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Internet of Things Becomes Mainstream, What Happens Now? | Part 2
How do you know when a technology has become mainstream? A good clue may be when politicians start talking about it on the campaign trail and with mainstream media. David Cameron, the UK prime minister, was the latest, indicating that the world was now on "fast-forward" with the Internet of Things (IoT) ushering in the new industrial revolution. No mention of IoT targeted at the masses would be complete without the clichéd example of the communicating fridge. While it is easy to get caught up in the hype and over-simplify, the complexity associated with making IoT mainstream will be unlike anything we have seen before it.
In the last Internet of things (IoT) blog, I suggested that in the emerging IoT world, humans will set policies and rules that define desired outcomes, while the execution of minute-by-minute decisions driven by those policies will increasingly be handled by automated agents. In turn those agents, as they evolve in sophistication and functionality, will drive new business models, new ways of generating revenue, and new strategies for pricing and charging.
Today, enterprises are discovering that one-trick billing is not suitable for a complex services world. We all know that a billing system needs to flexibly support, for example, recurring and non-recurring charges, volume discounts, short and long-term commitments, settlements, and (for enterprise billing) bill tracking and assignment across multiple departments and product lines.
Yet here we are today in a world increasingly being made more complicated by a proliferation of online services, by IoT and by a maze of evolving business relationships, and what do we find? Service providers are still being sold one-trick billing systems.
Perhaps there is some deep-rooted psychological need for some people to deny complexity. Over-simplifying, like politicians with their fridges, may be part of the popular culture, but in business, as in engineering, science and medicine, it is important to face up to complexity, understand what is really going on, and build our plans accordingly.
When Internet services emerged, some people predicted that everything was going to be paid for by advertising: a really simple business model. Then the online shopping cart came along and, without diminishing the importance of advertising much, vendors were able to trade online and offer services and products for money in a subscription form: another simple business model supported by one-trick billing systems. While subscription services have always been with us, the Internet enabled providers to offer many new services using the subscription model: software, music, movies, news.
And now we have IoT, and - even better - IoT with smart agents. We will see, naturally enough, that Internet merchant platform players insist that IoT devices and systems can be sold in shopping carts. Subscription billing system vendors will tell us IoT services are perfect for vanilla subscription billing. While others will come along with billing systems that are IoT-specific and assume some kind of a business model that is absolutely the best for IoT.
Yet in this increasingly complex environment, one-trick billing starts to look like a shaky idea. If you only have a merchant platform you can't handle subscriptions. If your billing system only supports subscriptions, forget selling service-related products through your own portal. If your billing system is designed just for IoT-style services, you could find yourself shut out from expanding into other lines of business. You will either have to constrain your business model, buy or license additional systems, or go to third parties for help.
For a new-start company, a one-trick billing system could appear to be a great way of getting into business, especially if it's available as a service with no long-term commitments. But as a company matures and expands its portfolio of services and products, it also expands its perspective on the marketplace. They experiment with more varied and more nuanced business models. They want to try interesting new approaches to pricing and billing to attract and retain customers. At this point, businesses find that they've outgrown their start-up one-trick billing systems. They find, as so many companies have discovered before them, that they cannot form their pricing and billing strategies around the needs and preferences of the market. Instead they must constrain their strategies to conform to the limitations and ways of working defined in their billing system. If you want to evolve your pricing and billing approach, you will have to buy a new system, either to replace or supplement the old system.
An earlier generation has seen this before; it's not a distinctive feature of the Internet. One traditional phone company, a giant, started with one billing system, as everyone does. They grew and refined their approach to the market and added new services. Their original billing system was a one-trick system, so they bought or built some new systems: systems specific to a particular product set; systems specific to a particular pricing strategy; systems to link all the other systems together... After a surprisingly short time, they found they had over a hundred distinct systems in their billing environment, strung together after a fashion, but with fragmented and highly duplicated data. Expensive and dysfunctional. Getting out of that kind of trap is not easy. The company sought help from another corporate giant and bought one more billing system, the system to end all other systems. Five years later they still had over one hundred plus one systems.
If they'd had a billing system able to support the agile needs of the business, they could have spent more time developing and selling services and less time band-aiding their systems environment. I have pointed out in several previous blogs that MetraNet users have a distinct advantage: the system can handle any business model, or any combination of business models, including business models that haven't been invented yet. By contrast, when you buy a one-trick billing system, you are also buying into the one-trick business model supported by that system.
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On October 25 Fairtrade filed an opposition notice to Dole's bid to trademark the phrase "ethical choice" with the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand. Dole has until December 29 to file a counter-statement or to abandon the trademark, Iponz said.
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SciQuest (NASDAQ: SQI), a leading provider of cloud-based business automation solutions, thanks attendees for another highly successful NextLevel 2013 conference. More than 650 attendees from nearly 300 organizations participated in the three-day conference, which took place at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country last week. Attendance was up 20 percent from last year, and featured representatives from major brands such as Eastman Chemical, John Deere, Dell, IBM, Molson Coors, ROi (Resource Optimization & Innovation) and Harvard.
This year's conference featured the most diverse line-up of topics with sessions focusing on supplier management, accounts payable, strategic sourcing, spend analysis and contract management. Participants also had a unique opportunity to network with their peers and hear first-hand about success stories and emerging trends.
SciQuest also spotlighted its customers' achievements during the "Questies" award dinner on Tuesday night. Organizations and individuals were recognized for their efforts in collaborative purchasing as well as overall innovation. The 2013 Questie winners are:
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A retired surgeon claims he has found the G-spot that has often been described as the UFO of gynecology. According to the surgeon, the G-spot is a tiny bunch-of-grapes-like structure enclosed in a bluish sac deep in the front wall of the vagina.
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Adam Ostrzenski, MD, PhD, of St. Petersburg, Fla., describes the G-spot as: "an erectile body... causing elevation of the [front of the] vaginal wall at the beginning of the sexual excitement."
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Whether there really is an anatomical structure corresponding to the sensation reported by women who claim the G-spot sensation has remained a matter of debate among specialists. While there is no scientific evidence of a surgical procedure that can enhance G-spot sensitivity in women, many gynecologic surgeons claim such procedures.
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, Ostrzenski performed a seven-hour dissection in which he carefully cut through five layers of vaginal tissue and muscles and uncovered a bluish sac located on top of a structure called the perineal membrane. The surgeon opened the sac and found a bluish tissue that looks like a tiny bunch of grapes with a tail less than a third of an inch long. He said: "This is definitely not anywhere near a routine dissection. The structure itself is very, very small. I could see that unless you were very, very careful, you could easily go right through the tissues and not find it."
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describes the G-spot as a sac-like structure roughly one-eighth of an inch in diameter, located on the front wall of the vagina. According to Ostrzenski, the tissue appears to be an erectile tissue, and he speculates that under pressure the tissue lifts the vaginal wall and may either generate its own sexual sensations or trigger sensations around the clitoris. The
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said the G-spot is "located on the dorsal perineal membrane, 16.5 mm from the upper part of the urethral meatus, and creates a 35° angle with the lateral border of the urethra. The lower pole (tail) and the upper pole (head) were located 3 and 15 mm next to the lateral border of the urethra, respectively. Grossly, the G-spot appeared as a well-delineated sac with walls that resembled fibroconnective tissues and resembled erectile tissues."
Ostrzenski's findings, however, are based only on a single dissection performed on a deceased 83-year-old woman and some experts have raised questions about the validity of his conclusions.
reports Elena Ratner, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive medicine at Yale University, said: "The feeling in my limited field is that this is not real." She said that findings from a single dissection, especially one performed on an elderly woman, are not sufficient proof that the structure observed is found in other women or that it is source of sexual sensation. Ratner queries: "Who is to say that this thing they found on her dissection was the center of pelvic pleasure?"
A sex therapist Lenore Tiefer, PhD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical Center also dismissed Ostrzenski's findings, saying: "We can conclude absolutely nothing from this paper since we know nothing about the sexual life of the dead woman."
However, Christopher Estes, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Miami, does not dismiss Ostrzenski's findings but says a single case was not sufficient proof. He said: "This certainly is suggestive of an anatomical structure that would correlate with a G-spot. Women who experience orgasms from a G-spot will describe a hardening on the inside of the vagina, a little almond-or peanut-shaped protuberance. This is consistent with that."
But Ostrzenski said the reason why the G-spot remained a mystery for so long is that knowledge about the details of female sexual anatomy is limited and the textbooks are often inaccurate .
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reports Ostrzenski claims to have performed enhancement operations. And Mark Scheinberg, MD, the surgeon who photographed his dissection claims that his collagen injections, which he offers at his clinic in Deerfield Beach, Fla., enhance G-spot function.
Ostrzenski says he is working on a new procedure he calls "G-Spot Plasty," to improve on G-spot sensitivity.
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"Americans downloading at an average of only 11.6MBPS"
Sigh. No.
From the article: "the United States ranks 24th worldwide in speed, with consumers receiving an average of 11.6-megabits-per-second download speeds"
Megabytes != megabits. 11.6Mbps.
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"Americans downloading at an average of only 11.6MBPS"
Sigh. No.
From the article: "the United States ranks 24th worldwide in speed, with consumers receiving an average of 11.6-megabits-per-second download speeds"
Megabytes != megabits. 11.6Mbps.
Ha! Came in here to say the exact same thing. If I was downloading at 11.6 megabytes/ second, Astraweb wouldn't know what hit 'em!
it might be the lack of camel-case that is the problem here. without any lowercase trailing characters, @Xeni:disqus Jarden might have meant Mbps.
11.6 Mbps == 1.45 MBps (8 bits per byte)
Personally, I love that the telecomms still use megabits/sec when talking about bandwidth, since no non-tech-oriented consumer even knows there is a difference between bits and bytes, let alone what it is. And even for those of us that do know, abstracting advertised speeds by a factor of 8 is enough to stop our brains from settling on the actual numbers involved.
the f-ck of it is if they were to be honest no one would buy their product. Why shell out 50$ for only 5MBps when you can get 10mbps for only $45
We should just have a law that requires them to show both bit and byte measurements.
So what cool things are people doing with all this bandwidth? (I don't count "watching television" as "a cool thing", even though it burns a lot of bandwidth.) I've currently got 3 Mbps DSL, and can load multiple streams of YouTube at once or real-time TV on the web, and there's cable TV if I want to get television. And yes, a cable modem would be faster, and I'm not actually doing anything interesting with my static IP addresses right now, but I don't see the benefit.
Tiny east Bay Area city San Leandro has a similar project but with no Google intermediary. Currently offering a 10Gbps (yes, that's bits per sec) fiber optic loop for the un- and under-served business side of town, this town seeks to connect fast Internet with advanced industrial and manufacturing interests. Of course Boing Boing readers of the maker varieties wouldn't know anything about that, would they?
Well, as a French internet user who spends a few weeks a year in the mid west USA…When I'm in Toledo, I always end up wringing my hands in frustration asking "How can you people live like this?" I live in an extremely rural location in France and have extremely cheap and reliable high Speed service….doesn't everyone?
The lack of same is one of the things that makes me very negative about software that requires always-on internet to operate despite not having any communications element, and cloud-based anything. So sorry, the cloud may not crash and eat my data, but having my connection go "voop" happens far more frequently than hardware failure :P
Yes Jerril, I understand, but that has nothing to do with my comment. I was merely stating that I get very reliable, inexpensive, high speed internet service here in rural France. The system is constantly being upgraded. My television, phone and internet subscription is around 40 Euros a month. So I get the equivalent of cable TV, DSL and phone for about 40 Euros…I guess with todays exchange rate that woud come to about 51.23 US Dollars.
That's about $167 a month from cox if you want high def channels and a TIVO recorder, and that doesn't include phone.
But you have to remember that France is only slightly larger than California with a denser population. Rural France is in no way comparable to rural U.S.
That is not to excuse our poor speeds in urban areas, which I would agree are abysmal compared with the rest of the world. I would put that down to an aging infrastructure and a current political climate that favors private monopolies over nationalized services.
well, that's not a very good excuse now, is it? France is smaller than say, Texas…I guess…but that's not really relevant to any reality I can think of.
The point was the "rural" France is not all that rural as compared to say "rural" anything-west-of-the-Mississippi. Drive from St. Louis to Denver, see how many people are there and what their density is and remind me that it is not relevant to any reality.
In rural France you probably don't need to drive more than 1 hour to get to the closest McDonalds. In rural Texas you can drive for over an hour and not see a single house.
Population density is directly related to the cost of wiring. There are large portions of the U.S. that do not even have cell phone coverage. We had to implement large government subsidies back in the 1950's just to get telephone service to most people.
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Chattanooga Tennessee did this several years ago with the local power utility taking the lead. The city's old nickname was "River City" now days it's become "Gig City". Also, the revenue from cable/phone/internet has helped to offset energy costs.
It also played a role in attracting VW to build a huge new complex along with an Amazon distribution center.
The move to provide high speed fiber (up to a gig at each drop) attracted lots of attention from the technology sector and continues to draw interest from technology based companies.
No, I'm not a paid shill for EPB or the city, just very excited to see a city continue to reinvent itself and not stay still. BTW, the city has also been placed on several "best of" lists for outdoor recreation, innovation, livability, etc. Pretty good progress for a city who Walter Cronkite tagged "the most polluted city in america" over thirty years ago.
Here's an article by Thomas Friedman that references what happened in Chattanooga TN fifteen years ago that has helped to transform the city . . .
"The question also is whether there will be a consumer demand and need for such speeds."
… is a quote from Bill Kula, a Verizon spokesman. This person is either ignorant or being willfully obtuse. Either way it doesn't generate trust being that Verizon is, in general, a supplier of information.
Funny, at the same time the companies whine about "heavy users" they say there is no market for these services.
Just remember, the world will never need DSL in people's homes. Who needs that much internet?
I live in a rural area and pay 44 bucks a month for 1.7mps DSL. The techs say Century Tel could up the speed..but won't. The infrastructure is there for faster (how fast? Likely still well under 20, which is what the folks in 'town' get). Step out of the cities and travel around a bit though…America is a lot larger in person than what most people seem to realize..
Well, I know America very well as having lived there for 50 years…I lived for 25 years in Manhattan and I still have cheaper and better internet service here than I still would have in Manhattan. But then we are going around in circles here, so, a bientot, tout le monde!
Ser microdot,
I congratulate you on your youthful appearance and commenting style. Based on your comments here I had assumed you were 19 or 23 or something.
Just to quote a song from "Oklahoma": "Everything's up-to-date in Kansas City."
You know that feeling you get when someone complains about something they have, when that something is far better than what you yourself have?
I pay $95/month for 200-300 kbps, 10 minutes outside a city of 30,000 people in BC (Canada). 11.6 mbps would be a dream come true.
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If you are one who can lend some valuable insight as to how these puts and calls will affect GPRO share holders going forward, i would greatly like to hear about it, as do many others, I;m sure.
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Calls are going to have some high premiums do to the current high volatility. Same with puts.
If you are long the stock, sell some covered calls at a nice premium to help offset your current paper losses.
What I am really asking is this. Will the options trading drive the stock price down, or will it have little bearing on it?


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"Swallow has adamantly denied Johnson's allegations, saying he only put
Johnson in touch with Richard M. Rawle, who had experience working with FTC
Why would he do this? And would he do it for free? What experience? It is all about money.
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"My bill and hopefully my law will make it very, very clear that if
you're on the state payroll, you may not do business in a way that would
have any relationship whatsoever with your official duties"
Last time I read it, that is already state law. Anyone making $5000 is supposed to disclose the company that they worked for in the conflict of interest form, which wasn't done in this case. I don't know why.
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Ethics are only for Democrats.
Republicans don't need ethics.
At least not in Utah.
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Where are all our usual conservative posters? Could it be that they can't think of any way to spin this into some sort of support for John?
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If anyone should know about devious contributions, it would be Enid, while a death bed declaration would be ignored wouldn't suprise us, given Swallow a Republican, and the courts are liberal, either way there are more questions than answers, so let's give Swallow his day in court.
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I would like to see the Utah republican party take the position that "lobbying" has no place in our justice system. Our justice system is guided by the law. It is administered by impartial investigations, prosecutions, courts, and juries. Person's with money to hire lobbyists don't get special treatment.
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So the whole article is about how Swallow didn't get campaign contributions, didn't make any money from Johnson, and didn't do anything illegal, and some of you are wondering why conservatives aren't commenting to defend Swallow? Maybe because the article already did that for us...
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Its hard to break rules when there are basically no rules to break. The republicans have opposed ethics reforms for years, and will continue to oppose them this year as well.
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1. The Lovely Bones (2009)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, Fantasy
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold | Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon
Votes: 124,682 | Gross: $43.98M
2. The NeverEnding Story (1984)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Writers: Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel, Michael Ende, Robert Easton | Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Gerald McRaney
Votes: 99,115
3. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
R | 118 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
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Votes: 465,435 | Gross: $37.62M
4. Apocalypse Now (1979)
R | 153 min | Drama, War
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.
Writers: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr | Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Votes: 449,018 | Gross: $78.80M
5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy
A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that.
Writer: John Hughes | Director: John Hughes | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones
Votes: 242,941 | Gross: $70.14M
6. There Will Be Blood (2007)
R | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Upton Sinclair | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 371,341 | Gross: $40.22M
7. The Outsiders (1983)
PG-13 | 91 min | Crime, Drama
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Writers: Kathleen Rowell, S.E. Hinton | Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze
Votes: 57,181 | Gross: $25.60M
8. Spider-Man 3 (2007)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure
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Writers: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko | Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Thomas Haden Church
Votes: 381,311 | Gross: $336.53M
9. Seven Samurai (1954)
Unrated | 207 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni | Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki
Votes: 228,133 | Gross: $0.27M
10. Camp Nowhere (1994)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
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Writers: Andrew Kurtzman, Eliot Wald | Director: Jonathan Prince | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, Christopher Lloyd, John Putch, Peter Scolari
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11. Child 44 (2015)
R | 137 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Votes: 40,082 | Gross: $1.21M
12. Despicable Me (2010)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
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Writers: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio, Sergio Pablos | Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud | Stars: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews
Votes: 384,186 | Gross: $251.50M
13. The Blue Lagoon (1980)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
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Writers: Henry De Vere Stacpoole, Douglas Day Stewart | Director: Randal Kleiser | Stars: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern, William Daniels
Votes: 49,946
14. Apocalypto (2006)
R | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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Writers: Mel Gibson, Farhad Safinia | Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo, Dalia Hernández, Rudy Youngblood
Votes: 235,414 | Gross: $50.86M
15. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
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Writer: Gianfranco Clerici | Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 38,767
16. Empire of the Sun (1987)
PG | 153 min | Drama, History, War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Writers: J.G. Ballard, Tom Stoppard | Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers
Votes: 89,532 | Gross: $22.24M
17. Sex and Lucia (2001)
R | 128 min | Drama, Romance
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life.
Writer: Julio Medem | Director: Julio Medem | Stars: Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Elena Anaya
Votes: 29,419 | Gross: $1.49M
18. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Drama, History, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Writers: Jean-Jacques Annaud, Alain Godard | Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 188,190 | Gross: $51.40M
19. The Woman in Black (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young lawyer travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.
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Votes: 139,342 | Gross: $54.32M
20. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Writers: Ales Adamovich, Elem Klimov | Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 25,232
21. The Naked Mile (2006 Video)
R | 97 min | Comedy
When Erik Stifler gets a free pass to do whatever he wants from his girlfriend, he and his two best friends head to see his cousin Dwight for the Naked Mile and a weekend they will never forget.
Writers: Adam Herz, Erik Lindsay | Director: Joe Nussbaum | Stars: John White, Eugene Levy, Jessy Schram, Steve Talley
Votes: 51,302
22. The Piano (1993)
R | 121 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A mute woman along with her young daughter, and her prized piano, are sent to 1850s New Zealand for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, and she's soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.
Writer: Jane Campion | Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin
Votes: 63,724 | Gross: $40.16M
23. The World at War (1973 TV Mini-Series)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
A series of documentaries about World War II.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Anthony Eden, Averell Harriman, Albert Speer
Votes: 11,361
24. Valhalla Rising (2009)
Not Rated | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together ... See full summary »
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Votes: 42,838 | Gross: $0.02M
25. Life (2009 TV Mini-Series)
TV-G | 473 min | Documentary
David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth in 10 episodes. The first is an overview the challenges facing life, the others are dedicated to ... See full summary »
Stars: David Attenborough, Oprah Winfrey, Doug Allen, Michael Pitts
Votes: 23,345
26. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
Writers: William Nicholson, Michael Hirst | Director: Shekhar Kapur | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 54,664 | Gross: $16.26M
27. Just My Luck (2006)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
Writers: I. Marlene King, Amy Harris, Jonathan Bernstein, Mark Blackwell, James Greer | Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Bree Turner
Votes: 43,961 | Gross: $17.32M
28. Devil's Knot (2013)
Not Rated | 114 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Writers: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson, Mara Leveritt | Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Colin Firth, Reese Witherspoon, Alessandro Nivola, James Hamrick
Votes: 13,756
29. The Brothers Bloom (2008)
PG-13 | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
Writer: Rian Johnson | Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rinko Kikuchi
Votes: 41,633 | Gross: $3.52M
30. Giant (1956)
Approved | 201 min | Drama
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Writers: Edna Ferber, Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat | Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Votes: 26,217
31. Are We There Yet? (2005)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Nick Persons is a selfish player who owns a collectables sports shop in New York. Everything in his life is perfect until he meets Suzanne Kingston, a business woman who has something Nick ... See full summary »
Writers: Steven Gary Banks, Claudia Grazioso, J. David Stem, David N. Weiss | Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen, Philip Bolden
Votes: 22,584 | Gross: $82.30M
32. Bad News Bears (2005)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Sport
A grizzled little league coach tries to turn his team of misfits into champs.
Writers: Bill Lancaster, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | Director: Richard Linklater | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, Sammi Kane Kraft
Votes: 17,475 | Gross: $32.87M
33. StarStruck (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Family, Music
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Writers: Barbara Johns, Annie DeYoung | Director: Michael Grossman | Stars: Sterling Knight, Danielle Campbell, Maggie Castle, Brandon Mychal Smith
Votes: 7,803
34. Solomon Kane (2009)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Writers: Michael J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard | Director: Michael J. Bassett | Stars: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite
Votes: 58,994
35. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
R | 107 min | Comedy
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Writers: David O. Russell, Jeff Baena | Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 56,731 | Gross: $12.78M
36. A Very Long Engagement (2004)
R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.
Writers: Sébastien Japrisot, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant | Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon
Votes: 62,497 | Gross: $6.17M
37. Shane (1953)
Approved | 118 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act.
Writers: A.B. Guthrie Jr., Jack Sher, Jack Schaefer | Director: George Stevens | Stars: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon De Wilde
Votes: 27,838 | Gross: $9.00M
38. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
PG-13 | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy
Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Writers: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin | Director: Benh Zeitlin | Stars: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes
Votes: 70,183 | Gross: $12.78M
39. 13 Assassins (2010)
R | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Writers: Kaneo Ikegami, Daisuke Tengan | Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yûsuke Iseya, Ikki Sawamura
Votes: 50,429 | Gross: $0.80M
40. Dog Soldiers (2002)
R | 105 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.
Writer: Neil Marshall | Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham
Votes: 45,385
41. Goal! The Dream Begins (2005)
PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
The extremely talented Santiago Munez is given a chance at professional football, after being spotted by a scout who has ties with Newcastle United.
Writers: Mike Jefferies, Adrian Butchart, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais | Director: Danny Cannon | Stars: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Leonardo Guerra
Votes: 50,791 | Gross: $4.28M
42. Belle de Jour (1967)
Approved | 101 min | Drama
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Writers: Joseph Kessel, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière | Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
Votes: 29,076
43. Stalag 17 (1953)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, War
When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German POW camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Writers: Billy Wilder, Edwin Blum, Donald Bevan, Edmund Trzcinski | Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss
Votes: 43,218
44. Hamburger Hill (1987)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
Writer: James Carabatsos | Director: John Irvin | Stars: Anthony Barrile, Michael Boatman, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan
Votes: 19,030 | Gross: $13.84M
45. Silver Bullet (1985)
R | 95 min | Horror
A werewolf terrorizes a small city where lives Marty Coslaw, - a paralytic boy - his uncle and his sister - the narrator of the story.
Writer: Stephen King | Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Gary Busey, Everett McGill, Corey Haim, Megan Follows
Votes: 16,431
46. Django (1966)
Unrated | 92 min | Action, Western
In the opening scene a lone man walks, behind him he drags a coffin. That man is Django. He rescues a woman from bandits and, later, arrives in a town ravaged by the same bandits. The scene... See full summary »
Writers: Sergio Corbucci, Bruno Corbucci, Franco Rossetti, José Gutiérrez Maesso, Piero Vivarelli, Geoffrey Copleston | Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Franco Nero, José Canalejas, José Bódalo, Loredana Nusciak
Votes: 18,763 | Gross: $0.03M
47. Wuthering Heights (2011)
Not Rated | 129 min | Drama, Romance
A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.
Writers: Andrea Arnold, Olivia Hetreed, Emily Brontë | Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer
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48. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Writer: Jim Jarmusch | Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, RZA
Votes: 46,368 | Gross: $1.97M
49. Mother (2009)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
Writers: Joon-ho Bong, Eun-kyo Park | Director: Joon-ho Bong | Stars: Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Ku Jin, Je-mun Yun
Votes: 27,268 | Gross: $0.55M
50. The Libertine (2004)
R | 114 min | Drama, Romance
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.
Writer: Stephen Jeffreys | Director: Laurence Dunmore | Stars: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter
Votes: 31,389 | Gross: $4.83M


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The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to support a three-month extension of extra unemployment benefits to 1.3 million Americans, including 9,200 Minnesotans.
The benefits ended Dec. 28 but Democrats, including President Obama, have made passing another extension a priority. Minnesota's senators, Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, voted in favor of the extension.
Today's vote was a procedural one, but important: It indicated that there are enough Republicans in the Senate to reach the needed 60-vote threshold to move forward with an extension.
In the House, Republican leaders have said they would only consider another extension if its cost — about $25-billion a year — is offset somehow, throwing it into doubt in that chamber no matter how the vote goes in the Senate.
To pressure House Republicans, Obama is expected to address the issue from the White House today.
Club for Growth and other conservative groups urged senators to vote against moving forward on the bill and said the vote will be included in its annual scorecard, putting pressure on Republicans to reject it.
Some Republicans have argued that extended unemployment benefits were meant to be a temporary program in the wake of the 2008-09 recession and that it has done too little to justify another extension.
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