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XFL uniform reveal: Here is the Tampa Bay Vipers jersey and helmet
The Vipers unveiled their game-day look Tuesday, and they're kinda Power Rangery.
Tampa Bay Vipers coaches and players had their first team meeting Tuesday. Workouts and football activities begin Thursday. [XFL]
By Thomas Bassinger
Published Dec. 4, 2019
Updated Dec. 4, 2019
TEMPLE TERRACE — The XFL's Tampa Bay Vipers, who begin their inaugural season in February, unveiled their uniforms Tuesday night. Here are some takeaways:
The Vipers chose to break up the green on their home jerseys with ... more green. [XFL]
• Whoa! That's a lot of green. Are the Vipers or the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers coming to Tampa? The home jersey features a dark green body with lime green (or what the team calls "action green") sleeves and side panels and yellow accents. The numbers are yellow with a lime green outline, and the pants are dark green with a curvy lime green stripe that starts thin at the top of the leg and gets progressively wider.
At first glance, the green-on-green look is overwhelming, but it's possible the team will mix-and-match jersey and pants combinations, so what you're seeing now isn't necessarily what you'll see when the Vipers play their first home game Feb. 22 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa.
The Vipers plan to wear white jerseys for their away games. [XFL]
• Of the combinations revealed Tuesday, the white-on-white away uniform is the one that says "it's game time" more than "it's morphin' time." The jersey features dark green sleeves and side panels and yellow accents, the numbers are dark green with a lime green trim and the pants feature a dark green stripe and yellow piping.
• A behind-the-scenes look at quarterback Aaron Murray's and cornerback cornerback Arrion Springs' reactions upon seeing the uniforms for the first time:
Behind the scenes at the #Vipers #XFL uniform reveal: Quarterback Aaron Murray and cornerback Arrion Springs see the jerseys for the first time pic.twitter.com/xgtyNYQ99K
— Thomas Bassinger (@tometrics) December 4, 2019
That's not paint on the Vipers helmets. Someone colored them in with a green highlighter. [XFL]
• Murray's favorite part: the helmet. "The candy paint, the lighter green, I think it really pops. The yellow facemask and chinstrap is a great touch. From head to toe, I feel like I'm ready to play a football game. Go, go, Power Rangers!" Okay, he said everything but the last part.
• Springs' preference: the all-white uniform. "I went to Oregon, and we do the uniform thing, so I was actually pretty impressed (when he saw the Vipers uniforms for the first time). I like the all-white. The all-white is kinda my thing right now."
There aren't many radical differences among the team jerseys, but the inclusion of the Vipers logo gives Tampa Bay a bit of distinction. [XFL]
• One cool detail: Every other XFL team's jersey includes the team's wordmark underneath the collar. The Vipers' jersey features an embroidered snake's head.
• Overall, there's nothing revolutionary here, but restraint isn't such a bad thing. At least the Vipers resisted incorporating some kind of grotesque snakeskin pattern on the shoulders or side panels of the jersey.
This time around, the XFL is playing it straight with the names on jerseys. [XFL]
• As expected — but still a bit of a disappointment — the jerseys feature the players' actual names, unlike the jerseys from the XFL's 2001 run, which featured nicknames. It's easy to understand why the league chose not to do that this time around. The XFL 2.0 is walking a fine line. It's trying to leverage its brand recognition while marketing itself as a credible, professional sports league. If it allowed nicknames on jerseys again, would we take it seriously?
• Also missing: a manufacturer's logo. This season's jerseys will be made by Custom Outfitters and will be available at shop.xfl.com. Replica jerseys will cost $80 while the real deals will cost $225. Fans will be able to customize their jerseys at stadiums during games.
• Ranking the XFL uniforms from worst to best:
8. D.C. Defenders: Too minimalist.
7. Los Angeles Wildcats: Clever idea to use blood-red claw marks as striping on the helmet and pants.
6. Houston Roughnecks: Silver helmet is sharp, but the rest of the uniform is bland. Perhaps hemmed in by their red, navy and silver color scheme, they strongly resemble their NFL counterparts, the Houston Texans. The New England Patriots, too.
4. (tie) Seattle Dragons and Tampa Bay Vipers: Did they share the same uniform template?
3. Dallas Renegades: If it weren't for the splashes of red, they'd look like the Tennessee Titans.
2. St. Louis BattleHawks: Terrific incorporation of the team logo into the helmet design.
1. New York Guardians: Classic and intimidating.
Contact Thomas Bassinger at tbassinger@tampabay.com. Follow @tometrics.
Thomas Bassinger
Sports Data Reporter
FIU quarterback James Morgan shines among all-stars in East-West Shrine Game
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Morgan, who leads his East team to a pair of touchdowns, raises his draft stock as do a few others the Bucs should keep an eye on.
Jason Garrett joins New York Giants as offensive coordinator
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The recently fired Dallas Cowboys coach stays in the NFC East.
Steve Young says Bucs would be 'nuts' to move on from Jameis Winston
The Hall of Fame quarterback played two seasons with Tampa Bay before winning a Super Bowl with the 49ers
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"They don't yet have the mentality of a Miami Hurricane," the linebacker says during the days leading up to the East-West Shrine Game.
Former Bucs offensive coordinator Todd Monken headed to Georgia
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49ers GM John Lynch named NFL Executive of the Year by football writers
The former Bucs and Broncos safety has his team one win from the Super Bowl.
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The fifth-year starter reportedly wants as much as $30 million per year and would not be keen on a franchise player tag.


Professor Oscar De la Torre has a Grad in Business and an MSc in Financial Engineering at La Salle University in Mexico. He also holds a PhD in International Business Sciences from Saint Nicholas and Hidalgo, Michoacan State University and is a current PhD in Economics student at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
He has worked in various Financial institutions such as Vector Brokerage at Mexico, The corporate FX division of Scotia Capital, the financial markets subsecretary of FIRA-Bank of Mexico and the Technical Secretary office of the Finance Secretary of Michoacan State, where he was part of the Financial debt restructuring team.
Actually is Professor at Saint Nicholas and Hidalgo Michoacan State University (UMSNH) but has teaching in Master and Grad courses in La Salle University and the Autonomous University of Madrid where he made two research visits.
He also is the editor of the Journal of research in Accounting and Management Sciences (Journal access link here).
His research interest are portfolio management for pension funds, along with the development of econometrics applied in portfolio management (models of regime switching, multivariate GARCH processes and Quanitative and computational investment strategies) and the performance of Socially Responsible Investment.
He also has taken several courses like the "Financial risks analysis" and "Stochastic Economics" courses at UMSNH (given by Professor Francisco Venegas), the "Econometric estimation of frontier functions and economic efficiency" given by the Fiscal studies Center of the Spanish Finance Ministry and NYU (given by professor William Greene) and the "Advanced risk and portfolio management bootcamp" given by Professor Atilio Meucci at New York University.
Best empirical research 2014 from the American Academy of Financial Management, chapter Latin America.
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Q: Delete the Old record before/after insert the record in a table, iff the record count is > 2 Delete the Old record in a Table before/after insert the record into that table, and delete the old record only when the record count is greater than Two.
How to achieve the following Scenario:
Table Name : Sample
Id  Name    Date    Position
1   phani   2013    Trainee
2   phani   2014    Developer

Now we are Inserting One more record for phani
i.e 3 phani 2015 sr.Developer
Result:
Id  Name    Date    Position
1   phani   2013    Trainee
2   phani   2014    Developer
3   phani   2015    sr.Developer

Now we have to create one trigger, that trigger has to delete the old record
(means 2013 year record has to be delete.)
Expected OutPut :
Id  Name    Date    Position
2   phani   2014    Developer
3   phani   2015    sr.Developer

Now let's say in 2016 again the position changed from sr.developer to Project Manager.
That time 2014 year record has to be delete and insert new record,like Below :
Id  Name    Date    Position
3   phani   2015    sr.Developer
4   phani   2016    Project Manager

A: Sounds like you already know our answer. Create an after insert trigger that checks if the number of rows with given name is larger than two. If so find the oldest date matching this name and delete all rows with that date and name.

A: Assuming that you are using SQL Server as Database server.following query will yield result what you looking for. You have to just wrap this logic into trigger definition.
DELETE T1 FROM
TableName T1
WHERE T1.[Date] = ( SELECT MIN([Date])
                    FROM TableName T2
                    WHERE T1.ID = T2.ID
                    HAVING COUNT(*) > 2 )

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Unprecedented China-Russia ties to start a new era of intl relations not defined by US
Joint statement highlights close coordination, rejects US hegemony
By Chen Qingqing andHu Yuwei
Following the highly anticipated meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, China and Russia issued a lengthy joint statement that elaborated on shared views and consensuses on major global and regional issues and delivered a scathing rejection of the US-led West's hegemony that increasingly threatens global security and stability, a move that experts say ushers in a new era of international relations.
During the meeting ahead of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Xi stressed the further deepening of "back-to-back" strategic coordination between the two countries in upholding international fairness and justice and adhering to the four consensuses in supporting each other's sovereignty, security and development interests to better tackle external interference and regional threats.
The two countries' broad consensuses on almost all core issues related to global strategic stability, expressed during the meeting of the two leaders and stated in the nearly 6,000-word joint statement, are extremely rare and will further boost close strategic coordination that helps ensure global stability and peace, Chinese experts said.
The joint statement, which focuses on international relations in a new era and global sustainable development, extensively expounded on common positions on democracy, development, security and order.
The joint statement mentioned US at least five times and contained the two countries' common stance on a number of key regional and global issues, including firm oppositions or serious concerns over the expansion of NATO eastward, the West-led ideological clique in the name of democracy, the US' Indo-Pacific strategy that threatens regional stability, the trilateral security partnership among Australia, the US, and the UK (AUKUS), and US domestic and overseas bioweapons activities.
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In a clear rejection of the US-led West's hegemony in international relations, the joint statement said that a small number of forces continue stubbornly to promote unilateralism, adopt power politics and interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, stressing that such acts will not be accepted by the international community.
"It's the first time that China and Russia released such a long statement after the meeting between the two heads of state, which includes all the major issues and strategic questions and shows that China-Russia ties have reached an unprecedented level," Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Friday.
The world order has entered a new era, the Chinese expert said, noting that in the face of US hegemony – a product left behind by the Cold War mentality – China and Russia are the only two countries that have the capability to safeguard their core interests and sovereignty.
"The solidarity between China and Russia gives a new definition to the world order, as they share the common knowledge about where the major threats to the global stability come from," he said.
In the joint statement, China and Russia oppose the further expansion of NATO and called on the North Atlantic Alliance to abandon its ideologized Cold War approaches, to respect the sovereignty, security and interests of other countries, the diversity of their civilizational, cultural and historical backgrounds, and to exercise a fair and objective attitude towards the peaceful development of other states.
They also stand against the formation of closed bloc structures and opposing camps in the Asia-Pacific region and remain highly vigilant about the negative impact of the US' Indo-Pacific strategy on peace and stability in the region. China and Russia are also seriously concerned about AUKUS, which allows cooperation on nuclear-powered submarines.
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"The US is now touting its Cold War mentality and so-called China threat theory in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as the so-called Russia threat theory in Europe, which prompted China and Russia to stand up against such zero-sum mentality," Zhang Hong, an Eastern European studies expert from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Friday.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, unrest across Western countries such as the US Capitol protest last year shows how the illusion that "Western democracy is the destination of human beings" has collapsed, Zhang noted, adding that emerging countries are showing great vitality and increasingly contributing in international trade and economy, which have also been underscored in the shared views between China and Russia.
The two countries share an understanding that democracy is a universal human value, rather than the privilege of a limited number of countries, the joint statement said. And it is up to the people of a country to decide whether their country is democratic.
Developing countries such as China and Russia gradually found a development model suitable to their own national conditions after the Cold War, while abandoning the West-led Washington Consensus because they saw its inherent defects, which prompted China and Russia to be more vocal on a pluralistic global order, Zhang said.
China and Russia have been reiterating that there is no limit to bilateral strategic cooperation, a new form of partnership between major powers that has clearly made the US anxious. And a crucial factor behind such a limitless development in bilateral ties is the high degree of mutual understanding between the two powerful leaders on global governance.
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Putin is the first foreign head of state to confirm his attendance at the 2022 Games last year, and the trip to Beijing was also his first overseas trip in 2022.
Putin said during the meeting on Friday that official visits during the opening of the Olympics have become a tradition, mentioning his visit to Beijing in the summer of 2008 for the Summer Olympics, Xi's visit to Russia in 2014 for the Sochi Winter Olympics and the meeting in Beijing before the Winter Olympics.
Xi said that this rendezvous at the Winter Olympics, which also coincides with spring, will inject much momentum to China-Russia relations, saying that he is willing to work with President Putin to plan a blueprint for and guide the direction of China-Russia ties under new historical conditions.
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10 ug of anti-HHARI antibody was used to immunoprecipitate the endogenous protein from 1 mg of HEK293 lysate. The immunoprecipitated proteins were denatured in 200 μl of 2 X LDS sample buffer and 10 μl was analysed by SDS-PAGE followed by western blotting using the fourth bleed at a concentration of 0.5 μg/ml.


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Sudan: Omar al-Bashir's trial postponed to 11 August
July 22, 2020 Steven Addamah News 0
The trial of former President Omar al-Bashir opened on Tuesday 21 July in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. He is being prosecuted for seizing power in a coup 31 years ago, on 30 June 1989. Omar al-Bashir was appearing for the first time alongside 27 co-defendants. But the hearing lasted only one hour and was postponed to 11 August due to lack of space in the courtroom.
Omar al-Bashir, 76, appeared on Tuesday morning, July 21, wearing beige pants and a beige shirt, wearing a mask and gloves, a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. He did not make any statement when he arrived at the court where his new trial began.
The majority of the inmates wore the traditional white habit. All were grouped together in cages. Among them were military and civilians, former ministers, former vice-presidents such as Ali Osman Taha or General Bakri Hassan Saleh. All are accused of having participated in the coup d'état that overthrew the government of Sadek el-Madhi on 30 June 1989 and installed Omar el Bachir, head of state, government and armies.
The session lasted only one hour, as the room could not accommodate the 191 defense lawyers. The trial was postponed to 11 August. In addition to this coup trial – and the corruption trial for which he was sentenced to two years in prison on 14 December 2019 – Omar al-Bashir is the subject of two other trials: the trial for the suppression of the demonstrations that led to his downfall last year, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) trial for genocide in Darfur.
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Allstate Foundation Purple Purse is helping to break the myth that women in abusive relationships can "just leave," all while raising money to help victims do just that.
According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence, most domestic violence cases involve financial abuse, whereby abusers "limit the victim's access to assets, or reduce accessibility to the family finances," isolating them and trapping them in the abusive relationship.
Through the Purple Purse Challenge, Allstate Foundation Purple Purse and 221 nonprofits that support domestic violence survivors raised $4.18 million with a combination of fundraising and $700,000 in incentive and prize money provided by The Allstate Foundation, according to a press release published Monday. The month-long challenge, which ended on Oct. 31, coincided with National Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Throughout the month, participating nonprofits raised money to support programs that empower domestic violence survivors to break free and stay free from abuse. At the end of the month, the leaders in two divisions were awarded the foundation's $100,000 grand prizes. The YWCA Evanston/North Shore based in Evanston, Illinois, topped the leaderboard in Division I for organizations with budgets of more than $1.5 million, and FreeFrom in Venice, California, topped the leaderboard in Division II for organizations with budgets of less than $1.5 million. Additional grants nearing $300,000 collectively were awarded to the runners up in each division. See all the winners here.
The Allstate Foundation Purple Purse Challenge was administered by CrowdRise. It is part of Allstate Foundation Purple Purse, a public education and fundraising program aimed at raising awareness of the prevalence of domestic violence and financial abuse and the need for resources to help survivors.


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Q: Calculate distance between two location Angular 2 Google Maps Api inline template:10:4 caused by: Cannot read property 'spherical' of undefined I'm trying to calculate distance between 2 locations in a angular 2 app using google maps API.
Here are my import to use google map api
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import {} from '@types/googlemaps';
import { AgmCoreModule, MapsAPILoader } from "@agm/core";

Then I created a function to test a distance calculation
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calculateDistance() {
    const nyc = new google.maps.LatLng(40.715, -74.002);
    const london = new google.maps.LatLng(51.506, -0.119);
    const distance = google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(nyc, london);
    console.log(distance)
  }

`
But I get this error:
inline template:10:4 caused by: Cannot read property 'spherical' of undefined.
I've seen some answers that suggest to add this script tag

But when I try this I get an other error that says that I'm trying to add google mpa api more than once and it may cause some errors (it does, autocompletion does not work anymore when I import this script tag).

A: in your app.module, where you init your google api key add this "libraries=geometry" for example in my case:
apiUrl: 'https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?libraries=geometry&key=MY_GOOGLE_API_KEY'
I'm using ng2-ui/map
https://github.com/angular/angularfire2/blob/master/docs/2-retrieving-data-as-objects.md

A: add the geometry library to your module
AgmCoreModule.forRoot({
  apiKey: '',
  libraries: ['geometry']
}),


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Shaw launches 12-month student internet plans
The carrier is offering its newly unlimited plan for $50 per month
By Rose Behar
Shaw's newly unlimited Internet 150 plan is now available to students for $50 per month for a 12-month promo period.
That's a savings of $55 if you go by the regular rate of $105, providing customers with 150Mbps download speeds and up to 15Mbps upload speeds.
It's the same pricing as Shaw's current unlimited internet launch promo –which also offers the second year of service at $84.90 per month — but requires customers to sign up for a two-year ValuePlan contract, whereas the student internet pricing is month-to-month.
In addition to student pricing for Internet 150, students can get a $40 discount on Internet 75. The plan offers download speeds of up to 75Mbps, upload speeds of up to 7.5Mbps and a 500GB data cap, for $40 per month over 12 months, down from $80 regular pricing.
There's also Internet 25, which features 25Mbps download speeds, 2.5Mbps upload speeds and a 300GB data cap for $35 per month, regularly $77, representing a $42 savings.
TV is discounted, too. Students can grab a lower rate on a 'Small TV' plan through Shaw, which is offering its base package and four theme packs — amounting to around 60 channels — for $20 per month for a year, a decrease from $40 regular pricing.
For more student internet pricing from Telus, Rogers and Bell, check out our post here.
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Comcast, Big Ten Network in dispute; will it affect in-market viewers?
Comcast and Big Ten Network are embroiled in a carriage dispute as their 10-year agreement comes to an end.
Comcast, Big Ten Network in dispute; will it affect in-market viewers? Comcast and Big Ten Network are embroiled in a carriage dispute as their 10-year agreement comes to an end. Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: https://on.lsj.com/2LBFfdY
Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press Published 2:46 p.m. ET July 24, 2018
Mark Silverman the President of the BTN and National Networks at Fox Sports addresses the media during the Big Ten football media day at Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile.(Photo: Patrick Gorski, Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports)
CHICAGO — If Comcast is your cable provider and you live in a Big Ten market, be warned: you may lose your ability to watch conference games shown on Big Ten Network and Fox Sports 1 in the near future.
That was the message Mark Silverman, president of BTN and Fox Sports, had Tuesday morning at Big Ten media days, as BTN and FS1 are embroiled in a carriage dispute with Comcast.
Earlier this spring, Comcast decided to drop BTN for all non-Big Ten TV markets. Silverman believes that move was the precursor to dropping the network entirely, and said BTN is now facing its "biggest challenge since the launch of the network."
"Unfortunately, my fear is the removal of BTN in the outer market may just be the first step in Comcast's plan to remove BTN from their systems everywhere, including the Big Ten home markets," Silverman said.
"BTN and FS1 have made proposals to Comcast dating back to February, and we've had no substantive response at all. As a result, we believe BTN and those games that are on FS1 are in danger of not being carried on Comcast this coming season.
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"So we are letting people know this to alert Comcast subscribers of this very real possibility they may lose these games."
A 10-year agreement that BTN shared with Comcast expires at the end of August, and an agreement between FS1 and Comcast that allows the channel to carry certain Big Ten games is set to expire as well.
Silverman says that BTN "immediately" reached out to Comcast — the leading cable provider in the country — after learning of its decision to drop BTN from out-of-market cable systems. That appears to have only added to any contention between both sides.
According to Silverman, BTN and FS1 are expected to televise approximately 60 games this fall.
Last season, BTN carried Michigan's games against Air Force, Rutgers, and Maryland while Fox carried the team's games against Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio State. For Michigan State, the games against Western Michigan and Minnesota were on BTN and the Holiday Bowl win over Washington State was on FS1.
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Rutgers head coach Chris Ash speaks at the Big Ten Conference NCAA college football Media Days in Chicago, Monday, July 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) Annie Rice, AP
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Big Ten Conference commissioner Jim Delany speaks at the Big Ten NCAA college football Media Days in Chicago, Monday, July 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) Annie Rice, AP
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost speaks at the Big Ten Conference NCAA college football Media Days in Chicago, Monday, July 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) Annie Rice, AP
Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald speaks at the Big Ten Conference NCAA college football Media Days in Chicago, Monday, July 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) Annie Rice, AP
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Purdue head coach Jeff Brohm speaks to the media at the Big Ten Conference NCAA college football Media Days in Chicago, Monday, July 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) Annie Rice, AP
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Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck speaks at the Big Ten Conference NCAA college football Media Days in Chicago, Monday, July 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Annie Rice) Annie Rice, AP
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Okay, I am a beginner too. This is for people that can help other people in building! Post 3 photos of something you built and tell them step by step how you build it. You can also send a video of doing it. Have fun!
I took the idea from the castle story homepage (you have to look under "the game", the picture at the left).
On the collums behind you build normal stones (you should build stairs so your bricktrons can get there, but you can remove them if you have finished)(Screenshot(141).png).
On the (stone)collums in the front I builded arcs (use the stairs also).
On this flat roof you build some stairs (so it isn't flat anymore)(use the stairs also here)(Screenshot(147).png).
If you have finished you remove all the stairs that don't belong to your building and you can ad some light, barrels and stockpiles, maybe also a trap on the counter as a cash box or something like that. Then you put a Bricktron behind the counter and everything is fine .
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On Wednesday morning I saw "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice". I did my best to resist the temptation of seeing yet another superhero movie at the cinema, but alas my will-power just wasn't strong enough and I caved in. I'd heard mixed reviews, and having hated "Man of Steel" for various (and I think very valid) reasons, I was trying to avoid giving DC any more of my money.
Having seen the film I can say that I was justified in my reluctance, because whilst there were parts of it that I enjoyed, there were other moments at which I couldn't help but roll my eyes and shake my head in disgust. I'm being overdramatic of course, but when the main motivation for warring superheroes to team up is that their mothers share the same first name, you know that there's something drastically wrong with the film that you're watching.
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Whilst Ben Affleck is a fine Batman, and he isn't putting on a voice when playing the hero (instead he has a device which modifies his voice for him), he doesn't inspire love or devotion to the character and he's far less likeable than Christian Bale's version. This isn't a major problem because at least it differentiates him from the previous iteration of the character, but when the solo Batman film that has already been confirmed comes into theatres I won't be rushing to see it… unless Jared Leto is amazing in "Suicide Squad" and The Joker is the villain.
Henry Cavill is also okay in this movie – he's definitely better than he was in "Man of Steel" – but Superman as a character is given no real personality, and the only thing that gives him any humanity at all is his relationship with Lois Lane. Maybe that wouldn't be so bad if Lane herself was likeable in the movie, but Amy Adams (who I hate to criticise because I like her as an actress) was awful and her character had no real depth; you can basically sum her up by saying that she's a reporter who loves Superman because that's really all there is to her.
As a whole the film just doesn't work. I could write 20,000 words of criticism on it and still have more bad words to say, but instead I'm going to bullet point what I liked and disliked about it and then talk about why I think that it should never have been made.
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Let's start with the things that I liked:
(SPOILER ALERT) The court scene – Despite the fact that "Batman v Superman" was mostly a paint-by-numbers story, the scene in which the courtroom was blown up was quite unexpected and powerful. The aftermath could've been more exciting, perhaps with the dust settling and Superman still stood in the middle of the debris for all to see, but it was still a great scene in an average movie.
Gal Gadot was a pretty good Wonder Woman – I actually really liked Wonder Woman in the film and I thought that she was introduced well. Her initial introduction felt a lot like Catwoman's (Anne Hathaway) in "The Dark Knight Rises", but it was still good. The only problem I have here is that the marketing for the film ruined it slightly by having Wonder Woman appear in the trailer.
The question that the film fumbled over a couple of times – 'should there be a Superman?' – was a fair one to ask, and could've been fascinating if it was allowed more time to be explored.
The action was well shot.
Onto the things that I didn't like (expect a longer list):
Alfred – Although I like Jeremy Irons and I don't think that his portrayal of Alfred was completely awful, I thought that the film underused him by making him something of a comic relief character. He had the potential to be so much more given how recklessly Bruce Wayne was acting, so it was a shame that most of the time he simply went along with whatever Wayne told him to do.
Lex Luthor – Jesse Eisenberg is another actor that I don't take any enjoyment from criticising. Eisenberg is great at what he does and he's been in two of my favourite films ("Adventureland" and "Zombieland"), but he should never have been cast in this movie. His portrayal of the iconic villain is unique and he gives it everything, but it comes off as cartoonish and ridiculous, destroying tension and bringing more laughs than gasps.
Doomsday – If DC had courage in their convictions then they wouldn't have allowed another villain to appear in this movie other than Luthor, but alas, they chose to throw Doomsday into the mix so that the heroes could team up at the end. What they should've done was got a better writer on board and focused on the war of ideologies between Batman and Superman.
Martha – Superman convinced Batman not to kill him by saying that his mother's name was Martha. That's all that really needs to be said here.
The Daily Planet is a terrible newspaper which allows its staff to come and go as they please and write rogue articles.
So many scenes should've been cut from the film – the dream sequences, when Batman confronted Lex Luthor at the end, the scene in which Superman and Doomsday were hit by a nuke, and many more, were awful and should've been omitted from the final product.
The dialogue was terrible.
(From left to right) Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, and Gal Gadot at Comic-Con.
From my perspective, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" is an example of when business trumps quality in film-making. With "Captain America: Civil War" set to smash box-office records and continue Marvel's commercial and critical dominance in the superhero genre, DC had to do something big. Their answer was to throw their two most famous heroes together, in what was billed as a gladiator match yet ended up being a team-up against a giant CGI monster.
The baffling thing about this isn't that DC's biggest heroes tried to kill each other and then joined forces, but rather DC's crazy decision to throw Batman into the mix without first giving him a solo movie. They clumsily rehashed his backstory and tripped over his motivation for taking the fight to Superman, and instead of building the character properly they tried to fit multiple storylines into what should've been a focused narrative.
DC is desperate to compete with Marvel financially and yet they fail to take the lessons that Marvel has taught them on board. They misunderstand how the universe that Marvel has built has developed over time and they ignore where it all began.
Marvel has spent an admirable amount of time building its characters and creating a very noticeable tone which carries through each film, and they didn't have the entirety of their main cast together in one movie until they had each had their own solo flick. This meant that by the time that "The Avengers" came along Marvel had already acquired a dedicated fan-base of comic book readers and mainstream cinemagoers, and thus they made an obscene amount of money from that movie. Now that this initial development has passed they are able to throw characters like Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) and Spider-Man (Tom Holland) into the mix prior to giving them their solo films, but they earned the right to do this and they have strong characters alongside them.
Thinking back, Marvel's cinematic universe took off with "Iron Man", a film based on a character that had never truly been a fan favourite. Marvel took a character that they knew they could build around, cast him perfectly, and then made a coherent and isolated film about him which only connected itself to the rest of the MCU through its end credit scene and a couple of Easter eggs here and there.
If DC really wanted to create a dynasty like Marvel's and steal some of their thunder what they should've done was saved Batman for either a brief cameo in their upcoming "Suicide Squad" movie, or his own solo movie, and then they should've made a second "Man of Steel" film which focused on the question 'should there be a Superman?'. This would've given Superman much more depth as a character and allowed us to better understand Batman before the pair faced off in a future film. Plus, in the meantime they could've introduced characters like Aquaman (Jason Momoa), The Flash (Ezra Miller), and Cyborg (Ray Fisher), in much more natural and interesting ways, instead of shoehorning them into an already convoluted film like they did in "Batman v Superman".
Of course, it's easy to make these statements in hindsight, but it really is mindboggling that a company like DC could be so impatient. People aren't stupid – if a movie looks like it's going to be a muddle then they won't go to see it, and if they aren't going to go on the opening weekend then they'll probably be indifferent enough to listen to a couple of negative reviews and stay well clear. You can't just throw special effects at people and expect a crowd to gather anymore – we live in a post "Avatar" world where amazing CGI is commonplace, going to the cinema costs £10+, and the superhero genre is incredibly diluted! If it's a choice between something new like "Deadpool", "Guardians of the Galaxy", and "Ant-Man", or something that fans have seen multiple times before like a new Batman movie, I think that most people will choose the former.
At the end of the day, "Batman v Superman" was exactly what I thought it would be. A film which was doomed from the start because it was trying to do too much, with the wrong writers and director on board, and a marketing team that was so scared that people wouldn't go to see it that they showed everything they had on the trailer. The action was good and so were the effects but modern day audiences have a right to expect more for their money. The actors did what they could to save the film, and Henry Cavill was a lot better this time around than he was in "Man of Steel", but ultimately the script let him and the audience down.
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"Interstellar" is quite possibly Christopher Nolan's worst movie, and yet within its three hour long run time it has some of the best moments of cinema I have ever seen. I'd been looking forward to this film for over a year, because like most people I've loved every Christopher Nolan movie I've seen (excluding "Man of Steel" because Nolan wasn't directing, and "Following" because sadly I haven't seen that movie).
For the first two and a half hours I was like a child staring in awe at the beautiful recreation of space Nolan had created, and preparing myself for a very positive review. "Interstellar" was a visual feast attacking my senses and filling my mind with ideas of time relativity and intergalactic travel, and I loved the moments which felt as though they were grounded in some form of reality, or based upon a strong scientific world-view. However, the ending completely ruined "Interstellar" for me, and has left me with an extremely bitter taste in my mouth.
I'm still disappointed that Nolan didn't just cut the ending out, because to me it took the emotion from the rest of the film and threw it out of the window, with a laughable take on humanity's place in this vast and powerful universe. There was a far better, more well-suited ending for the film, an ending which was in fact found within the movie itself. I believe that the last 20-30 minutes of this film could've easily been omitted, and there would've been a believable and worthy ending right there. If I ever watch "Interstellar" again I will know when to change the channel.
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The story in "Interstellar" is a bit wacky from the start, with no real explanation for why the earth has suddenly become inhabitable, and no background information on the characters. Nevertheless, the audience can buy into the world and support the premise, because on screen you have a blockbuster powerhouse known as Matthew McConaughey, who right now is one of the most popular and best actors around. You also have one of the most revered filmmakers in the world masterminding the film's direction, and an all-star supporting cast including Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine, so it's very easy to relax at the start when you have niggling suspicions that things aren't going to be quite as amazing as you'd want them to be.
"Interstellar" revolves around Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a wise-cracking farmer who has become dissatisfied with his mundane existence, attempting to survive in a world of dwindling resources and dying crops. His stock is slowly depleting due to the state of the world he finds himself in, and dust is infecting the lungs of the next generation, so that his children could be a part of the last generation on Earth. It isn't the ideal existence, and it's understandable that Cooper doesn't feel that he has much purpose on Earth, because although his job is an important one given the dying planet, it is one which is ultimately futile. He has an obligation to his children to keep them safe, and clearly there is purpose there, but that overlaps with his goals for going into space to save humanity!
By staying with his children he would provide them with valuable emotional support, but by saving the planet he can give them a real future, a continued life on Earth or another viable planet. So you can understand why Cooper eventually goes into space. When he does, the film becomes incredibly interesting and entertaining, as Cooper and his companions travel through a wormhole in order to find a planet which could be congenial to human survival. They must make difficult decisions in order to save as much time as they can in space (given ideas of time presented in the film, which suggest that time can differ greatly in different regions of space – the group can spend one hour of their time on a certain planet, but this will cost them nine years back on Earth), so that Cooper can see his children again, and Amelia (Anne Hathaway) can see her father one more time before he dies.
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Parts of the movie were fascinating and warranted further explanation. (SPOILER ALERT) For example, a crucial plot point in the film is that there are twelve explorers who have ventured through the wormhole, potentially giving their lives, to find a planet which could facilitate human life. This drives the film, as Cooper and his crew attempt to follow the remaining signals which are still being sent by the explorers, in order to discover the best possible world and begin work on a colony on that planet.
The exploits of these explorers are potentially more exciting than Cooper's struggle to save his children, and could provide just as much of an emotional punch, as each of these brave astronauts presumably gave up their futures to save the rest of the world, leaving their families and friends behind. The moments when the group explore these planets are where this movie really shines, and more time should've been spent on developing the planets and the characters on them. I would've liked to know more of Miller, who was never found on the first planet visited, and even Mann (Matt Damon) could've done with a bit more time being developed as a real person, rather than just a character who was convenient for moving the plot forward.
The quiet moments in which the human passengers are at the mercy of space are thrilling, and they force you to think of the universe which is moving along right beside you, a world which you are in fact a part of. Watching how beautiful Nolan's vision of space is really makes you think about how you view the real world, because we do forget that we are a part of such an amazing universe. Talk of wormholes, black holes and even other planets belong to science fiction, they are often used to tell stories of a grand nature like "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Star Trek", but they exist. They are here hurtling around the vast emptiness of space and so are we.
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The realism Nolan brings with the special effects in this movie, and the emotional connection he creates between the characters, keep you grounded in the real world, but the story still feels as though it is as far from genuine possibility as anything could possibly be. You really feel that these people are at the mercy of something far greater than themselves, and you understand our own insignificance and lack of control over the larger forces in the universe. It is these moments where "Interstellar" is as beautiful and glorious a piece of cinema as anything I have ever seen.
The graphics in this movie were immaculate, and they added to a sense of realism which the emotion of the leading actors had already brought. It's amazing to think that people actually created the world you were seeing around Cooper and Amelia. These character's lives and the whole universe on display comes directly from the mind of Christopher Nolan, and that is truly incredible. Nolan can go from creating a bleak and sinister Gotham grounded in reality, and then take his audience into a fantastical dream world in "Inception", or into space for "Insterstellar". He deserves praise for both his ambition and his creativity, even though this film wasn't quite as good as I had hoped.
There were some incredibly interesting and moving pieces of dialogue, for example, when Cooper explained to Murph (Mackenzie Foy) that when people become parents they become memories for their children, and his explanation that he couldn't be that, that he was still his own man. It was a solemn way of declaring that he was effectively abandoning his child, but also a stunning way to explain that he knew his decision was at least in some sense wrong. Moments like this are when this movie is genuinely brilliant, and they reel the audience in at just the right time, as Cooper is about to venture into the unknown and risk his life for humanity. You become incredibly invested in the story and the characters, and this keeps you interested during scenes which could've seemed slightly ridiculous.
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The performances were fantastic for the most part, and as usual McConaughey was brilliant. He portrayed a magnificent emotional performance, bringing some members of the audience to tears (including the person I went to the cinema with). He had great chemistry with Mackenzie Foy, and I really bought into their relationship in the early parts of the movie. Their last interaction was genuinely moving, even if it was seen on the trailer. McConaughey really showed the inner struggle of a character leaving his family behind, knowing he may never see them again, and his sacrifice for the good of humanity was utterly heroic. He brought a sense of understanding and understated sorrow to the role, and I am probably his biggest fan right now.
The supporting cast were impressive, but that was to be expected due to the calibre of actors in the roles. Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon stole a couple of scenes from McConaughey, and I enjoyed the movie the most when Damon was on screen. I am aware that his performance has been slightly polarising, but I really liked it. He showed some of the stupidity and insanity you'd expect from a man who had been alone on an alien planet, not knowing whether or not he would see another person ever again, and he was extremely weird at certain points, which I found quite entertaining.
Hans Zimmer's score was tremendous as always, and it fit the film perfectly. It set the tempo for exciting scenes as the team explored the vastness of space, but the movie still knew when silence was key, for example, as doors opened to reveal the empty vacuum of space, and the sound emptied into that vacuum along with everything else. I've actually seen people say that the score was distracting or frustrating, but I just think those people weren't buying into the wonder and beauty of it all, because the score fit that fantastically.
I've also seen reviews that said that the film was too complicated, or that they didn't understand some of the dialogue, but there isn't a lot going on at all. You don't have to be some sort of astrophysicist to understand the movie, you don't even need a science GCSE, it's all pretty simple. The only bits that don't make sense are the parts towards the end which genuinely don't have a place in the movie, and those scenes are needed for those people out there who are desperate for resolution in their films. It's those kinds of people that force great directors like Nolan to make a conclusive ending to a film which never needed one, so if you are on that level please don't complain about how complicated the story was (especially because it just wasn't), because you ruin movies for the rest of us. I felt that things were actually over-explained to pander towards a larger audience; the concepts at play weren't overly important, and everything the audience needed to know was repeated multiple times to reinforce the key ideas.
For a long period of the movie I thought that Nolan had pulled it off again, after blowing all other "Batman" films out of the water with his "Dark Knight Series", he outdid "The Illusionist" with "The Prestige", which was fantastic, and he made the amnesia storyline interesting with "Memento". He's a brilliant director and an all round genius, but he really jumped the shark with this one. He still destroyed "Gravity", creating a greater spectacle and utilising a more ambitious story, but much like that film, its ending let it down. His vision was commendable for the majority of the movie, and I accept that he was trying to give a conclusion to a wacky and extremely challenging story, offering closure and performing a fan service. However, the ending was a catastrophe.
When the whole audience bursts into laughter towards the end of the movie you know that something has gone array, and I have to step in and say 'why?' Why would you shoot yourself in the foot by ending a three hour long, epic piece of cinema, with what was complete and utter garbage? Perhaps Nolan would say that we just don't know what would happen in the scenario, and his interpretation of events is therefore as credible as anyone else's, but I won't buy that.
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(SPOILER ALERT) The movie should've ended when Cooper went through the black hole, once more into the unknown, facing death with power and glory as Professor Brand (Michael Caine) kept telling us from the start! Instead Nolan attempted to explain what would happen if a person ventured into the darkness, into a place where no man has gone before, and it just didn't work. I appreciate that he tried it, but you can't just say 'I want my story to have a happy ending, so I'm going to send my leading man to a place which no one knows anything about and let him sort things out. No one can tell me I'm wrong because no one knows what would happen'. That's just a complete and utter cop-out!
SPOILER ALERT – The remainder of this review contains spoilers for key scenes in "Interstellar".
The ending wasn't just ridiculous, far-fetched and downright stupid, but it was also extremely strange. I could've just about accepted that Cooper could alter the past through a tesseract (a four-dimensional analogue of a cube) found in the centre of a black hole, solving all the world's problems through the transcendent nature of gravity and love crossing all dimensions (yes that is the plot when you break it down!), if Cooper had then died. However, the fact that he survived that was a disgrace! As I've said many times about many different films, there are certain things you just can't live through and carry on as normal, and this is definitely one of them!
This idiocy was then followed by a final reunion between Murph and Cooper. In this scene Murph was about to die at a very old age, and Cooper arrived just in time to say his goodbyes. But that was just cringe-worthy to the extreme, and both character's reactions were completely out of step with their personalities as established in the rest of the movie. Neither character seemed to care all that much about their reunion, even though the whole film had played on the relationship between these two people, and we had seen on numerous occasions that the most important thing in Cooper's life was Murph. This scene ruined the film for me even more so than the scene in which Cooper made his way into the black hole, because it destroyed the memory of the emotional scenes in the rest of the movie.
The biggest problem with the ending of "Interstellar" was that nothing was explained. I'm still unclear about how Murph realised that the fact that her watch was broken meant that her father was sending her a message in Morse code from another dimension; are we seriously supposed to lay back and take it as Christopher Nolan attempts to force that down our throats? Sit down and ask yourself how this sounds now that I've articulated it properly, and ask if you can take yourself seriously if you actually enjoyed the last third of the movie.
The ending of a film is, in my opinion, the most important part, it validates the rest of the movie and is supposed to provide some sort of interesting closure to a story you have been emotionally invested in, not tarnish everything which comes before it. If you're making a nice dinner for two hours, making sure that the flavours are balanced and each new ingredient works with the rest of the dish, but then spend the next hour slowly pouring an obscene amount of salt into the pot, it won't be a nice dinner by the end of the three hours! So why doesn't the same apply to a movie?
Once you've seen the ending of this film, you've pushed the detonator, and you begin to think of all the other plot holes the movie has. Each scene topples down from top to bottom, and suddenly you're left with the memory of a far from perfect experience. The character behaviour in the movie is downright weird at times, and you start to question whether or not these characters are in any way believable. Professor Brand offers Cooper the chance to fly a spacecraft which he has been working on for a very long time, for a mission which will determine the future of the human race, even though he had no intention of offering the position to Cooper just hours before. This crucial mission was going to take place anyway without Cooper! Would a man put his life's work in jeapordy like this because he knows what Cooper has done in the past? Wouldn't he want to check that Cooper could still do the job?
Brand also sends his daughter (Amelia) into space, having lied to her about his life's work, and withholding the fact that she will never see him again!
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Cooper accepts the chance of going into space on a life-threatening journey, at the expense of a life with his children, even though he knows that his place on the shuttle isn't integral to the mission, and he has a fine life back home. Yes the soil is becoming infertile and the world is dying, but he has a family that love him, and there's every chance that the mission could succeed without him. I know he wants to explore and believes that the human race wasn't meant to die on earth, but it's clear that Cooper loves his family more than anything, and that is integral to the emotion which lies behind the scenes in space, so I don't believe for a second that he would abandon them even if he did think he could save them.
Murph's behaviour was also extremely odd, because although she would resent her dad for leaving her, of course she would, she had no right to hold it against him for decades! When Cooper is leaving she tries to reconcile with him unsuccessfully, just as he drives away into the dust-filled distance (which I will admit was heart-breaking). This suggests that she understood what her father was doing, so if I understand human behaviour in even the loosest of ways, I would expect that she would want to tell him this at the first given opportunity. Yet she refuses to communicate with her father when given the opportunity, she gives him the cold shoulder for trying to save the planet on which she still lives! I respect her frustration but that's just downright irrational!
"Interstellar" is like a dysfunctional firework. It flies into the air with beauty and promise, exciting its audience with wonder and awe, and then at the last moment it crashes back down to earth in a blaze of shame and disillusion, exploding on impact, destroying the anticipation it had built and replacing it with anger and confusion. This film promises to be so much more than it actually is, but it never delivers. For a considerable chunk of its run time "Interstellar" deceives the audience with fantastic special effects and an ambitious story, but as the ending leaves you baffled and bemused, the dominoes start to fall. The characters don't respond to their situations in believable and organic ways, and the story takes you to a ridiculous and nonsensical place. Overall this film is a mess trying to be an abstract work of art, and I will not buy into it.
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"Nightcrawler" is one of the most enjoyable films of the year to watch, with a good script and a standout Jake Gyllenhaal performance, it quietly talks its way to greatness. It's a slick two-hour film; intelligent, funny, interesting and dark, it provides fantastic entertainment even when not a lot of story progression is happening on screen. I feel that this is the best film in theatres right now, which is a huge compliment given the big-budget spectacles it's competing against, such as "Interstellar" and "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay".
The story is exactly what you would expect given the trailer and the synopsis. We are dragged into the seedy world of night crawling, in which freelance reporters film shootings, car crashes and fires, all in the name of documenting tragedy and pain. Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) and his competitors must fight to film the most gory disasters they can, in an effort to sell their images to news studios for the highest possible price at the last hour. We watch as the unemployed Bloom throws himself into his new found profession, with all the business acumen you can learn whilst browsing the web, and in doing so we see just how unhinged our leading man can be.
The title "Nightcrawler" doesn't simply refer to the job which Bloom takes on, it refers to his character, as he thrives in the dead of night and preys on the vulnerable, like a spider spinning its web. His interactions with other people are awkward and strange, and every word he says seems to be the product of something he has read and memorised, in order to fit in with the rest of society and earn himself a place in a working man's world. He gives himself entirely to the job, and begins to get quite good at it, as he's willing to go to extreme lengths to get the shots he wants. As the movie progresses it becomes abundantly clear that he's a sociopath; he has no care for those around him beyond how they can benefit him, he treats them all as instruments for his own pleasure and gain, and his actions become increasingly questionable as he becomes more successful.
"Nightcrawler" is more of a character study than a narrative, although there is a clear beginning, middle, and end to the story being told. If I had to tell a friend what this film was about in two words, I wouldn't say 'night crawling', I wouldn't say 'the news', and I wouldn't say 'job market'. I'd say 'Lou Bloom'. This movie is all about Gyllenhaal and his take on an insane but endearing character, and there's nothing quite as enjoyable as seeing an actor be this perfect for a role.
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There is a social commentary being put forward by this movie, as we are made to consider the effect which the unstable job market has on desperate individuals, and we see what lengths people will go to in order to achieve success. This isn't just found through Bloom himself, although it is clear that he has a total lack of understanding for social boundaries due to his need to achieve, and the validation he feels when he is told he's doing good work.
As we watch Bloom's descent into villainy, we also meet people just like him, people who are willing to look the other way regarding his behaviour and his questionable methods. Nina (Rene Russo), his boss and the main beneficiary of his work, ignores the fact that certain videos she receives paint a troubling picture of his participation in the crimes he's documenting, and Rick (Riz Ahmed), his partner in crime, looks on silently as he sees terrible crimes unfolding. The competitive world of broadcast journalism is one in which Bloom thrives because it's filled who are willing to keep their eyes closed if it means their wallets are filled.
The performances in "Nightcrawler" are all brilliant, as the supporting cast ably play their supplementary roles, complementing Gyllenhaal's Bloom perfectly. Jake Gyllenhaal completely steals the show, as he plays a creepy and malicious sociopath; constantly crazy but clearly intelligent, Bloom has no moral compass and is only concerned with his own well-being. Gyllenhaal plays the role as if this personality were his own, so much so that in this movie Gyllenhaal is Bloom; he delivers dialogue in an emotionless, cold, calculated way, so that the audience understands that Bloom has no connection with other human beings, and you are never conscious of the fact that you are watching a movie.
Scenes in which Bloom explains his views on the world and what he knows about certain aspects of his job scream of oddity, because it's clear that he feels the need to explain simple things which everyone involved in normal society will understand. He does this in such a long-winded manner, that it's plain to see that he's been researching how he should be acting. He doesn't belong in a civilised society, our social norms don't resonate with him in any meaningful way, and the reason I can say this with confidence is all down to Gyllenhaal's performance.
In the hands of a less capable actor this script would've been completely wasted, because a less subtle actor might not have talked in such a blasé manner, a manner which suggests that Bloom doesn't see anything strange about what he's doing, and wouldn't have carried as much confidence into key scenes, such as those which unfold between Bloom and Rick. At times Bloom is quiet and unmoving, despite the fact that inside his blood must be boiling, and you can see through Gyllenhaal's performance that an inner rage is building when things aren't going his way, his eyes tell the audience all they need to know.
Each line is delivered carefully and thoughtfully, and if it were up to me Gyllenhaal would be nominated for an Oscar right now. His performances are getting better and better, and he is fast becoming an actor I will go to see a movie for, rather than just an actor I like. He's quite possibly the most underrated actor in the world right now, as he has a great range, playing a convincing lead in "Prisoners", "Love and Other Drugs", "End of Watch" and "Brokeback Mountain".
There was a dark comedy running through "Nightcrawler", a humour which kept the film from becoming stale or dull during tense scenes, but this wasn't forced down the throats of the audience, even though it was ever-present in the film. Some of the darker moments in "Nightcrawler" are also the funniest, as Lou presents his point of view to others as if it were the word of God, and expects the world to bend to his needs, causing him to get frustrated and deliver horrid lines without any real emotion. There's something so entertaining about Gyllenhaal's demeanour in these scenes, and it really is quite funny to watch Bloom try to get something he wants without giving his feelings away. He has such a distorted perspective on events, and yet there are times at which he presents some of his ideas so clearly and convincingly that you can't help but want to agree.
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There isn't a lot to criticise in this movie, because all the performances were strong and the story was entertaining and progressed nicely. However, I do have one main issue with the film, and that's the ending. That's not to say that it wasn't satisfying given what had come before, or that I wanted something else to happen, but I wasn't overly impressed by the abrupt nature of the last few minutes. It seemed as though the writers had told the story they wanted to tell, and so they felt that the movie should just end right there and then. Sometimes that's fine, especially if the movie is slowly running out of steam and nothing additional could improve it, but I don't think that's the case here.
(SPOILER ALERT) I expected there to be some sort of police case presented against Bloom given the interrogation scene which was a key part of the trailer, and this was one of the things I was most intrigued to see. So I was a bit disappointed that we didn't actually see this play out. The scene wasn't cut from the film, but it didn't have much of a part to play, and it was mostly there to present Bloom as the victor of the piece, rather than actually present a problem for him going forward. That was a real shame because it could've been very interesting, and I would've happily sat around for another 20 minutes to see it play out. I was always expecting the story to take a grand turn, as I had the trailer in the back of my mind, but sadly this was a turn which "Nightcrawler" refused to take.
"Nightcrawler" is a great movie, it's fun, engaging, and has something interesting to say about modern culture and the state of the job market. The two hour long run time just flew by, so much so that I would've happily seen the film extended to get more closure on the story and the exceptional main characters. Nevertheless, I couldn't help but think that there was something more that this movie could've offered, because the story is pretty predictable and the writers opted to ignore plot points which could've been extremely interesting. Despite the fact that "Nightcrawler" doesn't quite realise its massive potential, it is almost faultless in terms of performances and entertainment, and if you're considering a trip to the cinema any time soon then this is definitely the one to see above all else.


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Q: Likelihood A>B, Given Margin of Errors For A and B Let's say in a video game there are 2 different attacks I want to test, A and B. They have a RNG component so damage varies from one sample to next. Both follow a standard distribution. I test by taking a huge number of samples of each, find the mean, and calculate margin of error. Now I have all this, what do I do with this information? I want to know the chance A deals more damage than B on average.
This isn't like polling in a head to head electoral race, where people who actually don't vote for A will vote for B because B is the only other option. True value of A and B are unrelated and just have an average value from running many samples and a calculated margin of error.
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Victims participating in Colombia peace talks receive deaths threats: UN
by Emil Foget October 2, 2014
At least three victims attending peace talks with rebel group FARC and organizers of the victim participation have received death threats, according to the United Nations.
The three victims were part of the first and second round of victims who traveled to the peace talks in Havana. All death threats were allegedly signed by neo-paramilitary groups.
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Of the 24 people who have so far told their stories at the talks, three "have appeared on blacklists or received mail with death threats, signed by armed groups launched by ex-paramilitaries," said Fabrizio Hochschild, the UN's resident coordinator in Colombia.
Seven other victims have been the target of verbal attacks on social networks, the UN official told reporters at a press conference.
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"It's obvious, based on the tone of the statements, that these are groups that oppose the peace process. This involves individuals from civil society writing on social networks, as well as illegal armed groups," he said.
All though no names of the threatened victims were disclosed, one of them allegedly is Yaneth Bautista who was among the first to attend the peace talks, according to website Pulzo. Bautista's sister, a member of the guerrilla group M-19, was kidnapped and killed by paramilitaries.
The third round of victims arrived in Havana Wednesday, where they will discuss reparation of victims with the FARC and the Colombian government.
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The guerrilla group has released their 10 minimum proposals for reparation of victims.
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The government and the FARC are currently negotiating an end to the five decades of war in Colombia, a war that has killed more than 200 thousand Colombians and according to conservative estimates has left at least 6 million victims.
Preliminary agreements have been signed on rural reforms, illicit crops and political participation. The agreements will only come in to force if a final agreement is signed.
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CDC Study: N95, KN95 Masks Provide Best Protection Against Covid
By CodeBlue | 7 February 2022
N95 and KN95 respirator masks can cut the odds of testing positive for Covid-19 by 83%, compared to 66% for surgical masks and 56% for cloth masks.
Graphic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 – Well-fitted N95 and KN95 respirator masks in indoor public settings can cut the odds of testing positive for Covid-19 by 83 per cent, according to a study published by the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently.
The real-world study published last Friday found that N95 and KN95 masks offered the best protection from the coronavirus, compared to 66 per cent for surgical masks and 56 per cent for cloth masks.
"These findings reinforce that in addition to being up to date with recommended Covid-19 vaccinations, consistently wearing a face mask or respirator in indoor public settings reduces the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 infection.
"Using a respirator offers the highest level of personal protection against acquiring infection, although it is most important to wear a mask or respirator that is comfortable and can be used consistently," the CDC said in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The research was conducted by the California Department of Public Health between February 18 and December 1, 2021 – before Omicron hit the US. The study involved 652 people who had recently tested positive for the virus and 1,176 who had tested negative.
Previous laboratory studies have shown that community-level masking requirements reduce Covid rates, preventing wearers from contracting and transmitting the virus on to others.
The latest CDC findings reinforce a study conducted by researchers at Duke University last year which also found N95 masks to be the most effective in blocking respiratory droplets.
The Duke University study concluded that neck fleeces, often used by runners, were the least effective. It said wearing a fleece mask resulted in a higher number of respiratory droplets as the material appeared to break down larger droplets into smaller particles that are more easily carried away with air.
Folded bandanas and knitted masks also performed poorly and did not offer much protection.
N95 masks can filter both large droplets and the smaller aerosols that may contain the airborne virus. N95s are also especially efficient, filtering out about 95 per cent of airborne particles.
N95 and KN95 masks are technically similar in terms of filtration, but are certified by different organisations. N95 masks are certified by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) while the more widely available KN95 masks are manufactured in China to meet national standards.
Amid the spread of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, several schools and universities in the US, including the School District of Philadelphia, Cornell University, the University of Arizona, the University of Southern California, announced they would require students to wear surgical or respirator masks rather than cloth masks.
Some airlines, including Air France, Lufthansa, and Finnair, have also banned cloth masks in favour of more effective face coverings.
European countries like Germany, France, and Austria have also mandated that citizens wear filtering facepieces (FFP) — a European standard that offers a similar filtration system to the N95 — over cloth face coverings.
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'Eve': A Lyrical Masterpiece
By carolinianweb on September 4, 2019 • ( 0 )
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A North Carolina native rapper, Rapsody, just dropped her latest album titled Eve. Clocking in at one hour and three minutes, Rapsody delivers a rhythmic and lyrically loaded project full of beautiful and familiar samples. Rapsody reinforces her love for Black culture not only through the lyrics she recites, but also through the titles in the album, 'Eve'. Each one is named after famous powerful women, such as Whoopi Goldberg, Maya Angelou and Serena Williams. In an interview with The Oxford, Rapsody calls her album, "My love letter to not only myself, but all Black women". The album is peppered with strong features like GZA, Queen Latifah, and fellow North Carolinian J. Cole. 'Eve' takes listeners on a powerful journey exploring identity and empowerment.
The album opens up with the song 'Nina', with the opening lyrics being a sample from Nina Simone's iconic song Strange Fruit, which highlights the brutal and cruel crime known as lynching. Throughout the song, Rapsody references tragedies such as the brutal murder of Emmett Till and the attempted murder of Tupac Shakur. She rhymes, "Old panthers lookin' back like who gon' come up after us?" referencing the Black Panther party who were prominent in the late 1960's through the early 1980's. Rapsody opens up the album with this song to grab her listeners attention immediately, and to set the tone for the rest of the album. Rapsody even acknowledges how the heavy start might be a little harsh for sensitive listeners by saying, "some of y'all sensitive but y'all still need to know." This firecracker approach will most likely weed out listeners who aren't interested in hearing Rapsody's message.
Despite being produced by several different artists, the album does an excellent job of maintaining the same general vibe. This is accomplished mostly through samples and consistency of a vintage Hip Hop sound, in that each song sounds like it could have been produced by a DJ from the late 70's when the genre was first beginning to blossom. The vintage sound in reference can be found most prominently on songs such as Myrlie and Iman. The way the tracks sound spliced together gives the album a signature sound of its own, while at the same time paying respect to the original sound of Hip Hop as a whole.
Notable samples on the album include Nina Simone's 'Strange Fruit', and vocals by Aaliyah. The use of the samples on this album reinforces the message of the songs, really creating a unique soundscape that is educational as much as it is celebratory. Whether it be through singing along with the sample like in 'Nina', or simply referencing the vocals of the sample like she does in the opening line of the song 'Aaliyah', Rapsody makes the most of her samples.
On 'Eve', the songs consist of titles of powerful Black women in society who have achieved great feats. Whether it be through means of music, activism,] or athletics. The album ends with a song titled 'Afeni', named after the mother of 90's rapper Tupac Shakur. This track is a strong contrast from the opening song in terms of sound and energy, but it keeps the theme of highlighting the struggle which Black women have gone through and continue to endure. The song begins with a sample of Tupac questioning why men abuse the women in their lives when they give so much, which gives listeners something to think about. 'Afeni' is a strong close to an album focused heavily on the struggles of African Americans.
The most memorable tracks on the album have to be 'Nina', 'Oprah', and 'Afeni'. Each of these songs stand out against the rest in the album. 'Nina' beginning with the beautiful sample of 'Strange Fruit' will draw in anybody who's a sucker for this vintage sound. 'Oprah' is the perfect song to add to your playlist of songs to bump to in the car. Rapsody's lyricism is on point here with witty references and clean rhyming. 'Afeni' is a smooth change up from the rest of the album, using a sample from the late and great young Shakur. Over all, the album is Rapsody's best work.
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Jodhpur is all about an indelible experience of retro food,quirky presentation and prompt service.No wonder,in a short span of time there is a real buzz about this place.Among the presence of many available options, Jodhpur charmed every diner with its modern take on traditional indian food without falling short of authentic taste. Jodhpur is situated at a 2 minute walk from Al Murooj Rotana Hotel. You can walk or take a buggy ride to the restaurant.
The moment you set foot inside the Jodhpur, you sense the regal interiors boasting cyan and white color combo with golden grove.Hanging chandeliers, dim lights give you a romantic feel.Huge carved pillars break up the space, making it feel more intimate than you would expect.
The man behind Jodhpur's success an award winning chef Pradeep Khullar,I can write a long separate post about him. He is a magician,down to earth and knows his work like no other.His passion is evident when he imparts information about the dishes, in short he is an Alchemist Of Food.
Our delightful food journey started with Passion Fruit coctail. Great drink to have in summer.
In pre-starters Jeera Khari with Herb Yoghurt were served to us. This pre-starter transports you to your childhood memories when you used to relish these biscuits at tea-time,creamy delish yogurt dip that accompanied was topped with pink peppercorns.
In amuse-bouche we got talk of the town Macaron Chat, you really get excited when you see it,at first I was skeptical how come, a chat can be served in this way . Sweet and sour, a quirky combination, pops cracker of flavors the moment you put it in your mouth, which leaves you to crave more.The exceptional presentation of a street food chat,leaves you totally impressed with the culinary skills of chef Pradeep.
Another unconventional dish Laban & Ricotta Kabab, mouthwatering mixture of hung curd and ricotta served cold from inside with the coating of rose ash. I was not expecting a cold kabab could be tasted so delightful.
Achari Jhinga modern presentation with desi taste.Pan grilled tiger prawns marinated in lemon pickle marinade & served with beetroot carpaccio.
Raan 8 hours braised goat leg & finished in tandoor marinated with Chipotle Cream.I don't prefer meat but it was like melt in the mouth,so tender that I could eat it all day long.It was decorated with golden foil,the use of golden/silver foil is usually associated with desserts but Jodhpur is all about unconventional game.
After a delectable session of starters,palate cleanser Mango, Cranberry & Kaffir Lime Sorbet hit our table.The purpose of palate cleanser is to clean our palate, make it ready for main course. The sorbet was served in toy pressure cooker made with Fresh Alphonso puree spiked with kaffir lime leaves & de-hydrated cranberries.
Murgh Maska, who doesn't like classic butter chicken? and we are no exceptions :).Boneless chicken pieces simmered in ethnic spiced tomatoes curry laced with butter & cream was luscious and tasty.
Dhaniya Mirch Machhli Fish fillet marinated with coriander, galangal & spices, pan grilled served on top of couscous tahiri & mustard sauce on the side.
Dal Makhni this comforting food was available with a twist. Instead of black urad moong daal is used here & processed exactly the same way dal makhni is made so that the taste is not compromised & diner doesn't feel bloated after eating.
Rasmalai served on bed of saffron flavored milk, topped with milk foam & pistachios. Loaded with crisp kataifi for crunch in the dessert.It was perfect in taste with right amount of sweetness.
Kesar Malai Kulfi full cream milk reduced & mixed with dry nuts, saffron & cardamom. freezed in customized molds with stick inserted & topped it with freeze dried Raspberries.Presenting it with liquid nitrogen added a drama to its appearance.
Chef Pradheep also let us taste his new upcoming dessert, peanut butter icecream coated with tempered chocolate and topped with stawberries. It was lip smacking and for sure gonna bagged lots of fans like macron chat.
Overall, we had an amazing experience. The food, the service and the hospitality was exceptional. You can expect food with unconventional presentation and made with high quality ingredients. Jodhpur entices the taste of retro cuisine with modern disposition and I would recommend you to go and try it out yourself to get the exact idea of my imperishable dining experience.