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flat assembler
Message board for the users of flat assembler.
> Compiler Internals > [fasmg] small error in line continuation with comments
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bitRAKE 04 Dec 2018, 00:44
Just expanding the example from the manual and adding a comment to the end of line caused an error:
Seems like a weird corner case, but I really do like to split these lines and comment. Using version g.ibh5n which is the most recent I see. Or, maybe this is no longer possible?
iterate <name,value>, \; comment a,1, \ b,2, \ c,3 name = value end iterate
|04 Dec 2018, 00:44
Tomasz Grysztar 04 Dec 2018, 07:54
I broke it when I implemented RETAINCOMMENTS and ISOLATELINES. Thank you for letting me know, it should be fixed now (g.idtrm).
|04 Dec 2018, 07:54
bitRAKE 10 Dec 2018, 07:05
Would you mind if I completely rewrote map.inc? Or should a just post small changes, like line 161, should remove implied lock on xchg:
...and I could refactor destroy_string_map to:
mov edx,[ebx+Map.linked_blocks] mov [ebx+Map.linked_blocks],eax mov [eax],edx
destroy_string_map: ; in: ebx - map ; preserves: esi, edi @@: xchg eax,ebx mov ebx,[eax] ; Map.linked_blocks must be first element call mfree test ebx,ebx jnz @B retn
hash_string: ; in: rsi - string, rcx = string length, zero for ASCIIZ string ; out: rcx = string length, edx = 32-bit hash ; preserves: ebx, esi, edi mov edx,FNV_OFFSET push rsi jrcxz hash_asciiz push rcx hash_known_length: lodsb xor dl,al imul edx,FNV_PRIME loop hash_known_length pop rcx pop rsi retn hash_asciiz: lodsb xor dl,al imul edx,FNV_PRIME inc ecx test al,al jnz hash_asciiz hash_ready: pop rsi retn
|10 Dec 2018, 07:05
Tomasz Grysztar 10 Dec 2018, 10:20
I don't mind improvements to this code, especially considering that MAP.INC was the very first set of routines I created when started implementing fasmg, because I needed it for source cache in the beginning. For this purpose the performance was not important and the code was left mostly unchanged, according to the rule of "not fixing what is not broken". Though after all I ended up using it in a few more places (in addition to original source cache), so perhaps it could be worth improving... Did you notice any gain in regular fasmg use with your corrections?
With the style conventions I use in fasmg sources this should look like:
bitRAKE wrote:
assert Map.linked_blocks = 0 mov ebx,[eax] ; [eax+Map.linked_blocks] in the first run
|10 Dec 2018, 10:20
bitRAKE 10 Dec 2018, 15:24
I wasn't really thinking about performance. It was more like "low hanging fruit". Seemed rather contained with little chance of me breaking something else. Hopefully, I will get more comfortable with the source and the style.
With regard to XCHG, modern processors will only lock the cache if the data is in the cache. So, I doubt it will have much impact in the present use.
Something else I noticed: hash_string includes the terminating zero in the hash of a string only when the string length is not provided. Assuming the zero isn't counted in the length. Therefor a use case exists where the same string could return different hashes. Obviously, this doesn't happen in FASMG - otherwise it wouldn't work. Does the design require the inclusion of the terminating null?
(So, far I think that it does. Appears to be only two uses which pass ECX: use_source counts the null, format_binary is a little harder to understand. All the others use the asciiz branch and hash the null.)
Maybe, I'm wrong, but I think hashing the null on strings weakens the low order bits of the hash - which is relied on by the map. Seems easy enough to skip it - I'm tracing down the length returned to see if that will create a problem.
|10 Dec 2018, 15:24
bitRAKE 10 Dec 2018, 22:48
Rather than pondering here further, I tried some things.
My discovery is that strings aren't always strings. Yet, if I keep the null in the length everything appears to work okay. So, hashing without the null is fine because non-strings are always processed with their length. The converse is not true - some strings are not null terminating - which is strange.
Since it's working then I'm assuming there is another class of strings which are always called with their length, and they would never match regular null strings. File extension is one case, and number strings another.
|10 Dec 2018, 22:48
bitRAKE 11 Dec 2018, 05:01
So far I've been able to slow it down by 5% with very small changes.
|11 Dec 2018, 05:01
Tomasz Grysztar 11 Dec 2018, 06:43
Yes, in general any given map either always uses explicit length [byte strings] or always NULL-terminated ones. Because the two kinds are never mixed within the same map, this did not manifest as a bug.
The terminating zero needs to be counted into length, because when such string needs to be copied elsewhere (to a string storage), the terminating zero needs to be copied as well.
|11 Dec 2018, 06:43
bitRAKE 20 Dec 2018, 23:26
manual.txt : 698,47 whey -> when
On a side note, something that always trips me up using fasmg is how ":", LABEL, and NAMESPACE do different but related things. I would think just because the name doesn't start with a "." that the base namespace changed, but it doesn't work that way.
To be fair, there is a lot in the manual on this, and I've read it a dozen times. I just lack an intuitive feel for what is happening.
BASE: .x = 1 ; this is BASE.x BASE.y: .x = 2 ; this is also BASE.x?
NAMESPACE actually would create a 'BASE.y' base, but neither ":" or label will create "BASE.y" as a parent - they just create the child ".y".
manual.txt, pg 154 wrote:
When an identifier starts with a dot (in other words: when the name of the parent symbol is empty), it refers to the symbol in the namespace of the latest label that was defined in the current base namespace.
I've even tried "BASE.y.:", but fasmg will silently ignore the trailing "."
|20 Dec 2018, 23:26
Tomasz Grysztar 21 Dec 2018, 07:19
When designing the language I decided to define this mechanism using as simple set of rules as possible, but this simplicity does in fact lead to a quirk you mention.
bitRAKE wrote:
On a side note, something that always trips me up using fasmg is how ":", LABEL, and NAMESPACE do different but related things. I would think just because the name doesn't start with a "." that the base namespace changed, but it doesn't work that way.
That simple rule is that what the initial dot does is append to the previous label defined within current namespace. The quirk here is that unless you use NAMESPACE directive, current namespace stays the same. Current namespace is root for the entire length of your snippet. And the only label defined in that namespace is "BASE", so it is the "previous" label for the entire snippet, too.
The problem here is that "BASE.y" does not define a label in current namespace. It defines a label in "BASE" namespace. To make the initial dot "see" it, you would have to switch current namespace to "BASE":
BASE: .x = 1 ; this is BASE.x BASE.y: namespace BASE .x = 2 ; this is BASE.y.x end namespace .x = 3 ; this is BASE.x again
The trailing dot does make a very subtle difference that is completely irrelevant here. It is better to leave it to discuss another time.
bitRAKE wrote:
I've even tried "BASE.y.:", but fasmg will silently ignore the trailing "."
|21 Dec 2018, 07:19
revolution 21 Dec 2018, 08:04
So what is the result from:
So labels with an internal dot do not change the current namespace?
BASE: .x = 1 ;BASE.x = 1 ROOT.y: .x = 1 ; ???
|21 Dec 2018, 08:04
Tomasz Grysztar 21 Dec 2018, 08:18
Labels never change the current namespace, it can only be changed with NAMESPACE directive. Label can only change what the "previous" label within the current namespace is. And when label contains dot internally, it is not a label in current namespace (it becomes a "previous" label in some other one).
revolution wrote:
So labels with an internal dot do not change the current namespace?
|21 Dec 2018, 08:18
revolution 21 Dec 2018, 08:35
BASE: ;namespace = BASE ROOT: ;namespace still BASE? .x=1; BASE.x = 1?
|21 Dec 2018, 08:35
Tomasz Grysztar 21 Dec 2018, 08:48
; we start off in some namespace, perhaps the main root (but the source could be encapsulated) BASE: ; namespace still the same, last label in this namespace is now BASE ROOT: ; namespace still the same, last label in this namespace is now ROOT .x=1 ; ROOT.x = 1, last label in ROOT namespace is now x, but last label in the outer one is still ROOT
|21 Dec 2018, 08:48
revolution 21 Dec 2018, 08:50
So why not:
BASE: ; namespace still the same, last label in this namespace is now BASE ROOT.y: ; namespace still the same, last label in this namespace is now ROOT.y .x=1 ; ROOT.y.x = 1
|21 Dec 2018, 08:50
Tomasz Grysztar 21 Dec 2018, 08:52
Because "ROOT.y" defines a label (named "y") in "ROOT" namespace, not in the outer one. "ROOT.y" is not a name of the symbol, it is a "path" to symbol, consisting of two names. Think of it like directories and files.
revolution wrote:
So why not:
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|21 Dec 2018, 08:52
revolution 21 Dec 2018, 08:54
Okay. And
BASE: ; namespace still the same, last label in this namespace is now BASE ROOT.a.b.c: ; namespace still the same, last label in this namespace is now ROOT? .x=1 ; ROOT.x = 1
|21 Dec 2018, 08:54
Tomasz Grysztar 21 Dec 2018, 08:55
No, because we did not define "ROOT" label in the outer namespace. The last label is still "BASE". This only defined "c" label in the namespace that resides at "ROOT.a.b" path, it did not define any label in any other namespace.
revolution wrote:
Okay. And
|21 Dec 2018, 08:55
revolution 21 Dec 2018, 09:17
Okay. So ROOT, ROOT.a and ROOT.a.b are not labels, they are only namespace paths.
And ROOT.a.b.c is not really a label, it is a namespace path ROOT.a.b with the .c label inside it?
|21 Dec 2018, 09:17
Tomasz Grysztar 21 Dec 2018, 09:58
Yes, exactly.
revolution wrote:
Okay. So ROOT, ROOT.a and ROOT.a.b are not labels, they are only namespace paths.
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If I go cold-sixth-boro-turkey and don't inhale the harbor air or take in the sights steaming in from all corners of the globe, I get jittery, feel constrained.
There's lots that fires up the imagination for me, but what really stokes my machinery is
the names. Following is a list of names I've seen on on East Coast US AIS the past few days . . . some in far-off places but what evocative names!! I'm NOT talking yachts. These are container ships, tankers, and bulk carriers.
Red Lily, Angelic Power, Tango Sea, Atlantic Tramp, Silver Soul, Ivory Girl, Pink, Billion Trader, Romantic . . . Wow!! There's nothing routine or lackluster or sinister about those. Who in a company comes up with these? I'd love to hear what "off the air" commentary gets expressed about these names. What is the most memorable vessel name you've ever seen?
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In perhaps the year's most stunning international debut, Michaël R. Roskam's BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Mattias Schoenaerts in a ferocious breakout performance), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones following a childhood trauma, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his horrid past resurfaces, Jacky must confront far-reaching consequences and whether the real meaning of manhood is hormonal or emotional. Acclaimed at festivals worldwide, the award-winning BULLHEAD is visceral saga bursting with rage that TwitchFilm calls "one of the most original crime films in recent memory."
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Do you really think there's anyone in our office that doesn't view you, your time and your privacy with the utmost respect?
One reason people who respect your time interrupt you is that they believe that the activity requiring your participation is urgent. And if the activity they are interrupting is actual programming, you probably view them as impeding your ability to accomplish something important.


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Sándor Gugi was a Hungarian pioneer of comic book adaptations of classic literature, born in 1917 in Budapest. In 1934 he won a national drawing competition, and a year later he got admission to the College of Fine Arts, where he graduated as a teacher. From 1940 on, he worked as an art teacher. He began illustrating the daily Szabad Nép in 1949.
His first comics were published in Tanácsok Lapja from 1954 onwards, where he drew the adventures of 'Talál Tamás' in strip format. In 1955, he contacted Tibor Cs. Horváth (who worked at the Educational Department of the Ministry of Culture at that time) to produce comic books similar to the American Classics Illustrated-series. Horváth jumped at the chance and thus were born emblematic pieces of the medium in the pages of Új Világ, Szabadságharcos and Po Sztránye Szovetov.
Mark Twain's 'The Prince and the Pauper'.
Gugi could draw in various styles: with meticulous inks in Wells' 'Invisible man', using ink wash in Verne's 'The Children of Captain Grant' or applying comic images in 'Mahomed in Csömör'. His works were also published in many countries of the socialist block, for example the East German magazine Frösi ('Der Arme Leopold', 1977).
'Der Arme Leopold'.
Between 1954 and 1960 Gugi laid down the foundations of comic book drawing and scriptwriting only to cut the whole business. The split was caused by his immense exactitude, as he quite often was ready to spend weeks doing preparations before drawing one single panel. (He checked every detail regarding furniture, clothing, architecture, etc.)
Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant
In 1970 he returned to the world of comics with two Rejtö short story adaptations, but soon became disillusioned with producing quantities and quit again. The artist undeservedly forgotten died on 31 December, 1988.
His main works are H.G. Wells' 'A láthatatlan ember' ('The Invisible man', 1957), Ribakov's 'Atör' ('The Dagger', 1957), his own story 'Mahomed Csömörön' (1959), Antal Szerb's 'Szerelem a palackban' ('Love in a bottle, 1964) and Jenö Rejtö's 'Pipacs' and 'Minden jó, ha vége van' (1970).
'Der Arme Leopold' online
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Jonathan Minton
This article originally appeared on the OUPblog on 18 September 2013: http://blog.oup.com/2013/09/demographic-landscape-good-news/. It is reproduced here with some updated figures and captions.
If demography were a landscape, what would it look like? Every country has a different geographical shape and texture, visible at high relief, like an extra-terrestrial fingerprint. But what about the shape and texture revealed by the demographic records of the people who live and die on these tracts of land?
Maps show the fingerprints of the physical landscape on a human scale, letting us see the forests for the trees, the regions for the forests, and the countries for the regions. They are powerful visualisation techniques, knowledge tools for comprehending enormity.
Our visualisations use a classic mapping technique, contour plots, to explore the texture of life and death of billions of people from more than forty countries. Contour plots show three dimensional structure on a two dimensional page, using nothing but a series of lines. The lines show where, over two dimensions, the values of a third dimension are equal. A classic application in physical geography is showing how height above sea level varies as people travel east or west, or north or south. Travel alongside a contour line and your journey will be flat; travel through many contour lines packed close together, and you will either be climbing or abseiling.
We used contour maps to show how a third variable, mortality rates, varied against two others: age and time. Instead of the horizontal axis showing west to east, it shows year, earliest to most recent; and instead of the vertical axis showing south to north, it shows age, ranging from newborns to 80 year olds. Just as the coordinates of physical terrain are latitude and longitude, so the coordinates of mortality terrain are age and year, or age-time.
Within these maps, our trajectory as individuals is always along the diagonal: we age one year per year. As researchers, however, we can imagine walking along age-time in any direction, or even flying over it in a helicopter. Our contour plots present a high resolution description of these abstract terrains.
What's the value of doing this? Demographers are typically interested in three kinds of mortality effect: age effects, period effects, and cohort effects. In our maps, we can explore age effects by looking south to north, period effects by looking west to east, and cohort effects by looking across diagonals. We can also see how these age effects have changed with time, and imagine how the terrain would have extended into the past and may extend into the future. We can compare the records of different nations, exploring how demographic changes may have occurred sooner or later, or faster or slower, in some nations than others.
How to see the good news
The picture is mixed and complex, but not ambiguous. It shows that, as people interested in public health, and as people who care about people, we have much to be proud of. Within England and Wales, and almost every other nation we looked at, we saw two changes to the demographic landscape which made it less hazardous for everyone. These two changes are two good news stories that deserve to be told, and they are both to do with bathtubs.
Why life is like a bathtub
The diagonal tracts of age-specific mortality risk that we travel along as we age used to be 'bathtub shaped': very high in infancy, low throughout the rest of childhood and into middle age, and then rising exponentially as middle age becomes old age. The first piece of good news: we broke the left side of the bathtub!
Why broken bathtubs are good for babies
Infant mortality changed from an everyday tragedy to something much rarer. At the start of the twentieth century, about one child in four was expected not to reach its fifth birthday. By the middle of the century, this had dropped to around one-in-thirty, and by the end of the century it dropped further, to around one-in-a hundred and fifty. This marked the end of the large family, as parents no longer needed to have many children to protect against the risk of none living to adulthood and passing on the family legacy. With fewer mouths to feed at home, opportunities for women at work opened up, and the march towards gender equality took apace. With far fewer babies to bury, a source of great human misery stops being as numbingly commonplace.
Taking a steamroller to outrageous fortune
The second piece of good news: we've been steadily flattening the right side of the bathtub for decades. We can see this by travelling flat, along a contour line marked 0.01, which represents a one-in-one hundred risk of dying in the next year. Imagine this as a hurdle people have to clear in order to keep travelling towards older age. At the start of the twentieth century, men faced this hurdle when they were in their late thirties, and women when they were in their early forties. By the time the twentieth century came to an end, this hurdle has been pushed back almost a generation, to the late fifties for men, and the mid-sixties for women. This is just one of many contour lines which have been pushed back during the Twentieth century. Even better news: so far the contours are continuing to recede into ever older ages, with no signs of stopping.
Note: Cell shadings indicate the mortality rates using the colour scheme shown in the legend on the right, with values indicating the risk of dying in the next 12 months. Contour lines are added showing each time the risk of dying changes by 0.005 (i.e. at risks of death of 0.000, 0.005, 0.010, 0.015 and so on, up to 0.200).
Read more:
J Minton, L Vanderbloemen, D Dorling. Visualizing Europe's demographic scars with coplots and contour plots. Int J Epidemiol 2013; 42: 1164-1176.
Image credit: Both figures by the author. Do not reproduce without permission.
Jonathan Minton has worked at the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, for two years. In September 2013 he will be taking up a new role within Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow to investigate trends in urban segregation as part of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN).The visualisations developed from a PhD in Sociology & Human Geography at the University of York, and a friendly argument with his former PhD supervisor, Danny Dorling, about the interpretation of two lines on a graph. The visualisations use data freely available from the Human Mortality Database, and the open-source statistical programming language R. He is the co-author of the paper 'Visualizing Europe's demographic scars with coplots and contour plots', published in the International Journal of Epidemiology.


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With these settings, I was able to get the Expander, Sustainer, Looper, and Dual Flange to work without crasing jackd
With these settings, I was able to get the Expander, Sustainer, Looper, and Dual Flange to work without crasing jackd
Latest revision as of 09:05, 18 May 2013
To install Ubuntu on the BeagleBone follow the instructions at http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu
In Ubuntu, to get ALSA to work with the BeagleBone Audio cape, the following modules should be specified in '/etc/modules'
snd_soc_tlv320aic3x snd_soc_davinci snd_soc_davinci_mcasp snd_soc_evm
You can test the audio by running `speaker-test`. Also running `aplay -l` will show a list of available sound cards. If the sound card is not shown, run `lsmod` and `dmesg` and make sure the kernel modules above have loaded without errors.
Rakarrack is a very nice open source audio effects processor that looks just like a guitar pedalboard. It uses the Jack Audio Connection Kit to stream audio allowing for realtime audio effects
Start by installing jackd2. This requires a patch for the current version (1.9.10) on ARM (see http://jack-audio.10948.n7.nabble.com/Jack-Devel-jack2-on-ARM-patch-td15962.html). Run the recipe found at that page (copied below with a couple modifications).
wget http://jack-audio.10948.n7.nabble.com/attachment/15962/0/jack2_armel.diff apt-get source jackd2 cd jackd2-1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37 patch -p1 -i ../jack2_armel.diff dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b cd .. sudo dpkg -i libjack-jackd2-0_1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-2ubuntu1_armhf.deb jackd2_1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-2ubuntu1_armhf.deb
Then install Rakarrack by running the following:
sudo apt-get install rakarrack
The installation should install jackd as a dependency. To check the installed jack packages run the following:
dpkg --get-selections | grep jack
You should see something like this:
ubuntu@arm:~$ dpkg --get-selections | grep jack jack deinstall jackd install jackd1 deinstall jackd2 install libjack-jackd2-0:armhf install libjack0:armhf deinstall qjackctl deinstall
Now you should be able to run the rakarrack GUI. Use `ssh -X firstname.lastname@example.com` to connect to the BeagleBone with X11 forwarding and then run `rakarrack`. The program should be able to find jackd by itself. If not try killing the jack processes and restart rakarrack. One way to do this is run `ps -AL | grep jack`, and then run `kill -9` with the pid number.
If you have problems with jackd not running you can try running in manually (make sure it is not running in the background first). Run `jackd -d alsa` and the output should look somethings like the following:
ubuntu@arm:/etc$ jackd -d alsa jackdmp 1.9.10 Copyright 2001-2005 Paul Davis and others. Copyright 2004-2013 Grame. jackdmp comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details JACK server starting in realtime mode with priority 10 creating alsa driver ... hw:0|hw:0|1024|2|48000|0|0|nomon|swmeter|-|32bit control device hw:0 configuring for 48000Hz, period = 1024 frames (21.3 ms), buffer = 2 periods ALSA: final selected sample format for capture: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 16 periods for capture ALSA: final selected sample format for playback: 32bit integer little-endian ALSA: use 16 periods for playback
When Rakarrack opens, it may warn you that your CPU is not fast enough to run some of the audio effects (e.g. convolutron). See (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-254181.html) for some tips on mitigating performance problems. If you crash jackd, you can easily kill its processes as shown above and restart Rakarrack (there is no need to reboot or anything).
Some things to improve performance (a bit...)
Increase clock speed of BeagleBone by running the following:
sudo cpufreq-set -f 720MHz sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq
The output of that last command should be '720000'
Also in Rakarrack go to 'Settings->Preferences->Audio' and lower all the downsample settings to '4000' and the up to 'Fastest'
With these settings, I was able to get the Expander, Sustainer, Looper, and Dual Flange to work without crasing jackd


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The nation's media elite and, surprise, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti will descend on investment bank Allen & Co.'s summer camp for moguls this week in Sun Valley, Idaho, with recent deals to mull, a few in the works and no shortage of momentous shifts in the showbiz landscape from the likes of Apple TV, Aereo and AutoHop as well as Facebook's botched IPO.
Seminars and meetings at the mountain retreat alternate with white-water rafting, fly-fishing, tennis and golf as cooler mountain temps should provide welcome relief to scalding heat across much of the country.
Yet industryites and Wall Street think deals could sizzle. Burgeoning digital content companies have started to merge and become targets for bigger players. Fast-growing Alloy Digital acquired Clevver Media last month. Discovery Communications quietly bought Revision3 in May.
And the time may be nigh when big tech players eye media takeovers in earnest. "I always wonder and worry to some degree if an Apple or a Google will make an announcement that could change the ecosystem," said one Wall Streeter.
A major Internet player "could buy CBS for $21 billion, or Lionsgate for $2 billion-$3 billion and control two of the biggest young adult franchises out there between "Hunger Games" and "Twilight," he added. Lionsgate has a market cap of $1.95 billion. "If they want to buy Disney, that's a different story. (But) Apple and Google could buy anything they want."
Disney has a market cap of $86 billion.
"I always look at the weak links," or manageable bite-sized acquisitions, said another. "The weak link two years go was Epix. No one liked it. Then it got the Netflix deal. Who are the weak links? They could acquire Epix, Lionsgate, DreamWorks Animation, Starz." Epix is owned by Lionsgate, Viacom and MGM, Starz by Liberty Media.
News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, sons Lachlan and James, COO Chase Carey and CFO Dave DeVoe will hit the annual confab that runs Tuesday to Saturday a few weeks after deciding to spit the $54 billion conglom in two, separating publishing and entertainment. That's the first major structural transformation by a big media company since Comcast's deal to buy 50% of NBCUniversal from French conglom Vivendi in 2009 — a pact that was hatched at Sun Valley. This summer, Comcast is about to unload its stake in A&E Networks to partners Walt Disney and Hearst for about $3 billion.
And Vivendi, parent of Universal Music Group, is back in the spotlight amid speculation it could undertake a major revamp after the departure of CEO Jean-Bernard Levy last month. "Figuring out whether Vivendi will be broken up" will be a key takeaway from Sun Valley, said a top music exec planning to attend. UMG is still waiting on regulatory approval for its purchase of EMI.
Vivendi is considering selling its $8 billion-plus majority stake in videogame publisher Activision, whose CEO Bobby Kotick will be at mogul camp. It may, like News Corp., consider splitting up into a telco and a media company.
The Italian press went bonkers last week when Sun Valley, which most reporters had never heard of, appeared on Premier Monti's official appointment calendar as Italy and much of Europe face a massive economic debacle. The Euro zone disruption affects all companies that do business there including a big swath of U.S. media. Italy is the region's third largest economy, and the highly respected Monti plays a pivotal role as the crisis unfolds. With the existence of the Euro itself coming under attack, U.S. execs and media investors will be eager for Monti's insights.
As "The Amazing Spider-Man" spins box office gold, Kazuo Hirai will make a splash as the new CEO of giant Sony Corp. accompanied by Michael Lynton, recently tapped to head U.S. arm Sony Corp. of America. Hirai is tasked with turning around the ailing conglom with some innovative melding of Sony hardware and software.
Top media execs like Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes and CFO John Martin, Walt Disney's Robert Iger, CBS chief exec Leslie Moonves, Viacom's Philippe Dauman with Paramount topper Brad Grey, Comcast chairman Brian Roberts and Universal Studios topper Ron Meyer, DreamWorks Animation topper Jeffrey Katzenberg and Discovery CEO David Zaslav — many with families in tow — join Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Apple chief Tim Cook, Google trio Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, Twitter CEO Richard Costolo, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg and dozens of others from showbiz, tech and finance.
Liberty's John Malone is one mogul hoping to clinch a deal soon with a very public push to take over Sirius XM Satellite Broadcasting. Liberty, Sirius' biggest single shareholder, has been buying up stock to gain uncontested control, to the irritation of Sirius chief Mel Karmazin.
With the presidential election looming, politics will likely be a lively topic. FCC chairman Jules Genachowski is on the list of invitees.
So is Yahoo's interim CEO Ross Levinsohn as the company's board looks for candidates for permanent chief executive. The position has been hard to fill after former CEO Carol Bartz was fired last year and Scott Thompson resigned under a cloud last month. Levinsohn is said to be the frontrunner although a number of others have been approached, including Hulu founder and chief Jason Kilar.
A Hulu spokesperson said Friday that Kilar "has graciously declined to be considered."
Hulu, the online subscription video service jointly owned by Disney, Comcast and News Corp., was a hot topic last year. Hulu and streaming video company Netflix may be the biggest drivers of transformation in the TV business, viewed alternately as threats for siphoning off viewers and open cash registers for networks and content companies. "Affiliate fee trends are fantastic — those deals with Netflix and Amazon," said one Wall Streeter.
Coin is welcome as traditional revenue streams seem potentially more at risk. "I think that's an interesting thing that has shaped up. The introduction of Aereo and the lawsuits, that court outcomes, could determine the future of retransmission consent," said another. Retrans fees have become a major source of revenue for broadcasters. Aereo puts that at risk by transmitting programs without paying.
The ad picture is opaque given a shaky U.S. economy and Europe's woes. "We expect to see a sequentially weaker quarter. For today, domestic advertising trends are surprisingly resilient but there is an intense focus, more than I have ever seen in the investor community, on ratings. You can't just count on increased coverage to grow. I've never seen so much volatility of stock price around ratings," said one Wall Streeter.
Satcaster Dish Network's new AutoHop DVR feature, now being adjudicated, makes it easier than ever for viewers to skip commercials on major networks.
Herb Allen's Allen & Company has been running the Sun Valley conference since 1983. The venerable firm, started by Charles and Herbert Allen, Sr. in 1922, is a staple of media and entertainment banking with a hand in most all showbiz deals big and small.


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WOODBRIDGE, VA.—The mission of Prince William County's government television channel is to create and disseminate information that promotes the county's identity and foster a sense of community. We're working to achieve these goals through development of a wide variety of programs and information on current events and happenings throughout the county. This programming is sent to county residents through local cable outlets, and is also available on the county government's website.
I'm responsible for ensuring that our programming is created according to professional standards using broadcast-grade equipment. Recently, one element in our operation—an older camera control system— began to be problematic. It was too old to be upgraded so we started shopping for a replacement.
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Based on our requirements, as well as recommendations from others and the company's reputation in this sector of the industry, we selected a Telemetrics camera control system. This included an RCCP-1 robotic camera control panel, PT-CP-S4 precision pan/tilt heads and Telemetrics' CLIU-S2 serial input camera and lens control converter that relays serial control commands to and from the camera and to provide positioning information for the lens servo.
We installed the new system in the county administration building, with the cameras and robotic heads situated in the county supervisors' chambers and the control room located about 100 feet away in the same building.
The Telemetrics control panel was integrated with our Broadcast Pix Granite production switcher, allowing us to control cameras from two different panels. This integration makes one- or two-person productions much easier. We also found the discrete camera shading control capability very helpful. This wasn't available on our earlier system, requiring operators to make adjustments from menus contained within the camera CCUs. Telemetrics' RCCP-1 now provides us with shading capability without having to drill down through menus.
The Telemetrics control panel provides a very natural and intuitive control over the cameras and their lens functions. Camera control is smooth and responsive, making nice-looking on-air moves easy to achieve. We're also making good use of the preset camera positions. We've found the RCCP-1 control interface to be very user friendly, allowing our operators to update stored camera shots without having to refer to a manual.
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Zachary Shearer is an A/V broadcast engineer with the Prince William County, Va. government television operation. He may be contacted email@example.com.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of the county fair on New York's Staten Island are making a dogged effort to prevent the spread of swine flu.
The Staten Island Advance (http://bit.ly/NuYjBZ ) says this year's Richmond County Fair is forgoing pig races in response to a new swine flu strain. Instead, the Labor Day weekend fair will feature dogs running down an elevated plank and diving into the water.
Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Milt Wilcox owns Ultimate Air Dogs, which is hosting the canine caper. He's encouraging fairgoers to bring their dogs if they like to swim.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said the new swine flu strain is relatively mild. Some cases have been linked to fairs, so the health organization has encouraged people not to pet pigs.
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Bellator Fighting Championships has inked world kickboxing champion Cosmo Alexander to its lightweight division, officials today announced.
The fighter will debut for the promotion on Oct. 1 at Bellator 52 in Lake Charles, La., though an opponent has not been set.
Terms of his deal were not disclosed.
"The decision to make Cosmo the latest addition to the Bellator lightweight division was an easy one," Bellator Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney stated. "His striking is simply on another level and will give anyone at 155 pounds serious problems. I can't wait to see Cosmo's progression in the sport under the Bellator banner."
Although he's never competed in MMA, Alexander has racked up a 40-14 pro-kickboxing record (and 2-1 pro-boxing record) while winning WMC intercontinental and WPMF world kickboxing titles.
Now training at Imperial Athletics with likes of Rashad Evans and kickboxer/potential MMA import Tyrone Spong, Alexander has promised an exciting fight style.
"I'm coming to Bellator to put together some devastating knockouts," he stated. "I want to knock my opponents out with head kicks, elbows and knees in the clinch. I can submit guys now, and I'm definitely prepared to fight on the ground, but I'm definitely going to be looking for the knockout when I step inside that Bellator cage."
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Hillary Clinton has gone to Togo. Joe Biden is going to Iowa. Let us now explicate. The vice president (that's Biden) is scheduled in September to attend Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry, which is what you do for a presidential race even if you have no taste for steak. Biden knows that merely by attending he is suggesting that he might enter the Iowa Democratic caucuses, which, as usual, will be the lead-off contest for the 2016 presidential election. If he does so, Clinton will be his likely opponent. Will she say she's been to Togo? Will she say she's been to where no secretary of state had ever been before — the Cook Islands, for instance? Will she echo the constant refrain from her State Department tenure — that she traveled more than any secretary of state in history, an astounding 956,733 miles, which is 38.42 times around the world and which, you have to concede, is a lot? Iowans may be impressed, but being First Frequent Flier is not enough to get them out on the forbiddingly cold night when the caucuses will be held. Clinton, as my Post colleague Dan Balz points out, needs a message. At the moment, her only one is that she is a woman. Becoming the first female president is a worthy goal, but it kind of falls into the category of miles traveled and countries visited. It is an achievement, even a stunning one, but it is not a stirring trumpet call. Even now, her statistics-laden tenure has been somewhat eclipsed by her successor at State. John F. Kerry has already managed to bring Israelis and Palestinians together to resume peace talks. If these talks produce an agreement (not likely, but still …), then all this talk about miles traveled is going to sound awfully silly. Clinton is undoubtedly the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2016, but then she is always the front-runner until something trips her up. The last time out — 2008 — it was her own dismal campaign and, of course, the emergence of one Barack Hussein Obama, a junior senator promising "hope." To counter that, Clinton had no real message of her own. Instead, there was a fustiness about her, a familiarity that was both good and bad. She was — remains — Bill Clinton's wife, and that, as we all know, is both good and bad. Now, just as Kerry is strutting his stuff as secretary of state, comes the revolting Anthony Weiner, whose association with Clinton through his wife, Huma Abedin — a Hillary Clinton intimate — has the Clintons running so fast the other way she may well revisit Togo by the time this is over. Once again, the Clinton past proves to be toxic. What she needs is a present — an emphatic now. There are few people in public life as smart as Hillary Clinton. A conversation with her is always instructive. She's also a good person and — almost as important — she knows how to laugh. But if she is to run for president at the age of 68, she must rediscover her youth. She has to revert to the brave and inspiring woman who was the first student to deliver the commencement address at Wellesley College (a seven-minute ovation) and made her a national figure overnight. In other words, she has to lead. If Biden runs — he will be 73 in 2016 — he will do so as a vice president. As did George H.W. Bush, he will seek office as a continuation of the previous presidency. At the moment, Gallup gives Obama a healthy approval rating of 80 percent among Democrats. He does less well among the public at large — 44 percent in the most recent poll — but it is Democrats who vote in the Democratic caucuses and primaries. It can't hurt to be Obama's vice president. The 2016 presidential nomination is Hillary Clinton's to lose. Already, a group called "Ready for Hillary" has raised money on her behalf. Emily's List, the formidable organization dedicated to the election of women, has virtually endorsed her — and she has, to mangle a word, the vastest network of friends and supporters of any American politician. She can probably raise $1?billion with the snap of a finger. All she lacks is what she has always lacked — an overriding, stirring message. Lots of people are ready to march, but they need to know in what direction. Richard Cohen is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Readers may email him at email@example.com.
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2007: The Year in PopWatch
The phrase "guilty pleasure" has long outlived its usefulness. If you really like a song or a movie or a TV show, no matter how cheesy the conventional wisdom says it is, you should feel free to say so without guilt, and to defend your appreciation vigorously. That's one reason why I (and, judging by the number of comments, you as well) enjoy reading Mandi Bierly's PopWatch Confessional columns. They get at how important entertainment really is in our lives, and they open the emotional floodgates for readers by reminding you of things you'd forgotten you loved.
It was this sort of writing — passionate discussion of things individual writers cared deeply about — that marked the best of PopWatch for me in 2007. Whether or not you shared Michael Slezak's enthusiasm for Fergie, or his appalled feelings over The Bachelor, you had to enjoy his writing about those subjects, maybe more than the subjects themselves. Same for Annie Barrett on The O.C. and reality TV, or Adam Vary on American Idol tapings and Transformers toys, or Simon Vozick-Levinson on hip-hop, or Chris Willman on country music and Bruce Springsteen, or Marc Bernardin on sci-fi, or Whitney Pastorek on music festivals and indie film, or Ken Tucker on Friday Night Lights, and too many others to name.
Looking back on my own writing this year, I found myself writing far too many obituaries — we lost too many talented people in 2007, and it's tough to sum up the life's work of an artist you admire in two or three paragraphs punched out on deadline — but I also found they led to some of my most passionate, and most warmly received items. (Credit here properly belongs to those who inspired me.) I also got worked up writing about such issues as free expression, the hijacking of pop culture for partisan political purposes, and the war on film critics, all of which are, of course, linked.
That these continue to be issues of contention saddens me, and it'spartly our fault as critics and journalists for not doing a better jobof explaining what the stakes are. That's why I am so grateful to havebeen part of PopWatch in 2007, to have a forum to raise such issues andstart a conversation. So while I want to thank all the writers,editors, photo mavens, tech wizards, interns, and celebrity guest bloggerswho helped put together PopWatch in 2007, I especially want to thankyou, the readers, for your lively, intelligent, and civil commentary.We posted nearly 2,500 blog items this year, and you responded withmore than 110,000 replies. That kind of response is incrediblygratifying to us, whether or not you agreed with what we wrote, becausewe relish our ongoing conversation with you. Hope you'll continue tocomment as fervently in 2008. Look forward to hearing from you.


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I'm studying a problem involving the sets of discrete curves that can be embedded in a non-trivial polygon, from a source to a target point, as shown below.
Initially my interest was limited to the set containing discrete curves with the possible smallest segment count and within this set the discrete curve with the shortest length. I've been able to find this discrete curve (not shown in the above graphic).
Now I'm considering the problem of the straightest-possible discrete curve that can be embedded in the polygon, and I suspect, or rather I'm hoping, that both curves, the one with the smallest segment count and the straightest one are identical. I'd appreciate help showing that is or isn't the case.
Note: I'm aware of the concept of geodesics as shortest possible paths. However, the curve I'm studying isn't the shortest path but the path with the smallest segment count. In the example provided above, the shortest path would cut around corners as it seeks to minimize the path length. Interestingly, this curving of the path increases its segment count.
Clarification of the question (courtesy of arex)
Suppose a simple polygon is given, along with two points, s and t, within the polygon. Is there a polygonal path from s to t that simultaneously minimizes the number of segments and amount of turning. Simple means homeomorphic to a disk; a polygonal path is a piecewise-linear curve; and turning is measured by the sum of the absolute values of the turning angles.
I'm making the following restatement of the initial problem, now solved, because it describes the sort of path that I'm investigating. Also the description may trigger insight into the question of bounds on straightness:
The polygon can be considered as a tunnel in which there is no line of sight between two points, which we can imagine to be the source and destination of a light beam. We seek to install the smallest number of light beam relays required to forward a signal as quickly as possible though the tunnel from source to the destination. The locations of the relays are the equivalent to the intermediate vertices of the shortest discrete curve with the minimum possible segment count embeddable in a non-trivial/non-convex polygon.


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We've just released version 1.6.1 of the Pivotal Tracker iOS app, which includes fixes for a number of text input problems.
Most importantly, it fixes Romaji input for Japanese users. While we don't officially support non-English localizations, we try our best to allow Tracker to be used in any language. This release also fixes a similar bug that prevented auto-completion, spell-checking, and text shortcuts from working in text fields.
Dragging stories is also snappier in this release, because we've reduced the delay before beginning a drag. To recap, stories can be dragged to a new location by touching and holding a story for a short time with one finger. We include a momentary delay, otherwise stories would get moved while scrolling through story panels. Touching a story with two fingers will immediately begin dragging a story, which I find really convenient and useful on an iPad.
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Yesterday (Monday 13 May 2013) we had a busy day, and at last managed to track down some of our elusive Namibian families, and found more information than we had time to record.
We started off going to the Lutheran Church archives, and stopped on the way at a viewing place over the city to take some photos of the changed Windhoek skyline. It was a place I had come to in 1971 with Marge Schmidt, Bishop Colin Winter's secretary, to take photos for a brochure we were preparing for a project for a new Anglican cathedral, with ecumenical centre attached. The brochure was intended to show potential overseas donors the need for such a centre, and the city it would serve. It worked too, and several of them promised money that would have started the project, but the new dean, who was appointed especially to oversee the project, killed it, and the new cathedral was never built, so St George's Cathedral (the green roof in the upper right-hand corner of the picture) remains the smallest Anglican cathedral in the world.
We managed, with some difficulty, to find the Lutheran Church office, with the archives, but the archivist was away on leave, and a retired former archivist, Pastor Pauli, came over to help us.
What we were looking for was baptism, marriage and burial records for the period of 1840-1920 in Rooibank, and Otjimbingue, as Rhenish missionaries were the only Christian clergy in those places at that period. Pastor Pauli was unable to find the records we were looking for, and said, rather ominously, that people tended to steal such records, and he didn't know if they had them.
But though we came away empty-handed, Pastor Pauli was himself an archive of sorts, full of fascinating anecdotes, and it was worth going there just to meet him.
He said he was 96 years old, and was born in Silesia. His grandmother insisted that only German be spoken in the house as he and his brother were growing up, but she was a bit hard of hearing, so they spoke German to her very loudly, and spoke quietly to the maid in Polish, as she knew no German.
His brother, however, died young (at the age of 90), so he was now alone in the world. His brother had been fascinated by aviation, and had been a fighter pilot in the Second World War.
Pastor Pauli himself had come to Africa in 1937, as a missionary in Tanganyika. He said that more than 60 languages were spoken in Tanganyika, so people communicated with the common medium of Swahili, and lived on good terms with each other. He was struck by the contrast with Namibia, with three little languages, and if people who spoke one language found you had been talking to someone who spoke another language, they didn't want to know you — at least that was his experience.
We went shopping and had lunch at one of the city shopping malls, and there too much change was in evidence.
When I lived in Windhoek in 1970, there was only one supermarket in town, the Model Supermarket in Kaiserstrasse (now Independence Avenue). Back then one could fill a trolley (American English = shopping cart) with groceries for R15.00. Now it would cost 100 times as much. Namibian dollars and South African Rand are the same value, and South African Rand notes are accepted everywhere in Namibia, it seems, though the coins are different sizes. A notable difference from South Africa was that one does not have to pay to park at the supermarket.
The old Model Supermarket is still there, only it is now trading under the Shoprite label, the downmarket partner of the Shoprite-Checkers chain. In 1970 you could see Herero ladies in traditional dress standing in queues at the checkout counters, some with the shopping baskets on their heads. A British visitor once remarked, "Where else can in the world can you see women wearing Victorian crinolines doing their shopping in a supermarket?"
Herero ladies in traditional dress seem to be a less common sight nowadays, and the "traditional" dress is changing too. The headgear is growing wider and wider. We showed Hiskia Uanivi and Kaire Mbuende some of our old photos from 40 years ago, and even then the older women wore narrower headdresses, such as that worn by Magdalena Bahuurua in the picture on the right, while the younger ones more much wider ones. But those are nothing compared to the ones you see nowadays.
After lunch we went to the Namibian Scientific Society, where we wanted to buy a couple of books by early Swedish traders and travellers in Namibia, which had been translated into English and published, in case they mentioned some family members.
They also had photocopies of the Omaruru church registers, and that was where we struck paydirt. We found more in those registers in two hours than we had in two days at the state archives looking at deceased estate files and the like. There was more than we could possibly write down in the time we had left to us, and Gunter von Schumann, the historian there, said we could come to his house the next morning, where he had more copies of old church registers.
Agnes Dorothea Dixon, daughter of Daniel Esma Dixon and Annie Charlotte Gunning, was born on 29 April 1906, and baptised on 30 May at Omaruru, and there was the Dixon- Gunning link we had been looking for. There were several other children born to that couple. The deceased estate files simply showed Daniel Esma Dixon (Junior) as having disappeared into Angola with no issue. Someone must have been lying! We took lots of photos of the registers, and hope to be able to transcribe the relevant entries and link them when we get home.
Then we switched from deceased relatives to the living. We had arranged to meet Mburumba Kerina at the Kalahari Sands Hotel, so we packed up and rushed over there, and had a pleasant dinner and a three-hour chat.
We are not sure of the exact relationship, but we think Mburumba Kerina is Val's half-second cousin once removed. Both are descended from Fred Green ("Kerina" is the old Herero pronunciation of Green), Mburumba from Fred's second wife Sarah Kaipukire, and Val from his third wife, Kate Stewardson.
Like Pastor Pauli, Mburumba Kerina was full of fascinating anecdotes, including how he devised the name of Namibia for the country. When he was in exile, he was visiting President Sukarno of Indonesia, who asked him the name of his country. He said it was "South West Africa", and President Sukarno said he had never heard of it. He said that Angola was in South West Africa, and that a country must have a proper name.
Shortly afterwards, the Revd Michael Scott, the Anglican priest who had raised the question of South West Africa at the United Nations at the request of the Herero Chiefs' Council, showed Mburumba Kerina an article about a Texas mining magnate who wanted to make his fortune by mining diamonds in the Namib desert, and wanted to separate it from the rest of Namibia. So Mburumba came up with the name Namibia, to give the country a name, and also to emphasis that the Namib desert was an integral part of the county.
This is part of our Namibian travelogue. The previous episode was Sunday in Windhoek: Quaker meeting and walking the dogs | Khanya, and, if you are interested, it begins at Kang: ver in die ou Kalahari | Notes from underground
While we have been staying with Enid and Justin Ellis in Windhoek we have taken advantage of their WiFi to access the Internet. Today we are leaving for Outjo, and then the Etosha National Park and Ovamboland, and the next instalment is at North to Outjo | Notes from underground
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Did This New Hampshire Woman Take Part in the Rwandan Genocide?
She came to America as a victim and was later arrested as a perpetrator. To decide her fate, a New England jury has to make sense of conflicting stories from half a world away.
The Wednesday before last, while afternoon temperatures reached the mid-80s seven time zones away in Rwanda, 12 New Hampshire jurors and four alternates walked on snow-covered sidewalks to the U.S. District Courthouse in Concord, where they would hear the case of Rwandan-born Beatrice Munyenyezi.
Arriving individually, the 16 New Englanders shuffled through a security checkpoint and ascended to the granite building's third floor. That floor's main hallway is decorated in epic American style, including the famous scene of General George Washington crossing the Delaware and words penned in 1776 by Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense." Nearby, there is also a somber painting of Abraham Lincoln.
As the jurors filed from a back hallway into Courtroom Number 5, there were hints of the cultural collision that soon would unfold before them. An enlargement on a poster board included the French text of Munyenyezi's Rwandan identification card from two decades ago. An enlarged satellite photo taken during the 1994 genocide showed an aerial view of the main street in the southern city of Butare. And a bright shirt piled atop a box of documents burst with the blue, red, green and yellow colors of the ruling party that orchestrated the violence.
The jurors were likely the only people in the crowded, cavernous room who did not know the incredible story that had been told in the very same courtroom during a first trial 12 months before. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin had opened the government's case with an emotional account of a Rwandan woman named Esperance, who had seen friends and family murdered during the genocide. Munyenyezi, Capin had said, had played an "active and enthusiastic" role in such atrocities. Witnesses flown from Rwanda testified that Munyenyezi shot a nun in the head, fed men hungry from hours of raping women, and more.
At the retrial, neither the prosecution nor defense aimed to bridge the cultural divide. Each side, in its own way, sought to exploit it.
But Munyenyezi's attorneys had countered with contradictory accounts that those witnesses had presented at prior genocide trials in Rwanda and at an international court. Courtroom interpretations between Kinyarwanda and English had confounded things, and the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. Judge Steven McAuliffe had declared a mistrial. (In a court order months later, he wrote that primary witnesses' credibility had been "effectively impeached.")
So as these new jurors, notebooks in hand, settled into black leather swivel chairs for the retrial, prosecutors were ready to tell a much simpler story about Munyenyezi. An entirely new group of Rwandan witnesses would deliver new accusations. And prosecutors would begin opening statements not with chaotic scenes, but with certainty: the image of a new victim - the very nation the jurors called home - under attack by a manipulative foreigner. At 9:37 a.m., Assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty turned to the jury and began, in a tone at once gentle and arrogant, "The United States of America is the envy of the world."
Beatrice Munyenyezi and her three children came to New Hampshire in 1998, arriving as refugees from the genocide that claimed as many as one million lives. But Munyenyezi's connections to Rwanda were complicated: In 1997, her husband, Arsene Shalom Ntahobali, and her mother-in-law, Pauline Nyiramasuhuko, had been charged with crimes against humanity for their role in the violence. Though she had settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, and become a U.S. citizen in 2003, Munyenyezi testified in her husband's defense before an international tribunal in 2006. In 2010, she was arrested by U.S. authorities in New Hampshire, charged with immigration fraud, and held without bail in the Strafford County Jail.
When Munyenyezi's case first came to court, it presented New England jurors with a unique set of cultural challenges. But at the retrial, neither the prosecution nor defense aimed to bridge the distance between Rwanda and the United States. Each side, in its own way, sought to exploit it.
In Chakravarty's opening arguments at the retrial, he strove to convince the jury that Munyenyezi had earned her refugee status, and then U.S. citizenship, under false pretenses. He accused her of denying two vital facts from her past-- that she had been politically active before the genocide, wearing the brightly colored fabric of the Rwandan ruling party, and that she had stood at a roadblock in front of her family's hotel and singled out Tutsis for persecution.
Munyenyezi has consistently denied any political affiliations in Rwanda or involvement in the genocide. Thirty-seven minutes after Chakravarty began, Defense Attorney David Ruoff rose to deliver his opening statement. Ruoff and his legal partner Mark Howard knew the Rwandans accusing Munyenyezi in the retrial had not testified much elsewhere. So they had decided to cast reasonable doubt on all of Rwanda.
"You don't have to take these witnesses at their word," Ruoff told the jury. "And given where they're coming from, and what they'll go back to, you should not." Ruoff told the jury about the authoritarian government of President Paul Kagame, the former military commander who led the rebel forces that ended the genocide. He described Kagame as an autocrat who uses the genocide as a political tool to keep power.
While he acknowledged that Munyenyezi's husband and mother had been indicted on genocide charges, he described Munyenyezi as a homebound mother who had spent the genocide months inside the family hotel caring for an infant daughter while pregnant with twins. The fact that Ntahobali and Nyiramasuhuko were convicted of crimes against humanity in 2011 is not allowed to be mentioned in Munyenyezi's trial. But each is serving a life sentence -- Ntahobali for committing murder and rape while leading a ruthless militia, Nyiramasuhuko for helping to organize the genocide, including systematic rape, as a cabinet minister in the Rwandan government.
Ruoff also held out a copy of Leave None to Tell the Story, a definitive account of the genocide written in part by one of the prosecution's expert witnesses. The book mentions Ntahobali and Nyiramasuhuko and their acts of genocide. It does not mention Munyenyezi.
As he continued, Ruoff painted Munyenyezi's 2010 indictment as part of an uncertain conspiracy that reached from the United States to Rwanda. After all, he pointed out, Munyenyezi was never accused of anything by anyone during more than a decade of investigations about Butare, the Hotel Ihuriro, and a roadblock that stood before it. After making numerous trips to Rwanda, how were U.S. investigators only now able to find eight "new perfect witnesses" for this trial? He urged the jury to be more skeptical of the accounts the Rwandans would give.
"They did what you can't," Ruoff said of the U.S. investigators and prosecutors. "[They] let their emotions cloud their judgment."
He told the American jurors that only they could guarantee justice.
"One of the greatest protections in our country," Ruoff said, "is that this is not a Rwandan kangaroo court."
During the two weeks of testimony that followed, Munyenyezi, 43, sat quietly at the defense table, often staring ahead into the middle distance. She dressed sharply and wore black-framed glasses. On some days, her hair was pulled back tight. When Timothy Longman, an expert on the Rwandan genocide called to testify by the prosecution, described Ntahobali as a "vicious leader of the killing crews," Munyenyezi discreetly wiped tears from her eyes.
During some courtroom recesses she wandered into the main hallway, near the painting of Lincoln. There, on the first days of the retrial, she stood with her three daughters - the oldest in college, the twins now high school seniors - and a brother, Jean-Marie Higiro. Higiro, who earned a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in the 1980s, was an opposition member of the Rwandan government when President Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down over Kigale on April 6, 1994. That event triggered the genocide, and Higiro and his family were shuttled to safety in neighboring Burundi in a convoy flying U.S. flags.
Higiro is now a tenured professor of communication in western Massachusetts, but he also is a political leader who has been affiliated with Rwandan rebel groups in the Congo. He is a critic of the Kagame government, and he has said that Munyenyezi and another sister, Prudence Kantengwa, who was convicted of immigration fraud in Boston last year, are being targeted because of his activities.
Back in the courtroom, prosecutors called three types of witnesses against Munyenyezi: experts on the genocide, who gave details of the violence; residents of Butare, who said they saw Munyenyezi do certain things before and during the genocide; and U.S. government officials, who explained the immigration process and Munyenyezi's statements while seeking refugee status in 1995 and gaining U.S. citizenship in 2003.
This last group of witnesses detailed how Munyenyezi consistently answered "no" when asked on forms whether she had committed any crimes in Rwanda, or persecuted anyone based on their ethnicity. Officials emphasized that the U.S. immigration process relies heavily on trust, as the government doesn't have the resources to fact-check all applications. "The system is really built around answers to these questions being honest," said Donald Heflin, director of the Visa Office for the U.S. Department of State.
Another immigration official, Maurice Violo, told the jury in great detail how in 2003 Munyenyezi again answered "no" to questions on her naturalization application asking whether she had ever been affiliated with a political party, or committed a crime. But on the same form, she again listed that her husband was Ntahobali. She gave his location as "Arusha, Tanzania," home to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. She told Violo about trips she'd made to Kenya and Tanzania.
Defense Attorney Mark Howard challenged Violo about why he didn't inquire about who Ntahobali was or what he was doing in Tanzania. "She gave you the information," Howard said. "All you had to do was compare it to what else is known about her."
Violo, visibly agitated, told Howard that his main focus was to ask the list of questions to Munyenyezi, and assess whether she could speak English and score at least 6 out of 10 on a citizenship quiz. He said he relied on prior approvals of applications for refugee status and permanent residence. "All these questions you're asking right here," he told Howard, "should have been addressed at the refugee process."
Howard returned to the heart of the matter: What if Munyenyezi had not been lying when she said she had not been politically affiliated or committed any crimes in Rwanda? "If 'no' is a truthful answer," Howard said to Violo, "then we're good to go."
On the second day of testimony, prosecutors called their first witness from Rwanda. This time, it was a man named Thierry Sebaganwa, who said he had seen Munyenyezi wearing colors of the ruling MRND political party at a rally in a soccer stadium in 1993. The next witness, Bruno Nzeyimana, said that while serving as a soldier, he had passed through a roadblock in front of the Hotel Ihuriro. Nzeyimana said that he did not know Munyenyezi, but that his friend Pascal had greeted a woman at the roadblock who responded to the name Beatrice. That woman had checked his identification card, Nzeyimana said. Consolee Mukeshimana, a woman who claimed to be related to Munyenyezi through marriage, testified that she had been detained at the roadblock and then watched as Minyenyezi checked identification cards and singled out more Tutsis to be sent for execution.
Defense attorneys questioned the witnesses on how U.S. investigators had tracked them down. And hoping to find inconsistencies, attorneys probed the details each witness had given to investigators during meetings in Rwanda.
Each exchange passed through one of four courtroom interpreters, who relayed words spoken in English to Kinyarwanda, and Kinyarwanda to English. Interpreters took turns standing alongside the witness stand, and each had a different manner of working. A tall woman with close-cropped hair smiled broadly at attorneys and witnesses, leaning in to converse further with a witness if confusion arose. A somber man in a gray suit cast a stoic gaze straight ahead, raising a rigid hand in front of his chest if he wanted one party or another to pause or repeat.
Often these exchanges got tangled. Chakravarty spent more than forty minutes questioning Richard Kamanzi, a Butare resident who said he saw Beatrice wearing an MRND shirt before the genocide. At one point, as the prosecutor tried to get Kamanzi to locate his home and a nearby mosque on the satellite photo, Kamanzi said, "I don't understand." McAuliffe intervened. "You've taken eight shots at it," the judge said to Chakravarty. "Let's move on."
On the fifth day, after dismissing the jury, McAuliffe chastised the prosecution for asking witnesses too many questions about Munyenyezi's husband, Shalom Ntahobali. "Shalom is not on trial here," McAuliffe told prosecutors. "You don't seem to recognize that."
A few days earlier, confusion had already reached a gentle crescendo at the close of testimony by Nzeyimana, who said he had passed a woman who answered to the name Beatrice at the roadblock. Nzeyimana, 53, maintained a pensive air no matter the question, often pausing for four or five seconds before affirming something he'd already said. On cross-examination, Ruoff asked whether Nzeyimana had mentioned his friend Pascal in his first meeting with U.S. investigators. On re-direct, Chakravarty asked him to explain when he first mentioned Munyenyezi. The exchange halted along, as Nzeyimana confirmed elements of his earlier accounts. Finally, he spread his hands open before him. He turned his gaze from Chakravarty to the jury, as though to emphasize the point he had made at the outset.
"I didn't know Beatrice," he said. "I didn't know her."
Last Friday, a line of visitors crowded the security checkpoint on the first floor of the courthouse. A routine swearing-in of new citizens was about to take place in Courtroom 3, just down the hall from the Munyenyezi retrial.
Inside Courtroom 5, defense attorneys called two Rwandans to testify on Munyenyezi's behalf. Gilbert Hitimana, a Tutsi who was related to Munyenyezi's father-in-law, Maurice Ntahobali, said that the family had given him shelter in the Hotel Ihuriro during the genocide. Munyenyezi, he said, had stayed indoors and in an enclosed yard, caring for her baby and resting. Marie Alice Ahishakiye, who worked as a cook in the hotel, said she had only seen Munyenyezi inside the hotel compound, supervising the kitchen staff and tending her baby.
Prosecutors challenged these witnesses' claims that they had not seen or heard any signs of all the documented atrocities that occurred near the Hotel Ihuriro during that time. And they questioned the witnesses to demonstrate that they did not know what Munyenyezi had been doing doing all of the time.
Ahishakiye was still on the stand when McAuliffe ordered a mid-morning break. In the main hallway outside the courtroom, I met a lawyer who had come to New Hampshire to observe the trial. She was considering writing an article about the case in a law journal.
As we talked, I saw that Munyenyezi was standing only a few feet from us. She had been held without bail for nearly two years in a county jail until last year's mistrial, and had been released to house arrest, pending the retrial verdict. She stood quietly.
The lawyer told me she was curious about the treatment of political "participation." How would McAuliffe write his instructions to the jury? Would they be told that wearing the clothing of a political party was to be considered as political affiliation?
Such factors would influence the jury's application of American law. But before that, the New Englanders would have to weigh the certainty of the Kinyardwanda words of accusation and defense they'd heard about Munyenyezi. Would jurors be able to agree that amid the translation of time and culture in the New Hampshire courtroom some truth had been established beyond a reasonable doubt?
Attorneys are scheduled to make their closing arguments today. Jurors may deliver a verdict as early as tomorrow.
Update: On Thursday, February 21, the jury found Munyenyezi guilty. She was immediately stripped of her U.S. citizenship and taken into custody. Sentencing has been set for June. Her attorneys have said they plan to appeal.