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What is digital signature?
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A digital signature is a digital code (generated and authenticated by public key encryption) which is attached to an electronically transmitted document to verify its contents and the sender's identity.
A digital signature is a mathematical scheme for demonstrating the authenticity of a digital message or document. A valid digital signature gives a recipient reason to believe that the message was created by a known sender, such that the sender cannot deny having sent the message (authentication and non-repudiation) and that the message was not altered in transit (integrity). Digital signatures are commonly used for software distribution, financial transactions, and in other cases where it is important to detect forgery or tampering.
Digital signatures are often used to implement electronic signatures, a broader term that refers to any electronic data that carries the intent of a signature,[1] but not all electronic signatures use digital signatures.[2][3] In some countries, including the United States, India, Brazil,[4] and members of the European Union, electronic signatures have legal significance.
Digital signatures employ a type of asymmetric cryptography. For messages sent through a nonsecure channel, a properly implemented digital signature gives the receiver reason to believe the message was sent by the claimed sender. Digital signatures are equivalent to traditional handwritten signatures in many respects but properly implemented digital signatures are more difficult to forge than the handwritten type. Digital signature schemes, in the sense used here, are cryptographically based, and must be implemented properly to be effective. Digital signatures can also provide non-repudiation, meaning that the signer cannot successfully claim they did not sign a message, while also claiming their private key remains secret; further, some non-repudiation schemes offer a time stamp for the digital signature, so that even if the private key is exposed, the signature is valid. Digitally signed messages may be anything representable as a bitstring: examples include electronic mail, contracts, or a message sent via some other cryptographic protocol.
As organizations move away from paper documents with ink signatures or authenticity stamps, digital signatures can provide added assurances of the evidence to provenance, identity, and status of an electronic document as well as acknowledge informed consent and approval by a signatory. The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) publishes electronic versions of the budget, public and private laws, and congressional bills with digital signatures. Universities including Penn State, University of Chicago, and Stanford are publishing electronic student transcripts with digital signatures.
Below are some common reasons for applying a digital signature to communications:
Although messages may often include information about the entity sending a message, that information may not be accurate. Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the source of messages. When ownership of a digital signature secret key is bound to a specific user, a valid signature shows that the message was sent by that user. The importance of high confidence in sender authenticity is especially obvious in a financial context. For example, suppose a bank's branch office sends instructions to the central office requesting a change in the balance of an account. If the central office is not convinced that such a message is truly sent from an authorized source, acting on such a request could be a grave mistake.
In many scenarios, the sender and receiver of a message may have a need for confidence that the message has not been altered during transmission. Although encryption hides the contents of a message, it may be possible to change an encrypted message without understanding it. (Some encryption algorithms, known as nonmalleable ones, prevent this, but others do not.) However, if a message is digitally signed, any change in the message after signature invalidates the signature. Furthermore, there is no efficient way to modify a message and its signature to produce a new message with a valid signature, because this is still considered to be computationally infeasible by most cryptographic hash functions (see collision resistance).
Non-repudiation, or more specifically non-repudiation of origin, is an important aspect of digital signatures. By this property, an entity that has signed some information cannot at a later time deny having signed it. Similarly, access to the public key only does not enable a fraudulent party to fake a valid signature.
Note that these authentication, non-repudiation etc. properties rely on the secret key not having been revoked prior to its usage. Public revocation of a key-pair is a required ability, else leaked secret keys would continue to implicate the claimed owner of the key-pair. Checking revocation status requires an "online" check, e.g. checking a "Certificate Revocation List" or via the "Online Certificate Status Protocol". Very roughly this is analogous to a vendor who receives credit-cards first checking online with the credit-card issuer to find if a given card has been reported lost or stolen. Of course, with stolen key pairs, the theft is often discovered only after the secret key's use, e.g., to sign a bogus certificate for espionage purposes.
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This production of The Sleeping Beauty has been delighting audiences in Covent Garden since 1946. A classic of Russian ballet, it established The Royal Ballet both in its new home after World War II and as a world-class company. Sixty years later, in 2006, the original staging was revived, returning Oliver Messel's wonderful designs and glittering costumes to the stage.
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Barcelona manager Ronald Koeman has criticised interim president Carlos Tusquets after he said the club should have sold Lionel Messi in the summer.
Tusquets said selling the forward, 33, was "desirable" because of the money the Spanish giants could have made.
Messi is out of contract at the end of this season so can leave for free.
"I don't care what's said outside the club. However, comments from inside the club don't help us have the calmness we need to do our job," said Koeman.
"We can't control what's said outside, but from within it's a different story."
Argentina international Messi, who has been at Barca his whole career, told the club he wanted to leave in August and said a clause in his deal meant he could do so for free.
Barcelona said that was not the case and would not let their captain and all-time leading goalscorer go for less than his 700m euros (£624m) release clause.
"If there's anyone who needs to decide about his future, it's Leo himself," added Koeman.
"It [selling Messi] might have been his [Tusquets'] personal opinion and I respect that, but Leo's got a year left on his deal and he is the one who needs to decide."
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Q: Emailing contact form information When a customer fills out my for, it sends it in an email to my email address. The email contains all of the information from the form except for where the contact heard about the website. In the form this option is a drop down menu. Any advise would be great.
This is the form:

Full Name:

<input type="text" id="fullname" class="detail" name="fullname" placeholder="Full Name" />

Email Address:

<input type="text" id="emailaddress" class="detail" name="emailaddress" placeholder="Email Address" />

Your Message:

<textarea id="comment" name="comment" class="mess" placeholder="Your Message"></textarea>

Select your gender:

<input type="radio" name="gender" value="male"  id="gender_male" CHECKED/>
Male
<input type="radio" name="gender" value="female" id="gender_female" />
Female

Please select your age:

  <input type="radio" name="age" id="range1" value="18-25" CHECKED />
  18-25
  <input type="radio" name="age" id="range2" value="26-33" />26-33
  <input type="radio" name="age" id="range3" value="24-40" />34-40
  <input type="radio" name="age" id="range4" value="40+" />40+

Select 3 products that you are interested in hearing about:

<input type="checkbox" name="Interested[]" id="protien" value="protien" />Protien
<input type="checkbox" name="Interested[]" id="creatine" value="creatine" />Creatine

<input type="checkbox" name="Interested[]"  id="bcaa" value="bcaa" />BCAA
<input type="checkbox" name="Interested[]" id="power drinks" value="powerdrinks" />Power Drinks

Where did you hear about us?

<select>
<option value="Google" selected="selected" name="Google" id="heard"  /> Google Search
<option value="WordOfMouth" name="heard" id="WordOfMouth" /> Word of mouth
<option value="Newspaper" name="heard" id="Neawspaper" /> Newspaper
<option value="Magazine" name="heard" id="Magazine" /> Magazine
</select>

<input type="submit" id="send" Name="send" value="Send" />

<input type="reset" id="clear" Name="Clear" value="Clear" />

</form>

This is the reply.php action:
$name = $_POST["fullname"];
$email = $_POST["emailaddress"];
$comments = $_POST["comment"];
$gender = $_POST["gender"];
$age = $_POST["age"];
$Interested = $_POST['Interested'];
$heard = $_POST["heard"];

$message = "New Email for a customer" .

         "\r\nName of the contact" .
         "\r\n-". $name .
         "\r\nEmail address of the contact" .
         "\r\n-".$email .
         "\r\nThe comment that the contact has made" .
         "\r\n-".$comments .
         "\r\nThe gender of the contact" .
         "\r\n-".$gender .
         "\r\nThe age range of the contact" .
         "\r\n-".$age .
         "\r\nThe products that the customer is interested in" .
         "\r\n-".implode(", " ,$Interested).
         "\r\nWhere the contact heard of Shredded Nutrition"  .
         "\r\n-".$Heard .
         "\r\n-" .
  $headers =  "From: " . $email;

mail("kieran@localhost",$subject,$message,$headers);
$subjectReply = 'Thank you for your contact..';
$messageReply = 'You will soon receive an answer';
$headers = 'From: admin@shreddednutrition';

mail($email, $subjectReply, $messageReply, $headers);
?>

A: Your select should be named heard
I.e:
<select name="heard">

and remove the name="heard" from your options. value will take care of that.

<select name="heard">
<option value="Google" selected="selected" id="heard"  /> Google Search
<option value="WordOfMouth" id="WordOfMouth" /> Word of mouth
<option value="Newspaper" id="Neawspaper" /> Newspaper
<option value="Magazine" id="Magazine" /> Magazine
</select>

Also, change .$Heard to .$heard since you're using $heard = $_POST["heard"];
More specifically:
"\r\n-".$Heard . to "\r\n-".$heard .
POST variables are case-sensitive. Not doing so, you will not see the choice in the Email.

A: Your select should have the name of heard, not the options inside. The select is what is actually sent back to the application, the options are more the values that the user is allowed to select. Add the below, but remove the id of heard off of the top option you have presently.

Where did you hear about us?

<select name="heard">
<option value="Google" selected="selected" name="Google"> Google Search</option>
<option value="WordOfMouth" id="WordOfMouth"> Word of mouth </option>
<option value="Newspaper" id="Neawspaper"> Newspaper</option>
<option value="Magazine" id="Magazine"> Magazine</option>
</select>

Should resolve it.

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Board members Jack Davidson and Richard Yessian presented three $500 scholarships at the June 14 meeting of the Sons Of Italy Lodge No. 2780. The lodge supports the scholarships through various fundraising activities during the year. These include group dinners, group trips, raffles and an Annual Bocce Tournament held in the springtime at the St Augustine Pier.
This year's recipients were:
¦ Ivy Angel DeLucia-Bradley, who graduated from Pedro Menendez High School and will be attending Florida State University in Tallahassee, to study dietetics.
¦ Bradley Scott Jones graduated from St. Augustine High School. He will be attending St. Johns River State College as a prelude to going on for a four-year degree in business administration. He hopes to someday own and manage his own business.
¦ Anthony Frank Muraca graduated from Bartram Trail High School. He will be attending University of Central Florida to pursue a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering.
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Max Carter who is fighting compulsory acquisition of his farmland in Marong.
NEIGHBOURS opposing the compulsory acquisition of part of a Marong family's farm have vowed to take their fight all the way to the High Court, if the state government allows the City of Greater Bendigo to forcibly acquire the land.
Two of the Carter family's neighbours say they will seek an injunction firstly in the Supreme Court, and the High Court if necessary, should planning minister Richard Wynne agree to the council's request.
Councillors last month voted to apply for a public acquisition overlay, stating the parcel of land was the only land suitable for such a use in the municipality after an independent panel asked them to look again.
Revealing the group's defence strategy, neighbour Adele Patterson, a lawyer and a member of the Victorian Planning and Environmental Law Association, said the Bendigo council had done no work in the past two years to address the panel's 2016 findings, which also rejected a move to compulsory acquisition.
"The only thing they have done in the last two years is write to the Carters saying we want to buy your land and offer them money," Ms Patterson said.
"There has been no further work as indicated in the panel report to investigate any other available land.
Asked what work had been done in the past 18 months to rule out alternative sites to the Marong land, City of Greater Bendigo chief executive Craig Niemann referred to studies completed in 2006 and 2009 that had been unable to identify any other large sites in single ownership on the fringes of Bendigo, relatively free from constraints, with transport connections and not close to residential areas.
"The minister's approval of the land rezoning (from farmland to comprehensive development) demonstrates the state government's support of this site being the most suitable parcel of land," Mr Niemann said.
He said further work the council undertook to justify the need for a public acquisition overlay "included making contact with the landowners again to attempt to negotiate a voluntary sale and further analysis to demonstrate that government intervention is required".
Ms Patterson said the simplest solution to the 16-year mess was for the state government to give the Bendigo council funds to find another site for the business park, where there was a willing seller.
"The panel report was pretty clear that this is not the only available site," she said.
A public acquisition overlay did not apply to the Marong land because the use was not for a public use, but a private industrial estate.
Her partner David Cordy, a barrister, said the council were handing planning minister Richard Wynne or his Liberal successor if there is a change of government in November, "a poisoned chalice" of an issue.
"Who will drink from it? he asked, adding that approval for compulsory acquisition threatened to set a precedent that would make it easier for councils throughout Victoria to compulsorily acquire land.
If the Bendigo council gets ultimate approval: "every landowner in Victoria is suddenly unsafe", Mr Cordy said.
He said it would mean a council could compulsorily acquire land and then sell it to a private sector developer.
Mr Cordy based his analysis on the council's stated plans that it "would seek to sell the balance of the (Marong) business park to a private party" after it had developed the first stage for an estimated $20 million.
Mr Niemann confirmed its plans to develop the first stage of the park, "however the model to complete the rest of the development has not yet been finalised and there are a number of options to consider".
Ms Patterson and Mr Cordy also pointed to weaknesses in the council's strategy.
Ms Patterson said because the application does not specifically name council as the developer, the Carters could sell that land to anyone and they would have carte blanche to do anything within the zoning.
That could include retail, commercial or industrial development. The Carters could also negotiate a no development clause in the sale.
"They have got a council that hasn't considered the financial implications of a public acquisition overlay," she said.
Mr Niemann said the high level of investment required and rate of return on investments meant a private developer was not likely to take up the project.
"It is also unlikely the state and federal governments would allocate funding to a private entity to develop a business park," he said.
Ms Patterson and Mr Cordy have talked to both the major political parties and have asked for a statement of intention.
"What we want is a statement, we don't want Richard Wynne to just put it on the back burner until after the election," Mr Cordy said.


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RESOUND TEAMS NAMED WINNER OF FIVE GOLD STEVIE® AWARDS IN 2018 STEVIE AWARDS FOR SALES & CUSTOMER SERVICE
March 13, 2018 Susan Turkell
RESOUND TEAMS NAMED WINNER OF FIVE GOLD STEVIE® AWARDS IN
2018 STEVIE AWARDS FOR SALES & CUSTOMER SERVICE
Bloomington, Minn. … March 13, 2018 … GN Hearing, a global leader in Smart Hearing aid technology, announced today that it earned six Stevie® Awards (five Gold and one Bronze) for its North America ReSound business teams in the 12th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service competition.
The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service are the world's top honors for customer service, contact center, business development and sales professionals. The Stevie Awards organizes seven of the world's leading business awards programs, also including the prestigious American Business AwardsSM and International Business Awards®.
ReSound teams were recognized as the Gold winner in the following categories:
National Sales Executive of the Year – Mikkel Knudsen, vice president – sales
Government Sales Team of the Year – John Pettus, vice president – government services
Business Development Executive of the Year – Keith Lewis, vice president – business development
Sales Training or Education Leader of the Year – Sarah Klett, director of training
Sales Support Team of the Year – Sales and Training Teams
The Company's Bronze Stevie Award was earned in the National Sales Team of the Year category.
"These awards are a testament to our dedicated employees, whose tireless efforts help support hearing care professionals and their patients who benefit every day from our smart hearing aids," said Kim Lody, president of GN Hearing North America, who in 2016 named Tom Woods as president of the ReSound North America business to oversee a comprehensive growth strategy. "Under Tom's leadership, we have expanded and strengthened our organization through various sales, training, product, government-related and customer service initiatives in order to bring our state-of-art hearing instruments to more people, helping address hearing loss in this country. These efforts are paying off, and we are honored that the award judges took note."
More than 2,500 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were evaluated in this year's competition. Winners were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals worldwide in seven specialized judging committees. Entries were considered across 89 categories for customer service and contact center achievements; 60 categories for sales and business development achievements; and several other categories recognizing new products and services as well as solution providers.
Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at www.StevieAwards.com.
About GN Hearing and ReSound
GN Hearing A/S is the medical device division of the GN Group, a global leader in intelligent audio solutions. The company leads the industry in superior sound quality and connectivity. Founded in 1869, the GN Group employs more than 5,000 people worldwide, and is listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen (GN.CO). GN Hearing is dedicated to making life sound better and developing meaningful solutions that transform lives through the power of sound.
GN Hearing's ReSound hearing aids, available from leading hearing care professionals, set worldwide standards for quality and intuitive technology. For more information on ReSound hearing aids, please visit www.resound.com.
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Is your Area Cold Enough ?
The most important step is to establish if you have the right cold units. We need 800 cold units for truffles to be successfully propagated in your area.
Your day and night average winter temperature needs to be about 8° degrees . Lower temps are OK but higher temps are not ideal and would have to be tempered by mulching.
Your site selection is the second most important step toward successful truffle production, a well drained soil is very important.
Take sun, wind direction and water availability into consideration when choosing a site.
The French black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) needs a climate without extreme summer heat or extreme winter cold. Mulching and irrigation methods can modify conditions and make marginal areas suitable for truffle growing.
The French Black Truffle tolerates a broad range of soils from sandy to clay loams, including rocky soils, but most importantly, truffles require well-drained soils.
Woodford truffles team of experts will work together with you to confirm the most suitable site.
You should have the soil tested to measure its natural pH, buffering capacity, organic matter content and the availability of plant nutrients. The suitable soil pH range is between 7.5 and 8.3, but 7.9 (water reading or 7.2KCl) is considered ideal.
The best method is to raise the pH to 7.9, well before the trees are planted to give potential fungus competitors as little opportunity as possible. It takes a long time, to raise the pH usually, but few farmers are usually willing to wait that long before planting.
The amount of lime required to raise the pH varies with the starting pH, the soil texture and buffering capacity and the type of lime that you use. The ideal pH is way above levels ideal for maximizing soil fertility and approaches the level where most plants begin to suffer from various nutrient deficiencies. Consequently, agricultural specialists will have a difficult time predicting the amount of lime required to raise the pH since they typically have no experience with raising pH to these levels. The task for the truffle farmer is to add lime incrementally with continued pH testing until the ideal pH is reached. Lime can take as much as a year to change the pH and it is often difficult to add enough lime in a single application so the process of applying lime is necessarily gradual. Once the ideal pH is reached it will need to be maintained with supplemental lime applications as necessary.
Ploughing before planting out is advisable to remove all vegetation and with it possible mycorrhizal contamination. A cover crop of orchard grasses are resown subsequently.
As the melanosporum truffle originates from the northern hemisphere and grows with the natural rainfall there, we need to emulate these conditions if we want to be successfully cultivating it in the Southern Hemisphere. Our ultimate spacing of trees will be 8m X 8m and we want to blanket-irrigate under the tree-canopy to keep the soil-moisture available all over.
A good supply of quality water is essential. Our specialists recommend 4 000 to 6 000 cubes per annum which includes the rainfall. Truffles require a good downpour in spring and autumn for the truffles to form and to grow to maturity. If your area's climate does not provide this, supplemental irrigation will do the trick.
We like to plant about 400 trees per hectare. More trees will work as you will get mycelium coverage reaching from tree to tree earlier. We are emulating a European woodland at the edge of the forest where sunlight filters down to the ground.
Woodford will supply a mix of English Oak, Evergreen Oak as well as Spanish Rock-Rose to create the orchard suitable for your region.
If the soil was properly prepared at the liming stage, little will have to be done for some years depending on local conditions. Additional liming is usually required at a later stage, and can be applied through spreading 'Aquastep' chips, or in the water supply by raising the pH of the irrigation water.
Our forester will visit on a regular basis to advise on tree-pruning and disease control. Leaf sampling will show trace element shortages and corrective steps will be advised.
As we do not want to compact the soil in the orchard in any way, only a very light tractor should be used to mow and annually aerate the soil with a shallow-tined tool.
A brulé (burnt area) will form under the trees indicating that the mycorrhiza is growing and working. At least once a year, one of our team of experts will visit the orchard to identify the mycorrhizal progress.
"Woodford" has employed the services of a team of animal trainers to train dogs to sniff out the truffles. The team will visit the orchard at the start of harvest time in winter to help identify the onset of production.


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In 1907 a French scientist ran an unusual experiment. He approached bearded and beardless men on the streets of Paris and asked each of them to kiss his female assistant. Before each kiss, the women's lips were cleaned with antiseptic. After each kiss her lips were swabbed and the cultures preserved. At the end of the experiment, the swabs were examined and the scientist published his findings. He claimed that bearded men's kisses contained considerably more bacteria than those from clean-shaven men, and the bacteria was far more varied.


Soviet authorities have been forcibly treating dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov for 11/2 months in a hospital in Gorky, sources told United Press International Tuesday.
The sources said Dr. Sakharov was being treated with drugs believed to have ''mind altering'' properties. A psychiatric source in Moscow said Soviet authorities hoped Sakharov would soon sign a declaration to be published in national newspapers.
Keston College, a British organization monitoring Soviet dissident activities , said Sakharov has been under the supervision of Vladimir Rozhnov, a doctor specializing in hypnotism. The group said the source for its report has been accurate in the past but that the organization was unable to confirm the latest information independently.
Gorky, where Sakharov lives, is closed to foreigners.


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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Passes Dota 2 and Sets Record for Most Concurrent Players on Steam
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A record many thought unbreakable: has been broken. That's right Dota 2's record for the most concurrent players on Steam has been broken by PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. A non-Valve game. A game not even out of Early Access.
For those unfamiliar with the term "concurrent players," all this means is that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has had more people play it at once than any other game in Steam history.
The news comes via PLAYERUNKNOWN's (aka Brendan Green, the game's creative director) Twitter account, where it was revealed that today the battle-royale shooter hit 1,342,857 players, healthily beating out Dota 2's previous record-holding figure of 1,295,114.
Highest peak player count on @steam_games! A sincere thank you to all our players & the amazing @PUBATTLEGROUNDS team I get to work with! GG pic.twitter.com/z8V2rdmQmm
— PLAYERUNKNOWN (@PLAYERUNKNOWN) September 16, 2017
According to Steam's stats, PUGB further padded it's world-record breaking figure, peaking at 1,349,584 players.
The question now is: where does PUGB go from here? Well, when you consider that it only broke the 1 million concurrent player threshold less than eight days ago, which means it grew a very healthy 35% since, it could and should continue to rise. Which poses another question: where does it peak? 1,500,000 seems doable. 2,000,000? Maybe? Who knows. Only time will tell.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is currently available on PC via Steam Early Access for $29.99 USD. A full release is expected to come sometime in 2018. Further, an Xbox One version (via Xbox Game Preview) is expected to arrive later this year.
In other recent and related news, during an interview the aforementioned Brendan Green it was revealed that the game's developer Bluehole only predicted that it would ship 200 – 300K copies of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in the first year. As of September 5th (in less than five months), it has sold over 10 million copies. That's a lot more than 300,000 copies.
Ubisoft's Riders Republic Officially Delayed to "Later this Year"
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The Last of Us Show and Uncharted Movie Are "Just the Beginning," Says PlayStation's Jim Ryan
There Were Over 2 Billion Tweets About Video Games Last Year


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The Latest: Sakkari beats 2019 champ Andreescu at US Open
NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open tennis tournament (all times local):
Maria Sakkari has eliminated 2019 champion Bianca Andreescu in the latest-finishing women's match in tournament history to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time.
Sakkari came back to win 6-7 (2), 7-6 (6), 6-3 as Andreescu had trouble with a left leg that was taped by a trainer during a medical timeout in the third set. Andreescu limped around between points down the stretch and her leg buckled a few times.
The 3 1/2-hour match ended at nearly 2:15 a.m. The previous women's record was a 1:48 a.m. finish for a first-round match in 2016 in which Madison Keys beat Alison Riske; three men's matches have wrapped up at 2:26 a.m.
Both players' grunts reverberated off the thousands of unused blue seats in Arthur Ashe Stadium by the end. Fans who remained engaged in dueling first-name chants: "Ma-ri-a!" and "Bi-an-ca!"
This was Andreescu's first loss in the main draw at Flushing Meadows. She beat Serena Williams in the final to win the title in her debut two years ago and missed the hard-court Grand Slam tournament in 2020 while sitting out the entire season with an injured knee.
The 17th-seeded Sakkari will face two-time Grand Slam runner-up Karolina Pliskova in the quarterfinals.
Sakkari's best showing at a major tournament was a semifinal run at the French Open in June.
Bianca Andreescu and Maria Sakkari are headed to a third set in the last match of the U.S. Open's fourth round.
Each of the first two sets ended in tiebreakers and they already have been playing for 2 1/2 hours.
The sixth-seeded Andreescu took the opening set 7-6 (2).
The 17th-seeded Sakkari evened the match by grabbing the second 7-6 (6).
Andreescu was the 2019 champion at Flushing Meadows and has never lost in the main draw. She missed the tournament last year.
Sakkari is trying to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the first time. Her best showing at a Grand Slam was a semifinal run at the French Open in June.
Novak Djokovic is into the U.S. Open quarterfinals and three wins from men's tennis history.
The No. 1 seed pulled away over the final 2 1/2 sets to beat 99th-ranked American Jenson Brooksby 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 and keep alive his hopes for the first calendar-year Grand Slam by a men's player since 1969.
Djokovic will next face No. 6 seed Matteo Berrettini, the man he beat to win Wimbledon and give him 20 Grand Slam titles, tied with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for most by a male.
Novak Djokovic has moved into the lead in his fourth-round match against American Jenson Brooksby.
The top-ranked Djokovic leads 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 as he tries to keep alive his hopes of winning a men's record 21st Grand Slam title.
Djokovic finally had a fairly easy time in the third set, racing to a 4-0 lead and winning in 49 minutes as the 20-year-old Brooksby showed signs of wearing down after a grueling second set.
Djokovic is 10-0 against Americans at the U.S. Open.
Novak Djokovic has evened his riveting fourth-round match against American Jenson Brooksby at one set apiece.
Brooksby, a wild card ranked 99th, took the first set 6-1. Djokovic came back to take the second set 6-3.
Trying to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam by a man since 1969, Djokovic shook off the loss of an exhausting 24-point game that cut his lead to 3-2. He broke Brooksby in the following game and then won the next as well to regain control.
The second set lasted 1 hour, 8 minutes.
Jenson Brooksby has won the first set against No. 1 Novak Djokovic — and the 20-year-old American did it easily.
Brooksby, ranked 99th, took the set 6-1 in 29 minutes, breaking Djokovic's serve twice.
Djokovic is trying to win the calendar-year Grand Slam. Brooksby is trying to become the youngest American man in a major quarterfinal since Andy Roddick at the 2003 Wimbledon.
Emma Raducanu has gone all the way from the U.S. Open qualifying rounds to the quarterfinals.
The 18-year-old from Britain routed American Shelby Rogers 6-2, 6-1 to join fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the women's last eight.
Raducanu reached the fourth round at Wimbledon and has gone a step further in the year's last Grand Slam tournament, becoming just the third female qualifier to reach the U.S. Open quarterfinals in the professional era.
Rogers, who upset No. 1 seed Ash Barty in the last round, jumped to a 2-0 lead before Raducanu won the next 11 games.
Another player advanced to his first Grand Slam quarterfinal when unseeded Lloyd Harris handled Reilly Opelka's big serve and eliminated the No. 22-seeded American 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-1, 6-3.
Harris plays Olympic gold medalist Alexander Zverev next.
Alexander Zverev is into the U.S. Open quarterfinals with his 15th straight victory.
The No. 4 seed from Germany beat 13th-seeded Jannik Sinner 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (7).
Zverev started his winning streak at the Olympics, where he beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the semifinals en route to the gold medal.
Djokovic is in action later Monday.
Belinda Bencic is back into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open.
The Olympic gold medalist from Switzerland beat Iga Swiatek 7-6 (12), 6-3 to make the last eight in Flushing Meadows for the third time.
The 11th-seeded Bencic pulled out the lengthy first-set tiebreaker, then took the second set in 43 minutes — only about 20 more than the tiebreaker lasted.
Bencic was a semifinalist at the U.S. Open in 2019, the last time she played. She also reached the quarterfinals in her debut in 2014.
Swiatek, the No. 7 seed from Poland who won last year's French Open, was the only women's player to reach the fourth round in every major this year.
Novak Djokovic is back at the stage of his loss at the U.S. Open last year.
The top-ranked Djokovic plays Monday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium against 20-year-old American Jenson Brooksby.
It was in the fourth round last year at Flushing Meadows that Djokovic was defaulted for accidentally hitting a line judge in the throat with a tennis ball after dropping a game in his match against Pablo Carreño Busta.
After then losing to Rafael Nadal in the French Open final, Djokovic has gone on to win all three major tournaments this year, a 24-match winning streak in Grand Slam play. He will become the first man to win all four in the same year since 1969 if he wins the U.S. Open.
Olympic champions Alexander Zverev and Belinda Bencic were also on the Labor Day schedule. American Shelby Rogers, who knocked out women's No. 1 seed Ash Barty, was set to face 18-year-old British qualifier Emma Raducanu.
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Bit-addressable objects are objects that may be addressed as words or as bits. Only data objects that occupy the bit-addressable area of the 8051 internal memory fall into this category.
The above example represents declarations, not assignments to the bits of the ibase and bary bdata variables. The expression following the carat symbol ('^') in the example specifies the position of the bit to access with this declaration. This expression must be a constant value.
0-31 for long and unsigned long.
The C51 Compiler assumes that objects accessed using sbit declarations are stored in little endian byte order. This is the case for sfr16 types. However, standard C types like int and long are stored in big endian.
Declarations involving the sbit type require that the base object be declared with the memory type bdata. The only exceptions are the variants for special function bits. Refer to Special Function Registers for more information.
The following example shows how to change the ibase and bary bits using the above declarations.
The bdata memory type is handled like the data memory type except that variables declared with bdata reside in the bit-addressable portion of the internal data memory. Note that the total size of this area of memory may not exceed 16 bytes.
You may not specify bit variables for the bit positions of a float. However, you may include the float and a long in a union and then declare bit variables to access the bits in the long type.
The sbit data type uses the specified variable as a base address and adds the bit position to obtain a physical bit address. Physical bit addresses are not equivalent to logical bit positions for certain data types.
Physical bit position 0 refers to bit position 0 of the first byte. Physical bit position 8 refers to bit position 0 of the second byte. Because int variables are stored high-byte first, bit 0 of the integer is located in bit position 0 of the second byte. This is physical bit position 8 when accessed using an sbit data type.


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Home Currency Islamic State To Start Minting Gold And Silver Coins
Islamic State To Start Minting Gold And Silver Coins
So the Islamic State wants to start minting coins to escape the tyrannical yoke of foreign countries that control economies with the flow of paper money.
The Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi regards a national currency to underpin the foundations of a wider Islamic empire that harks back to the Middle Ages.
Then, the caliphs of the Middle East controlled a vast economy stretching from Spain, across North Africa and away to distant Pakistan.
The empire needed a common currency as the Islamic armies had conquered two regions with quite separate currencies.
The west was the former Byzantine Empire which minted gold coins, while the east favoured silver coins.
Past grandeur
The announcement by the Islamic state that the leaders intend to mint gold, silver and copper coins of the same size and weight of the ancient coinage is meant to show the Islamic State intends to build an empire that reflects the past grandeur of the caliphs.
However, although observers may argue that although the Islamic State is firmly rooted in the seventh century, the rest of the world has moved on.
The Islamic State currency will stand isolated. No one outside their sphere of influence will be able to exchange their money for US dollars, Chinese renminbi, Pound sterling or the euro.
In a digital world where Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are taking off, gold and silver coinage will just weigh down the pockets and have nothing but bullion value outside of the Islamic State.
Prize targets
Although the Islamic State will avoid a full on military confrontation with the coalition of Western and Arab governments, they will continue to fight an underground war in the fashion of the Taliban.
Minting a currency does not change the fact that military and economic might will eventually hold sway in the region – and the Islamic State has neither, only what it can beg, borrow or steal.
The other problem for the Islamic State is keeping open lines of supply and communication if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi wants to extend his domain.
His options to move troops, equipment and supplies are limited while Western air power dominates the skies.
The war between the coalition and the Islamic State will remain at stalemate for some time to come as the coalition frustrates Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's expansion plans and picks off prize targets and important individuals as they pop their heads over the parapets.
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I Don't Like You Either.
Veepstakes
Colbert Twofer: John McCain Steals from Wikipedia /Blame Monica Goodling
Christian PAC Comes Out in Support of Obama, Infuriating the Right-eous
Hope for a New Species or Giant Hoax? Men Claim to Have Recovered the Body of Sasquatch
CNN Inquires: "[IS] OBAMA THE ANTICHRIST?"
McCain Yanks Off Bush's Crown; Tries It on For Size
Two Ads: "Maverick No More" and "The Original"
The Faulty Reasoning Almanack: Shuster Is Polite To PUMAs....but....
Colmes Being Awesome
All We Can Eat
Alicublog
Blood and Treasure
Elementropy
Fire Megan McArdle
Hairy Fishnuts
Instaputz
Jim Kunstler
Kiko's House [Shaun Mullen]
Lawyers, Guns, & Money
Politics After 50
Snarkmarket
Vindico (Cynical Optimist)
World O' Crap
Mrs. Anna Hosanna
John Q. Public [So Right It's Wrong]
Ride the Wayback Pony
Lest We Forget....Bush Speaks
AND HE'S STILL PRESIDENT.
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Ride the Wayback Pony: Bush's Stand-Up on the WMD
You know, he missed his calling. He should have been a real comedian. He could have made fun of people like himself. He's obviously good at it. Sadly, there is a painful, ineradicable truth underlying his sly self-deprecatingness with this video portrays. .
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\TIME'S INGRATIATINGLY HANDSOME COVER GUY. (Who writes these things, you ask?)
COVER OF TIME: "SURE HE LOOKS LIKE A PRESIDENT...."
NICK: "No, he looks like a game show host."
The "he" in question being, of course, Mitt Romney. And hey, it's one man's opinion and I for one don't share it. Romney looks the way we all secretly think a president should look (except for Republicans who think he should look exactly like Ronald Reagan). "Who writes these things?" Nick wondered.
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A Matter of Timing; or "Remember the Abraham Lincoln"!
Can you say "Mission Accomplished"? Better not. If there's one thing that the last four years have taught us, it's that just because you declare that you're finished doesn't mean that the world will go along with you. Certain Republicans, and specifically certain neocons, are learning the hard way that making statements about the world in loud, assertive tones doesn't actually make what you're saying true.
The Dems already know that the bill calling for troop withdrawal is going to be vetoed. Consequently, the Dems are apparently already discussing (according to USA Today) how they might "scale back" the emergency spending bill which calls for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Furthermore, even the patience of the Republicans is "wearing thin." Susan Collins of Maine (who voted against the withdrawal timeline) said in a statement: "If the president's new strategy does not demonstrate significant results by August, then Congress should consider all options, including a redefinition of our mission and a gradual but significant withdrawal of our troops next year."
The Dems are considering short-term measures that would allow them to see if the troop surge is going to work. Though General Petraeus has said that success will require require an "enormous commitment," it seeems that neither party is exactly feeling enormous commitment. USA Today, Democrats Weigh Compromise on Iraq, by Ken Dilanian]
As to the existing bill, there is currently a little bit of an issue concerning the timing of its presentation to the president. According to Politico, the Democrats do intend to send it to the President on Tuesday, May 1, which JUST SO HAPPENS to be the anniversary of the president's speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. You remember that speech, right? Not in detail, you say? Allow me to refresh your recollection. That speech was stirring all right, if unfortunately just that little bit previous. Here are some pertinent excerpts:
[quote begins from CNN.com, Bush Makes Historic Speech Aboard Warship (unedited transcript)]
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The Shrub Doesn't Grow Far from the Tree
I've never been inclined to be as hard on Bush for his tendency to garble phrases; I remember his father. Bush Senior wasn't exactly a model of coherence himself. You are what you learn. Get off W's case, I say.
[From "George H.W. Bushisms at About: Political Humor by Daniel Kurtzman]
Among others, Kurtzman attributes the following quotes to Bush Senior:
I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly." –in 1989
"We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much." —in 1992
"Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering." —in 1989
"And let me say in conclusion, thanks for the kids. I learned an awful lot about bathtub toys — about how to work the telephone. One guy knows — several of them know their own phone numbers — preparation to go to the dentist. A lot of things I'd forgotten. So it's been a good day." —in 1992
"I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me." George Bush Sr., in 1988
"Ozone Man, Ozone. He's crazy, way out, far out, man." —speaking about Al Gore during the 1992 presidential campaign
"Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they? –during a tour of Auschwitz in 1989
"I've been talking the same way for years, so it can't be that serious." –in 1988
"Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of." —George Bush Sr., in 1989
[quotes end]
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Intimations of Impropriety. Will America Care?
The story from which today's quote is excerpted is from the Albuquerque Journal. I've mentioned the Iglesias story before, in another posting, but this is a further and significant allegation. I just wonder whether the signficance of the story---this afternoon's Big Fat Headinline at the HuffPost---will be clear to people who read it. I found the timeline a bit hard to follow, so I'm recapping it before I give you the quote.
DISCLAIMER! What follows are my gleanings from this article (Albuquerque Journal.com, Mike Gallagher, Domenici Sought Iglesias Ouster"); I am not asserting that any of these statements are facts because naturally I don't know. Based on the article, this is the approximate timeline of events:
Apparently, Senator Domenici, the Senior Senator from New Mexico---who got Iglesias his appointment in the first place---had been hearing "criticism going back to 2003 from sources ranging from law enforcement officials to Republican Party activists." The complaint was, specifically, that Iglesias "wasn't moving cases fast enough," specifically cases involving the prosecution of public corruption cases. Apparently Iglesias's own prosecutors had in 2005 suggested that Iglesias get more staff to cover political corruption cases "because the FBI was developing cases and leads faster than the section [White Collar Crime-Public Corruption] could handle in a timely fashion." Though "initially enthusiastic about the idea," Iglesias "didn't follow through after consulting senior staff."
In September 2005, Iglesias announced the arrests of two prominent Democrats, state Treasurer Robert Vigil, and his predecessor, Michael Montoya, on extortion charges. Sometime in late 2005---this is confirmed by Justice Department memoranda, according to the story---Domenici approached Iglesias to ask him if he needed prosecutors "for corruption cases." Iglesias said no; he needed them for immigration cases. Domenici then asked Gonzalez if the Department of Justice could send some additional public corruption prosecutors to Mexico. "None was sent here," the article states.
At various times in 2005, Domenici apparently complained several times to Gonzalez about Iglesias. One memorandum shows that Iglesias was offered a job as head the Executive Department of U.S. Attorneys in D.C., but turned it down. "That job offer according to several sources was made at the prodding of Domenici," says the article. He was also considered for other administrative provisions (the article doesn't say how many were actually offered to him). It does state that he was aware at the time that he was offered the job as head of the Executive Department of U.S. attorneys that Domenici wasn't pleased by his "job performance."
Montoya pleaded guilty to the federal extortion charges, but Vigil's case went to trial in April 2006. After five weeks, the cases ended in a mistrial because, apparently, of a single hold-out on the jury. The New Mexico Attorney-General, Attorney General, Patricia Madrid, indicted several key prosecution witnesses because Iglesias hadn't worked out agreements with her office or "been tough enough" in cutting plea deals. Because of this, a key prosecution witnesses refused to testify in the second federal trial.
Sometime "in spring 2006," Domenici allegedly told Gonzalez that he wanted Iglesias gone, but Gonzalez refused to fire him "only on orders from the president."
In September 2006, Iglesias's case against Vigil ended in conviction on one attempted extortion charge---and acquittal on 23 others. He received a prison sentence of 37 months.
While all this was going on, a case in which Domenici was interested which reflected very, very badly on certain New Mexico Democrats [ the public corruption investigation of Albuquerque's Metropolitan Courthouse construction] was apparently back-burnered. In his now-famous October 2006 telephone call to Iglesias, Domenici called him at home to find out whether any indictments were in sight. Iglesias said they were not. Domenici----who "has admitted and apologized for making the call (sic)"---said, "I'm very sorry to hear that," and hung up on him, causing Iglesias to feel "violated" and "pressured" (though he didn't report the call to the Justice Department).
Note that Iglesias was definitely prosecuting Democrats for public corruption and white collar crime; it was his timing that was the problem. Evidently, Domenici and other Republicans felt that he wasn't getting the job done quickly enough---i.e., quickly enough to get the convictions in time for them to have an impact on the election, I suppose. According to the article, he has said that political corruption is "endemic" (sic) in New Mexico.
In the November election, "a tight congressional race" between "incumbent Republican Heather Wilson and former state Attorney-General Patricia Madrid" ended with a margin of only 900 votes in favor of Wilson. The article concludes: "Delays in the courthouse case led to frustration among Republicans who had tried to make Madrid's track record on ethics and corruption cases an issue in the Madrid-Wilson race. Indictments in the courthouse case were announced last month."
Iglesias's name appeared on the List of Doom (the list of U.S. attorneys who were to be asked to resign) in November 15 (i.e., after the Domenici phone call) but not, according to the article, on the previous version of the list from October (before the phone call)---supporting an inference, should you choose to accept it----that this phone call was the straw that broke Domenici's back.
Now for the excerpt that The Huffpost found so exciting:
[quote begins from the Albuquerque Journal, "Domenici Sought Iglesias Ouster"]
At some point after the election last Nov. 6, Domenici called Bush's senior political adviser, Karl Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president.
Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue.
The conversation between Bush and Domenici occurred sometime after the election but before the firings of Iglesias and six other U.S. attorneys were announced on Dec. 7.
Iglesias' name first showed up on a Nov. 15 list of federal prosecutors who would be asked to resign. It was not on a similar list prepared in October. The Journal confirmed the sequence of events through a variety of sources familiar with the firing of Iglesias, including sources close to Domenici. The senator's office declined comment.
The House and Senate Judiciary committees are investigating Iglesias' firing as well as the dismissals of six other U.S. attorneys.
Gonzales, the embattled attorney general whose job is likely in the balance, is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Quote O' the Day. Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) Then and Now.
Having yesterday quoted Sensenbrenner's (R-Wis.) plangent cri de coeur over the FBI's little excesses, I thought I'd resurrect this quote from The Washington Post, Monday February 8, 1999 (House Managers' Closing Argument in the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton). The managers referred to are the 13 members of the House Judiciary Committee who prosecuted the action.
[quote begins]
The news media characterizes the managers as 13 angry men. They are right in that we are angry, but they are dead wrong about what we are angry about. We have not spent long hours poring through the evidence, sacrificed time with our families and subjected ourselves to intense political criticism to further a political vendetta. We have done so because of our love for this country and respect for the Office of the Presidency, regardless of who may hold it. We have done so because of our devotion to the rule of law and our fear that if the President does not suffer the legal and constitutional consequences of his actions, the impact of allowing the President to stand above the law will be felt for generations to come.
[quote ends (emphasis added)]
Just imagine how angry he must be feeling now, poor man.
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I Don't Like You Either:Table of Contents
Topics for 'I Don't Like You Either'
An Unkindness of Pundits
Are They Right Yet? Some Notes
Asked & Answered!
Babel Blogger: Faked-Up Outrage, Willful Misunderstandings
Babel Blogger: Rough Truths
Babel Blogger: Teapot Tempests
Big Brah is Watching YOU. And you and you and you
Bloggerama
Dept of It Gets Worse
Dept of Plaudits [Some Grudging]
Dept of Slow Clapping
Dude...WTF?
Election 2008---Barack Obama
Election 2008---Hillary Clinton
Election 2008---John McCain
Irony Alert
Mad Music
Media Misfires: Beat the Press
NURSERY RHYMES FOR THE NEXT CENTURY
Party Games/Party Infighting
People: Celebrities
People: Journalists
People: Politicos
POINT & LAUGH: SATIRE PROFESSIONALS
POINT & LAUGH: The Daily Show
POINT & LAUGH: THE CONSOLATION OF MOCKERY
POINT AND LAUGH: SATIRE ALERT
Quotes to Ruminate On
Res Ipsa Etcetera
Strange Stories
Walk Me Out in the Morning Dew, My Honey: Indifference/Apathy/Reckless Disregard of Others
Check Memeorandum
Blog Catalog (IDLYE)


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David Harbour in Netflix Haunting Comedy 'We Have a Ghost' Trailer
"Ready to have some fun?" Netflix has revealed an official trailer for the next horror comedy from writer / director Christopher Landon, best known as the creator of Happy Death Day and Freaky. His latest is titled We Have a Ghost, launching on Netflix this February. Finding a ghost named Ernest haunting their new home turns Kevin's family into overnight social media sensations. But when Kevin and Ernest go rogue to investigate the mystery of Ernest's past, they become a target of the CIA. The best part about this is that David Harbour (from "Stranger Things", Hellboy, and Violent Night) stars as the titular ghost, Ernest, based on a short story by Geoff Manaugh. The cast also includes Jahi Winston, Tig Notaro, Erica Ash, Jennifer Coolidge, and Anthony Mackie, plus Faith Ford, Niles Fitch, Isabella Russo, and Steve Coulter. This does look funny! Landon keeps delivering with his funky fresh horror comedy ideas. I'm in.
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› Posted on January 26 in Comedy, Horror, To Watch, Trailer | 1 Comment
Fan-Made 'Real Nuke' Making Of Featurette for Nolan's 'Oppenheimer'
"We all know that Chris is very big in getting everything on camera and doing things as real as possible." One of our most anticipated 2023 movies is Christopher Nolan's latest titled Oppenheimer, telling the story of the creation of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos in the 1940s. By now, most movie fans have heard the real news that Nolan created shots showing the nuclear explosion without using any CGI. Which is just a bit crazy? But also awesome. Nolan is famous for doing everything for real on set, with practical FX and set pieces and stunts. Last year someone made a joke about how he probably thought about detonating a real nuke just to get the perfect shot. Taking that joke even further: "I can't believe they released the footage of Christopher Nolan dropping a real nuke!" Filmmaker Stephen Ford created this entirely fake, entirely fan-made featurette to riff on that "rumor" and it's a must watch. It's so perfectly edited, I'm in awe! I cackled when Hoyte Van Hoytema mutters "shit, how are we gonna do this?" I have to post it for everyone to enjoy.
› Posted on January 2 in Comedy, Featurette, To Watch | Comments
Watch: Mav Trains Reindeer in 'Top Gun: Yuletide - Christmas Mission'
"Trust your instincts! You think up there, you're dead." Lock 'n load, Mav, it's time to deliver the presents! Nerdist made a fun mashup video called Top Gun: Yuletide - The Christmas Mission for the holidays. Inspired by a tweet from actor Glen Powell, they took footage from Top Gun: Maverick and combined it with footage from the Santa Clause movies to create this "Yuletide" special. It features Maverick taking on the great challenge of wrangling the reindeer and "flying" the Santa sleigh to help deliver all of the presents on Christmas Eve. I was hoping for more full-on CGI footage of Maverick flying the Sleigh, but it's just some creative editing to make it all work. Nonetheless this is super entertaining and funny and really captures the ridiculous vibe of the "What if Maverick but reindeer instead of fighter jets?" pitch. By now, everyone knows that Top Gun: Maverick is the biggest Hollywood hit of the year and will likely land Oscar noms, too. Enjoy.
› Posted on December 25 in Comedy, To Watch | Comments
Anna Konkle & Jermaine Fowler Get into Trouble in 'The Drop' Trailer
"Some things you can't take back… like dropping your friend's baby." Hulu has revealed the official trailer for a romantic comedy mishap movie titled The Drop, which originally premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. The film will land on Hulu for streaming in January after playing at festivals this year. In this cringe comedy, a married couple face a marriage test when one of them drops a baby during a tropical island wedding. "Paradise becomes purgatory for our couple as recriminations, passive-aggression and old wounds begin to permeate the island reunion and throw Mani & Lex's future into deep uncertainty." Anna Konkle & Jermaine Fowler star as Lex & Mani, with Jillian Bell, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Robin Thede, Aparna Nancherla, Joshua Leonard, Jennifer Lafleur, and Elisha Henig. Exec produced by the Duplass Brothers. This looks remarkably unfunny and forced, an awkward cringe fest because the writing and performances are so bad. Avoid this one at all costs (no wonder it's being dumped in January).
› Posted on December 12 in Comedy, To Watch, Trailer | 1 Comment
Wacky Dark Comedy 'Decrypted' Trailer About the Bitcoin Creator
"What do you two really think of each other?" Trinity Creative has revealed the official US trailer for the dark comedy film Decrypted, a wacky crypto film made by filmmaker Tom Sands. After debuting last year in the UK, the film is now available to watch on VOD in the US if anyone is curious - "the feature film that is taking the crypto community by storm." An outrageous and provocative film about a mismatched NSA team who kidnap Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, to get the info they need to destroy cryptocurrencies. The botched interrogation forces together a group of people who then get into all kinds of trouble. The cast includes Talisa Garcia, Sophia Myles, David Hoflin, Amanda Abbington, Kevin McNally, Clive Francis, Aki Kotabe, Don Gilet, and Sophie Barker. This looks too dumb and kooky to be any good. But I'm glad someone is willing to make jokes about this eccentric group of people, and laugh about crypto.
› Posted on December 7 in Comedy, To Watch, Trailer | 1 Comment
Watch: Star Wars Series 'Andor' Gets a Fan-Made 1975 TV Opener
"He is a new kind of hero for a new age. His name is Andor." This is where that ol' phrase "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" makes sense - a long time ago in 1975, a Star Wars series aired on television. Ha ha. A YouTube channel created this glorious fan-made TV intro for the Andor series replicating the 70s TV intro style. It's kind of amazing! Set five years before the events of Rogue One, the series follows rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative years of the Rebellion. It's showrun and created by writer Tony Gilroy. Diego Luna returns as Andor, with a cast featuring Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, as well as Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma; plus Forest Whitaker as Saw Gerrera. "It's 1975. A New Hope won't be released for another two years, and George Lucas is mostly known as the American Graffiti guy. You just finished watching the latest episode of Barney Miller." "And now, we bring you tonight's TV movie premiere. Get ready to travel to a far away galaxy that existed a long, long time ago. It's the science fiction spectacular…ANDOR. Every Thursday night, only on ABC." Ha.
› Posted on November 28 in Comedy, Star Wars, To Watch | 1 Comment
Official Trailer for Hulu's Holiday 'Binge' Sequel 'It's A Wonderful Binge'
"The Bingers are taking over, man, we're taking over." Hulu has unveiled the trailer for a comedy sequel titled It's A Wonderful Binge, arriving for streaming in early December on Hulu. This sequel to the Hulu original film The Binge from 2020 continuing the spoof comedy riffing on The Purge, but with drugs. Set in a time where all drugs and alcohol are illegal, the only day anyone can participate in the "fun" is on Binge day. In The Binge 2: It's A Wonderful Binge, "The Binge" happens miraculously on Christmas – unleashing a new holiday adventure featuring magical storybooks, catchy songs, claymation, and more. 'Tis the season… to get shitfaced! The ensemble comedy features a big cast including Eduardo Franco, Dexter Darden, Zainne Saleh, Marta Piekarz, Danny Trejo, Tony Cavalero, Nick Swardson, Kaitlin Olson, Tim Meadows, Paul Scheer, and more. Surprise, surprise, it looks pretty terrible. You might want to skip this.
› Posted on November 20 in Comedy, To Watch, Trailer | 1 Comment
Watch: Funny Learn the Alphabet Videos Featuring Action Movie Stars
"G is for Get to the choppa!!" Time for something fun today!! Need a laugh? Fire them up. These videos have been floating around the internet for a few years, but we've only recently stumbled across them (thanks to Twitter, which seems to be barely hanging on for dear life these days). The original alphabet videos come from a YouTube creator known as "TwinkieMan", who is actually a Danish video editor named Benjamin Olesen. His most popular video is called "Learn the Alphabet with Arnold Schwarzenegger," initially debuted in 2018 on YouTube. It's a fun 2-minute mashup featuring various Arnold clips that start with every letter of the alphabet. Yes, it's as glorious and funny as it sounds, and it will make you smile (and hopefully laugh). A few other videos like this have shown up online after - TwinkieMan also made one with Sylvester Stallone clips, and other users made videos from Samuel L. Jackson and Jim Carrey clips. View below.
› Posted on November 14 in Comedy, To Watch | 1 Comment
LFF 2022 Review: Nicholas Stoller's Hilarious Romantic Comedy 'Bros'
By Manuel São Bento
Whether as an audience member or a critic, the viewer's mindset is almost never addressed in conversations about any type of entertainment. However, it's a factor with as much impact on the overall enjoyment of the work as any other. In the same way that a fun, light, inspirational film can transform a crestfallen face into a happy smile, a heavy, slower, contemplative movie is also capable of leaving the public seriously thinking about their own lives. Bros belongs to the former group, being even more satisfying after an emotionally draining previous viewing at the 2022 London Film Festival (Aronofsky's The Whale - read my review here).
› Posted on October 17 in Comedy, Review | Comments
Red Band Trailer for Wild Comedy 'House Party' Directed by Calmatic
"Have you seen how out of control this party!?" Warner Bros has revealed the official trailer for House Party, the 2022 updated on the 90s comdy classic of the same name. Actually this is a 2023 update - as the new release date is in January after the New Year. The original film by director Reginald Hudlin opened in March of 1990 and starred Christopher Reid, Robin Harris, Martin Lawrence, and Tisha Campbell. From New Line Cinema comes your VIP ticket into the hottest event of the year: House Party, the remix to the fan-favorite '90s classic. Like all party movies before it, the premise is simple: a high school student decides to host a house party while his parents are away. "After all, a night like this doesn't come around more than once." The full cast of this update features: Tosin Cole, Jacob Latimore, Karen Obilom, D.C. Young Fly, and Scott Mescudi. It is produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter. This does look hilarious!! I'm always down for an epic "this party has gone too crazy" movie, especially with a stoned Koala. Have fun.
› Posted on October 14 in Comedy, To Watch, Trailer | 1 Comment
Watch: 'What If Wes Anderson Directed a Tarantino Movie?' Video
In this latest edition of What If, video editor Luís Azevedo wonders: What If Wes Anderson Directed a Tarantino Movie?. Created for Little White Lies, this fun 5-minute YouTube mashup edits together clips from all of Quentin Tarantino's movies in the style of a Wes Anderson movie. Yes, it's that simple, but it's also such a whimsical, amusing, quirky video that nicely replicates the filmmaking aesthetics of Anderson's films. There's clips from almost every Tarantino movie from Jackie Brown to Django Unchained, from Kill Bill to The Hateful Eight. Don't even think twice about it, just click play and enjoy!! This isn't even the first "if directed by Wes Anderson" video, we've also posted about: The Grand Overlook Hotel - Wes Anderson's The Shining and The Uncanny X-Men - Wes Anderson's X-Men. Now it's time for The Royal Tarantinos.
› Posted on October 13 in Comedy, To Watch | Comments
Ryan Reynolds & Will Ferrell in 'Spirited' Scrooge Musical First Teaser
"Not even a little bit curious??" Apple has revealed the first look teaser trailer for Spirited, one of two new Scrooge movies due out this holiday season. (The other is the animated Scrooge: A Christmas Carol - still waiting for a trailer for this one, too.) Spirited is a musical version of Charles Dickens' story of the miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey - from the director of Horrible Bosses 2, Daddy's Home 1 & 2, and Instant Family. This one has a twist – Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until "Present" finds himself reexamining his own past, present, future. For the first time, A Christmas Carol is told from the perspective of the ghosts in this hilarious musical twist on the classic Dickens tale. Ryan Reynolds stars as Scrooge, with Will Ferrell as "Present", plus Joe Tippett, Octavia Spencer, Aimee Carrero, Marlow Barkley, Jen Tullock, Sunita Mani, and P.J. Byrne. With songs written by the La La Land writers, and choreography by Chloe Arnold, this "modern retelling is a sweet and spicy holiday treat." This looks like a BIG movie with huge set pieces, tons of CG, trips back in time, massive musical numbers. Enjoy.
› Posted on October 12 in Comedy, To Watch, Trailer | 4 Comments


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QPR's Harry Redknapp counting on 'big-game players' for Villa clash
QPR manager Harry Redknapp hopes his "big-game players" will prove the difference against an inexperienced Aston Villa side
Harry Redknapp's side are bottom of the Premier League table Photo: The Sport Review
Harry Redknapp believes Queens Park Rangers have the "big-game players" needed to help win Saturday's six-pointer against Aston Villa.
The Hoops, who are bottom of the Premier League table, have the chance to close the gap on 17th-placed Villa to a point with victory at Villa Park.
Redknapp can call upon vastly experienced stars like Júlio Cesar, Chris Samba and Park Ji-Sung, who have competed in countless high pressure matches throughout their decorated careers.
In contrast, Lambert's side is largely composed of young talent who are getting their first taste of a relegation battle, and Redknapp reckons the Hoops can use this to their advantage.
"Hopefully the experience we've got will help," said Redknapp.
"We've got some big-game players here who have been there and done it. Hopefully that will be in our favour.
"We've got to start well. We can't give them an early start. We can't concede an early goal and give them a lift.
"It was a good result for them at Reading last week. They're a decent team with a good, young manager."
QPR have a relatively straightforward run-in, with the west London side facing five teams in the bottom half of the Premier League table over the next six weeks.
And Redknapp hopes sides such as Newcastle, Norwich and Sunderland could get sucked into the relegation mire as the Hoops look to beat the drop
"You just wish there were a few teams a little bit above us who were still in it," he added.
"At the moment, ourselves Reading, Wigan, Villa and possibly Southampton, are involved.
"Even teams on 30 points won't feel 100 per cent safe and need a win or two to be assured. Teams go nine games without a win in this division.
"We've seen that happen quite a few times. We just need to win and keep going, it would really make a difference."
"It's a massive games for us, without a doubt. It's a real big one."
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