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As an excuse to watch films, I'm watching one from every one of the last hundred years.
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
I've enjoyed most of the Marvel films I've seen, but I don't embrace them all equally. The Iron Man films were all excellent, and my opinion of 'Guardians of the Galaxy' (2014) is identical to everybody else's opinion of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I found 'Captain America' and 'Thor' (both 2011) to be flashy but ordinary, and 'Age of Ultron' shares one of the main issues I had with 'Thor' - in both cases, the central conflict looks to be morally complex, but the villain, after a short period of seeming to have an interesting motivation, decides to be entirely, overtly, evil. Both films promised to be dramas, and both gave way to something less challenging.
'Avengers: Age of Ultron' is a film full of punching. Iron Man is a very cool person, whom money and technology have blessed with super punching powers; he's better served by his own films, and the fact I'd seen the superlative 'Iron Man 3' (2013) so recently probably injured my opinion of this movie. The Hulk is a very nice guy, with an interesting central conflict - the same as in the last Avengers film (2012), so it's hard to be quite so engaged by it this time around; technology has given him super punching powers too. Captain America is an all-American hero, and a bit boring, and technology has given him super hitting-people-with-a-shield powers. Thor is a Norse space-god, and space-magic indistinguishable from advanced technology has given him hitting-people-with-a-mallet powers. Then there's Black Widow, who doesn't seem to have any technological advantage, and seems to kick people more than she punches, and Hawkeye, who's really good at shooting really good arrows.
They're all incredibly attractive, but in different ways. They kick ass, and especially much they punch ass. Most of them have had films of their own, showing that they're all individually capable of bringing down vast, blockbuster-sized enemies, so once they're all working together, the obvious problem is finding an enemy that takes them two hours to stop. Thankfully the legion that confronts them this year is one that can be affected by punching, but one great enough in number that the punching can go on for at least twenty minutes unabated.
Ultron, whose age it is.
The side of evil is given a number of assets, making this Age of Ultron seem a relatively tricky case, but as more and more of the villain's forces defect to the side of good, a victory for the heroes looks ever more likely. The film seems to keep promising that nobody is safe, that this fight will have a terrible cost - and so it should! A villain as powerful as Ultron would seem more of a credible threat if his plot had a body count. I was disappointed when 'The Return of the King' (2003) saw all its main heroes survive - I'd hoped for a bloody hobbit-massacre to show the extent of the threat Frodo faced, and when everybody lived it made the 9-hour struggle feel cheap and easy. I didn't hold out any such hopes this time around - but I won't say any more, for fear of spoiling the film.
'Avengers: Age of Ultron' is pretty exciting to watch - explosions, set-pieces, familiar characters doing their thing, witty exchanges and reasonable angst - but as you may sense from the paragraphs above, I wasn't quite satisfied. Part of the problem was that there were no ordinary people in the cast of characters. All the major players are well-versed in superheroism and high-octane showdowns. There's no young Steve Rogers, no Pepper Potts, no Foggy Nelson, and none of the heroes even need to pass for normal - these are heroes who have given up their secret double-lives. I think I've really been spoiled by Marvel's other 2015 project, 'Daredevil', which has recently shown up on Netflix - a hugely satisfying masked vigilante story, with dozens of interesting, human characters to care about. 'Age of Ultron' tries to put Hawkeye at its emotional core, and shows him to be ordinary and American and handsome, but this doesn't make him especially interesting. He's no Matt Murdock.
The only real people in this film, with lives as humdrum as our own, are the huge crowds of potential victims. The Avengers work to save these hapless lemmings, and it makes ordinary humanity seem a real drag, a hindrance without merit. I like that these superhero films spend time showing the heroes rescuing people - it worked well in the recent Batman movies, and it was a nice feature of 'The Avengers Assemble' (2012), but here I spent my time wishing the villain would do his thing, wipe out these troublesome extras, and move the narrative on a bit.
Check it out in cinemas now (or in cinemas next week, if you're American). Despite my complaints, there's plenty to enjoy here.
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Despite no particular plans in this direction, my film-watching project has encapsulated a lot of films set in New York - from 'Shaft' (1971) and 'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' (1971) to 'Taxi Driver' (1976) and 'Party Monster' (2003), and 'The BQE' (2007) and 'Mary & Max' (2009), and six others besides. It's a very interesting set of movies, but taken together they present a vision of a formidably ghastly city, full of cars and violent woe, not somewhere you'd particularly want to live or visit.
'Kids' joins this tradition, but takes a new perspective, looking at the great teen nineties of baggy clothing and public urination. It's a rampantly heterosexual movie, opening with an abrasively long and noisy teenage snog, and going on to follow the sex and lives of a pubescent gang. Bored, horny children, raping and mumbling and laughing.
"I have no legs," sings the man.
I didn't know anything about the film when I bought it. I picked it up from a charity-shop because I found its spine interesting - normally DVD-spines are printed so you can read them when you tilt your head to the right, but this one was like the DVDs of continental Europe, where you have to tilt your head the other way. The design made it look like 'world cinema', a vague, arty term that I don't often hear applied to American movies, but this is a film seemed to fit both categories.
It's thrillingly disorientating, shot largely in very close-up close-ups and highly saturated colours. A cast of untried actors overlap their dialogue, and compete with the sounds of traffic and loud music. It has a documentary feel, a spontaneity. It feels oddly like real life, rather than performed drama, and it makes other films feel staid and artificial. I'd expected 'Kids' to be bleak and hard to watch - it's a film full of HIV, romanceless underage sex and other widely-protested content, but it proved to be full of energy and vitality - a much more visceral and important piece than, for example, 'The Titfield Thunderbolt' (1953), the last film I'd looked at. It passed quickly, and it troubled me.
Labels: 1990s, American, crime, drama, horrible films, New York
Herostratus (1967)
The main reason I came to watch 'Herostratus', other than liking the title and cover, is that it came out in the BFI Flipside series of DVD/Blu-ray dual format releases. It's a run of obscure, interesting British films from the archives, forgotten marvels given a chance to shine again. 'The Bed-Sitting Room' (1969), which I very much enjoyed, was one such release, and on the basis of it and BFI's release of 'Winstanley' (1975), I find the line very encouraging.
Then, of course, there's the film's basic idea. In short, a young man goes to an advertising agency to get maximum publicity for his act of suicide. It's an unpleasantly interesting concept, grim, but ripe for satire and social commentary. I'd say the film grapples with both of these, but fares less well as a drama or comedy.
So, we follow Max, the main character, as he approaches the advertising man Farson, a very sixties businessman who comes across like a Number 2 from the same year's psychedelic stand-out 'The Prisoner'. Farson puts Max up in luxury and sets about publicising a sellably bland version of him to win public support. The film then intercuts Max's reclusive days in a comfortable black void with archive footage of Ginsberg, Roosevelt, Churchill and Hitler, and juxtaposes sexy dancing with swirling offal, while making ironic comparisons between Max's herostratic desire for suicide and the conspicuous death of Jesus.
It feels like an investigation of ideas, rather than a narrative- or character-led piece. A discussion, and quite a long one, at two-hours and forty minutes. At times I wished the film would hurry itself along. Perhaps I'm too impatient to really engage with this kind of art, or perhaps the film was making its point more slowly than necessary. I'm inclined toward the latter, as the release also features director Don Levy's 'Time Is' (1964), which wants to wow its audience with the suggestion that time, as we understand it, is a human construct, a point that it makes quite effectively in the first five minutes, but persists with for another 25 - perhaps appropriate, given the content.
'Herostratus' has a chilling lack of glossiness, making it resemble Eastern and European films more than the American sort that I've come to think of as cinema's default. The blood red and golden lighting, and the frequent cuts away to black, made me think of the then-recent Ukrainian movie 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' (1964). (I feel pretentious comparing this art-film you probably haven't heard of to another art-film you probably haven't heard of; I'm only aware of them because I'm doing this film-based blog, and have deliberately sought out some obscure items in the hope of finding treasure. Somehow it feels like it would be more acceptable if I was doing this with novels, because everybody knows books have an inherent cultural value).
I didn't find a lot of pleasure in 'Herostratus'. It interested me, but stretched that interest very thin, and I found myself wondering whether I have too much love for the easy comforts of commercial cinema to really get on with art films. Or maybe I just didn't like this one. Never mind.
P.S. Herostratus, if you're curious, was an ancient Ephesian who set fire to the Temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Wonders of the World) purely because he wanted to be famous for something. It worked, and his name lives in infamy, as 'herostratic fame' today means fame at any cost, even fame for atrocities. Anything to make one's name linger in the public mind.
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The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Having watched 'Ben-Hur' (1959) on each of the last eleven Easter weekends, I've developed something of an intimate understanding of it; tiny details that I didn't notice at first now seem obvious and familiar - a few odd seconds where a line of dialogue has been partly redubbed, or small quirks to actors' deliveries, like Jack Hawkins decision to stress the first syllable of 'reward' (a word he says twice). I've no great desire to learn about the film's production, and I've never listened to its commentaries - but repeated consumption to get at the story has made its ingredients, its composition, even the performance of its most minor roles, seem like bosom friends.
This year I thought I'd spend a little time looking up the CVs of the film's cast. As long-term readers may recall, I'm already well-versed in Charlton Heston's filmography, but I thought I'd look up what Haya Harareet and Frank Thring did next. I've seen Finlay Currie as Magwitch in 'Great Expectations' (1946), and the aforementioned Jack Hawkins as the man in 'Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957) who wishes to explode said bridge (though I'll need to re-watch that film to see if he gets to say the work 'reward' at any point) - and we've all seen John Le Mesurier, a grim surgeon in a scene after the famous chariot race, as Sgt Wilson in 'Dad's Army' (1968-77).
Dan Taylor (Hugh Griffith) and Walter Valentine (Stanley Holloway) get drunk.
In my researches, I discovered a film which featured two of the cast of 'Ben-Hur' together. And the same day I learned about 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', it popped up on BBC4. The movie stars George Relph, who had two scenes in 'Ben-Hur' as a rather avuncular Tiberius Caesar, a role in which he shows off his strikingly memorable teeth. In 'The Titfield Thunderbolt', he plays a country vicar who decides to buy up a railway station to stop it being closed down. He also drives the trains, accompanied in the engine by a surly poacher, played by Hugh Griffith, who six years later won an oscar as Best Supporting Actor, for his unfortunately blacked-up but otherwise highly enjoyable performance as Sheikh Ilderim, a major player in Ben-Hur's second half.
So, let's turn our attention to 'The Titfield Thunderbolt'. It is, in short, a nice film about a train. Will the vicar and the poacher be able to run their train safely, and on time? Will they be able to beat those villainous men from the bus company? Probably! It's an Ealing Comedy, from the writer and director of 'The Lavender Hill Mob' (1951), so has a charming humour and a particularly British gentleness. (I'd say a particular English gentleness, except that Hugh Griffith is always so very Welsh). It features some fine works of engineering, and some ingeniously concocted solutions to the problems that arise, and it has enough mild peril to keep the audience thoroughly engaged for its 80 minute duration. It also features a physical fight between the vicar in his stream-train and Sid James on a steam-roller - surely a sight worth seeing for yourself.
...and then who should turn up but the Bishop! (Godfrey Tearle)
Do excuse me resurrecting the Penciltonian to tell you about this small, gentle adventure. I've seen plenty of exciting films over the last year, and have often wished to crack open the blog to tell you about them - you very nearly heard about 'Wings' (1927), a very engaging silent film that you can find on Netflix, and 'Twelve Angry Men' (1957), which lived up to its reputation. But it's 'The Titfield Thunderbolt' that's brought me back. It's a pleasant feature, with a very sunny optimism that seems to suit the current season. I occasionally mean to come back and comment on another film from each decade. I wrote up a late-sixties film many months ago and never posted it, so that may happen.
And since I've covered each year from 1913-2014, I'll certainly be back with a 2015 film in a month or so.
P.S. Other films featuring two or more actors from Ben-Hur include 'Bridge on the River Kwai' (1957, as mentioned earlier) which features Sextus and Quintus Arrius, and 'El Cid' (1961), which features Judah Ben-Hur and Pontius Pilate. If you can think of any others, I'd be glad to hear from you.
P.P.S. It seems I really enjoy tales of vicars having light-hearted adventures. See also, Father Stanley Unwin in 'The Secret Service', Reverend Charles Bentley in 'The Mundane Egg', and the kindly bishops (of Digne and Tatchester) who get involved in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Box of Delights' (the latter of which also involves a number of unscrupulous curates who fight magic with guns and flying cars).
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Coalition needs to act on economy - Transcript, RN Drive
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SUBJECTS: Tax cuts, John Setka.
PATRICIA KARVELAS: Andrew Leigh is the Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury and Charities. Welcome.
ANDREW LEIGH, SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR TREASURY AND CHARITIES: G'day, Patricia. Great to be with you.
KARVELAS: Labor said it didn't want to stand in the way of badly needed economic stimulus, but this was going to pass with or without you. So why didn't you decide to back it earlier?
LEIGH: Patricia, we wanted to fight for what's right for the economy, which is ensuring that we got money into the hands of workers straight away. We moved amendments in the House of Representatives and in the Senate that would have seen the middle income tax cut brought forward from 2022 to 2019. The economy is really fragile right now. Just today we've had problematic figures come out on job vacancies and retail sales. Yesterday we had dwelling approval figures coming out that were of equal concern. Tuesday the Reserve Bank was cutting rates down to historically low levels. Wages have been flatlining for six years. Productivity, according to the Productivity Commission, is 'mediocre'. We're nine months into a per capita recession and economists think that there's about a one in three chance that will fall into a full recession in the next few years. So our priority was always on ensuring that the economy got the stimulus it needed now and that's why we moved those amendments in the House and in the Senate. And when they were unsuccessful, we ultimately had to make a decision as to whether to vote for or against the unamended package, and we took the view that we wouldn't stand in the way of getting money into the economy now.
KARVELAS: Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers says Labor will campaign on repealing stage three of the tax cuts, which flattens the tax rate by removing thirty two and a half per cent. So is that what you're going to be arguing for, a repeal?
LEIGH: We'll set out our economic policies as we come to the next election. A lot of that Patricia is going to depend on how the economy travels.
KARVELAS: But you haven't - just to get clarity, do you believe it should be repealed or not?
LEIGH: I actually think would be irresponsible to be sitting out our tax policies in 2022, given all we know about the uncertainty of the global economy right now. You've got the implications of a hard Brexit. You've got a trade war. You've got economists in the United States talking about a serious risk of a US slump. With all of that uncertainty around, fiscal policy needs flexibility. You know Patricia, there's two parts to what government does with growth. One part is the long term investment in productivity, the other part is the short term focus on timely, targeted and temporary stimulus to smooth out the booms and busts in the economic cycle. And that requires a government that is nimble and adept and able to respond, as the Rudd Government did in 2008-2009, preventing the economy going into recession then. So we need to be ready to act. One of the things that concerned us about the 2024 tax cuts is that they made it more difficult for the government to be adept and nimble as it needs to be in the next few years.
KARVELAS: Ok. So it depends on circumstances whether you determine to repeal stage three or keep it in place?
LEIGH: We'll take a tax package to the next election and I expect the Coalition will as well. I'd be very surprised if the Coalition's policy at the next election on tax is 'nothing to see here, no changes'. They'll be taking policies and our policies will be based on Labor values - wanting to make sure that we get strong middle class growth, not trickledown economics which says that we can create growth by cutting taxes for lowest-
KARVELAS: Is stage three trickledown in your view?
LEIGH: If you look at the Grattan Institute's analysis of distributional impacts, they say that stage three makes the tax code less progressive than any other time since the 1950s. And they say 31 per cent of the benefits go to the top 3 per cent of taxpayers. So they're getting about 10 times their proportionate share. We went to the last election arguing for a larger and more equitable tax cuts than the government, in particular emphasizing tax cuts for people earning less than $48,000, who spend their entire pay cheques. So that's got a good economic kick for the economy in a way that high end tax cuts don't. We'll lay all of that out ahead of the next election. But people should know that Labor's main priority right now is ensuring we save jobs, that we don't go into a serious economic crunch which could see a whole lot of people thrown on the unemployment scrapheap. Unemployment is a full percentage point higher here than it is in Britain, New Zealand and Germany. The economy is not travelling well already, but there's big red warning lights flashing suggesting that it could get worse still if the government doesn't act.
KARVELAS: Okay. So ultimately the jury's out on what you think should happen to stage three.
LEIGH: We'll announce our tax policies for 2022 in the lead up to that election-
KARVELAS: I understand that and I respect that. Actually, I understand that is a process but yet the point of what I'm asking is that Labor hasn't settled, because you say essentially it's too early, on whether you decide to keep stage three or make changes to it.
LEIGH: I mean, we've argued that it's irresponsible to commit to stage three five years out and that remains our view. We do think that the government hasn't acted with the sort of fiscal prudence that the economy demands. As the Grattan Institute argued in its analysis, it's better in a world in which there's so many choppy waters and so much uncertainty not to be locking in these 2024 tax cuts. So they remain a significant concern to us. Our real priority now is what we can do for an economy that's seeing falling new car sales, falling building approvals, where inflation's virtually non-existent and where the Reserve Bank is crying out for a bit of help. If you've only got monetary policy and no fiscal policy, it's like a boat rowing with one oar. You just end up going round and round in circles. So we think the government could have done more to sustain growth in the economy by bringing forward stage two tax cuts. I was frankly a bit surprised to be sitting in the House of Representatives on Tuesday night watching the Liberals and the Nationals sit on the same side as the Greens, opposing a middle income tax cut in 2019.
KARVELAS: Just finally and it's on another topic. Victorian CFMEU boss John Setka will launch a legal challenge against his expulsion from the Labor Party. Are you confident the party's on safe legal grounds here?
LEIGH: Yes, I am. I mean, I don't think any individual is bigger than the movement. The party executives have given him an extension of time to lodge his case, but as the leader has said, I don't think he'll be a member of the Labor Party after the 15th of July.
KARVELAS: Andrew Leigh, thanks for your time.
LEIGH: Thank you, Patricia.

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Etches questions refereeing decision, vows to return from KO
Hatton Boxing
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Adam Etches has a simple message to the army of fans who turned out in their hundreds to see him lose his unbeaten record last Saturday – "Make no mistake, I'll be back, only better."
Etches was felled in the fourth round of his clash with Sergey Khomitsky on Saturday at the Sheffield Arena, but the 24-year-old is absolutely convinced he will learn from his split second lapse in concentration and return to the ring both wiser and stronger.
"Don't get me wrong, it wasn't part of the game plan, but it has certainly taught me a lesson which needed teaching," said Etches. "My unbeaten record is gone but I am not looking back, only forwards as there are some massive fights out there for me.
"I've learnt one golden rule in boxing which my manager Richard Poxon is always telling me, the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit back. I think I got too confident and that all I had to do was stand in front of a fighter, trade blows and I would always come out on top. Maybe that's because I had knocked out 15 out of 18 opponents before Khomitsky.
"It's a tough lesson to lean but I've got to become a lot more difficult to hit, because otherwise I am a sitting target for any opponent. I've been told this countless times before by my team, but the penny has now well and truly dropped.
"I've got enough power to halt anybody, but I also have to become a lot more defensively savvy. That has got to change."
Etches accepts that he was "naive" in being caught by Khomitsky.
"I should have never got myself into trouble, but I did and that's all my fault. I think it was a case of being naive and not concentrating fully. I was told time and time again that I had to be careful with such a dangerous opponent but it didn't sink in properly and I have to face the consequences. I have been through a difficult experience but it will do me good in the long term, I'm certain of it."
'Bomber' Etches, who has recently become engaged to his girlfriend Danielle, says he felt he badly let down the hundreds of supporters who travelled to the Sheffield venue, only to watch him walk onto an overhand right by Khomitsky, just as it seemed he was bossing the fight.
"I've got to say a huge thanks to all those who came out to watch me and I'm so sorry I ruined your night, but I really feel this is the start of a new beginning for me," he stated.
"Also, all boxing referees have a tough job but I got hit harder by Khomitsky in the first round than the one that put me down and I would have got back up if the ref had allowed me to. He kept me down on the canvas and called the fight off straight away.
"I am not going to criticise Howard Foster in any way, but I was certain I would get up. I was ready to get up, but the fight was called off immediately. If I had got up and my legs were still bandy, then fine, it should have been stopped straight away, but I didn't get the chance to get up, which makes me very frustrated. I'm gutted about it.
"Having said that, I got caught by a good, clean shot which I didn't see coming and I clearly have to tighten up my defence otherwise my dream of becoming a world champion won't happen. I got hit and in the end my job is not to get hit. I realise that only too well now."
Etches is determined to shake off his first loss and will return to the ring immediately after a short break.
"I want to get on the canvas again straight away and start climbing the rankings so that one day I will meet Khomitsky again and this time I will put right what I got so wrong. I want him to stay unbeaten until he fights me again and the next time there will be no mistakes, no lapses of concentration. I was sloppy and improvements need to be made before I meet him again.
"I've got to make what happened work to my advantage and that's what my focus is now on. I'll be back a ten times better boxer than I was before. I know I have got the power to beat anyone in the division, but I also need to work on the oldest rule in boxing: don't get hit."


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Q: Laptop battery charging capacity reduced to 52% I have been using Ubuntu 11.04 on DELL Inspiron 14R (N5010) laptop for last three months. Before I switch to Ubuntu my laptop battery used to give 2.5 hrs to 3 hrs back-up. But since I have been using Ubuntu, it has been reduced to 1hr to 1.5 hrs at max.
I tried following commands:
cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state

Which gave result as:
present:                 yes
capacity state:          ok
charging state:          charged
present rate:            1 mA
remaining capacity:      4400 mAh
present voltage:         12407 mV

Then I tried acpi -b, that resulted in:
Battery 0: Unknown, 100%

When I gave command as upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
native-path: /sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0A:00/power_supply/BAT0

model:                DELL W7H3N08
serial:               7114
power supply:         yes
updated:              Sat Nov 24 11:25:34 2012 (21 seconds ago)
has history:          yes
has statistics:       yes

battery
present:             yes
rechargeable:        yes
state:               fully-charged
energy:              48.4748 Wh
energy-empty:        0 Wh
energy-full:         48.4748 Wh
energy-full-design:  48.9595 Wh
energy-rate:         0.011017 W
voltage:             12.408 V
percentage:          100%
capacity:            52.9253%
technology:          lithium-ion

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*Someone please let me know, what is going wrong with my laptop?

*How can I get charging with full capacity?

A: Kindly go through the ACPI Problem and regression problem occured during the period from the ubuntu 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10..
Try to install the ubuntu 12.04 or the newer version . Or else check with the installing the Jupiter app. which is mainly developed eee asus .

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Nate Berkus will host Oprah's Big Give
3 Jan. 2008 | 10:16 am
Designer and frequent Oprah guest Nate Berkus will host Winfrey's upcoming ABC reality series, Oprah's Big Give.
The show's judges will be chef Jamie Oliver, NFL player Tony Gonzalez, and Chris Rock's wife Malaak Compton-Rock. Oprah herself will "[make] multiple special appearances throughout the eight episodes," according to a press release, which also promises that "some of the biggest names in Hollywood join 'Oprah's Big Give,' bringing their own passion for giving big and delivering surprising twists that raise the stakes at every turn."
The series, which debuts March 2, follows 10 people who "criss-cross the country, giving away hundreds of thousands of dollars to unsuspecting people who are in for the surprise of their lives." They'll be given a challenge in each city, and then the judges will eliminate one contestants, ultimately awarding "the biggest giver" the show's prize.
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Buzzmakers: Kanye's Denial & Cyrus' Split
By ETonline Staff 4:00 PM PDT, June 14, 2013
What had ETonline readers buzzing this week?
1. Kanye West Reacts To Cheating Allegations
Kanye West is speaking out against claims made by 24-year-old Leyla Ghobadi to Star magazine that he cheated on his pregnant girlfriend Kim Kardashian.
The 36-year-old rapper's rep tells ET: "This most recent attack on Kanye West and his family is totally without merit. It's a blatant attempt by a misguided individual who is clearly seeking publicity, and another in a series of malicious stories drummed up by non-credible 'news' sources. This is a sad attempt to hurt two people trying to live their lives."
Ghobadi alleges that she was seeing West since July 2012 and on into October of last year, when Kardashian was pregnant but had yet to announce. Claiming that the Yeezus singer finds his relationship with the 32-year-old Kardashian as "for publicity and nothing serious," she tells the magazine, "This is going to destroy the Kardashian family. It's bad. It's really bad. It's just embarrassing. But if I were Kim and about to have a baby, I would want to know."
According to Star, Ghobadi and West's relationship began after he saw her dancing in the crowd at his Atlantic City show in July. He then reportedly asked her to have drinks with him at HQ Nightclub, and then come back to his hotel room. "I refused, as I felt it was too rushed," the Canadian model tells the publication, adding that she did in fact go back with him. "We began to make out for a while, and next thing I knew, we were both naked and having sex."
Ghobadi is claiming that West contacted her as recent as last weekend, but says she's refused to see him since learning of Kardashian's pregnancy.
While West and Kardashian both deny Ghobadi's cheating accusations, Star magazine tells ET that they are standing by their story.
2. Miley Cyrus' Parents to Divorce
Singer Billy Ray Cyrus and his wife Tish are divorcing after 19 years of marriage.
"This is a personal matter and we are doing what is in the best interest of our family. We ask that you respect our privacy at this time," a rep for the pair told ET Thursday when news of Tish's divorce filing became public.
Billy Ray and Tish filed for divorce previously in 2010, but reconciled months later.
"As you can imagine, this is a very difficult time for our family," the couple told ET at the time of the filing. "We are trying to work through some personal matters. We appreciate your thoughts and prayers."
Billy Ray and Tish have three children together (Miley, Braison, and Noah) and raised two from Tish's previous marriage (Brandi and Trace).
3. The Glitzy Fashion of the 2013 Tony Awards
The neon lights were out on Broadway and so were the stars on Sunday night, June 9, as everyone from Tom Hanks to Scarlett Johansson hit the red carpet for the 67th Annual Tony Awards at New York City's Radio Music Hall.
Click here to check out all the glitz and glamour from the fashionable event!
4. John Stamos Admits: Lori Loughlin Could Be 'The One That Got Away'
In a recent interview with HuffPost Live, John Stamos, 49, is admitting that his former Full House co-star Lori Loughlin, 48, could be "the one that got away."
Referring to a Loughlin interview where she said that the two -- who famously played couple Jesse and Becky Katsopolis on the beloved ABC show -- never got together because the "timing was always off," Stamos commented that the two actually did date as teens.
"And we actually did date, we went on a date to Disneyland before we were both married. In real life, when we were 18, 19," he revealed. "We did have some off timing, but no disrespect to her family and her husband now, I would say that she could be the one that got away."
But despite admitting to a bit of regret, Stamos is satisfied with how things have worked out.
"She's one of my dearest friends and that's good enough," he says. "But I really do adore her. She has a great husband and he's got a lot of money so ... "
5. Justin Timberlake Reveals Risque Cover Art For New Single
Can you spot the naked lady?
Once again, Justin Timberlake is bringing sexy back. The 32-year-old singer/actor revealed the newest cover art for his single Tunnel Vision, and you'll need just that to spot the sexy silhouette.
Tunnel Vision is the third single to be released off J.T.'s The 20/20 Experience album, following Suit & Tie and Mirrors. The latest artwork shows Timberlake's face through a figure of a naked woman.
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Now Nick play well during the regular season but he got the job done good enough to show out when it was time too and that was the last 2 games he played plus he took home MVP honors in the Super Bowl but what's next? The Eagles have made it known that Foles is available and that they will listen to offers and his stock just sky rocketed. But seriously they shouldn't trade him for now.
Some team is going to make the Eagles a "Godfather" trade offer for Nick Foles this offseason. Jets maybe, @howaboutafresca?
As a backup Foles is slated to make 8 million next year with a new contract but any other team will pay him handsomely after that super bowl performance, he showed you what he can do just like he did a couple years back when he threw 27-2 in a season. I know the Eagles see value but I see a very good insurance policy and I'm talking premium insurance, kind of like the state farm commercials when they say you're covered after some really bad things happened. Carson suffered an ACL tear and even though he is pushing hard to come back week 1 the Eagles organization needs to sit back and think what if?
We all know Carson is the future and the true starter for the Eagles but we got to think a little logical. Don't trade him in the offseason; see how things play out first. Carson may not be back in the first week of the season and instead of having a backup that has to learn your system why don't you keep your super bowl MVP who can thrive in it. I'm sure they have their concerns too like is he the real deal or is this just a short stint? You don't catch a lot of backups who walk into the Super Bowl and out duel Brady, wait Nick Foles is the only one to do so. Trade him while his value is super high just in case he hits a low next season. Hey at the end of the day this is business and you due what's best for your team but keeping him is what's best.
The Eagles has the greatest insurance policy in the NFL right now and they need to keep it until they know Carson is ready to go and plays consecutive games. You guys are Super Bowl champs and I'm sure you want to keep winning. Keep that state farm plan named Nick Foles and know that you're covered until Wentz is ready. After that you could either trade him before the deadline or let him walk in 2019. FLYYY EAGLES FLYYY!!!
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					Anonymous (125.163.74.x) 29 Oct 2008 07:58

best team ??

best jutsu ??

best theme ??

potion help ? needed or not ?

dormant or shikai or bankai style ???

crank level ??

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					MRUhlir 29 Oct 2008 17:58

Sigh…you don't need someone to hold your hand - you are smart enough to figure it out on your own. And it all depends on your specific stats anyway, and without knowing those it's impossible to say what is 100% the best.

Use the mission calculator under guides to see how different teams/jutsu/ect help you.

Some basic rules of thumb - Shikai is almost always better then Bankai for high difficulty missions. Don't use crank because you don't get any significant bonus from it. Use 'Stand By' or 'Lucky Sevens' theme and use Ichi Ramen. The +3 str +3 range -30 stam jutsus are almost always the best way to go. Use a Jet Black Potion(+ 5 lvls) and/or an Ochre Potion(+3 str) if you still have a low chance of success with the best team/jutsu combination you can find.

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					Jadian 30 Oct 2008 03:30

Minor corrections to MRUhlir's otherwise on the dot suggestions:

If you're using Lucky Sevens, you don't need to use Ichi Ramen.

In place of Lucky Sevens, you could use a Monochrome Pheromone instead.

The -30 stamina jutsu are +10 range, not +3.

Ochre Potion is +1 range that day in regular missions, Powerful Potion is +3 strength on the next regular mission.

If you don't need jutsu to be able to pass the mission, and don't have Lucky Sevens theme or Monochrome Pheromone to use, you can try using Kido: I Can Has Cheezburger.

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Blockbuster Announces Mobile Handset Integration Deal with Motorola
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DALLAS — Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE: BBI) (NYSE: BBI.B) today announced plans to feature the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand movie download service in select Motorola (NYSE: MOT) phones, giving Motorola access to the BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand service and furthering Blockbuster's digital strategy by providing its library of premium digital entertainment to mobile devices for the first time.
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The agreement will also further Blockbuster's multi-channel vision of eventually enabling customers to use the Company's BLOCKBUSTER OnDemand application with multiple consumer electronics and portable devices, such as PCs, portable media players, Blu-ray Disc players, personal video recorders (PVRs), set-top boxes, mobile phones and Web-connected TVs, to search Blockbuster's entire catalog of entertainment content and download available titles for rent or purchase, schedule movies for mail delivery through BLOCKBUSTER Online®, or reserve titles for in-store pick-up at participating BLOCKBUSTER® stores or at a BLOCKBUSTER Express™ branded vending machine.
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Brand new VoIP user, so pardon my ignorance here. I've searched through FAQs, but can't find the answer to my specific question.
We use VVX 410 and 501 phones with OnSIP. When transfering calls, instead of seeing the list of lines in the office, we first see a list of SIP addresses. We have to choose Lines to see the users instead. After doing searches on this, there are articles on using a feature called "up.OffHookLineView.enabled" to make the Lines view the default when off hook. Sounds like what we need.
The problem is, I can't figure out how to enable or change this parameter. I've looked through several user and admin guides, but they all seem to assume that you already know how to do this. I figured out how to connect to the phone via the Web Configuration Utility, but after looking through all the settings there, I can't find it there either.
So I just need to know how to enable this feature. I asked OnSIP about it, but they claim it's a Polycom issue, not an OnSIP issue. I'm looking for enough detail to know what menu on what device I need to go into, and then where to find such parameters so I can change them.
I'm afraid this reply still assumes a bit more knowledge about the phones and their programming than I am familiar with. I was hoping for something a bit more aimed at those with little or no experience with this.
But for starters, there are repeated references to a phone's software (UCS) version. It would be nice to know which one we have. Any direction as to where to find that would be helpful.
My understanding, though, is that when we set up OnSIP as our provisioning provider, they downloaded to our phones the software needed to work with their network. So it's not clear to me what we can and can't change and still have the phones work correctly with them.
As you can tell, this is all a bit confusing to me. I'm generally pretty tech savvy in the computer world. And our phones appear to be mini-computers configured to look/work like a phone. But the interface is still a bit cryptic to me, so I'm looking for some basic instructions to help me get acquainted with this world. Any help is appreciated.
the linked FAQ should contain sufficient information to work this out.
Thank you! That's the kind of help I was looking for.
Don't see where to mark this as an "Accept as Solution." Please advise and I'll do so.


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10 national storylines to watch in college football to start this season
By Teddy Greenstein
Aug 24, 2018 | 7:00 AM
As the college football season gets ready for kickoff, here are some things to keep an eye on this fall.
1. Big Ten, big problems: One would think every Big Ten program had learned about proper oversight after the Jerry Sandusky and Larry Nassar scandals. Nope. Maryland, Rutgers and Ohio State, which opens the season without suspended coach Urban Meyer, have embarrassed the league.
2. Hurts so good: Jalen Hurts was the SEC's 2016 Offensive Player of the Year. But coach Nick Saban turned to Tua Tagovailoa in the national title game against Georgia, and the left-handed Hawaiian quarterback delivered. So who gets the ball this fall?
3. Big names, new headsets: Chip Kelly has returned to college football at UCLA after flaming out in the NFL. Nebraska landed its dream hire in Scott Frost. Texas A&M opened the vault for Jimbo Fisher, who already is facing accusations of NCAA violations.
4. Ready to wing it: Free from Ole Miss and its web of deception, Shea Patterson will start for Michigan in Week 1 at Notre Dame. Kyler Murray put off a pro baseball career (but signed with the A's for $4.66 million) to succeed Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield at Oklahoma.
5. New rules: In an effort to reduce collisions and concussions, players can signal for a fair catch at the 1 and the ball will be placed at the 25. Also, freshmen can appear in up to four games without losing their redshirt, and literally everyone involved in the game applauds this.
6. New Heisman faces: With Mayfield, Lamar Jackson and Saquon Barkley off to the NFL, the Heisman race could feature intriguing quarterbacks such as West Virginia's Will Grier (famous siblings), Arizona's Khalil Tate (spectacular runner) and Penn State's Trace McSorley (a better-behaved Mayfield).
7. Tide on a roll: Nick Saban's crew has won five of the last nine national championships and, for what it's worth, received 42 of 61 first-place votes in the Associated Press preseason rankings. Clemson, Georgia and whoever wins the top-heavy Big Ten figure to have the best shot to dethrone Alabama.
8. Bigger is better? Playoff team selections have been fair (sorry, Ohio State) and three straight national title games have been instant classics. And yet many are pushing for an expanded playoff, including Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez. Following the Big Ten's omission last season, he wants six teams.
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10. Irish eyes: Will Notre Dame more closely resemble the group that surged to a No. 3 ranking in early November last season or the one that was blown out at Miami and outscored 21-0 in the fourth quarter at Stanford? The Irish need better play from quarterbacks Brandon Wimbush and/or Ian Book.
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Say among the heathen that the LORD reigns: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Say among the nations, Jehovah reigneth: The world also is established that it cannot be moved: He will judge the peoples with equity.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Say among the nations, The Lord is King; yes, the world is ordered so that it may not be moved; he will be an upright judge of the peoples.
Webster's Revision
Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he will judge the people righteously.
Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
English Revised Version (ERV)
Say among the nations, The LORD reigneth: the world also is stablished that it cannot be moved: he shall judge the peoples with equity.
Definitions for Psalms 96:10
Heathen - People; nations; non-Jews.
Bible > Psalms > Psalms 96 > Psalms 96:10
Clarke's Psalms 96:10 Bible Commentary
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth - Justin Martyr, in his dialogue with Trypho the Jew, quotes this passage thus: Ειπατε εν τοις εθνεσι, ὁ Κυριος εβασιλευσε απο του ξυλου, "Say among the nations, the Lord ruleth by the wood," meaning the cross; and accuses the Jews of having blotted this word out of their Bibles, because of the evidence it gave of the truth of Christianity. It appears that this reading did exist anciently in the Septuagint, or at least in some ancient copies of that work, for the reading has been quoted by Tertullian, Lactantius, Arnobius, Augustine, Cassiodorus, Pope Leo, Gregory of Tours, and others. The reading is still extant in the ancient Roman Psalter, Dominus regnavit a ligno, and in some others. In an ancient MS. copy of the Psalter before me, while the text exhibits the commonly received reading, the margin has the following gloss: Regnavit a ligno crucis, "The Lord reigns by the wood of the cross." My old Scotico - Latin Psalter has not a ligno in the text, but seems to refer to it in the paraphrase: For Criste regned efter the dede on the crosse. It is necessary, however, to add, that no such words exist in any copy of the Hebrew text now extant, nor in any MS. yet collated, nor in any of the ancient Versions. Neither Eusebius nor Jerome even refer to it, who wrote comments on the Psalms; nor is it mentioned by any Greek writer except Justin Martyr.
The world also shall be established - The word תבל tebel signifies the habitable globe, and may be a metonymy here, the container put for the contained. And many think that by it the Church is intended; as the Lord, who is announced to the heathen as reigning, is understood to be Jesus Christ; and his judging among the people, his establishing the holy Gospel among them, and governing the nations by its laws.
Barnes's Psalms 96:10 Bible Commentary
Say among the heathen - Among the nations; all nations. Make this proclamation everywhere. This is changed from the parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 16. The language there is, "Fear before him, all the earth; the world also shall be stable, that it be not moved: let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let people say among the nations, The Lord reigneth." The sense is, however, essentially the same. The idea here is, "Make universal proclamation that Yahweh is King."
That the Lord reigneth - See the notes at Psalm 93:1.
The world also shall be established ... - Under the reign of God. The meaning is, that the world is fixed or immovable. It has its place, and it cannot be moved out of it. The government of God is fixed and stable. It is not temporary, changing, vacillating, like the dynasties of the earth, but is stedfast and abiding, and is well represented by the earth - so fixed and firm that nothing can move it from its place.
He shall judge the people righteously - The people of all lands; the nations of the earth. See the notes at Psalm 67:4.
Wesley's Psalms 96:10 Bible Commentary
96:10 Reigneth - God hath now set up his kingdom in the world. Established - The nations of the world shall by the means of it enjoy an established and lasting peace.


I do have one final, semi-serious Future of Reading post to write, but I'm caught up in a few other things and will have to put that off until tomorrow . . .
Now although libraries weren't a huge part of the discussion at the RIT conference the other week, they obviously play a huge role in the future of book culture. I know that I fell in love with reading thanks to my local library (we didn't have a bookstore in Essexville, Michigan, so thank god, thank god) and loved scanning all the various shelves for hidden treasures. Unfortunately, librarians don't get nearly enough love when we talk about the future of reading, books, book culture, etc., despite the fact that libraries have been dealing with readership and community issues for years now.
Camila Alire: [. . .] I've talked to library school students all over the country this year and I tell them this is the most exciting time to be going to library school, to be coming into the profession, because these students are tech savvy, you know, they know everything about library 2.0. They know everything about the different mobile devices and all their capabilities. They know that they can just click on a mobile device and get to specific information. They come in, they are part of the solution in terms of thinking broadly and thinking ahead and thinking how we could incorporate the best technological advances in our libraries. Our public libraries listen to their communities. They do community analysis, and when they hear the community say we want more access, you know, 24/7 access. We want more electronic databases; they try to respond.
Jeffrey Brown: Well, you know, you've talked about new devices, you talked about the e-book, something we've talked a lot about here is the future of the book, the form it will take, who reads it and what do they read on and how do they read. How much is that discussion affecting your world as you think about the library of the future?
Camila Alire: Well, it's interesting because I think the lay person spends more time wondering about the future of the book than the librarians do. We want to be able to provide what our communities, what our customers want. E-books are really popular and they are getting even more popular now. In 2007 our public libraries provided about — 38 percent of their collections were e-books. That rose to 55 percent in 2009. The challenges in the readers and, also you know, I was just in a session yesterday where one of the librarians reported that people can just download a particular title, an e-book title onto their device, and then they have it; they don't have to come in to the library. They check it out virtually. We'll still have the printed words. But, you know, libraries have transformed. We have changed for a long, long time. I mean, we first only provided the printed the word. Then we were hearing from our communities that they wanted it on visual resources, so we did that. And they were saying, well, you know, we would like more online databases. Most people love the catalog. I am sure you can remember the card catalog, but you know there aren't a lot card catalogs around anymore.
To read the books, borrowers around the world can download and read them for free on computers or e-reading gadgets. Software renders the books inaccessible once the loan period ends. Two-thirds of American libraries offered e-book loans in 2009, according to a survey by the American Library Association. But those were mostly contemporary imprints from the last couple of years—say, the latest Stephen King novel.
With its latest project, the organization is making inroads into the idea of loaning in-copyright books to the masses. Only one person at a time will be allowed to check out a digital copy of an in-copyright book for two weeks. While on loan, the physical copy of the book won't be loaned, due to copyright restrictions.
But keeping libraries running costs big money. In Chicago, the city pumps $120 million a year into them. In fact, a full 2.5 percent of our yearly property taxes go to fund them.
That's money that could go elsewhere – like for schools, the CTA, police or pensions.
And while this is all devolving into a series of jokes (man, it's almost Friday, right?), I wanted to come back to the ALA conference for a second. I was there on Saturday afternoon to participate in a really interesting panel on translations. Alane Mason of W.W. Norton and Words Without Borders spoke, as did the very impressive Edwin Gentzler.


Interventional treatment of aortic aneurysms using endovascular stent grafting is a minimally invasive technique. Following device implantation, continuous hemodynamic forces are exerted (drag force) on the stentgraft. When the drag force exceeds the fixation force, complications like stentgraft migration, endoleaks and stentgraft failure occur. In such a scenario the device becomes unstable, causing concern over the long-term durability of endovascular repairs. The objective of this study is: 1) to measure the drag force on a stentgraft in an in vitro experiment; 2) to calculate the drag force using blood flow–compliant arterial wall interaction model and compare it with the measured values on the stentgraft for the in vitro experiment; 3) to calculate drag force on the stentgraft using physiological flow conditions. Experimental data for a stentgraft within a silicon tubing, representing a compliant artery, shows a peak drag force of 2.79 N whereas the calculation predicts a peak drag force of 2.57 N; thus a percentage difference of 7.8 % is observed. When physiological flow and pressure pulse are used for the blood flow-compliant arterial wall computations, a peak drag force of 0.59 N is obtained for the same stentgraft that was used in the experiment. Compared to previous studies of constant iliac limb diameter for the abdominal aortic aneurysm stentgraft, the proposed model, where the distal end is not fixed to the arterial wall and is approximately half of its proximal diameter, the drag force is reduced by 47 % for the in vitro experiment and 81 % for the physiologic flow conditions. These forces can be used as design guidelines for the fixation force needed at the proximal end of the stentgraft under physiological pulsatile flow.