    file_handler.setFormatter(logging.Formatter(
        '%(asctime)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s [in %(pathname)s:%(lineno)d]'))
    file_handler.setLevel(logging.INFO)
    app.logger.addHandler(file_handler)

    app.logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
    app.logger.info('Bhavtaal startup')

from app import routes, models, errors
from app.models import User
from app.admin import AdminView

admin = Admin(app, name='Home', index_view=AdminView(User, db.session, url='/admin', endpoint='users_'))

app/admin.py :
from flask_admin.contrib.sqla import ModelView
from flask import session, redirect, url_for, request

class AdminView(ModelView):

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.static_folder = 'templates/static/'

    def is_accessible(self):
        return session.get('user') == 'admin'

    def inaccessible_callback(self, name, **kwargs):
        if not self.is_accessible():
            return redirect(url_for('index.html', next=request.url))

A: i was able to solve this after removing this line:

admin = Admin(app)

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The Senate is voting on the trial's constitutional validity
By sdlocal / February 9, 2021
Sen. Kevin Cramer speaks to the press before he heads to the senate floor on February 09. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
Reporters have increased access to senators and to areas surrounding the Senate floor during the second impeachment trial of former President Trump, compared to the last one.
During Trump's first impeachment trial, about one year ago, there were much smaller press pens that reporters and photographers piled into and were required to have an escort to move in and out of. Reporters were not able to leave the pens to walk with senators, as is usual practice, near the Senate floor.
On the first day of this trial, press pens are much larger and appear to be more of a guideline than a rule. The ropes surrounding the pens have spaces between that reporters can walk in and out of. No escorts are needed and press is able to walk and talk with senators when they see them.
Of course, there is also an ongoing coronavirus pandemic that has impacted the number of press that are at the Capitol and much of the coverage is being shared via a pool arrangement between networks and print outlets. There are social distancing stickers within all the press areas for reporters and photographers to stand on.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, chair of the Senate Rules Committee that oversees the administration of Senate operations, told CNN Monday that she and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer "deliberately" worked to reduce press restrictions and improve access for the duration of the impeachment trial.
Klobuchar said last year, during Trump's first impeachment trial, there was an argument made to Republicans, who chaired the Senate Rules Committee and held the Senate majority at the time, that more security measures around the Senate were necessary because Chief Justice John Roberts was presiding.
"The argument was made when the Republicans were in charge that Chief Justice Roberts needed some extra security and he's not the judge of this trial," she said, noting that now Senate Pro Tempore Sen. Pat Leahy is presiding.
The Minnesota Democrat also argued there is "clearly enough" security, as the US Capitol complex is fenced in with razor wire on top, and still protected by National Guard Troops.
UK coronavirus variant has been reported in 86 countries, WHO says
By sdlocal / February 10, 2021
NASA technology can help save whale sharks says Australian marine biologist and ECOCEAN founder, Brad Norman
California Twentynine Palms: Explosives are missing from the nation's largest Marine Corps base and an investigation is underway
Trump unhappy with his impeachment attorney's performance, sources say
Lunar New Year 2021: Ushering in the Year of the Ox
Impeachment trial: House managers show rioters attacking Capitol
Bill Cassidy joins five other Republican senators who broke ranks to vote that Trump's impeachment trial is constitutional

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Michel Piron (born 15 March 1943) is a French politician who represented the 4th constituency of the Maine-et-Loire department in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2017. A former member of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), he joined the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI) in 2013.

Political career
Piron was first elected to the municipal council of Thouarcé in 1971 for the Union for French Democracy (UDF). He went on to become Deputy Mayor of Thouarcé in 1977 before he was elected to the mayorship in 1983, which he held until his resignation mid-2003. In 2001, he was also elected to the General Council of Maine-et-Loire for the canton of Thouarcé, a seat which he held until 2015.

In the 2002 legislative election, Piron was elected to the National Assembly in the 4th constituency of Maine-et-Loire. Later in 2002 he joined the newly-established Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). In the 2012 UMP leadership election, he supported François Fillon.

At the beginning of the 14th National Assembly (2012–2017) under the Fifth Republic, Piron joined the dissident Rassemblement-UMP group in late 2012. In 2013, he joined the UDI group in Parliament as a member of the Union of Democrats and Independents (UDI).

Prior to the 2017 presidential election, Piron supported the UDI's decision to back Alain Juppé in the 2016 The Republicans presidential primary since the UDI decided it would not nominate a candidate of its own. Following Juppé's primary loss to Fillon and amid the Fillon affair, Piron stated he would no longer support the primary nominee ahead of the election.

After he declined to seek reelection to a fourth parliamentary term at the 2017 legislative election, he retired from national politics. In 2022, he stated he voted for Emmanuel Macron's presidential reelection bid.

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1943 births
Living people
People from Saumur
Politicians from Pays de la Loire
Union for French Democracy politicians
Union for a Popular Movement politicians
Union of Democrats and Independents politicians
Deputies of the 12th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 13th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic
Mayors of places in Pays de la Loire


Washington, DC: The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has, this week, awarded a $17 million bounty to a former employee in the financial services industry, who will remain anonymous, as part of its whistleblower program.
The award is the second-largest issued by the SEC since its whistleblower program began nearly five years ago. The SEC issued a $30 million award in September 2014 and a $14 million award in October 2013.
By law, the SEC protects the confidentiality of whistleblowers and does not disclose information that might directly or indirectly reveal a whistleblower' identity.
The SEC' whistleblower program has now awarded more than $85 million to 32 whistleblowers since the program' inception in 2011.


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When I travel I'm always amazed and inspired by the buildings and structures that I see.
And when I arrived in Doha, the world's richest city, a strange structure caught my eye from the taxi window.
NMoQ (National Museum of Qatar)
Hungry for information as to what it was, I searched on Google and discovered it to be the brand new National Museum of Qatar. I had to go there!
But first I needed to better understand the structure – who designed it, how such an irregular and unusual shaped structure was constructed, and I guess most importantly, what grief the engineers and draftees had to endure to complete the architect's vision.
I read a number of articles, but for your benefit, here are just the facts:
Architect – French architect Jean Nouvel
The design drew inspiration from the Desert Rose, a crystalline formation found below-ground in saline regions of the desert.
When imagined as a building, the result is a four storey, 300m by 200m sculpture of intersecting disc shapes up to 80m in diameter.
Engineer – Arup Engineering
Main contractor – Hyundai E&C
Cost – $434 million
Proposed opening date – Scheduled for 2016
Actual opening date – 28 March 2019
There are hundreds of interlocking disks that represent the desert rose concept in the walls, ceilings, roofs, and floors; all varied in curvature and diameter.
Rhinoceros is a 3D modeller used to create, edit, analyse, document, render, animate and translate NURBS curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes, according to their website.
The structural team developed a parametric Generative Components script-based tool to automatically create wire-frame geometry in the correct position within the architectural Rhino envelope. The basic wire-frames were further populated with property and loading data using spreadsheet-based automation.
Custom-designed spreadsheet macros were further used to combine separate disc models into larger combined models for structural analysis. Element strength checking was also automated as far as possible, to make practicable the design of the 250,000 separate steel elements.
The analysis models were used as the basis of the production Tekla model, directly translating geometry, section data and also key annotation such as disc-to-disc interface nodes.
The Tekla model was issued to the contractor at tender stage for accurate pricing.
During the construction phase, the contractor adopted and developed this model to a fabrication level of detail.
Also at tender, the Tekla model was used to interrogate concrete volumes in order to produce accurate steel reinforcement figures
The discs are made of steel truss structures assembled in a hub-and-spoke arrangement, clad in glass fibre reinforced concrete panels.
To achieve the vision, a huge amount of steel has been used, 28,000 tonnes to be exact, which is around four times the amount that was used to construct Paris' Eiffel Tower.
Specific design challenges
The key challenges for the design resulted from the highly complex geometry of the disc interaction. No two discs are the same; no two discs intersect each other in precisely the same way. The galleries and other key spaces in the building are created by the interstices between the discs; any alteration to the architecture involves moving discs and thereby moving the structure within the discs.
This led to an evolution of systems and processes required to handle, manipulate and develop geometric ideas from the architect, and establish engineering solutions, before communicating them in their most useful form to the wider community.
Therefore the structural modelling (both analysis and production) needed to address the requirement to:
Position elements in the correct place in 3D space within the cladding envelope.
Generate and model elements as efficiently and automatically as possible in order to keep up with iterations of architectural arrangement.
Facilitate cross-discipline coordination, with the design and 3D modelling team in London, plus the architectural team based in Geneva and Paris and a client in Qatar.
The scheme for the building involves many intersecting steel framed discs and therefore results in numerous connections between discs with largely different geometries. Advice was taken from external steel fabricators and their design teams (who might ordinarily carry out the detailed design of such connections), to establish an effective normalised solution where possible. Though many bespoke connections could not be avoided, a significant number could be based around a connecting CHS which could tolerate a large range of incoming member arrangements and thus standardising the supporting steel arrangement. In order to communicate this to the contractor, a number of connections were designed, detailed and illustrated on drawings with 3D perspectives and 2D sections. The nature of the each connection was such that the geometry and therefore design could not properly be understood without interrogation of the intersecting members in three dimensions, for which Tekla was invaluable.
Within discs, families of connections were defined to cover typical arrangements such as the bracing connection to the chord of a truss. Although more simple than the connections between discs, it was also useful to understand these in 3D to investigate how the subtle changes in geometry between discs changed the nature of the connections. Typical internal connections were again represented by both 3D and 2D information on the drawings with tables of parameters such as plate thickness and the number of bolts defined for a range of section sizes and incoming member angles.
3D Model of the structure
The project is a fantastic example of the need for the use of technology throughout the process – in communication, in design, in construction.
I would love to have visited the museum. However, it was closed due to Ramadan until the evening – something the taxi driver who took us there would surely have known!
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Romema (Hebrew: רוממה, lit. Uplifted) is a neighbourhood in northwest Jerusalem, just off the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway at the main entrance to the city. It occupies the highest hill in Jerusalem.[1][2] Romema is bordered by Kiryat Mattersdorf and Mekor Baruch.
Romema was founded on a hill outside the historical city of Lifta in 1921. The initiator of the project was attorney Yom-Tov Hamon, an expert in Ottoman law and land-ownership issues, who arbitrated disputes among Arab landowners in the region and opened sales of the land to Jews.[1] The original building plan called for 24 houses surrounding a central square.[1] The Jewish section of the neighborhood was built with private funding. Most of the original streets were named for Hebrew newspapers of the era: HaZvi, edited by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Ariel, HaOr, Torah Mitzion, and Moriah.[1] In 1931 a water reservoir was erected here.[2]
Extant architecture shows the area's original affluence, wealth, and diversity. These include the three-story residence of Arab Haj Muhammad, who owned quarries in nearby Lifta and was a judge in the city's Muslim courts; the elegant home of Jewish hotelier and businessman Yehiel Amdurski, and the home of Rabbi Yehuda Fishman-Maimon.[1]
By 1948, the population was diverse, with Arab, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jewish residents.[1] At the beginning of 1948, during the Civil war, Christian Palestinians and Muslim Arabs living in the Arab section of Romema as well as the nearby village of Lifta were forced out of their homes due to violence from Jewish paramilitary groups such as the Irgun, as well as clashes with Arab militia men. Due to the Absentee Property Law, Arab residents were not allowed to return to their homes by the Israeli government, a point of contention for Palestinians who held property there.[3
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So, you like numbers. Especially orderly ones like today's date. Some people grab the chance to have an easy-to-remember anniversary and get married. Many people think it's a lucky date. So why not do something memorable! Do a random act of kindness ~ something extra special for someone in this world.
Did you know that today is also Human Race Day?
Imagine ONE day around the globe where we focus on what we have in common. It doesn't matter what our politics are, our religion, where we come from, what our positions and stances are on a variety of issues.
We can be kind everyday and most of us will. We want to add a concentrated effort on one day and really make a WOW impact, a Wave Effect!
So put this day to good use – do something memorable!


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The fuzzy beard is my most realistic beard yet! This slouch hat beard beanie is an awesome gift for the hipster in your life. The beard can be removed and the hat can be worn on its own, so it functions as both a costume and an accessory. It makes a great gag gift or something just to make someone smile. The beard is actually very warm and is perfect for cold winter days. College students trekking across campus can have their faces protected from the bitter wind in this unique ski mask style hat.
The beard is worn like a doctor's mask. It loops around the ears, and the yarn is made from a soft, comfortable material. This listing is for the light blue, gray and primary blue chunky striped hat shown. Choose your beard color and size from the drop down menu.
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Name: Dustin Rhodes
Known For: WWF, WWE, WCW
Autographs: Dustin will be signing autographs throughout the event.
Dustin Patrick Runnels is an American professional wrestler. Runnels is best known for performing as Goldust in WWE and is also known for performing in various companies such as World Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as Dustin Rhodes. Among the other names Runnels has performed under are Black Reign and Seven.
Runnels is the son of "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes and the half brother of Cody Rhodes.
Between WWF/E and WCW, Rhodes won 17 total championships. In World Championship Wrestling, he was a two-time United States Champion, a one-time Six-Man Tag Team Champion, a two-time World Tag Team Champion, and a one-time NWA World Tag Team Champion. In World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment, he is a three-time Intercontinental Champion, a seven-timeHardcore Champion, and a one-time World Tag Team Champion.
Dustin is also an actor, known for The Murders of Brandywine Theater (2014), Meet Me There (2014)


i got a 98 1500 and i just put 2 flowmaster 40 series on expecting it to be pretty loud....turns out it sound great but it just isnt loud enough...is there anyway i can get more sound?
wait for them to break in, they get louder the more they wear in. also how do you have your pipes running?
get glasspacks or staights...i ran 40series for a while and never thought they got loud enough...since your from IL you can wait a winter and then those flowmasters will rust out anyway thats when i converted mine to staights.
high flow or cat delete.
I too had dual 40 series flows on my 98 pickup.....had them for about 6 months and was not at all impressed by the sound.
I cut them off and sold them on ebay, then bought 2 10" glasspacks and put those on there.....much louder!
ok i just jumped into the whole truck world thingamajig but i`ll answer this one. I used to own a cadillac and i know its a northstar 4.6L and you`ll get a different sound from some motors to some mufflers (apples to oranges). But i know i had a custom exhaust job done from the custom fab`d headers flowing through straights to dual super 44`s (not including my work done from chrfab.com)... and let me tell you something, that sound was..... RIGHTEOUS!!!!!! it was LOUD! not TOO loud, but just that loud enough that makes you satisfied. and if your planning on getting something else? word to the wise (or the other way around), always buy STAINLESS!
Please promote "flowmaster 40 series"


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Polar bears' plight intensifies
Polar bears have been the canary in the 'climate change' coal mine for climate change for years now. The media, scientists, politicians, researchers, campaigners have all used the plight of these arctic bears as attention-grabbing indicators of impending changes in our climate, resulting in a certain amount of viewer fatigue.
But as current news shows, there's no reason to write them off as a cliche yet.
Yesterday, Environment Canada officials reported in this article that temperatures in certain areas of the Arctic are "consistently warmer" than previous years, meaning that ice will take longer to form, a key factor in our furry white canaries' hunt for food.
"The later it gets [without formed ice], the more weak bears there are who probably aren't going to make it through."
Polar bears and humans — our communities and economies included — face the same challenge: the longer we go without implementing adaptation and mitigation measures, the more our ability to survive the impacts of climate change will be compromised.
To protect species diversity, genetic diversity, and ecosystem diversity, policy-makers need to be reminded (no matter if it takes some repeated pulling at our heartstrings) that the need to adapt to climate change is constant.
As ACT suggests in our inaugural report on Climate Change Adaptation and Biodiversity, making the transition to an ecosystem-based economy would ensure that ecosystems in British Columbia (and across Canada) are fully valued in our resource decision-making.
Deborah Harford


Sometimes this kind of noise becomes louder if the gain level is high, depends on settings of your selected an amplifier or effects.
You can reduce this noise with the "Noise Reduction", however please note that too much noise reduction causes unnatural sound.
And, turn down volume nob, if a microphone is not used.


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The yellow plinth was given probably the most attention; being heavily perceived as "granny class." The taste choices I had made were described as feminine, grotesque and tacky; the boarder especially tacky. The shine on the figures was noted as "too much" it's "all over done." These comments I felt as somewhat of a success within my practice. I had achieved the overdone working class taste. Many related this work to their grandma's home- some remarking that they began making their own narratives; feeling a sense of nostalgia towards this work. This left me questioning the works motive. Someone asking whether it was more about my grandmas home than the class system itself?
Someone also asked: "How would the piece work if the plinths were painted in their usual white?" This was extremely insightful question for me. The audience seemed to disagree with the idea- saying that the wallpapered plinths were very much a part of the work. The wallpaper included the object; it brings in the narrative of the object and confirms the home and the domestic.


This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 17.10, 16.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and Debian 9/8/7 systems.
After login to your system update current packages of system to latest version using sudo privilege or root user.
Add Oracle VirtualBox PPA to Ubuntu system. You can do this by running the below command on your system.
This command will add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list at end of file.
After adding the required apt repository on your system, download and import the Oracle public key for apt-secure using following commands.


I have a problem … sry two!
1. Two menu item are access settings guest on OnePage menu. The goal would be not to see these two elements after entering.
2. Is it possible that some page sections do not appear after login?
This topic was modified 3 months ago by Adam Mikes.
Do you mean with SAME TEMPLATE CONFIG with default Joomla template and it works ?
Submit the private ticket here https://warptheme.com/member-area/ticket-system/ with username/pwd to check.
Quix does not support the access level per SECTIONS. I mean the Quix built-in elements.
However, if you use Joomla module inside Quix page builder, you can use Joomla access level for the module you wish to hide for guest/registered.
Public neded change Guest, and normal menu and module behavior.


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Q: Subscript (" [ ] ")operator gives strange errors I am getting some strange behaviour from visual studio, regarding the following code snippet, The error list shows several instances of E0349: no operator"[]" matches these operands.
Intellisense seems to be implying a type mismatch, but as you will see in the code, there is no type mismatch.
To begin, I have defined a Vec4 struct for the purposes of making a mat4:
(I have only included the pertinent functions)
struct Vec4f
{
    union
    {
        struct { float x, y, z, w; };
        struct { float r, g, b, a; };
    };
    // copy constructor
    Vec4f(Vec4f const & v) :
        x(v.x),
        y(v.y),
        z(v.z),
        w(v.w)
    {

    }
    // Operators
    float & operator[](int index)
    {
        assert(index > -1 && index < 4);
        return (&x)[index];
    }

    Vec4f & operator=(Vec4f const & v)
    {
        // If I use: "this->x = v[0];" as above, E0349
        this->x = v.x;
        this->y = v.y;
        this->z = v.z;
        this->w = v.w;
        return *this;
    }
}

Using the above Vec4 class, I have created a 4x4 matrix:
struct Mat4f
{
    //storage for matrix values
    Vec4f value[4];

    //copy constructor
    Mat4f(const Mat4f& m)
    {
        value[0] = m[0]; // calling m[0] causes E0349
        value[1] = m[1];
        value[2] = m[2];
        value[2] = m[3];
    }

    inline Vec4f & operator[](const int index)
    {
        assert(index > -1 && index < 4);
        return this->value[index];
    }
}

When any of the "[]" operators are called, I end up with this E0349 error, and I do not understand the problem. Oddly, the file compiles just fine. I have tried deleting the hidden ".suo" file as suggested in an answer to a different question, but to no avail. I would appreciate this explained to me.

A: Mat4f::operator[] is a non-const member function, which can't be called on the argument m of Mat4f::Mat4f, it's declared as const & Mat4f.
You could add another const overloading, which could be called on constants. e.g.
inline Vec4f const & operator[](const int index) const
//           ~~~~~                               ~~~~~
{
    assert(-1 < index && index < 4); // As @Someprogrammerdude commented, assert(-1 < index < 4) doesn't do what you expect
    return this->value[index];
}


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Australia shifts and tilts back and forth by several millimeters each year because of changes to Earth's center of mass, according to a new study. The findings could help scientists better track the precise location of Earth's center of mass, which is important for GPS and other satellite measurements, according to the study's author.
Seasonal changes to the distribution of water on Earth's surface — largely through precipitation and evaporation — shift the planet's center of mass a few millimeters in different directions.
By combining the new GPS and GRACE data, Han could measure how much the seasonal movement of water affected Australia. He found the continent shifts and tilts by several millimeters in response to the changes in water location far from Australia. These changes to water location affect Earth's center of mass. All continents move slightly with the change in center of mass, but Australia experiences this more because it is directly in between Europe and the south Pacific Ocean, according to Han.
"This new way of determining the Earth's [center of mass] … is a new and novel approach and will be taken up by others," said Richard Gross, a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who was not involved with the new study. According to Gross, other scientists are likely to see if they can determine the motion of Earth's center of mass using other continents besides Australia.


KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Bernama) -- The three-day Malaysia Halal Expo 2019 (MHE 2019) ended today on a high note after achieving RM135 million in sales, more than double of the RM50 million sales target.
Entrepreneur Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof said this was achieve through 223 business matching sessions.
"When we planned this event, we only anticipated 10,000 visitors and sales exceeding RM50 million. We were surprised that we managed to achieve almost triple of the sales target.


with thousands of websites all competing for a front page ranking on Google… and let's not forget about establishing your authority and portraying your brand in a personable way.
Whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, marketing manager, or affiliate marketer, you may have found that you just don't have the time to build your online presence.
Adding pages and pages of content to your website, or setting up a blog and maintaining it leaves you feeling overwhelmed… or you simply can't be bothered since you'd rather be spending more time on doing what you do best.
In this day and age, it's no longer viable for a company to simply whack up a website and hope for the best.
As well as a solid marketing strategy, you need to have quality content on your site that shows your passion for your business, proves your authority, and engages your audience so that they will remain loyal to your brand.
I specialise in writing website content for different industries such as (but not limited to) home & lifestyle, travel, personal development, and consumer goods. I also work with marketing and creative agencies to provide web content to attract and inform new customers.
If you want to sell something, update your website, review a product or service, or give tips & tricks to solve a problem that your customers have, I can create engaging and informative content that your audience will want to read.


Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest has always been the tallest mountain, even before being discovered!
When you need it you throw it away, when you don't need it you take it in.
Cathy has six pairs of black gloves and six pairs of brown gloves in her drawer. In complete darkness, how many gloves must she take from the drawer in order to be sure to get a pair that match? Think carefully!!
If you can buy eight eggs for 26 cents, how many can you buy for a cent and a quarter?
What kind of tables have no legs?
What is greater than god, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you will eventually die?