Work Experience
Head Teaching Assistant - Fall 2016
University of Utah - School of Computing
CS 2420 - Introduction to Algorithms & Data Structures
This course provides an introduction to the problem of engineering computational efficiency into programs. Students will learn about classical algorithms (including sorting, searching, and graph traversal), data structures (including stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, hash tables, and graphs), and analysis of program space and time requirements. Students will complete extensive programming exercises that require the application of elementary techniques from software engineering.
Software Engineer Intern - Summer 2016
Salt Lake City, Utah
Audodesk - Delcam
Worked with a C/C++ legacy code base of CAD/CAM software. Updated existing C/C++ code to C# to improve maintainability and address memory issues. Worked with the main projects API to write external software that generates HTML and XLS documents that detail machine setup for part manufacturing.
Head Teaching Assistant - Spring 2016
University of Utah - School of Computing
CS 2420 - Introduction to Algorithms & Data Structures
This course provides an introduction to the problem of engineering computational efficiency into programs. Students will learn about classical algorithms (including sorting, searching, and graph traversal), data structures (including stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, hash tables, and graphs), and analysis of program space and time requirements. Students will complete extensive programming exercises that require the application of elementary techniques from software engineering.
Head Teaching Assistant - Fall 2015
University of Utah - School of Computing
CS 1410 - Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
The second course required for students intending to major in computer science and computer engineering. Introduction to the engineering and mathematical skills required to effectively program computers, and to the range of issues confronted by computer scientists. Roles of procedural and data abstraction in decomposing programs into manageable pieces. Introduction to object-oriented programming. Extensive programming exercises that involve the application of elementary software engineering techniques.
Teaching Assistant - Spring 2015
University of Utah - School of Computing
CS 3500 - Software Practice
Meets with CS 5010. Practical exposure to the process of creating large software systems, including requirements specifications, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. Emphasis on software process, software tools (debuggers, profilers, source code repositories, test harnesses), software engineering techniques (time management, code, and documentation standards, source code management, object-oriented analysis and design), and team development practice. Much of the work will be in groups and will involve modifying preexisting software systems.


The dotnet test
command is used to execute unit tests in a given solution. It builds the solution and runs a test
host application for each test project in the solution. The test host executes tests in the given project using a test framework,
for example: MSTest, NUnit, or xUnit, and reports the success or failure of each test. If all tests are successful, the test
runner returns 0 as an exit code; otherwise if any test fails, it returns 1.
For multi-targeted projects, tests are run for each targeted framework. The test host and the unit test framework are packaged as
NuGet packages and are restored as ordinary dependencies for the project.


In 2012, the State Legislature redesigned the delivery system of mental health and disabilities services (MHDS) in Iowa. One of the most significant changes was to divide the state into 15 different regions.
In the 1990s, individual counties were tasked with providing mental health services to their residents. Under the redesign, residents can access any mental health services provided within their region. For example, a resident in Pocahontas County can now receive services from providers located in Black Hawk County.
The region that includes Northeast Iowa was created in 2009 by mental health administrator Bob Lincoln and the Black Hawk County board of supervisors. Iowa lawmakers credit it as the inspiration for the regional approach to mental health services, which is now in place statewide. The oldest and largest in terms of area covered, the region provides more services than is required by law.
The region includes 22 counties, which are listed below. To receive services within the region, you must live in one of these counties. If you do, this website is your guide to receiving services.
If you don't live in one of these counties, you live in another mental health region. You will need to get ahold of a regional office in your area to obtain services. You can also visit the IDHS's mental health redesign website or view this map of the mental health regions.
The services are available to anyone with health insurance. For those who don’t have insurance or can’t pay out of pocket, the region will pay for your mental health and disability services provided you fall within 150 percent of federal poverty guidelines outlined in the chart shown. If you have health insurance you may also qualify for co-payment and deductible assistance by the region. For more information, contact your nearest regional office or visit the region's website.
| Household Size | 150% of federal poverty level |
|---|---|
| 1 | $17,505 |
| 2 | 23.595 |
| 3 | 29.685 |
| 4 | 35.775 |
| 5 | 41.865 |
| 6 | 47.955 |
| 7 | 54.045 |
| 8 | 60.135 |
| Allamakee | Butler | Black Hawk | Cerro Gordo |
| Clayton | Chickasaw | Emmet | Fayette |
| Floyd | Grundy | Hancock | Howard |
| Humboldt | Kossuth | Mitchell | Pocahontas |
| Tama | Webster | Winnebago | Winneshiek |
| Worth | Wright |
With more than a hundred mental health resources available in the region, it can be difficult to know where to begin looking for help. This website is designed to guide you through the maze and narrow the field of your search.
Click on one of the options below for more information on how to find services near you.
People who want mental health or disability services but don't have a particular office or service provider in mind should contact LifeLong Links:
866-468-7887 |
LifeLong Links will get the person in touch with the appropriate office or service provider, depending on his or her need.
This option allows you to search through our directory of MHD services in Northeast Iowa. For convenience, we've broken services into two broad categories:
Regional offices are intermediates between you and service providers. They can help connect you with mental health services within the region. Contact a regional office if you’re not sure what kind of services you need. Service providers offer specialized services. This can include anything from one-on-one psychiatric treatment to transportation services. Contact a provider if you are looking for a specific service.To find services, simply enter your address into the search bar below and click the search button. You will then be taken to a map with a number of markers plotted on it. Each marker represents either a regional office or a service provider within the region.
Click on the marker for more information on the services provided at that location. You can also get directions to a facility or call them directly.
Here's a complete list of regional offices and providers in this mental health region. To see a list of facilities, select a category from the list above. A table showing each facility will show. You can then sort the table or search through it by typing in the box next to the word "Search".
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Enter a sentence and if there are words in it that have specific gender
associations, those will be made visible through colour.
Different shades of blue (female) oder red (male) show the bias in
how the words are used.
Model: word2vec, trained on 100 billion words from GoogleNews.
How it works:
Use a full sentence or a single word
Adjectives, nouns and verbs get checked for bias
Max. 20 words
Blue: female
Red: male
Examples:
The surgeon was a great parent and walked around with his toddler
in a stroller
The unmarried therapist made a fortune with podcasts and soap
The retired architect likes champagne and cheesecake with strawberries


Sweeney Art Gallery
Now approaching its semicentennial, the Sweeney Art Gallery, a facility of UCR ARTSblock, is an artistic laboratory engaging diverse audiences with programs committed to experimentation, innovation, and exploration of art in our time. Sweeney Gallery develops and presents exhibitions of contemporary and historic works of art each year. It also provides interpretation, preservation, and collection of works of art; produces publications, symposia, lectures, and other events; serves as a laboratory for training future museum and other art professionals; and hosts the annual senior thesis exhibition for students in the Department of Art.
In the last five years the Sweeney has grown into a nationally significant arts venue garnering attention for such shows as the west coast premiere of Sirens of Chrome by New York-based Danish artist Jesper Just in winter 2012.
The Sweeney Art Gallery is located in the Culver Center and its shows frequently spill over into the Culver Atrium. These two venues recently hosted Margarita Cabrera's first solo museum exhibition on the west coast, Margarita Cabrera: Pulso y Martillo (Pulse and Hammer) as well as The Great Picture: The World's Largest Photograph. This photo's mammoth scale of 32 x 111 feet earned it a place in the Guinness World Records, and made it a photo history landmark.
The Sweeney Art Gallery has been warmly supported by Marilyn and Jack Sweeney.
You have reached this page during a time of renovation and reconstruction of the web site. Some of the older links may continue to work during this time but are not guaranteed.


The Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
Chapter 21: Home Again
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1920
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: England
- Source: Lofting, H. (1920). The Story of Doctor Dolittle . New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 4.2
- Word Count: 820
- Genre: Fantasy
- Keywords: adventure, helping others
- ✎ Cite This
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March winds had come and gone; April's showers were over; May's buds had opened into flower; and the June sun was shining on the pleasant fields, when John Dolittle at last got back to his own country.
But he did not yet go home to Puddleby. First he went traveling through the land with the pushmi–pullyu in a gipsy–wagon, stopping at all the country–fairs. And there, with the acrobats on one side of them and the Punch–and–Judy show on the other, they would hang out a big sign which read, "COME AND SEE THE MARVELOUS TWO–HEADED ANIMAL FROM THE JUNGLES OF AFRICA. Admission SIXPENCE."
And the pushmi–pullyu would stay inside the wagon, while the other animals would lie about underneath. The Doctor sat in a chair in front taking the sixpences and smiling on the people as they went in; and Dab–Dab was kept busy all the time scolding him because he would let the children in for nothing when she wasn't looking.
And menagerie–keepers and circus–men came and asked the Doctor to sell them the strange creature, saying they would pay a tremendous lot of money for him. But the Doctor always shook his head and said.
"No.  He shall be free always to come and go, like you and me."
Many curious sights and happenings they saw in this wandering life; but they all seemed quite ordinary after the great things they had seen and done in foreign lands. It was very interesting at first, being sort of part of a circus; but after a few weeks they all got dreadfully tired of it and the Doctor and all of them were longing to go home.
But so many people came flocking to the little wagon and paid the sixpence to go inside and see the pushmi–pullyu that very soon the Doctor was able to give up being a showman.
And one fine day, when the hollyhocks were in full bloom, he came back to Puddleby a rich man, to live in the little house with the big garden.
And the old lame horse in the stable was glad to see him; and so were the swallows who had already built their nests under the eaves of his roof and had young ones. And Dab–Dab was glad, too, to get back to the house she knew so well—although there was a terrible lot of dusting to be done, with cobwebs everywhere.
And after Jip had gone and shown his golden collar to the conceited collie next–door, he came back and began running round the garden like a crazy thing, looking for the bones he had buried long ago, and chasing the rats out of the tool–shed; while Gub–Gub dug up the horseradish which had grown three feet high in the corner by the garden–wall.
And the Doctor went and saw the sailor who had lent him the boat, and he bought two new ships for him and a rubber–doll for his baby; and he paid the grocer for the food he had lent him for the journey to Africa. And he bought another piano and put the white mice back in it—because they said the bureau–drawer was drafty.
Even when the Doctor had filled the old money–box on the dresser–shelf, he still had a lot of money left; and he had to get three more money–boxes, just as big, to put the rest in.
"Money," he said, "is a terrible nuisance. But it's nice not to have to worry."
"Yes," said Dab–Dab, who was toasting muffins for his tea, "it is indeed!"
And when the Winter came again, and the snow flew against the kitchen–window, the Doctor and his animals would sit round the big, warm fire after supper; and he would read aloud to them out of his books.
But far away in Africa, where the monkeys chattered in the palm–trees before they went to bed under the big yellow moon, they would say to one another,
"I wonder what The Good Man's doing now—over there, in the Land of the White Men! Do you think he ever will come back?"
And Polynesia would squeak out from the vines,
"I think he will—I guess he will—I hope he will!"
And then the crocodile would grunt up at them from the black mud of the river,
"I'm SURE he will—Go to sleep!"


I completed my PhD degree from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Alexander Serebrenik and Prof. Dr. M.G.J. van den Brand.
Thesis title: Postprocessing of static analysis alarms
Thesis defense date: July 7, 2020.
The PhD thesis can be found here.
The presentation/slides used to defend the thesis can be found here.
I completed the degree while working as a scientist at TRDDC (TCS) between 2016 and 2020. During this period, I got opportunity to visit Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) five times, each visit being for the duration of around a month, and host twice Prof. Dr. Alexander Serebrenik for his sabbatical at TRDDC, each sabbatical visit spanning over a couple of weeks.
Software systems are playing crucial role in our life. Ensuring that these software systems are free of defects is of utmost importance. Despite the common use of software testing in detecting defects, it can be used only to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence. This well-recognized limitation of testing led to emergence of alternative automated program analysis technique called static analysis. Considering the usefulness of static analysis in detecting defects, a wide range of static analysis tools have been developed. These tools, however, due to several unavoidable reasons generate a large number of alarms that are warning messages to the user. A high percentage of alarms are falsely generated and identifying them requires manual inspection.
In this thesis, we addressed the problem of falsely generated alarms by improving postprocessing of alarms, i.e., processing the alarms after they are generated. The postprocessing is used to reduce their number or the effort required to manually inspect them. We first reviewed the techniques that have been proposed for postprocessing of alarms and identified the areas of improvement. We then designed a series of postprocessing techniques and evaluated them on multiple industrial and open source systems. Our techniques improved the approaches used to (1) group similar alarms, (2) eliminate false alarms automatically, (3) suppress alarms generated on evolutionary code, and (4) inspect alarms generated on partitioned-code. Our evaluation results show that the proposed techniques reduce the number of alarms by up to 36% and the time required for automated false positives elimination by up to 60%.


Was reading the slides from Aaron Patterson’s Magma Rails talk and noticed some pretty innocuous Rails code that, upon further reflection is the beginning of disaster for a growing application. As many other Rubyists are beginning to realize, spreading your application logic across only models and controllers leads to a mess. Let’s look at the code, understand why it’s bad, and create a better version.
Here’s the code to create a new user and email them a welcome note:
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Simple enough, so what’s the problem? Let’s list out the things this class does:
- creates a new
User
instance from form parameters - saves the new
User
to the database - Sends the user an email if the save was successful
- Renders the view
This is too many things. Every time we need to add something else that happens when a user is created, we will have to modify this methods. Further, any other part of the system that creates new users will have to duplicate this code (it’s not hard to imagine some sort of user import feature to create new users from some other system).
Fat Models, Skinny Controllers
The Rails Way is to put all of this into the model. Using the power of Rails, we could do this:
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Is this better? Well, our controller is a lot simpler, and now just creates the user and renders the view. That’s pretty much all it should be doing. We’ve deferred our email to an after_create
hook.
All we’ve done is move the problem somewhere else. We’ve also made testing our application a huge pain, because everywhere we create a User
instance for a test, we’ll fire off the UserMailer
, so we’d need to stub that our otherwise arrange for that code not to run, except when we test that code. Ugh.
So, in solving one problem, we’ve created another, giving us two problems, now:
- The
User
class is doing too much (even if we count all of ActiveRecord as just “one thing”) - We’ve mixed up the concerns of creating instances of
User
objects with creating new users of our application. The distinction might be subtle, but it’s important.
We can solve both of these problems using the single responsibility principle and by using one of Ruby’s most powerful and, sadly, underused features: creating a new class.
Use Classes
What we want is a single location for “someone new is using our application” and we don’t want that conflated with the creation of the class we use to store that user’s data in the database.
Since our new class is going to create new application users, let’s call it ApplicationUserCreator
. I know it’s the Kingdom of Nouns, but the more classes you have, the more specific their names have to be. We could use lambdas, but let’s keep things simple for now.
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Much better. Our User
class remains as it was originally - a class that holds data for the USERS
table and provides CRUD operations for it. Our controller is just as skinny in our second example - it launches the new user creation logic and renders the view. We have a new class which is custom built to hold the new application user logic.
These three classes are now very easy to test and very easy to understand; they all simply don’t do that much. Also, the test for our business logic (the test for ApplicationUserCreator
) is blazingly fast.
Resilience in the Face of Change
Where a design like this really shines is when we need to add new features to our app.
Suppose we want to do something different when creating administrative users. These users are still stored in the USERS
table, but we want to send them a different welcome email (perhaps admin users get a more security-conscious email).
We could start peppering UserMailer
with if user.admin?
but that’s just wrong, too. The UserMailer
already does enough - it emails new application users a welcome email. It does not need to also email administrative users a security-related email. Let’s assume we’ve created AdminUserMailer
to handle that. We can also assume we have an AdminUsersController
that looks
like so:
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Identical to UsersController
, for now. Our ApplicationUserCreator
now needs to check if the new user is an admin. The quick and dirty path, which will get us into trouble, is to check inside that class, like so:
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Well, this sucks. We now need to double our tests to handle the case where the new user is an admin. What happens when we add the next few feature? More if
statements and more complication. Lets decouple this class from the mailer it uses by allowing the mailer to be injectible:
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With this design, we can change mailers all we want, and won’t ever need to change ApplicationUserCreator
or its tests. We
should add a test that UserMailer
is the default and that we can inject our own mailer, but at that point,
ApplicationUserCreator
is a completed class.
AdminUsersController
now looks like this:
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Not too bad. The classes involved in user creation are all dead simple and easy to test.
Suppose we had a third type of user creation scenario where we don’t want welcome emails to be sent at all? Not a problem:
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I realize that Aaron’s code is just an example for a slide at a conference, but I can tell you from experience, that any time an authoritative source shows code to others, they take that as the “right way” to do things. It took the Java community years to stop writing code like this:
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This code snippet is in every book on Java I’ve ever read, and I get why authors write it, but it’s Just Wrong. So is putting excessive business logic in your controllers or models.
What you can do
It’s very simple. When you are adding code to your Rails app, ask yourself two questions:
- Is this code about getting data in the right configuration for the view? If not, it does not belong in a controller.
- Is this code about manipulating data in the database? If not, it does not belong in the model.
Very little of the code you write goes in a controller or model, based on the above criteria. The code goes in some other class, possibly one you will have to create. It doesn’t go in a module that you include into your controller or model. It doesn’t go into a module that you extend
your model with at runtime, it goes into a class. That is the unit of code organization in an object-oriented language, so don’t be afraid to use it.


[gecode-users] Gecode 3.2.0 released (includes Gecode/FlatZinc)
Tias Guns
tias.guns at cs.kuleuven.be
Tue Oct 13 13:51:46 CEST 2009
Thank you for this new release,
When compiling with:
./configure --disable-set-vars --disable-examples --disable-scheduling
I get following error:
./libgecodeflatzinc.so: undefined reference to
`Gecode::cumulatives(Gecode::Space&, Gecode::PrimArgArray<int> const&,
Gecode::IntVarArgs const&, Gecode::IntVarArgs const&, Gecode::IntVarArgs
const&, Gecode::IntVarArgs const&, Gecode::PrimArgArray<int> const&, bool,
Gecode::IntConLevel)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [tools/flatzinc/fz] Error 1
This does not occur when removing --disable-scheduling from the configure
script.
Greetings,
Tias
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:25:06 +0200, Guido Tack <tack at ps.uni-sb.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> we are releasing the next version of Gecode.
>
> Gecode 3.2.0
> http://www.gecode.org
>
> This release has some important bug fixes (in particular for
> global cardinality aka count), the documentation has been
> improved (worked around some issues with generation by doxygen),
> integrates the FlatZinc interpreter into the Gecode source tree,
> provides propagators for disjunctive scheduling (experimental),
> and lots of small changes and fixes. For more consistent names,
> branchings are branchers now and branching descriptions are
> choices (this you might have to adapt to).
>
> On our web site, you find source packages, as well as binary packages
> for Windows and Mac OS.
>
> Cheers,
> Guido
>
>
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About
This section covers resources for learning C++ in general, and few specific topics of C++ programming. First of all you should understand that it is not complete list, and it never aimed to be complete. Just a compilation of books, that with proper practice will lead you to great developer skills.
C
C is an important and initial subset of C++. It would be much better to learn it first, but you could of course skip this part.
Books
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Head First C - David Griffiths and Dawn Griffiths
Perfect book for beginners, written in very easy-to-read and interesting manner.
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The C Programming Language - Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
Book written by creators of C. This is the definitive guide, for those who wish to learn C. I found examples very helpful too.
C++
Books
Beginner
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Principles and Practice Using C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup
Introduction to programming by C++ creator.
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The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustrup
Complete C++ language reference and tutorial. This book will teach you how to use C++ features correctly, as intended by creator. Though it is very long to read, (around 13 hundreds of pages) it is very simply written. During reading this book practice is welcomed and encouraged, since it is more of a reference.
Intermediate
All books of Scott Meyers are very useful in practice. He teaches that programming is about compromises, and that we must search for different methods of problem solving, so take this:
- Effective C++ - Scott Meyers
- More Effective C++ - Scott Meyers
- Effective STL - Scott Meyers
- Effective Modern C++ - Scott Meyers If you don’t have enough time, just read first book, it would be enough for the beginning.
Specific topics
Intermediate programmer should learn specific topics of the language(which are themselves quite deep) before moving on to advanced.
Templates
Modern C++ is generic C++. So here is the good book about template programming:
- C++ Templates: The Complete Guide - David Vandevoorde and Nicolai M. Josuttis
Concurrency
- C++ Concurrency in Action - Anthony Williams
Testing
- Modern C++ Programming with Test-Driven Development: Code Better, Sleep Better - Jeff Langr
Advanced
When I become an advanced programmer, I’ll complete this part.
Blogs/channels/homepages
- Herb Sutter’s blog
- Personal homepage of C++ creator
- Scott Meyers’ blog
- Anthony Williams’ blog
- Jonathan Boccara’s blog
- Jason Turner’s yt channel
- TheChernoProject yt channel
Guidelines
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Very useful compilation of best practices using modern C++ by creators of the language.
Websites
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Stack Overflow is a question and answer site for professional and enthusiast programmers.
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Quora is an American question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, and edited by Internet users, either factually, or in the form of opinions.
Similar resources
The best way to find desired information is to search the web. So here are some starter links:
- Definitive list of books at stackoverflow
- Repository with compilation of useful resources on C++
- C++ cheat-sheet
Okay! What’s next?
When you learned some C++ it is time to go and get some real-world experience. Here comes the list of repositories to contribute to. Or if you want to, start learning C++ dev tools


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Want something special for Sunday lunch? Mary's marinated lamb is full of flavour and perfect with salsa verde.
Trim any excess skin from the lamb and score the fat using a sharp knife. Put the garlic, lemon zest (reserve the juice for the salsa verde), honey and oil in a large bowl and mix. Add the lamb and rub in the marinade. Cover and leave to marinate for at least 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7
Place a large frying pan over a medium heat, put the lamb fat-side down into the pan and fry for about 5 minutes or until the fat is dark golden-brown. Transfer to a roasting tin, browned side up and bones facing the centre.
Roast for 18–20 minutes, cover with aluminium foil and rest for 15 minutes.
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Wed Apr 1, 2015
Before the Galaxy S6, it was easy to hate Samsung. Their slimy plastic phones looked cheap and Touchwiz was a bloated mess. Not only that, but their entire business plan seemed to revolve around blatantly ripping off Apple. So much so that they were originally fined a billion in damages in that infamous 2012 lawsuit.
But man, have they stepped up their design game this year. The S6 eschews plastic in favour of shiny glass and metal. Not that they haven’t stopped poaching Apple’s best ideas. At certain angles, the S6 takes great gulping gobs of inspiration from the iPhone 6 - most notably in the bottom styling of the speaker grills and ports.
The S6 Edge - a pricier variant of the S6 with a curved display - presents a rather head-scratching design decision, though. Why not commit to one flagship model? Design is about making choices and committing to one carefully considered culmination of those choices, not copping out by putting the burden (and confusion) of choice on the consumer. But still, the Edge is a stunner, although it doesn’t seem to offer any functional advantage over the S6.
As with most Android phones, Samsung went with some heavy-hitting specs to brute force a smooth experience for the user. Let’s take a look:
Operating system: Android 5.0.2
Display: 5.1-inch 2560 x 1440 pixel Super AMOLED display
Processor: Exynos 14nm 64-bit Octa Core
Memory: 3GB DDR4 RAM / 32-128GB internal storage
Rear camera: 16MP rear Sony IMX240 sensor w/ F1.9 lens, Optical Image Stabilization
Front-facing camera: 5MP front camera
Battery: 2,550mAh non-removable battery
Size: 143.4 x 70.5 x 6.8mm
Weight: 138 grams
There’s that incredible eight cores of CPU power again - this time from Samsung’s own Exynos processor. And with a 577 PPI, that screen makes the iPhone’s 326 PPI look a bit dated - on paper at least. But specs aren’t everything, as I’ve hammered home recently, so I shouldn’t let the numbers romance me.
What do the reviews say? Well, most praise the new design and that gorgeous screen. The camera seems to be really good - perhaps the best out of all Android phones and on par with the iPhone 6, sometimes even surpassing it. HTC should be very worried right now. Battery life sounds adequate, but not amazing. And the offensive bits of Touchwiz seem to have been toned down - but this is a small consideration considering you can just install whatever launcher you want on Android.
All in all, this phone is a real contender for the coveted title of “my next”. It remains to be seen how well this phone holds up over the next eight months, though. When it comes to future proofing, there are a few things to consider.
With USB Type-C set to become the new standard, it would be nice to have it on my phone. Also, I want to stick with Wind, my current carrier, and they’ve just gotten hold of some juicy 30Mhz spectrum in a recent auction. Unfortunately, LTE is probably a way off and phones that support the AWS-3 band probably won’t arrive until next year. I’m not sure I can wait that long.
I try to leave emotion and brand loyalty out of rational decision-making, even though that is easier said than done. But I have to admit it - the S6 has definitely challenged my instinctual hatred of all things Samsung.


Flamengo beat Gremio 1-0 as Serie A title looms closer
Gabriel Barbosa scored the winner from a first-half penalty and then was sent off 17 minutes from time as Flamengo beat Gremio 1-0 away from home on Sunday to take a huge step towards the Brazilian league title.
PORTO ALEGRE: Gabriel Barbosa scored the winner from a first-half penalty and then was sent off 17 minutes from time as Flamengo beat Gremio 1-0 away from home on Sunday to take a huge step towards the Brazilian league title.
With closest challengers Palmeiras only drawing 1-1 with Bahia, Flamengo only need three points from their final four games to guarantee the Serie A trophy.
Sunday's win came thanks to Barbosa, who got his 22nd goal of the league season from a controversial penalty that was awarded after the ball hit Leo Moura's trailing arm as he slid in for a challenge.
In the second half, the on-loan Inter Milan striker was shown a yellow card for a dissent and then a second in quick succession for sarcastically clapping the referee.
The win, which takes Flamengo's unbeaten streak to 25 games, means Flamengo have 81 points from 34 games, while Palmeiras have 68 from 33.
Flamengo's next match is the final of the Copa Libertadores next Saturday against Argentina's River Plate in Peru.
(Reporting by Andrew Downie; Editing by Christian Radnedge)


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There are a lot of explanations for Docker over the Internet. But in my own point of view, Docker is a super lightweight but powerful virtual machine technique with
a handy usage. You can also regard it as a Parallels Desktop without GUI interface. Before we continue just come to official website to install it.
At most situation, people use it to pack a running environment so that they can deploy it in another computer quickly and easily. For example,
imaging you have a web server for your website, but the machine you develop it differs to the machine you are going to deploy it. So you need to
install all the dependence and set the running environment for both two computers. This is usually not a entertaining work, this is where Docker comes.
It seems it's suitable for those big company, and people hardly realize it will also be a powerful tool for personal user (at least for me 3>).
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THE STALLION WHO MOUNTS THE WORLD
"A prince is riding. I've heard the thunder of his hooves. Swift as the wind he rides.
His enemies will cower before him... and their wives will weep tears of blood... the Stallion Who Mounts the World."
- Jorah Mormont to Daenerys
The Stallion Who Mounts the World is a prophecy in the Dothraki religion. According to the prophecy, the Stallion is the "khal of khals who will unite all the Dothraki under his single khalasar and ride to the ends of the earth. The prophecy states that "he will be the khal of khals, and all the people of the world will be his herd."
Daenerys Targaryen's unborn son, Rhaego, was announced by the dosh khaleen to be the prophesied figure. However, her son was killed in the womb before any part of the prophecy could be fulfilled. The Lhazareen maegi Mirri Maz Duur believed that Rhaego would bring about unbridled death and suffering (much as Rhaego's father had visited upon her village), so she tricked Daenerys into sacrificing his life for the life of her husband, Khal Drogo.
Hence, it is now hyped that Drogon, is the Prince who was promised, who is son to her mother, the Queen to be the Stallion Who Mounts The World since its been prophecized that the stallion is born within ashes.


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When multi_edge is present and True there can be duplicate edges.
This method raises GraphError <altgraph.GraphError when a graph with the requested configuration cannot be created.
Generates and returns a Graph instance that will have steps*growth_n um nodes and a scale free (powerlaw) connectivity.
Starting with a fully connected graph with growth_num nodes at every step growth_num nodes are added to the graph and are connected to existing nodes with a probability proportional to the degree of these existing nodes.
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Perform a depth-first oder walk of the graph starting at head and apply all filter functions in filters on the node data of the nodes found.
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I need you to know
I won’t be there, I won’t be there I won’t be there for you
next time that you need me to be
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Never again


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BEAU TRAVAIL (director/writer: Claire Denis; screenwriter: From story by Herman Melville "Billy Budd"/Jean-Pol Fargeau; cinematographer: Agnès Godard; editor: Nelly Quettier; cast: Denis Lavant (Galoup), Michel Subor (Commanding Office Bruno Forestier), Gregoire Colin (Sentain), Richard Courcet (Legionnaire), Adiatou Massudi (Legionnaire), Bernardo Montet (Legionnaire), Nicolas Duvauchelle (Legionnaire); Runtime: 90; New Yorker; 1999-France)
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
Claire Denis (I Can't Sleep/Nenette and Boni/No Fear, No Die) has created a cinematic work of great poetry and reverie: a masterpiece. It is a meditation on men of the French Foreign Legion who live as outsiders on the edge of civilization, who have been reborn with hope when becoming part of a romantic military organization, thereby attaining a certain elegance in their lives. The film is loosely based on Herman Melville's "Billy Budd," though the scenery is now the isolation of the African desert instead of the sea. There are many films that influenced Denis, but the works of Alain Renais, especially his Muriel, probably influenced her the most. It's a film so visually stunning and so magnificently palpable in its cinematography and in its lively camera movements and fascinating narrative speculations, and most of all, in its lyrical sensuality, that it runs poetically adrift with its listless hypnotic pace, its sparse dialogue forcing the viewer to see what is not being said, and by its strange brooding mood it sets, as it tells in a matter of fact tone a story of hate, alienation and envy through the eyes of the narrow-minded French Foreign legionnaire who found freedom in his remorse. Its background shots are just as important as its story line and its theme, as it helps explore the everyday boredom the men face, of the trite routines the macho men are under, and the underlying violence it evokes in them.
Every scene in Beau Travail is filled with a quietness that turns explosive and rattles the wasteland. The minimally told story is made all the more powerful by many vivid shots, such as the one of the emerald water contrasted with the barren desert, or of the distant mountains which seem to have a language of their own that speaks to us of things we cannot know, or of the unobtrusive native women in their colorful dresses that we see in the marketplace or at the disco, who strike a chord in us with their musical gestures and mocking tones. The local women are just as much a part of the story as anything else in the film is, even though they are not directly part of the plot. There are also the close-ups of the interracial legionnaires living as brothers who have to reinforce this by ritualistically hugging and separating from each other in what seems to be weirdly homoerotic embraces, but can also be viewed as a parody of such romantic notions.
All the legionnaires have secret past lives and can choose any name they want to be known by (one of the main characters is Michel Subor who chooses the same name he had in Godard's 1960 Le Petit Soldat, Bruno Forestier, but this time he is playing a different part). The legionnaires are willingly giving up everything to be accepted into this arcane masculine fraternity that lives by a code of military honor.
Beau Travail literally means beautiful work, and this film delivers all that and more. It seems like it has been ages since I have been so enthused about a film as I am by this one.
The story is narrated by the evil superior sergeant, in an offscreen voiceover and in a flashback that begins by him stating his time of action is over, it is time for him to recall his life, as he says--`Marseilles, late February. I have a lot of time ahead of me.' He's a loner, a sort of romantic figure despite his unappealing physical appearance, who thought of himself as the ideal legionnaire, ex-Chief Master Sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant), a career soldier in the French Foreign Legion, stationed in the Djibouti outpost, which is in East Africa.
His chosen life, one that he feels most suited for, changes for no apparent reason when he becomes extremely jealous of an innocent new recruit who comes under his command, Gilles Sentain (Gregoire Colin). Galoup reminisces, with the help of the diary he kept, about being booted out of the Legion for his abuse of the popular and compliant recruit, someone with no guile who only wanted to be a good soldier. Galoup is not afraid to openly state how he was driven by the twisted state of his mind to behave in such a maddening way against such a selfless and blank individual, someone he found hard to believe really exists.
He tells of almost idolizing his much older commander, Bruno Forestier, who has no ideals or ambition, and enjoys to sit around and get high smoking the local gat. Bruno has grown old and tired of life, and in one conversation he has with the sergeant, he says "If it wasn't for fornication and blood we wouldn't be here."
Time seems irrelevant for the soldiers, memories seem to come and go, as they do their military drills looking at times like Teutonic mythical gods while half-naked (these scenes provoke, mock and remind us of the Leni Riefenstahl kitsch art and homoerotic heroes she gave us in both Triumph of the Will and Olympiad--though Denis's characterizations seemed all the more potent, purposeful and vital). The men also exercise by performing tai chi and they learn that the most important thing a legionnaire must know, is to obey his superior officer. To iron a perfect crease in their uniform is part of their reason for being in the Legion, because it makes them look special. The boredom of the day is broken up by work details, while the nights are reserved for the local discos, where they dance Western style with the ribald African women and pretend to have found satisfaction with this fantasy arrangement. Beau Travail is the memories of such idol pleasures and such a need to fit in somewhere, even if it is into something that appears as useless as the Legion, which doesn't seem to have any purpose anymore without the days of French colonization and the Algerian war. The only thing the men can't let go of is their dreams. The Legion is their love fantasy, it is something that can't be understood by anyone but true lovers. Trying to explain their reason for being, is like explaining why Rimbaud became a slave trader and gave up poetry.
Sentain heroically rescues a helicopter pilot who crashed at sea and Forestier respects him for being the kind of soldier needed in the Legion, one who blindly obeys orders and loves to be a soldier for no other reason. That Bruno takes a liking to him, makes Galoup become crazed with envy, as he can't believe that Sentain doesn't have an angle he is working. The sergeant then finalizes his plans to destroy Sentain by bringing the legionnaires to a desolate spot in the desert, where he has them dig in the oppressive heat a road that is not needed, as the locals watch impassively with disbelief. As in Billy Budd, the person in charge, in this instance the sergeant, creates a situation out of an injustice to another to provoke the legionnaire to respond and thereby manuevers the innocent Sentain to act in a humanitarian way, and when he does the sergeant is there to snap at him and sucker him into punching him out as he thereby fulfills his plan by sending Sentain out on the isolated desert alone with only a compass that doesn't work, as his punishment. The last we see of Sentain, is that the locals have rescued the unconscious man in the desert and a local woman is nursing him back to health, as she is with him on a bus.
When told by the commander his days in the Legion are over, there is a brilliant final scene of the sergeant's visit to the disco where he breaks free of the self that imprisons him and dances wildly alone to the contemporary Western song "Rhythm of the Night." Alone in Marseilles, he wrestles with the motto he has tattooed on his chest "Serve the good cause and die," and contemplates suicide.
Claire Denis was brought up in a family where her father was a French civil servant and lived the early years of her life throughout Africa and in Djibouti. Her familiarity with the people and their landscape and their customs, is reflective in the truth captured on the screen. This is her breakthrough genius film, a film that stands heads and shoulders over the talented director's other films. There's magic in the mystery her filmmaking evokes and there's something universal she uncovers in her search for foreignness (goodness!), which is the reason she took this project on in the first place, at the urging of French TV. What adds to the film, is the robust musical score of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd oratorio and the choreography staged by one of the actors who played a legionnaire, Bernardo Montet. All the military exercises were like watching a ballet, as the entire film had the fresh look of something so beautiful, that it has to be seen.
REVIEWED ON 1/15/2001 GRADE: A+
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This can be a form of Getting Crap Past the Radar, assuming even the implication isn't too much for the censors.
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Anime and Manga
- Buso Renkin: During the Buso Renkin Seminar omake at the end of the anime's 5th episode, Mahiro begins talking about what she wants to do with Tokiko if she becomes her big sister via marrying Kazuki, getting increasingly excited before realising that she is letting her imagination run away with itself and says she will continue when she gets back to her dorm later on.
Fanfic
- In Thousand Shinji, when Rei tells how Asuka dragged her into the shower to wash her body personally, Shinji and Touji excused to the bathroom for a few minutes.
Asuka had more or less dragged her into the shower before coming shopping, something that had soured her mood somewhat. Especially the enforced use of soap.
Of course, when she had told that last fact to everyone, Shinji and Toji had both excused themselves to the bathroom for a few minutes before returning with small bits of bloody toilet paper stuffed up their nostrils. Rei did not quite understand what that had been about, but the other two females in their group had just rolled their eyes while Kaji just snickered a little. - In the Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "The Other Smurfette", Handy, Carpenter, and Mason get turned on by Hogatha appearing before them as a beautiful female Smurf named Wonderette. In fact, they're so turned on by her that Handy says, "If anyone needs me, I'm going to be in the Imaginarium," and afterward Carpenter and Mason both say, "We're smurfing turns after him!"
- In the Hero: The Guardian Smurf mini-story "Smurfette's Artistry", Smurfette after spending time doing a nude painting of Hero (who at the time was married to Wonder) decides to spend some time alone with her new painting in her bedroom, alluding to enjoying herself privately.
Literature
- In A Deeper Blue by John Ringo, Katya was infiltrating a drug runner's boat by playing an airhead beach bunny dressed in a tiny bikini. Greznya (also dressed in a tiny bikini, this is a John Ringo book) was visiting the boat and passed along a message capsule through a bottle of vodka. To cover it, two of the girls got into a cat fight. The bad guy who had video surveillance of the entire boat told his boss "I'm sure they didn't pass anything to each other. I ran that clip a dozen times. Maybe more. Zoomed all over it. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to my quarters..."
- In Nemesis of the Horus Heresy, an Eversor Assassin reacts this way when he is first shown the crate of weapons the team will be using on their mission.
- Running With Lions - After seeing his Love Interest Emir nearly naked, Sebastian really hopes his bunk mate Willie is at a long breakfast because Sebastian needed some "alone time."
Live Action TV
- Trope Namer: In the Firefly episode "War Stories," Jayne's response to the discovery that Inara is going to be servicing a female counselor on board her shuttle is "I'll be in my bunk."
- The line is repeated by Casey, also played by Adam Baldwin, in the Chuck episode "Chuck Versus The Broken Heart" when he sees his Distaff Counterpart do a sexy gun cleaning.
- Friends:
- Rachael and Monica lose their apartment in a bet with Chandler and Joey, but finally get it back when they agree to kiss for a minute. The two guys then go into their rooms as soon as that is over.
- The trope also manifests in an episode where Chandler asks Monica and Rachel for sexual advice. Monica's advice becomes ... rather enthusiastic.
- A notable example in Seinfeld ("The Contest", about the four main characters wagering on who can go the longest without masturbating). Kramer loses his willpower almost instantly, just from catching a glimpse of Jerry's nude neighbor, and while he doesn't say much before he excuses himself from the room, he's back very quickly with his forfeit and the declaration "I'm out!"
- In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, Marshall imagines going back in time to stop his 13-year-old self from smoking his first cigarette by giving him a picture of Lily, to which Young Marshall comments, "Wow, she's hot." Marshall tells his younger self that he will marry her in the future. Surprised and excited, Young Marshall runs off, saying "I'll be in my tent."
- In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Perfect Mate", Riker says something close to the trope name after being kissed by the empathic metamorph:
Riker: Riker to bridge. If you need me, I'll be in holodeck four.
- In an episode of Spin City, after Michael and Caitlin get hot and heavy (apparently, office small talk turns her on) only for her to leave in the middle of it, Michael sits down, sighs, looks at his hand and asks "So, how was your day?"
- In The Big Bang Theory when Amy is talking to Sheldon and starts fantasising. She runs to her bathroom to brush her teeth. Made funnier by the fact that in an earlier episode, she admitted using an electric toothbrush in her "relaxation techniques for ladies". She calls it Gerard.
Amy: I need to go brush my teeth. It might take a while.
- In the 1970s TV Series Hot L Baltimore, a character who is implied to be gay by his "swish" demeanor and stereotypical gay mannerisms, mentions in one episode where he is "going into the toilet and meditate."
- In Two and a Half Men, when Herb is talking with Charlie about rumors of Alan's girlfriend Lindsey doing softcore porn, he excuses himself by going off to "take a shower". Later in the episode, he calls Charlie to inform him that he actually found said porn on Cinemax. Charlie ends the phone call by saying, "Okay Herb enjoy your shower".
- Implied in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 short Mr. B Natural when socially awkward kid Buzz comes home and tells his mother he's going upstairs to read.
Mom: Umm, Buzz, this time don't make so much noise when you read.
- When Saturday Night Live did a Harry Potter parody with Lindsay Lohan as the All Grown Up Hermione, Hagrid mentioned having to "tame a dragon", while the twins had to "beat a couple of bludgers." Snape avoided any euphemism and just took points away from Gryffindor.
- Doctor Who: David Tennant claimed in the Easter Egg commentary for "The Five Doctors" that after watching Peri's bikini scene in "Planet of Fire" as a teenager he had to "spend some time in [his] bedroom".
- Reign: The infamous (and edited-down-by-the-network) sequence in the first episode in which Kenna finds a quiet spot to "relieve tension" after viewing two people making love is presented in a somewhat tongue-in-cheek manner as she races through the palace with a knowing look on her face until she finally finds a place.
 When asked where she's going, she says, with full quote marks, "To 'take a shower'".
Video Games
- In Dragon Age: Origins, the Warden may ask Oghren how he feels about his wife cheating on him with another woman. The description of what he "can't help but" imagine them doing together ends with him telling the Warden that he needs a few minutes in his tent before they continue.
- In Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Iron Bull uses a qunari phrase (Taarsidath-an halsaam) that translates most closely to "I will bring myself sexual pleasure later, while thinking about this with great respect."

- In Dragon Age: Inquisition, The Iron Bull uses a qunari phrase (Taarsidath-an halsaam) that translates most closely to "I will bring myself sexual pleasure later, while thinking about this with great respect."
- In Mass Effect, Ashley nearly uses this line verbatim if Shepard turns her down at Ilos.
- Kingdom of Loathing's description for the "Dirty Pear" effect:
Of all the suggestive fruits, none is more so than the pear. I mean, just... look at it. The top part, the... bottom part, the... I need a minute alone.
Web Comics
- Blatant in Captain SNES: The Game Masta: Alex, in a side story, is told Marle and other characters are kidnapped, and she tells him she will do anything if he rescues them. He runs into the bathroom, thinking about the things she would do with him.
- Grrl Power: Invoked word for word in the margin sketch on this page, by Harem predictably enough, after Sydney promises to introduce Arianna to Hentai.
- The page pic is from Ménage à 3, strip #319 (June 25, 2010, possibly marginally NSFW), when Gary and Zii see DiDi singing a French love song in a shirt that's too small for her.
- Sunstone's Alan will sometimes have to head to the bathroom for some "alone time" when the sexual shenanigans of the main female cast get to be too much for him.
Web Original
- Used in Vision of Escaflowne Abridged when Folken is discussing the Incestuous Bisexual Ninja Catgirls, and noting what fetish material they were.
Allen: Question, did they ever dress up in little maid outfits?
Folken: Once, For my birthday.
Allen: I'll be in my chambers, no visitors. - The Quest For Geekdom: After Arthur has seen so many good looking men in his Top 12 Animated Hunks video, he needs to...take care of something.
- Spoken exactly by Nella in The Nostalgia Chick review of Kate & Leopold.
- In the "Ninja Turtles" episode of After Hours, Michael feels the need to drop everything and run to Blockbuster once somebody clues him in about "pseudo-porn for women" (also known as Sex and the City).
- The Spoony Experiment: The Spoony One directly quotes this during his Final Fantasy VIII review, right after seeing Quistis.
- Whateley Universe: One more than one occasion, Phase has pulled a Discretion Shot about this, stating outright that it was none of the readers' business what he was doing when he was alone in his bedroom. This is hardly surprising, give that, since he looks mostly female, he is expected to share the bathroom and showers with the freshmen girls in Poe Cottage - several of whom are supernaturally attractive.
- In Farce of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang has this reaction to Jiang Wei attempting to set him on fire.
Western Animation
- After Molotov Cocktease lives up to her name in The Venture Bros., Brock— with a very visible erection— leaves the room to "take care of something".
- In Family Guy, Brian invokes this trope not because he finds something arousing, but from sexual frustration after he's in a Sexless Marriage with Lois for a year, and Peter shows up the very day that Lois was going to consummate.
Lois: I tell ya, Brian, it's a good thing Peter came back when he did. I was ready to push the beds together tonight and take you for a ride around the friggin' WORLD!!
Brian: ...I'll be in the basement.
Peter: Doing what?
Brian: What do you think?!- Another example is fake trailer for a movie called "Masturbator And Commander" (a play on Master and Commander) where the commander will be "out in a minute" during a battle.
- In a Robot Chicken sketch parodying Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers has the main male cast react this way to Gadget deciding to go half-naked.
Dale: I have to go to the bathroom!
Monterrey Jack: I'm gonna take a quick shower!
Chip: I'll be in my room with the door locked! - In the "Midnight Stranger" episode of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Tigress falls for Po's superhero alter-ego and says she "needs to work out" when she catches herself rambling lustfully about him.


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Preface - a personal experience: in 2005 I moved from Andalusia Spain to Helsinki Finland. My motivation to do so was two-fold: on the one hand I felt the strong desire to connect to my Finnish roots (I'm the son of a Finnish mother and a German father), and on the other hand I passed the entrance exam to the music technology study program at Sibelius Academy´s Centre for Music & Technology. So it seemed like a win-win situation at the time and I went for it. Shortly after my arrival in Finland, I started to get in touch with Helsinki's arts scene and local artists and found out, to my great surprise and horror, that artists in Finland have to pay in order to exhibit their work in galleries. What???!!! Yup, you heard me right: pay to exhibit is the motto here in Finland! Never in all my life have I heard of anything as absurd as this and I still do not know any other country where this is common practice. In most countries artists can exhibit their works for free and in other countries, like for example in Sweden or Norway, they even get paid for it. And this makes a huge difference indeed!
Let's have a look at what this unfortunate custom really means and the real life implications it has for artists and the arts. To create artwork is an incredibly difficult and demanding task. Contemporary artists are seekers attempting to create the “supernatural element”. To discover, to perceive, to reveal, to shape, to transform and to make such a supernatural element requires virtually extra-human powers from artists. First of all they have to put themselves in the proper mental and emotional state allowing them to fully focus on the creation of their artwork. With this I refer to a productive state in which they are not distracted, in which their energy can flow freely without any inhibitions and in which they can concentrate solely on the realization of their idea. As simple as this might sound, this is already a big challenge, where inner as well as outer demons persistently appear and have to be constantly quelled. In this context the following quote by John Cage crosses my mind: “…in order to realize this, all of us (knowing how to say Yes) will have to learn to say No – No, that is, to anything that may come between us and the realization of our plan.”
Cage talks about realizing a plan, but we could also refer to that as realizing a flash of inspiration or simply: an idea . Having interesting ideas however is quite easy, almost everyone has great ideas from time to time, but going through the often long and tedious process of capturing an idea and transforming it into the desired form is a totally different beast entirely. This demands all of the artist's time, energy, love, attention, care, passion, dedication, curiosity, perseverance, patience, experience, skills and an ongoing thirst for new knowledge. Sounds challenging already doesn't it? But hey, this is not all of it, it does not end here, no no no. In addition to all that, the artist also has to find a way to finance the hours he or she spends developing and making his or her artwork. Days, weeks, months, years, even decades in some cases... And let us not forget that in addition to that he or she also has to finance his or her expenses and material costs. Wow, all that together forms quite an impressive package, no? So between here (the initial idea) and there (the finished artwork) Mount Everest has to be surmounted.
So isn't it fantastic that on top of all that artists in Finland also have to pay the galleries in order to exhibit there? After all they went through to realize their artwork, after all the struggle, THEY have to scratch up the money to pay the gallery as well. And we are not talking about peanuts here, some galleries charge thousands of euros for an exhibition. Hallelujah! Superduper! Practically every artist I know dislikes this custom: “this is terrible, this is unethical, this is grotesque, this is unfair, this is outrageous, this has to be changed”, I hear my friends and colleagues complain in anger……...but……...surprise surprise, sooner or later, the same people seem to swallow their anger, abandon their principles and finally surrender themselves to this nasty system by paying to exhibit.
This is very sad and unfortunate, because this problem could be solved so very easily. If artists would only unite and collectively boycott all Finnish galleries that demand payment, the situation would definitely change for the better, because one thing is for sure: without artists and their artwork there would be no exhibitions and no galleries. Period! Imagine all artists in this country boycotting galleries for let's say a period of 6 months or 1 year. Empty galleries...visitors staring at bare walls and bleak rooms…this might even be quite inspiring at the beginning...but then: people starting to question the status quo...and finally: a necessary and unavoidable paradigm shift. Wow, is it really as simple as that? The straight answer is: yes it is! Yes we can! So why on earth is this not done or why has this not been done already much earlier? I really cannot say. It is quite a mystery to me. But one thing is clear: after all the blood, sweat and tears an artist has put in the creation of his artwork(s), he or she should never become a greenfly milked by a gallery.
Now, this is where Third Space comes into play, as it is one possible solution to this problem. Third Space is an artist-run gallery where artists can exhibit their work for free. Also concerts, lectures and cultural events are organized there. Third Space as it exists today is possible due to the time, energy and private money that the members of the Third Space collective invest in this project. Working together as a collective is of course not always easy: contradicting opinions have to be united, sensitive egos have to be incorporated, flared tempers have to be calmed, artistic directions have to be decided, smoldering conflicts have to be solved and different concepts accommodated.
Third Space is also a very unbureaucratic venue that is able to make quick and spontaneous decisions. A feature extremely seldom in today's very formalized and institutionalized Finnish art scene. This is a big plus especially in the case of the very successful and popular Sound Room concert series that started in December 2013 and has presented 104 concerts until today. Touring musicians often ask on short notice, if they can fill the gaps in their tour calendar with an additional show at the Sound Room, which, depending on Third Space's schedule of course, often works out nicely. Not to mention all the local musicians and artists that enjoy(ed) performing at the Sound Room. Sound Room offers the audience a wide and sometimes also wild range of performances. Its spectrum ranges from noise to analog synthesizer extravaganzas, from free jazz to live-coding, from cassette tape improvisations to avant garde pop, from electronica to robotic sound machines, from singing dolls to shamanistic groups performing naked.
Although Third Space is tiny, with a size of approximately 13 m2, it is truly amazing what impact this little space and its collective had and still has in Helsinki and Finland.
So congratulations on Third Space's 6th anniversary! You have sometimes entertained and puzzled, inspired and disappointed, excited and soothed, delighted and irritated us. Does this somehow sound familiar? Well, isn't that a beautiful and appropriate metaphor for life?
I have to confess that I'm very happy that we have Third Space in Helsinki!
Please keep up the good work!
With best wishes,
Marko Timlin
PS: I'd like to say a big thank you to my dear friend Rebecca Choate for proofreading this text!


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Government of India announces visa on arrival facility for UAE nationals
by Nisha ShroffThe Government of India has announced on arrival visa facility for the UAE nationals travelling to India. The statement ‘Introduction of Visa-on-Arrival facility to nationals of the United Arab Emirates’ issued by the Embassy of India, Abu Dhabi on November 17, 2019, stated that this facility is aimed at further strengthening tourism and trade relations as well as strategic ties between the two countries.
UAE citizens will now have access to a 60-day visa on arrival in India at six designated airports in the country – Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Kolkata. It will also be a double entry visa for those travelling for tourism, business, conference and medical purposes.
The statement also said that “Visa on arrival will be available only to those UAE nationals who have earlier obtained an e-visa or a normal paper visa for India, irrespective of whether the person actually visited India or not.”
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Small Soldiers (1998)
Director: Joe Dante Cast: David Cross, Jay Mohr, Alexandra Wilson, Denis Leary, Gregory Smith, Kevin Dunn, Frank Langella, Tommy Lee Jones Screenplay: Ted Elliott, Zak Penn, Adam Rifkin, Terry Rossio, Gavin Scott Producers: Michael Finnell, Colin Wilson Runtime: 110 min. US Distribution: DreamWorks/Universal Rated PG-13: violence, language
By Nathaniel R. Atcheson<EMAIL_ADDRESS>When I first saw the trailers for Small Soldiers a few months back, I didn't understand the appeal. Now that I've seen it, I still don't understand. I think this film is being aimed towards children, but I can't imagine why: sure, it's about kids and stuff, but it's also about numbing action and violence. It features long, seemingly endless scenes featuring human-like toys being maimed and mutilated, crushed and flattened, eviscerated and dissected. In addition, the film attempts to satirize the military, our culture's obsession with violence, and the world of advertising.
That's a little too much for what is essentially and overlong and ridiculously violent kiddie movie. There are scenes in Small Soldiers that truly horrified me, and if I had kids, I would not have wanted them to watch this film. I can't be too hard on it, because it does, in fact, try to harness a little bit of intelligence and wit into its story (see Doctor Dolittle for a film that isn't so bold). And it's made with great technical competency by director Joe Dante and crew. But the intelligence is misguided, and the special effects are hollow -- Small Soldiers is just a mean-spirited little movie.
There are a lot of characters, and a lot of subplots. The film opens with a couple of company men (David Cross and Jay Mohr) making a sales pitch to the president (Denis Leary) of a company called Globotech.  In one of the film's many attempts at satire, Leary's character goes on a tantrum in which he states his desire for toys to actually do what they can do in the commercials. It's funny, but never followed through with any degree of completeness. The toys are called the Commando Elite, and are fitted with special chips created for military intelligence.
Cut ahead three months time, and we meet Alan (Gregory Smith), our hero.  Naturally, the toys escape, but it turns out that the American Commandos, led by Chip Hazard (voiced by Tommy Lee Jones), are the villains, and are hell-bent on destroying the Gorgonites (whose leader is voiced by Frank Langella), who are peaceful, nature-loving beings. What ensues are a series of technically superb and horrifyingly violence action sequences.
As I said, I can respect the entire package to an extent, for it does have traces of intelligence. I like the satire involving the nature of the war toys, and the speech Chip gives to his troops against the backdrop of an American flag. And I like the anti-tech themes running throughout the film, and how Alan's father is violently opposed to tech stuff, while their neighbor, Phil (Phil Hartman), is cutting down trees to get clear reception with his satellite dish.
It's enough to make me utterly confused as to the film's intentions. I was instantly reminded of Starship Troopers, which is another film that satirizes its subject while banking on the very principles it attacks. The difference is that Starship Troopers always has that comical edge, and is aimed primarily at adults and teens old enough to understand the material. Small Soldiers is PG-13, and I warn all parents to take that rating seriously -- there are scenes and images in this film that just aren't appropriate for younger kids.
The scene that bothered me most has the Commandos stealing a bunch of Barbie dolls and bringing them to life to create a surplus of troops. What results are armies of female toys which end up horribly disfigured (the film has a strange fixation with some of the themes explored in Shelley's Frankenstein). They stalk their opponents and swarm like cockroaches, uttering valley girl lines like "It's a bad hair day" and "I broke a nail." Later, most of them are viciously destroyed by a lawnmower-wielding young girl. None of this is pleasant, and it's stuff I'd expect to see in a horror film. The absence of human blood fails to keep the material from being harrowing.
Small Soldiers is always impressive to look at, and Joe Dante (Gremlins) has explored this material before (actually, Gremlins is a similar film in many ways). Stan Winston and Industrial Light and Magic are responsible for the effects, and the image brought to screen is convincing and impressive. But I wasn't thinking about those things -- I was thinking about the blatant hypocrisy in every scene. How can an anti-war movie utilize such extreme violence and expect to show it to the youngsters in our society? Isn't this the kind of stuff that makes kids think that violence is a great solution for their problems? The producers of Small Soldiers should worry about instigating another tragedy in an elementary school yard.
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Pawar meets Modi, briefs on farm crisis in Maharashtra
by Sagar KulkarniIn the midst of uncertainty over government formation in Maharashtra, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pawar closeted with the prime minister for nearly 40 minutes, setting tongues wagging about a new political equation emerging in Maharashtra.
Emerging from the meeting, Pawar said he briefed the prime minister on the widespread damage caused by the unseasonal rains to farmers in parts of Maharashtra. Pawar also extended an invitation to the prime minister to attend an international conference on sugar sector at the Vasantdada Sugar Institute in Pune in January.
The NCP supremo smiled mischievously when asked whether political situation in Maharashtra also figured in his discussion with the prime minister.
NCP and Congress leaders are meeting here on Wednesday evening to discuss the government formation in Maharashtra in partnership with the Shiv Sena.
Shiv Sena snapped its 30-year-old alliance with the BJP over differences on who should be the chief minister of Maharashtra after the coalition won a muted mandate in the state.


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Alberta Justice Minister advocates UCP rural crime plan
Expanded property rights, more power to peace officers, demonetizing scrap mental part of UCP plan
by Todd VaughanAlberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer recently unveiled a rural crime plan after a series of over 20 town halls throughout the province.
The main takeaway for the minister was that many Albertan are facing serious mental health issues over rural crime issues and everything his government announced was designed to be a swift response to those issues.
“The announcements were driven to make immediate, concrete steps,” Schweitzer said during a phone interview with the Lacombe Express.
Property rights
Included in the UCP’s plan is a change to property rights which will make it so trespassers would be unable to file civil suits against property owners.
Schweitzer said this decision was in response to town hall feedback which consistently brought up the case of Eddie Maurice, who was sued by a trespasser he shot on his property.
 He wasn’t convicted of anything and is a law-abiding Albertan. That raises alarm bells to everyone I spoke to and they can see themselves in a similar situation,” Schweitzer said.
He added this is a common-sense amendment and will be the first of it’s kind in Canada.
Expanded powers for peace officers
Schweitzer said the UCP is giving more powers to sheriffs, fish and wildlife officer and other peace officers throughout Alberta.
Schweitzer said these powers will help local law enforcement respond to issues.
“All these peace officers are across our rural communities and help with law enforcement. We want to enhance their powers to support police. They will be able to respond to 9-1-1 calls. It is about getting more boots on the ground and this is a tangible step we can take to get that done in 2020,” he said.
Police funding
Schweitzer said his ministry is still in discussion with municipalities on how police forces are being funded and no decisions have been made.
Further discussion will take place at the Rural Municipalities Association Conference in Edmonton.
“We are dedicated to maintain and increase our funding model through the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT). Municipalities are at the table and want to see that money go towards law enforcement,” he said.
Schweitzer said his government is making tough decisions regarding the budget but maintaining front line services for policing will remain a priority.
“Maintaining front line services for police is paramount. We have invested in additional prosecutors and that is critical to manage our case-loads in our courts,” he said
Scrap metal
Schweitzer admitted that being an urban-Calgary MLA led to him not knowing the full extend of copper-wire theft happening in rural communities.
After hearing about the issue extensively, he said his government will look to de-monetize the trade of scrap metal
“We made the announcement regarding scrapyard dealer regulations. One of the things we want to do is cut off the ability to monetize those goods,” he said.
Drug treatment courts
Although further down the line, Schweitzer said an expansion of drug treatment courts, which are currently in Calgary and Edmonton, could help alleviate rural crime in the future.
Schweitzer said they have committed $20 million over four years towards the expansion.
“The first step was doubling the capacity of Calgary and Edmonton. The next step is going to be an expansion to our mid-sized centers, so Red Deer, Lethbridge, Grand Prairie and communities like that,” he said
Digitizing courts
Schweitzer said the backlog of cases before the courts will be helped by the digitization of an aging court system.
“Right now, you wouldn’t believe how old the system we run our courts off of it. It is paper driven. We are doing an overhaul of the system to keep up,” he said.
Relationship with municipalities
Schweitzer was recently involved with a publicized tiff with Mayor Naheed Nenshi regarding police funding.
Despite the disagreement, Schweitzer said he remains committed to having positive relationships with Albertan municipalities.
“I have been encouraged by the dialogue we are having. I am looking forward to the discussions we will have at the Rural Municipality Association Convention. I think we are getting closer to a new relationship on policing and hopefully we will get to that,” he said
“I want to ensure rural municipalities have a real voice in the way policing is happening in their communities. Historically that has been dictated by Edmonton and Ottawa. Policing is at it’s best when there is local accountability and I am hopeful we will have a new arrangement going forward.”
Going forward
Schweitzer said it is his intent to keep listening to Alberta and will measure the success of his government’s policies by having more town halls in 2020.
“We want to see the steps we are taking is having the impact we are hoping they will. That doesn’t mean we want people to stop sending in ideas. These ideas are a beginning and they came from town halls but we are not done,” he said.
“We won’t stop until people feel safe again in our communities.”
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