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Virginia Film Festival Announces 2019 Lineup – Harriet, Just Mercy, Western Stars, The Two Popes
Western Stars by Thom Zimny, Bruce Springsteen
The 32nd Annual Virginia Film Festival will feature more than 150 films, including independent films along with hotly anticipated titles including Harriet, Just Mercy, Western Stars, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story, The Two Popes, The Report, Clemency, and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire. This year's lineup also includes award-winning actor, writer, and director Ethan Hawke, noted actor Ann Dowd, international bestselling author John Grisham, actor Dennis Christopher, acclaimed filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu – plus more than 100 filmmakers in all.
"We are thrilled to announce our 2019 program," said Jody Kielbasa, director of the Virginia Film Festival and Vice Provost for the Arts at the University of Virginia, "We are particularly proud to continue our focus on important issues of social justice through high-profile screenings of Harriet, which was filmed here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Just Mercy, which tells the inspiring story of Bryan Stevenson and his ongoing crusade to right wrongs within the criminal justice system, and Clemency, featuring Alfre Woodard as a maximum security prison warden struggling with the burdens of her death row duties, among many others.
The 2019 Virginia Film Festival will open with Just Mercy, the powerful and thought-provoking true story of young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan), and his history-making battle for justice. Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending the poor, the wrongly condemned, and those trapped in the furthest reaches of our criminal justice system. One of Stevenson's first cases was that of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx), who was convicted of murdering an 18-year-old girl in a high-profile case marred by a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and tainted by the testimony of a deeply compromised witness. With the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Brie Larson), Stevenson dives into a world of corruption, prejudice and political machinations to fight for McMillian and others like him, languishing on Death Row.
The documentary Western Stars co-directed by Bruce Springsteen along with Thom Zimny, which gives audiences an intimate look at the latest chapter in the career of one of music's most iconic figures is the Gala Screening film.
Based on the extraordinary life of Harriet Tubman, Harriet, filmed in Virginia, chronicles the American hero's escape from slavery and transformation into a historic abolitionist. Tubman's courage, ingenuity, and tenacity helped free hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad and changed the course of history. Harriet from acclaimed writer/director Kasi Lemmons, and starring Cynthia Erivo will be the Centerpiece Film on Saturday, October 26, 2019.
Closing night film is The Two Popes, directed by the Academy Award-nominated Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles (City of God). The film offers a surprisingly lighthearted look at the conversations between Pope Benedict (Anthony Hopkins) and Cardinal Bergoglio (Jonathan Pryce) on the eve of Benedict's shocking 2013 retirement, and Bergoglio's ascension to the Papacy.
2019 Virginia Film Festival Lineup
Spotlight Films
Clemency – Alfre Woodard stars as Bernadine Williams, a prison warden at a maximum-security prison whose soul and spirit are challenged by the many executions she has carried out. The job leaves her with psychological and emotional demons that have taken a toll on her entire life, and that ultimately help bind her to an inmate whose death she is scheduled to oversee next.
Driveways – Director Andrew Ahn's intimate drama revolves around the unlikely friendship formed between a lonely young boy and his new octogenarian neighbor (Brian Dennehy). As his mother (Hong Chau) looks on, the boy provides the widowed veteran with a youthful outlook and begins to discover a newfound maturity within himself.
Jojo Rabbit – This daring, touching, and comedic satire, winner of the Audience Award at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, is the story of a lonely German boy named Jojo whose world is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend Adolf Hitler (director Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
Marriage Story – Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach directs this incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together – starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson.
Motherless Brooklyn – Edward Norton wrote, directed, produced, and stars in this tale of a restless private detective with Tourette's Syndrome whose investigation of his friend and mentor Frank Minna (Bruce Willis) sends him into the heart of 1950's New York, from Harlem jazz joints all the way to the corruption-filled hallways of City Hall, to get answers.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire – One of the most popular films on the 2019 festival circuit, this is the story of a young painter in 18th century France Marianne (Noémie Merlant) who is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) without her knowing. Therefore, Marianne must observe her model by day to paint her portrait at night. Day by day, the two women become closer as they share Héloïse's last moments of freedom before the impending wedding.
The Report – Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones leads an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, and uncovers shocking secrets, in this riveting drama from writer/director Scott Z. Burns and starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening.
– Presented with James Madison's Montpelier
Always in Season – Jacqueline Olive's documentary explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today.
Burning Cane – This extraordinary feature debut from 19-year-old director Phillip Youmans looks at faith, family, and violence among the cane fields of small-town Louisiana as an aging mother struggles between her religious convictions and the love of her son.
Pahokee – In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. The documentary follows four teens as they face heartbreak and celebrate the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
We are the Radical Monarchs – Follow the founding and growth of the Radical Monarchs, an Oakland-based alternative to the Girl Scouts for young women of color (ages 8-13) at the front lines of social justice and allyship.
2040 – Environmental concerns are addressed with the hope that the filmmaker's daughter, 21 years old in the year 2040, will face a hopeful future. Investigations into the potential of innovations like renewable energy and alternative transportation infuse this documentary with optimism and a sense of determination to affect positive environmental change
Autonomy – Author Malcolm Gladwell leads the first comprehensive documentary look at the human side of the emerging technology that will power self-driving vehicles. The film focuses on the human side of innovation and the psychology of control, fear, and adapting to change.
The Cave – The war in Syria has brought death to millions. Civilians live in constant fear of attacks, and for many, safety is found in an underground hospital known as The Cave. In these hidden tunnels, female doctors serve alongside men in roles that would be unthinkable in the sexist culture that exists above. The Cave, from National Geographic films, received the 2019 Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Ernie & Joe – In an intimate portrait that illustrates progressive methods of policing by following two police officers specializing in the San Antonio Police Department mental health unit, this documentary reflects the best of public servants, one 911 call at a time.
It Started as a Joke – Comedian Eugene Mirman's offhand joke of creating a comedy festival making fun of other comedy festivals, became the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival. Featuring a star-studded lineup including Kumail Nanjiani and Mike Birbiglia, this documentary pays homage to what comedy is, is not, and everything in-between.
Kifaru – The northern white rhino species has long been in danger of extinction. With the number of surviving rhinos diminishing, a conservancy in central Kenya was established to breed and protect what remained of the species. Following two rangers for over four years, this film documents the joys and disappointments of conservation in this touching documentary.
Midnight Family – With a population of almost 9 million, Mexico City only operates 45 government emergency ambulances. Private EMTs step in to serve as a lifeline to those needing medical attention. The Ochoa family operates a for-profit ambulance; however, the lack of financial gain and local corruption often throw them into a moral and ethical gray area.
Varda by Agnes – From Agnès Varda, the "Queen of French Cinema" herself, this heartwarming piece combs through the artist's remarkable life and career while allowing the filmmaker to have the final word on her films.
We Believe in Dinosaurs – In rural Kentucky, all eyes are on a life-size model of Noah's Ark being built to prove the accuracy of the Bible. A creationist, a former creationist, and a pro-science activist become the main characters in an examination of the controversy encompassing evolution denial and the separation of church and state.
When All is Ruin Once Again – This poetic, meditative, beautifully shot black-and-white film is an ode to close-knit rural Irish communities, introducing us to the people who live on the borders of the counties of Galway and Clare in the west of Ireland.
You Don't Nomi – The release of Showgirls in 1995 was met with ridicule from both critics and audiences. Following the journey of the film from initial flop to cult classic, this documentary provides a thought-provoking and entertaining window into American pop culture and the ways in which film can connect communities.
Other documentaries include Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, Forman vs. Forman, General Magic, Human Nature, The Kingmaker, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, and When All is Ruin Once Again, among others.
Spotlight on Virginia Filmmaking
The Festival will shine a spotlight on an impressive collection of films that were made in Virginia or have roots in the Commonwealth. Titles include:
Afrikana Film Festival – The VAFF is proud to partner with the Richmond-based Afrikana Film Festival for a special program of films dedicated to showcasing cinematic works by people of color from around the world, with a special focus on the global Black narrative.
Fishing with Dynamite – Director Paul Wagner examines how corporations and Wall Street and their obsession with short term profits are negatively impacting the foundations of American Capitalism in his newest documentary, presented in partnership with the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Best of Film at UVA, Best of VCUarts, and Best of Film at Mason – As the official film festival of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the VAFF will salute some of Virginia's finest young filmmakers from the University of Virginia, George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University in a special program that captures and celebrates the diversity of cinematic storytelling found at these institutions.
Southern Journey (Revisited) – In 1959, Alan Lomax set out on a road trip through the south to collect traditional American roots music. The recordings that Lomax made serve as both a collection of traditional music and a social document of the times. This film follows the route that Lomax previously traversed and takes the pulse of a nation, surveying what has and has not changed in the 6 decades since Lomax first made his trip.
Other Virginia films include Harriet, Inn at Little Washington, Queen of the Capital, and a short film showcase of work by UVA professor Kevin Everson.
International Films
Continuing its strong track record of showcasing the very best in cinema from around the world, the VAFF will spotlight a selection of some of the most acclaimed films in foreign cinema this year.
Atlantics (France) – In Senegal, workers attempt to make the journey across the sea in search of a better life. After their abrupt disappearance, a strange fever begins to spread in this supernatural romance that won the Grand Prix at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.
Parasite (Korea) – The Park Family is the picture of aspirational wealth. The Kim Family is rich in street smarts but not much else. In a chance opportunity, the Kim children become tutors to the Parks, and a symbiosis forms between the families. Darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, this 2019 Cannes Palme d'Or-winner showcases director Bong Joon-ho at the top of his game.
Bacurau (Brazil) – The village of Bacurau is in dire condition. Basic supplies are running low, access to the outside world is fading, and the government begins to deny its existence, wiping it from all maps. As the outside world begins to close in, the villagers stand their ground with a secret weapon. The film won the 2019 Jury Prize at Cannes.
Frankie (France) – Iconic French actress Isabelle Huppert plays the title role of Frankie, a well-known movie star struggling with terminal illness and her own mortality, Frankie invites her extended family on a vacation to a picturesque village in Portugal. Although the entirety of the film occurs over one day, the family's dynamics are quickly made known and deeply explored.
I Lost My Body (France) – In a desperate attempt to get back to its body, an amputated hand journeys across Paris. Flashbacks to the hand's life show his body growing up and falling in love, slowly giving answers to the cause of the separation. This animated film, which won top honors at Cannes Critics Week and the Annecy Animation Festival, is captivating and poetic, providing a touching account of loss.
Pain and Glory (Spain) – The latest film from legendary filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar portrays a director (Antonio Banderas) facing the decline of his career. As he looks back on his life, he questions whether or not there is a life beyond his art. Memories of first love, childhood joys, and painful loss all flood back as he attempts to fill the void that brought his filmmaking to a halt.
The Song of Names (Hungary) – Centering on a young violin prodigy at the start of World War II who mysteriously vanishes without a trace before his debut performance, and his brother who tries to find him, this unwavering drama about friendship, betrayal, and reconciliation illustrates both the horrors of war and sibling rivalry with musical revelations.
Synonyms (Israel) – An Israeli twenty-something moves to Paris and intends to rid himself of his nationality. Synonyms, which won the Golden Bear at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival, explores the complexities of cultural identities and the challenges of putting roots down in a new place.
The Traitor (Italy) – In the early 1980's, a war rages between Sicilian mafia bosses over the heroin trade. Tommaso Buscetta flees to hide out in Brazil. Arrested and extradited to Italy, Buscetta makes a decision that will change everything for the Mafia: he decides to betray the eternal vow he made to the Cosa Nostra.
Other films include Beanpole (Russia), Default (Korea), The Father (Bulgaria), Ghost Town Anthology (Canada), Grass (Korea), Oh Mercy! (France), Song Without a Name (Peru), and The Wild Goose Lake (China), among others.
LGBTQIA + Focus
Queer Love on Television – The search for love and connection between people of color in the queer community is explored in two episodes of television, both written by UVA alum, Steven Kung. In Dear White People Volume 3 episode "Chapter VII," shy reporter Lionel begins to explore his Ivy League university's queer spaces. In Falling for Angels episode "Koreatown," two Asian men, one Korean American and the other Taiwanese American, explore their respective relationships to their cultures, and to each other, over 24-hours in Los Angeles's Koreatown.
Changing the Game – High school athlete Mack Beggs made headlines when he became the Texas girls wrestling state champion for the second time. Despite his desire to wrestle against his fellow male opponents, Texas athletic rules force him to compete with young women. This film follows Beggs' story along with two other transgender high school athletes to highlight the struggles of the fight for trans rights in high school athletic programs across the United States.
Gay Chorus Deep South – In response to a wave of discriminatory anti-LGBTQ laws and the divisive 2016 presidential election, the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus embarks on a tour of the American South. The conversations and connections that emerge offer a glimpse of a less divided America, where the things that separate us are set aside by the power of music, humanity, and a little drag.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (France) – In eighteenth century France, Héloïse has rejected her mother's attempts to commission a portrait which will lead to marriage. As a result, her newest painter, Marianne, must masquerade as a lady's maid during the day to paint her subject by night. As the portrait materializes, an unlikely relationship blossoms between the two women as Héloïse enjoys her last moments of untethered bliss.
Queen of the Capital – Muffy Blake Stephyns and her everyday persona, Daniel, must navigate her bureaucratic day job in the Department of Labor in Washington D.C., all while balancing her role in the Imperial Court of Washington D.C., a philanthropic organization full of drag queens, drag kings, and other vibrant performers. This documentary illuminates the thriving D.C. drag scene and explores the story of an individual on a crusade for the community.
To the Stars – In a small town in 1960s Oklahoma, reclusive teen Iris forges a friendship with Maggie, the worldly but reckless new girl, who homes in on Iris's untapped potential and coaxes her out of her shell. This subtle black-and-white film about friendship, growth and hope reveals the courage of individuals forced to take drastic measures when they're made to stand up for themselves.
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts – As the charming drag persona of Milwaukee-raised Brian Firkus, Trixie Mattel does it all; filming Drag Race All Stars, managing personal projects, recording a new album, and navigating relationships including an unexpected fallout with close friend and web series co-star Katya Zamolodchikova. This documentary is a raw and deeply personal portrait of the pitfalls of success and the endless churn of being a professional performer, singer, and comedian.
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All ghost characters in Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga.
By Kim Fey
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The Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has an interesting function that allows players to manage ghosts from Star Wars. Each ghost character will have its usual Jedi abilities, but with added invisibility. This invisibility guarantees that no enemy can notice you. There are three remarkable ghost characters in the game.
How to unlock the ghosts of power at Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
The three ghosts below are more powerful than you could imagine.
* Ghost Anakina Skywalker – costs 1,100,000 after passing the episode VI.
* This is an ordinary Enakin Skywalker before he crossed the dark side, so he can only use Jedi's forces.
The ghost is Obi-Wan Kenobi *-it costs 1,100,000 after passing several missions in episode V.
* The attacks of this Obi-Wan are damaged by several opponents at once. This character is not a ghost that takes one on one.
iodine ghost – costs 1,200,000 after passing several missions in episode VI. As an alternative, you can simply use the code NE14ABJ in Additionally * menu.
* Iodine is similar to ordinary iodine with weaker damage.
All ghost options have weaker damage. This means that you may have to wait longer before you can remove your enemies. Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Skywalker Saga characters do not have the same damage and accuracy as their living analogues, but they may become invisible. Thanks to the function of invisibility, you can avoid almost any battle, so you do not need to be strong.
To find out more about Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga, read some of our other guidelines here in Pro Game Guides, for example How to perform an exploit "Children's Flight" at Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga or oror or or List of all 19 data cards at Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga .
LEGO STAR WARS SAGA SKYWALKER: Game equal with Elden Ring?
By Da Truth
We do not stop the strength so easily: After a noticeable success of its physical sales in the United Kingdom, the Lego Star Wars game: the Saga Skywalker continues to impress with its digital sales.
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We were talking about you earlier this week: Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker A, in the UK, card stock. Proof of its success? He exceeded sales of Elden Ring, at least on his physical sales, during the week 14 (04 to 10 April) and attributed the second best launch of 2022 behind legends Pokémon Arceus. Notable success for a LEGO game but does not stop there. Indeed, Gamesindustry relayed a new GSD report. Always Study Game Sales in the United Kingdom, it focused on digital sales of the title. And again, the force is stubborn.
Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker, developed by TT Games and edited by Warner Bros, realized 61% of its sales via digital shops. To support the colossal number of sales made by the game, Gamesindustry indicates that "LeGo Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker has almost done equal with Elden Ring during his launch" Attention, this is the kingdom here. -UNI: The latest Software had elapsed 360,000 copies (physical and digital) in three days in our neighbors.
Christopher Dring, editor-in-chief of Gamesindustry, brings some details to the figures presented above. On Twitter, it desolate the results of LEGO STAR Wars: The Saga Skywalker by specifying the results made by the TT Games title on each platform in digital version before indicating the general results:
41% of digital sales were performed on Xbox, 34% on PlayStation, 18% on PC and finally 7% on Nintendo Switch (…) counting both, it's PlayStation that generated the most sales ( 39%). It is followed by Xbox (34%), the Nintendo Switch (16%) and finally by the PC (11%).
It is worth remembering that Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker offers players to relive the adventures of the three trilogies of Star Wars, through a cast of more than 300 playable characters. A game considered good innos columns (15/20), and whose sales have propelled the most popular Star Wars game.
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Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga: How to unlock Mister Bones
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With the launch of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, players have unparalleled access to a list of more than 300 characters and the nine movies to play. However, there are also quite unlockable characters that will require a code. Mister Bones is one of those, a battle droid that is quite capable of doing the business when it comes to fighting. If you are asking about How to unlock Mr. Bones in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Continue reading.
How to unlock Mister Bones in Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
To unlock this new character and add it to your collection, simply use the Enter code function that is in the game.
* To access the Enter code function, there are two ways.
You can do it through the pause menu or using the holoprojector and switching to the Extras tab.
Activate the message Enter code.
Use the unblocking code of Mister Bones.
The code you need is this: BAC1CKP
Once you have successfully unlocked Mr. Bones, you will have a battle droid with some truly devastating combos.
That's all you have to do when it comes to learning about ** How to unlock Mister Bones in Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker * ***. Make sure you also check all other characters you can unlock through the unlock codes, or discover how much time you will need to win the game. For everything else, look for Lego.
LEGO STAR WARS: The Skywalker Saga gets an epic launch trailer
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Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker explores the creation of the galaxy in a video
By unclefilo
Three trilogies, nine movies and a whole galaxy for traveling… but with a somewhat more cXboxualted Xboxpect of the usual. Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker is about to reach the market and Warner Bros. Games, TT Games and LucXboxfilm Games continue to work on offer their vision about the project . The study hXbox published a video 'behind the camerXbox' focused on the construction of the very, very distant galaxy. You can see it below.
Developers emphXboxize that this huge world hXbox been designed with the intention that it really seems like a cohesive galaxy, where the player can make use of his freedom to enjoy a content Xbox vXboxt Xbox fun. TT Games hXbox fired the creative process through the iconic locations of the Saga created by George LucXbox.
The video also shows the work you have incurred add the weather effects or the implementation of different colors for the sky, all in order to "capture the attention" of every detail. The developer hXbox used a new graphic engine, so we are facing a product that takes a step forward when it comes to its audiovisual Xboxpect.
Planets and characters of all kinds
Among the planets that we can visit are Naboo, Mustafar, Endor, Tatooine or the cloud city of Bespin , the station in which they have only, Chewie and Leia are betrayed and sold by Lando, although then it is redirected becoming general of rebellion. Whether we talk about playable characters (more than 300), we can control the Hutt, Yaddle or the endearing Babu Frik. The protagonists have an improvement room thanks to a progression system bXboxed on bricks, a coin that serves to improve the skills of strength and the power of the blXboxts, among other attributes.
Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker will go on sale April 5 at PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
The new Lego Star Wars video: The Skywalker Saga shows the beautiful worlds of the game
By Alain
Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker will be launched in less than a month, and the developer TT Games has been working hard to generate enthusiasm for the game. Today, the developer threw a completely new video called "Building the Galaxy", and shows the level of detail that the team put on the various planets that will appear in the game. The Saga Skywalker will allow players to visit several places of the movies, including Tatooine, Naboo, Hoth and more. In the video, we can see the meticulous work that TT Games performed to replicate these dear places.
The new video can be found embedded below.
In the video we can see how environments are reflected through the playable characters. For example, in Tatooine, you can see the grains of sand covering the characters (poor anakin). Speaking of playable characters, the video shows a series of minor characters that can be played in the game, including Babu Frik, Mama The Hutt and Jedi Knight Yaddle.
As its name indicates, _ Saga Skywalker_ allows players to visit the nine films that cover the three trilogies. Players can choose the movies in the order they want, and each one will be divided into five different levels. However, as we can see in the video, there will also be a series of optional secondary missions to complete, and sometimes they will require players to visit different planets to complete them. Doing so will help players unlock additional characters and vehicles.
So far, Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker looks like an essential game for Star Wars and LEGO fans alike. It is clear that it has worked a lot in the title, and the players will have a lot to see and do. The game will be launched on April 5 at PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S, Nintendo Switch and PC, so fanatics will not have to wait much more to see if it is up to expectations. Meanwhile, readers can consult all our previous coverage of the game here.
Are you planning to take a look? Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker? What do you think of the last video of the game? Let us know in the comments or share your thoughts directly on Twitter in @marcdachamp to talk about everything related to games!
Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is bringing back a dear original feature
By C-3PO
The fanatics of the long series of LEGO video games will be happy to know that Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker is bringing back a dear feature that was seen in many of the original entries in the series. Specifically, that characteristic in question is Mumble mode, which converts the voices of the characters into the game in incoherent divulgations. While the LEGO series at a time used this style of voice by default, in recent years, the titles related to the largest franchise have begun to implement the actual voice action. Now, Saga Skywalker will allow players to choose between what option they prefer,
In the last trailer of Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker who became known this week, it was confirmed that Mumble mode will now return. This function has been requested quite for the community of the game over the years and a lot of fanatics quickly expressed their joy to see that it returns. While the default voice option in Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker will continue to see normal voice acting, Mumble mode should be activated from the first moment. If you want to see how this feature will be seen by itself, you can see it at the end of the attached video on the Tweet below.
With the incorporation of Mumble mode in Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker, this definitely seems to be the most complete LEGO game to date. Although there has already been many guard of the Galaxies Games in the past, the developer TT Games has really gone further to make sure this is a title that should please both new and veterans. While it remains to be seen if the Saga Skywalker will be up to the expectations, everything they have shown us seems very promising.
As now, we also know, Lego Star Wars: The Saga Skywalker finally has a launch date and will arrive at the stores on April 5. When you arrive, you will arrive at the PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC platforms.
Are you excited to see that Mumble mode finally returns in Lego Star Wars: Saga Skywalker? And you will end up activating this function when you play? Let me know your own reaction in the comments or contact me on Twitter in @ mooreman12.

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HTA Photomask manufactures 1x mask. The two most common type of substrate material used for making photomasks are soda lime and fused silica. And the two most common type of metallization coating are chrome and iron oxide. The size of the plate ranges from three inches to nine inches and the thickness also varies.
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Berger, Arthur Asa. "Durkheim, Émile (1858–1917)." Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Ed. Dale Southerton. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2011. 481-482. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 19 Jan. 2020, doi: 10.4135/9781412994248.n185.
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Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
Review by Cory Tischbein · July 4, 2021
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a game with great promise but poor to mediocre performance, depending on your affinity for action-oriented loot hunting and patience for AI and other technical shortcomings that should have been nipped in beta.
Dungeons & Dragons has laid roots in many video game genres: CRPGs, MMORPGs, and isometric action RPGs, among others. With Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance, developer Tuque Games returns the series to the action RPG gameplay that made this game's spiritual predecessors — the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance games — cult classics. Ever wanted to play out a dice roll in real-time, from a third-person perspective? Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance has you covered!
Playing out those dice rolls sometimes amounts to unadulterated fun. At its best, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance features some of the most addictive dungeon crawling this year, especially if you've got friends you plan to kill goblins, knolls, and trolls with online. But after a few hours in Icewind Dale, you'll find braindead enemy AI and performance glitches that should have been addressed well before this game hit market mar most of the fun.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance lets you and up to three friends play as heroes from R.A. Salvatore's The Legend of Drizzt novels: Drizzt Do'Urden (a dual-wielding rogue), Wulfgar (a maul-bearing barbarian), Catti-brie (a nimble ranger), and Bruenor Battlehammer (a tanky dwarven fighter). The plot tracks the first entry in the Icewind Dale trilogy and tasks our heroes with crushing the titular dark alliance: a horde of giants, dragons, and other baddies scouring Icewind Dale for a magical shard offering untold power.
This game's narrative begins and ends there. Your heroes occasionally utter melodramatic one-liners, and some missions weave in cutscenes that flesh out the faction you're fighting — or just decimated — in that particular tundra, mine, or frozen hellscape. But if you're looking for complex moral dilemmas, plot twists, or anything more profound than the threadbare framing device this narrative amounts to, look elsewhere.
That's because Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is an ARPG that puts the bulk of its weight on the action part of that label. This game is about fast-paced dungeon crawling and loot grinding, which is informed but not dictated by levels, stats, and other RPG mainstays. You can trigger light attacks (quick jabs), fierce attacks (powerful moves that take moments to execute), jumps, rolls, parries, blocks, and special abilities, all in real-time. All of this drains your stamina, which you can recharge by sitting still. Controls are intuitive and responsive, so whipping moves off on the fly comes naturally and feels fluid.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance features some very fearsome foes.
The game's fast-paced combat may be disappointing to some D&D fans, but I'm here for it. There's just something deeply satisfying about dashing into a horde of giants who can two-shot you, unloading a devastating fierce attack on them, narrowly evading their axes with a well-timed roll, and watching your friends tear the surviving beasts to shreds with explosive arrows. But it's also because the game's combat system is refreshingly complex and adaptable to player preference; your heroes possess a range of interesting offensive and defensive abilities that cater to different play styles. You can tinker with their stats and ability points to build them out however you like. This invigorating level of freedom is common among WRPGs, but it ought to be applauded nonetheless.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance also features an intricate combo system that keeps combat engaging. Creatively weaving together light attacks, fierce attacks, jumps, and rolls will trigger one of your hero's 50+ combos, which are vital to major battles and often downright addicting to land. Nailing these combos augments you with potent buffs and contributes to your ultimate meter, which, once full, lets you whip out glorious, game-changing abilities that saved me in many a pinch. Catti-brie's ultimate, for example, briefly renders her almost invulnerable to damage and lets her sling humungous "arcane arrows" that pierce and unload scores of damage on hapless enemies in their path. Unfortunately, the game doesn't incentivize you to venture beyond the few combos you'll become most comfortable with, and no one particular combo is necessary to defeat even the most fearsome foes, and some are too impractical to pull off in the heat of battle.
The game's loot system is also behind a lot of the fun you can have here. As you dispatch enemies, they drop weapons and armor, and collecting better and rarer loot is the name of the game. Fortunately, Tuque Games handles this aspect of Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance pretty well. Nearly all equipment you come across will be part of a set, and complete sets offer significant bonuses that scale with the number of matching pieces you have equipped. You can go all-in on one set and maximize its rewards, or you can mix-and-match pieces to enjoy varying bonuses complimenting your desired playstyle. Players who enjoy the Diablo-esque serotonin rush of butchering screens full of baddies and experimenting with their ever-improving loot will feel at home.
There are few moments more exciting than tracking down epic loot in Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance.
But Tuque Games did make several limiting choices with its loot system that left me puzzled. For starters, equipment attributes and set bonuses unimaginatively amount to subtle increases to stats, resistances, and a few other metrics, and none of the equipment or set bonuses inch toward revolutionizing combat. And when you find new loot color-coded to an enticing rarity level, you can't equip it or make any other loadout changes until you complete the mission and return to your base camp. So if you want to equip gear to support a different play style demanded by a group of monsters mid-dungeon, you're out of luck.
You tackle this action-packed loot-hunting over 21 missions. Each mission takes 20-40 minutes to clear and can be run on six difficulty settings. The higher the difficulty, the rarer the loot. Though hardly unique, this structure lends the game replayability and keeps its pace even. Between missions, you can spend ability points earned by leveling up, buy new combos, and equip and upgrade equipment at your base camp, all of which you need to be thoughtful about if you hope to survive the more crushing difficulty settings. Each mission is linear, but the game sprinkles in mini-bosses and treasure off the beaten path, making the world feel alive and worth exploring.
This relatively rosy picture comes to a screeching halt once we arrive at the game's enemy AI. It's the most baffling I've ever encountered, and it often singlehandedly ruined the gameplay experience for me. Enemies commonly take several seconds to react to you, even if you're pummeling them, and many won't notice you unless you're in their face. Worse yet, enemies will only battle you in a small radius around where you found them. So if you run, say, more than 30 feet from a goblin you're fighting, he'll abruptly about-face and scamper back to where you found him, even if you continually blast him with ranged attacks. You can actually snipe most monsters from a reasonable distance, and they'll remain silently stationary as they meet their end.
These failings take most of the challenge and sense of achievement out of the game; if a fight's proving too difficult, I know I can cheese it by running a few yards away and whittling my enemies down with ranged attacks. How this undercooked AI even survived beta testing raises serious questions about the QA process or the decision to release the game in this state.
Exploiting my enemies' dimwitted AI is a crutch I'm embarrassed to admit I leaned on more than a few times.
The game's performance on multiplayer is also abysmal. Lag constantly plagues multiplayer, regardless of how many friends you're playing with or the strength of their connections. To boot, missions often suffer from glitches in multiplayer that prevent you from triggering objectives, and these force you to ditch your progress by restarting the mission or trying your hand at another. Though these failings didn't break the multiplayer experience for me, they're particularly disappointing because Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance was designed to be played with friends, which is when it shines brightest.
Graphically, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a double-edged sword. Character and enemy designs are crisp and intricate, and the framerate always stayed smooth on PS5, even during frenetic fights. But the game lazily overrelies on a scant few sets of environments that quickly feel too familiar. And if you thought Final Fantasy VII Remake's doors were bad, wait until you see some of the blurry PS3-quality environmental textures in store for you here. Battle animations also don't always line up with hit detection, making combat sometimes look and feel floaty.
The game's audio is mostly run of the mill and does little to help you look past its AI and performance deficiencies. The music is serviceable and suits the game's tone, but the background and battle tunes fit the "generic high fantasy" moniker to a tee, and none of it is memorable. Battle sound effects are limited and, due to their repetition, grating. The voice acting is the saving grace that helps bring this storybook world to life — particularly the work behind the charming enemy banter you'll overhear on missions, which had me laughing more than a few times.
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance is a game with great promise but poor-to-mediocre performance, depending on your affinity for action-oriented loot hunting and patience for AI and other technical shortcomings that should have been nipped in beta. But with promise comes optimism; Tuque Games has a robust DLC and expansion roadmap planned, so its continued investment in the game could lead to patches ameliorating my gripes. If it does, you'll find that Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance reaches the lofty heights of its renowned spiritual predecessors. But if Tuque Games neglects these issues, Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance will remain a fun but prohibitively frustrating game I can recommend to series devotees and few others.
Engaging combat system, deep character customization options, a solid loot grind.
Abysmal enemy AI, poor performance on multiplayer.
Though Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance offers an addictive combat system and rich character customization, it's a tough sell until its AI and performance failings are patched out.
Cory Tischbein
It took Cory a few decades to merge his passions for RPGs and writing, but better late than never! When he isn't playing or writing about RPGs, you can probably find him listening to podcasts, trying to corral his dogs, or exploring his new-ish home state.
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Texas Pastor Lays Down His Life to Save His Friend as They Assist Scene of Highway Accident
By Heather Clark on July 29, 2020 No Comment
SHERMAN, Texas — Thousands have viewed a memorial service held on Friday to honor the life of a pastor and church planter who was tragically killed on July 18 while saving a friend as they both were assisting a motorist involved in a fiery accident.
According to reports, John Powell, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in New Caney, was driving on US Highway 75 in Sherman after 11 p.m. when he saw an accident ahead in which a Dodge Charger had collided with a Chevy truck pulling a trailer, causing the car to catch on fire.
Powell and his friend Jeremy pulled over to help, but as Powell and Jeremy were working to get people out of the vehicle, he saw a semi-truck heading toward his friend. The pastor selflessly hurried to push Jeremy out of the way and instead took the blow. He died of his injuries.
"In true form, this servant and gentle leader we all knew and love gave his life so that others may live," wrote friend Andrew Walker in a GoFundMe page set up for the family. "His life embodies what his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, said, 'Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends' (John 15:13)."
According to the Houston Chronicle, Powell preached on Psalm 72 for his last sermon, encouraging Christians to "be there" in the midst of "the poor man's distress."
"How could we pray that God would have compassion on those that need it while not having compassion on them ourselves?" he asked. "It would be like praying for someone who got robbed and beaten and thrown into a ditch alive while we pass on our way to wherever we're going."
Powell was a husband and father of four young children: Gunner, Bennett, Ada Kate and Reese. A graduate of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, Powell formerly worked as the admissions director at the school and also served as the discipleship pastor at Carlisle Avenue Baptist Church the city.
He went on to plant Emmanuel Baptist Church in Texas "because we want to proclaim Christ and Him crucified, and in turn, point mankind everywhere to the one in whom they can meet God," Powell wrote on the church website.
"Anyone that knows John knows him as a humble servant who would pour out his life for the sake of others," his obituary reads. "Whenever someone was in need, John was everyone's go-to. You could find him fixing a car, moving a family, repairing a broken appliance, or dropping everything to help a friend."
"John died exactly how he lived — sacrificing himself for the sake of others, just like Jesus called us to do," it states. "John is a hero whose loss will be felt by his family, his friends, and his church."
His memorial service was livestreamed on Friday and may be viewed in full online by clicking here.
The GoFundMe effort directly benefits his wife, Elizabeth, and their children. As of press time, more than $345,000 had been raised for Powell's family.
The church said it will carry on, with the knowledge that while Powell is gone, Christ is the head of the Church.
"While we deeply grieve this loss, we remember what [Powell] would want us to remember: that Christ is the head of this church, and the vision and passion that John instilled in us is still alive," it remarked in a statement.
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This package is just a simple wrapper for using material icons within react-md
as either font icons or SVG icons. All of the icons were pulled directly from
[material-icons](https://github.com/google/material-design-icons) using the
[custom create cli](./scripts/cli.ts). Please thank all the contributors and
maintainers of material icons for the work they have put in.

## Installation

```sh
npm install --save @react-md/material-icons @react-md/icon
```

<!-- DOCS_REMOVE -->

## Documentation

You should check out the
[full documentation](https://react-md.dev/packages/material-icons/demos) for
live examples and more customization information, but an example usage is shown
below.

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## Usage

This package automatically creates a component file for each material-icon that
exists as both an inline SVG and a font icon. The script to generate these
components will take an SVG filename from the [SVGs folder](./svgs/) and convert
it into PascalCase. If the SVG starts with a number, the number will come after
the first `_` part instead of being the start of the name.

To see a full list of icons, just view the [source folder](./src).

### Examples

```tsx
import { render } from "react-dom";

import {
  AccessAlarmFontIcon,
  AccessAlarmSVGIcon,
  Rotation3DFontIcon, // the sprite name for this was 3d_rotation.svg
  Rotation3DSVGIcon, // the sprite name for this was 3d_rotation.svg
  HomeFontIcon,
  HomeSVGIcon,
} from "@react-md/material-icons";

const App = () => (
  <main>
    <AccessAlarmFontIcon />
    <AccessAlarmSVGIcon />
    <Rotation3DFontIcon />
    <Rotation3DSVGIcon />
    <HomeFontIcon />
    <HomeSVGIcon />
  </main>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));
```

## Creating sprite maps

One of the problems with inline SVGs is that all your icons are not cacheable
and reusable. If this is your goal, you can use this package to create icon
sprites from every SVG that is provided from this package. If your app needs to
support IE11 or Edge < 12, you will also need to polyfill the `<use>` in SVG
with [svgxuse](https://github.com/Keyamoon/svgxuse) or
[svg4everybody](https://github.com/jonathantneal/svg4everybody) since they do
not support `<use xlink:href>` and external SVG sprite maps.

There are multiple ways to create sprites, and material icons have a pretty good
description about some ways to
[generate sprite maps](https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/tree/master/sprites#creating-your-own-sprites)
but my current tool of choice is the
[svg-sprite-loader](https://github.com/kisenka/svg-sprite-loader) so it
integrates right into my webpack config and `svgxuse`. To get sprite maps
working, update your `webpack.config.js`:

```diff
 const webpack = require('webpack');
+const SpriteLoaderPlugin = require('svg-sprite-loader/plugin');

   module: {
     rules: [{
       test: /\.jsx?$/,
       include: src,
       loader: 'babel-loader',
+    }, {
+      test: /\.svg$/,
+      include: [
+        // optional if there are any custom svgs that are not apart of material-icons that should be used
+        'src/iconSprites',
+        // update webpack to allow svgs from the material-icons package (required)
+        'node_modules/@react-md/material-icons/svgs',
+      ],
+      use: [{
+        loader: 'svg-sprite-loader',
+        options: {
+          extract: true,
+          spriteFilename: 'icon-sprites.[hash:8].svg',
+        },
+      }, 'svg-fill-loader', 'svgo-loader'],
+    }],
```

Then you can just import the SVG into your file and it will automatically
include that icon in a sprite map.

```tsx
import "svgxuse";
import { render } from "react-dom";
import { SVGIcon } from "@react-md/icon";
import homeIcon from "@react-md/material-icons/svgs/home.svg";
import menuIcon from "@react-md/material-icons/svgs/menu.svg";

const App = () => (
  <main>
    <SVGIcon use={homeIcon.url} />
    <SVGICon use={menuIcon.url} />
  </main>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));
```

## Development

If material-icons has been updated or the components are out of date after a
react-md update, you can use the `icons` script to re-create the components and
optional re-download and create all SVGs again.


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RNA-Binding Protein PUM2 Regulates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate via Repression of JAK2 and RUNX2 mRNAs
LeeRNAbindingproteinPUM2regulatesmesenchymalstemcell.pdf (2.070Mb)
Lee, Myon Hee; Wu, Xinjun; Zhu, Yong
PUMILIO2; Mesenchymal stem cells; Cell fate decision
Lee, Myon Hee, & Wu, Xinjun, & Zhu, Yong. (October 2020). RNA-Binding Protein PUM2 Regulates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate via Repression of JAK2 and RUNX2 mRNAs. , (), - . Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10342/10085
Lee, Myon Hee, and Wu, Xinjun, and Zhu, Yong. "RNA-Binding Protein PUM2 Regulates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate via Repression of JAK2 and RUNX2 mRNAs". . . (), October 2020. January 31, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/10085.
Lee, Myon Hee and Wu, Xinjun and Zhu, Yong, "RNA-Binding Protein PUM2 Regulates Mesenchymal Stem Cell Fate via Repression of JAK2 and RUNX2 mRNAs," , no. (October 2020), http://hdl.handle.net/10342/10085 (accessed January 31, 2023).
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. … The American Hockey League today announced that Rochester Americans defenseman Mike Weber has been suspended for two (2) games as a result of his actions during an AHL game vs. Grand Rapids on Feb. 10.
Weber was assessed a major penalty and a game misconduct for checking from behind at 19:23 of the third period.
Weber will miss Rochester's games tonight (Feb. 15) vs. Hershey and Saturday (Feb. 16) at Syracuse.
Monsters drop Bears in shootout, 5-4
IceHogs fans encouraged to wear red
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Litigating Climate Change: An Update on a Strengthening Trend
Climate change litigation is becoming an increasingly effective tool for influencing policy outcomes and corporate behaviour. In truth, it has already become something of a global trend. According to a recent report from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, there were 154 climate change lawsuits filed in the United States between 2017 and 2019, while there were over 300 such claims filed in 27 other different countries across the world.[1]
The majority of climate change litigation is actually driven by young people, as well as NGOs, seeking to hold public bodies accountable for climate change and press national governments to undertake increasingly ambitious mitigation efforts.[2] However, a rising number of claims have begun targeting private actors – such as energy and fossil fuel companies.[3]
Climate change litigation is gaining momentum with some recent successes. This past summer in the Netherlands, the Hague Court of Appeal upheld an order requiring the Dutch government to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by the end of 2020.[4] In September 2019, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg and 15 other young people from around the world filed a legal complaint against five of the world's biggest global carbon polluters - Brazil, France, Germany, Argentina, and Turkey. Thunberg and her peers filed the complaint under the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which stipulates a set of inalienable rights for all children worldwide, including life, health, and peace. The complaint alleges that accelerating climate change puts those rights at risk.[5]
It is against this backdrop that climate change litigation has arrived in Canada. Specifically, there are currently at least two ongoing class-action suits against the Government of Canada, and a group of BC municipalities is considering filing claims against large conventional energy companies.
Litigation Against the Canadian Government
On November 26, 2018, the Quebec-based environmental group ENvironnement JEUnesse (ENJEU) filed a class action lawsuit against the Government of Canada. In short, ENJEU claimed that the federal government's failure to adopt certain greenhouse gas emission targets violates the rights and freedoms of the purported class, being all Québec citizens aged 35 and under.
ENJEU argues that the government's inaction on climate change constitutes bad faith and is an unlawful and intentional interference with the right of class members to life, liberty and security of the person as well as their equality rights. It also contends that the future socio-economic costs of climate change will disproportionately burden younger generations. In response, the government argued the courts were not the proper place to determine this issue and that allowing it to proceed would constitute an unjustified interference by the courts.
On July 11, 2019, the Quebec Superior Court held that, while the issues raised by ENJEU were justifiable (appropriate for court review), the proposed class of individuals (Quebeckers under 30) was too arbitrary. Recognizing the overall importance of the issues at hand, Justice Morrison wrote "[a]lthough the mission and objectives of [the group] are admirable on the sociopolitical level, they are too subjective and limiting in their nature to form the basis of an appropriate group for the purpose of exercising collective action."[6]
ENJEU has appealed the court's decision and is awaiting an outcome as of the date of writing. However, even if this appeal is unsuccessful, it is worth noting that the Quebec Superior Court left the door open for a properly constituted class or individual to proceed with bringing a claim related to government inaction on climate change.
On October 25, 2019, a group of 15 children and youths, aged 10 to 19, from across Canada filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court of Canada against the federal government. Similar to ENJEU's class action, these plaintiffs claim that the federal government failed to maintain a stable climate system capable of sustaining human life and individual liberties, thereby violating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and failing to protect public trust resources and Canadian children. They seek declaratory relief, as well as an order requiring the federal government to implement an enforceable Climate Recovery Plan to achieve emission reductions. It is worth noting that these plaintiffs are supported by various NGOs, including Our Children's Trust, the David Suzuki Foundation and the Pacific Centre for Environmental Law and Litigation. [7]
McLennan Ross previously provided an in-depth look at the ENJEU class action on our blog, which can be found here.
Potential Litigation Against Corporations
In January 2019, the City of Victoria became the first municipality in Canada to support the filing of a class action lawsuit against Alberta-based oil and gas producers so as to recover costs for climate-related harms. Victoria's City Council resolved to support such a class action and asked other municipalities in British Columbia to examine the possibility of initiating the lawsuit at their annual meeting in September.[8]
The justification offered for the contemplated class action was that suing oil and gas companies would help municipalities offset the prevention and clean-up costs associated with damage caused by climate change linked events, such as floods and wildfires. While the City of Victoria later withdrew its motion in support of such a claim, other municipalities in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada are still continuing to consider this type of litigation.[9]
It is anticipated that the Canadian claims described above, like the lawsuits that have come before them in the United States and around the world, will face significant obstacles. However, now that climate litigation has arrived in Canada, it is important to acknowledge that the public pressure these types of actions foster could have a knock-on effect on Canada's operating landscape.
As a result, companies should not only take adequate steps to prepare for potential climate change lawsuits, but also remain mindful that the regulatory regime may be subjected to significant changes as well, driven by societal pressures which now include the increased risk of litigation against government and industry.
For further information about climate change litigation and risk mitigation strategies, please contact any member of our Energy, Environmental and Regulatory Practice Group.
[1] Joana Setzer and Rebecca Byrnes, Global trends in climate change litigation: 2019 snapshot (The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London, 2019) ["Setzer"] at 2-4. Available Online: <http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/GRI_Global-trends-in-climate-change-litigation-2019-snapshot-2.pdf>.
[2] Setzer, supra at 4-7.
[4] Urgenda Foundation v. The Netherlands [2015] HAZA C/09/00456689 (June 24, 2015); aff'd (District Court of the Hague, and The Hague Court of Appeal (on appeal))
[5] UNICEF, Press Release, "16 children, including Greta Thunberg, file landmark complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child" (23 September 2019) online: <https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/16-children-including-greta-thunberg-file-landmark-complaint-united-nations>.
[6] Environnement Jeunesse c. Procureur général du Canada, 2019 QCCS 2885 at para 136.
[7] Climate Case Chart, "Case Summary: La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen" (25 October 2019), online: <http://climatecasechart.com/non-us-case/la-rose-v-her-majesty-the-queen/>; and David Suzuki Foundation, Press Release, "15 Canadian youth launch Canada's first federal youth climate lawsuit to protect their charter and public trust rights" (25 October 2019), online: <https://davidsuzuki.org/press/15-canadian-youth-launch-canadas-first-federal-youth-climate-lawsuit-to-protect-their-charter-and-public-trust-rights/>.
[8] Alastair Spriggs and Francis Bula, "The City of Victoria recommends class-action lawsuit against the oil and gas industry", The Globe and Mail (21 January, 2019), online: <https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-city-of-victoria-recommends-class-action-lawsuit-against-the-oil-and/>.
[9] "Municipal officials reject divisive legal action in favour of collaboration on climate change action", Cision in Canada (27 September, 2019), online < https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/municipal-officials-reject-divisive-legal-action-in-favour-of-collaboration-on-climate-change-action-827935375.html>; and Geoffrey Morgan, "B.C.'s rural municipalities warn Victoria not to forget 'resource roots' as city eyes lawsuit against Big Oil", Financial Post (2 October, 2019), online: < https://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/b-c-s-rural-municipalities-warn-victoria-not-to-forget-resource-roots-as-city-eyes-lawsuit-against-big-oil>.
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As a science-fiction author I thought you'd find this of interest.
Realistically, as mister Durden posits in is article, either the Russian assassins are faster than a Jamaican Olympian or Scotland Yard has shopped poorly doctored video footage to the news media, who have bought it. Obviously, Russians are faster of foot then we were previously led to believe.
Seriously, we obviously live in a fake news matrix.
Thanks, Riley for sending the link.
Media state authorities will stop at nothing to charge a paleface with a martyr race death.


"You're just being silly, Naala. There is no such thing as monsters! I bet this is all made-up because you're a scaredy Aisha," Kuda answered smugly. The Kougra waved his navy-striped yellow paws for emphasis, his conception rivaling his sister's with words of strong opinion.
"That's what you said about the last time, and the one before that. Remember?" his Kacheek sister reminded him chidingly. She dropped down to all fours, assumed a tall, bigheaded stance, and bulged her eyeballs comically and slashed the air with imaginary claws for exaggeration.
"Yeah, I know. I know," Naala sighed resignedly, eyes downcast with realization. It was clear that her brother didn't believe her, no matter how many times she talked about it, or how many times she showed him the evidence- the countless broken Nova lamps- in fact, every lamp she had bought-, the bizarre purple ooze trail, the patterned indent on her plush burgundy rug. He had simply written it off as accidentally knocking the furniture over during a bad nightmare, spilling grape jelly or playing with her Sticky Hand too much, and the indents were merely her own footsteps themselves.
The monster didn't always live in her room. It was a snow-white Christmas when it happened, with the snow blanketing the frozen ground outside the window, the red brick fireplace hearth heartily crackling away at the log fire and toasting marshmallows, the Christmas tree dressed up with rainbow lights and coils of silver foil spirals blinking at the splendor, and the excitement of the holidays all up in the air like a tetherball. The house lady was planning an exquisite dinner party, in which Naala and Kuda had to act their best in formal manners like saying, "Greetings, ma'am" when the guest said hello, or "Would you like me to take your coat, sir" when the guest walked in, and "Welcome to our household; we are pleased to make your acquaintance" when the guests arrived at the dinner table.
The house lady had gone to the fleabug market that morning, pressed and stressed for what little preparation time there was left, and had taken along Naala for the trip. The time to remodel was ripe, for the furniture the house donned at the time was 'atrocious, simply atrocious', as Kuda and Naala had made a true blue mess. The fleabug market was a brief four or five blocks away, and was well-stocked in every sort of furniture imaginable, and you also didn't need to haul leaden cases filled with neopoints, for everything was a light bargain-basement price. A little polish-shine on the wood tables, some brand-new bulbs for the lamps, and rich pillows for the antique sofas, and one would be well off.
For the annual round of Christmas presents, Naala had fancied refurnishing her room in addition to what Santa would bring her, for she thought it quite rude to make the poor sled carry a big piece of wood over. The house lady's want to redecorate had rubbed off on the Kacheek and the child begged and begged until she at last surrendered, and acceded to buying a bed of choice for the neopet. Naala's old bed was little more than a small cot, for she herself was little more than a toddler. Now, the fellow pupils at Neoschool were getting big and pretty-pink flowery beds, and thus, the fad snagged onto Naala's heart. And that was what she got, her dream bed. However, what she got was not always what she wanted.
The night, with the moon resplendent upon the glittering grains of reflected black snow outside the window, brought the unwanted for her. As she flicked off the Nova Lamp light switch and snuggled into her invitingly bulky bed with a happy sigh, she heard a thud that liberated a tickly shrill of fear straight up her spine. The house lady was quiet as a Miamouse on clouds during the hours of darkness, and Kuda enjoyed sleeping even more than he did talking. Naala apprehensively sunk deeper into her sheets and instinctively covered her head with her blanket, not daring to make a sound.
The stillness of the air breathed hot down her neck, and she drew in gulps of air as silently as she could. The blankets trembled as the stifled sounds of quiet moan-like resonance were unrelenting. Her heart pounded loudly in her head, and she grew warm from uncontrollable shivers of fear and agitation.
The tension was as thick and unbroken as the snow outside, craving to crack the unspoken and observe the feral action that would follow. Naala was frozen with fear, but the thing, whatever in Adam's name it was, was making new sounds now. Out of bold curiosity and nothing else, she lifted the blanket just a teeny tiny bit, and what she saw would make her jaw fall open in unrestrained silent scream, muscles tense like rigid ice, and eyes stare blankly until morning. One large, almond-shaped eerie emerald orb with a skinny black-as-ink pupil, a dark lavender claw akin to Darigan's minions, and a swishing tail spiked over with thorns.
Only when the lemonade-pink sun mounted the morning sky, and dawn came to greet her with its cheery disposition, did she start to scream.
After weeks of petrifying nights and persistent, unsuccessful pleading to change beds, the Kacheek had arrived at one and only one conclusion: that she had to take matters into her own paws. As sensitive as she was about "creature removal", she was terribly tentative as to how to go about ridding herself of the monster. There was nothing in the picture books that comprehensively explained the science of bedroom monsters, and the Neoschoolers' reaction to her story closely resembled that of her brother's. If she angered it, she could be the unwanted phantom's next unfortunate victim, and she did not want to be the unwanted phantom's next unfortunate victim. It was something so mystifying and frightening and curious to her that it was like discovering the way out of a forest laden with gold, but surrounded by thickening, blinding fog and haunting ghosts. Yet she wanted to dig for what amazing discoveries she might unearth, explore to fill this resilient curiosity of hers, and leave immediately to escape the dangers, all at the same time.
After hearing Kuda brag about his new collection of Spyders, plucked regrettably from the corner wall webs, a shiny new idea sparked to life. What if... what if she trapped the monster? What if she set up a strong net and ensnared it, then released it, free, in the morning? Then Kuda would have to eat his own words, and the monster could still exist unharmed. It was a win-win situation for all and worked especially well towards her line of favor, since it would not have to inhabit her bed anymore!
That evening, Naala swiftly got to work on her plan. She angelically explained to the house lady her trip to Maraqua, for the Maraquans were known for their excellent and efficient weaponry. Fortuitously, as Naala arrived on the shores of Mystery Island, there was a tour available for the rebuilt underwater world. Roped securely to her waist was her potato sack filled with neopoints, as much as she could possibly carry.
Naala nervously stepped up to the booth, uncertain. She met the Maraquan Mynci's cerulean eyes with dubiousness about her plan.
"That sounds great, sir! Does it also come with the right of going to the Weaponry Shop?" Naala responded enthusiastically. She could not believe how lucky she was to have found such a marvelous deal!
With vigor, Naala inelegantly forked over four pawfuls of coins to the passionate Mynci, who beamed and bobbed and pointed his fin toward the crooked pile of diving gear behind the booth.
Ten minutes later, Naala had fitted herself in silly, bulky goggles and a breathing pipe, and she was completely equipped and ready to go. She heavily stumbled in the refreshing water, the current dragging against her body, until she plunged into groundless shore, tagging along after the diving guide. Maraqua was absolutely spectacular- corals and kelps and schools of Neucloop and intricately designed buildings of stunning shell and gold.
It was a fantastic kingdom to bequeath one's sight with, but her eye was on obtaining a Maractite Throwing Net. It was a durable, sound, and mightily secure contraption, as she found later when she tested its strength by struggling to pull the wires one way or the other with nothing to show for her labor. Now she felt ready enough to face the monster head-to-head, no matter what, to stare into that one cyclops eye and never look back.
Before the waxing moon rolled around again, Naala kneeled down and warily strapped the net from the ground to the bed, then strung around the posts again, double-checking meticulously to ensure that the thread was stretched taut and inflexible. The current scenario was that if the monster moved out from under the bed, it would stumble into a snare-like trap, with its whole body being tangled by wire, thus spelling out immobility for the intense creature.
When Naala went to bed, she glanced waveringly for a second outside the window. The spotlight of the view was a globular auroral mirror manifesting silent omens, coruscating its magnificence and obscurity upon the canvas of Neopia below. Rebooted with confidence from the inspirational reflection, she flipped off the switch and fell into the soft blankets, banking on the pallid moon for her source of light. She slipped under the covers, lifting the corner faintly to see the monster itself for the second time, anticipating the nightly sound she had expected for so long. And therein it came.
No more than the tip of the back of the monster could be seen, with the colossal snout in mid yawn. It unhurriedly climbed out of the mysterious host it had lived under for so long, and finally Naala could see the creature that had taunted her for endless time. It had powerful muscles, raw scales on its back, with spikes sharply aligning its skull; and everything else was shapeless. Certain features crumbled into the darkness, while other features stuck out like a white hot sun. It immediately sensed the fully awake presence in its midst and fiercely whipped around to see Naala.
The one green eye never failed to shock the blue Kacheek, even with her memorized words of a mentally strengthening barricade. She trembled on impulse, still especially when the monster did not abandon the underside of the bed. It instead, much to her nervous astonishment, had sensed the company of the net and toothlessly tore off each wire attachment. She preferred razor-sharp choppers to that bottomless chasm of black- that mouth looked like a hungry stomach- a swallow, one gulp, and you would be a goner. There would be no need for chewing. She was in for it now, and was truly scared stiff for her life- tremulous, racing thoughts in a state of blind terror, braced for the worst, eyes motionlessly wide open, heart skipping too many beats.
Slowly, but surely, the monster slowly moved toward her, like a ground krawk slithering in a snakelike motion. This would be it. She'd never see Kuda, her Neoschool buddies, or her house lady again. The cyclops eye did not leave Naala for a moment, and the claws and spikes were moving one step closer in the direction of her doom. This whole state of affairs had turned the tables on her, and all she could do was sit there, gaping, wishing; she was like a statue, preparing for the end.
Forceful moments later, the monster had sidled up to her bedside, claws stretched as if in zeal. Naala stared at the monster, and the monster stared back. Her two true blue Kacheek eyes stared owl-like, and the single large eye matched her gaze. Seconds turned into minutes, which turned into ten minutes, then double folded into twenty, then ascended the heights to half an hour. The pressure was building like a volcano, ready to release its impressively perilous rain anytime now. Once it was shattered, it would be even more startling than had the monster attacked her earlier.
Naala had grown into a state of thoughtlessness. She looked, and looked, and looked. Her mind was free from feelings, emotions, anything. She could not do anything now; numbness ate at her as a starving bandit would to a royal feast.
The moment the strain became too much for her, too much for the impassive state of burden, inquisitiveness and the audacious flooded back to her. She shot out a paw and stroked the monster's back, feeling the rough hide and texture of the nightmare of her childhood, the heavy folds in the cracked lips, the barbs that dreams are made of along the jaw line, and the brawny brute force indications that she herself could never overcome. The emerald orb fleetingly looked downward before meeting her eye to eye again.
"What's your name?" she whispered softly.
When the monster was spoken to, alarm rang loud and clear like a chiming bell from the cyclops eye. It, in a strange madness, wildly reared its head up toward the ceiling, its height being tall enough to stand up and claw the roof apart, shingle by shingle. While groaning softly, it aggressively moved its whole body from side to side, as if being looking behind itself to see if it was being pursued by a shady hunter. The monster roared quietly one last time before turning around slowly and heavily shuffling off in the other direction, spiked tail swinging fiercely, as a signal of goodbye, out the door.
But that wasn't the last Naala heard of the monster.
"AHHHHHH!!!" shrieked a brotherly voice, thunderous enough to coax a dormant neighborhood out of sleep. It was highly seasoned with fright and panic, intermingling with pure shock.
Dr. Death finally gets a long needed vacation.


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Q: Nesting output devices in R? Is it possible to plot a graph into several output devices at once? I tried:
getwd()

pdf("level1.pdf")
  pdf("level2.pdf")
    png("level3.png")

    x=1:10
    y=1:10
    plot(x, y)

    dev.off() # close level3
  dev.off() # close level2

  a=10:20
  b=-10:0
  plot(a,b)

dev.off() # close level1

The XY plot goes only into level3.png. (I should go into all 3 files)
Strangely, the AB plot goes into level2.pdf, whie I expected it to be written to level1.pdf, since level2.pdf should be already closed?

A: It is possible to have more than one device open at the same time, *but only
one device is currently "active" and all graphics output is sent to that device. So No, you can't plot a graph into several output devices at once (in parallel/same time I mean). here I detail some handy functions of the device class that you can use.
You can use the functions :

*

*dev.List(): t get list of open devices

*dev.cur() to get the current active device

*dev.set() to change the active device

*dev.next() and dev.prev(): to make the next/previous device on the device list

For example:
pdf("level1.pdf")
pdf("level2.pdf")
png("level3.png")
## list the devices
dev.list()
       pdf            pdf png:level3.png
         2              3              4

## current device
dev.cur()
png:level3.png         ## that's why The XY plot goes only into this device
                 4
### this will go in the current device
x=1:10
y=1:10
plot(x, y)
## change the active device
dev.set(dev.next())
pdf
  2
### close all devices
graphics.off()
## list the devices
dev.list()
NULL

So applying this on your example:
pdf("level1.pdf")
pdf("level2.pdf")
png("level3.png")
dev.off() # close level3
dev.off() # close level2
dev.cur()
pdf           ## plot A,B goes on this device
  3

A: With ggplot2 you can assign plot objects to variables and print them several times:
library(ggplot2)
p <- ggplot(data.frame(x=1:10, y=1:10), aes(x=x, y=y)) + geom_point()

pdf('a.pdf')
print(p)
dev.off()

png('b.png')
print(p)
dev.off()

Or, with ggsave (thanks to Roland; however, this opens a dummy window on my system -- Ubuntu):
ggsave('a.pdf', p)
ggsave('b.png', p)

Not sure about "regular" plots, I'm using ggplot2 whenever I can.

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I recently learned about Oasap.com from fellow blogger Karon of Mamas Cool Things. After checking out the website and learning of their fashion blogger program, I was excited to apply for the opportunity to check out the site and choose a product for review. Lucky for me, I received an email welcoming me to their fashion blogger program, and because of that I am being given the opportunity to check out the site and tell you a little about my experience.
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Shipping took almost 2 weeks, so I would advise keeping shipping time in mind when ordering. Upon receiving the blouse, I was impressed with the style and quality of the item. It is just as pretty in person as on the website. The length and size was a bit smaller than I had anticipated and when I tried it on, it felt a bit snug. My daughter, who is smaller than me, thought the blouse was super cute and decided to try it on. As you can see, the fit is gorgeous on her! (I especially love the romantic flow of the shirt and the super fashionable bubble hem.) Needless to say, the blouse is heading back to college with her today!
I am really looking forward to keeping an eye on all of the newest fashions on Oasap. I am sure my daughter and I will both be shopping through the site again in the near future.
Have you checked out Oasap yet? What did you think?
If you are a blogger interested in receiving a referral to join Oasap's Fashion Hunter Program, leave me a comment with your email address and I will gladly send you an invite!
Love the blouse, specially the ruffles!!! Thanks for sharing.
Love the blouse and it looks great on her. Thanks for sharing I will have to check it out!
I checked out their site, some of the items are pretty funky for me but it sure didn't take long to find something I loved.. The Bat Sleeve Loose T-shirt Colored Stripes may just have to end up in my closet!
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Buttigieg vows to hold the airline accountable as Southwest flight cancellations continue
(CNN) – Relief is still days away for passengers who made reservations at Southwest Airlines this week, as the embattled airline continues to struggle after US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg described the system as completely broken.
As of 3:15 a.m. ET, of the 2,714 flights already booked for Wednesday flights in or out of the United States, 2,504 were operated by Southwest, according to the flight tracking website. FlightAware. Meanwhile, the airline has already canceled another 2,356 flights on Thursday, the website showed.
The airports canceled Wednesday were Denver International, followed by Chicago Midway International, Baltimore/Washington International, Dallas Love Field, Nashville International, Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas and Phoenix Sky Harbor International.
Buttigieg says he spoke directly to Southwest CEO Bob Jordan on Tuesday about the thousands of canceled flights this week, with no immediate indication of when passengers will be able to rebook.
"Their system has literally completely melted down," Buttigieg told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday.
"I've made it clear to customers that our department needs to hold them accountable for their responsibilities and to get them out of this situation and make sure it doesn't happen again."
Mars at a Glance
CNN's Carlos Suarez reports from Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson Airport that travelers are braving long lines and canceling flights after a major winter storm swept across the United States.
According to FlightAware, 3,200 flights to, within or out of the United States were canceled on Tuesday.
Of those cancellations, about 2,693 were Southwest flights — 84% of all cancellations in the US.
Passengers at Southwest ticket counters at several U.S. airports on Tuesday saw long lines trying to rebook or connect, while large piles of unclaimed bags continued to grow as passengers struggled to retrieve their luggage at airports including Chicago's Midway International, Harry Reid in Los Angeles. Vegas in Houston and William B. Hobby Airport.
Passenger Trisha Jones told CNN at the airport in Atlanta that she and her partner had been traveling for five days and were trying to get home to Wichita, Kansas, after getting off a ship in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
After his flight was canceled, he stayed with relatives and was later sent back to Atlanta to catch a connecting flight.
"We were lucky because we were in Fort Lauderdale — my family lives in the Tampa Bay area, so we rented a car to visit my family for Christmas," Jones said. "We've seen so many families sleeping on the floor, it breaks my heart."
BoutiqueGeek: 'A lot of cleaning to do'
Canceled Southwest Airlines flights are displayed on a bulletin board at Oakland International Airport in California on Tuesday.
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Southwest blamed a number of factors for the travel disaster, including winter storm delays, aggressive flight scheduling and outdated infrastructure.
"All I can say is that Southwest can't even find where their own employees are, let alone their own passengers, let alone their baggage," Buttigieg said, adding that he also spoke with the leaders of airline unions representing flight attendants and pilots.
The secretary said the CEO told Jordan that he expected Southwest to provide advance refunds and reimbursements to affected passengers without them asking.
"I conveyed to the CEO our expectation that they go above and beyond to take care of passengers and address this," he said.
Buttigieg told CNN that the Department of Transportation is prepared to issue fines against Southwest if there is evidence that the company failed to meet its legal obligations, but he said the department will closely monitor persistent customer service issues at the airline.
"While every other part of the aviation system is moving toward recovery and improving every day, it's actually moving in the opposite direction with this airline," Buttigieg said.
"You have a company here that needs a lot of cleaning," he said.
Southwest CEO Video Apology
Jordan apologized to passengers and staff Video report The company made the announcement on Tuesday evening.
"We're doing everything we can to get back to a normal surgery, and please hear that I'm truly sorry," Jordan said.
Although Jordan acknowledged the problems with the company's response, the statement suggested that he did not expect massive changes to Southwest's procedures in response to the mass cancellations.
"The tools we use to recover from disruptions serve us well 99% of the time, but we need to double down on existing programs to improve systems for these extreme situations so that we never have to face what's happening now again," Jordan said.
"We're confident we'll be back on track before next week."
Can passengers do anything?
Katie Nostro, spokeswoman for Scott's Cheap Flights, shares her tips on what to do if your flight is delayed or canceled.
Southwest has warned that this week's cancellations and delays will continue for several more days.
So what should customers do?
"First things first, travelers who are still waiting on Southwest and need to get somewhere should try to book a flight on another airline as soon as possible … right now, in fact," said Kyle Potter, executive editor of Travel Advice. website frugal traveller, In an email to CNN Travel on Tuesday afternoon.
"Every airline in the country is jam-packed right now, so your chances of finding a seat — let alone at a half-decent price — are slim to none within hours," Potter said.
"The thick of it is travelers should save all their receipts: other flights, a rental car, hotel nights, meals, anything," Potter said.
If you are left confused, your efforts to reach a customer service agent will go nowhere, Founder Scott's Cheap Flights Recommend to try international number.
"The main hotline for US airlines is clogged with other passengers being rebooked. Call any of the airline's dozens of international offices to get an agent quickly," said Scott Keys.
"Agents can handle your booking just like US-based ones, but there's no need to wait to receive it."
Click here To get the international numbers that Southwest posted earlier.
Southwest: 'Keep your receipts'
After their flight was canceled, 13 strangers decided to rent a van and drive from Orlando to Knoxville, Tennessee.
Southwest spokesman Jay McVay said Monday night that Houston's William B. At a press conference at Hobby Airport, "The airline will do everything possible to fix the challenges experienced by passengers, including hotels, ride aids, vans … rental cars. These people will be sure to return home as soon as possible."
He assured that all customers, even those who had already left the airport or made their own alternative arrangements, would be taken care of.
"If you've already left, take care of yourself, do what you need to do for your family, keep your receipts," relayed McVay. "We'll make sure they're taken care of, that's not a question."
What is wrong from the pilot's point of view?
Passengers search their luggage at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California on Tuesday.
Robin Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Capt. Mike Santoro, vice president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, told CNN on Tuesday. Problems facing the South West It was the worst disruption he had experienced in 16 years at the airline.
He described last week's storm as helping to trigger major technical issues.
"What's wrong is that our IT infrastructure for programming software is very outdated," he said. "With our complex route network, it cannot handle the number of pilots, flight attendants in the system.
"We don't have the normal hub that other major airlines do. We fly a point-to-point network, which puts our crew in the wrong places without the planes."
He added: "This is frustrating for the pilots, flight attendants and especially our passengers. We are tired of apologizing for Southwest, the pilots at the airline, and our hearts go out to all passengers, they really do."
CNN's Andy Rose, Andy Babineau, Adrian Pratus, Dave Alsop, Nick Valencia, David Goldman, Leslie Perot, Carlos Suarez and Ross Levitt contributed to this story.
An Arizona judge ordered Gary Lake to pay Katie Hobbs some of the fees for the election lawsuit, but refused to grant her permission.
'The Way of Water' Grosses $1B Global Box Office – Deadline


This Chilean trio of childhood friends—Diego Lorca, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, and Domingo Garcia-Huidobro—create trance-like music with deep roots in Hawkwind and groove-oriented Krautrock without turning completely motorik. The trio added electronic star Uwe Schmidt (a.k.a. Atom TM) on vintage Korg synths that were popularized by Kraftwerk in their live shows from the '80s. At just four tracks in 45 minutes, the album centers on meditative pieces, with only "Feuerzeug" breaking into guitar hero riffs during its generally space-aged jam. The other individual tracks hold onto their specific moods and slowly if ever shift shape. This is music designed for driving and for headphones.
Well i was never big on the Kraftwek style, and only a few Neu! songs, these guys bring to mind some of my favorite of the genre with minimal moterik. Certainly free-form elements of Agitation Free, and even some of the new versions of Faust I've heard. (Re:"Something Dirty") I have spent way too much money looking for original CD's from Germany, perhaps with this new generation of "Krautrockers" (Although in this case Peruvian), we have a lot to look forward too. After all, spinning discs from the early 70's- as good as they are- this fresh blood is most welcome.


Losing just 16 minutes of sleep could be the difference between a clear-headed day at the office or one filled with distractions.
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Information as a concept has a diversity of meanings, from everyday usage to technical settings. Generally speaking, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.