Dahlia Malkhi is an Israeli-American computer scientist who works on distributed systems. She is now working at Facebook, as the Chief Maintainer of Libra. In her previous career, she worked for Microsoft and VMware. She was the founding principal researcher at VMware Research. In 2011, Malkhi became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing."
Dahlia Malkhi is an Israeli-American computer scientist who works on distributed systems. She is now working at Facebook, as the Chief Maintainer of Libra. In her previous career, she worked for Microsoft and VMware. She was the founding principal researcher at VMware Research. Malkhi earned her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, finishing her Ph.D. in 1994 under the supervision of Danny Dolev. She taught at the Hebrew University until 2007, and then joined Microsoft Research at their Silicon Valley research center. In 2014, when Microsoft closed the center, she moved to VMware, a company working in cloud computing and platform virtualization. In 2011, Malkhi became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing."

Blunderbuss is an EP by singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson. Released on October 22, 2004, between his debut album and Separate Ways, the EP is permanently out of stock and difficult to obtain. A variation of "Turning the Gun On Myself" appears on Thompson's 2008 album, A Piece of What You Need.

Miguel Ángel Rubio Lestán (born 11 March 1998), known as Miguel Ángel, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Getafe CF B as a central defender.

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy book by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien; he called it a "heroic romance", denying that it was a novel. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is one of the the best-selling books ever written, with over 150 million copies sold. The title names the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron, who had in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. From homely beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land reminiscent of the English countryside, the story ranges across Middle-earth, following the quest mainly through the eyes of the hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin. Although generally known to readers as a trilogy, the work was initially intended by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set, the other to be The Silmarillion, but this idea was dismissed by his publisher. For economic reasons, The Lord of the Rings was published in three volumes over the course of a year from 29 July 1954 to 20 October 1955. The three volumes were titled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King. Structurally, the work is divided internally into six books, two per volume, with several appendices of background material at the end. Some editions print the entire work into a single volume, following the author's original intent. The Lord of the Rings has since been reprinted many times and translated into at least 56 languages. Tolkien's work, after an initially mixed reception by the literary establishment, has been the subject of extensive analysis of its themes and origins. Although a major work in itself, the story was only the last movement of a much older set of narratives Tolkien had worked on since 1917 encompassing The Silmarillion, in a process he described as mythopoeia. Influences on this earlier work, and on the story of The Lord of the Rings, include philology, mythology, religion, earlier fantasy works, and his own experiences in the First World War. The Lord of the Rings in its turn has had a great effect on modern fantasy. The enduring popularity of The Lord of the Rings has led to numerous references in popular culture, the founding of many societies by fans of Tolkien's works, and the publication of many books about Tolkien and his works. It has inspired numerous derivative works including artwork, music, films and television, video games, board games, and subsequent literature. Award-winning adaptations of The Lord of the Rings have been made for radio, theatre, and film. It has been named Britain's best novel of all time in the BBC's The Big Read.
The Lord of the Rings is an epic high-fantasy book by the English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien; he called it a "heroic romance", denying that it was a novel. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's book The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is one of the the best-selling books ever written, with over 150 million copies sold.

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MULTIPLE SPOILERS TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES> AND THEREFORE WILL ALSO SPOIL THE END OF THE ENTIRE SERIES IF IT'S EVER MADEThe Dark Tower is a 2017 American science fantasy Western action film directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel. An adaptation and continuation of Stephen King's novel series of the same name, the film stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a gunslinger on a quest to protect the Dark Tower—a mythical structure which supports all realities—while Matthew McConaughey plays his nemesis, Walter Padick (The Man in Black) and Tom Taylor stars as Jake Chambers, a boy who becomes Roland's apprentice.
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MULTIPLE SPOILERS TO THE DARK TOWER SERIES> AND THEREFORE WILL ALSO SPOIL THE END OF THE ENTIRE SERIES IF IT'S EVER MADEThe Dark Tower is a 2017 American science fantasy Western action film directed and co-written by Nikolaj Arcel. An adaptation and continuation of Stephen King's novel series of the same name, the film stars Idris Elba as Roland Deschain, a gunslinger on a quest to protect the Dark Tower—a mythical structure which supports all realities—while Matthew McConaughey plays his nemesis, Walter Padick (The Man in Black) and Tom Taylor stars as Jake Chambers, a boy who becomes Roland's apprentice. Intended as the first installment in a multimedia franchise, the film combines various elements from the eight-novel series, and takes place in both modern-day New York City and in Mid-World, Roland's Old West-style parallel universe. The film also serves as a sequel to the novels, which concluded with [Edited to remove spoiling the entire novel series]00; |last=Saavedra|first=John|date=August 7, 2017|accessdate=August 9, 2017}}</ref> The production of the film was complex and difficult, as production began ten years before the release of the film. Efforts to adapt The Dark Tower series for the screen started in 2007, with periodic reports and official announcements. The project was then shelved before the rights were transitioned to a different production company. Development experienced starts and stops with various filmmakers and studios at different times, including Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Lionsgate Entertainment. The adaptation went through three major phases of planning: with J. J. Abrams from 2007 to 2009, Ron Howard from 2010 to 2015, and finally, the current iteration, announced in March 2015, produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and Media Rights Capital, with Arcel directing and Howard remaining in a producing role. The Dark Tower premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on July 31, 2017 and was theatrically released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on August 4, 2017. The film grossed $113 million worldwide on a $66 million budget and received generally negative reviews, with criticism aimed at its compression of its source material of multiple novels into a single film, though Elba's performance earned praise.