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TV Review: ABC's 'Revenge'
Revenge, it turns out, is not a dish best served dull
In the classic "Simpsons" episode "Day of the Jackanapes," Sideshow Bob is released from prison with only one thing in mind: Revenge [in this case, against Krusty for erasing all of the tapes from their classic shows together].
Sideshow Bob is monomaniacal and in one scene, he plunks himself down on a TV studio catwalk and observes, "Ah, the catwalk. The perfect vantage point... for revenge."
He then pulls out a bag of savory snacks and opines, "Ah, kettle chips. The perfect side dish... for revenge."
Finally, as a brainwashed Bart moves in the direction of Krusty with a bomb strapped to his chest, Sideshow Bob caps the joke.
"Well, Krusty, this is your Waterloo. Soon, you'll be Napoleon Blown-apart," he says. A crew member objects, but Bob adds, "It was the perfect pun... for revenge."
In its perpetual and near-infinite wisdom, "The Simpsons" was poking fun at the convention that when fictional characters determine that it's time for revenge, they almost never go out and just get revenge. Instead, they talk about it endlessly and portentously. They won't freaking shut up about their need for revenge. And finally, you're all, "Oh my God. Just get your revenge already!"
"Day of the Jackanapes" and kettle chips came to mind several times while I watched the first two episodes of ABC's new drama "Revenge," in which the main character spends so much time talking about her need for revenge that an "Oh my God. Just get your revenge already!" reaction is almost inevitable. And while the character does, indeed, slowly begin to get said revenge, it's an almost joyless endeavor.
Revenge may be a dish best served cold, but there's a difference between "cold" and "emotionless and dull," a distinction "Revenge" is unable to make in the early going.
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"Revenge" launches with an in medias res opening that lets us know that before five months of adventures are up, Emily VanCamp's Emily Thorne will be on the verge of marrying into one of the Hamptons' most powerful families, but that one of our regular characters is going to be murdered.
Murdered... for REVENGE? Dunno. We'll find out.
Anyway, flash back and we discover that Emily is the mysterious new girl in the Hamptons. She's beautiful, rich and looks great in any outfit.
And Emily has decided that the Hamptons is the perfect summer spot... for REVENGE.
You see, Emily Thorne wasn't always Emily Thorne. Once upon a time, she was a little girl with a perfect life and an adoring father (James Tupper), until her dad was accused of a pretty heinous crime and sent away for good. But Emily's dad apparently wasn't guilty and he was set up by a vast criminal conspiracy including basically every single person in the Hamptons. After a respectable period of absence spent going through puberty and memorizing the "revenge" section of "Bartlett's Quotations," Emily has returned. Nobody recognizes her, but they recognize that when slender blonde white girls show up at in the Hamptons with inexhaustible bank accounts, they're a welcome addition to any event.
Soon, Emily is rubbing shoulders with Victoria "Queen Victoria" Grayson (Madeleine Stowe), belle of the Hamptons ball, plus her husband Conrad Grayson (Henry Czerny) and studly son Daniel Grayson (Josh Bowman), but not Lord Greystoke, because that would be Tarzan. Also moving around within the upper crust, but on the periphery, is tech billionaire Nolan Ross (Gabriel Mann), the one man possibly perceptive enough to see through Emily's different name.
Although most of the story in "Revenge" is spent on the "Upstairs" side of things, there's a "Downstairs" element as well, featuring townies Jack (Nick Wechsler) and Declan (Connor Paolo), who are essentially good people, because as everybody knows, rich people all want to set your father up for murder (and deserve... revenge), while blue collar people are all the salt of the Earth.
"Revenge" is extraordinarily loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo," but the basis is so loose that acknowledging it would be giving the Mike Kelley-scripted pilot way more literary credit than it deserves. There's zero point in my going through the major plot changes that impact and undo the entire nature of the Dumas story, so let's just say that this series is every bit as much "Secret Revenge Millionaire" as it is "Count of Monte Cristo."
"Count of Monte Cristo" is a tremendously satisfying book and it prolongs that satisfaction across 1000+ pages in its unexpurgated version. It's the construction of the story that makes "Monte Cristo" so great and fittingly, but unrelatedly, it's the construction of "Revenge" that makes it so unsatisfying.
The show has to lose the voice-over. It's horrible. Emily VanCamp has a sweet and soothing voice, but she doesn't have a voice-over voice, especially not when all she's doing is reading cliches about revenge or twisted nonsense like "Two wrongs can never make a right, because two wrongs can never equal each other." I'm sorry. That sentence may seem profound if you don't give it an iota of thought, but it doesn't have any meaning whatsoever in the story of a twentysomething girl trying to destroy the people who ruined her childhood. Or "When deception cuts this deep, someone has to pay." These are just words. Bland. Empty. Words. I know that thanks to Shonda Rhimes, ABC has an in-house style that says that having your female lead narrate nothingness at the start of every episode is a worthy strategy, but delaying, pontificating and obfuscating sets a very poor table for... REVENGE.
The show also needs to lose the unenlightening episode closing revelation for how Emily got her revenge-of-the-week. Usually accompanied by the aforementioned voiceover, both of the episodes I've seen have ended with the revelation that Emily's revenge was gained... exactly in the most obvious way one would have expected.
Oh yeah. Did I mention that "Revenge" is a revenge procedural? So many flipping people scorned Emily Thorne, that she's got a picture and she's able to check off one piece of revenge per week (at least thus far). This isn't a strategy I would mind, except that the structure forces the methodical to become formulaic in a way that also renders the revenge all the more bloodless.
"Revenge" isn't a good show, but it also isn't a satisfying guilty pleasure, because nobody's having nearly enough fun for viewers to catch the fever.
VanCamp, who I loved on "Everwood" and had no troubles with on "Bothers & Sisters," is too passive a leading lady for this role. As I see it, Emily can have two responses to all of this revenge she's taking: She can either be loving it or it can be tearing her apart inside (or, in a perfect world I guess, both of these things should be true). The response that VanCamp is taking is closer to "robotically efficient." That left me neither rooting for her nor against her and having no real interest in how any of this is impacting her soul. On the other hand, VanCamp looks marvelous throughout, donning one gorgeous gown and hairstyle after another. She's Genteel Revenge Barbie.
Of the slew of potential love interests, I'm not sure there's a prize-winner. Bowman looks like a pumped up version of Bret Harrison, but doesn't convey much other than a square jaw. Wechsler is broody, but forgettable. And Mann is being held back either by the costumes or the writing, flattening a character who ought to eccentric enough to boost the energy level of everybody around him. But Mann, like most of the cast, is so patrician as to just be anemic. ["Gossip Girl" vet Paolo is both woefully miscast and stuck in a D-story that trips "Revenge" up whenever it appears.]
I'm not sure what show Madeleine Stowe is on, but she gets it. When she's onscreen, "Revenge" gets a pulse. Sometimes she goes a little into camp, but "Revenge" could use more of that sort of extreme and if everybody were on that page, this would be a more enjoyable show. But Stowe usually doesn't even resort to that broadness. She plays "Queen Victoria" as cold and calculating and dangerous. By the end of the second episode, the Emily vs. Victoria battle lines were drawn and I was firmly Team Victoria in a way that the producers couldn't possibly want. Maybe you're supposed to have emerging sympathy for Victoria, but you're definitely not supposed to want her to turn the tables and crush Emily. But Stowe is good enough that that's what I was rooting for. [You may recall that I had the same issue with ABC's "V" reboot, taking sides with Morena Baccarin's Anna against humanity.]
If you call your pilot "Revenge," you've chosen a brazen emphasis that almost demands a little exploitation and trashiness and I don't doubt pilot director Phillip Noyce, a tremendous crafter of top-notch genre B-movies, could have gone in that direction. But Noyce is stifling himself, using only the occasional Dutch angle or POV shot, when you can almost feel him waiting to go berserk. You've got the director of "Dead Calm" and "Blind Fury" here. Why wouldn't you let him go nuts?
But "Revenge" is restrained at all times. Nobody's enjoying their lifestyle. Nobody's enjoying the excess. And nobody's enjoying the payback. And that's probably why I didn't enjoy "Revenge."
"Revenge" premieres on Wednesday (Sept. 21) at 10 p.m. on ABC.


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The South African hippo's plight captivated animal lovers and his death Friday left many in tears, with some blaming a vet who arrived too late.
MODIMOLLE, South Africa — What started as a day of hope for a young hippo turned to tragedy when rescuers were unable to save the 3-ton beast from the swimming pool he plunged into after being chased from his herd.
The hippo's plight captivated animal lovers and his death Friday left many in tears, with some blaming a vet who arrived too late.
"It started out as a happy story and now it's a tragic story. It's devastating," said Ruby Ferreira, manager of the game-preserve lodge where the hippopotamus nicknamed Solly — although some reports said Harry — had been stuck in the swimming pool since Tuesday.
The 4-year-old hippo had been chased from his herd by dominant males, and he wandered into the Monate Conservation Lodge and plopped into its 8-foot-deep pool.
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Although he was able to swim freely, he couldn't get out because the pool has no steps.
Solly's plight captivated South Africans, with live TV broadcasts from the pool and newspaper headlines such as: "It's all systems go for the rescue of Solly the hippo."
Someone set up a Twitter account on Solly's behalf and tweeted purported hippo quotes.
Solly's demise Friday left several of those involved pointing fingers of blame. Ferreira said a game-capture team had been waiting since Thursday for a veterinarian to show up to tranquilize Solly and oversee the operation to hoist him out with a crane.
By early Friday, the hippo was showing signs of stress and was no longer able to stand in the pool, which had been drained of most of its water in preparation for the rescue.
Just as veterinarian Alex Lewis arrived, Solly tried one last time to get to his feet. He couldn't make it. Exhausted, he dropped his head into the knee-deep water, and then lay still.
Wildlife-rescue expert Simon Prinsloo was in tears as he confirmed that Solly was dead.
Ferreira said hippos are sensitive and Solly's stress level had probably been rising since he was forced from his group, called a pod, and took shelter in the pool.
Once inside, he couldn't get out, adding to his stress.
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That knot is....uhhhh....a tad on the large side. Especially given the 3 piece.
That knot is....uhhhh....a tad on the large side. Especially given the 3 piece.
I was just quoting George Costanza in case you missed that reference.
But to answer your question, I hate two button collar bands. I blame in equal amounts my love for thick buttons and my lack of fine motor skills for this. The small buttons on my shirts are usually 14 ligne x 3,5mm. those are a pain in the hindquarters to button close next too each other. My collar band would leave enough space for two small buttons, since I too belong to the cervixes longiusculus, but I always opt for a regular big one; the fastened tie does the rest.
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DALLAS (AP) — Former Arizona coach Lute Olson says he lost slightly more than $1 million through "bogus" investments orchestrated by David Salinas, the Houston money manager for coaches who committed suicide over the summer.
Olson claims in a lawsuit that Salinas and an associate sold him corporate bonds that didn't exist about six months after he retired in 2008.
Salinas died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in July. The Securities and Exchange Commission has since filed a lawsuit accusing him of defrauding more than 100 investors.
Salinas also operated a summer basketball program for college prospects. Olson is one of several college coaches who invested with him.
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Veins of iron run deep in the history of America. Iron making began almost as soon as European settlement, with the establishment of the first ironworks in colonial Massachusetts. Yet it was Great Britain that became the Atlantic world's dominant low-cost, high-volume producer of iron, a position it retained throughout the nineteenth century. It was not until after the Civil War that American iron producers began to match the scale and efficiency of the British iron industry. In Mastering Iron, Anne Kelly Knowles argues that the prolonged development of the US iron industry was largely due to geographical problems the British did not face. Pairing exhaustive manuscript research with analysis of a detailed geospatial database that she built of the industry, Knowles reconstructs the American iron industry in unprecedented depth, from locating hundreds of iron companies in their social and environmental contexts to explaining workplace culture and social relations between workers and managers. She demonstrates how ironworks in Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia struggled to replicate British technologies but, in the attempt, brought about changes in the American industry that set the stage for the subsequent age of steel. Richly illustrated with dozens of original maps and period art work, all in full color, Mastering Ironsheds new light on American ambitions and highlights the challenges a young nation faced as it grappled with its geographic conditions.


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I got up early,for a saturday, this morning to try and beat the heat on my ride. I drove to the trail as it runs north and south so I would be in the shade on the entire ride if I finished before the sun got to high. I had a nice ride and rode 42 miles. I finished at about 9:15 and headed home. On the way I stopped at a yard sale and bought some tools. The guy having the sale was 39 (he told me later). He saw my bike in the back of my truck and I was all sweaty so he knew I had just ridden. He said, "you should have went earlier to beat the heat".
I told him I did go early, but since I rode 42 miles it took a little while. He looked at me and said, so, how does bike riding affect your knees at your age?
No one was at the yard sale except me, him and his mother. I said in a rather loud and incredulous voice, "just what the heck do you mean by at your age?"
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For the furrier friends in your life, there is good news: The Humane Society for Seattle/King County reports what it calls a record-setting number of saved animals and adoptions in 2013.
Last year, the organization said it "saved" 6,937 animals and recorded 6,403 pet adoptions. The other saved animals were returned to their owners or transferred to other organizations.
These rates are higher than what the organization had seen from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, the organization said it saved 6,044 animals, which included 5,668 adoptions.
The number of animals the society euthanized went down as well.
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David Loewe, the society's CEO, said the improving economy could be inspiring people to get pets.
"The personal future starts to become a little more secure and you start to think about what's important in your life, and having a companion, four-legged with a wet nose, certainly becomes one of those at the top of the list," Loewe said.
He said the organization is doing more marketing and new promotions. The number of animals being transferred to the society from other agencies outside of King County is growing as well. These kinds of facilities transferred 2,484 animals to the organization in 2012. Last year, the number jumped to 3,273.
Amanda Walde, a marketing and media-relations associate for the humane society, wrote in an email that last year they "transferred animals in from Eastern Washington, California, and Hawaii."
For Loewe, one key to saving more pets is getting more adoptions completed.
"Well, you have to have adoptions to save more," Loewe said. "So, I mean, that's the ultimate prize, if you will. By adopting more animals it opens up more space and allows us to take in more animals."
The Seattle Animal Shelter had a good year as well, according to Don Jordan, the shelter's director. He said the city of Seattle agency saw a 93 percent save rate in 2013. As someone who has worked for the shelter for more than 20 years, he said he believes this is the best rate it has seen.
The shelter's save rate, Jordan said, covers animals that are adopted, taken back to their original owners or transferred to other agencies.
But according to figures from the Seattle Animal Shelter, at least since 2009, as the agency's save rate has gone up, the number of adopted animals has gone down.
In 2009, the agency had a save rate of 82.3 percent and had 2,680 animals adopted. But in 2013, it saw 1,889 animals adopted.
Kara Main-Hester, the manager of volunteer programs and fundraising at the shelter, said this can be attributed to the fact that fewer animals are coming through the shelter's doors. Some reasons for this, she said, are more spaying and neutering and a culture of "responsible ownership" in the area.
For the shelter, the number of euthanized
pets is also going down, with 313 euthanized in 2013 compared with 480 in 2010.
The humane society is also seeing a decrease, with 154 animals euthanized in 2013, compared to 164 in 2012 and 254 in 2011.
Shoanette and Greg Harper recently fell in love with a puppy from the humane society.
The Kirkland couple moved to Washington from Texas a few months ago, and Shoanette Harper said the pet was "kind of a thing for us to be able to start a family even though I'm not pregnant yet."
The puppy was also a new beginning for the couple, who lost a cat recently.
"We actually used to have a cat, and she passed away; she was 20 years old," Shoanette Harper said. "And we've always loved animals, always, and so we thought we're not quite ready to do the cat thing again, she was like a kid to us, so we thought we would try a puppy this time."
Asked if she thought they would keep the puppy, Shoanette Harper said, "I think she's already kept us."
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I've recently become interested in DUET, Intel's UEFI emulator for developers. I'm reading that it can be installed to a hard disk, but what does this make it? Some kind of boot monitor? A virtual machine? Would I be able to make BIOS computers run like EFI computers? Could it be used for a software-based secure boot?
You can think of DUET is a sort of boot loader that loads an EFI environment on BIOS-mode computers. When run, DUET essentially turns a BIOS-based computer into one with EFI support. It's not a virtual machine. The last I checked, DUET did not include Secure Boot support, but that may have changed with recent builds. (Even if it did include Secure Boot support, it wouldn't really be all that effective, since DUET still depends on the basically insecure BIOS boot path to get started.) It does let you run EFI-based boot loaders and other EFI tools, though. As the name implies, it was originally designed for developers, but I imagine that most developers now have real EFI hardware. Its most practical application these days is likely to be for people with BIOS-based computers who want to boot Windows from hard disks that are larger than 2TiB. Such disks need to use the GUID Partition Table (GPT), and Windows can only boot from GPT disks when using EFI. DUET enables this. OTOH, it's also something of a pain to set up, so you should consider it only if you've got more time and/or expertise than money. If you have one or two hundred bucks to spare for a desktop system (or a bit more than that for a laptop), you'd be better off replacing the motherboard (or the whole computer) with an EFI-capable model.
The process of installing and using DUET is too complex to describe here; but I've written a Web page on the topic:
Note that DUET is extremely finicky. In my experience, it works best on Intel-based computers. I've tested it on at least three AMD-based computers, and it failed completely on two of those and worked poorly on the third. You'll need another BIOS-based boot loader (such as GRUB or SYSLINUX) to get DUET started at all. My Web page describes how to set that up, though.


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They say that the Neanderthals have all died out, I have to wonder.
Again I have to say, the stupid shall be punished.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc paid a smaller portion of its revenue to employees in 2012 as it laid off staff, signaling that management at the top Wall Street bank may be ceding power to the shareholders who supply the capital.
The bank set aside just 37.9 percent of its 2012 revenue for compensation, the second-lowest proportion since Goldman went public in 1999. But pay per employee rose because revenue was up and layoffs reduced staffing levels.
Lower compensation combined with big revenue gains helped Goldman beat analysts' earnings expectations for the fourth quarter. The bank on Wednesday said profit nearly tripled, boosted by higher stock and bond values, and increased revenue from trading, dealmaking and money-management.
"We were not expecting as much revenue in the capital markets as what they were able to achieve," said Joe Terril, president of the St. Louis-based investment firm Terril & Co. "And management appears to be retaining quality people without giving all the revenue away in the form of compensation."
Goldman posted quarterly earnings of $2.8 billion, or $5.60 per share, up from $978 million, or $1.84 per share, in the same period a year ago.
Analysts had expected the New York-based bank to earn $3.78 per share, on average, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Goldman shares were up 2.4 percent at $138.91 in early trading.
A significant part of Goldman's earnings boom came from improvements in market values in the stock and bond markets, as well as increased activity from clients.
The bank said it took in "significantly higher" revenues from credit products and mortgages in its bond-trading business. Its investing and lending division, which mostly earns money from higher values on Goldman's own stock and bond investments, reported nearly $2 billion worth of revenue.
But gains were broad, with revenue up across each of Goldman's business lines, from investment banking to investment management. Overall, revenue rose 53 percent to $9.2 billion.
The bank said compensation expense, typically the biggest cost for Wall Street firms, fell 11 percent from a year ago. The expense was just 21 percent of net revenue, roughly half of what the firm usually pays out to employees.
In 2009, a record year for earnings, Goldman paid out 35.8 percent of revenue to employees. But for the last five years the figure has averaged closer to 42 percent.
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There are irrational people on every side of every issue. Most people are sane and hold their positions for reasons. My $.02 is that helmets do afford some protection, and I do wear one 95% of the time I'm on a bike. I do not think a helmet is an invicibility shield.
So, while I say that, I was hit by a car a couple of days ago. I was wearing a helmet. No part of my helmet or head contacted either the vehicle or the ground. So while I was wearing one, I don't think it made a lick of difference in this particular case. I think that's what I hear most from the lid-less folks: helmets do not protect you from the most serious situations...collisions. I happen to believe they are a great help for the most common, falling from the height of the riding position to the ground. Same thing with MC helmets, they are designed to protect you from a fall height of about 5 - 6 ft tops. About the only thing that protects you in high speed impacts are God (if you so believe) or random chance (if God isn't your deal.)


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Recently I brought a civia loring - front rack bike. Every review raved and raved. I find it hard to ride, however and as I live in a city with a very high car usage the negatives are running neck and neck with the positives (with the cost nipping at the heals of both). When I look at Japanese bike sites I notice the "mamacha" (mothers bike) has a basket which protudes (at most) 4 inchs over the wheel and I assume this has a lot to do with experience and practicability. It is a beautiful looking bike but I feel I may be a victim of hype, shallow journalism (and/) or google's bias? I bought a black one but the green one I tried out felt better... it had fatter tires.
Are we stretching what is possible for what is practical (by practical I mean something that carries my groceries without feeling unease at not being sufficiently in control)?
I took it back to the shop for its' checkup. I'd noticed the disc brakes were a bit close and a bit of an egg in the front tire. After looking at it the owner told me the wheel nuts were loose and asked if anyone had tried to steal it. i haven't ridden it far enough since then to give it a good test but it seems healthier.


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The Pentagon task force responsible for the $43 million gas station in Afghanistan is in the news again, this time over claims by its former chief that he is the victim of whistleblower retaliation.
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Nikon's AF Nikkor 180mm f/2.8D ED-IF has a longstanding reputation for excellence, and its fine qualities are evident when comparing it directly with the AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED. For this test, Live View was used to match focus , and the VR function of the 70-200 was disabled (always a good idea on a tripod).
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Films about Indian cinema's legendary personalities are still a rarity. And one of those rare attempts is being made by Deepti Naval - she is keenly interested in making a non-fictional film on the life and times of that amazingly naturalistic actor Balraj Sahni, but facing certain problems.
Deepti, who is aesthetically motivated by Balraj Sahni's effortless performances, has been researching his life for years. Just when she was ready to put all her research material on screen for the immortal actor's birth centenary this month, a hurdle has placed in Deepti's plans by Balraj Sahni's son Parikshat Sahni.
Explains Deepti, "I was really keen on making a film on Balraj Sahni. But when I approached his son Parikshat for his consent, he told me he had already given the filming rights on his father's life to another producer. He didn't think it was right for me to do a film when someone else is committed to do the same. I agree. But we're trying to find a solution to the deadlock, because I'm really keen to do do this."
Years ago, Simi Garewal made a documentarly called "Living Legend Raj Kapoor" and Sandip Ray did one on Kishore Kumar.
Deepti, who was recently seen in a minuscule role in Yash Raj Films' "Aurangzeb", says some of her important scenes have been cut from the film.
"But I've no regrets. I did it because of my regards for Mr. Yash Chopra. He was always very sweet and kind to me," said the actress of films like "Saath Saath" and "Chashme Buddoor".
The actress says mainstream cinema has always had a problem positioning her.
"That's why I keep running back to the more realistic cinema. It's okay to do a small role in mainstream cinema like 'Aurangzeb' or 'Yaariyan'. But it's films like Rituparno Ghosh's 'Memories Of March' and Avinash Kumar Singh's 'Listen, Amaya' that sustain me as an actress," said Deepti. She is now looking forward to the release of Shekhar Suman's "Heartless".
" 'Heartless' is a rare commercial film where I have a substantial role," she added.
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The Mystery of the Multiverse
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"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in creating the world." That's how Albert Einstein, in his characteristically poetic way, asked whether our universe is the only possible universe.
The reference to God is easily misread, as Einstein's question wasn't theological. Instead, Einstein wanted to know whether the laws of physics necessarily yield a unique universe--ours--filled with galaxies, stars, and planets. Or instead, like each year's assortment of new cars on the dealer's lot, could the laws allow for universes with a wide range of different features? And if so, is the majestic reality we've come to know--through powerful telescopes and mammoth particle colliders--the product of some random process, a cosmic roll of the dice that selected our features from a menu of possibilities? Or is there a deeper explanation for why things are the way they are?
In Einstein's day, the possibility that our universe could have turned out differently was a mind-bender that physicists might have bandied about long after the day's more serious research was done. But recently, the question has shifted from the outskirts of physics to the mainstream. And rather than merely imagining that our universe might have had different properties, proponents of three independent developments now suggest that there are other universes, separate from ours, most made from different kinds of particles and governed by different forces, populating an astoundingly vast cosmos.
The multiverse, as this vast cosmos is called, is one of the most polarizing concepts to have emerged from physics in decades, inspiring heated arguments between those who propose that it is the next phase in our understanding of reality, and those who claim that it is utter nonsense, a travesty born of theoreticians letting their imaginations run wild.
So which is it? And why should we care? Grasping the answer requires that we first come to grips with the big bang.
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In 1915, Einstein published the most important of all his works, the general theory of relativity, which was the culmination of a 10-year search to understand the force of gravity. The theory was a marvel of mathematical beauty, providing equations that could explain everything from the motion of planets to the trajectory of starlight with stupendous accuracy.
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The big-bang theory was born. During the decades that followed, the theory would receive overwhelming observational support. Yet scientists were aware that the big-bang theory suffered from a significant shortcoming. Of all things, it leaves out the bang. Einstein's equations do a wonderful job of describing how the universe evolved from a split second after the bang, but the equations break down (similar to the error message returned by a calculator when you try to divide 1 by 0?) when applied to the extreme environment of the universe's earliest moment. The big bang thus provides no insight into what might have powered the bang itself.
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Don't Bother Pumping Iron. Just Thinking about Your Muscles Is Body-Building, Say Experts
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Just thinking about your muscles can make them stronger, according to research out today. The way athletes think could boost muscle strength and help recovery after injury, a conference in Cardiff will be told. The research by a team at Hull University monitored 30 people performing bicep curls, using a weights machine that measured how much their biceps were working.
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'When they want people to improve their performance, thinking about outcomes such as targets or goals is best.
'However, when they want athletes to exercise their muscles or recover from injury, thinking about the movement of their muscles during exercise is helpful.'
Dr Marchant said the technique may help injured athletes recover more quickly.
'If you injure a muscle and the physiotherapist is trying to stimulate that muscle, trying to get the patient to stimulate a muscle, if you get the patient to think about the movement you could get the patient to stimulate the muscle.'
He added, 'What we are trying to stress is that exercisers need to be aware they can use mental techniques to produce different effects of lifting weights.
'If they are thinking about their muscles while they are lifting weights they will get a different effect than if they think about just lifting the weight.'
Dr Marchant explained that when the brain thinks about what each muscle is doing it makes them work less efficiently because the brain has more than one thing to think about.
And this is what makes the muscles work harder and become stronger rather than the movement being more of a reflex action.
'Thinking about the weight you are lifting should produce a more efficient movement. The nervous system should move the muscle more efficiently.
'If you are thinking about the movement you are putting quite a bit of effort into the co-ordination of all the different components in your movement. 'That awareness of what all the muscles are doing is increasing the activity in all the muscles and is a less efficient activation of muscular activity. But when a weightlifter is lifting weights, they want that so eventually they will get stronger.' Dr Marchant will look at researching the field further to see whether there are other thought processes that can be used to improve muscular strength during workouts.: One-night stands still wrong, say women:Despite increases in sexual liberation, women still see one-night stands as 'wrong' - even if they have had a fling themselves, according to research out today. …


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One new such site is Outgrow.me. Created by tech enthusiast Sam Fellig, the platform lists a cornucopia of crowdfunded products. Some are already available for purchase, while others (like the Pebble smart watch) are currently 'pre-orderable.' Projects come from Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and RocketHub.
The site is simple and intuitive. Aside from choosing to view products that are currently available or pre-orderable, a user can also filter by category ('iphone accessories,' 'stuff for children,' 'everything but apple') or price.
The site doesn't actually sell anything, redirecting the user to the product's own website or a marketplace where the item is listed. While Outgrow.me's creator acknowledges that there is potential for a lot of money to be made in this quickly developing field, he claims that's not his goal.
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We've written in the past about companies bridging the crowdfunding gap – filling the space that exists between a campaign ending and the product being delivered to the customer.
Back then, we spoke with the team behind CrowdHut, which is currently in its beta stage. Their site is an actual e-commerce platform, meaning the products on there are for sale, and pay to be listed there. The CrowdHut team also helps with product fulfillment and looks at other marketing methods, like infomercials.
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An important relic of Saint Anthony of Padua journeyed to America and visited our own St. Anthony Maronite Catholic Church for 9 consecutive days from September 6 through 14, 2014. During these nine days we conducted and organized events for the weeklong visit, including a youth day and special opportunities for all members of our parish as well as all local parishes and the faithful to venerate the relic.
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This church is holy ground, where all people are welcome to celebrate with joy the Gospel of life and the Sacraments empowering us with the Spirit of Christ. From this Church the richness of our Catholic Faith, the history of our Maronite traditions, the experiences of our families and the diversity of our cultures, languages, and gifts strengthen and unite us as the Body of Christ.
Our resolve is strengthened by the example of our Patron Saint Anthony who spread the good news to all the people. He reminds each of us of our mission to be messengers of hope, peace and good will.
From and in this Church we will educate, nurture, and encourage involvement among the children and youth to help them to grow in faith, compassion and understanding. With the support and guidance of parents and elders we will strive to make a healing difference in the lives of all God's people of every race, creed, and tradition.
Following the example of our Lord Jesus, the Lover of humankind, our Church will provide service to the poor and vulnerable, and reach out in action and loving care, both to individuals and communities through spiritual and corporal works of charity.
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text: It is so much easier to accurately hit with optics (even with perfect vision) it isn't really a question in my opinion. And once your vision starts to deteriorate with age, they are really valuable. Ask yourself this: Would the gun gamers and military put them on everything if they didn't help?