The Room

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The Room is a 2003 independent romantic drama film written, directed, produced by, and starring Tommy Wiseau. It was Wiseau's directorial debut, and while the film is primarily centered on the melodramatic love triangle between an amiable banker (Wiseau), his fiance (Juliette Danielle), and his conflicted best friend (Greg Sestero), a significant portion of the film is dedicated to a series of unrelated subplots involving the friends and family of the main characters.

Entertainment Weekly has called The Room "the Citizen Kane of bad movies"[1] and a number of notable publications have labeled it as one of the worst films ever made.[2][3] Originally shown only in a limited number of California theaters, the film quickly developed a cult following as fans found humour in the film's bizarre storytelling and various technical and narrative flaws. Although Wiseau has retroactively characterized the film as a black comedy, audiences have generally viewed it as a poorly made drama, a viewpoint supported by some of the film's cast.[4][5] Within a decade of its premiere, the film was selling out showings around the United States and had inspired a video game, book, and traveling stage show.

Johnny is a successful banker who lives in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiance, Lisa. They share an intense relationship characterized by constant, passionate lovemaking. Despite this idyllic existence, Lisa has inexplicably become dissatisfied with her life, and one afternoon confides to her best friend Michelle and her mother Claudette that she finds Johnny boring. Although Michelle advises her to be grateful for what she has, and her mother counsels her that financial stability is more important than happiness, Lisa decides to seduce Johnny's best friend, Mark. Although he is initially reluctant, Mark gives in to Lisa's advances. Their affair continues through the remainder of the film, even though Mark appears reluctant at the outset of each sexual encounter and repeatedly tries to break off the relationship. Lisa, meanwhile, having come to the realization that she "wants it all", decides to stay with Johnny for financial support and the material goods he can provide her. As the wedding date approaches and Johnny's clout at his bank slips, Lisa alternates between glorifying and vilifying Johnny to her family and friends, both making false accusations of domestic abuse and defending Johnny against criticisms. Meanwhile, Johnny, having overheard Lisa confess her infidelity to her mother, attaches a tape recorder to their phone in an attempt to identify her lover.

Against the backdrop of Lisa and Mark's affair, numerous subplots involving secondary characters begin to develop: Denny, a neighboring college student whom Johnny financially supports and "loves like a son", has a mysterious run-in with a drug dealer named Chris-R, whom Johnny and Mark overpower and take to the police. Denny also lusts after Lisa, ultimately confessing to Johnny his attraction; once Johnny tells Denny that Lisa loves him as her friend, Denny resolves to propose to his own girlfriend. Johnny takes on a mysterious client at his bank whose identity he is sworn to protect. Claudette experiences real estate problems, bemoans failed relationships, and informs Lisa that she has breast cancer. Michelle and her boyfriend, Mike (Scott Holmes), break into[6] Johnny and Lisa's home to have sex. Peter (Kyle Vogt), a psychologist friend of Johnny's and Mark's, alternates between defending Lisa and assessing her as a sociopath, which results in Mark briefly trying to murder him. Each of these subplots receives little exposition, and none are ever resolved.

At a surprise birthday party for Johnny, Steven, a previously unseen friend of Lisa's and Johnny's, catches Lisa kissing Mark while the rest of the guests are outside and confronts her about the affair. Lisa expresses no remorse, while Mark angrily urges Steven not to tell anyone. Johnny announces to the guests that he and Lisa are expecting a child, only for Lisa to tell Steven and Michelle that she lied about it in order to "make it interesting". At the end of the evening, Lisa flaunts her affair in front of Johnny, who physically attacks Mark.

After the party, Johnny locks himself in the bathroom, prompting Lisa to make plans to leave him for Mark. Johnny finally comes out of the bathroom and retrieves the cassette recorder he attached to the phone, and listens to an intimate call between Lisa and Mark. Claiming that all of his friends have betrayed him, Johnny destroys his apartment and then kills himself with a pistol. Denny, Mark and Lisa discover Johnny's body sometime later. Mark and Denny blame Lisa for Johnny's death, with Mark declaring he does not love Lisa and never wants to see her again. Denny asks Lisa and Mark to leave, but they stay and comfort one another as the sound of the approaching sirens grow louder.[7]

In addition to being rife with continuity errors, the film has several plots, subplots and character details whose inconsistencies have been noted by critics and audiences. The Portland Mercury has pointed out that a number of "plot threads are introduced, then instantly abandoned".[8] One of the most notable examples of this is in an early scene, when halfway through a conversation about planning a birthday party for Johnny, Claudette off-handedly tells Lisa: "I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer."[9] The issue is casually dismissed and never revisited during the rest of the film.[8][9] In addition, the audience never learns the details surrounding Denny's drug-related debt to Chris-R or what led to their violent confrontation on the roof.[8][10]

Beyond being Johnny's friend, the character Mark receives no exposition; when he is first introduced he claims to be "busy" while sitting in a parked car in the middle of the day, with no explanation ever given as to his occupation or what he was doing.[6] Greg Sestero created a backstory for the character in which Mark was an undercover vice detective, which Sestero felt united several otherwise disparate aspects of Mark's character (such as his secretive behavior, clandestine marijuana use, mood swings, and his handling of the Chris-R incident);[6] however, Wiseau dismissed adding any reference to Mark's past to the script.[6] The makers of The Room video game would later introduce a similar idea as part of a subplot involving Mark's unexplained backstory.

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The White House Situation Room is a 5,525-square-foot (513.3m2)[1]conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the West Wing of the White House. It is run by the National Security Council staff for the use of the President of the United States and his advisors (including the National Security Advisor, the Deputy for Homeland Security and the White House Chief of Staff) to monitor and deal with crises at home and abroad and to conduct secure communications with outside (often overseas) persons. The Situation Room is equipped with secure, advanced communications equipment for the President to maintain command and control of U.S. forces around the world.

The Situation Room was created in 1961[2] by President John F. Kennedy after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was attributed to a lack of real-time information. The room has secure communications systems built into it and the walls contain wood panels that hide different audio, video and other systems.

The Situation Room staff is organized around five Watch Teams that monitor domestic and international events. Each Watch Team includes three Duty Officers, a communications assistant, and an intelligence analyst; though the number and composition of the teams may vary, depending on shift requirements and workload. The teams are staffed from a pool of approximately 30 senior personnel from various agencies in the intelligence community and from the military. These members are handpicked from heavily vetted nominations made by their parent agencies, and are strictly apolitical. They stand watch on a 24-hour basis, constantly monitoring world events and keeping senior White House staff apprised of significant incidents.[2][3]

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Another typical Situation Room activity is arranging the President's phone calls and other sensitive communications with foreign heads of state. This includes coordinating the timing of such calls at each end, providing interpreters where necessary, and ensuring appropriate security and record keeping. In this function, the Situation Room coordinates closely with the White House Communications Agency.[3]

The only comprehensive renovation of the Situation Room took place from 2006 to 2007.[4] Prior to the renovation, the room used cathode ray tubes for monitors and fax for communication and had computers and telephones with 1985-era technology.[4] The room also had a small kitchen with no sink.[4] Encrypted audio/visual equipment was also unreliable, and such equipment would sometimes go black, "prompting a presidential outburst."[4]Henry Kissinger once described the Situation Room as "uncomfortable, unaesthetic and essentially oppressive,"[5] while the New York Times termed the pre-renovation complex "something of a low-tech dungeon."[4]

Planning for the renovation began before the September 11, 2001 attacks, although the project became more urgent afterward.[4]

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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - nside an IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital room, hospital staffers trade off performing chest compressions on a man lying in a hospital bed.

Afterward, they gather in the room next door to watch video of their efforts filmed by two cameras mounted overhead and played back on a screen that also displays the patients monitor throughout. An instructor points out mistakes visible in the playback, such as someones arms held at the wrong angle while doing compressions, and a pause of longer than 10 seconds before beginning the next round.

After offering their own critiques and observations, the group files back into the hospital room to gather around the patients bed and try it all again.

Thankfully, the setting isnt actually inside the hospital itself, and the flatlining patient in question is a mannequin and is in no danger; the exercise is part of a class being taught in the Janice B. Fisher Learning Center, a new facility providing simulation technology and mannequins for training new and current IU Health BMH employees. An open house for the public is scheduled for Thursday, The Star Press reported (http://tspne.ws/1reRXdz ).

The space in the basement of the Edmund F. Ball Medical Education Center includes not just offices for the hospitals Education Resources program, plus classrooms and computer labs, but also three simulation rooms built to mimic specific areas of the actual hospital.

Two of them are replicas of rooms in the hospitals South Tower, with a nurses station in the hall providing windows into a patient room on either side, and the same storage, beds and equipment used in the hospital itself.

A third simulation room matches a trauma room in the hospitals Emergency Department, down to the carts filled with supplies and the sink installed where it would be in the ED, even though this one isnt actually hooked up to a water line, noted Joni Casperson-Bates, simulation coordinator for the center.

In addition to learning procedures and skills in a space that exactly mimics what theyll find on the job, students at the learning center also use highly sophisticated mannequins that can be made to breathe, bleed, choke and even answer questions.

The centers high-tech mannequins include a newborn, a toddler, a child and several adults. They can be programmed to have labored breathing, suffer bleeding or even amputated limbs or turn blue around the lips from a lack of oxygen, all while their vital signs are shown on a monitor, as with a regular human patient. They can have tubes put down their throats or IVs hooked up, and can be revived with a working defibrillator; the female mannequin can even give birth.

The sim-patients can even answer the health care providers bedside questions, either with preprogrammed responses or by having an instructor talking for the patient from the next room. Casperson-Bates demonstrated with the child mannequin, known as Junior, using a small tablet to make him cough, moan with pain, answer Yes to a question or make gagging noises.

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For theGlobal Game Jamthis year, our team wanted to make a game that behaved like a personality test. It would try to determine if you liked killing enemies, collecting items, running around wildly, or interacting with the games inhabitants. Once the game had a handle on what you preferred, it would tailor itself to your desires. If you liked killing things, more enemies would be spawned. If you spent a lot of time in rooms opening chests, the next rooms you went to would have more in them to explore. It was immediately apparent that a predesigned level wouldnt work, as we wanted the experience to be dynamic and different for each type of player. So, we needed some sort of procedural room generation, and we needed it fast. I was responsible for that feature, and found it so interesting that I wanted to share how I handled it.

Ive played a lot of roguelikes, so the concept of random room generation wasnt totally foreign to me. However, I hadnt seen any that really impressed me. Especially not compared to the random generators that have been made for tabletop games. Some of the better ones generate traps, monsters, and loot in addition to basic rooms and corridors. In particular, the generators available onDonjonssite are worth a look. Not only are they infinitely configurable, but their source code is (kind of) open! For traditional dungeons, they usually generate X number of rooms, and then connect them up with corridors. Theres generally a certain number of large, medium, and small rooms, but everything is calculated at once. This technique is powerful, and with enough tweaking, you can make some really nice looking maps without a lot of effort. Getting this version up and running in our game wasnt difficult. All we had to do was have a large enough grid, randomly drop the rooms in, and then place cubes where the walls should be.

Fig 1. Randomly placed rooms. I didnt bother writing code to create corridors to connect the rooms, because we had realized this wouldnt work for us.

However, this technique wasnt going to work for our game. Since the whole point of the game was to dynamically adjust to the players play style, a complete map generated at runtime didnt make sense. We needed something that was totally dynamic, where levels could be built incrementally as needed. This gave me an opportunity to fix a problem I have with most dungeon generators. Since they were usually designed to be easy to draw on paper/wet-erase maps, rooms are usually defined in chunks of squares, either 5ft or 1m. This means walls are usually that thick, which is unrealistic (most interior walls are only ~6 thick!), and room dimensions would be defined in those increments. I wanted our rooms to be able to exist outside of a strict grid system, and to not waste a lot of space with walls. So, I built a relatively simple system.

Rather than storing a grid, I tracked two different types of objects: rooms and doors. Doors only stored their position and orientation (latitudinal or longitudinal), and the two rooms they connected. Rooms knew their position, size, and kept a list of doors that were connected to them. I had a geometry generator that could spit out walls, floors, and doors into the world, and could combine those primitives into generating rooms of random sizes. The system was designed so that if a newly generated room shared a wall with an existing room, any doors in that shared wall would automatically link to the new room.

Fig 2. First test of the geometry generator, creating rooms of random sizes.

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