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Often people look at divorce or break up and they see that one side or the other are to blame. They argue that somebody must accept moral culpability and I'm sure that in many cases there is a party that is to blame, there is someone who should be accountable. That is not the case in all cases. The Iranian film, A Separation, brings that home very powerfully. It concerns a couple living in Tehran. The woman wants to leave Iran, the man wants to stay to look after his senile father. Their daughter chooses to stay with the father rather than the wife. They separate- the wife lives with her parents for a while, the man in their flat. He employs someone, another woman, to come and look after his father for him. The conflicts that this creates- between the husband and wife and the woman who cleans for them- are the force which runs through the film. The conflict that arrises between the middle class couple and their cleaner is a conflict overlaid with Iranian politics and history, its about an accident which happens when the man in justifiable anger pushes the cleaner. As the crisis happens, the relationship between the husband and wife is put under hideous strain: they struggle with their different opinions, both justified, of what the best strategy is.
Some have seen in this story a political allegory. Nader the man is the Iranian reformists who try to confront the regime, his wife Simin represents Westerners fleeing the country, Nader's father stands for Iran herself- grand and helpless, the cleaner and her husband stand for the devout masses who have in their pain elevated the fanatics and thugs who currently rule. I can see the argument but find the point is too blunt. I think that actually the political point here is much more interesting and universal. This is a film that reaffirms that as humans we face moral dilemmas which are as true in Tehran and Isfahan as they are in Texas. The dilemmas in the case here exist whether you like it or not. The film investigates whether you are ever truly accountable for the acts you commit: how accountable should you be for the results of an action whose import you did not at that moment understand. If I kick a pregnant woman and she suffers a miscarriage- have I committed a murder and should I be tried for murder? The film leaves this question unanswered- but one can see the justice each way. Moral questions are not simply resolved into yes or no answers, they take thought and feeling. Equally we are confronted with the consequences of the law: what is the law- a system to punish bad behaviour or to create good social outcomes. What does punishment acheive if there was no intention and if it merely wrecks lives and leaves them destroyed without restoring anything of what was lost?
These questions run through the film but alongside them runs another one. We all face situations in our lives and have choices to make. We may call the placing of us in those situations providence or fate or fortune but it comes to the same thing: human beings cannot control the context for their actions, all they control is their response to that context. Nader and Simin therefore stand at opposite poles with respect to how they respond to their situation. He believes in right and wrong- he does not believe he pushed the pregnant woman and therefore killed her unborn child, he does not believe he should desert his father. She beleives in accomodating: even if he was not guilty, wouldn't it be easier to pay off the other family rather than accept the potential dangers of a trial. His father is ill- but then his father can barely recognise him and for the sake of their daughter wouldn't it be easier to leave Iran. These two responses are both valid responses to human events: the first set of responses needs no defence- the second set of responses are those of a pragmatist and therefore are reasonable in themselves (there is such a thing as selfish idealism- particularly when a child is involved). There is no way though of adjudicating between them- nor is there a way of arguing between them.
Ultimately this brings me to what I found most intriguing about the film. Because if we accept that the conflict running through it- between compromise and assertion- is a real conflict and an insoluble conflict then at last we can see the tragedy of Nader and Simin's marriage. They obviously love each other- obviously care for each other and they both tenderly care for their daughter. Yet in this situation these two human beings cannot share their lives- every time a strategic decision has to be made, their paths divert. The film's title is very apt- this is not a film about injustice or a response to injustice- it is a film about the pain of separation. The pain is worst for their daughter, played amazingly by a wonderful child actress, who captures the pain and courage of a precocious 12 year old facing these disasters. It is real pain though and one struggles to imagine how this relationship could not split apart. The film in that sense puts on screen something that I think is really important: it shows how sometimes relationships cannot survive, not because anyone is culpable, but just because these characters cannot find a way to compromise between their approaches to the world.
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Earning More Than Husband Can Make Women Prone to Depression: StudyAugust 14, 2017 18:44
The researchers of the University of Illinois have found that a woman can show the signs of depression if she is earning more than her husband.
Researchers Karen Kramer and Sunjin Pak have found that women whose income consists majority of their families' expenditure showed the symptoms of depression. It is exactly opposite in the case of men as they showed improvement in their depressive symptoms when they become the primary earner for their families.
For the research, the team examined 1,463 men and 1,769 women. The majority of the participants were born in the period of 1957 and 1965.
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- 1 Title (as submitted)
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- 3.1 Contact Information
- 3.2 Why do you want to work with our team?
- 3.3 Do you have any past involvement with our team or another open source project?
- 3.4 Why should we choose you over other applicants?
- 3.5 Proposal Description
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Title (as submitted)
KDE Plasma Dependency Generation and PackageKit Integration
Abstract (as submitted)
The goal of my proposal is to add automatically-generated RPM dependencies for services related to KDE Plasma (e.g. Plasma script engines, Plasma data engines), and to add PackageKit hooks to use them to Plasma. (Idea by Rex Dieter.)
Plasma widgets can be installed from distro packages or through OCS. They can depend on script or data engines. The need to be addressed is how to drag in those dependencies in an effective way. I will work on 1. dependency extraction and 2. PackageKit integration.
Proposal (as submitted)
Contact Information
Email Address: kevin DOT kofler AT chello DOT at (aliases: Kevin AT tigcc DOT ticalc DOT org, kkofler AT fedoraproject DOT org, kevin DOT kofler AT gmail DOT com)
Telephone: [redacted]
Blog URL: http://kevinkofler.wordpress.com
Freenode IRC Nick: Kevin_Kofler
Why do you want to work with our team?
I have been using Fedora since Fedora Core 1, and Red Hat Linux before that. It has been my only operating system since Fedora Core 4. I started doing volunteer packaging in 2007, around the time of the Core-Extras Merge, mainly for the KDE SIG. I have been enjoying working on and with Fedora ever since.
Getting picked for GSoC would allow me to spend more time on actual coding benefitting Fedora, not just packaging.
Do you have any past involvement with our team or another open source project?
Yes, I am part of several FOSS projects, including Fedora (since 2007, see my user page and the previous paragraph), KDE (where I have been the upstream maintainer of Kompare since 2007) and, in the past, TIGCC, a cross-toolchain for TI calculators with m68k CPUs based on GCC (2001-2006, also developed the KDE-based IDE KTIGCC, sporadic commits from 2007 on). I also contributed patches to several other projects.
Why should we choose you over other applicants?
I have strong experience with KDE code from the above and other projects and I am known for completing even complex tasks successfully and on time. (For example, I implemented ConsoleKit support in KDM in time for Fedora 7 on a very short notice. A modified version of that code has been merged upstream into KDE 4.2, and several distributions had carried earlier versions as patches.) I am especially interested in distribution integration tasks, seeing different components of the proverbial jigsaw puzzle stitch together flawlessly makes me feel happy.
I also have strong experience with Fedora packaging and development, and I am used to working with Fedora in general, and the KDE SIG in particular.
In addition, my research contract at my university (I am a PhD student at the University of Vienna, Austria) expires in May, so I will have plenty of time to work on my GSoC project (full time).
Proposal Description
The goal of my proposal is to add automatically-generated RPM dependencies for services related to KDE Plasma (e.g. Plasma script engines, Plasma data engines), and to add PackageKit hooks to use them to Plasma.
The proposal is based on a Fedora GSoC idea by Rex Dieter (see also a blog post by him on the subject).
The original ideas by Rex Dieter have buyin from key upstream developers. Getting upstream buyin for my implementation will be an essential part of my project, and there may be some changes to the implementation details based on feedback from upstream Plasma developers.
Problem Space
Plasma widgets (also known as plasmoids) can be installed from 2 sources:
- Fedora packages (or distribution packages in general): For plasmoids written in C++, this is the only alternative.
- the Open Collaboration Services (OCS) API, which allows installing plasmoids written in scripting languages directly from upstream. (Plasma provides an OCS-based dialog to easily download and install plasmoids written in scripting languages.)
Such Plasmoids can depend on services provided by Plasma, in particular:
- data engines: These engines act as libraries providing some information to plasmoids. They can be used to bridge languages (e.g. a Python plasmoid can use a data engine written in C), share code or just provide a clean frontend (plasmoid) / backend (data engine) separation. For example, several weather plasmoids (some of them written in scripting languages) all share the weather data engine provided by kdeplasma-addons.
- some other services, e.g. "weather ions" (plugins for the weather data engine)
The need to be addressed is how to drag in those dependencies in an effective way:
- For Fedora packages, we would like to have the dependencies handled automatically by RPM instead of error-prone manual specification.
- For plasmoids installed through OCS, the dependencies are currently not handled at all. For example, if the user wants to install a Ruby-based plasmoid without having the plasma-scriptengine-ruby package installed, he/she will just get a cryptic error message. (Making Ruby a hard dependency of kdebase-workspace would be highly impractical.) We would like packaged script or data engines required by the installed plasmoid to be automatically installed when the user downloads and installs the plasmoid.
- Programming in various languages since childhood (10-20 years of experience)
- FOSS developer since 2001
- Studied Software and Information Engineering, a specialization of Computer Science, from 2001 to 2009, graduated with a Bakk.techn. (equivalent to a European Bachelor) in May 2009
- Some C/C++ programming projects as part of my Mathematics studies (2001-ongoing), graduated with a Mag.rer.nat. (equivalent to a European Master of Science) in November 2007, now working on a PhD
- Fedora developer and packager since 2007, Fedora sponsor and provenpackager since 2009, comaintainer of the affected packages (kdelibs, kdebase-workspace, kdeplasma-addons)
- KDE development experience:
- 2004-2006: KTIGCC, an IDE for the TIGCC cross-toolchain based on KDE 3 libraries (KatePart and others). Completed as a GSoC project, mentored by Detached Solutions, in 2006.
- Since 2006: Ongoing maintenance of KTIGCC, including a port to the KDE Platform 4 (currently in Alpha stage).
- 2006: Wrote the KDE 3 GUI for a team project in a Software Engineering course at the university, a tool to organize, archive and (semi-automatically) tag audio and video files.
- 2007: Rescued Kompare from bitrot by completing the port to the KDE Platform 4 in time for KDE 4.0.
- Since 2007: Maintainer of Kompare in kdesdk 4.
- Since 2007: Developer of patches to several KDE components as needed for Fedora (e.g. the KDM ConsoleKit patch for Fedora 7 upstreamed in 4.2).
The proposal can be split into 2 parts:
- Dependency extraction
- PackageKit integration
Dependency extraction can again be split into 2 parts:
- Provides: This is the easier part because it is already well covered by metadata. The main goal there is to bring the information provided by the metadata into a form usable in RPM.
- Requires: This is the harder part because the metadata provided by upstream does not currently include dependencies. Several strategies to handle this can and will be envisioned:
- Explicit specification, i.e. require the Plasma metadata to list dependencies explicitly. Pros: reliable, allows installing dependencies immediately. Cons: does not work for existing plasmoids, error-prone.
- Automatic extraction from the source code, similar to how the RPM dependency extractors for scripting languages work. Pros: allows installing dependencies immediately (build-time auto-extraction) or almost immediately (auto-extraction run on downloaded sources), works for existing plasmoids, no developer efforts. Cons: probably needs extra code for each scripting language, can be fooled by convoluted code (e.g. requesting a data engine in a non-obvious way).
- Runtime downloading, i.e. firing up KPackageKit/Apper (KPackageKit will be renamed to Apper as of the next upstream release) when a service which is not installed yet is requested. Pros: reliable, works for existing plasmoids, no developer efforts. Cons: dependencies can only be installed on first use, which is not the most user-friendly approach.
For PackageKit integration, Plasma needs to be taught to request the installation of a dependency through a PackageKit interface (to be provided by KPackageKit/Apper; for Fedora, org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Modify.InstallPackageNames could probably be abused at first, but for cross-distribution compatibility, which is essential for getting the feature upstreamed, a dedicated API like the existing InstallFontconfigResources, InstallGStreamerResources or InstallPrinterDrivers APIs should be used):
- For explicitly specified or automatically extracted dependencies, this should happen after downloading the metadata (or the entire plasmoid package, they're usually small anyway).
- For runtime downloading, this needs to happen when the uninstalled service is requested by a plasmoid.
The goal is to have the output of the project included in the KDE Software Compilation 4.8.0 release and in Fedora 16 (backported, if and to the extent reasonably possible) or 17 (as part of 4.8.x).
The following is my expected timeline for the project. Dates marked "(fixed)" are fixed by Google or Fedora.
- April 25 - May 23 (4 weeks): Getting started (Community Bonding Period)
- May 23 (fixed): Start of coding period
- May 23 - June 6 (2 weeks): Provides extraction
- June 6 - June 20 (2 weeks): Implement the required PackageKit interfaces for PackageKit integration
- June 20 - June 27 (1 week): Runtime downloading of dependencies
- June 27: First usable version of the work.
- June 27 - July 4 (1 week): Automatic downloading of explicitly-specified dependencies at download time
- July 4 - July 11 (1 week): Get explicit dependency specifications added to popular plasmoids
- July 11 (fixed): Mid-term evaluations
- July 11 - August 1 (3 weeks): Automatic dependency extraction
- End of July (fixed, exact date not yet known): Expected Fedora 16 feature freeze
- August 1 - August 15 (2 weeks): Slack time, potential to work on additional deliverables (e.g. DrKonqi PackageKit integration, see below)
- August 15 (fixed): Suggested "pencils down" date
- August 15 - August 22 (1 week): Final polishing
- August 22 (fixed): Firm "pencils down" date (end of coding period)
- Early September (fixed, exact date not yet known): Expected Fedora 16 "features 100% complete" deadline
Other Details
If time permits, some additional aspects of PackageKit integration with KDE can be considered. For example, it would be nice to have a debuginfo installation script for DrKonqi based on PackageKit and KPackageKit/Apper instead of the current solution invoking debuginfo-install in a Konsole; this will be implemented as an additional deliverable if time permits.
Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who?
Yes, Rex Dieter has offered to mentor me.
Updates and Comments
This has now been implemented (see my blog) and was approved as a feature for Fedora 17.


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Billy's family is having another ferociously intense "conversation" and he has little clue exactly what it is about. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the only deaf member of a family that chose to neither learn, nor teach Billy how to sign, lest they validate his status as a handicapped person and relegate him to a tiny community of self-pitying second-class citizens. The adult son of two academic middle aged parents, his living at home is far more acceptable that the return of his siblings to the nest they once let.
Father Christopher (Jeff Still) engages on a continual rant about words and class and the role people – his family in particular – should have in the world. Daniel (Will Brill) rushes into the breach to challenge his father for his elitism and intransigence. Daniel's mental health begins to deteriorate following the latest failed romantic relationship. He spends his days trying to quiet the voices in his head by occupying his mind with this thesis. Christopher, in truly form of not acknowledging the actually problem, insists Daniel needs o find a job and stop smoking pot. Ruth (Gayle Rankin), the lone daughter in this tight knit clan, is also newly single and trying very hard at finding herself. At present, she is hoping her calling is opera. Finally Mother Beth (Lee Roy Rogers) is the consummate mother and housewife, making the best peace no matter which combination of inflamed family members are making verbal and emotional warfare upon the other.
One night, after an especially truculent dinner with his family, Billy does out to a club and meets a girl Sylvia (Susan Pourfar). She's clever, ironic and pretty. She signs perfectly, but she is in fact a hearing person that is slowly going deaf, the daughter of deaf parents. Sylvia soon discovered that Billy is exceptionally good at reading lips. Despite the fact she has a boyfriend, a spark ignites for both of them.
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Tribes is a wonderful play. It is intellectually rigorous and emotionally draining. This intensely complex drama is among precious few plays I have even that tackle an array of issues head on – thoughtfully, thoroughly, respectfully and completely. Will Brill's character gradual loss of metal stability is nicely paralleled with Sylvia's diminishing hear. It allows for these characetrs to bond through mourning the loss of part of themselves.Father Christopher is completely committed to the idea of protecting his son Billy from the stigma of having a handicap, while tenaciously ignoring the fact that his son is deaf, that Billy could never be a part of the hearng world the way he is, and by trying to protect him from one cruel world, he has banished his son to a life where he truly belongs to no community at all.
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Another circumstance that I identified with intimately is the situation when you - as the only other, or minority in the room - become the walking encyclopedia of "X". The insensitivity that Billy's family comes at Sylvia when they finally meet her, as if she is an oject to be questioned and prodded and examined and dissected - I wonder how often people simply do not realize they are even doing it.
With a first act at is a touch long, Tribes succeeds in honoring each character with a journey and a unique and authentic voice, while still paying homage to the family and importance of family. Outstanding cast. Truly well done.
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A top official from a Russian research university will be the new director of the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
The University of Illinois said Monday that H. Edward Seidel will be the new NCSA director.
Seidel has been a senior vice president at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology in Moscow. The institute is a relatively new private university opened in a partnership between the Russian government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Seidel replaces Thom Dunning who retired this year.
Seidel's resume includes work at the National Science Foundation and the University of Illinois. He held several positions at the U of I in the 1990s including a senior researcher position at NCSA.
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WASHINGTON - A deeply divided Senate voted Tuesday to confirm Republican Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary, handing President Barack Obama's pick the top Pentagon job just days before billions of dollars in automatic, across-the-board budget cuts hit the military.
The vote was 58-41, with four Republicans joining the Democrats in backing the contentious choice. Hagel's only GOP support came from former colleagues Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Dick Shelby of Alabama and Mike Johanns of Nebraska - all three had announced their support earlier - and Rand Paul of Kentucky.
The vote came just hours after Republicans dropped their unprecedented delay of a Pentagon choice and allowed the nomination to move forward on a 71-27 vote.
Hagel, 66, a former two-term Nebraska senator and twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran, succeeds Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. Hagel is expected to be sworn in at the Pentagon on Wednesday.
Obama welcomed the bipartisan Senate vote, although 41 Republicans opposed his nominee, and said in a statement that "we will have the defense secretary our nation needs and the leader our troops deserve."
The looked past the divisions and said he was grateful to Hagel "for reminding us that when it comes to our national defense, we are not Democrats or Republicans, we are Americans, and our greatest responsibility is the security of the American people."
Republicans had opposed their onetime colleague, casting him as unqualified for the job, hostile toward Israel and soft on Iran. The objections remained strong well after the vote.
"I continue to have serious questions about whether Chuck Hagel is up to the job of being our secretary of defense," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement. "I hope, for the sake of our own national security, he exceeds expectations."
Hagel joins Obama's retooled second-term, national security team of Secretary of State John Kerry and CIA Director-designate John Brennan at a time of uncertainty for a military emerging from two wars and fighting worldwide terrorism with smaller, deficit-driven budgets.
Among his daunting challenges are deciding on troop levels in Afghanistan as the United States winds down its combat presence and dealing with $46 billion in budget cuts set to kick in on Friday. He also will have to work with lawmakers who spent weeks vilifying him.
Republicans insisted that Hagel was battered and bloodied after their repeated attacks during the protracted political fight.
"He will take office with the weakest support of any defense secretary in modern history, which will make him less effective on his job," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate GOP's No. 2 Republican.
Not so, said Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, who pointed out that Hagel now has the title and the fight is history.
"All have to work together for the interest of the country," said Reed, D-R.I.
The vote ended one of the most bitter fights over a Cabinet choice and former senator since 1989 when the Democratic-led Senate defeated newly elected President George H.W. Bush's nomination of Republican John Tower to be defense secretary.


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The motivation was "I may be a fascist but I still love my son." Which we already knew since she was so upset in book 6 that Voldemort was sending Draco on a mission it looked like he would die during and made Snape do the Unbreakable Vow or whatever. I guess it all falls into Rowling's theme of "love conquers all" but I was hoping for a little more activity.
Obviously what you are doing right now is called (in my upcoming book of psychology at least) validation. I think it's a normal thing to do. People will reply, say anything, and then you're gonna do what you were subconsciently thinking of doing all along.
She said some rubbish about leaving the Epilogue "nebulous" as to not give away all the information, but gladly disclosed the secrets once we all read it.Harry and Ron - Aurors, despite not formally completing any sort of schooling. Does that sound strange to anyone else?
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Tonight, I went to the movies with the wife and friends to see the new Star Trek movie. I haven't been a movie fan for a long time. And it's not the rising ticket prices, the unhealthy concessions, the cell phone/PDA interruptions, or general lack of creativity in most Hollywood efforts over the last decade. No, I can actually tell you the exact moment when I stopped going to movies.
For some background, I had been a fan of films for a long time. I got back into them when I attended the release of the first Batman movie back in 1989. I was blown away by Tim Burton's presentation of the Dark Knight from the cast to the effects to the overall feel of the movie. Throughout high school and parts of college, I loved going to the movies. And I would try to see them all: the latest blockbusters, the action flicks, melodramas, everything. (Everything except horror, since I'm a bit of a wimp.) I would make the effort to try to see the movies that were nominated for the Best Picture by the Academy Awards. From there, I would make my picks for the categories based on what I had or heard about the nominees. The award event itself was always a bit dull, but I would find something to do while they wound their way through the categories to the ones I had some interest in.
This all changed during the 1998 Academy Awards. I can see myself sitting in my college buddy's dorm room watching it with his girlfriend and a couple of other friends. The night had gone on and we were chatting about the winners and whatnot when it came time to give out the highest award of the night, Best Picture. We watched the usual pomp and circumstance as they flash to the producers in the audience as their movies and names were called. The envelope came out, opened, and the presenter excitedly announced the title, "Shakespeare in Love!" The room went into a stunned silence. We stared as the television audience clapped and cheered as people in tuxedos made their way onto the stage. At this point, I leapt up and informed the unsympathetic television what my opinion of this choice was using many words and terms that made it R rated within seconds.
How could this be? Elizabeth? Saving Private Ryan? Life is Beautiful? The Thin Red Line? Ok, the last one was more pedantic than I really cared for and I had a hard time concentrating to get through, but are you fucking kidding me? I was disgusted, an instant cinema atheist, and swore off movies for awhile. Now, I go to a handful a year and am very picky. Especially since I have read how Academy Award voting works (and you think our elections are screwy) and seen the revealing documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated (which explores the MPAA and their rating shenanigans), my tolerance for Hollywood tripe is next to zero. All of which have made only the most compelling of trailers and reviews as an reason to see a movie.
So, as the wife wants me to go see movies with her, I will usually oblige. I was interested in seeing this after reading and hearing some excellent press on it and as a person who was a fan of the The Next Generation. I embraced Star Trek initially for the gadgetry and sci-fi science, but now for the ideal that we as a species can work together to explore the vast universe that exists beyond our clouds. We had lined up early for the sold out showing at a theater a few towns over. When the line moved to start seating, I was first into the theater out of our group. A quick on-the-move consultation with the group created a swift agreement for optimal seating. The five of us sat down with me in the middle of the row. As a tall person, I generally try to get an aisle seat so as to give myself room to cross or stretch my legs. However, this theater actually had comfy seats and marginally ample legroom, so I was not going to press the point. Shortly thereafter, I was asked if the three seat to my right (this was a middle row) were taken. I replied that they were not and the row was soon filled with a mother in her sixties and two adults who I presume were her children, a mid to late term pregnant woman and a man who looked to be either the pregnant woman's brother or boyfriend.
Immediately upon sitting down, the mother informed me that they had gone to an artisan convention the previous weekend that was full of amazing bits of, uh, artisan-ship. She gestured to the advertisement in the tiny movie guide book that they give out in the lobby for this past event and proclaimed that it had the most amazing glass she had ever seen. The first sign should have been how quickly the pregnant woman dove into the games of her cell phone, ignoring her mother next to her. Being the fool that I am and seeing that I still had time to kill before the film, I actually continued the conversation. It went something like this:
Me: Are you a fan of Star Trek?
Her: Yes, I've seen them all.
Me: My dad saw the original series. I was a fan of The Next Generation and watched parts of Deep Space Nine, but I couldn't get into all of the other series.
Her: (more impassioned) I've seen them all.
Me: (slightly ignoring her) I didn't really care for Voyager or Enterprise. I didn't really see all of the movies. I think I saw the eight and ninth one…
Her: (most impassioned) I've seen all the movies. I loved them all. You know the director of this movies does Lost. Do you watch Lost?
Me: Nah, I couldn't get into it. I watched some of the first season.
Her: You should watch it. You would like it. You have to pay attention. It's very detail oriented. My husband blah blah blah blah my daugher blah blah blah blah I'm going to be a grandmother blah blah blah blah.
I can actually hear the whistling of the thought shells as she was launching them towards my position. It was after this exchange that I realized she was compelled by some unseen force to inform me of all of the amazing facts and details of her life which included (it most certainly included) her love of Star Trek. And rather than simply letting this slide, I decided to engage her in this battle of passive one-upmanship. She would say something ("My son is the manager of Borders in Cherry Hill"), I would counter ("I'm a librarian in Burlington County. It's a county job so the benefits are completely awesome"), and the duel that she was not aware of would go on. It was very pleasant, a very good way for a jerk like myself to pass the time till the trailers (mercifully) came on. After which, we ceased our conversation.
Or so I thought. The movie had started when I realized that my secret verbal dueling partner has no inner monologue. None whatsoever. She identified the appearance of every significant character with their name much in the way that a three year old would identify animals, colors, numbers, and food. When the word "Iowa" came up on the screen, she would say "Iowa". If it was simply too much to identify in one word, they became Twitter length sentences. When they took off from the recruit center, she commented on how much it looks like a brewery ("It looks like a brewery!"). This went on for the length of the movie, these under-the-breath words escaping her lips just loud enough for me to hear but faint enough to tune them out. In the back of my mind, the Lewis Black part of me is cackling at her saying "Iowa" over and over again (the movie went there a couple of times) while the rest of me is just trying to keep it together till the end. Of course, at the end, she announced that she needed to see the movie again because she missed "the singularity" (which she had not since they actually explained it in a brief exchange composed of three sentences of two words, three words, and one word: "A singularity!" "A black hole?" "Yes!").
I managed to get to the end since the movie was ultimately more entertaining than she was. I really enjoyed the plot, the pacing, subtle yet powerful effects, and the how they wove the original series into the movie. A good movie, all and all, with a fresh feel of Hollywood to it. You have my word on that. My seatmate told me so before she left.


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Married life is definitely not like the movies
After being married for about a year, it's funny to reflect on what the experience has been like. It's flown by, and the majority of the time, it's been pretty fantastic. Although I'll admit there have been a few moments when smoke actually came out of my ears in frustration. Nevertheless, through all the ups and downs, I've learned a lot about myself, my husband and about real love.
Real love is just that–real. It's not what you seen in movies or read about in magazines, and it's not achieved overnight. It's something that you create and work for every single day. Because like anything else in life, when it comes to marriage, what you put into it is what you get out of it.
Even though my husband and I dated for years and even lived together before we tied the knot, there were some big surprises and challenges brought about by holy matrimony. Here's a rundown of some of my biggest lessons and surprises as a newlywed:
Real life is not a romantic comedy
I don't look like Reese Witherspoon, and I also don't have as much romance in my life as she does in her films. The drama and romantic intensity we see in movies doesn't translate to real life (nor do the salaries). When it comes to your own love life, romance is definitely important, but it doesn't always need to be a grand gesture. I'm fairly confident I won't wake up to breakfast in bed and a dozen roses tomorrow morning, but when my husband takes time to do things like making dinner, washing my car or giving me a card out of the blue, I know it's our own version of a big screen romance.
Number crunching
Chances are you'll start to combine finances after the wedding, to cover the important things in life, like food, water, electricity and NetFlix. When I got married, I was given a ton of advice on how to share and save money, but when it came down to it, my husband and I had to sit down and work together to figure out the best method for us. And it's a constant work in progress. We might not always agree on how to spend (spa day verses big screen TV), but communicating and planning together eliminates the guesswork and makes a challenging process much easier.
For better or for worse
There's a reason this phrase has been in wedding vows since the beginning of time. I'm not saying there aren't perfect couples out there, but I've just never met them. As a newlywed, I learned that despite a loving and dedicated relationship, you undoubtedly will experience moments and days where you don't feel in sync with your partner. Sometimes it's after an argument, and other times it might be for no reason at all. For me, this was a hard thing to accept. I'm a perfectionist, so when things feel off, I want to fix them immediately. The truth is, sometimes it just takes time to slow down, reflect and reconnect.
Cleanliness is next to sanity
Remember when you were a kid, and your parents had a chore chart, where you got gold stars and an allowance for cleaning your room and walking the dog? Those were the days. As an adult, chores are required without pay, and can be challenging to split up. I know some couples that set aside time to clean together, some that share tasks equally and others that shell out money for a housekeeper. I don't think there's a right or wrong answer, but setting expectations can be the key to avoiding frustration. I'm perfectly happy vacuuming (it's an ab exercise, right?) but despise taking out the trash. Based on our preferences and schedules, my husband and I have found ways to divide and conquer that leaves us both happy.
"So, are you thinking about kids?"
This is one of my favorite post–wedding experiences, for purely comical reasons. Not only is it an odd assumption that one must immediately reproduce after marriage, but it's a totally personal question! I never expected that I would be asked this so incessantly in the months after our wedding, from all sides–family, friends, coworkers and even neighbors. My recommendation is to develop a snappy response for these scenarios, or, just ask an equally personal question right back.
You've probably noticed a common theme among all of these experiences that relates directly to communication. It's cliché but true. Communication is a critical part of happy relationships. I don't think this means having philosophical discussions about every little thing, but it's certainly the key to expressing yourself and understanding your partner.
I'm not a marriage expert; I'm a beginner and I'm still learning to navigate the tough spots. I hope that in another year, I'll be able to look back and reflect on more things I've learned and experienced all while living my own version of happily ever after.
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The opening of Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is one of the most viscerally affecting and powerful acts of sustained empathy I can remember encountering in the cinema in quite a while. For what seems like an eternity but was probably only about a half hour out of this nearly two-hour film Schnabel's camera steadfastly maintains the first-person perspective of a man who has suffered a debilitating nerve disorder, paralyzing his entire body except for his left eye. The camera maintains the man's perspective without fail. What he sees appears on the screen. When he blinks, the screen goes momentarily dark. When his vision blurs or part of his eye clouds over, the image responds in kind. The effect is claustrophobic, almost suffocating, like the diving bell of the title, which becomes the man's metaphorical image for his condition, returning to it again and again over the course of the film, a frightening image of a man trapped underwater in a heavy diving helmet, screaming unheard. Schnabel's decision to submerge the viewer along with the film's protagonist is perhaps the only way to communicate the sensations attached to this plight, to provide a new way of looking at the world through another's eyes.
It's a stunningly empathetic vision, executed with a visual flair that's nearly as breathtaking as the story's content is bracing. Schnabel's roaming, insistent, blurring and refocusing camera inevitably calls to mind Stan Brakhage in this section, and especially Brakhage's hallucinatory Deus Ex, also a chronicle of a hospital stay. Beyond the thematic similarities, in both films the hospital-bound protagonist, unseen and embodied in the camera eye, lets his gaze wander over flowers, disembodied limbs of visitors, and near-abstracted surfaces blurred by hazy vision. Of course, the film doesn't maintain this stringent first-person perspective. Even in the opening half-hour, there are periodic cuts to scenes from memory or fragmentary dream-like images, and then the film switches to a more conventional third-person perspective, returning periodically to the protagonist's point of view for isolated scenes. The film remains extraordinarily close to this man and his altered experience of the world, even after it abandons seeing through his eye, but the rest of the film definitely approaches the material from a slightly more exterior perspective. This switch is something of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it might've been nearly impossible for Schnabel to sustain the first-person perspective at feature length, at least not without completely wearing out the audience. And yet, as claustrophobic and constricting as this section is, its formal rigor is somewhat missed in the rest of the film, which is still excellent, but not quite the towering achievement that is promised by this introduction. I can't help but wonder what the film might've been if Schnabel had chosen to extend this formal conceit to the entire narrative.
In any case, the man is Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), a notorious playboy and ambitious writer, whose true account of this experience is the basis for Schnabel's film. Amalric, once he's visible in the second part of the film, gives a remarkable performance, conveying all through a single expressive eye, held wide open in stark contrast to the flaccid rest of his face. Schnabel, to his great credit, never allows the film to degenerate into the kind of weepy Oscar-bait that such extreme physical performances usually entail. The film is anchored by the introspective, wide-ranging, and even mordantly funny voiceover of Bauby, much of it taken directly from his book. This narration gives the film a cerebral gloss that in some ways leavens the film's tremendous emotional force, rendering it bearable and allowing the film to touch the head as well as the heart. Bauby's condition is a natural heartstring-tugger, so the pensive voiceover ensures that the film never descends into mere emotional schlock, instead carefully considering the repercussions of such physical limitations for perception, identity, the concept of life, and the human mind. Bauby's commentary considers how his condition has affected the way he sees, and even the way he thinks, as well as covering the expected reminiscences and recriminations from a lifetime of vigorous living and loving.
The paralyzed editor also provides surprising moments of wry humor, particularly in his dealings with the trio of beautiful young women who care for and accompany him in the hospital. There's Olatz López Garmendia, Schnabel's stunning real-life wife, as the physical therapist (and self-appointed religious counselor) Marie, who is introduced in a scene where she leans over Bauby's bed, and his eye is drawn to both her tantalizingly just-hidden breasts and the glittering cross dangling between them. She also tempts the immobilized patient by trying to teach him how to move his tongue, demonstrating it for him several times, prompting Bauby to mutter in his head, "not fair, not fair." There's also Henriette (Marie-Josée Croze), his speech therapist, and Claude (Anne Consigny), the translator who helps Bauby to actually "write" a book by translating his eye-blinks into letters, painstakingly getting down his thoughts in this time-consuming manner. This trio of beautiful, inspiring women are Bauby's main contact points, but in many ways he seems inundated with women: there's also his former lover and the mother of his three children (Emmanuelle Seigner), the ex-girlfriend he remembers breaking up with after she made him purchase a glowing and blinking statue of the Madonna (Marina Hands), and the largely unseen Inès (Agathe de La Fontaine), his one true love who won't visit him because she doesn't want to see him this way. On one level, the film is about Bauby's relationships and enduring fascination with the women in his life, as well as Schnabel's equally powerful affinity for gorgeous women. Images of women, of their expressive faces and smiles and the casually exposed skin of dresses riding up, have an ethereal beauty in this film, as Bauby and Schnabel unite in a voyeuristic appreciation of the female face and form, even as these same women drive Bauby forward in much deeper and more meaningful ways than their physical surfaces.
In exploring the mindset and inner life of Bauby, Schnabel has constructed a film of awe-inspiring beauty and depth, a dazzling patchwork of images, ideas, and dreams stitched together from Bauby's writings. The one fault is the metaphor of the butterfly, a positive counterpoint to the diving helmet image that described Bauby's isolation in his own body. The butterfly represents, for Bauby, his ability to escape from his entrapment by means of imagination and memory, the twin capabilities of the human mind that are glorified here. The butterfly is a very tired metaphor for human freedom, although here it's presented in narration over a lovely abstract collage of superimposed imagery, and is mostly not returned to afterwards, as though Schnabel also understood that this uncharacteristic moment of triteness was a weak link in the writing's clear-eyed thinking about sensation and the mind. Otherwise, the film remains remarkably balanced in exploring the emotional and intellectual ramifications of Bauby's sensory state without manipulation or overt sentimentalizing. This is an incredibly powerful film, in which the union of aesthetics and subject is nearly perfect. Having seen Bauby's words visualized by the fragmentary beauty of Schnabel's hyper-stylized imagery, it's hard to imagine it being done any other way certainly, any more traditional cinematic language could never do justice to the intrinsically internal nature of this story, which is primarily located in the brain of its protagonist rather than a physical world. This is a truly original and exciting film, one that maybe falls (just) short of a masterpiece, but nevertheless indicates a true master in the making.
4 comments:
- DavidEhrenstein said...
It's a really lovely and imaginative movie -- free of "Triumph of the Human Spirit" crap.
- January 3, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- reassurance said...
I would agree that the film is absolutely breathtaking for its first half hour or so, and once the film shifts into third-person, it certainly loses something. I think that's my biggest problem with the film (though I did like it quite a bit); it was as if Schnabel wasn't confident enough to express his entire film in that way.
- January 5, 2008 at 6:54 AM
- Filmbo said...
I disagree that the film loses something when it breaks from the first-person camera. Since it already mixes together memory and imagination, why can't we see why Bauby is imagining, and why would it necessarily be limited to a first person narrative? And Bauby himself is stepping back and looking at himself objectively. I agree it would be harder for the film to be told entirely first person, but I'm not sure not breaking these rules would add anything.
And David, you're so right that it's not about the triumph crap, but then so many people who are seeing it and loving it are talking about it. It depresses me when people replace the point with something they think is the point.
- January 9, 2008 at 1:26 PM
- Ed Howard said...
I have slightly mixed feelings about the switch myself. I love the film as it is, but I did feel a real sense of disappointment when Schnabel first decisively broke free of Bauby's perspective -- it took me a few scenes before I got used to the change and realized that the film was still in most ways as close as ever to Bauby's subjective experience.
The "triumph of the spirit" crap is definitely there, intrinsic in the story, for those inclined to find it anywhere. But Schnabel utterly ignores and deliberately downplays these aspects of the story, concentrating instead on the more cerebral and introspective elements. Anyone reading the film as if it's a typical "overcoming adversity" narrative is, I'd say, badly misreading it.
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A Pokémon Professor (ポケモン博士 Pokémon Expert) is a veritable expert on the Pokémon World. They are notable for giving rookie Trainers their Starter Pokémon. Coincidentally, all of the Professors from the main-stream Pokémon series are named after a plant: Oak, Elm, Ivy, Birch, Rowan, and Juniper. The Professors are also responsible for the distribution of the Pokédex, an indispensable tool for Trainers wishing to complete the National Pokédex.
List of Pokémon Professors[edit | edit source]
- Professor Samuel Oak, whom heralds from the Kanto region. His specialty is the study of the relationships between people and Pokémon.
- Professor Elm, whom heralds from the Johto region. His specialty is the study of breeding patterns and interactions between Pokémon.
- Professor Birch, whom heralds from the Hoenn region. His specialty is the study of Pokémon habitats in correlation with human existences.
- Professor Rowan, whom heralds from the Sinnoh region. His specialty is the study of Pokémon evolutionary patterns.
- Professor Aurea Juniper, whom heralds from the Unova region. Her specialty is the study of Pokémon origins in relation to mythology.
- Professor Hastings, whom heralds from the Fiore, Almia and Oblivia regions. His specialty is the study of connecting with Pokémon on a greater friendship level. To this extent, he created the Capture Styler, an indispensable tool used by Pokémon Rangers. (Pokémon Ranger series only)
- Cedric Juniper, a former Pokémon Professor and father of Professor Juniper.
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In the series' extensive medium, there are a variety of Pokémon Professors, many of which stem from the Pokémon anime. This is a comprehensive list of such professors, whose role is limited to being in the anime only.
- Professor Fuji created the genetic clone of Mewtwo on New Island.
- Professor Lund, the foremost expert in terms of Deoxys.
- Dr. Akihabara, credited with creating the Pokemon Transfer System and discovering the cyber-species of Porygon.
- Professor Felina Ivy is the professor in the Orange Islands.
Manga-Exclusive[edit | edit source]
Conversely, there are also Pokémon Professors whose role is limited to being featured in manga-related material. Such persons will be listed here.
- Professor Yanase Berlitz, whose research revolved around methods to control Legendary Pokémon. Is also the mother of Platinum Berlitz, a Pokédex Holder and heir to the Berlitz Family throne. (Pokémon Adventures series only)
- Professor Berlitz is an associate and assistant to Professor Rowan. (Pokémon Adventures series only)
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Although all canon Pokémon Professors are named after trees (For example, Oak, Elm, Birch, etc) the Pokémon Professors in games outside of main franchise versions do not follow this pattern.


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MALMO, Sweden – Connor McDavid was the sixth-youngest player to ever play for Team Canada at the world junior championship.
Brent Sutter was well aware.
"I thought his youth certainly showed in it," said the Canadian coach following his team's 2-1 loss to Russia in the bronze-medal game. "Obviously, he's an exceptional player. As a coach, you're very conscious of that.
"In the tournament you know the areas where he can succeed in and the times when you know it's going to be tough."
McDavid was the sixth 16-year-old to play for Canada at the under-20 tournament, joining Wayne Gretzky, Eric Lindros, Jason Spezza, Jay Bouwmeester and Sidney Crosby.
McDavid, who turns 17 next Monday, had a goal and three assists in the tournament and was Canada's seventh-highest point-getter.
By comparison, Crosby had two goals and three assists in six games in the 2004 tourney. Spezza had two assists in seven games in 2000.
However, it was a tournament of ups and downs for the youngster.
McDavid was benched in Canada's preliminary round game against the Czech Republic after taking two hooking penalties.
He did not record a point in any of Canada's last three games and was benched for long stretches on Sunday.
McDavid wasn't made available to the media following the game.
"There's times that he played a lot and times when he didn't play much," Sutter said. "It had nothing to do with his effort, or anything like that. Just sometimes it was overwhelming for him. Tonight, at times, was overwhelming for him.
"Some of those kids on Russia's team are pretty big boys at 19 years of age. He's a young 16-year-old and you have to be careful with that."
McDavid is one of 11 potential returnees when the tournament is held in Toronto and Montreal next year.
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A newly-discovered, one-fingered dinosaur is the strangest proof yet that if you don't use it, you lose it.
Linhenykus monodactylus lived from about 84 to 75 million years ago in the late Cretaceous. It was a tiny creature that weighed less than half a kilogram, although it was a relative of much larger beasts like the T. rex. The newly discovered dinosaur is the most extreme example yet of an evolutionary trend among carnivorous dinosaurs, in which their fingers withered away to weak stumps. In the artist's conception above, you can see just how odd these lone fingers looked on the dinosaur.
Linhenykus is an alvarezsaur, a type of dinosaur known for finger reduction. Lots of other species have been found that only have a single strong finger that was probably used for digging - Linhenykus's fingers resemble similar structures found on modern diggers like armadillos - while the other digits are practically useless. The researchers can actually put a lot of these dinosaurs in a rough evolutionary sequence, tracing the gradual wearing away of fingers until Linhenykus (and any other dinosaur species like it) emerged as the uni-clawed end of this particular evolutionary sequence.
But the story isn't quite so simple. The researchers point out that Linhenykus slots in between other species with withered fingers, suggesting species first lost their fingers through evolutionary processes and then got them back again. It's certainly not unheard of, but this is one of the best examples of how evolution really can oscillate back and forth, and a good reminder that evolution doesn't have endpoints...even when those endpoints are weird, lonely fingers.
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I had the lovely pleasure of meeting Patrick (on flickr and creator of velócouture). Adrienne got to visit to where Patrick and fam. were staying, unfortunately (sad face) due to work I didn't get to meet the rest of the family, but soon - I'm sure. Ade's post is perhaps coming up soon.
¿Qué es eso? by Patrick Barber (is called bday welcoming, al estylo de meli eh eh ehhh)
¿Qué es eso? by Patrick Barber (is called bday welcoming, al estylo de meli eh eh ehhh)
We get the tired, often super jet-lagged and lovely people of the blogesphere. We have met Mikael from CPH, some people from the UK and a tremendous amount of local peeps all over the Bay Area.
Patrick's birthday was that Saturday and though he was pretty tired (I'm sure that lovely Anastasia is pure energy!) he was a great sport and had a few drinks muy San Francisco. Beers, Negroni and a round of some tequila añejo to celebrate. He is just the way I had imagined him, mellow, soft spoken and a thing for bikes and all things bay area.
It was also nice to catch him riding Ade's infamous yacht, the Bat.
ade y james.
we all took pics of each other – flickernites unite!
Grupo de orbit room by Ade
Next time we are due for some coffee!
The bikey blogesphere keeps growing and yet getting smaller and tighter. It's awesome :D
♥Great to have you Patrick!!


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"Conan" premiered on TBS in November 2010. It airs Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m. Eastern time.
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This is an SDL program. gr->rcFlora[1] is an SDLRect with members x,y,w,h
Previously gr->rcFlora[1] was just a normal SDLRect that I declared on top of the code block. Now that I moved it into the struct "gr", it causes the program to segfault.
I allocate memory for it in this way
gr = (GameRes *) malloc(sizeof(GameRes));
LoadResources(gr, scrmode);
Inside the LoadResouces Function I can access the variables like so
printf("Loading broken tower.\n"); temp = IMG_Load("data/broken_tower.png"); gr->flora[1] = SDL_DisplayFormatAlpha(temp); gr->rcFlora[1].x = 600; gr->rcFlora[1].y = 128; printf("Is the value accessible here?-> x= %d\n",gr->rcFlora[1].x); //Here they work but not in main? SDL_FreeSurface(temp);
if(gr->rcFlora[1].x >= 0 && gr->rcFlora[1].y >= 0 ) { printf("SDL_BlitSurface(gr->tower, NULL, screen, &gr->rcFlora[1]);\n"); //This prints SDL_BlitSurface(gr->tower, NULL, screen, &gr->rcFlora[1]); //it crashes here printf("success!\n"); //This does not print.
Where was gr->tower given a value? Where was memory for screen allocated?
But you said all this worked before you moved into the struct. What's the definition of this struct? You moved it in like this?
struct GameRes { .... SDLRect rcFlora[2]; ...};
Or did you do something like the following and forget to allocate room for the member array?
struct GameRes { .... SDLRect rcFlora[]; ...};
Also, you don't want the address of an int, you want the address of an SDL_Rect, but I'm guessing that was just a flub, that sentence.
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Thanks for the reply. Right, I want the address of the SDL_Rect. (note, i already recognize an error where I am no longer initializing gr->tower, instead im initializing gr->flora[1]
ok First of all I have a stuct for the overall game resources. Ill add comments here.
typedef struct s_gameresources { SDL_Surface *screen; SDL_Surface *invscreen; SDL_Surface *temp; SDL_Surface *sprite; SDL_Surface *grass; SDL_Surface *actionBar; SDL_Surface *geographic_map; SDL_Surface *tower; SDL_Surface *seltarget; SDL_Surface *flora[200]; //I am trying to put all static objects like the "tower" and tree here. SDL_Surface *tiles[200]; SDL_Rect rcSprite, rcGrass, rcactionBar, rctower, rcMap, rcInv; SDL_Rect rcFlora[200]; //Rectangles for the tower. SDL_Event event; } GameRes;
//Before that I have a memory allocation in main()
gr = (GameRes *) malloc(sizeof(GameRes));
LoadResources(gr, scrmode);
I have certain rectangles still declared in main() which work fine
rcGrass.x = 800; rcGrass.y = 600;
//rctower.x = 600; rctower.y = 128;
rcInv.x = 800; rcInv.y = 600;
rcactionBar.x = 0;
rcactionBar.y = 0; sheight = 32;
Im guessing SDL_Rect is a struct, so its a array of struct within a struct?
HEre is something else. In the case of my "floor tiles", i have declared rcTiles[200][200] but as global within main's C file, and if I do a
SDL_BlitSurface(gr->tiles[0], NULL, screen, &rcTiles[y][x]);
it works fine.
Sorry, nothing's jumping out at me. rcFlora is indeed an array of structs (SDL_Rect is a typedef of a struct according to its man page) within your GameRes struct. When you do your malloc it should get its memory as long as malloc succeeds (you ought to check btw -- malloc returns NULL if it fails to find memory for you). I don't see a problem there.
All I can think is that maybe you do a free on gr sometime before you use it this last time. Either that or you've got bounds errors or use after free elsewhere that have corrupted your heap and you're seeing some kind of nasty action at a distance effect. I wonder a little about temp in the resource load function. I assume IMG_Load allocates and SDL_FreeSurface releases it. You wouldn't be inadvertently assigning it to something and then using the object it pointed to after it was freed would you?
Maybe now is the time to run this through gdb and get a stack trace at the point where it gets the (I'm guessing) segv signal? That's often a good clue. Also, you may want to read the man page for malloc to see what kind of debugging options it has. I know OpenBSD has some nice options you can set with an environmental variable to help debug memory problems by "failing fast" in various ways. Probably the other BSDs have something similar.
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