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The mile is an English unit of length equal to 1,760 yards and standardised as exactly 1,609.344 metres by international agreement in 1959.
With qualifiers, "mile" is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly). The Romans divided their mile into 5,000 feet but the greater importance of furlongs in pre-modern England meant that the statute mile was made equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards in 1593. This form of the mile then spread to the British-colonized nations who continue to employ the mile. The US Geological Survey now employs the metre for official purposes but legacy data from its 1927 geodetic datum has meant that a separate US survey mile (6336⁄3937 km) continues to see some use. While most countries replaced the mile with the kilometre when switching to the International System of Units, the international mile continues to be used in some countries, such as Liberia, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, the United States, and a number of countries with less than a million inhabitants, most of which are UK or US territories, or have close historical ties with the UK or US.
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. Widely considered one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, together with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop, cool jazz, hard bop, modal jazz, post-bop and jazz fusion.
In 2006, Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which recognized him as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz". In 2008, his 1959 album Kind of Blue received its fourth platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), for shipments of at least four million copies in the United States. On December 15, 2009, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a symbolic resolution recognizing and commemorating the album Kind of Blue on its 50th anniversary, "honoring the masterpiece and reaffirming jazz as a national treasure".
Vanessa Lee Carlton (born August 16, 1980) is an American singer-songwriter. Upon completion of her education at the School of American Ballet, Carlton chose to pursue singing instead, performing in New York City bars and clubs while attending university. Three months after recording a demo with producer Peter Zizzo, she signed with A&M Records. She began recording her album, which was initially unsuccessful until Ron Fair took over.
Her debut single, "A Thousand Miles", reached the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2002. Her debut album, Be Not Nobody, followed and received a platinum certification in the United States. Her subsequent albums, Harmonium (2004) and Heroes & Thieves (2007), failed to match the commercial success of the first. She produced a fourth album, Rabbits on the Run (2011), independently before seeking a record label to release it. Carlton released a holiday EP titled Hear the Bells in November 2012, and released her fifth studio album, Liberman, on October 23, 2015.
Actors: Philip Adkins (producer), Philip Adkins (actor), Philip Adkins (writer), Andrew Galves (editor), Andrew Galves (actor), Andrew Galves (producer), Andrew Galves (writer), Andrew Galves (writer), Andrew Galves (director), Rob Adler (actor), Matthew McCullough (actor), Stephanie Vogt (actress), Timothy T Tyler (actor), Katy Dolle (actress), Matt Baca (actor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Mark Frampton (actor), Al Bailey (actor), Al Bailey (producer), Al Bailey (writer), Louise Pridding (actress), Nathan Codrington (director), Neil Jeram-Croft (producer), Nathan Codrington (editor), Neil Jeram-Croft (actor), Dean Fagan (actor), Natalie Pike (actress), Holly Chadwick (actress), Rachel Dargie (actress), Louise Hamer (actress), Nigel Hart (composer),
Plot: An exquisite jazz pianist plays out a story of surreal intrigue and horrific brutality in this neo noir whodunit. A lawyer and his wife stiff through painful conversations, at a residents only champagne party; with a dark and bewildering author, a flirtatious fiancé, a Machiavellian psychiatrist, an artist with a blank canvas, and a neglected son and his group of youthful friends who seem as out of place as the furnishings. The party, hosted by the lottery winning owner of the penthouse location, is plagued with unconventional happenings, which hang in the atmosphere around the guise of a sinister master of ceremonies. Adding to the cocktail of mystery is the fleeting frequents of an ageing footballer's wife and a gangland heavy. The circumstance of everyone's attendance is hiding something disturbing. Away from the partying culprits an old piano in a secret room on the 9th floor hides away a pained man who is subjected to horrendous torture. Who is this man and what is the motive? A story of revenge, guilt, hopeless redemption, and acceptance rises up from underneath the jazzy small talk to root out both the tortured and torturer's identity.
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery,Actors: Andy Trieu (actor), Shai Alexander (actor), Alice Keohavong (actress), Patrick May (writer), Shane Parsons (director), Timothy Parsons (actor), Shane Parsons (writer), Anthony Parsons (writer), Finbar O'Mallon (actor), Azlan Smith (actress),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Talese Harris (director), Talese Harris (writer), Talese Harris (editor), Talese Harris (producer), Samir Johnson (producer), Samir Johnson (actor), Christopher Alexander (actor), Duminie Allen (actor),
Plot: A single mom living in the suburbs of Detroit is haunted by the painful shadows from her past and struggling to find the economic means to support herself and her son. By chance, she meets a dubious man who claims he has the answer. What is not at all clear is how much it could cost her soul.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: David Rimawi (producer), Paul Bales (producer), David Michael Latt (producer), Rachel Goldenberg (director), Rachel Goldenberg (writer), Rachel Goldenberg (editor), Sharon Diane King (actress), Mark Hengst (actor), Brian Brinkman (actor), Michael A. Isaacs (miscellaneous crew), Michael A. Isaacs (actor), Diane Stilwell (actress), Ashley Hamilton (actor), Debra Lynn Hull (actress), Daniel J. Roberts (actor),
Genres: Drama, Musical,Actors: Leigh Higginbotham (actress), Leigh Higginbotham (producer), Kenny Alfonso (actor), Melissa Ponzio (actress), Robert J. Lee (writer), Jon Hill (director), Jim Issa (actor), Adam Holder (actor), Richard Sampson (producer), Carol Clarke (actress), Debbie Etchison (writer), Camille Pacht (actress), Buster A. Johnson (actor), Les Umberger (editor),
Plot: A woman drives a car while putting on lipstick, a man tries unsuccessfully to dig through hard ground with a shovel, a second man cruises a record shop, and a mom sends a lad of eight and a half, who's dressed in a cowboy outfit, outside to play. The driver is ditching a car, the digger is disposing of a body, the cruiser has to dump a gun, and mom is giving the orders. What's going on: flashbacks give us most of the answers.
Keywords: boss, bridge, cadillac, cap-gun, car, cash, cell-phone, cowboy-costume, cowboy-hat, dead-bodyActors: Neil Crone (actor), Scott Thompson (actor), Stanley Clarke (composer), Gregory Hines (director), Vincent D'Onofrio (actor), Lisa Shamata (miscellaneous crew), Vanessa Bell Calloway (actress), Philip Akin (actor), Bruce Gray (actor), Gregory Hines (actor), David Huband (actor), Alex Kavanagh (costume designer), Angelo Tsarouchas (actor), Wendy Gaboury (miscellaneous crew), K.C. Collins (actor),
Plot: A kid named Reggie Reynolds is a high school student who is good in the classroom but not so good on the basketball court. But one day he meets a junk dealer who gives him a pair of old gym shoes that once were worn by an all-star in the Negro Basketball leagues in the 1930's. Reggie puts the red sneakers on and he is immediately playing like a superstar on the basketball court. He gets the attention of a major shoe company executive who wants Reggie to switch from the old red sneakers that he is wearing to his company's brand. But Reggie knows if he's not wearing those magical old red sneakers he is back on the sideline.
Keywords: basketball-movie, high-school-basketball, high-school-student, magic-shoeActors: Aash Aaron (actor), Michael Smeaton (producer), Hans Günter Wagener (composer), Hardy Krüger Jr. (actor), Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld (actress), Heidi Ulmke (director), Heidi Ulmke (producer), Judy Hallin (miscellaneous crew), Mariella Ahrens (actress), Gerd Berner (editor), Beate Balser (producer), Anne Brendler (actress), Gabriele Kister (writer), Graham Purcell (costume designer), Harry Blank (actor),
Plot: Salt of the earth Queensland plantation owner Eric Westbrook collects at the station Adam, his recently deceased brother's young son, who didn't speak since the fatal accident. Joanna Williams, who came from England to explore the unspecified aboriginal land her grandparents were missionaries in and her late parents did biological research in, agrees to help the boy settle in until Eric can make time to help her explore. Eric's spoiled-rotten fiancée Pauline Downs fails to bond with Adam and senses a rival in Joanna, who also sets herself up as nurse and grower of pharmaceutical plants. The aboriginal elder discerned a dream world curse on Joanna, which seems to come true for her companions over and over.
Keywords: australia, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bed, boy, cartoonist, country-cousin, epidemic, father-figure, fireActors: Olympia Dukakis (actress), Lewis Schoenbrun (editor), Philip Bosco (actor), John Bianco (actor), Veronica Mulero (miscellaneous crew), Erik Jensen (actor), Harry Keramidas (editor), Robert Hogan (actor), Jeff Profitt (actor), Mike Hodge (actor), Eli Gurevich (miscellaneous crew), Sherry Greenberg (producer), Stan Carp (actor), Patrick Newall (writer), Patrick Newall (actor),
Plot: Toil and trouble. Jimmy, an aspiring actor, wants out of South Brooklyn where hoods run the show. Since the death of his firefighter father, Jimmy's family has been the guys at the station house and Tommy, a mobster who owns a gym where Jimmy works. Tommy encourages Jimmy's dreams, and Jimmy gets the part of Banquo in a Joseph Papps production of "Macbeth." He goes to tell Tommy the good news and walks in on a mob hit. Tommy protects him temporarily from Nunzio, a murderous Mamaluc, but soon the cops get word Jimmy knows something. Can Jimmy succeed as an actor, be a stand up guy for Tommy, avoid Nunzio, and get closer to Anna, a woman he falls for at the theater?
Keywords: independent-filmActors: Christina Applegate (actress), Scott Cohen (actor), Michael Paseornek (director), Bruce Altman (actor), John Dunning (producer), Michael Paseornek (writer), André Link (producer), Eric Klein (miscellaneous crew), Brian Tarantina (actor), Steven Keats (actor), Robert Bogue (actor), Lisa Katcher (miscellaneous crew), James Marshall (actor), Paige Turco (actress), Pamela Scott Arnold (editor),
Plot: Rising rock star, TJ Cray, gets the shot of a lifetime, an audition with a A & R man. On the way into the city, a carload of drunks smash into his car, severing his hands. He drops out of the business and becomes a homeless drunk. Cray wakes up to a pulsing beat in an abandoned warehouse, where a "rave" party is in full action. To his rescue comes Anamika, a computer artist, who takes him outside for fresh air. They become friends and eventually reinvent TJ's career. With the help of friends, they replace his hands with prosthetics and design a metallic cyber looking suit. TJ quickly becomes an overnight sensation, known as Cyberstorm. The finale is a dramatic scenario where TJ has to make crucial decisions about his new life.
Keywords: electric-guitar, guitarist, independent-film, musician, rock-star, severed-handFeeling lazy by the end of day
Trying to fix the thoughts of yesterday
Broken mirror shows a hint of grace
Seems like this is the only way
Seems like I am awake for years
Cannot even try to explain my fear
Like living trees old thoughts are hunting me
Hunting me
I try hard, but tonight you burned my eyes you burned my eyes, you burned my eyes yeah you burned my eyes
Sigh to whatever it takes to be miles away, miles away, away
A fiction trip although the plateau's clean
Air you wished you had never seen
It is floating like a breeze
Out of the backland eh
I try hard, but tonight you burned my eyes you burned my eyes, you burned my eyes yeah you burned my eyes
Sigh to whatever it takes to be miles away, miles away, away
Miles away, miles away....