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The controlled implosion of the Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank is continuing and must be completed before a new financial system can go online, according to Pentagon and other sources. In addition, action is soon expected against criminals like Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu murdered his psychiatrist Moshe Yatom after Yatom began revealing Netanyahu's insane plans to work with Mossad agent and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmajinedad to start World War 3. Netanyahu also phoned Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan after the 311 tsunami and nuclear disaster and threatened to blow up all of Japan's nuclear plants unless Japan handed vast sums of money to his criminal cabal. Other individuals expected to be "dealt with" include Henry Kissinger, J. Rockefeller, Carl Rove, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Rahm Emmanuel, the Bush family and Yasuhiro Nakasone.If any of these individuals feel they are wrongly included on this list, they must contact this writer directly and explain why. The Luciferian cabalists have been arrogant and believe the White Dragon Society, the Red and the Blue, the triads and the yakuza are cowards. The cabalists will be "neutralized" when and where they least expect it.
Let us now summarize the evidence we have that the 311 tsunami and nuclear disaster were a deliberate attack and murder of 20,000 people planned and executed by the Khazarian Satanists.
First of all, according to Democratic Party of Japan and other sources U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell met DPJ power broker Ichiro Ozawa on March 9th, 2011 and offered him the rights to Zeolite in Fukushima Prefecture if he would stop his plans to unseat then Prime Minister (and North Korean agent) Naoto Kan. Zeolite is now being used to clean up radioactive waste in Fukushima. Campbell claimed to be representing J. Rockefeller.
Another piece of evidence is the fact that the stock price of Higashi Nihon House, a maker of discount housing in Northern Japan, rose 40% on March 10th, one day before the attack. An insider trading investigation has begun and the investors are being tracked down.
Then there were local news reports dating to January, 2011, that the deep sea drilling vessel Chikyu Maru was systematically drilling holes at what became the exact epicenters of the quakes.
There was a 15-man team of Japan Self-Defense Force technicians who were involved in placing nuclear devices into the drill holes. These technicians were told it was for "tests." After the nukes were set off to trigger the tsunami, 14 of these technicians were murdered. The one surviving team member was sheltered by Pastor Paulo Izumi of the Tachikawa Christian Church in Tokyo. Based on details provided by this SDF technician, Paulo wrote up the details of how the tsunami was artificially created in two books published by Hikaruland Press. The latest, entitled "The Shocking Truth of Why Japan was Attacked with an Artificial Earthquake on 311," was published in February, 2012. Izumi has also published evidence of a fake Armageddon planned by the perpetrators of this attack. The Self-Defense Force officer is now being sheltered by a Christian group in the US and has been debriefed by agency white hats.
There is also plenty of evidence that the Israeli company Magna B.S.P. which was in charge of "security" at the Fukushima nuclear plant, actually blew up the plants with micro-nukes. Then of course is the recorded phone call by Benjamin Netanyahu to Naoto Kan after March 11, 2011 in which he threatened to blow up all of Japan's nuclear plants. Magna BSP was in charge of security at all of these plants.
The Fukushima nuclear complex was built by General Electric, a company controlled by J. Rockefeller and other cabalists via a web of so-called "charitable foundations."
People in Japan who were involved in the entire Fukushima nuclear and tsunami terror attack include Ichiro Ozawa, Naoto Kan and Tokyo Electric Power managers. They will be brought to justice.
The weapons used in the attack were created with fuel taken from a nuclear warhead stolen from the Russian submarine Kursk. Paul Laine from Pentagon Military intelligence confirmed that four nuclear warheads were stolen from the Kursk when it "sank" in August of 2000. An MI6 agent using the name Richard Sorge also informed the Japanese police in 2010 that a nuclear warhead had been smuggled into Japan via Okinawa and was located in a property in Hinode Town, in Western Tokyo owned by former Prime Minister and senior North Korean Agent Yasuhiro Nakasone. The agent later informed the police the weapon had been smuggled into the headquarters of the General Association of North Korean Residents of Japan.
The Japanese police failed to take action and instead arrested this agent and asked him to falsely testify that this writer was a drug dealer. The involvement of the Koganei Police force in this arrest means that North Korean agent and Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara is also involved.
Also involved was a North Korean agent by the name of Ota (we do not know his first name but his daughter's name is Hideko). Ota also worked in the past of Israeli Al Qaeda types in the Aum Shinrikyo subway sarin gas attack incident.
The original plan called for follow up attacks on Tokyo designed to terrorize the population into abandoning the metropolis.
A threat to retaliate against an attack on Tokyo by sinking the Las Palmas rock formation in the Canary Islands and setting off a 100 meter tsunami to hit the US East Coast and Southern Europe has deterred further attacks on Japan.
In any case, the original scenario was then to set up a North Korean controlled government of Japan and the Korean Peninsula in Osaka. The death of Kim Jong Il and the bribing of many North Korean generals put a kibosh on that.
However, it is still a good idea to set up the new LIFE (Long-term Investments For Everyone) economic planning agency in the Nara plain South of Osaka. This area is the home of the oldest cities in Japan and has plenty of flat land close to the ocean that can be used to create a new financial and economic hub for peaceful global development.
LIFE can be set up without impeding any existing government structures.
There has been considerable opposition, though, both from China and within Japan, to the proposal to join the Korean Peninsula with Japan to create a 200 million person nation. There will be negotiations on this subject in Korea next week. Negotiations with the various factions of the Japanese secret government are also continuing this week.
Since all the parties want world peace and friendly relations in the region, some kind of amicable compromise is expected. No exact timetable for announcements exists yet.
The Pentagon and agency white hats are also supportive of these plans. They say there are now 6 competing plans for a new financial system and none is taking the lead so far. The Pentagon and agency white hats are offering to contribute new energy and new transportation technology.
If the LIFE agency can get the rights to use gold-backed Yen overseas and can begin hiring staff, there is no technical or logistical reason why it should not be possible to end poverty and stop environmental destruction this year.
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Jail move caused shortcomings: officials
Yukon's Department of Justice officials told members of the legislative assembly during a hearing on Tuesday that the move to the new Whitehorse Correctional Centre building created gaps in programs offered to inmates.
PIerre Chauvin
Jun. 10, 2015 2:00 a.m.
Yukon's Department of Justice officials told members of the legislative assembly during a hearing on Tuesday that the move to the new Whitehorse Correctional Centre building created gaps in programs offered to inmates.
The public accounts committee was meeting after a report of the Auditor General of Canada released last March found gaps in key areas, including how inmates are rehabilitated into their community.
"We found that the department is not providing offenders with sufficient access to rehabilitation programs either inside the Whitehorse Correctional Centre or in the community," assistant auditor general Ronnie Campbell said at the time.
The focus was on keeping staff, inmates and visitors safe, said Justice officials appearing before the committee.
"We prepared staff, but as far as capacity went, we were challenged," said Robert Riches, the assistant deputy minister. There were some technological hiccups, he said, given the facility had 400 cameras and every door had to be opened from the control centre.
The length of stay of most inmates – WCC being a territorial jail rather than a federal prison, inmates are there for a maximum sentence of less than two years – is an issue to have rehabilitation programs done, deputy minister Thomas Ullyett told the committee.
"We have a narrow window to work with offenders," he said.
But the Justice Department was already aware of the issues raised by the report, thanks to their own quality assurance program, said Tricia Ratel, director of corrections.
"From the period of transition when the audit was conducted we've improved our outcomes considerably," she said.
Now all offenders have their primary programming needs met, and 71 per cent had their secondary programming needs met, she told the committee.
In the report, the auditor general found that in a sample of 21 inmates, 13 were not offered all the core programs identified for them.
The committee also questioned justice officials about the lack of training of officers in First Nation culture, despite more than half of inmates being of First Nation descent.
"I feel confident that by the end of this fiscal year, everyone will have been trained," said Ratel, who outlined that 69 correctional officers and seven probationary officers had received the training since the audit had been released.
The bachelor of social work offered at Yukon College that most correctional officers graduated from does incorporate elements of First Nation culture, Ratel said.
The department also had to deal with issues of intellectual property surrounding the programs offered – they couldn't simply modify it to include Yukon-specific elements.
"We're very much aware that the First Nations in the Yukon have their own unique history and culture, and that is a challenge with respect to programs," said Ullyett, adding the department had put out a tender for program development.
Justice officials are working with First Nations elders, Ullyett told the committee. He also said that WCC is incorporating First Nations elements into everyday life at the jail, by offering traditional food at the correctional centre, beading and carving workshops, First Nation language courses and some traditional medicines available at the health services.
While 67 per cent of inmates are of First Nations descent, they only represent eight per cent of staff.
"The greatest challenge is that they are connected to the offenders," Ratel said.
Justice officials also told the committee the adoption of new computer system for keeping statistics by 2017 will help – right now, data is compiled by hand.
In order to better work with offenders once they've been released in the community, the Department of Justice is moving two of its probationary officers from Whitehorse to Dawson City and Watson Lake, where they will be based.
"Whitehorse probation officers won't have to travel as far as before," said Ratel.
Currently probation officers in the Yukon each deal with 45 cases on average, placing them among the lowest case loads across Canada, with an average of 90 to 120 cases for officers across the country. But that comparison overlooks how some Yukon probation officers have to travel extensively to communities, Ratel noted.
Finally, the Justice Department also reviewed their strategies around staffing at the jail.
"Where before the staffing model was fairly flat, there is now a career trajectory for correctional officers who want to make corrections their career path," said Ratel.
When correctional officers job openings are posted, the department now receives dozens of applications from across the country, Ratel said.
"I think those are good indicators of the success that we've had in building our staff and in the success of the new staffing model," she said.
As Liz Hanson adjourned the meeting, she reminded people that the committee's work was not over yet.
"The committee may follow up with the department on the implementation of the commitments made in response to the recommendations of the auditor general and of the committee itself," she said, adding this could take the form of a public hearing.
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#32 Juan Silverio - Profile
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Position: 3B
Birthday: Apr 18, 1991
Hometown: Santiago
Silverio started his professional baseball career at age 17 out of the Dominican Republic when he was signed by the Chicago White Sox. He played from 2008 through 2012 with the White Sox organization before getting picked-up by the Cincinnati Reds. He played in the Reds farm system for the last two season making it to Triple-A Louisville where he played 31 games posting a.247 average with one home run and five runs batted in. This is Silverio's first stint in independent baseball.
AA Playoffs 2015 Laredo Lemurs 9 34 8 8 0 0 1 7 3 5 1 .235
AA Reg Season 2015 Laredo Lemurs 89 350 47 94 19 4 13 57 18 54 6 .269
Total 98 384 55 102 19 4 14 64 21 59 7 .266
Sep 20 @S. City W 12-5 5 3 3 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.297 0.324 0.235 0.621
Sep 19 @S. City W 6-4 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.172 0.172 0.422
Sep 17 S. City W 5-2 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.286 0.200 0.200 0.486
Sep 16 S. City L 2-10 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.143 0.143 0.393
Sep 14 @Wichita W 8-6 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.118 0.118 0.368
Sep 13 @Wichita L 3-5 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.188 0.071 0.071 0.259
Sep 10 Wichita W 4-1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.250 0.000 0.000 0.250
Sep 9 Wichita W 12-3 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.200 0.000 0.000 0.200
Sep 7 S. City W 2-1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.301 0.457 0.269 0.758
Sep 5 S. City L 4-8 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.304 0.464 0.272 0.768
Sep 3 @K. City W 9-5 5 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.302 0.463 0.270 0.765
Sep 1 @K. City W 14-11 6 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.298 0.456 0.267 0.754
Aug 31 @K. City L 9-10 5 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.301 0.462 0.269 0.763
Aug 30 @Amarillo W 17-7 6 3 4 0 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.302 0.466 0.270 0.768
Aug 29 @Amarillo W 8-3 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.296 0.453 0.263 0.749
Aug 28 @Amarillo L 1-8 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0.294 0.455 0.263 0.749
Aug 26 Grand Prairie W 6-1 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.288 0.444 0.257 0.732
Aug 23 @Wichita W 7-6 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.286 0.432 0.253 0.718
Aug 22 @Wichita L 5-7 4 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.286 0.434 0.253 0.720
Aug 21 @Wichita L 2-12 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.283 0.430 0.250 0.713
Aug 20 @S Falls W 7-3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.283 0.431 0.249 0.714
Aug 16 Wichita L 0-6 5 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.287 0.430 0.252 0.717
Aug 15 Wichita W 5-4 5 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 0.288 0.434 0.253 0.722
Aug 13 Amarillo W 7-4 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.287 0.426 0.250 0.713
Aug 12 Amarillo L 2-13 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.287 0.429 0.250 0.716
Aug 10 @Grand Prairie W 2-0 4 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.286 0.421 0.251 0.707
Aug 9 @Grand Prairie W 6-0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.283 0.412 0.247 0.695
Aug 8 @Grand Prairie L 1-2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0.287 0.418 0.251 0.705
Aug 7 @Amarillo L 3-4 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0.288 0.424 0.254 0.712
Aug 6 @Amarillo W 6-3 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.289 0.429 0.258 0.718
Aug 4 S Falls W 6-3 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.298 0.444 0.267 0.742
Aug 3 S Falls L 2-3 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.299 0.448 0.267 0.747
Jul 31 @Joplin L 3-8 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.298 0.448 0.264 0.746
Jul 29 @Joplin W 1-0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0.304 0.461 0.270 0.765
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Jul 13 Amarillo W 6-4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0.318 0.494 0.278 0.812
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Anna Wintour Explains How Meghan Markle Influences Her Style
The Vogue editor-in-chief praised the Duchess of Sussex's "fantastic" fashion choices.
By Carly Ledbetter
Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief and undisputed queen of fashion, revealed that she looks to Meghan Markle for style inspiration in one fashion department.
"I've been thinking a lot about suits recently so ― thank you to the Duchess of Sussex!" Wintour told an audience at the Women of the World conference on Friday, as reported by Page Six, while talking about her own personal style. Meghan has notably worn suits for several major royal engagements.
"I want to see that," moderator Tina Brown quipped to Wintour.
Wintour went on to praise Meghan and her style reign as a duchess.
The Duchess of Sussex has a friend in Anna Wintour, who revealed that she is looking to Meghan for suit inspiration.
"Obviously, her style is fantastic," Wintour said. "When she went on that trip to Australia and New Zealand, she was very respectful in choosing a lot of unknown Australian designers to wear, which was great."
She added: "But I think, more importantly, she's really bringing modernity to the royal family in a way that is inspiring."
Wintour has spoken highly of the former "Suits" actress before, and weighed in on Meghan's choice of a wedding gown in January.
Wintour described the Givenchy wedding dress chosen by designer Claire Waight Kelly as "brilliant."
A family portrait from the May 19, 2018 royal wedding.
"The royal wedding had the whole world watching," Wintour said in a video for the Vogue video series called "Go Ask Anna."
"It was sophisticated, it was chic, it was grown-up. It was an English designer, albeit one that was working in a French house," she added.
Perhaps one day we'll see these two taking in a fashion show together, like Wintour and Queen Elizabeth did in February at London Fashion Week.
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I woke up 110 and I was mortified but I knew I had been a bit swollen from the weekend.
. I had a Korean sweet potato as a snack and for dinner I made myself a chicken taco with flour tortilla and cheese. I also had Davids Tea.
I had my chicken and pita with sandwich topper + a small bag of beef jerky and Karved plate. Very little though.
Omggggg I made it to 106!
I had a korean sweet potato for breakfast and only rotisserie chicken with pita and my sandwich topper.
I had an iced coffee from Starbucks with a pump of white mocha and a splash of soy milk. I had a few bites of chicken before going out.
I only had two vodka waters at the club so that was that.
I kind of knew I'd be 106 because I ate so little trying to look good in an outfit I ended up covering up argh!!!!
Yesterday I ate a korean sweet potato for breakfast, soba noodles for lunch, half a bag of small SunChips (cheddar), white meat rotisserie chicken from Costco with half pita and used some sandwich toppers!
Yesterday I had stopped by Smorgasborg in DTLA so had a large XLB (soup dumpling) shared with Bear, shrimp daddy garlic shrimp plate with rice and mac salad. For dinner we had leftover Mastro's from Friday night. Leftover steak, salad and baked potato.
We were supposed to go to the gym in the afternoon but we did not make it.
So yesterday, I had half a sandwich from Tous Les Jours (Korean bakery) for breakfast. It was egg, bacon, lettuce and tomato on white bread. Bear and I had lunch in Buena Park after we dropped off the car for service. We had bossam with soy bean paste soup with rice and sides. I had a taro milk tea from 7 Leaves and a five pieces of hot Cheetos. When I got home, I had a 4-piece nutter butter cookie pack, a bite of snickers and soba noodles with dipping sauce for dinner.
I went to my cycling in the am… so I assume I would've been more!
I'm 109 today, which isn't bad but a jump from 107.
I ate a sweet potato for breakfast, my chicken pita with veggies and Mastro's for dinner. At Mastro's Bear and I shared a bone-in ribeye, twice baked potato with extra sour cream and chives, dirty ketel one martini with blue cheese olives, espresso martini, beefsteak tomato and onion salad, butter cake with whipped cream.
No gym again. Surprised I was 107 again!
Yesterday for breakfast, I had two chorizo tacos again, I had two al pastor tacos for a client meeting with all the sauces, one iced americano and nothing for dinner.
I didn't mean to not eat dinner, I just got stuck watching tv and playing candy crush.
Yesterday I ate, Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast, chicken pita with veggies for lunch, rice, seaweed and sides for dinner. I also didn't go to the gym.


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Posted on October 3, 2020 by carlosdev
Virginia Hill wonders how come James Bond got a sports car and she got a bicycle?
(2019) War (IFC) Sarah Megan Thomas, Stana Katic, Radhika Apte, Linus Roache, Rossif Sutherland, Samuel Roukin, Andrew Richardson, Laila Robins, Marc Rissmann, Mathilde Olivier, Lola Pashalinski, David Schaal, Rob Heaps, Matt Salinger, Marceline Hugot, Cynthia Mace, Joe Doyle, Alistair Brammer, Helen Kennedy, Juliana Sass, Sigrid Owen, Gemma Massot. Directed by Lydia Dean Pilcher
When we think of the heroes of the Second World War, we often think of lantern-jawed white men, aw-shucks farm boys, daring partisans and clever Englishmen, often played by such as Gary Cooper, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks. There were, however, many different kinds of heroes.
After France fell, there was a feeling of desperation in England, knowing that they were likely the next to feel the brunt of the Nazi war machine (America hadn't entered the war at that time). Finding out what the Nazis were up to was paramount, and there were no reliable ways to get that information; spies were being discovered and executed by the SS almost as soon as the Strategic Operations Executive – the office of British intelligence during the early days of the war – could send them.
In desperation, Winston Churchill ordered that women be sent over to Occupied France. He reasoned that women might be able to move about more freely and attract less suspicion. Vera Atkins (Katic), a Jewish-Romanian immigrant and a secretary in the SOE office was tasked with recruiting women for the job by her boss, Maurice Buckmaster (Roche).
Atkins took the job seriously and went after women that the Nazis might not suspect of being spies. One of her recruits was Virginia Hall (Thomas), a secretary in the American embassy with aspirations to becoming a diplomat, although her wooden leg (she lost her leg in a hunting accident) seemed to be keeping her from achieving her goal. Another was Noor Inayat Khan (Apte), a Muslim-Pakistani of royal lineage who wanted to make a difference in the war for her adopted country.
It was obviously dangerous work; most of the women sent overseas never made it back home, but the work they did was invaluable. Buckmaster characterized it as "ungentlemanly warfare," recruiting members of the resistance, relaying information back to England via wireless operators (like Khan) and committing acts of sabotage. They were surrounded by collaborators and counterspies, and many of the women were betrayed to the Nazis.
The movie, which was written by Thomas who also co-produced it, is largely the work of women behind the camera, which is to be celebrated. A story about women by women is something that cinema needs more of, particularly those about women whose accomplishments were largely lost to history. Thomas and director Lydia Dean Pilcher concentrate on the stories of Hill, Atkins and Khan. All three women were facing death at any moment – for Atkins, her citizenship was held up and she lived with the constant threat of being deported back to Romania, which was part of the Axis back then and almost certainly she would have been promptly executed had that happened. All three women were fighting against the preconceptions of men – Hill because of her disability, Khan because of her diminutive stature and nationality – as well as the Nazis.
The story is one worth telling, but that doesn't mean that it is told particularly well here. The dialogue has a tendency to be eye-rolling and the movie takes on a Girl Power tone which, although understandable, was completely unnecessary; the accomplishments of all three women were impressive enough that they don't need further "see what women can accomplish" hagiography. The movie would have benefitted from a simpler storytelling style.
The film is a bit muddled in terms of going back and forth between the three women, particularly in the second half of the film. It felt that there was so much to tell about these women's lives that we got only the barest minimum to keep our interest; they would have been better served with a longer format which would have gotten us more insight to who they were, which would have allowed the audience to get more deeply invested in their stories.
That said, it isn't often that a movie gets reamed for not being thorough enough, but that is the case here. I think the hearts of the filmmakers were in the right place, but taking on the project left them with a quandary; whose story do we tell, and how much of it? They chose three worthy women, but in the end, they should have concentrated on one or gone the miniseries route. I think the subjects deserved one or the other.
REASONS TO SEE: A rare look at some of the unsung heroes of the war.
REASONS TO AVOID: Probably should have been a miniseries.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a lot of period smoking, some graphic violence and scenes of torture, and some profanity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: During shooting, Thomas ruptured her Achilles tendon that required surgery once filming had been completed.
BEYOND THE THEATERS: Amazon, DirecTV, Google Play, Microsoft, Vudu, YouTube
CRITICAL MASS: As of 10/3/20: Rotten Tomatoes: 76% positive reviews. Metacritic: 67/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Catcher Was a Spy
NEXT: American Murder: The Family Next Door
Posted in New Releases, VOD Review	| Tagged A Call to Spy, betrayal, cinema, Cinema365, collaborators, espionage, Films, French resistance, IFC, Linus Roache, movies, Nazis, Noor Inayat Khan, occupied France, Radhika Apte, reviews, Rossif Sutherland, Sabotage, Sarah Megan Thomas, SOE, Stana Katic, Strategic Operation Executive, Torture, Virginia Hill, VOD Reviews, war, wooden leg, World War II	| Leave a reply
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
Wheels keep on turning.
(2018) Drama (Netflix) Lily James, Michael Huisman, Jessica Brown Findlay, Glen Powell, Matthew Goode, Tom Courtnay, Katherine Parkinson, Clive Merrison, Bernice Stegers, Penelope Wilton, Kit Connor, Bronagh Gallagher, Florence Keen, Andy Gathergood, Nicolo Pasetti, Marek Oravec, Jack Morris, Stephanie Schonfeld, Pippa Rathbone, Rachel Olivant, Emily Patrick. Directed by Mike Newell
In 1946, England was still picking itself up and dusting itself off after the war. In London, the ruin of the Blitz was still very much in evidence and while there was an attitude of starting fresh, the pain and horror of the war wasn't far from the surface.
Author Juliet Ashton (James) is making a tidy amount off of plucky war-set stories that are popular but bring her no intellectual satisfaction. A fan letter from a book club in picturesque Guernsey, a Channel Island that had been occupied by the Nazis during the war (a fact that this ignorant American wasn't aware of) leads her to visit the club to perform a reading. She is captivated by the beauty of the island but even more so by the people, particularly those in the club. Although she is engaged to a flashy American diplomat (Powell), she finds herself drawn to farmer Dawsey Adams (Huisman). She is also drawn to the mystery of Elizabeth McKenna (Findlay), once the heart and soul of the club but whose absence nobody seems to want to talk about.
Mike Newell is one of the UK's most capable directors with movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, one of the better installments in the franchise, to his credit. He does a marvelous job of evoking the post-war Era and gathering together an even more marvelous cast. James is never more attractive than she is here, and nearly all of the ensemble cast has some wonderful moments, particularly veterans Courtnay and Wilton, particularly Wilton who is much undervalued as an actress. There are sequences here where the raw emotions brought on by survivor's guilt are communicated without theatrical hysterics. It's a nuanced and brilliant performance that very nearly steals the show.
The romantic elements of the movie are a bit too sweet, leaving one with an unpleasant taste in the mouth – I truly wish that the plot had revolved more on the tale of Elizabeth McKenna than on the romance between Dawsey Adams and Juliet Ashton which came off like a British period soap opera only less interesting. I can't not recommend a Mike Newell film however and the strong performances in this one make it a perfect candidate to Netflix and Chill.
REASONS TO SEE: The era is recreated beautifully.
REASONS TO AVOID: Contains more than a little bit of treacle.
FAMILY VALUES: The themes are somewhat adult; there are also some sexual references and occasional mild profanity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: James, Findlay, Good and Wilton also have appeared in the hit PBS series Downton Abbey; one of the filming locations for the show also doubled as exteriors for Guernsey (the Charterhouse in cases anyone is keeping score).
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Man Who Went Up a Hill & Came Down a Mountain
NEXT: Jim Allison: Breakthrough
Posted in VOD Review	| Tagged 1940s, based on a novel, book club, British cinema, Channel Islands, cinema, Cinema365, collaborators, docks, engagement ring, Films, Glen Powell, Guernsey, historical drama, Jessica Brown Findlay, Lily James, London Blitz, love triangle, Matthew Goode, Michael Huisman, Mike Newell, movies, Nazi occupation, Netflix, Penelope Wilton, publisher, reading, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Tom Courtnay, VOD Reviews	| Leave a reply
Posted on January 5, 2018 by carlosdev
Django Reinhardt doing what he does best.
(2017) Biographical Drama (Under the Milky Way) Reda Kateb, Cécile De France, Beata Palya, Bimbam Merstein, Gabriel Mireté, Johnny Montreuil, Vincent Frade, Raphaël Dever, Patrick Mille, Xavier Beauvois, Esther Comar, Jan Henrik Stahlberg, Hugues Jourdain, Hono Winterstein, Etienne Mehrstein, Levis Reinhardt, Nestle Sztyglic, Ulrich Brandhoff, Clémence Boisnard. Directed by Etienne Comar
Django Reinhardt was one of the greatest jazz guitarists – jazz musicians of any instrument in fact – of all time. His music has helped define the music of France in the decades since he burst onto the club scene of Paris in much the same way as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Chuck Berry defined American music.
Django (Kateb) is really a pretty laid back guy; before a big concert in Paris in 1943 he is late arriving because he's too busy fishing in the Seine. Once he gets there, he captivates the crowd with his virtuoso style, fingers dancing over the fretboard in his unusual style (he didn't have the use of two fingers on his left hand after his hand was burned in an accident as a young man, so he had a peculiar three finger style). We are reminded that this is occupied Paris with all the Nazi uniforms in the audience and a stern admonition of "No Dancing."
Django is married to Naguine (Palya) who is devoted to him; his mother Negros (Merstein) also lives with him. Django was born in Belgium to Romani (what some would call gypsies although that's a politically incorrect term these days) and the gypsies, along with the homosexuals and of course the Jews were being persecuted by the Nazis. One of Django's fans is Louise de Klerk (De France) who as it turns out is part of the French resistance and she warns Django that the Nazis are rounding up the Romani all over the country. She admonishes him about a German tour he's about to undertake; he responds that he doesn't care who's in the audience so long as they respond to his music.
Soon Django's apolitical stance is put to the test as it becomes clear he needs to get his family out of France and that his protection because of his international stardom wouldn't remain for much longer. He heads to a Romani encampment near the Swiss border and his perceptions of politics are changed forever.
Kateb took some intensive training to learn how to duplicate Reinhardt's distinctive style and he looks pretty authentic on-camera. Oddly, a modern jazz group dubs the sound of Reinhardt and his Paris Hot Club Quintet; neither the on-camera musicians nor Reinhardt are heard on the soundtrack which seems a little odd that in a movie about a great musician we never actually hear his work.
Kateb is a fine actor and he does a decent job here but he isn't given a lot to work with. There's little character development for anyone else around me, including the fictional De Klerk (who for the purposes of this film was also his mistress) and the very real Naguine. The music is amazing but you're never given the opportunity to care about the people playing it.
Mostly we get a generic World War II suspense piece that has elements of Casablanca (not a bad thing), music documentary (not a bad thing) and Schindler's List (still not a bad thing) but never quite pulls together as a movie that grips and excites the viewer. I don't feel like I know anything more about Reinhardt than I would if I just listened to a couple of his albums.
On the positive side, the filmmaker does call into focus the persecution of the Romani people which other than the Jews suffered the most in terms of the number of dead. There is a chilling but moving photo collage of the missing that is the last image shown in the film and a fitting memorial for those who died. Django no doubt would have approved.
I don't think he would have approved of this movie which lacks the passion that he consistently displayed in his music. Certainly the musical sequences are dynamite and there are also some really nice camera shots in the film but overall, you would profit better by downloading some of his songs onto your playlist and giving them a listen.
REASONS TO GO: The music is incredible. Some of the cinematography is spectacular.
REASONS TO STAY: The movie is surprisingly pallid and uninspiring. The soundtrack could have used some actual recordings of Reinhardt.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some violence and sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The film is based on the fictional novel Folles de Django by Alexis Salatko.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 1/5/17: Rotten Tomatoes: 60% positive reviews. Metacritic: 68/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: La Vie en Rose
NEXT: Battle of the Sexes
Posted in New Releases	| Tagged 1940s, Bea Palya, biographical drama, Cecile de France, cinema, Cinema365, collaborators, concerts, Django, Django Reinhardt, Dr. Jazz, Films, fishing, French cinema, German occupation, Hot Club, jazz, jazz guitarist, movies, Reda Kateb, resistance fighters, Romani persecution, Seine River, Swiss Alps, syncopation, Under the Milky Way	| Leave a reply
Posted on September 6, 2016 by carlosdev
Nobody likes a bomb.
(2016) Historical Drama (Bleecker Street) Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Toby Jones, Sean Mahon, Bill Milner, Jan Hájek, Pavel Reznicek, Alena Mihulová, Harry Lloyd, Detlef Bothe, Roman Zach, Mish Boyko, Sam Keeley, Ondrej Maly, Marcin Corocinski, Karel Hermánek Jr., Václav Neuzil, Jiri Simek, Andrej Polak, Anna Gerislová. Directed by Sean Ellis
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but there are some true stories that are not strange at all, but point out the best that humanity can be – and the worst. Not all of those sorts of stories stay with us for long and indeed this one remains only relatively well-known in Eastern Europe, but it is a story worth the telling.
After the Berlin Accords gave what was then known as Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany to be used as fuel for the war machine to come, Prague became an occupied city and the entire region was ruled with an iron fist. Holding that fist was Reinhard Heydrich (Bothe), one of the authors of Hitler's Final Solution and who would become known as The Butcher of Prague.
The Czech government in exile decided to make a statement and sent a team of paratroopers into the countryside outside Prague who had the mission of assassinating Heydrich. Leading the team was Josef Gabcik (Murphy) and Jan Kubis (Dornan), two Czech soldiers. Things went bad from the beginning; Kubis injured his foot while landing and the two resistance fighters who were sent to meet them turned out to be Nazi collaborators. The two soldiers barely escaped with their lives.
They finally found legitimate resistance members in Prague, but the situation there was very chaotic. There was little or no information to be hand; the city was under severe restrictions and people were being rounded up and imprisoned with impunity. There were infiltrators everywhere and knowing whom to trust was no easy task. "Uncle" Hajsky (Jones) was trying to make some sort of organization through all this but most of his men had been arrested. He put up the two paratroopers in the Moravec home whose mother (Mihulová) was a resistance member and their son Ata (Milner) loyal to the cause.
To keep suspicions from being aroused over the new arrivals, girlfriends were supplied; Marie (Le Bon) for Josef and Lenka (Gerislová) for Jan. The deception turned out to be a lot more accurate as the two couples began to actually fall for each other. Wartime can be a great accelerator of romance.
In the repressive atmosphere of Prague, however, getting their mission completed would be no easy task and with little contact with their government and almost no intelligence to go on, the two men had their work cut out for them. What would happen would become one of the greatest instances of heroism to come out of the War and is a source of national pride to the Czechs even to this day.
It is not an easy thing to write a review or a movie that is about actual history; while one doesn't want to supply spoilers for those who may not be aware of how the story unfolded, at the same time it is difficult to write about the film without giving at least some plot points away. Suffice to say that Ellis and company have given us a movie whose historical accuracy is better than almost any movie I've ever seen; that is a double-edged sword however.
The movie does drag in places, particularly in the first half. Once the assassination is attempted, the movie is turbo charged and Ellis delivers some really fine suspense sequences and one of the best shoot-outs since the climax of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Murphy and Dornan are both fine actors and they're given some exceptional material to work with. Both men are imperfect, neither are superheroes and both have the kinds of doubts and frailties that real heroes must overcome to do extraordinary things.
Those who are aware of the history behind the celluloid are going to view this a lot differently than those who are unfamiliar with the story; even the latter group however may find the sense of things spiraling towards a final conclusion somewhat overwhelming. We all know that the Titanic is going to sink even before we view the movie; how it gets there and who survives is what makes that movie a classic.
As a movie, Anthropoid makes an excellent history lesson. That doesn't always translate to entertainment however, unless you are entertained by history and fortunately for me, I am. I found the film fascinating and I was moved enough to research the real Operation Anthropoid which is where I discovered that the filmmakers stuck to the facts of the incident quite closely which is something to be admired, although at times they seem to be willing to sacrifice entertainment for accuracy. I think that both could have coexisted better as the last half of the movie clearly shows; had the first half been able to capture the tension of the second this would have been a clear front runner to be one of the best movies of the year. Unfortunately, it is slow in getting underway so this will have to remain a solid, historically accurate war film that is flawed but nevertheless worth seeing.
REASONS TO GO: Historically accurate and full of gut-wrenching suspense. The performances are strong throughout.
REASONS TO STAY: The sense of impending doom is oppressive at times. Slow-moving in the first half of the film.
FAMILY VALUES: Plenty of violence here as well as some fairly disturbing images.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The scene in which Ata Moravec is tortured was filmed in the same place where it actually happened.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Operation: Daybreak
NEXT: Don't Think Twice
Posted in New Releases	| Tagged ambush, Anthropoid, assassination, betrayal, Bill Milner, Bleecker Street, Charlotte Le Bon, Cillian Murphy, cinema, Cinema365, collaborators, Films, girlfriends, historical drama, Jamie Dornan, movies, murder, Nazi occupation, paratroopers, Prague, Reinhard Heydrich, resistance fighters, reviews, Sean Mahon, Toby Jones, war atrocities, World War II	| Leave a reply
Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter)
What could be more depressing about the state of humanity than a child with a gun?
(2008) War Drama (Sony Classics) Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry, Melody Klaver, Anneke Blok, Mees Piejnenburg, Jesse van Driel, Dan van Husen, Ad van Kempen, Tygo Gernandt, Ben Ramakers, Tibo Vandenborre, Jens Roth, Peter Eberst, Peter Post, Emile Jansen, Alja Hoeksema. Directed by Martin Koolhoven
That war is hell is a given. For youngsters however war is a special kind of hell, the kind that can render childhood terminated and sometimes life itself terminated as well.
Michiel (Lakemeier) lives in a small Dutch village in 1945 as the war is drawing to a close. His father Johan (Thiry), the mayor, is hoping that they can all ride out the German withdrawal from their village as safely as is possible. While they remain he does his best to keep the Germans happy as possible – not as a collaborator mind you but more of an appeaser.
His brother and Michiel's uncle Ben (van Wageningen) is different. He's a resistance fighter, combating the Nazis at every opportunity. To Michiel, his uncle Ben is a hero and his father, he increasingly suspects, is a coward.
This deteriorating situation within the family is thrown into chaos when a British RAF pilot named Jack (Bower) crashes near the village. His leg badly mangled, he is hidden by the resistance after killing a German soldier who had discovered the crash. When the resistance fighters protecting him are wiped out, it falls upon Michiel to protect the pilot. He brings in his sister Erika (Klaver) to help with Jack's wounded leg – Erika's a nurse. It doesn't take long for Erika to fall in love with the dashing young pilot. Still, it is a cat and mouse game between the Nazis and Michiel whose family will be tested by Michiel's actions. Not all of those closest to him will pass that test.
Based on a novel by Dutch writer/politician/scientist Jan Terlouw who in turn based the novel on his own experiences during the Second World War, Winter in Wartime is a bit rote when it comes to war movies. Films like Defiance, The Boy with the Striped Pajamas and Aftermath all explore the various aspects of the war explored here, from living in an occupied town to how children dealt with the experiences. The Dutch have turned to the war as a subject (or at least a backdrop) regularly in films like Soldier of Orange to Black Book.
Lakemeier does a very credible job as the 13-year-old Michiel. He is a child growing much more rapidly into a man than he should have to. By film's end Michiel is certainly no longer a child and young Lakemeier makes that transformation believable. Van Wageningen does heroic quite well while Thiry keeps you guessing as to his character's loyalties.
I can't help but think that this could have used a bit less Hollywood and a bit more Amsterdam. This feels like a kind of rote studio film in many places and while the cinematography captures the beauty of snow-swept vistas and towns layered in the white powder, it still feels a bit predictable. It must also be said that Koolhoven does a fine job at maintaining the level of suspense, particularly in the latter half of the film.
This is basically a well-made movie and I can recommend it pretty much to everyone although with the caveat that you will have seen this before in many ways. Lakemeier's performance however is something you haven't seen and for that alone you can put this on your list of movies to check out.
WHY RENT THIS: Terrific performance by Lakemeier. Suspenseful when it needs to be.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: A little predictable.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some rough language and a bit of wartime violence as well as some adult themes.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Much of the movie was filmed in Lithuania due to the absence of snow in the Netherlands during filming.
BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: $9.1M on an unreported production budget.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Lore
NEXT: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Posted in DVD Review	| Tagged 1940s, cinema, collaborators, Dutch cinema, DVD Reviews, Films, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jan Terlouw, mass executions, movies, Nazis, nurse, occupying force, Oorlogswinter, RAF Pilot, Raymond Thiry, resistance fighters, Winter in Wartime, World War II, Yorick van Wageningen	| Leave a reply
Posted on December 4, 2013 by carlosdev
It's a fiddler in the sewers.
(2011) True Life Drama (Sony Classics) Robert Wiekiewicz, Benno Furmann, Maria Schrader, Herbert Knaup, Agnieszka Grochowska, Marcin Bosak, Julia Kijowska, Jerzy Walczak, Oliwer Stanczak, Milla Bankowicz, Krzysztof Skonieczny, Kinga Preis, Olek Mincer, Piotr Glowacki, Maria Semotiuk, Michal Zurawski, Zofia Pieczynska, Etl Szyc, Weronika Rosati. Directed by Agnieszka Holland
There are those who society tends to write off as incorrigible. These are the dregs, those who cannot be redeemed. They were always destined to be criminal and so they will always remain.
In Nazi occupied Poland, a group of Jews have fled the ghetto of Lvov and made their way into the sewers. Sewer inspector Leopold Socha (Wiekiewicz) has discovered them in there. Socha and his compatriot Szczepek Wróblewski (Skonieczny) have supplemented their incomes with petty crimes and they see the Nazis as no particular change from the situation they've been in all their lives. However rather than turn the Jews in, Leopold seizes the opportunity to extort the Jews from their money in exchange for protecting and supplying them.
As time goes by the heat grows more intense to turn in wayward Jews and the penalties more severe for sheltering them. The Jews' money begins to dwindle and the expense of buying food for the small group has become exorbitant. They wonder how long their opportunistic savior will continue to keep them safe.
In addition the toll of living underground amidst the smell and the grime is taking their toll on the refugees who have begun to squabble among themselves. Nazi patrols are actively scouring the sewers but the deft Socha, the only man in Lvov who knows the sewers well, steers them away most of the time. Still, Socha is at heart a criminal – who knows how long it will remain true.
This is based on the book In the Sewers of Lvov by Robert Marshall which chronicles the real-life Jews who fled to the sewers and the real-life Leopold Socha. Holland, one of Poland's most acclaimed directors, manages to capture the dim lighting and claustrophobia that the refugees surely must have experienced.
One of the main misconceptions about this movie is that it's about the Holocaust. I beg to disagree. While the Holocaust is the setting, this isn't the story of the refugees but it is Socha's story. It is his change of heart that is the crux of the story, his movement from petty criminal to heroic protector which seems nearly impossible on the surface.
Holland wisely doesn't turn the Jews in the tale into stoic survivors who endure each atrocity and degradation with clear eyes and full heart. They aren't always heroic nor are they always nice. They are in a terrible situation with the prospect of being caught and killed hanging over their heads at every moment. We cannot imagine that kind of pressure; it seems pretty understandable to me that they would not always deal with it well.
Most of the actors are largely unknown over here (although Furmann was in the Wachowski's Speed Racer) and do pretty solid jobs. Sometimes reading subtitles on the screen can distract from really enjoying an actor's performance and I think that's definitely the case here. It's hard to catch subtleties when you're just trying to read the translation.
Still, this was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film at the 2012 Academy Awards and justifiably so, although it didn't win (it was heavily favored to do so). While comparison to Schindler's List are pretty easy to make, this isn't the same thing. The Spielberg film had a larger canvas and a much broader brush. Here, we are kept mainly underground in tight spaces that are dimly lit. If Schindler's List is a Michelangelo, In Darkness is a Goya – but they are both fine art.
WHY RENT THIS: A fascinating look inside the legend. Some great footage from the old "Playboy After Dark" television show.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: Doesn't really challenge much. Presents Hef as a bit of a saint.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a fair amount of violence, some bad language, sexuality and nudity as well as some disturbing images.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Although filmed in Poland with a mostly Polish crew and in Polish, the writer of the film was Canadian and some of the financial backing came from Canadian sources. When it and Monsieur Lazhar were both nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 2012 Academy Awards, it marked the first time that two Canadian films were nominated for the award in the same year.
NOTABLE HOME VIDEO EXTRAS: Holland interviews one of the actual survivors of the Lvov sewers. There is also an interview with Holland in English.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Schindler's List
NEXT: Take Shelter
Posted in DVD Review	| Tagged Agnieszka Holland, Benno Furmann, cinema, collaborators, DVD Reviews, extortion, Films, hiding, Holocaust, In Darkness, Lvov, movies, Nazis, petty criminal, Polish cinema, protection, sewer inspector, sewers, Sony Classics, true-life drama	| Leave a reply
Flame & Citron (Flammen & Citronen)
It's a game of cat and mouse, but who is the cat and who is the mouse?
(IFC) Thure Lindhart, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade, Peter Mygind, Mille Hoffmeyer Lehfeldt, Christian Berkel, Hanns Zischler, Claus Riis Ostergaard, Flemming Enevold. Directed by Ole Christian Madsen
In German occupied territories during World War II, life was much more different than it was in Allied territories. There were those who co-operated with the invaders, and others who wanted nothing more than to have their country back.
Flame (Lindhart) – so named because of his red hair made more striking after a botched dye job – and Citron (Mikkelsen), who got his nickname because he had previously sabotaged German vehicles while working at the Citron motorcar factory, are Danish resistance fighters. Well, perhaps "fighter" is a bit of a stretch; a better description would be "assassin of Nazi sympathizers."
Flame is a young man, a little bit cocksure and passionate in his hatred of Nazis and their collaborators. He takes insane chances; the Germans are well aware of his activities, they even have a description of him and yet he boldly enters a bar where Nazi officers hang out and orders a drink.
Citron is ten years older, a family man, a bundle of nerves, popping pills to keep himself going. Perpetually unshaven and sweaty, he has the look of a man who is slowly falling apart. Looks in this case aren't deceiving.
They report to Aksel Winther (Mygind), a somewhat bureaucratic kind of man who issues the pair their orders, the source of which is never clear. There is increasing tension between the pair and their handler; they have mostly been given collaborators and all men, but the list is starting to change. First, they are asked to murder women, which even Flame balks at. Finally, they are called upon to assassinate German officers, but when they encounter Gilbert (Zischler), he raises disturbing points that cause them to question the justness of their cause.
Further complicating matters is Flame's attraction to Ketty (Stengade), a courier for the resistance who may be working for the Germans, or may be working the Germans for the resistance. With the Nazis closing in on the pair and caught between conflicting resistance groups with a growing suspicion that they are being used for purposes that are for personal gain rather than for the good of Denmark, the two who have sacrificed nearly everything for their cause determine that there is only one thing they can do – try to take down the chief Nazi Hoffman (Berkel), even though the attempt will almost certainly cost them their lives.
This movie is admittedly influenced heavily by the 1969 French classic Army of Shadows which chronicled the French resistance through director Jean-Pierre Melville, who was actually a member of the French resistance during the war. Madsen is far too young to have taken part personally, but he displays a flair for capturing the tension experienced by the two men, the growing unease with the deeds they're forced to do.
Lindhart and Mikkelsen do some admirable work here. Lindhart has a great deal of screen charisma, and he gives a sense of the bravado and dangerous skills of the assassin, giving him a human side to balance it out. He yearns for something that he can't have, and it produces a certain amount of rage and despair in the man.
It is Mikkelsen who steals the show for me, charismatic as Lindhart is. Citron is tortured by the deeds he and his partner do, and the resulting stress is wiping out his marriage and impacting his relationship with his children. Twitchy as Citron is, Mikkelsen is really the emotional core of the movie.
The tension is palpable throughout as the Nazis search for the elusive assassins and the politics within the resistance further muddy the waters. Some of the assassinations depicted here are brutal, and those who are sensitive about such things would do well to take that into account when deciding whether or not to see this.
Americans who watch this might be a bit put off by the pacing, which keeping in line with European sensibilities is far more deliberate than what they are used to. Madsen prefers to allow the tension to build and build during the course of the film until the viewer is nearly ready to leap out of their own skin. I have to admit, being unfamiliar with the exploits of the real-life Flame and Citron amplified that tension, so Danish audiences, more likely to know at least something about these natural heroes, might get a different sense from the movie.
While Flame and Citron are based on actual resistance fighters from the war, this is a fictionalized version of their exploits, although most of the salient facts are here. The movie received some criticism for its depiction of corruption in the Danish resistance, and I can understand the point. However, this was never meant to be a documentary – it is more about the morality of murder, and the increasing murkiness of its depths the more you do it, no matter how just the cause.
WHY RENT THIS: An account of a little-seen side of World War II. Lindhart and Mikkelsen give strong performances, and Madsen ratchets up the tension to a very high degree.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: The pacing is very deliberate for a movie of this nature.
FAMILY VALUES: Some of the assassination sequences are most definitely not for the squeamish. There is also a fair amount of bad language as well as some sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: With a budget of 46 million Danish kroner, this is one of the most expensive movies ever made in Denmark.
TOMORROW: The Other Guys
Posted in DVD Review	| Tagged assassination, based on a true story, betrayal, cinema, collaborators, Copenhagen, corruption, Danish cinema, double agents, DVD Reviews, Films, Flame and Citron, Flammen and Citronen, IFC, Mads Mikkelsen, movies, Nazi occupations, Nazis, Ole Christian Madsen, redhead, resistance, Stine Stengade, Thure Lindhart, World War II	| 2 Replies


I have followed all the installation instructions and downloaded the correct firmware/decryptor info to the module, but the car will not start with the oem key fob. Tech support said I need to verify the Stand Alone Remote setting is correct. Per the installation guide it should be set to D1.10 but I cannot figure out how to check this setting.
You have to attach your module with flashlink updater and In flashlink manager you can see all these options . you will have to turn on C1 and D1.10 both of them in order to start from oem remote .
how do i use only the oem remote to start, arm, and disarm 2015 dart?
Fortin EVO-GM1 on a 2014 Impala Ls with a stand alone remote starter,I want it to NOT lock or arm after being started?
Can I use the EVO-ALL as a stand-alone remote start for a 2006 Infiniti using the factory remote?
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"The robots are here," they shouted, and with those words an angry mob took to the streets, ready to attack any robot they found.
In the UK getting car insurance is easy. You visit a comparison website, find the best deals, and then sign up. How simple is that? Very.
On the 1st of June 2017 the IPT tax rate will move from 10% to 12%, which has led experts to predict record car insurance costs for UK motorists.
Car insurance becoming more expensive is something everybody has to deal with, but you can fight back, and it starts with this handy gadget.
New research has suggested that UK motorists who have a poor credit score pay, on average, 20% more for car insurance than everybody else.
Just like I mentioned a few months ago, technology giant Apple are set to enter the self driving market which means the "iCar" could soon be here.
I haven't talked much about car insurance in Northern Ireland on this blog, mainly because there has not been much news coming from there.
A new study has just caught my attention about how the UK public are overpaying for car insurance…all because they tick a box on the application.


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Have you gotten the flu during the past year? Because it's apparently mostly disappeared worldwide during the pandemic.
Here's a reasonable request to not be extremely online in real life for awhile: "If you need to reach for your phone to demonstrate something for the purposes of continuing a conversation, don't."
This artist faked being a billionaire socialite in order to gain entry into some of NYC's most expensive apartments and take photos.
The Daily Beast obtained a bombshell letter written by Joel Greenberg in the last months of the Trump presidency in which he "claims that he and close associate Rep. Matt Gaetz paid for sex with multiple women," including a 17-year-old, all in an attempt to get a pardon from Trump.
Vox explains why indoor dining is still a slightly more risky thing to do even if you are vaccinated.
The Bidens are bringing a cat to the White House.
Here's a disturbing piece of information about British people: according to a recent survey, one-third of Brits only wash their sheets once a year.
The Times has a story about a grudge match between two 7-Eleven stores located on the same corner in a suburb Osaka.
Taika Waititi will play Blackbeard in the new HBO Max comedy Our Flag Means Death.
It's new music Friday, and there's lots to recommend this week: Crumb's new album Ice Melt is another trip-hop influenced delight; Matt Sweeney & Bonnie "Prince" Billy collaborative record Superwolves is one of the most unexpectedly beautiful albums you'll hear this year; if you're into cinematic electronic compositions, Tor's Oasis Sky is a winner; and of course, I can't leave out Guided By Voices' spectacular new album Earth Man Blues, one of their best albums of recent years.
And finally, if you play the game of balls, you better play to win:
Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.


n March of 2015, Dr. Roberto Hodgson, director of Multicultural Ministries, USA/Canada region, reached out to Rev. Errol Carrim, a leadership development coach, to create a program that would nurture young leaders. Errol and his wife, Rhonda, an ordained elder who teaches practical theology at Northwest Nazarene University, developed the ELDI program and serve as the program facilitators.
Within the DNA of the Church of the Nazarene is a commitment to develop and equip leaders for service. While we must always seek to be intentional about such efforts, fresh initiatives are sometimes needed in order to strengthen existing avenues or to create new avenues of training and equipping. The Ethnic Leadership Development Initiative (ELDI) is an example of the latter. It is beyond the scope of this article to address all entailed by the designation ethnic. Thus, for our purpose here, ethnic refers to a people group who share cultural, physical, or geographical ties.
Launched in September of 2015, the aim of ELDI is to provide leadership development for ethnic and multicultural churches in the USA/Canada region by offering training, coaching, and mentoring to selected young leaders from various ethnic groups. In part, the program helps young leaders become acquainted with denominational leaders and the ministries of the regional and international Church of the Nazarene. It also provides participants a valuable opportunity to network and build relationships with other young leaders from various cultural groups across USA/Canada Region. At the heart of the program is the goal of developing the inner life of the leader.
In the initial cohort, young leaders were selected by the ethnic facilitators of various cultural groups. Cohort 1 commenced with participants from eleven different ministry groups: African, Black, Cambodian, Chinese, Haitian, Hispanic, Korean, Native American, Filipino, Samoan, and multicultural contexts. Members of the second cohort, which commenced in May of 2017, were nominated by ethnic facilitators, and then completed an application process before selection. Cohort 2 added Laotian and Caucasian participants.
At the beginning of each cohort, participants meet at the Global Ministry Center in Lenexa, Kansas, for three days of workshops and introductions to one another and to GMC personnel. Over the next year, each participant receives personal coaching once a month by either Errol or Rhonda. They also receive opportunity to attend quarterly webinars on subjects relevant to their personal development as leaders. The first year culminates with the group gathering for two days of seminars and preparation for a mentoring relationship. In the second year of the program, participants continue the journey with a mentor, ideally from within their particular ministry context, to further their development as leaders.
The primary objective of year one is establishing the leader's inner life. During workshops, webinars, and monthly coaching sessions, leaders are led to focus on their personal development. The cultivation of leadership skills is important; however, many skilled leaders have experienced failure and heartache due to a lack of self-awareness, failure to deal with personal history, inattentiveness to personal care, and other issues related to the inner life. Thus, the focus is not on leadership skills, but rather on fostering the leader's character. Of course, each leader lives and works within a particular context, so issues related to life, family, relationships, and ministry are addressed during coaching sessions.
Participants are challenged and guided in developing emotional intelligence, recognizing how their past influences their leadership style, managing conflict in a healthy way, and communicating effectively with family and those they lead. They are encouraged to be more intentional with their self-care, Sabbath-keeping, and how they value their time.
Dr. Tina Pitamber, pastor of the Solid Rock Community Church of the Nazarene in Richmond Hill, Ontario, was encouraged by the affirmation she received by participating in the program. Furthermore, the experience helped deepen spiritual maturity and provided a "safe outlet" for talking through personal and work goals. Many participants expressed gratitude for simply being able to process what was happening in life and ministry with a coach who was not embedded in their local context.
Among the participants are first generation immigrants to the USA or Canada, children of first generation immigrants who have grown up primarily in the USA or Canada, and those whose families have been in the region for many generations but who are part of minority groups. Caucasian participation was included for Cohort 2 with the recognition that this population group, too, is dealing with the challenges and realities of multicultural ministry contexts.
By design, the program also seeks to build greater cultural awareness and sensitivity. Time together helps participants establish relationships and hopefully enhances a sense of unity and collaboration that will carry on beyond the program commitment. Another opportunity they receive is to meet and interact with GMC personnel and to gain a sense of how the church operates on the regional as well as general level.
A key opportunity this program offers is helping second generation leaders learn how to bridge the gap between those who immigrated as adults and their children, who have grown up primarily in Canada or the USA. The challenge is twofold: (1) engaging first and second-generation immigrants within the local church, and (2) engaging in outreach and evangelism within local communities.
Many local churches have difficulty keeping their young people engaged in the church, but this challenge takes on a new dynamic within immigrant populations. Many first-generation immigrants retain their language and as many customs as possible, including ways of worshipping. However, their children often are more fluent in the language and customs of the host culture, thus creating the potential for increased resistance to church engagement.
One benefit of the program is helping participants develop into effective leaders who can help bridge the growing cultural divide between first- and second-generation immigrants within their particular community. In some instances, this has meant starting an English-speaking service among second-generation immigrants, while first-generation immigrants continue to worship primarily in their mother tongue. Thus, a key purpose of the ELDI program is to equip young leaders to serve effectively within a dynamic context and mentor them as their influence and responsibilities expand.
Since the ELDI program is only in its second year, it is too early gauge its overall impact. The hope is that the impact will multiply by attracting more participants from various groups, particularly groups that have had few or no representatives in the program. Early feedback from participants is positive. They feel supported, encouraged, and enabled to become the leaders God has called them to be.


One thing I love besides sewing is chickens always have loved them too. Will be glad to see you back posting more about your projects, I'm on a roll here I practically can't keep up with myself. I'm just ordering some Dupioni silk for one of Gerties full gathered skirts I have a notion to make.
They are cute. I have wanted chickens for a while now, but my hubby still needs convincing. (Plus to have them in the cities you need the permission of your neighbors). One of the gals in my knitting club even knits sweaters for her chickens in the winter.
The second year of homescholing's better than the first. I wore that hat for 13 years. Godspeed, Mom.
Oops... Typo: homeschooling. LOL I hate it when typos slip by me!
Dreadful: all only posses two L's too. Teach me to comment on this iPhone. Sooo sorry to send two apologies, too!
See Comment #2 re: typos!
awww, beautiful photos... and wow, are you ever busy!
Great pictures. They're so colorful! We'd love to have chickens.
Good luck with school. We just started our 6th year (I can't believe it!).
I LOVE your chickens - they are as beautifully dressed as you! Do you bathe them? They're just so clean and neat looking. And who can resist chicks?
Sam, We have golden comets, plymouth rock, Wyandottes, and the easter egg chickens! We love them all. The golden comets are the sweetest birds!
Your chickens are beautiful! We have been keeping chickens for a few years now. Nothing beats the fresh eggs. In the last few months I have been making homemade banana pudding pie with them and it is easy and so good.


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Martha Stewart Partners with Canopy Growth to Create CBD Pet Products
By Anna Taylor Posted on March 2, 2019
Martha Stewart, Photo: ©PATRICKMCMULLAN.COM
East Hampton's Martha Stewart has tapped into a rapidly growing market: cannabinoids. On February 27, she announced a new partnership with Canopy Growth, a major global supplier, to develop a line of hemp-derived CBD products for pets. Suddenly, her scrambled eggs from a cappuccino maker don't seem so out of the ordinary.
Stewart will act as an advisor, and Canopy Growth will work directly with her consumer brand partner Sequential Brands Group. "I am delighted to establish this partnership with Canopy Growth and share with them the knowledge I have gained after years of experience in the subject of living," said Stewart in the release. "I'm especially looking forward to our first collaboration together, which will offer sensible products for people's beloved pets." Currently, several clinical trials for the pet health products are underway.
Celebrity endorsement of cannabinoids is becoming quite common, for example North Haven's Jimmy Buffett signed on to a medical marijuana startup in September. Big names help aid in creating legitimacy for the products in the eyes of consumers, and Stewart's name is like the touch of Midas. From Aerosoles shoes to organizational products at Staples, nearly everything she's touched has turned to gold.
"As soon as you hear the name Martha, you know exactly who we're talking about," says Canopy Growth chairman and co-CEO Bruce Linton. "Martha is one of a kind, and I am so excited to be able to work alongside this icon to sharpen our CBD product offerings across categories from human to animal."
In fact, it was another celebrity investor that got Stewart's name to Linton in the first place. CNBC reports that Snoop Dogg, her co-star on Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner, has been in partnership with Canopy Growth's subsidiary Tweed since 2016. While Snoop Dogg has been an open supporter of recreational marijuana use, it was Stewart that Linton was the most excited for. "I was probably more excited to meet Martha than I think almost any other celebrity I've been introduced to," Linton told CNBC. "I'm running a very large marijuana company, and here I am meeting a person considered a leader on all things etiquette."


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The Sun today urged its readers to vote 'leave' in the EU referendum on 23 June with a front-page opinion piece.
The UK's top-selling daily newspaper has strongly backed the leave side of the argument throughout the campaign. Along with the Daily Mail and Daily Express it is among the most staunchly anti-EU of the UK's national newspapers.
Interviewed by the BBC this morning, Sun associate editor Trevor Kavanagh was asked whether the editorial was the decision of Sun proprietor Rupert Murdoch (who is a US citizen).


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Nested Virtualization Solution Saves Time & Money
By Ariella Brown | Posted 2015-11-26 Print
Online gaming company 888 Holdings deploys a nested virtualization solution that operates on a pay-per-use basis, making it both economical and efficient.
In the past few years, 888 Holdings—one of the largest online gaming companies in the world and the largest one for legal online gambling in the United States—has grown rapidly and expanded into new product lines and markets. The Israel-based company delivers casino games, poker, bingo and sports betting to computers and mobile devices.
To meet the demands of more than 20 million subscribers in Europe and the U.S., 888 Holdings relies on cloud services. It also uses a nesting virtualization solution, which provides flexibility and rapid replication of environments.
CIO Eran Elbaz explains that his organization has to reconfigure and test its own applications, while also conforming to regulations in different jurisdictions. Keeping up with the modifications and testing needed for each application and jurisdiction was a challenge—particularly when 888 Holdings moved into three different U.S. states in the same year, while also keeping up with the changes demanded by the European markets.
Online gambling is illegal in most of the U.S., but it's allowed in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey. However, each state has its own regulations, and legal gambling sites have to comply with all of them. Consequently, to penetrate the U.S. market, 888 had to develop testing environments for all three states.
Even when it's already entrenched in a market, as the company is in Europe, 888 has to make changes whenever requirements are modified. In the past two years in Europe, Elbaz reports, there have been frequent changes related to increasing concerns over customer data and for assurance of tax revenue.
Keeping Up With Testing Environments
To keep up with the increasing number of testing environments, the company implemented nested virtualization from Ravello Systems. The solution offers a virtual lab to effectively replicate the complex environment of 888's applications on AWS. The result is accelerated time-to-market releases and the ability to move the system into a public cloud.
The testing environment is necessary both for new development and for regulators to certify their service. As Elbaz explains, the company's testing environment consists of "two or three hundred servers running applications." Ravello's nested virtualization creates "a capsule that allows all applications to run on any cloud service they support."
In contrast to the capsule setup, testing on other cloud environments would require modifications for each cloud's specifications, and an application developed for a particular cloud wouldn't work in another one. The nested virtualization solution allows 888 to move the application from one cloud service to another, which means it is not being locked into one service.
That's the main advantage, according to Elbaz, who explains that they get to work out "complex services and applications" that easily integrate into the cloud services of their choice.
The second advantage is the ability to replicate environments very rapidly. Before they had the nested virtualization solution, Elbaz says, it took from a few weeks to a couple of months to create a test environment. Plugging in Ravello allows the environment to be replicated within a day or just a few hours.
In addition to saving time, 888 Holdings saves money, as the nested virtualization solution operates on a pay-per-use basis, so the company is not charged for what it doesn't use. That, according to Elbaz, makes the system both economical and efficient.
As a technology writer, Ariella Brown, a Baseline contributor, has covered 3D printing, analytics, big data, digital currency, cloud computing, green technology, marketing, and social media.