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Philosophy of business as cross-disciplinary educational component
Tetiana Hlushko National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8759-7975
philosophy of business, cross-disciplinary educational component, economic education, administrative law education, culturological education
The article presents structural-functional analysis for the socio-practical potential of such educational component as philosophy of business, as well as research the degree of its impact on evolution of strategic thinking abilities, progress of creative potential, values and attitudes of students. Therefore, in the text of the article is outlined the author's structure of the analyzed educational component, that is relevant for socio-economic sphere of contemporary Ukraine and, at the same time, one that will motivate younger generation to apply cross-disciplinary knowledge for improving the national business sphere and for making progress in economic culture of Ukrainian society in general. The structure of analyzed educational component must include: studying the philosophy of business problem field in the context of game theory; analysis of business ontological specifics as well as related risks and success criteria; description the philosophical aspects of branding and business-leadership; analysis of such phenomena connection as capital, property and wealth; determining the basics of culture, ethics and social responsibility of business, its role in the structure of social institutions; and also studying of such instruments for strategic thinking evolution as theory of game Go and 36 ancient Chinese stratagems; and, finally, a detection of essential transformations for business-processes in conditions of digitalization and active artificial intelligence development. So we consider that socio-creative manifestations of that educational discipline should be analyzed, first of all, on three main levels: economic, administrative law and culturological. Article proves that in each of these professional educational areas, philosophy of business, as separate educational component, provides specific functional effects, significantly supplementing and improving curricula with additional knowledge and competencies that increases preparation level of modern specialists, creates opportunities for their better understanding of business practical value for national and global economies.
Tetiana Hlushko, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv
Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, Professor, Department of Philosophy
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Мать перевозит 17-летнего Дэйна и его 10-летнего брата Лукаса из Нью-Йорка в маленький городок Бенсонвиль. Мама всё больше пропадает на работе, ей некогда заниматься детьми, и братья находят себе занятие: исследовать своё новое место жительства. Дэйн знакомится с соседкой Джули.

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Производство
Съёмки фильма проводились в Ванкувере зимой 2008—2009.

Критика
Фильм получил положительные отзывы от критиков. На агрегаторе отзывов Rotten Tomatoes сказано, что 81 % критиков дали фильму положительную оценку, основанную на 36 обзорах, со средним рейтингом 6,4 из 10. Резюме фильма следующее: «Ностальгическое возвращение к стандартам пригородных подростковых триллеров 1980-х, "Врата" — страшный фильм, режиссёр Джо Данте снова на коне, и это радует».

В ролях
 Крис Массолья — Дейн Томпсон
 Хейли Беннетт — Джули Кемпбелл
 Нейтан Гэмбл — Лукас Томпсон
 Брюс Дерн — «Жуткий» Карл
 Тери Поло — Сьюзан Томпсон
 Куинн Лорд — Энни Смит
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 Марк Поусон
 Джон ДеСантис
 Дуглас Чэпман
 Корд Оверстрит — Адам
 Дик Миллер — камео

Награды и номинации
 2009 — Премия Венецианский кинофестиваль Лучший З-D стереоскопический фильм.

Примечания

Ссылки

 Interview with director Joe Dante

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Last Week we went from Pensacola to Knoxville to Nashville and back to Pensacola. Tn is still the worst state I have driven through regarding slowpokes in the left hand lane. I am talking about people driving under the speed limit next to an 18 wheeler holding up a dozen cars or more who want to get around the big rig.
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I guess my point is why pass law B when they don't even bother to enforce law A? IMO it's more about an easy ticket than it is about any real concern for safety.
Slow left lane drivers are a huge problem in Florida. They'll be driving along and then make a sharp right across two lanes of traffic and drive through the grass to get to an exit.
My mother loves to drive slowly in the left lane. She's turning left in just five miles, so it's important for her to go ahead and be in the correct lane for that. Apologies to everybody who has been stuck behind my mother.
I-40 between Jackson & Nashville is the worst for this, but the section between Brownsville & Memphis doesn't seem as bad. Now that I've seen this thread, I'm dreading my drive over to Nashville in a few weeks . I've also noticed that somebody can be driving a $60,000 vehicle & apparently not know how to use the cruise control, or people pass you and then slow back down, almost like they want to run in a group of cars instead of alone. It is a pretty big change from I-55 in Missouri, although to be fair to Tennessee I-40 carries significantly more traffic. Why Jackson doesn't have 3 lanes on I-40 is beyond me. I stay out of the left lane except to pass. I don't worry about it anymore, I'll pass on the right just as much as on the left if that is what it takes. A driver actively trying to manage the flow of traffic is doing more harm than good.
To those that grew up in TN, do they include the lane rules as part of the license test? I ask because this law isn't enforced in Missouri, but there aren't that many issues with it either.
When my kids too the test the focus was on DUI, (legal alcohol limit, penalties, etc) and road signs. I have a young friend trying to get his license now and tells me it hasn't much changed. Apparently a big part of the test is being shown blank road signs and having to identify them by shape. I asked him about 4 ways stops and right of way (because that seems to be something a lot of driver here have trouble with) and he said there might have been one or two questions.
All of I-40 from the Arkansas border to North Carolina should be 3 lanes each direction due to the volume of traffic.
I hate this. This what causes so many wrecks in this state, and those that slow down as they switch lanes or are not driving fast enough to merge into traffic. No one seems to know what a turn signal is for here either.
They taught us to do the speed limit and stop at the stop sign. That's about it lol.
. No one seems to know what a turn signal is for here either.
Oh now, everybody knows that's what you turn on after you've come to a dead stop in the road, or maybe as you make the turn, that counts too right?
Heaven forbid people here actually use it to warn others of their intention to turn.
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Q: how to use akeneo-labs spreadsheet-parser to parse large Excel worksheet I downloaded the packages from https://github.com/akeneo/spreadsheet-parser
and when I run it from my php file "as in Usage", I got the error
Fatal error: Class 'Akeneo\Component\SpreadsheetParser\SpreadsheetParser' not found

*

*P.S. I'm using WAMP the latest version, windows 7

thanks

A: I contacted with the author, and I figured out that I didn't install composer..
and as I don't know anything about it, so he did some edits on his code, and send it to me, so I can use it directly..
anyways, I'll put a snippet of php code, beside that I'll upload the file, to help anyone how face the same problem, and need to parse large worksheet xlsx or csv
<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Akeneo\Component\SpreadsheetParser\SpreadsheetParser;

$workbook = SpreadsheetParser::open('FL_insurance_sample.csv');

$myWorksheetIndex = $workbook->getWorksheetIndex('myworksheet');

foreach ($workbook->createRowIterator($myWorksheetIndex) as $rowIndex => $values) {
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}
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Q: symfony2 adds data to object but never persists to DB (doctrine ORM many-to-many) I have an issue with one of my many-to-many relations. I have debugged my form and I see that the chosen objects are actually in the entity object after form validation, but it never gets saved to the database, so there must be an issue with my mapping code, but I copy-pasted from a working one just substituted the fields and paths...
Here's the company object's relevant code
/**
 * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="BizTV\ContentManagementBundle\Entity\Template", inversedBy="companies")
 * @ORM\JoinTable(name="templatePermissions")
 */
private $templatePermissions;

/**
 * Add templatePermissions
 *
 * @param BizTV\ContentManagementBundle\Entity\Template $templatePermissions
 */
public function addTemplate(\BizTV\ContentManagementBundle\Entity\Template $templatePermissions)
{
    $this->templatePermissions[] = $templatePermissions;
}

and the template object
/**
 * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="BizTV\BackendBundle\Entity\company", mappedBy="templatePermissions")
 */
private $companies;
/**
 * Add companies
 *
 * @param BizTV\BackendBundle\Entity\company $companies
 */
public function addCompany(\BizTV\BackendBundle\Entity\company $companies)
{
    $this->companies[] = $companies;
}

/**
 * Get companies
 *
 * @return Doctrine\Common\Collections\Collection
 */
public function getCompanies()
{
    return $this->companies;
}

The code for updating (and creating is similar, and has the same problem) is just a standard ...
public function updateAction($id)
{
    $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getEntityManager();

    $entity = $em->getRepository('BizTVContentManagementBundle:Template')->find($id);

    if (!$entity) {
        throw $this->createNotFoundException('Unable to find Template entity.');
    }

    $editForm   = $this->createForm(new TemplateType(), $entity);
    $deleteForm = $this->createDeleteForm($id);

    $request = $this->getRequest();

    $editForm->bindRequest($request);

    if ($editForm->isValid()) {

        //DEBUG
        // foreach($entity->getCompanies() as $c) {
            // echo $c->getCompanyName();
        // }
        // die;

        $em->persist($entity);
        $em->flush();

        $this->getRequest()->getSession()->setFlash('success', 'Template '.$entity->getId().' har uppdaterats.' );

        return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('listTemplates'));
    }

Here's my form, like I said, it works perfectly for putting the stuff into my object (template entity) but it doesn't get persisted to DB...
    $builder
    ->add('companies', 'entity', array(
            'label' => 'Företag som har tillgång till mallen',
            'multiple' => true,   // Multiple selection allowed
            'expanded' => true,   // Render as checkboxes
            'property' => 'company_name',
            'class'    => 'BizTV\BackendBundle\Entity\company',
        ))
        ;

What am I missing?

A: *

*Pay attention for picking owning/inverse side. The owning side should be the one which is responsible for persist action. In your case owning side should be Template entity not Company.
For more info look here:
http://docs.doctrine-project.org/projects/doctrine-orm/en/2.1/reference/association-mapping.html#picking-owning-and-inverse-side

*Have you company entity class name starts with lower case? If no, you have a typo:
BizTV\BackendBundle\Entity\company

*try add cascade on persist
At the end your relation definition in Company entity should look sth like this:
/**
 * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="BizTV\BackendBundle\Entity\company", inversedBy="templatePermissions", cascade={"persist"})
 */
private $companies;


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    _deviceid = None

    def on_start(self):
        self._deviceid = str(uuid.uuid4())

    @task(1)
    def login(self):
        self.client.post(
            '/login', {"deviceid": self._deviceid})

    @task(999)
    def post_metrics(self):
        self.client.post(
            "/metrics", {"deviceid": self._deviceid, "timestamp": datetime.now()})

class MetricsLocust(FastHttpUser):
    tasks = {MetricsTaskSet}

# [END locust_test_task]

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Isaac Bloch (1848–1925) served as Chief Rabbi in Nancy, France. He wrote 16 articles for the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Bloch was a native of Alsace.  He served as a chaplain during the siege of Paris.  For most of the 1880s he served as a rabbi in Algeria.  He was appointed chief rabbi of Nancy in 1890.

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1848 births
1925 deaths
French Orthodox rabbis
19th-century French rabbis
20th-century French rabbis
Contributors to the Jewish Encyclopedia


The Southern Charm mom is taking her sense of style into a new venture.
Kathryn Calhoun Dennis has a fresh job title: Furniture designer! The Southern Charm mom took to Instagram to announce her new business venture, a furniture line named after her two children.
"Y'all, the day has finally come!" she wrote. "I am so excited to announce .... Kensie + Saint furniture for kids! I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to pour myself and my passions into something the same way I have poured myself into my children. I have paired up with an amazing woman @donnaosteele with [home goods store] @opulencebysteele to create one of a kind, functional furniture, that your children will enjoy for years and years. The launch will be soon!"
Kathryn shared some behind the scenes glimpses of fabric selection on her Instagram Stories as well.
Looks like Kathryn is off to an exciting start as a home furnishings designer!


The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is expected to issue new security guidance revisiting online banking and strong authentication, according to industry experts who have been involved in recent meetings with the FFIEC.
Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan is quoted, "I got the feeling that the guidance this time will be much more specific, suggesting banks might even be held more accountable in future cases of account takeover. Holding banks financially responsible for accounts would bring about significant change. Some solutions currently in place are more "check the box" solutions, designed primarily to address compliance, but not necessarily to improve security.


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6 Best Reverse ETL Tools for 2023 and How to Choose the Right One
By Jack Zagorski | 18 min read
These days, there is more and more online talk about reverse ETL. But the majority of it is either too shallow to clearly demonstrate to non-technical readers how it can be used, or so in-depth that it only appeals to data engineers or data scientists.
This is ironic because, in general, non-technical business professionals are the primary beneficiaries of reverse ETL and the insights it provides, so they need to understand how it can be used. But, tech-savvy data engineers and scientists are the ones who actually use the tools (and the secondary beneficiaries because the tools spare them engineering work).
This article will speak to both groups. On one hand, it will give non-technical readers an immediate understanding of how they can benefit from reverse ETL. On the other hand, it will help technical readers determine which tool might be most appropriate for their company.
The article is broken up into three main parts (feel free to skip to section three if you're already familiar with reverse ETL):
An explanation of reverse ETL and why it is becoming popular.
Concrete examples of how reverse ETL can be used.
An in-depth look at the top six reverse ETL tools for 2023 according to seven criteria.
Bonus: A table for quick, visual comparison of all six tools side by side.
Let's dive in!
What Is Reverse ETL and Why Is It Becoming Popular?
Reverse ETL is the copying of enriched data—very often first-party data—from a data warehouse into business applications like CRMs, finance management systems, and marketing tools. Why would you want to do this? We will illustrate in detail in section two, but, in short, it eliminates data warehouses as data silos and makes unique insights much more accessible.
Data warehouses typically only power dedicated analytics applications, which are great for decision-makers because they reflect companywide trends and processes. But sales teams, for example, spend their time in CRMs analyzing data on individual customers, not companywide processes. And data warehouses contain tons of customer data that isn't natively available in CRMs. Enter reverse ETL.
Reverse ETL itself isn't actually new. Sending company data from a warehouse into apps is something that's always been theoretically possible. But, historically, it hasn't been practical, for the same reasons that building and maintaining traditional ETL integrations in-house isn't practical: it's extremely time-consuming, it distracts data teams from core tasks, and, ultimately, it doesn't provide insights to the teams that need them in a timely manner.
What is new is that, in the last couple of years, thanks to new advances in cloud computing, the market for managed, relatively user-friendly reverse ETL tools has boomed. Since these tools are managed, all the integrations are built and maintained by the companies offering them, and some of them allow users to set up pipelines in a matter of minutes.
Note that we used the term "relatively user-friendly" in the paragraph above. Since reverse ETL pipelines send data from warehouses into apps, they have to be configured more carefully than classic ETL pipelines, because bad configuration could cause incoming data to overwrite data that's already in the destination app. (Classic ETL pipelines send data to warehouses, where it is just "dumped" alongside the other data that's already there, so there is no overwriting.)
For this reason, reverse ETL tools will need to be operated either by engineers on data teams or technically savvy professionals on business teams (i.e. citizen data scientists). Still, they are a game-changer because they deliver crucial insights to business teams punctually, they are a massive time-saver for data teams, and a massive money-saver for companies as a whole.
The Power of Reverse ETL: Concrete Examples
Reverse ETL lets you send any company data into any operational tool, so the possibilities are essentially endless. Here are some examples to demonstrate how powerful it can be.
For Marketing Teams: Automatically Reacting to Customer Behavior in an App or on a Website
Customer marketing teams can configure any kind of communication to trigger in response to any customer behavior in an app or on a website.
Assuming all customer behavior data is synced to your main database, this data can be routed to a CRM like Hubspot, or an in-app messaging tool like Intercom. So, for instance, when a customer starts using a new feature, or if they spend a certain amount of time examining that feature without successfully using it, you can have an email or in-app communication trigger automatically to help them along their way.
This could work wonders to make an upsell when the customer is hot, or solve a problem before they go cold.
For Sales Teams: Putting Complex Insights on Individual Customers in Front of Reps
Reverse ETL is just as much about marketing automation as it is about viewing granular customer insights in the tools where they're needed. For sales teams, the tool of choice is a CRM.
Any metric that involves first-party data, like lifetime value or different kinds of customer scores, can be synced regularly to a CRM. This way, a sales rep can, in the middle of a call, pull up the profile of the customer or lead they are talking to and have a clear picture of their potential value to the company, risk of churn, or most recent in-app behavior.
Without reverse ETL, they would have to request this information from the data team or, at the very least, fumble through a spreadsheet to find it—something not very practical in the middle of a sales call.
For Product Management Teams: Gathering Better Product Feedback
The benefit of reverse ETL for product management teams is similar to that for customer marketing teams, only the end goal is product optimization rather than upselling and churn prevention.
Just like customer marketers can automate the triggering of communications in near real time, product managers can configure feedback prompts to fire in response to any kind of in-app behavior. This greatly increases the chances that customers will actually take the time to give feedback because you can catch them when the feedback is top of mind.
Product managers can also route any data, such as data on feature requests, to their CRM, making it easier to prioritize the implementation of new features. We at Dataddo do exactly this—any time someone requests access to a new connector, we can see who, as well as how many requests per connector there are. This feedback helps us quickly decide which one to build next!
6 Best Reverse ETL Tools for 2023: A Comparison
The top reverse ETL tools for 2023 are:
Dataddo
Hightouch
Each tool will be evaluated according to seven key criteria. Here is what to keep in mind when looking at each criterion.
Destination integrations
It's not just the number that counts here, but whether or not the integrations are fully managed, as well as how willing the vendor is to build new integrations on request. Adoption of SaaS apps will only continue to increase, so it's important that you never have to worry about building and maintaining your own reverse ETL integrations.
Source integrations
Where you are sending data from is just as important as where it's going, because if your source is not supported, neither is your destination. So, the same is true here: the flexibility to accommodate new integration requests is key.
With GDPR fines, hacking incidents, and data breaches on the rise, security certifications like SOC 2 are more significant than ever in 2023.
Since the main purpose of reverse ETL software is to deliver insights to business teams and unburden data teams of engineering work, a major advantage is being low- or no-code, because this allows tech-savvy business professionals to better serve themselves.
Inbuilt data quality features
With data today coming from an ever-increasing number of sources, the potential for mistakes to be proliferated to downstream systems is enormous. So, it's important that reverse ETL tools have inbuilt mechanisms, in particular AI-based mechanisms, for solving data quality issues at the extraction level.
We recommend choosing a vendor that charges by number of pipelines or SaaS destinations, rather than by volume of records synced. Otherwise, your monthly bill will fluctuate.
Other Integration types offered, if any
Nowadays, it's common for businesses to have separate platforms for different types of integrations (one for ETL/ELT, one for data replication, one for reverse ETL, and so on). But this is becoming inconvenient as non-technical professionals start to work more with data. They don't want to think about what type of integration they are using; they just want to pick a data source, pick a data destination, and send. Having an integration platform that can execute all these processes under one roof will be a major advantage in the near future.
#1 - Dataddo
Dataddo is a fully managed, coding-optional data integration platform capable of connecting cloud-based applications and dashboarding tools, data warehouses, and data lakes.
Destination integrations: Dataddo is a new player on the reverse ETL field and therefore doesn't yet have the largest selection of reverse ETL destinations (5+, mainly CRMs and finance management systems). But, connectivity is Dataddo's specialty—new integrations are built every week, including for clients free of charge within about 10 days. See integrations.
Source integrations: Dataddo supports a large portfolio of sources (25+) for reverse ETL integrations, including all popular data warehouses, data lakes, and SQL databases.
Security: SOC 2 Type II certified and compliant with ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, LGPD, POPIA, and more. Optional SSH tunneling and exclusion of PII. 16 data processing locations. Custom encryption keys. All data that passes through the platform is encrypted.
Ease of use: Dataddo's no-code interface makes it extremely friendly to non-technical users, but it's also friendly to engineers because it allows them to tap into low-level platform operations via an API. As with any other tool on this list, some technical knowledge would be a great advantage when setting up reverse ETL pipelines. Data mapping is manual, but very easy for users with any level of technical skill.
Inbuilt data quality features: Dataddo features an AI-based data quality checker and anomaly detector that runs on each dataset before it syncs. There is also a feature that lets users preview data before syncs, as well as an error messaging system that helps detect problems during pipeline configuration.
Pricing: Starts at $99 per month, with a 14-day free trial. Pricing is by number of pipelines. (There is also a free plan for end-to-end integration of cloud services with dashboarding apps.)
Other integration types offered: Aside from reverse ETL, Dataddo is capable of ETL, ELT, database replication, and end-to-end integration of cloud apps with dashboards.
#2 - Census
Census is a fully managed, coding-optional reverse ETL tool that syncs data from warehouses to business apps.
Destination integrations: Census supports a wide range of destinations (90+)—CRMs, marketing automation tools, ecommerce platforms, help desk apps, and more.
Source integrations: 15+ source integrations are supported (popular data warehouses, lakes, and SQL databases).
Security: Census is SOC 2 certified and compliant with HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA. US and EU data residency. Runs on top of your data warehouse. Encryption keys available. All data that passes through the platform is encrypted.
Ease of use: Census' is easy to set up and its no-code interface makes it accessible to non-technical users. Nevertheless, knowledge of SQL is necessary to access more advanced features. Data must be mapped manually at the initial configuration of each pipeline.
Inbuilt data quality features: Census features a data quality checker and provides detailed error information for failed syncs. It also has an API Inspector to help users examine and understand Census' API calls.
Pricing: There is a free plan and paid plans start at $800 per month. Pricing is by destination fields.
Other integration types offered: None
#3 - Hightouch
Hightouch is a fully managed data activation platform whose reverse ETL functionality is designed for use by data teams.
Destination integrations: Hightouch has a portfolio of 125+ reverse ETL destinations, including CRMs, marketing automation tools, analytics tools, and ERPs.
Source integrations: 15+ source integrations (popular data warehouses, lakes, and SQL databases).
Security: Hightouch is SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA compliant. Runs on top of your data warehouse. All data that passes through the platform is encrypted.
Ease of use: Hightouch's reverse ETL functionality is relatively user-friendly, though it requires SQL knowledge to operate. Data mapping must be done manually.
Inbuilt data quality features: There is a Live Debugger, which monitors the health of syncs, as well as an error messaging system that displays error messages from third-party APIs.
Pricing: There is a free plan, and paid plans start at $350 per month, with a 30-day free trial. Pricing is by SaaS destination.
Other integration types offered: None.
#4 - Grouparoo
Grouparoo is a partially managed, open-source reverse ETL solution whose entry-level and standard plans are for developers, but whose enterprise plan supports less technical users.
Destination integrations: Grouparoo offers 20+ destination integrations, including popular CRMs and marketing automation platforms (additional integrations can be coded by users).
Source integrations: There are 10+ source integrations, most of which are data warehouses and SQL databases.
Security: Aside from a permission system available under Grouparoo's enterprise plan, security is the responsibility of its users.
Ease of use: As an open-source tool, Grouparoo is primarily for developers, but its enterprise plan allows less technical users to define record properties through the web UI (after it's connected to a source). Any data mapping must be done manually.
Inbuilt data quality features: None. Users will need to use an external tool to monitor the application for performance and errors.
Pricing: There is a free plan, and paid plans start at $150 per month. Pricing is by records synced/month.
#5 - Hevo
Hevo is a fully managed, no-code data pipeline platform that connects cloud services, cloud databases, cloud storage, SDKs, and streaming services.
Destination integrations: Hevo offers 10+ reverse ETL destinations—CRMs, help desk apps, email tools, marketing automation platforms, and in-app messaging systems.
Source integrations: Hevo currently offers a handful of source integrations (4+), mostly data warehouses.
Security: Hevo is SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Optional SSH tunneling. Custom encryption keys. All data that passes through the platform is encrypted.
Ease of use: Hevo's no-code interface makes it accessible to non-technical users, but technical knowledge would be a great advantage when setting up reverse ETL pipelines. Automatic schema mapping is available.
Inbuilt data quality features: Hevo sends notifications in case of any sync problems, as well as a summary of such events for inspection and resolution. Information on failed events is kept for 30 days.
Other integration types offered: Aside from reverse ETL, Hevo is capable of ETL/ELT and database replication. It does not offer direct end-to-end integration with dashboarding apps.
#6 - Integrate
Integrate is a fully managed, low-code data warehouse integration platform designed for use by citizen data professionals.
Destination integrations: Integrate offers 40+ reverse ETL destinations, including CRMs, help desk apps, ecommerce platforms, and marketing automation platforms.
Source integrations: 25+ popular sources for reverse ETL integrations—data warehouses, data lakes, and SQL databases.
Security: SOC 2 Type II certified and compliant with ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA. SSL/TLS encryption. SSH tunneling.
Ease of use: The platform is more for professionals used to working with data and code, especially when it comes to reverse ETL, so developers will likely be necessary to set up and debug pipelines, as well as map data.
Inbuilt data quality features: Error notifications for failed jobs. Validator to check proper pipeline configuration.
Pricing: Starts at $1,199 per month. Pricing is based on the number of connectors you use.
Other integration types offered: In addition to reverse ETL, Integrate supports ETL/ELT and database replication. It does not offer direct end-to-end integration with dashboarding apps.
All Six Tools, Side by Side
The Final Litmus Test: Customer Support
We almost forgot to mention—despite how capable or flexible a tool may be on paper, it won't be good in the long term if the support is weak.
One great way to find out which tool is best for your company is to test a few in parallel and see how customer support reacts when a complication occurs (as with any other technology, it's not a question of if but when).
This is one thing that we at Dataddo pride ourselves on—behind our leading-edge integration technology is a group of dedicated humans that's ready to take a personal interest in your reverse ETL use case.
Try us and see for yourself.
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More From Joan
Feature: Guess that Poster 2013
Posted on July 22, 2013 by RBuccicone
It's that time of year again: time for a new banner for the website. Can you figure out from which 1932 movie the poster cross section in the header is derived? This is again not an easy one and is cut from a horizontal poster or perhaps lobby card for the flick. As for hints, it features my favorite actor and an actress who was quite famous on the stage as well as screen. Although I found this movie to be a bit strange in its story of love and prostitution to keep one's husband alive, the poster is quite captivating.
If you have a guess, click "comments" below or fill in the box. I'll reveal the answer in a week or two and share the full poster for comparison.
For a reminder of past banner challenges, see the 2012 and 2011 versions. For more movie poster-centric posts and quizzes go HERE.
AND THE ANSWER IS… Continue reading →
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Uncategorized | Tagged: Joan Crawford, posters, Robert Montgomery, Tallulah Bankhead |	3 Comments »
2013 CAPA Summer Movie Series (Columbus, OH)
It's my favorite time of year in central Ohio, or nearly. CAPA, our local arts organizing group, has announced its lineup for the 2013 Summer Movie Series held in Downtown Columbus' historic Ohio Theatre. For those of you unfamiliar with this seasonal gem, the June 28 through Aug. 25 series features a plethora of classic movies shown in the theater that was originally built as a movie house and is now used for concerts, ballets, etc.
Among this year's offerings are two Hitchcock movies, which you know delights me. The wonderfully amusing The Trouble with Harry, To Catch a Thief and the Jimmy Stewart rendition of The Man Who Knew Too Much will certainly be on my schedule.
Other prize showings include An American in Paris, Grand Hotel, Citizen Kane, Bonnie and Clyde, The Thin Man, 1974's The Great Gatsby, and Touch of Evil.
I have been notoriously bad about achieving all the CAPA Summer Movie Attendance goals I have set in years past, and I won't pretend this year will be any better. I do hope to at least catch the Hitchcock flicks, but I'll admit The Man Who Knew Too Much won't be at the top of my list.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: Cary Grant, Charlton Heston, Doris Day, Gene Kelly, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Hitchcock, Janet Leigh, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Joseph Cotton, Leslie Caron, Lionel Barrymore, Marlene Dietrich, Mia Farrow, Myrna Loy, Orson Welles, Robert Redford, Shirley MacLaine, Warren Beatty, William Powell |	Leave a comment »
The Unknown (1927)
Despite how harsh I came down on circus movies in my last post, I recently enjoyed a very old but very good flick that falls in the sometimes successful circus-as-horror category. The Unknown pairs silent screen great Lon Chaney with a woman with a couple dozen silent movies to her credit: Joan Crawford.
The plot is a great one that scares and upsets the viewer with what is ultimately a very sad story. Chaney is Alonzo, the armless man at the circus. His lack of arms does not hinder him, however, because his feet have become substitutes adroit with such everyday activities as lighting a cigarette.
Also working for the circus is Crawford's Nanon, who is the pretty girl who has knives hurled at her by thrower Malabar (Norman Kerry). The beautiful Nanon, whose father owns the circus, has had a past filled with the groping hands of men. The occurrences were so disturbing to her that she now fears the hands of all men. Although Malabar is in love with the girl, he sends her running in horror every time he touches her.
It's no wonder then that Nanon is so fond of Alonzo. There is clearly a stark age difference, but the man has been in love with the girl for years. She seems to cling to him as a sort of fatherly figure, however. One night after Malabar has put his hands on Nanon to her dismay, Alonzo leaves his trailer to teach the man a lesson. We have seen him free his hidden arms from a corset device and now is fully equipped to take on any man. But the person who actually discovers his secret is Nanon's father Zanzi (Nick de Ruiz). Alonzo strangles him to death, revealing to us why he hides his arms–a genetic defect that has given him a double thumb and can tie him to a variety of thefts.
With the circus disbanded, Alonzo takes Nanon away from the life she has known and tries to start his progression towards a relationship. He ultimately learns, however, she will care for no man with hands. This sparks the idea to have his arms surgically removed. In a very creepy, dramatic scene, Alonzo instructs a surgeon –whom he has coerced into the deed– as to where to remove the limbs. Once he has healed, Alonzo returns to find Nanon has warmed to Malabar and no longer fears his hands. The intertitled dialogue only further drives a stake into Alonzo's heart as he realizes his grave mistake.
The costuming for The Unknown is magnificent and expertly hides Chaney's arms from sight while the man is clothed. Chaney plays the part wonderfully, making us feel his anger, his dark side and his anguish. The close of the picture features the actor laughing maniacally as he realizes he has removed his arms for nothing and still has been rejected by the girl he loves. His face is so full of emotion that we can understand without hearing it that his laughter is not driven by joy. Chaney accomplished all of the feet-as-hands action with the help of an actual armless man, who lent his legs for the scenes. Chaney nevertheless is perfectly in synch with the movements so that they do not appear to be coming from two separate bodies.
Crawford really proves herself to be a talented actress in this silent flick. You might not recognize her if you weren't looking for her, but she makes for a very lovely young woman. Crawford's character is a sympathetic one, so we hold no malice against her when she opts for the other man.
Source: Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces documentary
Filed under: Drama, Horror, Silent | Tagged: Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney, Nick de Ruiz, Norman Kerry, Ring a Ding Ding, Tod Browning |	1 Comment »
Grand Hotel has the distinction of being the only movie to win the Best Picture Oscar and be nominated for nothing else. The fact that it drew no acting nominations is notable given the star-studded cast, but it is true that none of the actors really stands out. Perhaps they were all too evenly matched.
Grand Hotel endeavors to be a story about the comings and goings in a high-end Berlin hotel, but it belies its own motto –"Grand Hotel… always the same. People come, people go. Nothing ever happens."– in the events depicted for us. We are first introduced to the handful of characters the story follows via a series of edits between their respective phone calls in the hotel lobby. We learn Otto Kringelein (Lionel Barrymore) has only a few weeks to live and is blowing his life savings enjoying them in an expensive hotel. The Baron (John Barrymore) telephones an accomplice explaining a need for more funds and referencing a theft he intends to commit. General Director Preysing (Wallace Beery) is working to close a merger that will be lucrative for him by relies on his company's partnership with a French firm. And famed Russian dancer Grusinskaya's maid telephones to say the ballerina is ill.
The hotel acts as a catalyst to allow the overlapping of these various lives, who infinitely influence one another but then part as they do the hotel. Also entering into the scene is Flaemmchen (Joan Crawford), a stenographer sent for by Preysing. Before he is ready for her to begin working on the merger documents, however, Flemm waits in the hall where she is approached by the Baron with amorous intent. They agree to meet the following evening for dinner and dancing. The Baron has previously met Kringelein and decided him a fine chap, creating a fast friendship. Kringelein approaches the couple in the hall and makes friends of Flemm as well. Also caught by Flemm's looks is Preysing, once he's ready for her to begin work.
Before the Baron can meet up with Flemm for a romantic evening, however, he will enter the room of dancer Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo) to abscond with her pearls. He sneaks in through a balcony window –two rooms down from his– but finds himself trapped when the depressed ballerina abruptly returns. In the dark room he sees her contemplating suicide and opts to intervene. In the ensuing hours, the two fall in love.
Flemm has by this time fallen in love with the Baron and finds herself disappointed in his new mood. Grusinskaya is leaving for Italy in a day and in order to accompany her, he must come up with money for train fare, a subject making him rather depressed. Flemm occupies herself in looking after the ailing Kringelein and in resisting the advances of Preysing. This businessman happens to own the factory in which Kringelein once worked and proves himself a royal ass by mistreating him in the hotel. Flemm will nevertheless consider leaving town on the arm of Preysing, but ultimately walks out the doors of the Grand Hotel with another man.
Grand Hotel, which was based on a play, is a great film from a technical standpoint as well as the somewhat esoteric relevance of its story. To the average viewer, the movie comes off as rather boring with seemingly no moral or sense of satisfaction at the close. But the point of the plot is about the random meeting of people and the indelible effect they have on one another. Flemm enters the hotel a stenographer and leaves as a mistress of sorts. Grusinskaya enters horribly depressed with her career faltering and leaves on cloud nine after a fantastic performence the night before. Preysing enters on the verge of a profitable deal and leaves in worse than ruin. Only Kringelein enters and exits with equal levels of joy; although, he departs with more money and company than he arrived. If there is any moral center to the story, it is Kringelein.
As I mentioned, the acting is fine, but you could have guessed that by the cast. This is often thought of as a great Garbo movie, but she does not appear in at least half of the action. Her line "I want to be alone" is well remembered, but not particularly meaningful. Garbo was a big star at this point, but audiences were taking a liking to Crawford by this time as well. The two never appear on screen together and had little to do with each other on set especially since Garbo's scenes were shot on a separate soundstage closed to visitors. Director Edmund Goulding once described the movie as two stories, both centered around women in crisis –Garbo's depressed dancer and Crawford's stenographer trying to scrape her way to a better life– with the Baron to connect the plots. I'm not sure I see the movie in that way because I do not view Flemm as a woman in crisis but as a distinctly different type of person bouncing among our main characters.
Grand Hotel is set for 9:45 p.m. ET Feb. 15 on TCM.
Filed under: Drama, Romance | Tagged: Edmund Goulding, Gasser, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, video, Wallace Beery |	2 Comments »
The Gorgeous Hussy
Posted on December 18, 2012 by RBuccicone
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
It probably comes as no surprise that the star of a movie called The Gorgeous Hussy is Joan Crawford. I think the term hussy was probably used quite regularly to describe the star's off-screen behavior, but the movie is not as scandalous as the title might suggest. This work of historical fiction is set in 1823 Washington D.C. and places Crawford's hussy among several government notables of the time.
Crawford plays Peggy, daughter of an innkeeper in D.C. where several lawmakers stay while in the capitol. She has grown up around the men and so Virginia Sen. John Randolph (Melvyn Douglas) has a hard time thinking of the girl as a woman. This reluctance causes him to spurn her when she enters his room late one night to declare her love.
The rejection leads Peggy to accept the advances of a sailor "Bow" Timberlake (Robert Taylor). The couple marries but Bow is called back to duty on the U.S.S. Constitution and dies before ever returning home.
Peggy has been good friends with Andrew (Lionel Barrymore) and Rachel Jackson (Beulah Bondi) for a number of years and begins to hang around with the politician up through a rough campaign for president, which he, of course, wins. The campaign involved a lot of gossip and harsh words against Rachel, who first married Andrew before her divorce from her first husband was finalized. With Jackson as president and Rachel having passed away, Peggy is in classy company but the rumors about her begin to mount.
Randolph returns to D.C. after five years in Russia and has resolved his feelings about Peggy to the point he does want to be with her, but the relationship will not last. Jackson objects to a union between the two and instead convinces Peggy to eventually wed Secretary of War John Eaton, played by Crawford's one-time husband Franchot Tone. The rumors and "pot house Peg" references culminate in backlash from Jackson who asks his entire cabinet to resign because of their demands Peggy be sent away from Washington for the various scandals she has caused. Being the bigger person, Peggy bows out of the capitol scene.
I think filmmakers run a risk when inserting fictional characters into real historical situations. It is one thing to have fun with history and change aspects of real events for a laugh, but a drama in the same vein is not nearly as fun. If one ignores Crawford's character in The Gorgeous Hussy, the movie does have some interesting historical aspects, such as the horrible mud that was slung at Rachel Jackson. The movie also becomes a bit predictable in terms of which relationships we know will be unsuccessful for Peggy, given that John Randolph never married someone with her name.
Crawford's performance is fine, but uninspired. She is a woman with conflicting romantic emotions who is pursued or admired by nearly every man around her. We cannot, however, enjoy the movie as a "what might have been" romance between Peggy and Randolph given the historic requirements. I found it difficult to enjoy any of Peggy's romantic interludes, which just added junk to what could have been a decent historical recollection of Jackson's election.
Filed under: Drama, Romance | Tagged: Beulah Bondi, Clarence Brown, Dullsville, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Taylor |	Leave a comment »
The Ice Follies of 1939
If the idea of Joan Crawford and Jimmy Stewart as ice-skating pros excites you, The Ice Follies of 1939 will disappoint you. Despite their characters' professed careers, the actors do not really do as much on the ice as their body doubles do, nor as much as the International Ice Follies, members of which are included in the cast.
The Ice Follies is essentially the Ziegfeld Follies –you guessed it– on ice. Stewart's character Larry Hall is a great skater who has the ambition of creating a show that features skits and songs written just for ice skaters. He starts the film working with his long-time partner Eddie Burgess (Lew Ayres) and newly acquired partner/girlfriend Mary McKay (Crawford). That act quickly gets the axe, however. Larry and Mary foolishly get married despite the financial turmoil, but the woman goes out to find a job in Hollywood and gets picked up as a star.
The third-wheel position has Eddie hit the road, and it is not long before Larry gets the same idea given Mary's fame has grown beyond his tolerance. As part of the actress' contract, she must remain single, so their marriage is kept secret.
Once on his own, Larry reunites with Eddie and the two work up the funding to back the Ice Follies concept. As time goes by, Mary becomes a sensational star on screen while Larry becomes the king producer of the ice show. The couple tries to reunite but finds the career demands on each member too great to overcome, at least until movies and ice skating unite.
This black and white picture concludes with a lengthy color sequence featuring our stars watching their on-screen collaboration: a movie starring Mary and featuring Larry's direction of ice skaters. This ending epitomized what the movie was really about: an excuse to feature the International Ice Follies. True, some of theBroadway Melody and other follies-esque movies were mere platforms to feature certain talents, but it was unfortunate this ploy became part of a movie featuring three really great stars. Stewart, Crawford and Ayres could have held their own in a romantic movie without the backdrop of ice skating, yet there the gimmick is.
The Ice Follies of 1939 sits among the many frivolous romantic movies Joan Crawford made early in her career. The main actors' performances were just fine despite their inability to ice skate. The picture could have been a really heart-string tugger had it been developed separately from the Follies' inclusion. The story of a movie star and the estranged husband who pulls himself up to equal social stature while still failing to reinstate their romance has potential. It just was not realized here.
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | Tagged: Gasser, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Crawford, Lew Ayres, Reinhold Schunzel |	2 Comments »
Dancing Lady
Posted on April 2, 2012 by RBuccicone
Dancing Lady (1933)
I saw Dancing Lady for the first time probably more than a year ago. I distinctly remembered this movie as being sort of an odd role for Clark Gable but utterly loving how romantic he was in it. What I did not remember about the movie was its title and that Joan Crawford was the one receiving those romantic attentions. What does that say about her performance?
Gable plays Patch Gallagher who is a Broadway musical director. He slaves to get shows put into production, making his cast of dancers labor endlessly, while taking orders from the purse-holding producer Bradley (Grant Mitchell).
Crawford meanwhile plays Janie Barlow, a burlesque dancer who is arrested when her place of employment breaks into a riot. While at night court, she is spotted by bored millionaire playboy Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). He bails her out and takes her for a meal but cannot seem to convince Janie to date him. He does, however, help to fulfill her dream of having a legitimate dancing job. He uses his monetary influence to get the gal a meeting with Bradley, who instructs Patch to put the girl in the chorus. Upon seeing her audition, however, the director puts Janie in the lead.
Janie and Patch on and off butt heads and have their romantic near-misses while Janie is publicly attached to Tod. The boyfriend has arranged for the girl to be compensated during rehearsals and is helping to ensure the financial backing for the show. Janie is stuck on her dream of stardom, however, and agrees with her beau that if the show is a success they will split, but if it is a flop, she will become his wife. Tod therefore takes the steps necessary to close the show.
In many of the Gable-Jean Harlow (and other) pictures we see the man balancing two women and choosing the one who suits him best. In Dancing Lady, the romantic arrangement is the opposite, with Crawford doing the choosing. Gable also takes a toned down approach to his usual masculine, take-what-I-want attitude and although drawn to Crawford's lips, always turns away before he can interfere in an established relationship. Perhaps the artistic background for his character in Dancing Lady is what softened his role. Gable really makes the flick worth watching.
Crawford –and Tone, for that matter– really could have been played by anyone. The two were on the verge of a romantic relationship off-screen, and although Tone is his usual charming self, he proves despicable in his actions. Crawford was ingrained in the flapper/showgirl roles at this point in her career, so she gives her standard fare on screen. This judgement is not to say she put on a poor performance, just one that was not memorable for me, blending into the many others she did at this time.
I should note that Fred Astaire appears playing himself and dancing opposite Crawford. Also working as stage hands are the Three Stooges, whose presence is amusing in and of itself. To think, Joan Crawford worked with the Three Stooges!
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Romance | Tagged: Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Grant Mitchell, Joan Crawford, Ring a Ding Ding, Robert Leonard |	3 Comments »
Sadie McKee
Posted on March 12, 2012 by RBuccicone
Sadie McKee (1934)
When you have watched enough movies from the '30s and/or '40s, you start to notice a lot of trends, especially in the romantic genre, and the plots start to blur together. You could also say the same of some Joan Crawford movies as she went through phases of characters: the flapper, the rags to riches, the bitch, etc. In watching Sadie McKee, however, I had the second of my recent experiences of thinking I had a plot pegged only to be wildly surprised (The other was Something to Sing About).
We are introduced to Crawford's titular character as she strolls toward a mansion. Some gents in a car comment that one can tell she has class, while another notes she is the daughter of his cook. It has been some time since servant Sadie has seen the son of her masters, Michael, with whom she grew up. Played by Franchot Tone, Michael Alderson is thrilled to see Sadie has grown up so beautifully, so it is easy to assume the two will soon wind up together.
Sadie has a boyfriend, however, who has been fired for stealing from the company run by the Aldersons. Sadie believes he is innocent and so throws a fit as she is serving the family dinner and overhears how they wish to make an example of him, with Michael leading the attack. She holds a grudge against Michael as she hops a train from upstate New York to the big city with this boyfriend Tommy (Gene Raymond).
After an awkward unmarried, yet consummated night at a boarding house, Sadie and Tommy make plans to meet at city hall after going to separate job interviews. The man never shows, however, because he has met the sexy performer across the hall (Esther Ralston), has joined her act as a singer and left town. Sadie soon takes a job as a dancer at a club and attracts the attention of millionaire Jack Brennan, played by Edward Arnold. His attorney who has joined him at the club happens to be Michael. The old friends have a tense reunion as Sadie is still angry with him and as revenge spends the entire night in the drunken arms of Brennan while at the club.
Brennan, who is a perpetually drunk alcoholic, proposes to Sadie that night and the two are indeed married despite Michael's objections surrounding Sadie's gold-digger intentions. The feud continues up through a negative diagnosis that Brennan will die unless he quits drinking. Sadie makes it her mission to keep the man sober and succeeds, and in so doing restores a friendship with Michael.
The marriage hits a breaking point, however, when Sadie learns Tommy is unemployed and possibly sick. She still loves him and explains to Brennan why she needs a divorce.
My prediction within the first five minutes of Sadie McKee was that the protagonist and Michael would end up together. Crawford and Tone became off-screen lovers on this picture and eventually married, although the size of her fame would eventually squash their relationship. As they interact on screen at the movie's start, the two get along so swimmingly, and Tone gazes at her so lovingly, that their courtship seems easy to predict. When Sadie goes to NYC, however, my prediction changed to her bumping into Michael and an instant relationship starting from there. Again wrong.
The plot element that has Sadie unendingly in love with Tommy, despite his having done her wrong, seems to create a hurdle for the story to get over. By the time we reach the point that Sadie can leave Brennan, the picture has gone on for so long that it has little time to wrap everything up and presumably throw the woman in Michael's arms. SPOILER Even in killing Tommy, the story cannot erase Sadie's feelings for the man, and so the picture closes on she, her friend, her mother and Michael enjoying the man's birthday at the woman's apartment. Although we can guess what his candle-blowing wish is about, the screen goes dark and we are left with no final kiss to seal the deal. (Time to put on The Bride Wore Red). END SPOILER
Both Crawford and Tone give splendid performances. Tone especially will grab you with his powerful emotional displays as he fights tooth and nail against Sadie's desire to make herself into an unsavory sort. Crawford matches him well in her fighting scenes, and the couple have always been delightful to watch on screen together. Backing Crawford up is Jean Dixon, playing Opal, the hardened night club performer who finds Sadie a job and then revels in her wealth. She acts as a bit of comic relief while encouraging the woman to take Brennan for all he is worth, although her intentions are not sinister.
Source: Bette & Joan: The Divine Feud by Shaun Considine
Filed under: Drama, Romance | Tagged: Clarence Brown, Edward Arnold, Franchot Tone, Gene Raymond, Joan Crawford, Ring a Ding Ding |	Leave a comment »
Love on the Run
Love on the Run (1936)
If one were to pit Franchot Tone against Clark Gable in vying for a woman's affections on screen who would win? One might say the answer depends on the woman. In the case of Love on the Run, Joan Crawford is our leading lady, but although she was married to Tone offscreen at the time of the film, that man does not get the slightest chance to woo her in this picture.
Tone and Gable are dueling reporters of sorts as Barney Pells and Mike Anthony, respectively. They are London roommates and foreign correspondents for rival New York newspapers. Mike is consistently vowing to share any scoops with his pal, but always leaves him in the lurch. On the first day of our story, the two flip a coin to see who will cover the wedding of a socialite to a prince and who will attend the takeoff of a baron and baroness who are pilots. When Mike arrives at the church, he finds Crawford as socialite Sally Parker fleeing from the premises and tracks her down.
The reporter wins over the girl's trust and conceals his profession. To sneak her out of her hotel, however, he borrows the aviation outfits of the baron and his wife, and the two take off in that couple's plane using Mike's moderate flying skills. To get away with this, however, Mike tied up the baron, baroness and his pal Barney who was interviewing them at the time. The two crash land in France and begin an adventure of hiding from the public, secretly reporting news stories back home and avoiding the baron and baroness, who turn out to be frauds/spies.
Tone intercepts the couple repeatedly throughout their journey and is rewarded by being tossed from a train and tied up again and again to allow Mike to continue getting the scoop. When Mike's profession is uncovered, it creates turmoil in the romance blossoming between he and Sally, but nothing that a movie plot cannot overcome.
Love on the Run is not the love triangle I expected it to be. If anything Sally and Mike band together to thwart Barney. It was Mike's treatment of his roommate that particularly turned me off to the protagonist. He is so brutal in his treatment of the man –at one point forcing Barney, who is rescuing Mike, to switch places with him and become a hostage to the spies– that I found it difficult to laugh at.
The romantic plot is not particularly enthralling. It is a slow-growing love between Sally and Mike as the two initially annoy each other, as is often the case in movies, but it is nothing if not predictable. Crawford, as you might have gathered from my lack of mention of her thus far, offers nothing novel to the story. Any woman could have played this part and the picture would have remained the same.
Filed under: Comedy, Drama, Romance | Tagged: Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Gasser, Joan Crawford, WS Van Dyke |	1 Comment »
Sudden Fear
Sudden Fear (1952)
What would be more shocking: Discovering the man you just married and are mad about doesn't love you and is having an affair or that he wants to kill you for your money? I had a hard time deciphering which of these circumstances, which come hurtling at Joan Crawford's character in Sudden Fear, were more hurtful to the woman. Sudden Fear comes at a time in Joan's career when she is in between the gorgeous face she brought to the screen and the more mature look that moviemakers tried to pass off as that past beauty. Despite being a thriller, this film did not come at the end of her career when she was making all those absurdly bad slasher movies (see Straight Jacket or Berserk).
As play-write Myra Hudson, Crawford's character has the prerogative to choose who she likes for a leading man in her most recent play, and it's not Lester Blaine, played by a young and sort of handsome Jack Palance. Lester tells Myra off before leaving the stage and the show goes on to be a great hit without him. When Myra boards a train to her home in California from New York, she discovers Lester is on board and invites him in for a drink and game of cards. The two enjoy the lengthy trip together and continue to see each other while in California. We get the sneaking suspicion that Lester might have sinister motives for dating the wealthy woman –based on his interest in a dangerous set of stone steps along a cliff at Myra's home– but the two marry anyway.
Surfacing at one of the couple's parties is Gloria Grahame as Irene, who has followed Lester to California after seeing a newspaper notice of his nuptials. She has some dirt on the groom that leads him to seek out employment of his own so he can pay the woman's living without using his wife's money. It soon becomes evident that despite his initial disdain towards the blonde, the two have become lovers.
It is not until Myra's dictating machine accidentally left running picks up the duo's conversation about how Lester makes out in her will that we actually discover the husband does not love his wife as it appears he does. On that dictation device Myra hears that to avoid a lousy settlement that Myra will sign as part of her will in three days, Lester and Irene plan to kill her and secure her entire fortune for the man. The villains have three days to execute and accident, and Myra might have been able to protect herself had she not accidentally broken the record onto which this evidence is recorded. The remainder of the picture is a high-stress account of Myra trying to avoid any precarious situations with her husband while also scheming to kill the man and make it look like Irene did it. The criminals get their just desserts but not in the manner Myra plans.
Besides the excitement of the second half of Sudden Fear, the most profound scene is Myra's solitary experience while listening to the recording of her husband and his lover's plan to kill her. Her emotions start as pure remorse at hearing the lovers' affectionate words towards each other before transitioning to horrid shock at the abject danger in which she lies. I think it might be impossible to watch that scene and those following it without thinking about what you might do in such a situation. The natural thing would be to run, get out of town without telling Lester where she has gone, but Myra does not take this course. The first of the three days that mark her doom are spent holed up in her bedroom in shock and fear of her husband, which she tells him is the result of a headache. The next day she cozies up to Lester and suggests they take the weekend at a vacation house, which appeals to him as an excellent murder site. She tells him they will go on the third day but then cancels last minute by citing other party plans she had forgotten. This pushes the murders' plans to the very last evening before Myra is to sign her legal documents and allows her to manipulate the schemers into their own deaths.
Sudden Fear was highly enjoyable as it allows Crawford to play beautiful and influential without being the man eater she often portrayed. She conveys vulnerability well and turns her character around to be powerful enough to plan a murder of her own while still remaining too weak to carry it out. This was a well-acted and highly suspenseful story executed to its best.
Filed under: Drama, Thriller | Tagged: David Miller, Gloria Grahame, Jack Palance, Joan Crawford, Ring a Ding Ding |	3 Comments »


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Four projects receive research funding for infectious diseases solutions
Posted by Vento on 8th April 2021 in Local News
Four research projects seeking solutions for infectious diseases have benefitted from the COVID-19 R&D Fund, which is being administered by the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and Malta Enterprise.
The COVID-19 R&D Fund was set up in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. The main objective was to provide innovative or improved approaches with regards to current or future infectious diseases prevention, control and containment of the spread.
The selected projects, whose value amounts to €3.54 million, were announced during a press conference addressed by Minister for Research, Innovation and the Co-ordination of Post Covid-19 Strategy Owen Bonnici and Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli.
The aim of the projects is to provide health-related solutions for infectious diseases, and were awarded following an open and transparent selection process. These are;
'CoV-Plex', which aims to develop a multiplex assay to determine SARS-COV-2 strains and specific antibody-producing transcripts;
'TargetID', whose objective is to provide novel drug targets for infectious diseases;
'ACE', which is focused on the rapid development of an innovative therapeutic approach against SARS-CoV-2′; and
'SANITAS', which plans to use plasma-activated solutions to prevent infections.
Minister for Research, Innovation and the Co-ordination of Post Covid-19 Strategy Owen Bonnici praised the collaboration between MCST and Malta Enterprise which led to this novel fund, which is far-reaching and significant.
"The amount of funding which is being provided for research is unprecedented, and it deals with a crucial aspect which affects the lives and well-being of people," Minister Bonnici said. He explained that this is also an investment in the talent of our researchers and is testament to the fact that science and research are key for a better future.
Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Sustainable Development Miriam Dalli said that patients will benefit from direct assistance as a result of this investment. Simultaneously, it will also strengthen our fight against infectious diseases.
"Our commitment is to continue to strengthen research and innovation in our country, as there is an opportunity for great potential. We will continue to work on new economic opportunities by investing in research and development. In health projects, research investment leads to solutions that patients will benefit from," said Minister Dalli. "Investing continuously in research and development across different fields leads us to new opportunities, and therefore Malta Enterprise is committed to continue assisting innovative projects by entrepreneurs."
Also present for the conference were Malta Enterprise CEO Kurt Farrugia and MCST Chairman Dr Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando.
Dr Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando said that, "Since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020, the importance of research in overcoming national and global challenges has become increasingly evident. In such unprecedented circumstances, and following discussions with Malta Enterprise, we realised that it was vital to deploy a targeted research funding programme. The COVID-19 R&D fund is a very specific one, and aims to encourage investment in innovative solutions for the prevention and control of infectious diseases."
He added that, "This collaboration is a good example of how governmental entities can come together to reduce fragmentation, become more effective, and direct their efforts to make research a national priority."
Malta Enterprise CEO Kurt Farrugia said that, "In the post-COVID scenario, we must continue to focus on investment in research, specifically research that contributes to sustainability in our societies. We urge researchers to also look at aspects of common medical conditions in our country. Likewise, we should seek to analyse climate change further, given the impact it has on the Maltese islands, the ecosystem and its surroundings, as well as research in urban development planning and food security."
He added that research should take us beyond economic recovery and target quality of life.
Thirty-six applications across public and private entities were submitted in a mix of sole applicants and consortia. The value of funding of the applications exceeded €18.5 million, further highlighting the interest in the research scheme. Research areas were varied and included medical products, molecular biology and data collection.
All the projects are currently in the early research phases and are expected to be completed within 12-18 months.
Posted in Local News | Tagged funding, infectious disease, Malta Enterprise, MCST, Minister Miriam Dalli, Minister Owen Bonnici, projects
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