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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Episode 465: The Not 2020 Top Ten

The review of 2020 films and pop culture continues, as it's time for the first of a couple of Top Ten Lists. In this one, Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl talk about the films that were NOT from 2020, but from all years previous.

It's the Top 10 of NOT 2020, ranking the best films seen that didn't come out in the last 12 months. And to add to the group, The Offspring of the Pride of Stone Mountain South Georgia, Lil G, Garrison Ryfun joins the show to take his rightful place as #DrEarl's Pretentawan Learner.

Several foreign films make the list as the guys get bougee... lots of old films on the list, as the crew pretends to be important... and of course, everyone cuts Footloose.  A little Korean cinema talk... some Lily James news... Armie Hammer did what?... Mikey's Studio Ghibli kick... Lil G's fave zombie movie... Dave's obsession with a dead reporter... #DrEarl's Buckley love...

Films discussed and where they are streaming:

  • Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (rental)
  • The Ascent (1977) (Criterion; rental)
  • Bad Education (2019) (HBO Max)
  • Blow the Man Down (2019) (Amazon Prime)
  • Christine (2016) (Netflix) (this is the film referenced in "Kate Plays Christine")
  • Downhill (2020) (HBO Max)
  • Everything Beautiful is Far Away (2017) (Amazon Prime)
  • Footloose (2011) (Amazon Prime; Hulu; Epix)
  • Force Majeure (2014) (Hulu)
  • The French Connection (1971) (Starz)
  • The Help (2012) (Netflix)
  • The In-Laws (1979) (Hoopla; rental)
  • The Invisible Guest (2016) (Netflix)
  • Jodorowsky's Dune (rental)
  • Just Mercy (2019) (HBO Max)
  • Kate Plays Christine (2016) (rental)
  • Knife in the Water (1962) (HBO Max)
  • The Lonely Guy (1984) (rental)
  • The Man Who Would Be King (1975) (HBO Max)
  • Memories of Murder (2003) (rental)
  • Motherless Brooklyn (2019) (HBO Max)
  • My Man Godfrey (1938) (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
  • Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (HBO Max)
  • Paddington (2014) (DirecTV; TNT/TBS)
  • The Perfect Storm (2000) (rental)
  • Polytechnique (2009) (Amazon Prime; TubiTV)
  • Prospect (2018) (Netflix)
  • Ready or Not (2019) (Cinemax; rental)
  • Rebecca (1940) (unavailable for streaming)
  • Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010) (Netflix)
  • Sideways (2004) (Starz)
  • The Spanish Prisoner (1998) (rental)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957) (rental)
  • Tell Me Who I Am (2019) (Netflix)
  • Three Identical Strangers (2018) (Hulu)
  • Train to Busan (Amazon Prime)
  • Wild Rose (2019) (Hulu)
  • Your Name. (2016) (rental)

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Episode 464: 2021 Surprise and Delights

The Deucecast Movie Show strives to be an escape and the guys do their best this week to shut out the world for an hour and give you some movie chatter... and this time, it's all about being surprised, delighted, or in some cases, both.

Movies that were thought to be a little silly, or movies approached with apprehension because "Surely, this movie can't be any good?" and yet, IT WAS!

First up, some January Birthday Movies, giving you the five, ten, twenty more year anniversaries of films you've heard of... and some you haven't. Cause that The Way Back ain't got no Affleck in it.

A little round of January Movie Rotten Tomatoes, with a Christian Slater triple play, and then the top five... the films that Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl watched and were happy to report were actually pretty good.

It's a fun episode, revisiting the good times in front of a screen of some sort... and the kickoff to the annual Year End Best Episodes!

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Episode 463: What You ReFlicktin About Willis

The new year is here and it closes a Christmas holiday season... and in the interim, the Deucecast Movie Show crew saw a lot of movies. A lot of movies. Like, a lot a lot.

Jumping right in, ReFlicktions kicks off with the heaviest film of the night, "Promising Young Woman", and the tour de force performance of Carey Mulligan... then onto Mikey's Bruce Willisathon (not to be confused with the Nic Cageathon or Toyotathon)... Dr Earl's run of classic Christmas films... d$'s list of good and bad documentaries... Alabama stereotypes... seeing WW84 in theaters vs on the small screen... Pixar's latest... Chadwick Boseman's final performance... Tom Hanks pulling double duty...

And the final Top Five list for 2020...

Movies discussed:

Promising Young Woman (in theaters & on demand)... Motherless Brooklyn (HBO Max)... Between Two Ferns: The Movie (Netflix)... Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (HBO Max)... Crossfire Christmas (Netflix)... Game Changers (Amazon Prime)... Godmothered! (Disney+)... The Postcard Killings (Amazon Prime)... Christmas Chronicles 2 (Netflix)... Run (Hulu)... Remember the Night (1940, Watch TCM)... Journey 2 The Mysterious Island (HBO Max)... Ghost in the Shell (Amazon Prime)... Freaky (in theaters & on demand)... Valley Girl (2020, Amazon Prime, Hulu, EPIX)... AVA (Netflix)... Greenland (on demand)... Klaus (Netflix)... The Stand at Paxton County (Netflix)... Alabama Snake (HBO Max)... You Cannot Kill David Arquette (Hulu)... The Cheaters (1945, Watch TCM)... Holiday Affair (1949, Watch TCM)... Christmas in Connecticut (1945, Watch TCM)... Boiler Room (HBO Max)... The Midnight Sky (Netflix)... Death to 2020 (Netflix)... Tesla (Hulu)... SOUL (Disney+)... You Don't Nomi (on demand)... Happy Happy Joy Joy (on demand)... The Last Blockbuster (on demand)... Guest House (Netflix)... The Wolf of Snow Hollow (on demand)... Save Yourselves (Hulu)... Wonder Woman 1984 (HBO Max and in theaters)... Kate Plays Christine (on demand)... I Used to Go Here (HBO Max)... Triple 9 (Netflix)... Castle in the Sky (HBO Max)... Sabrina (CBS All Access & Watch TMC)... Mulan (2020, Disney+)... On the Rocks (AppleTV+)... Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Netflix)... Jodorowsky's Dune (on demand)... Greyhound (AppleTV+)... News of the World (in theaters)

Movies Featured in the first and only segment of "What You Talking About, Willis":

  • Catch 44 (Amazon Prime)
  • Extraction (TubiTV)
  • Precious Cargo (Amazon Prime)
  • Marauders (Netflix)
  • The Prince
  • First Kill (Netflix)
  • Hard Kill (Netflix)
  • Once Upon a Time in Venice (Hulu)
  • Airstrike (Amazon Prime; Hulu)
  • Acts of Violence (Netflix)
  • Reprisal (on demand)
  • Trauma Center (Amazon Prime; Hulu)
  • 10 Minutes Gone (Amazon Prime)
  • Survive the Night (Amazon Prime)

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Episode 462: 2020 Lumps of Coal

For the 5th year in a row, the final episode of the year for The Deucecast Movie Show is the Lumps of Coal episode... the movies that... well, weren't the best or the favorites of Mikey, Dave, or #TwitterlessDrEarl.

A top five of films -- or in some cases, production teams or Hollywood battles -- that didn't come anywhere near the crew's favorite films seen in 2020.  Including Vin's lack of range... a Scott Baio film that would never pass in this century... another Disney franchise failure... Nic Cage's lack of karate skills... John Turturro's lack of bowling scenes... and much more.

Plus, a quick discussion on the CBS Mini-Series The Stand and a few words about Wonder Woman 1984

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Episode 461: Christmas Movie Gifts 2020

If you listen to the episode, you may recognize the opening theme, the best time of the year, when the Deucecast Movie Show plays the official Christmas theme of the show.  It truly is a Marshmallow World.

Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessDrEarl are here once again to give out their annual Christmas gifts to the stars, and joining the show for the first time in the Christmas season, it's Spawn of Ryfun, Lil G himself Garrison Ryfun.

First up, Birthday movies, with everything from Popeye to a previous Star War edition, then Garrison gives a little Christmas episode history of the Deucecast Movie Show (he has notes!)

Then the guys begin to give out the gifts!  Chris Nolan has a present to open.  The tiny town of New Albanwick has a gift. AMC will get something under the tree. And for the first time, someone in the group gives their gifts to the others during the Top Five itself.

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Episode 460: The Disney Plus Announcements

 It's another week closer to Christmas, as the Deucecast crew -- Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessButNotDiscordDrEarl -- get ready for the big visit from Santa...

But first, out of nowhere, Disney dropped an almost four hour meeting on everyone last week called Disney Investor Day, and out of that came dozens of titles, series, movies, and projects upcoming in the next few years.  So who better to break it all down for you than these guys, plus Friend of the Show Upon a Star Jenn, direct from Amish Country.

Marvel shows and movies... Star Wars new series, spin-offs and films... Pixar's new projects and films coming up... Disney Animation's 59th and 60th films in Disney canon, plus their new animated series and projects...

Plus, chatting about The Mandalorian... the movie A Ghost Story... and all the other randomness that comes with nerddom.

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Episode 459: ReFlicktion Elegy

It's the end of the year and the Christmas season is smacking your face... and the Deucecast dudes will do their best to give you the movies to watch when you're trying to get away from the in-laws and the kids.

First, a quick conversation on the Warner Brothers plans to premiere movies on HBO Max and theaters on the same day -- the upside and the consequences, and the future of theaters.

Then, over 25 movies discussed and reviewed, including crap in a documentary... Mikey's Christmas viewing... Judy Garland's lyric change... old school Hitchcock... K-Stew... 70s pop culture references... dueling Austen flicks... and much more...

Movies discussed, and where to stream them at the time of recording:

The Bishops Wife (1947 HBO Max)… Prospect (2018 Netflix)… Poop Talk (Amazon Prime)… Remember the Night (1940 HBO Max)… The Last Vermeer (2020 in theaters)… Meet Me in St Louis (1941 HBO Max)… Rebecca (1940 YouTube)… Force of Nature (2020 Amazon Prime)… Miracle on 34th Street (1947 Disney+)… It’s A Wonderful Life (1946 Amazon Prime)… The Man Who Would Be King (1975 for rental)… Underwater (2020 HBO Max)… Freaky (2020 in theaters)… Wild Rose (2019 Hulu)… The Mystery of DB Cooper (2020 HBO Max)… Hillbilly Elegy (2020 Netflix)… The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968 Amazon Prime)… Lost Girls (2020 Netflix)… Uncle Frank (2020 Amazon Prime)… Mank (2020 Netflix)… The Social Dilemma (2020 Netflix)… Memories of Murder (2003 for rental)… Emma (2020 HBO) and Emma (1996 HBO)… Sound of Metal (2020 Amazon Prime)… Belushi (2020 Showtime)… The House of Tomorrow (2017 Peacock)… Run (2020 Hulu).

Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Episode 458: December Anticipation

 It's a December to Remember at The Deucecast Movie Show... or at least, Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl recalls their most desired December movies.

First up, a quick round of Box Office Mojo, calling out the biggest money makers released in Decembers past.

Then, The Top Five Most Anticipated December Films -- not the best or worst December films that the guys have seen, but the movies that left them the most excited, and the most ready to see.  Some films worked out (Rogue One!) and some didn't (Hobbits!) and many fell in between.

Movies discussed, and where they are streaming:

  • Dune (1984) (HBO Max)
  • H8ful Eight (2015) (Netflix)
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) (HBO Max)
  • Les Miserables (2012) (Netflix)
  • Les Miserables in Concert (2010) (Hoopla)
  • The Lord of the Rings (1978) (not streaming)
  • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) (HBO Max)
  • Oceans Twelve (2004) (Netflix)
  • The Phantom of the Opera (2004) (HBO Max)
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) (Disney+)
  • Star Wars Ep VII: The Force Awakens (2015) (Disney+)
  • This is 40 (2012) (for rental)
  • Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) (Amazon Prime; Hulu; EPIX; Netflix)
  • Tron Legacy (2010) (Disney+)
  • Vice (2018) (Hulu)

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Episode 457: DeuceGiving 2020

The holiday season is beginning to unfold, and with The Deucecast Movie Show, it begins with the annual DeuceGiving episode.

This is the episode where Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessButNotDiscordlessDrEarl gives their thanks!  Not just the traditional thanks, but this year, appreciation to Amy Adams movies... theaters being open... Mikey's physical media... #TwitterlessDrEarl's love of Hamilton... plus, the watercooler effect!

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Episode 456: Gerard Butler vs ReFlicktions

 The year is beginning to hit it's final notes of the terrible song 2020 has given us, but Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl are here to give you the reviews on almost 50 films seen in the last few months.

Topics include... A Lolita Davidovich mention... More love for Jasper Mall... Dr Earl hates him some Taika... Dr. Earl loves him some Baumbach... Mikey's Murray doublefeature...  Rebecca vs Rebecca... Gerard Butler vs everything... getting a Holidate... Dr Earl channels his inner Garrison... Walten Goggins is awesome... the dangers of pica... the two film categories of Liam Neeson... and the dumpster fire that is "Cats", including the tripe that is Jennifer Hudson's "Memory"...

Where the movies discussed are streaming at time of recording

Scre4m (Hulu)… Wildlife (Netflix)… Blaze (2018 - Netflix)... Blaze (1989 - for rental)… Jasper Mall (Amazon Prime)… Playing with Fire (Amazon Prime; Hulu; EPIX)… John Bronco (prime)… The Trial of the Chicago 7 (Netflix)… Losing Ground (not available)… Roll Red Roll (Netflix)… Rebecca (1940 - not available)… Rebecca (2020 - Netflix)… Horror of Dracula (1958 HBOMax)… Fast Color (Amazon Prime)… Molly’s Game (Netflix)… Swallow (Showtime)… The Squid & the Whale (Netflix; Amazon Prime)...  While We're Young (Showtime)... The Perfect Storm (HBO Max)… Western Stars (HBO Max)… Bruce Springsteen's Letters To You (AppleTV+)… The Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Netflix; Hulu)… Black Christmas (HBO Max)… The Dead Don’t Die (HBO Max)… On the Rocks (Apple TV+)… The Wolf of Snow Hollow (for rental)… Cats (HBO Max)… The Hummingbird Project (Netflix)… The Art of Self Defense (Hulu)… Gonzo: The Life & Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson (Amazon Prime)… The Holidate (Netflix)… First Cow (Showtime)… Emma (HBO Max)… Memories of Murder (for rental)… The Current War (Showtime)… Geostorm (for rental)… Den of Thieves (Netflix)… The Vanishing (Amazon Prime)… Hunter/Killer (for rental)… Jiu Jitsu (in theaters)... Sideways (Starz)… Honest Thief (in theaters)… Let Him Go (in theaters)… A Serious Man (Netflix)…  Console Wars (CBS All Access)… Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1 (Hulu)… Jingle Jangle (Netflix)… Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (AppleTV+)… Blow the Man Down (Amazon Prime)…

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Episode 455: Hail to the Chief

Hail to the Chief, he's the Chief that we all Hail! Mikey and Dave, sans #TwitterlessDrEarl this time, jump right in with an episode long version of Like, Love, Hate, Hate-Like.

The concept is to take various Movie Presidents - those who have played the POTUS in a film or two, and come up with a movie that the guys both just like.... then a film the guys love... then one they pretty much can't stand... and finally, a movie they kinda hate themselves for liking.

Harrison Ford, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Charlize Theron, Bill Murray, Michael Keaton, and Chris Rock all get the L/L/H/HL treatment

  • Aeon Flux (Hulu)
  • Age of Adeline (Freeform)
  • Air Force One (Hulu)
  • Atomic Blonde (for rental)
  • Basic Instinct (Netflix)
  • Black Rain (for rental)
  • Bruce Almighty (for rental)
  • Cars (Disney+)
  • Charlie's Angels (CBS All Access)
  • Cowboys & Aliens (HBO Max)
  • Deep Impact (for rental)
  • Disclosure (for rental)
  • Dogma (not streaming)
  • Down to Earth (Amazon Prime; CBS All Access)
  • Fatal Attraction (Amazon Prime)
  • The F8 of the Furious (for rental)
  • Firewall (HBO Max)
  • The Fugitive (for rental)
  • Ghostbusters (for rental)
  • Ghost of Girlfriend's Past (Netflix)
  • Glory (Netflix)
  • Grown Ups (USA Streaming)
  • Hamlet (CBS All Access)
  • Hancock (for rental)
  • Hard Rain (CBS All Access)
  • Head of State (not streaming)
  • Hollywood Homicide (Starz)
  • Italian Job (for rental)
  • Jackie Brown (Starz)
  • Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back (for rental)
  • The Jewel of the Nile (Amazon Prime)
  • Kingpin (CBS All Access; Showtime)
  • Mad Max Fury Road (for streaming)
  • Madagascar (for rental)
  • The Monuments Men (for rental)
  • Morning Glory (Showtime; Netflix; CBS All Access)
  • Multiplicity (for rental)
  • My Life(for rental)
  • Need for Speed (for rental)
  • New Jack City (for rental)
  • Nurse Betty (Peacock)
  • Nutcracker & the Four Realms (Disney+)
  • The Paper (Showtime)
  • Reindeer Games (Hoopla; for rental)
  • Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Showtime)
  • Robocop (for rental)
  • Scrooged (for rental)
  • Se7en (HBO Max)
  • Sgt Bilko (Peacock)
  • Snow White & The Huntsman (for rental)
  • Space Jam (FreeForm)
  • Spider-Man Homecoming (for rental)
  • Transcendence (not available, thankfully)
  • Wall Street (Amazon Prime)
  • War of the Roses (Starz)
  • Wild Thing (Amazon Prime; Hulu; Epix)
  • Working Girl (Amazon Prime; Hulu; Epix)

Wednesday, November 4, 2020

Episode 454: Second Chance Movies

It's a big week at The Deucecast Movie Show... no, not because of some election thing, but because another episode is dropping!  Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl take a look at movies that deserved a second chance.

First up, Birthday Movies! Toy Story! Harry Potter! Star Wars! Rocky! Transylvania 6-5000! What movies are turning 5, 10, 15 and 20 years old or more.

Next up... a little game called Rotten Tomatoes Potpourri, tossing up movies and predicting the Rotten Tomatoes scores

Finally, those movies that you watched and didn't care for, but upon a rewatch, kinda dug... or those movies you liked well enough, but the 2nd time around, really got into. These are "Second Chance Movies" that the crew lists today.

Movies from DC... The Muppets... horror comedies and Tarantino joints... Pixar failures... and men of Mystery.  Along the way, some great chatter on the rising of the DC Cinematic Universe... the movie that is SOLO: A Star Wars Story... and how some animated films get an undeserved bad rap... plus, #TwitterlessButNotDiscordlessDrEarl's corner turn on a Christmas classic, Mikey's dawn of justice and d$'s getting out.

Movies Discussed (and where to stream them at the time of recording)

  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (HBO Max)
  • Get Out (for rental)
  • The Good Dinosaur (Disney+)
  • The Hateful Eight (Netflix)
  • Mars Attack (for rental)
  • M*A*S*H (for rental)
  • Muppets from Space (Showtime)
  • Mystery Men (Peacock)
  • National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (for rental)
  • Oceans Twelve (Netflix)
  • Payback (unavailable)
  • Scream (unavailable)
  • Solo: A Star Wars Story (Disney+)
  • Spanglish (unavailable)
  • Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (Disney+)

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Episode 453: Halloween Guilty Pleasures

Happy Halloween to all the movie lovers and scaryphiles out there from The Deucecast Crew!  Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl serve up their favorite Halloween Guilty Pleasures.  The movies that... well, at least for Mikey and Dave... are not really scary, are sort of hokey, maybe kinda stupid, but oh so much fun anyway.

 And of course, in the pretentious corner, #TwitterlessButNotDiscordlessDrEarl can't bring himself to talk about guilty pleasures, so somehow, his movies are actually good.

First up, Mikey gives a quick review of Liam Neeson's new flick "Honest Thief", then Dave laments the loss of a small college town theater.

Then a new game called SUBTITLES, guessing the terrible franchises that the even more terrible sequels are named, followed by the aforementioned the Guilty Pleasures list, and then, the 7th iteration of MikeTober, where Mikey has watched and gives reviews on horror flicks assigned by Lil G (some Korean joint) and #TwitterlessButNotDiscordlessDrEarl (some 70s joint) and Burgess (some 90s joint) and Scott Ryfun (some Roadkill joint) and a masterpiece of old cinema assigned by Dave.

  • Christine (Starz Amazon)
  • Creepshow (not streaming)
  • Don't Answer the Phone (not streaming)
  • Ernest Scared Stupid (Hoopla)
  • Firestarter (MaxGO)
  • Freaked (YouTube)
  • Fright Night (Amazon Prime)
  • Fun Size (Amazon Prime)
  • Happy Death Day (for rental)
  • Jason X (Syfy)
  • Jaws 3D (HBO Max)
  • Killer Klowns from Outer Space (Netflix; Amazon Prime)
  • Nightbreed (Amazon Prime)
  • Transylvania-6500 (Amazon Prime)
  • The Worst Witch (YouTube)

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Episode 452: The Vampire Tournament

The Deucecast Movie Show is a show that bites... or sucks? Either way, Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl are looking for another entry into the Big Bracket of Movie Roles -- and they need a vampire.

So during the episode, the guys -- and a very special guest -- go match by match, discussing winners and losers in each round of Hollywood Vampires, including at least 9 performances of Dracula.

Lee's Dracula vs Marshal's Blackula
Oldman's Dracula vs Langella's Dracula

Hamilton's Dracula vs Lazlo
The Countess vs Peter Loew

Pandamonium vs Louis
LeStat vs Jerry

Regher's Dracula vs David
Michael vs Amilyn

Legosi's Dracula vs Cheney Jr's Dracula
Schreck's Nosferatu vs Kinski's Nosferatu

Maximillian vs Neilsen's Dracula
Sandler's Dracula vs Count von Count

R Patz vs Blade
Selene vs Rose the Hat

Near Dark vs Let the Right One In
Byzantium vs A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Episode 451: The Way Way ReFlicktions

It's another month and another pile of movies seen by The Deucecast Movie Show crew. Dave, Mikey, and #TwitterlessButNotDiscordlessDrEarl go movie by movie on all the flicks they've seen in the last several weeks, including a handful by #TwitterlessDrEarl and two handfuls by Dave, and about seven wheelbarrow loads by Mikey.

First up, birthday movies, finding out how old Saw II or Spectre or The Magnificent Seven actually is. Then straight to the movies, plus the Top Five of the Year thus far, and more info on how to help Friend of the Show Jeremy Burgess.

Movies discussed, and where streaming at time of recording:

  • I’m thinking of ending things (Netflix)
  • Wild Rose (Hulu)
  • Quentin 8: The First 8 (Starz / Prime)
  • The Young Doctors (not streaming)
  • Hidden Figures (Disney+)
  • The Secret Society of Second Born Royals (Disney+)
  • An American Murder: The Family Next Door (Netflix)
  • Motherless Brooklyn (HBO Max)
  • The Devil All the Time (Netflix)
  • Enola Holmes (Netflix)
  • The Only Boy Living in New York (Prime)
  • The Ascent (Watch TCM; Criterion Channel)
  • Primal (Prime)
  • Unhinged (in theaters)
  • Hubie Halloween (Netflix)
  • First One In (Prime)
  • The Addams Family (Prime; Hulu)
  • Console Wars (Doc) (CBS All Access)
  • The Beastie Boys Story (Apple TV)
  • Linda Ronstadt: Sound of My Voice (doc) (HBO Max)
  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson & The Band (Hulu)
  • Force Majeure (Prime)
  • Downhill (HBO Max)
  • Greyhound (Apple+ TV)
  • Big Time Adolescence (Hulu)
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always (HBO Max)
  • Sleight (HBO Max)
  • Trauma Center (Prime)
  • SCOOB! (HBO Max)
  • Newsies (Disney+)
  • Paterson (Prime)
  • The Way Back (HBO)

Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Episode 450: Breakthroughs and Breakouts

The Deucecast guys round the corner and are less than a year's worth of episodes to the big 500... coming next September!  But until then, Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl have to give the world the four hundred and fiftieth episode!

Joining the show at the top is Miss Independent himself, Jeremy Burgess, to give the update first on "Jasper Mall", the 2020 documentary that is the favorite to win Best Doc at the 2021 Deucie Awards... then an update on fundraising for the new movie "Don't Die".

Then a new game, "You Never Forget Your First" with a look at the first roles of many of the biggest stars in Hollywood, plus Eric Roberts.

Then, the Top Five Best Breakthroughs in Film, including Earl's pretention... Burgess picking some new blood... an old flame for Mikey... a controversial pick from d$... and a riff on how popular "American Flyers" actually was. No, we know, you have never heard of it either.

And finally, the movie selection for the annual MikeTober Horror Movie Revue!

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

DCMS Classic: Christmas Movie Guilty Pleasures

While Mikey is saving the world, Dave is saving the magic, and #TwitterlessDrEarl is saving a life like a Fray song, the gang decided it would be easier to repost a classic episode this week. This time, it hails from December 2016, episode 255, with Friend of the Show Jennifer Kaufman on board.

Here are the main show notes from that episode:

The guys welcome in Friend of the Show and Disney Media Mogul Jennifer Kaufman to talk all about their favorite guilty pleasures full of cheer!

First up, birthday movies!  2001 was a huge year, apparently, and "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" is how old??

Then a little Box Office Mojo, figuring out what the top domestic box office movies are for the year 2016.

And then, the Christmas movies that aren't good... but are beloved.  Movies with Santa and Katie Heigl and The Ref and Vince Vaughn and Rankin & Bass and the difference in Arthur and Arthur and more bad Nic Cage and reindeer and Reindeer Games...

And... Care Bears.  So much Care Bears talk...

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Episode 449: Viva la Deucecast

An episode of the Deucecast Movie Show with a twinge of queso and salsa, Mike, Dave, and #TwitterlessDrEarl all take a look at some great films from South of the Border.

First up, a quick round of Rotten Tomatoes Potpourri, calling out the critics scores of classics like A Fistful of Dollars, and Weird Science and so on.

Then, the guys pick their fave films starring those in the Mexican community... a Hispanic cast... a plot revolving around Mexican scenery... anything that relates to our neighbors to the South!

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Episode 448: Islands in the Streaming VII

While #TwitterlessDrEarl is living out a real life Fray song by saving lots of lives, Mikey and Dave take the show on their own in a special "prerecorded a week or two ago to drop in when needed like now when Dave just got back from Cancun" version of the show.

This week is Islands in the Streaming, the 7th iteration of such, as the guys give you their takes on the best movies streaming in various categories from Animation to Kids & Family to Sci Fi to Drama and more, and all are available on your streaming services.

Movies include

  • Athlete A (Netflix)
  • The Break Up (Peacock)
  • Charlotte's Web (1974) (HBO Max)
  • Crawl (Prime)
  • Daylight (HBO)
  • Demolition Man (Hulu)
  • Frankenweenie (Disney+)
  • Howard (Disney+)
  • Greyhound (Apple TV)
  • Instant Family (Prime; Hulu)
  • The Kid Who Would Be King (HBO Max)
  • Lake Placid (Prime)
  • Magnus Dopus: The Making of Jay & Silent Bob Reboot (Prime)
  • Morning Glory (CBS All Access)
  • The Neverending Story (Netflix)
  • Peanut Butter Falcon (Prime; Hulu)
  • The Pixar Story (Disney+)
  • Prometheus (HBO)
  • Ready or Not (HBO)

Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Episode 447: DaveSplosion ReFlicktions

It's the Annual Event of the Summer, the bomb dot com as it were, where Dave watches the five films assigned to him by the rest of the Deucecast crew and Friends of the Show.

First up, Mikey, Dave, and #TwitterlessButNotDiscordlessDrEarl catch up on reviewing all the films seen in recent weeks, then Dave reviews The Black Hole (Scotty Ryfun's pick)... Attack the Block (Spawn of Ryfun's pick)... El Gringo (from Mikey)... 1941 (Dr Earl)... and Ronin (From Burgey)


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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Dirty Little Secrets

·         Insomnia can be fun if you’re a reader. Sometimes I fake it.
·         Even though we broke up, occasionally I cheat and eat chocolate anyway. Usually after a day of organic salads and oatmeal. You have to want to change your behavior they say.
·         I pray on the toilet an awful lot.
·         Now and then I watch Jenna Marbles videos on YouTube for hours. I think she is hysterical.
·         I count weddings and funerals as church attendance.
·         I never NEVER answer the telephone. If I wanted to talk to someone, I’d call them.
·         You know those security questions you get for on-line accounts? I refuse to give real information. I make up stuff that amuses me. Different stuff for every account. I hate when they won’t let you put in 1887 for the year you were born.
·         I don’t take medicine*. Well, I take it from the Doctor, but I don’t actually take it. This is because in the past I’ve never had a medication that actually made anything better. If I’m very, very lucky, this will be the case my entire life. *Antibiotics are an exception.
·         Everything inside the maul is a writing prompt, it is freaking exhausting.
·         Sometimes it is necessary to dig another suitcase out of the attic when going on a trip, because I haven’t unpacked from last time…or the time before that one either. This is the first time I’ve had to buy a new one though. I’m running out of clothes.
·         Matching socks is anal behavior, in my opinion.
·         I have this theory about why guys are stronger than women. It’s so not politically correct. Suffice to say if they weren’t they’d be extinct by now. Maybe it’s just me though. It is fishing season you know.
·         Though I’m totally a bleeding heart about animals, I can turn on a dime if there is a mouse in the attic, or a snake in the living room. I can flip from PETA candidate to NRA Camo-Chick faster than you can say, “There’s a bear by the back door.”
·         I always carry an Epic Slinky Dog in my purse. This is handy for photo ops, and may or may not explain why your toddler keeps trying to climb over the pew in church.

Photo Credit: Suzy Young (Who also apparently carries Slinky with her.)

Once again it is confession time in The Glitter Globe. If your Dirty Little Secret is epic, I’ll send you an Epic Slinky Dog. Be sure to officially follow my blog, and leave contact information in your comment!

  1. I've been known to fabricate things just to get a reaction. I call it research. I often practice killing people on the Sims games to see how it might play out in a novel-- there's a mod for that, did you know? I secretly laugh at people that order a diet cola with their super-sized fast-food fat-fest meal. Then I go home and eat a quart of rocky road... because I had Slimfast for lunch and that makes it okay. Most of my fiction is true, but don't tell anyone. I'm a meddler. Mostly because I think I can either fix things or use the disastrous outcome as a plot twist. I could go on but I've said more than enough. Oh, but I am guilty of some of the ones you mentioned as well. Good company. ;)

  2. DM - I luv when you come to the party. Check out this video about junk food confessions, because it pretty much covers it.
    Dang, it didn't link, but I'm sure you can figure it out.

  3. I'll keep you my dirty little secret.
    Who has to know?

    I tell that to my third doughnut every Wednesday. I only get doughnuts on Wednesday.

    I spent way too much time watching Jenna Marbles videos work...while eating my doughnuts(thank you so much)

    When I was young, all of my novel characters (failures and successes) were entirely based off real people. I knew it had to change when I killed one of them several times because she stopped being my friend.

    I am a Star Wars Nerd.
    I like Star Trek too.

    Of all my friends, 1/3 are real, 1/3 are imaginary, and the other 1/3 I've only ever met once in real life...if that.

    I say I'm going to workout every day. About 1 in 30 does that actually happen.

  4. "I don't have any." She said smacking the chocolate ice cream from her lips.

    LaDonna, the Queen of Denial

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Email Guerrilla Techniques 2 (Only Apply If Really, Really Desperate)

Does email overload sound familiar? You're looking at your inbox and don't know where to start? Desperate times call for... Guerrilla Techniques!

But first, what qualifies as being really, really desperate?
Here's an example:
You're staring at your computer, can't remember what you were about to do, it's past midnight, you're still at the office, you realize you're completely screwed and you definitely feel like throwing your chair through the (closed) window.

Email Guerrilla Technique #2
If you receive emails saying "please take care" and realize that it's the result of a 15 round email tennis match where half a dozen people used their creativity to hide information here and there, or it's a single message that is just plain cryptic, then it's time for Email Guerrilla Technique #2.
  • don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out what you're supposed to do (and risk wasting your time delivering the wrong thing).
  • Within seconds of reading the message, fire back a reply saying "I'm not sure I understand your request. Please specify how I can help you."
  • Don't wait, do it right away.
  • Use your time for truly urgent and important things while you wait for a reply (or have a coffee with the cute girl from marketing).
  • Celebrate as soon as you realize that a lot of your requests for clarification never get answered (less work for you!)
To be continued.

Anonymous said...

This is a great tactic! I've been employing it for years. Except I'm more likely to pick up the phone and leave a voicemail message. I figure if they couldn't explain it in writing the first time...

Goes with the idea of not working harder than they are/caring more than they do. I mean am I mining for gold dust here? No. So just hand me the nugget.

Of course, I'm talking about clients I want to help, and you're probably talking about those impossibly murky and poorly thought out requests for this and that. Which makes your approach all the more brilliant. I wish more of my clients would use it.

Happy Employee said...

It's exactly as you say. If you need to get a feedback from paying customers, then picking up the phone is probably better.

But if you're just swamped with requests and know that you will never be able to do everything, let them help you decide what you will really do.


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Another Story About an Author Acting Badly....great

I hate the fact that I have to again address this.

As an author and a blogger I can say with all CERTAINTY. You do not argue with someone who has given you bad reviews (status updates) or who didn’t like your book.
Once you put something out there, it is out there, forever. You have given the population the right to judge your work how they see fit, whether they like it or not. You do not have the right to stalk or harass an author or reviewer.

There has been a giant bru ha ha on good reads….again. Kathleen Hale wrote an essay where she tries to paint a blogger, Blythe, in a really bad light, but all she succeeds in doing is chronically the fact that she basically stalked this blogger for months, going as far to pay for a back ground check and lie to obtain her address. Also note that this author was told not to engage and did so any way.

This has caused many good bloggers that I have been friends with for years to place this author and her books of DNR lists and refuse to review. I am one of them. I try hard not to help out authors who attack reviewers; it is, in my opinion, in really bad taste. Possibly something Weird Al should have put in his song Tacky.
Kathleen Hale has gone into the black hole that STGRB has. A place where all I can have for her is pity and disgust.

Stalking is a crime and I think Kathleen Hale should be held accountable for spending months online and physically stalking this blogger. This is tacky behavior from any author. Think about it this way: the blogger spent maybe a few days reading this book and then moved on…the author wasted months of her life obsessing over something as trivial as one bad review.

Publishers need to really tell their authors to let this go and that they will not support any sort of contact between a reviewer and their author unless it is in a positive way (like giving away free book copies.) Maybe even teach a class on it.

My support for this particular blogger stands.

Wanna see other bloggers who wrote about this?

  1. Between John Grisham's comments and Kathleen Hale's stalking behavior this has been an eye opening week. Not only did Kathleen Hale stalk a reviewer, she bragged about it online. It does not seem like she even realizes that what she did is wrong.

    Thanks for taking the time to stand up against this type of behavior. It will be interesting to see if anything happens. I agree that she should have charges brought against her. I just started following your blog and look forward to future posts.

  2. I admire you so much...for standing up for what you think is not right.
    I totally agree with what you've written here. Openly criticizing other people's blog post?? That's a no no.
    Great post, you've gained a new follower! Can't wait to read more of your posts <3
    The Journeys of My Beating Heart

I love getting comments! Also please let me know if you are a new follower, I always follow back!

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Two education scholarship checks were presented at American Exchange Bank this week. The 2020 Donald Wells scholarships went to Colton Wion and Luke McGowin and were presented by bank president Terri Thompson. The Scholarship was established in 2016 in memory of Donald Wells, former American Exchange Bank President and CEO. It is a four year award worth up to $9,000, payable at $1,000 per semester with $1,000 given upon receipt of verification of enrollment in the first semester of college.
Wion is  the son of Brad and Debbie Wion and is a 2019 graduate from Henryetta High School. McGowin is a 2020 graduate of Dewar High School. He is the son of Gary and Bertha McGowin of Dewar. Both received an internship with American Exchange for the summer.
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Published on April 9th, 2013

Those ‘others’…

Watch this film if you’re interested in transgender issues; the film is about Urmi, a transgender living in Mumbai city.
by Medha Kulkarni

Today, a film on transgenders will air at the New Marine Lines-based Alliance Francaise, an educational organisation with a non-profit cultural goal. Titled Urmi, the film is a 2010 film by Jehangir Jani and it tells the story of Urmi, the protagonist, a transgendered person living in Mumbai. Urmi roams the city of Mumbai and the film chronicles her search for love and meaningful relationships within the context of a quest for a self-identity. It is an interesting perspective on a city that most of us call home and yet, because of gender dynamics in the city, we rarely get to see.

The film was a TISS-UAGC funded project (Tata Institute of Social Sciences-Urban Aspirations in Global Cities) and is a part of their massive campaign to spread awareness about and to sensitise people to gender issues and dispel myths and the resulting social evils that are born out of ignorance.

Pallav Patankar (in pic on left), director of the HIV program at the Humsafar Trust, is also the actor in the film. “The aim of this film is to highlight the issues that members of the transgendered community face in daily life. It aims to show the ups and downs in their lives and thus help mainstream society understand them” he says.

The film promises to be an interesting one and the panel discussion which will be chaired by Chitra Palekar (film director and LGBT supporter), Jehangir Jani (artist whose work revolves around gender and sexuality issues) and Pallav Patankar, and will throw up some interesting perspectives. The event is free and open to all. Seating is on first-come-first-serve basis.

The Humsafar trust, was set up in 1994, is the first openly gay community-based organisation to be allotted space in a municipal building. It seeks to provide the gay community (and increasingly the entire LGBT community) in Mumbai and India with various facilities to provide the community with the knowledge and resources they require and also works to dispel the prejudice that society has towards this segment of people.

Head to the Alliance Francaise Auditorium, 40, Theosophy Hall, Vithaldas Thackersey Marg, New Marine Lines, Churchgate, Mumbai. The film starts at 6:30 pm.

(Pictures courtesy deccanchronicle.com, mumbaiboss.com. Featured image is a file picture used for representational purpose only and is not a still from the film)

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January 16th, 2013

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Duchess Catherine Wears a Princess Diana Dress

Is Catherine trying to remind us she's a princess and no longer a commoner?

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Deja vu all over again when Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, echoed a famous dress worn by Princess Diana.

The Duchess of Cambridge, the former Catherine Middleton, turned back the clock today when she appeared in a black evening dress eerily reminiscent of an iconic gown worn by Princess Diana.

Thirty years ago Lady Diana Spencer had her first evening outing with her fiance, Prince Charles. Her public image as a Sloane Ranger-ish kindergarten teacher changed overnight when she turned up in a revealing black silk taffeta gown. Diana was 19 at the time.

The press and public enjoyed seeing so much of the princess-to-be, but Diana was reportedly criticized behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace for wearing the low-cut dress, and for choosing black, a color then worn by the royal family only during mourning.

Thirty years later, the Duchess of Cambridge, a 29-year-old newlywed, wore a dress of marked similarity for one of her first formal events in public with Prince William. The impact of the strapless, sweetheart neckline trimmed with small ruffles, and the defined waist was striking in each dress. Catherine's 2011 dress was velvet instead of taffeta, and featured a flowing rather than bouffant skirt.

di_3_270x350.jpgPrincess Diana was famous for her fashion, but only a handful of her dresses could be called "iconic". Although Catherine was not even born when Diana wore her history-making black dress, Catherine is certainly familiar with the high points of Diana's fashion history. If any further reminders were needed, Diana's black gown was sold at a well-publicized London auction in 2010.

In choosing her black Alexander McQueen dress, Catherine is pushing our psychological buttons once again, linking herself in our minds with Princess Diana and reinforcing her own image as an archetypal Fairytale Princess. This deliberate linking began with Catherine's choice of her blue engagement dress. What will the next fashion link will be?

A sad coda: One of the last photographs taken of Princess Diana was a Mario Testino portrait, in which Diana wore a more severe black, strapless dress. The images of the black dresses form bookends of Diana's public life.

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Bentley's Bandstand: Robert Ellis, Seasick Steve, Youssou Ndour, Johnny Adams

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Robert Ellis, Photographs. If there is a Houston school of singer-songwriters, some of the characteristics have to be indebted to the hellacious humidity, and what it does to the brain in the summer. Or the way oil refineries out by the Ship Channel choke the air with toxins and turn the sky a color previously unknown to man. And then there's a zealous police department, which for so many years declared open season on anyone they deemed outside their norm. How else to explain artists like Townes Van Zandt and their over-amped level of despair? There is a long line of such melancholy-ridden writers, right up to today's poster child Robert Ellis, who call that Texas city home.

Luckily these musicians aren't really cause for pity, because it's the beauty of their words and expression that allows them to get past any final sense of sadness. Ellis is a prime example. Even with plenty of room for pity on songs like "Friends Like Those," "Cemetery" and "What's In It for Me," there is a getting-over that always comes to the rescue. The young man's warmth pushes aside the darkness when it threatens to turn everything to ruin. Instead, hope somehow always rushes in and strength prevails.

A long line of rockers got bit by country music and did their best to fashion an individual style out of it, starting with early pioneers like Gram Parsons. Robert Ellis can walk in their shoes just fine, knowing what comes from within will eventually spread joy without. Call it the Houston equation and know that no matter what, Space City takes care of its own, even if the Astrodome will likely end up the world's largest swap meet.

Seasick Steve, You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks. Anytime an artist comes in from the cold fully-formed the reaction can range from intrigued wonder to outright suspicion. Seasick Steve inspires both reactions because there's no way to really peg this musician. He's got a street-bluesy feel that skirts right up to the edge of hobo living, with a raspy voice which carries shades of homelessness. Still, it's obvious he knows his way around a guitar and banjo, and when you make an album with Led Zeppelin's bass player things can't be all homemade. And on his first album released by an American label, the White Stripes' Jack White's no less, the hip meter is twanging up near the top of the scale.

You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks' first sign of rightness includes instruments with names like Jack guitar, Morris Minor guitar, the Dirt Digger, cigar box guitar, 3-string Trance Wonder and such, showing Seasick Steve is nothing if not inventive. But when you've literally been riding the rails and living off canned goods for a good portion of your adult life, it's amazing what the mind can conjure up. Musically, he's done the same thing. These are songs that come out of long-shot hopes and hard-won happiness. It's not a game for the faint of heart.

In popular music there is always room for the outcast. Traveling minstrels evolved into Woody Guthrie, and from that Bob Dylan and the rest of the roving troubadours found a place to ply their trade. Seasick Steve had to leave America and went to the U.K. to mine for gold on concert stages around the continent. As usual, the stranger in a strange land found willing ears and welcoming hearts and is ready to bring it all back home. Again.

Youssou Ndour, Dakar - Kingston. The Senegalese singer has never been afraid of exploration. His whole career has been a seeking of the unknown, someone whose African roots have given him a passport to explore the planet. He has performed an endless tour of different countries and musical combinations. Now, he's ready to head for Jamaica and the inspiration of Bob Marley and other reggae heroes.

This isn't the first time Youssou Ndour has looked to the island for a new view, but now he goes all the way, recording at the famous Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston. What he's achieved is a music that is much more than being an homage to any one style, and instead achieves the high road effect of becoming a real synthesis of different influences. It's what those innovators like Ndour specialize in — creating their own world.

There are moments on Dakar - Kingston when all the elements blend into one and what players like Earl "China" Smith, Tyrone Downie and the talking drums of Assane Thiam and Yatma Thiam create is a oneness of spirit. It is far beyond national borders and musical genres. It is really in the ozone. The last track, Marley's "Redemption Song," points the way ahead and promises a new day, something Youssou Ndour has been seeking from the very start. Finding it here is another step in the flow.

Johnny Adams, The Soul of New Orleans. Back in the early '70s when Dr. John released that seminal vinyl slab of New Orleans heaven called Gumbo, his liner notes were like a guided tour of the unequaled music of the Crescent City. And buried inside those words of wisdom was the line, "....Johnny Adams, who has to be the best soul singer out of New Orleans ever." It jumped up like an alligator at the Audubon Zoo: who was this mystery man?

That did it for followers of the sounds of that funky town. Before long people were on a dedicated mission of discovery to learn more about Adams, who along the way had acquired the nickname "the Tan Canary." Praise doesn't come much higher than that. Even better, Dr. John was right because there has never been a more moving singer from way down yonder than this man, and no matter if he was on record labels run by the corner grocer all the way up to national companies, he never sang less than stellar. It was the only way Johnny Adams knew how.

His career was a nonsensical ride between obscurity and minor stardom, when regional hits like "Release Me" and "Reconsider Me" threatened to turn Adams into a national force. Sadly, it never quite happened though his last decade-plus allowed him to get close through solid albums made for Rounder Records. This collection of '70s and early '80s recordings shines a fine light on what his inspired vocals are all about. Whether it's the ghetto pain of "Hell Yes I Cheated" or the heart-rushing romance of "Share Your Love with Me," Johnny Adams always found the true essence of a song, and then let his vocal cords burn down the surrounding cornfield as naturally as taking a midnight stroll through Elysian Fields. There will never been anyone like him again, it's feared, so listen to what's left and say thanks it's still here.

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Thursday, 24 September 2020

Rights groups blast Greece for asylum violations

 This article was published by Al Jazeera International.

Two aid organisations are asking the European Commission to launch infringement proceedings against Greece for violations of Europe’s asylum law.

Oxfam and WeMove Europe say a Greek asylum law that took effect this year has made it deliberately easy to disqualify asylum applicants and difficult for them to appeal rejections.

The groups say these violations are taking place “deliberately, on a drastic scale, in a systemic manner and on an ongoing basis.”

A senior Greek immigration source speaking on condition of anonymity says that problems in the new asylum law were addressed through a parliamentary amendment in May.

“If somebody didn’t show up for an interview or didn’t pick up their registration, the old law allowed you only to suspend their application. The new law allowed you only to reject it. This was amended in May. The asylum service can now reject or suspend an application.”

The new law, along with better staffing, have helped the Greek Asylum Service double the speed of its decisions this year and reduce a backlog of cases by almost a third.

The immigration source admits that the new law stiffened procedures, but says it remains within the remit of the EU Asylum Directive. “The previous law was favorable to applicants. The new law was meant to go in the opposite direction.”

The aid groups also say the government doesn’t provide appealants with enough public defenders. Legal aid groups in Greece have told Al Jazeera that an appeal is too complicated to be filed without a lawyer, but only one in five appealants has access to one. The law allows appealants to use a private lawyer, but few have the resources to do so.

Perhaps the most serious allegation levied by the aid groups is that Greece is conducting pushbacks at its borders. By not allowing potential asylum seekers to apply in the first place, Greece risks reintroducing potential refugees to dangerous environments they are attempting to flee – a serious crime under the 1951 Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees.

Greece was the entry point for over 60 percent of refugee arrivals to Europe last year, versus just 23 percent this year. Migration minister Notis Mitarakis denies that this is because Greece is performing pushbacks.

“We are protecting our borders with determination, observing our international obligations and European regulations,” Mitarakis recently said. “Illegal entries are not acceptable, and that is entirely in line with international law.”

A tough job

EU rules require asylum seekers to apply at the EU country they first arrived in. This means that countries like Greece carry a disproportionate burden. Although it is home to just two percent of the EU population, Greece is processing more than 13 percent of EU asylum applications.

“There is no EU country hosting as many people as us in proportion to the native population,” says Manolis Logothetis, who heads Greece’s Reception and Identification Service. “The Netherlands, for example, have a reception capacity of 5,000 refugees. Our system has a capacity of 100,000. It’s natural that we can’t provide the same level of services.”

Logothetis says the government is trying to scale down the reception capacity.

“We have two choices – to increase capacity or decrease the number of people who need to be in the system. We chose the second, which is easier on the pocket of European taxpayers.”

In June, July and August, usually peak months for refugee crossings in the Aegean, arrivals numbered just 2,076 compared to 18,519 for the same period last year – a drop of 89 percent.

During the same period, 2,736 asylum applicants were deported, relocated or returned home voluntarily. “It’s the first time that the balance of arrivals and departures is in the black,” Mitarakis told parliament this month.

A continental problem

Greek authorities aren’t the only ones that have come in for criticism. Last year Al Jazeera revealed details of complaints by aid groups against the European Asylum Support Office (EASO).

These included failure to establish whether an asylum applicant is a minor, which alters their legal status; failure to allow an applicant’s lawyer to be present; and failure to provide reliable interpreters.

More seriously, legal aid groups accused EASO of conducting its interviews as interrogations, repeatedly asking the same question in an effort to find inconsistencies.

A September 30 decision by the European Ombudsman last year found that EASO had committed “maladministration” through such interview techniques, when they resulted in the deportation of a gay Algerian man.

Greek officials point out that the scale of the refugee phenomenon in Greece demands greater EU asistance – a sentiment that sits at the heart of the European Commission’s new proposals for a common asylum policy.

“Lesvos alone recorded 22,250 applications last year. Austria as a whole recorded 12,000,” says the senior immigration source. “Samos recorded 8,000 – more than Finland.”

“Greece is implementing an EU policy on the islands. It is implementing the EU-Turkey Statement. This means that we are called upon to do the hard work for the European Union,” says the source.

“To tell me that the situation is difficult and there are problems is hardly news. We know this very well.”

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How to Cope with Homesickness

Some people can make huge moves across the globe without even looking back. I, on the other hand, have suffered acute bouts of homesickness following some of my round-the-world moves, and because of that, have quite a bit of sympathy for those who respond to a change of home with many tears and a greater or lesser amount of dramatic depression.

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The hardest move for me was when I moved back to the USA to start college. This same move has proven to be very tough on my two younger sisters as well. Here's the advice I offer on how to cope:

1. Cry.
And don't be embarrassed about it. In those early days, I cried at the airport, at college, in my bed, in the car at church....everywhere. There's nothing wrong with tears. Society tries to tells us that tears are something to be ashamed of. There's no need to pretend that everything's all right when all you really want to do is sleep in your own bed and eat familiar foods and hug your mom again.

2. Do Fun Stuff.
That's different for everybody. I bought an embroidery kit and borrowed DVDs of the Dick Van Dyke Show from the school library and shut myself in my bedroom on weekends and watched episodes while sewing. {Good thing I never pretended to be the popular, cool, type, or I would have lost all cred with that confession}. Maybe your fun stuff is something totally different. Don't be lazy. Do it.

3. Keep Records.
Journal, blog, take photos--whatever your thing is, make sure that you record and remember this time, the good and the bad. When tough seasons come, sometimes my first instinct is to stop writing and stop taking pictures. I've realized, though, that that's something I regret. I know good stuff happened during my freshman year of college, but I have next to no photos or diary entries recording any of it--and few recording any of the hard stuff, either, because during that year, I barely wrote and took only a tiny handful of pictures. Trust me on this, the hard seasons of life shape us, and it's worth being able to remember them as they really were, not through either the jaded or rose-colored memories that the years leave us with.

4. Find people.
Homesickness is often much less actual homesickness than it is peoplesickness. You miss your people. Obviously, you can't replace your people, but as much as you feel it might be impossible, find some additional people to call your own. It's possible. I ended up finding a group at my college containing mostly TCKs (Third Culture Kids) like me--sometimes it helps to find people who know what your background is like even if they weren't a part of it.

5. Stay in touch with the old people.
Write the emails. Comment on the Facebook photos. Schedule in Skype calls. One of the worst feelings is returning to your hometown after years of missing it only to find that all your old friends are gone, or that you have lost the friendships during the intervening time. So, you miss everybody back home. Better make sure they know that! No one in your hometown knows you cry yourself to sleep at least once a week--they might even feel you've forgotten them unless you take the time to send messages and stay in touch. Sure, at first every Skype call will make you tear up...but, remember, crying isn't so bad. Communicate with the people back home.

What do you do to handle homesickness when it threatens to take over?
Angi said...

This is great advice! I know for me, #4 has been the most important, although it can be hard to accomplish since it's such a small town. I know I'm most comfortable around others who also aren't from Alaska, because they understand what a different culture it can be up here vs. down in the lower 48. It's just not the same talking to people who are born/raised here, because they have no idea why it's such a struggle sometimes.

savannah said...

Loved this! I'm one of those who does not get homesick. I've moved from NC to WA twice and driven both times. I'm lucky to be able to adapt easily!

Michelle said...

The Dick Van Dyke show is AWESOME. I watched it as a kid and then again when Gracie was a newborn and I was a sleep-deprived mess. Finding people really is such a huge comfort when you're homesick. I'm not naturally good at making friends, but it always helped me feel like I belonged when I was desperately homesick in college.

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Lisa @ Lisa the Vegetarian said...

On #2 - I did something similar when I was homesick in college, except it was with old episodes of the Simpsons and Seinfeld, which reminded me of home.

Unknown said...

I vox! I missed people like crazy this past year and I voxed a ton. I'm so grateful for that outlet I had.

I also think crying is just a good part of life. When Alisha visited and left - I cried and cried and cried. I couldn't stop the flow of tears either and I felt ridiculous but I had to get it out.

I like your list. I also think that it is interesting that you were homesick from Malaysia when going to the US. It's weird being a TCK, right?

Joy Lynn said...

I talk about moving a lot on my blog, and I totally agree everything you've laid out here. Especially the crying. Sometimes I would feel a little embarrassed, but you're so right - it's okay!

Wild Flower said...

Great post! I have found it rather hard to live a 6 hour plane ride from my family and close friends, but everything you mentioned does help! Love the Tolkien quote too!

Anonymous said...

Oh, goodness. I'm going to need this advice with the upcoming move! Luckily, I love needlecraft and cheesy shows, and I might even be able to pull off both *and* cry at the same time! :P

Anonymous said...

YES, it definitely helps cry every once in awhile and keep busy with interests and hobbies.

Farrah said...

Staying in touch, finding cool things to do, and keeping records (e.g. my journals/blog/taking pictures) definitely help me to deal with homesickness too. <3 I also tend to try to stay busy so I'll have less time to miss things/people!


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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Energize and Organize!

The one thing moving into a new house allows you is the chance to start over and get organized.  Now, I just have to get back to eating well and getting energized to take on the task!  I have tried to make it simple by starting with my pantry and linen closet. Both were bare spaces so either built ins or metal shelving were the choices.  Considering I have many other things to put my budget towards, I took the economical way out and chose industrial metal shelving.  This is easy to clean and really allows for lots of space to place things out of the way.

Clean space with floor to ceiling reasonably priced subway tile.

Racks with wheels for easy moving and cleaning!

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Baskets are always a good idea!

Sometimes you need to see what your are storing so head over to Target for that!
Below what a clever way to stack your lids, need this one too.

Above racks found at Target.
Other places to find great metal shelving on wheels are Home Depot and

Great additions for shelving - Target!

I do have a section in my pantry that I will place a coffee station and some art work.
Considering the walls are tile any Command Strip set will come in handy!
If I get adventurous and decide to hang art work by chain from the ceiling then the kit below
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Now this guy is in the running for my coffee station.. stay tuned.

  1. Karolyn all your ideas will come together beautifully in your pantry. I am in a huge loving pot belly baskets and canvas bins with wheels mood. Can't wait to see the enhancements you add for storage.
    Happy New Year in your gorgeous new house, I have been enjoying all your photo shares.

  2. Metal shelves like that are great--there's a reason why restaurants use them. Speaking of which, you might be able to find them at a restaurant supply store.

  3. What a wonderful space and love the rolling metal shelves - perfect for storing everything. I am a big fan of baskets and glass jars that clasp for easy usage. Adore everything about your new house! Happy New Year, my friend!

  4. thanks for all these great ideas, i need to shop at Target more. And i look forward to seeing your pictures of your new space.

  5. I love it! It looks fabulous and I cannot wait to see more! Good luck with your projects and a very happy new year to you!

  6. where did you find the acrylic bins? I did not see them on Target website.

  7. Wow!! That will be some pantry!!! You have such great taste - the new house will be stunning!!! xoxo

  8. Love that pantry Karolyn and I can't wait for your full house tour!

  9. Thank you for such great links on organizational supplies. I love the piece you are considering for your coffee station!

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It has been a long time. The General Election has brought the Digest out of hiding for a quick issue.

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We have the choice of a decent man who does not like going to war abroad and wants to spread social Justice in the UK. The alternative is the Conservative government of the last 7 years which wont spend money to tackle poverty in the UK but has enough money to blow on bombing campaigns abroad. It has scapegoated the Muslim community and treated us like an enemy over the past few years with smear campaigns like the Trojan Horse scandal where the court proceedings were thrown out as they were found to be an abuse of justice.

Our community will probably also be the first to bear the brunt of any fallout if Theresa May is successful in scrapping the Human Rights Act.

We need to get out and vote and get our families and friends out to vote if we are to have any chance of a prosperous future in the UK.

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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Thanksgiving Concluded

Whew, what a trip! It was great. We're home now, and readjusting to life as normal. But here's a quick recap...

1. We took the kids (Charlie plus his three cousins) to a playground and also came across an old train car that the boys could explore.

Then as we were standing there, another train actually came through. Of course, Charlie's totally into trains. It was way cool.

2. We had a great time with family. It was awesome to have everyone together, especially since two of Chuck's sisters live outside of Texas. Here a couple of pictures of Mitsi, Chuck's sister who lives in Kentucky, and her sweet family.

3. We left Nashville Sunday and drove 8 hours to Hot Springs, Arkansas. We did a little sightseeing the next morning, and then drove 11 hours home.

This is from the top of a tower, overlooking Hot Springs:

Trips like this give me a true perspective on how big Texas really is. Charlie kept asking, "We in Texas yet?" Of course, Texas was about half the drive! Also, Charlie loved hanging out in Nashville at "Uncle Brandon's house." Since we left, he hasn't stopped asking if we could go to Uncle Brandon's again. Heh, I don't think he realizes what a long drive it would be! The boys did really well coming home, considering. But now Chance cries anytime he sees the carseat!

Here's how Charlie was sleeping at one point:

Oh, and a couple of Charlie stories:
1. Whenever Chance would cry in the car, Charlie would say, "It ok Baby Bruder, I make it better," and he'd reach out and hold Chance's hand.

2. Charlie has a real thing for picking his nose and now he thinks it's funny to tell me he's going to eat it! Then he eats it! Blah! Anyhow, today as I was again explaining why we should wipe it instead, he began nuzzling my face with his nose. I thought he was trying to give me eskimo kisses, but then he exclaimed: "I wipe my boogers on you!"

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Hadley is so into boogers right now too. What is it about boys and boogers. Thankfully, Hadley just wants me to wipe them off on a tissue. I'm sure the day is coming where he wants to eat them though and I'm not looking forward to it. Glad you guys are back safe. I'm feeling for you all sleeping in the same room especially if Chance is only sleeping 9 hours at a time.


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Feast of Tabernacles - George H. Warnock
We are confident that the hour has come in the history of the Church when Israel's annual cycle of Feasts is about to be fulfilled in the midst of the saints. And inasmuch as the natural observance of the Feasts constitutes a type and pattern of great and momentous spiritual events, it is vitally important that we should understand their meaning. The Scriptures reveal the fact that there were three annual festival seasons in Israel's worship. Other days were added in later years to commemorate certain events, but according to the original Levitical pattern there were three occasions during the year when all Israel was called upon to observe a national religious festival. And inasmuch as the Church of Christ is the true spiritual Israel (a fact which we will establish from the Scriptures later.) and what happened to natural Israel constituted merely a type and shadow of what should happen to spiritual Israel--we can derive great spiritual benefit and comfort by studying the types in the Old Testament, and then discovering by the Spirit wherein they apply to us on a higher and vaster spiritual plane. For the scriptures make it very clear that "all these things happened unto them for ensamples (as a figure, or type): and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." (1 Cor. 10:11).
And not only so. For we have abundant evidence from the New Testament to establish the fact that two of the three annual Feasts of Israel's worship have already been fulfilled in Christ and His Church: fulfilled, moreover, in a way so manifestly clear from the Scriptures that we do not hesitate to declare that we are now on the verge of the fulfillment of the last annual Feast of the Lord. If God declares that the Old Testament is to be fulfilled in Christ and His Church, that is certainly sufficient for us. Buy when we can actually look into the New Testament and see the manner in which two of the three Feasts have already been gloriously fulfilled, what great consolation and comfort it is for the saints who are looking forward to the fulfillment of the last Feast, the Feast of Tabernacles.
In this study, therefore, we wish to present some of the fundamental principles concerning the great events transpiring at this present season, and mention other events that are yet to transpire, by way of fulfilling the Old Testament Feasts. We appeal entirely to the Word of God and the Spirit of God; for it is evident that the natural man cannot receive, much less teach, the things of the Spirit of God. If it is God's Word, then it is infinite and eternal, and far beyond any human understanding; and only the Spirit can reveal and quicken it to us.
We are aware that we have only touched the fringe of Truth relative to this great subject which we have undertaken to explore; and we know that when the Scriptures are openly and manifestly fulfilled before our very eyes--the unveiled Truth and Glory of the Feasts of the Lord shall far transcend anything that we have ever imagined in our contemplation and meditation of the Word. But this, indeed, is cause for great encouragement--knowing that in the hour of the great Unveiling of the Sons of God we shall see and hear and perceive and experience a power and a glory such as we have never imagined to be within the realm of possibility.
May God, therefore, give us guidance by His Spirit to see and understand and contemplate wondrous things out of His Word--the entrance of which giveth light to such as are in darkness, and the appropriation of which giveth understanding to the simple, wisdom to the foolish, and illumination to the blind. We care not for established creeds or doctrines or theological disputes, nor for the marginal notes we find in our various expository and reference Bibles. God has spoken, and that is sufficient. If Christians are content to abide by the revelation they have received at the hands of great men of the past--let them be content. But God is now leading His people onward and upward to higher heights, to greater depths, to vaster expanses of Truth and Glory than the saints have ever enjoyed or appropriated in the past. Therefore we fix our hopes and our eyes upon the God of increasing revelation, even on Him who is
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That we ask ...Or Think ...
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Let others look at the apostasy of a corrupt church system; but let us behold the unfolding glory of the true Church, and exult with the Apostle Paul, in the face of all opposition; "Unto Him be glory in the Church by Christ Jesus through all ages, world without end. Amen." (Eph. 3:20, 21).

We make no particular attempt in this study to distinguish between the Church, the Body, the Bride, the Sons, and so forth. That there are many different groups which may be included in the word "Church" is quite evident from the Scriptures, and from Creation itself. But the Lord knoweth them that are His in each particular group, and in His own good time it will be manifest. A building in its formative stages appears to be but one vast conglomeration of scaffolds, framework, brick and steel--and it is not too evident how many rooms there will be, and for what purpose the rooms are intended. But in the day of its completion it is all quite evident. So shall it be with the Church of Christ. For there are celestial bodies and terrestrial bodies; one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars--and even one star differeth from another star in glory. So shall it be in the day of Christ, when each man is revealed in His own order according to the plan and purpose of God.
Chris writes: People look at Jesus and think of Him on earth and His earthly ministry.
The Ephesians 3:20-21 verses are talking about way more than this. If you'd been around Jesus, what would you have seen? The many things described in the gospels and the things NOT written about in the gospels....there were just too many things to describe.But even this doesn't begin to cover what was going on in the short 33 year life of the Man Jesus. 30 years of normal behaviour, but without sin. Three years of a stupendous Spirit anointed life which empowered everything He shared, and His commission to raise up 12 men after His own kind. But the Book of Revelation, the incident of Paul being knocked to the ground and blinded for 3 days, in other words the ascended Man Jesus at the right hand of God the Father is what was being built "unseen" into Jesus while on earth. There was a whole lot more going on in the Spirit than we have ever imagined. So it is with us? What do we see? Yes already many of us have an anointing which shows up in God events. But what else do people see? Yes changed lives. But what else? Not a lot really, just the same as it was for Jesus the bulk of the time. The unspectacular nature of God's life in us as we are growing, maturing, loving people, learning totally belies its true nature.This is why the serpent was so able to trick Adam and Eve. The Life of God just is.But what it is building into us defies description. It is literally a layering of glory upon glory....but this side of things in the "natural", without eyes to see in the Spirit, we can be so fooled to thinking nothing is happening at all. The the "way of the world" is to DENIGRATE this life. To NOT GIVE the respect to older people that they deserve. Think about it! Anybody who has survived planet Earth for several decades has faced immensed struggles inner and outer. If we've overcome that is one thing. But even if we've fallen repeatedly, we have all over our inner being the knocks and the bruises by which we learn. Yet none of this sort of thinking gets even an eyelid's flash of recognition in the world system. The world system is almost TOTALLY BLIND. When Romans 12 says we are not to be conformed to their thinking, this is one of their false values......the total non recognition of the glory of God's life lived in man. To an evolutionist, extrapolating purely out from his philosophy alone, the phrase "the sanctity of human life" has no basis for meaning at all.

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SIP Challenge #72 - Sketch Challege!

Hello and a Very Happy Tuesday to you!  As you are reading this, I should be on a 7 day cruise to St Thomas, San Juan, Half Moon Cay, and Grand Turk.  I hope you are having half as good a week as I am!  LOL  This week over at Stamp, Ink, Paper we have a sketch challenge up!  Check it out!

Unfortunately I needed to make a couple of sympathy cards so I used this sketch for one of them.

My color palette is from the Petals & Paisleys DSP collection.  My card base is an 11" x 4 1/4" piece of Rich Razzleberry scored at 5 1/2".  My next layer is a 4 x 5 1/4" piece of Mint Macaron with a 2 3/4" x 5 1/4' piece of the Petals & Paisleys DSP on the left side.  My sentiment was stamped in a panel of Mint Macaron that was matted on Rich Razzleberry.  I stamped the trees in Delightful Dijon and the sentiment in Rich Razzleberry.  Both the trees and sentiment are from the Thoughtful Branches stamp set that was available in September.  It is an awesome set and I hope it makes it in the next annual catalog.

The inside of the card has another sentiment and more trees from that same awesome stamp set!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

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As many readers will remember, it's not going to Tower Hamlets, and it's not starting on Blackheath, but the Olympic Marathon is taking to the streets of Westminster and the City today, where we are being allowed to look at it without paying.

That said, if your author's experiences trying to get across South West London last Sunday are anything to go by, getting around could be rather difficult, but it is a Sunday so we all have plenty of time.

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Inspired by the wonders of travel, history, connecting cultures and art, Wonderlust offers an eclectic collection of treasured gifts. Crimson Jewel pays homage to Asian horticulture and the wonders of the garden; symbolizing rebirth, water lilies combine with vibrant colors for an exuberant design. Perfect for holding jewelry and trinkets, the exquisite Crimson Jewel 5.7″ Tray is an ideal gift for any occasion. It is beautifully presented in a signature Wedgwood blue gift box for celebrating all of life’s special moments.

Dean & Deluca | More Valentine Collection, $68

More Cupcakes are so pretty you might resist eating them. But don’t – they’re incredible. Made with the finest Belgian and Valrhona chocolate and Madagascar bourbon vanilla, each variety has a buttercream center, one with caramel, too.

Twelve cupcakes

Dean & Deluca | Milk & Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramels, $50

Inside this pastel blue and gold heart-shaped box, adorned with a crowned peacock, are the finest dark and milk chocolate hearts with caramel and sea salt centers from Charbonnel et Walker. An inspired Valentine’s Day gift.

Twenty truffles

TOMS | Watercolor Hearts Tiny TOMS Classics, $36

The iconic TOMS slip-ons, these limited edition Classics feature watercolor hearts for Valentine’s Day and beyond. A small-batch, limited edition shoe. Designed for kids ages 1-4. Vegan.

With every pair of shoes you purchase, TOMS will give a new pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One®

Taschen | Morris, $15

Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Architecture series features:

  • an introduction to the life and work of the architect
  • the major works in chronological order
  • information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions
  • a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings
  • approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts, and plans)

Taschen | Redouté – The Book of Flowers, $70

Celebrate “the Raphael of flowers,” Pierre-Joseph Redouté. This elegant catalogue gathers all engravings from his masterful volumes Roses and Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers, alongside the most astounding pieces from The Lilies. Astonishing with his admixture of accuracy and beauty, Redouté transports the reader to themagnificent greenhouses and gardens of a bygone Paris.


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M. Biz Hotel
11, Teheran-ro 79-gil, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Seoul, South Korea

Located at Posco Intersection, where financial facilities and IT companies are situated, M. Biz Hotel is a good accommodation for business travelers. On the first floor is a brightly lit lobby and a business center with PCs with internet access, a printer, and a copy machine. Guestrooms come in various types including double, twin, and triple rooms featuring a neat and clean interior.

While parking is convenient at the spacious parking lot, M. Biz Hotel also has easy access to public transportation with Seolleung Subway Station a 5 minute walking distance away. It is close to Samneung Park, and abundant restaurants are located close by. COEX and World Trade Center are also nearby, making this hotel a convenient choice for participants of exhibitions held there.

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