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This is the best compressor I've ever owned. 6 years running without a single problem, and a great deal more than occasional or light use. I'm a medical/science professional, but have been...Read complete review
This is the best compressor I've ever owned. 6 years running without a single problem, and a great deal more than occasional or light use. I'm a medical/science professional, but have been fixing and building things since childhood (not all physicians come from priviledged backgrounds). I've owned a couple of machines like this from name-brand manufactuors costing 4X as much that didn't have the capability, durability, or dependability of this one. For a small compressor, it's the ONLY one I've found that will handle high-flow tools with ease (within reason). Impact wrenches, ratchets, drills, cutters, etc., are all powered by this machine, and without constant starting/stopping of the compressor (depending on duration of use of tool, of course. An 8-gallon tank just isn't going to hold enough air & pressure to run some tools for 10 minutes straight without the compressor starting). Also handles fine, low-cfm tools. Only 'complaint' would be that I can't use it to blow out the dust/debris in my laptop & desktop computers, and other equipment and instruments that would be sensitive to oil. So what. The fact that some aerosolized oil is present in the outflow of this machine means that you're automatically lubricating your tools - probably the reason that so many of mine have lasted so long without problems. Even though there may be quieter machines, I have no doubt that I'd spend 5X as much to replace this fine compressor. In any event, I still give this compressor/tank combo 5 stars, and be in no doubt, I'm a harsh critic. Had plenty of HFT tools with problems - the one problem I've never had, and the reason I go back, is that they'll refund or replace anything, with courtesy. I've taken things back 6-8 months after purchase, simply because I didn't need them, or didn't like them, without receipts, without packaging, and gotten refunds on the spot. Where else could one do this? It's the reason I go in for one $2.99 item, and spend $200, every time.
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I purchased this unit the other day, unboxed it, and set it up and did the break in procedure exactly as indicated in the operating instructions (highly recommended that you do this)....Read complete review
I purchased this unit the other day, unboxed it, and set it up and did the break in procedure exactly as indicated in the operating instructions (highly recommended that you do this). After the break in period, I attempted to pressurize the unit and couldn't get pressure to build, I discovered that this was due to a blocked bleed valve on the bottom of the tank. I removed the valve and discovered thread sealant was used in excess and was blocking the rubber valve closure piston in the valve, after removing the sealant and re-sealing with teflon tape and reinstalling the valve, the unit pressurized normally, although the compreesor motor shuts off at 125 psi, the tank stabilizes between 115-120 psi after motor shutdown. The bleed valve issue calls into question some quality control concerns, obviously, the tank was not tested after unit assembly at the factory or QC would have identified the air bleed valve failure and corrected it. Also, I am replacing the oil that came with the unit as soon as practical with a quality name brand compressor oil, the bottle of oil that comes with the unit is generic and comes from parts unknown assuming that those that would use it are trusting souls. Bottom line, this is a great compressor (so far, after correcting the factory errors) for the money, but I would only recommend it for occasional home use, any heavier use for daily needs might be better served with a higher end professional unit.
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More air than my buttocks!
By Car jack Jar.
from Hastings, Michigan
About Me Avid Do-It-Yourselfer
Comments about Central Pneumatic 8 gal. 2 HP 125 PSI Oil Lube Air Compressor:
Works great on my car repairs and air tool needs. NO issues to report.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Air on demand
By sharris
from Loris, sc
Great value! I use it all the time and it keeps up with my work. Easy to store under my tool bench. Very happy with it.
(8 of 8 customers found this review helpful)
works perfect
By Car Guy
from Phoenix, AZ
Never had a problem with it (only been a few weeks since receiving it as a gift for my bday) and performs top noch! I did perform the break in just like the manual says (and yes this is very important for longevity) and can't complain one bit. Compressors are loud in general. sure it's not as quiet as the pancake air compressor but that tank only holds so much. with 8 gal. this compressor hardly has to turn itself on (only does so if it falls below 90psi) and has great recovery time. I could easily fill up all four tires on my car from a dead flat with all the air in the tank if I had it off. drain vavle at the bottom for extra air release is easy to use and assembly was easy to follow. very portable with the handle and wheels and the wheels are solid rubber so no need to inflate tires on itself! This is my first oil compressor and although some people say you can't use it on certain things, I find that it can be used on anything as long as you have the right attachments. overall great product and great price.
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Outstanding Compressor For The Money
By Super J
from Southwest Florida
About Me Casual Do-It-Yourselfer
9/6/14 SATI Purchased this Central Pneumatic 8 gal air compressor (#68740) on sale for a great price. I honed in on exactly this model as the reviews were a bit better than the other 8 gal model.As the manual instructed, I added oil first then broke it in running it with air valve open for 30 minutes.This is a very nice little air compressor.I did the 30 minute open-valve break-in as instructed.From empty to full pressure shut-off is 2 min 1 sec which is very very quick! It has a high CFM output and this must be why it is so fast. There is an interesting brief "hiss" that comes from the compressor when it shuts itself off.I figured out that if you shut the compressor off while it is still running, using a remote switch, it will not start back up again. It will sit and hum until it trips the onboard breaker. If you turn the onboard power switch off, you will hear a "hiss", then if you turn it back on, the compressor will start. It appears that this "hiss" is the result of the machine relieving pressure so that it can start easily the next time it engages. 9/7/14 SUNChecked amperage it pulls with field ammeter: 13.4 amps.Others have complained that the unit is loud;it is an air compressor, and it is a bit noisy, but not unexpectedly noisy!I also have a 7 gal portable air tank, that I can quickly charge from my new air compressor, and I can also use this to add capacity to total 15gal.I spent all day using this air compressor blowing accumulated dust out of areas of my house, and it performed very well.9/8/14 MONI had been using Campbell Hausfeld 2 & 3 gallon hotdog compressors for years. I had to replace them about 3 times due to the motor burning out. They take about 5 or more minutes to build to full pressure. And forget about adding another tank to them; they gets too hot and shut off before they are able to fill an additional 7 gal tank. As far as I am concerned, I will never use the CH compressor ever again unless it is an emergency. I can't believe I went so long without upgrading. Empty to full-pressure shut-off was 1min 53sec.9/13/14Empty to full-pressure shut-off was 1min 56sec.I changed the oil.9/23/14I am very pleased with this compressor having used it extensively for 3 solid weekends, so I will be publishing a solid 5 star review.
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By Billis
from Connecticut
I use this little compressor at least 4 times per week. It runs most tools very well in short bursts, e.g., 1/2" air gun, die grinder, blow gun, etc. I've had it almost exactly 3 years and I haven't had to do anything to it. I changed the oil once and reoiled the air filter for something to do (I used ATF fluid). For those having start issues, I wonder if the "low" pressure setting is jacked too high. I did have that issue once; I have it kick on at about 90 psi. It's well worth the money, even at full price it is still a good deal.
(13 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Impressed at build quality
By Rush
from Placerville CA
About Me Professional
First impression when opening box is quality build materials, even the wheels are a hefty solid rubber wrapped around a nylon wheel, not cheapo plastic. The tank welds are smooth and plentiful in and around all mounting points. The cylinder on this model is cast iron and the balance of pump materials are well made alloy castings. First start up is smooth and LOUD. This is not surprising though as all direct drive compressors are fairly loud. Pumps up rapidly to a full 125 PSI. This unit will inflate anything, run many shop tools excluding high CFM sanders, grinders and HVLP guns. This will however run low CFM sanders which typically are some purpose built DA 5" running less than 5 cfm. Also look up the new LVLP spray guns which are rated at under 6CFM. This WILL run nearly any impact wrench INTERMITTENTLY. A cfm rating is for continuous use, you will never run your impact continuously. This will give full power for bursts long enough to easily remove a tire. As for cold start issues written about here. It states CLEARLY in instructions what to do in cold weather. One option is start in warm area. Another option is remove 30 weight oil and swap in 10 weight oil.Also it clearly states to remove oil after 1 hour and replace for proper break in.Down voting based on ignorance is your fault NOT the manufacturerHighly recommended for the price.
(2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
Great compressor
By jram
from Minneapolis
I bought this after my Coleman powermate quit on me, I should have bought this first! I've been spraying paint and it keeps up with no problems, it's also quieter than my old Coleman. I also use it to spray down the shop at the end of the day and it keeps up for that task as well.
(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)
Works Perfect
By Alex from Portland
from Portland, OR
I've had this compressor for 5-ish years now and I've not had a single problem with it. It's perfect for sitting in the corner of my shop for the little things. It works okay for small nails or brads. I use it mostly for airing tires, running my small wheel grinder, and blowing debris from the shop counters. Like most HF things, you need to take into consideration that it's not an every day, professional-use product.
(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
By Smitty
from San Antonio TX
I have owned this unit now for over 6 months and not one issue at all it does all I need it to-do and my friends are inline to borrow. cant beat the price and again great buy.
(8 of 9 customers found this review helpful)
excellent compressor
By hokey
from alderson, wv
Bought this unit about 9 years ago. Used it to build my home! Drove about 20,000 3 inch nails while framing. Only problem i have had is the regulator went bad, started leaking. replaced it with another hf reg, for about 5.00. By the way, it still has the original oil in it! Will run a hf 28 degree nail gun all day long! Nice little compressor!
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AMD A8-7600 Kaveri APU Review - HSA Arrives
Kaveri Tech, Continued
The Buses
AMD did not talk about a lot of the internal plumbing with Kaveri. We were able to glean a minimal amount of information, but I stress that it is minimal.
The Onion (coherent) bus and Garlic (non-coherent) bus were both improved over the previous generation of products. AMD did not go into great detail other than to say that bandwidth is improved. Low level changes had to be made to these busses to support HSA, but again details were left out. The memory controller was also massively reworked to support the shared memory architecture as well as provide more performance and efficiency when dealing with such loads. It looks as though it also supports memory speeds up to DDR3-2400 levels right out of the box.
Kaveri now officially supports PCI-E 3.0. This feature was actually designed into Trinity/Richland, but AMD did not spend the time or money to certify their unit for that specification. When I spoke with them last year about this they simply said it was not really worth it considering the marketplace they were focusing on. To a great degree, this is likely true. Trinity/Richland were far less likely to need the high speed interconnects that PCI-E 3.0 offered when it came to RAID controllers, PCI-E SSDs, or graphics cards. Now that it is 2014, AMD has marked off the PCI-E 3.0 checkbox for their OEM partners and have opened the door for future, higher performing FX processors utilizing the FM2+ socket infrastructure.
GCN in Kaveri
Graphics Core Next is the name of the next generation graphics architecture from AMD that was first introduced in early 2012 with the HD 7000 series of parts. This was designed from the outset to be very efficient and highly programmable. It also turned out to be very powerful as well. The GCN portions included in Kaveri are nearly identical to those in the latest "Hawaii" based R9 290 graphics cards.
Each GCN compute core features 4 x 16 wide vector units, a single scalar unit, plenty of cache, associated texture and texture store units, as well as the scheduler. A total of 128 flops/clock can be achieved with each compute core, so that adds up rather quickly when there are multiple compute cores running at 720 MHz. The big improvement is the addition of the shared, coherent unified memory feature that is the foundation of HSA.
A total of two RBEs are included in Kaveri, which gives it a fairly decent pixel fill rate as compared to previous integrated parts. This gives a total of 8 color ROPs and 32 stencil/Z ROPs. I believe this is double that of previous products from AMD and Intel.
Kaveri also supports Mantle. This should be a nice boost in overall performance in games that adopt Mantle. While Battlefield 4 will support Mantle "soon", initial results showed approximately a 45% increase in frames per second from the standard Direct3D version to Mantle. We also saw a few other native Mantle implementations that produced impressive results in performance due to the smaller amount of draw calls in complex situations.
APUs are seemingly chock full of accelerators. These are individual units which are aimed at accelerating specific workloads. It is far more efficient in these cases to design and implement an accelerator than to utilize the multi-core CPU or the GCN architecture to handle that workload. This saves on power to a very great degree, all the while minimizing the die footprint of such a unit.
Kaveri includes a very significant and new accelerator with their TrueAudio unit. This unit contains multiple DSPs to accelerate certain audio features to improve sound quality and 3D immersion. A handful of games will be coming out in 1H 2014 that will natively support TrueAudio. If I were to characterize this part, I would say that it is very similar to what Aureal tried to accomplish with their A3D 2.0 implementation. It is a step above what Creative has done with their latest EAX 5.0 based specification as well. The real kicker here is that even though Aureal won the lawsuit brought against them by Creative, they spent so much in legal fees that it essentially bankrupted the company. Creative then swooped in and bought their IP. Then they sat on it and did absolutely nothing while relying on EAX to push good 3D audio to users. That was an absolute failure. AMD is trying to make 3D audio relevant again by introducing their TrueAudio unit. Having this native to every Kaveri APU shipped will likely help push the specification and support further than if they released a standalone sound card embracing that functionality.
TrueAudio has uses outside of gaming applications. Nuance is developing a noise reduction addition to their software that will utilize the TrueAudio DSP to accelerate operations for them. This unit apparently is quite programmable and can be used for a variety of applications.
Video playback and encoding are the two primary accelerators that have been included in APUs since day one. The VCE 2 (video coding engine) is a highly upgraded unit as compared to VCE 1. We can see in the slide below the changes between the two.
UVD 4 is the latest iteration of the Unified Video Decoder that was introduced many generations ago with AMD graphics cards. The only improvement this sees is improved error resiliency. When something is poorly encoded and contains errors, the UVD unit will not lock up and continue to show the last good frame while audio keeps moving forward. The corrupted frame will be skipped and the video will move forward in sync with audio.
AMD does not have a H.265 decoder yet, but it will be supported through the GCN units. This does expend more power than a more focused accelerator, but those hard coded accelerated units do take time to design and implement. The flexibility of the GCN architecture allows it to do work such as H.265 decode without maxing out the CPUs to keep up with the workload.
Kaveri finally fulfills the promise of a true Heterogeneous System Architecture. The shared memory space and addressing (hUMA), the ability for the GCN units to handle and assign threads as needed (hQ), and a growing software and programming ecosystem that can take advantage of the potential horsepower offered by this APU are working together to maximize the potential of this architecture.
Code complexity with HSA will diminish significantly. The use of shared memory and pointers allows the CPU and GPU to access memory without having to do copies from CPU memory to GPU memory and vice versa. Programming tools are also either available or are being developed to support HSA so that programmers do not have to veer too far away from what they are comfortable with. Java is the big target for AMD right now due to how many current applications are based off of that language. They are working closely with Oracle to make sure that Java supports HSA at a very low level. This past year Oracle joined up with the HSA Foundation.
The flexibility of HSA was also mentioned above. New codecs such as H.265/HEVC are not supported with current accelerators, but can be accelerated through OpenCL. This will be true for other upcoming standards that do not yet have accelerators designed for them, or would run more efficiently on massively parallel units rather than multi-core CPUs.
HSA is supported through software like OpenCL or C++ AMP, but some of the low level OS routines will not catch up to HSA for a while. Linux will be receiving such updates first, but it will still be a couple of years down the road after HSA is officially ratified by the Foundation.
Kaveri: A Leap
We have been learning about Kaveri for years now. Few of the details have been hidden to us, and certainly not for long. Processor Forums, editor's days, leaks, and investor meetings have taught us a lot about what AMD wants to do with their APUs. Their goals are pretty lofty, but there is a lot of momentum swinging towards heterogeneous systems. ARM is pushing that way, NVIDIA has a big stake in GPGPU, and even Intel is pushing massively parallel computing (though in a different way).
Kaveri is a complex and potentially groundbreaking part. One of the really big strengths of the chip is that a user does not lose the performance or functionality of the graphics portion when using a separate video card. This could potentially have a big impact on applications which can leverage that piece of silicon. Think of games with lots of AI and physics computations being done on the APU while the graphics card handles only the tessellation, geometry, vertex, and pixel shading. AI and physics on an APU with shared memory is far more efficient than if running on a standalone card with its own memory. Things like collision and interaction will be faster and more organic because a program can utilize the same memory space for the CPU and GPU portions of the APU.
Ryan now takes over with the hard numbers on this APU and we get to hear his impressions of the architecture after testing it for the past few days.
"Now that it is 2014, AMD has marked off the PCI-E 3.0 checkbox for their OEM partners and have opened the door for future, higher performing FX processors utilizing the FM2+ socket infrastructure."
Editor - should this be FM3+ ??
Not that we know of. FM2+ is what Kaveri is based on, and it supports PCI-E 3.0. That socket should be around a long time.
I think the issue was when reading "higher performing FX processors utilizing the FM2+ socket infrastructure."
First thing comes to mind is the FX-xxxx series, not the Axx-xxxx series. hence the reference to AM3+. maybe change "FX" to "steamroller" or some other reference outside of "FX"?
well it seems the person was refering to FM3+ not AM3+ socket.. my bad. got confused :P
Sources at AMD have stated that FX branded processors will be back, but AM3 is a dead end. These things point to AMD eventually releasing a FX processor on FM2+. Now, this FX processor will be a APU and not the traditional FX products we have seen so far.
why are you the only reviewer who didnt get the a10? also what about comparisons with iris pro, is that still in the works?
TR doesn't get A10 either
We definitely were not the only ones to NOT get an A10 part, but we were short on time after CES to go out and source one from a different place, that's for sure.
CPU wise, not much of an upgrade. Kaveri is sill relegated to low end PC's and laptops.
Sadly, this seems true. I understand now why there won't be an FX Steamroller CPU; it's just nowhere near competitive to the Intel counterparts. As a longtime AMD enthusiast, I am saddened by this, but by the same token, if I were the CEO of AMD, it would be hard for me to make a business case to invest the engineering resources to catch up (strictly referring to integer performance). The future seems to be phablets, tablets, and convertibles.
but that is kinda the point isnit? race to the bottom.
Most users but the cheapest option possible, that is why there are so many people with atom (pre silvermont) and low end celeron systems, constantly complaining how shity their laptop is.
A good enough cpu {and lets face it modern day low end cpu's are more than powerful enough for 90% of home users} with a good entry level gpu for around $600 will be the biggest sellers. It's just good business. AMD pushing the low end by making said low end systems good enough to play games at very decent quality will encourage the pc gaming ecosystem to once and for all dominate the console.
The money(Profits) have never been in High End gamimg, for Intel, at least, and have never been in high end gaming. Intel has always developed for the server, and mainstream market. Intel bases it chips for the enthusiast market arouund its server SKUs, with the server specific functionality removed, or fused off! Intel has always subsidized its gaming SKUs, with its profits from its server, and mainstream sales! AMD can not afford to do this subsidizing, and never really could, to the degree that Intel could! The whole profitable part of the market has shifted to the Moble Tablet/Phone, and low cost laptop/chromebook markets, that is where the money is, and AMD currently can only remain viable as a ongoing concern, by shifting its resources towards the GPU/APU market where it beats Intel, and competes with Nvidia! AMD does provide Intel with plenty of competition in the LOW cost, low to midrange(With Karvei) CPU/APU market! Intel is in deep trouble, in the low cost x86 market, and currently is not a factor in the Mobile CPU/APU market!
Loan AMD half a billion to restart its high end development, and you better have a few billion in reserve for a revolving line of funding, beacuse that is the level of subsidizing that gaming high end development costs!
Put your big money where your pouts are!
Edit: gaming high end development
TO: gaming high end CPU development
well this cements amd's mobile shift they probably have nothing to compete with intel's performence on the desktop/server side till excavator or after... I will give them credit though they were handed a bunch of lemons and made the best lemonade they could.
Congrats to AMD! A $120 Kaveri and siblings that beats higher priced Intel i3/i5 at PCMark8 and even the i7-4770k at games like Battlefield 4.
The last time AMD won in PCMark8 over equivalent Intel CPUs they took the majority of market share and with HSA acceleration, TrueAudio and Mantle, they are likely to do it again.
Erm....which graphs are you looking at? Get off the weed
Probably referring to the 7850k APU
I've always wondered with AMD how long it would be before they try and make a push to have a GDDR5 memory slot included on Fusion Motherboards. Presumably it would give the built in GCN cores quite a boost in performance and gaming.
Intel IPC has been at a virtual standstill since Sandy Bridge (2009) with most of the improvements that do exist coming from tangental features such as dynamic turbo/power modes.
AMD, what the hell are you doing?? Five years. Intel has gifted you five_goddamn_years of making virtually zero IPC progress, and you still can't catch them?
It's like a modern version of the goddamn tortoise and the hare with the hare deliberately doing everything it can to stall on purpose, and yet is still unable to lose the race.
To be fair in the end, the tortoise won the race. Though your point still stands.
I also don't think Intel is stalling for them to catch up (though that would be nice). Intel just plain doesn't care, they consider ARM the threat now. They know AMD isn't going to be catching up for quite a while. Given the way things are going, they can just sit on new stuff until someone actually comes to compete.
Intel is not in the technology improving business, they are in the technology Milking business, Milking those customers for Profit business!!
I'm sure AMD would be just fine if they had Intel's budget.
Everyone is focusing on the APU stuff.
I'm surprised that im about to update my 1st gen i7 940 to a haswell 4770k, and the actual performance gain is *only* 2x. For a 5-6 years update cycle, that is quite disappointing :/
quick question btw, is there a haswell cpu around that price range with no gpu but more power? i wish i could drop the GPU entirelly and spend the same or a tad more money on a faster cpu.
You can find some models that don't have the GPU portion but they aren't going to run faster than the models WITH processor graphics. :/
Haswell-e is not due yet, Sandy-e or the newer Ivy-bridge-e are the only options. Because Ivy-e uses the same platform as Sandy-e I decided to go with a 4770k for now and I'm saving for when Haswell-e is released. From what I've read that will have a fairly decent performance improvement. Ivy-e is not much better than Sandy-e just like the Sandy/Ivy-Haswell improvements are minimal.
Please do not forget to define AMD's mobile tablet based APUs use of the Mobile/Full versions of openCL, openGL, etc, as Nivida's Tegra K1, now supports the desktop/descrete GPU, full versions of openCL, etc., on Nvidia's new mobile Tegra K1 based platforms! AMD needs to offer Full version support of OpenCL, etc. drivers on any SKUs that compete with the Nivida Tegra K1s! In the Future, with respect to any reviews of Mobile devices built around the AMD Kaveri mobile APUs in competition with the Nvidia Tegra K1 based mobile devices based "APU Type" CPU/GPU systems, please make sure to tell the reader if the mobile device will allow loading of a full Linux distro, and if that mobile divice's CPU/GPU APU, or "APU" type(Nvidia k1, etc) system supports the full openCL, etc. versions of the drivers! I am seriously looking for the K1 based tablet devices, and their K1 based ability to run full desktop style applications via full version openCL, OpenGL driver support, to allow me to run Blender 3d(Light Mesh Modeling) and Gimp for graphics, on a mobile tablet, that can run a full Linux Distro. Full openCL, openGL driver support on a Tablet/Mobile processor(K1, YES), (Kaveri, ??), is big news, and I look forward to your device reviews.
here's the problem, One chip, one price, just like how the Nvidia didn't get the consoles.. all three.. they will not be able to beat the price/performance point. I own two NVidia cards. from a business stand point, this spells bad news for Nvidia and anyone else in the smaller factor market. lots of power, all in one, less Watts. this is not high end. I hope they release high end chips but.. I'm beginning to think its not going to happen in the economy
What did the post, that you replied to, have to say, about what you are talking about? the Poster needs full Linux capability, and full OpenCL, OpenGL from a Mobile "APU"/APU type device(tablet) Nvidia's K1, can provide FULL openCL, openGL support, and the poster hopes AMD can provide an equivalent level of support, with its competiting SKUs!
The poster will buy any tablet, even it was made by marvin the martian, if it meets the posters needs, the poster wants a tablet that runs a full linux rooted distro, that can run Blender 3d, and gimp(both reguire Full OpenGL, and Maybe some Full OpenCL support, and run under windows[Hell no], or Linux)! the Poster would prefer a mobile x86 AMD platform(if it has full OpenGL, openCL, etc. support like The K1), but will use the K1 if there is A blender 3d, and Gimp, Arm based build available, to run on the linux distro based ARM platform! The K1 will compete very well in its intended form factor against the AMD kaveri tablet APUs! BUT no Blender 3d, no Gimp, and No full linux rooted distro, on the tablet, NO BUY!
The Poster's statement was poorly written and incredibly verbose making it more difficult to distill relevant content.
Good upgrade when compared to the previous generation... it is matching and at times even beat the A10 5800K despite being a lower end part. Yes, it doesn't beat a core i3 in single threaded stuff but the multi-threaded performance is decent.
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He was judged to MAKE A FOOTBALL MOVE with CONTROL of the ball...
Watch the play again.
If this was in the field of play, I highly doubt Alexander would have spun and stretched for the end zone. It was CLEARLY a football move.
This play also happened last week:
If that is a fumble, then the Alexander play is a touchdown.
Hartline didn't even get to secure the ball before it was knocked out.
Still a condescending dick, I see.
The problem is that these things are regularly called in different ways. What you cite as "known" is neither in the rule book nor consistently enforced. Quite usually, the determining factor for a catch or not is simply whether or not the player still has the ball after the fact or whether it came free. If it comes free, it seems they call it an incompletion 90% of the time. I'd even venture to guess that had Alexander's been more noticeably dropped at the end of that play, it'd have been ruled incomplete on the field and up to the coaches to challenge for a TD. So for what you claim to be known, plenty of refs (I cited one above) apparently don't know it as well as you. You should be a ref and get those losers off the field.
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I just graduated in May from an ADN program. I was hired prn at a local LTC facility. The job market is scarce and I am desperate to take whatever I can get. 5 new grad/new hires including myself got a whole 4 days of orientation... Read More
- 1Jul 1, '12 by suannaMy God- what new grads skills are "up to par" to work a position in LTC? It took me 6mos before I was marginal in my nursing skills. After almost 30 years I'm quite certain my skills are not "up to par" for LTC. I know I'm just not organized enough for some types of nursing care. I'm a good nurse-just not a good multitasker. I don't think at this point in your career you have any idea what your skills are. My first job I was turfed back to orientation after 8 weeks on the floor-I chose to resign. I was devastated at the time, but now I see it as the hand of God. I hated the job and figured all nursing was the same. It isn't. My next employer has lasted almost 30 years. I don't know where to direct you for a new position but an RN is rarely out of work in my area(Ohio). Wish I had better guidance for you- try again. After all, they didn't fire you- just want your skills to be more developed. That is something I can say about my skills.
- 1Jul 2, '12 by hotflashionCapeCodMermaid said: "Don't give up. There are good places WITHOUT unions with reasonable, respectful bosses."
Unfortunately, there aren't enough; that's why there ARE unions. The best jobs I ever had were non-union; jobs where employees were valued and not treated like human fodder. But I've also worked a few places where "UNION" was front and center in my mind.
- 0Jul 3, '12 by NurseCardQuote from CapeCodMermaidYou know, this is something interesting that I've noticed in my new job. This place where I'm working now is crappy enough but... the residents don't wear bracelets!!!!! NO ONE has a bracelet; I don't even think that they are ever assigned. Sure is hard to pass meds, come and draw labs, etc., when you don't have a clue who anyone is.Your story reminds me of an experience I had when I was new. I was on orientation working 3-11. The supervisor who was orienting me spent most of the evening elsewhere. Most of the patients didn't have name bracelets so it wasn't easy to tell who was who. There was one resident who lookedlike she was in her 30's but according to the MAR she was 100. The meds included Stelazine and Thorazine....the supervisor screamed down the hall "you are too SLOW". I told her I didn't intend to give medications to someone I couldn't identify and then I added "if THAT woman is 100, I'm going to start taking thorazine!"I finished the shift and resigned. That was in 1982. Since then I've worked in many different places....some good some bad. I am the director now of a large facility. I do not allow any one treat a new or not so nurse badly.Don't give up. There are good places WITHOUT unions with reasonable, respectful bosses.
I mean, myself, I've learned all 54 residents of my glorious new unit, but I got pulled to the alzheimer's unit last night. You should have seen me trying to pass meds in the morning to a group of walkie talkie dementia patients sitting in the day room. We are lousily staffed, so I kept having to go fetch the one CNA that always works that unit to tell me who was who. I unfortunately can't just rely on asking ALL of those residents who they are.
- 0Jul 4, '12 by hotflashionRe: identification. In assisted living, it is a residence not a medical facility, so there are no bracelets. We have photos. The charts all have photos onthe front cover, the notebooks that hold the MARs have photos, and on the dementia unit, all the entries to the rooms have photos. (I thought that was standard in any dementia unit, as it helps the person whose room it is, identify it as such).
- 1Jul 4, '12 by mmc51264I feel for you!!!! I, too graduated in May from an ADN program and have a job LTC/rehab. It is attached to a hospital and, although, maybe not my first choice, I enthusiastically took this job. I was hired FT/3-11. I am one of only 4-5 RNs.
I feel so overwhelmed, that I am never going to get the "hang" of it. The photos in MAR make it harder sometimes if you have several pts in a row that are same gender/age/race.
I can't imagine what you are going through because I work with the kindest, most patient staff. They are wonderful to me and I still feel so inadequate. I have been there not quite 2 weeks and I am not sure how long I will be oriented. I think it depends on well they think I am "catching on." I like the work, I like the people (staff and patients), but can't shake the feeling that I will never get it. I am older and have life experience, I am not shy about asking for help and, for the most part, confident in y skills, it is the other stuff that I am afraid of-charting, phone orders, appt., all the extra "stuff" that has to get fit in.
Good Luck to you!!!!!!!! try to hang in there!! You can do it-don't let him intimidate you.
- 0Jul 4, '12 by ec2703All of these comments contain some great advice, primarily: Do what you feel is safe, and go at the speed you think is safe, period. Don't let someone intimidate you into going faster than what you are comfortable with. When we try and rush THAT'S when we make mistakes, I do anyway.
I just quit a job where my preceptor was golden, after six weeks I felt like I loved the place, but when reality struck it was a whole other story. I had trouble keeping up and made the mistake of voicing that to another nurse who swooped on me like a vulture. She proceeded to tear down my preceptor's methods and from that day on, she became my preceptor and it was hell. I made mistake after mistake, things I wouldn't have done otherwise but she had me so flustered. When people say things like, "you'll never make it around here," blah blah blah, be suspicious. My preceptor, who has been a nurse for over twenty five years never said such a thing. Why would this woman? I'll tell you why, she was a bully.
I quit because I was still on probation, technically, but she did make me feel like I couldn't do the job.
Your post caught my eye because I am starting at a LTC next week, where I've been hired as a charge. I do have two years' experience in Med Surg, so I don't feel totally freaked out, but it's a little worrisome, nevertheless.
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I was wondering what to post today... This inspired me to get out some older shots of the longest pier in Britain - Southend.
A pretty unedifying walk of over two miles, there and back, on a very cold day 13 months ago. It's long, but is, basically, a very boring pier.
However, there were people with cases on it - getting off a boat. I didn't photograph them, as it was the emptiness and bleakness I was shooting, so the people shot is a pull-up from one of the other shots. But legitimate use of suitcases on a pier!
In other words, I wish I'd gone with you to Llandudno...
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Goon (Canada 2011)
Goon is billed as a 'sports comedy'. It can also be more narrowly defined as a comedy about 'minor league' sport and it's related to the sports biopic since the story is loosely based on the brief career of Doug Smith who wrote a book about his time as an 'enforcer' in minor league ice hockey from 1988 through to the late 1990s. The film could also be described as a 'comedy-drama'. An 'enforcer' is a semi-official 'fighter' in an ice-hockey team whose job is to protect the team's star player and also to intimidate the other team. Because ice hockey has always been a very physical game, governing bodies have tolerated a certain amount of violence on the ice. Some spectators are also keen to support enforcers. This violence is obviously attractive to filmmakers as it enables various conventional storylines and provides narrative devices to pep up genre narratives. The best-known ice hockey comedy focusing on violent play as a deliberate tactic is probably Slapshot (US 1977) in which Paul Newman is directed by George Roy Hill.
I missed Goon on release in January 2012 in the UK and I'm glad I caught most of it on Film4 last night. I found the film interesting for several reasons. First, I always find Canadian genre pictures have a different flavour to them even when, like Goon, they involve Hollywood stars. Second, the milieu of the minor or 'semi-pro' leagues takes the narrative into small-town locations with a more authentic working-class feel. Goon is a slight disappointment in this regard since, presumably for financial support reasons, most of the film was made in Manitoba around Winnipeg when the action in the story is supposed to be located in Eastern Canada. The enforcer's team is the fictitious Halifax Highlanders. Even so, it is interesting to see a film that purports to be featuring St. Johns Newfoundland at one point.
The central character, the 'goon' is played by the American Pie actor Seann William Scott and the 'villain' – Ross Rhea, the legendary enforcer in the league – is played by Liev Schreiber. Writers Jay Baruchel and Evan Goldberg have developed the character based on Doug Smith so that he was adopted by a Jewish family (the father played by Eugene Levy, another actor internationally famous because of American Pie). Doug feels 'stupid' because his father and his brother are doctors and he works as a bouncer. An incident when he is watching a hockey game leads him to try out as an enforcer and he becomes successful. The narrative then leads him towards a showdown with the Schreiber character, while a sub-plot covers his relationship with the man he is there to protect, a former ace player who despises Doug because he is not a skater or a good hockey player. The 'comedy' in a film that is more bloody than funny is partly derived from the romcom strand. I thought this worked quite well. Doug off the ice is rather sweet and quite stoical in his attempts to woo Eva (Alison Pill). This trope, i.e. the sweet guy outside the sporting arena, is familiar from boxing pictures but it works here as well. I should point out that as well as the violence, the language is also very harsh – this may be why so many sports fans like the film.
Directed by Michael Dowse (whose CV includes directing the UK comedy It's All Gone Pete Tong in 2004) the film seems to have earned most of its $6 million+ box office in Canada and the UK with just a limited US release. North American sports pictures generally don't do as well at the international box office as they do domestically. Ice hockey is popular in Northern Europe (Sweden especially) and Russia and the film does seem to have reached these territories, though perhaps only on DVD. I read that the violence tolerated in the US/Canada is not acceptable in European leagues so I'm intrigued as to what they made of the sport-based content. The rest of the narrative is universal in appeal and I think that clearly Canadian content probably helps sell the film in small towns in other countries – the IMDB message board for the film has a lively discussion of the Canadian accents in the film (which to my inexpert ear didn't seem as pronounced as in some other Canadian films). As a Brit I find ice hockey to be the most accessible North American sport possibly because of its important role in Canadian culture. I'm still grinning at the sight of large posters depicting the Queen in the various arenas in the film. I've never seen that at a UK venue (but perhaps others have?).
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Inside Llewyn Davis (US 2013)
You have to hand it to the Coens. They are intelligent and highly-skilled filmmakers who know how to engage diverse audience groups. They also like to 'play' in a serious way, creating controversies and teasing their fans. The most interesting comment I've read about Inside Llewyn Davis is that the title could fit on an album cover and that the individual episodes might represent a collection of introspective songs about the artist's unhappy lot. That seems a good call to me.
Llewyn is an angry man who isn't making much money from applying his talent in as authentic a manner as possible. He has no home and moves from the floor or couch at friends to the occasional bed. His sister is about to sell his parents' house. He is primed to insult anyone who offers the hand of friendship – but he is topped in the angry stakes by Jean, one of his former lovers. This is a Coens' movie though and thankfully he isn't 'redeemed'. Many of those who don't like the film suggest that it has no story or rather no 'meaning'. I take the story to be about the folk singer who fails to find success because of a combination of bad luck (fate?), the unfortunate ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – just missing being in the right place at the right time – and the inability to compromise just enough to gain acceptance without squandering his talent. For me, the turning point of the narrative is Llewyn's 'audition' for Albert Grossman (or his fictionalised counterpart). This is his big chance to impress the main promoter on the folk scene and he sings a song that many commentators have seen as 'miserabilist', a 'real downer' etc. In fact it is a beautiful rendition of an old English ballad (arranged in the version that Oscar Isaacs sings by the Irish guitarist Dáithí Sproule). It is contrasted with the smoother, more 'poppy' and conventional songs sung by the 'Jim and Jean' characters (played by Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan) and some other performers.
The Grossman who turned down Llewyn Davis would go on to promote Bob Dylan (who appears as a character towards the end of the film) – and the much more polished Peter, Paul and Mary – but who in 1961 doesn't see what might become a commercial possibility.
I think the film is well written, beautifully photographed and, as might be expected from the Coens, the soundtrack is wonderfully arranged/scored/constructed by T-Bone Burnett. Oscar Isaac's performance of the songs is very good and worth the price of the admission ticket on its own. But here is where the Coen's get playful and tease. The 'community' of singers associated with the Gaslight Café and Greenwich Village generally in 1961 is based on and 'around' the historical figures of Dave Van Ronk and several other well-known names such as the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem and Tom Paxton. I'm sure I read/heard that the Coens said that they didn't know that Ewan MacColl only wrote 'Shoals of Herring' in 1960 – but the narrative implies that Llewyn had sung the song to his father many years before. Did they really not know? There are other anachronisms as well, including a poster for The Incredible Journey (1963) (part of the entertaining narrative of a Greenwich Village cat). The barely disguised impersonations and sly jokes (Llewyn comments on the sweaters worn by the Clancy Brothers performers) and the anachronisms provide ample material for fans either of the music itself or of the Coens' films to discuss at length.
Inside Llewyn Davis has prompted me to explore Dave Van Ronk's music. He's someone I've always vaguely known about but never properly listened to and now perhaps I will. I guess it helps (to get funding) if the characters in a kind of faux biopic like this are relatively young and beautiful. I wonder how important Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan (whose husband Marcus Mumford has a leading role in the music performed in the film) are to the success of the film for younger audiences? It occurs to me that a biopic of a similarly 'difficult' but older and less photogenic character like Ewan MacColl would offer personal dramas, songs at least as good and a similar clash of ideas about where the music should be going – but would add some radical politics as well.
The official website for Inside Llewyn Davis carries a useful background piece on the folk scene in New York in 1960-2.
Inside Llewyn Davis is clearly a film with American cultural content and it is an 'American' film, but it's worth noting that it has been made in association with StudioCanal – a link going back to the Coens' early work with Working Title/Universal/Vivendi? – and the UK company Anton Capital Entertainment which currently supplies 30% of StudioCanal's funding. So Inside Llewyn Davis is technically a US/France/UK film.
Odette (UK 1950)
Some of the most popular stars and most popular films of past decades are virtually unknown by modern audiences, simply because the films aren't shown much. Of course, it is also true that tastes change and many so called 'classic films' were not popular at the time of their release. But I would argue that at least part of the reason is that screening rights are lost or held by libraries that can't (or won't) exploit them.
After many years of watching British films at the cinema or on TV, I've only seen two or three of the films of Anna Neagle, yet she was arguably the biggest star of British cinema during its years of peak popularity in the late 1940s. Neagle was a major star of stage (especially musical theatre – she began her career as a dancer) and screen from the mid 1930s to the 1950s. In 1943 she married Herbert Wilcox her director since 1933 with his own production company. Wilcox had developed a relationship with the Hollywood major RKO which involved some Hollywood-based films for the pairing. I mention this because Odette (a 'Wilcox-Neagle Production' made at Elstree Studios) was shown in the morning graveyard slot on BBC2 usually filled with RKO films, including British-based productions.
Anna Neagle's most popular films were the trio of titles in which she was paired with Michael Wilding – Piccadilly Incident (1947), The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1948) and Spring in Park Lane (1948). These were frothy, lightweight romances and all feature in the BFI's list of the 100 films with the biggest admission figures in UK film history (Spring in Park Lane is at No. 5!). If I've seen any of these titles, I don't remember them and I've always assumed that they weren't for me. I have seen the films of the more earthy female stars of the same period such as Margaret Lockwood (at No. 9 with The Wicked Lady), which have retained a stronger place in popular cultural memory.
So, Odette is a completely different film from what might be expected from a star with Anna Neagle's persona. It's a biopic about one of the most celebrated female agents of SOE (Special Operations Executive), a Frenchwoman living in the UK who volunteered to be sent to France in 1942 to aid the résistance. In a prologue Maurice Buckmaster, the British officer who sent Odette to France, introduces the film (in which he plays himself) and tells us that the events all took place and as far as is "humanly possible" the actors attempt to represent what actually happened. This I fear is rather a hostage to fortune as the film narrative is necessarily structured as a commercial feature and, although it is relatively early in the cycle of such espionage films, it is already evident that certain generic types are being developed. This is partly a function of casting. Peter Ustinov, that multi-talented personality who could speak several languages fluently but who always seems to play with a comic touch, is indeed a slightly comical figure, set against a stern but decent Trevor Howard. Marius Goring is the sophisticated and charming German military intelligence man. All three characters are immediately recognisable in the role that they play.
These generic touches are highlighted by the contrast in the scenes in which Odette is tortured by the Gestapo. It has been argued that the poor critical reception of some of Anna Neagle's most popular films was that the fashion in critical circles was for the 'harder' and more intense drama found in neo-realist films from Italy in this period. The first and one of the most influential of these films was Roma città aperta (Rome, Open City, Italy 1945) in which there is a particularly disturbing scene in which a Gestapo officer forces a priest suspected of aiding the partisans to watch a man being tortured. To find a similar scene of brutal torture in Odette is indeed disturbing. Little is shown but the brutality is suggested very well. This scene is matched by location footage of action shot in the south of France and in the Alps, often in long shot and again invoking the neo-realist style. But despite this, much of the rest of the film is conventional and doesn't seem to exploit the possibilities that the extra budget for overseas shooting has offered. This is emphasised by a strange narrative device in the section dealing with Odette's incarceration at the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Several of the scenes set at the camp begin with an image composed in depth with a small orchestra of female prisoners playing in the foreground. Other prisoners are in the middle ground behind barbed wire and far in the background is a tall chimney belching black smoke. I assume that the chimney is meant to symbolise the industrial scale of the killings in the camp. Ravensbrück was not an 'extermination camp' as such but the women who worked as slave labour were killed when they were too ill or too weak to work – and some were gassed because this was less time-consuming than shooting them. In this analysis the image is powerful in the way that it represents the contradictory cultures of the camp – but its repetition seems to make its meanings banal. I sometimes felt that there were other scenes, especially between the two leads, which might have been triggers for later parodies of the stiff-lipped British officer and the brave female agent.
Anna Neagle judging on this performance was a fine actress and a charismatic screen presence, but she was rather older than the woman she played had been at the time (45 rather than 30). I don't think that this is a problem and I was happy to accept her as a believable French agent, but it may be that she offered a slightly different presentation than might be expected from a younger woman. It would be interesting to compare Odette with Carve Her Name With Pride (UK 1958) in which Virginia McKenna plays Violette Szabo, another of the SOE agents sent to France. McKenna was much closer in age to her character – and had a rather different screen persona as an 'English rose' type.
Odette was a successful film that did have an impact and certainly moved audiences. I can see why that was the case but I do feel that it is a film with some inconsistencies – perhaps that saves it from the blandness that afflicts some other British films of the period, especially some of the war films. One last oddity. The late 1940s was actually quite a strong period for European cinema in the UK with several notable releases, including some Italian neo-realist films. There were also several European stars working for British studios as well as some European directors. I was intrigued to note that in Odette, several scenes began or ended with characters speaking in French or German which was not subtitled. Unfortunately I don't speak either language well enough to know how 'authentic' this speech was. The dialogue was not of great import but it was certainly part of the scene. The lead actors mostly spoke in English of course, but occasionally they spoke in French. Peter Ustinov and Anna Neagle sounded fine in French but Trevor Howard's accent seemed very poor to me and threatened the credibility of the character. I don't know how to read this language usage – does it suggest that the industry was less sensitive than it became only a few years later? The problem of language use in films like this has remained throughout the last sixty years and still often undermines the commercial prospects of such films in the international marketplace. What does anyone think is the best solution?
BIFF 2013 #1: The Look of Love (UK 2012)
Bradford has often opened with a new British film and British cinema has been an important element of the festival. On the face of it The Look of Love looks like a good choice. Michael Winterbottom is a celebrated if controversial director, Steve Coogan has done some of his best work with Michael and the subject matter is promising. . . . On the other hand, biopics are notoriously difficult to get right. Writer Matt Greenhalgh scripted one of the best with Control and I've admired Michael Winterbottom's work since I first saw Welcome to Sarajevo on a big screen in 1997. After Wonderland in 1999 I was convinced that he was the most exciting UK director around. Since then I've liked nearly everything he's done and I've been dismayed by the failure of most of his best films to get the recognition they deserve in terms of big audiences. I think Winterbottom's problem has been to find a new writing partner after his successful collaborations with Frank Cottrell-Boyce and his irregular link-ups with Laurence Coriat. Before the screening my main concern was how the notorious workaholic guerilla filmmaker with thirty-odd films to his name would get on with a scriptwriter who had previously worked with first-time feature directors. You can't really get a better combination of Lancashire names than Greenhalgh-Winterbottom, so I'm sure that they got on at a personal level, but for me the film didn't work.
Let's take the positives first. The audience clapped at the end and several people said how much they liked it. The performances in the film were all good and the soundtrack must have cost a few bob with some nice tunes from the 1960s-1980s. After that I start to struggle. The Look of Love tells the story of Paul Raymond, the Liverpool-born 'failed entertainer' who became a very successful impresario in the demi-world of first nude shows in the 1950s then strip clubs and his Revuebar in Soho and eventually a softporn publishing empire. His stroke of genius (sorry, there is a pun there which was not intentional, but that's how the 'nudge, wink' world works) was to put his profits into property in the West End. By the late 1990s he was one of the richest men in the UK. But money can't buy you love – even if you do know the Beatles. Raymond's family life was a mess, particularly in relation to his daughter who would do anything to please her father. He was seemingly a father who could not really understand the damage that he did.
In the Q & A that followed, Matt Greenhalgh answered a question about what was not in the film (e.g. Raymond's possible dealings with criminals etc.) by saying that there were too many stories. He also said that he hadn't done deep research in Soho. Instead, it seems that he latched onto the story of Debbie, the daughter (played by Imogen Poots). He also implied that he didn't get to tell that story fully, because the film was really the idea of Steve Coogan who wanted to play Raymond. Here is possibly the major problem with the film. Steve Coogan, whose performances in The Trip and 24 Hour Party People I admire, is miscast as Raymond, or rather he can't or won't, play Raymond as a 'character' in this fiction. He remains Coogan, on a couple of occasions addressing the camera to say "My name is Paul Raymond", winking at the camera on another occasion and then doing Coogan impressions of Sean Connery later Marlon Brando.
The film wants to tell the story from the 1950s to the 1990s. Raymond was born in 1925 so he was in his late 60s by the end of the film. Coogan does actually look a little like Raymond in his 60s, but he also always looks like Coogan. He's not really helped by the film's production design. The 1950s sequences use black and white but from then on, Soho looks more or less the same over the next forty years. You have to guess from the clothes which decade is which. For someone who was once the most audacious director around for devising a unique aesthetic approach, Winterbottom seems to have abandoned the task this time. It's probably not helped by the absence of Marcel Zyskind whose camerawork has been the basis of that aesthetic since he acted as operator for Robbie Muller on 24 Hour Party People in 2002. (He shot two episodes of the third series of The Killing in his native Denmark in 2012 instead.)
At the end of the Q&A we got the inevitable (and justifiable) question about the film's objectification of women. Of course, a film about a man who runs strip clubs and a soft porn publishing house has to show something, but the question (from a well-known film studies professor) was why was the film so complicit, so chummy in its representations of Raymond – and why were there no male genitalia to complement the numerous full frontals of dozens of actresses? It's a fair point, but my feeling is that the film simply didn't offer anything 'strong' to react against. Raymond wasn't a hypocrite. He didn't peddle Page 3 or attack women like the Daily Mail does now. He published 'top shelf' magazines and ran clubs that made money from the gullibility of men seeking excitement. The acres of flesh seemed to me just dull, but that was what much of that softporn world in the UK was like in the 1970s and 1980s. British representations of sex were at one time mostly comical. If they were sexy it was because of an element of realism – the 'Readers' Wives' aesthetic if you like. It's ironic that in one scene it's just possible to glimpse a poster of Joe Losey's The Servant (a poster for Billy Liar appears in another scene). There is much more eroticism in one look from Dirk Bogarde or a wriggle by Sarah Miles than in the whole of The Look of Love. Having said that, at least the women in Winterbottom's film looked 'real' and not sculpted and plucked like Christmas turkeys. Anna Friel and Tamsin Egerton as Raymond's wife Jean and his girlfriend Fiona Richmond make the most of what they are offered, but they deserved more. There is a story in here, probably more than one, but they need to be told in such a way to bring out not just the personal relationships but also something about the changes in British social life over the period. If it had more bite the film would be more entertaining and might also generate some debate.


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PHOENIX - Firefighters on Friday battled a 300-acre wildfire about 12 miles northeast of Payson that had prompted officials to put residents in that area on alert for possible evacuations.
The Zane fire was within a mile of several structures Friday morning, including the Zane Grey community, the Tonto Fish Hatchery, Meads Ranch and a Baptist camp, said Vinnie Picard, spokesman for the Tonto National Forest.
No one had been evacuated as of Friday morning.
The Gila County Sheriff's Office notified residents of the Zane Grey community, subdivisions of mostly summer cabins northeast of Payson, that they may have to leave if the fire reaches certain trigger points, said Gila County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Trudy Cory.
Cory said she wasn't sure how many residents had been contacted.
More than 100 firefighters were working on the fire Friday, Picard said.