Mallett proudly promotes his coffee cup demonstration now; but when he received his doctorate in 1973, he kept his time travel obsession quiet.
Add in 147,000 police and soldiers and it is little wonder that anti-Cup demonstrations have so far been mostly small and peaceful.President Dilma Rousseff should not take too much comfort, however.
As my colleague Simon Romero reports from São Paulo, more than 200,000 Brazilians filled the streets in cities across the country on Monday to protest the high cost of living and lavish spending on soccer stadiums ahead of next year's World Cup, in demonstrations that have intensified as images of police brutality against peaceful protesters spread on social networks.
Law enforcement officials violently cracked down on protests across Brazil before the 2014 World Cup, including demonstrations over the disappearance of Amarildo de Souza, a Rio man whose death at the hands of police later led to the arrest of 10 officers.
The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, and Pelé – the superstar turned MasterCard ambassador – have drawn derision by calling on protesters to decouple the Confederations Cup and the demonstrations.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter believes football's governing body's reputation has been enhanced by the Confederations Cup, despite the demonstrations that have swept across Brazil.
Coinciding with the city's hosting of Fifa Confederations Cup matches, one demonstration of more than 300,000 people erupted into clashes between police and protesters.
"We must don our green and gold jerseys from now on and throughout the World Cup as a demonstration of a united country that acknowledges its divided past but continues to strive for a nonracial, democratic and united South Africa," he said.
Application to a square box and a clover-shaped cup are presented with demonstrations of the validity of the code and the efficiency of the proposed modified approaches.
Now, with the World Cup fast approaching and more demonstrations on the way, there's a lot of talk about demilitarizing the police.
