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I have a TCL 55S515 Roku TV. Within the last week, the volume on the TV has started going up to 100 on it's own and you can't get it to come back down. Taking the batteries out of the remote doesn't fix it nor does using the Roku App TV remote. I've done a full factory reset on the TV along with every other fix that I've been able to find doing internet searches. I even went out today and bought a TCL sound bar since I read that that fixes it, but even then it still goes to 100 and won't come down. I've found this issue on other posts, etc. and it seems like it's a Roku problem and not a TV brand problem. Has anyone found a consistent fix for this?
Plenty of positive messages in this feel-good drama, particularly that all it takes is one or two people to galvanize a community and enact change. Jamie and Nona have nothing in common when the movie starts, but against all odds they join together to help create a better school, even though that means exposing themselves to gossip and ridicule. Pro-union families should know that the depiction of the teachers' union is negative, even though a teacher explains all the good the union does as well.
Jamie will stop at nothing to help secure a better education for her daughter. Even though she isn't that educated herself, she has a fiery spirit and refuses to back down even in the face of overwhelming bureaucracy. Nona joins Jamie's mission and in the process becomes a better teacher.
Jamie dresses suggestively (tight jeans, midriff-baring tops) and basically seduces a teacher who becomes her boyfriend. There's kissing, and it's clear he spends the night at her house, but there aren't any love scenes.
Parents need to know that Won't Back Down, which is based on actual events, follows a mother's journey to turn her daughter's failing elementary school around. There's some insulting language ("idiot," "retard," as well as "ass") and bullying -- a teacher does nothing as a student rips another student's backpack, and the same teacher purposely keeps a kid from leaving class to use the bathroom. Jamie, the protagonist mom, wears tight clothes and flirts with pretty much everyone -- culminating in a romantic relationship with a teacher at her child's school. Adults drink at a bar and restaurant, but there's no drunkenness. Parents and kids will be reminded of the difference that just one or two people can make in a community. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
Jamie (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a single mother raising a second-grader in Pittsburgh's down-and-out Hill District, can't afford private school tuition (even with a scholarship), so she must enroll her dyslexic daughter, Malia (Emily Alyn Lind), at her local public school. After Jamie quickly realizes that Malia's teacher is awful -- and the entire school has a failing grade from the county -- she convinces another second-grade-teacher, Nona (Viola Davis), to help her take back the school as a charter program. Unfortunately for Jamie and Nona, they end up having to fight not only the school system's bureaucracy, but also the teachers' union, which opposes the new school.
If WON'T BACK DOWN were an inspiring made-for-TV movie, it would no doubt earn Gyllenhaal and Davis Emmy Award nominations. It's exactly the sort of "inspired by true events" drama that would be a great fit for basic cable. But on the big screen, the poignant premise (uneducated single mom will stop at nothing to secure her little girl a decent education) succumbs to a formula that feels a bit flat.
Of course it's a compelling story, because what parent doesn't want to think they have the courage of conviction to stand up to endless amounts of red tape? But this isn't really a tale about an amazing teacher like Stand and Deliver or Dead Poets Society; this is a David vs. Goliath story -- with a single mom and a teacher hurling their proverbial rocks at both a behemoth school board and a stuck-in-its-ways union. The performances get an "A" (Gyllenhaal and Davis are class acts), but the polemical story isn't novel enough to merit an extra star.
Families can talk about whether movies based on true stories should follow them closely, or if it's OK for the films to change some facts in the interest of the storyline. Does this movie make you want to learn more about what really happened?
Some critics have said Won't Back Down is too one-sided when it comes to the teachers' union. Do you think the movie is meant as a political commentary or just a story about a parent and teacher's triumph?
Although this is a movie about education, the emphasis is less on teacher-student relationships and more on parent-teacher relationships. How is Jamie an unlikely crusader for education? Do you think the fact she's not so educated herself makes her mission even more sympathetic?
i made sure both my Arc and TV remote were clean and volume control were not sticking. Since it has happened a couple of more times I submitted Diagnostics (#1474048658) as suggested. As I have already mentioned I can overcome the fact that the volume goes to 0 over a few minutes by unplugging the arc to reboot it. Once I plug it back in and it reconnects to the sub and surrounds it works fine for 5-7 days and then it does the same thing. Periodically the arc also seems to lose its connection to the sub and surrounds and can only be corrected by either a complete reboot (unplugging the arc) or going to the Sonos app on my iPhone and disconnecting the sub and surrounds and then regrouping them.
Because the Arc has been online for longer, this greatly helps letting me know where the issue is. It starts with the volume down button on the Arc being pressed, then the volume being adjusted by your phone.
A new Netflix series has reignited the debate surrounding the Central Park Jogger case, with the outcry centering around key figures, including former prosecutor Linda Fairstein and President Donald Trump, who inserted himself into the case early on and when asked about it again on Tuesday, Trump maintained his position.
\"Why do you bring that question up now? It's an interesting time to bring it up. You have people on both sides of that,\" he said while speaking on the White House lawn. \"They admitted their guilt. If you look at Linda Fairstein and you look at some of the prosecutors, they think that the city should never have settled that case, so we'll leave it at that.\"
\"(Trump's) rush to judgment contributed to the lynch mob mentality that resulted in these five young men being unlawfully incarcerated,\" and \"if nothing else, he should apologize for that,\" he added.
The series comes on the heels of the 20/20 special \"One Night in Central Park\" was the first time that the police, defendants and the victim all appeared in the same documentary to discuss the case.
The woman, Trisha Meili, was brutally raped, beaten and left in a ravine. Thirteen years after the Central Park attack, a convicted serial rapist by the name of Matias Reyes came forward to say that he was Meili's sole attacker, which led to the exoneration of all five men in 2002.
In a scene where Salaam's mother is overcome with emotion and outrage when she is asked by a reporter about a newspaper ad taken out by Trump in the wake of the case, calling for the death penalty for violent crimes.
\"They need to keep that bigot off TV is what they need to do,\" she tells a friend in the following scene while watching real footage of an interview with Trump saying he \"would love to be a well-educated black\" because they have an advantage.
When pressed about his involvement in the case during his 2016 campaign, the then-Republican candidate still maintained his belief that the men who were exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case are guilty. The White House did not respond to ABC News' request for comment about the case.
On Friday, nearly 20 years after they were exonerated, the five men were presented with a courage award on Friday by actor Michael B. Jordan at an American Civil Liberties Union event honoring the series. While accepting the award, an emotional Salaam broke down in tears as he recalled the ordeal and also reflected on Trump's ad.
\"Korey [Wise] said it so well,\" Salaam said. \"He said, when Donald Trump took out that full-page ad, and put them in all of New York City's newspapers, calling for our execution, he placed a bounty on our head.\"
Meanwhile, Fairstein strongly pushed back against her portrayal in the series, penning an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal published Monday night titled \"Netflix's False Story of the Central Park Five,\" where she claims that the series ignored eight others who were attacked that night by a group of 30 rioters.
\"Mr. Reyes's confession, DNA match and claim that he acted alone required that the rape charges against the five be vacated. I agreed with that decision and still do. But the other charges, for crimes against other victims, should not have been vacated,\" she wrote.
ABC News has reached out to DuVernay but a request for comment was not immediately returned. She appeared to brush off Fairstein's criticism, tweeting in response to the op-ed Monday night, \"Expected and typical. Onward...\"
\"The one central fact in this case that's demonstrated without any shadow of a doubt is that these five young men were coerced into making these statements. Matias Reyes did this crime and he acted alone. We know he did the crime because it's the only DNA found from the swab taken from Patricia Meili.\"
\"Who has the money to buy a full-page ad in all the major newspapers and proclaim not only that these kids are guilty but that they should get the death penalty and that there should be a death penalty for juveniles,\" Moore said, adding, \"It was not surprising that those juries convicted them because they were already convicted in the press well before the case went to trial.\"
The ad, which was written in the form of a letter and signed by Trump, laments \"bands of wild criminals,\" and \"crazed misfits,\" dismisses the notion of \"police brutality\" and ends with a call to action that is not unlike candidate Trump and President Trump's rhetoric on\"law and order.\"
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