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LONDON SOCIALITE, YEYE BANKE ADETORO OPENS UP ABOUT HER LIFE
Within Barking in England, the Adetoros are one of the popular Nigerians. This is because Yeye Banke and Hakeem Adetoro are rich and influential. They are one of those Nigerians who rock both the Lagos and London Social scenes. Yeye Banke and her hubby run one of the most patronised textile shops in England called Royal Textile.
By Goddess Esther Aboderin - January 06, 2017
Mikel makes history, first Nigerian to earn over 100k Pounds a week
Nigeria midfielder John Obi Mikel has become the latest big name player to join the Chinese Super League gold rush after leaving Chelsea for Tianjin Teda, Reuters reported on Friday.
Mikel, who failed to make a single appearance for Antonio Conte's side this season, had a medical in the port city some 130 kilometres from Beijing on Thursday and the Asian Football Confederation confirmed the deal on Friday.
The 29-year-old, who spent more than a decade at Stamford Bridge, was given a free transfer by the London club and will earn £140,000 ($173,432) a week in China, according to local media reports.
After joining Chelsea in 2006, Mikel was part of a squad that won a Champions League crown, two Premier League titles and four FA Cups.
Chinese clubs have made several high-profile signings over the last month with Argentine striker Carlos Tevez moving to Shanghai Shenhua for a reported €84 million ($87.65 million).
Less than a week later, Brazilian midfielder Oscar joined local rivals Shanghai SIPG from Chelsea in a deal believed to be worth €60 million.
Update! Zimbabwe rapper, Stunner apologises to wife over cheating accusations (Video)
Zimbabwean rapper, Stunner has tendered an apology to his heartbroken wife after she accused him of sleeping around with younger girls.
Olinda Chapel, who only got married to the rapper in 2016, released a lengthy emotional video, where she was seen in tears accusing and exposing the atrocities of her unfaithful husband.
In a latest video, which the 'Mainini' rapper posted via Snapchat, it possibly looks like he is trying to resolve the drama, as he is seen apologising to Olinda on their matrimonial bed.
'Please accept me back, am pleading'. He said
Watch the video below.....
Lobatan! Son of former Taiwan government official hires 50 strippers to dance at his father's funeral ...photo
The son of a former Taiwan government official hired 50 strippers to dance at his 76 year old father, Tung Hsiang's funeral. Mr Tung was the chairman of Chiayi County council and died on December 14th 2016 while his buried held on January 3rd 2017.
Speaking to Oriental news, the son, Mr Tung Kuo-cheng said he wanted his father have an exciting and happy funeral ceremony. They were 50 jeeps carrying 50 strippers and another 150 vehicles during the procession which took place for more than two hours. Mr Kuo-cheng took to his Facebook page to release a statement thanking everybody who was a part of the funeral
'I want to express my gratitude towards the funeral guests, relatives and friends. Thanks for the comforting words of care.' He wrote.
See more photos below...
Watch video of Zimbabwe rapper, Stunner exposed by his heartbroken wife for alleged infidelity
Olinda Chapel, the wife of Zimbabwean rapper, Stunner, has exposed the atrocities of her unfaithful husband. In the lengthy emotional video, which surfaced on the internet on Thursday, a distraught Olinda, in tears, claimed that her husband had been cheating on her with girls of younger age.
She also went on to claim that she has been behind the Stunner's extravagant lifestyles and had got nothing good in return but pains.
'Stunner Desmond Chideme is an Ass, look at me; i'm a very hardworking woman, I work seven days in a week, for a man to start cheating on me, sleeping with 18-19 year old girls, is a shame. I'm disappointed in this man,' Olinda said, before revealing how she had been told countless times that her husband was an 'ass' and that she should leave him.
Watch the emotional video below..
Update! Veteran actor Prince James Uche evicted from hospital over debt
According to his son, they were evicted from the hospital over his inability to pay hospital bills. Please help. Prince James Uche - Zenith Bank -1001063788 ...or .Gofund.me/saveprincejamesuche. For more info call Emeka Ojukwu - 08023200557...
Woman accuses actress of being pregnant for her husband ...photo
This a developing story on IG. This afternoon, a married woman and mother of two with the IG page name, @mumcyaliyah, shared a photo of upcoming actress, Odita Awele, alleging that she is pregnant for her husband who goes by the name @kokozaria_americana.
The married woman in the post congratulated Awele and wished her safe delivery. Awele in a photo she shared online two hours ago, reacted to the allegation. See that after the cut...
John Terry describes John Mikel as a Legend
Mikel signed a new deal with Chinese Super League side Tianjin TEDA FC yesterday January 6th. Chelsea's Football club captain and Mikel's former colleague, John Terry, described him as a legend as he congratulated him on his new move.
Comedian Basketmouth meets the Mayor of Brent, London ....photo
Basketmouth was in Wembley today ahead of his comedy show: Lords Of The Ribs, which is set to take place at Wembley Arena on February the 14th.
Basketmouth met with the Councillor Parvez Ahmed; elected Mayor Of Brent who's borough covers the Wembley Arena and Leader of Council Councillor Muhhamed Butt.
The Borough of Brent is one of the most densely diverse parts of outer London, which is heavily populated by Africans, the Mayor of Brent expressed to Basketmouth. This is one of the reasons why
The Mayor Of Brent is excited to host the first African Comedian to ever take on the Wembley Arena.
The Mayor Of Brent; is also the first Bangladeshi born to be elected Mayor, this was also expressed to Basketmouth during their meeting. Another reason why Cllr Parvez Ahmed stands behind Basketmouth at Wembley, which he will be attending.
Basketmouth will be making history and breaking a new record this Valentine's Day with an expected audience of 10000 at the SSE Arena Wembley. Not only is he the first of his kind to attempt a show of this magnitude, but this edition of Lords Of The Ribs Uk, will be the 10th year for his annual comedy show. Tickets and Information for are available online at www.cokobar.com , http://www.ssearena.co.uk/ and all major ticket outlets
More photos below...
Six police officers dismissed due to professional misconduct during Rivers legislative rerun election...photo
The six men pictured above are the former police officers attached to Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike who were dismissed today after they were found guilty of professional misconduct during the state's legislative rerun election in December last year.
Couple celebrate their 65 years wedding anniversary with beautiful photos
Brazilian couple, Mr Zeca and Dona Ivanira have become an online sensation after their photo-shoot for their 65th wedding anniversary went viral.
See more photos after the cut.
Kidnap suspects gang raped woman without condom after collecting N2m ransom in Edo ...photo
A 32-year-old kidnap suspect on Thursday, narrated to journalists how they kidnapped a middle-aged woman and raped her repeatedly without condom after collecting ransom from her family.
Desmond Ozo and three other members of his gang, namely, Innocent Lucky (27), Roland Ode (22) andFriday Dominion (26) who specialize in kidnapping women and raping them were arrested by the operatives of Edo State Police Command on New Year Day.
The kidnappers were among the 85 suspects arrested by the command and paraded by the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Haliru Gwandu, for various crimes in the state, ranging from armed robbery, murder, cultism, stealing and impersonation.
Ozo said they raped the middle-aged woman in question after collecting N2 million ransom from her relations
"We slept with her several times before we released her. We also collected N2 million ransom," he said
When asked if he used condom while raping their victim, Ozo said,
"I did not use condom when sleeping with her."
Narrating how they were arrested, one of the gang members, Innocent Lucky, said the four of them were driving in their car along Sapele Road, when policemen on patrol stopped and arrested them.
Wow! Check out this 101 yrs old woman...photo
The Twitter user posted photo of his great grandmother, who is 101 years old... amazing!
Naomi Oloyan Meta demands refund from native doctor after failing to get married in 2016 (watch)
A Kenyan woman posted a video on the internet where she demanded for a refund from a witch doctor who could not secure her a husband in 2016 despite having met all the condition.
The woman was issued with a list of demands by the witch doctor identified as Abdalla Koka, in order to make the wedding happen, including bow-legged ants, a hen, dust from a Modern Coast Bus as it passes Voi town and the vehicle was to be driven by a specific driver.
The video was reportedly recorded three days before the end of 2016 when it dawned on her that no husband was forthcoming. Lol...
Listen and tell us exactly what she said..
How DSS Operative shot female staff in Aso Rock
An accidental discharge occurred on Wednesday at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja. Sources say a female staff member of the State House was injured in the process.
The incident happened at the reception of the administration block of the Villa.
The woman was said to have been rushed to the State House Medical Centre where she is currently being treated. The woman, witnesses said, sustained injuries on her stomach and lap.
It was said that the incident occurred when an operative of the Department of State Security (DSS) was trying to drop his gun as requested by the security officers attached to the reception.
The DSS operative, according to sources, is not among the security officers assigned to the reception.
Update! Why Police raided Patience Jonathan's mansion in Abuja
Operatives of the Nigeria Police were said to have raided the house of Dame Patience Jonathan, the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, in Abuja on Wednesday, with the aim of uncovering huge foreign currencies allegedly kept in the building.
Multiple sources familiar with the investigation confided in Punch that the security personnel raided the house on a tip-off that huge amount, allegedly believed to be stolen government money, was kept in the building located at Igbeti Rock, Maitama, Abuja.
The operation, which was carried out by operatives of the Special Investigation Panel, headed by a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Ali Amodu, acted at the behest of the Government Asset Recovery and Forfeiture Committee.
Sources explained that an informant had tipped the Federal Government about alleged huge stolen cash hidden in the building and in three other different locations in the Federal Capital Territory.
It was learnt that the informant, who told the government about the cash in the Maitama property, had hinted that the suspect planned to move the money anytime.
Following the intelligence report, the SIP operatives stormed the duplex on Wednesday, but did not find any cash.
A source explained that the police did not know that the building belonged to Jonathan until she identified herself as a former First Lady to the team leader, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Adebo Williams, on the telephone.
The source stated, "At the house, the security men said the house belonged to one Jaga, a Rivers State indigene, and the team leader was directed to call the owner.
"The security man gave the phone to the team leader and she identified herself as former First Lady.
"She spoke in pidgin English and told the operatives to go and take whatever they kept in the house. The team leader advised her to send her lawyer and she did. The house was searched in the lawyer's presence."
It was gathered that the team discovered the first of the twin duplex had not been inhabited for a long time.
The men, it was learnt, found some company documents, three Diamond bank accounts cheque leaves, which were taken away for further investigations.
A source said, "The second duplex was also filled with cobwebs and contained four big security safes. All the four security safes were met opened and in clean condition, indicating that they have been in use [probably the cash have been moved already].
A senior officer said a bulletproof Porsche jeep and a BMW car were found locked up in the garage.
PDP says plot to remove Fayose will consume Buhari's govt
The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has declared that the alleged subterranean moves to impeach Governor Ayo Fayose would lead to the total collapse of the administration of President Muhamadu Buhari, if eventually carried out.
The party said it was reasonable and justifiable that the governor wrote the Acting Chief Justice of the Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, informing him of the alleged moves to co-opt a section of the judiciary to the devilish plot.
Speaking in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, the PDP State Chairman, Gboyega Oguntuase, said:
"Governor Fayose is not just the Governor of Ekiti State, but the opposition voice in Nigeria. He speaks for all the oppressed Nigerians in the Southwest, South East, South-South, North Central and even in the far North.
"Removing Governor Fayose from the power is like removing the whole Ekiti who voted for him in all the 16 local government areas of this state. Any war wage against our governor will be resisted by the people from all these zones.
"Governor Fayose has been the most consistent critic of President Buhari's government, particularly against the poorly managed economy leading to this recession. So, all Nigerians will rise against this evil plot.
"If you look at the results of the 2014 governorship poll, you would think it was a tsunami because he won in all the 16 local governments. If truly democracy still remains the government of the people, then attempt to remove Governor Fayose will be tantamount to usurpation of the people's power."
Fayose had in the letter to the CJN accused former Governor Segun Oni and Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, of clandestine moves to coerce the judiciary to use Army Panel report to reverse his election victory.
He prayed the CJN to resist the move by preserving democracy and the integrity of the judiciary.
Man faints after receiving N10m cheque he won in a Promo ...photo
A young man residing in Awka, Anambra State, Chinonso Ikezulumba, won N10m in an ongoing Airtel promo and fainted during the cheque presentation.
According to Joseph Akelicious who shared the story, when Chinonso was invited to the firm's Awka office to pick up his cheque, he thought everything was just 'story' until the Airtel guys brought out both the dummy and real cheque. Chinonso fainted.
He came back after some minutes...lol.
He said that he is a petty fashion goods trader at Nnewi but that his business has since collapsed. He had prayed to God over the Christmas to give him N10M to start his business again and just like that, the money came via Airtel promo.
Chinonso was accompanied to the Airtel office by his mother and two sisters and said he plans to get married in May, and that he had already planned it before the Airtel windfall.
Update! Oluwo Of Iwo won't appear in Court
KINGING! There are strong indications that the Oluwo of Iwo-Oke, Oba Kadiri Adeoye may today drop his case against the Oluwo of of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, a first class traditional ruler in the state following the intervention of the governor of the state, Mr Rauf Aregbesola just as Magistrates's Association of Nigeria, Osun State branch threatened to embark on strike action over the development, Vanguard reports
It was gathered in Osogbo yesterday that Oba Adeoye will move for the discontinuation of the charges preferred against Oba Akanbi when the court resumes hearing of the matter today.
A reliable source in the government circle said that governor Aregbesola during the week directed one of his aides to mediate in the matter towards withdrawing the case from the court.
Oba Akanbi was dragged to the Magistrate Court by the Oluwo of Iwo Oke, Adeoye for allegedly engaging in Internet fraud and being an ex-convict before he was crowned as a traditional ruler, among other accusations.
The Court had on Friday, December 30, 2016 ordered the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye to immediately arrest the Oluwo.
The Magistrate had issued a bench warrant for Oluwo's arrest and also on December 28 2016 ordered the monarch to appear in court on Friday, December, 30, 2016 but the traditional ruler was conspicuously absent when the case came up for hearing.
According to the Magistrate, the case brought before him against the Oluwo of Iwo was a criminal case and by the bench warrant issued by him, "the accused person supposed to have been arrested and kept in prison custody." But we guess the case will be over now.
Update! Detectives question George Michael's lover amid fears the singer was killed with drugs
Detectives have questioned George Michael's lover Fadi Fawaz as it emerged that a major crimes unit has taken over the inquiry amid fears he died of drugs overdose.
Michael, 53, passed away in his bed at home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire on Christmas Day, apparently from heart failure.
Mr Fawaz has now been interviewed by police about what he knows about Michael's final hours.
The investigation has been taken over by the Thames Valley Police Major Crime Unit.
Last week a post-mortem examination proved 'inconclusive' but the results of toxicology tests could shed new light on the star's death.
Detectives fear he may have been killed by a drugs overdose.
Donald Trump kinda threatens Toyota company on Twitter, Toyota responds.
U.S president elect Donald Trump took to his Twitter handle this evening to reveal that he'll impose huge border tax on car production company, Toyota, if they decide to build a manufacturing plant in Mexico rather than the U.S.
According to Trump, Toyota had made plans to start producing Corolla cars in its Mexico plant for the U.S market, something the president elect clearly doesn't like as he hopes to keep up with his 'jobs jobs' mantra.
Just after Donald Trump threatened to impose huge taxation on Toyota if they don't produce cars in the US, Toyota's shares sharply dropped on the US stock market.
The car manufacturing company took their official website and Twitter to reply Trump.
In 2015 Toyota exported more than 160,000 U.S.-built vehicles to 40 countries, helping to establish the U.S. as a global export hub.
• Our manufacturing facilities in Baja, Mexico, established in 2002, support production at our San Antonio, Texas plant, where 3,300 team members produced over 230,000 Tundras and Tacomas in 2016.
• Recent manufacturing expansions by Toyota in the U.S. include:
◦ $360 million investment in Toyota's Georgetown, Kentucky plant, adding 750 new jobs
◦ $150 million investment at its Huntsville, Alabama plant
◦ $100 million investment in Toyota's Princeton, Indiana plant, adding 300 jobs
◦ $90 million investment at its Buffalo, West Virginia plant, adding 80 jobs
Watch Abike Jagaban chop off husband's mistress hair with kitchen knife after she catches them in bed ...video
A Kenyan woman from Kisumu took vengeance on her husband's mistress after she caught them in bed. In the video, which was uploaded online to warn current or intending mistresses, the angry wife who could be heard speaking Luo, was seen chopping off the mistress' braided hair with a kitchen knife.
But angry viewers on Facebook, who were displeased with the punishment, put the wife on blast, saying she should have dealt with the husband not the mistress. Watch the video and read the comments after the cut....
Update! Serena Williams shows off her new massive diamond engagement ring ...photo
Serena Williams showed off her new massive diamond engagement ring when she posted a photo on Thursday with her fiancé, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian.
Ronaldo, Messi, Iniesta and others make UEFA team of the Year 2016
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has unveiled the team of the year for 2016.
In the list revealed this afternoon, Spanish club side, Real Madrid dominated the team of the year with four players listed, followed by their counterpart, Barcelona that also had three players in the UEFA team of the year 2016.
Italian giant, Juventus had two players listed, followed by Altetico Madrid and Bayern Munish, who respectively had one player each on the list
See the full names of the football stars below..
Cristiano Ronaldo – Real Madrid
Sergio Ramos – Real Madrid
Toni Kroos – Real Madrid
Luka Modrić – Real Madrid
Lionel Messi – Barcelona
Andrés Iniesta – Barecelona
Gianluigi Buffon – Juventus
Leonardo Bonucci – Juventus
Antoine Griezmann –Atlético Madrid
Jerome Boateng – Bayern Munich
Photo of Bank staff, OAU student arrested for N1.2m internet fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office has arrested the duo of Timothy Adegbaji Ademiju and Taiye Shittu Habibulahi, a student of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, for offences bordering on internet fraud and obtaining by false pretence.
Ademiju, 36, a staff of a new generation bank, allegedly struck a deal with a student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State, one David Olaoluwa Adesubokan, also known as Opinion (now at large), to fleece one Giacomo Rossi, an Italian, of huge sum of money while posing as a lady by name, Grace Thomas.
Ademiju allegedly used his position as the officer in charge of Western Money Transfer to process the fraudulent transactions coming from the Italian to 'Thomas'.
The arrest followed a petition from the victim alleging that he was contacted on a dating site by one 'Thomas' posing to be an American Nursing student from OAU, and was in dire need of financial assistance in form of a loan to complete her studies. The loan which 'Thomas' promised to pay back was a decoy to trick Rossi into the fraudulent game.
According to the petitioner, he had offered monetary assistance, paid in tranches, to the tune of €2,400 (Two Thousand Four Hundred Euros) which is equivalent of N1,221,600.00 (One Million, Two Hundred and Twenty One Thousand, Six Hundred Naira) before it dawned on him that it was a scam.
The suspects would be charged to court as soon as investigation into the matter is concluded.
Update! Army hands over newly rescued Chibok school girl and her baby to Borno state government
The Nigerian Army yesterday handed over Rakiyat Abubabakr, the newly rescued Chibok school girl and her baby to the Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima. She was found by the troops in Damboa Local government area of the state.
More photos after the cut...
Mikel Obi joins Chinese club Tianjin TEDA after 11 years with Chelsea ...photo
Super Eagles captain, John Mikel Obi has become the latest ex- Premier League star to make a big-money move to Chinese Super League after completing his medicals with Tianjin TEDA yesterday. The midfielder, who had been frozen out of first-team football by coach Antonio Conte this season, will reportedly earn £140,000 a week.
The 29-year-old who arrived Stamford Bridge in 2006, is understood to have signed a three-year deal, after a successful spell in England, winning the Champions League, two Premier League titles and four FA Cups.
LONDON SOCIALITE, YEYE BANKE ADETORO OPENS UP ABOU...
Mikel makes history, first Nigerian to earn over 1...
Update! Zimbabwe rapper, Stunner apologises to wif...
Lobatan! Son of former Taiwan government official ...
Watch video of Zimbabwe rapper, Stunner exposed by...
Update! Veteran actor Prince James Uche evicted fr...
Woman accuses actress of being pregnant for her hu...
Comedian Basketmouth meets the Mayor of Brent, Lon...
Six police officers dismissed due to professional ...
Couple celebrate their 65 years wedding anniversar...
Kidnap suspects gang raped woman without condom af...
Naomi Oloyan Meta demands refund from native docto...
Update! Why Police raided Patience Jonathan's mans...
PDP says plot to remove Fayose will consume Buhari...
Man faints after receiving N10m cheque he won in a...
Update! Detectives question George Michael's lover...
Donald Trump kinda threatens Toyota company on Twi...
Watch Abike Jagaban chop off husband's mistress ha...
Update! Serena Williams shows off her new massive ...
Ronaldo, Messi, Iniesta and others make UEFA team ...
Photo of Bank staff, OAU student arrested for N1.2...
Update! Army hands over newly rescued Chibok schoo...
Mikel Obi joins Chinese club Tianjin TEDA after 11...
Wow! Meet the 10 most generous billionaires in the...
Graphic photo of suspected kidnapper gunned down b...
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Aisha Buhari denies collecting monetary or materia...
Osama Bin Laden's son added to U.S. terror blackli...


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Q: Do I need to call ReleaseBuffer in this context? I have been looking here about CSimpleStringT::GetBufferSetLength.
It says:

If you use the pointer returned by GetBufferSetLength to change the
string contents, call ReleaseBuffer to update the internal state of
CSimpleStringT before you use any other CSimpleStringT methods.
The address returned by GetBufferSetLength may not be valid after the
call to ReleaseBuffer because additional CSimpleStringT operations can
cause the CSimpleStringT buffer to be reallocated. The buffer is not
reassigned if you do not change the length of the CSimpleStringT.
The buffer memory is automatically freed when the CSimpleStringT
object is destroyed.

I am actually using CString but given this code:
CString strHostLabel = dlgLabels.GetTrimmedHostLabel();
CString strCoHostLabel = dlgLabels.GetTrimmedCoHostLabel();

MENUITEMINFO sInfo{};
sInfo.cbSize = sizeof(MENUITEMINFO);
sInfo.fMask = MIIM_STRING;
sInfo.cch = strHostLabel.GetLength();
sInfo.dwTypeData = strHostLabel.GetBufferSetLength(sInfo.cch);
SetMenuItemInfo(pMnuSwap->GetSafeHmenu(), SwapAssignment::Host, TRUE, &sInfo);
sInfo.cch = strCoHostLabel.GetLength();
sInfo.dwTypeData = strCoHostLabel.GetBufferSetLength(sInfo.cch);
SetMenuItemInfo(pMnuSwap->GetSafeHmenu(), SwapAssignment::Cohost, TRUE, &sInfo);
strHostLabel.ReleaseBuffer();
strCoHostLabel.ReleaseBuffer();

Since I do not modify the underlying data it seems I do not need to call ReleaseBuffer. Correct?

A: Short answer: No.
The longer answer is: Don't call GetBuffer/GetBufferSetLength either. Call GetString instead. It will return a pointer to the immutable sequence of characters. This requires a const_cast as well, i.e.
sInfo.dwTypeData = const_cast<TCHAR*>(strHostLabel.GetString());

This is due to the fact that MENUITEMINFO is used both for setting menu items, as well as reading information back. Since C doesn't allow you to specify transitive constness, the structure is forced to use non-const data members, even when the pointed-to data is never changed. The const_cast is both required as well as safe.
Also note that setting the cch member is not required. As the documentation explains:

[...] cch is ignored when the content of a menu item is set by calling SetMenuItemInfo.

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The poster on the death of Undersecretary for Education Christine Choi's son was put up on the EdUHK democracy wall (inset). The school said two suspects were caught by a CCTV camera in the act. Photo: HKEJ/Internet
EdUHK 'broke' privacy law over screenshots leak in poster saga
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) said the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) violated privacy rules over the leak of screenshots relating to a poster on the death of Undersecretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin's son.
The poster "congratulated" Choi on her son's death by suicide and was put up on the student union's democracy wall.
PCPD said circulating screenshots to look for suspects in the case was exempt under the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, but sending the screenshots to EdUHK staff for identification and investigation broke privacy regulations, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reports.
The watchdog demanded remedial measures to prevent a recurrence of the leak.
Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, the school principal, said two people suspected of putting up the poster were caught in the act by security cameras.
Two screenshots of the suspects were leaked by some media.
PCPD said the screenshots originated from the school's security center, which sent them to a WhatsApp group consisting of senior management of the university.
The screenshots were also forwarded to 13 other staff members and one student.
EdUHK should have reminded the group that the screenshots were confidential information and that they should not be forwarded to others but must be deleted immediately after use, PCPD said.
The risk of leaking the screenshots was ignored when these were sent to staff members outside the WhatsApp group, the wtachdog said.
It said the fact that the school had not successfully confirmed the identity of the suspects suggested it had not been vigilant enough.
PCPD concluded the university contravened the privacy ordinance by failing to stop further distribution of the screenshots.
Meanwhile, the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Stephen Wong Kai-yi said everyone's privacy is protected by the law as a fundamental human right but it is not an absolute right.
He said a person breaching the law or certain established regulations cannot take privacy as a "refuge" or "sanctuary" for his wrongdoing.
In response to the findings, the university said it will establish related guidelines.
EdUHK students' union president Lai Hiu-ching criticized school officials for failing to protect student rights and demanded an apology.
She also accused PCPD of overstepping its authority, saying it should not decide whether the two people concerned broke the law and should limit itself to conducting investigations and making recommendations.
TL/JC/RA

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Current (https://current.org/tag/campaign-donors/)
How reform can minimize politics in presidential appointments
By Steve Behrens, Former Editor | September 8, 1997
This analysis by the editor and co-founder of Current describes methods used elsewhere to reduce the influence of political favor in naming boards. If patronage appointments are giving CPB a mediocre Board of Directors and top management, as retired longtime staffer David Stewart contends in the accompanying commentary, there's a simple reform that's widely used in such situations. That is: inserting a nominating step in the process, a reform that brings to bear the attention and efforts of additional interests and reduces the now-predominant role of partisan considerations. That's how people are named to the board that runs the National Science Foundation. That's how most regents of the Smithsonian Institution are chosen. On the state level, that's how the Commonwealth of Kentucky picks the board that oversees Kentucky Educational Television, as well as state university boards.


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Chungking Express: Paradox Waiting
"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella," - Isidore Ducasse, known by his pseudonym Comte de Lautréamon (1869)
Chungking Express is a film by Wong Kar-Wai from 1994. It is a beautiful meditation on paradox, absence and the rule of the heart over the mind. The loneliness of crowds peppers the gritty realism of people getting on with life in the famous Chungking Mansions of Hong Kong. In particular He Qiwu, also known as Cop 223 (played by Takeshi Kaneshiro). Qiwu's girlfriend May broke up with him on April 1. His birthday is May 1 and he chooses to wait for May for a month before moving on. Every day he buys a tin of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1. By the end of this time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it will have expired forever. Meanwhile, a mysterious woman in a blonde wig (played by Brigitte Lin) tries to survive in the drug underworld after a smuggling operation goes sour. He Qiqu spends time at a snack bar in the crowded Chungking Mansions, using the phone to make hopeless calls to women he does not actually know ("we were in grade four together" or "has it been five years...you have two kids now") and chatting to the owner who attempts to find him a date.
In the second story of the film, the unnamed Cop 663 (played by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) is similarly dealing with a breakup, this time with a flight attendant (Valerie Chow). He meets Faye, the new girl at the local snack bar (played by Faye Wong). She secretly falls for him. The flight attendant waits for the cop around the snack bar, and finds out he is on his day off. She leaves a letter for the snack bar owner to give to the cop. Everyone in the snack bar reads the letter, which is assumed to be the flight attendant's way of telling the cop that their relationship is over. The envelope also has a spare set of keys to the cop's apartment.
The film revolves around the themes of doubles, replacements or doppelgängers and how or if anyone really knows anyone. The doubles in the first story are not copies but dim reflections, fractured similarities recruited by the protagonists from the pain and loneliness that the original bestows upon them.
The paradox of relationships is fully explored in Chungking Express with a brevity and economy that is at times startling, but always beautiful. "Knowing someone does not mean keeping them" (知道一个人并不意味着保持其) says Brigitte Lin's character as He Qiwu tries desperately to engage her, the mysterious blonde woman who we already know he will fall in love with, in conversation in a bar. But the pair do not meet, even thought they are sitting next to each other, her in her Lolita sun glasses and blonde wig and him stumbling through his words as he wears his heart on his sleeve. People change. He's a cop and she is a drug dealer. They share a hotel room, although he eats and she sleeps. They are miles apart. Upon leaving at sunrise he cleans her shoes with his tie while she continues to sleep, and the world is turned upside down. Surrealism lives and love is madness.
While He Qiwu contemplates his 25th birthday, the blonde woman murders a western man while he waits for another woman in a blonde wig with whom he is intimate. Like a hallucination two dreams collide, one of death and the other of lust. Shadows move off the stage and blood runs with the rain.
There is little between them but they can barely hear each other. Cop 663 and Faye seem to be in two different pictures, but they are speaking to each other. He is elsewhere and she is stuck. Memories betray us. His flight attendant girlfriend has just gone and he is telling us about it in grainy images with audio from the take-off procedure of the flight upon which they met. "Onboard every flight is a stewardess that you long to seduce. This time last year, at 25, 000 feet I actually seduced one" (板载每次飞行是一名空姐,你长的勾引。去年这个时候,在25000英尺,其实我的诱惑之一). Is the truth being told?
Nothing lasts and there is no forever.
Who is leaving who in the sad memories of Cop 663? Soon everyone in the snack bar quarter is reading the letter from the flight attendant to 663, the moment of dissolution is shared before the cop (n)ever reads it. Or has it? His keys in the envelope make Faye the double (s)he does not know (s)he has. Noise between people is part of (mis)understanding.
By this stage of the film we seem to be swimming in clouds. A person is burnt upon the mind of another and they remain as a presence no matter the distance. What was presence in absence for He Qiwu has become absence in presence for Faye and Cop 663. He returns home for lunch, talking to the closet in the words he used for his flight attendant, but she is gone. Who is there?
She is. The double that we all carry. She inhabits the living quarters of the lonely cop. Watering his plants, talking to his stuffed animals, left behind by his love, and eating his food. Shouting to him as he passes by. Like a living ghost. A memory that answers back. How many of you can there be?
While he is absent, she cleans and redecorates. Changing the track of reality for the dreaming cop. "Did I leave the tap running or is the apartment getting more tearful?" (我离开的自来水运行或公寓越来越含泪). He is lost and dreams collide around him. Music she chooses becomes his and he remembers it as something it is not. Objects hold memories and as these change so does the man and his world. And then there is love in crowds...or not. One letter can make all the difference. Where do you want to go?
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May the Coming Darkness be Mischievous and Thrilling
Presentation at Amsterdam University Symposium
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Remix in Retrospect: Looking Back to See the Future of Authorship
Invited Symposium at Amsterdam University
Frankenstein's Monster Comes Home: Digital Remix and the Ends of Origin
"The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. "
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.
"One text that shows the disaster of the divorce between science and poetry would be the one by Mary Shelley whose name is Frankenstein."
Avital Ronell, Body/No Body (in conversation with Werner Herzog)
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (published 1818) represents a historical and literary divergence between the poetic and the technical, and is a significant reaction against this split as part of English Romanticism. It is the contention of my presentation that in contemporary digital works of art and narrative we are witnessing a re-marriage of science and poetry. However, this union should be no automatic cause for romantic joy, as the present situation in the education sector of most Western democracies indicates. Today, the natural sciences are separated from and weighted favorably in relation to the production and analysis of culture. There is little to indicate that this is an effective strategy in light of present global 'network culture' initiatives. Today, the union of science and poetry in digital media is felt most acutely in reading, or the performative interpretation of imaginative works. Computer games, websites, digital works of literature, apps, virtual worlds, interactive art, and spatial media (GIS, Kinnect, GPS, Wii) are interpreted as they are performed and often require some knowledge of the medium by the user in order for the work to function. This situation represents a form of reading that has not been practiced widely in Western academic and literate circles for several centuries. We are not witnessing a return to what Walter J. Ong famously terms a "secondary orality" (10-11), but rather we are seeing a form of inscription rapidly emerge that is spatial, multi-temporal, performed, place-bound, visual, sonic, and navigated. Two central concepts are important for understanding how digital works are generally interpreted, and these are simulation and remix. Representation has become the domain of mediating objects, both virtual and physical, while reading is as much about arranging and appropriating as it is about reference, symbolism, iconography and interpretation. Based on a relatively small selection of digital works this presentation examines reception practices involving digital media, which suggest an expanded concept of reading where the material technology of a work determines meaning as much as its representative elements do. In this examination I demonstrate how performance, participation, co-authoring, and remix make the reading of the digital works. These works are
Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson (1995)
Last Meal Requested by Sachiko Hayashi (2004)
Façade By Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern (2006)
Second Life http://youtu.be/9g-kYvK3P-Q
CONSTRUCT by salevy_oh (2011)
The Celebration by Iris Piers (2011)
Patchwork Girl is a work of electronic literature by American author Shelley Jackson. It was written in Storyspace and published by Eastgate Systems in 1995. It is often discussed along with Michael Joyce's 'Afternoon, a story' as an important work of hypertext fiction. "Shelley Jackson's brilliantly realized hypertext Patchwork Girl is an electronic fiction that manages to be at once highly original and intensely parasitic on its print predecessors."
The actions of the avatar, which is the identity of its operator in SL, conform to the traditions of Varjrayana Buddhism. The combination of the actions of the avatar and the audio is a two fold signifying structure, with the operator of the avatar at the center. In a simulative sense the operator of the avatar is enacting a practice that is firmly contextualized in religious and social contexts.
Last Meal Requested is an interactive net art work by Japanese/Swedish artist Sachiko Hayashi. It deals with themes of gender, state power, violence and the rhetoric of the image. The original work can be accessed at http://www.e-garde.net/lmr/lmr2.html
Selavy: What happens when you write in a diary? Of course, some people write down "got up at 7am, drank a coffee, had lunch with Jim, went to bed early", but that's not the type of diary I'm referring to. It is rather the idea of keeping a record of selected thoughts, feelings, moods, ideas, etc. The important part is, of course, that you do that regularly. And that is exactly what I did in CONSTRUCT: I added one room each day. Every one of the 75 days of the residency has its own room, often relating to the topic of the residency itself, a time capsule of ideas, artifacts, or reference to other work. If you read a diary, you may get an idea about the writer and her life. If you visit CONSTRUCT, you may get an idea about Selavy Oh and her residency.
The Celebration "combines a circular display of flatscreens, reminiscent of a giant zoetrope, containing amateur film footage from the 1910's-1940's with different soundscapes that can be manipulated by the audience" (Piers). How the audience manipulates the various audio and images, and how they combine to create an interactive and immersive space, makes The Celebration an engaging work of interactive digital art. The visitor enters a darkened space, where the only available light comes from the 10 screens showing the films of The Celebration. By moving around the space and judging their own distance, speed of movement, posture and height in relation to the (largely invisible) Arduino trackers, a dance begins with the audio and the cracked black and white images from almost a century ago. Each of the screens that make up The Celebration has an Arduino tracking sensor attached, which maps the movements of the body of a visitor, and implements pre-programmed changes in the presentation of images and sound. Unknown faces stare out from the screens, mostly laughing, talking (unheard) and often looking straight at the camera, and at the audience. As these faces watch, the visitor dodges and weaves, hops and slides, while the images and sounds change. At the same time the visitor is watching the faces, along with their bodies, their families and friends, competitors at sports events and classmates, neighbors and colleagues. It is according to this arrangement that a circuit of movement and gaze is achieved by the programming of The Celebration.
Façade is a prototype of interactive drama, a new genre of character and story-intensive interactive entertainment. Façade is freely downloadable at interactivestory.net. In Façade, you, the player, using your own name and gender, play the character of a longtime friend of Grace and Trip, an attractive and materially successful couple in their early thirties. During an evening get-together at their apartment that quickly turns ugly, you become entangled in the high-conflict dissolution of Grace and Trip's marriage. No one is safe as the accusations fly, sides are taken and irreversible decisions are forced to be made. By the end of this intense one-act play you will have changed the course of Grace and Trip's lives – motivating you to re-play the drama to find out how your interaction could make things turn out differently the next time. In this video Facade is used to promote an abstinence program.
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8 Films I (Probably Should Not) Have Seen as a Child
10 movies I should not have seen as a child by Nadine Von Cohen has inspired me to make my own shorter list. I was shocked at first by the mundanity of the films Von Cohan had chosen (Porky's and Cocktail!). I then remembered that my mum and dad did not really restrict me much in what I saw or read. However, I really did not have a lot of film watching when I was a kid. My life was books and British Television (Goodies, Dr Who, Kenny Everett etc). However, I did manage to collect a list of 8 films that scared me in some way in my tender years. These are not arranged in any order, but here are my 8 movies I should not have seen as a child:
Rocky Horror Picture Show (12 Years Old)
I saw Rocky Horror from the back of a station wagon with my mother and her best friend in the front seat. The film must have had an effect on me as I wrote out all the words to Sweet Transvestite on the front of my school ring binder folder. For the following two years I used it for all my classes. Later in high school, when I was about 16, I went to two school socials (dances) dressed as a woman. I am totally amazed I was not beaten up, but I was 189 cms tall when I was 15, so I was a very unconvincing drag queen dressed in a pastel frock and old lady shoes, complete with a bad wig and stockings.
Jaws (10 years old)
On Cavill Avenue at Surfers Paradise I went and saw Jaws with my best friend and afterwards we bought shark's tooth necklaces. Jaws was a totally unpleasant experience for a boy who loved the beach.
Bliss (14 Years old)
At a hippy beach house at Byron Bay my mother rented the video of Bliss by Ray Lawrence. Some of the other mothers staying there called my mother 'sick' for showing it in the public lounge area of the house to children. Its a great film and the book (by Peter Carey) and film changed my life.
The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus (8 years old)
On TV with Richard Burton as Faustus; I was fascinated and terrified at the same time. I remember the first appearance of Satan to Faustus was as a skeleton covered in maggots. The image is incised upon my mind.
Mad Max (11 years old)
This film made me look at Australia (where I spent the first 30 years of my life), differently.It is a brutal account of petrol head culture and the highway was a lot more frightening for me after seeing it.
German Piss Party (15 years old)
I stumbled into 'The Shed', a corrugated iron box at the back of my friend's house used for drinking, darts and a bit or work, to discover his older brother and friends watching a grainy film with people speaking a language I did not understand. What unfolded during the following 30 minutes horrified me. I did not watch another porno for decades, and even then I have never been a fan of it. I blame the urinating Germans in this bizarre document of 80s fetish culture.
Psycho (11 years old)
This is a deeply disturbing classic. I just wish I had not seen it when I was 11 years old.
The Shining (11 years old)
Nothing on the screen scared me as much as The Shining. This film is an exercise in psychological terror.
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'Tebowing' high school students suspended for blocking hallway
Two "Tebowing" high school students have been suspended for blocking the hallway while mimicking the quarterback's famous prayer pose.
The boys were two of four students to trigger a wave of some 40 students kneeling in between classes, Riverhead High School Principal David Wicks said. The students caused a safety hazard, he said. The incident was captured on a smartphone and posted to YouTube.
"It was basically just a tribute to Tim Tebow," The New York Post quoted one of the boys as saying. "It was more than a religious thing. There was some of that involved obviously, because he prays. I guess it was basically like a moment of silence."
The two students received in-school suspension because they had been warned before about pulling disruptive stunts in the middle of the hallway, Wick said. The others received a verbal warning.
"This is about students causing an unsafe situation by blocking the hallways," Wicks said. "This has nothing to do with Tim Tebow or punishing the students for their religion beliefs. If they'd been sitting in the hallway with their legs crossed they'd receive the same discipline."
Tebow mania is sweeping the nation, inspired by the Denver Broncos quarterback's overt religiosity and knack for winning despite less than stellar stats.
"I think it's wonderful that our students look up to sports heroes such as Mr. Tebow, but we can't allow students to create unsafe situations in school," Superintendent Nancy Carney said in a statement.
"The students stated that there was nothing religious about their actions and that they were just having fun. We hope that these students and all of our students continue to look up to the positive role models in public life; we just encourage them to do it in a responsible way."
Filed under: Football • Pro football • Sports • Tim Tebow
I think it's funny. However, it already says these kids had already done things in the past in the hallway to disrupt the flow of traffic. I graduated in 96 and I can tell you from experience my high school was packed, and the hallways were always extremely crowded and some of them almost impossible to get through.
I'm usually all for funny stunts like this, but if you've already been warned because you did it before then that means you aren't trying to be funny, it just means you are trying to get attention. Maybe the 2 kids just missed a hug or something that day. But, if I were their teachers I'd embrace their individualism but tell them they already did the hallway thing and it's time to find something different.
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I guess students in the hall are a hazzard. If the principal suspends all the students in the entire school, then I guess there would be no more hazzards in the hall (if it only saved one child, it would be worth it).
Now, if a teacher or principal or teacher told the kids to get up, and they refused, then they can suspend them.
My guess is the suspending principal is a Raider fan.
Annie, from reading the article it sounds like they had indeed done stuff like this before and had been verbally warned not to do it again. ....they did it again. And they only suspended to students who had been in trouble for doing it before... sounds perfectly reasonable to me.
I kind of blame CNN for making this sound even remotely linked to actual religion. Half the people on here are thinking they were suspended because of religion in school!
heyheyhey69
Maybe they had finished bulling for the day. Nothing wrong with praying after assualting some gay kids. It's what HE wants anyhow.
ScientistUno
Wow, I can't even believe the stupidity you just showed right now. I can't even believe I am replying but I had to relay how stupid you are.
Crammed in a few lockers yourself, were ya? I'ts ok, cry it out.
Amusingly, regardless of the protests, your comment is pretty close to the truth.
boz238
It's amazing how you turned this into a gay agenda. Stop playing the victim. The word gay was never mentioned in the article.
40 students blocking a hallway is an unsafe condition. It disrupts the learning environment and presents a hazard in case of emergency. According to the the story, they had blocked the hallway on previous occasions and and they had been notified that blocking the hallway was an ongoing concern, they chose to do it anyway. Denman above references Hitlerian punishment (a bit of hyperbole there)–I agree about the hair and wearing the wrong clothes to the prom, but one must note that some behaviors, and blocking the hall is one of them, do pose a safety problem and does restrict the rights of others to the education that their parents are paying for. Students do have a right to walk to class without others preventing their passage.
boniman
Why is it ok for liberal's to block traffic, take over parks and cause issues in cities for their cause, but as soon as kids want to do it for their cause in school it's wrong. hhmmmm
I remember that in school, there was one kid in a wheelchair that always hindered the normal flow of traffic. Suspend him I say!!!
NatiDread
This reminds me of a bit by comedian Mitch Hedberg (RIP): "I was at a casino. I was standing by the door, and a security guard came over and said, 'You gotta move - you're blocking the fire exit,' as though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run.
Don't you just love in-your-face religious fanatics and wannabe "martyrs" for "The Cause"?? This is your religion of "grace" and peace?? If they weren't so busy playing their Wii's they'd be looking to Jihad against their "non-believing" fellow students. It's not enough to be free to have your religious beliefs, you just can't help shoving it down everyone elses throat.
Whoopdeedoo
Almost as much as I love atheists guilty of exactly the same mindset.
ROFLMAO
Whoopdeedoo ... your anger is palpable, it shows in every anti Atheist post you make. Didn't learn the love part in Sunday school did ya. To us Atheists it just comes naturally.
Sorry you can't handle your own tactics. Oh, and to answer your question, no I did not. Of course, to do so I would have had to be religious, attend church and go to Sunday School. None of which apply. You may return to asserting the superiority of your worldview and converting the believer.
amigay
Tebow isn't winning. It's the TEAM (remember, there is no I or ME in TEAM) that's winning. Tebow needs to quit wearing his religion on his sleeve. What a jerk.
I wonder if it would catch on, if he was bowing to Mecca?
Yeah, but there ain't no "we" either!
tebowner
Last I checked team has both a M and a E.
babydoc
Well – there is a ME in MECCA!
I pray in public and I carry my Bible in public to church in spite of what others may believe. My children are exposed daily to things that I don't believe in. Yet I don't post venemous retorts to others that have different beliefs. When it's all said and done we all have to live with the decisions we ourselves make. I pray they are the right ones.
It seems to me these adminstators today have to much book sense and not enough common sense....Go figure, Lord help this country and its children.
hilreAL
AMEN! Common sense would tell them that religion has NO place in a public school and the administrators should be severly reprimanded for allowing this gross display to take place on public property.
Easysmiles
GOD has been very upset because some idiots put words in his mouth....Once, it is a touch down, a quarterback kneeled down and "thanks God". While the other sacked the quarterback, he kneeled down and "thank God"...God keep throwing his hands up and said "I don't take side, I have nothing to do with it"... If you respect God, please stop doing those silly things...
lol at the tools that think the kids are being persecuted for being christian. Its a prank, they were trying to be funny. There is zero religious motivation to the prank and in fact they were probably making fun of Tebow.
If they had done the same thing with their yamakas or kneeled down for their morning Muslim Prayer it would have been okay...
lenough1
I guess they should have thrown bricks through the display cases, defecated in the hallways and clashed with fellow students. Then we would have called them brave, patriotic and standing up for their rights. Hypocrites!
Weldon Gebhard
Is it Tbowing or WWS ing.
I dont think it was religious. This is Long Island, not the bible belt. These kids just took a lame joke too far and got in trouble. End of story.
You could tell they were doing it for the camera (you can see them looking at it). It is kids being kids no big deal! No harm no foul, Come on principal act like a grown up by remembering what it was like to be a teen! I'm a 50year old grandma and I can see nothing that should have gotten this much attention.
I would agree with you, Jan. But they had already been verbally warned to not disrupt hallway access again. They did it again. What did they think would happen? They'd been warned.
At what point when they were laughing and yelling "TEBOOOWW" were they praying?
Its the same as "planking", just a prank to make a funny picture to put on facebook or youtube. Stop trying to turn them into martyrs.
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Elysium Trailer – First Look at Blomkamp's Hotly Anticipated Second Feature
UK Release Date: 20th September 2013
Stars: Neill Blomkamp (director), Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, William Fichtner, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Alice Braga, Diego Luna
Plot: Set in the year 2159, where the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth, a man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.
This is the very hotly anticipated film Elysium. So hotly anticipated thanks to the brilliance that was Blomkamp's debut feature film, District 9. He again teams up with the incredible Sharlto Copley (although in a supporting role this time).
Technically, this trailer is superb. As a futuristic science-fiction film it is important for audiences to believe the world in which the film is set. The trailer for Elysium instantly introduces us to that world, with the wealthy living a perfect life where cancer can be cured just by laying in a simple machine. Utopia.
While the audience are placed with Matt Damon on Earth, the complete opposite. Damon's character is equipped with an incredibly powerful weapon and embarks on a mission to Elysium in an attempt to bring peace to the two worlds. There is a little action, a great view of the beauty that the film will bring and enough of an introduction to wet the appetites of audiences.
In the coming months, expect more and more of Elysium to be seen as it is sure to make an impact at the box office and with the critics. Here's hoping Neill Blomkamp is not a one hit wonder.
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Why Sharlto Copley's Career is Worth Taking Note of…
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Sharlto Copley is a man who clearly loves film. When he was growing up he wanted to become an actor and now that dream has been realised. But before that, Copley started up his own production company Vasbyt Films LLC and became South Africa's youngest television producer at the age of 25. At age 22 Copley first met a 16 year old Neill Blomkamp (a name you'll be hearing a lot in the coming paragraphs and years) and Blomkamp began working at Copley's production company in return for the use of the computers at the company for Blomkamp to furthur his passion of 3D animation and design.
Over ten years after this meeting Sharlto Copley made his acting debut in short film Alive in Joburg about a close encounter of the third kind in Johannesburg. Copley also produced the six minute film which was directed by Neil Blomkamp. In 2009 Copley made his feature film acting debut, again directed by Blomkamp, in science fiction masterpiece and Oscar nominated film District 9, an adaptation of Alive in Joburg. You can read my review of District 9 here, but one thing I didn't mention in the review was just how good Copley's performance is. This was the first time he had acted in a full length feature but he looks right at home in front of the camera, his performance is excpetional and he is nothing but loveable in his role. The change and development his character goes through is unbelievable and the emotion that Copley is able to bring to the role is just wonderful. I think this is one of my favourite performances of recent years.
This performance and the success of District 9 allowed Copley to make another of his dreams come true. Thanks to his performance he was noticed by the Hollywood executives and cast in the film remake of one of Copley's favourite television shows, The A-Team. Now, the cast looks pretty good on paper with the likes of Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper among the names and token eye-candy-in-summer-blockbuster Jessica Biel included, and there were some good action scenes that made it a fun popcorn movie but there was nothing to it. However, Copley's performance as "Howling Mad" Murdock was the shining light of brilliance among the film and he even gained praise from Dwight Schultz, the man who made the character famous in the TV series.
Having tried his hand at action and science fiction it seems clear which one he enjoyed the most as a look at his upcoming films will tell you that Sharlto Copley is sure to become one of science fiction's greatest ever actors. His next film is Europa Report about a crew of international astronauts sent on a mission to Jupiter's fourth moon. Another upcoming film is the intriguing Open Grave which will see Copley try his hand at horror: Copley's character wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with no memory and must try to find the serial killer or decide whether he himself is actually the killer.
After this Copley is set to team up with old friend Blomkamp for Elysium, another science fiction film, however not connected to the earlier District 9. There is a lot of anticipation and expectation surrounding Elysium because it is Blomkamp's follow up project and it also features Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and William Fichtner among the cast. Copley's role in Elysium is set to be completely different from District 9 as he plays a bad-ass and vile South African mercenary: his versatility is set to be tested.
With roles in the Oldboy remake and the retelling of Sleeping Beauty in Maleficent alongside Angelina Jolie Copley's career looks to be a path that is very well chosen. All we are going to see over the coming years is just how good and how versatile Copley is. Such a talented actor, he already has a cult fan base but he is deserving of even more!
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District 9 (2009) Review
Back in 2008 a viral marketing campaign began entitled "Human's Only" that first brought people's attention to District 9. Then, upon its release, it received acclaim from all angles and really helped to launch the careers of its South African director Neill Blomkamp and leading man Sharlto Copley.
District 9 is the story of Sharlto Copley's Wikus van de Merwe. Almost thirty years prior to the events of this film a large spaceship stopped above Johannesburg in South Africa and its alien occupiers came down to Earth and now inhabit the slums of South Africa. Wikus van de Merwe is a government agent chosen to lead the camp relocation by serving the aliens with eviction notices. However, after uncovering a deep secret about the alien's technology he becomes a kindred spirit of the alien race.
The film begins in a very interesting documentary style and remains this way throughout the first half an hour. This allows the audience to be given a fantastic insight into the alien race and their history, as well as the opinions held of humans about this new species on their planet. There is a strong sense of foreboding throughout as we hear the talking heads talking about their colleague Wikus and we know that something bad happens to him, but we are never quite told what. Meanwhile, we are introduced to Wikus, this happy, charming, loved up government worker who is, not all the time competent, but always means well.
Then the story moves on and we suddenly come out of the documentary style and we are welcomed to a more conventional style of story telling. We know get introduced to the aliens and learn what they are doing here and what they intend to do with their spaceship, and how they intend to go back home, if they want to. The aliens are brought to life magnificently by Jason Cope who plays a huge part in the making of this film by providing the voices for all as well as playing the lead alien, Christopher Johnson.
As well as being an enthralling piece of drama District 9 also brings up several strong themes surrounding humanity. Right from the title through to its treatment of aliens District 9 is a sure fire criticism of Distric Six. District Six, an inner-city residential area in Cape Town, was declared a "whites only" area by the government in 1966, with 60,000 people forcibly removed and relocated to Cape Flats. Racism and xenophobia are explored with the aliens being the subject of the hatred. The use of the word 'prawn' is a very evident replacement for racist words used in the past. It's not the first time the science fiction genre has done this but District 9 is certainly one of the best to have used this tact in their film making.
It is amazing that on such a low budget Blomkamp has managed to bring to life one of the greatest science fiction/fantasy films of this century so far. A fine piece of art!
My Rating: 9/10.
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It's always great to have different dips around for all of the summer BBQs. Instead of serving the dips with chips, sliced veggies or even homemade grain-free crackers, make a great option. All of the crunch and none of the guilt! This version of "hummus" uses cauliflower instead of chickpeas. The cauliflower creates a smooth and creamy dip. I decided to flavor it with hot sauce because I love pairing hot sauce and cauliflower together. This dip will even be great during the upcoming football season, which I am (im)patiently waiting for. If you're not a fan of hot sauce, you could always seasoning it with your favorite spices.
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You may not even know it, but you and your baby have been working hard, preparing for the next step in your relationship after pregnancy and birth -- breastfeeding. Just as you provided everything your baby needed to grow on the inside, you are sequenced to continue this job once baby is on the outside. Currently I am working toward increasing my formal lactation knowledge to better serve the Bakersfield and Visalia areas. To add to my current 6500 direct breastfeeding counseling hours, I am completing 90 hours of specific lactation education (required to become eligible to sit for the exam to become an IBCLC). I came across these quotes while studying, and I was struck by the timing of these events!
From page 29 of Core Curriculum for Lactation Consultant Practice, by Marsha Walker.
From Chapter Six of Catherine Watson Genna's book, Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants; contributed by Lynn S. Wolf and Robin P. Glass, page 133.
While we are designed to nurse our babies, that doesn't mean it will happen easily. If you are experiencing breastfeeding issues, reach out for some help! There are many places to look, starting with the hospital where your baby may have been born, WIC offices, local public health options, private practice IBCLCs, and group support gatherings, such as La Leche League and Breastfeeding USA. Often you can call any of these resources for some phone help or questions answered. If you need more support, hopefully the person on the other end of the phone can further direct you to the best resources for your situation.
Just because we are mammals and breastfeeding seems like it should be "natural," that doesn't mean we won't need some good information and ideas from others who are in positions to help. Don't be afraid to get some guidance -- you are your baby are in this together!
For more resources, view this past post.


An American girl, Daphne (Amanda Bynes), heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she discovers that the love of her free-spirited mom's life is an uptight politician, Lord Henry Dashwood (Colin Firth). Plus, he's now engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a debutante daughter. Can Daphne fit in?


Officials in the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters Association of Connecticut used dues money to fund the Miss Connecticut Scholarship Organization, pay for trips for UPFFA President Peter Carozza and his fiancé, and borrowed money from its own charity to pay the union credit card, according to witness testimony given in Connecticut Superior Court.
of a lawsuit brought by New Haven Fire Fighters Local 825, which alleges, among other things, the statewide union had misspent their dues money.
Attorney and state representative Craig Fishbein, R-Wallingford, questioned why the UPFFA in 2014 contributed $500 to Joseph Kuziak, a board member for the Miss Connecticut Scholarship Organization.
Carozza told the court the $500 payment to Kuziak was a charitable donation to "support a golf tournament that the Miss Connecticut pageant was sponsoring." The proceeds from the golf tournament were directed to the Children's Miracle Network for kids with cancer.
At the time, Alyssa Rae Taglia was a competitor for the title of Miss Connecticut. Alysssa is the daughter of Kimberly Taglia — Carozza's fiance of 18 years.
Alyssa had entered the competition in 2013 and 2014 before taking the honor in 2016.
UPFFA Treasurer Robert Anthony said he was unsure of who Kuziak was and that he believed the $500 was a donation to the pageant. Anthony said union delegates were not made aware of the donation.
"Counselor, we don't go to the delegates for approval of every bill, every payment we make. The executive board okays everything," Anthony testified.
But there were numerous other "questionable" expenses discussed during the court hearing, including travel for UPFFA President Carozza and his fiancé, who accompanied him on union business trips, including the International Association of Fire Fighters 2014 convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Some of the charges under Taglia's name ranged as high as $715.99 for an upgraded flight from Chicago to Seattle, according to the court transcripts.
Under questioning, Taglia said she and her daughter accompanied Carozza on business trips to Hawaii, Florida and St. Croix as guests. Taglia said she couldn't recall who paid for the trips.
Among other purchases questioned during the hearing was $822.40 at Tony D's, a New London restaurant; of $360 to attend Motown: The Musical; and $674.25 for UPFFA members to attend a baseball game while attending the union convention in Cincinnati.
The purchases and business expenses were made on the union's credit card which, at one point, acquired a $28,000 balance the UPFFA couldn't pay, according to the testimony by union officials.
Instead, the UPFFA "borrowed" money from its Emergency Relief Fund, a non-profit organization which gives financial assistance to fire fighters facing difficulties. The ERF is funded largely by United Ride – a motorcycle ride in honor of those who lost their lives in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, according to Anthony's testimony.
Anthony testified the UPFFA used the ERF money because it was cheaper than getting a bank loan and he only had to transfer the money from one account to another. The Treasurer testified he was unaware the UPFFA couldn't borrow those funds and that they were paid back with interest.
dues paid to the UPFFA, which they say were misspent on travel and other non-legislative expenses.
UPFFA Treasurer Anthony said he personally felt the travel expenses and purchases were okay because Carozza, who receives a salary of $48,000 per year plus a municipal pension, had only received "one flat pay increase of $500" over the last eight years.
But Frank Ricci, president of the New Haven Fire Fighters Local 825, apparently doesn't see it that way. Local 825 was "legislative member" of the UPFFA, meaning they paid dues to UPFFA for representation at the Capitol.
According to the testimony given by Anthony, dues paid to the UPFFA – even dues by "legislative only" members – are not separated from other membership dues, essentially creating one pot of money for the union. This means Local 825's legislative only dues could have been used for any number of non-legislative expenditures.
It appears the court felt the same way, at least for now.
Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher ruled in favor of Local 825 to disaffiliate from UPFFA and allowed Local 825 to move forward with their claim their dues money was misspent.
"To support its demands for money, the court has heard evidence from the local of questionable expenditures from the state union, including personal travel that may not have been reimbursed, suspicious 'mistakes' with PAC fund balances, and the admission of a plainly improper loan the state union took (and repaid) from its charitable affiliate," Moukawsher wrote in his ruling.


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A man driving a car bedecked with an ISIS Islamic State flag told Chicago police Thursday that he would detonate a bomb if they tried to search the car.
Emad Karakrah refused to pull over for police and ran several red lights before he was stopped, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
That's when he told them about the bomb.
Officers from the local bomb squad, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security searched the vehicle and found no explosive device, according to the report.
Karakrah was charged with felony counts of disorderly conduct and aggravated fleeing, and a misdemeanor count of driving without a license.
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ps. I don't exactly know who or when this yearly outfit summary started but can I just say that it really helps me learn and find out what works for me and what doesn't. Oddly enough, at the end of the year, I usually end up liking those that I was at first reluctant at posting the most.
So even if you don't own a blog but would like to get to know yourself better style-wise, I suggest doing the same thing: keep a photo journal of your outfits and review at the end the year to see which cuts, colors and silhouettes suit you most.


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Siemens again No. 1 in sustainability
Siemens AG has been ranked the most sustainable company in its industry for the fourth time in a row. In the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) – the sustainability rating established by Dow Jones and SAM – Siemens has again taken first place in the Diversified Industrials category, which includes companies like 3M, General Electric, Toshiba and Thyssen Krupp. Out of a possible 100 points, Siemens received 90 – its highest overall rating to date and a further improvement over last year's result of 87 points. The company has now been honored by the DJSI twelve times in a row for its sustainable activities.
"By capturing the No. 1 position once again, we've proven just how rigorously the company is oriented to sustainability and how our employees put sustainability into practice on an everyday basis. For us, this is a competitive advantage," said Barbara Kux, the Siemens Managing Board member responsible for sustainability. In addition to the economic and social dimensions, Siemens is focusing intensively on the expansion of its Environmental Portfolio, emissions reduction and the efficient use of natural resources.
The company planned to generate revenue of €25 billion with its Environmental Portfolio in fiscal 2011. With revenue from the Portfolio totaling €28 billion in fiscal 2010, Siemens not only achieved this target a year earlier than planned; it considerably exceeded it. The company now wants to generate more than €40 billion in revenue with green technologies by the end of fiscal 2014.
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Siemens AG (Berlin and Munich) is a global powerhouse in electronics and electrical engineering, operating in the industry, energy and healthcare sectors. For over 160 years, Siemens has stood for technological excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality. The company is the world's largest provider of environmental technologies. More than one-third of its total revenue stems from green products and solutions. In fiscal 2010, which ended on September 30, 2010, revenue from continuing operations (excluding Osram and Siemens IT Solutions and Services) totaled €69 billion and net income from continuing operations €4.3 billion. At the end of September 2010, Siemens had around 336,000 employees worldwide on the basis of continuing operations. Further information is available on the Internet at: http://www.siemens.com.
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A: Your container does not have any height, 100% is not height as it is 100% of parent. Add height: 100vh to container to center items.

A: You just have to provide a 100vh (viewport height) or any height of your choice to your container div and then give a width to the column1 div to see its center position.
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Riyadh Car Show attracts thousands of enthusiasts to Janadriyah
RIYADH. KAZINFORM: Riyadh Car Show, a unique exhibition featuring more than 1,200 classic and rare cars, attracted thousands of enthusiasts to Janadriyah on the northern outskirts of Riyadh, Kazinform has learnt from Arab News.
The show, part of various activities and entertainment shows presented by Riyadh Season, was officially opened on Thursday by Turki Al-Sheikh, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) and the season's president.
It will run until Nov. 26 from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. exhibiting new, rare, historic and classic cars, Basem Al-Madfaa, project coordinator of the GEA told Arab News.
The exhibition made headlines on the opening day when Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho became the first person to buy a car at the show, choosing an Aston Martin Rapide AMR.
Some of the names at the show include the flying carmaker PAL-V, the iconic British Aston Martin, Italy's Ferrari, iconic French carmaker Bugatti, and the star attraction, the «GFG Car 2030.»
The futuristic electric car was unveiled by Al-Sheikh, and auctioned at the show for SR3.2 million ($854,489) on Saturday.
The black and green supercar was manufactured especially for the Riyadh Car Show, a GEA coordinator said.
«The only one of its kind in the world, the idea was inspired by Saudi Vision 2030 and its great success in all fields,» a tweet by the GEA said.
Thousands of visitors can view an array of cars and other heavy vehicles hosted by the Global Auto Salon, said the official.
Speaking to Arab News, Ahmed Jamal, a visitor at the rare car show, said: «I came from Jeddah especially for this car show, I am a car enthusiast. I have worked with Jaguar, the luxury vehicle brand of Jaguar Land Rover, for five years now. To me this show is fantastic, and perhaps the biggest car show not only in the region but worldwide.»
Mohammed Chaarani, a sales manager at Aston Martin, said: «This is an amazing show with an incredible number of cars.
«For Aston Martin we have a few special cars that we are displaying, which include our first SUV, DBX, a new kind of Aston founded on the principles of beauty, luxury and driving dynamics.»
Marco van den Bosch, vice president and CCO for Western Europe at PAL-V, said: «It (the PAL-V) is the first flying car, a combination of a full operational car and a gyroplane.
«This car gives the choice of flying and driving depending on mobility. We need a small runway to take off, but it is a safe way of flying with two engines — if we have an engine failure the other engine will be used, and it will float like a parachute.
«The time taken to turn from car to gyroplane is three minutes,» he added.
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Happy New Year from The String Cheese Incident! 2015 was a fantastic year for SCI and we can't wait to wrap it up in style with our friends and family in Colorado. Thank you for creating magic with us time and time again!
We are pleased to present the March Madness tour in 2016! 10 Incidents across the West Coast in 11 days! Tickets for the Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas shows are already available here, and the rest of the March Madness dates will go on sale on Wednesday, January 13th via stringcheeseincident.com. Let's go big this NYE and then we'll see you on the road again this March!
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