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Aisha Tyler's outrageous stand up intoxicates 'Cobb's Comedy Club'
Aisha Tyler came out on stage of San Francisco's Cobb's Comedy Club on June 8 following an hilarious black and white music video from a show in 2009 at the Fillmore where she walks the streets of San Francisco assuming multiple characters. It is a unique portrait of San Francisco by one of its natives. Flanked by an exorbitantly dressed drag queen from the Castro and a Latino gang member from the Mission, she claims her space in the streets of San Francisco and its annals of history. At Cobb's she claimed her title as one of the most brilliant stand up comedians today.
RATING FOR AISHA TYLER AT COBB'S COMEDY CLUB, SAN FRANCISCO
The crowd is there to celebrate Aisha Tyler:part Lana Kane "Archer" fans from the FX animated sitcom television series and part Andrea Marino fans from the first season of"Ghost Whisperer".
Aisha Tyler, NO ASS AT ALL - MUSIC VIDEO, 2009
Tyler transformed into different personas in an electric and intuitive cascade, a litany of eclectic insights on television, racism, hotels and her husband. What is central to her show is her shrewd perception of how our differences give us our humanity. The talented African American reminds us of Jean-Paul Sartre's claim that "we are nothing other than what we make ourselves". Her show also illuminates one of the French philosopher's central tenets on the human condition by "making us conscious of who we are and that we are solely responsible for our existence". Tyler takes charge and illuminates how TV does NOT make us feel good and that we should get that. The negative messages from ads are abundant, she extolled: "you're fat"; you're a slob – clean your house". She admonishes us that if we take in those messages it is our responsibility. This is an empowering rant.
The San Francisco native has the experience of growing up in a multicultural environment, after the efforts in the 70's by Mayor George Moscone to carve up the city into broad based districts, represented by the people who lived there, not just businessmen who represented their own interests. Supervisors got together and hammered out criteria for a harmonious existence in the City. It is because of Moscone's vision that Harvey Milk got elected. The late Mayor's legacy is part of the magic of San Francisco and why you can sit in a club in North Beach on a Saturday night and listen to one of its most outspoken artists.
This is the San Francisco Aisha Tyler is born from and she represents this cultivated diversity. "How does that work when you go to the Midwest", asks Tyler? Things change. Some white people can be patronizing. "On tour, someone came up and said I was so cute, she wanted to bake me a pie". "Honey I don't know you that well", Aishi responded. She described a racially divided town where the white people stare at the black people when things need to be done and take turns asking each other "are you going to do it? until a Mexican comes along who says, "I'll do it".
Tyler reveals the intricate layers of multiculturalism in a colorful fashion in her standup and it is clear she is one of the gifted artists that undergoes a phenomenal metamorphosis when speaking to the public, becoming an altered spirit. She can deliver her material full throttle and go ballistic, then slow down, cruise, and smile, in an embodied sense of humor, a humor that genuinely goes home with San Franciscans.
Tyler's shows are not only successful here but also all across the United States and Canada. Americans are feared in Canada says Tyler, like the Mexicans in California. She admits she hails from "the Great State of Mexico", and then adds, "they'll get it back again", alluding to the dark history of California where Mexico and Native American land was cheaply sold or just appropriated by the U.S. Government. Canadians fear that Americans will come and take advantage of their social democratic programs too, like the Mexicans in California, quips Tyler. Then there was someone Canada, clearly in awe, who asked her if she owned a gun.
Not all of Tyler's show deals with race and diversity; a lot of material is focused on sex, and the battle between the sexes for sex. She is proud to be married for 19 years to a white man, and he often comes up in the show. For example, she boasts that he is good to have in the car when she is stopped by a policeman, who figures if she is with a white man she is "supervised", and waves her on.
One unique part of the show is entitled "mysterious injuries", that freakishly occur walking though your house, explains Tyler especially when you are older. And she illuminates some of the fears of being 40 + and aging (though she claims throughout the show she is 30). She discusses alcohol (mis) use in a way that sounds like the exploits of drinking gone wrong at an AA meeting. ("I am so wasted and am supposed to be at work at 9, and it's 9.45".)
Much of Tyler's material has to do with how repressed men and women are sexually, noting synthetic drugs like Viagra for sustained sexual prowess into the supernatural realm. As proof, when she is in a hotel room with her husband, they, like others, do things they would never do at home and put a glass up to the wall and compare experiences. After a night in a hotel, the bellboy serves breakfast for her and her husband - glass to the wall - "the Cowboy".
Aisha Tyler is a powerful woman, clearly in command of herself and confident of her abilities. Although this is her commentary, one can't help wonder why so much attention is given to men when it comes to sexuality and little to women and herself. It is almost as if by discussing male sexuality, she becomes empowered for having the guts to talk about it.This part of the script calls for more ingenuity. Here her material is a little like comedian Margaret Cho, without all the constant accolades to gay men.
In this show, stereotypes are abundant for the gay population and for the heterosexual population in San Francisco from the Mission, to nearby Marin. Diversity is visible. The warm-up act to her show is a gay Iranian man who comes out asking if the audience thought he was a lesbian because of the way he looked: short hair, casual attire - sweatshirt and sweatpants and clearly at least 100 pounds overweight sporting a "Michelin tire". He then tells the audience he loves lesbians and asks if any are in the house. During one part of Aisha's routine he comes out dancing when she mentions that she feels like Jennifer Beales in "Flashdance".
Aisha Tyler defines herself as she chooses to be. The hope is that by pointing out our diversity with humor we are brought together as humanity. The approach seemed to jell with the audience, who were invited to meet her after the show. Judging by sustained applause and hysteria for over an hour, it was obvious that many felt mirrored by her powerful observations.
Reprinted from San Francisco - Examiner.com
WOW! Very complimentary review of my shows in SF:"Aisha Tyler's outrageous stand up intoxicates" exm.nr/19aTpc7 Off to Seattle next!
— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) June 9, 2013
66th Cannes Film Festival – Palme d'Or Winner La Vie d'Adèle
WARNING: No cell phones, no texting, no computers, with young people speaking face to face during the making of the film with real dialogue.NOT Made in the USA.
By Moira Sullivan.
In an unprecedented decision, the jury for the official competition of the 66th Festival de Cannes, led by President Steven Spielberg, awarded the French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche and French actresses Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos the Palme d'Or for La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitre 1 & 2 (Blue is the Warmest Color). The prize was shared by all three, which is a confirmation that the onscreen performances were recognized as auteur work. Kechiche has proven himself a master of capturing the joy of youth on film, but equally the lead actresses of the film Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos command the screen with their raw, emotional performances as co-creators in this epic tale of two women in love. Based on a graphic novel by Julie Maroh, the film stood out among the other entries at Cannes primarily because of the creative use of the camera and editing but also the gestalt of these two exceptional actresses in screen space. The majority of film is shown in closeups and the editing aligns these spectacular shots into a cohesive story magnificently.
The story opens on the life of fifteen-year-old high school student Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos). She has a brief but meaningless fling with a classmate ends after a one-night stand, which leaves the boy in tears. Afterward, Adèle realizes she is missing something. By chance, she finds herself attracted to the beautiful Emma (Léa Seydoux), a striking girl in her mid 20's with dyed blue tinted hair. After a brief encounter on the street where Emma is walking with her girlfriend, Adele later dreams about her. Her literature class is reading about the anticipation of desire from the 18th century novel The Life of Marianne by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, and this only serves to heighten her passion.
Kechiche is excellent in putting this essence on screen and Sedoux and Exarchopolous brilliantly help realize the ambition of the film. The actresses articulate many of the emotions of youth, which to the audience should be painfully familiar. Adèle marches in political rallies for worker rights, better education and gay pride. But her classmates' comments are cruel when she is seen with Emma, the "tomboy". Adèle goes to a gay bar, with a friend from school and not long after to a lesbian bar on her own where she meets Emma. An hour into the film Emma and Adèle spend the night. The sex scenes are explicit, passionate and joyful. The close-ups are so microscopic that you can see the tiny hairs on their skin.
Adèle aspires to be a primary school teacher, and Emma is a student at the School of Fine Art (École des Beaux-Arts). As their relationship develops, Adèle becomes an art model for Emma who calls her a muse. However, the differences between the two women become notable when it is time to meet their parents. Emma's parents are acceptant of Adèle and Emma, but Adèle's parents are unaware of their daughter's relationship. The internalized homophobia that both women feel comes across at the dinner table. Furthermore, Adèle cannot introduce Emma to her friends after the bullying she received in school, but Emma has "cultured" art friends who nonetheless ask stupid questions, such as "is this your first time with a woman?"
Emma speaks with a friend at a party, a pregnant woman named Lise, who shares similar interests with her. Soon, she is telling Adèle to get an interest in life other than her. Emma's world is high art culture, which differs from Adèle's interests in primary school pedagogics and popular cinema. Emma begins to spend her evenings away discussing Egon Shiele and Gustav Klimt with Lise. And so, Emma and Adèle's differences, which were the source of attraction, begin to polarize them and they drift apart.
Ellipses in the film time line are frequent during the decline of their relationship. Three years after Emma throws Adèle out of her home, they meet in a café. The sexual attraction is still there but Emma has a family now with Lise and her two kids. She admits she is no longer in love with Adèle. When Emma has her first art show, she invites Adèle. Lise reminds her how her presence is still in Emma's paintings. The newer canvases in charcoal have a touch of commercialism. One of Emma's friends claims that she is absent in her gaze in her latest work, perhaps now that Adèle is gone.
As the late French actress Maria Schneider said, "Film is the memory of our time" and to this one can add, the memory of our youth and our loves. Nowhere is that more evident than in La Vie d'Adèle. Echoing these sentiments, the Cannes critics, particularly the French, proved to be in love with the film and its characters. It is the kind of cinema that is appealing to a French audience with a strong frame of reference for literature and cinema, a predilection for good food and parties, and a vested interest in French education. Twelve out of fifteen critics cited in Le Film Français gave Kechiche's film a Palme d'Or rating symbol.
La Vie d'Adèle is a narrative that compels the spectator to know more. At the press conference on May 23, Kechiche revealed there is enough material for two more films and is willing to put this into more chapters. In fact, he shot a total of 700 hours and cut it down to three. Both Sedoux and Exarchopolous said they are willing to go on with the story, and were surprised that so many scenes were not in the final cut. It can be understood that further chapters will be assembled if Kechiche decides to do so.
Kechiche underlines that the film is about two people who are attracted to each other , like any other love story, and does not emphasize the implication of the sexual politics in this film. "It's not good to delve or say anything about homosexuality", said Kechiche at the press conference. Not only the director but also Sedoux and Exarchopoulos, who are both heterosexual, had little to say on the subject. The fact that gay marriage was hotly debated in France at the time the film was made was something Kechiche decided to avoid in Adéle, despite violent protests in the streets in Paris in April.
Kechiche has proclaimed that a revolution must contain a sexual revolution, so his film nevertheless goes a long way and makes a huge statement. As yet, he has not gone on record that gay marriage is a legitimization of same sex relationships as part of the revolution. Still, Emma and Adèle are two lesbians living in a heterosexual world, a matter the first official press conference at Cannes addressed, and as the film opens itself up to wide screen distribution, it becomes time for Kechiche and the co-creators of La Vie d'Adéle—Sedoux and Exarchopoulos—to take note.
Distributor Wild Bunch informs that the film has already been sold to the US and other countries and that the 179 hour runtime will remain intact. La Vie d'Adéle will be released in France on October 9, 2013.
Moira Sullivan is an accredited journalist at Cannes, and served on the Queer Palm Jury 2012. She is a member of FIPRESCI with a doctorate in cinema studies from Stockholm University and graduate studies in film at San Francisco State University.
Reprinted from Film International, published in the UK.
Udine Far East Film Festival honors Kim Dong-ho
The 15th Udine Far East Film Festival opened on April 19th with a great lineup of films from Southeast Asia. The Udine festival is the largest portal of films from South East Asia in Europe, and many of the films come directly from their premiere in their country or make their international debut at Udine and this year is no exception
This festival has a success formula written all over it, even if it feels the crunch of the economy and has to be frugal. The Autumn edition of the highly regarded Oxford journal Screen wrote about the Udine recipe for success in "Counter programming and the Udine Far East Film Festival". The authors regard the festival as a high quality festival because of how it programs festival films from Asia. The authors maintain that although a film from Asia is presented at an A-list festival such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice, it gets attention primarily because it comes from Asia, not because the film is popular and given critical attention in the country of origin. The article also emphasizes that vendors at A - list festival markets are not as informed about the DVDs or films shown in the Asian market as Udine. Udine's special talent, as noted in "Screen", is selecting members for their program committee specialized in a particular country in South East Asia.
Udine chooses film after the South Korean Busan International Film Festival in October and in the interim before Cannes and Venice through special contacts from their festival committee. This makes it a special niche market for new Asian films. They also have a partnership with Busan and Venice Film Festival regarding these choices. The former head of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Muëller, is a European expert in Chinese literature so the Veneto region of which Udine and Venice became a fertile source for new films from Asia for the European and North American markets. Many films screened at Udine have not been shown before on the festival web.
The directors often come with their films to Udine and the festival has made directors such as John Woo, Johnny To,Tsui Hark, Takeshi Miike, and Miike Kitano known in Italy.
Screen points out that the Udine audience has become in fact good experts on films from Asia, which has been demonstrated through the DVD / book market at the festival where people can buy books on Asian cinema, and films that have been shown at previous festivals.
At the 65th Cannes (2012), a special "Thai Cinema Night" was arranged for Her Royal Highness Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi, an established actress. There were many programmers and marketers interested in this event. Trailers from Thai films screened at Udine were present. An actress known in Udine, Penpak Sirikul ("It Gets Better" - 2012) was on the panel for the event and as well as director Tom Waller who made – "Mindfulness and Murder" from 2012. Most people who attended the event were not aware of these films, directors and actors, so the Udine portal is confirmed as an important threshold for Europe to see fresh films from Southeast Asia.
This year the European premiere of Ip Man The Final Fight closely follows its theatrical release in Hong Kong on March 28th The setting is in postwar Hong Kong, where the Wing Chun Grandmaster, Ip Man, teacher of Bruce Lee is challenged by rival kung fu styles and must fight one last time.
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang plays Ip Man and the film is directed by Herman Yau who did the first Ip Man, the legend is born.
This year there are also three wold premieres from Japan:
Maruyama, The Middle Schooler by Kudo Kankuro , Angel Home by Tsutsumi Yukihiko, and It's Me, It's Me by Miki Satoshi who guests the festival with super pop idol Kazuya Kamenashi otherwise known at Kame, a 27 year old Dancer, singer, actor, television personality,and radio host
Other highlights this year include A Story Of Yonosuke by Japanese director Okita Shuichi who made the brilliant Woodsman and the Rain (2011) about a film crew and young director who asks a woodman to stop sawing down trees in order to finish their shoot. The Bullet Vanishes, is a Chinese detective story set in the late nineteenth century directed by Derek Yee with an all-star cast including Lau Ching-wan and Nicholas Tse. There is also the Hong Kong action Cold War by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk, and Lost In Thailand by actor/director Xu Zheng, who holds a box office record for Chinese cinema in mainland China
This year Golden Mulberry for Lifetime Achievement goes to Kim Dong-ho, the South Korean director of the Busan Film Festival held in South Korea, which is called the "Cannes of the East".
Kim Dong-ho also presents a short film this year that was featured at the Berlin Film Festival about a jury who deliberates about the best films for a festival, a subject close to home.
The Udine festival ends on Saturday April 27th. Long live Udine!
©Reprinted from Movie Magazine International, broadcast April 23, 2013.
Far East Film Festival - Raining in the Mountain
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The Revolution Will Be Twitterized
Established Mainstream Media vs Twitter News Snippets?
"We know from crisis communication research that people typically search for corroborating information before they take a corrective action—their TV tells them there's a tornado brewing and they talk to relatives and neighbors. And now they look at Twitter." Bill Braniff, Executive Director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism.
"I have been following my friend's Facebook who is near the scene and she is updating everyone before it even gets to the news". Email sent during Boston Marathon.
The way we get our news is changing. Paper newspapers are going digital. Digital subscriptions have forced newsprint to come up with inventive ways to package news. Nothing seems to last for long since it is impossible to compete with the immediacy of digital information. Even reading the entire paper in digital format is time consuming.
Twitter is becoming the news preference.
Marcus Messner, a communications professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, said the rash of mainstream media errors [of Boston Marathon bombing news coverage] stemmed at least in part from pressure to compete with fast-flowing social media.
"If you look at Twitter, the news snippets on the events are a lot more advanced than what you're seeing on websites or even what you're seeing on the air," Messner said. "Twitter, especially, has put a lot more pressure on news organization to get it out fast."
Social media is changing everything, that is the need for quick, cinematic messages that may or may not be accurate, information that can be skimmed in a heartbeat, and forgotten in a nano second. The paradigm shift awaits for the entire work force to adapt to the digital revolution. Standing with your pitchfork in protest as the agrarians did during the industrial revolution will not matter.
The revolution IS digitalized and will continue.
The Boston Marathon Patriot Race
The Boston Marathon is the oldest marathon in the world that began in 1897 as a patriot race. For the 117th race, over 23 thousand runners from 92 countries were suddenly paralyzed by two young Chechnyan men with homemade bombs and IEDs. Major gunfights in the neighborhoods of Boston put Watertown on curfew for a day. The two young men were discovered through surveillance cameras and personal digital images. The race and manhunt was relayed around the world through mediated images. The BBC reported from someone's apartment in Watertown hooked up on Skype. The primitive weapons of two sociopaths contrast strongly with the electronic and digital surveillance. This is definitely symbolic of living in a world of opposites.
Social Media and the Boston Bombings
From Palestine to Boston
The Boston bombings were real. They were also mediated. The entire world was on live feed as the manhunt began and there was enormous support everywhere. This event is symbolic of how we deal with a real event and how far reaching its grasp can become. As much as I am irritated by the power of two corporate social media empires that have enslaved young people and diminished personal contact, this has become part of the world we live in. In Sweden the major papers report EVERY DAY about who twittered what and almost EVERYONE in mass transport is on their EYEPHONE (iPhone) in a PC society. And here I am on Blogger because I want to connect my thoughts to this vortex of mediated images.....
I am a part of it all too.
© 2013 - Moira Sullivan - Publication Date: 04/20/13
CinéFemme Forum
Créteil Films de Femmes Celebrates 35 years
35 th Year Poster by Karine Saporta
The Créteil International Women's Film Festival, which was held from March 22 to 31 honored veteran filmmakers and actresses who have attended previous festivals such as Margareta Von Trotta, Suzanne Osten, Mira Nair, Ulrike Ottinger, Agnes Varda, Carmen Maura, Maria Schneider and Anna Karina.
Jeanne Balifor
The guest of honor this year was Jeanne Balifor, an actress unknown outside of Europe who selects films that are noteworthy for their extraordinary themes. L´Age d´Ellen (Germany 2009), (The Age of Ellen) by the German director Pira Marais was screened for the occasion on Day 2 about a flight attendant (Jeanne Balifor) who decides to abandon her career after an incident in Africa when a leopard on the landing field is sedated by an animal rights activist.
Youth from the Créteil high schools and university are involved in the festival, documenting the festival on film teams, and the government supports the festival. During the year, the festival creates video workshops for them with selected themes and their films are screened in the Créteil Prefecture.
Nayat Valaud-Belkacem
The new "Minister of Women", Nayat Valaud-Belkacem in François Hollandes cabinet, visited the festival on Day 3 and proclaimed how important the Créteil event was. "Even the Lumière Brothers had a sister", she declared. In the festival catalogue, she was generous in supplying ample statistics defying the myth equality has been reached by women in France: "Five percent of classical concerts are directed by women; 90% of the national dramatic theatres are directed by men; 4% of operas are directed by women, and 13% of the technicians in cultural arena are women. For the world of cinema, it is the same", wrote Valaud-Belkacem.
Créteil nevertheless devotes itself to "the privileged exhibition of film directors around the world; it has become over time the only professional event on a major international auteur cinema long discriminated against and poorly dispersed". It is a festival supported by both the Ministry of Culture in France, and the Creteil borough. Director Jackie Buet has been with the festival since 1979.
An invitation to the "L'Étrange" or Strange Film Festival in Paris featured two films by French filmmaker Angélique Bosio.
The first was the world première of a documentary about a virtually unknown French designer– Fifi Chachnil. In Pretty en Rose (Pretty in Pink). Fifi is known for designing fashionable lingerie and attire for women and has worked with filmmakers such as the gay team of Pierre and Gilles. Bosio spend six years making the film which she also successfully crowdfunded in part.
Bosio's "Llik your Idols" from 2007 was also screened about the Cinema of Transgression movement of the 80's coined by the American Nick Zedd, films which were inexpensively underground films created for shock value, often having a humorous effect.
On the final evening of the festival was a special event called an 'avant première' of Margareta Von Trotta's biopic "Hannah Arendt". Barbara Sukorow plays the German American political theorist. Arendt wrote several important books and also covered the trial of Eichmann as a reporter for the New Yorker. She was critical to how the trial was conducted and a large part of Von Trotta's film treats this.
The international jury selected Hemel as the best feature film of Créteil festival this year.
Grand prix du Jury Meilleur long métrage fiction
Hemel by Sacha Polak (Netherlands 2012):
The story of a woman who is lost in a series of relationships and whose father soon becomes seriously interested in a new woman, which shakes Hemel's foundation.
Honorable mention. Mention special. The Mirror Never Lies by Kamila Andini (Indonesia, 2011):
The story of an Indonesian mother Tayung and her 12-year-old daughter Pakis whose husband is missing at sea. The film is set in the Coral Triangle and portrays the lives of the Bajo people today
Public prize for feature film. Prix du Public Meilleur long métrage fiction
Inch'Allah by Anaïs de Barbeau-Lavalette (Canada, 2012)
The story of Chloe, a young Canadian obstetrician working in a makeshift clinic in a Palestinian refugee camp of the West Bank.
Public prize for best documentary. Prix du Public Meilleur long métrage documentaire
Même un oiseau a besoin de son nid (Even a bird needs a nest) by Christine Chansou and Vincent Tritignant-Corneau (France, 2012).
The film about one million Cambodians who have lost their homes to make way for commercial development, which elicited a massive protest led by women.
Best feature, Jury Youth Prize. Prix du jury Graine de Cinéphage
Sac de Farine (Sack of Flour), Kadija Leclere Tunisia, 2012): the story about a young girl in Belgium whose father one day arrives at her school to take her to live in Morocco. She grows up learning how to sew and knit rather than study math science and art. One day everything changes.
Créteil is clearly up to date, and defies the protocol of rival festivals with its special programming criteria. After 35 years the festival remains a maverick in the arena.
Annette Funicello was the darling of the original Mouseketeers
April 9, 2013 9:26 AM MST
Annette Funicello as "Annette McCloud" is new in town and is invited to a party.
Annette Funicello was the popular "Mouseketeer" whose career continued with over 20 films and television appearances after her childhood TV roles. Her passing on April 8 was sad news for babyboomers who had grown up with her. Diane Disney Miller posted a personal letter on the Walt Disney Museum blog with a poem written by Byron that she feels could have been written about Annette.
What made Funicello so endearing to the public was her wholesome and beautiful good looks, her demeanor, her ability to stand up to her boyfriends in her films, and her perpetual cheer in life. She lived her life almost as the person in her films, sticking up for herself, helping others, making others happy. There were never stories of a different persona behind Annette. She was genuine on screen, as in life.
The original Mouseketeers of the Mickey Mouse Club were only on the air from 1955 to 1960 but their faces are immortal for those who watched the popular TV show. They could all dance and sing and each had a unique personality. One of the best things about the program was that it was educational but the commercials and merchandising that were used to pay for it were not lucrative enough, which was exactly why Disney and ABC could not hammer out a deal and later cancelled it. However, the show did help in part to finance Disneyland.
Annette was the darling of them all. She seemed taller than most of them and was a big sister to the younger ones like, Cubby O'Brien and Karen Pendelton.
The Mouseketeers continued up through 1997 with new children such as Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears who are big stars now, so it goes to show what Disney magic can do.
In interviews in the 90s's Funicello said her eternal friend was Mickey Mouse. Even if Annette retired from entertainment due to her long illness with MS, her passing yesterday evokes one of the newspaper cartoons at the Walt Disney Museum in San Franciscoshowing Mickey crying when Walt Disney passed away in 1966. This cartoon could just as well apply to Annette as one of Mickey's ardent champions.
Listen to an interview of Annette Funicello starting April 10, 10 pm Pacific time in the Movie Magazine Listening Room, a San Francisco based streaming radio program for 20 seasons nationally. The interview will be on there for a week for national and international audiences.
Romanian drama 'Beyond the Hills' sets lesbian characters back years
March 15, 2013 8:16 AM MST
Beyond the Hills
The award for one of the most backward portraits of lesbians in recent film history would have to go to "Beyond the Hills" opening in San Francisco March 15. The film is set in a Romanian convent where a young woman comes to visit her past lover after working in Germany. They had plans to live together and Alina (Cristina Flutur) was even saving up to buy land for a home. But Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) decides she doesn't want to leave the monastery with her and Alina flips out.
The "Father" and "Mother" as they are called of the monastery do a "pray in", chaining Alina to a wooden board in a bizarre sort of exorcism. The treatment raised the eyes and ears of critics in the recent Cannes Film Festival and it was considered a front-runner for the Palme d'Or. You could either love it or hate it. The film is an indictment on the religious and medical persecution of "hysterical" women, who usually have some background that qualifies them to be "hysterical", as in this case.
The actresses in the film, Cristina Flutur and Cosmina Stratan, shared the award for best actress but the consensus of the critics is that this was not an exceptional Cannes festival year.
Director Christian Mungiu won the best screenplay for the film and this must have been because of the cinematography that adorns this barren story.
To create a lesbian couple where only one of the two is willing to admit it, and the other in the worst throws of unrequited love keeps hurling herself at a religious fanatic, her former girlfriend, is a screenplay nightmare considering all the inroads that have been made about lesbian characters in recent years. It would be well to avoid Romanian monasteries for the adventuresome lesbian of today. Run for the hills! There are no good female role models in the film either, where nuns try to remedy the two girls and get Alina to calm down and pray to God to be relieved of same sex love. All rely on the priest who is the father figure of the convent and who tries to be a father to the wayward lesbians amidst his Christian colony.
Not even the jury of the Queer Palm felt this picture of a closeted lesbian and a victimized love addict was strong enough to motivate an award in opposition to the ideas of the official jury. Take note that jury decisions at film festivals are arbitrary but the Cannes awards for this film were eye-opening.


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Index provider of the year: MSCI
Structured Products Europe Awards 2017
Ulrich Stoof, MSCI
Financial markets indexing is a highly competitive sphere, but client wins and ongoing innovation has powered MSCI to a second consecutive victory in the index provider of the year category.
Few firms can compete with New York-based MSCI's market position: it counts 97 of the world's biggest 100 asset managers and nine-tenths of the top 100 pension funds as clients. The size of its footprint is considerable, with assets benchmarked against MSCI indexes passing $11 trillion this year.
However, the firm's position as a market behemoth is not new and would, alone, be insufficient grounds for winning this award. A series of client acquisitions and MSCI's innovation in different sectors – a theme highlighted by multiple judges – is what delivered victory to the firm.
"They have been bringing continuous innovation in the benchmarking space," said one judge. "The themes they developed this year, such as environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), as well as the success of their factor-based indexes, are two of the reasons explaining my choice."
Ulrich Stoof, global head of index licensing for structured products at MSCI, says the firm's strength in the ESG area lies in its "deep" sources of data – more than 150 research analysts dissect the figures – and an ability to deliver optimised indexes. He points to client wins this year as validation of its approach.
"The adoption of MSCI ESG indexes by the Government Pension Investment Fund in Japan, and by Swiss Re as well as AP4 in Europe, underscores the momentum we continue to have in this space," says Stoof.
MSCI's work with derivatives exchanges has been a key area of innovation in 2017. It is working with several top venues to build a listed futures and options segment on its international benchmark indexes. "Over $2.77 trillion has been traded in the more than 200 listed derivatives linked to MSCI indexes until end of September 2017," he says. That represents a growth in volumes of 47% compared to the same period in 2016.
"We are also building closer relationships with providers of structured products and over-the-counter derivatives," says Stoof, highlighting MSCI's growing business in custom indexes. Clients can draw on MSCI's own portfolio, its ESG research team and risk analysis software such as MSCI Barra.
"The integrated index-analytics-ESG approach gives us a unique proposition among index providers," he argues.
This year, Nasdaq Dubai signed a licensing agreement to use MSCI indexes to create derivatives products, the plan being to develop futures contracts based on the MSCI United Arab Emirates Index. "This development is significant in light of the importance the region has for international investors seeking exposure to emerging markets such as the UAE," says Stoof.
In today's capital markets environment, transparency and confidence in your index provider are more important than ever
MSCI continues to innovate in factor-based investment strategies, an area highlighted by judges. This is a fast-developing area: "The conversation on factor investing has moved towards understanding the key investment exposures they provide and best practices for implementation," he says.
Clients are increasingly using factor indexes and the financial instruments linked to them not only as specialised investment strategies or satellite allocations. "[Clients] increasingly utilise them as precision exposures in portfolio construction, hedges against core allocations, or complements to active mandates," says Stoof. "MSCI's factor indexes allow investors to tailor exposures for specific outcomes in an easy-to-replicate and cost-effective way."
He highlights MSCI's ability to incorporate ESG into investors' risk allocation strategy as an example of the firm's innovation. "We recently launched a new range of 16 MSCI Factor ESG Target Indexes, including 12 indexes based on three different factors and four Multi-Factor ESG Target Indexes," he says.
The methodology aims to maximise the exposure to a chosen factor or range of factors along with an improvement of the ESG score compared to the market-cap-weighted parent index.
"We have a large equity index and analytics research team of 165 people, in addition to the ESG researchers," says Stoof, noting that MSCI's licensing business in this area consists of more than 950 exchange-traded funds. "Major changes for us have been the growth in the size of assets in indexed investments and the broadening range of indexes we are creating as our clients become increasingly sophisticated in their indexed investing."
MSCI boasts three quarters of the top 100 hedge funds (as measured by data provider Preqin) as clients – a big vote of confidence from one of the most innovative and cutting-edge segments of the asset management industry.
"In today's capital markets environment, transparency and confidence in your index provider are more important than ever," says Stoof. "Delivering high-quality solutions across client segments has been the driver for our continued innovation and service evolution."


We love to track design trends, and few places are better than the annual Artisan Homes Tour. It's one thing to see a trend mentioned online or in a magazine, but the Artisan Homes Tour by Parade of Homes gives us a chance to see how they look — up close, and in person — and also see what interior finishes Minnesota and Wisconsin interior designers are using.
We shared an overview of the entire tour earlier this month, but this blog will focus on window treatment trends as seen by Cora and Judy from Hirshfield's Shop At Home.
What's new in Window Treatments? To help us appreciate their exciting new innovations and product enhancements, Hunter Douglas puts on their Premieres event each year for dealers around the country.
Cindy from Maple Grove and Becky from Design Resource singled out the Silhouette® Duolite. The all-in-one window shade/room-darkening roller shade looks like a Silhouette during the day, with a room-darkening shade for sleeping. The Silhouette® Duolite was actually named the 2015 Product of the Year by the Window Covering Manufacturing Association, but it was just released to showrooms for the Spring of 2016.
Interior design and fashion design are continually overlapping — specially on the day Pantone announces its Color of the Year, then we all leap to attention. But we are excited to tell you about the time we recently helped two young design students steal the show at a runway fashion competition.
We've been raving about the PowerView Motorization System ever since Hunter Douglas unveiled the system last July. And a major design magazine agrees. PowerView recently earned Interior Design's Best of Year Award for Technology.
Interior Design's Best of Year ceremony was held at legendary architect Frank Gehry's IAC Building in New York, where 975 designers, architects, and manufacturers gathered to learn the winners across 43 project categories, 61 product categories, and 11 materials.
It's awards season. The Golden Globes got us started, with the Oscars and Grammys on the way. But no matter how much somebody or some group cleans up at any of those events, it will be hard to match the showing Hunter Douglas made at the 2015 WCMA Product Awards.
Hunter Douglas won an amazing 31 awards at the annual Window Covering Manufacturers Association event, held this past November. All product award winners were recognized this past week in Las Vegas, at the International Window Coverings Expo. Hunter Douglas has received the WCMA Product of the Year award for the 15th time.
The WCMA Product of the Year, awarded annually to the product that stands out across all categories and judging criteria, is Silhouette® Duolite™ Shadings, designed and engineered by the Silhouette® Product Development Team at Hunter Douglas.
A special project completed during National Window Covering Safety Month will have a lasting impact for children in Anoka.
The stock vinyl mini-blinds at the Little Blessings of Anoka Early Childhood Learning Center were a safety hazard, so the non-profit, Awareness of Blind Cord Safety (ABC's), organized a project to fix it.
Hunter Douglas, Hirshfield's, and Blind Installation & Repair worked together to bring the safe, new window treatments to the learning center.
Hunter Douglas contributed Applause® honeycomb shades with a LiteRise® operating system for every classroom, while Blind Installation & Repair took down the old blinds and handled the reinstallation.
The final installation of the shades was celebrated at a grand re-opening event during National Window Covering Safety Month in October. Window covering safety packages were also distributed to all of the families at the unveiling event.
The Hunter Douglas product line features the widest selection of child safety products that eliminate lift cords or substantially reduce access to them. The Window Covering Safety Council sponsors National Window Covering Safety Month every October to increase awareness of the potential dangers associated with corded window coverings.
Keep all window cords well out of the reach of children.
Install only cordless window coverings in homes with young children.
Make sure tasseled pull cords are as short as possible. Continuous-loop pull cords on draperies and vertical blinds should be pulled tight and anchored to the floor or wall.
Be sure cord stops are properly installed and adjusted to limit inner-cord movement.
The Window Covering Safety Council offers free retrofit kits if you prefer to keep your older window treatments.
Hunter Douglas has plenty of great cordless options, including PowerView Motorization System and Pebble Remote Control.
Since Frank and Elizabeth Hirshfield opened their first store in 1894, it has been our mission to do the best job possible meeting customer needs and solving customer problems. Hirshfield's. People and products you can trust.
Shopping for window treatments can be a lot of fun. The right styles, fabrics and colors can really bring a room to life. And the most energy-efficient models can even save you a lot of money — if you know what to look for. But what if you don't? That's where a new online offering from Hunter Douglas steps in.


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Well it's been an amazing couple of months for me touring with The Tim Hulsman Trio…and a few solo shows as well. I started off with a run of three solo shows down in Tasmania in the first week of May and had my first gig of the tour, and an extra at that, come about by coincidence on the Spirit of Tasmania Ferry. The live entertainment for the trip over the Bass Strait was the Tassie artist Neil Gibson, who was also supporting me in Devonport the next night, so we got to talking and then we got to jammin' and the next thing we had played for the whole night to an appreciative crowd on the ferry…who had not expected that kind of show on the boat. The Following night in Devonport was probably my favourite of the Tas shows, with the hosts at Red Hot Music (Andrew & Ely) really pulling out all the stops to make me feel at home and make the occasion something special.
Check out the stage they put together, just for me (below).
A lovely crowd turned out for the evening and were so quiet and attentive that it made the whole atmosphere really special, a theatre-like experience. Neil played a beautiful opening set.
Check out the merchandise table that Ely whipped for me…just incredible!
I was really very fortunate to stay with a true gentleman and patron of the arts David Joyce in Hobart (#musostayfree) who also does rehabilitation of wounded bird life. I was very lucky to meet, feed and hold some Tawny Frog Mouth Owls.
After Hobart's gig I headed to Cradle Mountain and picked up my little family (Nina & Arlo) from the airport on the way.
I was so proud to show Arlo this stone fireplace at Cradle Mountain Lodge that I had helped my father build when I was about 15. My hand prints are in the cement cap at the top of the 13 metre high chimney. The whole thing has over 80 tonnes of rock in it!
Cradle Mountain has an annual average of about 5 perfectly clear days…
We got two of them. So lucky. After a very rejuvenating 3 days in Cradle Mountain we headed home via the ferry again and soon it was time to hit the road once more, but this time with the band.
We had shows in Canberra, Newcastle, Sydney, Ballarat, Belgrave, Geelong and Melbourne (St Kilda) and it was heart warming to see so many new faces at all of the shows.
Below are a series of shots from the Stag & Hunter Hotel in Newcastle, taken by Swamp House Photography's Craig Wilson. Cheers Craig! The live shows have developed into something that we are all really proud of, and the songs from the Get Loved! album are certainly bringing a new, more up-tempo, vibe to the sets.
Being on the road with the two lovely gentlemen Craig Kelly and Winston Galea, was an absolute hoot. Many laughs and lively good conversation made the hours pass quickly and pleasantly.
We were blessed to be able to make two radio appearances in Sydney on the one manic day. The first one was at 8:40am on 2SER, which is usually not a problem…except we were 2 hours away in Newcastle. We rose at 5:30am, packed the van and drove like demons to arrive just in time to go on air. Later that day we went to 2RRR and did a full hour pre-recorded radio show with Chris and finally fell into bed for a little kip before the live show Leadbelly that night…I managed to sleep exactly zero minutes and zero seconds…aaaarrrrgggghhhh!
Despite being exhausted we managed to put on one of the best shows so far at Leadbelly. Big Mama & the Hanged Men played with us again…(they had their own story of exhaustion after gigging with us in Newcastle the previous night, driving back to Sydney the same night, doing a gig the Sunday afternoon and then again with us at Leadbelly Sunday night!!! LEGENDS!)
This is Big Mama & The Hanged Men with extra singers Lesley and Shannon all wearing their GET LOVED! T-shirts in true rock'n'roll fashion…ripped and torn and looking sexy!
When we got back to Victoria again I had the pleasure of appearing on ABC Ballarat with host Gavin McGrath and young singer-songwriter Anna OW, who supported us at Sutton's House of Music. Anna is a wonderful artist and I've had the pleasure of teaching her a bit of slide guitar so I was really proud when she pulled out the slide and fearlessly played a song live to air on the ABC and again at the live show. She's one to watch.
Will Cook from UP Creative came down to the Geelong show at KUBU Studio and took these lovely shots. That was the night we had the amazing Adam Giles play drums with us for the first time. He will be covering any gigs that Winston Galea can't do. With original drummer Karl Bentley still on call for the occasional show I feel blessed to have 3 drummers! The Geelong show was mighty!…and I must apologise for not having more photos of that one to put up yet. Hiddenite were absolutely sensational and started the night off in the best way possible. The Sequels followed with their infectious rock riot and had everybody in the house jumping and nicely warmed up by the time we took the stage.
We played an absolutely stellar set that night and were not allowed to leave the stage until we had played two encores and left our souls on the stage. Just the way I like it.
Adam played like a demon (and I truly tested him that night with a drum solo in the first song and two songs he'd never even heard before in the encore…he nailed 'em!)
Dogs Bar in St Kilda went OFF! (June 18) and we will be back there very soon to repeat the occasion. (Jul 9) That place rocks! and the crowd are so into the music and dancing and having a great time…it's really contagious, and we all had the best night. Can't wait to get back from Bali and play there again.
Also on the horizon is a weekend of beautiful solo shows in Bendigo.
This one is the one I'm looking forward to the most…
Don't miss it if you're in the area…I promise this will be a sensational night. Cameron and Josh are both incredible musicians and songwriters and I'm honoured to be sharing the space with them.
So all in all…the last couple of months have been amazing.
There is sadness in my heart too though because in the midst of it all I lost a close friend to cancer (RIP Andrew Melican) and drove right past the front door of my parents house…twice…and still didn't feel it would be in the least bit wise, to go and knock on it.
But that's life hey?
I'll see you somewhere, someday soon, you crazy diamonds!
Peace…out.


DatingAdvice Forum | Is she bad news?
maybe she just wants to marry a Brit so she can stay in the UK? I know that's silly but these are the sort of thoughts I'm having.
She's 43, never married, no kids, and I sense that she is terrified of any sort of responsibility or commitment. She told me her mother committed suicide when she was 12, and her late teens and early twenties were a drug induced blur of escapism and one night stands.
Yea she's bad news if you are looking for commitment. She's telling you exactly what she wants out of your relationship unless she says it's different with you. Even then that may be her sweet talking you. You should consider if you want a long term or a short term relationship with her.
She sounds like bad news if you looking for a long-term relationship.


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Due to inactivity for several years I have removed our previous homepage. At one point I got bored with the html editing and just stopped updating it.
Even though «everyone» seem to have replaced hompages with sites on social medias I have decided to try to keep my domain alive. After all, I have owned this domain since 2007. Now, I can't promise to update it regularly, but I will once every now and then -and off course if and when I have some exciting news to share.
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This womens short sleeved tee is ultra soft and comfortable. Made with a heather print texture and chic back button detail, this top is casual and fun looking. Top is made of 98% polyester and 2% spandex with a loose and stretchy fit. From top of shoulder to bottom edge, Small and Medium are 24 inches, Large is 24.5 inches and X-Large is 25 inches. From side to side, at underarms, Small is 19.5 inches, Medium is 20 inches, Large is 21.5 inches and X-Large is 22 inches. Sleeves measure 7 inches from shoulder to edge.
• This heathered knit texture tee is lightweight and extra soft. Breathable fabric and loose fit make it extremely comfortable to wear.
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I love maxi's and fedora's because you can dress them up, or dress them down.
This hat is super old (Men's Department find a couple years ago at Nordy's) but it is a favorite.
It seems like a lot more places sell fedoras these days but if you can't find the one your looking for swing over to the Men's. They have great neutral colors that match everything. For some reason they seem to fit better than women's hats too.
ah so beautiful! i love it! you look amazing!!
you are too freaking cute.
cute bag 🙂 i love mine!
I have that dress from Forever 21 but its strapless. Looks great with the yellow necklace and fedora!
You, my dear, are absolutely gorgeous!!! Love the outfit!
I adore maxi dresses and I love what you did here! I have similar pieces, I will need to try my fedora with a mixi!
and i totally agree that the best fedoras are found in the mens department!
i love your style!!! you are beautiful!! following you – can't wait to roam around your blog some more!!


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With the lightening of the weather comes the removal of the heavy layers we are wearing and a more ample canvas to showcase all the amazing jewelery that Spring 2012 has to offer us. From statement necklaces and rings, to dainty bracelets, and lizard skin earrings, the Kara Ross Spring/Summer 2012 Boutique collection is all a girl could wish for this season.
The use of drusy gems, lizard skin and imprint resin create these exotic and unique pieces.Large chunky stone cuffs and rings, necklaces with agate gems and lizard skin cutouts are a few of the amazing baubles you can find in this collection. Kara Ross' celebrity following includes Anne Hathaway, Kerry Washington, and First Lady, Michelle Obama.


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// Package naming defines the naming API and related data structures for gRPC.
// The interface is EXPERIMENTAL and may be suject to change.
package naming

// Operation defines the corresponding operations for a name resolution change.
type Operation uint8

const (
	// Add indicates a new address is added.
	Add Operation = iota
	// Delete indicates an exisiting address is deleted.
	Delete
)

// Update defines a name resolution update. Notice that it is not valid having both
// empty string Addr and nil Metadata in an Update.
type Update struct {
	// Op indicates the operation of the update.
	Op Operation
	// Addr is the updated address. It is empty string if there is no address update.
	Addr string
	// Metadata is the updated metadata. It is nil if there is no metadata update.
	// Metadata is not required for a custom naming implementation.
	Metadata interface{}
}

// Resolver creates a Watcher for a target to track its resolution changes.
type Resolver interface {
	// Resolve creates a Watcher for target.
	Resolve(target string) (Watcher, error)
}

// Watcher watches for the updates on the specified target.
type Watcher interface {
	// Next blocks until an update or error happens. It may return one or more
	// updates. The first call should get the full set of the results. It should
	// return an error if and only if Watcher cannot recover.
	Next() ([]*Update, error)
	// Close closes the Watcher.
	Close()
}

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Working further with the mortality data from http://www.cdc.gov/, I've added a breakdown of deaths by age and gender to the lifespan package on GitHub.
there is a rapid escalation in deaths among teenage males (consistent with fact that teenage males are more likely to commit suicide, be involved in fatal vehicle accidents, or be victims of homicide).
Another way of looking at the same data is with a stacked area plot. It's more difficult to see compare genders, but gives a better indication of the overall mortality rate.
Next: Life Expectancy by Country.


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Rachel Jewkes is Executive Scientist: Research Strategy in Office of the President and former Unit Director of the Gender and Health Unit of the South Africa Medical Research Council, based in Pretoria, South Africa. She also serves as Director of the What Works to Prevent Violence Global Programme, as well as of the Secretary of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She has been a member of the National Council Against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa and the PEPFAR Scientific Advisory Board  and the WHO's Strategic and Technical Advisory Committee for HIV-AIDS (STAC-HIV). Jewkes studied Medicine, receiving a Masters in Community Medicine (MSc) and a Doctorate in Medicine (MD) from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London. She is an Honorary Professor in the faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and is an A-rated researcher with the South African National Research Foundation. Jewkes moved from England to South Africa in 1994.

Recent research
A UN-sponsored study coauthored by Jewkes on male violence against women in Asia and the Pacific reported that a high number of men admitted to sexual violence. Survey researchers have questioned the plausibility of some of the findings of this study. In 2013 Jewkes also published on depressive symptoms after sexual assault, the epidemiology of child homicides and intimate femicide-suicide.

Publications

Sexual violence

Homicide and femicide

Women's health

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References

Living people
South African women scientists
21st-century women scientists
South African public health doctors
Alumni of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year of birth missing (living people)
Women public health doctors


Jeans are one of the most democratic items one could possibly add to one's wardrobe. They're available for everyone – regardless of gender, age or size – and can be worn to almost any occasion.
Where once denim was regarded as strictly informal, now jeans are increasingly accepted in traditionally 'smart' situations. They could even start infiltrating corporate dress codes, if recent reports are anything to go by.


FNB's Slimline self-service terminals have shown continued growth in popularity. This self-service terminal features a large touch screen, integrated camera and Chip and PIN reader. The device also features the ability to check balances and request mini statements. Users can also transfer funds and make payments through eWallet or Moneygram. Prepaid airtime and electricity can also be bought through these terminals.


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package com.jess.arms.base;

import android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication;

import com.jess.arms.base.delegate.ApplicationDelegate;
import com.jess.arms.base.delegate.IApplicationDelegate;
import com.jess.arms.di.component.AppComponent;

/**
 * 本项目由
 * mvp
 * +dagger2
 * +retrofit
 * +rxjava
 * +androideventbus
 * +butterknife组成
 */
public abstract class BaseApplication extends MultiDexApplication implements IApplicationDelegate {

    private ApplicationDelegate mApplicationDelegate;

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        this.mApplicationDelegate = new ApplicationDelegate(this);
        this.mApplicationDelegate.onCreate();
    }

    /**
     * 程序终止的时候执行
     */
    @Override
    public void onTerminate() {
        if (this.mApplicationDelegate != null) {
            this.mApplicationDelegate.onTerminate();
        }
        super.onTerminate();
    }

    /**
     * 将AppComponent返回出去,供其它地方使用, AppComponent接口中声明的方法返回的实例,在getAppComponent()拿到对象后都可以直接使用
     *
     * @return
     */
    @Override
    public AppComponent getAppComponent() {
        return mApplicationDelegate.getAppComponent();
    }

}


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Q: GTK Image from String I am trying to display an image based on a string of hex pixel data.  The string object being transmitted to me is similar to the following:
std::string image_bytes = "0x00, 0x01, 0x02, etc...";

I am trying to process this data using the following code:
GtkWidget *image;
GdkPixbufLoader* loader = gdk_pixbuf_loader_new();
gdk_pixbuf_loader_write(loader, (const guchar*)image_bytes.data(), image_bytes.size(), nullptr);
gdk_image_set_from_pixbuf(GTK_IMAGE(image), loader);

This is giving me a headache of errors, any ideas?
Thanks

A: This is in C, but it should work in C++.
In your code, the hex data is stored as an array of strings (char *str[]), not a string (char *str); by doing so, 0x21 will be "0x21", not !.
It also appears that you did not initialise image. This will cause a segmentation fault.
loader as the second argument of gtk_image_set_from_pixbuf() is an incompatible pointer to GdkPixbufLoader * from GdkPixbuf *.
/* GtkPixbufLoader demo program */
#include <gtk/gtk.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
        GtkWidget *window, *image;
        GdkPixbufLoader *loader;

        // This is just random data from the beginning of a JPEG file.
        unsigned char data[] = {0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47, 0x0d, 0x0a, 0x1a, 0x0a, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0d, 0x49, 0x48, 0x44, 0x52};

        gtk_init(&argc, &argv);

        window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
        image = gtk_image_new();
        loader = gdk_pixbuf_loader_new();

        /* Create pixbuf from data and set the image from `loader` */
        gdk_pixbuf_loader_write(loader, data, strlen((char *) data), NULL);
        gtk_image_set_from_pixbuf(GTK_IMAGE(image), gdk_pixbuf_loader_get_pixbuf(loader));

        gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), image);
        gtk_widget_show_all(GTK_WIDGET(window));

        gtk_main();
        return 0;
}

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Gilman Law LLP is pursuing a securities class action lawsuit against Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. ("Lumber Liquidators" or the "Company") and certain officers and/or directors of the Company.
According to a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (No. 4:13-cv-00157) ("Virginia Case") on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired Lumber Liquidators common stock (NYSE:LL) between February 22, 2012 and July 9, 2014, certain false and/or misleading statements were made by Lumber Liquidators in violation of federal law.
According to Lumber Liquidators' website, the Company is headquartered in Toano, Virginia, has stores in 46 states, and is the nation's largest retailer of hardwood flooring.
The Virginia Case against Lumber Liquidators is generally focused on two key areas of alleged misconduct. First, the plaintiff alleges that Lumber Liquidators made false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose that certain of Lumber Liquidators' products did not comply with applicable laws and regulations pertaining to formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products.
Second, the Wall Street Journal previously reported, and the Company confirms in its securities filings, that federal authorities, including agents from the Department of Homeland Security Investigations and the Department of Justice, executed search warrants at the headquarters of Lumber Liquidators on September 26, 2013 looking for information relating to the importation of certain of its wood flooring products. The Virginia Case alleges that Lumber Liquidators violated the Lacey Act, which bans the import and trade of illegally sourced wood products. The Company notes in a recent securities filing that the Department of Justice is contemplating seeking criminal charges against Lumber Liquidators under the Lacey Act.
On March 1, 2015, 60 Minutes ran a story focusing on the excessive formaldehyde levels contained in certain laminate flooring Lumber Liquidators purchased from manufacturers in China. As reported by 60 Minutes, certain of those manufacturers admitted that certain flooring manufactured for Lumber Liquidators was not CARB Phase 2 compliant even though it was labeled as such. CARB Phase 2 compliant refers to compliance with certain California formaldehyde emissions standards.
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This entry was posted in Current Investigations, General Legal News on March 16, 2018 by Gilman Law.
You could be entitled to significant compensation if you or a loved one were harmed because of a vehicle manufacturer's defective part. Every year, defective automobiles and parts are responsible for a substantial number of vehicular accidents. Yet all too often, automakers fail to inform the public of these issues in a timely matter. Even when an auto recall is issued, consumers must wait months for inadequate repairs. These delays may result in serious injury or cost lives! And they may rob affected individuals of valuable legal rights, as many of these companies only announce their recall after applicable statutes of limitations have purportedly expired.
Our attorneys are ready to assist you if you or a loved one own or lease one of these vehicles and have been harmed as a result of their defects, including serious personal injury. Filing an auto defect lawsuit may be the only way to bring these types of problems out into the open and force companies to take necessary corrective action. CONTACT US NOW! Do Not Delay As The Applicable Statute Of Limitations May Result In A Complete Bar To Your Claim Regardless Of Its Merit!
Toyota Tundras, Tacomas, Sequoias – Model Years 2000 – 2009: These vehicles have long been the subject of hundreds of complaints, and of a few limited and inadequate service campaigns, relating to rusting frames. Such defect could, in addition to the related financial costs, result in personal injury or harm to drivers, passengers and others on the road.
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This entry was posted in Defective Product Lawsuits, General Legal News on December 2, 2015 by Gilman Law.
According to a class action complaint filed May 21, 2015, Sears designed, manufactured and sold Craftsman riding lawnmowers and lawn tractors knowing they had a dangerous safety defect. This defect caused fuel to leak on moving parts that have caused the lawnmowers and tractors to catch fire while in use or shortly thereafter.
If you or a family member has purchased a Craftsman riding lawn mower or tractor and it has leaked fuel and/or caught fire, you may be entitled to compensation.
A class action complaint was filed on May 21, 2015 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois alleging that Sears' Craftsman riding lawnmowers and lawn tractors contain a serious and dangerous defect. The complaint lists the riding lawnmowers and tractors sold by Sears that contain the defect are, but not limited to, Craftsman Models 917.20383, 917.288515, YTS 3500 Model No. 917.27660, GT 5000 Model No. 917.289453. It is alleged that these lawnmowers have a fuel line that is not adequately secured and can often dislodge from the gas tank during use. The fuel line and electrical components are near the lawnmowers' drive belts and pulleys so that when the fuel line breaks away from the fuel tank or is worn down from the friction of the moving parts and/or if the electrical components are worn down from the friction of the moving parts, fuel drips onto the mowing bed and catches fire. The fire caused by the fuel leak can occur while using the lawnmower or just after they are stored after use. The complaint alleges Sears knew or should have known about the defect and concealed it from and failed to warn consumers.
This entry was posted in Defective Product Lawsuits, General Legal News and tagged Sears on August 26, 2015 by Gilman Law.


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Manhunt In Canada
The northern Canadian wilderness is beautiful. It's vast. It's also brutal. And it might be the hiding place for two suspected killers. Police have been scouring the region for the men who are accused of fatally shooting an American tourist and her Australian boyfriend. Another alleged victim was found 300 miles from that crime scene.
Joining us now, Jana Pruden. She's a feature writer for The Globe and Mail who's been covering this, and she's in Edmonton. Good morning, Jana.
JANA PRUDEN: Good morning.
GREENE: So what can you tell us about the people - police are trying to find?
PRUDEN: Well, a pretty disturbing picture has emerged of these two men online - some interest in, I guess, Nazism and Russian communist iconography. And beyond that, very little is known. I mean, they're a mystery to us. They are currently still on the run. Their families have spoken a little bit and have now sort of gone quiet.
And I think the whole country and beyond is just waiting to see where and when these two men might pop up or if indeed they will at all. There's a good chance, at this point, they might also be dead.
GREENE: Well, police were zeroing in on a community that they thought might be their chance at finding them. And they called in drones and helicopters and boats and the military. But it sounds like they might be scaling back now. I mean, are they giving up?
PRUDEN: Yeah, I mean, the problem is these young men had quite a head start. Initially, they were only believed to be missing and even thought to be potential victims after their vehicle was found burned out in B.C. So...
GREENE: That's British Columbia, the northwest of Canada, right?
PRUDEN: Yes. Absolutely, I'm sorry. So then another vehicle that they'd been driving was last seen on July 22. So the manhunt - they already had a few days on everybody. And they were last seen in this community in northern Manitoba. The police, the RCMP poured extensive resources, as you say, but they were not able to be located.
And some other reported sightings - there was a report that may be some men matching the description had been seen at this very isolated dump in a community way up north. Those have not been able to be substantiated. The latest tip is that they've been seen in an area called Kapuskasing in Ontario. But, again, that's still unsubstantiated at this time.
GREENE: But probably each time a community is mentioned or something, I mean, people must freak out. It's pretty terrifying.
PRUDEN: It's very terrifying. I mean, I followed their path along the northern highways 37 and 73 - extremely remote, desolate areas. People literally told me they were sleeping with their guns or sleeping with knives. And that's the same thing we were seeing in Manitoba. It's extremely scary.
These communities really rely on a lot of trust. You know, it's kind of everybody looking out for each other against these other things that might be threats. So to think of people who might be, you know, intentionally causing violence in those communities is extremely, extremely scary for people.
GREENE: How brutal is this part of Canada? I mean, you mentioned it's possible they could be dead. I mean, could they have just died because of the elements?
PRUDEN: Yeah, I mean, it's very, very beautiful. It's a very, very beautiful country, but it's very remote. Manitoba has something called muskeg, which is swamp land. The bugs are not pleasant. So they certainly are in extremely challenging physical territory at the moment.
GREENE: Jana Pruden is a feature writer with The Globe and Mail in Canada joining us from Edmonton. Thanks so much.
PRUDEN: Thank you so much for having me on.
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