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Experts have condemned China's recent actions in the East Sea, saying its moves have escalated tensions in the region and infringed upon international law.
Talking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA), Derek Grossman, a senior analyst at the US-based RAND Corporation, said there is general agreement that China has been bullying its neighbours with such moves, including Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia.
He believes that these acts may fuel security uncertainties in the region and even escalate tensions.
James Rogers, Director of the Global Britain Programme at the UK-based Henry Jackson Society, told VNA that China's claim of sovereignty over almost the entire East Sea via the so-called "nine-dash line" is groundless and violates international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
A Chinese marine surveillance ship (Photo: AFP/VNA)
He held that the recent sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese coast guard vessel in the vicinity of the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago was dangerous and unacceptable.
China's unlawful sovereignty claims and excessive actions in the East Sea are undermining international law and causing insecurity in the region, he noted, adding that countries that comply with international law and those that play a major role in protecting the law-based international system need to condemn such actions.
Meanwhile, the Russian news agency ANNA-News quoted experts in the country as describing China's recent naming of geographical features in the East Sea as a breach of international law.
They said that according to the 1982 UNCLOS, states cannot claim sovereignty over an underwater object if it is not within 12 nautical miles of baselines. China's naming of islands, reefs, and features on the seabed of the East Sea is therefore groundless and violates international law.
ANNA-News also noted that, in recent years, China's creation of artificial islands and development of infrastructure in the waters have faced international discontent.
Russian specialists earlier condemned China's declaration of the establishemtn of two districts within so-called "Sansha city", saying the move runs counter to international law.
On the Times of India, journalist Rudroneel Ghosh wrote that China's establishment of "Xisha district" (which in fact is Vietnam's Hoang Sa Archipelago) and "Nansha district" (which is Vietnam's Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago) within so-called "Sansha city" is a unilateral move and undermines regional stability.
On April 19, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang stated that: "Vietnam has strongly affirmed many times that it has sufficient historical evidence and legal foundation testifying to its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Archipelagos."
She highlighted Vietnam's consistent viewpoint that it strongly objects to the establishment of so-called "Sansha city" and related actions, as they have seriously violated Vietnam's sovereignty, been valueless, unrecognised, and not beneficial to friendship among countries, and have complicated the situation in the East Sea, the region, and the world.
"Vietnam demands that China respect Vietnam's sovereignty, abolish wrongful decisions made relating to these moves, and not commit similar acts in the future," the spokesperson added.
Meanwhile, talking to Vietnam News Agency correspondents in New York, Dr Vu Quang Viet, former head of the National Accounts Division of the UN, said China had clearly taken provocative actions in the sea, and faced opposition from many countries worldwide, especially the US.
Viet said among the above-mentioned actions were a Chinese marine surveillance ship's sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel near the Paracel (Hoang Sa) archipelago, sending Haiyan Dizhi 8 into Vietnam's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), unreasonable sovereignty claims over Vietnam's Paracel and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, and the issuance of the so-called "standard names" for 80 entities in the East Sea.
According to him, the US State Department and Department of Defence and American lawmakers have condemned China's actions, saying they are illegal and harm countries in the region. The Philippine Foreign Ministry also expressed its solidarity and support for Vietnam on the issue.
In face of this, the Vietnamese Government has repeatedly sent notes to the UN to oppose China's claims and sovereignty violations in the East Sea, Viet said.
Meanwhile, Prof Ta Van Tai from Harvard University emphasised that China's recent actions are provocative towards Vietnam's sovereignty in the East Sea and contrary to UNCLOS 1982.
He said that China's claim of sovereignty over almost the entire East Sea via the so-called "nine-dash line" is groundless, and violates maritime sovereignty of other countries as clearly stated in the convention./. – VNA
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the OA Woodland Park line is filled with fun papers and embellies for any-day scrapping or outdoor fun. i love the gorgeous patterns and colors in the line and the "B" sides are just as gorgeous too. The OA Woodland Park line has twelve double-sided pp, 8 x 8 pp pad, printed chip shapes, 12 x 12 shape stickers, printed chip shape (banner), word stickers, miscellany, label stickers, mini market stickers, 12 x 12 alpha stickers, sticky keys, journal cards, flower sacks, little flyers, tin pins, buttons, decorative brads, tid bits, here and now album & chapter pages, doo dads, sprinklers, washi tape, wrap pack and stamps.
as part of the hop, i will be giving away a set of OA Woodland Park Brads pictured below. to be eligible to win this set of brads, leave a comment on this post. Comments will be left open until Monday, July 16th.
i wanted to stitch the word "play" negative on the front of the cover, so i traced, lightly, with pencil onto the page, then stitched the tracing, erased the pencil and added some dimension to the word.
it's fun to stitch a clear pocket over the journal tags and fill them with fun confetti of all kinds. i also cut one of the journal tags in half and adhered the pieces to both sides of my picture.
so IF you want a chance to win this collection, make sure to stop by the OA BLOG and leave a comment.
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Beautiful mimi album. Every element you added is so perfect and pretty, also love the butterflies and stitching. Thanks for sharing.
I absolutely love your mini album. I am a big fan of mini books. Thanks for a chance to win.
Wow Danni, this is stunning. Love all your little details.
This is so adorable! I love all of the stitching and the embellies too!
Wowwwwwwwwwwww!! Your mini is GORGEOUS!! I love love love all the photos, the butterflies and loving the stitching in the cover of the books title!!!!!
Absolutely GORGEOUS album!!! LOVE it!!!
Your mini is amazing! Lots of great details, thanks for sharing it!
love all the great stickers!
I love your mini album. It is amazing. Thanks for sharing it and the chance to win!
Love all the stitching you did on your mini! Beautiful!
Love this album. I love the stitching and those bunny tails! THanks for sharing.
Danni, this ROCKS! Wow! I love seeing you do a mini--you should most definitely do more!
Love the minibook! So many great details! Thanks for the chance!
love your project and the new Woodland collection!!!!!
Loving the OA mini books! Thanks for the chance!
Your mini album is so cute!!! I LOVE IT!
Your mini album is so gorgeous! I love the embellies and stitching, you did a great job!
What a fantastic mini Danni! I love all the little bits and pieces!
Your stitching is flawless! How do you do that? Adorable mini :) Thanks for the chance to win!
Love your mini album and those brads. Thanks for a chance to win them.
Your mini album is so precious. I love how you captured the essence of a special summer day out. Great use of the captions and pretty embellies to accent each photo. It will mean so much when you look it over, if it's next winter on a cold day or years from now when the children are grown. A beautiful keepsake!
What a lovely mini album! The black and white pictures and the lovely colors of the collection go perfectly well together! Thanks for sharing the mini album with us! It sure is great inspiration!
This mini is adorable! LOVE all the stitching and that little pocket on the front. The bunny tails are so cute, such great embellishments and elements!
I love everything about your mini!! Beautiful project as always!
I've admired your work for years and this project is no exception! Beautiful mini!
Love the stitching, the bunny pom pom tails, the butterflies, all of it! Outstanding work!
LOVE the stitching you did on the cover! You are one patient woman :) And I absolutely love brads!
This is fabulous. The bunny butts are my favorite! Love that! And I love brads. I would love to win this! Thanks Danni!
love your mini book, that for your inspiration.
I always love whatever you make!
love your here & now mini album - love the pops of colors and extras!!
love your here & now mini album! love all the pops of color and all the details - you did an awesome job!!
I love your projects, but the bunny pom-pon tails really brought a smile to my face...I adore this new line, so I can't wait to see it hit stores!
I love the book - just the right size! Thanks for the inspiration!
That mini album is gorgeous!!!!!
You are so talented! Thanks for sharing. love the giveaway too.
That is such a beautiful mini book.
Thanks for showing so many wonderful projects. My favorites have animals on them!!!!
Love your album. Very nice! TFS!
beautiful line and your album looks gorgeous!!!
LOVE this new line and your mini album is amazing!
Such an amazing mini album!
This mini book is absolutely FABULOUS!!! I'm really LOVING this collection!!!
Your mini album is absolutely adorable! Thanks for the chance to win something!
Great details and coordinating in your mini-album. This line has A LOT to "Play" with!
What a GREAT mini!!! I love it! Thank you for sharing! I'm so in love with the peacock in this collection!!
Super cute mini! Love this collection!
I love how you stitched in the negative space. That mini is adorable! I love this collection.
I love your mini!! Gorgeous!
The colors are so fun in this new line! Your book is beautiful!
Love what you've done with the mini! The stitching adds such a nice finishing touch. Thanks for a chance to win!
The little clear bag is too adorable. I need some. What a great project. You must be very happy with how it turned out!
What a great collection - Love what you did with it!
OMG..That is a really cute mini album!!
I'm so excited for this collection to come out..I love the colors and the designs on the pattern paper..I just can't wait!!
wow wow wow I totally love this...amazing detail on each page and love the entire design...amazing creativity...thanks for sharing..
Great album! I like so may details and dimension!
Your album is so adorable! Love the butterflies. Thanks for sharing!
Ah, I love your album!
Lovely. I love all of the embellishments and papers.
Your album is rockin'! Love love love it!
The brads are so amazing!!
Oh my gosh your album is gorgeous!! I love those beautiful brads!
Gorgeous album! I've never made a mini album, but this might just inspire me to take the plunge. I especially like all your stitching detail, it adds so much depth and interest to the pages.
Those bunnies are just too cute! And the brads look wonderful. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love that you decided to create a mini! I saw the Here and Now pages on the OA blog, but it's hard to tell what they really look like. You really showed them off in style! (Cotton-tailed bunnies? How cute!) Fabulous project!
LOVE the album! SO cute!!!
that mini is just too cute; love the colors and those fluffy bunny tails!
What a pretty mini album! I especially love the cotton tailed bunnies. Thanks for the chance to win.
Sweeeeeet Mini!!! That is some amazing sewing you did on the letters!!
What a great album! Love it! Love the brads--can't wait for them!
so so sweet dani!! I love the composition and all you fantastic details on this mini!! delicious!!
WOW!!! Love how you used so many different items from the collection.
Your album is amazing, and the cover is picture perfect! I love your use of vellum and all the stitching throughout the entire album. Your creativity and attention to detail is wonderful! Thanks for the inspiration!
Very cute album of happy times.
Lovely project, thanks for the inspiration!
Love your album...it is wonderful!! :) Thanks for the chance to win some OA.
This album is awesome! Love the colors and how you incorporated all of the tiny details along each page. Fantastic!
I love you album! It's amazing!!! And these brands are wonderful! Thank you for this great chance.
Love your mini, Danni!!! You make such cute projects!
The mini is awesome!! Love the cute elements you included like the bunny tail. I love the cover page. Thanks for the inspiration.
Everything is insanely pretty o.o I'm speechless!
That is a wonderful album!!! Beautiful designing that you did on it!! And I love all those OA elements: they look so fun to play with!!
Whaou... super mini album !!!!
Thanks for sharing this beautiful album, love the colors and the design.
This little book is just perfect. Now I want this collection to make my own book.
This is the sweetest mini! I am the ult. Mini addict & this just makes me that more excited to get a chance to work w/this awesome collection!
Your mini album is stunning! Thanks for sharing the OA collection - I am making my wishlist now!
Your album is unbelievably cute!! I love the pieces of washi tape against the grid paper. And all of the chipboard pieces! Saving it for future inspiration!
Your mini album is beautiful. Love the extra stitching on the cover! Thanks for the inspiration!
Gorgeous Mini Album! =) Lovin' the bunnies saying "hi there"
Ooooooh! Those brads are awesome and that mini album is gorgeous! Great job Danni!
first time to see the hear and now in a project i liked the mini album.
What an adorable project! I agree about those bunnies - they are so cute! Thanks for sharing and for the chance to win!
Love every detail of your gorgeous album!
Amazing project. I love your attention to details shown in your stitching, the bunny tails, etc.
Love your mini album. Can't wait to get some of this stuff.
Love the stuff. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love what you did with the title "play" on the album cover, brilliant idea!!
SWOON! I'm in love with your cute little album!
oh my goodness! I love the brads! And your mini album. Would love to win!
Awwww. What an adorable mini you have. I love the Pom poms on the bunny super cute.
What a great mini album! Really love how you've used the elements here. Thanks for the chance to win!
Danni, i love your blog so much! You always inspire me to use my sewing machine!
I need one of those OA albums....they are so cool!
so beautiful - I love the whimsy without being too cutesy. gorgeous album!
Hi Danni - What a perfectly yummy mini album you've made with this delightful new OA line. I am already smitten with the entire line, and the floral washi tape has my heart rate up for sure!!
Thanks for sharing your pretty album.
You know how I love your minis!!!! This are just gorgeous and the details so pretty!!! I´m blown away, totally, of your talent! I love OA so this cure brads would be loved on my scrapdesk;) Hugs!
These cards are just too cute. I love the bicycle one and the way you used the word play and stitched around it, very creative. THanks for sharing.
I love that you gave those funny little bunnies FUZZY cottontails! I totally enjoyed your mini-book. Would love to use those brads!
I super love your mini book!! And those brads are ADORABLE!
loving the mini and the fact that you captured photos from different angles...and yes, the bunnies are super adorable!
what a fab little album and a lovely collection.
Adorable album. Love the stitched details.
Just love the butterflies on the cover! And like all the others I think the bunnies are lovely too.
This album is absolutely beautiful... love all you did here. And the collection is really great! Thank you for the chance to win!
Those bunnies are way too cute.
I love how you stitched inside the word "play" - so unique!
love this album. You're so talented. thanks for sharing with us.
Love your mini album. Love this new collection from OA. Wonderful colors and love all the embellishments. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win.
Oh WOW! What a beautiful inspiring album, love your great details and yes those brads are delicious!
Your mini album is gorgeous. Love all the colors in this collection and the embellishments have such a great selection to choose from. Thanks for the chance to win some.
Your mini album is so sweet! Thanks for the chance to win such lovely brads!
Darling mini album! Love the cute bunnies and everything.
Love you mini album! And I'd love to win these sweet brads!
That is the most adorable mini album! I love the stitching on the cover and those bunnies are just too cute! I really love this collection.
Oh Danni, your projects never fail to leave me somewhat speechless. How cute is that line anyway?! It would be perfect for all our summer pix.


After the Global Climate Strike, where students in Colorado and around the world demanded climate action, elected officials at all levels of Colorado government appear to be shrugging their shoulders, offering political agendas that fail to envision a better transportation future.
Yesterday's "bomb cyclone" blizzard covered Denver in at least six inches of snow. After the flakes stopped falling I toured five bus routes. But it was not a good day to be a pedestrian.
Drivers killed 35 percent more pedestrians in the U.S. than they did a decade ago — and in Colorado the number of fatalities grew by an astonishing 75 percent over a similar period. Population growth, people driving more miles per year, driving at night and the growing popularity of SUVs and smartphones are among the reasons why. To solve the problem, the design Denver's streets needs to change.
State Rep. Jovan Melton (D-Aurora) wants to ban red light cameras in all of Colorado. But his reckless position would cause more wrecks that would hurt and kill people — and the legislator doesn't have his facts straight. In a recent interview with Denver7 he falsely claimed that the cameras do not cut injuries and fatalities.
A Denver suburb has just approved a controversial safety plan that will allow cyclists to slow-roll through stops signs — a practice that studies show keeps cyclists safer than coming to a full stop. Bicycle advocates hope that other cities — including Denver — will soon follow Thornton's lead.
Celebrate the teachers — endanger everyone else. Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks wanted to cheer on public school teachers as they returned to work on Thursday, but chose to celebrate in a way that risked the lives of his neighbors: he videotaped himself as he was driving.
It's exciting — and troubling — that RTD partnered with Uber to allow riders to plan trips and buy tickets from within the ride-sharing company's app.
In a new book, Christof Spieler covers the essential but often neglected features that make public transit successful. Its illustrated atlas of 47 transit systems includes Denver's Regional Transportation District and shows what each city gets right — and where they fail.
Driving at 75 mph? Why not reach for your phone and have a look at Facebook? Right now it's legal in Colorado — but that could change if a new distracted driving bill passes in the state legislature.


Lions are commonly seen in most parts of Botswana. Best lion sightings in Botswana are in the Savute -Chobe National Park. Even though lions don't like water sightings of lions in the northern Okavango Delta are also spectacular. The lions have learnt to thrive there - mainly due to the large buffalo population.
The Lions of Botswana have torn up the rule book as we know it. Lions don't like water, lions seldom, if ever, hunt elephants, hippos and lions need water to survive - these are some of the ideas that we have learnt over the years. In Botswana lions take to the water regularly, lions do hunt elephant and hippo and in some areas of the country lions can go for moths without drinking water.
Due to the range of eco-systems in Botswana the size of lion prides shows a great variation from area to area. Prides in the Central Kalahari will generally be smaller than the prides in the Okavango and other northern wilderness areas. This is because of the availability of food is less in the drier areas. The larger prides in these arid areas will often split into smaller sub-prides during the dry season.
Home ranges of the lions vary in size for the same reasons - availability of food. In the arid areas the home ranges will be much larger and a great deal of overlapping with neighbouring prides occurs.
Lions in the Okavango Delta are adept at negotiating the channels and floodplains in order to hunt. Prey moves between the islands and lions have to cross the water to follow. Because of this water activity the front quarters of the Okavango Delta lions are more developed than those of other lions. The lions of Botswana have the widest range of large prey species than anywhere else on the continent. From buffalo to hippo and even adult elephant the there are prides that have adapted to preying on all.


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hw long for swollening to subside after doin alar?
n hw many days to take out stitches?
One of e nurse told me 5 days ltr but another told me 6 days ltr....im confuse..
I had my trip to Bankok by tiger airlines only and I found three counters. for Tiger Airlines at Bangkok airport. My flight was at 8ish am and i left the hotel at 6:30 am or so, but i had to spend like 1 hr for check-in and another 40 minutes for immigration due to mad mad rush at airport. Other than that my trip was quite comfortable. I am sure you would have your reasons of getting bit late, but its always advisable to go early to airport.
Best of luck for your speedy recovery and thanks for posting your pix on the forum.
I had tiplasty done at tokai. This is my third week and i am really pissed off with results so far. So, 5 days are definitely not enough!! Talk about weeks or months here. Though much of swelling has gone, but still I have considerable swelling on my nose (pretty much like a clown's nose).
1. Make doctor understand about what exactly you want, better show a picture as sample. Obviously, u wont get the exact nose, but doc will be able to comprehend your requirements.
2. You may expect yourself to wake up during operation (even after GA). Don't panic, ask for LA if required. There will be a cut at columnella (portion between your nostrils) and leave a slight mark. For tiplasty, mosta surgeons prefer open rhino as it gives more access area to nose. To remove scar, back in US I could easily get MEDERMA. It seems to be quite effective. (I am still in quest of MEDERMA in Singapore though).
2. If you are going alone for PS, be ready for tough time. Most importantly, you need to be pretty inconsiderate about existence of others as, for sure, you will get pretty long stares.
4. Before taking taxi, get address written in Thai by someone. Not all cabbies are well versed in English there. Make sure that you get Taxi meter cab and ask to travel by meter only. After coming outta airport, look for taxi meter stand. After PS, ask dr. pat or nurses to write your hotel address in Thai.
5. For sure, you will hate mirrors for few weeks. Expect yourself to look really really weird. Swelling will be so significant that every other person will be able to realize that you have got something done to your nose. You CAN NOT go back to your job after week. So make your plans accordingly.
7. You will bleed for sometime after PS and use sterilized gauze to wipe it out.
8. You need to sleep with your head raised. Use 2 or 3 pillows, its pretty much like that you are sitting and sleeping.
9. You have to use splint (or cast) on your nose for few weeks (atleast two). I couldnot use as i got skin inflammation (after four days) due to adhesive on the splint and dr. pat told me to discontinue the usage. You may like to remove splint before going to airport. Put it back once you reach your home. (Though i didnt get any problem in immigration, but Dr. Pat actually wrote a letter for me that i had a nose surgery as my face was horribly swollen.) You may like to wear a surgical mask if you want.
10. Dr. will give you sterilized buds n gauzes, NSS to clean the wound. You need to clean the wound daily. Take Painkillers and Antibiotics regularly. In worst case, you can get an antibiotic shot from a local GP here.
11. In worst case if you get some problem after coming back to Singapore, take your mugshot and send it to Dr. Pat and call him. He will definitely respond you in few hrs and will prescribe the possible solution.
Best of luck for tiplasty.
Inferno, mederma can be found in guardian everywhere here.
Ms Juice wrote: hw long for swollening to subside after doin alar?
leav wrote: HI i also read that taking plane should only be done after 2 weeks of a nose job? is that TRUE?!
yo Dr Pat asked about you, and asked if I knew you. He said you had an allergy to the splint and he emailed you but didn't hear from you after that, is it getting better?
other tips, grab a namecard of your hotel, easier to show the cab driver when u returning back to hotel.
When going to Dr Pat, just remember the words, Soi Sukhumvit 97, "soi" is "small road or lane" if not wrong. with that info, they should be able to bring you to Dr Pat. The clinic is just next to 7-11 along the main road. so look out for the convenience store just b4 u turn into soi 97.
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I understand that you did double eyelids with Nara and took about 2 months to "look normal" . Did you mean the crease started to look "natural" ? Do you mind to share your experience of recovery?
OH ya i heard some of the ppl going to TOKAI clinic asked for discounts?
Oh ya i wanted to know ur tiplasty procedure was breakin ur nose bones or somethng? cos i asked DR pat for the procedure but he didnt mention anything about it in his email.
Sounds like tip plasty is worse than a nose implant!
for alarplasty is the stitches both inside and outside the nostrils? not much private clinics are willing to remove such stitches ..
Many thanks for intimating about it, i somehow didnt check that mail account from past few days. I have really sensitive and problematic skin which lead me to have skin inflammation due to splint. Its all fine, but that inflammation has left a mark on my nose which is fading day by day.
Yes, you are pretty right. I had a gigantic hump which is going down a bit and due to this my nose tip has almost gone up towards North. Also it gives kinda piggy nose. For me, severe swelling started on third or fourth day onwards only. Alright dude i just realized that i need to stop as i can actually rant about it for hrs and hrs.
tiplasty doesnt require breaking nose. Also, it all depends upon what you want and what kinda nose structure you have. I have said it earlier as well, I DIDNT have very big bulbous nose.. i just wanted a bit sharper tip... but for some reasons it seems to be all f******* up for me. Till the time i dont see the results, i am gonna miss my original nose.
Initially, you will feel that your nose is quite stuffed due to stitches and its quite normal if you get a desire to take all that sh*t outta your nose, but just dont do it The dissolvable stitches will fall off by its own and dont become impatient to take out the flakes. Also, you are not supposed to make it wet for more than a week or so.
You can bargain about cost of procedures if you want, anyways, i didnt get much of discount -just few bucks and i paid everything in USD by cash. You can pay 'em in SGD or Baht as well. You can see the price-list at tokai site. though its pretty obsolete and currently cost is bit higher than that, but it will give you a bit of idea.
I almost forgot to tell about something really important. I ate something by 5am at airport before taking flight and I got my PS done at 12pm . You are NOT supposed to drink (not even water) or eat anything few hrs before PS.
HI THANKS so much for those advice! i was also thikin of just sharpening a lil of my nose tip, didnt konw it will cause so much pain and bruising!


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Montaña Unnecessary, también llamada Monte Unnecessary, es un pico de las Montañas de North Shore cerca de Vancouver, Columbia Británica, Canadá, y un popular destino de excursionismo. Es accesible a través del Howe Sound Crest Trail  y una ruta directa desde Lions Bay.

La montaña es llamada así por el "innecesario" ascenso a esta montaña para llegar a The Lions.

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Q: C++ deep copy a linked list resursively I am a C++ beginner trying to write a function to create a deep copy of a linked list in C++.  The function calls itself until it is at the last node in the source list, then copies that node.  However when I run this I get a segmentation fault or EXC_BAD_ACCESS error. Here is what I have so far:
struct node {
int data;
node* next;
};

void copy_list(const node*& source_ptr, node*& dest_ptr)
{
if (dest_ptr != nullptr){
    clear_list(dest_ptr);
    }

if (source_ptr == nullptr) return; //we already cleared dest_ptr

if (source_ptr->next == nullptr) // this is the last node
{
    dest_ptr = new node(); //initialize in memory
    dest_ptr->data = source_ptr->data; //copy the last datum
    dest_ptr->next = nullptr; //since this is the end
    return;
}
const node* cursor = source_ptr->next; // this happens if source is not yet at the end

copy_list(cursor, dest_ptr->next);
}

I know there are other questions similar to this, but they haven't helped me.  I have also tried using other methods than recursion for example a while loop that looks something like:
dest_ptr = new node();
dest_ptr->data = source_ptr->data;
node* dest = dest_ptr->next;
const node* cursor = source_ptr->next;

 while(cursor != nullptr)
{
    dest = new() node;
    dest-> data = cursor->data;
    //dest->next = nullptr;
    dest = dest->next;
    cursor = cursor->next;
}

The while loop doesn't give errors but the copy is blank (except for the first node which is copied outside the while loop).
Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

A: If you're a beginner, start from simple things: try to avoid recursion until you understand loops. So I will only comment on the loop version (recursion is a bad approach to this particular problem anyway).
If code doesn't do what you want, you should try stepping through it in a debugger to note what exactly it does, or try to explain it as a list of instructions to someone (a rubber duck is ideal for this, as it's patient).
You can also approach this by reasoning about the code:
Each variable should have a clearly defined purpose, ideally reflected in its name. I can see that the purpose of source_ptr is to point to the source list. And the purpose of cursor is to traverse the source list.
dest_ptr is probably intended to hold the newly created copy. You're taking a good start by copying the first data into it.
What is the purpose of dest, however? You start by copy the value of dest_ptr->next (which will actually be null) into it. Then, in the loop, you immediately overwrite dest with a newly created node. Copy cursor->data into this new node, and copy the (uninitialised this time) pointer dest->next into dest. However, note that you never read the value of dest, you just overwrite it in the next iteration.
I suspect you actually intended dest to be a pointer to a pointer to node, and your intention was to do this:
dest_ptr = new node();
dest_ptr->data = source_ptr->data;
node **dest = &dest_ptr->next;
const node *cursor = source->ptr->next;

while (cursor)
{
  *dest = new node();
  (*dest)->data = cursor->data;
  dest = &((*dest)->next);
  cursor = cursor->next;
}

This would do what you want, but pointers to pointers are ugly. It would be better to use dest as a second cursor for traversing the destination list:
dest_ptr = new node();
dest_ptr->data = source_ptr->data;
node *dest = dest_ptr;
const node *cursor = source_ptr->next;

while (cursor)
{
  dest->next = new node();
  dest = dest->next;
  dest->data = cursor->data;
  cursor = cursor->next;
}

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Q: WPF datepicker issue Xaml code
    <DatePicker Grid.Column="0" Grid.Row="1" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="100,50,0,10" Name="dateText" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" >
      <DatePicker.SelectedDate>
        <Binding Source="{StaticResource insertTransaction}" Path="Date" />
      </DatePicker.SelectedDate>
    </DatePicker>

he code for date property in the above binded(insertTransaction) class
private DateTime? date;
    public DateTime? Date
    {
      get { return this.date; }
      set { this.date = value; }
    }

How can i retrieve just the date part and not the whole date and time. Nullable date is mandatory because user might not know the date at first time and may enter it later. DateTime.ToShortDateTime() doesn't work on DateTime?

A: Not sure if you're looking for this: DateTime has a Property DateTime.Date. This only returns the DatePart. However you have to check for nulls before.
Update
Based on your comment, I think that you are looking for some information about nullable types.
Look at this msdn-article for further information about nullable types in .net.
DateTime? is a DateTime that is nullable. Because of this, you will get null exceptions if you try to get values from its properties if it is null. Therefore you have first to check if it is null before and the accessing properties or methods such as ToShortDateString().
There is no .net native type specifically only for Dates. All dates are handled in the DateTime-structure and have a time-component. You can make your own type or handle with strings (for example DateTime.GetShortDateString returns a string).  Another way to deal with this and also with null values of nullable types is to use a ValueConverter. See here. They are usable from xaml and can handle all you want. They are very powerfull.

A: Change your code to:
public DateTime? Date {
    get { return this.date.Value.Date; }
    set { this.date = value; }
}

You will also get time which is to be neglected and the dummy one (as 12:00AM something)
If you want exactly date without time, you have to accept it as string ToShortDateTime(); in get.

A: It is not clear where you want to retrieve date part in code or in xaml. Anyway in code you can do that like this:
if (Date.HasValue == true)
{
    return Date.Value.ToShortDateString();
}

A: Thanks all !!
I guess i was heading south instead of north :-P .... Well Now i am going to use the Nullable DateTime? the way it's supposed to be used. Instead of trying to look for improper solution of extracting date, i am going to use StringFormat; whenever i require to display date.
I guess this is the optimum solution. Let me know if you guys think other ways.
Thanks once again


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MA: This is Point of Discovery. If you could choose one superpower, which would you choose? Flying? Invisibility? Telepathy? Today, we meet a neuroscientist who has been thinking about how the study of the human brain combined with advances in biotechnology might someday allow humans to have MENTAL superpowers.
LC: This can be an advance in human intelligence and we can all become smarter and learn better and all these things.
MA: But first, we'll talk about ways that new technologies might restore normal brain function in people with cognitive or neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease.
MA: What if people who lost a particular brain function had the same option as many people who've lost limbs or other body parts – the chance to use technology to supplement what's no longer there? Neuroscientists, engineers, military researchers—and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs—are all working on these brain-machine interfaces, also known as neural prosthetics. These are systems that connect the human brain to a computer to do something neither the brain—nor the computer—can do alone. One idea is to help people with Alzheimer's disease by downloading their memories and then serving them back to them when they need them.
LC: If a patient is unable to consciously retrieve lost memories, maybe the memories are actually still there, but it's some problem with the connection of being able to retrieve them from storage. So if we can decode those lost memories, perhaps we can feed that out to a computer and in some way retrieve the information.
MA: That's Laura Colgin, a neuroscientist at the University of Texas at Austin, who studies brain waves in an effort to learn how memory and learning work.
LC: Or, maybe in another type of a situation if somebody has a shut-in syndrome, then where they're unable to, you know, communicate their thoughts or their intentions, that we could decode the brain signals and know what they are intending or planning to do or what they're thinking about and again feed that out to a computer so that suddenly, they would be able to communicate with the outside world again.
MA: Before this vision can be realized, neuroscientists like Colgin have to learn more about how memory and conscious thoughts work.
LC: I mean it's not even agreed upon across the field how memory consolidation works or how memory retrieval works or how memories are stored long term. And those sort of issues are really important key questions that, we're making progress on those questions definitely, through various avenues, but we still don't understand everything.
MA: But even when researchers discover these the brains basic operating instructions, there are still some daunting engineering challenges for neural prosthetics. So far, all the ways that people have successfully connected machines to brains have had big downsides. Some require that you drill a hole in someone's skull and implant wires and batteries – invasive methods that could damage brain cells, cause discomfort or lead to infections. Non-invasive methods have trouble picking up clear signals. Colgin says a safe, practical and effective device for reading and restoring memories in humans is probably at least a decade away.
LC: That would be my guess.
MA: So in our lifetimes?
LC: Hopefully, yes. Hopefully. I think at least in our lifetime we'll know whether it's feasible or not. … I'm a very open-minded person. … so I'm open to the possibility that these aspects of our conscious experience like memory might not be something we can pinpoint in physical matter. There might be some aspect we'll never be able to measure or access.
MA: Now think about your own brain: even if it hasn't lost any core functions, you probably wish it could do more, right? What if brain-machine interfaces could be used to super-charge a normal brain? Tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk—founder of Tesla and SpaceX—and Bryan Johnson—founder of online payment company Braintree—have launched companies that are focused on enhancing the human brain through technology. In a sense, they want to upgrade the human operating system.
MA: Well let's play a little game. As I was reading up on this, I read some pretty far out ideas of things that people would like to do in terms of not just correcting disorders but augmenting the human brain. Which of these ideas would you want to have, these superpowers, right? One idea is telepathy, you could share your thoughts and ideas maybe your own visual images that your brain is bringing in, you could share those with other people. Would you want that power?
LC: No. [laughs] Um. No. No.
LC: I think my face always gives away what I'm thinking. It's hard enough for me to keep my feelings private and sometimes it's important. Right? That's what makes us human, is that we have the ability to not just blurt out everything we're thinking because sometimes it's inappropriate or it could be hurtful to someone, hurt someone's feelings.
MA: Okay so another idea. This idea that you could download skills, something you've never learned how to do, let's say martial arts. You could attach your brain to a computer, that would suddenly download all the ability to be a Kung Fu master. Would you do something like that?
LC: Yeah, I would do something like that. Because I think that sort of stuff, it's not really. Those sort of behaviors that are more unconscious, you know, I think that that doesn't factor as much into your sort of own personal experience of your intellect and your emotions and your experiences that make you who you are. Right? Because I mean if we, if we learn to swim for example and we're getting better at swimming, we're just doing it through motor practice, but we can't really explicitly say what it is that we did that made us be able to swim faster now than we did last week. Right? So it's a different type of experience -- that I think – that I would – that would be completely awesome. I would definitely do that.
MA: Okay, let's see, so going down the list. So this was kind of a far-out idea. They're suggesting that you could maybe extend the natural range of your senses. So humans have a limit on the range of colors we can see. We can't see into the ultraviolet or the infrared. Uh, we can only hear up to a certain frequency of sound [laughs] what would you -- I've seen images of what a bee sees when it sees flowers, they can see all sorts of unusual patterns because they can see ultraviolet light. Would you want that superpower?
LC: Yeah, I think that would be cool. The only thing that I would worry about there is that we know that once some type of sense gets enhanced or even lost, that there's always a compensation, right? ... Because, probably there's areas of the cortex that are devoted to representing what we see and those areas if they are available can take over other functions and represent things in a more complex way. So if we are then enhancing what we are able to see, probably vision would take over some cortical space that's devoted to something else and then we could potentially lose some aspect of our experience and maybe we won't hear things as well or smell things as well or whatever the case may be.
MA: Okay, so one last hypothetical. So this is an actual project apparently. So Facebook is working on a project where you could think of words like, normally you would type words on a computer with your fingers, but the idea is to circumvent that and you would just think a stream of words and the computer would immediately read those out and that you could do that at a much higher rate than you could type. ... Would you want that skill?
LC: Yeah, I would try it. I think there's a certain timescale to how we're used to thinking about complex ideas. So for me, I definitely notice that sometimes if I have writer's block when I'm trying to work something out with a scientific paper, work though ideas for a grant, I'll go back to hard paper and pen and write things in longhand if I have to work through something. And it's sometimes easier for me to do that than it is to do typing. I feel like I can think more deeply when I'm writing longhand. So I think that it could be very useful for certain things if you were really, if you really didn't have to think out very deeply what you were writing.
MA: So how do I feel about all this? Alzheimer's is a terrible disease. If technology can help make people's lives better, I'm all for it. On the other hand, trying to endow normal, healthy people with mental superpowers—like seeing ultraviolet light or knowing what my sister in California is literally thinking at this exact moment—I'm not so sure. What if we get the superpower we always wanted, and it turns out to be a curse? It's also easy to imagine an access problem. If only the rich can make themselves mentally superior—whether with technology or with gene-editing or whatever—society would have a problem. I asked Colgin how other regular people react when she describes these ideas in her public talks.
LC: I think people are excited but people also do get, some people get scared. Right? They get worried because they might think, Oh, you know, can this be used for mind control? Or, you know, I just have to reassure people that, No, there's no way that we can decode these brain signals non-invasively. That doesn't exist at the moment at least.
MA: And what about her? How would she answer the 64 thousand dollar question: With a normal, healthy brain, would she opt for her own brain-machine interface?
LC: I personally wouldn't choose to do it. It is exciting to me. I think my idea about it has sort of changed. When I first started doing the work, I was excited about it and I thought yeah, this can be an advance in human intelligence and we can all become smarter and learn better and all these things. But I don't know. I think I've changed my idea about it over the last couple of years, thinking about … how memory changes throughout the course of our experience, then I don't know. I guess I go back and forth. And as a scientist, you do sort of have a desire to get some data from yourself ("Oh, that would be fun.") But a lot of scientists throughout history have done crazy stuff. But at this moment in time that you are sitting here talking to me, No, I wouldn't choose to have it until I was experiencing some kind of memory disorder.


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Q: Iterate over RegExp.exec(...) From the RegExp.exec page on MDN, it gives the following example of iterating through a match with the g flag set:

const regex1 = RegExp('foo*', 'g');
const str1 = 'table football, foosball';
let array1;

while ((array1 = regex1.exec(str1)) !== null) {
  console.log(`Found ${array1[0]}. Next starts at ${regex1.lastIndex}.`);
  // expected output: "Found foo. Next starts at 9."
  // expected output: "Found foo. Next starts at 19."
}

I have two questions about this code. The first one is why the !=== null is used here, why wouldn't the while loop be properly coded as:
while (array1 = regex1.exec(str1)) { // implicitly casts to boolean?
  console.log(`...`);

}

The above seems much more readable to me, but was wondering why the MDN docs used the first approach? Second, is it possible to declare and define the variable directly in the while loop? Something like:
while (let array1 = regex1.exec(str1)) { // don't need the `let array1` above?
  console.log(`...`);

}

Or is that not supported in the JS language?

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Why the !== null is used here...?

True, in this case it is not needed. .exec() returns either an array or null, and since arrays are always truthy there is no need to explicitly compare with null.

Is it possible to declare and define the variable directly in the while loop?

No. If you want that, then turn to the for loop, which does support this:
for (let array1; array1 = regex1.exec(str1); null) {
  console.log(`...`);
}

This does indeed have the advantage that array1 has a more restricted scope. NB: I provided null to stress that the third part of the for header is intentionally unused.


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Hutchins Roundup: Cash transfers to families, startup research, and more
Series: The Hutchins Roundup
Elijah Asdourian, Nasiha Salwati, Louise Sheiner, and Lorae Stojanovic Thursday, August 25, 2022
What's the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want to receive the Hutchins Roundup as an email? Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.
Cash transfers to families with infants have large effects on children's outcomes
Leveraging eligibility rules for child-related tax benefits like the Earned Income Tax Credit, Andrew Barr of Texas A&M, Alexander Smith of West Point, and Jonathan Eggleston of the U.S. Census Bureau find that cash transfers to low-income families following the birth of a first child have large and persistent long-term benefits. In particular, children born right before the New Year (and hence entitling their families to larger refunds during their first year of life) had higher test scores in school, got suspended less frequently, and earned nearly 2% more as adults than their peers who were born after New Year's. The authors find that the longer-term effects on earnings alone are large enough that the transfers pay for themselves through higher future federal income tax revenue. Further, they find that, per dollar spent, the effects are larger than those generated by high-quality preschool programs.
Dividend futures imply modest GDP underperformance in 2023
Worldwide stock indices have been dropping this year, fueling fears that the equity market is reflecting a growing recession risk. Since market expectations about future dividends provide a signal about firms' profits, an important component of GDP, they serve as a measure of expectations about economic growth. Using futures contracts on dividends, Markus Ibert, Ben Knox, and Francisco Vazquez-Grande of the Federal Reserve Board find that expected dividends are about unchanged for 2022 and have declined only modestly in 2023. The decline in expected 2023 real dividends translates into a 0.4-percentage-point downward revision in 2023 GDP growth for the U.S. and a 0.9-percentage-point downward revision for the euro area, they report, noting that this outlook is less pessimistic than the predictions of many professional forecasters. The authors conclude that this year's falling stock indices have been driven by rising long-term interest rates, rather than changes in cash flow expectations.
Startups commercialize more innovative research than academic institutions or existing firms
Startups play an increasingly dominant role in the commercialization of novel research. Using data on patent grants over the 2000-2015 period, Julian Kolev of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and Fiona Murray, Alexis Haughey, and Scott Stern of MIT find that patents from startups are more original and valuable than those from universities or incumbent firms. Specifically, the authors find that startup patents are cited 20% more frequently in future patents than those from universities or incumbent firms in the first five years, and that the "startup advantage" increases over time. Startup patents also rank about half a standard deviation higher on measures of originality and generality than patents from incumbent firms. The startup advantage persists even as firms scale up; within 15 years, former startups generate more citation-weighted patents than pre-existing incumbents. Startups may pursue research that incumbent firms consider high risk or may pursue more innovation because they are less likely to have existing market share to protect, the authors suggest.
Chart of the week: Liquefied natural gas prices in Europe exceed Asia and US
Quote of the week:
"Inflation is likely to be higher during the long transition to net zero [carbon emissions]. Higher energy prices will feed through into the production of many goods, and prices overall will rise. The Bank of England estimates inflation will increase by nearly 0.6 percentage [points] by the early 2020s if there is an orderly transition to net zero and 2 percentage points by the early 2030s if the transition is disorderly. We are probably seeing a preview of that scenario currently," says Ravi Menon, Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
"But it's not just energy prices. Demand will surge for minerals such as copper, aluminium, cobalt, lithium, nickel, and rare earths, which are critical to various clean energy technologies, including wind turbines and electric vehicles. For example, solar or wind power plants use up to six times more copper than conventional power generation. According to the IEA, a world on track for net-zero in 2050 will need six times as much of these materials in 2040 as it does today. The result is greenflation, or rising prices for these metals and minerals that are essential to renewable energy and technologies."
The Brookings Institution is financed through the support of a diverse array of foundations, corporations, governments, individuals, as well as an endowment. A list of donors can be found in our annual reports published online here. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions in this report are solely those of its author(s) and are not influenced by any donation.
Elijah Asdourian
Research Assistant - Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Nasiha Salwati
Senior Research Assistant - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Louise Sheiner
The Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Policy Director - The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
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Josh Reviews First Man
Ciaran Hinds, Damien Chazelle, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Movie Reviews, Ryan Gosling, Shea Whigham
I'm a nut for science fiction as well as science fact — and so I was instantly excited when I heard that Damien Chazelle (Whiplash, La La Land) was directing First Man, a film telling the story of Neil Armstrong's first landing on the moon. The film's trailers, when they arrived, got me even more excited. I am pleased to report that the film does not disappoint.
When First Man is at its best, it is a spectacularly visceral recreation of the Neil Armstrong (and his fellow space pioneers in the Gemini and Apollo programs)'s experience leading up to, and during, the incredible feat of journeying to the moon and returning safely to the Earth. Time and again, the film is remarkable in the way that it is able to put us right into the lap of Neil Armstrong, allowing us to see what he saw and feel what he might have felt. We're right there in the cockpit with Neil at the start of the film when, testing a X-15 rocket plane, he accidentally bounces off of the atmosphere and almost drifts away into space. In an incredible sequence in the center of the film, we're right there in the space capsule with Neil and David Scott during the Gemini 8 mission, launching into orbit, successfully locating and docking with the Agena vehicle, and nearly losing their lives when the spacecraft begins to spin out of control. And, of course, we are there in the Eagle with Neil and Buzz Aldrin when they make their historic landing on the moon.
I have seen a lot of wonderful films about the American space program and the lunar missions, but I've never before quite had the discomfiting feeling of claustrophobia and fear of actually strapping into a tin can on top of a rocket, as these brave men did. First Man was able to pull me from my theatre seat into those experiences. Mr. Chazelle and his team have impeccably recreated these moments with an extraordinary eye for details that prior films have overlooked. We can see and feel the tactile reality of the switches in the spacecraft control panels. We hear and feel the swaying of the platform Neil and Dave Scott walk across in order to board the Gemini 8 capsule. We hear the groaning of the metal on the spacecraft as it launches, and the booming explosions of the rocket fire that is propelling them airborne at an incredible rate of speed.
I saw First Man on an enormous Imax screen, and I encourage you to do the same. The visual force of the film is tremendous, and it's rendered even more effective on the … [continued]
Josh Reviews Manchester By The Sea
Casey Affleck, Kenneth Lonergan, Kyle Chandler, Michelle Williams, Movie Reviews
Casey and Ben Affleck both earned my approbation forever with 2007's Gone Baby Gone, a magnificent and heartbreaking piece of work. That film was Ben Affleck's directorial debut and Casey played the lead role. If you haven't seen it, go see it right now. I've been waiting ever since for either Affleck brother to be able to top their incredible work in that film. (Both have come close once or twice over the years, Ben with Argo and Casey with The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.) A decade later, Casey Affleck might have finally done it with his extraordinary work in the wrenching and deeply moving Manchester By the Sea.
In Kenneth Lonergan's film, Casey Affleck plays Lee Chandler. When we first meet Lee in the film, he is working as a janitor on the South Shore (Quincy, MA), living a lonely life consisting of brief, mostly-terse interactions with his building's tenants and picking bar fights. Then a call summons Lee back to his home on the North Shore, as his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has died of a heart attack.
I'd thought the early death of Lee's brother would be the central tragedy of the film, but no, that's not really what the film is about at all. Although the film takes its time in telling us why Lee is known around town as "that" Lee Chandler, we do eventually learn the heartbreaking details of what has turned Lee into such an empty shell of a person. It is this that is the defining event of the film, and the reason for telling this story.
Casey Affleck is simply remarkable in the role. He commands the audience's attention in every moment that he is on-screen (which is almost the entirety of the film's 137-minute run-time). As always, Mr. Affleck eschews movie-star histrionics, instead bringing Lee to life through a series of tiny, quiet moments and his gentle, almost mumbling line-delivery. With every small action or inaction, with his posture and the look in his eyes, Mr. Affleck fully inhabits this deeply broken man. My favorite moment in the entire film is the quiet scene in which we see Lee stuffing his clothes in a bag and then, almost reverently, carefully wrapping the three objects (I won't tell you what they are) he picks up off the top of his chest of drawers. That's the whole movie right there.
I knew going in that this would be a somber movie and I was fearful that a two-and-a-half movie about grief, however well-crafted, would be a chore. But the genius of Kenneth Lonergan's film is how alive it is. After two-and-a-half hours, when the credits rolled, … [continued]
Josh Reviews The Wolf of Wall Street
Kyle Chandler, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Movie Reviews
At seventy-one years old, Martin Scorsese has unleashed upon us a work of towering ambition and accomplishment, with a rabble-rousing energy and anger that far outstrips most films made by filmmakers half his age. The Wolf of Wall Street is a three hour epic, fiercely entertaining and stomach-churningly upsetting all at the same time. This is Mr. Scorsese working at the very top of his game, crafting a story that is at once epic in scope and profoundly intimate. This is a crime saga that stands tall next to Goodfellas and Casino, films that I never thought Mr. Scorsese would be able to equal in the later years of his careeer. (And yes, like most of the rest of you, I agree that Goodfellas is a stronger film that Casino, but I unabashedly love Casino and find it to be a remarkably under-appreciated masterpiece.)
But whereas Mr. Scorsese's previous films about the rise and fall of men involved in organized crime always felt, to me, like stories that took place far outside of my personal frame of reference, the genius and power of The Wolf of Wall Street is that Mr. Scorsese has found a crime story that strikes much closer to home, at least for me. I don't work on Wall Street, but crime-without-guns seems much closer to the world of my day to day life. This crime story is mostly populated by men and women who I feel like I could have known. This particular crime story doesn't involve bullets and dead bodies, but rather bloodless financial transactions that, nevertheless, affected arguably a far wider number of every-day Americans. The story is all the more horrifying because of it.
The center of the film is Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort. Wen the film opens we see Mr. Belfort at his opulent height, but the film quickly flashes back to several years earlier, to a young Mr. Belfort's first day on Wall Street. He catches the eye of a senior man in the firm, Mark Hanna (played by Matthew McConaughey). Hanna takes Belfort out to a booze-filled lunch, and lays out for the young man the fuck-your-clients, earn as much money for yourself as you can principles by which he operates. We can see Belfort buy in immediately. (Mr. McConaughey is only in a few scenes at the start of the film, but he is absolutely fantastic, and this lunch scene is astounding.)
Despite his skills, though, young Belfort finds himself out of work after the terrible day on Wall Street in October, 1987, that resulted in the firm that employed him (L.P. Rothschild) shutting its doors. With no Wall Street firms looking to hire stockbrokers, Belfort finds himself … [continued]
Josh Reviews The Spectacular Now
Bob Odenkirk, Brie Larson, James Ponsoldt, Kyle Chandler, Movie Reviews
I am a sucker for a good coming of age story, and this season has seen a couple of excellent ones. I was over the moon about The Way Way Back (click here for my review) and I was equally smitten by James Ponsoldt's new film The Spectacular Now. It's a beautiful, powerful story about two young people finding themselves in the closing days of their high school years.
In the film, Miles Teller plays Sutter. He's a good looking, fast-talking, confident high school senior. Sutter is the king of his high school hill. He's a popular guy with a pretty girlfriend. He loves to party and to have a good time, and he's never really thought about aspiring to anything beyond that. But when his girlfriend breaks up with him, Sutter finds it harder than he'd expected for his nothing-can-bother-me, it's-all-good attitude to keep out the pain. Suddenly his hardy-partying ways seem less like the antics of a fun-loving high school kid and more like a crutch. It's after one-such night of drinking that Sutter finds himself passed out on the lawn of his classmate Aimee (Shailene Woodley). Aimee is sweet and kind and smart, and as something of a bookworm she is not at all in Sutter's social circle. The two begin an unexpected friendship, and soon — to surprise of both of their sets of friends — they begin dating.
From that point, I was expecting the film to go in one of two directions. Either we'd get the story of the special girl who makes the boy into a better man, or the story of the innocent girl who is seduced by the appeal of the bad egg, almost allowing him to ruin her life before she sees the error of her ways. But The Spectacular Now, luckily, is a much more nuanced film than that. The film doesn't go down such expected directions, and though there are aspects of both of those ideas I just mentioned in the film's story, the heart of the film lies in the many, often unexpected ways in which Sutter and Aimee affect one another. Some of those changes are positive, while others are more up for debate, and the film is surprisingly deft at not drawing judgments and allowing the audience to make their own evaluations. (I am thinking specifically of the way Aimee starts drinking once she begins seeing Sutter. I was all ready for that to lead her down a dark road, and while there is not question that there are some ways in which she is negatively affected by her new taste for alcohol, the film has a more nuanced perspective on her new … [continued]
Josh Reviews Zero Dark Thirty
Jason Clarke, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Kathryn Bigelow, Kyle Chandler, Movie Reviews
Kathryn Bigelow has directed some terrific films. I'm a sucker for Strange Days (the futuristic sci-film from 1995, written by James Cameron and starring Ralph Fiennes) and The Hurt Locker (click here for my review) was terrific, but I'd say with Zero Dark Thirty she has made her masterpiece.
Based on true events (though to what extent the film is completely factually accurate seems to be a subject of much debate — more on that in just a minute), the film begins on September 11th, 2001. Over a black screen, we hear intercut bits of dialogue — mostly phone calls — of panicked people on that terrible day. The film takes us through the long hunt for Osama bin Laden until May 2, 2011 — almost a full decade later — when he was shot and killed in a Pakistani compound by US forces. The focus of the film is on a woman named Maya (we never learn her last name), played by Jessica Chastain. A CIA operative, when we first meet her in 2003, she has been assigned to the US embassy in Pakistan, with her focus being the hunt for bin Laden. In several difficult-t0-watch early sequences in the film, Maya observes a fellow operative, Dan (Jason Clarke), torturing a detainee with suspected ties to al-Qaeda. One tidbit of information that he mentions turns into the breadcrumb that Maya spends years following, trying in many different ways to turn a potential hint of a lead into something concrete.
The film is an incredibly complex piece of work. For almost three full hours, we live with Maya through the myriad twists and turns of the CIA's investigations during their hunt for bin Laden. The film piles on the details, not in a confusing way but rather in a way that illuminates the insanely daunting needle-in-a-haystack nature of the search. Kathryn Bigelow's patient, taut direction works in perfect concert with Mark Boal's dense, sophisticated script to bring all these details to life and to make them sing. It is in the accumulation of details, in the way the film thrusts us into the head-spinningly complex web of secrets and doubts in which Maya and her fellow CIA investigators must live as they push forward their work, that the film weaves its magic and the story gains its power.
This is not a film for someone not willing to pay attention. The movie does not spell everything out for the audience. (I was reminded of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in the way the film throws around names and terminology without bothering to explain things, immersing the audience in the jargon of this world.) There are many characters in … [continued]
Josh Reviews Argo!
Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Kyle Chandler, Movie Reviews, Richard Kind
I've been a fan of Ben Affleck's ever since I first listened to his hilarious and endearing contribution to the raucous DVD commentary track for Kevin Smith's Mallrats. (Seriously, track it down and give it a listen — it's one of the best commentary tracks I've ever heard, second only to the track that same gang recorded for the original Criterion Collection DVD of Kevin Smith's follow-up film, Chasing Amy.) I've always found Mr. Affleck to be an earnest, engaging performer, capable of nimbly balancing comedy and drama. Yes, he appeared in quite a number of terrible, terrible films, but that's more a critique of his choices rather than his skills. But whereas Mr. Affleck has, in my opinion, always been a strong actor, he has proven to be a truly spectacular director. His first film, Gone Baby Gone, is a phenomenal film, one of my favorites of the last decade. I wasn't quite as taken with The Town (click here for my review), but with the stunningly magnificent Argo, Mr. Affleck has solidified his reputation as one of the strongest directors working today. I do not believe I am exaggerating.
Based on the true story, declassified by President Clinton in the late nineties, Argo is set during the Iranian hostage crisis. Unbeknownst to the Iranians (but, to quote Spaceballs, knownst to us), six American embassy staff-members were able to escape and found refuge in the home of the Canadian ambassador. After months in hiding, the Iranians are beginning to close in on them. C.I.A. "exfil" (exfiltration) specialist Tony Mendez is brought in to find a way to safely bring the six Americans out of Iran. He concocts a loony-sounding scheme in which he will enter Iran and then help the six pose as a Canadian film crew scouting desert locations for a sci-fi film, Argo. Using their new covers, the plan is for Mendez and the six to walk, in broad daylight, right into the Iranian airport and fly out of the country to safety. It's an crazy, insane story, all the more crazy and insane because the whole thing is true.
The film is riveting, and Mr. Affleck's direction (ably assisted by a tight screenplay by Chris Terrio, based on a 2007 Wired article by Joshuah Bearman) is fantastic. It's great to see Mr. Affleck moving out of the Boston location that was so central to his first two films, and I was extremely impressed with the way the he and his team were able to recreate 1970's Iran, Washington, DC, and Hollywood.
The film's opening immediately sets the stage for the story, and the intense tone for this true-life tale. In the opening … [continued]
Josh Reviews Super 8
Elle Fanning, J. J. Abrams, Kyle Chandler, Movie Reviews
J.J. Abrams' new film, Super 8, is an unabashed love-letter to the late '70s and early '80s films directed by Steven Spielberg and, as such, seems like it was designed from top-to-bottom to tickle every movie-loving funny-bone in my body. I'm sure I'm not alone. Super 8 has some narrative problems that prevents it from ever reaching the heights of the great Spielberg-directed films it was designed to emulate, but that doesn't stop it from being a rousingly entertaining film of a type that we really don't see too much of anymore.
It's the summer of 1979, and Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) has just recently lost his mother to a terrible accident in the factory where she worked. As the school-year ends, he finds solace in the project he's working on with his friends: filming a make-shift zombie movie on a super 8 camera. Somehow, Charles (Riley Griffiths), the boy directing and masterminding the film, has convinced a girl, Alice (Elle Fanning) to play a part in their movie. Joe is immediately smitten, but his father (Kyle Chandler) forbids him from having anything to do with her, due to a bitter feud with her father. One night, after having all snuck out to film a scene of their movie, the boys and Alice witness a terrible train derailment. Soon after, all sorts of mysterious events begin happening in their small town, and the military arrives to supervise the investigation of the train-wreck. As things escalate, the boys begin to suspect that something terrible was released when the train crashed, and the super 8 footage they shot that night might hold a vital clue.
It's interesting that I began that description of Super 8 by writing about some of the character story-lines in the film, rather than the monster-on-the-loose sci-fi story. That's because where Super 8 succeeds — and succeeds brilliantly — is in creating several wonderfully layered character story-lines (several of which I have only hinted at in my above summation) that engage the audience and pull at one's heart-strings. It's on the monster side of things where the film wobbles a bit, but I'll get to that in a moment.
Many of Steven Spielberg's early films were told from the point-of-view of a child or children (E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is the best example), and like that film, Super 8 spends a lot of time fleshing out the characters and personalities of the different kids who form the main cast of characters. I've read several reviews that commented on how Mr. Abrams and his team echoed the device used in E.T. of allowing the kids to be constantly talking over one another in the film, the way real … [continued]