text:
package sysctl

import (
	"testing"

	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api/helper"
)

func TestValidate(t *testing.T) {
	tests := map[string]struct {
		patterns   []string
		allowed    []string
		disallowed []string
	}{
		// no container requests
		"nil": {
			patterns: nil,
			allowed:  []string{"foo"},
		},
		"empty": {
			patterns:   []string{},
			disallowed: []string{"foo"},
		},
		"without wildcard": {
			patterns:   []string{"a", "a.b"},
			allowed:    []string{"a", "a.b"},
			disallowed: []string{"b"},
		},
		"with catch-all wildcard": {
			patterns: []string{"*"},
			allowed:  []string{"a", "a.b"},
		},
		"with catch-all wildcard and non-wildcard": {
			patterns: []string{"a.b.c", "*"},
			allowed:  []string{"a", "a.b", "a.b.c", "b"},
		},
		"without catch-all wildcard": {
			patterns:   []string{"a.*", "b.*", "c.d.e", "d.e.f.*"},
			allowed:    []string{"a.b", "b.c", "c.d.e", "d.e.f.g.h"},
			disallowed: []string{"a", "b", "c", "c.d", "d.e", "d.e.f"},
		},
	}

	for k, v := range tests {
		strategy := NewMustMatchPatterns(v.patterns)

		pod := &api.Pod{}
		errs := strategy.Validate(pod)
		if len(errs) != 0 {
			t.Errorf("%s: unexpected validaton errors for empty sysctls: %v", k, errs)
		}

		sysctls := []api.Sysctl{}
		for _, s := range v.allowed {
			sysctls = append(sysctls, api.Sysctl{
				Name:  s,
				Value: "dummy",
			})
		}
		testAllowed := func(key string, category string) {
			pod.Annotations = map[string]string{
				key: helper.PodAnnotationsFromSysctls(sysctls),
			}
			errs = strategy.Validate(pod)
			if len(errs) != 0 {
				t.Errorf("%s: unexpected validaton errors for %s sysctls: %v", k, category, errs)
			}
		}
		testDisallowed := func(key string, category string) {
			for _, s := range v.disallowed {
				pod.Annotations = map[string]string{
					key: helper.PodAnnotationsFromSysctls([]api.Sysctl{{Name: s, Value: "dummy"}}),
				}
				errs = strategy.Validate(pod)
				if len(errs) == 0 {
					t.Errorf("%s: expected error for %s sysctl %q", k, category, s)
				}
			}
		}

		testAllowed(api.SysctlsPodAnnotationKey, "safe")
		testAllowed(api.UnsafeSysctlsPodAnnotationKey, "unsafe")
		testDisallowed(api.SysctlsPodAnnotationKey, "safe")
		testDisallowed(api.UnsafeSysctlsPodAnnotationKey, "unsafe")
	}
}

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text:
In 1998, I told the major labels to create their own iTunes. They laughed at me.
By Music Business Worldwide
The following is a blog from William Haighton, CEO of artist services specialist Arising Artist as well as online music and entertainment retailer TuneTribe. Before joining TuneTribe in 2006, Haighton (pictured) enjoyed success with his own indie label, Van Records, in his native Holland. Between 1995 and 2002 he was a director of both SENA and NVPI, respectively Holland's equivalents to PRS and the BPI/RIAA.
It's hard to imagine it now, but in the eighties there was a thriving music distributor – pre-digital, of course – that was jointly owned by some of the major labels.
When I ran Van Records in Holland, I visited Record Service Benelux, or RSB, many times.
RSB was a joint initiative between the managing director of Warners, BMG and EMI. Virgin was still independent for most of that time, but its distribution in the Benelux went through BMG. And as I remember it, in the end, Universal joined.
It worked wonderfully well. When you visited, it was this huge hall and on the ground floor you would see the Warner office, the BMG office, the Universal office and the EMI office.
"Each of the majors put money into RSB. there were no complaints. It was harmonious."
These guys all knew each other, and the rest of the entire operation was a united distribution powerhouse. It was by far the most modern distribution centre in the whole of Europe at that time.
Each of the majors put a certain amount of money into the whole RSB setup, based on market share. And then based on yearly results they'd also each pay an annual fee. No-one complained, risk and overhead was shared. It was harmonious.
RSB closed in 2003 – ironically, the year before iTunes launches in Europe. That fact still makes me shiver a bit.
We all know by now that, for better or worse, the industry signed away control of the distribution of its music to Apple when it licensed iTunes.
So when recall a meeting I had in Holland on the board of the NVPI – the Dutch record label trade organisation – five years before iTunes arrived, my heart sinks.
I started Van Records, an independent label, in 1990 with 5,000 Guilders- around £1,500. By the mid-nineties, we'd grown really nicely, to the point that we were working with BMG years before it merged with Sony.
Originally, only major labels were allowed on the board of the NVPI, but the independents had 32% of the market. That was a bit strange, to say the least, so I asked my friends – Wally Van Middendorp (PIAS), and Tony Berk (Dino Music) – to help elect me as a representative of the indies.
Before long there I was, sitting alongside Warners, EMI, Universal, Sony and BMG at the top table.
I had been so impressed with RSB and the way that major rights-holders worked together for the greater good, that in the late nineties I started really contemplating this new-fangled thing called the internet.
This wasn't because I was some kind of forward-looking genius. It was because of the practicalities of running an independent company – always keeping your nose to the ground and watching the pennies.
"I asked a major label boss for his email. He said: 'Yes, hang on… it's w.w.w…"
I remember 1998 very clearly, because that was the year I walked round my office and it hit me: sales were already in decline and I had 20 people on the payroll. The writing was on the wall.
I started mentioning the internet in every conversation I had about my business, but no-one offered a solution to my worries. In fact, my major label friends at the NVPI kept telling me: "This is alien, William. You're a fool to worry too much about it. We think this is just going to be an indie thing."
One memory in particular jars the most. In that fateful year, 1998, I started to believe that there a simple solution of how record companies could take back some control as the internet age dawned: let's make an online RSB – a digital download store owned by all of the major labels, with some independent equity if we can manage it, that can service the market just as we do successfully in the physical world.
I brought the idea to the NVPI and raised it. The first response was laughter. Lots of laughter.
All I heard through the chuckles was: "We're not going to work together with Warners!" "We're not teaming up with EMI!"
I protested that this was already happening at RSB, that this kind of collaboration was already well established in the Benelux, but to say it fell on deaf ears is an understatement. It fell on the ears of people that couldn't hear me through their bemusement.
When I say these guys had no clue about the internet, I'm not going out of my way to bash the majors – it's the truth. Honest story: in another meeting around that time I asked one of the major label Benelux bosses if I could send him an email and take his address. He said: "Yes, hang on… it's w.w.w…"
In my view the record industry has never really recovered from this ignorance. It handed its future on a platter to Steve Jobs
But there is a silver lining, I think. Today, the recorded music rights-holders are still the ones with the magic, the music, on their side. That has not been eroded. So long as labels don't spend all their time and investment on marketing rather than A&R, that will always be the case.
"In my view, the record industry has never really recovered from this ignorance. It handed its future on a platter to steve jobs."
Retail has never been able to live, and will never be able to live, without the music. So don't be surprised if in ten years' time a big part of music retail is directly owned by the labels. It's not too late.
For that to happen, though, just like all that time ago in 1998, the majors will have to stop eying each other with such suspicion, and learn to work together like they did at RSB.
Time is of the essence: I have a sneaking feeling that soon Amazon and Apple will start to create music content. Labels will have to start looking into possibilities of direct retail to their customers – whether through acquisition of a digital retailer or building their own platforms.
There are other huge benefits to labels working together. I remember in Holland we had a platform in the nineties that brought together the heads of the labels and the heads of the retailers.
Once every quarter or so, all of these guys would come together in a room and argue! But out of that argument would come combined Valentines, Easter, Christmas promotions. Again, sharing the risk and maximising the benefit. If you do a £250,000 campaign and can share the cost between labels and retailers, everyone is in a more comfortable position.
How I long for those days of collaboration.
Today, I nervously watch a music streaming market which is very crowded and whose economics remain, famously, unproven.
I suppose I am on the other side of the fence from the labels: a music-loving retailer who has enjoyed some success online, and benefited from the fruits of partnerships with the likes of Amazon and ebay.
But ever since those iTunes deals were struck 11 years ago, I have asked myself the same questions: Do labels sometimes forget why they are selling music?
And if they do, are they selling it at the right price – to the right people?Music Business Worldwide
Blog Netherlands iTunes retail Spotify TuneTribe William Haighton
Spotify is searching for a new Head of Global Hits… as SoundCloud seeks a new Global Head Of Music
Mimi Camara and Tawny Thompson join Joie Manda's Encore Recordings
Spotify – Head of Global Hits (US)
Remote FUGA
FUGA – Digital Accounts/Marketing Strategy Manager – GSA (Remote)
Toronto CBC / Radio-Canada
CBC/Radio-Canada – Producer, Social Media, CBC Music (English Services) (CA)
London APPLE
Apple Music Radio – UK & International Production Manager (UK)
Read Sir Lucian Grainge's 2022 message to Universal Music Group's workforce

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text:
Hard, Fast & Beautiful
By Andréa Picard
Tennis as both timeless allure and time capsule in William Klein's The French.
Klein making The French
"Between tennis and psychoanalysis I chose tennis."—Jean-Luc Godard
In May 2021, international media outlets reported that 23-year-old Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka had become the highest-paid female athlete in history, her combined prize earnings and endorsements amounting to one helluva metaphorical Louis Vuitton monogrammed bag. Days later, communicating via her preferred methods on social, Instagram and Twitter, Osaka made headlines again, by announcing, with her characteristic combo of casual and cool, that she would be refraining from doing press at the upcoming Roland-Garros Grand Slam (i.e., The French Open; i.e., "The French"), including the obligatory, hot-seat post-match press conferences. Citing the need to protect the mental health of athletes and supplementing her post with past examples of toxic needling from sports journalists, Osaka makes history by refusing to play by rules that she considers harmful. By imposing boundaries and asserting her limits of control, she is single-handedly taking on rituals of the game that transcend tennis itself—ones that have been in place since the advent of broadcasting, when sports became synonymous with big money.
Of course, she can afford the fines that she'll be slapped with for each refusal, but it is precisely that privilege that she is calling upon to confront some of the aggression that is intrinsic to these formalities, to the old-school system that has largely gone unchallenged and unchecked. The post-match or post-game commentary (choose your sport) in the locker room or press scrum is where tears are shed, vulnerabilities are exposed, and an athlete's ability to maintain composure and be media-savvy is put to the test during the most inopportune time—when they are exhausted, emotionally wasted, sometimes ecstatic, other times broken. It makes for great theater (and cinema), but at whose expense and for whose benefit?
Osaka had already discombobulated the media early on in her career, with her adorable press-shy tangents and bizarro digressions (which endeared her to fans and helped make her a star with the help of said press), but this happened most forcefully late last summer at the US Open (which she won for the second time), where her on-court BLM activism was met, for the most part, by white journalists struggling to formulate even mildly intelligent questions about her brave stand in a blatantly racist country. Osaka is playing tennis on her own terms, knows the power of her platform, and is insisting on parameters to preserve her mental health as a racialized person in a disproportionately and historically white elite sport. And while her statement was tied to her lack of confidence on clay and was very much lacking in nuance and context, it has become a lightning rod for those pitting the demands for safe spaces against fragile egos and entitlement, and the obligations that accompany being a professional athlete against the need for systemic reevaluation, not unlike the reckoning around equal pay. While many have stated that Osaka has consistently received fair and friendly treatment from the media—unlike Serena Williams, who has endured confrontation and overt racism for much of her career—there's no doubt that the polemics of the discourse, like them or not, are indicative of a sea change.
Thus, the stage had been amply set for spectacular drama and debate at this year's Roland-Garros, already pushed back a week in the clay-court schedule in order to allow for a reduced capacity of spectators during this ongoing, unprecedented pandemic. Are we witnessing the stirrings of the end of the ancien régime? Will the French assert their devotion to the traditional règles du jeu? There may be heightened anticipation this year, especially as the traditional "Big Three" men's players—Federer, Nadal ("the king of clay"), and Djokovic—continue to make history with numbers, but as Serge Daney (the beloved French film critic, who also wrote a tennis column for Libération) famously said about The French: "What is great about Roland-Garros, is that it's like the finals everyday." And, sure enough, l'affaire Osaka blew up after her first-round win and the player was fined and threatened with expulsion. She subsequently pulled out of the tournament and the tennis world has been thrust into the mainstream spotlight.
Jimmy Connors and fans
This extraordinary backdrop makes William Klein's too-little-seen cult-classic documentary The French (1982) a tremendously timely and enormously fascinating watch right now. When the film was shot 40 years ago as a commission from the French Tennis Federation led by former champion and journalist Philippe Chatrier (for whom center court is named), the iconoclastic American-French photographer and filmmaker was given a never-before-offered (and never-to-be-repeated) look at Roland-Garros from behind the scenes during its 85th edition. Not only does Klein film players being physically bombarded by the media, paparazzi, and rabid fans (who make it onto the court in droves and with ease, the security detail seemingly nonexistent), but the filmmaker's multiple, handheld 16mm cameras wade in and out of the men's and women's locker rooms with astounding candor, sometimes voyeuristically capturing a tennis player blow-drying her hair while in her underwear, or in close-up on the massage table. The proximity to the players is shocking, as they are filmed in various states of undress, casually hanging out in the lounge, wryly commenting on matches being watched on boxy televisions from shabby tan leather sofas. The bodies of the spectators are equally near as we see the hordes pushing through the entry gates like their lives depend on it, ready to stampede their way to their ticketed seats in a ritualistic frenzy.
Each aspect of the tournament is observed in a seemingly unassuming and desultory manner as the film proceeds joyously and with ardent curiosity through a succession of 14 loosely formed chapters—demarcated by an eclectic range of music and Fujifilm primary-color blocks that are as Godardian as they are emblematic of the French tricolor flag. Moving chronologically through the stages of the Slam, The French begins with the preparations of the stadium and grounds—their adornment with flowers, the warm-up sessions, the charity events—and continues through to the women's and men's finals and the ceremonial hoisting of the trophies by the champions: the Czech player Hana Mandlíková and Swedish superstar and that edition's poster-boy Björn Borg. Funnily, the ultimate photo op was orchestrated amid the crowd in the bleachers and Mandlíková's triumphant trophy-in-hand run up the stairs is interrupted by an attention-seeking imposter wearing a sandwich board stating his desire to meet Pope "Jean-Paul II." But he's no match for the women's champion, who shoves him aside to rightfully claim her big moment in the sun. The film is replete with such off-kilter moments and unspoken commentary, and while it seems to be a fly-on-the-wall observational documentary, with Wiseman-esque detours into the administrative proceedings—such as the players' draw, the broadcast meetings, and the rain-delay schedules, in which biases can obviously be perceived—a closer look reveals some of the irony for which Klein is known.
Like his brilliant documentary Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1969), The French foregoes voiceover commentary, relying instead on sly dialectical editing—which both Godard and Daney consider the intrinsic link between tennis and cinema, their two passions. Godard has often said that the beauty of tennis is le renvoie, the fact that when you hit the ball, it is returned to you as a form of dialogue. In countless emblematic tennis scenes like in Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), which makes prodigious use of insert shots to both elongate and compress time, the shot/countershot structure is mimetically employed to follow the ball's shot/countershot trajectory, and inserts of spectators panning their heads from side to side is used in all of film history's great tennis scenes—often to comedic effect or to heighten suspense. Here, Klein rarely alternates the shots during the matches, shooting mostly from an angle above and behind one of the baselines (as regularly seen on broadcasts), and instead alternates between inside and outside of the stadium, between players and spectators, between body parts, sometimes skipping the opponents' returns with a deliberate focus on one side, and also inserts conversations that are not happening in real time, cleverly emphasizing to what degree players get into each other's heads. He completely deconstructs the matches, revealing their head-spinning prismatic angles.
In other words, Klein formally demonstrates how he also managed to infiltrate mental spaces at Roland-Garros. French virtuoso Yannick Noah—still in his ascendency days, not yet an icon but nevertheless oozing Hollywood charisma in a superbly lit close-up—wistfully recounts a game that haunts him while splayed out on the massage table in his jockstrap: the longest rally he ever played against baseline Borg and the effect of the protracted point ("a psychological point" he says), which Noah ultimately won but which also seemed not to arouse any reaction from the stoic Swedish star. Klein then cuts to Borg in another space entirely and picks up the conversation as if Borg was replying to Noah directly, his barely veiled vulnerabilities rising to the fore as a portent of things to come. Meanwhile, his wife Mariana is signing autographs like a rock star in the stands wearing hip shades and a red leather jacket, fully immersed in Borgmania.
Virginia Ruzici and Chris Evert
Alongside Borg and Noah, the film features John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, Guillermo Vilas, Jimmy Connors, Ilie Năstase (and his affable bodyguard, Bambino), Chris Evert, Virginia Ruzici, and Martina Navratilova—all legends of the game who became icons in a pre-Internet era. The look of the players, like that of the crowd is unmistakably '80s. The stadium is bedecked with people wearing bucket hats and oversized sunglasses; some have feathered hair and handlebar mustaches, while many dangle cigarettes from their fingers or lips. (There are ashtrays everywhere!) The film's vintage patina is deeply enjoyable, from the compact wooden rackets and short shorts (including short satin shorts) to the now-sought-after classic brands like Ellesse and Le Coq Sportif, a welcome relief from today's over-branded and sometimes garish Lycra wear. What we are witnessing in The French is the emergence of the star system in tennis, when style and image became paramount: Borg's headband and tucked long hair (emulated on the tournament's poster), Evert's perky ponytail tied with a ribbon, McEnroe's USA-emblazoned jacket, Lendl's neat and boyish side part and his warm-up vest. Many of these expressions of style belie a certain media timidity and wariness—and many of the players can be seen actively fleeing or at least partially dodging Klein's camera, registering discomfort and bashfulness because of its intrusiveness. When Lendl refuses to take his clothes off for the camera, he is coaxed into exposing a bit of skin as he awkwardly keeps his jacket on during a massage. One senses that Klein, searching for the most unfiltered views, is trying to push as far as he can go with unrestricted access, to see beyond personas, beyond the shroud of greatness.
The appearance of the matches themselves is strikingly different from what we see today on those very same courts. With wooden rackets, the play on the notoriously slower clay terrain (la terre battue, generally considered the most difficult surface to master) appears almost comically sluggish—not quite as exaggerated as M. Hulot's antics, but dramatically leisurely in comparison to modern high-speed, all-muscle winners, and more-dominant serve-and-volley style. Still, the matches maintain their aura of tension and anticipation, and sometimes even grace. The thrill of the game buoys every point; it includes glimmers of agony and ecstasy, and extraordinary displays of physical and mental prowess. Klein includes the commentator box, the broadcast room, coaches gossiping in the stands (at one point, a racial slur is quietly lobbed at Noah from a fan), players watching on TV in the changing rooms, the umpire getting an earful from an agitated McEnroe in meltdown mode—everyone is watching and simultaneously being watched. But what is just as striking is the sound. The "tok" emanating from the balls hitting the wooden rackets is startling and so dissimilar to what we hear in matches today; it strangely emphasizes the utter loneliness of the duel in the dirty field.
Contradictions abound at Roland-Garros and Klein mischievously trades in those binaries, displaying the French formalities and mannered elegance alongside certain vulgarities (like crude sex jokes heard in passing), the white uniforms quickly covered in clay, the rivalries and the friendships, the icons versus the complex human beings caught up in the spectacle, commerce, passion, and competition of it all. The film ends on three uncanny and unexplained still images—a triumphant McEnroe, McEnroe and Borg on a grass court at Wimbledon, and, lastly, Borg in stunned defeat. The French is a portrait of the 1981 edition of the French Open and all its complex inner workings, but also notably of the last Grand Slam that Borg won. That same year, he lost to McEnroe at Wimbledon and at the US Open, and exited the sport shortly thereafter at the age of 26. When asked about that long rally with Noah when Borg lost the point but displayed no emotion, the fashionable but awkward star conceded: "I'm not a machine, I'm like everybody else, I'm not a machine." His repetition is telling, there to challenge perceived incredulity. Fast-forward to 2021 when one of the biggest stars of tennis withdraws from Roland-Garros by posting a note on social media, expressing something remarkably similar. •
Andréa Picard is a curator, writer, and amateur tennis player. She is a senior film curator at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Jean-Luc Godard once challenged her to a tennis match.
The French
Broadway by Light


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5xk » Rock » Shulton's Youth - Life's Not Fair/ Over & Over Again
Shulton's Youth - Life's Not Fair/ Over & Over Again Scaricare
Shulton Youth Group Inc Emo Pop Punk
Shulton's Youth
Life's Not Fair/ Over & Over Again
Emo, Pop Punk
M.L.A.R. Group Inc.
1 Life's Not Fair (Album) 3:55
2 Life's Not Fair (Clean) 3:55
3 Over & Over Again (Accapella) 3:13
4 Over & Over Again (Instrumental) 3:49
5 Life's Not Fair (Instrumental) 3:55
6 Over & Over Again (Album) 3:33
Bass – Lucas Boor
Co-producer – Charles Spyder Wallace
Drums – Christopher Fruge
Guitar – Barry Don Hailey Jr.
Mixed By – Cory Williams
Producer – Keith Winfield, Maduro Hill
Written By – Shulton's Youth
Recorded At : South Coast Recording
Mixed At : Blue Palm Studios
Mastered At : Global Audio Works
(Fat Pack Entertainment)
Life's Not Fair - a-ha. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Life's Not FairEarly Version of I Wish I Cared. You'll Never Get Over MeLive in Oslo, Norway, 2001. Life's Not Fair. Cordial greetings, dear listeners This week we're going over a common nuisance and Miller's sixth sense, why Sam's crazy is extra strong, and who the heck we're caucusing for. We're feisty this week. Shulton's Youth - Life's Not Fair Over & Over Again 12. Group Inc. s Not Fair Instrumental. Over & Over Again Album. Over & Over Again Instrumental. Over & Over Again Accapella. Artist: Shulton's Youth Album's title: Life's Not Fair Over & Over Again Label: . none Type: Vinyl, 12 Country: US Date of released: Category: Rock Style: ZIP Size MP3: 1515 mb ZIP Size FLAC: 1486 mb Rating: 4. 45 Votes: 471 Format: MP3 FLAC WMA MOD MP1 VOC APE TTA AA. Other albums: Jane Fair Jazz Quintet - Jane Fair Jazz Quintet. Over is the sixth studio album by the English singer and songwriter Peter Hammill, released on Charisma Records in April 1977. It was issued for the first time on CD on Virgin Records in the early 1990s, and was reissued again in a remastered version in 2006 with bonus tracks. The album details the break-up of a long-term relationship with a woman known as Alice. The album was originally to be called Over My Shoulder with a different cover shot in which Hammill was caught looking back over his. Music video by Glenn Lewis performing Its Not Fair. C 2002 sony bmg music entertainment. It's Not Fair Album Version. Glenn s Not Fair. Produced by Curtis Heron. Album PROJECT: WEBWEAVER. Lifes Not Fair Lyrics. Life's not fair, life's not fair Gotta get this money because life's not fair Life's not fair, life's not fair yea Gotta get this money because life's not fair yeah, ay, ay. I'm the demigod 'cause I can give you life or give you death Give you heaven, give you hell I don't really fuckin' care No one said this shit was easy No one said that life was fair. Life's not fair, life's not fair Gotta get this money because life's not fair Life's not fair, life's not fair Gotta get this money because life's not fair. All Over Again - Armin van Buuren. Life's Not out to Get You is the second studio album by Welsh pop punk band Neck Deep. Following the success of their debut album, Wishful Thinking 2014, the majority of the band members quit their day jobs and vocalist Ben Barlow dropped out of university. Working with Jeremy McKinnon, Andrew Wade and Tom Denney, the band recorded their second album between December 2014 and January 2015. Following recording the band immediately went on tour. Life's Not out to Get You was preceded by two singles. It's Not Over by mordacious, released 31 October 2019 1. Switchblade Symphony 2. Beg and Plead 3. Forever 4. Bleed 5. Then You're Dead 6. Vampyre 7. Never Liked You 8. It's Not Over 9. Nothing 10. Self Destruct 11. In the Dark 12. Destroy Yourself 13. Bounce Mastered by Jan Loamfield : X-FUSION MUSIC PRODUCTION. Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Purchasable with gift card. Buy Digital Album. 10 USD or more
I had this record and it's not reggae. It's pop-punk/punk.
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I have been revisiting Travis McGee, one of the great serial novel characters of the last century (the others are Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin). John D. MacDonald wrote 21 books about Mcgee, and I have been reading them seriatim, following not only the character's development and maturation but also that of the author. McGee was a self-described "boat bum", living aboard a fifty-two foot houseboat named The Busted Flush at Slip F-18, Bahia Mar marina, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He fought in the Korean War, so by now, if he lived this long, he would be in his eighties, although it's hard to imagine him doddering around a retirement community, plaid pants pulled up to his navel. He'd be one of those trim, energetic octogenarians doomed to outlive everyone he loves. He made his living as a "salvage consultant." If someone had something taken from them – money; reputation; valuable artifacts – in such a way that the law couldn't recover it, McGee would try to get it back. If he was successful, he would take his expenses off the top, then split the recovery down the middle, on the theory that half of something is better than nothing.
There's a gobsmacker of an article in the current New York Review of Books about the epidemic of mental illness that America is presently experiencing, or, to put it another way, the epidemic of pharmaceutical treatments for diagnosed mental disorders that America is presently financing. It seems that the psychotropic medications we have been using in vast and ever-increasing quantities over the past fifty years, the antidepressants, antipsychotics, and antianxiety nostrums that have become the mainstay of psychiatric therapy, are no more effective than placebos. In sum, we have been – surprise, surprise! – the victims of a massive fraud. Moreover, the whole edifice of medical research, which rests on a foundational distinction between placebos and therapeutic agents, shows signs of crumbling.
and nothing within it could be seen.
Crack! A maple cleaved down the middle.
Branches began snapping. Trunks split.
reduced as if by an artillery barrage.
clear a passage through the street's debris.
we warned each other of widow makers.
we labored and chatted in hushed, excited tones.
grey, even light seeping even indoors.


Have just caught up with you. Yikes! But sounds like fun is being had despite all odds.
There have been fun moments, in between the exasperating ones. Child balked at the Mall of America. Which was a total buzz kill and unexpected as he loves our mall back home. Perhaps it is just too much mall?
Definitely too much mall. I haven't even been there and I know that!
Personally, I don't think there CAN be "too much mall" but DS would share your son's sentiment – he hates going there.
I feel your pain, Young Ethel. That's my face most times people ask to take my picture, too!
I suspect this comment was intended elsewhere, if not, it is a most excellent non sequitur.
haha!! Aren't those the kids on the old-timey photo? Eileen and Ethel Gehrt? I just assumed Ethel was the ticked-off looking one!
Okay, now I get it. Sorry I missed the connection. My phone limits what I am seeing.


Up at 6am not a good night, the room was too hot! Right leg tight and aching just a little bit more than everything else. Great meal last night, soup, steak and chips followed by a feranginpan? Karen and Jason joined us last night and will be with us today giving much needed support. Dad and Jason are staying in the same room, proper snore off! Good workout routine complete, shower and down to breakfast by 7:30. Body feeling ok but right knee a concern. Fought through as much as I could, 2 toast, 1/2 small bowl porridge, 2 mini pastry and half a bowl of grapefruit, 2 teas and a glass of juice. Nausea a bit of a problem, hopefully it will go soon. Back to the room, Jason finalising the route dad enjoying the stress free start to the day. By the way, what a day! Bright blue sky and I would say a touch warmer. York is a beautiful place, I hope to do a grand old loop of York before heading to Leeds. Thanks for another fine place, Essential Hotels and The Royal York. Now time to apply lotions and potions and kit up. All done, checked out and out the front of the hotel and train station for the quick start video. Great setting, great weather shame I don't feel too good. We set off towards Leeds. The route out of York was very nice, a bit of traffic to contend with but no road rage! I had no energy from the start but had no real pain either which made a nice change. York was nice and the countryside through Knapton and Wandasley was nicer. 10k in 47mins, still no energy but a nice pace found, 4"35/K. At Wetherby I reached 21k still sort of ok but now seriously no energy. The weather remained great and quite hot. Dad was enjoying the day getting out to take pictures and casually asking how I am, good to see him enjoy himself. Another runner came from a side road in front of me at 25k, I tried to keep just behind him but failed and he pulled away. The van went past him, he then stopped, waited for me and ran with me for nearly 5k. Very appreciated Tim, hope to see you in London and sorry for ruining your run. I hope you got back in time for your lunch with the in laws! Turns out, if I heard correctly, that his wife ran 10 consecutive marathons last year from York to Kent to raise money for a sick child in Huddersfield I think he said. Nice to know I am not the only mad person around! Anyway on with the run. It got much worse, the terrain turned very hilly! A Rise of nearly 200m finished me off and I completed the 42.21k at a very painful jog! Still managed to get a fairly decent time for me of 3'28"17. By far the worst I have felt. A few minutes of pacing about before the post run photo and getting in the van to find the Hospital. No reception planned so we found the ward took our photo's at the entrance and left. Now feel terrible, just found out they organised at the last minute a reception! I have seen the photos, thank you so much, I am so sorry we did not know! Back in the van and off to find the Leeds Marriott. After a bit of fight with the sat nav we eventually found the Hotel. At the lovely court yard entrance, we pulled up by the steps and the staff came and welcomed us! Very nice of them, we went inside and there was a computer welcoming screen with my photo on it from the first marathon in Edinburgh with a welcome and congratulations message with a collection underneath. Thank you Marriott for welcoming us so well and supplying the most ice so far, you must have known I had a bad day today! Well, a great Chicken and Linguine consumed and now in the room icing and getting to bed early! Thanks to Amber Signs from Berkhamsted for today's shirt sponsorship and also for doing all of the van signs. I look forward to running with Alan and Sam on the Berko to the Arsenal marathon on the 11th April, and the whole family joining me on the 6th May in the Framework Foundation team in the Watford 10k!
A memorable day 7 complete.


It's like a painting. Marvellous!
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! Now I am ready to pop myself in the picture!!!
A beautiful composition. I love the white swan against the varying shades of green background. The picture appears to be composed entirely of different shades of green. But there is something missing – where is this swan's companion? Is it a lonesome swan, looking for a mate?
Serene, despite the riot of green! Well captured!
Ah, but Saeeda, what if the swan is male, study it's gaze, it just might be returning to the love of his life, as she anxiously awaits, upon their woven nest, warming the fruit of their love.
It doesn't get any lovelier than this.


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Review: The Tree of Life
2011-05-27 17:00:00by Alex Katz
When Terrence Malick makes a movie, it's a big deal. He's only made five movies since 1973, and they are always films that have something unique to say. Malick is probably the most mainstream, high-impact art film auteur in the business.
His latest, The Tree of Life, comes six years after his last movie. It has been called "a meditation on life and death" and recently won the Palm d'Or at Cannes. But that fails to ask the ask the all important question: is it any good?
Tree of Life, narratively speaking, plays it fairly loose. We learn the story of Jack (Hunter McKraken) growing up in the fifties with his mother and father (Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt), who both have radically different styles of parenting. While Mom tries to instill love and a sense of wonder in her children, Dad takes a more pragmatic approach, in the hopes of teaching his children how to get ahead in an unfair, unhappy world. The film occasionally jumps ahead to see older Jack (Sean Penn) looking confused and walking around places, trying to cope with the death of his brother twenty years earlier. For real. That's what Sean Penn does for his ten minutes in the film.
This is going to be a fairly short review because, frankly, I can't write at lengths about a movie with absolutely nothing to say. Thematically speaking, here is the message of Tree of Life: life fucking sucks, so do your best. I just saved you two and a half hours of pretentious nonsense and poorly mixed whispering voiceover. Tree of Life is a movie so assured of its own subject matter and presentation that it forgot to actually make something watchable.
So much of this film is just blatant wanking off for the sake of wanking off. The much ballyhooed creation and death of the universe sequences are only tangentially connected to the film, more of a thematic statement than any real connection to the plot. Which would be fine, if they were remotely interesting. The only feeling they elicited in me was a certain sense of awe at the visuals, followed by crippling boredom. Yes, in case you still haven't been paying attention, dinosaurs show up. Pointlessly.
The only thing in this film that wasn't student film-level pretentious was the cinematography. Tree of Life may well go down as the most beautiful film of the year. I was absolutely in awe with some of the amazing sights this film provided. That's not just the abstract, cosmic level visuals of the universe creation/destruction sequences, mind. Every frame of film is absolutely gorgeous. A lot of care and beauty went into this film, and it looks amazing for it.
The performances are decent. Most characters are cut so broadly that it would be difficult to do absolutely nothing with them. Brad Pitt plays the angry father that eventually comes to the realization that life (gasp!) isn't fair. Jessica Chastain plays the loving mother that realizes that love (oh no!) doesn't make everything better. Sean Penn just walks around looking concerned and confused. That's what they pulled him out of his mansion in Haiti for. The real show is Hunter McKraken as young Jack. His journey from childish innocence to the sullen, unhappy child he becomes would be interesting to see... if the material he works with wasn't so bland. And let's talk about the voiceover work here. Not only is it incredibly generic, but it seems to have been recorded and mixed by a college student. When everything is super quiet, it's unintelligible. When it's louder, you can actually hear the background sound rise in volume behind it. That's bad.
I can't say a lot more about Tree of Life because the film doesn't have much else to say. It is a pretentious, unwatchable mess, and I wish I could say better about a film Terrence Malick has been working on for his entire career. It really does pain me to say this, but if there is any justice, Tree of Life will be regarded as one of the worst films of the year. But it won't, because it's "artistic."
Max Roahrig: I honestly had no idea of what to expect from Tree of Life when I walked into the theatre. The trailer was intriguing, but like everyone else, I had no idea what the heck the movie was about. After watching it, though, I'm not sure even Terrance Malick himself knew what this movie was about. Sure, it's a "meditation of the human condition", but it's something we've seen a thousand times before. Pixar's Up said everything Tree of Life had to say, without being a completely pretentious piece of turkey crap. Hell, even Jurassic Park had more to say than Tree of Life. And the dinosaurs were cooler in Jurassic Park. As Alex said above, the cinematography is some of the most gorgeous of the year. But great looking cine does not make for a good movie. If this were a cinematographer's demo reel, I'd hire him on the spot. As a movie, Tree of Life is honestly one of the worst I've ever seen. 29 – Painful
Sam Membrino: I had a tough time mulling over Tree of Life, because part of me knew there was something there that was undeniably special. The camera literally floats through some truly spectacular scenes in remarkable fashion, but often strays during some overtly spiritual, if religiously ambiguous, sequences. Brad Pitt brings to life his most adult, and aggressive, role to date, shedding his pretty-boy looks and familiar smile for an overbearing, difficult, and occasionally abusive father who truly keeps the film from being too easy to digest. The film's most poignant scenes involved the strained relationship between Pitt's disgruntled father and the sons he is raising, but even strong acting can't sort out this mess. I also loved the score, mixing brilliant concertos and swelling orchestral movements to really extract as much as possible out of the visual amalgam on screen. However, the film suffers from being too heavy-handed, despite Malick's patient and delicate touch (I told you I had trouble with this one). Sequences take too long to develop, there is a general air of discontinuity, and one particular scene with the largely absent (but top-billed) Sean Penn seems trite. If, however, the film is merely a meditation on the Proustian way by which memories are formed and stored, the film comes out surprisingly well. How interested we are in this man's memories, however, remain in doubt. 52 - Bad
The Tree of Life reviewed by Alex Katz
Went wrong somewhere along the line. The original idea might have promise, but in practice it has failed. Threatens to be interesting sometimes, but rarely.
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System.exit(0) does not seem to work with multiple threads.

A: One possible way to shutdown would be to shutdown your task executor (how to do that depends on your configuration), which in turn should set the interrupt flag on your task threads. Then it is your responsibility to check interrupt flag and stop the task processing.
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Lloyd Allen Rhymer
Obituary of Lloyd Allen Rhymer
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Lloyd Allen Rhymer on September 15, 2021 at the Morris General Hospital at the age of 80 years old. He is survived by his loving wife Wallie (nee Werth) of 47 years, son James (Camille) Rhymer, grandchildren Hailey and Amanda, daughter Julie (Alan) Stack, grandchildren Sophie and Rory, and daughter Jillian (Myron) Krahn, grandchildren Cadence and Keira. Lloyd was born on January 30, 1941 to Katherine and John Rhymer at the St. Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg. He grew up on the family farm with his parents and four siblings; Don, Ken, Marlene and Wayne. Lloyd attended many neighbouring schools including the Neighbourhood School, Osbourne School, Morris School, Domain School and completed his high school diploma at SteAgathe School. Following school, Lloyd continued his passion for farming and farmed alongside his family. During the winter months, he worked as a miner, for Toastmaster Bread Co. and as a drywaller. Lloyd and Wallie met at the German Club in Winnipeg, fell in love and were married on July 5, 1974. They built a new homestead a few miles from Lloyd's family farm in the Red River Valley near Rosenort. Here they raised their three children and continued to farm. He worked long and hard all of his life following his dream. In 2001, Lloyd and Wallieretired from farming and moved to Easy Street in Winnipeg. Even living in the city, Lloyd still carried on his passion for farming and loved to drive out to the farm to help out his son during harvest. Lloyd lived every day of his life with integrity, determination, resilience, kindness and love. He was an incredible husband, father, grandfather and friend and let us know every day, through his actions and words, just how much he loved us. Lloyd was a farmer through and through. It was in his blood; a part of his history and it is one of his greatest legacies. His strongly planted Manitoban roots instilled in him a love of old-school country music, vintage farm machinery and hockey. He took pleasure in building and fixing things, writing poetry, reading, sketching and painting. Although he loved calling Manitoba home, he also sought adventures further afield. He enjoyed many North American road trips as well as exotic travels such as visiting the pyramids in Egypt, driving through the mountains in Oman, desert safaris in Dubai, taking in historic sites in Europe, listening to Celtic music in the Irish countryside… and more. He got around, he did a lot, and he set the bar high. He is a true inspiration to his children, his grandchildren and to all who loved him. He will be greatly missed, but we know that he will be with us as we continue to walk this journey of life. In a quote from one of Lloyd's poems, "Life is like a Journey, from spring time to fall, we travel a full circle, till God gives us a call". A graveside funeral will be held Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 10:00 am at the Morris Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the MS Society of Manitoba.


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LATVALA RUNNER-UP AFTER LONGEST DAY OF RALLY SWEDEN
By Alexandre Stricher 6 years agoNo Comments
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Jari-Matti Latvala has finished the longest day of Rally Sweden in second place after a strong performance during which the Finn also managed to lead the rally. Juho Hänninen had to retire after SS5, on which he hit a tree with the front of the car, damaging the cooling system. The team will have just three hours to fix his Yaris WRC tonight so that he can re-start tomorrow.
Jari-Matti showed both speed and consistency, having never been out of the top two overall all day. In the first stage this morning he felt the car bottoming out too much, but some suspension tweaks soon put him back on track for the rest of the day. Juho also made a solid start after two years away from Rally Sweden, but was unlucky to be caught out in a tricky place that also claimed some other victims.
Tommi Mäkinen (Team principal)
"Of course I'm pleased but we must keep our feet on the ground and remember that the hardest part is still to come. Tomorrow I think road conditions will be more equal for everyone, so that will be the biggest test. The reliability and performance has been good so far, especially with Jari-Matti. I think we should be able to get Juho out again tomorrow as well: he made only a small mistake that had big consequences. This is all part of the learning process, which is why we are here this year."
Jari-Matti Latvala (Driver car 10)
"I'm very happy with our progress today. We were able to make some adjustments to the car ourselves after the first stage today, and then it felt a lot better. I only had one stage I was not happy with, which was SS7. Although we were quick there in the morning, in the afternoon I lost confidence and started over-driving. That cost me a lot of time, which is a pity. But I cannot complain: tonight's end result is very good and the car has been perfect. Now we stay concentrated for tomorrow."
END OF DAY TWO:
1 Thierry Neuville/Nicolas Gilsoul (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) 1h16m24.7s
2 Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (Toyota Yaris WRC) +28.1s
3 Ott Tanak/Martin Jarveoja (Ford Fiesta WRC) +49.7s
4 Kris Meeke/Paul Nagle (Citroen C3 WRC) +51.8s
5 Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (Ford Fiesta WRC) +55.7s
6 Hayden Paddon/John Kennard (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) +1m17.8s
7 Dani Sordo/Marc Marti (Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC) +1m40.3s
8 Craig Breen/Scott Martin (Citroen C3 WRC) +1m54.3s
9 Elfyn Evans/Daniel Barritt (Ford Fiesta WRC) +3m01.5s
10 Stephane Lefebvre/Gabin Moreau (Citroen DS3 WRC) +3m23.6s
29 Juho Hänninen/Kaj Lindström (Toyota Yaris WRC) +22m03.4s
(Results as of 19:00 on Friday, for the latest results please visit www.wrc.com)
Two-time world champion Marcus Grönholm from Finland, who drove a Toyota between 1990 and 1998, always said that his very favourite rally was Sweden. In fact, he loved it so much that when he opened a restaurant after his retirement from driving he named it Sagen, after his favourite stage.
After a day spent largely in Norway, tomorrow's itinerary returns to Sweden. On the menu are seven special stages, starting at 08:08 and totalling 125.38 competitive kilometres. The day's final stage, beginning at 17:45, is the Karlstad super special: identical to the one that opened the rally last night.
Sweden,
LATVALA IN FIRST PLACE WITH ONE DAY OF RALLY SWEDEN REMAINING
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The NFL said Friday it would review allegations involving the Vikings' Brett Favre, whom the website Deadspin said sent racy messages and photos to a former game hostess while he was the New York Jets' quarterback in 2008.
The league action comes one day after the site posted a video that included below-the-waist photos, said to be of Favre.
The Vikings will travel to New York to play the Jets on Monday night.
"We are reviewing the matter," league spokesman Greg Aiello said when asked about reports that a person alleged to be Favre sent voicemails and lewd pictures to Jenn Sterger.
According to Deadspin, one woman exchanged phone numbers with Favre, and the other woman told the website that the quarterback sent "nasty" text messages and invited both women to his hotel room.
Kolb will replace the injured Michael Vick when the Philadelphia Eagles visit San Francisco on Sunday. Vick didn't practice all week because of a rib cartilage injury, and won't travel with the team.
Though coach Andy Reid didn't rule Vick out for the game until Friday, Kolb has been preparing as if he would play.
Vick was hurt in the first quarter of Philadelphia's 17-12 loss last Sunday to Donovan McNabb and the Washington Redskins.
The Detroit Lions have offensive guard Rob Sims under contract for four more seasons.
The team announced the signing Friday.
Sims, the former Seattle Seahawks lineman, has started all four games for the winless Lions this season. He started 30 games the previous two years for the Seattle Seahawks.
Detroit acquired Sims from Seattle in April for defensive end Robert Henderson and for an exchange of lower-round draft picks. Sims was Seattle's fourth-round pick in 2006.
The Chicago Bears have officially listed quarterback Jay Cutler as out for Sunday's game at Carolina. Oakland Raiders running back Darren McFadden has been ruled out of Sunday's game against San Diego with a right hamstring injury. McFadden is second in the NFL with 554 yards from scrimmage. Washington Redskins coach Mike Shanahan is uncertain whether Albert Haynesworth will be with the team for Sunday's game against the Green Bay Packers. Haynesworth left the team after learning that his half brother had been killed in a motorcycle crash Thursday night in Nashville, Tenn. The NFL fined Titans cornerback Cortland Finnegan $10,000 for unnecessary roughness in Sunday's loss to Denver. Finnegan hit Broncos guard Chris Kuper after Kuper's helmet was off. Saints linebacker Marvin Mitchell was hit for $10,000 for a major facemask penalty against Carolina. Also fined: Eagles safety Quintin Mikell, $7,500 for a horse-collar tackle on Redskins receiver Santana Moss, and Giants linebacker Jonathan Goff, $7,500 for helmet-to-helmet contact with Bears quarterback Todd Collins, and $5,000 for unnecessary roughness. Former San Francisco 49ers running back Glen Coffee has been arrested on a gun charge in the Florida Panhandle. Fort Walton Beach police say he was arrested Thursday and charged with possession of a concealed firearm. He was released from jail Friday.


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Music + Pictures: Kate Voegele at Slim's – 12th Feb. 2015
February 15, 2015 October 14, 2015 • Rob
It's been a while since Kate Voegele last made the trip to San Francisco. A point she was quick to acknowledge during her show at Slim's. After a couple of songs, and once those by the bar had meandered to fill the room you'd have never have known she'd been away so long.
Kate Voegele hit the ground running, guitar strapped to her tightly, kicking off the set with some lively Americana styled pop music. Chicago, Just Watch Me and Carousel early provided a colourful start.
Throughout a lot of Kate Voegele's music is a sense of re-invention and endeavour. It's Only Life and Sandcastles, the latter written about how music helped her through the "crazy shit" in her life were both poignantly performed examples of this.
It's been three years since she last put out music, a point she highlighted a few times during the evening. You started to get a real sense of an underlying frustration in this, as if the powers that be had been holding her back. Indeed, she displayed an endearing irreverence at times. There were moments when a fierce, sassy, f*ck the status-quo attitude would suddenly appear for a few seconds before it disappeared back in to her relaxed demeanour as she moved on to play her next song.
She was often quick to banter with the crowd. Shouting out the girls jamming on the dancefloor with a bottle of wine or when answering the question everyone wanted to ask; why on earth was she hanging out with Kevin Federline for a week. Turns out it No Good was performed for an episode of One Tree Hill in which she was "p*ssed" at him (in the storyline anyway)! Mix these interactions with the aforementioned fire and she becomes someone who's easy to root for.
The best moments came when she set her guitar aside and stripped it back to be accompanied by the piano. On When I'm Gone she was able to stir the emotions alongside the mini-chorus line that popped up in small pockets of the audience.
A duet, with the incredibly spunky Leroy Sanchez on Caught Up In You added a carefree surprise on a charming duet from her latest EP.
She closed out with Forever and Almost Always (after opting to not do the encore thing). It's one she confessed to not performing very often. Many were glad she did tonight as it was one of the more emotive and touching songs of the evening, you could visibly see lovers drawing closer the longer she sung.
Kate Voegele's set was everything you'd expect from someone who has not been in town for a while. Full of songs which spanned the entire breadth of her catalgoue it was engaging and diverse. Let's hope her inner-fire can turn the latest EP in to an album and bring her back to San Francisco in the near future… either that or she can just tour with Leroy Sanchez when he becomes bigger than Beiber!
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Deepal Trivedi says:
Amazing shots!!!!!
Songs of the Week: Natalie Duncan, Terri Walker, Jeff Bradshaw, Hayley Kiyoko, Lilla Vargen
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Lab Wars. A fellow labmate forwarded this Star Wars parody/lab safety video which I thought was hilarious. Another grad student gave one of his little laughs which indicated, succinctly, that he thought it was too geeky. But his threshold for geek is way too low. I can think of a myriad of ways to make it even more geeky.
So I'm planning on a trip to Germany in approximately eight months. This will be the first time since I've been to that country since I was one (which was almost a decade before the Berlin Wall fell). Does anyone know the best way to take a self-taught crash course in German that doesn't involve buying silly language tapes?
It's interesting what you find doing some self-googling. Hilarious: apparently someone would rather torture his tender parts rather than read my handwriting.
I'm reading this story about a grad student getting decapitated and my first reaction is: WTF?!!!
As a grad student myself, I worry about a lot of things. But until today, "other grad students" weren't even on that list.
At the start of this month, I searched several bookstores before finally finding a store that only had one copy of a book that was the last in a series I had been following. The series is so-so; I only kept up with it due to a curiosity for how the author would end it. Would the last book somehow pick up the slack from the middle books in the series or would it just fizzle out? Disappointingly, it did the latter.
I've done brief reviews of some of the earlier books in the series. And I suppose I have been anonymous. But only in a semi kind of way (anyone with any inclination to do so could easily dig up the pertinent info). There are others who are even more anonymous than I am, and I respect that. There are reasons why people don't put their real name on everything–ranging from professional to privacy issues.
What I don't understand is why the author dislikes the anonymous. As I asked before, what use would it be otherwise? Is the author going to make a list of names to harass? Is the author paranoid that the anonymous is actually some famous New York Times critic, an influential editor, a rival author with an ax to grind? Does it even matter if they are?
One argument against being anonymous is that being anonymous is tantamount to being cowardly. The thought is–one can hide behind anonymity to say whatever they wish without repercussion, especially saying things in which they would never tell another person to their face. Perhaps. But in some ways, I think there is more honesty in anonymity. If one is speaking to another face to face or real name to real name, one must consider that it may not be real at all–just a genteel mask used to mute and hide the actual thoughts and to influence others' perceptions.
Writing for the Other et al. is an interesting discussion on ethnicity in fiction. There are two schools of thought about this: 1) write everyone as a person first, ethnicity second and 2) people are too complicated to be written as "persons". I tend toward the second view since the first is rife with assumptions. You can't assume that everyone has the same core values and definitions for what it is to be a person, and you can't assume that ethnicity can be layered onto anyone the same way that you pick a hat to wear.
I've written in this blog before that I would like to be seen as a person first rather than as my background. Now, this does not mean that I want the reader to think that I'm just some nebulous voice box with some opinions snatched from thin air. I'm aware that everyone comes from somewhere. The background always has some sort of influence on point of view. I just don't want anyone reading some fact about me, like my gender for instance, and then automatically assuming that I'm a certain way before I say or do anything as an individual.
I see it this way: A person with background A and another with background B have a range of experiences and personalities. Some of it overlaps. Some of it doesn't. The stuff that doesn't overlap isn't superficial. Maybe on some level, the first person understands the experiences of the second person. But qualitatively, it won't be the same unless the first person had actually experienced it in the same sort of circumstances–i.e. the overlapped section.
Anyways, I think writers should be aware of the complexity of depicting different ethnicities in their fiction but that they should also go ahead and write it all out on their own first. Don't let others dictate what to write because of somebody else's idea of what's nice and just. Nobody's ideas for nice and just are the same*. Get the story out and then let the fanatics for identity politics tear it up. Because let's face it: no matter how the story turns out, there will always be someone who will nitpick even if it's something as inconsequential as the kind of shoes a minor character is wearing on page 189.
*Of course, there's the argument that there's a baseline for what's nice and just and maybe writers should keep that in mind. But where is that baseline? Is it fine for an author to include other ethnicities in any capacity? Must the author also strive for authenticity? How will we measure "authenticity" when people within an ethnic group have different experiences? Or will it only be acceptable if the author is also the ethnicity of their characters?
I'm blaming my reluctance to post on inertia. After a break of not doing much online, it's kind of hard getting into it again.
Anyways, what did I do during break? Well, I managed to watch the 2005 season of Doctor Who. I consider this sort of an accomplishment–because these days, I have almost no inclination for watching anything except documentaries and maybe the occasional movie. I liked most of the episodes well enough. My favorite for that season was the two part arc, The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances. It was a good blend of sci-fi and horror without becoming campy or gory.
I told another grad student about Doctor Who, but she had never heard of this series before. My first reaction was disbelief–I mean, who hasn't heard of Doctor Who? Then again, I guess I'm just assuming too much. I shouldn't be surprised. Even people out here in the backwoods are too sophisticated to waste their time messing about with stupid geeky stuff.


Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent MindsThe US government documents published by WikiLeaks are about the real workings of power. Take the Hillary Clinton emails published in 2016: much of the media attention has plugged into conspiracy theories about Russian involvement or, until the recent publication of the Mueller Report, the possible complicity of the Trump election campaign with the Russians. Many Democrats and anti-Trump journalists managed to persuade themselves that Assange had helped lose Hillary Clinton the election, though a glance at a history of the campaign showed that she was quite capable of doing this all by herself by not campaigning in toss-up states.


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Also Under Section 80GG Rent paid and he is not getting any house rent allowances or has not claimed the rent as expenses under any of the Income tax sections shall eligible for a deduction up to 60000.
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I attended Firmstep South East and London User Group last week. It was a bit of a trek to get to Gravesham Borough Council from West London but it was a worthwhile and productive day.
David Herrington, Web Manager at Gravesham Borough Council begun the introductory session with slides on their Firmstep journey. Their digital team is made up of a web manager, 2 technical support officers and a 1-year placement apprentice. With support from senior management who get what they are doing and see the value of it, the whole team gets stuck into all aspects of process and form building. This is from gathering initial requirements to integration with the back office and everything in between.
Hilary Jones, Firmstep Customer Ambassador, ran a session on improving customer experience and getting us to consider where we are as organisations on the Digital Transformation Journey. She suggested a 3 step journey.
The first step is having some forms and processes in live. Step 2 is automation with some back office systems. An advanced step 3 had much more automation and use of technologies like AI.
As a council, I think we are somewhere between steps 1 and 2.
Hilary was also very keen to get as many of us as possible to share learning of what we have done on the Customer Network and used the presentation to encourage and plug this.
After coffee and cupcakes (with a Firmstep logo on top of each one – and gluten free ones) it was time for session 3.
Mark Ramus, Head of Product Experience on Firmstep innovations, demonstrated Business and Councillor portals, a Firmstep Blue Badge form and kiosks.
I don't know much about where we are at with our Blue Badge process but the Firmstep form looked pretty good. I never realised how detailed and lengthy the process can potentially be with loads of tabs opening up depending on what you selected. The form integrates on submission with a GDS Blue Badge portal, similar to the Transactions portal we will be using for GOV.UK Pay. It also has a dashboard and listing, with photos and uploaded documents for use of back office Blue Badge teams.
Bryony Harrower, Product Manager presented the Firmstep roadmap and future innovations.
Changes coming to the platform include Government Digital Service (GDS) style forms. This will possibly mean a re-branding exercise coming up for us, but hopefully not too big of one if the templates are GDS based out of the box! There was also mention of faster loading of forms and no longer having a loading progress bar when a form first loads.
On the horizon is also a tab that shows a list of our processes, integrations for each process and users who have access to edit the form. As a team we already record some of these things on a shared spreadsheet but this may be worth looking at. If not as an alternative, but as a compliment to that.
The afternoon began with a session by Marie Gerald from Dartford Borough Council who shared working with Firmstep to tackle the Homelessness Reduction Act (a relatively recent change for Housing teams). They paid about £30K for the solution but are much happier with it than the national system they were using previously.
The final session of the day were breakout sessions. I went to the one on improving reporting.
Brentwood Council kicked off the session with how they reference the SQL data dump nightly export using a very cleaver API implementation.
Firmstep wanted to know how we use Firmstep data including the nightly export of the day's transactions.
One of the frustrations mentioned was not being able to easily find how users were filling in processes, from Dash, Self and other avenues, in order to compare time periods.
Google Analytics (GA) and the limits of referencing GA data came up. The GA script can be blocked, for example by users blocking the cookie code required for analytics data to be sent, which leads to inaccurate analytics data.
Firmstep took away our suggestions and will feed back to make changes to reporting. This may take the form of further, more in-depth, meetings that just look at reporting.
Overall it was a very useful day that was well worth the long trip. The demonstration sessions were varied and the user group size was about right to be able to network and establish contacts with other Firmstep users. The Annual National User group does not easily allow that, simply due to the sheer number of people.
Thank you Gravesham Borough Council for hosting everyone.


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Cafeteria Worker, UHT, Full Time
The Department of Food Services has an exciting opportunity for a full time Cafeteria Worker (U) position. The Cafeteria Worker (U) provides support to food service activities of assigned facilities and assists in the preparation and distribution of food items while maintaining the cafeteria in a safe and sanitary condition.
CORE JOB FUNCTIONS:
Cleans tables and dishes and sets tables.
Replenishes the supply of clean linens, silverware, glassware, and dishes.
Prepares salads, sauces, desserts, and other food items.
Operates cash register to compute bills.
Modifies and issues receipts to customers.
Washes pots, pans, dishes, utensils, and other cooking equipment.
Stocks snack machines, soda machines, and other retail items.
Maintains work and storage area clean and organized.
Learns and follows food preparation guidelines.
Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
Adheres to the University's CICARE and ACT standard models for patient and family-centric interactions with patients, family, and visitors.
This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum 1 year of relevant experience
Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:
Skill in completing assignments accurately and with attention to detail.
Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work under pressure while meeting deadlines.
Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion.
Ability to work evenings, nights, and weekends as necessary.
Commitment to the University's core values.
Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.
UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.
Patient safety is a top priority. As a result, during the Influenza ("the flu") season (September through April), the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine requires all employees who provide ongoing services to patients, work in a location (all Hospitals and clinics) where patient care is provided, or work in patient care or clinical care areas, to have an annual influenza vaccination. Failure to meet this requirement will result in rescinding or termination of employment.
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Jonesboro Man Sentenced in Fatal Shooting
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JONESBORO, AR – Craighead County Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Grant DeProw announced Monday a Jonesboro man was sentenced to four years in prison for fatally shooting his 23-year-old friend, after he pointed a gun at him and was dared to pull the trigger.
Ethan Thomas, 20, pleaded guilty on May 28 to manslaughter in the slaying of Patrick "PJ" Kidd Jr., of Jonesboro.
In addition to his four years in prison, Craighead County Circuit Court Judge Cindy Thyer sentenced Thomas to six years suspended imposition of sentence. Thomas was also given a six-year suspended imposition of sentence for possession of a defaced firearm.
Thomas told police he, Kidd and Miles Lozano, 19, of Bono, were smoking marijuana at Lozano's home on Craighead County Road 361 on the afternoon of Sept. 16, 2018, when Thomas pointed a 9mm handgun at Kidd. "Don't do it," Kidd told Thomas. Thomas pulled the trigger and the gun went off, striking Kidd in the temple. Thomas told police he thought the gun was empty.
Thomas was originally charged with second-degree murder. DeProw amended the charge to manslaughter in October 2018.
"This is a fair and just result," DeProw said. "The manslaughter charge was based on the reckless nature of his conduct. There was no evidence that he intended to cause Mr. Kidd's death and we wanted a sentence that reflected his lack of intention.
"Almost half of the maximum 10-year sentence is a fair result for a young man without prior criminal history."
On Monday, Kidd's mother, Christie Kidd, said the loss of her son has been difficult.
"This tragedy has been very hard on all of us, but most of all, it is taking a toll on his mother and father," she said in a statement read in court during sentencing. "We are really lost for words on this. His kids have to grow up without a father. It has been very stressful, emotionally and physically, that I have to visit my only son at the cemetery now instead of hearing his voice on the other end of the phone or him making me laugh. He got a lot of joy from making me us laugh with his big heart and smile.
"I cannot begin to tell you how much I miss my only son and I hope and pray that someday God will show me how to forgive you," Kidd said to Thomas. "I never thought my son would pass before I did."
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IRFs could see $270M reimbursement increase in FY 2021
By Sheila Lynch-Afryl, J.D., M.A.
CMS proposed updating coverage requirements to allow nonphysician practitioners to perform certain duties required to be performed by a physician.
Payments to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) would increase by $270 million in fiscal year (FY) 2021, according to an advance release of the FY 2021 IRF prospective payment system (PPS) proposed rule. The deadline for submitting comments is June 15, 2020. CMS noted that, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and providers' limited capacity to review and comment on extensive proposals, the annual rulemaking was limited to "essential policies" (Proposed rule, 85 FR 22065, April 21, 2020).
Payment update. CMS proposed, pursuant to Soc. Sec. Act §1886(j), a FY 2021 IRF update of 2.5 percent (2.9 percent market basket update, less 0.4 percentage point productivity adjustment mandated by section 3401(d) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) (P.L. 111-148). CMS would also update the outlier threshold amount to $8,102 to maintain estimated outlier payments at approximately 3 percent of total estimated aggregate IRF payments for FY 2021.
IRF coverage requirements. CMS proposed to update the IRF coverage requirements to: (1) remove the post-admission physician evaluation requirement at 42 C.F.R. §412.622(a)(4)(ii); (2) codify existing documentation instructions and guidance at 42 C.F.R. §412.622(a)(4)(i)(B) and (D); and (3) allow nonphysician practitioners to perform certain functions that currently must be performed by a rehabilitation physician. The proposed rule also solicited comments on removing some preadmission screening documentation requirements.
Wage index. The proposed rule implemented changes made by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Bulletin No. 18-04 to statistical area delineations, including new core-based statistical areas (CBSAs), urban counties that would become rural, rural counties that would become urban, and existing CBSAs that would be separated. For FY 2021, IRFs that experience negative impacts due to this implementation would be subject to a 5 percent cap on the decrease in their wage index versus FY 2020. No cap would be applied in FY 2022.
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R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu
2. Begin Again (II) (2013)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
Director: John Carney | Stars: Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, Hailee Steinfeld
3. 500 Days of Summer (2009)
PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.
Director: Marc Webb | Stars: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend, Chloë Grace Moretz
4. 3 Idiots (2009)
PG-13 | 170 min | Comedy, Drama
Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them "idiots".
Director: Rajkumar Hirani | Stars: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Mona Singh, Sharman Joshi
Votes: 303,100 | Gross: $6.53M
5. PK (2014)
Not Rated | 153 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An alien on Earth loses the only device he can use to communicate with his spaceship. His innocent nature and child-like questions force the country to evaluate the impact of religion on its people.
Director: Rajkumar Hirani | Stars: Aamir Khan, Anushka Sharma, Sanjay Dutt, Boman Irani
6. Zodiac (2007)
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
7. Prisoners (2013)
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo
8. Whiplash (2014)
R | 106 min | Drama, Music
A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist, Paul Reiser
9. Inception (2010)
PG-13 | 148 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe
Votes: 1,852,647 | Gross: $292.58M
10. Baby Driver (2017)
R | 113 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Eiza González
11. Real Steel (2011)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Drama, Family
In the near future, robot boxing is a top sport. A struggling promoter feels he's found a champion in a discarded robot.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, Dakota Goyo, Anthony Mackie
12. Bad Genius (2017)
TV-MA | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lynn, a genius high school student who makes money by cheating tests, receives a new task that leads her to set foot on Sydney, Australia. In order to complete the millions-Baht task, Lynn and her classmates have to finish the international STIC(SAT) exam and deliver the answers back to her friends in Thailand before the exam takes place once again in her home country.
Director: Nattawut Poonpiriya | Stars: Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, Eisaya Hosuwan, Teeradon Supapunpinyo, Chanon Santinatornkul
13. The Foreigner (I) (2017)
R | 113 min | Action, Thriller
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Katie Leung, Jackie Chan, Rufus Jones, Mark Tandy
14. Wind River (2017)
A veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones, Teo Briones
15. Logan Lucky (2017)
PG-13 | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two brothers attempt to pull off a heist during a NASCAR race in North Carolina.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Farrah Mackenzie
16. Dunkirk (2017)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Drama, History
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy
17. The Revenant (2015)
R | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson
18. The Imitation Game (2014)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller
During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech
19. The Theory of Everything (2014)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry
20. Logan (2017)
R | 137 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook
21. The Raven (I) (2012)
R | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.
Director: James McTeigue | Stars: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson
22. Okja (2017)
TV-MA | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young girl risks everything to prevent a powerful, multinational company from kidnapping her best friend - a fascinating beast named Okja.
Director: Joon-ho Bong | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyun Ahn, Jake Gyllenhaal
23. Southpaw (2015)
R | 124 min | Drama, Sport
A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker
24. Source Code (2011)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes to complete.
Director: Duncan Jones | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
25. Limitless (I) (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access one hundred percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.
Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro
26. Predestination (I) (2014)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.
Directors: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
27. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
PG-13 | 166 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
28. Passengers (I) (2016)
PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne
29. Red Sparrow (2018)
R | 140 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling
30. The Shape of Water (2017)
R | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones
31. Tampan Tailor (2013)
100 min | Drama
Director: Guntur Soeharjanto | Stars: Vino G. Bastian, Marsha Timothy, Ringgo Agus Rahman, Jefan Nathanio
32. A Copy of My Mind (2015)
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Director: David Yates | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Michael Gambon
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Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
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PG-13 | 144 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Bilbo and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett
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Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze
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Director: Christopher Landon | Stars: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Phi Vu, Suraj Sharma
41. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
PG-13 | 134 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The second installment of the "Fantastic Beasts" series featuring the adventures of Magizoologist Newt Scamander.
Director: David Yates | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp
42. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
PG-13 | 103 min | Drama
An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.
Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd
43. Jungle (I) (2017)
A group of friends join a guide for a trek into the Bolivian jungle, searching for an Indian village. The men soon realize that the jungle is a difficult place to be.
Director: Greg McLean | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Yasmin Kassim, Luis Jose Lopez, Lily Sullivan
44. Interstellar (2014)
PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
45. Now You See Me 2 (2016)
PG-13 | 129 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The Four Horsemen resurface, and are forcibly recruited by a tech genius to pull off their most impossible heist yet.
Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco
Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
Director: Jon Watts | Stars: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Marisa Tomei