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Film directors successful enough to be in the running for the biggest films are the last auteurs. Sign one on and you've decided to accept his vision or you signed the wrong guy. I'd agree the process was faulty in a way though. The last three all felt very different from each other to me - even though Abrams did two of them. But that's partly because I thought 8 was a pretty terribly composed film plot wise (any sane military commanders would have court martialed and executed Poe instead of waxing about how cute he was after he'd gotten a zillion folks killed) but the last reel bought back Johnson some forgiveness.

Haven't seen "Onion". Saw KO and it was fun - silly, plot sort of winds up in a hurry at the end but that was OK. Craig's 'accent' is completely unidentifiable, or maybe say it travels to a lot of different places during the course of the film(!), but he has fun with it.

I think it just goes back to the deeper human literary tradition. To give a character narrative immediate weight you make it about an 'important' person - ie. a king or queen or emperor. Heck, it goes back to Sophecles. Don't just write about a dyfunctional family - write about the King's dysfunctional family! Lucas intially imagined Star Wars as a sci-fi recapitulation of ancient mythic forms, so the concentration on nobility/emperors etc all was natural. If you take just the nine films in the primary arc, the 2nd set went completely back to an aristocratic environ, but it was notable that at the end of #6, Palpatine was supposedly destoyed and the rebel had won the battle but neigher Luke or Leia stepped into their places as heirs to any throne, which left open the possibility that the last series might deliberately take a more proletarian turn. And it does initially with Finn and Rey and Poe all being basically rapscallions. But in the end Abrams couldn't resist the pull of bringing Ren and Rey's nobility back to the fore and the old aristocracy to its own redemption to close the story.

It looks to me like they are looking at Hellberg instead of trying to play Ned out of his funk exactly because they are tying to decide if Hellberg can hold down the spot well enough to risk letting Ned go. There can't be that much risk with Hellberg. He has a long track record at this point - he is what he is - the baseball equiv of a 4A guy. If you think that is enough with Husso playing most of the games and that the team can get to the playoffs, I think you let someone else take on Ned's high risk profile. If you don't think you can climb over the teams in front of you in half a season, take the gamble you can turn Ned around. He's shown the talent is in there, somewhere.

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that is the consensus at here as well. A lot of students unprepared to even show up when they have to be somewhere in person.

bingo. Well, we know what Kenny would have done (not the above!), but Yzerzman is not Holland, let's hope he surprises us. Not a hot time of year for it but maybe he can move someone like Suter for a pick or something. There is no long term upside for the Wings in Berggren or Soderblom spending more time in GR.

I imagine any curriculum around money in public schools is probably like a third rail for the average school administrator. Probably no matter what you do you are going to get hammered from some consitiuency that thinks you are being too socialist, or too capitalist or to moneyist, or anti-banker, or pro-business, or your're discriminating against the poor kids or 'triggering' the rich kids, and maybe all of them at once. I mean I can just imagine a bottomless pit of complaint -- way easier to do nothing. So yeah - FAIL.

OOHH! I was not seeing the full post (the image!) you made at all before!! It just now came through with the complete post. If you are trying to add a new account to Paypal, you usually can't use it immediately. The procedure in the past was once you gave them a routing number they would make two tiny deposits (some number of cents) to the linked account that you would have to verify to prove you had access to the account - this would at least take overnight. So I understand why you can't make the deposit today, Can't understand why it isn't telling you something like that. Maybe because it's a bank holiday - SW down or something?

you are stuck there for sure on the immediate need - peeve is legit. I think all you can do is set yourself up to go through a bank account in the future.

Not completely the case. Our credit union offeres all kinds of seminars on saving, investing, retirement that are free, aimed at people without a lot of assets and as far as I have seem, offer pretty sound advice. It's true a small investor is not going to get any reputable professional advisor to spend one-on-one time with them for what they can afford to pay for it, but there are resources out there. Maybe the bigger problem is that too many people don't have enough initial knowledge to bootstrap themselves into being able to recognize good advice from bad on their first attempt to learn something when they are most likely to be preyed upon.

yeah - In a way I was dissappointed in the lack of originality that making Rey a Palpatine was. Especially after the tease with the kid and the broom in the last shot of the earlier film, and of course Finn's character as well. But much like Tolkein before him, Lucas started out in the beginning telling a hereditary nobility/Monarchist story, so fitting enough in that way that the skywalker arc ended back with same ethos where it began.

No - but you can put funds into a bank account linked to your paypal account and then use them to make a paypal payment. It's the same action to the same effect. I guess that is as close you can get. Conversely when I've sold things via PP on EBay recently, the funds don't stay there - they push them back to your linked account - at least that has been my experience recently. Maybe I made that choice somewhere along the way or possibly it was an automatic one I didn't over-ride....

the other thing is you have to know what kind of lines of credit they have available. If you have been a good CC risk and they have given you a $20K line of credit, or if you have a mortgage backed line of credit, having an actual 'emergency' cash fund is a lot less important than when that advice was first promugated as conventional wisdom in the days before credit cards even existed. So I'd want to know the specifics of how the question was asked. If you had specifically asked me that Q almost any time in my working career, the exact answer about cash emergency funds would have been 'no', but I always had sufficent credit available if I had to make an emergency purchase/expense. I've never left any quantity of cash just sitting around. That said, there is no question too many people have neither sufficent savings nor assets nor good credit, but I would take that mostly as due to decline in middle class income availability across the economy.

If you hand around long enough, familty joint accounts and deaths may leave you with a checking account you might otherwise just close - we saved one just for Paypal. The thought of exposing our regular account to Paypal seemed frightening at the time so we turned an idle account we had 'inherited' into a dedicated PP account. It's been a good solution. There is never enough money in the PP acount to be a serious loss risk, and it's eay to EFT funds from our regular account into that account as needed. OT but related, a friend just had someone try to pass a faked $10K check against their account - someone had photocopied a real check at some point in its handling and photoshopted the routing numbers and signature onto a fake. Unclear how it was passed - (photo deposit maybe?) but it only goes to show that in the digital age tyring to maintain use of hard copy as a security backstop is no help.

Not unexpected tough. Film is a big vector for the injection of cultural or political values into a society - and to be fair, many film makers are very conscious of their political or cultural intent in their filmaker. Always been that way, right back to 'Birth of Nation' in 1915. Since most filmakers tilt left (though not all - e.g D.W Griffiths) that makes all of Hollywood's output suspect for today's right side culture warriors.

Seattle and the Lions both win. Lions can enjoy their first winning season since 2017 but they'll do it at home.

One of the things you notice with Fields is that he doesn't seem to be the commander in chief of his offense when he's out there. I don't know if a QB necessarily *has* to be the take charge guy in every offense, but it seems most effective QBs are.

Yeah - I think Ras' stock is really rising. He's not only playing better but becoming a leader on the ice defending his mates and I was impressed the other night when he tried to save an empty netter for Larkin. Larkin signalled him to just take it but it was nice team sentiment.

If the Lions were more of a 3-4 team you wonder if they wouldn't have already thought about having him lose a few pounds and making him rush/WIL

LOL, stupid fingers. K to Y isn't even that close. I guess that was the brain starting out to say 'Rookie of the Year" and the fingers saying - 'this here 'k' is enough mate'

no - the segue to the political take was the Millenial economics aspect that was a common thread connecting both the survey in SB's post and survey work reported the FT article I linked. We are afterall, in a thead called 'Politics Schmaltics'!

It does dovetail with the FT article though - measures the same sentiment. The FT piece interprets it as the Millennials having far less confidence in conventional ideas about market capitalism because they began their economic lives with the great crash in '09 and this long era of stagnant wage growth. That has affected both their actual economic security (as noted in the Pru survey) and their sense of their potential economic future outlook. But that sense also has political fallout because it will be a big factor in how they vote.

It's just a pet peeve of mine that the flower children/protesters of the 60/70 are presented historically as the whole representation of their generation when the reality is while there was a big leftward movement driven largely by the War - there were a LOT of boomers and the conventional folks were still the majority of their generation. To understand this correctly takes some of the supposed mystery out of why the Fox News cohort (which is mostly boomers) are what they are. The boomers founded the SDS, but they also were the "Young Republicans for Nixon" and the heart of the 60s-70s Christian Pentacostal movement which laid the groundwork for today's version of Conservative American Evangelicalism. I suppose part of this disconnect is because in recent culture, the literary and historian classes tend to come primary from liberal arts culture, which sits leftward from the full truth of their own era as they chose to remember and record it.