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Q: Execute immediate Oracle I am trying to execute EXECUTE IMMEDIATE Statement. But I am getting the below error. I am trying this as new, I read the existing posts.
I am trying this after seeing the below examples.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B13789_01/appdev.101/b10807/13_elems017.htm
It says invalid table name, but the table is present
Connecting to the database Local
ORA-00903: invalid table name
ORA-06512: at "MMM.Maxtable", line 26
ORA-06512: at line 9
CNTRYCNTRYID
SELECT MAX(:1) FROM  :2  WHERE :1  <= 99999
Process exited.
Disconnecting from the database oraclesrv.local.

I am passing CNTRY AS TABLE NAME, CNTRYID AS Columnname
Create OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Maxtable
    (ITableName          VarChar2,
    IColumnName  VarChar2 )
AS
 Limit1 int;
 RESULT1 INT;
 Query1  varChar(255);
 TableName          VarChar(50);
    ColumnName VarChar(50);
BEGIN
Limit1 := 99999;
MaxTableId := 0;
Result1 := 0;

TableName := ltrim(rtrim(ITableName));
ColumnName := ltrim(rtrim(iColumnName));
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(TableName || ColumnName );

IF (TableName is not null and  ColumnName is not null) then
Query1 := 'SELECT MAX(:1) FROM  :2  WHERE :1  <= 99999' ;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Query1);

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE Query1 INTO Result1 USING ColumnName, TableName;
END IF;

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Result1);

 MaxTableId := Result1;

 IF (MaxTableId = Limit1) THEN
    MaxTableId := -1;
 ELSE
    MaxTableId := MaxTableId + 1  ;
 END IF;

END adm_getMaxTableIdLimited;

I have tried this option also, its not working..
Connecting to the database.
ORA-00905: missing keyword
ORA-06512: at "mmm.Maxtable", line 19
ORA-06512: at line 9
SELECT max( CNTRYID) INTO Result1 FROM CNTRY WHERE CNTRYID <= 99999
Process exited.
Disconnecting from the database oraclesrv.local.
Create OR REPLACE PROCEDURE Maxtable
    (TableName          VarChar2,
    ColumnName  VarChar2,
    MaxTableId OUT  Int )
AS
 Limit1 int;
 RESULT1 INT;
 Query1  varChar(255);
BEGIN
Limit1 := 99999;
MaxTableId := 0;
Result1 := 0;

IF (TableName is not null and  ColumnName is not null) then
Query1 := 'SELECT max( ' || ColumnName || ')  INTO  Result1'  || ' FROM ' || TableName || ' WHERE ' || ColumnName || ' <= ' || 99999 ;

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Query1);

EXECUTE IMMEDIATE Query1;
END IF;

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(Result1);

 MaxTableId := Result1;

 IF (MaxTableId = Limit1) THEN
    MaxTableId := -1;
 ELSE
    MaxTableId := MaxTableId + 1  ;
 END IF;

END Maxtable;

A: The link you added says the following:

You cannot use bind arguments to pass the names of schema objects to a
  dynamic SQL statement.

So unfortunately you cannot use bind variables for the table name and the column name. You have to string-concatenate them:
Query1 := 'SELECT MAX(' || ColumnName || ') FROM  ' || TableName || '  WHERE ' || ColumnName || ' <= 99999' ;

And use the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE the following way:
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE Query1 INTO Result1;

A: EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'drop table tbl_proc_cre_ins purge';--using "EXECUTE IMMEDIATE";
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE tbl_proc_cre_ins(rollno varchar2(100),name varchar2(100))';


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Rishi Sunak's coronavirus plan: Top five take aways
Thursday September 24, 2020, 1:32 PM
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds a copy of his Winter Economy Plan outside No 11 Downing Street. Credit: PA
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced fresh measures to replace the furlough scheme and help the UK economy to continue to recover during the second wave of coronavirus infections.
In his statement to the House of Commons on Thursday, he also warned that the resurgence of coronavirus poses a threat to the UK's "fragile" economic recovery.
In order "to continue protecting jobs", the Chancellor outlined his "winter economy plan". Here are five key points from Mr Sunak's announcement.
1. A new job support scheme will be introduced
The Chancellor said this new scheme is aimed at protecting "viable" roles, rather than all posts which have been kept going as a result of state support under the furlough programme.
Under the terms of the new scheme, the Government will top up the wages of people working at least a third of their normal hours.
They will be paid for that work as normal, with the state and employers then increasing those wages to cover two-thirds of the pay they have lost by working reduced hours.
ITV News' Political Correspondent Paul Brand said the new system will pay out far less than the furlough scheme
The Chancellor said it is "fundamentally wrong" to hold people in jobs that only exist inside the furlough scheme.
He told the Commons: "The furlough was the right policy at the time we introduced it, it provided immediate short-term protection for millions of jobs through a period of acute crisis.
"But as the economy re-opens it is fundamentally wrong to hold people in jobs that only exist inside the furlough."
The new scheme will cost "billions a month", ITV News Political Editor Robert Peston says.
2. The self-employed grant will be extended on similar terms as the job support scheme
Mr Sunak said the Government will continue to provide support for the self-employed.
He added: "This is something virtually no other country in the world has done and it comes on top of the most generous support to our self-employed out of almost any country throughout their response to this crisis."
Rishi Sunak sets outs his Winter Economy Plan to MPs in the House of Commons. Credit: PA
3. A "pay as you grow" scheme will allow firms to repay "bounce back loans" over a period of up to 10 years
Rishi Sunak said "bounce back loans" have given more than one million small businesses a £38 billion boost to survive, adding a "pay as you grow" scheme would be introduced to give these firms 10 years rather than six years to repay the money.
This move will slash monthly repayments by almost half, according to the Chancellor.
He told the Commons: "Businesses who are struggling can now choose to make interest-only payments and anyone in real trouble can apply to suspend repayments all together for up to six months.
"No business taking up 'pay as you grow' will see their credit rating affected as a result."
4. VAT will be kept at 5% for hospitality and tourism until March 31, 2021
Mr Sunak announced that the temporary reduction of VAT rates for the hospitality and tourism sectors will be extended for a further two months. The new deadline will be March 31 2021.
He said: "On current plans, their VAT rates will increase from 5% back to the standard rate of 20% on January 13.
"So to support more than 150,000 businesses and help protect 2.4 million jobs through the winter, I'm announcing today that we are cancelling the planned increase and will keep the lower 5% VAT rate until March 31 next year."
5. The resurgence of coronavirus poses a threat to the "fragile economic recovery"
Alongside his package of measures, the Chancellor acknowledged that the recent spike in coronavirus cases means the economy could struggle to bounce back.
He added "we can't save every business" and "we can't save every job".
Rishi Sunak announces government will top up wages for people on reduced hours
Coronavirus Job Support Scheme: How does it work, who is eligible and when does it start?

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Lemezlovas, promoter, újságíró és szerkesztő, grafikus, a keceli Korona és a kiskunhalasi DTD promotere és rezidense, a BADGIRLS DJ-formáció és klubest alapítója. Sokan csak úgy emlegetik, hogy a "Tanár Úr" - eredeti foglalkozására nézve ugyanis tanár. A szegedi egyetemen végzett történelem-szociológia szakon ez utóbbi kapcsán - mint kutatási tárgy - mélyült el a technokultúrában. Több mint 10 éve DJ-zik, és a szcéna majd minden részterületén sikeresen bizonyított, legyen az klub managelés, egy zenei szaklap szerkesztése és művészeti vezetése, booking, vagy djzés.
Janos Bozoki aka James Cole was born on 17th December 1973 in Hungary. He is one of the most respected and multitalented figure in the Hungarian electronic music scene.
He is not only a Dj, but a promoter, club owner, festival organizer, graphic desiner, the founder and editor of the Hungarian Dj Magazin. Recently he founded his own label - Alliwant Music – and started his career as a producer too.
Marco Carola, Dubfire, Sasha, John Digweed, Lee Burridge, Nic Fanciulli, Seth Troxler, Guy Gerber, Magda, Davide Squillace, Matthias Tanzmann, Nick Curly, Steve Lawler, Audiofly, Robert Dietz, Steve Bug, Anja Schneider, Mendo, Matthew Dekay, Guido Schneider, Marc Antona, Dan Ghenacia, Nastia, Andrey Pushkarev, Cesar Merville, Ernesto Ferreyra, NTFO, Jimpster, Jay Tripwire, Phonique etc.
He was also the promoter and resident DJ of the other famous club, DTD@Kiskunhalas. (2007-2009 and 2013-2015) In this position, he organized the legendary Sasha, John Digweed and Jimmy Van M party just to name one of them.
Loco Dice, Martin Buttrich, tINI, Anja Schneider, SIS, Illario Alicante, Marco Faraone, Luca Agnelli, Nima Gorji, Fabrizio Maurizi, Livio&Roby, Luca Bacchetti, Mihai Popoviciu etc.
As a DJ, James bought his first vinyl in 1997. In the last almost 20 years he played at all well-known Hungarian clubs and festivals like (Sziget Festival, Balaton Sound, B my Lake, Bónusz Festival, etc.) He played in Romania and Serbia as well (Timisoara, Cluj, Arad, Kudos Beach, Bucuresti etc.). His style is a combination of deep, melody, tech, chicago and detroit house, which create a unique atmosphere whenever he plays.
Since 2000, James has been hosting his own project BADGIRLS club nights in his home city Kecskemét and in Szeged, and also organizing parties on a regular basis at Budapest.
Among his projects, it's worthy to name the CINEMATINÉ day party which has been organized together with his partner, The Debut. He played together with DJs such as Stacey Pullen, Mano Le Tough, Hector, Nick Curly, Matthias Tanzmann, Davide Squillace, Dyed Soundorom, Blond:ish, Audiofly, Tuccillo, Guti, Mendo, Robert Dietz, etc.
In addition to these, he organizes two own festivals every year, KTN Csongrád and the Bajai Halfőző DJ Festival.
James founded his own label Alliwant Music in 2016 together with his friends, Pat Duff and Shabaam (the former Kecel resident DJs) and Collective Machine joined it too. The second and third releases of the new label were of big success and DJs such as Marco Carola have played them while these tracks have got huge support from artists such as Joseph Capriati, Hot Since 82, Reboot, Stacey Pullen, Matthias Tanzmann, Riva Starr, Paul C & Paolo Martini, Sam Divine, Acid Pauli, Mihai Popoviciu, just to name a few.
He had and will release tracks on label like: Gruuv Rec., Deeperfect, Lemon-Aid, Lapsus Music, Paul's Boutique, GoDeeva, NoExcuse, Brise and his own label Alliwant Music.
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Home/Business/Toyota can invest U $ 500 million in Uber for autonomous car inspections
Toyota can invest U $ 500 million in Uber for autonomous car inspections
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Toyota seems to have plans for a new investment round at Uber. According to the Wall Street Journal website, the car giant is planning to inject $ 500 million into the startup to promote research related to the development of autonomous cars, a contribution that Uber & # 39; s market value will increase to US $ 72 billion, according to the aforementioned place.
This is a significantly larger investment than that of the Japanese Softbank in December last year – whose conditions gave the financial institution the 20% ownership of the shares of the lifter.
If the contribution of Toyota really comes through, this will probably be the opportunity for Uber to resume development of its stand-alone cars. The tests were interrupted for an indefinite period by the company after a fatal accident last March in Tempe, Arizona, USA, when a 49-year-old woman was run over and killed while crossing the street.
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Although none of the two companies officially spoke about the potential investment to date, this would not be the first time that Toyota has stimulated Uber's business. In 2016, the Japanese manufacturer started a "strategic collaboration" with the startup with which drivers could buy vehicles via leasing, with a discount on the payment of races generated by the application. The agreement also included a contribution with public liability.
Toyota's contribution may give a new impetus to Uber's research with stand-by cars since the fatal accident last March in the United States. (Image: reproduction / Uber).
Toyota focused on IA
The possibility of a new capital injection also seems to be in line with Toyota's latest moves regarding autonomous driving technologies. It is important to remember that the company has recently established the Toyota Research Institute, a space dedicated exclusively to researching solutions based on artificial intelligence, mainly focused on two areas: autonomous cars and home robots.
The company also announced plans to build a gigantic 60-acre industrial complex in the state of Michigan; the site must serve "extreme tests" of driving, where atypical scenarios and tests are too risky to be performed on public roads. Finally, the multinational company is also expected to invest US $ 2.8 billion in a new software company, whose job will be to provide complete systems for self-directed vehicles.
Economy on the one hand, proactivity on the other
Moreover, the interest of Uber and Toyota for autonomous technologies can not be more predictable. On the start side there is the obvious interest in saving a considerable amount by eliminating the need for meat and blood drive. Toyota, on the other hand, looks for ways to settle in a shared vehicle scenario – the predictable outcome of which can be a sharp drop in sales, taking into account the current culture of one person, one car & # 39 ;.
Finally, as a more general human interest, different experts point to autonomous vehicles as a solution that can significantly shorten transmission times and save lives by eliminating typically human errors. Besides Toyota, General Motors also drives the chips to the artificial intelligence table. In 2016, the manufacturer made a contribution of $ 500 million to the Lyft shared ride app.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Reforma Rady bezpečnosti OSN zahrnuje pět klíčových oblastí: kategorizace členství, otázka práva veta pěti stálých členů, místní reprezentace, velikost a systém fungování rozšířené Rady, vztahy mezi RB a OSN. Členské státy, místní skupiny a různá zájmová sdružení členských států zaujaly odlišné pozice a návrhy jak Radu bezpečnosti reformovat.

Jakákoliv reforma Rady bezpečnosti (včetně vytvoření světové vlády) bude vyžadovat souhlas nejméně dvou třetin členských zemí a dále souhlas všech pěti stálých členů, kteří disponují právem veta. Změna však vstoupí v platnost pouze pro státy s monistickým systémem, dualistické státy musí změnu inkorporovat.

Úvod
Rada bezpečnosti (dále jen RB) je jeden ze šesti hlavních orgánů Organizace spojených národů (dále jen OSN), jehož hlavním úkolem je zachovávat mír a bezpečnost mezi jednotlivými členskými zeměmi.

Stálí členové RB mají právo veta. Právě právo veta je důvodem, proč mnoho zemí usiluje o reformu RB. Při projednávání vážných globálních problémů brání právo veta výraznějším rezolucím, RB je tak v podstatě úřadem, který problémy vůbec neřeší. Rozhodnutí RB OSN jsou v souladu s Chartou Spojených národů. O reformě tohoto orgánu se diskutovalo v posledních dvaceti pěti letech.

Problémem RB je, že odráží svět tak, jak vypadal bezprostředně po druhé světové válce a složení stálých členů se po roce 1945 nezměnilo. Takový pohled je již ale značně neaktuální a neodráží současnou geopolitickou situaci. Svět se ale ve 20. a 21. století prudce proměnil, objevily se nové hrozby pro státní bezpečnost, jakou je například terorismus, a došlo ke globalizaci jak na ekonomickém, tak na kulturním a politickém poli, na což RB neuměla patřičně zareagovat a ani dnes se jí tak nedaří skutečně účinně udržovat hlavní premisu mezinárodního míru a bezpečnosti.

Historie

Společnost národů
Společnost národů (dále SN) vznikla po první světové válce jako organizace, která měla zajistit světový mít a bezpečnost. Tato organizace byla předchůdcem Organizace spojených národů (dále OSN). Pojem "spojené národy" použil poprvé americký prezident Franklin D. Roosevelt v Deklaraci spojených národů z 1. 1. 1942, kdy se reprezentanti 26 národů upsali ke společnému boji proti mocnostem Osy. SN neřešila globální problémy efektivně, proto po druhé světové válce vzniká OSN a její orgán RB, který měl řešit bezpečnostní a globální problémy.

Organizace spojených národů a Rada bezpečnosti
Neschopnost SN řešit mezinárodní problémy, které vyústily ve druhou světovou válku, vedla k založení OSN. Roku 1945 se sešlo 50 reprezentantů států k podpisu Charty spojených národů na konferenci v San Francisku. Charta OSN byla tedy podepsána 26. června 1945 padesáti reprezentanty států, které se tak stali členy Společnosti národů.

Spolu se vznikem OSN vzniká i její orgán RB. Ten je ukotven v Chartě OSN z roku 1945. Zakládajícími členy se stala Francie, Velká Británie, Sovětský svaz, Spojené státy americké a Čína. Tyto státy se zároveň staly pěti stálými členy Rady bezpečnosti.

Složení Rady bezpečnosti se skládalo z těchto pěti stálých členů, dále pak ze šesti členů nestálých. Šest nestálých členů bylo voleno každoročně Valným shromážděním na dobu jednoho roku. Při volbě nestálých členů je přihlíženo ke geografické stránce. Nestálí členové se volí podle regionálního klíče. Toto regionální rozdělení, které je ukotveno v Chartě OSN, je upraveno podle rezoluce Valného shromáždění. Regionálními skupinami jsou: Afrika, Asijsko-pacifická oblast, Latinská Amerika a Karibik, Západní Evropa a ostatní a Východní Evropa.

Ačkoliv se mezinárodní situace od konce druhé světové války, kdy byla Rada bezpečnosti OSN založena, drasticky změnila (objevily se nové globální hrozby, svět se postupně globalizoval, vznikly nové státy atd.), samotná Rada bezpečnosti prodělala za tuto dobu velmi málo změn. Vítězné mocnosti druhé světové války si v roce 1945 na míru sobě ušily Chartu Spojených národů, která jasně určila stálé členy RB OSN, kterých se týká i důležité právo veta. Jakákoliv reforma RB OSN by vyžadovala změnu Charty Spojených národů, Podle 108 článku Charty Spojených národů by změna vypadala takto:

"Změny ke stávajícímu znění Charty Spojených národů mohou vstoupit v platnost tehdy, když dvě třetiny členů Valného shromáždění změny schválí a když je dvě třetiny členských států OSN ratifikují v souladu se svou ústavou. Změny musí být schváleny všemi stálými členy Rady bezpečnosti OSN."S rostoucí členskou základnou OSN zároveň rostlo i sebevědomí mezi novými členy. Staré pořádky a struktury byly opakovaně stavěny před nové výzvy, to mj. souviselo s procesem dekolonizace. Rozdíl mezi počtem členů RB OSN a celkovým počtem členů OSN začal být velice zřejmý a díky rostoucímu napětí nakonec došlo k zatím jediné reformě RB OSN a to v roce 1965 (rovné zastoupení rozvojových zemí v RB a v Hospodářské a sociální radě, rozšíření zástupců dekolonizovaných zemí z 11 na 15).

Snahy o změnu poměru sil v OSN
Roku 1992 byl generálním tajemníkem OSN zvolen Butrus Butrus-Ghálí a znovu byla vyzdvihována nutnost reformy. Svůj mandát zahájil prvním summitem RB OSN a vydáním Agendy pro mír. Butrus-Ghálího cílem bylo zmodernizovat RB OSN tak, aby odpovídala změnám proběhlým od poslední reformy.

Německo a Japonsko se do roku 1992 stali největšími sponzory OSN a začali se dožadovat stálého členství. Také Brazílie, jako pátá největší země světa, a Indie, jako druhá nejlidnatější země světa, se chtěli stát stálými členy. Tyto čtyři země spolu vstoupily do spolku, známého jako G4.

Do opozice vůči G4 se postavily země jako Pákistán, Mexiko a Egypt, které se sdružily do útvaru známého pod pojmem Kávový klub (Uniting for Consensus).

Zároveň se Africká skupina (státy afrického kontinentu, které jsou členy OSN) začala dožadovat dvou stálých členských míst v RB OSN s odkazem na nespravedlnosti, které na ní byly v průběhu dějin vykonávány a kvůli tomu, že hodně otázek, které RB OSN řeší, se týkají právě afrického kontinentu. Tato dvě "africká" členská křesla by byla volena uvnitř Africké skupiny.

Stávající členové RB OSN, každý držící své právo veta, se k výše uvedeným námitkám stavěli velmi neochotně. USA podpořily trvalé členství Japonska a Indie a několik dalších členství nestálých. Spojené království a Francie společně podpořili trvalé členství států G4 – trvalé členství Německa, Brazílie, Indie, Japonska, stejně jako přítomnost Africké skupiny v RB OSN. Čína svým hlasem podpořila rozvojové země – hlavně Indii. Indii podpořilo také Rusko.

Současná Rada bezpečnosti OSN

Pravomoci RB OSN

Rada bezpečnosti OSN je orgánem zodpovědným k zachování mezinárodního míru a bezpečnosti. Jménem členských států je oprávněna k přijímání rozhodnutí a řešení sporů. Postupem doby je četnost mezistátních konfliktů menší a RB OSN se spíše věnuje problémům souvisejících s existencí teroristických nebo separatistických skupin (tj. nevládní aktéři). RB OSN je v případě ohrožení míru oprávněna uvalovat ekonomické nebo diplomatické sankce. RB pak dále doporučuje kandidáta na pozici generálního tajemníka nebo svolává konferenci o změnách Charty OSN.

Stálí členové RB OSN
Stálých členů má RB OSN pět. Jsou jimi Spojené státy americké, Spojené království, Čína, Rusko a Francie. Na všechny se vztahuje užití práva veta (právo veta se nevztahuje na tzv. procesní otázky). Toto má své opodstatnění v rozložení světových sil po druhé světové válce, kdy těchto pět států světu dominovalo. Aktuální rozložení světových sil nalezneme v tabulce níže.

Tabulka - Srovnání moci stálých členů RB OSN a jiných států (žlutě - SČ RB OSN)

Právo veta uplatňují nejvíce USA a Rusko. Francie, Spojené království a Čína své zájmy prosazují formou tzv. kapesního veta. Kapesní veto spočívá v tom, že státy, které s návrhem nesouhlasí, svůj postoj pouze naznačí a ostatní členové pak sporný návrh buď úplně stáhnou, nebo přepracují.

Nestálí členové RB OSN
Radu bezpečnosti OSN tvoří kromě stálých členů ještě deset nestálých členů, které volí Valné shromáždění podle regionálního klíče. V následující tabulce je procentuálně uveden poměr členů z jednotlivých regionů v RB OSN. Vzhledem k značné rozdílnosti mezi zastoupením jednotlivými regiony je pochopitelné, že návrhy na reformu RB OSN směřují hlavně ke změnám stálých či nestálých členů.

Srovnání regionálních skupin

Návrhy reforem Rady bezpečnosti OSN

Reforma Rady bezpečnosti v letech 1963–1965
Probíhající studená válka i proces dekolonizace se odrazil v činnosti Rady bezpečnosti. Mezi lety 1945–1963 se počet členů zvýšil z 51 na 114. Dekolonizované země bojovaly za větší uznání v RB, jako např. rozšíření počtu jejich zástupců.

Výsledkem hlasování v roce 1963 byla rezoluce, která se týkala rovného zastoupení v RB a v Hospodářské a sociální radě. Změny se týkaly počtu členů, které se z 11 zástupců rozšířily na 15. Přijetí této rezoluce bylo považováno za velký úspěch rozvojových zemí. Takto ratifikovaná charta vstoupila v platnost 31. srpna 1965.

Během studené války se rozvojové země v čele s Indií snažily prosadit další body reformy RB, a ačkoli se v roce 1979 podařilo prosadit tento bod na jednání Valného shromáždění, k reálné diskusi nikdy do konce studené války už nedošlo.

Reformní snahy In Larger Freedom
Kofi Anaan byl generálním tajemníkem OSN zvolen v roce 1997. Od té doby se začal zasazovat o reformu RB. Ve svých návrzích prosazoval modernizaci OSN jako např. – odstranění nadměrné byrokratizace nebo zohlednění všech členských států OSN v RB. Roku 1997 napsal dopis Řídící a organizační opatření, hned ten samý rok následovala zpráva Obnova OSN: Program reformy a roku 2002 pokračoval s reformními návrhy ve zprávě Posílení OSN: Agenda pro další změnu (úspěšnost prosazovaných návrhů v tabulce viz níže). Anaan zprávu In Larger Freedom, ve které navrhl dvě možné reformy RB. Podle něj je rozšíření členství RB OSN klíčovým prvkem reformy. Jeho požadavky bylo navýšení počtu RB na 24 členů. Dalším návrhem bylo zrušení regionálních skupin - nestálí členové se dříve volili podle regionálních skupin, tedy ne podle kontinentů, ale podle jejich regionální polohy (např. Východní Evropa, Asijsko-pacifická oblast) a jejich nahrazení skupinami určenými geograficky (dle kontinentu).

Tabulka zobrazující stav realizace návrhů K. Anaana

Vznikly dva plány, které se lišily v počtu navýšení členů. Plán A navrhuje rozšíření počtu stálých členů o dalších 6, celkově by tak stálých členů bylo 11. Stálí členové by zároveň přišli o právo veta. Plán A dále uvažuje i o rozšíření řad nestálých členů RB. Místo stávajících 10 nestálých členů tento návrh uvažuje o 3 dalších členech na dobu dvou let.

Model B nerozšiřuje stávající členské řady, ale navrhuje zcela nový druh členství: 8 nových zástupců volených na 4 roky. V případě jejich osvědčení by se hlasovalo o prodloužení jejich členství. Tento plán zároveň zvyšuje počet nestálých členů RB OSN na 11 místo stávajících 10.

Tabulka a obrázek zobrazující současný stav členů RB OSN a dva reformní modely Kofiho Anaana

Reforma podle skupiny G4
Skupina Group of Four (dále G4) usiluje o získání stálého členství v RB OSN. Skupina usiluje zároveň o zajištění dvou stálých křesel pro zástupce afrických zemí. Počet stálých členů by se podle tohoto návrhu rozšířil o dalších 6 členů, z čehož 4 členové by byli právě zástupci G4.

Již v současnosti přispívají země G4 do rozpočtu OSN více peněz, než ostatní členské státy. Státy G4 byly rovněž v minulosti často voleny do RB jako nestálí členové. Brazílie a Japonsko strávily v minulosti již 20 let jako nestálí členové RB. To poukazuje na to, že se angažují v záležitostech RB. Nestálými členy RB byla několikrát zvolena Indie (14 let) a  Německo (12 let). Proti návrhu reformy skupiny G4 se ostře vyhrazuje skupina Uniting for Consensus. Jednotliví uchazeči o stálé místo v RB mají své regionální protivníky (např. proti snaze Japonska o stálé členství se postavila Čína). Japonsko naopak podporuje Velká Británie. Další uchazeč o stálé členství, Brazílie, nenachází podporu u svých latinskoamerických sousedů.

Uniting for Consensus
Další skupinou, která má zájem o reformu RB je sdružení Uniting for Consensus (dále UfC). Do této skupiny patří Itálie, Pákistán, Španělsko, Argentina, Kanada a Mexiko. UfC se shoduje se skupinou G4 v tom, že by se členská základna měla rozšířit na 25 zástupců, avšak pouze počet nestálých členů. TRACHSLER ve svém článku poukazuje na to, že země jako Itálie, Pákistán a Argentina se snaží zabránit tomu, aby skupina G4 získala stále členství v RB.

UfC navrhuje, aby stálí členové RB zůstali ve stávajícím složení, tedy Čína, Francie, Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska, Rusko a Spojené státy americké. Odpůrcem návrhu reformy UfC jsou státy skupiny G4. Velkou roli zde hraje regionální konkurence.

Reforma podle Africké unie
Africká unie (dále jen AU) má v současnosti 53 členů. Od reformy RB OSN si AU slibuje lepší postavení afrických států v RB. Návrh reformy podle AU obsahuje změnu počtu členů – celkový počet zástupců by byl 26, z toho 6 členů stálých. Na rozdíl od návrhu reformy skupiny G4 by však 6 stálých členů stále disponovalo právem veta. AU dále navrhuje dva stálé a dva nestálé členy RB pro africký kontinent. Země jako Egypt, Nigérie a Jihoafrická republika mají největší potenciál stát se stálými členy RB.

Realizace reforem Rady bezpečnosti OSN
Reformní kroky RB OSN můžeme rozdělit do dvou větví podle opatření vyžadující změnu Charty OSN.

Opatření vyžadující změnu Charty OSN
Tato opatření jsou přímo zakotvena v Chartě OSN a uskutečnění těchto návrhů reforem by vyžadovalo změnu Charty. Články 108 a 109 popisují změnu Charty OSN. První způsob je možný tak, že ⅔ Valného shromáždění OSN schválí přijetí změny. Aby byl však návrh ratifikovaný a vstoupil tak v platnost, musí ho schválit ⅔ členů OSN a všichni stálí členové RB.

Druhý způsob je podobný. ⅔ členů Valného shromáždění a 9 jakýchkoli členů RB může svolat konferenci. Pokud ⅔ účastníků konference schválí změny Charty OSN, je návrh změny předložen k ratifikaci. Návrh může být ratifikován opět při souhlasu ⅔ členů OSN včetně stálých členů RB.

Je to například:
 počet členů RB OSN
 určení stálých a nestálých členů RB OSN
 funkční období volených členů
 právo veta stálých členů

Opatření nevyžadující změnu Charty OSN
Tyto opatření nevyžadují změny Charty OSN, jsou spíše procesního charakteru. Dokumentem, který upravuje procesní charakter RB, je jednací řád. Ten prošel již svou sedmou revizí. Jednací řád upravuje např. jednací jazyky nebo způsob svolávání RB.

Závěr
O reformě Rady bezpečnosti OSN se diskutuje již více než pětadvacet let. Veškeré snahy o reformu byly zatím dementovány právem veta stálých členů RB OSN. Od devadesátých let nedošlo k žádnému výraznějšímu posunu ani změnám ohledně přijetí reforem. Vzhledem k pomalému průběhu lze předpokládat, že se v bližší době žádných změn nedočkáme. Každá z reformních skupin usiluje o rozšíření počtu stálých členů pro její členské státy. RB OSN může provádět změny týkající se pouze procesních záležitostí. Je tedy na členských státech RB, zdali schválí navrhované reformy. To ale není příliš reálné, jelikož každá země si v RB hájí své vlastní zájmy a nechce přijít o sféru vlivu.

Odkazy

Reference

Údržba:Články s referencemi v nadpisech
Rada bezpečnosti OSN

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State Laws You Should Know
Bill Ward, Executive Vice President, HBAI
2015 Illinois Energy Conservation Code
Effective January 1, 2016
Get ready, the new Illinois Energy Conservation Code has been approved and the effective date is January 1, 2016. Unlike the 2009 and 2012 code which, combined, raised the cost of construction in Illinois by an average of $16,000 per unit, HBAI welcomes the 2015 code as it brings new options to builders and minimizes construction cost increases.
For the first time since 2009, NAHB helped stop the regulatory binge at the International Code Council, while HBAI did the same with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (IDCEO). With two members now sitting on the Illinois Energy Code Advisory Council (IECAC), HBAI defeated all attempts by IDCEO to stay with the 2012 code. Later in the year and leading all the way up to late November, HBAI also checked state regulators from erasing and delaying sensible changes in the 2015 code.
Even after final approval of the code by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a final ditch effort was made in late November by IDCEO officials and consultants to delay enactment of the code for six months, and reverse a new option to use the Home Energy Rating System (HERS) rating system. But all of that was turned back by builders, code officials, engineers, and architects serving on the IECAC.
NAHB advised HBAI early this year to embrace the new code as long as certain changes in the code were incorporated. Don Surrena, Program Manager for the Energy Efficiency Construction Department at NAHB, drew a road map for HBAI that was successfully used by our appointees to the IECAC; Jason Huelsman and Allen Drewes.
Important Compliance Changes Include:
The Energy Rating Index (ERI) has been added as a third option for compliance. RESNET and the ICC now offer a HERS Index Video to explain how it works. The video is posted at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1s1s7TEwOvVA. IDCEO opposed this vehemently and refuses to include this in their state funded instruction seminars for builders and code officials.
Basement walls associated with conditioned basements shall have two options for required insulation: 1. Insulation from the top of the basement wall down to 10 feet below grade or to within six inches of the basement floor, whichever is less with an R-Value of 10/13 minimum; 2. Insulation from top of the basement down to 4 feet below grade when the basement wall R-Value is at least 15/19. IDCEO opposed the second option on the belief that most home builders would find this method too complicated to construct.
Air Leakage Rates shall be tested by a third party and verified as having an air leakage rate not exceeding five air exchanges per hour (ACH) in Climate Zones 4 and 5. The requirement for three air exchanges per hour was advocated by IDCEO.
This article highlights IDCEO's reluctance to go forward with the 2015 code, and the major disagreements we had with them on its implementation. Please note that there are over 70 changes made by the ICC from the 2012 to the 2015 code. That's a lot, but still a far cry from the 240 changes made from the 2009 to the 2012 code.
HBAI would like to thank the members of the IECAC who worked long and hard over the past several months to create a new code that is a great improvement over the previous code. A special Home Builder thanks to Lisa Mattingly, Administrator for Professional Services with the Illinois Capital Development Board, for her leadership and extensive knowledge on the application of building codes within the residential and commercial construction industries.
Finally, did you know, whether a community enforces the Illinois Energy Conservation Code or not, Builders in Illinois are responsible for building to this statewide set of standards. Failure to do so could result in a civil action against a builder by the home owner resulting in fines and payment to upgrade to the standards set forth at the time of construction.
Want to know more about the ECC? Contact Don Surrena, Program Manager, Energy Efficiency, NAHB, (202) 266-8574, or dsurrena@nahb.org.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this matter, feel free to contact me at billward@hbai.org.
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Marshall County, Tennessee has been named the cradle of the Myotonic Goat. Our local goat history tellers educate us that four black & white, stiff legged goats were escourted to Marshall County in the early 1900's by a man named Tinsley. At that time, they were unusual because of the myotonic condition which caused their muscles to stiffen and then relax. The process does not hurt them and they do not loose consciousness.
Original myotonics were medium sized goats with bold facial expressions, medium length ears, sturdy framework, and thick muscling . The breed is generally hardy, disease resistant, prolific breeders, and good mothers. They usually milk generously for about four months & most (but not all) wean their kids on their own.
Woody Creek Farm is located near Lewisburg, Tennessee in Marshall County. Our goal is to raise top quality goats that will be productive at home as well as in the show ring. The breeding program is structured to produce goats that will lead long, healthy, productive lives. We have approximately seventy five myotonic goats. Most of them are people friendly, with the exception of a few independent souls. In past years, we have tested annually for disease with negative results for CAE, CL, & Johnes. Currently, testing is done randomly and/or upon the customer's paid request.
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This week I am going to write about just one of the words from my new book, From Afterwit to Zemblanity: 100 endangered words brought to life. The word is ubiety, it is my favourite word from the book, and in last week's blog I awarded it a silver medal for Poignancy in my 'Word Olympics'. Can you remember what it means?
So why is this word – of all the hand-picked beauties in my book – my favourite?
Ubiety is a condition that deeply affects my life, both privately and professionally. How can anyone whose location is indefinite (neither here nor there) really enjoy life fully? How can a writer – particularly a fiction writer (my first love, despite my three non-fiction books) – write compellingly about places he has not wholly occupied? In 1995, when I joined the world of digital communication by opening my first internet and email account, I lost my grip on ubiety. Thirteen years on, I am only just beginning to regain it.
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Q: Difficulty to run simple GWT application I am making gwt application as following step:

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*Firstly I install gwt plugin in my eclipse(Helios).

*Create dynamic project.

*Add gwt plugin through

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*going to property page of the project

*Select google-webtoolkit

*check "use GWT"

*then go to google-web application

*the directory name to "web-content".

*Create gwt module in my project then create entry point class then html.

*Create a button in onModule method of entry point class.

Then I run the application in tomcat server by just right clicking on project and selecting run as web application(run with tomcat server). As result of this I am getting a blank page on browser? There is no excption in server log. I am not able to debug. Where I am going wrong?
Please help me to sort out this problem.
I am not using google web application because I was getting difficulty to create war file. As a result of this I got the above process to develop GWT application.
Thanks
Rahul

A: why don't you try in reverse:

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*First install gwt plugin in my eclipse(Helios).

*Create GWT project

*Add Dynamic web plugin

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*going to property page of the project

*project Facets tab

*Select Dynamic Web Module and java

*ok to apply changes.

*Write your code

and try to run on server. it will work.

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Q: How can make four buttons with same weight when I use constraint layout? I use constraint layout in Android Studio 3.01, I hope to the four buttons have the same weight, I have set app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1" for the four buttons.
But the four  buttons have different weight, what wrong I made?

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    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
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    android:layout_height="match_parent">

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        style="@style/myToolbar"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
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        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnBackup"
            style="@style/myTextMedium"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"

            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="spread_inside"

            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btnRestore"
            android:text="Backup" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnRestore"
            style="@style/myTextMedium"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/btnBackup"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btnMore"
            android:text="Restore" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnMore"
            style="@style/myTextMedium"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/btnRestore"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btnExit"
            android:text="More" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnExit"
            style="@style/myTextMedium"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/btnMore"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
            android:text="Exit" />

    </LinearLayout>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

To : Lalit Singh Fauzdar
Your code works well when screen dimension is 4.65''

But not good when screen dimension is 4''

A: Try giving the containing LinearLayout a horizontal orientation, and then use android:layout_weight to give each of the 4 buttons the same layout weight:
<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/linearLayoutToolBar"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    style="@style/myToolbar"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent">

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnBackup"
        style="@style/myTextMedium"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Backup" />              <!-- one fourth of horizontal space -->

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnRestore"
        style="@style/myTextMedium"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Restore" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnMore"
        style="@style/myTextMedium"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="More" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btnExit"
        style="@style/myTextMedium"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:text="Exit" />

</LinearLayout>

A: Why are you using a LinearLayout in ConstraintLayout, Just do it without the LinearLayout, and you're also using Constraints in all the buttons when their parent is a LinearLayout.
Here's the needed answer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnBackup"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="spread_inside"
            android:layout_marginStart="10dp"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toLeftOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btnRestore"
            android:text="Backup" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnRestore"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/btnBackup"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btnMore"
            android:text="Restore" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnMore"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/btnRestore"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toLeftOf="@+id/btnExit"
            android:text="More" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/btnExit"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
            android:layout_marginEnd="10dp"
            app:layout_constraintHorizontal_weight="1"
            app:layout_constraintLeft_toRightOf="@+id/btnMore"
            app:layout_constraintRight_toRightOf="parent"
            android:text="Exit" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

I've removed the style attribute from the buttons to test it in my project. Just add them.
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31 Days of Horror 13: Stoker (2013) by Jamie
Filed under: 31 Days of Horror, Review | Tags: 2013, 31 Days of Horror, Chung Chung-hoon, cinema, Clint Mansell, Dermot Mulroney, film, Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, halloween, Hitchcock, horror, Indian Paintbrush, Jacki Weaver, Matthew Goode, Mia Wasikowska, Michael Costigan, movie, movies, Nicolas De Toth, Nicole Kidman, Park Chan-wook, psychological, Ralph Brown, Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions, Shadow of a doubt, thriller, Tony Scott, Wentworth Miller
It can be debated about whether or not Stoker counts as a true horror. It could be said that it is really more of a thriller but I find that the borders between the two genres are often blurred somewhat and so I feel good with my choice of including it here. I've even heard some critics describe it as a horror so that helps aid my decision to include it plus it's heavily influenced by that ol' master of horror himself, Alfred Hitchcock. What this all boils down to is screw it, I watched Stoker and now I'm reviewing it. Deal with it.
The first thing I should point out is that this is not a vampire movie. There seems to have been confusion when this film came out, I guess owing mostly to the name Stoker. The film does draw some inspiration from Stoker's novel Dracula but nope, this is not a vampire film. This is a movie more in the mold of Hitchcock's 'Shadow of a Doubt', a film which I'll say right now that you haven't seen, you should. It's awesome.
Anyway, Stoker is about a young girl called India and how her life gets twist-turned upside down when her father is killed in a car accident on her birthday and her Uncle Charlie comes to stay with her and her emotionally fragile mother. Uncle Charlie seems like a very nice guy but is there something sinister lying behind his polite nature and his good looks like some kind of handsome shark?
That's where I'll stick to on synopsis because this film has a number of twists and turns whilst still managing to keep a slow, steady pace. That's not a criticism. This is a Park Chan-wook film and from this and Oldboy (the only films I've seen of his, a tragedy I seek to correct as soon as possible) I can say that he is a master of deliberate story-telling, choosing not to reveal anything until he is ready to but managing to keep you drawn in with his beautiful visual style and steady pacing.
Thankfully, this movie isn't just well paced and well shot, it's also terrifically acted. I can't think of a bad performance in the whole thing… Well, maybe some of the bully characters who are kind of broadly drawn arsehole stereotypes but they're a pretty minor part of the whole piece so I'll let them slide. Oh and the way music is used is just another reminder that Chan-wook is a master of his craft.
Overall this is a pretty terrific film. Rent it, buy it, do whatever you have to do but see it. Can't think of a bad thing to say about it really, or, sadly, too much good because to go into too great detail would inevitably reveal something about the plot. So yeah five pints out of five. Laterz.
Review: Byzantium by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 2013, Byzantium, cinema, fantasy, film, Films, Gemma Arterton, horror, Interview With The Vamprie, Ireland, Javier Navarrete, Jonny Lee Miller, Moira Buffini, movie, movies, Neil Jordan, Review, reviews, Sam Englebardt, Sam Riley, Saoirse Ronan, Sean Bobbitt, StudioCanal, thriller, Tony Lawson, vampire, vampires
The vampire craze doesn't seem quite as strong as it once did. Twilight is over, True Blood has essentially become a parody of itself and the Underworld movies… are they still making Underworld movies? I dunno. My point is that there is perhaps a waning in the interest in stories about Vampires whilst their undead brethren, the Zombies, continue to shamble on triumphant (though I honestly think that could change is World War Z is as bad as I think it is going to be). Still the effect of the popularity of these big budget Vampire efforts is that we've also seen some far more interesting, smaller films be released. Films like 'Let The Right One In' and it's American remake 'Let Me In'. It is with those films that Byzantium resides.
Let me start of by saying that this film is directed by Neil Jordan, director of 1994's 'Interview With The Vampire' and it's pretty clear why he was hired to direct. The main thrust of the plot of Byzantium, adapted from the play 'A Vampire Story' by Moira Buffini, is all about a 16-yeat old (well, technically 216 year old) girl, Eleanor Webb (Saoirse Ronan) who wants to tell the story of her creation and two hundred year existence as a vampire but being unable to because of the rules that she lives by in order to remain safe. She just wants to live and love and considers herself a monster. It's, well, it's a story that's almost identical in that regard to 'An Interview With A Vampire'. In tone, however, this film shares far more with Let The Right One In especially as the story focuses more on her developing relationship with a young boy named Frank (Caleb Landry Jones)
So yeah, it's fair to say that in some ways this film feels like a mish-mash of two different vampire films but that's certainly no bad thing when both of those films are great and you can't help but give them a little leeway since the director of one of those films is also the director of this one. And despite this the film remains an original story. There are also a number of tweaks to vampire mythos which purists may find annoying. These vampires can go out in the sun and rather than fangs, they pierce their victims skin with a retractable claw-like thumbnail. However, they also seem to able to be killed in ways that would kill a normal human, though may be able to take a little more punishment before death would occur.
I don't really have a problem with that in this film. The reason that the sun thing annoys me in Twilight is that it's obviously done just to make the Vampires look pretty. It's also not balanced with any weakness to anything else. It seems, pretty much, as though the only thing that can kill another Vampire in Twilight is another Vampire or a Werewolf. By all rights, we should be living in a vampire-dominated world in those films.
I think it'd be fair to say that this film will not be everybody's cup of tea. It's slow and ponderous as a meditation on immortality perhaps should be. There is also the problem that all Vampire films seem to have ever since Interview (though that film manages to avoid this problem itself) and that's that there isn't really a character who seems to enjoy immortality. It's possible that Eleanor's progenitor Clara (Gemma Arterton) does though it's never really made one hundred percent clear. It seems as though all modern vampires are made in the mould of Louis. They're all so mopey. Don't any of you enjoy the fact that you're going to live forever? So you lost your soul? You don't need one if your never going to die.
Despite all this, I still really enjoyed this film and found myself hooked as more and more of Eleanor's story was revealed. Like I said though, it's not gonna be for everyone. It does have Gemma Arterton dressed like a hooker throughout most of it so, yeah, there is that as well. Four pints out of five. Laterz.
Review: The Purge by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 2013, Adelaide Kane, Alicia Vela-Bailey, Andrew Form, Arija Bareikis, Blumhouse Productions, Bradley Fuller, Chris Mulkey, cinema, Dana Bunch, Edwin Hodge, Ethan Hawke, film, Films, James DeMonaco, Jason Blum, John Weselcouch, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Michael Bay, movie, movies, Nathan Whitehead, Peter Gvozdas, Platinum Dunes, Rhys Wakefield, Sébastien Kurt Lemercier, thriller, Tisha French, Tom Yi, Tony Oller, united states, Universal Pictures, usa
One of the problems with being a film fan in the 21st Century is that I often find myself unable to avoid knowing everything about a movie before it's released. Twitter, Facebook and the internet in general have all left me with knowing perhaps a little too much about something before I see it. There are still, however, movies that slip through the cracks. The Purge was one such movie. I think I saw one trailer for it which I obviously didn't really take much away from and then largely ignored its existence until it's release.
On a week that I thought was pretty light on releases, I checked the Cineworld website on Friday and noticed that once again I had overlooked The Purge. I booked my ticket and decided to watch the trailer again. It was an interesting concept, I'll admit, but nothing I was particularly excited about. Maybe something from a sub-par episode of Charlie Brooker's brilliant 'Black Mirror' series. So it was with pretty much no expectations that I headed off to the cinema.
Now for those of you that don't know, the premise of the movie is thus: It is 2022 and America has become a practically crime free utopia. The reason behind this is The Purge, one night of the year when all crime is legal. It's a night which people look forward to with a mixture of excitement and fear, some relishing the chance to give in to their baser animal desires whilst others choose to lock themselves away behind state of the art security systems until the night has passed. The film follows the Sandin family who have made their fortune through selling said security systems. They have a normal night of waiting it out ahead but things go awry when their son lets a man who was being attacked into their home. Will they be safe with the man in the house and what will happen when those who had been hunting him show up to finish the job?
So what did I think of it? Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised. Things are perhaps a little too slow to start off with but once the plot really gets underway, the movie becomes increasingly tense to a degree that I don't think I've really felt since the first 'Rec' movie. And while that first act of the movie is slow, it does set the characters up as a believable family which serves the movie well during those tense scenes later.
Now the film is not perfect by any means. There are aspects which have no real explanation. The son, for example has a watch with which he monitors his heartbeat but no reason is given for this and it seems as though it's only there to serve as a prop for something which happens later during the scene. I get the feeling that the movie is trying to say something about society as well. The man who is attacked is homeless and wears dogtags around his neck, something which I thought would be addressed, like a kind of "Oh, isn't it ironic that this veteran is being hunted after fighting to preserve the freedom these people enjoy" kind of thing, but it never is. The people hunting him are privileged kids just looking for a thrill and hoping to purge, an act which they see as their right as American citizens. So the message of the movie is something about the rich using the poor as an expendable resource and whilst the film certainly hammers at this message, pretty much saying that outright at points, it's never one which really feels as hard-hitting as I'm sure the film makers intended.
Another problem with the film is that it's overly predictable. Without wanting to give too much away, as soon as certain characters reappear during towards the end of the film, you know exactly what direction it's going to go in. Still, to the film makers 'credit, the ending plays out well and with a good deal of humour, particularly regarding just how awkward things would be once the night is over.
Still, over all this a strong thriller with a somewhat original concept and even in a crowded theatre filled with loud, noisy teens, the tension came through the screen. God, I feel old having just typed that last sentence… Anyway, I really recommend this film, though perhaps give it a little while or try and see it in a cinema which you know will be a little closer to empty. Three pints out of five. Laterz.
2012 Best Picture Round Up: Argo (Repost) by Jamie
Filed under: Oscar Nominees, Review | Tags: 1979, 1980, 1981, 2012, Adrienne Barbeau, Alan Arkin, Ashley Wood, Beauty, Ben Affleck, Bob Anders, Bob Gunton, Bryan Cranston, Chris Messina, Christine Mendez, Christopher Denham, Christopher Stanley, cinema, Clea DuVall, Cora Lijek, Cyrus Vance, Devansh Mehta, Elizabeth Ann Swift, film, Films, Fouad Hajji, Hamilton Jordan, historical, iran, Jack Kirby, Jack O'Donnell, Joe Stafford, John Chambers, John Goodman, Jon Bates, Karina Logue, Kathy Stafford, Ken Taylor, Kerry Bishé, Komiteh, Kyle Chandler, Lee Schatz, Lester Siegel, Malinov, Mark Lijek, Matt Sanders, Max Klein, Michael Parks, movie, movies, Nina, Omid Abtahi, Philip Baker Hall, political, Review, Reza, Richard Kind, Robert Pender, Rodd, Rory Cochrane, Sahar, Scoot McNairy, Sheila Vand, Tate Donovan, Taylor Schilling, thriller, Titus Welliver, Tom Ahern, Tom Lenk, Tony Mendez, united states, us, Victor Garber, Warren Christopher, Zeljko Ivanek
It's Oscar time again and the nominees have been announced so it's time to review the ones I'm able to. Luckily, I already had one in the bag from last year. So here it is again, my review of Argo. Enjoy.
I've really been getting in to films based on historical events lately. I've watched a ton of them in the past couple of months alone including Ben Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone"' which I enjoyed immensely. So I was pretty excited about the release of Affleck's new film, "Argo". Hell, throw in the fact that this also happens to be an historical event that has something to do with the film industry as well and it almost seems as though this damn film was made specifically to tickle my balls. Yes, it had everything that I could have asked for. So did I love it unapologetically like the movie/history geek that I am? Let's find out.
The movie takes place during the Iran hostage crisis that stretched from late 1979 to early 1981 and deals with one specific event in particular, the so-called Canadian Caper because apparently missions where people risk their lives must have adorable nicknames. On the 4th of November, Iranian students took control of American embassy and took the staff hostage in order to protest the Americans given shelter to the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi ad have him returned to Iran to stand trial for crimes committed during his rule. Six hostages managed to escape and took shelter at the Canadian embassy and a plan was drawn up by the CIA and the Canadian government to try and get them safely out of the country. Tony Méndez, a disguise an exfiltration expert, came up with a plot to extract them. He employed the aid of John Chamber, a Hollywood make-up artist, to create a fake film production office. The cover story was that the six trapped in Iran were actually Canadians working on a film and they were in the country scouting for locations for a Star Wars-esque Sci-fi fantasy film, Argo.
And that's about all I'm going to describer of the movie plot/actual events because to say much more would give away the plot. So, back to the original question: Did I love this film? Well, I cewrtainly enjoyed it but I did find it to be a bit slow going at points, particularly the moments where the trapped Americans are literally waiting around trying to get rescued. I suppose that this reflects the monotony of actually being trapped in a building for days on end and so in that regard I suppose it's quite effective. Overall, however, this film was fucking awesome. Every time Ben Affleck directs something I'm always surprised by just how good he is. The pacing during some of the more intense sequences is impeccable. I was quite literally on the edge of my seat during some moments, so tense were some of the events that were playing out on screen.
There's also a nice counterbalance to that intensity with quite a nice deal of humour provided by John Goodman as John Chambers and Alan Arkin as producer Lester Siegel. Not only are they great comic relief during some of the earlier scenes where they are trying to drum up publicity for a film that they know will be never filmed but that same humour actually comes to just rack things up later during one of the most tense scenes during the entire film.
If I have any complaint it's that one I made earlier about some of the scenes just slowing things down a bit too much but really that's a minor issue and about the only one I can really think of. I suppose it could be argued that the portrayal of Iranians is a bit one note, though I feel it delves deep enough into the politics behind their outrage that, whilst not outright justifying their actions, it certainly helps to explain them. So with all said and done, I'll give Argo four and a half pints out of five. Now Argo fuck yourself and see it. Laterz.
Murder Week: Salvation Boulevard (2011) by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 2011, Atheism, Atheist, christian, Christianity, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, comedy, Ed Harris, film, Films, Greg Kinnear, Isabelle Fuhrman, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Gaffigan, Marisa Tomei, mega church, movie, movies, murder, murder week, Pierce Brosnan, religion, Review, reviews, Salvation Boulevard, satire, thriller, wrongly accused, Yul Vazquez
Quite by accident, I ended up watching a number of films that all seemed to revolve around the worst crime a human being can commit that doesn't involve touching children in inappropriate ways. So I've decided that, hell, I might as well review 'em and make a theme week out of it. So yeah, murder. It's something that humans are pretty good at. There are those out there that would say that humans are especially evil being the only species that kill their own kind. To that I'd say that Black Widow Spiders and Praying Mantises would have a number of arms to raise in objection to that. Hell, we're not even the only species to go to war.
Still, there's something which fascinates us about this darker side of human nature. The fascination with death is probably only second in the human psyche to our fascination with sex. It probably comes with being, as far as we know, the only species that is fully aware of our mortality. It's why we created myths to ease the fear of death. The fact that we could comprehend that we were alive made it hard to accept that one day everything we were would come to an end, hence we came up with the idea of the afterlife. This idea was then taken by the ruling classes of several different societies and cultures in order to keep the peasants in line. Just work hard and do as you're told in this life, and you'll get rewarded in the next. Its Marx's opiate of the masses, if you will. And so it is that we come to today's film, Salivation Boulevard, a comedy-thriller-religious satire from 2011. Yeah, that's right. All that build up was for the review of a little known comedy film. I'll admit, the opening got away from me a bit there.
The most notable thing about this film is probably the cast. Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Marissa Tomei, Ed Harris, Jim Gaffigan, Ciarán Hinds. Hell, that's a fairly impressive list of pretty solid people. So how was it that this thing slipped through the cracks and ended up with a 21% rating on Rotten Tomatoes?
Well, to be fair, it's just not that great of a film. To be fair I don't think it's really 21% bad but it could have done so much more with the premise. The basic set-up is that Pierce Brosnan plays Pastor Dan Day, the head of a Mega Church in a small town in Western America. He's beloved by the community, in particular former Deadhead turned Christian Carl Vandermeer (Kinnear) and his wife Gwen (Connelly). The Mega Church that every obedient follower of the Lord could want, including a daycare centre with colouring books featuring Pastor Dan's smiling face. Yes, the people of the town pretty much worship Dan as much as they do a 2000 year old Jewish Carpenter Zombie and the film isn't particularly subtle about it, at least at first.
After Dan engages in a spirited debate with atheist Dr Paul Blaylock (Harris), he and Carl head back to the professor's office for a night cap. One thing leads to another and the Pastor accidentally shoots Blaylock in the head. Fearing that the shooting will put his plans for a new Christian community that he plans to build in jeopardy, he tries to pass off the shooting as an attempted suicide whilst also trying to silence Carl. "Hilarity" ensues and all manner of madcap mix-ups and misunderstandings occur.
The main problem with the film is that it never quite balances its genres. It feels like it could have been a decent enough comedy about a man wrongly accused of a crime or a decent religious satire but in trying to combine the two, the final product is a bit of an unsatisfying mess. It's the religious satire aspect, in particular, that really seems to suffer. It just never seems to go beyond the fairly obvious. Also I was a little disappointed that Pastor Dan actually seems to believe in the product he's selling. Yes, he's using that belief to gain and profit for himself but it's pretty clear that he's a believer himself and he suffers a great deal of guilt over what he's done. Not enough to come clean but still, it tortures his religious soul. Personally, I feel it would have been better from a satirical viewpoint to have Dan simply pay lip service to Christianity in order to get what he wants. Sure, that might have been obvious too but it could have been a little more biting.
Perhaps the oddest thing in the whole film is Pierce Brosnan's accent. It starts of as one thing and ends up something like an Australian accent and I honestly have no idea why. Honestly, it's just bizarre. Why not just have him using his normal, British accent if he's not going to play an American anyway? It's possible it's inspired by Australian Ken Hamm, director of the Creation Museum and a man whose choice of facial hair leaves him looking far more like a product of an evolutionary process he insists didn't happen.
This man certainly didn't evolve from apes…
So yeah, I kinda had high hopes for this film. The subject matter put it firmly in my wheel house and I thought that maybe it might be a nice little treasure that I could appreciate even if the critics didn't but sadly I was disappointed. There were a few moments where I did laugh out loud and Kinnear puts in a great, believable performance as poor put-upon Carl but as a whole the movie just leaves you wishing it had been so much more. Two pints out of five. Laterz.
Review: Argo by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 1979, 1980, 1981, 2012, Adrienne Barbeau, Alan Arkin, Ashley Wood, Beauty, Ben Affleck, Bob Anders, Bob Gunton, Bryan Cranston, Chris Messina, Christine Mendez, Christopher Denham, Christopher Stanley, cinema, Clea DuVall, Cora Lijek, Cyrus Vance, Devansh Mehta, Elizabeth Ann Swift, film, Films, Fouad Hajji, Hamilton Jordan, historical, iran, Jack Kirby, Jack O'Donnell, Joe Stafford, John Chambers, John Goodman, Jon Bates, Karina Logue, Kathy Stafford, Ken Taylor, Kerry Bishé, Komiteh, Kyle Chandler, Lee Schatz, Lester Siegel, Malinov, Mark Lijek, Matt Sanders, Max Klein, Michael Parks, movie, movies, Nina, Omid Abtahi, Philip Baker Hall, political, Review, Reza, Richard Kind, Robert Pender, Rodd, Rory Cochrane, Sahar, Scoot McNairy, Sheila Vand, Tate Donovan, Taylor Schilling, thriller, Titus Welliver, Tom Ahern, Tom Lenk, Tony Mendez, united states, us, Victor Garber, Warren Christopher, Zeljko Ivanek
Review: Black Swan by Jamie
Filed under: Review | Tags: 2010, Andres Heinz, Andrew Weisblum, Arnold Messer, Ballerina, Ballerino, Ballet, Barbara Hershey, Benjamin Millepied, Black Swan, Brian Oliver, cinema, Clint Mansell, dance, Dancing, Darren Aronofsky, film, Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures, horror, Janet Montgomery, John McLaughlin, Kristina Anapau, Ksenia Solo, Mental Illness, Mike Medavoy, Mila Kunis, movie, movies, Natalie Portman, Paranoia, Paranoid Schizophrenia, psychological, Review, reviews, Schizophrenia, Scott Franklin, Sebastian Stan, Sergio Torrado, swan, Swan Lake, thriller, Toby Hemingway, Vincent Cassel, White Swan, Winona Ryder
There are some things in here which might, possibly be considered spoilers. Hard to tell with a movie like this.
Ballet. It's a thing that people apparently watch and enjoy. I don't really understand why. Seems to me that if you don't know the story of the show you're going to see then you're watching a bunch of people dancing and prancing about on a stage. In essence you need to have the show spoiled in order to understand the show. Maybe that works for some people but as a movie fan it doesn't really make much sense to me.
Still, I'm not gonna say ballet is the worst thing mankind has ever done. That is mime. Seriously, fuck mimes. No, I can see the artistry in it and understand the hard work that people put in in order to become really good at it. I'm sure the same could be said for mimes but I mean it, fuck mimes. I'm assuming that's why people go to the ballet, to see the craft performed well by people who have worked hard to achieve that level of skill. Maybe the story doesn't matter at all. Again, these are just my musings on why people watch it. I could be totally wrong and the story could be very important. In fact, it probably is. Hmmm, I just seem to be babbling.
So anyway, 'Black Swan', the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, features ballet fairly heavily. It's the story of a young ballet dancer with an over-bearing mother, a demanding teacher and a talented understudy. Yeah, I know, it doesn't sound that great but wait because there's more. You see this girl, Nina (Natalie Portman), has a problem in that she's incredibly reserved and always striving for perfection. She wants the lead in the ballet company's latest production of 'Swan Lake' and whilst her reserved nature is perfect for the role of the White Swan she also needs to perform the role of the Black Swan which calls for a far more loose and sensual performance which the director, Thomas (Vincent Cassel), doesn't feel she can pull off. Far more convincing for the role is Lily (Mila Kunis) who is exactly the kind of free spirit that Nina isn't.
Still Nina gets the part even though she doesn't seem to make much progress in becoming more wild and carefree. That is until Lily shows up at her door and takes her out for a night of wild abandon, much to the chagrin of Nina's mother Erica (Barbara Hershey). They drink, they screw around, they take drugs, they apparently go back to Nina's for a bit of girl on girl action… Yes, there's a scene where Mila Kunis goes down on Natalie Portman. Five pints out of five. Laterz.
Ok, fine. There's more to the story than that. Basically throughout the entire film there's an undercurrent of a growing madness within Nina's mind. It appears as though she's had mental issues in the past, apparently a self-abuser in the form of scratching herself deeply on her back. This behaviour seems to manifest itself again and with it a new kind of paranoia. Is it the stress of the role playing out in her mind? Is it the dark side of her personality finally trying to break free of years of repression, finding a crack to escape through due to her trying to access it in order to successfully perform the part of the black swan? Whatever it is, the madness begins to show itself by her beginning to believe that she is physically transforming into a black swan, beginning with a rash near her scratch marks that resembles the skin of a bird, eventually growing to a point where she feels as though she's growing feathers or her legs have bent backwards like those of a swan.
Obviously the film builds up to a massive ending that I won't spoil here because you should probably go and see this film. I'll say it's a very, very good film, hell probably even a great film but it is not a perfect film. Yes, the performances are brilliant although there were times where Natalie Portman's character was so pathetic that I found her to be a touch annoying and stretching the limits of believability. Still, the dancing is impressive as much as I, a man who knows practically nothing about ballet, can judge such a thing. It's clear that both Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis spent a long fucking time preparing for this role.
The camera work is also incredibly impressive and features a number of techniques that you'll probably recognise if you saw 'The Wrestler' and it's clear to see that Darren Aronofsky considered making this a companion piece for that film. There are shots that follow the character from behind and there are shots that manage to focus on the character rather than the choreographed performance that they are giving (dancing in Black Swan and wrestling in 'The Wrestler'. Yes, wrestling is largely choreographed) which gives you a sense of what the character is feeling whilst they do their thing.
And like I said as damn fucking good as the film is, it's not perfect. There are times when it seems a bit slow, particularly to start of with, though it's never so bad that you lose interest in what's going on. There are also times where it pushes the boundaries of weird and yet at the same time doesn't seem to go far enough. That may seem like a particularly odd sentence but it's something I can't really explain unless you've seen the movie. There's also the ending which, without being spoilery, I'll just say that I wish certain events had played out a little differently.
Finally my biggest issue with this film is a rather personal one so I'll understand if you don't agree with me. I have a terrible aversion to anything bad happening to finger or toe nails and fuck if there aren't like a thousand separate occasions when horrible shit happens to nails in this movie. Ok, I may be over exaggerating that a little bit but still, there are times when I just couldn't look at the screen. Again, I know it's entirely my problem but I'm just saying, if you don't like bad shit happening to nails then there are gonna be a number of times when you look away during this movie, wincing in pain and trying not to throw up.
Despite this, it is a really, really amazing film. I'm not suddenly gonna develop a deep interest in ballet or anything but I did look up black swans on Wikipedia for a bit. And seriously, if you're a dude don't let the fact that there's a lot of ballet in this film. Things get seriously fucked up including a really fucking horrific scene involving Winona Ryder in a hospital. And don't forget, Mila Kunis goes down on Natalie Portman. Still, I don't think it's as good as The Wrestler and I think a lot of that has to do with the main characters. Mickey Rourke's character in that film is a genuinely likeable character who's going through a hard time whilst Natalie Portman's character in this is sometimes just so pathetic that I found it hard to sympathise with her. Overall four pints out of five. Laterz.


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We went on a sleigh ride (Kulig) last weekend. It was the perfect weekend for it — very wintery. Sadly, the snow is all gone now.
Kulig is the word for the Polish winter tradition of sleigh rides. There was a group of about 10 wagons. We rode a bit, visited a real German bunker, and were entertained by a man in a long beard (Father Frost? I have no idea). Rode some more, then stopped by a fire at the end for roasted sausages and marshmallows and drank hot wine (adults only, of course). Miss H and friends figured out how to make ice pops out of snow and hot tea.
Holy cow! A real blog post update from you! 😉 Sadly, we never got to do the kulegs bc they always seem organized by AFW and we didn't have kids. Glad you and the family had fun!
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