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DJ Ferry Corsten a.k.a. System F came down to spin at the new Heineken bottle launch at KL Live. The entire place has been transformed into something that looks like Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz.
Even the invites look awesome!
It was all Heineken green – the entrance was emblazoned with an asymmetrical neon light feature that gave off a new and different, exclusive even, ambiance once you stepped into the threshold and embraced the pumping music inside.
I arrived early and had dinner at Dirty Nelly's – it's right beside KL Live. I opted for the Sausage with Mustard Mash and Sweet Sour Red Pepper. It's described as a "jumbo pork banger" but I was taken aback at the sheer size of it when it arrived.
It almost made me feel inadequate. 😉
Thanks for dinner Heineken! Cheers to Ee Lin from the brand team for picking up the tab.
Anyway, I was surprised by the sheer amount of people inside. KL Live was packed. I met a lot of new people and got reacquainted with plenty of old friends that night.
It was awesome!
I happened to be wearing a white shirt that day, and after a lot of festive merry-making to the beats of Lap Sap (the opening act), DJ Ferry Corsten came on stage and got the entire crowd cheering.
There were bouncers in front getting everyone to stand back while the crowd pushed forward to take photos. I had wisely *cough* positioned myself in the front before DJ Ferry Corsten's set was on so I was right in front. I didn't know why the bouncers were keeping people away until he came onstage, the music started, and fireworks and flames went off in a dazzlingly well choreographed moment.
I was caught by surprise by the wonderful pyrotechnics display that I didn't manage to take a shot of it – some of the debris landed on my (white) shirt. So that was why the bouncers were keeping people away from the stage – there was going to be pyrotechnics . Heh. *hindsight 20/20
DJ Ferry Corsten kept the energy going high and with the free flow of Heineken beer going, the crowd was moving right along to his beats. He played a great set.
It was the launch of the new Heineken bottle with nifty new practical and aesthetic features detailed in my Heineken contest post and Heineken threw a huge party with an international DJ just for it.
It's just how Heineken rolls, being a premium beer.
You'll be seeing these new Heineken bottles replace the old ones right about now. I nicked the photo below from Heineken's Facebook photo album to better illustrate it. 😉
Oh and before I forget, there's a contest going on with truly awesome prizes! The 3 grand prizes includes a trip to Sensation in Taiwan! You need 50 points to stand a chance to win and there are 3 ways to gain points:
1. Toasting Friends
You basically send your Facebook friend a new Heineken bottle and if they send it back to you, you'll get 1 point. I've detailed this in my previous post and you can refer to the app for more details.
2. Check-in via Facebook
This is where you check-in via Facebook when you go out for a drink at participating outlets.
Here's an example. You can earn a maximum of 1 point per day and you'll need to verify the check-in via the app after you've done it. Don't worry if it doesn't appear immediately, each check-in can only be verified after 12 am on the next day.
There's a list of participating outlets – I see a lot of familiar places in my hometown of Sibu. Heh. You can filter via state to see which are the ones that will earn you points.
3. Scan Heineken ads with iSnap
This is an interesting one – if you have an iPhone or Android smartphone, download iSnap (it's part of The Star Mobile app) from iTunes Store/Google Play respectively. I have it on my Sony Xperia S. Search for a Heineken ad in The Star newspaper and scan it. It'll earn you a staggering 5 points! 🙂
The prizes that I mentioned? The grand prize is a trip to Sensation in Taiwan! It's held in Kaohsiung and there will be 3 winners for this dance music festival! There's also 200 personalized editions of the new Heineken bottle to be won. Imagine how cool it would be to own that! I won't even drink it, it's the kind of stuff you display.
Go to the Heineken to.a.star app and start collecting points now and you might be on your way to Taiwan! 🙂
I had an great Saturday night at KL Live. I had a few beers from the new Heineken bottle (which is the real star of the night), enjoyed mingling about and Heineken was thoughtful enough to provide water (Evian, no less) to rehydrate yourself after dancing. 🙂


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Here we see a black sedan somewhere in East Asia smashing back and forth through a line of parked cars like it was a side street demolition derby. And I have no idea why it's going on.
Is this person out on a revenge trip to destroy someone's car? Is this just a candidate for the world's worst parker? Why does a woman get out of the car halfway through, and what is she picking up off the ground? The video on YouTube offers no help, translating to "Suspected between husband and wife?! Burst red car to the heroine super calm!" So many questions, so few answers.
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text: Hyundai Motor America Wins the 2014 Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Driving Engagement Award February 7, 2014 09:00 AM MEDIA INFORMATION Contact: Mark Bilek Director of Communications and Technology Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6082 Cell: (847) 652-0632 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Contact: Jennifer Morand Senior Public Relations and Social Media Manager Chicago Automobile Trade Association Office: (630) 424-6084 Cell: (630) 391-1986 Email: email@example.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CHICAGO (February 7, 2014) – The Chicago Auto Show and Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) presented Hyundai Motor America with the second annual "Driving Engagement" award for most innovative social media campaign of 2013 during the Social Media Preview of the 2014 Chicago Auto Show. Hyundai's social media campaign titled "The Walking Dead Chop Shop" extended The Walking Dead integration into the social media and digital realm. Hyundai put the power in The Walking Dead fans' hands to build their own Zombie Survival Machine. Hyundai shared its campaign strategy and resulting success during the "Driving Engagement" award ceremony. "We are honored and truly thrilled that 'The Walking Dead Chop Shop' campaign has been recognized by WOMMA," said David Matathia, director of marketing communications, Hyundai Motor America. "With help from the popularity of The Walking Dead franchise, Hyundai continues to expand the conversation around Hyundai vehicles with young and passionate audiences." WOMMA selected three automotive manufacturers as finalists for the Driving Engagement awards: American Honda Motor Company, Inc. and Jaguar North America were the two runners-up. Honda submitted its "Project Drive-In" campaign, aimed to save a piece of American car culture: the drive-in movie theater and Jaguar entered its "#MyTurnToJag" campaign to deliver a once-in-a-lifetime Jaguar F-TYPE experience to fans. "The auto industry embraced social business in 2013 more than ever before," said Suzanne Fanning, president of WOMMA. "We saw incredible, record-breaking results from gamification, crowdsourcing and cause marketing, as well as great use of Pinterest, Snapchat and Instagram. Social engagement was extremely effective for the auto industry during the past year, and we are grateful to the Chicago Auto Show for allowing us to honor manufacturers that truly 'drive engagement.'" For more information about the Chicago Auto Show, please visit www.chicagoautoshow.com. ### About the Chicago Auto Show The Chicago Auto Show is the largest on the continent, spanning more than 1 million square feet of production, concept, and exotic vehicle exhibit space. In addition to hosting multiple world and North American vehicle debuts, the Chicago Auto Show's First Look for Charity raises more than $2 million annually for 18 worthy Chicago organizations in a single night. The 2014 public show will be February 8-17. For more information, visit ChicagoAutoShow.com or Facebook.com/ChicagoAutoShow. Media can register for the Chicago Auto Show Media Preview at chicagoautoshow.com/media/. About Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Founded in 2004, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association is the official trade association in the industry dedicated to word of mouth and social media marketing. It is comprised of members from elite Fortune 500 brands, agencies and service providers, such as McDonald's Corporation, Unilever, Nestle, Nissan, Heineken International, Edelman and more. These exceptional thought-leaders across the globe and innovative companies are committed to expanding the word of mouth marketing industry through advocacy, education and ethics. WOMMA is a leader in ethical word of mouth marketing practices through its offline education, such as the renowned WOMMA Summit, professional development opportunities and knowledge sharing with top industry marketers. For more information please visit WOMMA.org. About The Chicago Automobile Trade Association Founded in 1904, the Chicago Automobile Trade Association is the nation's oldest and largest metropolitan dealer organization. It is comprised of more than 400 franchised new-car dealers and an additional 150 allied members. The group's dealer members employ nearly 20,000 people in the metropolitan area. The association has produced the Chicago Auto Show since 1935. For more information, visit CATA.info. Back to News


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Kobe (神戸市 Kōbe-shi) is the sixth-largest city in Japan and is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture. It is located on the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bayand about 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka. With a population around 1.5 million, the city is part of the Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. Its name comes from "kanbe" (神戸), an archaic title for supporters of the city's Ikuta Shrine. Kobe became one of Japan's 17 designated cities in 1956.
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- Aug 21 2020 Cats 2.2.0-RC4 is released
- Aug 15 2020 Cats 2.2.0-RC3 is released
- Dec 18 2019 Cats 2.1.0 is released
- Sep 9 2019 Cats 2.0.0 is released
- Jun 3 2019 Cats 1.6.1 is released with backported bug fixes
- Apr 26 2019 We launched a sustainability program. Please consider supporting us.
Cats is a library which provides abstractions for functional programming in the Scala programming language. The name is a playful shortening of the word category.
Scala supports both object-oriented and functional programming, and this is reflected in the hybrid approach of the standard library. Cats strives to provide functional programming abstractions that are core, binary compatible, modular, approachable and efficient. A broader goal of Cats is to provide a foundation for an ecosystem of pure, typeful libraries to support functional programming in Scala applications.
For more detail about Cats' motivations, go here.
Code Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute. We welcome contributions to Cats and would love for you to help build Cats. See our contributor guide for more information about how you can get involved as a developer. If you are looking for something to start with, here is a beginner friendly list.
Financial Contributors
Become a financial contributor and help us sustain our community. Donations directly support office hour for maintainers, better documentation and strategic initiatives.
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Getting Started
Cats is currently available for Scala 2.10 (up to 1.2.x), 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, and Scala.js.
Cats relies on improved type inference via the fix for SI-2712, which is not enabled by default. For Scala 2.11.9+ or 2.12 you should add the following to your
scalacOptions += "-Ypartial-unification"
(Partial unification is on by default since Scala 2.13, the compiler no longer accepts
Or, if you need to support older versions of Scala you can use the sbt-partial-unification plugin which extends support back through Scala 2.10.6 or later, to add it, simply add this line to your
addSbtPlugin("org.lyranthe.sbt" % "partial-unification" % "1.1.2")
And then create the Cats dependency, by adding the following to your
libraryDependencies += "org.typelevel" %% "cats-core" % "2.1.1"
This will pull in the cats-core module. If you require some other functionality, you can pick-and-choose from amongst these modules (used in place of
cats-kernel: Small set of basic type classes (required).
cats-core: Most core type classes and functionality (required).
cats-laws: Laws for testing type class instances.
cats-free: Free structures such as the free monad, and supporting type classes.
cats-testkit: lib for writing tests for type class instances using laws.
alleycats-core: Cats instances and classes which are not lawful.
There are several other Cats modules that are in separate repos so that they can maintain independent release cycles.
cats-effect: standard
IOtype together with
Effecttype classes
cats-mtl: transformer typeclasses for Cats' Monads, Applicatives and Functors.
mouse: a small companion to Cats that provides convenient syntax (aka extension methods)
kittens: automatic type class instance derivation for Cats and generic utility functions
cats-tagless: Utilities for tagless final encoded algebras
cats-collections: Data structures which facilitate pure functional programming
cats-testkit-scalatest: Cats testkit integration with Scalatest
Past release notes for Cats are available in CHANGES.md. See Cats 2019 roadmap for our plan for 2019.
- Website: typelevel.org/cats/
- ScalaDoc: typelevel.org/cats/api/
- Type classes: typelevel.org/cats/typeclasses
- Data types: typelevel.org/cats/datatypes.html
- Glossary: typelevel.org/cats/nomenclature.html
- Resources for Learners: typelevel.org/cats/resources_for_learners.html
- FAQ: typelevel.org/cats/faq.html
The Cats ecosystem
By sharing the same set of type classes, instances and data types provided by Cats, projects can speak the same "Cats language", and integrate with each other with ease.
General purpose libraries to support pure functional programming
- cats-retry: composable retry logic for Cats and Cats Effect
- droste: recursion schemes for Cats
- dsl-domains-cats: The
!-notation for creating Cats monadic expressions
- eff: functional effects and effect handlers (alternative to monad transformers)
- Freestyle: pure functional framework for Free and Tagless Final apps & libs
- iota: Fast [co]product types with a clean syntax
- Monocle: an optics library for Scala (and Scala.js) strongly inspired by Haskell Lens.
- newts: Defines newtypes compatible with Cats type classes
- origami: monadic folds
- refined: simple refinement types for Scala
- shims: seamless interoperability for Cats and scalaz typeclasses and datatypes
Libraries with more specific uses
- atto: friendly little text parsers
- cats-scalacheck: Cats typeclass instances for ScalaCheck
- cats-time: cats typeclass instances for java time
- circe: pure functional JSON library
- Ciris: Lightweight, extensible, and validated configuration loading in Scala
- cormorant: CSV handling library for FP
- decline: A composable command-line parser
- doobie: a pure functional JDBC layer for Scala
- extruder: Populate case classes from any data source
- fastparse-cats: cats Monad and Alternative instances for fastparse
- Fetch: efficient data access to heterogeneous data sources
- finch: Scala combinator library for building Finagle HTTP services
- Frameless: Expressive types for Spark
- FS2: compositional, streaming I/O library
- fuuid: functional uuid's
- github4s: wrapper around the GitHub API
- grafter: dependency-injection library using the
- gsheets4s: wrapper around the Google Sheets API
- hammock: Purely functional HTTP client
- henkan: Type safe conversion between case class instances with similar fields
- http4s: A minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP
- itto-csv: pure functional library for working with CSV
- linebacker: functional thread pool management
- log4cats: functional logging
- monadic-html: Tiny DOM binding library for Scala.js
- Monix: high-performance library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs
- Monix BIO:
IOalternative with typed errors
- morphling: free applicative schemas & instance derivation
- natchez: an opentracing library, to use with Jaegger, Honeycomb, OpenCensus, and Lightstep.
- phony: Fake data generator
- pureconfig: A boilerplate-free library for loading configuration files
- rainier: Bayesian inference in Scala
- redis4cats: a Redis client library.
- scala-forex: exchange rate lookups
- scala-maxmind-ip-lookups: IP geolocation through the Maxmind database
- scala-referer-parser: referer parsing
- scala-rl: Functional, monadic reinforcement learning in Scala
- scala-weather: weather lookups
- scanamo: simpler DynamoDB access for Scala
- seals: tools for schema evolution and language-integrated schemata
- sup: Composable, purely functional healthchecks in Scala
- skunk: a data access library for Scala + Postgres.
- tsec: Typesafe, functional, general purpose cryptography and security library
- coulomb-cats: cats typeclass instances for coulomb Quantity
Your project talks Cats too? Submit a PR to add it here!
The full-size Cats logo is available for use for Cats related projects, contents, souvenirs, etc.
We offer a Cats Friendly Badge to let others know your project works with Cats!
Below are quick html and markdown snippets to use the badge in your own project.

![Cats Friendly Badge](https://typelevel.org/cats/img/cats-badge-tiny.png)
Discussion around Cats is currently happening on Github issue and PR pages as well as in two Gitter channels:
Gitter channel cats is for general user questions and discussions, and
Gitter channel cats-dev is dedicated for Cats development related discussions. For people who wants to follow closely and/or to participate in the decisions in Cats development, this is the room to join.
People are expected to follow the Scala Code of Conduct when discussing Cats on the Github page, Gitter channel, or other venues.
We hope that our community will be respectful, helpful, and kind. If you find yourself embroiled in a situation that becomes heated, or that fails to live up to our expectations, you should disengage and contact one of the project maintainers in private. We hope to avoid letting minor aggressions and misunderstandings escalate into larger problems.
If you are being harassed, please contact one of us immediately so that we can support you.
Binary compatibility and versioning
1.0.0 release, we decided to use MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 going forward, which is different from the EPOCH.MAJOR.MINOR scheme common among Java and Scala libraries (including the Scala lang).
Cats strives to provide a solid and stable foundation for an ecosystem of FP libraries. Thus, we treat backward binary compatibility maintenance with a high priority. In semantic versioning, backward breaking change is ONLY allowed between MAJOR versions. We will maintain backward binary compatibility between PATCH AND MINOR versions. For example, when we release Cats
1.1.0, it will be backward binary compatible with the previous
1.0.x versions. I.E. the new JAR will be a drop-in replacement for the old one. This is critical when your application has a diamond dependency on Cats - depending on two or more libraries that all depend on Cats. If one library upgrades to the new
1.1.0 Cats before the other one does, your application still runs thanks to this backward binary compatibility.
Also worth noting is that according to semantic versioning, MINOR version Y (x.Y.z | x > 0) MUST be incremented if new, backwards compatible functionality is introduced to the public API. It MUST be incremented if any public API functionality is marked as deprecated.
Any binary breaking changes will require a MAJOR version bump, which we will be very cautious about. We will also consider using
organization and package name for major versioning in the future. But that decision is yet to be made.
Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of companies that use Cats in production. Don't see yours? You can add it in a PR!. And if you can, consider supporting us.
- Abacus Protocol
- Anduin Transactions
- Apple Inc. (FEAR team)
- AutoScout24
- Avast
- BabylonHealth
- Banno Group inside of Jack Henry & Associates
- Basefarm
- buildo
- Chartboost
- Codacy
- Codecentric
- Colisweb
- Coya
- Datum Brain
- DriveTribe
- Dwolla
- Earnest
- eBay Inc.
- Eloquentix
- eSailors
- Evolution Gaming
- Evotor Marketplace
- e.near
- formation.ai
- Free2Move
- HelloSoda
- HomeAway
- Hootsuite Inc.
- iHeartRadio
- ImmobilienScout24
- Immozentral
- Iterators
- Lightform
- Lookout
- Merit
- Metacommerce
- Netflix
- Nezasa
- NCR Edinburgh
- Ocado Technology
- Packlink
- Permutive
- Raiffeisenbank Russia
- Rakuten
- REA Group
- Reality Games
- RBC Capital Markets
- Rudder
- Scalac
- Scala Center
- Snowplow Analytics
- Spiceworks
- Spotahome
- Spotify
- SpringerNature
- Stripe
- Tecsisa
- Teikametrics
- The Guardian
- Underscore Consulting
- Waves Platform
- Wegtam GmbH
- Wejo
- WeWork
- Wix.com
- Zalando
- 47 Degrees
The current maintainers (people who can merge pull requests) are:
- ceedubs Cody Allen
- rossabaker Ross Baker
- johnynek P. Oscar Boykin
- travisbrown Travis Brown
- adelbertc Adelbert Chang
- LukaJCB Luka Jacobowitz
- peterneyens Peter Neyens
- tpolecat Rob Norris
- non Erik Osheim
- barambani Filippo Mariotti
- mpilquist Michael Pilquist
- milessabin Miles Sabin
- djspiewak Daniel Spiewak
- fthomas Frank Thomas
- julien-truffaut Julien Truffaut
- kailuowang Kailuo Wang
We are currently following a practice of requiring at least two sign-offs to merge code PRs (and for large or contentious issues we may wait for more). For typos, documentation improvements or minor build fix we relax this to a single sign-off. More detail in the process document.
Copyright and License
All code is available to you under the MIT license, available at http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php and also in the COPYING file. The design is informed by many other projects, in particular Scalaz.
Copyright the maintainers, 2015-2019.


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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which builds low-cost mobile computing devices for students in developing countries, has announced plans to update its XO laptop. The new model, which has been dubbed XO generation 1.5, will include a VIA processor instead of the aging AMD Geode processor that is included in the current XO model.
OLPC has faced many challenges since its inception and was recently forced to make massive cuts due to a decline in sponsorship and the failure of its second G1G1 fundraising effort. The organization largely refocused its efforts on creating a reference design for the XO 2, which will have dual touchscreens, possibly an ARM processor, and a target price of $75 per unit. The XO 1.5 is a less ambitious undertaking and will bring a much-needed incremental improvement to OLPC's hardware while the XO 2 is under development.
The hardware refresh was announced by John Watlington, OLPC vice president of hardware, on the project mailing list last week. He says that the refresh is unrelated to OLPC's ongoing 2.0 design activities and it will not include changes to the XO laptop's exterior design. According to Watlington, the update will lower the price of the XO and include better components while retaining the current level of energy efficiency.
The new processor is a VIA C7-M, which can be clocked at up to 1GHz. The new XO model will also include a VX855 MSP, a low power chipset component that is capable of handling high-definition video. The memory has been upped to 1GB and the built-in storage will be 4GB of NAND flash. OLPC plans to make bare-board prototype models available to developers by the end of May.
"OLPC is excited to announce that a refresh of the XO-1 laptop is in progress. In our continued effort to maintain a low price point, OLPC is refreshing the hardware to take advantage of the latest component technologies," Watlington wrote. "We're excited to be finally able to make this news public. While members of the technical team have been working on this for several months, it was not until last week that we could with any certainty say that we were going to refresh the hardware and what that refresh was likely to be."
The improved parts will help boost the XO's competitive edge and could make it a more compelling option for government buyers. It's still unclear, however, if the move will buy enough time for the organization to finish designing the XO 2, the next major upgrade. OLPC has appeared increasingly directionless in the wake of its repeated strategy changes and reorganization attempts. Perhaps the XO 1.5 will help the organization get back on track.
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Boogie Nights
From the opening sounds of sad circus music flowing into disco, you feel you are in for something unique. As the camera tracks across a street into a bustling nightclub, introducing us to a large array of characters in one take, you know you are in for one hell of a spectacle...
Boogie Nights is an epic tail about life in the swinging seventies through the lens of the porno industry of Southern California. It explores the transition of the business into the 1980s, where film was switched out for video, and the roof caved in for many. But it's not simply a story of the sex trade—it's about family. Although somewhat warped, the group of porn stars connect together as if they were brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers.Continue Reading
Based on legendary Frank Miller's graphic novel, 300 is the story of King Leonidas of Sparta, who with only three hundred Greek soldiers faced off against the million man Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
Co-writer and director, Zack Snyder (The Watchmen), should be given a lot of credit. 300 is a very exciting action film, utilizing modern technologies to retell an ancient tale from antiquity. The direction captures the spirit of the source material, while adding great elements that coexist seamlessly within the paradigm of Frank Miller's work.Continue Reading
First off, it is important to note that even horrible films can be hugely entertaining and Commando may be the most defining example of this. Structurally the film has no arc whatsoever. It is simply a few minutes of set up and then the rest is simply conclusion. But what a wonderfully cheesy journey it is as Arnold mows down hundreds of hired thugs single-handedly and seeks justice against the men who dare take his daughter.
Although Schwarzenegger hit his peak as an action star later in James Cameron's True Lies, this and Predator are the most fun of his eighties films, following the huge success of The Terminator. As "John Matrix" (how's that for a name?), Arnold is one beefy, mean fighting machine. Introduced to us in typical montage, we know him to be a hard worker (as he carries a log bigger than a man) and that he is a great dad (feeding fawns in the forest with his daughter). After that, through the blatant exposition by the cardboard "General Franklin Kirby," we learn that he is no mere man. Matrix is as bad as they've ever had to come out of Special Forces.Continue Reading
Catch Me if You Can
Catch Me if You Can is the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. (DiCaprio) who, by the tender age of seventeen, cut over $2.5 million dollars worth of fraudulent checks and was one of the FBI's most wanted. Frank travels the globe, taking on such identities as a Pan Am pilot, a doctor, and an attorney. Always on his tail is fraud expert Agent Carl Hanratty (Hanks) from the Bureau.
Although a story of a con man on the run from the law, the way this story is told, it comes across more like a fairy tale about the impetuousness of youth. Steven Spielberg's direction is flawless in maintaining this tone throughout, telling a "crime story" that is amazingly playful. John Williams' hip retro score and the great momentum of Michael Kahn's editing add to this happy-go-lucky sort of attitude. The vibrant color palette, fantastic sixties costume and production design, and Janusz Kaminski's cinematography, all contribute to make up this wonderful "true story of a real fake."Continue Reading
From the surreal opening frames of "Max" (Jeff Bridges) wandering vacantly through a cornfield, that gives way to an inferno filled with plane wreckage, you know you're in for a unique cinematic experience. The actor aptly described the film's opening as if director "Peter (Weir) laced the popcorn with acid."
Fearless is a tale of a San Francisco architect (Bridges) who is one of the only survivors of a downed flight headed for Houston. He loses his best friend and business partner and comes out of the flames feeling invincible. He is deemed the "good Samaritan" by the media, after helping lead people to safety. But he returns home to find himself emotionally isolated from his family. The only comfort he can find coming from helping a suicidal woman (Perez), after her baby perished in the wreck.Continue Reading
Copland (The Director's Cut)
Garrison, New Jersey is a pleasant place to live. Just over the Hudson River from New York City, this calm suburb is home to many NYPD police officers. These men who spend their days fighting crime on the streets of the Big Apple built this community in order to provide a safe haven to raise their families. But thing are not always what they seem, when the cops are corrupt and the law in Garrison is whatever they deem it to be.
The story kicks off on the George Washington Bridge. Officer Ray Donlan (Kietel) decides it's best to fake the death of his nephew, Murray "Superboy" Babith (Rappaport), to avoid what could be seen as a racially motivated murder at the hands of a cop. That decision begins the spiral what will unfold, spilling over into their humble little community.Continue Reading
Max (Foxx) is a taxi driver with big dreams. Vincent (Cruise) is a freelance killer on a business trip to clean house. Tensions mount up when Vincent steps foot in Max's cab, using him as his chauffer on a nightlong killing spree.
Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice) is one of the true kings of crime cinema and Collateral may be his most precise and exact tale. With the best pacing of any of his films, Mann makes great use of High-Def cameras to give the nighttime cityscape of Los Angeles a unique and dream like aesthetic.Continue Reading
As the U.S. is flooded by Cuban refugees, forced out by Fidel Castro, two criminals land in a detention camp in Miami. They are Tony Montana (Pacino) and his right-hand-man, Manny Ribera (Bauer). The two men assassinate a political target inside the camp and it opens the door for them into the drug syndicate in Florida. The story of Scarface is that of the rise of Tony Montana to become the predominant drug lord of his time.
Inspired by Howard Hawk's 1932 Gangster classic by the same name, Oliver Stone's screenplay has coined some of the most used nomenclature in cinema. "Say hello to my little friend" may be the most imitated line of screen dialogue in history. Having won an Academy Award previously for writing Midnight Express, Stone certainly understood the drug culture of the time. His script captures a raw truth in the way people speak and treat each other, out of their minds, railed on blow. Structurally, the film is very classically designed, much like a Greek tragedy. It explores the ambition necessary to wear the crown of power and the violent end that comes to all those who do.Continue Reading
Get Shorty
Chili Palmer (Travolta) is a Miami shylock who finds himself looking for a new career path in life. While chasing down a collection, Chili encounters a B-movie producer named Harry Zim (Hackman) and his scream-queen star, Karen Flores (Russo). Harry has backed himself into a corner, owning money to a local hoodlum (Lindo), who tries to get a piece of the best script Harry has ever owned. In steps Chili, who loves Tinseltown and decides to become a producer. Chili and Karen approach her ex-husband, mega-movie star, Martin Weir (DeVito), to star in the film.
After a successful career as a cinematographer (Raising Arizona, Misery), Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black) took his place in the director's chair. After two successful Addam's Family films, he brought Elmore Leonard's bestseller to the big screen.Continue Reading
L.A. Confidential
In 1950s Los Angeles, three cops with very different styles, try solving a multiple homicide. Along the way, they face off against each other, as well as the corruption that runs rampant in the City of Angels.
The screen adaptation by Curtis Hanson and Brian Helgeland (Payback), beautifully translates a very complex multi-layered story, based on the crime novel by James Ellroy. The characterization is very strong, the dialogue is razor-sharp, and the plot structure is intricate, but aptly realized. The two men won an Academy Award for their efforts.Continue Reading


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LOWER MANHATTAN — The former president of Trinity Church's Congregational Council has slapped his embattled church with a lawsuit, asking a court to intervene in a bitter dispute over last April's controversial election for board seats.
The legal wrangling is the latest move by congregants pushing for grassroots change in what some claim is the church's corrupt leadership.
In a suit filed Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court, Trinity congregant Jeremy Bates says he and other churchgoers voted against the entire slate of 22 vestry, or board members, up for election last April by literally writing in "no" on the ballot, even though there was no space to express opposition to the candidates.
Bates says in court documents that he believes the "no" votes were never counted, though legally they should have been, according to the 315-year-old church's 17th-century charter.
April's election came amid a torrent of criticism against the church's rector and chief executive officer, the Rev. James Cooper. Church members have accused Cooper of overspending church funds on Bach concerts and other events, and planning an opulent overhaul of the church's office space at 68-74 Trinity Place instead of focusing on the church's ministry and helping the poor.
Nearly half of the church's board of director's resigned last year in protest of Cooper's leadership.
Bates and others, meanwhile, bucked hundreds of years of tradition and pushed for a competitive election of the 2012 board as a chance to express their views on the future direction of the church, and on Cooper's tenure.
But Trinity's leaders said there was not enough time to pick additional candidates before the April 10 election.
So, the selection of the board went through Trinity's typical process — the vestry was chosen at a small closed-door meeting and then ratified by the congregation as a whole, on ballots that only had space for check marks.
But Bates and other church members say that each written-in "no" should count as an opposition vote in the election.
"Last year the church's governance process broke down," Bates, a litigator who's chosen to represent himself in the suit, said in an interview Wednesday. "That caused us to want to vote 'no' and so we voted 'no.'"
Even though the vestry candidates were running unchallenged, "members of the church should be able to vote against vestry candidates," Bates added.
Trinity, though, believes that in an uncontested election, "no" votes don't count, and even a single vote in favor of a candidate is enough to get that person confirmed for the vestry, according to church documents that Bates submitted with his lawsuit.
Bates is asking the court to force the church to use a new ballot in the 2013 election, which clearly allows members to vote "no" for a candidate.
He also wants Trinity to give him a copy of its financial statement, which, he says in court papers, he has a right to see as a member of the congregation.
A Trinity spokeswoman said the church does not comment on pending legal matters.
The vestry is charged with overseeing Trinity's mission as a Lower Manhattan community church, a major real estate company managing 6 million square feet in Hudson Square and a philanthropic organization donating millions of dollars to projects across the globe each year. It's estimated that Trinity's real-estate holdings are in excess of $1 billion.
While courts do not rule on religious matters, disputes about church leadership and policies can be brought to a judge because churches are largely treated as nonprofit corporations under the law, said Erin Lloyd, a lawyer who handles civil and commercial cases.


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Child Welfare Arguments Against Marriage Equality Not Supported by History, Social Science or Legal Considerations, Says Law Professor
Newark, NJ, June 5, 2014 – In his new book, Same-Sex Marriage and Children: A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law, Professor Carlos A. Ball of Rutgers School of Law–Newark brings together for the first time historical, social science and legal research to refute claims that same-sex marriage bans promote responsible procreation and children's welfare.
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The book, published this month by Oxford University Press, explores the parallels between the current marriage debates and arguments used in the past to defend interracial marriage bans, laws prohibiting marriage for disabled individuals, and discrepancies in the treatment of children born out of wedlock. "History shows," he writes, "that disqualifying entire classes of individuals from marriage with the objective of promoting child welfare has been more about invidious discrimination than about protecting children."
In an engaging and accessible analysis of the social science studies relied on by same-sex marriage opponents, Ball reveals that they fail to support the contention that biological status and parental gender matter when it comes to parenting. At the same time, he cautions that courts should be careful not to rely on social scientists to prove the absence of harm before lesbians and gay men are afforded the right to marry.
"If courts were to refuse to strike down the differential treatment of minority groups until equality advocates could show conclusively that no possible social harm will result from a change in the status quo," he writes, "it would significantly impair the ability of the Constitution to provide equal protection under the law to all."
Same-Sex Marriage and Children, in considering recent gay marriage cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, provides the first comprehensive look at the intersection of social science and the law in matters related to same-sex marriage and child welfare. Professor Ball explains why the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans cannot be defended on the basis that maintaining marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution helps to promote the best interests of children.
"Arguments about the welfare of children have long been at the center of the same-sex marriage debate," says Jane S. Schacter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford University Law School. "In this important new book, Carlos Ball lucidly analyzes these arguments through the prisms of law, history and sociology".
Professor Ball, Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar, has been a member of the Rutgers School of Law–Newark faculty since 2008. He is the author of several books, including The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood, From the Closet to the Courtroom: Five LGBT Rights Cases That Have Changed Our Nation, and The Morality of Gay Rights: An Exploration in Political Philosophy, and is co-editor of one of the leading casebooks on sexuality and the law.
A frequent speaker at conferences and symposia, he has delivered papers at the annual meetings of the Association of American Law Schools, Law and Society Association, American Philosophical Association, and American Political Science Association, and presented his scholarship at the Colorado, Columbia, Emory, Fordham, Harvard, Georgetown, Minnesota, NYU, UCLA, Virginia, and William & Mary law schools, among others.
Professor Ball received his B.A. from Tufts University, his J.D. from Columbia Law School, and his LL.M. from Cambridge University.