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A&E | SCREEN > GRAVITY BLUES Bullock and Clooney fight for their lives; Bullock explores a damaged space station (below). TV COURTROOM RUMBLE Legal drama, not boxing, takes center stage in Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight FILM THE FINAL FRONTIER Gravity makes space travel seem exciting and dangerous again BY JOSH BELL Hollywood has given us so many futuristic and action-packed space-set movies that it's easy to forget how dangerous and unforgiving space is for the people who actually travel there. Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity brings that danger home powerfully, with the story of two astronauts (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) who end up stranded after their space shuttle is damaged by ﬂying debris. There are no aliens, no gun battles, no explosions (well, a few explosions), just two people trying desperately to survive in impossible conditions. As a story of survival, Gravity is nearly unparalleled. From the moment that Bullock's Dr. Ryan Stone and Clooney's Lt. Matt Kowalski receive an urgent message that debris from a destroyed satellite is headed their way at high speed, Cuarón keeps the suspense at a breathless level for nearly the with such dire circumstances. Unfortunately they're also saddled with some incredentire running time. The amazing special effects, along ibly sappy backstory-illuminating speeches with the ever-roving camera of cinematograthat threaten to undermine the movie's intenpher Emmanuel Lubezki, convey the immense aaaac sity. There's one scene in particular toward emptiness of the characters' environment, and GRAVITY the end of the movie that's nearly unforgivable every bid for safety presents new challenges Sandra Bullock, in its cheap sentimentality, and the score from and dangers. George Clooney. Steven Price, so essential to the scenes of chaUnlike, say, Apollo 13 (which gets a nod in Directed by Alfonso otic danger (Cuarón sticks to the realism of the form of Ed Harris as the distant voice of Cuarón. Rated PG-13. space being soundless, which means the score mission control back on Earth), Gravity doesn't Opens Friday. is all the audience hears), turns corny and have the comfort of a real-life happy ending overwrought when the characters reveal their to mitigate the suspense. There's no reason to believe that Stone or Kowalski will make it through emotional baggage. There's so much visceral power in the their ordeal alive, and Bullock and Clooney (whose role is ﬁght for survival that it doesn't need a typical Hollywood actually much smaller than previews indicate) effectively redemption arc. As long as Cuarón sticks to the danger and express the desperation and determination that come along suspense, Gravity is a masterpiece. Despite its title, the HBO original movie Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight isn't really about Muhammad Ali. The legendary boxer appears only in archival footage, while the central narrative focuses on the nine Supreme Court justices who decided his fate in 1971. That's when Ali's appeal of his draft-dodging conviction reached the nation's highest judicial body, and the movie spends most of its time behind the scenes as the justices deliberate Ali's case (along with brief looks at other cases of the same session, related to anti-war protests and employment discrimination). Director Stephen Frears (The Queen) assembles an impressive lineup of actors to play the justices, including Christopher Plummer, Frank Langella, Danny Glover and Ed Begley Jr., but they're more historical mouthpieces than fully fleshed-out characters. Plummer's John Marshall aabcc Harlan II gets most MUHAMMAD of the focus, as it ALI'S was his vote that ulGREATEST timately decided the FIGHT Ali case, but other October 5, 8 p.m., than a few touchHBO. ing moments with his wife and some heavy-handed depictions of his declining health, he serves mainly to articulate legal arguments. Even worse, the filmmakers invent a clerk (played by Benjamin Walker) who ends up heavily influencing Harlan's opinion, and who exists solely to state the movie's point of view. When the real-life footage of Ali's speeches and interviews is consistently more fascinating than the scripted drama, it's clear that the movie's priorities are off. The copious exposition that sounds awkward coming from the mouths of actors playing characters would have fit much better in a documentary; maybe HBO can commission one of those instead. –Josh Bell 40 LASVEGASWEEKLY.COM OCTOBER 3–9, 2013 40_Screen_1_20131003.indd 40 10/2/13 2:55 PM

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Tony Hawk's Proving Ground Review

Neversoft's series keeps on ticking, but somehow it feels like time is standing still.

One thing that's a bit curious though is how the rewards, or lack thereof, for the different difficulty options have been implemented. As was the case with Project 8, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground has three levels of difficulty for each challenge - Am (for amateur), Pro and Sick. A competition might require 50,000 points for earning an Am ranking, 150,000 for Pro and 800,000 for Sick, for example. You'll clear the challenge for finishing it on Am, so progression isn't affected by getting better rankings. You also earn the same amount of ability upgrade points for getting Am as you do for Sick, so there's no difference there. The only benefits you get for finishing a goal on Pro or Sick are bragging rights and a little more money, which is only good for buying new clothes and outfitting your Skate Lounge.

The Skate Lounge is one of the new highlights to this installment, but its value is honestly very small. As you work through the game you'll unlock new parts and more money to buy said parts, which you can place anywhere in your Skate Lounge. Think of it as a permanent Create-a-Park that you can cater to your style. While it's cool that it exists, we only ever messed around with the Skate Lounge enough to try out the building tools, and didn't see the long-term benefits of spending an hour or two customizing our warehouse.

The world of Proving Ground is a bit of a hit-or-miss with regards to layout. There's plenty to do and lots of nice spots to hit, though it can feel a little too crowded at times. Our problem though is that each of the three cities in the game is connected by a bridge and possibly an underground transit tunnel. Because of this, when moving from one to another you need to find the correct street to take to get there instead of just going in the general direction that the goal arrow tells you to go. It would have been much more helpful if the arrow actually told you how to get there instead of pointing in some general direction that you can't directly travel to.

Another issue here is that the transit system of the past handful of games is gone. You need to manually (get it?) skate from goal to goal, and some of the multi-part goals are spread out all over the world.

You can teach an old dog new tricks, but the old tricks will still be old.

One of the new features that had the potential to be awesome is the video editor. The editor itself is extremely robust, though the menu navigation can be a little wonky until you get used to it. You're able to drop in transitions, add effects and even combine separate saved clips into one video. All of this is great. However, instead of the game keeping a constantly-recorded replay of your recent happenings, you have to manually start the recording every time you want to make a clip. This means that if you just accidentally got hit by a car and flung into the ocean, it's not on video. Also, you can't get being hit bar a car and getting flung into the ocean on video because when you start recording the game removes all pedestrians and vehicles from the area. Weak sauce.

The Verdict

Tony Hawk's Proving Ground is a relatively solid game, but it really doesn't do anything new and significant. We've seen all of the good parts from the game multiple, multiple times now, and it really just feels like we're playing a large expansion pack. That doesn't mean that it's not fun, but it does mean that it's rather old hat.

IGN Ratings for Tony Hawk's Proving Ground (Xbox 360)
The once-fresh overall style has gotten a little old. The story elements are presented better now that they're broken out, but none of them are all that interesting.
Character models are well defined, but can look a little freaky at times. The city is quite solid, but nothing will wow you.
The soundtrack is good, though it seems to have strayed from its hardcore skating roots a fair bit and doesn't seem as natural.
The controls are tight and the basics can still be fun, but we've done all of this before. Many times.
Lasting Appeal
There are plenty of things to do, and getting all of the Sick goals will require plenty of practice. Online extends the length, but it's not much different than past offerings.
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Avatar's 3D Discovery

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It looks like Avatar just won't leave our news room. The mega-blockbuster-if-there-ever-was-one is making headlines again after some hidden 3D features have sprung up on the Blu-ray Collector's Edition version of the film. The only problem, of course, lies in obtaining one of those highly expensive 3D HDTVs in order to partake in the viewing experience itself.

The HD Room first reported the findings. The 3D Easter egg features include the theatrical trailer, and the Pandora Discovered featurette, as narrated by Dr. Grace Augustine (as played by Sigourney Weaver), which takes viewers on a breathtaking, three-dimensional tour through the world of Pandora.

The most interesting part is that, while Avatar looks to be exclusive to the Panasonic 3D HDTV sets, these clips are not. Of course, if you're using a different 3D HDTV, these seven minutes worth the bonus features will not blow your mind as the full-fledged motion picture would, but it is certainly better than being left out entirely in the cold.

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Gundam Extreme Volleyball?

Countdown clock hints at next gaming crossover.

A countdown clock (via Eurogamer) hosted on Namco Bandai's website went live recently and teases an unknown game that will combine the properties from Japanese publishers Namco Bandai and Tecmo Koei.

No other official information exists regarding this game, though there are a number of reasonable possibilities. With Street Fighter X Tekken on the horizon, it's safe to assume another crossover is in the works. Tekken, Soulcalibur, and Dead or Alive are all fighting franchises that could be used in the creation of a crossover. The aforementioned Gundam Extreme Volleyball is less likely, though equally -- if not more -- exciting.

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Our latest episode of Transporter Room 3 tears the s#!t monster that is Season 7's "Masks" a new one, looking back at Data being possessed by the most boring alien library ever, one that's hell-bent on turning the Enterprise into a set straight from Nickelodeon's "Legends of the Hidden Temple."

And what would a podcast be without our nostalgia-fueled trip to our favorite Trek collectibles?! (Answer: Shorter.) From the old-school Mego action figures to the Playmates Next Gen playsets, our inner 12 to 30 year olds generously reflect on the days before the things we played with would become the things we wish we could feed to eBay.

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The Vault can be found in down the trail to the east of Colby, near the Crow flight challenge.

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Before you track down Dr. Mordin Solus, the Salarian doctor you've been frantically looking for, be sure to explore his makeshift clinic in its entirety. You'll find plenty of items to acquire from the various rooms of the clinic when you begin looking around. You can find some armor upgrades, plenty of credits, Medi-Gel, and even Palladium, Iridium, Platinum and Element Zero. Be thorough here, as finding this many valuables in such a contained place is a rarity, indeed. Then, when you're ready, seek out the eccentric Dr. Mordin Solus, and begin speaking with him to continue on your quest. (If you're interested in speaking with anyone in the clinic, don't bother. No one has much of anything to say to you at this point.)

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As you'll quickly find out, Dr. Mordin Solus is a fast-talking Salarian. His time in the quarantine zone seems to have brought out both the best and worst in him, as he frantically tries to help the sick and dying, while ruthlessly and brutally protecting the turf his clinic is set up on. Solus will go on and on and on when you first speak with him. Eventually, both Renegade and Paragon quicktime options will show up on-screen, allowing you to, one way or the other, bring Solus back to some semblance of reality. As you speak with him and explore all options on the conversation tree, you'll learn that he thinks the Collectors could be behind the disease currently ravaging the Quarantine Zone, and that they're using the immune Vorcha to move the disease around, test it, and to collect other data and information. Ultimately, you can offer to bring the cure Dr. Solus has brewed up to the environmental plant nearby. If you're kind, you can also offer to help the doctor's missing assistant, someone named Daniel. The latter will open up a side quest called Omega: The Professor: Missing Assistant; more information on it can be found in the Side Quests section of the guide. If you spoke to the downed Batarian back at the entrance to the quarantine zone, you can also request the doctor send someone out for him, if you want.

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Now it's time to leave the clinic, and head towards the environmental plant. This is where we'll get to use the good doctor's cure, in an attempt to heal all injured and sickly parties. Seek out the previously-locked door in the clinic -- it will now be open. Head up the stairs on the other side of the door, and immediately swing leftward. Hide behind the first piece of cover you find, and initiate hostilities on the Blood Pack Troopers standing around. They should be completely oblivious to your presence until you open fire (unless you get too close). Then, sit tight. A plethora of Blood Pack Troopers will assail your position, so pick them off as they draw near. Your party members should maneuver to areas that will serve them best, so worry only about yourself. Stay protected, revealing yourself to return fire on various foes as the opportunities reveal themselves. At the top edge of the room, begin working leftward towards another staircase leading upward. More enemies will occupy that staircase, as well as the area around it, so stay alert! Before heading up the stairs to proceed onward towards the plant, be sure to scour the area for ammunition, as well as a medical kit full of credits, and even a gambling machine you can hack and pillage.

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Once up the stairs, you will see a corridor spanning off to your left, and a locked door ahead and on your right. Successfully hacking the door's lock on the right side won't open the door, but it will give you a healthy amount of credits, so be sure to do that before swinging leftward. The left side pathway will ultimately open up into another room, with doors leading off from the right and left. Ignore the door on the right for now, and head through the door on the left. You'll see a quick cutscene with some Batarians holding a human male at gunpoint. When you get involved here, you'll realize that this human male is the doctor's assistant, a man named Daniel. This whole scene is associated with the side quest entitled Omega: The Professor: Missing Assistant. More information can be found, of course, at the Side Quests section of this guide. No matter what happens here, be sure to raid the medical kit within the room before heading back out.

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never played this, didnt know it was a pc only version. doesnt interest me now, just like with the xbox exclusives dont shout out to me ( although i'd play them)

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This AP flick just put Surrey, England on the map. Local law enforcement pulled over in an attempt to slow down a speeding BMW driver. Too bad the dude behind the wheel wasn’t having that as he kept going and hit the police truck with a vicious side swipe. Then the perp’s car stalled, he hopped out his automobile, and ran for his life. I can’t comprehend how no one got seriously hurt: especially the cop attempting to pull him over. What’s more alarming is how the officer just got up from a near death accident and chased the suspect as if it was another day on the job. You’d think you were watching someone play GTA as the events unfold but the dashcam makes you realize this actually happened. Thankfully the parties involved didn’t sustain major injuries from what I can tell. Plus, all things considered, this clip is more compelling than Cops has been in years.

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By virtually ignoring trade, President Obama and congressional Republicans are missing a major opportunity to create jobs. The United States runs an annual trade deficit of about $600 billion, or 4 percent of our entire economy. Eliminating that imbalance would create three million to four million jobs, according to Commerce Department estimates, at no cost to the budget.

It is clear that our economy can no longer rely on consumer borrowing, housing bubbles, government deficits, and super-low interest rates. The United States must start selling much more to other countries, especially China and other emerging markets that are growing at 6 percent or more per year.

Mr. Obama has set a goal of doubling the nation's exports over five years. But his administration has done little to achieve that goal, which is inadequate to begin with. For one thing, the focus should not be the level of exports but the overall deficit—the difference between what we import from abroad and what we sell overseas.

This will of course require us to get our house in order: balancing the budget over time; investing in education, infrastructure, and scientific research; and making taxation and regulation more efficient. But there are three steps we can take that would pay off more quickly.

First, the United States must, in effect, weaken the dollar by 10 to 20 percent. This step alone would produce one million to three million jobs. It's been done before: In 1971, President Richard M. Nixon ended the dollar's convertibility in gold, and in 1985, Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III reached an agreement with foreign countries to devalue the dollar relative to the yen and the Deutsche mark.

The bulk of our current misalignment is vis-à-vis the Chinese currency, the renminbi, and a small group of other Asian currencies. Partly in response to pressure from the United States and other countries, China has let its currency rise modestly over the past year, but it continues to intervene in foreign exchange markets, purchasing one billion to two billion United States dollars every day to prevent the value of the renminbi from rising more quickly.

The artificially low value of the renminbi—it is 20 to 30 percent less than what it should be—amounts to a subsidy on Chinese exports and a tariff on imports from the United States and other countries. The United States should take China to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva for engaging in illegal competitive currency devaluation and retaliate if China does not cease this protectionist policy. Many members of Congress have urged such action, but Mr. Obama, like President George W. Bush before him, has been too timid to take this step.

Along with pressuring the Chinese, Congress and Mr. Obama should reduce the budget deficit, the Federal Reserve should continue to pursue an expansionary monetary policy, and politicians should drop the "strong dollar" rhetoric of the past. An overvalued dollar only exacerbates the trade imbalance.

Second, the United States must negotiate a reduction in foreign regulations, monopoly practices, and other barriers to the export of American services. Work done by American architects, engineers, lawyers, and accountants for foreign customers is an export, just like Boeing planes and Caterpillar tractors. We run a $750 billion trade deficit in goods but a $150 billion trade surplus in services.

Services make up 80 percent of our economy, and we have a huge opportunity to serve emerging markets like Brazil, China, and India. We could expand services exports by at least $200 billion a year by completing a free-trade agreement with South Korea; pursuing a trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership; and reviving the Doha round of global trade talks, with a focus on services. The administration has not pursued these steps with enough vigor.

Third, we must get serious about defending the intellectual property rights of our companies against theft by foreign companies and governments. A recent study by the International Trade Commission suggested that Chinese companies alone, with support or at least acquiescence from their government, are stealing $50 billion to $100 billion in US products each year. The global total is probably at least twice as large.

The theft of intellectual property cuts across such highly competitive products as Microsoft Windows, Apple iPads, groundbreaking pharmaceuticals, and award-winning films. Negotiations have failed to achieve significant progress. We must take many more intellectual property cases to the WTO and credibly threaten unilateral retaliation if the foreign piracy continues.

These steps are no doubt aggressive. They would require taking tough initiatives with some of our main trading partners, especially China, and giving trade a more prominent, even central, role in our overall foreign policy. To be sure, some American corporations will fret that these actions would needlessly antagonize the Chinese and threaten a trade war. Some economists worry that a weaker dollar would invite inflation and endanger the dollar's status as the dominant global currency. I believe these fears are overblown. The real threat to the world trading system is, in fact, the protectionist policies, including undervalued currencies, of other countries and the vast trade imbalances that result.

Not every country can expand its economy through exports, because one nation's smaller deficit is another's smaller surplus. But the United States has a unique claim now to pursue such a strategy, because it has run large deficits for most of the last three decades, become the largest debtor country and accommodated other countries' desire for export-led prosperity. If we want to avoid bankruptcy and raise growth, we have got to attack the trade deficit.

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Materials: Rationell/Akurum wall cabinet frame & coloured or glass doors

Description: See the pictures… how I built up my 4m high bookshelf with Akurum wall cabinet frames.

It was very funny and i get some questions from the IKEA staff when I first bought just 25 empty wall frames ;-)

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    wah.. cool… it is 60cm wall unit. and the most top part is fan cabinet also 60cm wide. Am i Right??

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    This is amazing! I only wish I had a wall that big to do that same to!

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    This looks great! It looks like it’s made of the single door units, but if so then what are the short units at the top? I can’t find any that are the same width as the single units.

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    Why is this room so high? You can’t even have a look outside as the windows are placed very high too… this is weird =) …but the shelf looks pretty nice though!

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Description: A hang loose lighting: with a simple ironing cable + big bulb (LED) mounted on a 2 dollar console “EKBY VALTER”.

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    I have found 2 other sites (aside from lyser.se) that sell this bulb, but none of them appear to be able to ship to the United States. Does anyone know of a distributor that would be able to ship this product? Maybe a US-based Decoline distributor?

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    The console used to hold up a simple hatrack, and by a chance I noticed that the prepared screw hole had the same dimention that my “iron-cable” to the bulb ;-) A nice cozy and recycled solution.

    Btw, the bulb is a decoration globebulb from “Decoline” (E27 LED, 2100K 2W), http://lyser.se/shop/decoration-globlampa-e27-led-klar-2100k-2w.html

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Histograms and the Flu

By Mike Pasini, Editor
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What better time than cold and flu season (epidemic at that) to settle down with warm liquids, next to incandescent light fixtures, and snuggled under flannel sheets to finally come to grips with your histograms? None better than now, we think, particularly if day-time television is getting on your nerves.

Once you've gotten the picture, you'll find that histograms are not only a very revealing tool, but a useful one for making easy improvements to your favorite images.

What is a Histogram?

"Using a histogram, you can independently set the highlight, shadow, and (generally) midtone."

A histogram is a chart. Period. Just a chart. Like something you might see in Excel. In fact, it's a bar chart.

So what does a histogram graph?

Well, to make a histogram, your histogram software (usually an image editing program) reads every pixel (that's a picture element, or a spot in plain old English) in your image and counts how many of them are black, how many of them are white, and how many of them are one gray or another.

In short, a histogram graphs your image's luminosity, or brightness.

The bottom axis of the graph (where the Years usually appear in an Excel spreadsheet) represents the scale of luminosity values from black (aka 0) to white (255) with 254 grays in between (don't be fooled by the 0).

The side axis of the graph (where the dollars usually go) represents the number of pixels for each luminosity value from 0 to, well, whatever it takes.

So if you have no white pixels in your image, the right end of the histogram will be flat. And if you have no black pixels, the left end will be flat.

If you have a black-and-white image, you'll have one tall line at the left end representing all the black pixels and one tall line at the right end for all the white ones. And if there are twice as many white ones as black ones, the line at the right end will be twice as tall as the line on the left.

If you have an image that only displays four grays, it will only have four lines.

But when you look at your digicam's image, you should see a very nice mountain range with no gaps. It may not go all the way from black to white, but don't be alarmed -- that can be an asset.

And what about color?

"In short, a histogram graphs your image's luminosity, or brightness."

Well, no, there's no color. Really? Yes, really. Luminosity only. Brightness. But, you can get this information for every color channel of your image. You digicam records images in three channels: red, green and blue (RGB if you're working on your vocabulary), and your software can show either the composite luminosity of all the channels at once, or the luminosity in the red channel, the green channel or the blue channel individually (which is often the most interesting histogram).

Now that you know what a histogram (and annual report graph) is, you probably want to see one. Not so fast. Your homework assignment is to make one first. And we have just the place to send you:, which is Stefan Waner's Histogram Generator page at Hofstra University.

You'll be asked to enter in two kinds of information. Categories (the top row of the form) is for the light values. So you would enter Black, Gray, and White. The second line asks for the values themselves. So you would enter how many black pixels, how many gray ones, how many white ones there are in your imaginary image (just pretend). And then by the magic of Javascript, a histogram will be drawn for you in the bottom window.

Play with the value in the top window (change the number of black pixels, for example) and redraw the histogram to see exactly how a histogram works.

What Good is It?

You may have stumbled onto Brightness and Contrast controls or Hue and Saturation options in your image editing software and fumbled with various settings to try to improve a picture that just didn't look as good as you knew it could.

You were working too hard.

Using nothing more than what you already know about histograms, you can enhance brightness and contrast and color correct your images.

There's another advantage to using a histogram to do this: control. If you alter your image using Brightness and Contrast, say 10 percent, you alter every pixel by 10 percent. Using a histogram, you can independently set the highlight, shadow, and (generally) midtone.

But there's also a disadvantage (so don't strut around the neighborhood bragging about histograms). You can only work with those three points (sometimes just highlight and shadow, depending on your software) of the luminosity scale. That's why it's so easy, of course, and fast (and foolproof). But for world domination, you need access to the entire luminosity scale -- and only working with Curves provides that. We'll get you there, but not today. Today we're mastering histograms -- or Levels.

Open an image whose exposure you don't like very much (but that you might call typical of a sunny day) and hunt around for the histogram or Levels command in your image editing software.

Your software may offer an automatic correction. Try it. Untry it. Often it isn't pretty. That's because the software can't see your image. It just sifts through the data, redistributing (or remapping) the pixels in a blind, uniform, proportional, even-handed way. An automatic adjustment only works well if your image just needs contrast enhancement. Otherwise, it's time to get manual.

The first step is to set the black and white points (or shadows and highlights) of the histogram to match the data of your image. Assuming, we hasten to add, that you don't have a night scene or snow scene before you.

Just slide the triangular input slider on the left to the first group of pixels on that side. And slide the triangle on the right to the first group of pixels on that side. You can stop just where they start or a little inside (oh, go inside, be brave!).

What have you done!!?

Well, you've just enhanced the contrast a bit. You've said, hey, map black and a few really dark grays (depending on how far to the right you took that slider) to black, and map white and some really light values to white.

If you did it to the composite image (all the channels at once, which would be the default), you've got the contrast nailed down.

But unless you're working with a grayscale image, you may still have a color shift to deal with.

Adjusting Color With Levels

"Your software can show either the composite luminosity of all the channels at once, or the luminosity in the red channel, the green channel or the blue channel individually."

Take that same magic power and use it with a picture that needs some color adjustment. Something with green skin tones, say, or yellow room light. You can do some basic color correction, which often is all that an image needs.

But don't work with the composite channel (or RGB). Instead, look at the channels individually, making our contrast adjustment to each. So select the Red channel and adjust its luminosity, then select the Green channel (it will look different) and adjust its luminosity. Don't be alarmed at the strange color effects until you adjust the Blue channel, too. The blue channel often comes up short on lighter values.

Now you have an image with enhanced contrast whose color is (we hope) more balanced. But you may not be happy with it yet.

When we compressed the tonal scale of each channel, we also shifted the midtone (that middle slider). If your image wasn't high- or low-key (snow or a night scene, for example), this may not be a problem. But if the big bump in your histogram wasn't in the middle, you may not like the color cast you're looking at right now.

We can do something about that.

In most applications, you can adjust the midtone slider too. Dragging the slider for a particular channel to the right (and you may have to do it for each) darkens the midtones (more of them are dark), while dragging the slider to the left lightens them. You'll notice this as a color shift.

That's as fine-tuned as your image gets with a histogram. If that still isn't enough, you're ready for the advanced seminar on curves.

Keeping Output In Mind

Outside the lab (where people do not wear white coats socially), these machinations must be done with a particular output device in mind. Either an RGB screen or a CMYK printer, for example. So the channels may vary, and what's white or black may vary, too. Our simple exercises here are intended to explain the tool, so you can start using it more than dictate its use.

And the more you use it, the less likely you'll be to sneeze at it.

This article is reprinted from The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter,
Features Column, published January 28, 2000


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Kodak Survey Says Recipients Treasure and Save Personalized Photo Gifts; Prefer Gifts from the Heart

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Nov. 16 -- As people look for the perfect holiday card to send and gift to give this season, it's often the simple photo that touches people's heart the most. More than half of consumers prefer receiving personalized photo greeting cards, with 84 percent saving those cards from family and friends, according to a survey conducted by Eastman Kodak Company. Also, more than one-third of consumers consider a personalized photo calendar the best "gift from the heart."

Recipients treasure photographs because they create connections and preserve memories. More than 90 percent of people believe that sharing experiences through photographs helps them bond with others. A nearly identical amount feel that it's important to take photographs to remind their children of their youth. This, combined with the fact that more than three-quarters of people wishing that they had pictures of family members from when they were younger, prove that photographs are truly the gift that keeps on giving.

"Making printed pictures, cards and photo gifts part of your holiday plan this year will delight your friends and family," said Diane McCue, general manager of Paper and Output, Film and Photofinishing Systems Group and vice president, Eastman Kodak Company. "Personalized photo cards and gifts keep friends and families up-to-date and share your recent adventures, major milestones, such as a new baby or wedding, or group gatherings. Digital printing allows you to add your personal creativity to your pictures to create a gift that is uniquely you. It also creates a keepsake that recipients will save and treasure."

With a variety of services in the market that use real KODAK paper, consumers can find an easy-to-use service that not only creates beautiful, high quality gifts and cards, but also fits into their busy lifestyles.

To create personalized cards and gifts, Kodak offers the following tips:

  1. Check the holiday post office schedule and determine how much time you have to get cards and gifts mailed and what shape and size envelopes require additional postage. Visit www.usps.com and search for delivery schedules.
  2. Think about some of your favorite events this past year. Perhaps it was a family vacation or the introduction of a new member to the family. Choose a picture that captures that moment and build your holiday greeting card around that exciting time.
  3. Gather family photos from different events throughout the year and create a personalized calendar, highlighting birthdays, anniversaries, wedding and other special events. You can create multiple copies and give them to all family members to enjoy throughout the upcoming year.
  4. Choose a photo printing service that matches your lifestyle. If you run errands on the weekend, drop your film, existing prints, or digital camera memory card off at your local retailer and tap their in-store photo experts to create something while you shop. Or if you prefer to do things online, use a service like the KODAK EASYSHARE Gallery (www.kodakgallery.com) to create your cards and personalized gifts. In some cases, you can upload pictures to your local drug store site, chose the gifts you'd like to create and pick them up in the store a few days later.
  5. Look for the Kodak logo, at the store, online, and on your prints. KODAK prints provide rich detail, vibrant colors and the high quality that makes these cards and gifts keepsakes.
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Kodak is the world's foremost imaging innovator, providing leading products and services to the photographic, graphic communications and healthcare markets. With sales of $14.3 billion in 2005, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growth strategy focused on helping people better use meaningful images and information in their life and work. Consumers use Kodak's system of digital and traditional image capture products and services to take, print and share their pictures anytime, anywhere; businesses effectively communicate with customers worldwide using Kodak solutions for prepress, conventional and digital printing and document imaging; creative professionals rely on Kodak technology to uniquely tell their story through moving or still images; and leading healthcare organizations rely on Kodak's innovative products, services and customized workflow solutions to help improve patient care and maximize efficiency and information sharing within and across their enterprise. More information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) is available at www.kodak.com.

Kodak and Easy Share Gallery are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.

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Back to Bataan (1945)

Approved  |   |  Drama, War  |  31 May 1945 (USA)
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In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.

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The US Army's defense of its Philippines colony and the allied Malay countries/colonies behind it counted on its island fortress of Corregidor on Luzon -and a few others- but loses it in the 6 May 1942 Japanese combined forces attack. Colonel Joseph Madden is among the escaping survivors who are ordered by general Douglas McArthur to organize a guerrilla. As he finds many native Filipinos inclined to resist the occupier's vision of returning to the South Asian fold under a paternalistic empire which doesn't hesitate to 'spank the unruly', but is mainly civilian, unprepared, inept in military matters, Madden appeals to the legendary anti-US freedom fighter Andres Bonifácio's homonymous grandson Captain Andrés Bonifácio, who is luckily rescued from a POW dead march, to inspire the resistance -once his own fighting spirit is rekindled- with him in a still very unsure war, retaliated by bloody, ten to one repression. When the Japanese realize the people side against them, they stage fake ... Written by KGF Vissers

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Miss Barnes asks Col. Madden if, after he avenges the hanging of Senor Bello, he would erect a sign in his honor quoting a Filipino poem that mentions several kinds of trees, including a cypress. Madden and his men do so, but the on the sign the word cypress is erroneously spelled "Cyprus", like the Mediterranean island. See more »

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An All-Too- Rare Look at Filipino Resistance
29 May 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

The only thing that distinguishes "Back to Bataan" from scores of other routine war films is its historical theme, which remains an uncommon and important one. Few young Americans today have even heard of the Filipino and American disaster at Corregidor and the Bataan Death March that followed, during which numerous sick and hungry prisoners of war were beaten and killed by their Japanese guards. Although the movie accurately portrays the spirit of Filipino resistance to the Japanese, the individual characters from John Wayne down are cut from the usual Hollywood cardboard. Even the real American survivors of Japanese imprisonment, filmed here some months after their liberation during the invasion of the Philippines, are shown, supposedly right after they got out of the Japanese prison camp, freshly shaved and with neatly trimmed hair. Similarly, the guerrilla force led by John Wayne looks little the worse for wear even after two and half years of jungle warfare (whixh seem like about a week in this movie).

The Japanese lynching of the school principal is well handled. The man has not set out to be a hero, but put under the gun, literally, he is simply unable to haul down the American flag. The invaders hang him as an example.

Despite its weaknesses, "Back to Bataan" is still watchable and even enjoyable as a different view of World War II, especially if you're a high-schooler who hasn't yet become too cynical about Hollywood war movies. John Wayne and Anthony Quinn are their usual solid selves, and Beulah Bondi (as a naive but tough American matron)is an unusual asset in this kind of action film.

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The NC-17 Rating Didn't Make Sense
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In a nutshell, this is a romance story that involves a culture clashes between New Zealanders, Chinese and Bosnians. Since the characters were unappealing, I found it impossible to get "involved" in their romances and problems.

I don't understand the NC-17 rating, either. The sex scenes weren't anything that strong to warrant that rating, nor is the movie filled with just sex. The language isn't the best with a lot of f-words, but that doesn't warrant a NC-17 rating, either.

It was a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story with a lot lower morals that what you would have seen in the real Romeo and Juliet days. Frankly, I found the movie boring, but women would probably like this movie a lot more than men, if the language didn't turn them off.

The scenery was nice but I wasn't surprised at that. I have yet to see something filmed in New Zealand that wasn't beautiful. That must be a great-looking country.

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Criminally Underrated
6 June 2004 | by (Amersham) – See all my reviews

Just to clear up a couple of points:-

a) This is a FILM, not a computer game. b) CGI people don't look or move exactly like real people. That stated, Aki Ross is still a more convincing character than ANYONE played by Keanu Reeves.

Final Fantasy is misnamed; there's little about the story that is "final", nor is it especially fantastic, but what it IS is a pretty decent mystical-science fiction (no, NOT "sci-fi" space opera) yarn. Possibly owing to the real inability to successfully portray facial expressions in the CGI characters, the mood throughout is sombre and hard... so rather more like real life than your average Hollywood space-opera swashbuckler. Frankly, because this story actually tries to make a POINT, it probably disappoints the type of viewer who would like a film like "Aliens". The overriding message is simply that brute force is no use without understanding, and that's a timeless message that many cultures would do well to think about.

And, of course, this film is just BEAUTIFUL. Probably best watched while tripping on acid, if the truth be told.

7/10 and a future classic, as far as I'm concerned. This film will be remembered long after things like "Starship Troopers" have been forgotten.

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