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var mongoose = require('mongoose'),
	Schema = mongoose.Schema;

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var BreakoutSchema = new Schema({

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	sessionNumber: {
		type: Number,
	},
	name: {
		type: String,
	},
	roomName: {
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	},
	speaker: {
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	description: {
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	},
	numberSignedUp: {
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	},
	maxCapacity: {
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	users: {
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	}
});

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So i was bored as hell looking through torrents and ended up finding Rune lol. I downloaded installed and was disapointed when i saw that gamespy shut down their master server.. Assholes ! So i went on to download a patch from humanhead and it fking worked. LOL i am on a dead game 20 years later. Howdy!
Hey man, its been a long time, how are you?
I think ThuGG just finished College, he said he would be around more and down for Rune. We NEED to all have a TR Racing sesh some time.
DUDE !!! Sat :d nice to see you post man so good to hear from you. I have been great i cannot complain, i am also finished with college in 2 weeks after my last final. I am completing a major in Psychology with minor in Biology and applying to nursing schools. I been doing a lot of clinical care with disabled people for work and been gaming like usual obviously. I am so down for Rune ! although i installed it, i have a few version mismatches for some DM arena maps and TR bullet proof 3 lol always a problem with rune never 100%. let me know when you want to do a Tr sesh i am down! Additionally, do i need to pay for steam?
You don't have to pay for steam but I think it restricts your account with some things until you spend atleast $5. They do have a "new" version of Rune (v1.10) on there though which lets you join any type of servers (v1.01 to 1.08). Steam is a good program for games though.
If you PM me your FB or something I can add you on there too, a lot of us are on FB.


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Q: Ada: behavior like pthread_barrier_wait? I'm trying to implement a barrier in Ada which has similar functionality to C's pthread_barrier_wait. Ada 2012 has Ada.Synchronous_Barriers but that's not available on my system (gnu-gnat on debian lenny).
More specifically, how can I get all waiting tasks to be released from a barrier at ~ the same time and, ideally, have one of these tasks do something special, without using Ada 2012? Below is a very sub-optimal implementation. What might be a better approach?
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO;

procedure foobar is
   protected Synchronizer is
      entry Ready_For_Action; -- prepares for tasks to wait at barrier
      entry Wait_For_Release; -- barrier
      -- do work here
      entry Done;             -- signals that all tasks are done
      entry Wait_For_Others;  -- prepares for prepare to wait at barrier
   private
      ready, active: Natural := 0;
      -- two state variables seem to be needed as entry conditions can't
      --    safely modify the condition variable as that influences wait
      --    state in other tasks
   end Synchronizer;

   NUM_OBJECTS: constant := 3;

   protected body Synchronizer is
      entry Ready_For_Action when active = 0 is
      begin
         ready := ready + 1;
      end Ready_For_Action;
      --
      entry Wait_For_Release when ready = NUM_OBJECTS is
      begin
         active := active + 1;
      end Wait_For_Release;
      --
      entry Done when active = NUM_OBJECTS is
      begin
         ready := ready - 1;
      end Done;
      --
      entry Wait_For_Others when ready = 0 is
      begin
         active := active - 1;
      end wait_for_others;
      --
   end Synchronizer;

   task type Foo(N: Natural);

   task body Foo is
      id: Natural := N;
   begin
      for iter in 1..3 loop
         Synchronizer.Ready_For_Action;
         Synchronizer.Wait_For_Release;
         -- task N doing something special
         if id = 1 then new_line; end if;
         -- do stuff here
         delay 0.1;
         put(id); new_line;
         -- re-sync
         Synchronizer.Done;
         Synchronizer.Wait_For_Others;
      end loop;
   end Foo;
   Task1: Foo(1);
   Task2: Foo(2);
   Task3: Foo(3);
begin
   Null;
end foobar;

Program output:
$ ./foobar
  3
  1
  2

  3
  1
  2

  3
  2
  1

A: Maybe the 'count attribute on entries would be useful - is this the kind of thing you're looking for? Using task IDs to make one do something different seems sensible (or if it is sufficiently different you could just make a new task type).
No_Of_Tasks : Natural := 3;
   --
protected Barrier is
   entry Continue;
private
   Released : Boolean := False;
end Barrier
   --
protected body Barrier is
   entry Continue when (Released or else Continue'count = No_Of_Tasks)
      Released := Continue'count > 0; -- the last task locks the barrier again
   end Continue
end Barrier

A: This extends Leon's answer to achieve the desired functionality. It uses a single barrier object and flags one arbitrary task to do something special.
EDIT: Incorporated Jacob's insight to further simplify barrier and achieve original goal
with Ada.Text_IO; use Ada.Text_IO;
with Ada.Integer_Text_IO; use Ada.Integer_Text_IO;

procedure bar2 is
   NUM_TASKS: constant := 3;

   protected Barrier is
      entry Wait_For_Release(the_chosen_one: out Boolean);
   private
      released: Boolean := False;
   end Barrier;

   protected body Barrier is
      entry Wait_For_Release(the_chosen_one: out Boolean)
         when (Released or else Wait_For_Release'count = NUM_TASKS) is
      begin
         the_chosen_one := False;
         if Wait_For_Release'count = NUM_TASKS-1 then
            the_chosen_one := True;
            released := True;
         elsif Wait_For_Release'count = 0 then
            released := False;
         end if;
      end Wait_For_Release;
   end Barrier;

   task type Foo(N: Natural);
   task body Foo is
      id: Natural := N;
      the_chosen_one: Boolean;
   begin
      for iter in 1..5 loop
         Barrier.Wait_For_Release(the_chosen_one);
         if the_chosen_one then
            new_line;
         end if;
         put(id);     -- do stuff here
      end loop;
   end Foo;

   Task1: Foo(1);
   Task2: Foo(2);
   Task3: Foo(3);
begin
   Null;
end bar2;

Sample output:
$ ./bar

          1          2          3
          3          1          2
          1          2          3
          1          3          2
          3          2          1

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Clamoring Islamists pressure judge, threaten attorney.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – A court in Pakistan on Saturday (July 13) sentenced a Christian to life in prison for alleged blasphemy in spite of the complainant retracting the accusation and admitting police pressured him into making it, his attorney said.
Attorney Javed Sahotra told Morning Star News by phone that prosecutors in the court in Toba Tek Singh District in Punjab Province produced no evidence that 29-year-old Sajjad Masih denigrated the prophet of Islam, and that Islamist mobs pressured the judge into the conviction and verdict. Masih was also ordered to pay a fine of 200,000 rupees (US$1,980).
Gojra police arrested Masih, of Pakpattan, Punjab Province, on accusations that he had sent text messages mocking Islam's prophet, Muhammad, to Muslim clerics and others in Gojra on Dec. 11, 2011. Gojra is about a two-and-a-half hour drive from Pakpattan.
Sahotra said that Masih had evaded repeated attempts to arrest him after learning of the accusations against him, but that on Dec. 28, 2011, area Christian leaders accompanied him to the Gojra City Police Station so that he could record a statement.
"The police refused to let him leave and put him behind bars," Sahotra said, adding that case No. 820/2011 was registered against Masih under Section 295-C of Pakistan's widely condemned blasphemy laws, which call for death or life imprisonment (25 years in Pakistan) of any person found guilty of blaspheming Muhammad.
Sahotra said that soon after the Christian leaders left the police station, officers took Masih out of his cell and started beating him.
Officers did not carry out the threat but sent the battered young man to Toba Tek Singh Prison.
Some young Muslim men in Gojra had plotted against Masih to "punish him for being friends with a local Christian girl," Sahotra said. It was not clear what interest the Muslims had in Masih's love relationship with a fellow Christian, but the complainant in the case lives in her neighborhood. Prosecutors claimed that the young woman, Roma Masih, had broken off a marriage engagement with Sajjad Masih, and that in vengeance he had used a mobile phone SIM card purchased in her name to send blasphemous messages. She has since reportedly gone to the United Kingdom.
The complainant in the case, Tariq Saleem, said under cross-examination that he had not received any blasphemous text messages as he originally claimed, Sahotra said.
"The complainant backtracked from his statement during cross examination – Saleem told the court he had been forced by the police to file the case," he said.
Police officers pressured Saleem to file the case after Islamic clerics had pressured them, Sahotra said. Questioning why the clerics themselves were unwilling to file a case, he pointed out that the accused Christian does not live in Gojra and would not have known the numbers of the Muslim clerics and others there who were said to have received the supposed text messages.
Police and area Muslims have spread the story of Masih using his ex-girlfriend's SIM card to cover up their complicity in the attempt to frame him, Sahotra said.
The judge in the case, Mian Shahzad Raza, did not have the nerve to withstand pressure from Muslim groups, he said.
Sahotra repeatedly informed the judge about the threats, but he did nothing, Sahotra said.
"Even I did not expect much from him or the police, because Gojra is a stronghold of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and its political wing, the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, formerly known as the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan," he said.
Designated as a Sunni Muslim terrorist organization by Pakistan and the United States, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is considered Pakistan's most violent militant outfit. It is reportedly responsible for carrying out the most deadly attacks in the country's history, including an epic assault on the country's Army General Headquarters. Its cadres were also involved in the Gojra massacre of 2009, when eight Christians were burned to death by Muslim mobs over blasphemy allegations.
"No government or judicial officer will ever dare [to defy] the religious extremists – just because of them, an innocent man will rot in prison," said Sahotra, adding that higher courts usually overturn such convictions after the suspects have spent months or years behind bars.
He said he will challenge the verdict in higher courts.
The case investigators were unavailable for comment.
Sahotra said that prosecution claimed that blasphemous text messages were sent from a number registered in the name of Roma Masih and that the SIM was bought from Pakpattan on Dec. 11, 2011.
Sajjad Masih was in his office in Pakpattan during the time he was accused of buying the SIM on the girl's National Identity Card, Sahotra said.
"We even submitted affidavits of Masih's co-workers in court in support of our claim," he said.
Police failed to produce the SIM card and the mobile handset from which the text messages were allegedly sent. Officers failed to obtain the service provider's Call Data Records of the people supposedly involved in the texts, nor did they present the subscription form of the telephone number to prove its ownership, he said.
"It was also brought to the court's notice that two junior officials had investigated the case, whereas under Section 156 of the Criminal Procedure Code, allegations such as blasphemy must be investigated by an officer of the rank of superintendent of police," he said.
Pakistan's blasphemy laws have been used to falsely accuse other Christians. Karma Patras, a 56-year-old pastor released on bail in February after his accuser said he was mistaken in filing the complaint (see Morning Star News, Feb. 25), was exonerated last month.
Asia Noreen (also known as Asia Bibi), a Christian mother of five, has been sentenced to death after being incarcerated on false charges of blasphemy since November 2010.
Blasphemy charges against Rimsha Masih, a girl whose mental age was determined to be less than 14 years old, were dismissed on Nov. 20, 2012 after a judge ruled that they were baseless (see Morning Star News, Nov. 20, 2012). She has since been relocated to Canada.
Pakistan is nearly 96 percent Muslim, according to Operation World, and religiously charged court cases commonly involve clamoring crowds of Muslims and other pressures coming to bear on lawyers and judges. Christians make up 2.45 percent of the population.


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Slideways
Graham, Mark, and Matt are close high school friends from Roanoke, Virginia who's love for music eventually landed them together in a band. With similar musical tastes and personalities, the chemistry was naturally evident. Having such diverse taste in music, Slideways has a noticeably eclectic sound with influences including rock, pop, blues, reggae, funk, punk, and even a bit of country. Above all, they play what they feel and enjoy doing it. While Slideways does play occasional cover songs, their music is primarily original. Each member of the band contributes their own unique style and flavor to every song, not just musically, but lyrically as well.
Currently the band is beefing up its repertoire while playing a few warm-up shows at Schooner's Bar & Grill in Roanoke. The songs on this site were all recorded during various practice sessions on a sub-par microphone, so the sound quality is not the best. We hope to have some better recordings soon, but this should give you an idea of what we sound like. If you would like to know more about us, please contact us at slidewaysband@gmail.com.

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EXAM: Granny's House Serves Area Columbia Kids Through Mentorship Program
By Marissanne Lewis-Thompson • Apr 6, 2015
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Located in the center of the Douglass Housing Development in Columbia, Granny's House has served the neighborhood for 14 years. Run by Pam and Ellis Ingram, the program provides study groups about Christianity and a safe place for kids to be after school. Volunteers from churches and the University of Missouri's service learning program provide mentorship and guidance for the kids. KBIA's Michaela Tucker collected the sounds of an afternoon at Granny's House for this audio postcard.
Under the Microscope: MU Researcher Experiments with Switchgrass for Biofuel
By Micheala Sosby & Brianna Schroer & Tyler Adkisson • Apr 2, 2015
Brianna Schroer
Veterinarian Lynn Steele grows switchgrass on his farm to feed his hundred head of cattle. He favors the wild-growing grass over other commercial feeds because it's cheap.
"Even when the price is high [for switchgrass], it's 4, 5, 6 dollars a pound for seed," Steele said. "Indian grass and Big Blue Stem 12 and 15 dollars a pound. You get quite a bit of investment there."
MU Title IX Office Releases Data for Fall 2014 Semester
By Emma Balkenbush • Apr 2, 2015
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The University of Missouri Title IX office has released data it collected from the 2014 fall semester.
Of the 144 reports that were released, 135 fell under one or more of the five categories the office uses to classify violations.
MU Police Chief to Retire
The police chief of the University of Missouri in Columbia is retiring after more than four decades with the department.
MU Student Suspended for Threatening Comments Related to American Sniper Editorial
By Emma Balkenbush • Mar 20, 2015
The University of Missouri student conduct office has suspended a student for making threatening comments toward another student. The comments were aimed at the author of a letter to the editor that was published in the Maneater. Farah El-Jayyousi wrote a letter to the paper explaining why the movie, "American Sniper" should not be shown on campus.
The student will be suspended until the formal conduct process is complete.
Columbia PD Fails to Find Suspects in Sasha Menu Courey Case
By Associated Press & Nick Compall • Mar 19, 2015
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Police in Columbia say they've failed to identify a suspect in a case involving a former University of Missouri swimmer who said she was raped by several football players, months before she committed suicide.
University and Students Continue Conversation on Race
By Michaela Tucker • Mar 18, 2015
University of Missouri students asked Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin for policy changes during the race relations forum on Tuesday night.
Loftin, administrators, faculty and students met for the third time on the topic since the announcement former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the shooting death of Michael Brown last year.
MU names Mack Rhoades as new Athletic Director
By KBIA Staff • Mar 9, 2015
In a press release Monday, the University of Missouri announced Mack Rhoades will begin work as the new director of Intercollegiate Athletics at MU in late April.
Rhoades has been the Athletic Director at the University of Houston since 2009. Before that, he was the AD at the University of Akron.
Rhoades will take part in a press conference Tuesday afternoon on the MU campus.
Here is the official press release:
MU Provost Stokes Focusing on Title IX Policies and Teacher Salaries
By Andy Humphrey • Mar 2, 2015
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Newly hired University of Missouri Provost Garnett Stokes comes to her new position with many plans to improve the university's academic programs. Stokes led as provost and executive vice president at Florida State University and handled many situations involving Title IX regulations, teacher salaries, and research achievement.
EXAM: New MU Provost Focuses on Title IX Policies and Teacher Salaries
By Marissanne Lewis-Thompson • Mar 2, 2015
Newly hired University of Missouri Provost Garnett Stokes comes to her new position with many plans to improve the university's academic programs. Stokes led as provost and executive vice president at Florida State University and handled many situations involving Title IX regulations, teacher salaries, and research achievement. As KBIA's Andy Humphrey tells us, Stokes believes that she can use her prior experience to help solve various issues at MU.
Study Shows that Columbia Could Add New Conference Center
By Natasha Brewer • Feb 26, 2015
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A study funded by the University of Missouri shows that Columbia could support a new hotel and conference center.
MU Provost Discusses New Title IX Administrator, Faculty Incentives
By Andy Humphrey • Feb 25, 2015
MU's newly-hired provost Garnett Stokes spoke to media Wednesday about her plans for the university and other academic programs.
MU Hopes for Higher Learning Comission Accreditation
By Jason Hoffman • Feb 24, 2015
Peer reviewers from the Higher Learning Commission have been meeting with administrators, faculty and students this week at MU.
MU Offers Gender Neutral Housing Option This Upcoming Fall
By Vivien Tran • Feb 18, 2015
The University of Missouri has been planning to offer gender-neutral housing to students and it is now coming this fall. The 16-bed space takes up half of the first floor in College Avenue Hall with the goal of creating a safe housing option for students who are transgender or gender nonconforming.
EXAM: MU's Title IX Policies Cause Headaches and Confusion for Faculty and Staff
By Jenn Cooper & Marissanne Lewis-Thompson • Feb 16, 2015
In October, University of Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin sent out a mass email to students, faculty and staff explaining faculty and staff are mandatory reporters of any form of discrimination under new Title IX policies.
For many of these new mandatory reporters, their new responsibilities have caused some confusion and concern. An online training program was launched a few months after the initial announcement to try to help clear the air. But, the training has caused its own confusion and headaches as well.
School of Journalism hosts "We Are Charlie" Symposium
By Abigail Coursen • Feb 4, 2015
The Charlie Hebdo attack in France is provoking discussions in Columbia about journalistic responsibilities and the need for freedom of expression.
The Missouri School of Journalism hosted a symposium Tuesday night to discuss the terrorist attack against Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, in which 11 people were killed and another 11 were injured. The magazine has published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, which witnesses says the shooters referenced during the attack.
Business Beat: MU student campaign seeks to change grad student loans
By Kara Tabor • Feb 3, 2015
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Listen to this week's show with host Kara Tabor
There's a problem few are talking about when it comes to student debt. While the topic of undergrads taking out steep loans to pay for tuition costs often grabs the most attention, grad students face interest rates that are more than one third higher. But a group of students at the University of Missouri is trying to change that. Missouri Business Alert's Tatiana Darie spoke with the students of Grads Have Debt 2 about their efforts to achieve reform.
Mike Alden to step down as Director of Athletics at the University of Missouri
By Associated Press & Mary Kate Metivier • Jan 29, 2015
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According to a press release sent out Thursday afternoon, Mike Alden is stepping down as the University of Missouri's Director of Athletics.
"After several months of contemplation, I have decided that it is time for a change, both for me and for the University that I so dearly love," Alden said in a press release.
MU employee rescued from well after being trapped by medical condition
By Emerald O'Brien • Jan 22, 2015
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The Columbia Fire Department rescued a man trapped in a well at the University of Missouri power plant on Thursday. The fire department was dispatched around 2 p.m. to extract a University Campus Facilities employee who experienced a medical issue while performing regular maintenance on the well.
The well is about 20 feet underground and is one of five drinking water wells on the MU campus.
MU News Bureau Associate Director Christian Basi said the employee's medical condition required calling and utilizing the fire department, but it wasn't so severe that there wasn't enough time to wait for the crew to arrive.
MU to offer buyout to administrators
By Associated Press • Jan 12, 2015
The University of Missouri's flagship campus in Columbia is offering a buyout option for some of its academic administrators.
110 MU faculty members accept retirement buyout
By Jason Hoffman • Dec 22, 2014
The University of Missouri offered a buyout to 261 retirement-eligible tenure track faculty members, and we now know 110 have accepted the offer.
Missouri Supreme Court won't hear syllabi case
By Associated Press • Dec 12, 2014
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The Missouri Supreme Court will not hear a public records lawsuit filed by an education advocacy group that wanted access to professors' copies of course outlines.
The National Council on Teacher Quality sued in October 2012 to compel the release of University of Missouri course plans. A Boone County court ruled that the course plans are closed records protected by federal copyright law and an appeals court upheld that ruling.
The council sought the records as part of a nationwide project to evaluate what aspiring teachers learn in college.
Exam: Blind sports journalist overcomes obstacles
By Hope Kirwan & Jason Hoffman • Dec 4, 2014
The University of Missouri is known for it's School of Journalism. Every year, hundreds of freshmen from across the country come to school at MU to learn about news or sports broadcasting. But KBIA's Jason Hoffman found one freshman who's career in sports radio has an added challenge: He's blind.
MU names Garnett Stokes as its new Provost
By Ryan Famuliner • Dec 4, 2014
The University of Missouri has named Garnett Stokes as the new Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost. According to a press release, she will begin work on Feb. 2.
Stokes is currently the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Florida State University. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Carson-Newman College in Tennessee, and got her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Georgia in industrial/organizational psychology
MU looking into threat against Black Culture Center
By Jason Hoffman • Dec 4, 2014
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The University of Missouri is investigating a threat made on the anonymous social network site YikYak against the on-campus Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center.
Business Beat: Columbia public transit lagging despite CoMo Connect
By Kara Tabor • Dec 3, 2014
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After the launch of CoMo Connect this summer, public transit ridership in Columbia jumped about 11 percent according to the Columbia Public Works Department. However, public transit remains a problem for the city, with long waiting times and limited evening and weekend services. Missouri Business Alert's Tatiana Darie looks into why this is happening and what efforts are being made to improve it.
MU students want religious policy change
By Associated Press • Nov 25, 2014
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A group of students is asking the University of Missouri to strengthen its policy to ensure that professors accommodate students who have to miss class for a religious holiday.
MU, KBIA to acquire KWWC from Stephens
By Bram Sable-Smith • Oct 31, 2014
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The University of Missouri and KBIA announced today the purchase of 90.5FM KWWC from Stephens College. Pending approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), MU will pay Stephens College $50,000 for the station in addition to providing the college with $50,000 in underwriting over a five-year period.
UM Board approves new financing plan
By Jasmine Lee • Oct 24, 2014
The University of Missouri Board of Curators unanimously voted to approve a financing plan that will allow the sales of revenue bonds in order to fund the construction projects in the UM system. The board voted to approve $150 million of the $255 million of the system's revenue bonds last night.
MU to create Census Bureau Research Data Center
By Timothy Maylander • Oct 9, 2014
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The University of Missouri dedicated $1 million to the creation of a new Census Bureau Research Data Center. Housed at Ellis Library, the center will be used to give researchers access to millions of data files which are normally restricted due to the sensitive information they contain. MU's office is a satellite location for the main Research Data Center, soon to be located in Kansas City, Missouri.


Considering low manufacturing coast & virtue to make a stylish, good looking lamp, we finally came up with this idea to make this lamp.
Ø 360 degree area lightening.
1. Make 3 holes on the bamboo at 1200(approx) & accordingly on the 3 metal strips.
2. Bend the strips accordingly to superimpose the holes of metal strips on the bamboo & fix them using nuts & bolts.
3. Cut the ACRYLIC SHEET sheet in the circular shape of radius (approx 10-12cm).
4. Make holes on ACRYLIC SHEET sheet & metal strips accordingly, to join them.
5. Finally your outer structure is ready, now fix your holder in the centre of & pass the wire along with the switch & holder connected to it through another opening of bamboo pipe.
6. Make some gap, near to the lower bottom of the bamboo pipe, in order to fix the switch in the bamboo pipe itself.
7. Attach a strong support to the base of the bamboo pipe, so that it can stand properly & safely.
8. Now color the structure, using spray painting in order to give a wow factor to your lamp.
9. Now insert a bulb in the holder, so that bulb could completely hidden inside of the bamboo pipe. If it happens, then make some shape using ACRYLIC SHEET sheet (like frustum, cylindrical or any other) & try to cover the bulb as much as possible.
10. Finally your lamp is ready, now using ACRYLIC SHEET sheets you can make various shapes & can paste them wherever needed.
11. Also apply colors wherever needed just to give "WOW FACTOR" to your lamp.
More steps and Images required. Don't you think?
sir.actually we forgot to take images while making this, that's why we didn't added them & about steps, i have tried to mention crucial steps only...so that other modification could be done according to one's desires !!!!!!!!! BUT i agree more images & steps could be added !!!!!!!!!!!


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CONG LINGQI'S SOLO EXHIBITION: TO AVOID THE LOSS OF VISION - LI FENG"S LANDSCAPE OF FRAGRANT HILLS (solo)
Sep 11, 2009 - Oct 11, 2009
Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (Shanghai, China)
Curator(s)
Shen Qibin
Cong Lingqi
Zendai Art Bank (China)
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Cong Lingqi's Solo Exhibition: To Avoid the Loss of Vision - Li Feng"s Landscape of Fragrant Hills
The artist took Li Feng, a person who has been blind since birth, to the top of Beijing"s famous Fragrant Hill. The artist used a recording device to record Li Feng"s verbal description of her reaction to Fragrant Hill. Afterwards, the artist transcribed the oral narrative in Braille and recreated the bumpy pattern of the Braille on the surface of a wheel, which is a part of a music box that plays a sweet-sounding musical scale when brushed with a musical chip.
The sounds produced by the music box are recorded by an attached microphone and uploaded directly into an audio frequency software, transformed into a visual spectrogram, and projected on the wall.


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Work with the Montgomery County Board of Elections was on hold until after the 2018 election. A draft MOU to share space at the five precincts in Takoma Park is under review. The City's request is on the County Board agenda for January 28, 2019.
The City Council adopted the Charter Amendment (CAR 2017-01) on May 10, 2017. The amendment became effective on June 29, 2017.
**At first reading on April 26, 2017, the charter amendment resolution was revised to begin even-year elections in 2020, instead of 2018. With this change, the term of the Council and Mayor elected on November 7, 2017 will be three years. Two-year terms will resume with the election in 2020.
In 2020, the City election will be held concurrent with the presidential election on November 3. Voters will go to their usual precinct, but will check in and cast ballots in two separate elections, one for the City, and one for the County (presidential election).
City early voting will not be available at the County's early voting sites. To vote early for the City election, voters will go to a designated site in the City.
Mail in/absentee voting will also be separate.
A second public hearing on the Charter Amendment has been scheduled because of an error in the April 5 posting.
See the full notice below.
First reading of the Charter Amendment Resolution is also scheduled for April 26.
View the agenda item and full text of the proposed amendment.
As proposed, the amendment would (1) change the date of City Elections from odd numbered years to even numbered years; (2) set the term for the Mayor and City Council elected in 2017 to one year; (3) change the date of the nominating meeting to the second Tuesday after Labor Day in an election year; (4) extend the time for the Board of Elections to certify election results; and (5) change the day on which the newly elected Mayor and Councilmembers take office.
The hearing will take place in the Auditorium, Takoma Park Community Center, 7500 Maple Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912, on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 7:30 PM.
All interested persons should attend the public hearing and sign up to speak. Written comments may be submitted to the City Clerk, 7500 Maple Avenue, Takoma Park, MD 20912; or clerk@takomaparkmd.gov. Read the full text of the proposed amendment.
At its meeting on January 19, 2017, the Montgomery County Board of Elections expressed support for allowing Takoma Park to share space at the four (or five) Takoma Park precincts on the day of the general election in 2018. A memorandum of understanding between the City, County Board of Elections, and the State Board of Elections will be drafted.
March 1 Public Hearing on Election Date change: On March 1, the City Council will hold a public hearing to receive comments about changing the date of City elections with shared use of polling places beginning in 2018. Although there have been other opportunities to comment, this hearing will enable residents to comment on the date change with full understanding of how the election will be conducted. Additional information will be posted shortly.
The City presented its request to the Montgomery County Board of Elections at the meeting of September 19, 2016. The request was well received with the understanding that it would be revenue neutral for Montgomery County and that the two elections would be completely separate at each of the precincts. The request will be placed on the Montgomery County Board of Elections agenda for January 2017.
The City Manager submitted a letter to the Montgomery County Board of Elections requesting shared use of the Takoma Park polling sites on November 6, 2018.
Early this year, City Staff and the City Board of Elections (BOE) consulted with the Maryland State and Montgomery County Boards to review options for inclusion of Takoma Park election contests and questions on the State general election ballot in 2018. After a review of City election requirements, the State Board of Elections indicated that it could not accommodate the City request for 2018.
As an alternative, the City's BOE has been examining the possibility of having an election concurrent with the general election in 2018. In this scenario, voters would report to their usual precinct on Election Day. At the polling place, a voter would check in with Montgomery County election officials, receive, mark, and cast a ballot as usual. At that same location, voters would check in separately with City election officials to receive a Takoma Park ballot to mark and cast.
There are many details to consider before the City Council makes its decision to amend the City Charter to change the election date, including how early voting and absentee voting would be accommodated. The Council will hold a special work session on September 12 to hear from the City Board of Elections, take questions and comments from residents, and then discuss whether or not to move forward.
To request the State Board of Elections (SBE) to include Takoma Park elections on the ballot for the 2018 election, the City must file a request by August 27, 2016 (the date that is 18 months before the deadline for filing a certificate of candidacy for the primary election). If the City files a request, SBE will have 30 days to consult with the Montgomery County Board of Elections and provide a decision on Takoma Park's request.
An amendment to the City Charter changing the date of City elections and meeting certain other requirements must be adopted by June 22, 2016, if the Council wishes to request to be on the ballot for 2018.
There are many questions to be answered, including whether the criteria listed in the advisory question can be met, before the Council makes its final decision. In the meantime, there are other options to explore.
Target completion date: Charter amendment completed. The City's Board of Elections is planning for the concurrent election at the five Takoma Park precincts in 2020.
City of Takoma Park elections take place on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in each odd-numbered year. Off-year elections often have low voter turnout. In Maryland, the City of Baltimore, the Town of Ocean City, and the City of Cumberland have changed their election date to coincide with State and Federal elections.
Beginning with the election in November 2018, and providing that voting rights can be maintained for City residents who are (1) 16-17 years old, (2) non-citizens, or (3) on parole or probation for a felony conviction, and that instant runoff voting and same day voter registration can be maintained, the City of Takoma Park municipal elections for Mayor and Councilmembers should be changed to the Tuesday following the first Monday in November in each even-numbered year in order to coincide with Maryland statewide general elections.
Seventy-six percent of voters supported the change of date.
Maryland Senate Bill 438, Municipal Elections – Inclusion of Offices and Questions on the State Ballot, set forth a process for municipalities to make a request to the Maryland State Board of Elections to be included on the State ballot.


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Giving money to The New York Times is not easy enough
March 22, 2011 By Tim Windsor
It's not surprising that there's been a lot of thumb-sucking, pro and con around the announcement by The New York Times of the details of its metered online paywall system.
But if you stick to just the trenchant but usual suspects who weigh in, you might have missed some very solid analysis from the greater geek community.
For instance, John Gruber of Mac site Daring Fireball, who can't help but compare the pricing strategies of Netflix and Apple with that of The New York Times, and find the Times wanting:
One thing many companies — in any industry — can learn from Apple is the importance of simple pricing. If you make it easy for people to understand how much they're paying, and what they're paying for, it is more likely that they'll buy it. Or perhaps this is driven more by the converse: if people are confused about how much they have to pay, they're more likely not to. The decision to purchase and the act of paying are part of the experience for any product or service, and should be designed accordingly.
This brings me to The New York Times's new digital subscriptions. They're neither easy-to-understand nor sound like a great value. Unlimited access to the NYT costs four times more than Netflix — $35 every four weeks. You can pay $15 or $20 every four weeks instead, but then you've got to choose between using a Times app on your smartphone or iPad (respectively). And how many normal people realize that if you, say, opt for the $15 plan, that you'll be able to access the Times website from your iPad?
Netflix: one price, access from any device.
New York Times: three tiers, arbitrary division between devices based on screen size.
And this is from a self-confessed Times fan who wants them to succeed, but ends:
I don't know that a simpler, lower-priced digital subscription plan would work for The Times, but I feel strongly that it would be more likely to work than what they've announced. I have a bad feeling about this.
I think Gruber's onto something here. Companies with something to sell need to make it drop-dead easy for their fans to give them money. I'd add that they need to do so at a price-point that makes the buyer feel good about the purchase.


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Financial Innovation: A Risky Business?
Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. moderates a debate on the value of financial markets-and what role the government should play.
New York, December 18, 2012—Columbia Law School Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. moderated a lively debate on financial innovation before a panel of experts including Congressman Barney Frank, The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin, Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, and Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Professor Robert J. Jackson Jr. and the panel
Jackson ran the debate using the Fred Friendly Socratic dialogue format, which typically consists of 12-18 people, seated around a U-shaped table, answering questions posed to them by a moderator about a hypothetical situation. The technique compels participants to confront the choices they would make in complicated cases. The approach was devised by Friendly, the late president of CBS television news and a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism.
The series of hypotheticals Jackson posed to panelists reflected the hard questions now facing the financial services industry. The scenarios drew thoughtful—and often surprising—responses from the panelists, who also included Blythe Masters, JPMorgan's Head of Global Commodities; former Bain Capital Managing Director Ed Conard; and Bloomberg columnist Caroline Baum, among others.
Jackson's questions explored both the promise and perils of financial innovation—and the potential that new financial tools hold for advancing the public good.
The Sept. 7, 2012 debate or seminar, titled "Financial Innovation: A Risky Business?," was presented by the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics, in partnership with Fred Friendly Seminars, as part of Columbia Business School's Individual, Business and Society (IBS) curriculum.
The entire debate can be viewed here.
(from left) Ed Conard, Andrew Ross Sorkin, David Abrams of Abrams Capital, and Professor Robert Jackson Jr.
Jackson, the Law School's Milton Handler Fellow, co-directs the Ira M. Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership, which studies global financial markets and the increasingly fractured nature of corporate ownership. In 2012, Columbia's students awarded Jackson the 2012 Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 2010, Jackson served as an adviser to senior officials at the Department of the Treasury during the financial crisis and in the Office of the Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation. His research, which has been noted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and on National Public Radio, emphasizes empirical study of executive compensation and corporate governance.


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Q: constexpr variable at namespace scope with and without explicit inline definition Even after reading this question about non explicit inline namespace scoped variables, defined in headers, I am a bit paranoid about explicit inline namespace scope variables being ok, since AFAIK violations against the ODR are UB and not diagnosis is required. Is my understanding correct that explicitly inline specified constexpr (and const non volatile alike) defined variables at namespace scope are inline variables and therefore their ODR usage is ok when used in different translation units?
Even cppreference.com is contradicting itself, when it sometimes say inline variables have to be external for the ODR usage exception, while on another page only internal linkage inline variables are ok in general, and external only with additional requirements.
Basically are these assumptions right?:
/*! @file some_header.hpp */
#ifndef HEADER_GUARD
#define HEADER_GUARD

constexpr int global_non_expl_inline = 42; //UB
static constexpr int global_non_expl_inline_static = 42; //UB
inline int global_expl_inline = 42; //ok
inline int static global_expl_inline_explicit_static = 42; //? external linkage by default but static explicit but still ok?
inline int extern global_expl_inline_explicit_extern = 42; //UB

namespace foo {
constexpr int global_non_expl_inline = 42; //UB
static constexpr int global_non_expl_inline_static = 42; //UB
inline int global_expl_inline = 42; //ok
inline int static global_expl_inline_explicit_static = 42; //? external linkage by default but static explicit but still ok?
inline int extern global_expl_inline_explicit_extern = 42; //UB
}

namespace {
inline int extern global_expl_inline_explicit_extern_but_unnamed_ns = 42; //ok
}

struct bar{
    static int const in_class_static = 42;//ok
    static int in_class_but_out_of_source_def;
};

int bar::in_class_but_out_of_source_def = 42;//UB

#endif

A: Well... Since you actually managed to get myself confused with your question, I thought I'd look further into it. First, we have to categorize the relevant properties of a variable: lifetime, visibility, linkage
These are influenced by the keywords: static, inline, constexpr, const, extern which you use in your question.
At namespace scope in variable definition:
- static: specifies internal linkage
- inline: allows for multiple identical definitions of the same variable in different translation units and ensures they will refer to the same object (e.g have the same adresses)
- constexpr: implies const
- const: defaults to external linkage
- extern: specifies external linkage
Thus,
- global_non_expl_inline: defaults to external linkage. No problem, unless another translation unit defines another such variable with external linkage.
- global_non_expl_inline_static: internal linkage. Fine, as long as you do not define other such variables anywhere.
- global_expl_inline: External linkage and inline. No problems, unless another translation unit declares another such variable without inline.
- global_expl_inline_explicit_static: Fine, a static inline variable is meaningful, if you do not want it to be available at link time, but do want the same variable in all your translation units - e.g useful for all sorts of constants.
- global_expl_inline_explicit_extern: External linkage and inline. No problems, unless another translation unit declares another such variable without inline.
- global_expl_inline_explicit_extern_but_unnamed_ns: internal linkage according to cppreference.
At class scope:
- in_class_static: external linkage. Fine, according to cppreference, but needs a declaration at namespace scope if it is odr-used.
- in_class_but_out_of_source_def: external linkage. Also fine. This is actually the standard way.
In conclusion, there is (much) less undefined behaviour than you seem to think - which is good. There are however a few things, that are valid but do not really make sense like extern in unnamed namespaces.
Regarding your comment about this question: I cannot reproduce the issue and neither could other people in the comment section of that question. There are also other plausibility issues with the question you can find in its comment section. Bear in mind, that some questions on stackoverflow are asked by people who do not exactly know which steps they take when running into problems. I would not bother too much about that particular question ;)

A: (Since the question is tagged C++17, I'll use the draft standard N4659 as the reference, which avoids complication due to modules.)
First, be aware that names in different translation units refer to the same entity only if they have external linkage ([basic.link]/9). Names with internal linkage always refer to different entities in different translation units, even if their definitions appear the same.
Therefore, we can put these definitions into three groups:

*

*internal linkage

*

*can appear in multiple translation units (not UB); will define different variables in different TU

*external linkage with inline specifier

*

*can appear in multiple translation units (not UB); will define the same variable in all TU

*external linkage without inline specifier

*

*cannot appear in multiple translation units (UB: ODR violation)

(Definitions in the first group can be problematic if the variable is odr-used in another definition with external linkage, which might violate [basic.def.odr]/(6.2).)
The following definitions belong to the first group (internal linkage):

*

*both of global_non_expl_inline (It's a non-inline variable of non-volatile const-qualified type, and has no previous declaration. Thus it matches [basic.link]/(3.2))

*both of global_non_expl_inline_static ([basic.link]/(3.1))

*both of global_expl_inline_explicit_static ([basic.link]/(3.1))

*global_expl_inline_explicit_extern_but_unnamed_ns ([basic.link]/(4.1))

The following definitions belong to the second group (external linkage with inline specifier):

*

*both of global_expl_inline

*both of global_expl_inline_explicit_extern
The following definition belongs to the third group (external linkage without inline specifier):

*

*bar::in_class_but_out_of_source_def
(bar::in_class_static is not defined, it can appear in multiple TU but can't be odr-used without a definition.)


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using System;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
using Abp.Domain.Entities;

namespace isriding.Entities.Authen
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 角色-模块-权限
    /// </summary>
    [Table("RoleModulePermission")]
    public class RoleModulePermission : Entity
    {
        public virtual int RoleId { get; set; }
        public virtual int ModuleId { get; set; }
        public virtual int? PermissionId { get; set; }
        public virtual int? CreateId { get; set; }
        public virtual string CreateBy { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTime? CreateTime { get; set; }
        public virtual int? ModifyId { get; set; }
        public virtual string ModifyBy { get; set; }
        public virtual DateTime? ModifyTime { get; set; }
        [ForeignKey("RoleId")]
        public virtual Role Role { get; set; }
        [ForeignKey("ModuleId")]
        public virtual Module Module { get; set; }
        [ForeignKey("PermissionId")]
        public virtual Permission Permission { get; set; }
    }
}

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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who was recently released from detention at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton, detailed his treatment to Bloomberg.
Alwaleed said that he wasn't abused or tortured, and that such rumours are lies.
He said he spent the 83 days in leisure, watching sports, reading the news, and praying.
Saudi Arabia's anti-corruption crackdown in November 2017 ensnared one of the richest people in the world – Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.
Alwaleed, whose networth has been reported to be over $US17 billion, made mostly from real estate and public market investing, was detained for 83 days in Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton and eventually released in mid-March.
He recently sat down with Bloomberg's Erik Schatzker to discuss the deal he struck for his release, which the Wall Street Journal reported was a hefty sum of $US6 billion. In the interview, Alwaleed couldn't or was unwilling to go into further details.
While maintaining to Bloomberg that he wasn't "arrested" and that he was never charged with any crime, he did shed some light on the treatment he received at the Ritz-Carlton, where rumours of torture and mistreatment of other wealthy detainees have abounded.
He said he was detained in a 4,575-square-foot royal suite, and that he spent a lot of his time in leisure.
"A lot of sports, a lot of walking, a lot of meditation, a lot of watching news, a lot of praying," Alwaleed said, adding that he woke up everyday around 6 or 7 a.m. and that he prayed five times a day.
Alwaleed told Bloomberg he wasn't allowed to see or talk to other detainees, but that he was allowed to speak on the phone with his immediate family, as well as the CEO of his company. He admitted the calls were probably being monitored.
Saudi Arabia's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Alwaleed's cousin, is reported to be behind the arrests and broader corruption crackdown. MbS, as he is known, is in Washington DC on Tuesday meeting with President Donald Trump.


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In an interview available on YouTube, Mr. Musk, describes his feelings about Bitcoin.
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UP rape: Last rites of victim conducted with UP cabinet ministers in attendance
India, All India
The last rites were performed on a piece of land belonging to the victim's family.
The administration had also assured of giving round the clock protection to the victim's sister and issuance of an arms license to her brother based on their demands and apart from this the family's demand to meet Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had also been accepted. (Photo: ANI)
Unnao: The last rites of the Unnao rape victim was conducted by her family amidst heavy security on Sunday, after receiving assurance from the administration that all their demands will be met.
Cabinet ministers in the Uttar Pradesh government Swami Prasad Maurya and Kamal Rani Varun also arrived in Unnao to meet the bereaved family and attend the last rites of the deceased.
"We are committed to punishing the culprits and we, including the Chief Minister, are standing in solidarity with the bereaved family. We will do anything to punish the culprits, a fast track court has been set up to nail them," Maurya told reporters here.
The minister also urged the Opposition parties to stop politicising the matter of the death of the Unnao rape victim.
Earlier, the Uttar Pradesh administration had said that all the demands of the victim's family have been accepted.
Lucknow Divisional Commissioner Mukesh Meshram said that they held talks with the victim's family and assured them of all possible help and assistance.
"Whatever their demands -- that case should be put to trial in fast track court so that culprits are given strictest punishment on time...apart from that, the family of the deceased victim is poor, and their resources are very limited. We would provide them facilities which can be sanctioned by the government," Meshram said while speaking to reporters here.
The administration had also assured of giving round the clock protection to the victim's sister and issuance of an arms license to her brother based on their demands and apart from this the family's demand to meet Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had also been accepted.
Along with these, Meshram, during the course of his meeting with the victim's family, had also assured two houses under Prime Minister Awas Yojna to them.
After battling for life at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital, the victim, who was set ablaze while on her way to a court hearing on Thursday morning, died at 11:40 pm on Friday.
The 23-year-old was airlifted from Lucknow's SMC Government Hospital to Delhi for treatment at Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday.
According to the police, the five accused had allegedly thrown kerosene on the woman and set her ablaze when she was on her way to a local court for the hearing of the case she had filed in March.
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Einarsson v Iceland: Worrying Implications for Discussing Rape Allegations on Social Media
Alex May - 13th January 2018
Media Privacy and Communications
By CherryX per Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21931152
This post analyses Einarsson v Iceland, a defamation case in which a celebrity sued an Instagram user ('X') for calling them a 'rapist' on social media. The judgment has worrying implications for discussions of rape allegations.
Egill Einarsson, an Icelandic media personality, was reported to the police by two women alleging rape and sexual assault. In November 2012, the public prosecutor discontinued both cases due to insufficient evidence and low likelihood of conviction.
Later that month, a magazine published an interview with Einarsson, with his face on the front cover and discussions of the allegations. Later that day, X uploaded an edited version of the cover photo on their personal Instagram profile, with the caption 'Fuck you rapist bastard' ('the comment'). The following day, another newspaper published an online article on the controversy, which included this Instagram post (with X's comment) and a statement from Einarsson.
Einarsson sued 'X' for defamation and was unsuccessful both at the District Court and Supreme Court (2:1) ('the Icelandic courts'). In their contextual assessment (see below), they ruled that the comment was 'a case of invective' – an insult – and should be seen as a value judgement, not a factual statement that Einarsson was guilty of committing rape [16].
Judgement of the European Court of Human Rights
On the 7th November 2017, the European Court ('the Court') ruled that the Icelandic courts had not struck a fair balance and that Einarsson's Article 8 right to privacy, via his reputation, had been violated.
The Court assessed the context: that the comment was part of a debate of general interested about a well-known person; that Einarsson had made 'provocative, if not derogatory' comments against one accuser; and that his general attitudes towards women and their sexual freedom 'attracted attention and controversy' [43]. They also noted that the photo was publicly accessible on Instagram, saying that the internet enhances access to news but poses a greater harm to privacy than the press.
Despite this, the Court focused on the factual context of the criminal proceedings being discontinued and ruled that this had not adequately been taken into account. They preferred to see the term "rapist" as 'objective and factual in nature', disliking the value judgement assessment, and that in either case the Icelandic courts 'failed to explain sufficiently the factual basis that could have justified using the term' [51-52]. The Court noted the usual margin of appreciation for both this assessment and striking the balance, saying that 'strong reasons are required' to substitute their view of domestic courts [38].
The Court's disagreement with the Icelandic courts is striking. The Icelandic courts were aware that the case had been dropped, yet the Court simply states that the factual basis had not been justified without explaining why they thought this had not been adequately considered. Further, there was no exploration of whether there could be a sufficient factual basis, which would give useful guidance for future cases.
Instead of exploring whether public testimony and reports to the police can be sufficient factual basis, the Court implicitly says that someone can only be called a rapist if they have been convicted as such. This is deeply worrying: clearly there are many rapists who have not been convicted, as securing a rape prosecution is difficult and the majority are not even reported. Nor was there recognition of the importance of free expression in discussing rape allegations.
Discussion of the Instagram context was also lacking, such as how many followers 'X' had (only 102), that most users see Instagram as a private sphere to communicate with friends, or that X's post only received significant attention was because it was republished by a media outlet.
The Court's judgment has significant and worrying implications. It is already difficult to make allegations of sexual violence, whether to the criminal justice system or the media. Many perpetrators are protected by social power and wealth, such as in Hollywood or in (the UK) Parliament, and this includes the possibility (and actual use of) defamation lawsuits. This ruling increases this possibility, both by shifting the balance more towards the privacy of people accused of rape and with its extension to private sphere social media posts.
Alex May is a freelance researcher, activist and writer. He has undergraduate and master's law degrees, with interests around the role of law in society and campaigning against injustice. He can be found at www.alexmay.co.uk.
Alex May, "Einarsson v Iceland: Worrying Implications for Discussing Rape Allegations on Social Media," (OxHRH Blog, 13th January 2018), <http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/einarsson-v-iceland-worrying-implications-for-discussing-rape-allegations-on-social-media> [date of access].
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This report analyzes the challenges that the sector and policies of Security and Defense need to face in the current economic crisis. The obligations of committed expenditure are being reviewed throughout all European countries. Likewise, in Spain, they must be readjusted in order to comply with the new situation. This new context, together with the new approach which promotes non-conventional capabilities, opens a new scenario of opportunities for companies of this sector.


BIBB COUNTY, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – As children grow up, many of them start to wonder what their future would be like.
Bibb County Schools are helping them explore their curiosities and identify what exactly makes them special.
says Jennifer McMahon who is a gifted teacher at Alexander II.
Some of those characteristics include inquiry,curiosity and creativity. Once students are identified they are tested for the REACH program.
REACH stands for "Reaching Excellence in Academic and Creative Horizons. This gifted program gives students a chance at an early age to focus on their future goals and tackle challenges.
The program also prepares students to become problem solvers and shows them how to approach situations in every day life.
"We do a lot of research in class and we have a curiosity project every year and we use a lot of technology like our computers, ipads," fourth grader Abby Edwards adds.
In addition, students do hands on equations in math. The challenges are what keep students motivated to learn.
"It just challenges them and challenges them until they are blossomed into the critical thinkers that they can possibly be," Floore explains.
Alexander II gifted students recently took a trip to Michael Carlos Museum in Atlanta, where students were able to look at artifacts and exhibits they studied about in the classroom.


Some comments indicate that Citrix have paid too much. That is possible as a purchase is not only defined by how much you pay, but also by how well you can use the it. Only value to a fast cat in NZ is looking good, but in Germany you can actually drive it fast. The ability of Citrix can turn this 500 million purchase into something of greater value to themselves, their current customers and their new customers remains to be seen.
It is worth considering this also in the context of the VMWare IPO. 20 billion market cap for a VMWare owned by EMC which has a market cap of 38 billion. Share markets are funny places.
Vmware will NOT settle far below the price from yesterday. Less than 5% of all x86 servers are running in a virtual environment. That leaves 95% of the servers as candidates for Vmware.
There is still a lot of grow in the virtualisation market. And that is just the server market. Desktop virtualisation is just as interesting – VMWare's ACE is quite a cool little addition to Workstation 6. Citrix is a massive player in the desktop market, but without some one XenSource they had nothing, now they have a chance.
For current and users in the last stages of planning it does complicate matters. How is the XenServer stack now going to evolve under Citris. Will they build on the strength of the open source platform? Can they actually understand it? Or will XenServer as a product simply disappear into their stack.
Given today is basically the last chance to make a decision about whether to buy additional licenses before the price goes up it is a tough choice.


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Film Anyway, so yes I went to the cinema this week to FACT Liverpool, where Captain America: The Winter Soldier was perfectly screened digitally in 2D (apart from an initial volume problem with the sound) on the main screen (unlike this Cineworld preview of Raid 2 where it looks like everything went wrong). Decent audience too. Mostly silent apart from the odd paper rattle and cap twisting and the couple behind me only chatted once that I noticed when the thing happened and they were presumably discussing the thing, which to be fair I did myself during the credits. As always happens with MARVEL films, there were a couple of audience members who left before the first post credits sequence, some more who stopped when they realised there was more happening and then about three of us who waited through to the end for the throw forward to Cap 3. About the only grumble was the price, £8, which when you consider that it'll be available to own at roughly that price plus bus fare is pretty steep.
The other news was that after Lovefilm sent me the same disc again, and much as I enjoyed In This World ... I was expecting something else, when I was called back by Amazon, I was served by someone from Lovefilm's original staff who had the ability to tell me now their service ability had changed and was able to talk through three ongoing problems. Used to be if a title like Beauty & The Beast had been in "high priority" for months they could send it out as a special dispatch. Not any more. The advisor was a bit frustrated by this, as well he might, though as I've found out working in call centres when there's been a system changeover, it's often the case that the new system is actually worse than what went before and not always because you're used to working in a different way.
What To Expect When You're Expecting
Bijou week again this week thanks to spending Monday night in the company of a slightly bonkers production of Purcell's King Arthur from the Saltzburg Festival in 2004, which was essentially Monty Python's Flying Opera, including at one stage most of the chorus dressed as penguins. But every minute of that was more entertaining and original than What To Expect When You're Expecting, in which a bunch of very good performers many of whom we've loved in other productions ask us to hate them. A film about pregnancy written by women but inevitably directed by a bloke, it's the kind of film in which said pregnancies and so forth are generally presented from the men's perspective and it's about the men's reservations about becoming a father and which horrifically puts the one female character whose pregnancy experience is to the fore throughout most of the film in jeopardy so that her husband has all the narrative agency at the end in a way which makes the Emma Thompson storyline in Love Actually look about as emotionally manipulative as a Robert Bresson film.
When I was writing about hyperlink films for my dissertation in the mid-noughties, and trying to decide if they were a genre or narrative technique, I didn't really have an answer. Now that these films have followed the usual cycle process and reached the nadir of simply become a way of having romances with dozens of stars (see also Valentine's Day and New Year Eve), I suspect they might have been a genre after all. Used to be in the likes of Short Cuts, Magnolia or even Crash, the connections were thematically interesting and surprising. Now they're so loose that a character will turn up at a place at the end they have no business being and justify as such by saying they're another character's "cousin". The kind of cousin who'll invite themselves to a hospital but wasn't on the guest list for the baby shower. The poster's especially weird. Only two of the women in the heavily photoshopped top section actually meet and only one of the blokes in the bottom section is connected to them in any way.
Welcome to the third paragraph. I don't think I'm giving anything away when I say that Cheryl Cole appears playing herself as a judge on a Dancing With Stars knock-off. She plays herself badly. Rebel Wilson is in there too in a secondary role and is forced mangle the few jokes she has through a Texan accent. Astonishingly one of the credit screenwriters also wrote the novel of Whip It and the screenplay it was based on. The other wrote the Lohan/Curtis Freaky Friday and the book for the stage version of Legally Blonde. It feels inconceivable that their hands would be on the godawful golf kart chase sequence or anything in the "I can't believe it's not Richard Curtis" Jennifer Lopez adoption storyline. But infuriatingly there are some sweet bits. The chunk about Anna Kendrick's one night stand pregnancy, in other words the least serviced storyline, feels like it could be a whole film and she has some real chemistry with Chase Crawford. When they're on screen it becomes a different, more rooted production. Everything else is horrible, horrible.
I've probably said everything I need to about Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but given the clamour for a Black Widow film now, the release of the trailer for Luc Besson's Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson was especially well timed. The Family is Besson's entirely unheralded piece from a couple of years ago, so much so I didn't know it was a Besson film until I saw his credit. Arguably the third item in a loose assassin trilogy with Nikita and Leon, The Family looks at their job from the perspective of the prey, in this case Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer and some kids in witness protection in Normandy having sold out their mob family to the feds. Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese and somewhat spoofing Goodfellas in the same way that The Freshman riffed on The Godfather, it's genuinely funny and a little bit subversive in testing exactly what characters are capable of while maintaining our sympathy. Perhaps I was being sympathetic after seeing WTEWYE, but the 29% on Rotten Tomatoes is unbelievably harsh.
Only God Forgives is also about family though I didn't enjoy it half as much. Of course, given that it's a hour and half art piece dedicated to Alejandro Jodorowsky, in which the director Nicolas Winding Refn offers a fairly convention revenge thriller in a series of lushly illustrated tableau and the audience is offered simultaneously a visual technicolour feast and horrific dismemberments perhaps enjoyment in the traditional, visceral sense isn't the point. For all the five star reviews and whatnot, it's a piece to be admired, I suppose, but it's fair to say that within about half an hour I realised I was bored and an hour in I paused the blu-ray to go the toilet and make a cup of tea readying myself for the final half hour neither of which are normal behaviour. I was uninvolved, observing rather than participating, none of which can be said for Jodorowsky's work, Refn's previous films or the kinds of art films I usually adore. It wants to resonate in the same way as something like Last Year at Marianbad, but these films thrive on layering extraordinary images on purposeful obfuscation.
There's none of that here, almost as though having secured financing and these actors, the production team bollocked out on just how much of the typically mainstream audience they wanted to capture. So on the one hand the film is Sight and Sound coverbait but on the other Empire is happy to carry a few pages and an interview with Kristen Scott Thomas. She's magnificent by the way, almost unrecognisable behind a wiry figure and long peroxide hair, but with inexpressive saucer like eyes and mask-like face, only bursting with anger when she attempts to understand how her son has managed to develop a moral conscience. Bangkok has also rarely been this beautifully portrayed, cinematographer Larry Smith's wide angle lense capturing in astonishing detail of the urban landscape. Perhaps the project would have been better served by being presented as a series of large print colour photographs filling an art gallery, though that obviously would deny us the few wince inducing moments of the local policeman going about his bloody business.
After a longish gap, I'm also back to watching all of Steven Soderbergh's films in order which leads me to The Underneath which was the experience which led to him entering the "wilderness" for a few years. Going in I knew he hadn't been happy with it, but I was pleasantly surprised to find a something which is of a piece with his other work, with mono-colour filters, experimental editing and time structure and glib dialogue. The performances are good and if in places it could seem like someone trying to direct Blood Simple in the style of a Soderbergh film, it's certain more emotionally evolved than Only God Forgives which is arguably trying to do something similar. Wanting to find out exactly what problem Soderbergh has with his work, I inevitably went online and found this interview with Criterion in which he explains where he was during the making of the film and why he then went off and made Schizopolis, but subtly doesn't explain why he was in that place:
Though that is part of a much longer interview for the blu-ray edition so it's possible there's more to it than that. The only other comment I found after a cursory search was:
"Well, ultimately (The Underneath) was kind of a mess. I didn't quite unlock it or figure it out. Some things about it are interesting, but others are...if there's a successful element to The Underneath it was finding a way to use color in the same way that noir films used to use black and white. That was the one part of the movie that worked. Everything else about the movie I can't defend. It was a failed experiment, but a good experiment to attempt. The results of that experiment were necessary in making (Out of Sight). They can't all be gems. It's a process." [Venice Magazine, July 1998]
Perhaps it was the lack of control, of feeling part of a machine. It's probably a coincidence but the film was financed by Gramacy, who also funded Kevin Smith's Mallrats in a similar period and which led that filmmaker to go off and make something cheaper under which they had much more control in Chasing Amy.
But my favourite non-action adventure, shared universe comic book superhero film of the week has been Le Week-End about an elderly couple spending their wedding anniversary in Paris revisiting some their old haunts and generally getting on each other's nerves. Scripted by Hanif Kureishi and directed by Roger Michell, the elderly couple are played by Jim Broadbent and Lindsey Duncan who give the impression of having been married for decades and about ready for retirement. As they wander around Paris, you could imagine that this will be Celine and Jesse from that series in a few decades, especially when later the film takes the thematic leap into talking about the generational disappointment that the collective potential of society in the 60s and 70s when everything seem possible became narrowed by short term greed in the 80s, with depth of thought replaced by surface understanding and how that impacts on the connective tissue of a marriage where one of the participants is a failed academic.
The indie spirited flipside of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel it's unafraid to show what really happens when you go on holiday, like throwing financial caution to the wind and spending an hour trying to gauge the quality of prospective restaurants based on the menus attached to the outside, constant unapologetic referencing of the French New Wave especially Bande à part and the sudden unheralded arrival of Jeff Goldblum playing Jess Goldblum in that way that only Jeff Goldblum can play as Broadbent's old college friend coincidentally living in Paris with a gorgeous pregnant wife in a way that only a Jeff Goldblum character might. As Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park wanders through, you do wonder, how is this film managing this? Jeff Goldblum in this should be about as incongruous as Michael Caine flying a giant bee in Journey 2, yet it works, works, works. As amazing scene tumbles after amazing scene leading a beguiling climax, I was reminded of just why I love cinema. Again.
on Saturday, April 05, 2014 0 comments Labels: the films I watched in 2014
10 PRINT "BASIC is 50!"
20 GOTO 10
Technology BBC Basic was about the only language I've ever been able to understand. Sample quote: "The college students would bring their dates to the computer centre..."
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Scoring "the sentinel of liberty".
Film One of the impulses when listening to scores to action blockbusters is to assume there's a certain amount of technical mechanism about them, that a composer simply has to make things very LOUD or very quiet depending on the pacing of the story or editing.
But as this interview Henry Jackman who worked on Captain America: The Winter Soldier demonstrates there can be a high level of artistry and wrestling with the moral and thematic elements of the characters:
"Exactly, you know, the phrase "the sentinel of liberty," which sounds cheesy to us because we now live in such a morally complex world. In any modern political scenario it's almost impossible to figure out who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. And that's sort of what the film's about. It's a lot easier when you set Captain America in the context of the Second World War, it's very easy and morally unambiguous to have the Nazis as the bad guys because what Hitler was up to was unquestionably bad and needed to be stopped, whereas the environment that Captain America finds himself in this film is way more nuanced, and that's one of the reasons he struggles."
That's why it's always such a shame when critics dismiss franchise films out of hand.
Bus Stop.
Street typography from Tom Williams on Vimeo.
on Friday, April 04, 2014 0 comments
The Feeling Listless Soundtrack 1.0:
Theme from Grandstand.
Music [Originally written twelve years ago.] I got a video recorder very late in the game. Our family was never an early adopter - mostly for financial reasons. When we finally did get a video it was a hand-me-down from someone who'd bought a new one. I didn't get a computer until late either. So until my Acorn Electron arrived, if I was looking for entertainment on a Saturday I'd end up watching television. Swap Shop in the morning, followed by Wrestling on ITV at lunchtime (big fan of Big Daddy). I didn't like Dickie Davis moustache so rather than 'World of Sport' I'd be over on BBC 1 watching Grandstand. This was when football was still shown live, and so I was able to follow my team 'Everton' for much of the Eighties. And so for much of the Eighties I'd hear this theme tune.
At the time, popular TV themes would be put out as singles, which would necessitate their lengthening by another minute or so. Many took the 'Doctor Who' approach of repeating much of the tune over again. Some however, passed the time with what sounds like completely unrelated solo in the middle. So we have here something which sounds like a brass band at a Soccer match and then for no apparent reason, Brian May (or someone) appears in the middle to do an extremely seventies guitar solo. I'm surprised someone hasn't already stuck a drum beat behind this and released it into the clubs …
[Commentary: Track two. No idea. The missing story above is that the night we were given the VHS video recorder we travelled out to the Asda in Hunts Cross from Speke to buy a blank video upon which we recorded Starcrossed, the James Spader starring TV movie which was broadcast as part of a sci-fi season on what was then the still relatively fledgling Channel 4. With the novelty of being able to watch a film over and over again whenever we liked, Starcrossed became the film of choice for weeks which means I have half of it imprinted on my brain, especially the scene in the diner where Spader introduces his alien friend to the concept of a greasy spoon. This was before he began on the road to character roles, by the way. Not that any of this has anything to do with Grandstand.]
on Thursday, April 03, 2014 0 comments Labels: the feeling listless soundtrack 1.0
Paul McGann launches LJMU's Merseyside at War website.
on Thursday, April 03, 2014 0 comments Labels: doctor who, liverpool
"dim-witted, lazy misogynistic"
Film This rocks. The Daily Dot's Gavia Baker-Whitelaw parses the dim-witted, lazy misogynistic perception of Scarlet Johansson's Black Widow by so-called professional film reviews:
"Honestly, this kind of catsuit-focused review says more about the reviewer than the film itself. Apparently the mere concept of Scarlett Johansson in a tight outfit is so dazzlingly erotic that it bypasses some male reviewers' conscious minds and causes them to ignore everything she says and does for the rest of the movie. The result is a series of reviews from highly respected film critics who, given the opportunity to describe each Avenger in a single sentence, replace Black Widow's summary with the announcement, "I AM A HETEROSEXUAL MAN AND SCARLETT JOHANSSON'S BOOBS ARE AWESOME."
The list of people mentioned in the article is scary: well respected film reviewers whose work I've even quoted in academia. Part of the problem is that half of them don't consider the MARVEL films worthy of serious discussion. As far as they're concerned, because they're light action films and based on a comic book they only really deserve their light comedic touch which inevitably leads to lowest common denominator sewage as described here and oddly those same writers fall over themselves to venerate Johansson's performance in what they consider to be serious films like Her or Under the Skin.
on Wednesday, April 02, 2014 0 comments
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos's mink throw.
Commerce How to sell furniture to celebrities. Author Peter Mountford describes the months he spent working at an LA furniture in the mid-noughties:
"Bridget Fonda, who had married film composer Danny Elfman and had stopped appearing in movies, shopped there compulsively. I have vivid memories of loading cumbersome decorative pots into the trunk of Elfman's Maserati. Zach de La Rocha, the former frontman of Rage Against the Machine, apparently had a lot of time on his hands, too, because he drove his cool Mercedes over all the time and drank coffee at the cafe attached to the store by himself. He looked desperately bored and was always alone. Nicole Richie was not alone when she came to the cafe, nor was Kevin Costner. Victoria Beckham wore her sunglasses indoors, throughout lunch. David Schwimmer came a few times, alone, and was precisely as bitter and patronizing as you'd expect him to be. Gary Oldman was completely banal, just a middle-aged man shopping for furniture with his impossibly gorgeous 20-something lady friend."
More on the Dahlberg revelations.
TV After yesterday's discussion of the Dahlberg revelations (still trying to keep you spoiler free), I discovered (via io9) there was a previous occasion when the MARVEL universe crossed over with television. Guiding Light was a US soap opera which was broadcast from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio and in 2006 ran a storyline in which one of the characters gained superpowers which continued in the comics themselves albeit for eight pages. Comic Book Resources had a set visit. Inevitably the whole thing now floats around on YouTube.
We Need To Talk About Steve Rogers.
Film Or more accurately I do. I was going to wait until the weekend, but the whole thing is still fresh in my mind's eye. So if you are planning on watching Captain America: The Winter Soldier at any time in your life and frankly why wouldn't you, it's a very strong entry in an epic superhero franchise, then stay away. I'll even put a Scarlett Johannson song, or Scarlett Johansson singing a cover version of a Tom Waits song in between this and the next block of text so your eyes can look away.
on Tuesday, April 01, 2014 0 comments Labels: all the president's men, Joss Whedon
Removed: article.
Information This article has been removed because it was launched earlier when I had a strop on. The Guardian's G2 feed is back up. The main film RSS feed seems to carry all of the content. Global All's still broken though.
on Tuesday, April 01, 2014 0 comments
The Guardian doesn't seem to care about their RSS feeds any more.
Technology Over the past few days I've been rationalising my RSS feeds into some semblance of order. Part of the process was unsubscribing from all the various Guardian feeds so I could resubscribe to their main wire all feed and create some filters. It didn't go well, so I sent some emails to their userhelp department to see if they'd noticed:
I subscribe to the Guardian All feed and it's recently changed so that instead if "Guardian Global" in the label it says "Latest news, sport and comment from the Guardian / The Guardian" before the title of the post. This means that in my rss reader it all but obscures most of the title now - see accompanying screenshot.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/rss
I don't suppose there's a chance you could snip the feed title back down to something like The Guardian All, the old Guardian Global (which I appreciate isn't perfect), The Guardian Wire ala The Atlantic or NYT or just simply The Guardian at the front?
In case you're wondering when Google Reader went down I began to subscribe via an rss to email service called Blogrtrottr means I can filter the feed in Gmail which cuts down on duplicate content from subscribing to different Guardian feeds simultaneously. :)
Stuart.
Deciding that it might be easier to just subscribe to individual sections again I went for the G2. Oh, uh, oh:
I've just attempted to subscribe to the G2 rss feed and it resolves back to
Which is *everything* :(
No reply. But it was the weekend so that's understandable. What about if I tried to subscribe to tones? The following email was subjected, "Film feed now too"
Essentially it looks like all the "all" feeds are resolving to:
And anything else rss isn't providing full content, just snippet view without such things as author details. The whole thing seems to be broken. :(
Yes, I know, the emoticons. But I find the whole process of communication uncomfortable at the best of times. Finally received a reply just now:
Hello Stuart,
We feel that the best experience of Guardian content can be found on our websites and apps, and those of our partners. The change in our RSS feeds, linking back to theguardian.com, reflects this.
People who use RSS to read our content offline on mobile devices can use our suite of apps to continue to enjoy the Guardian, no matter where they are. Find out more at www.theguardian.com/mobile
Sigh, that's that then. I did reply:
Ok. But what's the point in having a link on the website to an RSS feed marked "film" if it just resolves back to a feed which dumps all content from the whole website into that feed? What's the point in having RSS feed links at all in that case?
Please see my other two emails for more on this.
Not sure what more can be said on this really.
Revisiting "The West Wing"
TV Saved for later, this Q&A at the Institute of Politics of Harvard University:"The West Wing's Bradley Whitford ("Josh Lyman") joined moderator Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC host and former writer and executive producer of The West Wing, for a panel discussion on the making of the popular political drama. They were joined by Janel Maloney ("Donna Moss") via video conference and Richard Schiff ("Toby Ziegler") via telephone."
on Tuesday, April 01, 2014 0 comments Labels: the west wing
"Spasm! Spasm! Oh, God, here it comes... lactose intolerance!"
Film This BFI celebration of the Eiffel Tower on the occasion of its 125th birthday misses one of my favourite of its appearances in film, in Lawrence Kasdan's French Kiss in which Meg Ryan during her imperious phase and Kevin Kline with an outrageous French accent chase around Paris for reasons too complicated to describe here as is typical of a caper film.
One of Meg's character strands is that she hates Paris and because of that, the obligatory view, of the Eiffel Tower, eludes her, even though we the audience are constantly seeing it, behind her in street scenes or in reflections. Like a ghostly presence it stalks her and we know as soon as she sees it, the romance and beauty of the place will finally engulf her.
Sadly, I can't find any relevant clips online so you'll just have to go and watch it. Here's Kevin Kline singing La Mer from the soundtrack instead. Oh for the mid-90s when a film like this would still be green-lit:
on Monday, March 31, 2014 0 comments
Cineramarama.
Film 360 Degrees of Historical Immersion, or how to make a narrative film for a circular screen:
"If the audience can look anywhere, how do we force them to see what we want them to see? Can an audience follow a narrative this way? How do you tell a story visually without a frame? There was a time when I did not know the answers to these questions. That time has passed.
"I recently finished Post Production on a 360 degree film for The Civil War Museum in Kenosha, WI. Produced by BPI and entitled "Seeing the Elephant" (a term Civil War soldiers used to describe the experience of battle) the 11-minute show was created to honor all the men from the Mid-Western states who fought for the North during the Civil War.
"The story follows three men and their experiences in the Union Army - the endless monotony of marching and training and waiting punctuated by the horrors of battle. In "Seeing The Elephant," the 360 degree theater is not simply a novelty; it is another tool to completely immerse the audience in the story and the world. Hopefully, they leave with at least a small idea of what it was like to be in the middle of a Civil War-era battle."
Cinerama gets its other 180 degrees.
Letters from America Lost and Found.
Radio Back in 2012, Paddy O'Connell presenter of BBC Four's Broadcasting House put out an appeal for any listeners who may have missing radio recordings at home which led to a man in Newquay contacting the programme to explain that he had many hundreds of old episodes of Alistair Cooke's Letter To America. Here's the audio of Paddy visiting the man with a list and discovering that many, many of the episodes missing from the archive were sitting in an attic.
Now it turns out, he wasn't the only one and a dairy farmer also had many hours of episodes in his shed which he only unearthed because of an impending government inspection and the need for a clearout, and collectively it's led to 650 lost episodes having been restored to the BBC archive.
They're in the process of being cleaned up and there's a voluminous post about the work here which will be of some interest to those of us who miss the extensive articles the Doctor Who restoration team used to produce about their achievements. Sony's Soundforge 10 in case you're wondering. No sign of Mark Ayres.
The whole lot should be on the BBC website some time this year but highlights have already been posted, yet I think I'm going to wait. With so much of the past soon to be restored, the marvel will be in hearing the epic sweep of history. Makes you wonder what else other people have lying around...
on Sunday, March 30, 2014 0 comments
Brian Cox meets Brian Cox.
People Actor Brian Cox meets Professor Brian Cox. After having been mistaken for one another for years, even to the point of apparently being invited to events when the other was expected, the two Brian Coxes hadn't previously met. Now here they are bumping into one another live on camera at the Empire Film Awards (on YouTube).
Liverpool Hopkins Waltz.
Music As The High Definitive explains: "On November 7, 1964, Sir Anthony Hopkins composed a waltz in the green room of the Liverpool Playhouse. In the video above, he hears it performed for the first time in public by world-renowned violinist and conductor André Rieu at the Belvedere."
on Sunday, March 30, 2014 0 comments Labels: liverpool, liverpool playhouse
Who's Bossktume?
Film Sometimes Recycled Movie Costumes unearths some real treasures:
"This space suit was first seen in the 1966 episode of Doctor Who, entitled The Tenth Planet on Earl Cameron as Glyn Williams. [...] The exact same costume does, however, appear in the 1980 film Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back on Alan Harris as the Trandoshan bounty hunter Bossk."
You all presumably already knew this, of course. The photographic evidence is undeniable.
on Sunday, March 30, 2014 0 comments Labels: doctor who, star wars
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As part of choreographer and dancer Sue Healey's performance piece 'The Curiosities', I was asked to create an animated visual response, which could work both as a short film and an installation piece for the performance. Inspired by a poem by New Zealand poet laureate Jenny Bornholdt the piece was first developed by Sue Healey as a work of dance. The performance was then filmed within an isolated space, with the intention of then creating animations that would respond to the film captured, and as importantly, the movements and tempos of the choreography.
They key to the animation was to be responsive to the filmed elements. In a way, we didn't want to 'interfere' with the process at the performative stage, but rather, wait for the final, edited version of the captured performance and animated and respond accordingly. This wasn't a way that I had naturally operated before (when animating with live-action footage), but it did in this instance free up my process(es) and allow new ideas and elements to be introduced.
Many of the visual elements used were inspired by early anatomical illustrations, which provided a palette of colours and imagery that could extend the more neutral tones of the original film footage/edit of the performance. This in turn influenced the types of animations created, with growth and decay being central to how we created movement and transitions throughout the piece.