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Q: android app works fine in android 2.3.3 but stops in android 4.1.2 Mine is an android tracking app. It gets gps location and send it to server. if gps location is not found it gets location using cell id. It works fine in android 2.3.3 . It also works in android 4.1.2 but stops after some time(2hrs or 8 hrs,sometimes 1 day), without any force close message.
I googled but didn't find the error. Are any methods deprecated in 2.3.3.
Below is my code. the service is started repeatedly by the BroadcastReceiver which is started by AlarmManager.
I have written this in my manifest file:
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="7"
    android:targetSdkVersion="18"/>

GPSLoggerService class:
public class GPSLoggerService extends Service implements LocationListener {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onCreate().");
        final SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, MODE_PRIVATE);
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onCreate().");
        data_mode = settings.getInt("data_mode", 1);
        boolean firstRecordAfterBoot = settings.getBoolean("justBooted", false);

        settings.edit().putBoolean("justBooted", false);

        super.onCreate();
        // db = new DBAdapter(this);
    }

    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        appendLog("in onStartCommend, ");
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onStartCommand().");
        this.registerReceiver(this.mBatInfoReceiver, new IntentFilter(Intent.ACTION_BATTERY_CHANGED));
        startLoggingService();
        startMonitoringTimer();
        try {
            sendData();
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        // dbadapter = new DBAdapter(this);

        return Service.START_STICKY;
    }

    @Override
    public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
        appendLog("onLocationChanged, ");
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onLocationChanged().");
        didFindLocation = true;
        latitude = location.getLatitude();
        longitude = location.getLongitude();
        altitude = location.getAltitude();
        // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"lat :"+latitude+"longi :"+longitude,
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        gpsaltitude = String.valueOf(altitude);
        gpslatitude = String.valueOf(latitude);
        gpslongitude = String.valueOf(longitude);
        mps = location.getSpeed();
        kmh = (float) (mps * 3.6);
        speed = Float.toString(kmh);

        SimpleDateFormat sdfDateTime = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        datetime = sdfDateTime.format(new Date(location.getTime()));
        appendLog(datetime + ", ");
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onProviderDisabled().");
        appendLog("onLocationChanged, ");
    }

    @Override
    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onProviderEnabled().");
        appendLog("onProviderEnabled, ");
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.onStatusChanged().");
        appendLog("onStatusChanged, ");
    }

    private void startLoggingService() {

        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.startLoggingService.");
        turnGPSOn();
        db = new DBAdapter(this);
        if (manager == null) {
            manager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
        }
        ma = new MainActivity();

        final Criteria criteria = new Criteria();

        criteria.setAccuracy(Criteria.ACCURACY_FINE);
        criteria.setAltitudeRequired(true);
        criteria.setSpeedRequired(true);
        criteria.setBearingRequired(true);
        criteria.setPowerRequirement(Criteria.POWER_LOW);

        final String bestProvider = manager.getBestProvider(criteria, true);

        if (bestProvider != null && bestProvider.length() > 0) {
            manager.requestLocationUpdates(bestProvider, gpsMinTime, gpsMinDistance, this);
            startTimer();
        } else {
            final List<String> providers = manager.getProviders(true);

            for (final String provider : providers) {
                manager.requestLocationUpdates(provider, gpsMinTime, gpsMinDistance, this);
                startTimer();
            }
        }
    }

    private void stopLoggingService() {
        this.unregisterReceiver(this.mBatInfoReceiver);
        stopSelf();
    }

    private void startMonitoringTimer() {
        monitoringTimer = new Timer();
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.monitoringTimer.");
        monitoringTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                if (longitude != 0.0 && latitude != 0.0) {
                    monitoringTimer.cancel();
                    monitoringTimer = null;
                    turnGPSOn();
                    saveData();
                    manager.removeUpdates(GPSLoggerService.this);
                    stopLoggingService();
                }
            }
        }, GPSLoggerService.TIMER_DELAY, GPSLoggerService.TIMER_DELAY);
    }

    private void startTimer() {
        AppLog.logString("GPSLoggerService.countDownTimer.");
        appendLog("startTimer, ");
        // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"data_mode="+data_mode,
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        if (countDownTimer != null) {
            countDownTimer.cancel();
            countDownTimer = null;
        }
        countDownTimer = new CountDownTimer(15000L, 1000L) {// 15 seconds
                                                            // max
            @Override
            public void onTick(long millisUntilFinished) {
                if (didFindLocation) {
                    countDownTimer.cancel();
                }
            }

            @Override
            public void onFinish() {
                if (!didFindLocation) {
                    appendLog("onFinish, ");
                    manager.removeUpdates(GPSLoggerService.this);
                    // stopSelf()
                    if (data_mode == 1) {
                        cellID();
                    } else {
                        /*
                         * TelephonyManager telephonyManager =
                         * (TelephonyManager
                         * )getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
                         * imeiCellID = telephonyManager.getDeviceId();
                         * SimpleDateFormat sdfDateTime = new
                         * SimpleDateFormat( "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
                         * datetimeCellID = sdfDateTime.format(new Date());
                         * db.open();
                         * id=db.insertData(imeiCellID,"null","null"
                         * ,datetimeCellID,"null","null",level1);
                         * db.close();
                         */
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "GPS : Cant find Location", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    }
                    stopLoggingService();

                }
            }
        };
        countDownTimer.start();
    }

    private void turnGPSOn() {
        String provider = Settings.Secure.getString(getContentResolver(), Settings.Secure.LOCATION_PROVIDERS_ALLOWED);

        if (!provider.contains("gps")) { // if gps is disabled
            final Intent poke = new Intent();
            poke.setClassName("com.android.settings", "com.android.settings.widget.SettingsAppWidgetProvider");
            poke.addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_ALTERNATIVE);
            poke.setData(Uri.parse("1"));
            sendBroadcast(poke);
        }
    }

    public void appendLog(String text) {
        // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"oncreate",
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        File folder3 = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(), "BPCLTracker");
        if (!folder3.exists()) {
            folder3.mkdirs();
        }

        try {
            File kmlFile3 = new File(folder3.getPath(), "logfile.txt");
            if (!kmlFile3.exists()) {
                kmlFile3.createNewFile();
            }
            RandomAccessFile fileAccess3 = new RandomAccessFile(kmlFile3, "rw");
            FileLock lock = fileAccess3.getChannel().lock();
            fileAccess3.seek(kmlFile3.length());
            fileAccess3.write(text.getBytes());
            lock.release();
            fileAccess3.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }

    public boolean isInternetOn() {
        ConnectivityManager connec = (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
        // ARE WE CONNECTED TO THE NET
        if (connec.getNetworkInfo(0).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED || connec.getNetworkInfo(0).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTING
                || connec.getNetworkInfo(1).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTING || connec.getNetworkInfo(1).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED) {
            return true;
        } else if (connec.getNetworkInfo(0).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.DISCONNECTED || connec.getNetworkInfo(1).getState() == NetworkInfo.State.DISCONNECTED) {
            return false;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public int setFlag() {
        final SharedPreferences settings = getSharedPreferences(PREFS_NAME, MODE_PRIVATE);
        boolean firstRecord = settings.getBoolean("firstRecord", false);
        boolean firstRecordAfterBoot = settings.getBoolean("justBooted", false);

        if (firstRecord == true) {
            flag = 0;
            // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"1st record after installation : "+flag,Toast.LENGTH_LONG
            // ).show();
            settings.edit().putBoolean("firstRecord", false).commit();
        } else if (firstRecordAfterBoot == true) {
            flag = 1;
            // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"1st record after boot : "+flag,Toast.LENGTH_LONG
            // ).show();
            settings.edit().putBoolean("justBooted", false).commit();
        } else {
            flag = 2;
            // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"regular : "+flag,Toast.LENGTH_LONG
            // ).show();
        }
        return flag;

    }

    public void cellID() {
        appendLog("in cellID, ");
        TelephonyManager telephonyManager = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);

        GsmCellLocation cellLocation = (GsmCellLocation) telephonyManager.getCellLocation();
        int cid = cellLocation.getCid();
        int lac = cellLocation.getLac();
        SimpleDateFormat sdfDateTime = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
        datetimeCellID = sdfDateTime.format(new Date());
        appendLog(datetimeCellID);
        String cell_Id = String.valueOf(cid);
        String gsm_Loc_Area_Code = String.valueOf(lac);
        // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"cellid="+cell_Id+"\nGsm Location Area Code:"+gsm_Loc_Area_Code,Toast.LENGTH_LONG
        // ).show();

        if (RqsLocation(cid, lac)) {
            TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
            imeiCellID = tm.getDeviceId();
            latitude_cellID = String.valueOf((float) myLatitude / 1000000);
            longitude_cellID = String.valueOf((float) myLongitude / 1000000);
            // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"Lat:"+latitude_cellID+"Long:"+longitude_cellID,Toast.LENGTH_LONG
            // ).show();

            // DBAdapter db=new DBAdapter(this);

            // --add contact----
            db.open();
            setFlag();
            datatype = String.valueOf(flag);
            id = db.insertData(imeiCellID, latitude_cellID, longitude_cellID, datetimeCellID, "null", "null", level1, datatype, "0");
            db.close();

            // --get all contacts----------
            db.open();
            Cursor c = db.getAllData();
            if (c.moveToFirst()) {
                do {
                    DisplayData(c);
                } while (c.moveToNext());
            }
            db.close();

        }// if
        else {
            Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "CellID : Can't find Location", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }// else
    }// cellID

    private Boolean RqsLocation(int cid, int lac) {
        appendLog("in req location, ");
        // Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(),"inReqloc",Toast.LENGTH_LONG
        // ).show();
        Boolean result = false;
        String urlmmap = "http://www.google.com/glm/mmap";

        try {
            URL url = new URL(urlmmap);
            URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
            HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) conn;
            httpConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
            httpConn.setDoOutput(true);
            httpConn.setDoInput(true);
            httpConn.connect();
            OutputStream outputStream = httpConn.getOutputStream();
            WriteData(outputStream, cid, lac);
            InputStream inputStream = httpConn.getInputStream();
            DataInputStream dataInputStream = new DataInputStream(inputStream);
            dataInputStream.readShort();
            dataInputStream.readByte();
            int code = dataInputStream.readInt();
            if (code == 0) {
                myLatitude = dataInputStream.readInt();
                myLongitude = dataInputStream.readInt();
                result = true;

            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return result;

    }

    private void WriteData(OutputStream out, int cid, int lac) throws IOException {
        DataOutputStream dataOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(out);
        dataOutputStream.writeShort(21);
        dataOutputStream.writeLong(0);
        dataOutputStream.writeUTF("en");
        dataOutputStream.writeUTF("Android");
        dataOutputStream.writeUTF("1.0");
        dataOutputStream.writeUTF("Web");
        dataOutputStream.writeByte(27);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(0);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(0);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(3);
        dataOutputStream.writeUTF("");
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(cid);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(lac);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(0);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(0);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(0);
        dataOutputStream.writeInt(0);
        dataOutputStream.flush();
    }

    public void saveData() {

        // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"in saveData",
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        if (isInternetOn()) {
            appendLog("in saveDataAfter if internet is on, ");
            TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
            imeino = tm.getDeviceId();

            // DBAdapter db=new DBAdapter(this);

            // --add contact----
            db.open();
            setFlag();
            datatype = String.valueOf(flag);
            id = db.insertData(imeino, gpslatitude, gpslongitude, datetime, gpsaltitude, speed, level1, datatype, "1");
            db.close();
        } else if (!isInternetOn()) {
            appendLog("in saveDataAfter if internet is not not on, ");
            TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager) getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
            imeino = tm.getDeviceId();
            // DBAdapter db=new DBAdapter(this);

            // --add contact----
            db.open();
            setFlag();
            datatype = String.valueOf(flag);
            id = db.insertData(imeino, gpslatitude, gpslongitude, datetime, gpsaltitude, speed, level1, datatype, "1");

            db.close();
        }// elseif
    }// end of saveData() function

    public void sendData() throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
        // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"in sendData",
        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        appendLog("sendData, ");
        if (isInternetOn()) {

            JSONObject jObject = new JSONObject();
            try {
                // DBAdapter db=new DBAdapter(this);
                db.open();
                Cursor cursor = db.getAllData();
                if (cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                    do {
                        jObject = new JSONObject();
                        jObject.put("Imei", cursor.getString(1));
                        jObject.put("Lat", cursor.getString(2));
                        jObject.put("Long", cursor.getString(3));
                        jObject.put("Gpsdatetime", cursor.getString(4));
                        jObject.put("Altitude", cursor.getString(5));
                        jObject.put("Speed", cursor.getString(6));
                        jObject.put("Battery", cursor.getString(7));
                        jObject.put("DataType", cursor.getString(8));
                        jObject.put("DataSource", cursor.getString(9));

                        String datatoServer = jObject.toString() + "\n";

                        // Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),datatoServer,
                        // Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

                        HttpEntity entity;
                        HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
                        String url = "http://some IP/insertv2.php";

                        HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url);
                        StringEntity se = new StringEntity(datatoServer);
                        se.setContentEncoding("UTF-8");
                        se.setContentEncoding(new BasicHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/json"));
                        entity = se;
                        request.setEntity(entity);
                        HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
                        entity = response.getEntity();
                        db.deleteContacts(cursor.getLong(0));
                    } while (cursor.moveToNext());
                }// if
                db.close();
            }// try
            catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    } // method
}// end of service class

Error log:
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962): android.os.NetworkOnMainThreadException
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at android.os.StrictMode$AndroidBlockGuardPolicy.onNetwork(StrictMode.java:1118)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at java.net.InetAddress.lookupHostByName(InetAddress.java:385)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByNameImpl(InetAddress.java:236)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at java.net.InetAddress.getAllByName(InetAddress.java:214)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.<init>(HttpConnection.java:70)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.<init>(HttpConnection.java:50)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection$Address.connect(HttpConnection.java:340)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpConnectionPool.get(HttpConnectionPool.java:87)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpConnection.connect(HttpConnection.java:128)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.openSocketConnection(HttpEngine.java:315)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.connect(HttpEngine.java:310)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendSocketRequest(HttpEngine.java:289)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:239)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:80)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at bpcl.gps.tracker.GPSLoggerService.RqsLocation(GPSLoggerService.java:468)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at bpcl.gps.tracker.GPSLoggerService.cellID(GPSLoggerService.java:414)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at bpcl.gps.tracker.GPSLoggerService$3.onFinish(GPSLoggerService.java:288)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at android.os.CountDownTimer$1.handleMessage(CountDownTimer.java:118)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4947)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1038)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:805)
11-12 16:43:46.174: E/AndroidRuntime(23962):    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

A: try to use this code in onCreate method.
int SDK_INT = android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;

if (SDK_INT>8){

StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();

StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

}

and Set the Android Manifest to something like this
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" android:targetSdkVersion="17" android:maxSdkVersion="16"/>


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/* @test
 * @bug 6317435 7110700
 * @summary Verify that stack trace contains a proper cause of
 *          InvalidClassException (methods: checkSerialize,
 *          checkDeserialize or checkDefaultSerialize)
 *
 * @author Andrey Ozerov
 *
 */
import java.io.*;

class NotSerializableObject {
    private String m_str;
    private Integer m_int;

    public NotSerializableObject(String m_str, Integer m_int) {
        this.m_str = m_str;
        this.m_int = m_int;
    }
}

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    implements Serializable
{

    public SerializableObject(String m_str, Integer m_int) {
        super(m_str, m_int);
    }

    public SerializableObject() {
        super("test", 10);
    }
}

public class ExpectedStackTrace {
    private static final String SER_METHOD_NAME = "checkSerializable";

    public static final void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        System.err.println("\nRegression test for CRs 6317435, 7110700");
        checkSerializable(getObject());
    }

    private static Object getObject() throws Exception {
        ObjectStreamClass osc =
            ObjectStreamClass.lookup(SerializableObject.class);
        SerializableObject initObj =
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        return initObj;
    }

    private static void checkSerializable(Object initObj) throws Exception {
        try {
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Astronomy Now - XMM-Newton captures a massive galaxy cluster aglow in X-rays | Astro What?
With a total mass of some 500 trillion suns, the galaxy cluster XLSSC006 contains several hundred galaxies embedded in vast amounts of dark matter and huge reservoirs of X-ray bright gas heated to extreme temperatures. The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory captured that glow, shown here in purple, which was then combined with optical and near-infrared data from the Canada=France-Hawaii Telescope to include a multitude of other galaxies, some closer to the Milky Way and some much farther away.
The galaxies making up XLSSC006 are concentrated near the centre where two dominant members may be in the process of merging. The observations are part of the XXL Survey, which now includes 365 galaxy clusters, helping astronomers map their large-scale distribution in a bid to learn more about the structure and evolution of the universe.


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William Poe
Simon's Mansion
William Poe, author
Adult; General Fiction (including literary and historical); (Publish)
Simon Powell has escaped a cult, beaten addiction, and even found true love. But he still has unhealed wounds…and coming home might be his undoing. Fresh out of rehab, Simon heads back to his ancestral home in Sibley, Arkansas, with his partner, Thad. Waiting for them is Simon's family. He's sure they never accepted his sexuality and that they're still angry at him for leaving to follow the cult of Sun Myung Moon. Or at least, he fears that this is how they feel. As Simon and Thad create a new, quiet life at the family mansion, Simon prepares to face these fears and make amends one at a time. Then, a shocking disappearance throws Simon's life into chaos. The mystery will bring haunting secrets to light and cause Simon to question exactly what he wants from his future.
Semi Finalist
Plot/Idea: 10 out of 10
Originality: 10 out of 10
Prose: 10 out of 10
Character/Execution: 10 out of 10
Overall: 10.00 out of 10
Plot: Though Poe offers a thoroughly compelling and propulsive plot, the author displays a somewhat impatient tendency to skim-over potentially rich scenes in favor of more slow-going descriptions and allusions. The novel's unexpected developments and narrative breadth, however, allow this work to resonate.
Prose: While at times Poe's abstractions can unnecessarily obfuscate the circumstances, the author delivers a finely tuned narrative with literary prose that is smooth, rich, and rhythmic in cadence.
Originality: What sets this book apart is its raw originality. Simon's Mansion sensitively and realistically captures the struggles of a young man seeking truth and acceptance following a period of intense struggle. That the author draws from personal experience to craft this story, provides a meaningful level of verisimilitude.
Character Development: Simon is an immediately compelling character, whose turbulent past and internal conflicts enrich and inform his identity; Simon's relationship with his partner is equally nuanced. As the layers slip away from the other, initially obscure and less sympathetic characters, their own complexities and fluctuating rationalizations are revealed.
Date Submitted: August 23, 2019
Poe draws inspiration from his own life in his gritty third exploration (after Simple Simon) of the life of a gay former member of the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon. As the first two installments relate, Simon Powell grew up in a "timber mansion" in Sibley, Ark., with a racist, homophobic father. He escaped to Los Angeles, became a Moonie, and married a woman, but he couldn't hide from the truth: he loves men. He left the cult and sunk into a cocaine addiction that nearly killed him. In this entry, a newly sober Simon and his boyfriend, Thad, head for Sibley, trying to stay ahead of sketchy Spanish film distributors who have a score to settle with Simon. The family home that first looked like a sanctuary becomes a trap as Simon realizes his past is putting Thad's life in danger.
Poe, a strong, able writer, opens with a vividly sketched Deep South of the civil rights era and seamlessly leads the reader into the present. There are a few clunkers hiding in the prose (the most egregious being "enraptured by delirious arousal"), and Poe has a fondness for repeating himself, but these snags are balanced by nice turns of phrase ("They slid like playing cards onto the rug") and rich analogies ("Simon knew the location of holy places where the strong voice might be appeased... sites where priests administered a white-rock sacrament").
Poe nails the soul-sucking despair of addiction and the constant vigilance sobriety requires, and his capable plotting easily engages the reader from beginning to end. With elements of romance, suspense, and tragedy, Simon's story jumps genre boundaries to leave a lasting impression on the reader. While this story is a natural fit for an LGBTQ audience, other readers will enjoy it every bit as much.
Takeaway: This well-wrought gay coming-of-age story, third in a series, is packed with romantic and suspenseful elements that will appeal to a wide variety of readers.
Great for fans of: André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name, Tom Spanbauer's In the City of Shy Hunters.
Production grades:
Cover: A
Design and typography: A
Illustrations: -
Editing: A
Marketing copy: A
In Poe's third autobiographical novel (after Simon Says), a man struggles to fit into his small Arkansas town after crashing and burning in California. Simon Powell, 37, and his boyfriend, Thad, both recently out of rehab for cocaine addiction, settle into Simon's family's ancestral mansion in Sibley, Ark., with Simon's aging mother, Vivian, in the late 1980s. Thad chafes against small town life and returns temporarily to California to work as a gay porn voice-over artist. Simon, meanwhile, reenrolls at the University of Arkansas to resume his undergraduate studies, having dropped out years earlier to join the Moonies, while his mother suffers a stroke and is moved to a nursing home. When Thad stops returning his calls, Simon assumes he's relapsed—until a package arrives with a video, prompting him on a daring rescue mission to California and then to Spain. Lengthy, sometimes cumbersome exposition drags down the first half of the novel, though it illuminates details of Simon's past, such as his previous marriage to a woman from his church, and Poe does a good job developing Simon's tension with his family over his break from religion. While it gets off to a rough start, this complex character study evolves into a nice page-turner. (Self-published)
The eventful life of a troubled young gay man comes full circle in this third installment of a series.
The adventures of resilient protagonist Simon Powell continue in this novel, which charts his post-rehab existence after years of melodrama. He escaped a conservative upbringing and involvement with the Unification Church as a teenager, then intensive drug use with shady acquaintances in Southern California. Finally fed up with his string of bad luck coupled with years of poor life choices, Simon finishes a stint in rehab, then retreats to his birthplace of Sibley, Arkansas, and his family's pre-Civil War timber mansion. Eager to recharge and reboot his life and start anew, he finds himself surrounded by ghosts of the past. Painful memories of his dead father's judgmental criticism merge with childhood stories, all clouding Simon's mind as he and his Los Angeles boyfriend, Thad (also fresh from a drug dependency program), begin moving into the mansion. As things progress and Simon settles into his new life with Thad, efforts are made to repair deep-rooted Southern familial ties previously severed by assumptions, misunderstandings, and anti-Christian lifestyle choices. A family reunion attended by Simon and his mother opens old wounds, but an offer to permanently remain at the mansion to resume marketing films and dabbling in his art endeavors takes him by surprise and seems like a solid plan. Eager to focus on his own work, Thad returns to LA to continue collaborating with an adult film producer, but Simon has reservations about his departure. As the lure of sinister influences begins to tempt Thad in California, Simon must deal with his mother's failing health and, later, the sudden disappearance of his lover after some vengeful Spaniards from their past make their presence known.
Poe (Endings, 2015, etc.) begins the story with flashbacks, sketching in the details of Simon's checkered history. This narrative touch will familiarize uninitiated readers with the series and provide an appropriate amount of plot refreshing for loyal followers of Simon's gritty, fraught journey. The author writes with more certainty and ease than he's exhibited in previous volumes, though his impeccable sense of place remains solid throughout. The tale's narrative moves from past to present seamlessly, laying out Simon's situation candidly and without hesitation or overt exposition, which paves the way for plenty of melodrama and family tension. Though he's come home to heal, there's no denying that Simon's problems have followed him to his hometown and still darken his days. This inability to resolve his issues may become wearisome to readers hoping that Simon will find some happiness after so many bleak periods of addiction. Alternately, for readers familiar with the series, Simon's continual struggle with forgiveness, recovery, intimate relationships, and the momentum of his life is what gives Poe's books their moxie.
An engrossing saga of a gay man dealing with the sins of a lurid past while moving assuredly into the future.
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Sleeping In on Weekends Doesn't Reduce Risks of Chronic Sleep Loss
By Traci Pedersen
Associate News Editor
Last updated: 1 Mar 2019
After a full week of getting up early and losing sleep, many people try to catch up on the weekends. But can we ever truly catch up on insufficient sleep?
In a new study, researchers investigated whether extra weekend sleep is enough to reduce some of the metabolic risks associated with poor sleep and untreated sleep disorders, including obesity and diabetes. The findings show that extra weekend sleep does not reverse these risks, and in some cases, it even appears to make things worse.
"The key take-home message from this study is that ad libitum weekend recovery or catch-up sleep does not appear to be an effective countermeasure strategy to reverse sleep loss induced disruptions of metabolism," said Dr. Kenneth Wright of the University of Colorado Boulder.
For the study, healthy young adults were randomly assigned to one of three groups. The first group was given plenty of time to sleep (9 hours) each night for 9 nights. The second had just 5 hours to sleep each night over that same period. The third group slept 5 hours for 5 days followed by a weekend in which they slept as much as they liked before returning to another 2 days of restricted sleep.
In the two sleep-restricted groups, insufficient sleep led to an increase in snacking after dinner and weight gain. During the weekend recovery sleep in the third group, participants slept an hour longer on average than they usually would. They also consumed fewer extra calories after dinner than those who got insufficient sleep.
However, when they went back to getting poor sleep after the weekend, their circadian body clock was timed later. They also ate more after dinner as their weight continued to rise.
The findings show that sleep restriction in the first group was linked to a decrease in insulin sensitivity of about 13 percent. But the group that was given a chance to sleep more on the weekend still showed less sensitivity to insulin. The insulin sensitivity of their whole bodies, liver, and muscle decreased by 9 to 27 percent after they got insufficient sleep again, once the weekend was over.
"Our findings show that muscle- and liver-specific insulin sensitivity were worse in subjects who had weekend recovery sleep," said researcher Dr. Christopher Depner, noting that those metabolic deviations weren't seen in the people who got less sleep all along.
"This finding was not anticipated and further shows that weekend recovery sleep is not likely [to be] an effective sleep-loss countermeasure regarding metabolic health when sleep loss is chronic."
Wright says it's still unclear whether weekend recovery sleep can be an effective health strategy for people who get too little sleep only occasionally; for example, only a night or two per week. They hope to investigate the fine details of these dynamics in future studies, including the influence of daytime napping and other strategies for getting more sleep.
The Sleep Research Society and American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends 7 or more hours of sleep nightly for adults, to promote optimal health.
The findings are published in the journal Current Biology.
Source: Cell Press
Traci Pedersen
Traci Pedersen is a professional writer with over a decade of experience. Her work consists of writing for both print and online publishers in a variety of genres including science chapter books, college and career articles, and elementary school curriculum.
Pedersen, T. (2019). Sleeping In on Weekends Doesn't Reduce Risks of Chronic Sleep Loss. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 21, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/news/2019/03/02/sleeping-in-on-weekends-doesnt-reduce-risks-of-chronic-sleep-loss/143373.html
Last updated: 1 Mar 2019 (Originally: 2 Mar 2019)
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Quiz programmes are built around how much we know. The more we know, the more likely we could win that longed for holiday or that large lump sum of cash. Knowledge is seen as a key to a happier future.
The Corinthian church was full of people who knew a lot, and who sought to increase their knowledge. What if, Paul told them, someone knew all languages fluently and could even converse with angels? How fantastic would that be? Or imagine being a powerful speaker who stirs up an audience with the richness of his or her words and can predict the future with astonishing accuracy. Would you not like to "fathom all mysteries and all knowledge" (13:2)? To the Corinthians, how much you knew was an expression of how close you were to God. Today, if someone knows a lot, he or she is thought to have wisdom and understanding.
Paul, although appreciating knowledge, separated it from spirituality. What's more, he wrote, what if someone were a public evangelist whose faith could move mountains of resistance to the gospel? Someone who could put on a show of miracles and thus impress unbelievers? What about a missionary who gives up everything to help the poor? Have you heard of those who are willing to die for a cause, to let their body be burned in defence of what they believe?
All those things are well and good, but, Paul points out, without love, they are empty of everlasting value. Let's face it, he argues, the time for tongues, prophecy, miracles and martyrdom will come to an end. "Where there is knowledge, it will pass away" (13:8). Love, however, will go on forever. If I "have not love, I am nothing" (13:2).
Perhaps we might acquire wealth or achieve celebrity through what we know and through the things that we do. In contrast, Paul emphasizes, if we don't have love, we "gain nothing" (13:3).
We might desire knowledge and giftedness, but such things are spiritually empty without love. If we want to excel in anything, excel in love above all things. Read for yourself how love is described in verses 4 through 8. That's what counts.
Therefore "follow the way of love" (14:1).


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Don Miller's new book! Time and Time Again
via Don Miller's new book! Time and Time Again
Don Miller was the mystical magical master of metaphor at Melbourne Uni in the politics department when it was mad for theory. In those days, Alan Fu Davies, John Cash, Nikos Papastergiadis, Scott McQuire, Glenda Sluga and others met regularly in the open coffee area (now boarded up as cubicle offices) to discuss psycho-social politics, Foucault, Derrida, Spivak, Rose, and where Anthony Giddens came and tore his stretch denim jeans on an armchair and Jean Baudrillard talked about everything as simulation and was asked 'so why do you write'.
Don has now perpetrated another book, his fourth, a long time coming, but a beauty. Happily published by Pavement, it is endorsed by the great and the good of time studies, but it is much more. Also a theoretical book, but filled with examples, cases studies and commentary on everything relevant to Australian politics, global theory, matters of the minute and problems of the ages. It is infused with sport and science, India and Europe, Melbourne to its core yet never parochial in a way that will wind some people up and get others scratching their heads to think. The 'think piece' indeed was Don's meter, asking his students to sit under a tree and consider their assignment before writing them in – as he encouraged – prose that challenged the stiff conventions of Political Science in its day, and today.
Time itself is more than a metaphor, but then nothing can escape time, or metaphor. The book benefits hugely from years beyond the university, talking to people as a conversationalist, a life coach, an advisor and a neighbour. A product of travels across the globe and across the shelves, armchair readings of psychoanalysis and on the spot samples of subcontinental conflicts, dilemmas and designs. The book is a conceptual challenge to tik-tok and clock time, taking temporality through its paces, trialling different angles, wearing away, shifting, displacing the assumptions of the watch, how duration has a face, apparent and hegemonic, which orders time and is thereby disrupted by those who champion fluidity of thought and action. McEnroe's sublime.
In his blurb for the book, the China specialist Michael Dutton, also a one-time member of the Melbourne Uni Politics Department, says Miller 'hones in on the ethereal and the everyday quotidian yet paradoxically political character of timing'. Too much perhaps, but that hits the head of the nail in ways most florid writing cannot. Don's prose never exceeds its remit, but its remit is to provoke you to think again, to think of how style is bound up with what a book says, to think of multiple times of reading, and living. To accept the gift of being responsible for reading and thinking and living in your time and for all time as a finite yet multiple being. The longer perspective is not in the length of the book but the time that these thoughts will stay at the back of thinking, a contemplation engine informing and reforming thoughts and schedules. Make time to read this book, it will be worth the wait (for the delivery, in this time of Covid, will also pass fast enough, in due course).
Buy it here: http://pavementbooks.com/time-and-time-again/
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Matthias Schoenaerts Biography, Family, Girlfriend, Films | Movies, Graffiti, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Awards and News
Matthias Schoenaerts Biography
Matthias Schoenaerts is a Belgian actor, film producer, and graffiti artist of Flemish origin. He made his film debut at the age of 13 in Daens (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
He is best known for his roles as Filip in Loft (2008), Jacky Vanmarsenille in the Oscar-nominated Bullhead (2011), Ali in the BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominee Rust and Bone (2012), for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor, Eric Deeds in The Drop (2014), Bruno von Falk in Suite Française (2015), Gabriel Oak in Far from the Madding Crowd (2015) and Hans Axgil in The Danish Girl (2015).
Schoenaerts received critical acclaim for his portrayal of an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD in Disorder (2015). In 2015, he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France.
Matthias Schoenaerts Family
Schoenaerts was born on 8 December 1977 in Antwerp, Flanders, the Flemish (Dutch-speaking) region of Belgium. He is the son of actor Julien Schoenaerts (1925–2006) and Dominique Wiche (1953–2016), a costume designer, translator and French teacher. He has an older half brother, Bruno Schoenaerts (born 1953), who is a lawyer. Schoenaerts grew up bilingual, speaking Dutch and French. He is also fluent in English, which he learned by watching American movies.
In 1987, at nine years old, he appeared in a stage production of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince opposite his father, who was also the director. His mother, Dominique, was the costume designer of the play. He started producing graffiti as a teenager under the pseudonym "Zenith". Schoenaerts was close to becoming a professional soccer player and was on the books of Belgian team Beerschot AC, but gave up when he was 16 years old.
Matthias Schoenaerts Girlfriend
The talented actor is currently unmarried, but he is in a long-term relationship with his girlfriend Alexandra Schouteden. The love story of Matthias with the gorgeous Alexandra, a lawyer by profession, began in 2012. The girlfriend and Matthias attended the screening of his movie Rust And Bone together in New York City in November 2012 and have been living together since then.
Matthias Schoenaerts and Alexandra Schouteden
Matthias Schoenaerts Films | Movies
2012 Death of a Shadow
2015 Far from the Madding Crowd
2015 The Danish Girl
2015 A Bigger Splash
2011 Bullhead
2014 Suite Française
2014 A Little Chaos
2018 Red Sparrow
2014 The Drop
2015 Disorder a.k.a. Maryland
2014 The Loft
2017 The Racer and the Jailbird a.k.a. Le Fidèle
2013 Blood Ties
1992 Priest Daens
2017 Our Souls at Night
2006 Black Book
2018 Kursk
2006 Love Belongs to Everyone a.k.a. Dennis van Rita
2009 My Queen Karo
2011 The Gang of Oss a.k.a. De Bende van Oss
2003 Any Way the Wind Blows
2004 Ellektra
2008 Left Bank
2010 The Pack
2008 Loft
2018 Radegund
2011 De President a.k.a. The President
2010 Pulsar
Matthias Schoenaerts The Danish Girl
With support from his loving wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), artist Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) prepares to undergo one of the first sex-change operations.
Initial release: 31 December 2015 (Portugal)
Adapted from: The Danish Girl
Awards: Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor,
Matthias Schoenaerts Bullhead
A Flemish cattleman (Matthias Schoenaerts) is wary of going into business with a notorious dealer (Sam Louwyck) of illegal bovine-growth hormone.
Initial release: 2 February 2011 (Belgium)
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Cinematography: Nicolas Karakatsanis
Screenplay: Michaël R. Roskam
Nominations: Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, César Award for Best Foreign Film
Matthias Schoenaerts Graffiti
The handsome actor spoke in an interview and touched on his graffiti talent. He says, "In the early 80s graffiti hit Europe. I just got totally obsessed by it when I was a kid and it never went away, so when I started drawing at 12 or 13, I grabbed my first spraycan and that stuck and I never let it go. I loved it."
He would paint, "Just very classic old-school graffiti stuff," he shrugs. "Back then it was just letters and little characters and funny typical stuff, and then over the years it became richer and richer." Then came trouble, in the form of les flics. A few brushes with the law got the adrenaline pumping.
"A lot of funny stuff happened, we got in trouble, we got pinched," he laughs. "Almost getting caught, running away and hiding under crazy places and sitting there for like, 15 hours because you're scared to come out because you think the cops are all around – that sort of stuff."
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In the video, the actor talks about his movie Red Sparrow. During the interview he speaks about working opposite star Jennifer Lawrence in the role as Dominika Egorova and what it was like for her to take on the role knowing she had to shoot some very difficult scenes. He also talks about the rumours that his performance was based on Vladimir Putin.
Matthias Schoenaerts Awards
The 40-year-old has been active in the film industry since 1992 and has acted on more than a dozen of films. The Ceasar Award winner for his movie Rust and Bone has been nominated for several other prestigious awards.
César Awards, France
2013 Most Promising Actor in the film Rust and Bone
Magritte Awards, Belgium
2012 Best Actor inthe film Bullhead
Flanders Film Awards, Belgium, Ensor group
2011 Best Actor in the film Bullhead
Étoiles d'Or Awards, France
2013 Best Male Newcomer in the film Rust and Bone
2003 Berlin International Film Festival EFP Shooting Star award
2011 AFI Fest New Auteurs Critic's Prize For Best Actor in the film Bullhead
2011 Austin Fantastic Fest Next Wave Award for Best Actor in the film Bullhead
2011 Les Arcs European Film Festival Best Actor for the film Bullhead
2011 2-in-1 International Film Festival Heroes Award for Best Actor in the film Bullhead
2011 Saint-Jean-de-Luz Young Filmmakers Festival Best Actor in the film Bullhead
2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival FIPRESCI Prize for Best Actor for the film Bullhead
2012 Valladolid International Film Festival Best Actor in the film Rust and Bone
2015 Capri-Hollywood International Film Festival Revelation of the Year for the film The Danish Girl
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Matthias Schoenaerts, Garrett Hedlund, Scoot McNairy to Star In 'The Sound of Philadelphia'
Source: https://variety.com/2018/film/news/matthias-schoenaerts-garrett-hedlund-scoot-mcnairy-the-sound-of-philadelphia-protagonist-1202794970/
Matthias Schoenaerts ("The Danish Girl"), Garrett Hedlund ("Mudbound") and Scoot McNairy ("Gone Girl") will star in "The Sound of Philadelphia," a story of family and loyalty set in the violent world of the Philadelphia mob.
The American crime story is adapted from the Pete Dexter book "Brotherly Love." It is written and directed by Jérémie Guez, whose directorial debut "A Bluebird in My Heart" had its world premiere at SXSW.
The cross-generational story follows events after a young girl is killed by a reckless driver and her family seek revenge. Two decades later, Peter Flood (Schoenaerts, pictured) is still tormented by his baby sister's death. As his cousin Michael (Hedlund) grows more powerful in the hierarchy of the family crime business, a cycle of betrayal and retribution starts. Shooting gets underway in August, in Philadelphia.
Protagonist will handle international sales and present the project to buyers at the market in Cannes. Endeavor Content has North America rights.
Christine Vachon ("Carol") and David Hinojosa ("Beatriz at Dinner") from Killer Films, are teaming with Cheyenne Films producers Julien Madon ("Macadam Stories") and Aimée Buidine ("A Bluebird in My Heart") on the project.
"We leapt at the chance to work with the teams at Killer Films and Cheyenne on this super smart and stylish mob thriller," said says Protagonist CEO Dave Bishop. "Jérémie Guez is an incredible talent and with such an amazing ensemble of actors in place, we can't wait to discuss 'The Sound of Philadelphia' with buyers in Cannes."
Protagonist had already announced it would launch sales of Jack O'Connell ("Unbroken") and Lily Collins ("Okja") movie "The Cradle" at the market.
Schoenaerts is repped by CAA and UBBA, Hedlund and McNairy by WME, McNairy, and Guez by WME, Management 360, and UBBA.
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A key part of the car buying process is taking it out for a test drive. The test drive gives you a better feel for the car than you get when simply looking at in the showroom. And it gives you a good understanding of what it will be like to actually own the car.
But you are likely to own the car for several years. How can you learn enough in a short test drive to give you the information that you need? Here are some tips.
For many people the process of buying a new car takes several months. For most, the test drive is left to close to the end of the buying process. This is not the best approach though.
The earlier you start test driving the cars that you are interested in the better. Even if you don't think you will sign the dotted line for a few months, go out for some test drives.
The worst way to conduct a test drive is to do it when you are in a rush, so make sure you leave enough time. This should be at least one hour for each test drive. This will give you enough time to talk to the sales person, get a look at the car before you go out, and then go for the actual drive.
Many people who get into a car for a test drive feel under pressure because of the sales person sitting beside them. This means they rush, and when they rush they don't take everything in, and they don't feel comfortable.
The sales staff at Martin Reilly will give you as much time as you need when you are going for a test drive, so take your time, especially when you first get into the car. Familiarise yourself with the controls, get the seat position right, and adjust the mirrors. Only set off when you feel comfortable to do so.
When you do set off make sure you take the car to a variety of roads so you can experience how it feels in different conditions. Make sure this includes the type of roads that you primarily drive on.
Your aim is to get an understanding of the acceleration, how it stops under heavy braking, and how comfortable it is when cornering.
Even if you are buying the car for yourself, bring someone with you when you go on the test drive. They will spot things and ask questions you forget to ask. It is also always good to get the passengers' viewpoint.
Finally, think about what it is going to be like driving this car in real life. You are not testing the car for a motoring show or magazine, so things like 0-60mph times are irrelevant, as is top speed. Instead look at comfort, usability and real world performance. This includes questions like are you comfortable in the driving seat? Are the controls easy to use, and is there minimal road noise? Can you fit car seats in the back, and is there enough room in the boot? Your considerations should be centered on the things that are important to your daily use of the car.
If you follow these tips you will get the most out of your test drive, and you will ultimately make a better buying decision.


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Kam On Film: 'Scary Movie 5,' 'Herman's House' and What's New In Theaters
Rated PG-13 for profanity, sexuality, gore, drug use, nudity, ethnic slurs, cartoon violence and crude humor.
A Host Of Celebrity Cameos Can't Save Insulting Horror Spoof
What do Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, Mike Tyson, Katt Williams and Snoop Dogg have in common? They're all celebrities whose names have been splashed across the tabloids in connection with controversy. But in a macabre gesture ostensibly intended to exploit their notoriety, this motley collection of the craziest people currently in the public eye was tapped to make cameo appearances in Scary Movie 5.
The picture was directed by Malcolm Lee (Undercover Brother) who opted for an overhaul of the series with a fresh set of characters rather than a sequel. That shouldn't be a problem for purists, since each of the earlier installments has basically been a string of disconnected skits spoofing the latest horror movies.
Among the fright flicks lampooned here are Paranormal Activity, The Black Swan, Evil Dead, Sinister and Mama. However, this equal opportunity offender also takes potshots at offerings from other genres like The Help, Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection, Planet Of The Apes and 127 Hours.
Unfortunately, the disappointing production is little more than a crummy appeal to the lowest common denominator employing generous helpings of scatological humor. Worse, none of the sketches elicited even a perfunctory pity laugh from the audience I watched the movie with.
The point of departure is a sex scene in which Charlie Sheen and Lindsay Lohan are joined in bed by a colorful menagerie of oddballs, animals and objects. The kinky copulating is sped-up in corny fashion à la a typical Benny Hill episode, and the action's even underscored by the familiar strains of that frenetic melody routinely employed on the classic British comedy show.
But Charlie fails to survive the session, leaving his three orphaned children to be raised by his brother (Simon Rex) and girlfriend (Ashley Tisdale), and their hairy-armed housekeeper (Lidia Porto). The bodily function fare that ensues around the premises includes sight gags involving farting, projectile vomiting, poop disguised as a banana, a monkey tossing feces at a mirror, a woman putting a urine-soaked cell phone to her face, a dog with a toothbrush stuck in its tush, a child playing with a vibrator, a dog licking his own gonads, and a gay man with the hots for a fifth grader.
This vapid, vulgar insult to the intelligence couldn't possibly have been tested on any focus groups. Can we all now agree that we've reached the cinematic saturation point with this rapidly-expiring franchise?
Poor (0 stars)
Herman's House
Eccentric Artist Lobbies For Inmate's Freedom In Unlikely-Couple Documentary
72-year-old Herman Wallace has been imprisoned at Louisiana's infamous Angola penitentiary since he was found guilty of committing bank robbery back in 1967. His sentence was later lengthened to life after he was convicted of stabbing a prison guard to death solely on the testimony of a fellow inmate.
Was he a political prisoner who'd been railroaded on account of his membership in the Black Panther Party, or had he actually committed the murder? Unfortunately, that question is not the focus of Herman's House, an unlikely-couple documentary directed by Angad Singh Bhalla.
Mr. Singh instead devotes his attention to the friendship forged between Herman and a woman half his age. "Jailbirds and the naïve girls who love them" has served as the theme of many a tv talk show, but rarely have any gangsters' molls had the pedigree, sophistication or undying dedication of Jackie Sumell.
Sumell, an activist who once presented anti-abortion President Bush a quilt woven from hundreds of pro-choice feminists' pubic hair, was a grad student in the art department at Stanford when she took an interest in Herman. What really rankled her was the fact that he held the record for solitary confinement in the country, currently at 40+ years and counting.
Over that period, he's been cooped up in a six-by-nine-foot cell, which Jackie felt was a violation of the 8th Amendment's sanction against cruel and unusual punishment. So, she struck up a long-distance correspondence with Herman via a combination of letters and phone calls.
And that led to a decision to draw attention to his plight by mounting an art exhibition featuring a full-scale replica of his prison cell. But this is where it gets weird. She also asked Herman what his dream home would look like, prior to then moving down to New Orleans, buying some land, and consulting architects to draw up plans for a place the two would ostensibly share should he ever be paroled.
Listen, this biopic basically revolves around Jackie's earnest effort to turn Herman into a cause célèbre, but it carefully tiptoes around the more compelling elephant in the tiny cell, namely, whether there's a romantic aspect to their relationship? A fascinating flick as much about a possible miscarriage of justice as about a case of arrested development who looks like a little girl playing house with an imaginary mate.
Very Good (3 stars)
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Oblivion (PG-13 for violence, nudity, sexuality and brief profanity). Post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller about an ex-Marine (Tom Cruise) with the fate of humanity in his hands in the wake of a war with extraterrestrials which devastated the planet. Cast includes Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko and Melissa Leo.
Ain't In It For My Health (Unrated). Reverential rockumentary about Levon Helm, the late drummer, lead singer and founding member of The Band. Featuring appearances by Billy Bob Thornton, Libby Titus and Larry Campbell.
Errors Of The Human Body (Unrated). Psychological thriller, set in Dresden, revolving around a research scientist (Michael Eklund) who becomes the first victim of a newly-created lethal virus as the result of a lab accident. With Karoline Herfurth, Tómas Lemarquis and Rik Mayall.
Filly Brown (R for profanity, violence and drug use). Musical drama about a struggling hip-hop artist (Gina Rodriguez) trying to rap her way out of the barrio who finds herself facing a dilemma when a record producer (Pete Herrera) offers to sign her to a contract if she compromises her heartfelt feminist values. Supporting cast includes Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos and Jenni Rivera.
Girl Rising (PG-13 for mature themes and disturbing images). Female empowerment documentary about nine women from different countries who found fulfillment after overcoming everything from child slavery to arranged marriages.
Home Run (PG-13 for mature themes). Prodigal Son saga about a disgraced pro baseball player (Scott Elrod) with an alcohol abuse problem who returns to his hometown to rehab. There, he cleans up his act with the help of his estranged childhood sweetheart (Dorian Brown) and rekindles his love for the game while coaching a rag-tag team of Little Leaguers. With James Devoti, Nicole Leigh and Drew Waters.
In The House (R for profanity and sexuality). Screen adaptation of The Boy In The Last Row, Juan Mayorga's play about a high school student (Ernst Umhauer) whose essays about a classmate's (Bastien Ughetto) family come to impress his jaded literature teacher (Fabrice Luchini). With Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner and Yolande Moreau. (In French with subtitles)
The Lords Of Salem (R for profanity, drug use, disturbing violence, frontal nudity, and graphic sexuality). Rob Zombie wrote and directed this horror flick starring his wife (Sheri Moon Zombie) as a radio DJ who unwittingly unleashes demonic forces by playing vinyl records from a mysterious box sent to the station. Featuring cult film favorites Dee Wallace (The Howling), Patricia Quinn (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and Ken Foree (Dawn Of The Dead).
OCONOMOWOC (Unrated). Dysfunctional family comedy about a confused man (Brendan Marshall-Rashid) who moves back home with his alcoholic mom (Deborah Clifton) to go into the t-shirt business. With Andy Gillies, Andrew Rozanski and Cindy Pinzon.
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Goodbye Cruel World: Season 8 Episode 6 FINALE
SPOILERS (goes without saying at this point). The Game of Thrones has come to an end...but who won? Did anyone? Did the fans? Brad, Zach and Tommie tackle the series finale with the help of a special edition single malt.
Hell's Bells-Killer Queen: Season 8, Episode 5
The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones brings the bloodletting to King's Landing, where it gets way out of hand. The boys break down the dark, deep episode and commiserate over a bottle of King Of The North. It's a[...]
Another One Bites The Dust: Season 8 Episode 4
SPOLIERS if you haven't seen it yet. The Battle of Winterfell is over, and it's time to head down to King's Landing for the last big fight of the series. The boys get ready with a bottle of Hand Of[...]
Sunday Bloody Sunday: Season 8 Episode 3
SPOILERS! It's The Battle For Winterfell as the living square off against the dead. With dragons, and shouting, and fire. And the boys sample a fiery little whiskey from Johnnie Walker called White Walker.
Stop Dragon My Heart Around: Season 8 Episode 2
Love is in the air as our heroes start to pair up and keep warm at Winterfell, as they await the advancing horde
Waiting On A Friend: Season 8 Episode 1
SPOILERS!!! Episode One brought the pieces into place for the final showdowns. Brad, Zach & Tommie enjoy a bottle of For The Throne by Ommegang as they wander around in the snow and mud of Winterfell.
Scry Wolf: Season 8 Preview and Predictions
The boys celebrate the arrival of the official Season 8 Trailer by breaking down what they see in it, giving their predictions for the end of the series...and sampling the first beer in their GoT cooler.Today's beer:Ommegang Queen of the[...]
Preview: Season 7 In Review
When Season Seven of Game of Thrones ended, Brad, Zach and Tommie did a crossover podcast on all three of their own shows to talk about it. That was also the inspiration for this new podcast.Here's that previous show.The first[...]
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The King In The North Remembers. Until he gets a little too deep in his cups.The Final Season Is Coming, and so is a new podcast from Brad King, Zach Miller, and Tommie Lee. It's one that we've been dying[...]


It is the light that SEARCHES the inward parts of the sinner's heart and exposes the sins and the sin that are there. And that light is Christ. He was "the true Light which lighteth every man that comes into the world" (v. 9).
The sinner whose heart is searched cries out for one to SAVE him, and there is but One who can do that. He is "the Lamb of God which takes away the sin of the world" (v. 29).
The sinner who is searched and saved becomes the cherished possession of His Saviour, and that there might be no doubt about it he is SEALED by the Holy Ghost. "The same is He that baptiseth with the Holy Ghost" (v. 33).
Nothing will SATISFY the heart of the one who is searched, saved and sealed, but the company of his Saviour. The question which springs from the heart to the lips is, "Master, where dwellest Thou?" and He answers, "Come and see" (vv. 38-39).
The one who is searched, saved, sealed and satisfied delights to SERVE the One who has blessed him. and he does it spontaneously and successfully constrained by the love that surpasses knowledge. "One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, He first findeth his own brother Simon . . . and he brought him to Jesus" (vv. 40-42).
Thus does He, who created the worlds, bless us. He became flesh in order to do it, and He dwelt among men to reveal the love that was in His heart. He delights to draw men out of the darkness of their ignorance and sin into the light of the love of God. He delights to lift and remove the burden of sin from their souls and bring them to rest and rejoice with Him in His own dwelling place, His Father's love; having given them the Holy Spirit to be the power and the capacity to enjoy that love. And He delights to see them go forth to serve Him, the Holy Spirit being the power for this, Christ Himself being the satisfying centre from which they go, to bring back to Him weary, needy sinners.
Let no Christian stop short of any of these steps in blessing; he will spoil his life if he does; he will lose the fullness of the blessing that may be his, and he will rob his Saviour of His full delight in him. The fact is that the Lord will be satisfied with nothing less than the complete possession of every life that He has redeemed, and He has this in those whom He has searched, saved, satisfied, and whom He can trust with His service.


I have to admit, I was a little confused when I was invited by Visit Concord to come attend the 9th Annual Spring Brews Festival, put on by Brewing Network. What would I post about since I don't drink? In case you haven't noticed, I don't post alcohol on my blog. But with drinking comes eating, so I got the opportunity to try a bunch of food trucks!
The event took place from 12 – 4 PM at Todos Santos Plaza. This area looked to be the heart of Concord, with this really nice, big plaza and a variety of restaurants around it. I honestly thought Concord would be a little more homogenous, but I saw a Peruvian and a Himalayan restaurant among others in the area – which is great! Parking was surprisingly easy to find, and street parking is free, though there was a garage as well.
62 breweries were posted up in the festival, each offering their signature selections, and likely some bringing special drinks for the occasion. I walked around for a bit to check the scene out and then focused on what I was here for – to eat as much food as I could before I couldn't anymore.
I hit up four food trucks before I was stuffed, so I will mention the ones I wasn't able to try before I focus on what I ate. Among the trucks there were: Forno di Sbarro Wood Fired Pizza (they had hefty personal pizzas!), S&K Wings (chicken wings, chicken tenders, spiral fries, and more), Caffe Oasis (gigantic turkey legs that I totally could not finish), and Slow Hand BBQ (pulled pork sandwiches, sausage, baked beans, and other BBQ related sandwiches). All of them were pretty busy, so you really couldn't go wrong with any of the options.
The first truck I tried was Copper Skillet, a restaurant originated in Martinez and serving the Bay Area since 1973 – and now a food truck. They served up burgers, fries, and onion rings – all classics. My eyes zeroed in on tater tots, I ordered the Loaded Tots with grilled onions, jalapeños, mushrooms, cheese, and spicy sauce. You could also choose to add bacon for an additional cost. Everything is made to order, so it did take some waiting around but probably around 5-10 minutes.
I really enjoyed these! The tots were nice and crispy, as were the onions, which tasted so good with the tots. And potatoes and cheese is always 100. I do wish the jalapeños were spicier, though that's not necessarily on Copper Skillet – I just wanted some heat! I would prefer pickled jalapeños so you get that hot and sour aspect with these. I was still eating them when we hit up the next eatery – so addicting!
Next, I stopped by Lantern Catering from Pleasant Hill and got Lobster Roll Sliders. They had a variety of meats in breads, like a chicken teriyaki banh mi to Kobe beef cheeseburgers along with other sides such as crab fries and grilled artichokes.
I generally don't eat lobster that often, so I decided to try this out. The lobster looked kinda like a tuna salad in Hawaiian slider buns. I was surprised at how light these sliders were, which left me room to eat more! I was also glad it was light because on a hot day like that one, I don't want to be so weighed down by heavy foods. I'm already sweating, I don't need to sweat much more.
Somehow, I still had room, so I made my way over to Tasty Zombies. Their name is honestly what intrigued me first, so I knew I was going to stop by their stand no matter what. All of their "zombies", are essentially stuffed buns, whether it was their traditional cheesy zombie (filled with cheese), or the cheeseburger zombie like I ordered.
These came ready made, since it would likely be hard to assemble onsite, but it was nice and hot! I wasn't sure if I would like this since I was getting full at this point, but I enjoyed it a lot. It was your traditional cheeseburger, but stuffed. I liked how the gooey cheese enveloped the ground beef so perfectly. I kinda wish I ordered a couple of more to take for the road!
The last stop was at Golden Gate Gyro. We all know I love Middle Eastern food, so I couldn't not stop at this truck. I ended up having the worst timing though since the line was super long! Prime lunch time started up around 1:30. Luckily, they're pretty quick with serving up their dishes. They had a special posted up, which were Gyro Fries! I know, I already had tots earlier, but I love fried potatoes (any kind of potatoes, tbh).
For this creation, the fries come loaded with chicken, lamb, and beef gyro pieces, white sauce, and hot sauce. I did end up taking some of this home because I was getting incredibly full, but it was delicious – and almost as good in leftover form. That hot sauce is legit spicy though, so make sure you have something to drink! I love the salty goodness of lamb and beef gyro, and did prefer it over the chicken. This is a dish best eaten right when you get it.
Overall, this festival was great! It was a beautiful day to be outside and enjoy it with friends – whether you're eating, drinking, or both! So glad I was invited to come out – otherwise I wouldn't have discovered that this part of the East Bay has so much to offer!
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Studio Visit: Ricardo Fumanal
The accomplished illustrator invites us into his charming London studio on the eve of starting a new life chapter in Berlin.
Images: Virgili Jubero
Posted: 9 May, 2013
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I grew up in a small town in Spain and there wasn't a lot going on. Drawing opened up a new world for me.
RICARDO FUMANAL, STUDIO VISIT, TSUM
21 Exposures: Yellow Bikini Exhibition
Since featuring Ricardo Fumanal's work some five years ago, we have continued to follow his creative pursuits. In a digital age overrun by a long line of "shortcut" image manipulation software, this illustrator has continued to do what he does best with traditional tools at his fingertips. Pens, pencils, markers, ink, and watercolors are employed to fashion exquisite works of art that are as painstaking to realize as they are timeless. Over the years, his list of clients have only continued to expand to include such titans as Revlon, Vogue Hommes Japan, Marie Claire and GQ Style.
As he embarks on a new chapter of his life in Berlin in the coming weeks, Fumanal graciously opened the doors to his London studio to us. Here, we discuss his early years, his city-hopping lifestyle and what he would request that fortunetellers not do. Scroll through the gallery above to feast your eyes on his creative space and check out his work if you're so inclined.
Photos courtesy of Virgili Jubero
Although I've become quite familiar with your work over the years, I don't know much about your background. How old were you when you started drawing?
I have been drawing on and off since I was a kid. I was probably 10 years old when I realized what I liked to draw. I wasn't that interested in it when I was a teenager, but after high school, I started drawing again. I spent the first couple of years working on graphic design collaborations. Now, I've been illustrating professionally for 8 years.
Did you enjoy drawing right away? What kind of stuff were you drawing as a kid?
I think I liked the freedom of drawing right away. I grew up in a small town in Spain and there wasn't a lot going on. Drawing opened up a new world for me. I used to draw shoes, girls and vegetables… It's weird that I'm still drawing all of those things, but I've added boys, bottles, bags and lots of hair.
What did you study formally in school?
I wasn't entirely aware that the drawing I did as a hobby could pay the bills and be considered a career choice, so it wasn't easy deciding what to study after high school. But I knew it needed to be something in the arts. I ultimately enrolled in a graphic design course at a college in Lleida, a small city near Barcelona. I went there for two years and just started from there. School is great, but I really needed to just jump in and do it.
You've traveled quite extensively. Do you travel mostly for work or for pleasure?
I don't travel as much as I'd like to, but since living in London, I've been able to escape a couple of times to other destinations besides Spain, which I go to regularly. When I plan a trip, I try to coordinate it with meeting clients and friends. Most of the trips have been for work. In a few weeks I'll be moving to Berlin, but London has been my base for the past four years. I love London. I live just east of where there's always something going on. It's alive with so many different cultures. The street culture and the people here really go for it. It's always fun to see. It's quite a dynamic city in that you can do something different every night if so desired. It can also be quite a hard city, but if it were too easy, it would be boring. Boring is something London is not.
What are some other cities that you've lived in?
I also lived in Barcelona and Madrid. I've loved and had a great experience in all of them. Living in these places has been a big influence on how I live my life and, in turn, how my work has developed. And to be honest, as great as these places are, it's really about the people. I've made some really great friends. Berlin is next and then I'm not sure… New York would be great.
What would we find in your tool bag? What are some essential items?
I hope that bag is big. I drive myself crazy with the right paper so I typically have many different types. The bag would have a printer, light box, pencils, loads of colored pencils, lots of Pilot 0.4 pens, cutting blades, a computer… The list goes on and on. Do you have another bag?
What do you enjoy drawing the most? What do you dislike drawing?
Lately I've been doing loads of portraits, mostly for press, and although I love doing portraits, I'm getting a little bit bored. I like drawing what I think is beautiful, so when a client asks for specific objects to be included in an illustration, it can get tricky. I don't like to draw anything with too many straight lines like buildings or at least buildings with straight lines… I wish I had more time to work on my own stuff because I get to be a little crazier with my subject matter.
When you draw objects that are in front of you, do you take a picture of it first?
My work generally isn't about drawing objects in front of me like a still life. I do a lot of research and the work develops through found images. I play with them through collage until I have assembled something that feels right and then I work off of that.
You're commissioned by some big clients out there. What surprises you?
I suppose the most surprising thing about working for a magazine is the budgets! There's none or very little, at least for a contributing illustrator. I understand that there's limited budgets for everyone who contributes, but it was a surprise and a shock when I started working with magazines. At the same time, you're given more creative freedom there.
What kind of parameters are you normally given on a commissioned project?
It really depends on the client. They give you some parameters, I interpret it, and we go from there. Once I've worked with a client a few times, they trust me and give me more freedom, which is always great. Sometimes they know exactly what they want and I have no leeway, which makes it difficult. But generally, I'm given an idea and I just go with it.
Your illustrations seem labor intensive. What has been the most consuming project?
There was a 25 illustration series for TSUM, the luxury department store in Moscow. It was a bit too much. It took forever and by the end of it, I wanted to pull my fingernails out. I didn't.
As intricate as your illustrations are, it's so much about how much you don't show. You use a lot of negative space and details are left out. How do you balance that in your work?
That's a balance that can get tricky. I know from experience when I had gone too far and when I didn't go far enough. I usually step away from a work in progress to get proper perspective and with that, I know when it feels finished. Leaving something to the imagination is important.
You seldom use color, but they are vibrant and in-your-face when you do. How do you decide when to play that card?
Years ago, my work was just black and white. It's when clients started asking for some color that I began using it. I've been adding more color since then and I've been really feeling it lately. I guess you could say that I'm having a colorful period in my work.
What has been inspiring you these days? I'll leave that question very broad.
What inspires me now is a lot of what has been inspiring me for a while like fashion, fashion photography and everything in between, even castings and catwalks. I love looking at books on botany, crystals and contemporary art. Also, seeing art at galleries and museums supply a lot. There's an overall source of information that comes from my relationships with friends and life that goes on around me. It's a general mood that translates into my work when looking back at it.
Who are some of your favorite artists at the moment, be it illustrators, filmmakers, musicians and/or designers?
I have a bunch so I'll name a few that pops to mind: Inez & Vinoodh, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Friedrich Kunath, Nan Goldin, Nicolas Ghesquière, M/M, Mel Odom, Pierre Huyghe, Wolfgang Tillmans, Julio Iglesias, Collier Schor, Philip Glass, John Cassavetes, Hedi Slimane and Mike Kelley.
I've been doing a series of portraits for V magazine and I'm collaborating on Julia Restoin Roitfeld's site, Rommy and the Bunnies. There's always something interesting to work on and I hope the future brings a lot more. Recently, after years of not working with oil paints, I've picked them up again, which should be entertaining.
Let's say you go to see a fortuneteller who comes highly recommended and supposedly has a 99% accuracy rate. What's the best and the worst thing this person could tell you?
Knowing the future is probably the worst thing to revel in. The best thing would be if the fortuneteller didn't revealing anything.


Some "advanced civilizations" we have in this galaxy. They've got all the technology, but they make us do all the heavy lifting. They're not calling us, so we have to leave a message with them. At the sound of the tone, TalkToAliens.


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Name: Matthieu Dreyer
Age: 33 years (19 March 1989)
Nationality: France
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Matthieu Dreyer. Biography
Matthieu Dreyer is a French goalkeeper who currently plays for Troyes in the French top league. He was born on 20 March 1989 in Strasbourg, France.
Matthieu was formed in the youth ranks of Sochaux in between 2003 and 2009. He made his professional debut with the club in a 1-0 win over Nice in February 2009. Dreyer was deployed as a third-choice keeper at the team and made only 20 league appearances for Sochaux in a two-year stint. In 2011, he moved to the French third-tier club Fréjus where he made 32 appearances during a season. In 2012, Dreyer signed for Troyes in the Ligue 1 and plays as a first-choice there today.
Matthieu Dreyer ha came up through almost all the youth levels of the France national team from U16 to U21. He got his first caps at the age of 12.
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