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Coming Soon in June
- Cropsey (NY; LA release: July 9)
- Finding Bliss (NY; LA release: June 11)
- Get Him to the Greek
- Killers
- Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders (NY, LA)
- Marmaduke
- Ondine (limited)
- Raajneeti (limited)
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead (NY; limited: June 18)
- Splice
- Whiz Kids (NY; LA release: June 11)
- Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (limited)
- The A-Team
- Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (limited)
- Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (NY, LA, Houston)
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (limited)
- The Karate Kid
- Kings of the Evening (limited)
- Winter's Bone (limited)
- 8: The Mormon Proposition (limited)
- Cyrus (limited)
- I Am Love (NY/LA; expansion: June 25)
- Jonah Hex
- The Killer Inside Me (limited)
- Let It Rain (limited)
- Toy Story 3 (3D/2D theaters and IMAX 3D)
- Dogtooth (NY)
- Grown Ups
- Knight and Day
- Restrepo (NY, LA)
- South of the Border (NY; LA release: June 2)
- Wild Grass (limited)
- Love Ranch (limited)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (conventional theaters and IMAX)
Movies Scheduled for the Week of 5/30 - 6/5
Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend and taking time to think about our service people on this Memorial holiday. Summer feels like it's here. Kids will be out of school. Thanks to everyone for restraining themselves from mooching lately. This week only has movies that have already screened, so hopefully it won't be too crowded.
Big movies opening this month include The A Team, Karate Kid, Toy Story 3, Knight and Day and Twilight Saga:Eclipse. So keep an eye on your list mail for pass pickups and contests. Don't be moaning later saying "I must have missed it" and expect someone in the group to give you one. You snooze, you lose. Competition will be fierce for these passes. Don't enter contests unless you can actually attend.
AMC Valley View
Studio Movie Grill Dallas
Solitary Man,
Magnolia Theater Dallas
Despicable Me in 3-D
TBA Plano location
Prince of Persia Review
King of Persia rules his ancient kingdom with his brother who had saved his life when they were children. One day the King witnesses a young street urchin come to the rescue of another boy who got in trouble with the King's soldiers. The King is impressed by the boy's bravery and loyalty. He adopts the homeless boy and raises him as a prince with his two biological sons so they would not fight over the throne.
The kings' brother Nizam (Ben Kingsley) tells the oldest prince that the holy kingdom of Alamut is secretly producing weapons to fight the Persians. Consulting with his brothers and uncle in the absence of his father the King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup), the prince decides to invade despite Dastan's misgivings. Dastan (Jake Gyllenhaal) the adopted son and a bit of a rogue, goes against his brother's orders and attacks the fortress from the rear while the defending army is protecting its front. He gets a door open and the Persians defeats the Alamut.. In the temple Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) who is renowned for her beauty slips a wrapped package to a trusted soldier charging him to bring it to safety. When the messenger is killed Dastan gets hold of the crystal handled knife. The magical dagger has the power to transport the holder back in time. The Princess is the guardian of the secret mystery of the sands of time. When the King is murdered, Dastan is framed for the crime and the Princess aids his escape to get the knife back from him.
Based on the popular video game, The Prince of Persia, the various forces chasing Dastan and the princess across the desert encompasses most of the movie. The attractive couple spar and bicker while fighting an obvious attraction to each other. The wild special effects include some nice parkour elements across rooftops, there's a race on ostriches, there's the swirling sands of time, and of course battle scenes. Director Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) keeps things moving without much fright and gore. You don't have to have played the game to enjoy the movie. It takes some game elements, but the movie stands on it's own. Gyllenhaal makes a nice looking prince, and he takes off his shirt to flash and flex the buff bod. But it's Gemma Arterton who is the more interesting character and she makes the most of her time playing off the unusually bland Jake. Alfred Molina steals the scenes as the rapscallion Sheik Amar who runs this desert town with races and shady criminals. The Disney machine with Bruckheimer producing would probably like to see this become a long running series. It wasn't horrible, and often times enjoyable, but not quite memorable.
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Karate Kid Event
THE DALLAS FILM SOCIETY PRESENTS: SPECIAL BLOCK PARTY SCREENING FOR THE YMCA'S
AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS
The Dallas Film Society has brought the YMCA's After School All-Stars program,
The Crow Collection of Asian Art, and the City of Dallas together to co-present
a world class event for some very fortunate youth. A private event featuring a
block party complete with face painters, martial arts exhibitions, arts and
crafts was followed by an exclusive screening of Columbia Pictures new film
THE KARATE KID. The Dallas Film Society was instrumental in securing a Physical
Fitness Proclamation from the City of Dallas. This was presented by City
Officials to Jaden Smith ("Dre Parker"), Jackie Chan ("Mr. Han") after they and
other stars and special guests walked the red carpet on Thursday, May 27 at 4:30
PM at Cinemark Movies 17 (635 and Webb Chapel - 11819 Webb Chapel Road, Dallas,
TX 75234).
In Columbia Pictures' THE KARATE KID, 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith)
could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's (Taraji P.
Henson) latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for
his classmate Mei Ying - and the feeling is mutual - but cultural differences
make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make an enemy of
the class bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate,
and Cheng puts "the karate kid" on the floor with ease. With no friends in a
strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan),
who is secretly a master of kung fu. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not
about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down
the bullies will be the fight of his life.
THE KARATE KID opens nationwide on Friday, June 11, 2010.
Photos of the event below:
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Movies Scheduled for the Week of 5/23-5/29
Seems like when these big movies come out the powers that be seriously limit our access to them so they are really hard to obtain. And as usual when the calendar is posted everyone comes out mooching. If everyone reads their group mail as they should, and why else be a member if you only selectively read it, they would know that availability of Sex and the City 2 passes is like a needle in a haystack. Even your moderators are without, so please limit the "me too's" and begging, because anyone who got a pass will most likely NOT want to give them up.
Sex in the City 2
AMC Northpark
Solitary Man
Angelika Dallas
Gold Class Cinema Fairview
Kites Review
An injured young man is found on a train with a bullet in his back. He's nursed back to health by a local rancher. When he recovers he walks back into the desert searching for the love that he had lost. Exhausted and thirsty he stumbles upon a small train station which prompts the memories of what happened to him. He finds his phone by the tracks and asks the station master to charge his phone before he collapses. He's awakened later when the station master says he's called his friends to come fetch him, except those cars pulling up are filled with gunmen.
J (Hrithik Roshan) is an unlucky opportunist living in Las Vegas. It seems he's always at the airport when his ship comes in. He survives by doing multiple jobs like selling popcorn, running scams, marrying women so they can get a green card and teaching dance classes. At one of his classes he flirts with a beautiful young woman Gina (Kangana Ranaut) who misinterprets his attentions. She manages to gain entry to his apartment where she proceeds to assume that they are a couple. When he angrily throws her out, he quickly apologies and reconsiders when he discovers that she is daughter of a casino owner. His ship has finally come in. That is until he discovers that Gina's brother's Tony (Nick Brown) has a fiancée Natasha (Barbara Mori) who was J's latest immigrant wife. She made a lasting impression on him and he didn't forget her. The two couples spend time together, but he can't keep his eyes off of Natasha. As J becomes ensconced in the casino owner's family he's made privy to the gangster like dealings of their business. He also sees how badly Natasha (aka Linda) is being treated by Tony and realizes that he can't deny his love for her. On the eve of Tony and Natasha's wedding, J takes her out on the town to prove his affections. When they return to her apartment, a drunken Tony is waiting. They knock him out and are on the run when the gangsters, the cops and some bikers are after them when it's reported they also stolen 2 million dollars from the casino.
This is not your typical Bollywood film directed by Anurag Basu and produced by Rakesh Roshan. There's a mix of thriller, romance and action as well as some musical sequences, but not breaking the context of the scene. The movie is a cross over of Indian Bollywood and Spanish Novella. The actors in the film are incredibly attractive with Hrithik Roshan's most amazing eyes that are rimmed in green, hazel and red around the pupils, plus killer abs. Mexican soap opera star, Barbara Mori is stunning as the Mexican love interest. The camera lovingly caresses them at every opportunity as they gaze into each other's green eyes. There is an over abundance of slow motions shots, close-ups, underwater scenes, rain, rain and more rain. The dialogue is a mixture of Hindu, Spanish and English often at the same sentence.
It's a long running time for the film at 130 minutes, with a shorter version, Kites:the Remix, will also be released. With less music, and subtitles and more action it will probably work better for the multiplexes as American audiences may not sit still when power ballads play while the lover chastely frolic, but will enjoy the car explosions and gun play. Kites has a little bit of everything and a lot of over the top romance.
MacGruber Review
MacGruber had dedicated his life to fighting crime with his bare hands. He had honed his skills as a Green Beret, Navy SEAL and Army Ranger. But in the 10 years since his fiancée was killed, Special Op MacGruber has sworn off fighting until General Faith calls him on a special mission to find MacGruber's nemesis Dieter Von Cunth who has stolen a nuclear warhead.
Mullet headed MacGruber (Will Forte) may be like the 1980's MacGyver hero but he's dangerously inept. In the Saturday Night Lives skits he basically kills his team with each mission. The expanded version of the movie doesn't rehash the same routines. MacGruber's former boss General Faith (Powers Boothe) wants him to track down Cunth (Val Kilmer) using his unique skills. We are to believe that MacGruber had won countless medals and purple hearts, is an expert in martial arts and bombs but he doesn't use a gun, preferring hand to hand combat. Joining him is a rookie military officer assigned to over see the mission straitlaced Lt. Dixon Piper (Ryan Phillippe) and Vicki St. Elmo (Kristen Wiig) his old partner. Vicki is a former operative with MacGruber, but quit to launch a career as a singer. The dastardly Dieter Von Cunth had previously killed MacGruber's wife Casey (Maya Rudolph) on their wedding day.
MacGruber is like the guy in Get Smart that doesn't necessarily get a job done on his own, but through a series of misadventures and mistakes. His methods are unorthodox and inane like the scenes with the celery stick which can't be described here. Will Forte and Kristen Wiig play characters stuck in their heyday of the 80's. But they are such accomplished comedians they are able to show MacGruber almost in a sympathetic light. This is a feat in itself as MacGruber is self-righteous, a coward, vain, petty, immature, homophobic and delusional. There's really nothing redeeming about him. Yet the other characters are playing it straight around him and because of that it works for the most part. If this was a Will Farrell movie, I would have just left annoyed.
Written by Forte and the SNL writers John Solomon and Jorma Taccone (who also directed the film) keeps the pace light. I was unfamiliar with the skit before seeing the movie. SNL's reputation for having hit or miss comedy routines wasn't an encouraging factor on seeing it. But I was surprised that such broad comedy would illicit fits of giggles. I probably won't remember any of the gags, except for maybe celery sticks
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Shrek Forever After Review
The once fearsome ogre Shrek has settled down to married life with Fiona and their 3 babies. The daily routine of a family man is beginning to wear on the creature that once brought terror and mayhem to kingdom of Far Far Away. When Rumpelstiltskin offers him a day off from being a nice ogre he gets more than what he bargained.
In this (hopefully) last installment of Shrek The Final Chapter, Shrek (Mike Myers) is changing diapers, waving to tourists, roaring for kids. It's no wonder that Shrek frustrated with the typical suburban father tedium is an easy mark to smooth taking Rumplestiltskin (Walt Dohrn) who offers him a way out. When Shrek signs a contract with magical ink he is sent back to a time where the King and Queen (John Cleese and Julie Andrews) of Far Far Away had signed away their kingdom to save their daughter from the tower. The kingdom is now in the hands of the conniving Rumplestiltskin and the witches is no longer the happy place that Shrek knew and loved. Even his best friends Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and an overweight Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas) don't know him. The kingdom's ogres who have banded together to fight their oppression are lead by a militant Fiona (Cameron Diaz) who carries a grudge for not being saved from her tower. Only true love's kiss by sunrise the next day can break the spell that has befallen Shrek. He must get Fiona to fall in love with him once more for the time line to be restored.
Shrek in 3D looks better than average of the recent films that have been offered in this medium. The colors and depth didn't give the usual headache associated with wearing the glasses. Director Mike Mitchell (SkyHigh) working with a script from Josh Klausner and Darren Lemke keep the action moving at a crisp click. The story just seems tired and predictable, not as witty as the first two movies, but infinitely more emotional and relatable than say, Ironman2. There is a bit of the Wizard of Oz here with the not appreciating what you have until it's taken away How to Train Your Dragon still remains the best of the animated 3D ventures this season. There's only so much you can squeeze out of an ogre family once they hit domesticity without it turning into a weekly TV sitcom. As a parting shot for this series, this is a nice adieu.
If a pass becomes available, you will probably hear about it from reading your group mail. Just because it's been scheduled on the group calendar doesn't necessarily mean that access to those said passes have been made available. Fishing on the list will only get your posts deleted. If you want to know about a screening, read the archived messages first. Click on the calendar entry and see if a link was posted as to who is offering the screening. If it's GOFOBO check the partners offering the passes if they are listed. If nothing is listed, then be patient.
If you find info about a screening and are hesitant about posting to the group, send it to your moderators and we will pass on the information.
If you have questions on a screening, write to the moderators first before sending it to the group, because if it's not list appropriate then it will be deleted.
Survival of the Dead
AMC Northpark 15
Cinemark Legacy
Pearl Review
Pearl Carter who in 1928 lives with her family in Marlow, Oklahoma sees an airplane for the very first time when one lands in her father's field. In that moment her whole life had changed.
George Carter (Andrew Sensenig) and his Chickasaw wife Lucy (Angela Gair) have 3 daughters and a son. Pearl (Elijah DeJesus) at 12 years old has the responsibility of driving her father to work and on his business trips as he is blind. Despite his disability he is very successful and fosters the belief to his children, that you can accomplish anything if you try hard enough. When soon to be renowned aviator Wiley Post lands his plane on her father's land, Pearl begs her father if she could ride in his plane. Her excitement and enthusiasm is hard for him to resist despite Pearl being grounded for previously being too out of control. Pearl falls in love with the feeling of flying. She loves the freedom it gives her. Wiley likes her spunk and willingness and tells George that she may have the aptitude to be a pilot. George decides to build Pearl an airplane hanger and get her an airplane. Wiley finds her a flight instructor who is hesitant about her age, until he sees what she can do. By the time she's 14 Pearl is flying her first solo. Her father manages to secure her a flying license by saying she's taller than she really is and 2 years older, much to the chagrin of the mother. Pearl flies at air shows and pilots her father and others for business trips. Soon she becomes a local celebrity for being the youngest airplane pilot in the country.
A couple years later she meets Scottie, a local farm boy and catches his attentions. They quickly become very close. Worried that her father will disapprove, she and Scottie elope just as her older sister had done. Apparently in those days it was acceptable for teenagers to run off and get married. But these are also during the years of the great depression and times are tough. Scottie has trouble with Pearl still barnstorming at the air shows. He believes she takes too many chances now that she's married with a child.. Eventually she reconnects with her family and has to decide what's more important in her life, flying or raising her children.
King Hollis directed this feature by Thomas Bailey, Donna Carlton, and Margaret Reynolds with the slow pacing of a Lifetime Channel TV movie. The true story of the inspiring young woman will work for young girls with aspiring dreams. Young women did not have that many options for their futures besides getting married and raising children to help work their farms. Her abilities and desire for someone of her age, during the late 1920's, and in such a small town is remarkable in itself. It's just a little convenient that she was able to do these things because her father was well to do enough to build her a hanger and buy her a plane. It also would have been nice if they included her meeting with famed humorist Will Rodgers through Wiley Post. Rodgers and Post were both killed when Post's aircraft crashed in Alaska. For local films, it's nice discovering a story so little known produced by the Chickasaw Nation.
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Just Wright Review
Lesley Wright is a 35 year old single woman who just can't find a relationship. She's got a good job, just bought a house that she's fixing up, lets her god-sister stay for free and drives this beat up old car because her grandfather gave it to her. She's a good person with whom men just want to be friends.
Queen Latifah embodies Lesley Wright with a good attitude about her situation in life. She's happy working at a physical therapist. Her mom (Phylicia Rashad ) is helping to decorate and dad (James Pickens Jr) is attempting to make home repairs. Morgan (Paula Patton) is temporarily staying with Lesley as she formulates her plan in life to "bag" a ball player as a trophy wife and get her own brand. Lesley is amused by her god-sisters shallow outlook on life. They go out to a basketball game with Morgan dressed to the nines to attract the players. Lesley dresses like the fan that she is with the New Jersey Nets t-shirt and yelling from the stands. Morgan takes off when she hears there's a party being given by the Nets Star Scott McKnight (Common) and her friends want to find out how snag an invite. Lesley stops at a gas station on the way home and McKnight driving a big fancy car drives up, and he's clueless as to where the vehicle's gas tank is located. In her unselfconscious way, and excited like a fan, she helps out McKnight who is grateful and invites her to the party the next night. When Lesley tells Morgan and asks her to come along, Morgan kicks her master plan into action. Using what little information she culled for Lesley's brief conversation with McKnight, she manages to peak his interest and the next thing you know they are engaged.
McKnight has a serious injury during a game which will require intensive therapy if he's going to the playoffs and having his contract renewed. Morgan recommends Lesley. With the chance that McKnight may no longer be able to play basketball, Morgan leaves him a note and takes off. Lesley must not only heal his torn knee, but also build up his confidence. In the process the expected is bound to happen between two people working so closely to each other. Until Morgan comes back into the picture once McKnight is healed, but will he make the Wright choice?
Director of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, Sanaa Hamri and writer Michael Elliot have created a story about women that doesn't sexualize them as objects. Morgan is beautiful and selfish which foils the level headed Lesley. Queen Latifah does basically the same character in his movie as she's done in her past romantic comedies. And she has some really good chemistry with rapper/actor Common. Its nice seeing women who have a more substantial physical presence be viewed as romantic leads instead of the just the loud best friend with the heart of gold. The real life basketball players cameos which will attract the men to attend this date movie are the only stiff and uncomfortable performances in the film. It helps to attend a screening with an audience that is thoroughly invested and react with verbal enthusiasm. Otherwise it's just another 2 hours that you will forget about and get on with stuff.
Robin Hood Review
In the 12th century King Richard is returning from the ill fated campaign in the holy land waging war against the infidels. His army is bankrupt and has to pillage its way through France. During one particular siege Richard the Lion Hearted, beloved King of England is taken down by an arrow shot by a French cook. Robin Longstride, an expert archer in the King's army decides in the interest of self preservation that it's probably best to take off now before word of the king's death reaches the coast and they won't be able to afford the return. Along the way they encounter Sir Godfrey, an Englishman betraying his king and country by conspiring with the King of France to cause unrest with the vain and ineffectual Prince John. Godfrey and his bandits had just killed the soldiers who were returning the crown back to England. Robin and his band manage to scare them away. He hears the last words of Sir Robin of Loxley who makes Robin Longstride promise to return his sword to his family in Nottingham.
Prince John (Oscar Isaac), the youngest son and now only living child of the Queen Mother is elevated to King. He immediately demands more taxes from his subjects despite the country already suffering from paying the price of King Richards's war. Sir Godfrey insinuates himself in the King's Counsel and replaces William Marshall (William Hurt) the advisor to his father and his brother. Godfrey tells the king that he will make sure the taxes are paid. Only Godfrey smuggles French soldiers into the country to help him do the dirty work. He hopes to divide the country in civil war against their king and make the invasion France successful. What he doesn't consider is Robin Hood's ability to unite the Barons and the country against the tyranny.
There are so many different stories of the infamous archer and his battle to rob from the rich and give to the poor. This particular version written by Brian Helgeland who has done the Green Zone, Mystic River, and a Knight's Tale, rewrites everything you think you may have known about Robin of the Hood. Don't try to reference Errol Flynn's merry band of bandits in tights and their peppy fun loving attitudes. This is a dark and dirty England and a very buff (Russell Crowe has not looked this good since Gladiator), and serious solider. Cate Blanchett plays Marion the wife of Robin of Loxley who must pretend that Robin Longstride is her husband returned from the wars so that she would not lose her properties when the elderly and blind Sir Walter Loxley (Max von Sydow) passes. She is not the prim and delicate ward as in the other stories. She's the matron of the household, working the fields along side the people of her lands.
Director Ridley Scott who also directed Kingdom of Heaven, Alien, American Gangster, is a master of the creating and immersing an audience into the story and its world. The battle sequences are well executed and visually exciting. The final battle between France and England was like a reenactment of D-Day only with arrows and horses. This could have easily ended up like Braveheart, but the movie carves its own niche into medieval lore. Crowe is excellent as Robin as well as his merry men Little John (Kevin Durand), Will Scarlet (Scott Grimes) and Friar Tuck (Mark Addy) who are well cast. This is a good stand alone film, but it ends with the Robin Hood the outlaw of Sherwood Forest that just begs for a sequel.
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Letters to Juliet Review
Sophie is a fact checker for a The New Yorker. She is taking a vacation trip to Italy with her fiancé Victor before their wedding. But it turns out to be mostly a business trip as Victor is busy meeting with suppliers for the new restaurant that he's opening and Sophie is pretty much left to her own devices. She discovers this courtyard in Verona where people write love letters to Juliet, Shakespeare's ill-fated heroine asking for advice and putting them on the wall. Curious she finds that the letters are collected by the "secretaries of Juliet" who answer them. Sophie helps out by writing one letter that got lost some 50 years ago between the bricks.
Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) has aspirations of being a journalist and knows a good story when she sees it. So when Claire (Vanessa Redgrave) shows up in Italy spurred by encouragement in Sophie's letter to look for her lost love, she asks if she could come along on the search. Claire's grandson Charlies (Christopher Egan) does not like the idea of his grandmother wasting her time on what could be a futile mission. Sophie's fiancé (Gael Carcia Bernal) is happy that she's keeping busy so he can pursue his vendors. She puts her fact checking sleuthing talent to work looking for the every male with the name of Lorenzo Bartolini (Franco Nero still looking good after all these years). The trip covers a radius area where they think he lives based on Claire's memory of when they first fell in love. Claire at the time was supposed to meet up with him one night and they planned to marry in the 60's. She had gotten cold feet and went back to England. Claire always wondered what turn her life would have taken if she had shown up that night instead of running away.
Gary Winick with writers Jose Rivera and Tim Sullivan have created a light hearted romance that doesn't rely on slapstick situations or characters doing stupid things to propel the storyline. It probably helps having the classy elegant Vanessa Redgrave elevating the material. She has good chemistry with Seyfried whose Sophie learns a lesson on love from the older more experienced role model. It was harder to believe Charlie as the fussy grandson and why Sophie would choose him over her livelier boyfriend even though he's a workaholic about his restaurant. No spoiler here, you know for the trailer this is how it's going to end. Life if beautiful, the Italian countryside, the attractive cast, it's the perfect postcard movie. Don't think about how a lowly magazine fact checker can afford the hotels and meals on her side trip with Claire and Charlie. Did they pick up the tab? I don't know what the protocol is when one invites oneself on a quest. Ignore the plot holes. This is a good date movie, you don't have to think about it too hard and get on with your life.
Labels: Letters to Juliet review
Movies Scheduled for the Week of 5/2 - 5/8
Happy Mother's Day to all mom's and mother figures out there. Do something
special for your loved ones. There's a million and one screenings of Letters to
Juliet today in every part of the city. Go check out the special notices from
GOFOBO telling you to reprint your passes for some screenings.
Shrek is being offered this Saturday, and so far we don't have any info on
screening passes...so don't waste your time or ours asking for passes until the
passes become available on this list because we will just delete them. Same
goes for Sex in the City. Usually GOFOBO will post the screening partners on
their listings. So check out those listings first. You are on this list not
just to mooch passes. You must make an effort to obtain those passes on your
own.
Mesquite, Highland Village, Frisco, Dallas, Garland, Grapevine
Grapevine, Southlake, Allen, Lewisville, Dallas, Plano, Hurst
Letter to Juliet
Just Wright
Shrek Forever After
The Babies Review
Four babies from different parts of the world is the focus of this entertaining and beautiful documentary on how we raise and nurture our little ones. Director Thomas Balmes and his crew offer a window in the lives of these families from Mongolia, Africa, Japan and the US. There is no dialogue or commentary to this film, only the camera aimed at the babies doing what babies do best.
Ponijao is from Opuwo, Namibia a village where the people raise goats. They live in huts with dirt floors, flies everywhere, and people with little to no clothes. They are decorated in beautiful beadwork necklaces, leg bracelets and belts. They use red ochre to clean themselves and a knife to cut their hair. Babies crawl around in the dirt. There's stillness in the way the mother and the female family members care for their young. Mothers offer a breast for nursing whenever there's a need. Bayar(jargal) is from a nomad family in Mongolia. They also raise goats and cows. In Mongolia they tie their kids in papoose like bundling. He was held in his mothers' arms on the back of a motorcycle across the wide open rolling plains of their lands. Bayar grows exploring his world being close to the earth, the vast horizon and sometimes tormented by his older brother in typical sibling fashion. Mari is born in Tokyo, Japan. And Hattie is born in San Francisco. They have an urban upbringing filled with the best of everything to stimulate their small motor skills. Their mothers take them to classes, and expose them to zoos, and stores. Despite these benefits that would be considered normal by most people, the babies all share a common unifying factor; the love of their parents, and careful attention to their development.
It's been said that babies are cute as mother nature's way of keeping their human parent from abandoning the child. As a mother it's hard to resist the beauty of these babies. Balmes' camera's effectively captured the unique journey each child takes in their exploration of their world. The lack of narration only enhances the universal language of who we are as a species. Our offsprings are our future. It's up to us to create an environment that is safe and healthy so that our children will survive.
Iron Man 2 Review
Billionaire Tony Stark's revelation that he was Iron Man made him into a world celebrity and rock star. His stance is that he has successfully privatized peace. But now he must contend with those who want of piece of his technology. The government wants him to hand it over because to them it's a weapon, competing businesses who want to build their own line, and a deranged ex-con Russian physicist who hates Stark for personal reasons. Stark's biggest enemy besides his ego is the technology that is keeping him alive is also killing him.
A government sub-committee led by Senator Stern (Garry Shandling) is also after him to turn over his Iron Man technology for the sake of the country. Stark refuses and in the process shames rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell in his smarmiest character yet) by pointing out his company is also trying to create a competing Iron Man without success.
Stark (Robert Downey Jr) wanting to continue is father's legacy, opens the Stark Expo, a massive theme park to celebrate technology and peace. His wild narcissism is a cover for the fear that his arc reactor is slowly poisoning him. He turns his company over to his long time assistant Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltro) while he indulges in participating in the Monaco speed car race.
Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) was jailed for selling weapons technology. When he gets out his father is dying. Anton Vanko had collaborated with Tony's father while they were developing the original arc reactor. Ivan begins to build his own to exact revenge as he blames the Stark's for his family's demise. Palladium powered Ivan stops the race while using electric laser whips that can slice a moving race car in half, hence his villain name of "Whiplash". Iron Man eventually defeats him but Ivan has sown the seeds of challenging the public's confidence in his ability to save the world. Hammer manages to extract Vanko from jail, fake his death and put him to work on his Iron Man solider prototype. Unfortunately Vanko is still following his own agenda and using Hammer's resources for the ultimate confrontation with Iron Man.
The Avengers Initiative leader Fury (Samuel Jackson) hints to Stark there is a way to repair his arc reactor in plans that his father left to him. Stark realizes after all these years his emotionally distant father actually loved him and left him the answer to his dilemma. Fury had also assigned Stark an evaluator to see if he's suitable for S.H.I.E.L.D. Natalie Rushman (Scarlett Johansson) who is working for Stark Industries also rocks a skin tight cat suit in some great fight sequences.
He is also betrayed by his best friend Rhodey Rhodes (played this time around by Don Cheadle) who is worried about Stark's erratic behavior. He dons an extra Iron Man armor and delivers it to his commanding officers. He realizes his error when he Hammer takes possession of it, which in turn is given to Vanko to develop into an amry of Iron Man soldiers.
Jon Favreau who directed the first one, uses lots of explosions and battle sequences in the final conflict. Although it has ably accomplished action with some Iron Man angst, it lacks the excitement and humor of the first movie. It will obviously bring a ton of movie goers to the theater opening weekend, so even though it's not as good as the first is a moot point.
The Square Review
Ray and Carla are engaged in an extra marital affair having trysts in her car while their dogs are locked in his vehicle. Sometimes they meet in hotel rooms for afternoon romps before going home to their clueless spouses. Ray promises to run off with Carla, but she is tired of his empty promises. When she suggests a plan, he balks, so she cuts off her attentions. Straight, dour Ray decides the only way to keep her is to give in to her plan. Thus begins a cascade of tragedy from that toppled bad choice domino.
Ray (David Roberts) supervises a construction site building a vacation development. Spurred by the need to get money to run away with his mistress, he gets involved in a kickback scheme with a cement company. Meanwhile Carla (Claire van der Boom) discovers a bagful of money that her thug husband Smithy (Anthony Hayes) is hiding away in the ceiling which she takes and hides in her salon. She tells Ray that he should get someone to burn down her house so that her husband will think his hidden cash is destroyed and won't come after them for it. Ray hires arsonist Billy (played by Joel Edgerton – co-screenwriter and brother of the director) and Lily his girlfriend (or sister, its ambiguous played by Hanna Mangan-Lawrence) to make it look like faulty wiring while everyone is outside for the town's Christmas celebration. Carla discovers that Smithy asked his mother to come feed their dog and she tells Ray to abort the job. Ray calls the simple minded Lily, but fearful of Billy she fails to get the message through in time.
The consequences of Ray and Carla's amateurish attempt to escape together stemming from their lust and passion causes a karma retribution that makes the audience feel clammy and edgy for the rest of the movie. The series of complications, accidents, blackmail and a shark attack are sometimes funny in its moral dilemma etched on Ray's craggy face as his hopes and dreams hang in the balance. You can see why Ray is so smitten with the pretty and young Carla. But it's unclear why Carla is so enamored outside of Ray being the polar opposite of her husband. But can such a fuddy duddy as Ray bring long term happiness? These characters don't think beyond their immediate need. It's hard to feel sympathy for their wrong choices but at the same time it looks like the blocks may be falling into place. It makes one almost feel guilty for wanting their plan to succeed because everything they are doing is just plain wrong.
Director Nash Edgerton who also did the amazing short "Spider" masterfully created a tense film noir style movie with so many twists and turns it will keep you enthralled. At least it will keep you from looking too closely at the plot holes. The ending will remind you that you reap what you sow.
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Happy 4th Anniversary to the Dallas Movie Screening Group!!!
Started the first week of May on Yahoo Groups. When the melodious Jeff Baker stopped sending out movie pass notices on his list, it created a need and this list was created to help share free screening information. I had printed out little slips of papers to advertise at the X-Men pass pickup at the South Side Lamar coffee shop. We also signed up for a trip to Canada promotion for the movie which my daughter won! We only had about 35 members at first, then Jeff shared his mailing list with us. We grew quickly swelling to over 1300 members. The first group had to be disbanded because it was becoming overrun by spammers and people thinking they can just beg for passes. This new incarnation was started with a more tightly run format. Today we have over 700 on the list.
While we appreciate the growth and the continued support, the moderators are still hitting their heads on their keyboards because we are faced with the same dilemma of people NOT reading instructions or following directions. It only takes a second to double check what you are doing before sending it to the list. If people continue to misbehave, we will pack up and move somewhere else and may or may not tell ya...but for those that don't read these weekly rants, then you will probably not see this anyway. For those that do..you've been warned.
Now regarding the Iron Man 2 passes. You have to realize the Dallas Observer passes are always "iffy" at best. Please do not harass the vendors who offer the passes that gave them away early. If there was a limited supply and a massive amount of people waiting for them, then it's up to them do decide how to distribute. It's not their fault they only got a few. We don't want to bite the hand that feeds us. So quit your whining! I didn't get a pass either from the contests and pickups. Begging from the list probably won't do much good because those that were lucky enough to get one, will most likely not want to give them up. As the blockbusters come ripping and roaring through this season, please keep your mooching to a minimum! The moderators have better things to do than delete your messages.
Thank you all again for making the screening community so successful. I've enjoyed meeting a lot of you at the movies, so please come and introduce yourselves.
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Survival of the Dead Review
Shortly after the outbreak of the dead coming back to life as zombies bent on eating live humans, a group of National Guard soldiers realize that world has become survival of the ones with the most guns. They go leave their unit, which have become infected and pillage their way seeking a safe place hold up. They find this guy on the internet advertising Plum Island off the coast of Delaware as a refuge.
The beautiful isolated Plum Island is mostly settled by two clans, the Muldoons and the O'Flynn's, a cantankerous couple of family leaders bent on destroying one another. Patrick O'Flynn (Kenneth Welsh) wants to shoot all the undead in the head to keep them dead. Seamus Muldoon (Richard Fitzpatrick) thinks they can train the zombies to eat something else and not people. Muldoon thinks that it's his responsibility to keep the island's residents intact, although not living, just in case a cure is found. O'Flynn is not that sure anyone will be found before there's no one left alive. It comes to a conflict when O'Flynn can't bring himself to shoot two infected children. He's run off the island where he starts the advertising claim and send outside people to bug his nemesis.
The soldiers lead by Sarge "Nicotine" Crocket (Alan Van Sprang) discovers the mainland grounded O'Flynn and his cohorts are bilking people for their money and valuables. They battle it out, but the noise attracts a large group of zombies. The soldiers steal a ferry boat and O'Flynn barely gets away from the zombie attack and is brought on board. His return home is not as he had hoped. His daughter has turned into a zombie and rides her horse not stop. Zombies are chained on a tether doomed to brainlessly keep doing the same repetitive task they had done when they were alive. Eventually there's the confrontation with the O'Flynn's and the Muldoon's and the fate of the zombies.
The thieving National Guardsmen appeared briefly in the previous film Diary of the Dead, director George A. Romero's 5th film of the series. The first film Night of the Living Dead made in 1968 was the scariest film I had seen at that time. It remains an all time cult classic scaring generations at midnight movie screenings. None of the other movies, at least for me, is as initially as frightening. Survival offers a different take on the whole zombie cannon. Training zombies to see other mammals as a food group is an interesting concept. The film does have some truly interesting slice and dice shots of zombies dismembering their meals. And the creepy walking in the woods alone without shelter of a gun can make one jump. None of the movies will ever replace my first experience in Romero's zombie world, but Survival is a worthy addition to keep the franchise alive…or undead.
Labels: movie review, Survival of the Dead
Texas Frightmare Weekend Red Carpet
Dallas Movie Screenings was there on the red carpet at the Texas Frightmare Weekend Red Carpet:
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Home » About IEEE Access » Announcements » IEEE Access welcomes new Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Derek Abbott
IEEE Access welcomes new Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Derek Abbott
As of January 1, 2019, IEEE Access would like to welcome our new Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Derek Abbott. Prof. Abbott is an IEEE Fellow (2005), and has been with The University of Adelaide, Australia since 1987, where he is currently a Full Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Prof. Abbott has been a member of the IEEE Access Editorial Board, as well as an IEEE Access Associate Editor since 2015. He was also one of the award recipients for "IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editors of 2017″.
We look forward to working with Prof. Abbott and utilizing his expertise to continue the success of IEEE Access.
For more information on Prof. Derek Abbott, please click here.

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On January 3, 2018, McAfee completed its acquisition of Skyhigh. On this page you can learn more about this exciting news with resources and an FAQ below.
Why is McAfee buying Skyhigh?
Skyhigh is a market visionary – creating the CASB market five years ago and remaining a leader to this day. We realize that as data is increasingly created and consumed outside the traditional enterprise perimeter on endpoints and in the cloud, a new approach to security is required that covers the entire spectrum of modern cybersecurity architectures. Skyhigh will benefit from McAfee's scale with this transaction, providing additional resources through which to expand Skyhigh's value proposition and further accelerate delivery of its product roadmap.
With this acquisition, McAfee is investing in a key concern area for customers, while adding global scale to fuel Skyhigh's growth and mission. The combination of Skyhigh and McAfee establishes the leading company with the cybersecurity architecture for the future, with endpoint and cloud as the control points, linked by the security operations center with actionable threat intelligence, analytics and orchestration. McAfee already claims a market-leading position in endpoint. With Skyhigh's leadership in securing the world's most valuable asset – data – in the cloud, the company sets itself apart.
Will Skyhigh Security Cloud continue to innovate and get better?
Yes. McAfee is committed to a strategy that, among other tenets, includes a focus on endpoint and cloud as the control points of modern cybersecurity architectures. Skyhigh has established a market leadership position in the cloud market. This, combined with McAfee's leadership in the endpoint market, offers customers a company committed to continued investments in the architectural control points that matter most to customers.
How will Skyhigh and McAfee's products work together?
We have some exciting things in the works that we'll share over the coming months. Stay tuned!
Does my license or support agreement change?
No. This transaction has no impact on existing contracts. Skyhigh contracts will carry over to McAfee when the deal closes. We remain "business as usual" for negotiations underway.
Whom should I call for support?
In short, the same people you rely on today. Upon deal close, Skyhigh's support team will continue to provide the same industry-leading support that our customers enjoy today.
Yes. To deliver on our vision of making cloud the most secure environment for business, our hiring plans are still in place. To see open positions click here.


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import { StyleSheet, StyleProp, ViewStyle } from 'react-native';
import hoistNonReactStatics from 'hoist-non-react-statics';
import GestureHandlerRootView from './GestureHandlerRootView';

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  Component: React.ComponentType<P>,
  containerStyles?: StyleProp<ViewStyle>
): React.ComponentType<P> {
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        <Component {...props} />
      </GestureHandlerRootView>
    );
  }

  Wrapper.displayName = `gestureHandlerRootHOC(${
    Component.displayName || Component.name
  })`;

  hoistNonReactStatics(Wrapper, Component);

  return Wrapper;
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
  container: { flex: 1 },
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The DC-motored SD70M-2 and AC-motored SD70ACe are EMD's hope for the future. While designed to meet the Environmental Protection Agency's Tier-2 emissions requirements that took effect on January 1, 2005, they also have a higher purpose: to recapture the lead in North American locomotive sales that EMD lost to General Electric in 1987.
Under the hood of both engines beats a third-generation model 710 diesel with 4300 horsepower; only slight modifications were needed to make the model 710 meet new emission standards. With 5000 such motors in service worldwide and a reputation for dependability, EMD reasoned that shop crews would prefer familiar technology.
Other than the prime mover, however, virtually every element of these engines has been re-thought to create a 21st century locomotive. Ergonomics were a prime consideration. The engines' angular nose offers the crew far better visibility than most other locomotives, and the cab is comfortable for engineers of almost any size. Digital screens provide a range of information on what is happening both inside the locomotive and out on the road. The cab easily accommodates a crew of three - an important factor in a modern world without cabooses. And there is, of course, a cupholder for the engineer.
The key difference between the SD70M-2 and the SD70ACe is what's under the floor: traditional DC traction motors in the SD70M-2's trucks and AC traction motors in the SD70ACe. While AC traction motors put more tractive effort on the rails and enable an SD70ACe to start a heavier train with the same horsepower, that additional capability comes at a cost. AC-powered locomotives are both more expensive and more electrically complex than engines with DC traction motors, which most diesels have used since the 1940s. For that reason, the Norfolk Southern and Canadian National initially found the SD70M-2 more suitable to their needs, and both roads roster large DC fleets. Regional railroads Florida East Coast and Providence & Worcester have also been DC-power advocates. In the last several years, however, even those railroads have moved to AC power for new purchases, and the last order for a new SD70M-2 was in 2010.


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UTC+8:30 was van 1912 tot 1949 de meest oostelijke tijdzone van de Republiek China en stond bekend als Changbaitijd. Het kwam overeen met de zonnetijd op de 137° 30'-ste breedtegraad, 8:30 voor op GMT. De naam was afgeleid van het Changbaigebergte, dat de grens vormde tussen China en Korea.

In 1912 verdeelde de Republiek China het land in 5 tijdzones: GMT+5, GMT+6, GMT+7, GMT+8 en GMT+8:30 (nu UTC+8:30). De tijdzone gold voor de provincies Heilungkiang en Hokiang (beide nu onderdeel van Heilongjiang), Kirin, Nunkiang en Sungkiang (alle drie nu onderdeel van Jilin) en Antung (nu onderdeel van Liaoning).

Na de Chinese Burgeroorlog veroverden de maoisten het vasteland van China en de Republiek China ging in ballingschap naar Taiwan. De communisten stelden in 1949 GMT+8 vast als tijdzone voor heel het land (nu UTC+8).

Op 15 augustus 2015 besloot Noord-Korea de klok een half uur terug te zetten om zodoende in tijdzone UTC+8:30, de zogenoemde Pyongyangtijd, terecht te komen. Deze wijziging werd doorgevoerd ter gelegenheid van de 70e Bevrijdingsdag. Dit besluit werd op 30 april 2018 met ingang van 5 mei 2018 ongedaan gemaakt, ter bevordering van de Koreaanse eenwording.

UTC+08:30

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Digital Kaos > The Garage > Airbag, ChipTuning, Dash, ECU, IMMO, Locksmith, Radio, SatNav > ChipTuning > Chiptuning tractor.
View Full Version : Chiptuning tractor.
Does anybody else have experience with tuning/remap of tractor ecu. I have done some tuning of Massey Ferguson with Perkins VP30 pump and CR engine. I have some files from these engine if someone are interested in sharing experience.
I can start with a file from MF6470 with a Perkins engine.
This is an engine with VP30 inj.pump, and not CR.
I have made som tuning of this engines, but I am not able to get more than 25hp increase although I have lifted both IQlimiter and smokelimiter.
This is a file from MF7480 with the CR Perkins engine.
This respond quite well to tuning (increase about 50 hp on pto).
I have found basicly all maps in this files, and I have good experince how to tune this, I was only looking for other who also tune tractors. The CR engine seems to work as torque based, almost like edc16, there is DW maps in there as well, and this maps correspond to what actually delivered by the engine.
I also have maps for MF tractors with Sisu engine, this is Bosch edc7uc31, if someone are interested. MF tractors with Perkins engine actually use a Caterpillar ecu.
What flash memory most are in tractors ECU ?


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Trailer for Underrated Filmmaking Doc 'Filmworker' About Leon Vitali
"Stanley assigned Leon to me." Kino Lorber has debuted a trailer for the indie documentary Filmworker, telling the story of "filmworker" and Stanley Kubrick's right-hand man Leon Vitali. This is a MUST see for film geeks and cinephiles, a fascinating look behind-the-scenes. Most probably don't know who Leon Vitali is, that's because he never was in the spotlight at all, but once you see this doc everything will change. Vitali started out as an up-and-coming actor in England, first landing a bigger role in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon as Lord Bullingdon. From there he gave up everything and devoted his life to Kubrick and started working behind-the-scenes as his right hand man, helping him in everything from editing to directing and so much more. This is a superb doc that is also another rare look at how Kubrick worked, what he was like on sets and how he made his masterpieces. It's an underrated gem, worth a watch whenever you can catch it.
Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Tony Zierra's documentary Filmworker, from YouTube:
Leon Vitali was a rising British TV actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon. That first encounter with the famed auteur proved decisive — he resolved to devote the rest of his life working for Kubrick, this time behind the scenes, and took on just about every job available: casting director, acting coach, location scouter, sound engineer, color corrector, A.D., promoter, and eventually restorer of Kubrick's films. Tony Zierra's affecting doc profiles the devoted "filmworker" — Vitali's preferred job title — as he enthusiastically recounts his days with the notoriously meticulous, volatile and obsessive director. The experiences brought both tremendous sacrifice and glowing pride. Filmworker celebrates the invisible hands that shape masterpieces, reminding us that behind every great director, there is a Leon Vitali. Filmworker is directed by American filmmaker Tony Zierra, of a few films and the docs My Big Break and Carving Out Our Name previously. This premiered at the Cannes, London, New York and Telluride Film Festivals. Kino Lorber opens Filmworker in select theaters starting May 11th.
Without doubts, there will be many interesting things here to see and hear ...
shiboleth on Apr 20, 2018
Kubrick was basically the King Midas for every one involved in his productions.
DAVIDPD on Apr 20, 2018
I have my doubts about anything Vitali says. He completely botched up Kubrick's intentions as to the release of the dvd's aspect ratio on the 4:3 ratio releases at the time. This caused so much arguing about the directors intentions and he clearly didn't understand Kubrick's wishes. From everything I've read about this man he was a glorified gopher. The one thing he must have got right was getting Kubrick's coffee to him before it got cold, or he would never have been around the filmmaker as long as he was.
Charles Knowlton on Apr 20, 2018


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package org.bdgenomics.utils.instrumentation

import org.apache.spark.rdd.{ Timer, InstrumentedRDD }
import org.apache.spark.rdd.InstrumentedRDD._
import org.bdgenomics.utils.instrumentation.InstrumentationTestingUtil._
import org.bdgenomics.utils.misc.SparkFunSuite
import org.scalatest.BeforeAndAfter
import scala.collection.JavaConversions._

class InstrumentedRDDSuite extends SparkFunSuite with BeforeAndAfter {

  sparkBefore("Before") {
    Metrics.initialize(sc)
  }

  sparkAfter("After") {
    Metrics.stopRecording()
  }

  sparkTest("Operation is recorded correctly") {
    val testingClock = new TestingClock()
    InstrumentedRDD.clock = testingClock
    recordOperation({ testingClock.currentTime += 300000 })
    val timers = Metrics.Recorder.value.get.accumulable.value.timerMap
    assert(timers.size() === 1)
    assert(timers.values().iterator().next().getTotalTime === 300000)
    assert(timers.keys().nextElement().isRDDOperation === true)
    assert(timers.values().iterator().next().getName contains "recordOperation at InstrumentedRDDSuite.scala")
  }

  sparkTest("Function call is recorded correctly") {
    val testingClock = new TestingClock()
    InstrumentedRDD.clock = testingClock
    InstrumentedRDD.functionTimer = new Timer("function call", clock = testingClock)
    implicit val funcRecorder = functionRecorder()
    val recorder = funcRecorder.recorder
    assert(recorder ne Metrics.Recorder.value) // This should be a copy
    // Use a new thread to check that the recorder is propagated properly (as opposed to just using this thread's
    // thread-local value.
    val thread = new Thread() {
      override def run() {
        // DynamicVariables use inheritable thread locals, so set this to the default value to simulate
        // not having created the thread
        Metrics.Recorder.value = None
        recordFunction(myFunction(testingClock))
      }
    }
    thread.start()
    thread.join()
    val timers = recorder.get.accumulable.value.timerMap
    assert(timers.values().iterator().next().getTotalTime === 200000)
    assert(timers.keys().nextElement().isRDDOperation === false)
    assert(timers.values().iterator().next().getName contains "function call")
  }

  sparkTest("Instrumented Spark operation works correctly") {
    val rdd = new InstrumentedRDD(sc.parallelize(List.range(1, 11), 2))
    rdd.map(e => {
      OtherTimers.Timer1.time {
        OtherTimers.Timer2.time {
          e + 1
        }
      }
    }).count()
    val table = renderTableFromMetricsObject()
    val dataRows = rowsOfTable(table).filter(_.startsWith("|"))
    // We can't assert much on the timings themselves, but we can check that all timings were recorded and that
    // the names are correct
    assertOnNameAndCountInTimingsTable(dataRows.get(1), "map at InstrumentedRDDSuite.scala", 1)
    assertOnNameAndCountInTimingsTable(dataRows.get(2), "function call", 10)
    assertOnNameAndCountInTimingsTable(dataRows.get(3), "timer 1", 10)
    assertOnNameAndCountInTimingsTable(dataRows.get(4), "timer 2", 10)
  }

  def myFunction(testingClock: TestingClock): Boolean = {
    testingClock.currentTime += 200000
    true
  }

}

object OtherTimers extends Metrics {
  val Timer1 = timer("timer 1")
  val Timer2 = timer("timer 2")
}


Happy Friday, everyone! I can't believe it's been a week since my last post! I have things to share, but life just got in the way. Everyone at my house has been sick so between taking care of everyone, working and cleaning to try and get rid of all the germs I just haven't had a chance to post! Here's hoping everyone is on the mend and things can get back to normal around here.
I did manage to do a quick Valentine's Day mani for this week's "Love" prompt for the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge!
Happy Saturday! I managed to squeeze in my mani for this weeks 40 Great Nail Art Ideas Challenge! This week's prompt is the color/patter prompt - color is aqua or turquoise and my pattern was leopard. I bought a gorgeous leopard print background that was on clearance at Michael's a few weeks ago because I wanted to use it as nail art inspiration and this was the perfect chance!
Hello and welcome to the weekend! I have a fun-filled weekend of cleaning ahead of me *insert sarcasm* and I'm not sure I will have time to do a nail art post this weekend (though I hope I can!), so I wanted to alt least post something pretty to leave you with for the weekend! This is a custom Paint Box Polish that my friend Kim from The Ides of Polish had Pam make for her. I am collecting a few things for Kim and since I'm holding it for her she said I could wear it if I wanted. You know I had to try it! This is Paint Box Polish Fight the Fairies!
Hello! I have a polish to show you today that I have had on since yesterday evening - and I haven't been able to stop staring at my nail since! Pahlish Combustible Lemon II is such a stunner!


Half term is here! I am sure many of those with older kids look forward to this with a degree of trepidation but we are early enough in our school experience that I have been counting down the days until life returns to normal and my girl is my own again, even though it does require my participation in a great deal of high pressured colouring ("INSIDE THE LINES MUMMY"), listening to her singing all the songs from Trolls repeatedly, through a microphone, and answering questions such as "Why is space called space?"
It is a relief to be done with that first transitional half of term and, although life still has a Nancy-sized hole in it, it has been interesting and enjoyable changing the pace and direction of things with just the two boys at home. We do a lot more cooking, something Nancy was never particularly interested in, but that Sam loves and will actually see through to the end rather than tipping everything out on the counter, weighing a few ingredients, licking the spoon and wandering off. In an ode to the season, we knocked up a batch of pumpkin soup today (recipe from the BBC website - he cut up the pumpkin, onions, leek and smashed the garlic, stirred it, poured in the stock and the cream), and it was delicious. He loved the fact that the huge orange pumpkin was transformed in to the smooth soup, and devoured pints of it. I am hoping him to get him up to the stage where he can cook tea occasionally. I don't know about anyone else, but minutes seem to pass until it is that time of day AGAIN where thoughts have to turn to what to make for tea. My kids are relatively unfussy but there are still important politics to be considered. Nancy's favourite things are rice, prawns and mozzarella cheese. Sam and Kit eat basically everything in the world except those three things (this CANNOT be a coincidence, surely?!).
Painting is also a passion and, whereas Nancy was always quite inspired by a project (hand print animals, fairy palaces with glitter etc), Sam is less inspired by Pinterest and paints (1) a snake wrapped round a whale (2) himself. Every time. In that order. I just put down a huge mat, open the paint for them, make a coffee, and sit back for 20 minutes, enjoying the fact that no one wants or needs me, until they suddenly don't like being covered in paint and call to be carried like princes up to a bath that they immediately dye brown.
A few weekends ago we went to the Discover and Be/Wigglebums messy yoga event and absolutely LOVED it. I am not saying this just because I am obviously a big fan of all things Discover and Be/Sheila, but because it was a genuinely original event (which is quite a big shout after 5 years of baby-related-things) and completely refreshing and enjoyable as a result. The kids loved doing the yoga (Sam calls it Yoges, and is about as flexible as King Triton (niche Little Mermaid reference there; he is not at all flexible)), and then they got completely stuck in to the messy play stuff whilst I did an ACTUAL TWENTY MINUTES OF PROPER YOGA. Uninterrupted. And drank hot coffee. And then we all did some singing and went home. As we left, Nancy said, "Please can we go to all of these yoga parties mummy?" and the answer is definitely yes!
Brilliant news in our lives is the recent arrival on to the shelves of You Choose in Space by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart. The original has actually had to be re-purchased in our house as the first was read so much that it literally fell apart so a new version has re-invigorated all of us and has loads of really crazy and cool choices to make. The space food and the mixed up animals in particular are opinion dividers! If you are a fan of the first, you will enjoy the second.
Autumnal question of the week from Sam: "Why are bonfires called bonfires instead of fires?" Answer: Thought to come from 'bone fires', where the Celts burnt animal bones to ward off evil spirits. You're welcome.


Following the triumphant journey into Jerusalem and the journey from there to the passion, death and resurrection of Christ. Recognising the joys and sorrows of life that can lead, by the power of God, to new life. This day will consist of talk, reflection, Penitential Service and quiet time for prayer.
Date: Palm Sunday March 20th Venue: Croi Nua Centre, Rosary Lane, Taylor's Hill, Galway.
Time: Morning: 10.00 – 4.30 pm.
Cost: €10 or what you can afford.


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Rafael, The Wrinkliest Tyrant, and the State of Boxing Media
By Paul Magno on April 5, 2019
Climbing the boxing media ladder has always been a function of quid pro quo dynamics.
Arum, apparently, didn't take kindly to this Twitter sideswipe and hit Rafael right where it hurts most—right in the ol' press credentials…
Over the weekend on a Top Rank card broadcast on ESPN in Philadelphia, there was a power play drama going on to which few were privy.
According to someone with direct knowledge of the incident, veteran ESPN writer and TV commentator Dan Rafael had been banished for this event to the auxiliary press section—a most unaccommodating area, especially in a small venue like Saturday's, reserved for lesser-known scribes and fringe websites.
The always status-conscious, seating-conscious Rafael balked at being seated amongst the riffraff of the lesser media, sans table for his laptop and, especially, sans the privilege of being front and center as an ESPN correspondent. He complained to ESPN people, who accommodated him by allowing him to sit in their production seats.
However, right before TV started, Top Rank bossman Bob Arum spotted Rafael in a production seat up front and issued the order to have Rafael sent back to the auxiliary press section.
Instead, the rotund Rafael, dragging along his bruised ego (and, presumably, a shopping cart full of snacks and soft drinks), went to the ESPN TV truck and reported on the card from there.
So, why was ESPN's lead writer intentionally humbled at an ESPN show?
The only apparent answer is that Rafael displeased Arum with two unflattering recent tweets—one reporting on the dismal TV ratings for the Top Rank March 23 card headlined by Kubrat Pulev and the other taking a direct shot at Arum's hypocrisy for the aged promoter's public call for a Terence Crawford-Errol Spence bout.
"…Fights aren't made on social media," Rafael wrote via his verified Twitter account, "they're made behind closed doors in private if sides actually want to make them…Top Rank has no top opponents for Crawford to fight, hence the apparent desperation."
It was an unprecedented ballsy statement made by a man who got to the top of the boxing writing food chain by not making waves and by dutifully passing along promoter talking points via re-worded press releases made into news stories. Only Moe Howard could make a bigger case for being called "King Stooge."
Arum, apparently, didn't take kindly to this Twitter sideswipe and hit Rafael right where it hurts most—right in the ol' press credentials, a holdover weak spot from when Rafael was just a regular scribe without a 5XL ESPN blazer and bigshot salary.
For those of us who ARE boxing media or who pay close enough attention to what the boxing media does, this Arum-Rafael anecdote is not surprising at all. It's also not an isolated incident.
Promoters have owned the boxing media since, well, pretty much forever. And climbing the boxing media ladder has always been a function of quid pro quo dynamics. Bartering access to fighters, events, and strategically "leaked" insider info for positive, salable marketing content is part of the business. Those writers who play the game well get more traffic, greater name recognition, and the better gigs that go along with both. Those who ruffle feathers by refusing to play the game, on the other hand, get nothing but a hard time and a real battle to make a buck.
Only a handful of boxing writers make a living from boxing writing and in the absence of real money, access becomes the currency of the business. Just a gander at boxing writers' social media pages and their proud displaying of laminated press credentials will tell you how important status symbols are in an industry where actual money is hard to find.
In this atmosphere, is it any wonder why the business is filled with apple-polishers, glad-handers, and fanboys who crave face time with their favorite fighters?
Back in 2015, when several boxing writing big shots were refused credentials for the Mayweather-Pacquiao mega-fight or forced to view the fight from auxiliary press seating, a huge hissy fit ensued. David Avila of The Sweet Science even penned a cringe-worthy "manifesto" vowing to never again cover "Mayweather Promotions or Premier Boxing Champions, and any events promoted by Floyd Mayweather or Al Haymon."
The reasoning behind the mass media hysteria was that since the boxing media "made" Mayweather and Pacquiao stars by reporting on their exploits, they deserve to be treated well by these guys. But if this is all about delivering publicity for fighters via news coverage, as these guys suggest, then promoters are well within their rights to weed out the publicity they don't want.
As I wrote in my piece on the subject, Revenge of the Nerds (Hell Hath No Fury…):
"If there's a quid pro quo when it comes to boxing media coverage—and, obviously, there is—then what happens when the promoter decides that he simply doesn't want a certain writer enjoying media privileges while shitting on all those involved in an event?
...I am 100% against promoters and fighter management using media credentials as a way to reward or punish media, but let's not pretend that this is a game that doesn't go both ways.
Promoters frequently cultivate cliques of friendly media sources who are rewarded with unfettered access to fighters and live events. Promoters even prop up certain websites with financial support in a wink-wink, unspoken barter for favorable coverage. Certain writers are wined and dined by industry people, taken on sightseeing junkets, and treated as semi-quasi-celebrities by glad-handing industry big shots. Sit down with any savvy boxing insider and they can draw you a flow chart of which writer is in which promoter's pocket, which writers are openly searching for industry sugar daddies, and who is trying to parlay their reach and journalistic reputation into a back-end money deal for themselves.
…This is the world that the media created.
It's a world where media members serve as publicists in exchange for favors and/or money and/or access and/or the type of support a writer needs to stay afloat in the business.
It looks absolutely ridiculous for this media to cry like prissy teenage girls when they suddenly find themselves excluded from the game they helped create."
As for Rafael and this incident with Arum, specifically, the veteran scribe has yet to issue even the slightest peep of a comment about what happened with his subliminal dressing down in Philadelphia. He knows he messed up. He got the message. And, if he's the same man he's always been, he'll make sure to not step out of line again.
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Rick Hall 08:19pm, 04/13/2019
Oh by the way, Dan is entirely unethical, has always hit up promoters for his precious programs & posters, which is the sort of thing that gets professional journalists fired—while he struts around like he's Mr. Professional.
Akin 04:09am, 04/08/2019
Paul Magno!!! Gosh! You certainly are treading carefully. NOT! You've said it straight- I gotta respect that.
We are all involved in the culture and politics that has been created within the boxing space. From the fickle fans to the fat cat promoters.
We lay our beds; we lie in it.
Koolz 02:20pm, 04/06/2019
Let me have that Rafael for a couple weeks I will clean him out!
https://www.organifishop.com
Then I will Open his Psych, get him training, and in the Gym!
He can confront Arum after that.
Let's not forget that Rafael got put in his place by miss stepping with GGG and when he is going to be coming back to fight.
tlig 01:00pm, 04/06/2019
Why do these journalists think we are interested in reading about their petty feuds? No one gives a .....
Lucas McCain 10:54am, 04/06/2019
Not sure whether to file this under "sports business" or "social anthropology."
Chooglin' On Down To New Orleans 06:21am, 04/06/2019
"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." Or something like that. hehe. Nice quote but Voltaire didn't say it contrary to what people have been led to believe. Might have been Peter Parker. teehee. Chasing down a hoodoo there.
Kid Blast 10:44am, 04/05/2019
I suspect Rafael could care less given the amount of money he makes. Just my opinion. One of his strength's has been his thick skin.
Hmm, sounds like the boxing media is no different than all the rest of the media. Me thinks that when people FINALLY WAKE UP long enough to pull back the curtain, they will discover that the Wizard behind the drapes is some dried up, frail and frightened creature, and is nothing remotely like the manufactured image of the great and powerful Oz. Keep On Chooglin', bro.
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Massive police presence outside derelict building as cops uncover cannabis farm
Cannabis farm found in derelict building in Oswaldtwistle
By Amy Farnworth @FarnworthAmy News Reporter
Massive police presence outside derelict building
A CANNABIS farm thought to contain hundreds of plants has been uncovered in Oswaldtwistle.
A concerned resident, from the town, said emergency services - including the ambulance and fire service - had been outside a derelict building on Union Road since lunch time on Saturday.
The resident, who did not want to be named, said: "There has been a massive police presence in Oswaldtwistle at a building just before the railway bridge.
"The police, ambulance and fire brigade are all there.
"There are still currently eight police cars present today.
"It's on Union Road, a little further down from the old pavilion.
"It looks like a derelict building and as a resident I'm quite concerned about what's going on."
A police car and an unmarked car guard the entrance
Neighbouring residents, Sarah Watters and Jonathan Curry, said they had not been aware of any activity in the building until the police spoke with them on Sunday afternoon.
Mr Curry said: "The first thing we knew about this was when the fire brigade came yesterday about dinner time.
"The police have been here constantly, all night. It's like they've been patrolling the area."
The derelict building
Miss Watters said: "We haven't seen anyone coming or going apart from the guys who came to board it up, but that was a few months ago.
"The fire service came, and the police, and then the electricity board came, so we kind of knew what was happening then."
Police officers at the scene have confirmed that they are dealing with a cannabis farm in a derelict building on the corner of Foxhill Bank Brow.
At 2.15pm, there were three police cars, two CSI vans and an unmarked police car still outside the property.
The fire service had also returned and were getting ready to set up the brigade drone in order to take aerial shots of the building with a heat sensitive camera.


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Q: SWIG C function pointer and JAVA I have some code in C and one of the method has a function pointer as argument. I'm trying to use the C code in my Android app.
I decided to use SWIG to do all the work in generating the java files I need. Everything works well with regular function (the one that doesn't have a function pointer as argument).
But I'm not sure how I can pass my JAVA method as a callback to the C function.
Here is an example :
here is my multiply.h file
typedef int (*callback_t) (int a, int b, int c);

int foo(callback_t callback);

here is my multiply.c file
#include <stdio.h>
#include "multiply.h"

int foo(callback_t callback)
{
    return callback(2, 4, 6);
}

here is my interface file multiply-swig.i
%module example
 %{
 /* Includes the header in the wrapper code */
 #include "multiply.h"
 %}

 /* Parse the header file to generate wrappers */
 %include "multiply.h"

then I ran the following swig command to generate the java files I need
swig -java -package com.example.ndktest -o multiply-wrap.c mulitiply-swig.i

and then swig generated the following files :
example.java
package com.example.ndktest;

public class example {
  public static int foo(SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int callback) {
    return exampleJNI.foo(SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int.getCPtr(callback));
  }

}

exampleJNI.java
package com.example.ndktest;

public class exampleJNI {
  public final static native int foo(long jarg1);
}

SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int.java
package com.example.ndktest;

public class SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int {
  private long swigCPtr;

  protected SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int(long cPtr, boolean futureUse) {
    swigCPtr = cPtr;
  }

  protected SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int() {
    swigCPtr = 0;
  }

  protected static long getCPtr(SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int obj) {
    return (obj == null) ? 0 : obj.swigCPtr;
  }
}

Now how can I call this foo method from my java code? The argument is of type SWIGTYPE_p_f_int_int_int__int ??? I don't understand how I can pass a JAVA method as callback to the C code ... I think I am definitely missing something here ....
Any help is appreciated, thanks

A: Obviously, you cannot pass a single method as an argument. But callbacks are still possible with "Director" feature via implementing callback in an interface. See this example.

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Here I will show you 4 different ways to find GCD in Python using program examples.
GCD also known as HCF (Highest Common Factor). So let's see how we'll do it.
So in this program, first we assign values to n1 and n2, then we'll find smaller number from both of the numbers. After that we'll start loop from 1 to smaller number to find a number which can be fully divisible with both of the numbers n1 and n2 and store into a new variable named as hcf. At the end of the loop we'll get the highest number stored in hcf variable which can fully divide both of the numbers n1 and n2. That highest number will be our hcf.
So here we have a recursive function which receive two arguments and return the Highest common factor between them.
Python has an inbuilt method to find out the GCD. We even doesn't need to think how to code to find GCD. All we have to do is just use math.gcd() method and it will return the GCD.
Euclid's algorithm, is an efficient method for computing the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two numbers. Here is the pseudocode to show how we can find GCD using Euclidean Algorithm.
If you've any problem or suggestion related to python gcd programs then comment down below.
I like all that you showed in the tutorial on the 4 ways to find the HCF or,as you say,also called the GCD.
you guys in this data programming field are really in the cloud.I can google "what is GDC" and get what it means.Since you say that it's a tutorial,then you're in my sphere-Education.When I teach maths to my students I simply use factors to find the highest common factor.
The highest common factor of both integers is- 12.


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GAMING: Hylics
Hylics is a JRPG-style game made by Mason Lindroth and released on August 29, 2015.
The concept of "hylics" is taken from Greek gnosticism, where it was the basest portion of what made up a living person: their physical body. This was the evil portion of a person, the part of them that demanded to eat, to have sex, to do anything that would keep a person away from perfect spiritual enlightenment. Hylics doesn't portray itself as an evil game, but it is an intimately physical one where the entire world is molded out of malleable, changeable clay.
After the jump, we'll sculpt our opinion out.
Author: Eggware.XYZ
Gaming, Reviews
2015, game review, gaming, hylics, mason lindroth, not free, pc, rpg, rpg maker, surreal
GAMING: Half Hour Games – Oases
Oases is a game released on November 11, 2015. Described as a "kaleidoscopic elegiac flyscape", it was created by Armel Gibson and dziff, members of the Klondike Collective. You might remember the Klondike Collective from their last work that we reviewed, Naut. This game has a lot of similarities to Naut: it's a surreal, brightly colored jaunt throughout a mysterious, desolate landscape. The main difference is that this one takes place in an airplane. Oh, and also it's scary.
We had discovered Oases over Twitter, where some small discussion of it had sprouted from its release. We were interested and decided to give it a look, as we had heard that it was "relaxing" and "soothing". We're always in the market for more games to soothe us, so we thought at first Oases and us would be a perfect match. But would it? After the jump, we'll hop in the cockpit and find out.
Gaming, Half Hour Games, Reviews
2015, free, game review, gaming, half hour games, klondike collective, oases, pc, unity, walking simulator
GAMING: Naut
Alone, on the surface of Mars, the only thing that you have to keep you company is the sound of your car's engine. You don't know how long it's been since you've seen another person, but you are certain the ghostly inhabitants of each house you find offer you no help in your journey. Each time you crash into a mysteriously appearing rock, it only highlights your loneliness – oh great, you've fallen through the floor again…
Naut is a 2014 game created in Unity by the French game collective Klondike. It was produced specifically by three of the collective's members: Lucie Viatgé, who did the game's visuals and animation; Tom Victor, who programmed and did tech art; and Titouan Millet, who did music and additional coding.
After the jump, we explore the existential crises of Mars as viewed through the windshield of a convertible car.
2014, free, game review, gaming, good bad bugs, klondike collective, pc, physics game, unity, walking simulator
RETRO: Taco Bell – Tasty Temple Challenge
Hey kids! Do you like Taco Bell? Do you like Duke Nukem 3D? Of course you do? Well, what if I told you there was a way you could enjoy Taco Bell and Duke Nukem 3D at the same time – Wait, did we do this already?
Taco Bell: Tasty Temple Challenge was an advergame given away with Taco Bell's kids meal in 2000. Even for advergames, the concept is pretty inane: You play as "Baja Bill", an adventurer exploring deep into a lost jungle temple to find an imprisoned Grande Meal. Yes, you're on a quest to rescue precious Taco Bell food from an ancient faux Mayan-Incan-Aztec-Racist Caricature temple. As you battle your way through the temple, you combat snakes and scorpions by… lighting them on fire?
After the jump, we'll explore the Tasty Temple, discover its secrets, and figure out how some free games demand their own kind of payment.
Gaming, Retrospectacles
2000, advergaming, fast food, first person shooter, gaming, pc, taco bell, taco bell: tasty temple challenge
RETRO: Chex Quest
Hey, kids! Do you like Chex Cereal? Do you like DOOM? Of course you do! Well, what if I told you there was a way you could enjoy Chex and DOOM at the same time? No, no I'm serious – wait – no, don't leave – hold on –
Chex Quest was an unusual entity in the world of video games, namely because it was one of the few games ever used to promote a brand of breakfast cereal. Released in 1996, it was packaged in with boxes of Chex for free and given nationwide distribution. It's doubly unusual because the game in question is a commercially sold DOOM mod – a total conversion of the first DOOM game, completely done over with new graphics, sounds, and gameplay.
A second Chex Quest game was made hot on the heels of the first one, but promises of a third never realized. Although fans made plenty of mods to fill in the gap, it wasn't until 2008 when Charles Jacobi, one of the lead artists on the original Chex Quest, made his own official Chex Quest 3 with the first two games bundled in.
Get out your bootspoons, because after the jump we'll dig right in and discuss the history, gameplay, and our thoughts about all three games.
1996, 1997, 2008, advergaming, chex quest, doom, first person shooter, pc
RETRO: Sonic's Schoolhouse
Why the hell did they decide to make Sonic the Hedgehog the star of an educational game for children? Who allowed this to happen? We want names. Who, somewhere in the leadership of Sega, let this happen? Who?
In the mid-1990s, Sonic the Hedgehog was one of the hottest video game characters out there. His too-cool attitude and the blisteringly fast gameplay of his games made him the slick alternative to the stuffy Mario. And with how popular he was, this meant there was a bounty of Sonic the Hedgehog branded everything: Sonic the Hedgehog toys, Sonic the Hedgehog comics, Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons, Sonic the Hedgehog canned pasta… The list goes on. It only makes sense that Sega would want a Sonic the Hedgehog game for elementary schoolers, right?
In comes Sonic's Schoolhouse, a tale of bad branding decisions and corporate failure. Read On…
1996, bap interactive, edutainment, pc, retrospectacles, sega, sonic the hedgehog
GAMING: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo
The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo is a text-based horror game, created by writer Michael Lutz and artist Kimberly Parker. Released on October 15, 2014 to minor fanfare and coverage on websites like Kotaku, it tells a poignant horror story about growing up in the 1990s and the violence that people who love games commit upon each other.
Video games are one of the archetypical boys' clubs amongst boys' clubs. The exclusion of women, people of color, queer people, and any combination of the former has been a long ingrained problem within the community. And frequently, these minority people are pitted against each other to prove who is the "truest" fan of video games. Any woman who has even a passing interest in gaming will be familiar with the threat of not being considered a "true gamer". Women are constantly being forced to prove the simple reality that they consume video games like their male peers.
When women are forced to constantly prove their love of games, it frequently forces them to start questioning other women's credentials about video games. Women who proclaim themselves to be "not like other girls" and as "one of the boys" frequently exhibit a deep internalized misogyny, thinking that they are better than other women for having somehow successfully proven how much like a man they are. When women start fighting with other women on who gets to play video games, the only winners are the men who dictate them to fight against each other for their approval.
The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo is about this kind of in-fighting. Read On…
2014, gaming, horror, indie, kimberly parker, michael lutz, pc, pokemon, retrogaming, the uncle who works for nintendo, twine
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