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Month: January 2020
Directed by Dave Filoni. With Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog, Omid Abtahi. A Mandalorian bounty hunter tracks a target for a well-paying client.
Directed by Rick Famuyiwa. With Pedro Pascal, Nick Nolte, Misty Rosas, Stephen Jackson Powers Jr.. Target in hand, the Mandalorian must now contend with scavengers.
This is definitely going to turn into a binge. The only question is one night or two?
Directed by Deborah Chow. With Pedro Pascal, Werner Herzog, Omid Abtahi, Carl Weathers. The battered Mandalorian returns to his client for his reward.
Directed by Bryce Dallas Howard. With Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Julia Jones, Isla Farris. The Mandalorian teams up with an ex-soldier to protect a village from raiders.
It’s definitely a good place to take a break before finishing of the remaining episodes tomorrow.
In looking up the cast, and particularly the lead, I’m noticing that I know this actor incredibly well. I represented him many moons ago, but at the time he was struggling with using half a dozen different names depending on the roles he wanted. It’s interesting to see that all these years later he’s playing the role of a character who never takes off his mask! It also brings into high relief the fact that this is a difficult role to play and a painful character to try to read since there are absolutely no facial cues to read. The character is a cipher with only his actions to judge him.
Pedro Pascal, Actor: Game of Thrones. Pedro Pascal is a Chilean-born American actor. He is best known for portraying the roles of Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones and Javier Peña in the Netflix series Narcos. In 2016 he starred in the American-Chinese film The Great Wall alongside Matt Damon.
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. Forget short-term symptoms like Donald Trump and Brexit, it is innovation itself that explains them and that will itself shape the 21st century for good and ill. Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen, hard to summon into existence to order, yet inevitable and inexorable when it does happen.
Matt Ridley argues in this book that we need to change the way we think about innovation, to see it as an incremental, bottom-up, fortuitous process that happens to society as a direct result of the human habit of exchange, rather than an orderly, top-down process developing according to a plan. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. It speeds up in some sectors and slows down in others. It is always a collective, collaborative phenomenon, not a matter of lonely genius. It is gradual, serendipitous, recombinant, inexorable, contagious, experimental and unpredictable. It happens mainly in just a few parts of the world at any one time. It still cannot be modelled properly by economists, but it can easily be discouraged by politicians. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.
Ridley derives these and other lessons, not with abstract argument, but from telling the lively stories of scores of innovations, how they started and why they succeeded or in some cases failed. He goes back millions of years and leaps forward into the near future. Some of the innovation stories he tells are about steam engines, jet engines, search engines, airships, coffee, potatoes, vaping, vaccines, cuisine, antibiotics, mosquito nets, turbines, propellers, fertiliser, zero, computers, dogs, farming, fire, genetic engineering, gene editing, container shipping, railways, cars, safety rules, wheeled suitcases, mobile phones, corrugated iron, powered flight, chlorinated water, toilets, vacuum cleaners, shale gas, the telegraph, radio, social media, block chain, the sharing economy, artificial intelligence, fake bomb detectors, phantom games consoles, fraudulent blood tests, faddish diets, hyperloop tubes, herbicides, copyright and even―a biological innovation―life itself.
I also try to do "No Screen Sundays" where I do anything not related to screens (exception for calling and texting especially if it's to meet with friends).
— Sia Karamalegos (@TheGreenGreek) January 6, 2020
Japanese difficult? Study boring? No way! Not with this “real manga, real Japanese” approach to learning. Presenting all spoken Japanese as a variation of three basic sentence types, Japanese the Manga Way shows how to build complex constructions step by step. Every grammar point is illustrated by an actual manga published in Japan to show how the language is used in real life, an approach that is entertaining and memorable. As an introduction, as a jump-start for struggling students, or (with its index) as a reference and review for veterans, Japanese the Manga Way is perfect for all learners at all levels.