MAD CITY
John Travolta was originally given the role of the reporter in MAD CITY but fortunately he opted for being Sam, the bewildered security guard at a local art museum. The brash reporter, Max Brackett, belongs to Dustin Hoffman who does a bang up job.
How many times have we witnessed a reporter shoving a microphone in the face of an injured person being carried to an ambulance, asking "How did you feel when you learned you lost your leg?" How many times have we seen a TV News crew on the front steps of the home of bereaved parents, asking them, "What was your first reaction when you learned your little daughter had been killed by a hit and run driver?" The point of MAD CITY, is that the story comes first, the reporter wanting to milk the situation for as long as he can. His exposure on the small screen is the name of the game.
Max, formerly with a network, has been banished to a small station at the behest of the big city anchor, Kevin Hollander (Alan Alda) who did not like frequently being upstaged by Max. To keep Max in tow, the station's manager, Lou Potts, (Robert Prosky) assigns him to cover a small story about finances at the local art museum. He assigns a young, pretty woman, Laurie (Mia Kirshner) to assist Max.
Best laid plans and all of that, while covering this non-story, Sam, who had been fired by the art director Mrs. Banks (Blythe Danner) for drinking a bit too much at the museum's party, comes by to demand his job back. When Mrs. Banks says she will not rehire him, the naive young man pulls a gun which he had no intention of ever using but brought to the museum along with some sticks of dynamite thinking to scare Mrs. Banks into giving him back his job. He has seen too much TV and has been led to believe that this is how you get your job back.
In the museum are a couple of dozen children on a tour. They are now hostages. So far, that is enough to land SAM in a lot of trouble but when the gun accidentally goes off and he shoots a fellow guard, the stakes skyrocket. Witnessing in an adjacent room is Max who whispers on the connection to Laurie to alert the station that they have a major hostage situation. The bigger the tragedy, the better the story; it is as simple as that.
MAD CITY then goes on to show Max discovered and coming out of hiding, befriends Sam whom he advises. But all the time, he really does not want the drama to end too soon; not before he can again become nationally known. The big city anchor, Hollander, wants to dump Max and turn this major event into his story. He promises Max that if the story is turned over to him, he will see that Max is returned to big time.
Both Travolta and Hoffman are utterly believable. Sam. bewildered, not meaning to hurt anyone, just wanting his job back . . . and Max orchestrating the proceedings to prolong the drama.
There is a delightful punch line delivered by Laurie to Max at the film's end but you will have to hear it for yourselves.
Directed by Costa Gavras.
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For example, consider a relationship involving the following two structures and keys:
Structure A Structure B
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Usage
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IMPORTANT NOTE
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Alternate forms
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See also
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The warm water here is blue. You heard me, blue. Not murky like what we’re used to seeing at East Coast Park.
That makes this place perfect for snorkeling especially since it is teeming with biodiversity. Some of Singapore’s
richest coral reefs reside here.
Besides snorkelling and swimming in clean waters, visitors can picnic under shady palm trees or even apply for a camp
permit here! Additionally, NParks has designed Sisters Islands to be a marine park as of July 2014, which means there
will be free guided tours here. Do not miss this out as dolphins(!!!) have been sighted here!
Check out the photojournal from Sisters Islands here.
The exterior of this temple projects sheer majestic elegance inspired by the Tang dynasty. It's still a place
of worship, so you'll be in for a cultural experience as you get to see devotees chanting in the large hall on
the ground level. The head monks pay no attention to you as they lead their procession.
Buddha’s Tooth Temple draws Buddhist devotees from all over the world because it houses an alleged tooth from Siddharta
Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, located at the top level. Simple vegetarian fare is served for free here too, although
donations are welcomed.
You can walk here from either Chinatown MRT or Tanjong Pagar MRT and it is just opposite Maxwell Market.
288 South Bridge Rd, S058840
Be rewarded with gorgeous views of the flora, fauna, and cityscape as you start trekking upwards from the foot
of Mount Faber. Bits and pieces of Singapore and her history come to life at the stretch of copper-tooled murals
beneath the summit’s platform. Trudge on a little more and brace yourself for a breathtaking bird’s eye view of Singapore’s
skyline at the peak! Mental note to self: Stop procrastinating and start some intense leg work already.
Mount Faber Park
Movie Mob gives you the best old-school outdoor movie experience you can dream of. The drive-in concept and
picnic events are popular among those in the community.
Screenings take place at different locations all across Singapore. Plus, you get to vote for the movie you want
to watch! I say this beats having to shell out about $12 for a weekend movie ticket at the cinema.
Get your adrenaline pumping as you mountain-bike your way through 6km of fun and thrills. The Bukit Timah Mountain Bike
Trail has recently undergone restoration works so it is now much safer for bikers to embark on their adventure. With vigorous
climbs and downhill slopes, this trail is perfect for the more experienced bikers.
Getting Here: The 2 preferred starting points are at the Visitor Centre Carpark at Hindhede Road, and at the Dairy Farm Car Park.
Find out more here.
Be awestruck as thoughts like ‘how do they survive here?’, ‘OMG, does rainwater get into their homes?’ and
‘here got wifi anot?’ dance around your head once you set foot in Kampong Lorong Buangkok. This is the kind of
space that young Singaporeans have never seen.
Getting Here: The Kampong is located near Gerald Drive off Yio Chu Kang Road.
Read about our journalist's full experience at Kampung Lorong Buangkok when we visited the area earlier this year here.


title=Doing the Maven Dependency Dance for Spring Android Projects date=2013-09-17 type=post tags=blog status=published ~~~~~~
Roy Clarkson (@royclarkson) and I gave a talk at SpringOne2GX 2013 in which we talked about building REST services with an eye towards consuming those services on mobile platforms like Android and iOS. This talk demonstrates the progressive evolution of an application using Spring MVC, Spring HATEOAS, Spring Data REST, Spring Security, Spring Security OAuth, and Spring Android. The code's benefited from a lot of help from Rob Winch,
The code for the talk is on my GitHub account (github.com/joshlong/the-spring-rest-stack). Importantly, the code lives in the code
directory. Beneath that there are two choices: web
(where you'll find the rest
, hateoas
, hateoas-data
, and oauth
, social
modules) and client
(where you can load the Android module and the iOS module). The modules in the web
folder in respective order, demonstrate the evolution of a simple REST service which incorporates hypermedia, Spring Data repositories and OAuth security. The social
module demonstrates how to build an OAuth client that consumes the service.
The project is all, at the moment, Maven based, though moving to Gradle seems imminent as that is the Google-endorsed route for Android builds. I know the Android client to be importable and buildable using IntelliJ IDEA's Android support (which in theory should work in Android Studio, which is freely available).
We used up-to-date revisions of major libraries in our build file, linked for reference. Up-to-date and sometimes bleeding edge. The Android application uses the Spring Android project, which - basically - provides an API compatible implementation of the RestTemplate
found in Spring core.
It does not however provide the entire framework, and if you bring in certain libraries from the core you'll get weird issues because some classes in the Spring Android modules are mostly the same in Spring Android and in the core, but they're not identical, due to the differing natures of the environments in which they run. The easiest way to ensure everything's OK is to explicitly exclude all Spring modules except the Spring Android dependencies then, selectively, re-introduce the types as you need them.
The types in the Spring Android RestTemplate module provides more than enough compatibility to let Spring Social's client machinery work unchanged on Android. This, of course, means that we can use the Spring Social-powered OAuth client in the social
module in our Android application. Awesome!
For example, while I needed the Spring Social core types and implementations, I didn't need the core Spring libraries that it brought in.  Use the mvn dependency:tree
command to see where things are being imported transitively. Spring Security, another library whose top level types we wanted on the CLASSPATH
, also required exclusion
elements because it drags in Spring core.
Any class that's not in Android's JDK-class whitelist is not available on Android and thus renders code that depends on it incompatible. Some classes, like those in the JAXB module, are hard to ignore as they're pervasive. I wanted to use the Spring HATEOAS Resource
, Link
, types. These types are used as representations of various entities in REST responses that are sometimes rendered as XML using JAXB, they could not be loaded in Android! So, I had to copy those types locally and mirror the package structure and remove the offending annotations. Hopefully I can clean this up going forward.


This project was about redesign/improvement of existing Ground-penetrating radar hardware and software, which at the starting point was inconvenient to use. The reason for this inconvenience was that for operation it required an external PC and battery. The software was outdated and needed a lot of improvements/bugfixes along with adaptations to handle touchscreen input
The first part of work was getting rid of the need to use external equipment to operate, so existing electronics were moved to the new case where complete battery along with PC(in an industrial panel format, running Windows OS) was embedded
Orginal software utilized Swing Library for UI and JNI for communication with the hardware layer. It needed adaptations to new hardware along with a lot of bugfixes and UX improvements.
In operation, after improvements were done:


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To engage FP volunteers, FP fellows had organised calls for both the shelters, the purpose of which was to break the ice and create bonding between the volunteers of the same vertical and shelter home. They discussed important components on the call, shared their personal stories that FP volunteers and mentors had with the kids, this helped the volunteers become more connected to the cause and interacted with one another. Before the main call, an entire week was planned to create hype on the Whatsapp group. From MAD bingo to meme the picture and much more, the volunteers were all hyped up before the call! Both the calls were a super hit!


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