THE FIFTH ELEMENT A film review by Michael John Legeros Copyright 1997 Michael John Legeros
(Columbia) Directed by Luc Besson Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen Cast Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Luke Perry MPAA Rating "PG-13" Running Time 127 minutes Reviewed at General Cinemas at Pleasant Valley, Raleigh, NC (02MAY97)
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Here's a topic that will be debated on the newsgroups for the rest of the summer: is Luc Besson's spectacular sci-fi action/comedy/ love story the most visually arresting film of the decade? Could be. Think BLADE RUNNER meets BRAZIL in this magnificently multi-colored, multi- cultural vision of the 23rd century. Every image is an eye-popper and not just the flying taxies or futuristic cityscapes. Costumes, make-up, even the smallest set decorations are stunning. And yet, the special effects-- the most seamless blend of mattes, models, and computer animation that I can recall-- never once threaten to overpower the narrative.
Yeah, there's a plot. Former fighter pilot-turned-New York cabbie Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) saves the life of an orange-haired beauty (actress/model/recording artist Milla Jovovich), who is actually an alien super-weapon, once stored on Earth, then removed from Earth, then *returned* to Earth, to save the Earth from an approaching, planet- sized, super-duper-evil-and-with-a-cherry-on-top menace. So far? Now, to be activated, she (it?) requires the presence of four sacred stones, which she doesn't have, and which a villainous industrialist (Gary Oldman, bucktoothed and brandishing an outlandish Southern accent) is also trying to get. Got it?
Based on a story that Besson started when he was sixteen, THE FIFTH ELEMENT is likely to be the most cryptic of the summer blockbuster wannabes. (Actually, it's a French film that's been several years in the making. Does that qualify as standard summer fare?) Only the slightest explanation is offered for the movie's major events, though, admittedly, anyone with even a *modest* sense of sci-fi can extrapolate what's what and which end is up. The smaller story details, however, are another matter. Besson and Robert Mark Kamen's screenplay relies heavily upon coincidence and that's all fine and dandy until you try to think about it. (I tried to make detailed sense of the plot and track who was where and how they got there and almost had a brain hemorrhage in the process.)
Okay, so you may not understand even *half* of the story. That's fine. THE FIFTH ELEMENT entertains in so many, many other ways. Nearly every character, for example, gets their turn at playing comic relief. (So much comic relief that some scenes border on slapstick.) Ian Holm, the ass-biter from BIG NIGHT, is very funny as a high priest who's also the alien's contact person on Earth. Later scenes with Gary Oldman are often a howl, while latecomer Chris Tucker is a hyperactive scene- stealer as the flamboyant radio personality Ruby Rhod. (Imagine, if you can, a cross between Dennis Rodman and the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. And then try not to scream.)
At the end, Besson attempts to get serious with statements about war and violence and man's bottom-line need for love. The resulting shift in tone, however, is too abrupt and turns the finale into a fizzle. (The sequence also feels rushed and the accompanying special effects are hardly special. This is a movie that needs a *big* finish, which we don't get, and which may be on purpose.) I suspect that Besson intended to end on a different note. Maybe something more sentimental than visceral. Maybe a tug at the heart instead of a kick in the 'nads. Had he paid more attention to plot comprehensibility, and not required the viewer to work *quite* so hard to play along, we might've even felt it.
Grade: B+
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DESIRE A film review by Jeff Meyer Copyright 1988 Jeff Meyer
The following film concluded William K. Everson's "Hollywood and the Code" series.
DESIRE (USA, 1936) Producer: Ernst Lubitsch Director: Frank Borzage Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, John Halliday, William Frawley, Akim Tamiroff, Ernest Cossart, Alan Mowbray, Zeffie Tilbury
When watching old films, every once in a while you come across a real gem; sometimes it's one that has been remarked upon, like BRINGING UP BABY, and sometimes it comes out of the blue. Here's one of the latter, a romantic comedy which is a pleasure to sit through, and a star combination (Cooper and Dietrich) which is dazzling to watch. It was picked for the "Hollywood Code" series due to its producer's ability to weave innuendo with innocence; in a film that deals with a jewel thief's attempts to smuggle pearls, it's ironic to see how Lubitsch smuggles Cooper into Dietrich's bedroom, and gets her off scott-free at the end, even though she is definitely a con artist throughout the film. It's a pleasure to watch -- it's clear that the two have been sleeping together, but any attempts by the censorship board to bring it up would have looked foolish; Lubitsch's genius is how he made it appear that the censors had dirty minds!
A brief synopsis (I wouldn't want to spoil it for you): The opening shows how jewel thief Dietrich pulls off an immensely amusing heist of a pearl necklace. On the run to Spain, she runs into (literally) Gary Cooper, a Detroit automobile engineer who is taking two weeks vacation in Spain before returning to the U.S. Of course, they fall for each other, but there are some nasty people after Dietrich on both sides of the law, and it's up to ol' Montana Gary to get the lil' lady out of it.
A surprise and a treat; look for it on the late show. Worth a video viewing as well.
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Page caching is an approach to caching where the entire action output of is stored as a HTML file that the web server can serve without going through Action Pack. This is the fastest way to cache your content as opposed to going dynamically through the process of generating the content. Unfortunately, this incredible speed-up is only available to stateless pages where all visitors are treated the same. Content management systems — including weblogs and wikis — have many pages that are a great fit for this approach, but account-based systems where people log in and manipulate their own data are often less likely candidates.
Specifying which actions to cache is done through the caches_page class method:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base caches_page :show, :new end
This will generate cache files such as weblog/show/5.html and weblog/new.html, which match the URLs used to trigger the dynamic generation. This is how the web server is able pick up a cache file when it exists and otherwise let the request pass on to Action Pack to generate it.
Expiration of the cache is handled by deleting the cached file, which results in a lazy regeneration approach where the cache is not restored before another hit is made against it. The API for doing so mimics the options from url_for and friends:
class WeblogController < ActionController::Base def update List.update(params[:list][:id], params[:list]) expire_page :action => "show", :id => params[:list][:id] redirect_to :action => "show", :id => params[:list][:id] end end
Additionally, you can expire caches using Sweepers that act on changes in the model to determine when a cache is supposed to be expired.
Manually cache the content in the key determined by options. If no content is provided, the contents of response.body is used If no options are provided, the requested url is used. Example:
cache_page "I'm the cached content", :controller => "lists", :action => "show"
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# File vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb, line 131 131: def cache_page(content = nil, options = nil) 132: return unless perform_caching && caching_allowed 133: 134: path = case options 135: when Hash 136: url_for(options.merge(:only_path => true, :skip_relative_url_root => true, :format => params[:format])) 137: when String 138: options 139: else 140: request.path 141: end 142: 143: self.class.cache_page(content || response.body, path) 144: end
Expires the page that was cached with the options as a key. Example:
expire_page :controller => "lists", :action => "show"
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# File vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching/pages.rb, line 112 112: def expire_page(options = {}) 113: return unless perform_caching 114: 115: if options.is_a?(Hash) 116: if options[:action].is_a?(Array) 117: options[:action].dup.each do |action| 118: self.class.expire_page(url_for(options.merge(:only_path => true, :skip_relative_url_root => true, :action => action))) 119: end 120: else 121: self.class.expire_page(url_for(options.merge(:only_path => true, :skip_relative_url_root => true))) 122: end 123: else 124: self.class.expire_page(options) 125: end 126: end


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public final class TryAsyncBuilder extends java.lang.Object
It is a thread builder that assists in creating structured threads to simulate a set of try-catch-finally or try-with-resources blocks.
Example without resources
@Test public void shouldSayHello() throws InterruptedException { final StringBuilder message = new StringBuilder(); final RunnableWithException sayHello = () -> { message.append("Hello "); throw new Exception("Just a test"); }; // try { // message.append("Hello "); // throw new Exception("Just a test"); // } catch (final Exception e) { // message.append("world"); // } finally { // message.append("!"); // } tryAsync(sayHello) .addCatcher(Exception.class,exception -> message.append("world")) .addFinalizer(() -> message.append("!")) .execute(); Thread.sleep(1000); Assert.assertEquals("Hello world!",message.toString()); }
Example with I/O
@Test public void shouldWriteHello() throws IOException { final Path tempPath = Files.createTempFile("hello", ".txt"); final File tempFile = new File(tempPath.toString()); final FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(tempFile); final String fileContent = "Hello world!"; // try (final FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(tempFile)) { // fileWriter.write(fileContent); // fileWriter.flush(); // } catch (final Exception e) { // ... // } tryAsync(fileWriter, f -> { fileWriter.write(fileContent); fileWriter.flush(); }).execute(); final String content = Files.readAllLines(tempPath).get(0); Assert.assertEquals(fileContent, content); }
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All Methods Static Methods Concrete Methods Modifier and Type Method Description static ResourcesTryAsyncBuilder
tryAsync(ResourcesConsumer attemptedExecution, java.io.Closeable... resources)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-with-resources block code.
The try-with-resources block will be simulated through a thread that will execute a consumer receiving a closeable object as a parameter.static RunnableTryAsyncBuilder
tryAsync(RunnableWithException execution)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-catch block code.static ResourceTryAsyncBuilder
tryAsync(java.io.Closeable closeable, ResourceConsumer attemptedExecution)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-with-resources block code.
The try-with-resources block will be simulated through a thread that will execute a consumer receiving a closeable object as a parameter.static <T> CallableTryAsyncBuilder<T>
tryAsync(java.util.concurrent.Callable<T> callable, java.util.function.Consumer<T> resultConsumer)
This creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-catch block code.static MappedResourcesTryAsyncBuilder
tryAsync(java.util.Map<java.lang.Object,java.io.Closeable> closeableMap, ResourcesMapConsumer attemptedExecution)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-with-resources block code.
The try-with-resources block will be simulated through a thread that will execute a consumer receiving a closeable object as a parameter.
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public static RunnableTryAsyncBuilder tryAsync(RunnableWithException execution)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-catch block code.- Parameters:
execution
- The Runnable interface should be implemented by any class whose instances are intended to be executed by a thread. The class must define a method of no arguments called run.- Returns:
- A thread constructor with a defined thread implementation.
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tryAsync
public static <T> CallableTryAsyncBuilder<T> tryAsync(java.util.concurrent.Callable<T> callable, java.util.function.Consumer<T> resultConsumer)
This creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-catch block code.- Type Parameters:
T
- The type of the object resulting from the execution of the thread.- Parameters:
callable
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- The consumer for the thread's execution result.- Returns:
- A thread constructor with a defined thread implementation and an implementation of a consumer for the object resulting from the thread's execution.
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public static ResourceTryAsyncBuilder tryAsync(java.io.Closeable closeable, ResourceConsumer attemptedExecution)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-with-resources block code.
The try-with-resources block will be simulated through a thread that will execute a consumer receiving a closeable object as a parameter. The consumer of the closeable object will be the only implementation executed within the thread, so this implementation represents the try block of a set of try-with-resources blocks. After the thread runs the closeable object will be closed. Any exception (which extends theException
class) that occurs within the execution (implementation) of the thread, will be encapsulated in theAsyncRuntimeException
class.- Parameters:
closeable
- A Closeable is a source or destination of data that can be closed. The close method is invoked to release resources that the object is holding (such as open files). This parameter corresponds to the declaration of one or more items within the try-with-resources block, which will later be automatically closed.attemptedExecution
- The implementation of a consumer that will consume an implementation of a Closeable.- Returns:
- A thread constructor with a defined thread implementation.
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tryAsync
public static ResourcesTryAsyncBuilder tryAsync(ResourcesConsumer attemptedExecution, java.io.Closeable... resources)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-with-resources block code.
The try-with-resources block will be simulated through a thread that will execute a consumer receiving a closeable object as a parameter. The consumer of the closeable object will be the only implementation executed within the thread, so this implementation represents the try block of a set of try-with-resources blocks. After the thread runs the closeable object will be closed. Any exception (which extends theException
class) that occurs within the execution (implementation) of the thread, will be encapsulated in theAsyncRuntimeException
class.- Parameters:
attemptedExecution
- The implementation of a consumer that will consume implementations of a Closeable.resources
- A Closeable is a source or destination of data that can be closed. The close method is invoked to release resources that the object is holding (such as open files). This parameter corresponds to the declaration of one or more items within the try-with-resources block, which will later be automatically closed.- Returns:
- A thread constructor with a defined thread implementation.
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tryAsync
public static MappedResourcesTryAsyncBuilder tryAsync(java.util.Map<java.lang.Object,java.io.Closeable> closeableMap, ResourcesMapConsumer attemptedExecution)
It creates a new thread builder that supports creating threads that are structured to simulate a try-with-resources block code.
The try-with-resources block will be simulated through a thread that will execute a consumer receiving a closeable object as a parameter. The consumer of the closeable object will be the only implementation executed within the thread, so this implementation represents the try block of a set of try-with-resources blocks. After the thread runs the closeable object will be closed. Any exception (which extends theException
class) that occurs within the execution (implementation) of the thread, will be encapsulated in theAsyncRuntimeException
class.- Parameters:
closeableMap
- A Closeable is a source or destination of data that can be closed. The close method is invoked to release resources that the object is holding (such as open files). This parameter corresponds to the declaration of one or more items within the try-with-resources block, which will later be automatically closed.attemptedExecution
- The implementation of a consumer that will consume implementations of a Closeable.- Returns:
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Capsule Reviews A film review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1997 Scott Renshaw
McHALE'S NAVY (Universal) Starring: Tom Arnold, Tim Curry, David Alan Grier, Dean Stockwell, Debra Messing, Bruce Campbell, Brian Haley, French Stewart. Screenplay: Peter Crabbe. Producers: Sid, Bill and Jon Scheinberg. Director: Bryan Spicer. MPAA Rating: PG (profanity, adult themes)
Here's the good news: Tom Arnold may never, _ever_ be allowed to make a movie again after McHALE'S NAVY. Here's the bad news: everything else. McHALE follows SGT. BILKO and DOWN PERISCOPE as the best arguments yet for military down-sizing, trotting out the same tired cliches -- unorthodox heroes, inept commanding officers, officious little weasels getting trampled by the zany crew -- which haven't been funny since...well, ever. Arnold plays Quinton McHale, the lovable oaf of a retired naval officer who bootlegs, but also donates to hospitals and poor kids, so we know he's really a stand-up guy; Tim Curry plays his arch-enemy, who bares his teeth so much that his dentist should get a screen credit. Curry wants to do something-or-other involving a military satellite, and it's up to McHale's crew to prevent it, or at least wander around for a while getting into trouble until the something-or-other doesn't happen. If you last the whole 105 minutes, you will experience a few explosions, a bar fight, the visage of Ernest Borgnine looking as though it were already preserved in formaldehyde, kids in peril, pigs in peril, and the criminal waste of Bruce Campbell's eccentric talents. You should also get some sort of pension; you may be having flashbacks of this one for years.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 service errors: 1.
FOLLOW ME HOME (New Millenia) Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Jesse Borrego, Steve Reevis, Calvin Levels, Alfre Woodard. Screenplay: Peter Bratt. Producers: Alan Renshaw, Irene Romero, Peter Bratt, Benjamin Bratt. Director: Peter Bratt. MPAA Rating: Not Rated (could be R for profanity, violence, drug use and adult themes)
There's just no way around it: FOLLOW ME HOME is a really, really, really, really -- there just aren't enough "reallys" to do it justice -- bizarre film experience. The story concerns four mural artists -- Tudee (Jesse Borrego), Abel (Benjamin Bratt), Freddy (Steve Reevis) and Kaz (Calvin Revels) -- who set out from California on a guerrilla mission to paint a mural on the White House depicting the history of people of color in America. Along the way, they pick up a woman (Alfre Woodard) with a secret, and encounter a group of history enthusiasts with a desire to return to a very white version of America. It's not entirely appropriate to think of FOLLOW ME HOME as a failed experiment, because it's not exactly a failure. There are some impressive performances, particularly by Benjamin Bratt as the wild and troubled Abel, and writer/director Peter Bratt constantly keeps the audience off-balance with a surreal, dream-like atmosphere and characters who are never as predictable as you think they might be. But FOLLOW ME HOME is ambitious to a fault, attempting to tackle every racial, ethnic and gender stereotype in existence in one film. The result is a film which has as its only focus the fact that it is iconoclastic, 200 years of history given a whirlwind revisionist spin in 102 minutes. When the climax involves a group chant of The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight," it's hard not to wonder if Bratt has been spinning so hard that he's gotten too dizzy to recognize absurdity. FOLLOW ME HOME is an admirable project, sometimes intriguing but just as deeply confused and fragmented as the America Peter Bratt is trying to portray.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 culture shocks: 5.
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return an array (or iarray) r such that where mask[i]==1, r[i]=a[i], otherwise r[i]=b[i].
Construct a new array from elements of x that correspond to where the mask is true. ntrue is an optional parameter equal to the number of true elements of mask. If not given, then pack will count the true elements of mask. Give this parameter if you are using the same mask in multiple pack statements.
Return the running sum of mask.
return [0..size-1]
generate a list of index values, with each number appearing in the list according to the value passed in its position. For example, if x={0,0,1,2,0,1} then the output from this function will be {3,4,4,6}
Perform lognormal variation of the components of a, with
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Joanna and I are headed up to Northern Ireland today, Lydia (Joanna’s sister) is getting married. Today I was working on some Java code I wrote a few years ago to parse a Newick formatted phylogenetic tree. Whilst it is fresh in my mind, I thought I’d write a quick post - also the bus takes ages!!
A phylogenetic tree, describing the ancestral relationships between a set of nucleotide sequences, can be stored can be stored in a Newick format. A detailed description of this format can be found here. The Newick format looks like this:
In the above diagram, each node of the phylogenetic tree can be represented as a simple string of characters (brackets, tip names, and branch lengths). Each string of characters details what is below the node. The string of characters (or label) for the root node (at the base of the rooted phylogenetic tree) describes the entire phylogenetic tree.
So that means, the whole phylogenetic tree can be stored using only the root label:
(B:3, (C:1, (A:1, D:2):2):1);
My Java program (I’m still improving it, but it is available here) is designed to read this format and store the phylogenetic tree as a set of traversable (easy to move among) nodes. The trick to doing this, is in counting your brackets!!
An amazingly simple (in hindsight) format that was developed in the 1980s and remains the standard phylogenetic tree format today. Perfect timing, that’s the bus just pulling into Belfast.


This helper function should be invoked to provide values for the namesake
node_aes
argument, which is present in any function where nodes are
created.
node_aes(shape = NULL, style = NULL, penwidth = NULL, color = NULL, fillcolor = NULL, fontname = NULL, fontsize = NULL, fontcolor = NULL, peripheries = NULL, height = NULL, width = NULL, x = NULL, y = NULL, group = NULL, tooltip = NULL, xlabel = NULL, URL = NULL, sides = NULL, orientation = NULL, skew = NULL, distortion = NULL, gradientangle = NULL, fixedsize = NULL, labelloc = NULL, margin = NULL)
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| penwidth | the thickness of the stroke line (in pt units) for the node
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| color | the color of the node's outline. Can be any of the named colors
that R knows about (obtained using the |
| fillcolor | the color with which to fill the shape of the node. Can be
any of the named colors that R knows about (obtained using the
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| fontname | the name of the system font that will be used for any node text. |
| fontsize | the point size of the font used for any node text. |
| fontcolor | the color used for any node text. Can be any of the named
colors that R knows about (obtained using the |
| peripheries | the repeated number of node shapes (of increasing size) to draw at the node periphery. |
| height | the height of the node shape, in inches. The default value is
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| width | the width of the node shape, in inches. The default value is
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| x | the fixed position of the node in the x direction. Any integer-based or floating point value will be accepted. |
| y | the fixed position of the node in the y direction. Any integer-based or floating point value will be accepted. |
| group | the node group. |
| tooltip | text for a node tooltip. |
| xlabel | External label for a node. The label will be placed outside of the node but near it. These labels are added after all nodes and edges have been placed. The labels will be placed so that they do not overlap any node or label. This means it may not be possible to place all of them. |
| URL | a URL to associate with a node. Upon rendering the plot, clicking nodes with any associated URLs will open the URL in the default browser. |
| sides | when using the shape |
| orientation | this is the angle, in degrees, that is used to rotate
nodes that have a |
| skew | a |
| distortion | a distortion factor that is used only when a |
| gradientangle | the path angle for the node color fill gradient. |
| fixedsize | if set to |
| labelloc | sets the vertical placement of labels for nodes and clusters.
This attribute is used only when the height of the node is larger than the
height of its label. The |
| margin | sets the amount of space around the node's label. By default,
the value is |
# Create a new graph and add # a path with several node # aesthetic attributes graph <- create_graph() %>% add_path( n = 3, type = "path", node_aes = node_aes( shape = "circle", x = c(1, 3, 2), y = c(4, -1, 3))) # View the graph's internal # node data frame; the node # aesthetic attributes have # been inserted graph %>% get_node_df()#> id type label shape x y #> 1 1 path 1 circle 1 4 #> 2 2 path 2 circle 3 -1 #> 3 3 path 3 circle 2 3


CITY OF ANGELS A film review by Matt Williams
RATING: * * 1/2* out of * * * *
Angels are a hot pop-culture item right now. So it was only a matter of time before someone got around to making an adaptation of Wim Wenders' film Wings of Desire, about an angel who falls in love with a mortal. Although not a perfect film, City of Angels is perhaps the best Hollywood could do with the story.
Seth (Nicholas Cage) is an angel. He spends his days wandering the earth, with his other angelic kin (including Cassiel, played by Andre Braugher), observing humanity unseen, and helping to comfort mankind. One of the duties of the angels is to accompany the recently deceased to heaven. Obviously, a popular haunt for the angels then are hospitals, and it is there where Seth meets Maggie.
Maggie (Meg Ryan) is a heart surgeon, struggling with the concept of mortality. Even if she does everything right...sometimes she still loses her patients. She begins to lose hope...
But then Seth decides to make himself seen to Maggie. He finds himself falling in love with her, and must decide whether or not to make the ultimate sacrifice: give up being an angel for the brief passion of being human.
Only loosely based on Wings of Desire, City of Angels has a stronger emotional core, but can't hope to match the former film's superb visual style. Still, though, City of Angels does create some interesting visuals, but some of them are unintentionally creepy. The legions of black clad angels can't help but to recall the strangers of Dark City.
But perhaps the biggest difference between the film is the schlock-factor. The film's new age attitudes range from cute to cuter. Towards the end, the film struggles to grasp some important topics...but the film has never attained the weight needed to deal with anything of substance.
City of Angels also suffers from occasional bouts of misdirection (from director Brad Silberling). The most notable example occurs in its final act, where a critical error treats the audience contemptibly.  As a result the emotional climax of the film is muted and loses its depth of meaning. Still, the point of the movie is made, if a bit heavy-handedly.
Nicolas Cage plays most of the film with blinkless moist eyes, but is given a chance to stretch near the end of the film. Meg Ryan's role is very familiar. Her Maggie is a minor variation on her staple "romantic comedy character", seen in everything from When Harry Met Sally to Sleepless in Seattle. But the film never quite explains a central question: Why does Maggie fall for Seth? His initial appearances seem rather eerie and disturbing...perhaps a little more development would have been able to explain things.
The supporting cast does a good job here. Andre Braugher does a good job as Seth's angelic partner. But the true scene stealer here is Dennis Franz as Nathaniel Messenger, one of Maggie's patients who has keen insights into how the world really works.
City of Angels is far from subtle, hitting you over the head with everything from passion to pathos. You may not respond as strongly as the film intends you to, but it does have its moments.
Copyright 1998 Matt Williams
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Section: FreeRADIUS Daemon (1)
Updated: 23 February 2001
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NAME
radwho - show online users
SYNOPSIS
radwho
[-d
raddb_directory]
[-l]
[-h]
[-f]
[-n]
[-s]
[-i]
[-p]
[-c]
[-r]
DESCRIPTION
The FreeRADIUS server can be configured to maintain an active session
database in a file called radutmp. This utility shows the
content of that session database.
OPTIONS
- -d raddb_directory
-
The directory that contains the RADIUS configuration files. Defaults to
/etc/raddb.
- -l
-
Show local shell users too. In this case, radwho reads the
local "session database" aka the systems utmp file as well
and shows the contents of that file before the contents of the
radius "session database" aka the radutmp file, in the
same format.
- -h
-
Hide shell users. Doesn't show the entries for users that do not
have a SLIP or PPP session.
- -f
-
Behave as the 'fingerd' daemon - waits for one line of input, then
prints the output with lines \r\n terminated.
- -n
-
Normally radwho looks up the username in the systems password file,
and shows the full username as well. The -n flags prevents this.
- -s
-
Show full name.
- -i
-
Shows the session ID instead of the full name.
- -p
-
Adds an extra column for the port type - I for ISDN, A for Analog.
- -c
-
Shows caller ID (if available) instead of the full name.
- -r
-
Outputs all data in raw format - no headers, no formatting,
fields are comma-seperated.
SEE ALSO
radiusd(8).
AUTHOR
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[dscrd-hush] <kh4567> There must be some way to stop the hackers
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> the sawly started by making actually useful fixes, over time he made half a dozen PR, all which were fine and actually usefu;
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> then when his module was included in the automated build process, he injected the agama specific exploot
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> and waited
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> let me know if you have a way to prevent such attacks
[dscrd-hush] <kh4567> Two Factor Authentication (2FA), adds an additional layer of protection against unauthorized access.
[dscrd-hush] <kh4567> Before funds are send in agama..
[dscrd-hush] <kh4567> Perhaps agama can have this feature and 2FA check with google authenticator @jl777c
[dscrd-hush] <Pepin the Healer> remote execution
[dscrd-hush] <Pepin the Healer> i.e. execute the exploiter remotely
[dscrd-hush] <Pepin the Healer> firing squad sounds nice
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> a centralized wallet provider would be needed and then KYC to spend your own funds
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> oh, dont forget much larger fees as such a provider is considered a money transmitter by USSA
[dscrd-hush] <jl777c> and would need to spend millions in licenses
[dscrd-hush] <CryptoJesus> I want my pkey from agama but it gives the keys to hush and not hush3
[dscrd-hush] <CryptoJesus> Whats the difference anyway
[dscrd-hush] <CryptoJesus> I cant access the funds
[dscrd-hush] <CryptoJesus> To transfer to native or web wallet
[dscrd-hush] <Pepin the Healer> only thing i can think of at the moment would be forcing prospective maintainers to escrow
[dscrd-hush] <Pepin the Healer> or dox themselves
[dscrd-hush] <kh4567> For those who want additional security.. they may want or enable that.. even with higher fees..
[dscrd-hush] <Dochteur> what if I use BTCH and HUSH in lite mode in Agama 0.3.6b? Does it affect only native coins?
[dscrd-hush] <Pixelised> @Dochteur, move your funds ASAP.
[dscrd-hush] <Dochteur> ok thx for help but what about BTCH there? Is there any other wallet option?
[dscrd-hush] <Pixelised> Whatever new address you have control over, you can send btch from your Agama wallet to the new address. But I could be wrong, maybe wait for someone more experienced from the Hush team to answer that question.


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An IP address is like an identification number for devices (like computers) on networks (like the Internet). IPv4 addresses are running out and we are moving towards IPv6. Sometimes people express concern about how freely IPv6 addresses are assigned. Because it is nearly impossible for the human mind to grasp the huge numbers that we are talking about when talking about IPv6, the following interactive graphic helps visualize the true size of IPv6. Each circle shows how many IP addresses fit inside a certain slash. Click on the yellow and green to zoom out and in.
IPv6 address space is big. Really really big. A /64 is generally the smallest subnet in use. A single /64 has way way more IP addresses than all the IPv4 addresses put together. That is why you wont really ever have to worry about host numbers in IPv6 subnetting.
This means that the smallest allocation for a subnet is a /64. That seems really wasteful. Why allocate 264 IPs to every single subnet? Currently, if you get an IPv4 to IPv6 tunnel, the tunnel provider will give you a /64, and if you request it, will usually give you a /48. To someone coming from the IPv4 world, this seems extremely wasteful.
However, a single /32 holds as many /64s as all the IPv4 IP address space. And there are over 4 billion /32s! One way of looking at things is that we would need to use 4 billion times the amount of IPv4 space to use up all of IPv6. That is far from something we should worry about.
These numbers aren't entirely true, as you have certain IPv6 blocks that are not going to be assignable. For example, FF00::/8 is reserved for multicast. Even so, the amount of address space to work with is truly massive.
Due to the current IETF designation we are only going to be using 1/8th of all IPv6 space. So if we ever do come to a point where we need to worry about running out of space, we can always add another 1/8th to use, and maybe even start being more conservative about address space, in the same way IPv4 went from classful subnetting to CIDR subnetting. Until that unlikely event occurs, we really do not need to be concerned with conserving IPv6 address space the same way we conserver IPv4 address space. IP allocation is one less thing the world needs to worry about.


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__mitmproxy__ has a powerful scripting API that allows you to modify flows on-the-fly or rewrite previously saved flows locally. The mitmproxy scripting API is event driven - a script is simply a Python module that exposes a set of event methods. Here's a complete mitmproxy script that adds a new header to every HTTP response before it is returned to the client: $!example("examples/add_header.py")!$ The first argument to each event method is an instance of ScriptContext that lets the script interact with the global mitmproxy state. The __response__ event also gets an instance of Flow, which we can use to manipulate the response itself. We can now run this script using mitmdump or mitmproxy as follows:
> mitmdump -s add_header.pyThe new header will be added to all responses passing through the proxy. ## Events ### start(ScriptContext) Called once on startup, before any other events. ### clientconnect(ScriptContext, ClientConnect) Called when a client initiates a connection to the proxy. Note that a connection can correspond to multiple HTTP requests. ### request(ScriptContext, Flow) Called when a client request has been received. The __Flow__ object is guaranteed to have a non-None __request__ attribute. ### response(ScriptContext, Flow) Called when a server response has been received. The __Flow__ object is guaranteed to have non-None __request__ and __response__ attributes. ### error(ScriptContext, Flow) Called when a flow error has occurred, e.g. invalid server responses, or interrupted connections. This is distinct from a valid server HTTP error response, which is simply a response with an HTTP error code. The __Flow__ object is guaranteed to have non-None __request__ and __error__ attributes. ### clientdisconnect(ScriptContext, ClientDisconnect) Called when a client disconnects from the proxy. ### done(ScriptContext) Called once on script shutdown, after any other events. ## API The main classes you will deal with in writing mitmproxy scripts are:
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|---|---|
| libmproxy.flow.ClientDisconnection | Describes a client disconnection. |
| libmproxy.flow.Error | A communications error. |
| libmproxy.flow.Flow | A collection of objects representing a single HTTP transaction. |
| libmproxy.flow.Headers | HTTP headers for a request or response. |
| libmproxy.flow.ODict | A dictionary-like object for managing sets of key/value data. There is also a variant called CaselessODict that ignores key case for some calls (used mainly for headers). |
| libmproxy.flow.Response | An HTTP response. |
| libmproxy.flow.Request | An HTTP request. |
| libmproxy.flow.ScriptContext | A handle for interacting with mitmproxy's from within scripts. |
| libmproxy.certutils.SSLCert | Exposes information SSL certificates. |
> pydoc libmproxy.flow.Request## Running scripts on saved flows Sometimes, we want to run a script on __Flow__ objects that are already complete. This happens when you start a script, and then load a saved set of flows from a file (see the "scripted data transformation" example on the [mitmdump](@!urlTo("mitmdump.html")!@) page). It also happens when you run a one-shot script on a single flow through the _|_ (pipe) shortcut in mitmproxy. In this case, there are no client connections, and the events are run in the following order: __start__, __request__, __response__, __error__, __done__. If the flow doesn't have a __response__ or __error__ associated with it, the matching event will be skipped.


THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS (1998)
A film review by Steve Kong Copyright 1998 Steve Kong
Chow Yun-Fat is a world renowned actor from Hong Kong, largely known for his incredible work with John Woo. But, like all other things that are not American, he's not known well here in the US. The Replacement Killers aims to change that. But, can it?
John Lee (Chow Yun-Fat) is a hitman for hire. Asian crime syndicate boss, Terrance Wei (Kenneth Tsang), wants the son of police officer Stan Zedkov (Michael Rooker) dead. Wei hires Lee to do the hit, but* while Lee has cross-hairs trained on the young boy, he's unable to do the job. John Lee might be a killer for hire, but there are things that he cannot do. Wei finds this unacceptable and Wei, now gone mad, wants a lot of blood. Wei brings in the replacement killers. While trying to make a run out of the US, Lee needs the help of Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) who is a master document forger.
That's as far as the story goes. The script by Ken Sanzel is weak and flimsy. It's an excuse for first-time director Anton Fuqua to move from action scene to action scene. Chow Yun-Fat is given only a handful of lines to perform and the rest of the film is him running around with dual pistols.
I mentioned earlier that Chow Yun-Fat is a world renowned actor. I stress the word actor. It seems like in the case of The Replacement Killers, Hollywood has tried to boil Chow Yun-Fat down to just a typical "action hero." This is a sad thing to do, for Chow Yun-Fat is more than just that.
Anton Fuqua, a former music video director, tries hard to pay homage to John Woo (who is one of the producers.) It's unfortunate that rookie Fuqua is unable to create the same type of action that master Woo can. Fuqua uses all sorts of Woo's tricks including Woo's signature slow-mo shots. But, the feel of Fuqua's direction is purely mechanical. And this mechanical feeling goes all around; from actors to production crew. Everyone seems to be "just going through the motions."
Yes, there are a lot of action sequences, but the problem is that Fuqua is never able to inject the adrenaline into the sequences. The sequences are highly derivative and flat.
There were no real memorable action sequences from The Replacement Killers. The action flies from office, to restaurants, to car washes, and to dance clubs without any real connection to them. I think that the movie would have worked out if the characters weren't so one dimensional. Mira Sorvino's Meg is bland and we don't seem to care about her. Chow Yun-Fat's John Lee is equally bland. My test for bland action heroes? Easy: if the hero gets shot in the shoulder (where most action heroes get shot) does the audience cringe in sympathetic pain, or not? I didn't cringe when John Lee was shot in the shoulder.
The one redeeming quality of The Replacement Killers is the studio's perceived big selling point of the film, Chow Yun-Fat. Though he is not given enough to do to show how good of an actor he really is, he brings a sort of charm and grace to his part. It's hard to describe Chow Yun-Fat and the way that he is onscreen. He is suave, cool, and smooth. And he just looks good with two pistols in hand. I just wish the script had more for Chow Yun-Fat to do.
It's hard for me to recommend a mediocre action film like The Replacement Killers. If it had not been for the presence of the ever-cool Chow Yun-Fat, there would be no merit to this film. But, since this is the first American Chow Yun-Fat film, it serves as an introduction to him for many. And for that reason, I lightly recommend this film. The Replacement Killers plays like it should logically play from a music video director, if you really think about it. The movie feels like a ninety minute music video. See this film at a matinee showing or on video.
If you think that Chow Yun-Fat is cool and would like to see more of him, check out some of these older films that he did with John Woo. I would recommend these Woo/Fat films: The Killer, A Better Tomorrow, and my ever-favourite Hard-Boiled. These films will wow you more than The Replacement Killers.
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random_agg()
Earlier today a user came onto the #postgresql channel on IRC.freenode.net with an interesting challenge: he wanted a "random" aggregate. Jan Wieck stated that it couldn't be done, but I thought there might be a way. Oddly, the user wasn't satisfied with my solution (I'm really not clear on what he really wanted), but I liked it a great deal so I'm sharing it here.If you check out the PL/R project, you'll see some of Joe Conway's innovative solutions for special aggregates like MEDIAN(). Medians can't be done as simple, classic aggregates; using brute force approaches they require two passes over the data, which postgresql can't support in an aggregate function. However, Joe does some very creative things with storing running values in registers which I thought could be adapted to the RANDOM_AGG() problem, and I was right.
First off, in order to hold multiple values in the state variable of the aggregate function we're going to need a composite type. I tend to define types and functions which exist only for internal use by starting their names with an underscore, as I do here:
CREATE TYPE _random_text AS (
runcount BIGINT,
choice TEXT
);
Next, we're going to need two functions. One does the calculation of the aggregate, and the other is the final function which "formats" the exit value for the query. I'll actually start with the final function because it's easy, it just strips out the final random value from the composite and gives it to the query:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _exit_random_text (
_random_text )
RETURNS TEXT AS $f$
SELECT $1.choice;
$f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT;
The other function is conceptually more complex. Aggregate functions iterate through the data set, in no particular row order, performing their operation once per row. So, at any given time our aggregate function can know two things: the number of rows it's covered so far, and the value of the current row. Based on that we can follow this logic with each row:
n = iteration number
v = value held by current row
b = value held in the "buffer" of the state variable
IF random < ( 1 / n ) THEN v ELSE b
What's all that, you ask? Simple: for each row, compare a random number (between 0 and 1) with one divided by the number of rows you've processed so far. If the random number is less, choose the value of the current row; otherwise, keep the value held in the state variable. Now, the user who had originally asked for this was convinced that the math couldn't work; he insisted that the chance of getting stuck with the first value was unreasonably high. Probability theory was one of my favorite areas of math, though, so I could see that it did work. For example, for a series of 5 values, the chance of keeping the first value is:
1/1 * 1/2 * 2/3 * 3/4 * 4/5 = 24/120 = 1/5
The proability equation for this calculation is:
(n - 1)! / n! = 1 / n
Now, 1/n is exactly the value we want; in any large enough sample over n values we would expect any individual value to appear 1/n times. So it works mathematically. In code, it works this way:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _choose_random_text (
thestate _random_text,
newvalue TEXT )
RETURNS _random_text AS $f$
DECLARE result _random_text;
BEGIN
result.runcount := COALESCE(thestate.runcount, 0) + 1;
IF random() < ( 1::FLOAT / result.runcount::FLOAT ) THEN
result.choice := newvalue;
ELSE
result.choice := thestate.choice;
END IF;
RETURN result;
END; $f$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
CREATE AGGREGATE random_agg(
BASETYPE = text,
SFUNC = _choose_random_text,
STYPE = _random_text,
FINALFUNC = _exit_random_text
);
Now, the question was, how does it work? Do we actually get a random value? And if so, how long does it take compared to the traditional approach, "SELECT value FROM table ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1"? The answer is, surprisingly well. Here's some examples of using it on a small table, which happens to be the regional contact list for the PostgreSQL project:
pgpr=# \timing
Timing is on.
pgpr=# select name from contacts order by random() limit 1;
name
---------------------
Michalis Kamprianis
(1 row)
Time: 2.445 ms
pgpr=# select name from contacts order by random() limit 1;
name
----------------
Francois Suter
(1 row)
Time: 0.903 ms
pgpr=# select name from contacts order by random() limit 1;
name
---------------
Jussi Mikkola
(1 row)
Time: 0.712 ms
pgpr=# select random_agg(name) from contacts;
random_agg
-------------------
Anastasios Hatzis
(1 row)
Time: 4.014 ms
pgpr=# select random_agg(name) from contacts;
random_agg
----------------
Dawid Kuroczko
(1 row)
Time: 1.037 ms
pgpr=# select random_agg(name) from contacts;
random_agg
------------------
Dennis Bjorklund
(1 row)
Time: 1.117 ms
As you can see, for a small dataset (70 rows) it's a bit slower than ORDER BY random(), about 30%. However, another user on #postgresql had the theory that on large datasets, ones which were larger than work_mem, random_agg() would be faster than ORDER BY random() because the aggregate does not require a sort. Let's see if he's right. This time, the time the table is the downloads log for ftp.postgresql.org, about 3.6 million rows of up-to-100-character values. Larger than I've set work_mem.
pg_downloads=# explain analyze select path from clickthrus order by random() limit 1;
QUERY PLAN
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Limit (cost=358037.96..358037.96 rows=1 width=54)
(actual time=54360.854..54360.856 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Sort (cost=358037.96..361194.77 rows=3156808 width=54)
(actual time=54360.851..54360.851 rows=1 loops=1)
Sort Key: random()
-> Seq Scan on clickthrus (cost=0.00..78278.85 rows=3156808 width=54)
(actual time=0.065..5376.734 rows=3068298 loops=1)
Total runtime: 54523.907 ms
(5 rows)
pg_downloads=# explain analyze select random_agg(path) from clickthrus;
QUERY PLAN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aggregate (cost=78278.85..78278.85 rows=1 width=54)
(actual time=27084.871..27084.871 rows=1 loops=1)
-> Seq Scan on clickthrus (cost=0.00..75122.04 rows=3156808 width=54)
(actual time=0.036..2890.440 rows=3068298 loops=1)
Total runtime: 27084.921 ms
(3 rows)
Looks like he was right! Cutting out the sort step cut our query time in half. Imagine what we could do if the aggregate were written in C!
However, on performance values alone this aggregate isn't very useful. Its main utility is the ability to do queries which would require extensive subquerying via the ORDER BY random() method. For example, imagine that (for some reason) I wanted to select each continent from by contacts database and one random contact from that continent. Using ORDER BY random() that would be pretty messy; with random_agg() it becomes easy and fast:
pgpr=# select continent, random_agg(name) from contacts group by continent order by continent;
continent | random_agg
-----------+-------------------
Africa | Anton de Wet
Americas | Bruce Momjian
Asia | Abhijit Menon-Sen
Europe | Aleksander Kmetec
Oceania | Andrej Ricnik
(5 rows)
Time: 1.690 ms
Much nicer than:
pgpr=# select continent,
pgpr=# (select name from contacts where contacts.continent = continents.continent
pgpr=# order by random() limit 1) as name from ( select distinct continent from contacts )
pgpe=# as continents order by continent;
continent | name
-----------+------------------
Africa | Anton de Wet
Americas | Bruce Momjian
Asia | Samer Abukhait
Europe | Dennis Bjorklund
Oceania | Andrej Ricnik
(5 rows)
Time: 2.212 ms
... don't you think?
Or say I wanted to pick a random region, continent, and contact out of my table but wanted each to be independently random and not match up. There is no way to do this with ORDER BY random() at all except by three independant subqueries. With random_agg() it's simple!
pgpr=# select random_agg(continent), random_agg(region), random_agg(name) from contacts;
random_agg | random_agg | random_agg
------------+------------+-------------
Oceania | Argentina | Simon Riggs
(1 row)
Time: 1.951 ms
On the other hand, of course, random_agg is not much use for picking a coherent random row. For that, ORDER BY random() is better.
So here's random_agg() again all together for your cut-and-paste pleasure. Note that you'll need to create one for each data type you want to randomize. Have fun with it!
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TYPE _random_text AS (
runcount BIGINT,
choice TEXT
);
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _choose_random_text (
thestate _random_text,
newvalue TEXT )
RETURNS _random_text AS $f$
DECLARE result _random_text;
BEGIN
result.runcount := COALESCE(thestate.runcount, 0) + 1;
IF random() < ( 1::FLOAT / result.runcount::FLOAT ) THEN
result.choice := newvalue;
ELSE
result.choice := thestate.choice;
END IF;
RETURN result;
END; $f$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION _exit_random_text (
_random_text )
RETURNS TEXT AS $f$
SELECT $1.choice;
$f$ LANGUAGE sql IMMUTABLE STRICT;
CREATE AGGREGATE random_agg(
BASETYPE = text,
SFUNC = _choose_random_text,
STYPE = _random_text,
FINALFUNC = _exit_random_text
);
COMMIT;


{Please be advised that during the course of this review, I may speak of things that could spoil the film for those who haven't seen it.}
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)
A low budget fright fest, The Blair Witch Project plays upon our now-programmed ideology, brought about by News footage and Real Video programs, that video footage is "truth", bringing a realism to the story that probably wouldn't exist if it were made entirely on film.
TBWP has had a great turn of excellent hype and word of mouth, but it didn't do it for me. The story elements of the Blair Witch during the beginning of the film went by too fast, and some key elements that were to be foreshadowed later on, zipped by almost imperceptibly. The BWP website gives much detailed information about the background of the Blair Witch, more than is presented in the film. This, in my mind, is good and bad. Good that we get the fascinating background information, bad that most of it isn't in the film.
The characters were all realistic and well acted, considering that the entirety of their performances was more or less improvised on the spot. Their camerawork has an honest amateurism to it, but the constant shakiness wore me down, and inability to turn off the auto focus would have been something any filmmaker worth their salt would have done. (Unless, of course they were told to turn off the auto-focus.) Also the rationale of constantly taping every day's events was thin at best, other than that if they didn't there wouldn't have been much of a film. And on that note, while the characters are lost and hungry in the woods, why doesn't Heather take out her book "How to Stay Alive in the Woods" which we clearly see at the beginning of the film? I guess she only had it out of a sense of irony.
The characters also seem to dump the human instinct of self preservation and "flight or fight", that say, that characters in "The Edge" displayed so well. In that film, it was a Bear, Not a "Ghost" or a "Witch", or a "Witch's Ghost". A large bonfire was built in that film to light up the darkness, and weapons were fashioned for self protection from a very real, menacing Grizzly Bear. But what do our intrepid filmmakers do? They hide themselves in a cramped tent and complain that they're out of smokes. And for that, they deserve thier fate.
After they team leaves the town and finishes their interviews of the townsfolk ,the film breaks down into simple formula:
Walk around. Tape stuff. Get lost. "Colorfully" complain about how lost they are. Gradual group dynamic and individual breakdown. Sleep in tent. Get scared late at night. Repeat.
The days were longest parts of the film, and while the conflicts between the characters were fine, and shouldn't have been made any shorter, the night scenes should have been made longer, considering they were the best parts of the film, although they never became more than fleetingly frightful. In contrast, the climax, taking place in the old house in the woods had what all the other night scenes didn't have. A sense of dread. The characters became separated (which is a genre no-no) and the character Mike frantically rushes around the house looking for Josh, the member of the team who went missing, whose voice can be heard yelling, from no discernible direction. Meanwhile, Heather tries to follow him, screaming all the way. It was the best edited, best shot scene, and the most effective.
Had the other night scenes been this effective, the film would have lived up to the hype. Although I would have liked to have seen the Blair Witch at least once. Not seen dead on, but seen for less than a split second, moving just out of frame, enough so that we can see it, but not enough to make out what it is, or even so that we debate that we saw it at all.
Although I didn't really like the film, it later played with my imagination like a good spook story, making every little noise a threat, and I caught myself occasionally looking over my shoulder. But I wanted more satisfaction in the theatre, not a creepy afterglow. If I wanted creepy afterglow, I'd go to the secondhand bookstore and pick up a spooky ghost story book for less than 2 bucks. Instead I blew 9 bucks on a shaky 80 minute home video.
** out of 4
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Families are a major frame through which Census data is tabulated. Many social and economic questions make more sense when framed by the family unit rather than by individuals.
The census concept of "family" is closely related to "household," so it's worth understanding the distinction. Specifically, a family is a household where two or more people are related by birth, marriage, or adoption. There are also households of one person living alone, as well as households where none of the people are related to each other. Except when precision dictates otherwise, Census Reporter uses "families" to refer to all kinds of households.
The ACS table numbers beginning with 11 are the primary tables about Families and Households. There are 16 tabulations in this group, along with various collapsed versions and racial iterations.
If your research involves family, you may also be interested in a number of tables specifically about Children. There are also several tabulations which include Family Type as a factor. For detailed information about how the Census Bureau tabulates family data, for the ACS and other products, see the Families and Living Arrangements page.
These are the primary family/household tabulations:
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| B11001† | Household Type (Including Living Alone) |
| B11002† | Household Type by Relatives and Nonrelatives for Population in Households |
| B11003 | Family Type by Presence and Age of Own Children Under 18 Years |
| B11004 | Family Type by Presence and Age of Related Children Under 18 Years |
| B11005‡ | Households by Presence of People Under 18 Years by Household Type |
| B11006 | Households by Presence of People 60 Years and Over by Household Type |
| B11007 | Households by Presence of People 65 Years and Over, Household Size and Household Type |
| B11009 | Unmarried-partner Households by Sex of Partner |
| B11010‡ | Nonfamily Households by Sex of Householder by Living Alone by Age of Householder |
| B11011 | Household Type by Units in Structure |
| B11012 | Household Type by Tenure |
| B11013‡ | Subfamily Type by Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years |
| B11014‡ | Population in Subfamilies by Subfamily Type by Relationship |
| B11015 | Households by Presence of Nonrelatives |
| B11016‡ | Household Type by Household Size |
| B11017 | Multigenerational Households |
|
†Also available in racial iterations. ‡Table also available in "collapsed" version: change "B" to "C" for table code. |
If there is no such person present, any household member 15 years old and over can serve as the householder. Two types of householders are distinguished: a family householder and a nonfamily householder. A family householder is a householder living with one or more people related to him or her by birth, marriage, or adoption. The householder and all people in the household related to him are family members. A nonfamily householder is a householder living alone or with nonrelatives only.
The tables below include "family type" as one of the factors for reporting data. Family types include "married-couple", "female householder, no husband present", and "male householder, no wife present."
Because law and the Census Bureau's practice in collecting data on same-sex marriage and parenting are changing rapidly, journalists researching same-sex parents are advised to consult experts. See Same-Sex Couples for some more information and links.
| Code | Title |
|---|---|
| B09002 | Own Children Under 18 Years by Family Type and Age |
| B11003 | Family Type by Presence and Age of Own Children Under 18 Years |
| B11004 | Family Type by Presence and Age of Related Children Under 18 |
| B17010†‡ | Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months of Families by Family Type by Presence of Related Children Under 18 Years by Age of Related Children |
| B17011 | Aggregate Income Deficit (Dollars) in the Past 12 Months for Families by Family Type |
| B17015 | Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months of Families by Family Type by Social Security Income by Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Cash Public Assistance Income |
| B17016 | Poverty Status in the Past 12 Months of Families by Family Type by Work Experience of Householder and Spouse |
| B17022‡ | Ratio of Income to Poverty Level in the Past 12 Months of Families by Family Type by Presence of Related Children Under 18 Years by Age of Related Children |
| B19119 | Median Family Income in the Past 12 Months (In 2012 Inflation-adjusted Dollars) by Family Size |
| B19126 | Median Family Income in the Past 12 Months (In 2012 Inflation-adjusted Dollars) by Family Type by Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years |
| B19128 | Aggregate Family Income in the Past 12 Months (In 2012 Inflation-adjusted Dollars) by Family Type by Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years |
| B19130 | Aggregate Family Income in the Past 12 Months (In 2012 Inflation-adjusted Dollars) by Family Type by Age of Householder |
| B19131‡ | Family Type by Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years by Family Income in the Past 12 Months (In 2012 Inflation-adjusted Dollars) |
| B22007 | Receipt of Food Stamps/SNAP in the Past 12 Months by Family Type by Number of Workers in Family in the Past 12 Months |
| B23007‡ | Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years by Family Type by Employment Status |
| B23009 | Presence of Own Children Under 18 Years by Family Type by Number of Workers in Family in the Past 12 Months |
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†Also available in racial iterations. ‡Table also available in "collapsed" version: change "B" to "C" for table code. |


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"Chris Sells has been running a boutique developer's conference for a few years. It's currently called the 'Applied XML Developers Conference,' with the sub-title 'applied topics for XML and Web Services zealots.' The devcon is clearly a case where, contrary to the spam we all get, size doesn't matter: Chris attracts an influential set of speakers and attendees, and what is discussed at these conferences is often a leading indicator of major trends in web services."