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Northern State Redevelopment Project
Author: Kaitlyn Bruno Published: January 11, 2016
Brownfield Redevelopment, Environmental
Plan Adopted for Redevelopment of Historic Northern State Hospital
The Sedro-Woolley City Council has unanimously adopted the Subarea Plan for the Center for Innovation. This is the capstone of two years of planning for redevelopment of the former Northern State Hospital, a 225 acre former mental health facility that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The vision for redevelopment is to create a campus that supports a mix of uses including research and development, education, hospitality, high tech manufacturing, and public open space. The Port of Skagit, City of Sedro-Woolley, and Skagit County have formed a partnership to lead this redevelopment effort. The planning process has opened the property up for new opportunities, including becoming the headquarters for Janicki Bioenergy, which has developed the Omniprocessor, a machine that actually turns raw sewage into drinking water and electricity. This technology has tremendous potential to improve sanitation in developing countries. Nearly 35% of the world's population lack access to improved sanitation. The World Health Organization estimates that approximately 2 million deaths per year are attributable to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene.
Back here in the Washington State, an economic impact analysis of the Subarea Plan forecasts that full build out of the property over 20 years will include a total of 950,000 square feet of rehabilitated historic structures and new buildings. This development would support 2,850 direct jobs and 4,390 indirect jobs. The increased value and private investment is forecasted to generate $33 million in property taxes that benefit local and state government.
MFA has supported this landmark project by leading a multi-disciplinary team in preparing the Subarea Plan and a Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement.
To read the recently published news article on the work MFA is involved with at the Northern State Campus click here: http://www.goskagit.com/all_access/port-of-skagit-soon-to-control-most-of-northern-state/article_dd924c8c-4c22-58e3-a690-635152e477ad.html


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How do those LED bails glow in cricket?
Derin J Tom — June 27, 2016add comment
A few years ago, the cricket world was incomplete with the absence of LED bails, but now they are not. The past few cricket tournaments had the presence of LED bails and they helped the umpires to take accurate decisions. But have you ever wondered whether why and how those LED bails glow? Do not bother thinking, we are going to reveal the secret in this post.
LED bails glow
The wickets in cricket are fitted with LED bails.
The bails are made of composite plastic and therefore the LED glows even at the slightest touch with the ball. They contain low voltage batteries with a microprocessor which spots and glows when both spigots are freed from the stump grooves. An in-built sensor does the determination of whether a wicket is broken in a time span of 1/1000th of a second.
That's why even a stumping is made by the wicket keeper, the lights glow. This has been really helpful to umpires to make accurate decisions especially in the cases of run-outs and stumping.
They are very costly and costs as much as an iPhone. A whole set of wickets with LED would cost you around $40,000
Do you think that the introduction of the LED bails has really helped the umpires to make good decisions? Let us know your views in the comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.
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Social events and recording your enjoyment afterward on the scale of just one to 10 to determine what activities provide you with the greatest boost.


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Fossil Fuel and US National Security
Veterans who are lawmakers call on President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to accelerate a clean energy transition for energy security and to help Ukraine
On World Water Day, EOPA, an organization of thousands of elected officials, says fossil fuel reliance represents a security threat and a clear and present danger
Elected Officials to Protect America, (EOPA), an organization of thousands of elected officials, during a press conference on World Water Day, made the case that fossil fuel reliance represents a security threat and a clear and present danger. Elected officials across America, who are also veterans, know this reality.
EOPA brought them together to address the urgency for President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act (DPA) to accelerate a clean energy transition for energy security and to help other countries wean themselves off of fossil fuels. At the press conference, EOPA veterans who are lawmakers made it clear that these actions will help Ukraine.
Please view the press conference in its entirety here:https://youtu.be/GKpo3hkvbds
As sea levels rise, and the climate crisis worsens because the atmosphere is under siege from fossil fuel emissions, humanity must combat this clear and present danger. Nine million people die annually from breathing in the toxic particulates that fossil fuel companies produce. In an age where autocrats have grown wealthy off of oil and gas, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) landmark report found that nations are not doing enough to mitigate the climate emergency. The need to transition off of fossil fuels has never been more urgent. The war in Ukraine brings that truth home.
Europe relies on Russian fossil fuels with annual oil exports fulfilling 40 percent of demand across the continent. It's a dependency that has created a security risk which unwittingly put a sovereign, democratic, peace-loving nation in autocrat Vladimir Putin's crosshairs. Putin's economic strategic leverage, Russian oil and gas, makes up 60 percent of his country's exports and has fueled his war machine.
"Nations around the globe need to implement bold solutions to address the climate crisis for the security of the world. The DPA could be used to accelerate the production of clean energy manufacturing that will cut Putin's finances and help alleviate the climate crisis. The influence autocratic countries hold due to their oil and gas production must end," said Alex Cornell du Houx, former Maine state Representative, Marine combat veteran, and President and co-founder of Elected Officials to Protect America. The IPCC projects climate disasters will inevitably lead to more conflicts that benefit autocratic oil nations. A global clean energy economy will increase international security with healthier, more prosperous communities."
President Biden can deploy his executive powers to weaken the geopolitical power of fossil fuels, address the climate emergency, and prevent further mass suffering.
"Fossil fuels represent a clear and present danger to nations that rely on them for energy. Our nation needs bold solutions to address climate change, and the pollution that is driving it, for our security and the world's," said Assemblyman Richard Andrede, (AZ), Air Force Veteran. "The only way to free democratic countries from the grip of autocratic oil producing nations is to ramp up the transition to a clean energy economy. The United States, through the Defense Production Act can and must."
The DPA authorizes the president to require businesses to accept and prioritize contracts for materials deemed necessary for national defense, and allows the president to designate materials to be prohibited from price gouging and hoarding. The DPA was recently used to ramp up production of needed essentials to combat COVID 19 and to fight wildfires caused by climate change. It was made the law of the land in 1950 to help during the Korean War and subsequently the Cold War.
"The ruthless Russian invasion of Ukraine is a tragedy almost beyond comprehension, and for those of us born in the fifties, a deeply disturbing flashback to the early days of the Cold War. The human suffering is almost unimaginable. But there is an enduring lesson here we would all be well-served to learn finally and forever: Russia has been encouraged in its aggression and has gained immeasurable leverage over all EU nations and their collective security decision-making precisely and specifically because the EU nations are so dependent upon Russian fossil fuels," said Supervisor Mike TurnerLoudoun County, (VA) retired Air Force colonel, EOPA National Leadership Council. "Imagine how much less leverage Russia would have and how many more response options NATO nations would have if all EU nations had transitioned substantially to sustainable energy. The Ukraine crisis and its threat to global peace and security has brought into specific relief the immediate urgency for all free nations to move to a sustainable energy economy."
Putin's war has created an international humanitarian crisis of epic proportions as more than 3 million refugees have fled and thousands of innocent people have died. The last time a mass migration occurred in Europe nationalism grew exponentially — which created security threats that threatened democratic nations.
"As Mayor, I stand united with Ukraine, who is standing up for their democracy. As an elected official and Marine veteran, I have a responsibility to keep our community safe and free of oppression. The bravery of all the elected officials and public servants in Ukraine should be applauded for their bravery to protect its democracy.," said Mayor Derrick R. Wood, Town of Dumfries, VA, Marine Veteran, EOPA National Leadership Council. "Because of the conflict in Ukraine and the current inflation we are experiencing in our nation, I want to offer my support to President Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to increase a clean energy transition. As a nation, we could rely less on fossil fuels from abroad and open up ways in which we can use all energy options to reduce the burden the average citizen is facing as a result of inflation."
The American oil industry has a long, documented history of working extremely closely with autocrat Putin and state-run Russian oil companies. Now, the industry is trying to leverage the Ukraine crisis as an excuse to push for more drilling domestically while raising gas prices and protecting their profits. They've even started to make the case that greater production at home will help combat Putin's influence on the global stage. While U.S. LNG exports may help Europe in the short term, increasing U.S. production would deepen Europe's dependence on fossil fuels and ours.
"The only way to free democratic countries from the grip of autocratic oil producing nations is to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy. We have the technical know-how — now we need the political will to ensure the security of our nation and the world through a clean energy economy," said Joel Hicks, Councilmember Borough of Carlisle, PA, Navy veteran, EOPA National Leadership Council. "We need immediate federal action to dramatically ramp up investments in solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric cars, electric heat pumps, green hydrogen and other clean-energy technologies. It's time for us to fuel our manufacturing companies with the mandate to expand production of clean energy technologies."
Bloomberg reported, European Union officials have been finalizing a strategy to slash the continent's use of natural gas, in part by accelerating deployment of solar power, renewable hydrogen and energy efficiency.
There's a reason American military leaders have been taking climate seriously for years. The Pentagon first called global warming a "threat multiplier" in 2014, later warning that the climate crisis "will have wide-ranging implications for U.S. national security interests over the foreseeable future because it will aggravate existing problems — such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions — that threaten domestic stability in a number of countries."
Fossil fuel production increases greenhouse gas emissions and is a main cause of these climatic changes. Some 1.1 billion people worldwide lack access to water, and a total of 2.7 billion find water scarce for at least one month of the year. Climate change is making that reality worse as droughts often exacerbate divisions and lead to conflict. In Afghanistan around 22.8 million people, 55 percent of the population, are experiencing high levels of acute food shortages. Severe drought has hit more than 80 percent of the country, crippling food production and forcing people from their land.
The Ukrainian war jeopardizes food supplies. Ukraine and Russia are important food suppliers for low – and middle-income countries in which tens of millions of people are already food insecure. Combined, their exports were responsible for about 26 percent of global wheat in 2020.
"In 2014, the same year Russia annexed Crimea, then-North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that Russia was covertly working to undermine European and U.S. fossil fuel production," said Dr. Julia Nesheiwat, Consensus for American Security, American Security Project U.S. Army military intelligence officer, veteran. "We have to restructure the global energy system to avoid this kind of exposure to the whims of a single man, or nation. Removing barriers to ramp up our domestic energy production will strengthen our national security. Feeding diverse clean energy sources into our grid would also insulate us from the fluctuations of fossil fuel prices and autocrats who wield their oil and gas reserves as weapons. The security of peaceful democratic nations relies, in large part, by diversifying supply and curbing greenhouse gas emissions and their dependency on fossil fuels."
Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is being bolstered by $285m in oil payments made every day by European countries, a new analysis by the Transport & Environment (T&E) thinktank has found. Oil and gas accounts for 40 percent of the Russian federal budget. Without it, and along with the stinging sanctions, their economy would crumble.
A clean energy economy grows jobs—
Modeling released last year by the research firm Energy Innovation found that cutting U.S. emissions in half by decade's end — which scientists say is needed to avoid truly catastrophic warming — would grow the economy by $570 billion annually by 2030, and avoid 45,000 premature deaths in the US through reduced air pollution.
While President Biden has pledged steep cuts to carbon emissions, his groundbreaking climate plans have been blocked by congressional Republicans — and two Senate Democrats. Sen. Manchin recently said at the energy conference CERAWeek, held in Houston, that he was "very reluctant to go down the path of electric vehicles." EV's are a key component for any nation to become fossil-free independent and incentives for them are within the legislation.
"With the crisis unfolding in Ukraine, for the sake of humanity and peace, we need the president to evoke the Defense Production Act immediately. A world at peace is a prosperous one. The opportunities of a global clean energy economy are boundless," said Christian Brock, CEO of Elected Officials to Protect America, Air Force Veteran, CA. "At home we could move forward with climate plans that have stalled in Congress and make our nation's largest investment in a clean energy transition that would bring environmental justice to communities that have been neglected by systemic racism for far too long."
An EOPA letter, which over 450 lawmakers signed, urges the President to go further than activating the DPA. It supports a clean energy plan and asks for a Presidential Climate Emergency Declaration under the National Emergencies Act. A declaration will communicate the urgency of the climate crisis and unlock specific statutory powers.
Since the passage of the National Emergencies Act in 1976, every president has used its emergency powers and declared at least one national emergency.
DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY WOULD ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TO:
Control oil and gas exports,
Stop offshore oil and gas drilling,
Restrict international fossil fuel investment and
Rapidly manufacture and distribute renewable energy systems.
Please click HERE for the Elected Officials to Protect America letter.
About Elected Officials to Protect America: Elected Officials to Protect America is a network of current and former elected officials who care deeply about protecting the planet and people. EOPA is committed to solving the climate crisis, ensuring environmental justice, and protecting our lands and waters. EOPA educates through value-based storytelling, training lawmakers, and connecting elected officials to inspire strong environmental leadership.
Contact: Ramona du Houx,
Elected Officials to Protect America
EOPA California supports Gov. Newsom's urges any climate crisis budget cuts to be funded in infrastructure bond
EOPA CA elected officials fight to keep setback law
Power of the people prevails to move America forward with clean renewable power as Manchin's Dirty Deal fails
EOPA California congratulates BOEM on a successful California floating offshore wind energy auction
Inaugural EOPA California Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit
helene on New York's potential All-Electric Building Act


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Nasir Rabik
Nintendo has recently announced its brand new Zelda-focused game called "Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity." The story in this game is said to take place 100 years before the events in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. This game is being developed by Koei Tecmo.
According to developer Koei Tecmo, the Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity game will feature massive battles akin to that found in Dynasty Warriors games. Describing the game, Zelda development chief, Eiji Aonuma mentioned that this game is a combination of "the well-detailed word of Breath of the Wild with Warriors gameplay." For those who may not know, Koei Tecmo was the developer responsible for making the 2014 Hyrule Warriors game as well.
Those aside, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is due for release on 20th November. On the other hand, fans eagerly anticipating the sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, will have to wait a little longer, as mentioned by Zelda development chief, Eiji Aonuma.
(Source: Nintendo)
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How disgusting can anti-semites get?
Two men have been jailed in the case, according to the official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media. They were handed preliminary charges of robbery, damaging property, and murder with anti-Semitic motives, he said.
Francis Kalifat, president of the Jewish group CRIF, said Knoll was stabbed 11 times.
Knoll reportedly escaped a notorious World War II roundup of Paris Jews, in which police herded some 13,000 people — including more than 4,000 children — into a stadium and shipped them to the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi German-occupied Poland. Fewer than 100 survived.
Europe has a serious anti-semitism problem, and France is definitely not an exception. I hope they string these guys up, seriously. This is just sickening.
It's also a reminder that we need to be vigilant against anti-semitism. It tends to get overlooked and we cannot let that happen.
An annual national count of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian acts — most of which involve threats — dipped in 2017 compared with the year before. However, anti-Semitic violence increased by 26 percent, and criminal damage to Jewish places of worship and burial by 22 percent.
I hope they do have a rally in her honor, but the French government itself needs to look at what it's doing to increase anti-semitism in the country.


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The Washington Times | Evangelical leaders condemn Christianity Today's anti-Trump editorial
Scores of evangelical leaders pushed back Sunday against Christianity Today for calling for President Trump's removal, accusing the magazine founded by the Rev. Billy Graham of spiritual presumption against other Christians and cultural elitism.
The letter, sent in an email to Christianity Today President and CEO Timothy Dalrymple, was signed by more than 180 prominent evangelical figures.
"Of course, it's up to your publication to decide whether or not your magazine intends to be a voice of evangelicals like those represented by the signatories below, and it is up to us and those Evangelicals like us to decide if we should subscribe to, advertise in and read your publication online and in print, but historically, we have been your readers," reads the letter, which was obtained Sunday by The Washington Times.
Christianity Today shocked the religious and political worlds Thursday by calling for Mr. Trump's removal from office, citing "the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character" and calling his removal "not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.
"To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve," Christianity Today wrote.
That struck the writers of Sunday's letters as itself a gross overreach.
"Your editorial offensively questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers who take seriously their civic and moral obligations. It not only targeted our President; it also targeted those of us who support him, and have supported you," they wrote.
The nearly 200 writers included such prominent evangelical political types as Mike Huckabee, Gary Bauer, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Alveda King and Bishop Harry Jackson.
Also among the signatories were George Wood, longtime head of the Assemblies of God in the U.S.; best-selling author Eric Metaxas; baseball star turned preacher Daryl Strawberry; Billy Graham Evangelistic Association figures such as Skip Heitzig and Greg Laurie; the Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University; Gilberto Velez, board chairman of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference; and Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas.
The writers also took note of the fact that the letter did not specifically call on the Senate to impeach him — a result that would produce President Mike Pence — but said whether Mr. Trump is removed by the Senate or defeated next November is a matter of "prudential judgment."
"The editorial you published … [called] for Donald Trump not to be elected again in 2020 when he certainly survives impeachment. As one of our signatories said to the press, 'I hope Christianity Today will now tell us who they will support for president among the 2020 Democrat field,'" the letter's signatories wrote.
The writers also took issue with the previous derisive language of Christianity Today Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli toward evangelicals who back Mr. Trump.
They noted a 2016 interview in which Mr. Galli referred to Trump voters as "these other evangelicals [who] often haven't finished college, and if they have jobs, and apparently most of them don't, they are blue-collar jobs or entry level work" and called himself an "elite evangelical."
Mr. Galli had downplayed criticism of last week's article as "evangelicals on the far right" who will "be as dismissive of the magazine as President Trump," a characterization to which the writers also objected.
"We are, in fact, not 'far-right' evangelicals as characterized by the author. Rather, we are Bible-believing Christians and patriotic Americans who are simply grateful that our President has sought our advice as his administration has advanced policies that protect the unborn, promote religious freedom, reform our criminal justice system, contribute to strong working families through paid family leave, protect the freedom of conscience, prioritize parental rights" and other matters.
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Clearly, the main thing that has affected the plastics recycling market in the past few months has been the Chinese import restrictions. Effectively, the amount of plastics sent to China for recycling began to slow down from September and trickled to virtually nothing by the end of 2017, when the ban came into force.
Across the world, this has had huge implications. China used to take seven million tonnes of plastics for recycling each year, but now allows only post-manufacturing plastics. We estimate this to represent around 10% of the market. Our analysis of the impact of the Chinese ban found that around 350,000 tonnes of UK plastic will struggle to find a home in 2018.
Using HMRC export data, along with statistics from the National Packaging Waste Database, we extrapolated the growth seen in alternative destinations in 2016, 2017 and into 2018 to find out to what extent those destinations would fill the gap. We predict that 472,500 tonnes of plastic recycling capacity will be lost as a result of the Chinese ban.
Looking at the data, it seems that alternative destinations such as the UK, Turkey, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and the EU will add around 121,800 tonnes of extra capacity this year. But this will leave a gap of 350,700 tonnes with nowhere to go.
In the medium to longer term, we expect that some destinations will see opportunity from the China ban and more capacity will emerge. But it could be a year or two, perhaps more, before there is any real progress.
On a day-to-day basis, the impact of all this has had a profound effect on the market. Initially, destinations such as Vietnam, Malaysia and countries in Europe were taking up the slack by importing a lot of UK material.
They were aided by a packaging recovery note/export note (PRN/ PERN) price that was regularly above £50 in the last quarter of the year, and occasionally burst above £80 per tonne for packaging grades. This helped to subsidise a more attractive price for UK sellers. For all plastics, a low exchange rate against both the dollar and euro also made UK material good value.
But the whole world was also trying to sell into these destinations, and often had the benefit of high-quality material that proved to be attractive to buying destinations – especially as it was coming in at increasingly lower prices. The result was that the alternative destinations quickly filled up with material and appear still to be at that point.
Since the start of 2018, we have seen a softening in price of various plastic grades that are still able to find a market. Transactions have tended to happen between companies with existing relationships and levels of trust.
Grades such as PP and HDPE have largely been able to find a home and prices have remained firm. But films in particular have struggled, even for 99/1 and 98/2 grades.
Although it has been possible to find receivers for those grades, it is becoming increasingly difficult unless you are a respected and trusted long-term supplier. Below 90/10, film is increasingly seen as a gate fee material or is having to be stored because there is not much of a domestic or export market for it at present.
Other packaging grades such as bottles had initially found good support from the UK and Europe, but this interest appears to be waning and prices have started to ease.
Interestingly, the 2018 PRN market kicked off with a plastics price above £50, rising to £60 in early February, and that is highly unusual this early in the year. Everyone will be taking extra interest in the data this year, because who knows where the PRN price will be headed if it starts off so high?
After that, we saw it fall a little to the high £50s, with initial tonnage data in January 2018 being comparable to January 2017.
With the recent strengthening of the pound against the dollar, the advantage the UK had in terms of cheaper prices against competitors has weakened. At the beginning of November, sterling was trading at $1.32, but was around $1.40 at the time of writing.
The market has also seen complications with shipping lines. Although prices for containers remain relatively good value, there have been reports of smaller exporters struggling to get hold of boxes.
Shipping lines are worried that other Asian destinations will follow the lead of China and impose tougher restrictions on material, and the lines do not wish to be left with containers full of banned or restricted plastics on the water or at dockside.
Those of us who export greater volumes have not suffered from this issue, but it should be seen as a warning that the focus on quality material must be maintained if we want to keep an export market. While there is sufficient container availability, delays in getting them on to waste sites are being caused by issues with consignee letters of indemnity, although that has eased as February has progressed.
The outlook for the next few months looks tough for the plastics market – but there are always opportunities to be identified in tough markets.


Adjuvant therapy refers to the treatment given in addition to the main treatment. These are important in dreadful diseases like malignant cancer. After removal of malignant cancer by surgery, still some residual tissue of malignant cell still remaining which leads to the spread of cancer. Thus, in order to avoid such consequences many doctors prescribe adjuvant therapy to increase long-term disease-free survival of the patient. Chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, radiation therapy, Immunotherapy, Targeted therapy is considered as adjuvant therapies. Open access to the scientific literature means the removal of barriers (including price barriers) from accessing scholarly work. There are two parallel roads towards open access: Open Access articles and self-archiving. Open Access articles are immediately, freely available on their Web site, a model mostly funded by charges paid by the author (usually through a research grant). The alternative for a researcher is self-archiving (i.e., to publish in a traditional journal, where only subscribers have immediate access, but to make the article available on their personal and/or institutional Web sites (including so-called repositories or archives)), which is a practice allowed by many scholarly journals. Open Access raises practical and policy questions for scholars, publishers, funders, and policymakers alike, including what the return on investment is when paying an article processing fee to publish in an Open Access articles, or whether investments into institutional repositories should be made and whether self-archiving should be made mandatory, as contemplated by some funders.


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17 Blockbusters and Studio Releases You Can't Miss This Summer Season
As they vie for the big bucks at this season's box office, summer's wannabe blockbusters offer a little something for everyone: biopics to rom coms, big monsters to tiny Pokemon, and more.
By Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Christian Blauvelt, David Ehrlich, Chris O'Falt, Zack Sharf, Jude Dry, Tambay Obenson, Michael Nordine
"Men in Black: International," June 14
The return of the "Men in Black" franchise might not seem like a cause for celebration, but it's easily one of the most anticipated blockbusters of the summer thanks to the re-teaming of "Thor: Ragnarok" duo Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. The two actors have chemistry that sets the big screen on fire and boast a comedic rapport that should make "MIB: International" endlessly watchable. Throw in a supporting cast that includes Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Kumail Nanjiani, and Rebecca Ferguson, plus director F. Gary Gray back in tentpole mold after helming "The Fate of the Furious," and it's clear no one should be worried that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones are sitting this installment out. —ZS
"Child's Play," June 21
If you're a moviegoer of a certain age, few things scared you more as a child than Chucky. The doll possessed by a serial killer grew funnier and less frightening in later installments, making this inevitable reboot more welcome than most — not that series creator Don Mancini, who has no involvement with this film and is displeased with its very existence, would agree. Brad Dourif is likewise conspicuous in his absence, and though it's difficult to imagine anyone else voicing Chucky, the fact that Aubrey Plaza is starring alongside "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Widows," and "Atlanta" breakout Brian Tyree Henry may compel you to give this one the benefit of the doubt. We could all use a new buddy, even if it's an evil Buddi doll. —MN
"Toy Story 4," June 21
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"Toy Story 3" was so well-crafted it has been hard to get too annoyed at Pixar for becoming so sequel happy. The fourth installment in the franchise that built the studio is another "lost toy" tale, introducing Forky ("Veep" star Tony Hale), the new favorite homemade toy, who identifies as a spork, not a homemade art project/play thing. Meanwhile Woody (Tom Hanks) and Bo Peep (Annie Potts) discover a tempting life outside of being a toy, leaving Buzz (Tim Allen) and the gang to hit the road searching for their absent friends. Andrew Stanton, who wrote the script with Stephany Folsom, is the only remaining anchor of the original foursome — John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Stanton, and Lee Unkrich — that steered the first three films. Director Josh Cooley — who rose from Pixar intern to "Inside Out" writer and storyboard artist (he also wrote and directed the Pixar short "George & A.J.") — grabs the reigns. In addition to Hale, there are new voice performances from Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Keanu Reeves, Christina Hendricks, and Ally Maki. —CO
"Spider-Man: Far From Home," July 5
The first post-"Avengers: Endgame" Marvel feature to hit theaters, the Jon Watts-helmed sequel has predictably kept some of its most basic plot points (like, well, when exactly does this thing take place?) wisely obscured, all the better to play up the pathos of Spidey's demise in "Infinity War." Details aside, Watts and star Tom Holland's first Spider-Man feature was a charming breath of fresh air after a pair of Spidey-centric franchises that offered up their own various disappointments, and it stands to reason that "Far From Home" will provide similar elements. This time around, young Peter Parker and pals are on a European class tour, one that seems poised for my danger, high jinks, and time spent with an amusing cast of supporting stars. Bonus: an obviously alive Spider-Man! —KE
"Stuber," July 12
The Dave Bautista-Kumail Nanjiani action-comedy scripted by Tripper Clancy takes place over one harrowing night in the life of an Uber driver named Stu (Nanjiani) who picks up a determined cop (Bautista) on the trail of a killer. The movie co-stars Iko Uwais, the actor and fight choreographer who toplined "The Raid" and "The Raid: Redemption," so expect impressive action setpieces, and a likely showdown between characters played by Bautista and Uwais. Directed by Michael Dowse, "Stuber" aims for the classic mismatched buddy-action comedies movies of the '80s, like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Belushi in "Red Heat." Natalie Morales, Betty Gilpin, Jimmy Tatro, Mira Sorvino and Karen Gillan co-star. —TO
"The Lion King," July 19
Among the many live-action retreads of Disney animated classics in 2019, from "Dumbo" to "Aladdin," Jon Favreau's spectacular revision of the 1994 African savanna odyssey looms large. Some of that stems from the ongoing currency of "The Lion King" itself, which continues to be devoured (both as movie and Broadway sensation) 25 years after its release. And some of it has to do with Favreau's track record with motion-capture technology in the Disney sandbox, with his visually stunning 2016 rendition of "The Jungle Book" raising the bar for the approach. However, while the notion of a faithful look back at exiled lion prince Simba and his pals with 21st century imagery in play holds plenty of technological intrigue, the latest "Lion King" comes equipped with a dream cast that's just as exciting to anticipate. This one features Donald Glover as Simba and no less than Beyoncé as love interest Nala, with James Earl Jones reprising his role as King Mufasa. —EK
"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," July 26
"It's not Charles Manson, it's 1969," Quentin Tarantino told IndieWire of his ninth (and possibly, his penultimate) feature film, which reunites the celebrated auteur with "Django Unchained" star Leonardo DiCaprio. Here he plays a more attractive character, Rick Dalton, a sleek television Western star (think "Rawhide" era Clint Eastwood) trying to break into movies in 1969 Los Angeles. "Inglourious Basterds" star Brad Pitt plays Cliff Booth, Dalton's hunky stunt double and roommate; they live next door to director Roman Polanski. Tarantino's starry ensemble also includes first-timers Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, Polanski's doomed pregnant wife, Damian Lewis as movie star Steve McQueen, Al Pacino as Dalton's long-time agent Marvin Shwarz, Dakota Fanning as Charles Manson lieutenant Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and Emile Hirsch as murdered hairstylist Jay Sebring, along with James Marsden, Scoot McNairy, Michael Madsen, Timothy Olyphant and the late Luke Perry. How much will we see of the Charles Manson murders? Looks like we get to find out in Cannes. —AT
"The New Mutants," August 2
Watching the trailer for this Marvel Comics adaptation, you might not even guess it's based on a comic at all, and it if feels more like a teen horror film, well, it is. A more eerie, horrific perspective on the mutant mythos of Marvel's X-Men titles, "The New Mutants" comics debuted in the 1980s. License holder Fox, which held the rights to all of Marvel's mutant properties until being acquired by Disney, clearly wanted to bring in a different, younger audience for this film — one that might not have been lured by Hugh Jackman flashing his abs. But because of the Disney deal, some are speculating if "The New Mutants" would ever get released, as Disney's Marvel Studios surely has their own plans for mutant characters beyond what Fox has done since the first "X-Men" in 2000. As of this writing, the oft-pushed-back feature is still on deck for a late summer release, even if stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Charlie Heaton have been vocal about not knowing what the heck is happening with it. If it does make it to the big screen, it will be worth the watch, if only to see how such a very different twist on an old genre translates. —CB
"Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," August 2
After eight films that have amassed almost $5 billion worldwide, the "Fast & Furious" franchise releases its first stand-alone vehicle as Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw. The movie follows brawny lawman Hobbs (Johnson), a loyal agent of America's Diplomatic Security Service, and lawless pariah Shaw (Statham), a former British military elite operative, sworn enemies who first faced off in 2015's "Furious 7." Now, they have to partner up when cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton (Idris Elba) gains control of an insidious bio-threat that could alter humanity forever. Joining the party are Vanessa Kirby and Helen Mirren, who round out the starring cast. Directed by David Leitch ("Deadpool 2") from a script by "Fast & Furious" architect Chris Morgan, "Hobbs & Shaw" will blast open a new door in the "Fast" universe when it lands in theaters in early August. —TO
"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark," August 9
If this movie is half as unsettling as the original book's illustrations were, it'll easily be the scariest movie of the summer (if not the year). The fact that Guillermo del Toro is producing and "The Autopsy of Jane Doe" helmer André Øvredal inspires confidence that "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" will be a cut above the usual horror fare, even if cynics are skeptical of an adaptation of a series of children's books. Set in small-town America circa 1968 and featuring a cast of relative unknowns, it could end up surprising people and being the kind of sleeper hit that makes audiences afraid to actually go to sleep. —MN
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