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Posted 23 January 2009 - 12:55 PM
The movie, as a movie, is absolutely gripping. But after I left I felt uncomfortable about watching something like this as "entertainment" and about the juxtaposition of a "feel-good" plot with such a terrible human reality.
And then later I was shown this article. Warning it does have "spoilers" in it. One could argue that a film like this is getting the general population to "notice" and think about issues we are ignoring but there is food for thought in what Alice Miles has to say.
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Posted 23 January 2009 - 02:52 PM
The picture juxtaposes scenes of poverty and cruelty with comedy and fairy tale elements. Its a tricky line to walk but I think it works. Theres no question, however, that if the picture didnt end happily sort of- it would be a nightmare. But I don't think a feelgood movie has to make you feel good all the way through it.
These are the reasons I think it is garnering such praise, which in my opinion it deserves.
I think it's deserving too, abatt. There are quibbles, of course, but I went in to the theater with my guard up and surrendered more or less unconditionally.
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The romantic part, not so effective for me, especially as they cast the adult girl way too old for the hero, and instead of getting someone with depth, they found an actress/model. (There are thousands of talented actresses who could have nailed this role, and I've seen a number of them in contemporary Indian cinema.)
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especially as they cast the adult girl way too old for the hero, and instead of getting someone with depth, they found an actress/model.
Freida Pinto is indeed too pretty and well kept, but although many would have been better she didn't spoil anything (and she really is lovely). The age thing went right by me, I thought Patel and she were very appealing together.
I thought of this during the movie in the character of the brother, without whose macho, criminal tribal ethic and protection there would have been no "happy" ending.
Good point. The role of the brother is also a familiar movie type, as well.
Posted 07 February 2009 - 05:01 AM
As a contemporary movie, it couldn't completely ignore reality and refrain from portraying some of the violent realities of life in the slums. (Even romantic comedies these days make nominal attaempts to justify the time and money available to the protaginists) But - and this may say more about me than about 'Slumdog Millionaire' and Danny Boyle - I didn't think the violence was overdone in any way, and in some ways it just wasnt even credible. IMHO, the interrogation scenes were less terrifying than the average 'Homicide - Life on the Steet' episode.
There were some scenes that were very intense like the scene where the children find shelter from the rain, but ultimately everything was too by-the-book to really touch me. The happy ending was a given from the beginning, and there was no drama in the middle to make me doubt that.
The children were very affecting but I didn't feel that the adult actors were particularly good, especially if you compare them to Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, etc. from 'Trainspotting'.
All that said, I agree with sandik that the essence of India - the teeming mass of contradiction - is beautifully achieved. In 2009 India, and Mumbai in particular, is certainly deserving of a love-letter.
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To those of you for whom the violence and portrayal of Indian urban slums was too much, please do not read the book. The books is must more grisly than the movie and almost every chapter in the first half deals with child molestation in some fashion. It is a solid read (and fills in alot of those blanks left in the movie; note that the dollar value of the question skips about 5 questions) but the movie does excise much of the more disturbing elements.
Thanks, EvilNinjaX. I had a feeling the filmmakers were going easy on us.
Posted 03 June 2009 - 02:35 PM
That was pretty much to be expected. There was the issue of those pesky permits. There was enough cultural sensitivity about the film being made in India in the first place to be showed in foreign markets. I'm not sure the movie would have been allowed to be made if the script was literal. It's not like Danny Boyle pulled any punches in "Trainspotting".
Thanks, EvilNinjaX. I had a feeling the filmmakers were going easy on us.
Posted 06 August 2012 - 07:38 PM
To those of you for whom the violence and portrayal of Indian urban slums was too much, please do not read the book. The books is must more grisly than the movie and almost every chapter in the first half deals with child molestation in some fashion. It is a solid read (and fills in alot of those blanks left in the movie; note that the dollar value of the question skips about 5 questions) but the movie does excise much of the more disturbing elements.
I absolutely agree with this. Some of these experiences definitely added to a different dynamic than can be found in the movie. There have also been some at first sight trivial changes to the plot and characters, as simple as the name of the main character. However, within the book, they all have their particular meanings. Taking the name as an example: As it is 'Ram Mohammad Thomas' in the book, it contains the names of three important religious personalities from three different religions. Therefore, the whole deal with his identity goes into a different direction than in the less ambiguous choice in the movie and there are some instances where this can be noticed. The violence however does really have a deep impact when seeing it visualized. I would not say it is a better way of confronting than through reading, but it is very direct.
Considering everything, I think I liked the book better for these reasons and the way the romance was portrayed, including the ending (it was indeed a bit too 'Bollywood' for my liking, as a conclusion to the rest of the movie). I personally also really like the 'dry, yet emotional' writing style of the author, Vikas Swarup. You know, the style that sounds rather matter of fact, but can make you all teary while reading. This is an old thread I see, but I'd still like to recommend reading the book. There is an excerpt from it on Vikas Swarup's website.
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Khmer Rouge Warden Asks to Be Freed
The trial of a former Khmer Rouge prison chief ended Friday with the defendant unexpectedly asking to be set free despite his admission of guilt.November 28, 2009 worldNews
Torture and Death Recounted at Cambodian Trial
A prison chief's trial has uncovered details about the suffering of victims of the Khmer Rouge.July 15, 2009 worldNews
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The commandant of a torture house apologized in a Cambodian court for atrocities he had committed but said he had feared for his own life.April 1, 2009 worldNews
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Kaing Guek Eav, the commandant of the Tuol Sleng prison, is the first senior Khmer Rouge member to face trial for the communist regime's crimes.February 17, 2009 worldNews
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March 14, 2013, Thursday
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A former Khmer Rouge prisoner meets his captor.
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The former chief warden at a Khmer Rouge prison has had his sentence increased (from 19 years to life) by a United Nations-backed tribunal in Cambodia. In announcing the sentence, the presiding judge said that the man, known as Duch, was "a shocking...
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Cambodia: Court Increases Sentence Of Khmer Rouge Jailer to Life in Prison
The Khmer Rouge tribunal's Supreme Court has ordered the regime's chief jailer to serve life imprisonment, a surprise ruling that stiffens a 19-year sentence imposed by a lower court. Kaing Guek Eav, or Duch, was the commander of a notorious prison...
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December 25, 2011, Sunday
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Ex-Khmer Rouge Leader Blames U.S.
Khieu Samphan, the regime's head of state, said U.S. bombing increased radicalism in Cambodia and dared the court to put former King Norodom Sihanouk on trial.
November 24, 2011, Thursday
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Plan 9
Plan 9 is a free distributed network operating system. Its main properties are all objects are files, file communication is transparent whether it is local or over a network, and every process has a private customizable namespace. These features set it apart from traditional UNIX because on unix, not every type of object is a file (ex. network connections, windows, http requests, just things like /dev), network transparency is terrible and every process sees the same hierarchial namespace.
In the class I will be initially discussing setup and basic use of the Plan 9 environment, and later discussing more advanced use of Plan 9 features.
It is important to note that for this class I will be primarily using 9front, a fork of Plan 9. It is recommended to download a copy of the installation cd (see Mirrors), or it might be possible to get a copy from a flash drive or cd during class.
Elementary Documents
- Plan 9 papers - papers from the authors of Plan 9, I suggest starting with Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- Introduction to OS Abstractions using Plan 9 - paper with examples of different os features in Plan 9, and describes rc and c programming for Plan 9
General Information
- Plan 9 Homepage - has a wiki, a web mirror of the sources and contrib, general information
- Plan 9 documentation at cat-v.org - has papers from 4th edition Plan 9, and various related documents.
- Irc: #cat-v on freenode
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Disk Utility says my boot drive need repair. Unfortunately my DVD drive is toast, so I can't boot from the install DVD and make the repair. Is there a way I can create a bootable USB drive and perform the repair that way. I have an 8Gb USB drive.
In order to create a bootable drive, you need the install DVD (or a copy of it) mounted. Sorry…
Do you have a friend with a Mac? If so, you could take the thumb drive & install DVD there and create a boot drive for yourself.
This may not be the solution you want, but you could boot into single-user mode to run a diagnostic on your boot drive.
To do this you hold down Command+s when turning the computer on. You'll be dropped into a terminal.
Use the fsck utility (filesystem check) to examine the boot drive for repairs:
This forces the utility to check the filesystem and automatically repair errors it detects.
If it the resulting messages reads that the volume appears to be OK, then you've done all you can do from this method. If it reads that the filesystem was modified, run it again. Repeat running the command until you receive the message that the volume is OK, then reboot normally. You can do that just by typing
I have had to do this a few times with my own boot drive, and it did fix the problem.
This might be a bit risky, but you could try using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone just the bootable portions of your failing drive to the USB drive. The newest version of CCC can tell you specifically what to copy, but basically you'll want the
This CCC FAQ entry describes what specifically needs to be done to make a bootable clone, but basically you'll want to use CCC to copy:
Be warned: if your boot drive is physically failing, cloning it like this might very well push it over the edge and kill it. Back up any important documents first. This is a somewhat risky method!


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In Case of Emergency
Saint Louis University Office of International Services (St. Louis):
Monday through Friday, 8:30a.m. - 5:00p.m.
Saint Louis University Department of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness (St. Louis):
After-hours emergencies
The Department of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness will contact the Office of International Services emergency contact.
The Office of International Services and the Department of Public Safety will assure that in urgent or serious situations Saint Louis University study abroad participants receive prompt, appropriate and thorough care, intervention or referral.
Saint Louis University Madrid Student Life Office (Madrid):
Monday through Friday, 9:00a.m. - 7:00p.m.
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After hours emergencies
HTH Worldwide 24/7 Emergency Assistance (Insurance Provider):
1.800.257.4823 (from within the U.S.)
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1.888.407.4747 (from within the U.S.)
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Please contact the Office of International Services for any situation or condition that jeopardizes an individual's physical or mental health, safety, well-being, or program participation and/or requires the intervention of program staff. Such events or occurrences may include, but are not limited to: civil disturbance, natural disaster, severe or prolonged illness or injury requiring hospitalization, disciplinary action, emotional or behavioral disorders, illegal actions (i.e. drug use), absence from program site, academic probation, etc.
Notification Procedures
In the case of an emergency, students are instructed to contact appropriate on-site staff immediately. The on-site staff will contact the Saint Louis University Office of International Services, and a representative from the SLU study abroad team will contact the individual the student listed as their emergency contact, if appropriate.
If a family member or friend is contacted by the student about an emergency and it is unclear whether or not the on-site staff are aware of the situation, please contact the Saint Louis University Office of International Services, 314.977.2318. This number is answered during business hours. After business hours a message will prompt callers to call the Department of Public Safety, 314.977.3000, which is monitored 24 hours, 7 days a week.
If it is necessary to contact the Office of International Services, please provide as much of the following information as possible:
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In the event of a political, social, or natural emergency, the Office of International Services will be in close contact with the on-site staff and/or US program contact for any study abroad program offered through Saint Louis University. The on-site staff will in turn seek advice from the local authorities and the US Consulate or Embassy nearest the program location. Assistance will be managed in coordination with our medical and security insurance provider.
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Here the baby is seen within the amniotic sac. For the first time, her head is smaller than her body, marking another developmental milestone. Having a large, heavy head is not a problem in the nearly weightless environment of the uterus.
The purpose of a birth plan is to communicate your wishes for labor and birth to those who are caring for you. Writing a plan will help you to address different aspects of the labor, such as methods of pain relief and who you'd like to attend the birth. It also gives you a chance to ask questions about procedures such as induction and other types of medical intervention. Filling in a plan is also a useful way for your birth partner to be made aware of your wishes so that he or she can communicate these to the doctor while you're in labor.
Bear in mind that circumstances may dictate that not all of your preferences are met, but there's more chance of you getting the labor and birth you want if you've thought it through and written down your views. Being as informed as possible about labor and your choices (see Planning for your Birth) will help you to prepare in advance.
Scented candles, womb music, and beanbags... or serious pain relief from the first contraction? Writing a birth plan is an opportunity for you to think about how you'd like your labor and delivery to go. Discuss your birth plan with your doctor and birth partner as early as this week, so you're all clear about your objectives (see Planning for your Birth).
During pregnancy, hormonal changes may cause your eyes to feel dry, and you may experience burning, itching, and a feeling that there is a foreign object under your eyelid. This is common in pregnancy. Dry eyes can also occur after menopause, when there are similar hormonal fluctuations.
The condition appears to be caused by a change in the composition and quantity of tears, leaving the eye dry and inadequately lubricated. The discomfort can be remedied with "artificial tears" , available from an optician or pharmacist, and it usually disappears once the baby is born. In the meantime, limit the time you wear your lenses and wear your glasses more often, especially if you are looking at a computer screen for long periods of time.
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New Berlin West defeated Whitnall in one of the wildest, craziest, high school football games in Southeastern Wisconsin in 2012, 56-42. In so doing, the Vikings put themselves in prime position to qualify for the playoffs, improving to 4-4 in the Woodland Conference.
In an evening chock full of crazy plays, one may have made the difference.
Following an interception, Whitnall began a key drive early in the fourth quarter on its own 5-yard line yard line, trailing, 49-36. The Falcons marched all the way down the field and found themselves with a 1st and goal on the 8.
At this point, despite trailing by two touchdowns, the Falcons had all the momentum. Senior quarterback Zach Sutton was on fire that drive, hitting his previous four passes in short order to get to the 1st and goal situation. On first down, Sutton again dropped back to pass looking for a quick slant to the right, but junior linebacker Travis McKeon read Sutton's eyes and grabbed his second
interception of the evening.
"Our defensive line pressured the quarterback, our linebackers went to their zones, and the quarterback had to get rid of the ball, and it ended up in my hands" said McKeon.
Still, the game was not a defensive battle by any means.
Junior Tim Robey ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown for New Berlin West to give the Vikings a very early 7-0 lead. Whitnall took the ball on its own 45-yard line following a failed onside kick attempt, and senior Nick Cimler took off on a 52-yard touchdown run on the second play from scrimmage.
Just more than three minutes later, junior quarterback Dylan Wiese, recently converted to quarterback, found junior wide receiver Chamika Wijenayake from 21 yards out to give the Vikings a 14-6 lead. Senior wide receiver Sam Mentkowski
took the following kickoff 90 yards for a touchdown to answer for the Falcons. Whitnall failed on the two point conversion attempt again.
Despite his team's dynamic offensive showing, West coach Al Moroder was not pleased with his team's defensive performance after the game.
"We have talked about flying around to the football all year and we have had better games, and we are going to pick it up into the playoffs." said Moroder.
For Whitnall, the bright spot of this game was the play of Sutton, who did everything in his power to try to lead Whitnall to a victory. He completed 27 of 39 passes for 356 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed for 54 yards and another score.
For West, McKeon rushed for 171 yards and two scores, Bryan Watson carried the ball for 138 yards and a touchdown, and Wiese scored twice and finished with 92 yards on the ground.
"They're not fooling anybody; they are going to run the ball," said Whitnall coach Jeff Wallack. "A lot of off tackle stuff that we just couldn't answer, and we were standing flat footed. Luckily for us, our offense kept us in the game, but it's still a loss."
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It was asked in the Putnam exam of 1969, to list all sets which can be the range of polynomials in two variables with real coefficients. Surprisingly, the set $(0,\infty )$ can be the range of such polynomials. These don't attain their global infimum although they are bounded below. But is it also possible that such polynomials with range $(0,\infty )$ also have a non zero gradient everywhere?
Too long for a comment. I've got to wonder just how difficult this is.
Anyway, one thing did work out, at least locally: We have a polynomial function $F(x,y)$ that is assumed to have a nonvanishing gradient. Then the vector field $$ \left( \frac{\partial F}{\partial x}, \; \frac{\partial F}{\partial y} \right) $$ has integral curves that foliate the plane. On the other hand, the integral curves of $$ \left( \frac{ - \partial F}{\partial y}, \; \frac{\partial F}{\partial x} \right) $$ are level curves as well, and foliate the plane. We know that if one of these level curves is a simple closed curve, using the Jordan Curve theorem it has an interior. If the function is constant on this it has zero gradient within, otherwise it achieves its maximum or minimum within and again has a critical point. $$ $$ After this I'm stuck.
In particular, I simply don't see what polynomial does for us. Homogeneous polynomial would be different. There is a conjecture of Thom about local behavior that he apparently settled for homogeneous polynomials only. I would like to say that the picture that is being built up resembles that for $F(x,y) = e^x$ and that is absurd for a polynomial. Well, perhaps.
I've also got to wonder how much the OP knows.


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Both versions are danced wonderfully, although I found myself looking more closely at the purity of Laurent Hilaire and Isabelle Guerin, partly because I could see it so clearly defined in the filming.
Hi bart, and thank you so much for your wonderful and detailed analysis!
Well, now that i know that i won't see any original Petipa/Minkus on the reconstructed "lost act" , and that my Nureyev POB version is very well liked among the experts , it's obvious that i will be looking up to rg's suggestion , the 1991 Kirov Komleva/Abdyev production...(it's only on VHS on Amazon, and currently unavailable). BTW bart, ever since i saw for the first time the Nureyev's POB video, i've also been enchanted by the Guerin/Hilaire duo..


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The 8 Most Common Sci-Fi Visions of the Future (And Why They'll Never Happen)
#4. An Invasion by Friendly Aliens
Defining Features:
Aliens that look either exactly like humans or like adorable humanoid stuffed animals; mankind foolishly squandering what could have been the key to curing all disease and suffering; enormous arrays of multicolored lights; someone achieving weightlessness while looking wondrously awed; someone touching an alien for the first time while looking wondrously awed; long shots of people looking up at the night sky; an important lesson about the mistrusting and primitive nature of the human spirit.
Alien invaders don't always want to kill us, but when they don't, we usually prove why they should. It all started with the 1951 classic The Day The Earth Stood Still, when an alien named Klaatu and his robot friend Gort came to Earth to save us all from ourselves. They were shot within 10 seconds of landing, imprisoned, escaped, got turned in by a filthy human for the reward, then got shot again ... to death.
But, it's even worse than that: Klaatu wasn't any ordinary interplanetary goodwill ambassador. If you put the pieces of the puzzle together-a mysterious visitor from the heavens, suffering for our transgressions, gets turned in by someone he trusts and is ultimately sacrificed-it becomes fairly clear that we killed Jesus. Again! Way to go, humanity. Real classy.
In humanity's defense, we did treat the Close Encounters of the Third Kind aliens a little better. Though if that film had run another 30 minutes, maybe we'd have seen CIA interrogators hooking electrodes to the aliens' genitals and demanding to know what their ships use for fuel and how we can get our hands on it.
See Also:
Contact, Stranger in a Strange Land, 2001: A Space Odyssey (or at least the third hour, with, you know, the aliens).
Why it Will Never Happen:
It's an irrefutable scientific fact that a species cannot evolve to dominate its planet unless it is made up of merciless killing machines. Any civilization with access to the resources necessary to reach us, has, by definition, gained that access by slaughtering its biological competitors. If they turn up here tomorrow, it's only because they've found out, say, that our ground-up spleens are an afrodisiac for their women.
#3. A Full-Scale Robotic Uprising
Defining Features:
Robots who have gained consciousness and are therefore instantly intent on killing all humans; some uncertainty as to who is a robot and who is a human; casual death threats made in calm, emotionless robo-inflection; claims that humanity is either "imperfect" or "a scourge that must be cleansed;" those wicked glowing laser eyes; hands that are also guns; hacking into mainframes; the powering down of a core, destruction of a power cell or other euphemism for the removal of batteries.
Long ago, a gentle man named Isaac Asimov penned some of the first and most well-conceived stories about human-like robots. Endowed with restraint and tact, they were absolutely forbidden from harming humans, or even allowing a human to come to harm. They were the ultimate tools and friends to mankind. Of Mr. Asimov's works, two films have been made: one of them saw Robin Williams prancing around in a rubber suit for 200 years while reenacting Pinocchio, the other saw Will Smith rocking his converse against an army of kill-o-bots.
And while I, Robot is slightly more entertaining than Bicentennial Man insofar as it is roughly four hours shorter, both are an affront to the grandmaster of robotics and both make us wonder if indeed some script-writing robot could have done better.
See Also:
2001: A Space Odyssey (the second hour, with HAL), Battlestar Galactica, The Terminator, Screamers, The Matrix
Why it Will Never Happen:
There's almost a kind of hopeless optimism hidden here. Besides the whole uprising thing, it still implies that mankind was able to, with hardware and software, create a race of beings that are actually way better than humanity. Think about that the next time Windows Vista stops and asks you if it has permission to run a program you just freaking told it to run 4 seconds ago.
#2. A Post-Nuclear Wasteland
Defining Features:
Long stretches of trackless desert; a dearth of liquids, usually gas or water, that are contested by violence; slick references to the time period in which the movie/book came out, so as to assure the audience that this could happen to them; inexcusably clean and unscarred people fighting hideously mutated radioactive nightmares; Christian symbolism; inexplicably plentiful and working weapons; Kevin Costner; societies ruled by the guy who can bench the most.
Before the 1900s, "post-apocalypse" generally referred to the time when God's chosen would ascend to heaven to play pickup basketball and toss back Courvoisier. But ever since a fateful summer in 1980, post-apocalypse has meant Mel Gibson tearing through the outback pursued by homicidal and vaguely homoerotic biker gangs.
For 20 years, Mad Max held the record for the highest profit-to-cost ratio of any film, a testament to the fact that there doesn't have to be a lot of expensive stuff in a movie as long as someone is beating the crap out of someone else, preferably while moving at high speeds. Therefore an entire generation's vision of the future has been shaped by Hollywood's discovery that filming in deserts and abandoned factories is a great way to keep production costs down.
See Also:
The Stand, The Omega Man, Tank Girl, Planet of the Apes, A Boy and His Dog, The Road, the Fallout series of games.
Why it Will Never Happen:
We make no guarantees about the "nuclear war" part of the scenario. But the pale, paranoid sorts who stockpile food, batteries and gasoline in their basement are the same people who women swear they wouldn't have sex with if they were the last men on the face of the earth. Extinction would soon follow.
#1. A Spacefaring Intergalactic Megasociety
Defining Features:
An intergalactic "Order," "Federation," "Empire," "House" or "Alliance;" stars whizzing past through a giant glass viewplate while passengers look prosaically on; an appropriately vague method of propulsion such as a crystal, dark matter or hyperdrive; references to spaceships like "aft" or "prow," so as to draw a parallel to nautical exploration; references to "the frontier" or "unsettled lands," so as to draw a parallel to U.S. western expansion; a single language spoken by all sentient beings in the known universe.
When and if man ever breaches the womb of our solar system and is born in earnest as an interstellar being, only one thing will be certain: It will be exactly like sailing. That, or the old West. Ever since Kirk set course by the stars and made way for the final frontier, the space opera's core concepts have been those of the sea: long voyages, a tight-knit crew and the unspoken threat of scurvy.
Universes like those in Dune and Farscape detailed the thousands of races, worlds and cultures all fighting for their existence in the bustling frontier-town of the Milky Way. It's enough to make a merchandiser wet his pants and an Internet message board light up with pointless yet thorough discussion.
See Also:
Star Trek (when they're flying around), Serenity/Firefly, Stargate: SG-1, Futurama, Dune, Babylon 5
Why It Will Never Happen:
It turns out the universe is mostly frigid, empty space and some rocks. If there are other intelligent life forms out there, they're far more likely to look like quivering mile-wide clumps of algae than British actors with rubber prosthetics glued to their foreheads.
It doesn't help that the only organization claiming to speak for all humans here on Earth can't get a Harrier jet to Prague, let alone a rocket to Proxima Centauri. Plus, it's scientifically impossible for there to ever be a real human being with the grace, good looks and balls of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.
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For example, In 1990 Portuguese alphabet was extended by 3 foreign letters which are K (capa, pronounced as "kappa"), Y (pronounced as "ípsilon or "ipsilão" or "i greg"), W (pronounced as "diáblio"). Hmmm, Portugueses certainly hate W.
There are many English dialects. For example, I know about existence of British English, American English and I guess there are a couple of hundreds more dialects.
Does any of them include or plan to include foreign letters?


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6 Creepy Glitches Hidden in Famous Video Games (Pt. 3)
Let's face it: There aren't that many really creepy video games -- "horror" in the world of gaming is all about stupid jump scares and shooting huge monsters with a flamethrower. No, the best creepy moments always happen by accident, when you least expect them.
We're talking about the random glitches that make you shit your pants. We've told you twice now about how video games can, essentially, go rogue at a moment's notice, so let's again take time to gaze into the horrors that can lurk beneath innocent layers of code ...
#6. Elmo's Letter Adventure -- The Nightmare on Sesame Street
Here's one underrated aspect of old-school video games: Every game cartridge was one nudge away from unrelenting horror. In the last iteration of this article we talked about cartridge tilting, in which slightly misaligning the cartridge in the slot messes with the game code in a way that makes demons come alive. But if you thought cartridges becoming obsolete would spare you the horror, you were wrong:
Via YouTube
Uh ... Ernie?
YouTuber Vinesauce has an entire channel dedicated to playing "corruptions" -- game code that is run through emulator software that randomly alters the code, turning colorful characters into twisted deformities from a realm where terrified screams are the native language. The above is from a kids' game called Elmo's Letter Adventure for the Nintendo 64. Here's a clip, and you need to turn up your sound:
Yes, applying the corrupter opens the Pandora's box of misshapen nightmares hidden deep below Sesame Street. Muppets warp and jitter, their speech turns into demon hate language, and your childhood dies a violent death.
Via YouTube
"Hi, Grover! What letter does 'dog' start w-"
As the first round of tears begins to exit your face, the Dark Muppets spew poetry of the damned in a sound not unlike Slayer lyrics sung underwater, while Elmo appears to understand every word. All the Muppets your childhood mind remembers from the PBS show are replaced by entities so evil that Death himself rejected them.
Via YouTube
Actually, this is precisely how we remember Big Bird.
And Elmo just strolls happily through it all, having long ago lost his sanity.
#5. Far Cry 3 -- Blood Showers Incoming
Via YouTube
Far Cry 3 is an open-world game about survival in the wilderness in which you fight off tigers and mercenaries in increasingly elaborate ways. But one thing they never prepare you for is how to fight off the most bloodthirsty menace of them all: an angry jeep.
Via YouTube
This is just step one of its mating ritual.
Yep, that's a bad guy with his head stuck in the vehicle's undercarriage. The game apparently just can't cope with that, and so he thrashes around, screaming, with more blood than Quentin Tarantino's entire filmography fountaining out of his head. The player even tries to put the poor bastard out of his misery, with no luck, until he finally pops free on his own. The jeep has had its fill of blood ... for now.
This freak occurrence that looks like something out of Event Horizon actually happens in all sorts of games, because the whole point of open-world games is to create moments of spontaneous horror you can tell your therapist about later. Here's an equally horrifying one from Saints Row III:
Via YouTube
"Wave your hands in the air like you just broke physics!"
That's an NPC with her head stuck in the side of a bus stop, a pool of blood slowly forming as she flails her arms in futility. Yes, even in a game in which the player is encouraged to wreak havoc among the innocent population, the very universe itself finds creative ways to endlessly mutilate and torture them, until they only find peace in death itself. Or maybe not ...
#4. Skyrim -- The Talking Dead Soldier
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The whole appeal of a game like Skyrim is how alive the world feels, mostly due to the fact that the non-player characters seem to have lives of their own -- they go to bed and work and occasionally just sit around and watch Netflix, just like you! It's like they think they're people! So it wasn't that weird when a YouTube user called aaronrogers1975 went to talk to an NPC named Vilkas and found that he had been killed at some point off screen.
What was weird was that a few in-game days later, he found the man again:
Via YouTube
Lose the eyeliner, dude; you look like The Crow.
Yes, Vilkas' body was now jutting out of a random field, looking like a freshly-dug-up Khal Drogo (sorry, but if you haven't seen Season 1 of Game of Thrones by now, we can't help you). Oh, and he talks. It's the same dialogue you'd get from the guy if he was alive, only everything Vilkas says is approximately 100 times more horrifying coming out of a fish-belly-white torso who can only stare at the sky.
Via YouTube
"By home, I mean under your bed."
Now, for reference, this is what Vilkas looks like when he's alive:
Frankly, all Nords look the same to us.
It is worth mentioning that he's a werewolf, but that does not appear to be related to his condition in this particular instance. We hope. No, this seems to be an ordinary case of "Jesus Christ, what the fuck?"
Via YouTube
"Yeah, a constant string of murders that won't end, even with my death. That sounds good."


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Sloopy's owner Devin Contreras says his chihuahua broke out a few impromptu dance moves after spotting the family's leftover turkey on the kitchen counter.
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I know the economic downturn of the World War and the victory of the Labour Party played some role in Britain deciding to quit India. Did GB have any serious economic implications because of this? There were a lot of Britons employed in various sectors in India. Did the quitting cause large-scale unemployment and downturn of British economy? How was the common public's reaction to this?
To begin, the following passage from Britain, the Commonwealth and the End of Empire by Dr John Darwin discusses the "staggering blow" Great Britain felt after granting independence to India.
That being said, after reviewing the unemployment rates for Great Britain (The United Kingdom) in the years following the independence of India (beginning in 1947), it does not appear that the rates changed as compared to the early 1940's.
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Average Unemployment Rates, Nine Countries, Six Major Periods, 1904-1950 CHART2 pg 458.
In fact the unemployment rate dropped from 2.5 (1946) to 2.0 in 1947.
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON OF RATES TABLE 1 pg 456
As noted on page 462 the wartime employment rates neared 100%. Not noted but possibly assumed, post wartime employment rates remain high due to loss of life during wartime as well as job availability in disaster recovery (which certainly was evident in post war Britain after WWII.)
It seems that the public reaction to the Labour Party's direction to providing a welfare state was not met with huge opposition. In fact the voters wanted an end to wartime austerity
The Labour Party, after winning the 1945 elections began the process of dismantling the British Empire when it granted independence to India and Pakistan in 1947, followed by Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) the following year.
These movements along with others parallel the Fabian Movement. The Fabian Society laid many of the foundations of the Labour Party and subsequently affected the policies of states emerging from the decolonisation of the British Empire, especially India.
In conclusion, I would say that as a whole Great Britain did partially suffer in terms of world power, by granting independence to India . However, without the internal stability needed to enforce colonial or Imperial rule over India, (as well as other countries/states) India would not have provided the benefits Great Britain had once received. In regards to the return of British natives from India, I see no evidence to suggest that unemployment rates during this timespan rose. Also, as previously noted the ideas of the Fabian movement, which were pursued by the newly elected Labour party, do not seem to have been met with enough opposition to suggest there was a negative public reaction to the dismantling of the British Empire or those returning from said Empire.
I based financial growth or financial diminishment on the unemployment rates throughout the years prior to and after India's independence. The data shows that throughout these years there was no difference in the employment rate. This suggests that the financial burden of the Britons returning home after India's independence did not have a negative impact on Great Britain.
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... At Independence of India in 1947 a lot of British civilians in India migrated to Australia, Canada, Kenya, Tanganyika and British outposts like Kuwait, Bahrain etc in the Persian Gulf. To start with 'white Britons' ruling India were always demographically insignificant.


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Subject: [OMPI users] OpenMPI build configure error on Windows 7 / MinGW
From: Kjell-Arne Solli (Kjell-Arne.Solli_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-18 10:45:41
I have trouble building an OpenMPI environment on Windows 7 -64bit for use by simulation software written for Linux-environment, please help.
I use a single workstation with two processors (sums up to 12 cores). The HP-MPI environment is already present for some other software (installed from binaries).
I have installed MinGW/MSYS with GCC compiler suite, and the simulation software is compiled and runs in serial mode ok. I have also tried to compile the F77 source code of the simulation software in Windows (using Silverfrost FTN95 or Microsoft Visualstudio trial version), but there was a lot of compilation errors, despite 'standard Fortran F77'. It is not my code - I'm only a user - so I must stick to the GNU compilers.
I have tried to install the Windows binary of OpenMPI 1.5.4 (64bit) which installs ok. The compilation of the simulation software failed since the compiler wrappers assumed the Intel fortran compiler and its format of options, plus 'libraries not found'.
Now, OpenMPI version 1.5.5 is downloaded and unpacked to directory c:\openmpi-1.5.5\ and I run the configure script inside a MinGW-shell from directory c:\OpenMPI\ where I want to build.
The 'configure' part seems to run ok, but error is encountered in the 'Compiler and preprocessor tests' part,
the last lines are:
checking size of char... 1
checking size of short... 2
checking size of int... 4
checking size of long... 4
checking size of long long... 8
checking size of float... 4
checking size of double... 8
checking size of long double... 12
checking size of float _Complex... 8
checking size of double _Complex... configure: error: in `/c/openmpi':
configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (double _Complex)
See `config.log' for more details
The config.log file,
the last lines are:
#define SIZEOF_CHAR 1
#define SIZEOF_SHORT 2
#define SIZEOF_INT 4
#define SIZEOF_LONG 4
#define SIZEOF_LONG_LONG 8
#define SIZEOF_FLOAT 4
#define SIZEOF_DOUBLE 8
#define SIZEOF_LONG_DOUBLE 12
#define SIZEOF_FLOAT__COMPLEX 8
configure: exit 77
The configure screen output (file configure.output) and the log file (config.log) are attached in file config.output.tar.bz2.
Previous attempts to install OpenMPI include:
Using CMake version 2.8, OpenMPI version 1.4.4, using the GCC compilers > lots of errors
Using CMake version 2.8, OpenMPI version 1.4.4, using VisualStudio2010 (trial version) solution files > lots of errors
OpenMPI version 1.4.4, running configure script inside MinGW shell, followed by make all and make install > failed during make install step. Possibly some errors during configure which I didn't understand.
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I'm a beginner at photography, I'm looking at buying my first DSLR (currently the Canon 550d looks promising) so I'm wondering if I should buy the camera with the kit lens (EFs 18-55mm IS) or buy just the body and a different lens or buy the kit with two lens (EFs 18-55mm IS and EFs 55-200mm IS)?
It depends on A) your budget and B) what kind of photography you plan on doing. The longer lens (55-200) will be useful for wildlife and sports shots, but if you're not bothered about those, why spend the money on it? You could get yourself a decent tripod and bag for the same amount, which you will probably have much more use for.
Personally I started off with just an 18-55mm and happily used that for well over a year - they're very good beginner's lenses as they cover everything from landscapes to portraits. Once you've got used to your camera and discover what you really enjoy, you can look at investing in a new, appropriate lens.
One final tip, that I've given a few times this week, is not to just go with online reviews when buying your camera: go into a store and try a few out. Not just the Canon: try a couple of Nikons, Sonys and Pentax cameras too. Then you can be sure you're getting a camera you like.
The EF-S 18-200mm is another option. It kind of combine the 18-55mm and the 55-250mm into a single lens.
Here's a review: http://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/Canon-EF-S-18-200mm-f-3.5-5.6-IS-Lens-Review.aspx


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I am working on a program and I want to implement icon denoting keyring state. If you start
seahorse you'll see it has the same icon of padlock in two states, locked and unlocked.
I am unable to find unlocked icon name. There are many locked padlocks in
/usr/share/icons but I didn't find any unlocked icons.
So, my question is, what's the name of the icon I can use with
set_from_icon_name method.
stock_lock-open is not the one am looking for.


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Assuming a long, cooked stew. I cut up a well marbled chuck steak usually and chuck is what I'd recommend. You want enough fat that as the stew cooks long, the fat will render and leave nice, tender meat. Too lean and you're left with boiled shoe leather.
If you want a quicker stew, use a leaner cut of meat like sirloin. It will have a lot of flavor but you shouldn't cook it long at all. A fatty cut in a short stew will end up very fatty and often tough (with a cheaper cut like chuck).
Stew is a dish which is actually well suited for inferior cuts of beef. The 'quality' of superior cut is easily lost in a stew. The typical butcher's case will offer a collection of "stew meat" which is the fattier trimmings from various cuts. Marinade it in beer and then slow cook it and the meat will deliver great flavor for you.


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6 Bizarre Factors That Predict Every Presidential Election
Despite what the pundits, talking heads and NPR tell you, the presidential election is still a crapshoot. You think you know what's going to happen, then BAM! The president of the United States takes a Xanax/Thanksgiving turkey cocktail before a debate. Wouldn't it be great if you could shut out that political noise and predict the outcome of every presidential election based on completely ridiculous and arbitrary factors?
Guess what? You totally can. Just go by ...
#6. The Redskins Rule
The Washington Redskins enjoy one of the most remarkable reputations in political history due to a little correlation called the "Redskins rule." It's as simple as it is spooky: If the Redskins win their last home game before election day, then the party in power gets to hold on to the White House. If the Redskins lose, no matter how close the game, the opposition party takes over.
"Hmmm, I should go for a tie just to see what happens."
You could write it off as blind chance if, say, it worked for three or four elections ... but the rule has incredibly held true for every damn election since 1940, except one (and we'll get to it in a minute). So this is slowly entering gypsy curse territory.
Because why the hell would this possibly work? Maybe you could say that the incumbent is re-elected when things are going well for the country, and when things are going well, the crowd will be more jazzed to root for football, and the positive crowd makes the team play better. But why would it only apply to that one game? Keep in mind that it has nothing to do with how good the team is overall -- the 1976 Redskins only lost two games at home all year, but by God, one of those two losses was right before election day, and therefore the Republican incumbent lost and Democrats took back the presidency. What the hell?
Walter Iooss / Sports Illustrated
"Screw your election! We just lost to the Cowboys!"
As for the one exception, it was in 2004, when the Green Bay Packers beat the Redskins but George W. Bush held on to the presidency. The fact that this was the one exception actually makes it weirder, because as some of you vividly remember, Bush was president but had actually lost the popular vote in 2000 (winning only due to the Supreme Court craziness over Florida's recount). As the guy credited with discovering the theory, Steve Hirdt, points out, if you make the rule refer not to the party in power, but to the party that won the popular vote in the previous election, it suddenly has a perfect 18-for-18 record predating World War II.
#5. Which Side Sells More Halloween Masks
The nice thing about the election being so close to Halloween is all the Electionweenie parties the bars throw. And what better costume for a Hallowection bash than the rubbery dripping face of your favorite presidential candidate? Or just a regular mask of LBJ. Either way -- spooooky!
So you'd think that the sales of presidential Halloween masks would only reflect how uncreative and slipshod we are when it comes to costumes, not much more or less. But it's actually a pretty accurate indicator of who will win the election. According to CNN Money in 2004, Halloween mask sales have accurately predicted the winner of every U.S. presidential election since 1980. This method was upheld in 2004 and again in 2008.
The great thing about John Kerry masks is that they work just as well for Andrew Jackson.
This is a little bit surprising, because it seems like for every nerd who dresses up as his favorite candidate, there would be 10 college kids ironically dressing up as somebody they hate to make some kind of "wacky" commentary (i.e., college Republicans in the '90s wearing Bill Clinton costumes with a blow-up Monica Lewinsky doll attached). After all, Halloween is all about being scary, right? You'd think all of the Obama supporters would be out buying Mitt Romney costumes and trying to craft a "binder full of women" to carry around.
The binder marked "?" is illegal in 38 states.
Also, you'd think that either way the numbers would be badly skewed, since people who dress up for Halloween are only one segment of the population. You're leaving out the elderly vote, plus all of the religious types who don't believe in the holiday.
But, no -- for a generation, we've been buying the mask of the guy we intend to vote for. Which is pretty weird, if you ask us, especially since we're pretty sure a lot of these sales are parents buying masks in order to dress up their toddlers as a form of political debate ("Thanks for the candy, can I take a moment to talk to you about why little Mitt here will be good for small businesses?"). And in case you're wondering, according to the good folks at BuyCostumes.com, we're looking at four more years of an Obama nation. Either that or we've got a whole other racial effigy problem on our hands.
Speaking of kids ...
#4. The Kid Vote
Remember when you were a kid in elementary school and you got to participate in a school-wide mock vote? To humor your childish little baby brains, the grown-ups set up voting booths and counted the ballots and everything, knowing perfectly well that your vote had as much say as a 19th century woman's. Half of the kids probably picked the candidate who most looked like a cartoon, or tried to eat the ballot.
Yet, somehow, the Scholastic News election poll has correctly called 15 of the past 17 presidential elections, including every single presidential election since 1964. Their only misses were in 1960, when they picked Richard M. Nixon over John F. Kennedy (in reality Kennedy won the popular vote by a microscopic margin of 49.7 percent to 49.5 percent), and in 1948, when they chose Thomas E. Dewey over Harry S. Truman. And hey, who didn't?
"To be fair, Governor Dewey did win the majority of deez."
"Deez, Mr. President?"
"Deez nuts!"
We suppose you could say that it's all because elementary school kids don't have the balls to vote for anyone other than their parents' favorite candidate ... but would they really mirror the results so perfectly? There are no rebellious kids who go against the grain? There aren't millions of dumb kids who just pick the candidate who most reminds them of their grandpa?
The best part is that Scholastic publishes their results weeks ahead of the actual election. All this jibber-jabbering about polls and hiring fortune tellers to read tea leaves to tell us who will win is pointless. The kids have already spoken. It's going to be Obama. Put a fork in it, we're done here.
The other 4 percent went with Big Bird.


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Mousse cake complements a vegetarian Thanksgiving
|n this image taken on Oct. 15, 2012, lemon pecan mousse cake is shown in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Matthew Mead)
To complement the lighter foods associated with vegetarian Thanksgivings, we decided to come up with a dessert that also leaned to the lighter side of the culinary spectrum. From top to bottom, this lemon pecan mousse cake is airy, with a refreshingly delicate sweetness.
Start to finish: 3 hours (1 hour active)
Servings: 12
For the pecan sponge cake:
5 ounces (1 1/4 cups) pecans, toasted and cooled, plus a few more for garnish
1/2 cup sifted cake flour
3/4 cup sugar, divided
4 eggs, separated
Pinch of salt
For the lemon mousse:
1 tablespoon cornstarch
2/3 cup sugar
4 eggs
2/3 cup lemon juice
Zest of 2 lemons
2 1/2 cups heavy cream
Heat the oven to 350 F. Lightly coat a 9-inch springform pan with baking spray.
In a food processor, combine the pecans, cake flour and 1/4 cup of the sugar. Process until finely ground. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside.
In a medium bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together the egg yolks and another 1/4 cup sugar until thick and pale. Set aside.
In another very clean bowl with a clean whisk, beat together the egg whites, salt and the remaining 1/4 cup sugar until thick and glossy stiff peaks form.
Gently fold the egg yolks and half of the egg whites into the pecan flour. Fold the remaining egg whites in to the mixture until thoroughly but gently combined. Spoon the mixture into the prepared pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean. Set aside, in the pan, to cool completely.
While the cake is baking, begin the mousse. In a medium saucepan, whisk together the cornstarch and sugar, then add the eggs and whisk until smooth. Add the lemon juice and zest, then set over medium heat. Whisking constantly, bring the mixture to a boil; cook until it thickens. If there are any lumps, strain the mixture. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside to cool.
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When ready to serve, run a paring knife around the edge of the pan and loosen the sides. Remove the sides of the springform pan and serve.
Nutrition information per serving: 390 calories; 270 calories from fat (69 percent of total calories); 30 g fat (13 g saturated; 0.5 g trans fats); 190 mg cholesterol; 27 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 19 g sugar; 7 g protein; 80 mg sodium.
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I'm reading a paper (Residuality of Dynamical Morphisms by Burton, Keane and Serafin) that makes a claim that I've been unable to verify or find a reference for. The claim is made that the extreme points of a compact convex set in a locally convex topological vector space form a $G_\delta$ subset of the space.
I've been able to verify it in the specific context of the paper (sets of invariant measures for a continuous transformation of a compact metric space), but in the article they say a general theorem states that the extreme points of a compact convex set form a $G_\delta$. They don't say whose general theorem! I've looked reasonably hard for a suitable reference without success. Can anyone give me any pointers?


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