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|Ian Barry Mune
1941 (age 74–75)
Auckland, New Zealand
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|Josie Pauline Rockel (d. 2015)
Ian Barry Mune OBE (born 1941) is a New Zealand character actor, director, and screenwriter.[1] His screen acting career spans four decades and more than 50 roles. His work as a director includes hit comedy Came a Hot Friday, an adaptation of classic New Zealand play The End of the Golden Weather, and What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?, the sequel to Once Were Warriors.
Mune was born in Auckland, and educated at Wesley College in the same city. In the 1991 New Year Honours he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to the theatre and film industry.[2] He was married to the writer Josie Mune until her death in 2015.[3]
Mune acted on stage while training to be a teacher in Wellington. After time acting in the UK, he returned to his native New Zealand and won a Feltex award in 1975 after starring in one-off television drama Derek. Another award followed for playing Leo Moynihan, the secretary of a trade union in television series Moynihan.
In 1994 Mune won another New Zealand television award after playing Prime Minister Sir Robert Muldoon in television mini-series Fallout, which depicted the end of the Muldoon-led National Government.
He has gone on to appear in a range of New Zealand feature films, including A Song of Good, Savage Honeymoon and I'm Not Harry Jenson. He played Winston Churchill in American telemovie Ike: Countdown to D-Day, and Buster Keaton in Lucy: The Lucille Ball Story.
Directing and writing[edit]
Mune took multiple creative roles on 1976 anthology series Winners and Losers, which saw him collaborating with director Roger Donaldson. The two first collaborated on Derek; Mune directed and wrote some episodes of the new series, and acted in others. Having helped script Donaldson's first feature film, dystopian thriller Sleeping Dogs, Mune also appeared on-screen alongside its star, Sam Neill.
Mune's other writing credits include adapting classic Ian Cross novel The God Boy into a well-regarded telemovie, the movie version of children's fable The Silent One,[4] and co-writing Goodbye Pork Pie, the first New Zealand feature to win large audiences in its home country.
In 1985 he made his feature debut as a director with hit comedy Came a Hot Friday. Based around the escapades of two smalltown conmen in 50s era New Zealand, the film is based on the novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson.
Mune won further acclaim in 1991 for directing 'coming of age' drama The End of the Golden Weather, an adaptation of parts of Bruce Mason's classic one-man play. Mune spent a number of years developing this passion project and seeking finance, working with Mason on the project before Mason died.
What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? won nine of its 13 New Zealand Film Award nominations in 1999. The film is the sequel to hard-edged drama Once Were Warriors, which became New Zealand's most successful feature film soon after release. It remains Mune's biggest commercial success to date.
Mune's other directorial projects include a feature-length documentary on comedian (and Came a Hot Friday actor) Billy T James, teenage drama The Whole of the Moon, and UVF thriller The Grasscutter. For television, he directed episodes of comedy Letter to Blanchy and anthology series The Ray Bradbury Theater. He was one of a large team of second unit directors on Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lord of the Rings and played a small cameo in the first film.
In 2008 Mune directed depression-era telefeature movie Life's A Riot. Mune also had a cameo role as a judge, after the actor cast in the role did not show up.
Mune: An Autobiography was published in 2010.[5]
See also[edit]
- ^ The New York Times
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 52383. p. 30. 31 December 1990. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "Josie Pauline Rockel Mune". New Zealand Herald. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
- ^ "The Silent One". NZ On Screen. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
- ^ Mune, Ian (2010). Mune: An Autobiography. Potton & Burton. p. 328. ISBN 978-1877517334.
External links[edit]
- Ian Mune at the Internet Movie Database
- Ian's Profile and screenography on NZ On Screen


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according to the nlab entry on the Condorcet Paradox in social choice (that is voting preferences may be circular even if voters preferences are not) has a cohomological explanation - what is it?
I think that there is nothing serious - Ghist only noticed the existence of cycles in the set of voted alternatives. If you are interested in algebraic methods of the theory of voting, I advise you to see the results of V.Danilov (e.g., http://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.2888.pdf and previous papers).


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I'm writing a windows service that needs to execute a task (that connects to a central server) every 30 days +- 5 days (it needs to be random). The service will be running on 2000+ client machines, so the randomness is meant to level them out so the server does not get overloaded.
What would be the best way to do this? Currently, I pick a random time between 25 - 35 days since the task last ran and use that.
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Happy Friday the 13th!
February 13, 2009
* It is bad luck to walk under a ladder.
* If a black cat crosses your path you will have bad luck
* If you get a chill up your back or goosebumps, it means that someone is walking over your grave.
* It's bad luck to pick up a coin if it's tails side up. Good luck comes if it's heads up.
* A cricket in the house brings good luck.
* COUNTING CROWS- One's bad, Two's luck, Three's health, Four's wealth, Five's sickness, Six is death.
* Pick a dandelion that has gone to seed. Take a deep breath and blow the seeds into the wind. Count the seeds that remain on the stem. That is the number of children you will have.
* More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor.
Many airports skip the 13th gate.
Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue
* If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names.


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John Cusack stars as Craig, a street puppeteer. His puppets are dark and neurotic creatures, and the public doesn't much like them. Craig's wife, Lotte, runs a pet store, and their home is overrun with animal boarders, most of them deeply disturbed. Lotte is played by Cameron Diaz, one of the best-looking women in movies, who here looks so dowdy we hardly recognize her; Diaz has fun with her talent by taking it incognito to strange places and making it work for a living.
The puppeteer can't make ends meet in "today's wintry job climate." He answers a help-wanted ad and finds himself on floor 7 1/2 of a building. This floor, and how it looks, and why it was built, would be inspiration enough for an entire film or a Monty Python sketch. It makes everything that happens on it funny in an additional way, on top of why it's funny in the first place.
The film is so rich, however, that the floor is merely the backdrop for more astonishments. Craig meets a co-worker named Maxine (Catherine Keener) and lusts for her. She asks, "Are you married?" He says, "Yeah, but enough about me." They go out for a drink. He says "I'm a puppeteer." She says, "Waiter? Check, please." Keener has this way of listening with her lips slightly parted, as if eager to interrupt by deconstructing what you just said and exposing you for the fool that you are.
Behind a filing cabinet on the 7 1/2th floor, Craig finds a small doorway. He crawls through it, and is whisked through some kind of temporal-spatial portal, ending up inside the brain of the actor John Malkovich. Here he stays for exactly 15 minutes, before falling from the sky next to the New Jersey Turnpike.
Whoa! What an experience. Maxine pressures him to turn it into a business, charging people to spend their 15 minutes inside Malkovich. The movie handles this not as a gimmick but as the opportunity for material that is somehow funny and serious, sad and satirical, weird and touching, all at once.
Malkovich himself is part of the magic. He is not playing himself here, but a version of his public image--distant, quiet, droll, as if musing about things that happened long ago and were only mildly interesting at the time. It took some courage for him to take this role, but it would have taken more courage to turn it down. It's a plum.
Why are people so eager to enter his brain? For the novelty, above all. Spend a lifetime being yourself and it would be worth money to spend 15 minutes being almost anybody else. At one point, there's a bit of a traffic jam. Lotte finds herself inside his mind while Maxine is seducing him. Lotte enjoys this experience and decides she wants to become a lesbian, or a man. Whatever it takes. This is hard to explain, but trust me.
The movie just keeps getting better. I don't want to steal the surprises and punch lines. Even a Charlie Sheen cameo is inspired. At one point Malkovich enters himself through his own portal, which is kind of like being pulled down into the black hole of your own personality, and that trip results in one of the most peculiar single scenes I've ever seen in the movies. Orchestrating all this, Cusack's character stays cool; to enter another man's mind is of course the ultimate puppeteering experience.
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Employers sometimes come up with some very specific rules for when and how employees must call in to let their bosses know they will miss work. Sometimes those rules become contracts.
Recent case: Lynn Hovind worked as a home health aide for Bristol Place, a health care provider. After she began working for Bristol Place, Hovind was required to sign a document spelling out how to call in sick. Essentially, the rules required employees to call their supervisor four hours before a scheduled shift, if possible.
Hovind was fired a day after she asked for 17 days off for bronchitis.
Hovind claimed she followed the rules by calling her supervisor, who told her to fill out a form asking for leave. She said her firing violated a contractual right ensured by the rule on calling in sick.
A court let the case go forward to trial. It said the fact that Hovind received the rules after beginning work, had to sign them and continued working after doing so was enough to create a contract under Minnesota law. That meant she could continue her breach-of-contract lawsuit. (Hovind v. Bristol Place, No. 08-597, DC MN, 2008)
Final note: Not sure whether your rules are contractual? Have your attorney review them. He or she may suggest including language explaining that the rules are not a binding contract.
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What If Steve Jobs Had Never Returned to Apple?
Cover Story: Witness one possible reality in this alternate chronicle of the company that reinvented mobile gaming.
teve Jobs' White Whale, excerpted from the March 2014 issue of MOOF!: The Mac Enthusiast Memorial Quarterly Magazine. ©2014 . Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
When Steve Jobs passed away in March 2012, he left behind an impressive curriculum vitae of creative ventures and business decisions. His stake in Pixar rendered him both extraordinary rich and incredibly influential given his role in the company's acquisition by Disney, and NeXT's slow-burn success as an alternative operating system made him a hero to the open-source community. Yet a shadow hovers over Jobs' legacy: Apple Computer, the one that got away.
Jobs cofounded the former Cupertino computer company in the 1970s. For its first decade, Apple defined the personal computer and led the PC revolution. Where IBM touted computers as ungainly business machines, Apple made them approachable, inexpensive, and innately usable. The Apple II offered considerable power, extensibility, and versatility at a reasonable price, while the Macintosh shattered the need for inscrutable computer interfaces. Yet the Mac's birth and early days were fraught with conflict, many of which stemmed directly from Jobs' insistence on perfection at the cost of affordability, and he ultimately found himself ousted from the company he had co-created in a boardroom coup and replaced by soft drink peddler John Sully.
Jobs didn't let any moss gather, rolling from one opportunity to the next. He invested considerable money into a splinter of LucasFilm Ltd.'s Industrial Light and Magic division, the computer animation firm Pixar, which eventually found tremendous success creating its own animated shorts and full-length features like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Jobs also established a new computing company, NeXT, whose advanced Unix-based operating system NeXTSTEP struggled to find an audience while its hardware repeated Macintosh history by being elegant, sophisticated, and impossibly expensive.
In the end, the BeOS won the contract, and Jean-Louis Gassée rejoined Apple as the new Vice President of Software Development. Jobs fumed at being shut out by Apple yet again.
Upon Jobs' departure, his first company struggled to find direction. Eventually, even Apple's single great advantage -- the Mac's elegant graphical interface -- found itself rendered obsolete thanks to Windows 3.1 and its successors. Constant mismanagement derailed multiple ventures to develop a next-generation platform to replace the creaking Mac OS. Virtual gravestones marked with names like Pink, Taligent, Copland, and Rhapsody transformed Apple into a laughingstock.
It was the failure of these projects that nearly brought Jobs back into the fold. By 1996, Apple CEO Gil Amelio finally admitted what outside observers had known for years: Apple simply didn't have the ability to evolve the Mac OS internally. Amelio instead looked to two Apple expatriates for solutions: Jobs and Jean-Louis Gassée, who had himself departed the company in 1990 in order to establish his own software company, Be. In the end, the BeOS won the contract, and Gassée rejoined Apple as the new Vice President of Software Development.
Jobs fumed at being shut out by Apple yet again. Experts generally viewed his company's NeXTSTEP as a superior OS to Gassée's BeOS, but the latter represented a far more kindred spirit to the Mac OS, and its friendliness to the Motorola-developed PowerPC platform were touted as a better fit for the existing Mac lineup. Those in the know, however, suggest a far more political basis for the decision. Amelio was said to be wary of Jobs' legacy and sway over many in the company; while his return to the fold could well have been hailed by the public as a return to form, it could also have been seen as a "return of the king" scenario. Rather than risk a reverse power play, Amelio went with the safer choice. Gassée carried an even greater reputation for a short temper and a high-strung personality than the infamously mercurial Jobs, but there would be no question of who was boss.
Jobs chose to adopt the old adage "Living well is the best revenge," as his personal philosophy; robbed of the chance to take a second crack at running his former company, he redoubled his own projects. NeXTSTEP became a pioneer in the field of open source operating systems; while it's never quite matched the reach of Linux, NeXT's OS thrived among programmers and gave the company's platform considerable reach and mindshare. While NeXTSTEP was buoyed and expanded by legions of hackers the world over, NeXT itself moved in a different direction: Low-cost computers and general interest software. The glossy, expensive NeXT Cube remained as the company's premium product -- the optimal platform on which to run NeXTSTEP and its variants -- but the NeXT mini brought a budget-friendly mindset to the company's lineup.
In stark contrast to Jobs' previous pet projects, the mini comprised an inexpensive, minimal feature set (foregoing even a diskette drive as "obsolete tech" -- a bold move in 1998) and shipped with bright, appealing case colors. About the only similarity it bore to Jobs' previous hardware ventures was an all-in-one integrated design that resembled the original Mac. And while the mini never found massive success, it both inspired internal projects (like the innovative albeit overpriced NeXTPOD music player) and prompted competitors to rethink their approach to computers, sparking a true transition to computing for the masses. NeXT's attempts to reposition the NeXTPOD as a video game system found greater success, in a sense: While the NeXTPOD itself never took off as a gaming device, the modified NeXTSTEP kernel that powers Google's new Android platform has placed Jobs' legacy in more than a million hands. The recent launch of Google's Android Software Marketplace promises to brings games and other applications to the U.S. mobile market at last, though the Android platform faces considerable competition from foreign platforms like GREE, N-Gage, and Softbank, which hail from countries like Japan and Sweden, whose mobile infrastructure is years ahead of America's.
When Jobs passed away two years ago, he managed to outlive the company he had built and which twice rejected him by more a couple of years. Apple folded in March 2010 after making an unsuccessful bid to jump ship to the mobile phone market.
By contrast, Apple found itself briefly reenergized upon Gassée's return but proved unable to sustain the momentum provided by the move to its long-delayed next-generation OS. The PPC chip set that powered Macs began to fall behind as Motorola shifted the processor's development roadmap from desktops to integrated devices. By 2005, Motorola effectively shut down its desktop chip development. While Apple attempted to apply pressure to force its partner to continue providing viable product, Apple's own continued inability to keep down hardware prices and maintain speed parity with Intel's chip lineup had eroded the Mac platform to a 2% marketshare, giving them little leverage with Motorola.
Despite some rumblings of a shift to Intel platforms, Gassée -- who had taken over Amelio's CEO role several years prior -- was said to be averse to moving to "inferior" hardware. In 2006, Apple sold the Macintosh name to Power Computing, whose line of licensed Mac clones had outsold Apple's own offerings for three consecutive years. In Power Computing's hands, the Mac lives on as a boutique brand for hardcore fans and design agencies reluctant to change platforms -- though Macromedia may force their hand next year when their industry-standard Photoshop and Indesign apps ship for the first time with no Mac version. Despite the protests of long-time users, Macromedia has stated quite firmly that there's no profit to be made in supporting a platform that sells less than 25,000 new units per year.
When Jobs passed away two years ago, he managed to outlive the company he had built and which twice rejected him by more a couple of years. Apple folded in March 2010 after making an unsuccessful bid to jump ship to the mobile phone market. The fruits of this venture -- a collaboration with unwelcome bedfellows Motorola -- amount to a handful of sleek, elegant devices with too few features and too large a price tag: Classic Apple, in other words.
One can only wonder how differently things might have turned out if Jobs had won out over Gassée. Could he have saved Apple with the ideas that never quite found traction at NeXT, or would his ventures have vanished beneath the waves even more quickly shackled to a company already on its way down? While Jobs never expressed any regret or loss for his estrangement in interviews, his openly critical remarks about Gassée's handling (or mishandling, as it were) of Apple over the years suggest the wound never quite healed.
In reality, Steve Jobs did return to Apple... and not only did he save the company (widely seen as doom as its stock plunged to $10 per share in the late '90s) he turned it into the most valuable in the world. It almost didn't happen, though; Jobs played the role of dark horse candidate when Apple went shopping for a framework to power its next-gen OS. Jean-Louis Gassée's BeOS stood as the front-runner up to the 11th hour. How differently would things have turned out had Gil Amelio traveled the other road? Consider that iOS drove mobile gaming into the American mainstream and eventually leapfrogged mobile platforms that had been entrenched in other countries for a decade.
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WellPosted: May 25, 2012 12:00AM PST by alexthe
Probably could have shortended the article, though it was very good.
The short of it is, they would be in a shitty state because they never had the great idea to release the same hardware over and over and over again with minimal updates while marketing it to hipsters and douchebags who convince themselves the products are better than everyone elses because you spent more money on it.
Did you guys just get bored reporting gaming news?Posted: May 25, 2012 12:00AM PST by JezuitX
I imagined maybe one or two of these, but you guys are going nuts with these alternate things. Maybe space them out or something so it doesn't look like you're an "alternate reality" website.
What if 1up posted new info before E3?Posted: May 25, 2012 12:00AM PST by Rennik_Repotsir
We would see front page articles of new DoA5 renders... :/