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Miscellaneous Movie Musings: Part XXVI
Filed under: Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 12:28 am
Tags: Birds of Prey, Dallas Buyers Club, Diane Ruggiero, Emma Stone, Harley Quinn, Jane Espenson, Jared Leto, Karyn Kusama, Margot Robbie, Mysterious Skin, Nicholas Hoult, Oscars, Paul Dini, Poison Ivy, Rub and Tug, Rupert Sanders, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Turner Schofield, The Avengers, The pretty hate machine, Twitter, Watchmen, Zack Snyder
As the title suggests, so forth.
"I don't want to sell you Birds of Prey. I want to go back to the office and rethink my pitch"
If you had told me in 2010 that a movie about Harley Quinn would come out in 2020 and that MEW would be in it as Huntress but that I would have as active an interest in not seeing it as I did for Zack Snyder's Watchmen I would not have believed you.
Imagine this movie instead:
Harley & Ivy
Starring Margot Robbie and Emma Stone as Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy
with Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Nicholas Hoult as Robin
and Jared Leto as the Joker
Screenplay by Jane Espenson
Story by Diane Ruggiero and Paul Dini
Directed by Karyn Kusama
Suddenly I don't just have an interest, it's certain – I'm going to it.
Rub and Tug: Production update
So almost two years ago now Scarlett Johansson, having better things to do than fight Twitter mobs, pulled out of playing a female-to-male transsexual in Rub and Tug. Some of the self-same people who mercilessly bullied her online then (incredibly) hoped she would continue producing the movie. But… clearly she'd been producing, guiding the screenplay, hiring a director she'd worked with before, in order to win an Oscar; following in the footsteps of Jared Leto in 2014, as she had noted in her initial response which the usual cyber-bullies dubbed 'toxic'. Why would she have actively produced the movie after its purpose for her had been gutted? Why would the financing stay in place when an Avenger was gone, to be replaced by a female-to-male transsexual player like… And there was the blank page in the prospectus. Who? Scott Turner Schofield? Films like Rub and Tug depend on star-power and prestige traction. Dallas Buyers Club made 55 million, Mysterious Skin made 2 million. Scarlett Johansson starring probably made it a just slightly better than 50/50 shot at hitting the Dallas colour on the roulette wheel of fate. Scarlett Johansson not starring reduced the odds so substantially the only reason not to pull financing would be the same sort of masochism asked of her: producing a film as a mitzvah to people who bullied her. As of July 2018 Rub and Tug had lost its very high profile star and its director Rupert Sanders. It now has no star, no director, and is just a script in development hell with very little chance of getting made.
From the Archives: Top 10 Films of 2007
Tags: 300, 3:10 to Yuma, Anton Corbijn, Atonement, Control, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Edgar Wright, Enchanted, From the Archives, Hot Fuzz, I'm Not There, InDublin, James Mangold, Joe Wright, Kevin Lima, Michael Bay, Sunshine, Talking Movies, Todd Haynes, Transformers, Zack Snyder, Zodiac
From the pre-Talking Movies archives.
[10] 300
Bloodthirsty, outlandish, stupid, just macho to the point of insanity and altogether great quotable fun. I don't know if this film is objectively any good I just know it's deliriously entertaining, especially if viewed from the perspective of Irish actor Michael Fassbender who romps his way through it.
[9] Control
Director Anton Corbijn made a fine film debut with this biopic of troubled Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. Control combined thrilling live music performances with kitchen sink realism. That mix between humorously observed period setting and a deep emotional engagement with a rock star's normal life simply dazzled.
[8] I'm Not There
Deeply crazy not-biopic of Bob Dylan which reinvented a number of Dylan's greatest songs by using different actors for different aspects of his career set against changes in American culture. Cate Blanchett was disturbingly accurate in her impression of Dylan touring Blonde on Blonde in England.
[6] 3:10 to Yuma
Hats off to director James Mangold who remade a Western classic and actually improved on the original. The acting is uniformly superb with the human substance of the story showing there's space for drama as well as suspense and bloody gun-battles in the slowly reviving genre.
[6] Enchanted
A hilarious self-parody by Disney which threw their animated characters into the rather different conventions of New York City, this was joyful, sweet and damn near flawless. Everyone involved is clearly having a ball but James Marsden steals every scene he appears in and finally gets the girl.
[5] Hot Fuzz
Less of a straight parody than Shaun of the Dead, but far, far funnier. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's double act is a joy to watch and the rip-offs of Michael Bay and his ilk becomes ever more absurd and deliriously enjoyable as the action parodies escalate.
[4] Sunshine
Absolutely meaningless despite its promotional claims, this said nothing about the purpose of existence or religious belief. What it did do was offer a gripping white knuckle ride through an escalating series of catastrophes onboard a claustrophobic space-ship in the hands of a masterful director and committed cast.
[3] Transformers
The feel good hit of the summer was a Michael Bay film for people who hate Michael Bay and far funnier than anyone expected. The CGI robots were dazzling, the action unrelenting and Peter Cullen's return as the voice of Optimus Prime heart-warming for all us 80s kids.
[2] Atonement
Pitch perfectly played by a terrific ensemble, this was an incredibly structured film that is among the saddest love stories which cinema has ever produced. Director Joe Wright proved through small details as well as the Dunkirk tracking shot that he is a coming force in British film.
[1] Zodiac
David Fincher's gripping procedural epic followed three characters as they destroyed their lives in an obsessive hunt for 1970s San Francisco serial killer The Zodiac. Eschewing his usual Fincherisms for the most part this was All the President's Men for a new generation, but with a serial killer.
From the Archives: Meet the Spartans
Tags: 300, Aaron Seltzer, Bertrand Russell, Brian Blessed, Carmen Electra, Charles Dickens, Dante Alighieri, Date Movie, Eastenders, Epic Movie, Flash Gordon, Gordon's Alive?!, Jason Frieberg, JS Mill, Kevin Sorbo, Leonidas, Marcus Aurelius, Meet the Spartans, Michael Fassbender, Paris Hilton, Persia, Plato, Playboy, Robot Chicken, Saturday Night Live, Scary Movie, Sean Maguire, Sky One, SNL, Sophocles, Sparta, Star Wars, Thomas Aquinas, TS Eliot, Virgil, Xerxes, Zack Snyder
A deep dive into the pre-Talking Movies archives turns up a film I honestly don't remember seeing, so comprehensively did my mind rebel against its attempts at parody; the mind boggles that Robot Chicken was contemporaneously gloriously ripping Star Wars.
I don't exaggerate when I say that if you pay money to go to see this film then you are directly contributing to the decline and fall of Western Civilisation. Plato and Sophocles, Marcus Aurelius and Virgil, Aquinas and Dante, JS Mill and Dickens, Bertrand Russell and TS Eliot – just consider the long line of great philosophers and artists that ends now, in 2008, with Paris Hilton and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer.
Hard as it may be to believe these two men are happy to take credit not only for this atrocity but for Date Movie, Epic Movie and Scary Movie, which represent the pickings of puerile trash from this decade's celluloid garbage can. Following 300's plot 'faithfully', Leonidas, a butch Spartan, assembles an elite 13 warriors headed by Kevin Sorbo (remember Hercules on Sky? Didn't think so) and marches to war against Xerxes who attacks them with wave after wave of celebrity culture 'parody'.
Sean Maguire (used to be in Eastenders) badly tries to imitate Gerard Butler's gruff hero King Leonidas while Carmen Electra (used to be topless) stands around in various states of undress as the Spartan Queen. The problem once again is that this 'franchise' parodies a film that was already funny to begin with, and does it armed with an arsenal of no brains and less jokes. Friedberg and Seltzer have decided that the homo-eroticism of 300 is a goldmine for comedy. It might be if this was a 1971 'comedy' and 300 had been remotely serious, but 300 is a riot of a film with more tongue in cheek bombast than Brian Blessed at a Flash Gordon convention. This cost very little to make, Saturday Night Live sketches have a bigger budget, but these films are so bad they don't even belong on SNL; which would be the obvious home for even one good sketch that cleverly re-staged a single scene of a film. Instead we get 300 with penguins, fart jokes and various horrible things being spat and regurgitated into faces.
There are no jokes in this film. Not one, there are no intentional laughs to be had. The hilarity of this film such as it is comes from the fact that it makes its audience into anthropologists. We are in a strange world trying to recognise when the members of a tribe called 'actors' are delivering a 'punchline' – a ritual found in members of a sub-culture called 'comedians' to indicate that a physical response of joviality has now been earned. Usually there is a minor pause between lines to indicate a real zinger is on its way, this is followed by a longer pause to allow for laughter by the audience, so that ensuing dialogue is not drowned out by the sounds of mirth. Needless to say these pauses are totally unnecessary…
Filed under: Talking Movies (Reviews) — Fergal Casey @ 12:03 am
Tags: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Amanda Waller, Argus, Ayn Rand, Batman, Ben Affleck, Bruce Timm, Captain Boomerang, Cara Delevingne, David Ayer, Deadshot, Diablo, Dr Harleen Quinzell, Enchantress, Focus, Fury, Ghostbusters, Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney, Jared Leto, Jay Hernandez, Joel Kinnaman, Killer Croc, Margot Robbie, Midway City, Mistah J, Paul Dini, Positivism, Puddin', Rick Flagg, Suicide Squad, Superman, The Joker, The Rogues' Gallery, Viola Davis, Will Smith, Zack Snyder
Fury auteur David Ayer gets to play with Batman's Rogues' Gallery and the result is an amusing, supernatural-tinged comic-book guys and gals on a mission flick.
Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) needs more meta-humans to keep America safe in the wake of Superman's death. So she turns to the dark side of the force, more or less literally in the case of alien witch Enchantress (Cara Delevingne). When Midway City is torn apart by an eruption of supernatural power Joel Kinnaman's long-suffering Rick Flagg has to lead into combat the assassin Deadshot (Will Smith), angry mercenary Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), half-man half-crocodile Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), repentant pyrotechnic Diablo (Jay Hernandez), and the woman who put the psycho in psychotherapy, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). But true love never did run smooth and the Joker (Jared Leto) is out to reclaim his woman from the forces of evil – i.e. the government.
All eyes were on Robbie's take on Harley, and it's a creditable one. There are notes of winsomeness and instability, and the accent is nice when it's played up. Her brief interactions with Leto's Mistah J are a comic-book fan's delight to finally see in live action, but only capture part of the full twisted relationship. Leto is severely underused but makes an impact; he's more or less Paul Dini's comics Joker – sinister, but playful. Interestingly Leto's method madness is apparent onscreen as his appearance in a scene seems to genuinely unsettle all the other players. Will Smith confirms the finding of Focus, that he has found where he left his charisma, even if Ayer doesn't feed him enough good one-liners. Or anyone else for that matter. Perhaps he was too busy constructing a wishlist for his music supervisors. Suicide Squad's budget must have gone in large part on music rights as a preposterous amount of hit songs are blasted out at the least provocation. You could almost imagine Ayer was working through his frustration at never before having helmed a project with the heft to simply buy the rights.
Smith beautifully disses the 'swirling trash in the sky' that has become the cinematic convention of the apocalypse this summer, and somehow Suicide Squad feels more faithful to Ghostbusters than the travesty remake; with an ancient evil speaking with a low growl through a young woman, all leading to a confrontation at ornate steps leading to a portal to another dimension. This 'trippy magic stuff' as Harley dubs it is a world away from any previous Batman film, and with Batman making cameo appearances here, and the squad's backstories being sketched in like so many short tales from Dini and Timm, the feel of a comic-book being (at times uncomfortably) plastered up on screen is omnipresent; especially a detail about the Joker's luck. Smith and Kinnaman have a very Ayer arc, the oft wooden Courtney is surprisingly funny, and Davis is terrific in the surprisingly central role of Waller. But the film's construction feels a bit off, rattling by in under two hours; the allegation that a severe and needless re-cut took place certainly seems supported by the finish product where a soulful bar scene jumps up a creative level and seems like a refugee from a better more muted movie.
Despite labouring under Zack Snyder's 'artistic direction' somehow all concerned come out of this tour with credit. If only Affleck and Ayer could create their own DC visions utterly unconnected to the Arch-Positivist.
*Postscript – Aug 12th: After a week of revelations about cut Joker scenes it seems the choppy quality is Ayer's vision being traduced, and I impugned him on the musical front. This is not David O Russell's American Hustle jukebox wishlist, but likely how people who make trailers cut a film, sequence after sequence of 2 minute rawk montages…
2016: Fears
Tags: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016: Fears, 24, Albert Brooks, Alden Ehrenreich, Alex Proyas, Alexandra Shipp, Alfred Pennyworth, Amir Arison, Andrew Stanton, Anduin Lothar, Angel, Anthony Russo, Argo, Barton Fink, Batman, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, BBC Radio 4, Ben Affleck, Ben Foster, Ben Hardy, Ben Stiller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Murray, Brenton Thwaites, Bryan Singer, C Robert Cargill, Caesar, Callum Keith Rennie, Captain America 2, Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, CGI, Channing Tatum, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Evans, Chris Terrio, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Nolan, Chuck Hogan, Clancy Brown, Cliff Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, Dark City, DC, Deadline, Death Star, Diana Spencer, Diane Keaton, Disney, Doctor Strange, Dominic Cooper, Doomsday, Dory, Drive, Duncan Jones, Ed O'Neill, Eddie Murphy, Edward Snowden, Elle Fanning, Ellen DeGeneres, Eugene Levy, Fast & Furious, Fear the Walking Dead, Felicity Jones, Finding Dory, Finding Nemo, Game of Thrones, George Clooney, Gerard Butler, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters 3, Gods of Egypt, Green Greenwald, Hail, Harold Ramis, Idris Elba, Inside Llewyn Davis, James Badge Dale, James McAvoy, Jean Grey, Jennifer Lawrence, Jeremy Irons, Jerry Seinfeld, Jessica Chastain, JGL, Joe Russo, John Carter, John Krasinski, John Wick, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Judd Apatow, Justin Lin, Kaitlin Olson, Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, Katie Dippold, Keanu Reeves, Kit Harington, Knock Knock, Kristen Wiig, LA, Lex Luthor, LOST, Mads Mikkelsen, Magneto, Man of Steel, Mark Millar, Marlin, Marvel, Max Martini, Melissa Leo, Michael Bay, Michael Fassbender, Michael Gambon, Michel Bay, Moon, Mozhan Marno, Mystique, Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Winding Refn, Night of the Living Dead, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Oliver Stone, Olivia Munn, Only God Forgives, Oscar Isaac, Owen Wilson, Paul Feig, Paula Patton, Person of Interest, Professor X, Psylocke, Rachel McAdams, Robert Downey Jr, Robert Oppenheimer, Rogue One, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Ross A. Lincoln, Sarah Shahi, Saturday Night Live, Scarlett Johansson, Scott Derrickson, Sebastian Stan, Seinfeld, Shailene Woodley, Simon Pegg, Sinister, SNL, Snowden, Sophie Turner, Source Code, Star Trek, Star Trek Beyond, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Storm, Susan Sarandon, The Blacklist, The Coen Brothers, The Coens, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, The Film Programme, The Future, The Green Berets, The Heat, The Intercept, The Neon Demon, The Office, The Strain, The Town, The Unit, The WB, Thor, Tilda Swinton, Timothy Olyphant, Toby Kebbell, Travis Fimmel, True Grit, Ty Burrell, Un Film de Michel Bay, Vikings, Warcraft, Warner Bros, Winston Zeddmore, Wonder Woman, X-Men: Apocalypse, Xavier Dolan, Zachary Quinto, Zack Snyder, Zoolander, Zoolander 2
January 29th sees the release of a small (a mere $50 million dollar) personal movie by an auteur, truly un film de Michel Bay. Six military contractors (including The Office's John Krasinski, 24's James Badge Dale, and The Unit's Max Martini) make a desperate last stand when a US consulate in Libya is attacked on the anniversary of 9/11. Chuck Hogan (The Town, The Strain), of all people, writes for Bay to direct; with the resulting Bayhem being memorably characterised by The Intercept as Night of the Living Dead meets The Green Berets.
February 12th sees the release of the sequel nobody was particularly asking for… It's been 14 since Zoolander. An eternity in cinematic comedy as the Frat Pack glory days have long since yielded to the School of Apatow; itself fading of late. Seinfeld has refused reunions noting that the concept of his show becomes depressing with aged characters, but Stiller apparently has no such qualms about airhead models Derek (Ben Stiller) and Hansel (Owen Wilson) being on the catwalk. Benedict Cumberbatch, Kristen Wiig and Penelope Cruz bring new energy, but an air of desperation/cynicism hangs over this project.
February 26th sees Bek (Brenton Thwaites) forced to align with Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) when the god of darkness Set (Gerard Butler) assumes control of Egypt in a truly stupid blockbuster. But not as stupid as the reception it can look forward to after Deadline's Ross A. Lincoln wrote "based on the statuary and monuments that have survived, not to mention thousands of years of other cultures commenting on them, they definitely weren't white people with flowing, curly blond locks, and their gods were definitely not Europeans." Lincoln's argument dynamites Idris Elba's role in Thor, which is not permissible, so logically (sic) it's now racist to not depict the Egyptian gods as Egyptian, but it's also racist to depict the Norse gods as Norse. If the gods of Egypt ought to look Egyptian, who, that's bankable, can play them? Amir Arison, Mozhan Marno, Sarah Shahi, and Cliff Curtis wouldn't merit a $140 million budget. And casting them because (barring the Maori Curtis) they hail from nearer Egypt than Gerard Butler, but are not actually Egyptian, is itself racist. Does Alex (Dark City) Proyas, who hasn't directed anything since 2009, really deserve this firestorm for just trying to work?
The Coens stop writing for money and return to directing on March 4th with a 1950s Hollywood back-lot comedy. A lighter effort than Barton Fink, this follows Josh Brolin's fixer as he tries to negotiate the return of George Clooney's kidnapped star from mysterious cabal 'The Future' with the help of fellow studio players Channing Tatum, Alden Ehrenreich, and Scarlett Johansson. The relentlessly mean-spirited Inside Llewyn Davis was a surprise aesthetic nadir after True Grit's ebullience, so we can only hope the return of so many of their repertory players can galvanise the Coens to rediscover some warmth.
Zack Snyder gave us the neck-snap heard around the world in Man of Steel. On March 25th he continues his visionary misinterpretation of Superman, and can also ruin Batman, Wonder Woman, Lex Luthor, Alfred Pennyworth, and Doomsday. Ben Affleck and Jeremy Irons entice as Bruce and Alfred, and Affleck has undoubtedly got the script punched up by inserting his Argo scribe Chris Terrio into the mix, but Snyder is still directing. How Snyder ever got the keys to the DC cinematic kingdom is amazing, but when if he blows this he cripples The WB.
Keanu Reeves made a comeback in 2015 with John Wick and Knock Knock. But can he impart some of that momentum to Nicolas Winding Refn to help him recover from the unmerciful kicking he got for Only God Forgives? Refn is working on a third of Drive's budget for this horror tale of Elle Fanning's wannabe actress who moves to LA, to find her vitality drained by a coven led by Christina Hendricks. Details are very sparse, other than that it's about 'vicious beauty,' but this could be intriguing, blood-spattered, gorgeous, and enigmatic, or a total fiasco…
The Avengers 3 Captain America: Civil War
Anthony and Joe Russo, the directors who gave you the worst choreographed and edited fight scenes you'd ever seen in Captain America 2, return with …more of the same, because why bother doing it better when you'll go see it anyway? May 6th sees Mark Millar's comic-book event become a camouflaged Avengers movie as Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans' superheroes fall out over the fate of Sebastian Stan's reformed Bucky. Expect incomprehensible fights, the occasional decent action sequence, wall to wall fake-looking CGI, and more characters than Game of Thrones meets LOST.
The master of subtlety returns on May 12th as Oliver Stone continues his quest to make a good movie this century. His latest attempt is a biopic of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), whose distrust of the American government should be catnip to Stone's sensibilities. Zachary Quinto is journalist Glenn Greenwald, Shailene Woodley is Snowden's girlfriend, and supporting players include Timothy Olyphant, Nicolas Cage, and Melissa Leo. Expect a hagiography with stylistic brio, and no qualms about whether the next large building that blows up might be on Snowden for blowing the lid on how terrorists were monitored.
Oscar Isaac is Apocalypse, the first mutant, worshipped for his godlike powers, who awakes in alt-1980 and turns Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to the dark side as one of his Four Horsemen alongside Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and Angel (Ben Hardy). James McAvoy loses his hair from the stress of being upstaged by the powers of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and the ever-increasing star-power of Jennifer Lawrence. Director Bryan Singer's return to the X-fold in 2014 was a triumph, but rushing this out for May 27th invites disaster; can enough time really have been spent on scripting?
Duncan Jones completes the Christopher Nolan career path by moving from Moon to Source Code to Warcraft. June 10th sees Vikings main-man Travis Fimmel daub on blue face-paint as Anduin Lothar. The battle with the Orcs has an interesting cast including Ben Foster, Toby Kebbell, Paula Patton, Dominic Cooper, and the great character actors Clancy Brown and Callum Keith Rennie. But its greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. Has there ever been a truly great adaptation of a computer game to a movie? And if Warcraft's a good movie that's unfaithful to the game will gamers stay away?
June 17th sees another unnecessary unwanted sequel to a beloved early Zeroes film. Why exactly do we need a sequel to Finding Nemo? Besides it being a post-John Carter retreat into an animated safe space for director Andrew Stanton? Marlin (Albert Brooks) sets out to help forgetful Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) find her long-lost parents, who are voiced by Diane Keaton and Eugene Levy. Other voices include Ty Burrell as a beluga whale, Kaitlin Olson as Dory's whale shark adopted sister, and Ed O'Neill as an ill-tempered octopus. Stanton is writing too, but can aquatic lightning really strike twice?
Star Trek marks its 50th anniversary with this reboot threequel on July 8th, but the recent trailer didn't whet any appetites. Despite having Furious maestro Justin Lin in charge and Simon Pegg as the final writer on a script with 5 credited scribes the footage was solely notable for (a) Kirk's bad hair (b) a vaguely Star Trek: Insurrection with gaudier colours vibe (c) forced attempts at humour. Star Trek Into Darkness was a frustrating exercise in creative cowardice, a flipped photocopy of Star Trek II. Let us hope this time originality has been actively sought out.
July 15th sees… another reboot. Paul Feig couldn't stow his ego and just direct Dan Aykroyd's Ghostbusters 3 script, so… "REBOOT!". Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig are great, but Feig wrote this with Katie Dippold (who penned his execrable 'comedy' The Heat) so it won't be. Feig's drivel about gender-swapping hides an obvious truth. The Ghostbusters were all male because Akyroyd and Ramis wrote for themselves, SNL pal Murray, and Eddie Murphy; when Murphy dropped out, Zeddmore's part shrank as his jokes were redistributed. Feig's Ghostbusters are all female to cynically reposition attacks on his creative bankruptcy as sexism.
November 4th sees Benedict Cumberbatch swoosh his cape as Stephen Strange, (That's Dr. Strange to you!), an arrogant surgeon taught magick by Tilda Swinton's Ancient One. Director Scott Derrickson is perhaps hoping to mash his resume of Sinister and The Day The Earth Stood Still, especially as Sinister co-writer C Robert Cargill has polished this. Mads Mikkelsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Rachel McAdams co-star, but before we get excited, this is Marvel. Marvel took the outré world of comic-books and cinematically rendered it as predictable, conservative, self-aggrandising, boring tosh. How off the leash do you bet Derrickson will get?
Kit Harington is the titular movie star who is undone when Jessica Chastain's gossip columnist reveals his correspondence with a young girl, and an unreasoning witch-hunt begins. And it's the first movie written and directed by Xavier Dolan in English! So, why Fears not Hopes, you ask? Because Dolan in a BBC Radio 4 interview expressed nervousness that he didn't instinctively understand English's nuances the way he did with French, and because with big names (Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Michael Gambon) comes pressure to tone down material and make a commercial breakthrough.
Didn't you always desperately want to know the back story of that throwaway line about how brave rebels died to smuggle out the plans for the Death Star? … Whaddya mean 'No'?!! Do you have any idea how much money Disney has on the line here?? You damn well better develop an interest by December 16th when Oppenheimer of the Empire Mads Mikkelsen has a crisis of conscience and enlists the help of his smuggler daughter Felicity Jones. Disney paid 4 billion for the rights to Star Wars, they retrospectively own your childhood now.
Six Years, what a surprise
Filed under: Talking Movies,Talking Nonsense,Talking Television,Talking Theatre — Fergal Casey @ 10:06 pm
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Previous milestones on this blog have been marked by features on Michael Fassbender and a vainglorious, if requested, list (plays to see before you die). But as today marks exactly six years since Talking Movies kicked off in earnest on Tuesday September 1st 2009 with a review of (500) Days of Summer I've rummaged thru the archives for some lists covering the various aspects of the blog's expanded cultural brief.
Top 6 Films
There's been a lot of films given a write-up and a star rating hereabouts. So many films. Some fell in my estimation on re-watching, others steadily increased in my esteem, and many stayed exactly as they were.
Here are my favourites of the films I've reviewed over the past six years:
X-Men: First Class
And that's a selection from this list…
Iron Man, Indiana Jones 4, Wolverine, (500) Days of Summer, Creation, Pandorum, Love Happens, The Goods, Fantastic Mr Fox, Jennifer's Body, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Bright Star, Glorious 39, The Box, Youth in Revolt, A Single Man, Whip It!, The Bad Lieutenant, Eclipse, Inception, The Runaways, The Hole 3-D, Buried, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Let Me In, The Way Back, Never Let Me Go, Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3-D, Win Win, X-Men: First Class, The Beaver, A Better Life, Project Nim, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie, The Art of Getting By, Troll Hunter, Drive, Demons Never Die, The Ides of March, In Time, Justice, Breaking Dawn: Part I, The Big Year, Shame, The Darkest Hour 3-D, The Descendants, Man on a Ledge, Martha Marcy May Marlene, A Dangerous Method, The Woman in Black, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3-D, Margaret, This Means War, Stella Days, Act of Valour, The Hunger Games, Titanic 3-D, The Cabin in the Woods, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Lockout, Albert Nobbs, Damsels in Distress, Prometheus, Red Tails, Red Lights, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter 3-D, Ice Age 4, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, The Dark Knight Rises, The Expendables 2, My Brothers, The Watch, Lawless, The Sweeney, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Liberal Arts, Sinister, Hit and Run, Ruby Sparks, On the Road, Stitches, Skyfall, The Sapphires, Gambit, Seven Psychopaths, Lincoln, Men at Lunch – Lon sa Speir, Warm Bodies, A Good Day to Die Hard, Safe Haven, Arbitrage, Stoker, Robot and Frank, Parker, Side Effects, Iron Man 3, 21 and Over, Dead Man Down, Mud, The Moth Diaries, Populaire, Behind the Candelabra, Man of Steel 3-D, The East, The Internship, The Frozen Ground, The Wolverine, The Heat, RED 2, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Diana, Blue Jasmine, How I Live Now, Thanks for Sharing, Escape Plan, Like Father, Like Son, Ender's Game, Philomena, The Counsellor, Catching Fire, Black Nativity, Delivery Man, 12 Years a Slave, Devil's Due, Inside Llewyn Davis, Mr Peabody & Sherman 3-D, Dallas Buyers Club, The Monuments Men, Bastards, The Stag, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Calvary, Magic Magic, Tracks, Hill Street, X-Men: Days of Future Past 3-D, Benny & Jolene, The Fault in Our Stars, 3 Days to Kill, Boyhood, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3-D, SuperMensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, God's Pocket, Hector and the Search for Happiness, The Expendables 3, What If, Sin City 2, Let's Be Cops, The Guest, A Most Wanted Man, Wish I Was Here, Noble, Maps to the Stars, Life After Beth, Gone Girl, Northern Soul, The Babadook, Interstellar, The Drop, Mockingjay – Part I, Electricity, Birdman, Taken 3, Wild, Testament of Youth, A Most Violent Year, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Son of a Gun, Patrick's Day, Selma, It Follows, Paper Souls, Home 3-D, While We're Young, John Wick, A Little Chaos, The Good Lie, Let Us Prey, The Legend of Barney Thomson, Hitman: Agent 47.
Top 6 Film Features
There's been a lot of film features, from me obsessing over ignored inflation at the box-office and omnipresent CGI on the screen to the twaddle of Oscar ceremonies and thoroughly bogus critical narratives of New Hollywood.
Here are my favourite film features from the last six years:
A Proof – Keanu Can Act
Snyder's Sensibility
What the Hell is … Method Acting?
Terrence Malick's Upas Tree
5 Reasons to love Tom at the Farm
A Million Ways to Screw up a Western
Top 6 TV Features
There's been quite a bit of musing about TV here, usually in short-form howls about The Blacklist or other such popcorn irritants, but sometimes in longer format, like two disquisitions on Laurence Fishburne's stint in CSI.
Here are my favourite TV features from the last six years:
TARDIS: Time And Relative Dimensions In Smartness
Double Exposure: Cutter's Way/House M.D.
Medium's Realism
2ThirteenB Baker Street, Princeton
An Arrow of a different colour
Top 6 Plays
Since I decided to start reviewing plays in summer 2010 there's been a steady stream of reviews from the Dublin Theatre Festival and regular productions at the Gate, the Abbey, the Olympia, the Gaiety, and Smock Alley.
Here are my favourites of the plays I've reviewed over the last six years:
John Gabriel Borkman
The Silver Tassie
Juno and the Paycock
The Select: The Sun Also Rises
A Whistle in the Dark
And that's a selection from this list:
Death of a Salesman, Arcadia, Phaedra, John Gabriel Borkman, Enron, The Silver Tassie, The Field, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Attempts on Her Life, Pygmalion, Translations, Hay Fever, Juno and the Paycock, Peer Gynt, Slattery's Sago Saga, Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer, Big Maggie, Hamlet, Improbable Frequency, Alice in Funderland, Glengarry Glen Ross, Travesties, The House, The Plough and the Stars, The Lark, Dubliners, The Select: The Sun Also Rises, A Whistle in the Dark, Conversations on a Homecoming, The Talk of the Town, King Lear, Major Barbara, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Critic, Desire Under the Elms, Neutral Hero, Macbeth, A Skull in Connemara, The Vortex, An Ideal Husband, Twelfth Night, Aristocrats, Ballyturk, Heartbreak House, The Actor's Lament, Our Few and Evil Days, Bailegangaire, Spinning, She Stoops to Conquer, The Walworth Farce, The Caretaker, The Man in Two Pieces, Hedda Gabler, The Gigli Concert, A Month in the Country, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Importance of Being Earnest, Bob & Judy, By the Bog of Cats.
Top 6 Colour Pieces
It must be admitted that I've written fewer colour pieces for the blog than I would have liked, but I've greatly enjoyed the occasional adventures of Hollywood insider Micawber-Mycroft; a homage to PG Wodehouse's Mr Mulliner.
Here are my favourite colour pieces from the last six years:
How to Watch 300
Mark Pellegrino gets ambitious
Great Production Disasters of Our Time: Apocalypse Now
Micawber-Mycroft explains nervous action directing
Alfred & Bane: Brothers in Arms
Kristen Bell, Book and Candle
Six years, my brain hurts a lot…
Comic-Con 2015
Tags: Alicia Vikander, Apocalypse, Armie Hammer, Batman, Batman V Superman, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Ben Affleck, Bruce Timm, Bryan Singer, Carrie Fisher, CGI, Channing Tatum, Clark Kent, Comic-Con, Comic-Con 2015, Cyclops, David Ayer, David McCallum, DC, Deadshot, Domhnall Gleeson, Dr Harleen Quinzell, Dustin Nguyen, Elizabeth Debicki, Fury, Gal Gadot, Gambit, George Lucas, Gotham City Sirens, Guy Ritchie, Han Solo, Harley Quinn, Harrison Ford, Headstuff, Headstuff.org, Henry Cavill, Holly Hunter, Hugh Jackman, I Started a Joke, James McAvoy, Jared Leto, Jean Grey, Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Eisenberg, JJ Abrams, Jude Law, Kodi Smith-McPhee, Leia Skywalker, Lex Luthor, Luke Skywalker, Mad Love, Magneto, Margot Robbie, Mark Hamill, Marvel, Michael Fassbender, Mystique, Napoleon Solo, Nightcrawler, Old Man Logan, Olivia Munn, Oscar Isaac, Paul Dini, Peter Cushing, Professor X, Psylocke, Robert Vaughn, San Diego, Sophie Turner, Stan Lee, Star Wars, Star Wars Episode VII, Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens, Suicide Squad, Superman, The Dirty Dozen, The Joker, The Man from UNCLE, Tye Sheridan, Will Smith, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, X-2, X-Men, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, Zack Snyder
Another year, another San Diego love-in of Hollywood's brightest stars and all things comic-book and fandom-y, but what were the cinematic highlights of Comic-Con 2015? Here's a teaser of my round-up for HeadStuff.org.
Fury writer/director David Ayer took to the stage to talk trash about Marvel, claiming DC had the better villains; and then backed it up with the first look at Suicide Squad. It's kind of staggering that a film not scheduled for release until August 2016 could have such a polished trailer, down to the spine-tingling version of 'I Started a Joke'. While the sheer size of the cast still worries, it looks like Ayer's promise to deliver The Dirty Dozen with DC characters holds good. And for all Will Smith's prominence as a perceptive but depressed Deadshot in the trailer, there are really only two characters that matter: Harley Quinn and her Puddin'. Margot Robbie appears an inspired choice for the first cinematic incarnation of Dr Quinzell, hitting notes of naivety, menace, playfulness, and sheer insanity. Jared Leto, who has received endless inane stick over the appearance of his Joker, also seems a perfect fit as the Harlequin of Hate. In full make-up his wiry frame makes him seem similar to the Joker as drawn by Dustin Nguyen, in close-up the much-debated steel teeth rock, and his sinister lines could actually be Batman dialogue; which is quite intriguing.
Click here for the full piece on HeadStuff.org, with X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, The Man from UNCLE, Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens, and Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice in the mix.
The Baz Aesthetic
Filed under: Talking Books,Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 12:52 pm
Tags: Australia, Avatar, Baz Luhrmann, Daisy Buchanan, F Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers, Jay Gatsby, Jay-Z, Jordan Baker, Meyer Wolfsheim, Moulin Rouge!, Nick Carraway, Red Curtain, The Baz Aesthetic, The Charleston, The Great Gatsby, The Royal Albert Hall, Watchmen, Zack Snyder
I've considered myself a fan of Baz Luhrmann for a long time, but after Australia and The Great Gatsby, I've become sceptical that the 'Red Curtain' trilogy was really a deliberate trilogy – I think all of his films reveal the Baz Aesthetic; and it's being imposed on increasingly unsuitable material.
Deleted scenes are often the most revealing features on DVDs. Baz Luhrmann deleted the scene in The Great Gatsby in which Jordan and Nick's romance ends. He shot it as Nick taking the phone away from his ear, and hanging up on Jordan. Because in the book it says Jordan's voice faded away and then they weren't talking anymore. I always thought that Nick spaced out thinking about Gatsby's fate and Jordan hung up on him, because that seems far more in character – but Baz went with what is a very literal interpretation. It transpires Luhrmann also cut Gatsby's famous line "Her voice is full of money", because it complicated a scene – but only because Luhrmann had put the line in a different scene to begin with… So this is an adaptation in which the text is taken literally, but all the meaning and nuance lost – not unlike Zack Synder's worst missteps with his Watchmen.
But it is also an adaptation in which Luhrmann's particular aesthetic is mercilessly imposed upon a text for which it is radically unsuitable. Why does Nick Carraway suddenly want to be a writer? Duh, so that the film can be framed, like Moulin Rouge!, with him depressed, and then, by writing his story, redeemed by art at the end with his completed manuscript representing his salvaged personality. But … what was wrong with F Scott's original novel that it needed to be Moulin Rouge!'d? Nothing, that's just the Baz Aesthetic… How else could one justify transforming the small smoke-filled restaurant that Gatsby and Nick dine with Wolfsheim in into a raucous Jay-Z booming speakeasy with black strippers twerking onstage? How else could one explain turning the grand piano in Gatsby's mansion into an organ that would look outsize in the Albert Hall? How else could one excuse ditching the actual glorious popular music of the 1920s for terrible anachronistic Jay-Z drivel, and replacing the fiendishly complicated dance moves of the Charleston (which are quite the spectacle when choreographed en masse) with pathetic 'raise your hands in the air' hip-hop stylings? How else could one make sense of using so much unnecessary CGI that you feel like Avatar had more of a sense of physical reality, and of deliberately ditching the iconic flapper look of the 1920s for more cleavage because 'sexiness' is all that matters?
The Baz Aesthetic is excess – everything has to be excess. And that's fine as an aesthetic; when it synchs with the material, but here it doesn't. Gatsby gleefully tosses his shirts down a floor to Daisy leading to her tears over the shirts, and Nick adds a helpful line to tell the audience her line about the shirts is stupid – but in the novel Gatsby is distractedly tossing shirts about because he's in a trance, and Daisy cries because she can't articulate what she feels and she says a stupid line knowing it's a stupid line. Baz Luhrmann doesn't do subtlety or nuance, and that's not a problem for Moulin Rouge! But if you're going to shoehorn every property into the template of Moulin Rouge! then that is a problem.


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20170904 Thompson Reuters / Sydney Morning Herald - Morris-Cotterill comments on Commonwealth Bank of Australia case.
Domestic problems generate foreign enforcement.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia's apparent failure to properly monitor transactions for money laundering and possible terrorism funding makes action from American regulators inevitable say financial crime experts.
American lawyers have told Thomson Reuters that CBA was already responding to information requests from a number of US agencies with differing mandates and enforcement agendas and the announcement of a formal investigation, a precursor to enforcement action, is now only a matter of time.
APRA's probe 'quite serious' for CBA
The fallout from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's money-laundering has scandal widened, with the banking regulator launching an inquiry into the lender's culture and governance.
Edward Wilson jnr, partner at Venable in Washington, DC, said American financial intelligence unit FinCEN would already be involved in the case through various agreements with Australia's anti-money laundering (AML) regulator Austrac.
"FinCEN is already interested in this case. CBA has US branches and deals in US dollars. For both reasons, CBA will be required to comply with American AML laws," Mr Wilson said.
Criticism has been levelled at those pursuing class action against the Commonwealth Bank.
Criticism has been levelled at those pursuing class action against the Commonwealth Bank.Credit:Bloomberg
The bank's New York branch holds a US banking licence and is regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of Currency (OCC), and Mr Wilson said its lawyers would be urging it to inform the US Federal Reserve System of its problems in Australia.
The alleged transaction monitoring problems come on top of the Austrac prosecution CBA faces over its smart ATMs.
A bank spokesman said CBA was communicating with overseas regulators but was not aware of any formal investigations or legal action.
The OCC and FinCEN did not reply to requests for comment.
An Australian financial crime investigator, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the discovery process that is taking place at CBA was creating major headaches for the institution.
"The bank is in serious trouble because there are internal reports talking about these things from several years ago. That's my understanding from talking with various people, a number of whom were former bank executives and managers," he said.
Sanctions concerns
After the problems first emerged with CBA's smart ATMs in 2015 the bank ordered a review which discovered it lacked automated transaction monitoring (TM) in debt capital markets, leasing, institutional lending in Australia and across Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, London and New York.
On Friday, Commonwealth Bank acknowledged that an internal report had found problems with its transaction monitoring but said it was a "working document" – part of a continuing "program of action".
The bank was trying to set out a process to automate tasks currently undertaken manually.
"A combination of automated and manual monitoring is common practice across the industry," the bank said.
An illustration of the potential risk facing CBA is found in a recent stress test for an Australia bank. The test used a hypothetical scenario where they were fined $10 million by AUSTRAC for AML/CTF breaches but the worst-case scenario for fines from US regulators was $1 billion.
"This reflects the fact that Australian banks think the risk of enforcement in the US is 100 times higher than what it is back home," said Bill Majcher, a former Canadian AML undercover investigator.
Another penalty available to US regulators is to place conditions on a bank's access to US dollar clearing.
US lawyers said it was unlikely that regulators would accept the "manual monitoring" claim, especially if the problems were not self-reported to the regulator back in February when they came to light.
American regulators are understood to be already reviewing potential vulnerabilities that may have emerged as a result of CBA's smart ATMs, which have formed the basis of the AUSTRAC civil action.
Stanley Foodman, founder of Foodman & Associates in Miami, said the seriousness of the allegations and the fact CommBank has a New York presence suggested FinCEN and other federal and New York state regulatory agencies would investigate.
"A request from another regulatory authority is a likely trigger for a US federal and New York state regulatory investigation," Foodman said.
"Also, any US federal or New York state regulator reading the international press regarding this matter could initiate its own US-based investigation."
The best course of action now for CBA would be to disclose everything to the US regulators, sources said.
Self-identified and reported issues often received leniency in the United States compared with issues that regulators uncovered. CBA would know this and was likely to be undertaking an internal review as result, Stumbauer said.
Nigel Morris-Cotterill, a regional financial crime risk strategist, said there was a complicated matrix of regulators in the United States that would make CBA's reporting and liaison more difficult than in Australia.
CBA's presence in New York was a risk because the New York Department of Financial Services was tough on overseas banks that overlook their AML obligations.
"DFS likes to isolate itself from the other regulators and to demand its own deals. It likes to make a public spectacle of people and the bank," Mr Morris-Cotterill said.
Mr Majcher, who is now chief executive of risk consultancy EMIDR in Hong Kong, said US regulators would be tougher to deal with than the Australian agencies want to know whether the bank's failed cash machine policy had introduced systemic risk into the wider banking system.
US regulators would be unimpressed by the Australian bank's "coding errors" defence and want explanations for the collective failure of technology, oversight and the auditing systems, Mr Majcher said.
"There is zero doubt in my mind that CBA will face enforcement action in the US based on the past and current actions of CBA. The awareness of the IDMs and transaction monitoring failures are significant in themselves," he said.
As a former AML undercover investigator, Mr Majcher said overseas banks were always surprised by how much regulatory reach and enforcement appetite the US agencies had in cases such as these.
"The US can use any number of mechanisms, including initiating an open-ended criminal investigation, as they can articulate 'reasonable suspicion' that some of the funds involved may have come from Americans engaged in tax evasion, funds may have been used to commit crimes against America and Americans," he said.
"When it comes to financial crime, the greatest advocate to protect Canadian citizens was the US government and justice system. Perhaps Australia might find out the same to be true with CBA.
Banks are up against digital disrupters, a growing trust gap and a push towards bank account portability.
CBA investors warned over foreign fine risk
"The US has tremendous overreach in these areas," Majcher said. "And it has demonstrated that is not scared to use it."
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Song Parodies -> "Poland Man"
"Spider Man"
"Poland Man"
To the parody section editors: Please don't remove this parody! I seriously did not make this one up! This is why I provide videos for obscure songs. Besides, it's not even the same Peter Griffin. This one's real name was Peter Kamp (he was German) and he died in January of last year :( Anyways, let's talk about the parody. After the last one I wrote, I felt that I needed to write a happier parody. Among other things, I also wanted to celebrate the end of the Writers' Strike & I wanted to surprise people. Also, I wrote this because of the lack of Polish superheroes. As I usually do when writing parodies about made up superheroes, here's a backstory: Jan Władisławowycz served in the Polish Army for a couple of years and was good at his job. However, upon discharge, he was having trouble readjusting to civilian life. Then one day, he went to a Japanese restaurant & ordered fugu (a poisonous type of fish of which only certain parts can be eaten). It was cut incorrectly, he ate a poisonous part, and he was sent to the hospital. He came close to death, but survived & gained super powers, among them the power to detoxify food. There ya go. Enjoy the parody. DKTOS?
Down in Eastern Europe,
Specifically Poland,
There's a superhero
Who gets the bad guys canned.
They thought they were super,
Until they realized
There's a Polish hero
Who's got a fire in his eyes.
According to what I know, he's just a normal dude.
They say he got his powers from eating poisoned food.
I don't think it's likely, I think it's just a lie.
For if you tried to do that, then you would surely die!!!
(Poland Man) [x2]
This is the night-
The night-
The night of Poland Man.
Saving the Republic from some really nasty stuff.
Watch out bad guys, or you'll end up bruised & very badly scuffed!
Flying through the country,
Across the blue sky,
If he doesn't hurry,
A city's gonna die.
The people are frightened,
They are mortified,
Where's that white & red man
With a fire in his eyes?
Though it's all looking hopeless, and the bomb can't be defused,
There is not a challenge this hero has refused.
He disposed of the bomb, and they're cheering for that guy.
He saved thousands of people, and nobody has died!
Poland Man!
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Steve K. - February 19, 2008 - Report this comment
Przepraszam, ale nie znam tego śpiewu "Spiderman".
Dylan Baranski - February 19, 2008 - Report this comment
I know the video says "Spiderman". However, both spellings are correct.
I'm not complaining about the spelling, I just don't know the OS, whether the title is one word or two. Hmmm, I'd better learn the Polish word for "original".
Well, there's a link to the video of the song in the introductory paragraph. Just look for the "DKTOS?" with blue text & underline.
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Q: How can the hover panel in people's directory be modified not to show authored documents I am trying to create a people's directory for my intranet. When I hover over any employee's name I can see their authored documents. I just want this to be a search page for other employees to be able to search for details and contact information of their colleagues. I do not want everyone to see which documents have been written by them.
Here is a screenshot:

So here in the above picture I don't want anyone to see the authored documents.
I have tried turning off Sharing activity but this can still be seen.
Is there a way to prevent this to be seen?
Thanks,
Sayali

A: You can customize the Item_Person.html and Item_Person_HoverPanel.html or BETTER copy them and rename them then make changes to the copies. Simply remove the sections you don't want to see.
Just curious, why do you need to make this change? The search results are security trimmed.

A: if you still looking to remove the documents completely from the Hover Panel, you can, as Matthew has suggested, copy Item_Person_HoverPanel.html and edit it..look for these 2 lines and comment them
hide the following lines

hope this helps!

A: You have to Customize search result types in SharePoint 2013

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La  Ramaline des rochers, Ramalina siliquosa est une espèce de lichens du littoral de l'Atlantique.

Taxinomie

Étymologie
Le genre Ramalina vient du latin ramus « rameau, branche », et du suffixe -ale, neutre de -alis, allusion aux ramifications du thalle. Siliquosa est également un terme latin silex (pierre, caillou), en référence à son habitat saxicole.

Nomenclature
Ce lichen porte différents noms en français : ramaline, ramaline siliceuse, lichen arborescent.

Description
Le thalle de cette ramaline des rochers se présente généralement sous la forme d'un petit buisson broussailleux vert grisâtre, de taille et de forme variable, avec des organes discoïdes reproducteurs (apothécies blanches à vert pâle) à l'extrémité des lanières aplaties et ramifiées, dressées ou retombantes, de 20 à 70 mm.

Écologie

Habitat
Macrolichen saxicole calcifuge, il affectionne les rochers plus ou moins siliceux de l'étage supralittoral, au niveau de la zone des embruns. Il peut être trouvé plus à l'intérieur des terres, mais jamais loin du littoral. Pouvant vivre avec une teneur en eau réduite (à l'état déshydraté, il est sec et cassant), il est aussi capable de se réhydrater (faculté de reviviscence).

Répartition
 Mer du Nord, Manche, océan Atlantique Nord (Bretagne, Îles Britanniques).

Utilisation
Cette espèce est broutée par les moutons aux îles Shetland.

Galerie

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes

Liens externes

Lecanoromycetes
Lichen
Espèce de champignons (nom scientifique)

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While waiting for the police, take pictures and videos of the suspected car including the license.
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THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF HOMESCHOOLING: Home education, as defined by Florida law, is "sequentially progressive instruction of a student directed by his or her parent or guardian in order to satisfy the requirements of Statute 1003.21 and 1002.41." The law is broad, giving parents quite a bit of freedom to direct their child's education.... THE LEGAL DEFINITION OF HOMESCHOOLING: Home education, as defined by Florida law, is "sequentially progressive instruction of a student directed by his or her parent or guardian in order to satisfy the requirements of Statute 1003.21 and 1002.41." The law is broad, giving parents quite a bit of freedom to direct their child's education.
Step Three: Florida Required Tests. Next, you'll need to to take the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations. The FTCE is administered to educators seeking initial certification in the K-12 system.
In most places, you simply become a parent. Most states andcountries do not require teachers of homeschool to have any sort ofdegree or.
Hello if you are seeking a private homeschool teacher please check out the following website: www.californiaprivateteachers.com Through our website we connect parents and families seeking a private homeschool teacher to a trained and licensed teaching professional.
17/11/2008 · Become a certified homeschool teacher by logging onto the Internet to view a list of rules and state requirements by registering with the school system.


Tamara is 28 years old and was born and raised in Madrid. She is a creative Events Manager and has a passion for travelling; she has lived in Hamburg, Singapore and San Francisco. Tamara is the Founder of the Madrid chapter of 'Girl Gone International', which she runs voluntarily.
In my homecountry of Spain, volunteering is not usually something that people get involved in. We have a social system that provides for people in need; at least, that´s what we tell ourselves. This truth is, that many people get left behind and fall through the cracks. It is up to us to change things. You just need to find your passion.
In my early twenties, I thought that volunteering was an activity that would primarily benefit me, rather than help others. My first experience volunteering had no other real goal than to fatten my CV. Sadly, this ended up being a regular job, at a regular company, that was just looking for free employees.
Travelling was key for me to understand the true meaning of altruism. I visited countries such as Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan, and saw first-hand what hunger and poverty looked like. I felt lucky, privileged even, for my lifestyle. But back home, it is easy to forget. I still felt that as an individual, I could not make a real difference.
It was during a trip to the USA that I realized how much more involved people my age could be with a cause. The problem was, that I couldn´t find something to motivate me enough to dedicate my free time to it (I was an event manager and worked crazy hours). An opportunity came up: I was offered the chance to volunteer for 5 weeks at the Singapore Youth Olympic Games. I thought this was the push that I needed to try and search for what would really spark a passion inside of me. Even though I took of all my vacation days for this purpose, I am so glad that I did it, because the amazing experience that I had, in such an international environment, was the driving force for what came next.
The next year my boyfriend was sent to San Francisco to work for 6 months and I joined him there. Although the first days felt like a vacation, after two weeks I decided that it was time to make myself useful. Money not being an issue, I started to look at different volunteering options. It was a difficult decision as there were so many NGOs needing help. In the end, I realized that what was truly important was being able to commit myself to something in which I could offer something that I am really good at: organising fundraisers. Perhaps I was not directly working with the homeless or elderly people, but this time, unlike my first volunteer experience, I was truly working for the wellbeing of others.
When I returned to Madrid, I began to reflect on my time in the US and realised how hard it is for foreigners to start a new life in a different city, or even a different country. I got to know about an organization in Hamburg called Girl Gone International, which helps girls overcome this feeling of loneliness by organising all kind of networking events and activities. Inspired by this group, I set up my own hub in Madrid, and although it started off with only 4 members, it now boasts over 1300. As the community grows I often have to support it financially, but having seen how much it can help others, this is my best reward.
Unfortunately I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. When I found out the news I was devastated, but I tried to stay positive and continue with my normal life as far as was possible. When I was going through chemotherapy, I thought about how no one should ever have to suffer as much as I did. I started to think about how research into cancer could help this. Once again I decided to do what I do best: organise a fundraising event. I wanted to raise awareness of this disease amongst young women and raise money for the Spanish cancer association. It was such a success and a lovely day that I plan to continue collaborating with them.
There are many ways to volunteer, but most important thing is deciding to contribute your time and experience to a cause out of love. Just like everything else in life, look for an activity that highly motivates you because that is the real key to a successful experience, not only for you, but most importantly for those that you volunteer for.


Previously, I shared with you some aspects of healing a bulged disk – emotions, nutrition, hydration. Now it's time for a very important part of the treatment – exercising. This is an essential part not only of restoring our back's health but also of keeping our back muscles in shape in order to prevent further issues.
The back needs movement and stretching to be healthy. The main flaw in the convention treatment of herniated disks is that doctors usually talk you out of exercising.
I remember once speaking to my doctor about yoga. I asked her if that was a good option. She just started laughing: "Oh, dear, you need to come to your senses! This is incurable. You are going to live with this for the rest of your life. And stay away from the gym or any other type of exercises. It will get worse!" But fortunately, I did some research and found out that many people succeeded in relieving their issue by stretching and strengthening their muscles. I even talked to a physical rehabilitation therapist and he strongly advised that without exercising, another disk incident might be inevitable. After all, the guy had been working in this field for many years and had seen many similar cases. Remember the man from the previous article – the one that healed his back by working out? I didn't mention that he was a taxi-driver. He had been driving for many years and the result was not one, but multiple herniated disks along the spine – simply because his back muscles were not in shape due to the constant sitting position. So, let's get going!
– Cat/Cow pose (Marjaryasana/Bitilasana) – perfect for beginners. Here is how it is done.
– Seated forward bend (Paschimottanasana) – this one needs a little more practice to achieve its full benefit. But the good thing about yoga is that the path is equally effective as the goal.
– Standing forward bend (Padahastasana) – also very beneficial for the proper blood flow into the head and also good for the eyesight.
– Locust pose and Bow pose (Salabhasana and Dhanurasana) – these asanas are very tough, but if we want to strengthen the muscles on the back, these poses are essential for healing a bulged disk. At first it may be difficult to hold the poses, but don't worry, the body will respond with practice. Don't try to overdo the poses and listen to your body.
– Half Camel pose (Ardha Ustrasana) – the full Camel Pose is very difficult, so I would advise you, if you are a beginner to start with Half Camel. Do the asana on both sides and hold it as long as you feel comfortable. Just make sure you put extra cushion under your knees to keep them from hurting.
– Hanging – another very good exercise (not a yoga pose :D) that you can do to relieve the tension on the spine is simple – hanging. Yes, you heard it correctly! When we hang on our hands, the disks take a break from supporting our weight. It also helps us stretch and relax our backs. Pull-up bars at home or at the gym are excellent for this purpose. If you have access to a Swedish wall, even better! At first, start by hanging on your hands as long as you feel comfortable. Later on, you can try to swing on the sides a little bit in order to further stretch the spine. This is an awesome exercise and should not be underestimated!
If you are not a fan of yoga, feel free to do your research and find your best workout that will suit you! There are many options available!
Next, we will continue to explore more options in restoring our back's health and relieving back pain.
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Q: How to implement this in nodejs? I am new to nodejs and working on a proof of concept just for fun.
Background:
I have a cloud directory of user information (like username, password and other info). This cloud directory can be used to authenticate a user only via restful API (i.e. no direct connectivity using LDAP or JDBC etc.).
Aim:
To build an LDAP interface for this cloud directory. To start with I am interested only in authentication (LDAP bind).
Intended Flow:

*

*LDAPClient initiates a standard LDAP simple BIND request:
Host: host where my nodejs app will run
Port: 1389 (port that my nodejs app will be bound to)
Username: a user from cloud directory
Password: user's password

*This request is received by my NodeJS app (I am using ldapjs module).
// process ldap bind operation
myLdapServer.bind(searchBase, function (bindReq, bindRes, next) {
  // bind creds
  var userDn = req.dn.toString();
  var userPw = req.credentials;
  console.log('bind DN: ' + req.dn.toString());
...
...
}

*Within the above callback, I must use http.request to fire a restful API (POST) to the cloud directory with the details I received from the BIND request (i.e. username, password).

*If restful api response status is 200 (auth success), then I must return success to the LDAPClient, else I must return invalid credentials error.
Success:
    bindRes.end();
    return next();

Failure:
    Console.log("returning error");
    return next(new ldap.InvalidCredentialsError());

Questions:
Is this possible using NodeJS? Asking because of the nesting involved as evident above (calling of REST API from within a callback). Also since this is an authentication operation, this is meant to be a blocking operation(?)
Thanks,
Jatin
UPDATE:
Thanks Klvs, my solution is more or less like the one you posted. Please have a look at the snippet below:
    // do the POST call from within callback
    var postRequest = https.request(postOptions, function(postResponse) {
        console.log("statusCode: ", postResponse.statusCode);
        if(postResponse.statusCode!=200) {
            console.log("cloud authentication failed: "+postResponse.statusCode);
            return next(ldapModule.InvalidCredentialsError());
        } else {
            postResponse.on('data', function(d) {
                console.info('POST result:\n');
                process.stdout.write(d);
                console.info('\n\nPOST completed');
            });
            res.end();
            return next();
        }
    });

    // write json data
    postRequest.write(postData);
    postRequest.end();
    postRequest.on('error', function(e) {
        console.error("postRequest error occured: "+e);
    });

Successful authentication works fine, however, failed authentication does not send any response back to the LDAPClient at all. My client just times out instead of showing authentication failure error. I do see the "cloud authentication failed: " log message on the Node console, which means the below statement is not doing what I intend it do:
            return next(ldapModule.InvalidCredentialsError());

Note that the above statement works when I remove the rest call etc, and just return the error back to the client.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Jatin

A: Of course it's possible in nodejs. If I understand you want to make an authenticating request to a server and have it either fail or succeed.
const request = require('request')
// process ldap bind operation
myLdapServer.bind(searchBase, function (bindReq, bindRes, next) {
  // bind creds
  var userDn = req.dn.toString();
  var userPw = req.credentials;
  console.log('bind DN: ' + req.dn.toString());
  request.post({username: userDn, password: userPw}, (err, res, body)=>{
    if(err) {
      console.log("returning error");
      next(new ldap.InvalidCredentialsError());
    } else {
      bindRes.end();
      next();
    }
  })
}

Is that what you're looking for? If so, you just need to get accustom to callbacks.


The Boat to Montevideo from B.A. is very posh!
A nice sun set is welcome site upon my arrival.
The trusty boat that got me there was big!
The lovely girl at the Tourist info was Fantastic!
The standard ugly dude on a horse!
I guess the crime rate is low here?
The statue to remember 1830 for some reason!
I had a bit of a prob on my final morning!
Even IBM is here despite the bad econ!
Me and the original city gate of Montevideo.


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869 or 870: St. Edmund the Martyr
2 comments November 20th, 2011 Headsman
This is the feast date and martyrdom date of middle ages English king Edmund the Martyr.
Stained glass of Edmund the Martyr from Our Lady and the English Martyrs church in Cambridge. (cc) image from Laurence OP
This acute ruler of the East Angles, the last native East Anglian king, was stomped in battle by the marauding norsemen under Ivar the Boneless and his less interestingly-named brother Ubbe Ragnarsson.
These two were sore about their father Ragnar Lodbrok, who had shipwrecked in England — maybe East Anglia, maybe elsewhere — and allegedly been thrown into a snakepit.
According to the hagiographic account, these Danish heathens attempted to force Edmund to renounce Christianity. Edmund demurred.
Then those wicked men bound Edmund, and shamefully insulted him, and beat him with clubs, and afterwards they led the faithful king to an earth-fast tree, and tied him thereto with hard bonds, and afterwards scourged him a long while with whips, and ever he called, between the blows, with true faith, on Jesus Christ; and then the heathen because of his faith were madly angry, because he called upon Christ to help him. They shot at him with javelins as if for their amusement until he was all beset with their shots, as with a porcupine's bristles, even as Sebastian was.
The martyr-king's body was ultimately interred at the aptly-namd Bury St. Edmunds. This locale thereafter became a major, and lucrative, pilgrimage spot in Britain.
Edmund himself became the patron saint of England until he was supplanted just before the Norman invasion by omnibus patron saint George. As George had nothing to do with England, there's been some latter-day push to revert the honor to the native king.
So far, no dice.
Update: Jamie that killjoy at the British History Podcast puts it in 869 and rebuts the notion that there was any execution at all, here.
1663: Volkmar Limprecht - 2019
1928: William Charles Benson - 2018
2013: Joseph Paul Franklin, Larry Flynt's would-be assassin - 2017
1781: Margaret Tinkler, abortionist - 2016
1829: The slaves of the Greenup revolt - 2015
1936: Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Falange founder - 2014
1903: Peter Mortensen, divinely accused - 2013
2010: Mohsen bin Faisal Al Barik Al-Dossary, Saudi cop-killer - 2012
1903: Tom Horn - 2010
1676: Johan Johansson Griis, the Gävle Boy - 2009
284: Aper, by Diocletian - 2008
1695: Zumbi dos Palmares - 2007
1389: Saint Tsar Lazar, after the Battle of Kosovo
Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews
1393: John of Nepomuk, Bohemian rhapsody
1307: Fra Dolcino, Apostle
1289: Demetre II the Self-Sacrificer
1961: Patrice Lumumba
1550: Jon Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Iceland
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Feast Day of St. George
5 comments April 23rd, 2011 Headsman
This is the feast date, and the traditionally-ascribed execution date in 303, of St. George — legendary dragon-slayer and patron saint of half the world and darn near everything that the original apostles didn't nail down.
Saint George is supposed to have been a well-favored officer in Diocletian's army who suicidally announced his Christian faith during the latter's persecutions, and refused every sop and entreaty to renounce it. He was martyred at Nicomedia.
Pretty standard persecution fare — and there's next to nothing that can be reliably verified about his life — but George did well by his future cult to get into the martyr's game right before Christianity's official triumph. Still, at the end of the day, it's one of those unaccountable accidents of history that this particular fellow ended up as perhaps Christendom's most widely venerated champion.
He's most immediately recognizable for the story of having slain a dragon, a plain metaphor for paganism (and usable metaphor for anything and everything else) that's been depicted in all its scaly corporeality by innumerable artists.
England has liked him jolly well ever since his suitability to the chivalric ethos positioned him to supplant Edmund the Martyr as that realm's patron saint during the Middle Ages. The red cross on the English flag is a St. George's cross.
And so there he is, too, in one of Shakespeare's most rousing patriotic monologues:
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'
But George gets around, and England has to share him.
That St. George's Cross also adorns the flag of Georgia (the country, that is: it's so hard core that it's named for the guy), and he's claimed as a sponsor throughout Orthodox Christendom: Serbia (which celebrates a major holiday when April 23 hits on the Julian calendar); Bulgaria; Greece; Ethiopia; the city of Constantinople and its heir, the city of Moscow, and Russia generally. There were two George's [Yuri's] Days on Old Russia's calendar, and the autumn one was marked as the one time in the year that serfs were permitted to change their landlords, at least until Boris Godunov canceled the privilege and left Russian with the idiom "so much for Yuri's day!" to mark an expectation disappointed.
George is big in Spain, and even bigger in Portugal; through its Portuguese heritage, he's also venerated in Brazil, where he's the patron saint of the Corinthians football club. He's the sponsor (via that dragon connection) of the snaky Hungarian military order that gave Vlad the Impaler the immortal sobriquet of Dracula.
There are other countries and any number of cities who also trust the dragon-slayer's patronage; George accepts the further devotions of saddle-makers, lepers, animal husbandmen, shepherds, Crusader knights, butchers, the Maltese, gypsies, farmers, archers, syphilis-sufferers, cavalrymen and therefore also armored tankmen, Palestinian Christians, and the Boy Scouts of America. He's generally got a stupendous worldwide collection of churches, art, legends, and devotional rites dedicated to his name.
1935: Fred Blink, with hatred on his lips - 2020
1845: Sarah Freeman, Shapwick Murderess - 2019
1941: Harry Gleeson, posthumously exonerated - 2018
1943: The massacre of Janowa Dolina - 2017
1886: Robert Silas Fowler, lustful - 2016
1290: Alv Erlingsson, the Last Viking - 2015
1801: Angre Kethi, Polygar prey - 2014
1886: Joseph Jackson and James Wasson, at Fort Smith - 2013
1945: Massacres of Treuenbrietzen - 2012
1969: Sirhan Sirhan condemned - 2010
1992: Billy Wayne White, after 47 minutes - 2009
1945: Albrecht Haushofer, German Resistance intellectual - 2008
Feast Day of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
Feast Day of St. Cecilia, patron of music
277: Mani, dualist
Feast Day of Boethius
Feast Day of St. Stephen
Feast Day of St. Agatha
Entry Filed under: Ancient,Arts and Literature,Beheaded,Capital Punishment,Death Penalty,Disfavored Minorities,Execution,Famous,God,History,Martyrs,Myths,Notable Participants,Religious Figures,Roman Empire,Soldiers,Torture,Turkey,Uncertain Dates,Volunteers
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FREE Copyright Infringement Evaluation
"This Product is Just Like ___________"
by	rachel	/ Monday, 27 April 2020	/ Published in Intellectual Property, Trademark
Is your business special?
How do consumers separate you? How do investors qualify you? What makes Corporation X different from Y and Z. Maybe the name, but many people are not going to remember names off of first glance.
What is going to stick in someone's mind? Why is your business the most memorable? What do you offer that other people don't? Why are you unique? What exactly are you selling?
All of this boils down to one underlying question: What makes your business special?
Often it's hard for a realistic business owner to truthfully say "I am the best in the world at what I do" or "I invented this product/process." And even if they can, there are a potential million other people that can probably say the same thing.
The most unique part of a business is often what is commonly referred to as "the brand." Think about it. How often do you hear "oh this is just as good as _____" or "this is just a more reasonably priced version of ______?" Those businesses in the blanks are often your experts at building a trustworthy brand.
Apple, Rolex, Adidas, Mercedes-Benz, Tiffany & Co., etc. have all created a standard for their industry and are often compared to in all kinds of aspects, not always because their product is superior in every possible way, but they have seen to it that in the eyes of the world (consumers and competitors alike) that they are the gold standard.
How were these brands built? Well after a product is created, people are paid to sell it. From there, word-of-mouth might get a product a reputation on its own. But door-to-door sales and exclusively letting a product "sell itself" is all but a thing of the past. Branding, marketing, and advertising are ensuring that a mark is left on the business world by the product. A key aspect of leaving this mark is a trademark.
The proof is everywhere, the glowing apple with a bite out of it, the three stripes on some stylish sneakers, or the three-pointed emblem on the hood of a car. These brands all have competitors, they are all in crowded worldwide markets. However, they put energy and resources into creating a symbol that will stick in people's minds.
What is to stop someone from just copying them? Trademark law. These companies (like all savvy business owners should) ensured that the logo that they built a multi-billion-dollar brand around is protected. It is theirs to show off to the world as they please.
So what is to be done? How can you, Joe CEO or Jane Founder-President, protect the trademark your business is centered around.
The first step is to consult a law firm/attorney who specializes in such things (i.e., Eden Law).
They should then tell you the general standards for a trademark, that the mark is an identifying word and/or symbol for the source of goods or services.
This is easiest explained in the fleshing out of that rule.
The mark has to be distinctive enough to identify your business as the provider of either the services or goods you provide, and it cannot be something as simple as ClipArt of the product you sell.
That standard applies to words and symbols. You can't just sell watches and call your business "Watches Inc." and expect to own the word Watches. Just like you can't put a generic clock as your logo and expect no other business to be able to use a clock in their logo.
You also need to ensure that the word or phrase you are trying to protect isn't just descriptive of what you do/sell. You can't trademark the name "WeSell&FixJewelry" and not allow anyone else to use those words.
However, if you make up a word or pull a unique term that you associate with what you do purely by name and is not at all descriptive of what you sell, then you might be eligible to protect that under your trademark rights. The law calls these words "arbitrary or fanciful."
An example of this is the term "Rolex." Rolex is not a word in any known language, and it does not get you points in Scrabble. Yet that word is internationally associated with a renowned watchmaker. An even more relevant term would be "Apple." A common word, but not about computers or technology, until Steve Jobs brought the company to its titan status.
Now in the realm of technology, you can bet Apple Inc. is a registered trademark, name, and symbol.
You also might be tempted to use a name as your trademark, commonly your last name. However, that name usually has to have secondary meaning associated with it, which means you have to build your brand first behind that name, making it associated with the product or service. A prime example is Tiffany & Co. The founder in the 1800s, Charles L. Tiffany, started the business that would seal his last name in association with a blue box and top-quality jewelry, yet the mark of Tiffany & Co. was not registered as a trademark until less than a decade ago.
All this to say, there is value in investing in your brand and protecting it properly. For detailed steps, consult Eden Law on registering your trademark and protecting the brand you have spent countless resources growing.
Written by: Christian R. Dudley
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Q: Why has my R.java vanished, and how can I get it back I am building an android app in eclipse, and I decided to rename the package of the app under "src", by right-clicking the package and choosing "Refactor" and then "Rename". I did the same for the package under "gen". I then renamed the package in the AndroidManifest.xml. However I now have a "R cannot be resolved to a variable" error. In my package under "gen" there is no R.java file, only a "BuildConfig.java".
I have tried cleaning the project and re-building after deleting the "gen" folder. I have no "import android.R" statements in any of my classes, and eclipse is saying there are no errors in my xml files. All of my xml and image files are named in all lowercase with no special characters. I have tried restarting eclipse a number of times.
How can I fix this problem and get R.java back to get my code working again? Thank you.

A: Usually this happens when there is an error in xml files
Try Project->Clean in Eclipse. In my limited experience if R.java is not being automatically created then there is an error somewhere in your xml.


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I fell in love with you, or was it your picture I loved you here, you loved me there Oh you're supposed to be in love, so am I So what the hell, let's meet up in our minds. And let's get together Let's get together Let's get together Let's get together Oh, in our minds. Oh unremarkable, this closed in space Loneliness took my place You know you being here seems so right Full moon shining, full moon light
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Written-By – E. Childs*
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Written-By – Haydn Morris, Nantlais Williams
Copyright (c) – Mercury Records Ltd. (London)
Published By – Copyright Control
Mastered At – Porky's Mastering
Artwork [Art] – Hopper
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Producer, Performer – GZM*
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