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Weekend Playlist: New Geek Music
Posted on April 13, 2012 by Andrew Liptak in Weekend Playlist // 1 Comment
There's been a bit of a flood of some new geek music on the internets lately, and a roundup is in order!
(I'm the One That's) Cool, The Guild
Felicia Day has recently launched a Geek and Sundry channel on Youtube, and in the first wave of material that's been posted is this song, which has been caught in my head all week. It's catchy, entertaining, and I'm guessing that it'll be particularly relevant to a lot of geeks out there. You can download the track over on iTunes.
Do Your Fucking Dishes, James Sutter
This hit the web a couple of months ago, but it's excellently done: James Sutter is one of the editors for Paizo, the company that publishes Pathfinder. It's an entertaining song, and you can download it here.
I Wanna Live In A World Full Of Heroes, Kirby Krackle
Kirby Krackle has recently released a new video off of their last album, Superpowered Love. This one's slick, a break from their usual animated videos, and is a high energy and entertaining affair!
The Empire State, John Anealio
The Empire State by John Anealio
SF Signal friend John Anealio is back with a new song that he's been working on, a track about Adam Christopher's debut novel Empire State. Dark, moody, this is another great song from John! Download it for free here!
Sympathy for the Daleks, Nerds With Guitars
Sympathy for the Daleks by Nerds With Guitars
Kirby Krackle pointed Nerds With Guitars out recently – this is their first EP, which you can get here. These guys have a great, clean sound that reminds me of a favored band of mine, Ryanhood. I have a feeling that these guys will be worth keeping an eye on!
The World of the Dinosaurs, Symphony of Science
Last up for this week is the fantastic Symphony of Science and John Boswell, taking on a new topic: Dinosaurs! This is another in a great set of autotuned songs, featuring Alice Roberts, Bill Nye, Nigel Marvin, Dallas Campbell and more! You can download all of the tracks here.
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Alex James // April 20, 2012 at 9:51 pm //
Wow! Thanks so much for including us in such august company…we really appreciate it. Also loved the fact that you consider our sound "clean" – we can be pretty crass if you meet us in person 🙂
Thanks and well wishes to SF Signal…you are now on our Favourite Pages list on Facebook!
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Recently, I've been planning on posting my all-time top 50 movies list, but it just never felt quite adequate. Although I've seen a substantial number of films in my lifetime (I've rated more than 2000 on Netflix), I'm still lacking in my knowledge of cinema. When it comes to films before 1990, I certainly have a lot to catch up on. Below is my "List of Shame". These are the 100 "essential" films that I still haven't seen. These are ranked by order of their user ranking on FlickChart (as of June 20, 2012). I vow to watch as many as I can and will cross them off as I see them.
How many on this list are you yet to see? Feel free to confess in the comments!
I don't even wanna know what my list of shame would look like! Can't wait to see some reviews for some of these.
Uhhh. I think I've only seen 4 or 5 on this list, lol. Horrible!
@Shala! Haha, I don't feel so bad now.
I count 37 that I've seen, but then again I'm quite a bit older (actually, my age is the same as the number of films--ha!).
I don't think I've ever commented before, so I'll say here that I love your blog and your perspective on movies. Keep watching and reviewing!
I hope to catch up with your number!
This looks like my list haha. We have a lot to catch up on. Yours is getting there though, always a great feeling to start ticking them off.
I'm glad I'm not the only film critic not to have seen Citizen Cane! I know I should watch it but I just can't bring myself to.
Haha I'll get around to it soon enough, so you'll be on your own then.
Quite a few of those are on the IMDb top 250 list. I hope to see during 2013: M, Yojimbo, Metropolis, The Hustler, Duck Soup, Grave of the Fireflies, The Night of the Hunter, The Wild Bunch, Stalag 17, High Noon.
Hi Shane --- of the few still unwatched you MUST see Sunset Boulevard. A masterpiece. Thanks for a great site.
Just watched it last night! It was ssooo good!
I see you've only got six left on the list. Of them I would recommend To Kill a Mockingbird the highest. It's five stars from me, and if you took a look at my rating distribution on Letterboxd you saw that I rarely hand out a 5.
Thanks for the recommendations! I've seen all of them except the first 4 you mentioned and Das Boot. Wasn't a fan of Another Earth though.


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Neutral Citation Number: [2018] EWCA Civ 2861
ON APPEAL FROM the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
Upper Tribunal Judge Freeman
LORD JUSTICE UNDERHILL
(Vice-President of the Court of Appeal (Civil Division))
LORD JUSTICE SIMON
LORD JUSTICE COULSON
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT
Mr Philip G Nathan (instructed by Oaks Solicitors) for the Appellant
Mr James Cornwell (instructed by the Treasury Solicitor) for the Respondent
Hearing date: 5th December 2018
HTML VERSION OF JUDGMENT APPROVED
Lord Justice Underhill:
The Appellant is an Indian national who first came to this country in 2009 as a student. In 2012 he was granted Tier 1 (Entrepreneur) leave to remain for a three-year period expiring on 26 July 2015. Shortly before the expiry of that leave he made an application for further leave to remain on the same basis. One of the requirements was that he should be able to demonstrate that he had created the equivalent of two new full-time paid jobs for people settled in the UK and that these jobs had each existed for at least twelve months. In his application he in fact relied on jobs created for no fewer than seven employees – one employed by a company called Achievess Ltd and six by a company called Sea Birds Ltd.
By a decision letter dated 23 September 2015 the Appellant's application was refused because of what were said to be failures in three respects to comply with the highly prescriptive requirements of the Points-Based System part of the Immigration Rules. We are now only concerned with one of them, which I can summarise as follows:
(1)	In respect of the jobs relied on the Appellant was required by para. 46 of Appendix A to the Rules to provide "the specified documents in paragraph 46-SD".
(2)	Paragraph 46-SD (h) (iv) specified "duplicate payslips or wageslips" (I will from now on refer simply to "payslips") for each worker relied on.
(3)	It was claimed in the decision letter that he had not provided payslips in respect of the seven jobs.
It is the Appellant's case that he had in fact satisfied the requirements of the Rules in full. He commenced judicial review proceedings in the Upper Tribunal. Although no representative is named in the claim form the grounds were drafted by a firm of solicitors, Malik Law Chambers ("MLC"). They included, at para. 12, an averment that the Applicant had provided wage slips in relation to five of the seven employees. It is a puzzle why the averment is not made in relation to all seven; that point has not been explained or explored at any stage in the proceedings, but it is not necessary for our purposes to resolve it.
The Secretary of State in her Summary Grounds of Defence pleaded, at para. 20:
"The Respondent has not received any wageslips or payslips for any of the employees whose employment is relied upon. The decision letter of 23 September 2015 plainly confirms that no payslips or wageslips have been received. Furthermore, the Respondent provides a copy of all the evidence received, and the CID note with detail consideration of all the evidence provided."
The reference to providing a copy of all the evidence is to the Secretary of State having filed with the Summary Grounds a copy of the Appellant's original application for leave to remain and what is said to be all the material provided with it. It is common ground that the material filed by the Secretary of State with the Tribunal did not included copy payslips. However, I should note at this stage that the application form incorporates a table (table 3b2) which was required to be completed "to confirm the evidence provided to demonstrate the two full time jobs". The table has a number of columns, the last of which is headed "Pay statements to cover total period of employment created for each worker: Yes/No": it is clear (subject to one point to which I shall have to return) that that column was asking whether payslips had been provided. In the form as submitted this column was completed with a typed "YES" for five employees. However, since the Appellant was relying on seven employees a re-typed version of the table was also included: this had "Yes" in the relevant column for all seven. It is the Appellant's case that he was assisted in the preparation of the form by his accountants; although there is no evidence as to precisely what role they took, the re-typed version bears the stamp of a firm called A.K Saha.
The reference in the Summary Grounds of Defence to "the CID note" is to a printout of the contemporary GCID [General Case Information Database] Case Record Sheet. This shows the caseworker going systematically through the various requirements which the Appellant had to satisfy. In relation to the requirement to have created two full-time equivalent jobs, the caseworker goes through the material submitted in relation to each of the employees relied on. In fact, the copy supplied to us only covers four of them; this point too has never been explained or explored but it does not matter for present purposes. In relation to all four a note is made, in marginally different language each time, that no payslips have been provided.
Permission to apply for judicial review was refused on the papers by UTJ Smith. She indicated that she might have been disposed to grant permission as regards two of the alleged failures (of which it is unnecessary to give details), but she found that the Secretary of State's decision was nevertheless unchallengeable because of the failure to submit payslips. She took the view that it was clear that these had not been submitted, notwithstanding the statement in table 3b2 that they had been, for three reasons:
(1)	They were not in the bundle submitted by the Secretary of State.
(2)	There had been no application for an administrative review on the basis that they had been supplied.
(3)	The Appellant himself had not even now provided copies of the wage slips.
The Appellant renewed his application at an oral hearing, at which both he and the Secretary of State were represented. UTJ Kekic granted permission, saying simply:
"Based on the contents of the application form and the generality of the Respondent's summary of the documents received from the Applicant, it is arguable that the specified documents (wageslips) were provided with the Applicant's Tier 1 application."
She did not explicitly give permission on the two points which UTJ Smith had thought might be arguable. In some circumstances this might have created a procedural problem, but as things have turned out that is fortunately not the case here.
The case came on for hearing before UTJ Freeman on 7 November 2016. Both the Appellant and the Secretary of State were represented, in the Appellant's case by Mr Mohammed Aslam of counsel. We have a transcript of the hearing, from which it is clear that Mr Aslam had been instructed at very short notice. It also appears from the transcript that he understood that he was appearing on a direct access basis, though he has since told the Appellant's current solicitors that that was a misunderstanding and that his instructions had come from MLC. In addition to the materials lodged with the Summary Grounds, as referred to above, the Appellant had, at the last minute and in breach of a timetable set by UTJ Kekic, submitted a full bundle of copies of the payslips which he said had been included with the original application. There was no witness statement or oral evidence from either party, save to the purely formal extent that the averments in the Claim Form and Summary Grounds were covered by statements of truth, in the one case by the Appellant and in the other by a solicitor at the Government Legal Department.
It was agreed between counsel that the only issue for the Tribunal was the straightforward factual question of whether the payslips had been included. The parties relied entirely on the documents. It was agreed that the Tribunal need only look at the entries in the table and in the GCID record relating to one of the employees relied on, Ms Jaffrey, since there were no material differences between the cases of any of the employees.
In a short ex tempore judgment UTJ Freeman dismissed the claim, holding that:
"It has not been shown as more likely than not that the missing documents for Shareen Jaffrey and the other employees were sent in as claimed."
He gave two reasons for that conclusion:
(1)	He said, like UTJ Smith, that the Appellant had not applied for an administrative review. He observed:
"Such an application might not have succeeded if the Respondent had taken a stand on what she said had been sent in, but at least it would have allowed the earliest and best investigation possible."
(2)	He relied on the fact that the GCID recorded that the wage slips had not been submitted. He observed that in R (Mahmood) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2016] UKUT 57 (IAC) UTJ Grubb had approved the use of the GCID as a source of evidence.
The Appellant's grounds of appeal to this Court were drafted without legal assistance. However, when they were considered on the papers McCombe LJ noted that they appeared to raise similar points to those on which permission to appeal had been granted in three pending appeals relating to so-called "evidential flexibility". He granted permission and directed that the appeal be listed as soon as possible after those appeals were decided. Judgment was given in the lead evidential flexibility cases (in fact a slightly different selection) in January this year – see Mudiyanselage v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 65, [2018] 4 WLR 55.
Before us the Appellant has been represented by Mr Philip Nathan of counsel. He has helpfully distilled the pleaded grounds of appeal into two grounds. The first is that UTJ Freeman was wrong on the evidence before him to find that the payslips had not been provided. The second is that, even if they had not been, the case fell within the terms of paragraph 245AA of the Immigration Rules, which provides for a degree of evidential flexibility, and the Secretary of State should accordingly have drawn the failure to include the payslips to the Appellant's attention and given him the opportunity to remedy it. Mr Nathan also sought permission to add a third ground, which I will not seek to summarise here but to which I return at paras. 24-25 below. I take those grounds in turn.
(1)	WAS THE UT's FACTUAL FINDING WRONG ?
Although these were judicial review proceedings the dispositive issue was a pure question of fact: were the payslips provided with the application or not ? Although it is fair to say that since there was no oral evidence we are in as good a position to decide that question as the Judge, the fact remains that we should only allow the appeal if we are persuaded that his finding was wrong.
If I had been in the Judge's position I would have reached the same conclusion as he did; and in any event I cannot say that his decision was wrong. He had no witness evidence (apart from the statements of truth), and the documentary evidence before him was extremely limited. It consisted, on the one hand, of the "Yes" entries in the relevant column on table 3b2 and, on the other, of the statements in the GCID record. It is fair to conclude that the Appellant or his accountants had assembled the relevant payslips for despatch, but what must have happened is either that they had then been carelessly left out of the package that was actually sent or that they had been carelessly lost at the Home Office between initial receipt and the processing by the caseworker. Neither possibility seems to me inherently more plausible than the other, but I think the balance has to be struck in favour of the Secretary of State, for the following reasons.
First, and primarily, it is the rule that where there is a dispute on the evidence in a judicial review application, the facts stated in the defendant's evidence will be accepted unless there has been an application to cross-examine the relevant witness or the evidence "cannot be correct". That rule was very recently re-stated by this Court in a case where the dispute was very similar to that before us: R (Safeer) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2018] EWCA Civ 2518 (see per Nicola Davies LJ at paras. 16-19). (This decision is rather more relevant than that of Mahmood to which the Judge referred.) It follows that if the Appellant had wanted to challenge the accuracy of the GCID record he could and should have applied to cross-examine the responsible case-worker. In practice it was equally important for him to put in evidence statements from himself and/or his accountants saying precisely what had happened about the compilation and despatch of the application and supporting material (or, if they could not remember, at least what they were likely to have done, and why). Neither of those steps were taken. In the circumstances of this case, the absence of any particularised evidence from the Appellant seems to me to be for all practical purposes fatal.
I have to add that, even without the assistance of that rule, I am inclined to think that it is more likely that the mistake occurred at the Appellant's end than the Respondent's. I accept, of course, that the application was important for him, and one would expect him to have taken great care to avoid mistakes; also that the Home Office handles a large number of applications and mistakes are bound sometimes to happen. But those considerations are, I think, outweighed by the fact that there were other, admitted, omissions in the material supplied, which were the subject of the other two reasons for rejection initially given. But this is very much a secondary point compared with the first, and I need not develop it further.
Mr Nathan drew attention to the fact that the caseworker could be seen himself or herself to have made an error in examining this aspect of the application, since the GCID entry records that Ms Jaffrey had worked 30 hours per week but then, nonsensically, answers "Yes" to the questions whether this was in excess of the Working Time Directive limits and whether there was evidence of an opt-out. He submitted that this error undermines the reliability of the record as a whole, and in particular the entries showing that no wage-slips had been submitted. This is a point that could have been pursued with the caseworker in cross-examination if their attendance had been required. I am bound to say that I am not sure how much it would have helped the Appellant, since to lose the payslips is an error of a different character from the making of a loose entry about the Working Time Directive. But in any event it certainly does not meet the high bar required by the rule enunciated in Safeer for rejecting the defendant's evidence without cross-examination: it does not show that the record that the payslips had not been provided "cannot be correct".
Mr Nathan also referred to a report published in 2012 by the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration which found that in the year ending on 31 March 2012 there were several cases of documents submitted by students with Tier 4 applications being lost in the Border Agency's UK office: see para. 5.18 of the report. He accepted that Mr Aslam had not put this report before UTJ Freeman, but he submitted that it showed that there was a real problem with lost documents and that the Secretary of State was obliged by her duty of candour to draw it to the Tribunal's attention. That submission is hopeless. The report concerned a period three years before that with which we are concerned and a different class of application, and the Inspector in fact in a subsequent paragraph (para. 5.21) describes the number of lost documents as "low in comparison with the overall number of applications". In truth it shows no more than what the Judge would have appreciated in any event, namely that any large organisation occasionally loses documents.
As we have seen, both UTJ Smith and UTJ Freeman attached importance to the fact that the Appellant did not seek an administrative review. I agree that that would probably have been a good idea, because, as UTJ Freeman observed, it would have prompted an early investigation and if (contrary to his finding on the balance of probabilities) the payslips had been submitted with the original application they might have been found. But I do not regard the point as being of central importance. As UTJ Freeman also observed, the review procedure does not itself allow for the submission of missing documents, and in the end the Tribunal had to decide for itself what had been included first time round.
(2)	EVIDENTIAL FLEXIBILITY
I can take the legal background shortly because the ground has been cleared by Mudiyanselage. It was confirmed by our decision in that case that (as at the date with which we are concerned) where an applicant under the Point Based System fails to supply information or documents required by the Rules the Secretary of State is only obliged to give them the opportunity to correct the error in the very specific circumstances set out in paragraph 245AA of the Rules.
Mr Nathan relied on two of the heads under paragraph 245AA – (b) (ii), which applies where "a document is in the wrong format (for example, if a letter is not on letterhead paper as specified)", and (d) (i), which is in substantially identical terms but without the parenthesis: in the former case Secretary of State may ask for the missing documents, and in the latter he may overlook the omission. He referred to schedules prepared by the Appellant or his accountants, and included with the application, which gave details of the monthly gross and net pay received by the relevant employees over the tax year. He said that these should be regarded as payslips, albeit in the wrong format, because they contained the same information as the payslips.
That submission does not correspond to any of the original judicial review grounds: those did refer to paragraph 245AA, but only in the context of one of the other defects relied on by the Secretary of State. Nor was it advanced by Mr Aslam in the Upper Tribunal, and it was accordingly not considered by UTJ Freeman. However, I need not consider whether those reasons prevent it being raised now, since in my view it is bad in any event. Even if the schedules did contain the same information as the payslips, which they appear to do in the case of Ms Jaffrey at least, they are a wholly different kind of document. What the Rules require, for understandable reasons, is duplicates of the actual payslips provided to the employees in question. This is a "wrong document", not a "wrong format", case. There is no essential difference from the case of Igwe, considered at para. 118 of the judgment in Mudiyanselage. In that case the appellant had failed to supply a Current Appointment Report from Companies House but said that the same information was available from other documents submitted and that the case could be regarded as falling within paragraph 245AA (b) (ii). The argument was rejected.
(3)	THE NEW POINT
As mentioned above, Mr Nathan sought permission to rely on a new ground of appeal. He drew attention to the fact that the relevant column in table 3b2 refers to "pay statements". He said that that was not the same as "payslips", and that the documents to which I have referred at para. 22 above can properly be described as "pay statements". On this basis, of course, the form would not reflect the requirements of the relevant rule, since paragraph 46-SD (h) (iv) refers in terms to "duplicate payslips or wageslips"; but Mr Nathan submitted that it would plainly be unfair to reject an application which complied with the requirements of the official form on the basis that the Secretary of State had not ensured that those requirements reflected the rules. He told us that since the dates with which we are concerned the application form has been changed and the equivalent to table 3b2 is a series of boxes: the relevant box refers in terms to "payslips".
Mr Cornwell objected to permission being granted to take this point being raised now for the first time. We agreed to hear argument on it, without prejudice to whether we would admit it in due course. I am satisfied that the point is bad, and I would refuse permission on that basis. The starting-point is that "pay statements" is in fact the correct statutory name for what are generally referred to as payslips: see section 8 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. I suspect that all accountants and book-keepers, and maybe most employers too, know that. Even if some applicants filling in the form might find the term unfamiliar it would not be difficult for them to obtain clarification. But even if the language used is potentially misleading the Appellant could only have got a case on its feet on this basis if he had adduced evidence that he and/or his accountants were in fact misled. No such evidence was adduced: worse, the Appellant's entire case in the Tribunal was premised on the basis that he and they did know that it was payslips that were required, since it was his case that they had been provided.
For those reasons I would dismiss this appeal. I have real sympathy for the Appellant because it is very hard that the system allows for no opportunity to correct administrative errors of the kind which the Upper Tribunal found that he made here. But judges have repeatedly, albeit reluctantly, concluded that the Secretary of State is within his or her rights to have an inflexible system of this kind, in which applicants have to take the consequences of their own mistakes: see the passages quoted at paras. 37, 43 and 51 of my judgment in Mudiyanselage and my own observations and those of the President of the Queen's Bench Division at paras. 54-56 and 145.
I should, finally, mention that the Appellant sought to put in evidence for the purpose of the appeal a lengthy witness statement complaining of the poor service and bad advice given to him by MLC, which has since closed as a result of action by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. It is not for us to express any view about the quality of their service to the Appellant. It is clear from my reasoning above that a fundamental problem for his case is the absence of any proper evidence adduced in the Tribunal; but we do not know how that came about or what helpful evidence could in fact have been given. If it is indeed the case that he has been let down by his lawyers that reinforces the sympathy that I feel; but it cannot be a basis for allowing this appeal.
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News, Reviews and Features 'Gillian Anderson's performance is a scorcher': A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – Young Vic Theatre (Online review)
'Gillian Anderson's performance is a scorcher': A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – Young Vic Theatre (Online review)
In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz 27th May 2020 Leave a Comment
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The National Theatre's triumphant march through its archive of NT Live recordings continues this week with a glorious blaze of a show. Starring Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby, this 2014 revival of Tennessee Williams' 1947 modern classic A Streetcar Named Desire was a Young Vic production, and its film version is presented by National Theatre at Home.
Anderson had wanted to play the central role of Blanche DuBois for decades, she says, ever since at the age of 16, she learned one of the character's monologues for a competition. So the character has been in her DNA for years — and it shows. Especially when she turns up the heat. Her performance is a scorcher.
Set in the French Quarter of New Orleans, the story shows what happens when the apparently respectable former English teacher Blanche visits her sister, Stella, who is married to Stanley Kowalski, a working-class mechanic. Blanche's fragile psychological state, which she blames on the strains of teaching and the loss of the family's Mississippi plantation home, deteriorates in an environment which she finds degradingly poverty-stricken. In her loneliness, she begins to get involved with Mitch, one of Stanley's friends. At the same time, her relationship with Stella comes under strain because of her contempt for, and fear of, her sister's rather brutal husband. As the lies that she has told about her past life are gradually exposed, Blanche suffers a violent confrontation with Stanley.
Anderson's performance as Blanche is a career high. She begins dressed in glowing beige, carrying her Louis Vuitton bag, exuding superiority and yet, as her incessant drinking makes clear, barely holding things together. By the time the "Wicked Game" lyric "The world was on fire and no one could save me but you" plays, it's clear that things are falling apart. No one in this apartment will save her. Her pretentions to grandeur contrast beautifully with her fragility, the sense that she teetering on the brink between self-delusion and mental collapse. She flaunts her half-dressed body with a childish coquetry; she reaches out to the similarly lonesome Mitch (Corey Johnson), suggesting the way that damage attracts damage. Anderson not only captures her character's vanity, but also her essential solitude, which is reflected in a similar feeling which steams off the other characters.
Foster's Stanley is a sweaty, tattooed danger man. After all, he's just been discharged from the army. Immediately you know that it's a bad idea, a very bad idea, to cross him. Immediately you know that he's a man's man, most at home when he's playing cards with his mates. Immediately you know that he is proud and ready for a fight. At one vicious moment you think he might have PTSD. Sadly, Blanche does not get this. In between these two is Stella (Kirby) whose loyalties are torn between her sister and her husband. It's not a comfortable place for a pregnant woman to be.
Benedict Andrews's production is slightly incoherent. On the one hand, it boldly shakes off any sense of period detail, dispensing with the eldritch Southern American setting which usually characterises the play, preferring to set it on a clinically abstract set, which revolves constantly, shifting our perspective. On the other hand, Andrews has not been bold enough to trim the text and take out references to the past that sit uncomfortably in this updated and modern-dress setting. In fact, this timid approach to the text is what makes such revivals awkward: it's great to update the world of the play, but why not go the full way and edit the text?
Like so many examples of filmed theatre, Nick Wickham's film is not always as mesmerising as the play might have been on stage. Magda Willi's revolving minimalist set, with its Ikea furnishings, means that pillars and furniture pass too often in front of the camera, and some shots are frankly eccentric. But there are compensations. Graced with music by Chris Isaak and Cat Power among others, the abstract space of the setting emphasises the story's mythical side, with its sense that humanity is always fragile, always concealing its wounds under a glaze of drink and deceit, always ready for violence. Underneath, there's a similarly epic contrast between the old world of the idealized American South and the new world of blue-collar reality.
Nevertheless, the high-octane, passionate acting — especially that of the central trio of Anderson, Foster and Kirby — does succeed not only in holding your attention, but also conveying the ideas and feelings of Williams's great drama. As clearly as ever, and more so than in some other productions, we are confronted by the fact that neither idealistic lyricism nor brute materialism is a good enough guide to living, yet the playwright's compassion allows us to sympathise completely with both the perpetrator of sexual violence and his victim. The cruel streak running through the story, in which Kirby's sensual Stella looks as if she might be turned on by her husband's violence, comes across decisively. As ever, Williams gives voice to masculinity's tenderness as well as its toxicity; to female strength as well as vulnerability.
Thanks to costume designer Victoria Behr, the images that remain with you after the final credits roll are of Anderson's Blanche celebrating her birthday in a gaudy red dress, which shouts scarlet woman even when she's most child-like, and of her final confrontation with Stanley, dressed this time in a pink mardi gras outfit, face smeared with lipstick, while the dress's layers of taffeta offer no protection against his predation. In another scene her black polka dot on light yellow dress gives her a deceptively summery air. For his part, Foster's Stanley sports his floral shirts and crimson silk pajamas with a bruising confidence, while Kirby's miniskirted Stella is his perfect mate. In the end, the compelling three-hour emotional journey of this American masterpiece leaves you both exhausted and exhilarated. Thanks to this streaming we are once again in the presence of giants, both literary and thespian. It's that rare creature: a genuinely unmissable show.
This review first appeared on The Arts Desk
A Streetcar Named Desire is on the National Theatre YouTube Channel until 28 May.
The post A Streetcar Named Desire, Young Vic appeared first on Aleks Sierz.
Aleks Sierz
Aleks Sierz FRSA is a theatre critic, and author of the seminal study of new 1990s playwrights, In-Yer-Face Theatre. His other books include Rewriting the Nation, The Theatre of Martin Crimp, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights and Modern British Playwriting. His latest book (co-authored with Lia Ghilardi) is The Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre. He also works as a journalist, broadcaster, and lecturer. Aleks blogs independently at www.sierz.co.uk and tweets at @alekssierz.
Read the full article from Aleks Sierz, published on 27 May 2020
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Icetastrophe is not a completely unwatchable movie and SyFy have done worse, it is a better movie (if only marginally) than their previous seasonal offering the 12 Disasters of Christmas.
The movie does contain a few things that make it a little better than it could have been. A couple of the death scenes are cool, once you don't mind that they're not particularly inventive, and do have a little fun and suspense. Some of the scenery is reasonably attractive too, looking much more than basement or abandoned allotment quality, and there is the use of some nice seasonal songs that fit well (there should have been more though).
However, apart from the scenery the production values for Icetastrophe are poorly done, it's shot rather drearily, is drably lit and while there are worse special effects in SyFy movies they still look laughably fake (including ones that look like giant penises). The direction mostly ranges from flat to incompetent, only coming to life in some of the deaths. When the seasonal songs are not used, the movie is scored in an unappealingly loud monotonous drone, with muddied sound quality. The script is incredibly poor, with forced humour (mostly unintentional), tedious ham-fisted melodrama that bogs the movie down rather than adding anything and dialogue that often sounds like gibberish.
Very little compelling about the story either, as well as being as thin as ice it takes stupidity to extremes (even for science fiction, the science is as far away from believable as you can possibly go), continuity errors are so sloppy that you could have sworn there wasn't any and it suffers from a large lack of tension, fun or suspense (albeit with the odd moment) as a result of sluggish pacing and the overload of stupidity, my tolerance for silliness and stupidity is high but this was to the extent that it was impossible to take at face value or enjoy. The characters have no development to them and are devoid of personality too, while the acting is the usual messy mix of over-acting and blandness.
Overall, not completely unwatchable but left me ice cold on the whole.


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namespace faint{

using CommandEventTag = const wxEventTypeTag<wxCommandEvent>;

// Zoom command events declarations
extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomIn;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomIn;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomInAll;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomInAll;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomOut;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomOut;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomOutAll;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomOutAll;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomActualSize;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomActualSize;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomActualSizeAll;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomActualSizeAll;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomFit;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomFit;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomFitAll;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomFitAll;

extern const wxEventType FAINT_ZoomActualSizeToggle;
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ZoomActualSizeToggle;

// Event for when a control changes size, so that parent-panels can
// re-Layout
extern CommandEventTag EVT_FAINT_ControlResized;

void send_control_resized_event(wxEvtHandler*);

} // namespace

namespace faint{

enum class CopyColorMode { HEX, RGB };

} // namespace

namespace faint::events{

// Event for notifying that a text entry control has received or lost
// focus (used to disable some Python binds)
void set_focus_entry(window_t);
void on_set_focus_entry(window_t, const void_func&);
void kill_focus_entry(window_t);
void on_kill_focus_entry(window_t, const void_func&);

void queue_open_files(window_t, const FileList&);
void on_open_files(window_t, const std::function<void(const FileList&)>&);

void layer_change(window_t, Layer);
void on_layer_change(window_t, const std::function<void(Layer)>&);

void tool_change(window_t, ToolId);
void on_tool_change(window_t, const std::function<void(ToolId)>&);

void add_to_palette(window_t, const Paint&);
void on_add_to_palette(window_t, const std::function<void(const Paint&)>&);

void copy_color_string(window_t, const Color&, CopyColorMode);
void on_copy_color_string(window_t,
  const std::function<void(const Color&, CopyColorMode)>&);

void queue_request_close_faint(window_t, bool force);
void on_request_close_faint(window_t, const std::function<void(bool force)>&);

} // namespace

#endif

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As you know, I created Disco Gecko Recordings 20 years ago, originally to release my music myself, and eventually to release other artists. Back in August we ran our CD bundle offer, and now I would like to do something for those of you who prefer digital. I've gone through the archives and put together a Bandcamp only compilation of 20 tracks I've released over the years, all for the bargain price of £5.55. Featuring tracks or remixes by Lo18, Sophie Barker, dr trippy, Andrew Heath, Radium 88, Animat, Dragonfly Trio, Okamiko, James Eller, Gaudi, Simon Power and me, the collection is available from https://discogecko.bandcamp.com/album/20.
With the holiday season approaching, the team at Disco Gecko have decided to run our free shipping campaign again: we are offering free shipping for all orders within the UK, and free shipping for orders anywhere else in the world if you order 2 or more titles. On top of that, we've decided to temporarily drop the prices on some titles to the measly sum of £5.
This offer will run from now until December 19th and only applies to orders via the Disco Gecko webstore (ie. not Bandcamp). We're pretty sure that we've now got it set up so that the free postage will occur 'naturally' but if the system malfunctions (as they're wont to do), please don't panic, but email us and we'll refund you ASAP.


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Q: Spark Reading .7z files I am trying to read the spark .7z files using scala or java. I dont find any appropriate methods or functionality.
For the zip file, i am able to read as the ZipInputStream class takes a Input stream, but for the 7Z files the class SevenZFile doesnt take any input stream.
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-compress/javadocs/api-1.16/org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/sevenz/SevenZFile.html
Zip file code
spark.sparkContext.binaryFiles("fileName").flatMap{case (name: String, content: PortableDataStream) =>
        val zis = new ZipInputStream(content.open)
        Stream.continually(zis.getNextEntry)
              .takeWhile(_ != null)
              .flatMap { _ =>
                  val br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(zis))
                  Stream.continually(br.readLine()).takeWhile(_ != null)
              }}

I am trying similar code for the 7z files something like
spark.sparkContext.binaryFiles(""filename"").flatMap{case (name: String, content: PortableDataStream) =>
        val zis = new SevenZFile(content.open)
        Stream.continually(zis.getNextEntry)
              .takeWhile(_ != null)
              .flatMap { _ =>
                  val br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(zis))
                  Stream.continually(br.readLine()).takeWhile(_ != null)
              }}

But SevenZFile doesnt accept these formats.Looking for ideas.
If the file is in local filessytem following solution works, but my file is in hdfs
Local fileSystem Code
 public static void decompress(String in, File destination) throws IOException {
        SevenZFile sevenZFile = new SevenZFile(new File(in));
        SevenZArchiveEntry entry;
        while ((entry = sevenZFile.getNextEntry()) != null){
            if (entry.isDirectory()){
                continue;
            }
            File curfile = new File(destination, entry.getName());
            File parent = curfile.getParentFile();
            if (!parent.exists()) {
                parent.mkdirs();
            }
            FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(curfile);
            byte[] content = new byte[(int) entry.getSize()];
            sevenZFile.read(content, 0, content.length);
            out.write(content);
            out.close();
        }
    }

After all these years of spark evolution there should be easy way to do it.

A: Instead of using the java.io.File-based approach, you could try the SeekableByteChannel method as shown in this alternative constructor.
You can use a SeekableInMemoryByteChannel to read a byte array. So as long as you can pick up the 7zip files from S3 or whatever and hand them off as byte arrays you should be alright.
With all of that said, Spark is really not well-suited for processing things like zip and 7zip files. I can tell you from personal experience I've seen it fail badly once the files are too large for Spark's executors to handle.
Something like Apache NiFi will work much better for expanding archives and processing them. FWIW, I'm currently handling a large data dump that has me frequently dealing with 50GB tarballs that have several million files in them, and NiFi handles them very gracefully.

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God guides. God speaks. But we have to ask for his help daily and learn to be better listeners. Join us for an interactive retreat that will help you combine your daily choices with God's bigger picture. Christian Life Purpose Coach Liz Lassa will teach us using two life-changing and tangible prayer tools that make this simple. You won't want to miss His picture for your life!
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Note: Liz is a Life Maps facilitator. During this retreat she can launch your Listen to My Life - Life Maps group with two, 2-3 hour sessions or she can just do the first "My Life Now" map as a stand alone tool within the retreat.
If you just want to introduce your ladies to the maps and you want to let them form their own groups, that is fine too. They will get so much out of these sessions regardless of if they do another map. The maps are one of the best Biblical tools for life purpose/life direction that Liz has found. In fact, the whole Spiritual Circle Journal and all God has her doing now came out of completing the maps process herself as she was getting trained to use them with clients. For more information visit the maps website at www.onelifemaps.com.
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Classic horror film of American skeptic investigating British Satanist who predicts the Yank has only three days to live. Unusual for showing the murderous demon up front, a decision made by executive producer Hal E. Chester and condemned by Tourneur and screenwriter Charles Bennett, who argued for a more ambiguous approach. (Chester got it right.) Fast-paced, intelligently plotted, and full of supernatural goings-on. A must for fans of the genre. Also known as Curse of the Demon, and based on the M. R. James story "Casting the Runes."


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New McConnell Challenger Has Bernie Sanders Ties
Kentucky radio host Matt Jones filed paperwork launching campaign Tuesday
Radio host Matt Jones / Getty Images
Collin Anderson - September 10, 2019 3:25 PM
A newly-launched campaign to unseat incumbent Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell (R.) has ties to socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.).
Kentucky sports radio host Matt Jones on Tuesday officially launched his bid to unseat the Republican majority leader, signing a statement of candidacy and establishing a principal campaign committee. Though Jones has been wary of using the term "liberal" in conservative Kentucky, one campaign agent has ties to Sanders.
Jones's statement of organization lists Jay Petterson of Seattle, Wash. as the campaign's assistant treasurer and "designated agent." Jones's political identity has been described as "slippery," but Petterson has lengthy ties to radical liberal politics. Petterson is a partner at Blue Waves Political Partners, a consulting firm offering fundraising services to Democratic campaigns. Sanders's presidential campaigns have disbursed nearly $1 million to Blue Wave since 2016.
Jones, who calls himself a "progressive populist," has already been dismissed by some Kentucky Democrats. Phillip Thompson, deputy campaign manager to McConnell's challenger in 2014, said Jones's candidacy amounted to "just noise."
"Until you actually have this experience, and get in there and run for something—city council, dog catcher, or something—I don't think you really know what you're talking about," Thompson told Politico.
Jones disputed his own campaign's launch on his radio show Tuesday, saying, "I did not file that I was running…I just filed the exploratory committee papers." Jones's paperwork shows he has created an actual campaign committee. While Jones named his committee, "Matt Jones for Kentucky Exploratory Committee," the name has no bearing on its legal distinction. The committee allows him to raise and spend money under FEC rules, and Jones signed a statement of candidacy declaring his place in the Kentucky Senate race.
"'Tis the season for these bizarre FEC distinctions on campaign committees," former chairman of the FEC Michael Toner told the Hill in January. "You can call a committee an exploratory committee, but legally it is a campaign committee."
Jones's candidacy may come as a blow to Kentucky Senate candidate Amy McGrath. A failed House candidate in 2018, McGrath's campaign has been littered with gaffes since announcing her Senate bid in July.
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Collin Anderson is an editorial assistant for the Washington Free Beacon. He graduated from the University of Missouri, where he studied politics. He is originally from St. Louis and now lives in Arlington, VA. His email address is anderson@freebeacon.com.
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