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Three actors get off a plane in Belfast. Theyre there to film scenes for Rian Johnsons Star Wars Episode VIII and the paparazzi are all over it. The flash bulbs are flying. When the lights fade, were left with one major question. What are these three specific actors filming Of course, we know that Star Wars Episode VIII has been filming for several months all over Europe, mainly at Pinewood Studios in England, but also on location too, in Ireland and other place air force 1 s as well. Recently, though, a very familiar looking structure has been under construction in Malin Head, in County Donegal Ireland. Debate has raged about the identity of the set but now, those three actors have arrived as well and this is where things get interesting and, perhaps, a bit revealing. BBC News has photos that reveal Mark Hamill, Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver all landed in Belfast in the last few days. And, the struc adidas originals hamburg ture thats being erected looks a lot like the Millennium Falcon. Could Rey and Luke have taken the Falcon to this location to confront Kylo Ren Are the trio currently filming the finale of the film It certainly seems possible. Youd have to imagine Episode VIII will finally see Luke showdown with his former student and nephew, the once Ben Solo. And hes likely to have his new apprentice, Rey, at his side. Or maybe this is salomon xt a scene earlier where the dark side and the light are on each others tails. Then again, Lucasfilm and Disney are not above a little misdirection. Its very possible there

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For the better part of a decade, the most fascinating narrative abou adidas originals t the Avatar sequels was their release dates. Now that we think hoka laufschuhe thats settled, director James Cameron has finally begun to reveal what the actual narrative will be about: Family. Speaking to Variety, Cameron revealed for the first time what the Avatar sequels will be about in terms of story: The stor crocs winterstiefel yline in the sequels really follows Jake and Neytiri and their children. Its more of a family saga about the struggle with the humans. A family saga makes sense, considering Cameron is promising not just one, but four sequels. To see Jake and Neytiri grow old, pass the torch to their children, maybe die, and get a real sense of history would fit well into a five-film saga. Not to mention, take up less of Zoe Saldanas time. The first of those sequels is still on track for Christmas 2018 but Cameron admitted that hes okay with changing it again if he must. It was originally scheduled for release in 2014 We havent moved that target yet, but we will if we need to, the director told Variety. The important thing for me is not when the first one comes out but the cadence of the release pattern. I want them to be released as close together as possible. If its an annual appointment to show up at Christmas, I want to make sure that were able to fulfill on that promise. At the moment, the films are scheduled a few years apart. Avatar 2 will be released Christmas 2018. Avatar 3 will follow on Christmas 2020, Avata

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Time is moving on, as it tends to do, and iTunes鈥攁 media suite that made its debut in 2001, almost two decades ago鈥攊s potentially on Apples chopping block. This years macOS refresh has been being tipped to feature separate apps for TV, music, podcasts, and ebooks, with iTunes maybe hanging around, Internet Explorer-style, for legacy purposes. It feels like the right move, but theres one iTunes feature adidas samba og worth saving. That feature is smart playlists鈥攕omething that hasnt made its way to Spotify, or Google Play Music, or YouTube Music, or Tidal, or Dee adidas samba adidas zer, and which might not make it to whatever app Apple is cooking up. Right now, we dont know for sure what any new Music app will offer, or adidas campus 80s what the fate of iTunes is ultimately going to be鈥攖hough it seems were all agreed that the aging software suite is too bloated and too arcane to stick around for much longer. But if Apple engineers are looking for features to save from the iTunes fire, Im hoping smart playlists is one of them. Choose your own algorithm I havent had time to personally contact every single digital music consumer out there, but judging by the blank looks I get when mentioning smart playlists to friends, Im guessing there isnt a huge percentage of people currently using the smart playlists feature built into iTunes. A quick primer then: Smart playlists populate automatically based on criteria you specify. For example, you can set up a playlist to play songs you havent heard in a month鈥攖racks disappear after they Fsgk Oil From the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Disaster Continues to Spread in Disturbing Ways
As counterfeiters get better and better at faking expensive Swiss watches, the watchmakers themselves now have a new tool to help distinguish their genuine creations from fakes: nanoscopic watermarks that are invisible to the naked human eye, and impossible to fake. A company called Nanoga has developed a new process where nanophotonic layers鈥?0,000 times thinner than a human hair鈥攃an be deposited on a watchs sapphire crystal or glass dome as highly-detailed imagery using a lithographic printing process. Under normal lighting conditions the hol reebok stoffschuhe ographic image thats produced is invisible to the naked eye, so an expensive watchs face and complications are not obscured. But hit it with an ultraviolet light, and suddenly the watermark becomes visible, confirming a timepiecess authenticity. The science that makes these watermarks possible is well-known, but the process of marking a watch is what makes this technique so secure. Expensive machinery and highly-guarded proprietar reebok classic y chemical recipes are required, reebok and even if counterfeiters are able to reproduce the invisible watermark one day, the cost of doing so might make it simply not worth the effort. [脡cole Polytechnique F茅d茅rale de Lausanne via Gizmag] ScienceWatches

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Move over, Venus de Milo. Theres a new fifth ninja turtle in town. To celebrate the announcement of a second printing of its ongoing TMNT series 95th issue, IDW has officially let the cat out of the bag on its big reveal: A new member of the Ninja Turtles is on the way, sporting some fancy claws and a yellow headband. Congratulations to the creative team of TMNT! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 95 is now adidas campus 00s sold out at the distributor level and going to 2nd print! Until then, head over to your local comic shop and pick-up your copy鈥umor has it theres a huge cliff hanger! 馃憖馃悽 pic.twitter/PjYdajBoIA mdash; IDW Publishing @IDWPublish adidas yeezy ing July 8, 2019 Not to be confused with Mikeys bright orange headband. Still better than the light blue/dark blue differentiation between Leo the last time there was an i adidas yeezyslide nfamous addition to the Ninja line-up in the form of the aforementioned Venus, a female turtle first created for Sabans Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation TV series back in 1997. How would you tell its a girl turtle if not for the boobs : a late-90s Fox executive, probably. Photo: Fox But how did this new turtle come to be, and who is it Head below the warning to find out! Last weeks TMNT 95鈥攂y Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, Tom Waltz, Dave Wachter, Ronda Pattison, and Shawn Lee鈥攕aw the team in a race to save time to save one of their allies, a Foot Clan ninja named Jennika, after she was mortally stabbed as part of an ongoing scrap with a rival faction headed by Splinters ar Uvpw To Make Robot Hands More Like Ours, MIT Built These Softer, Smarter Fingers
In November 2017s Justice League, fans will be introduced to Ezra Millers Flash and Ray Fishers Cyborg. Four months later, the two will team up again for Flashs solo movie. Variety reports that Fishers character will appear in The Flash, which is being directed by Rick Famuyiwa. This comes as no surprise to anyone who followed those Justice League set visits from earlier this summer. Fisher and Miller were buddy buddy on the set, and in the scene that was being filmed. Read about it here. https://gizmodo/on-the-set-of-justice-league-the-movie- salomon hombre that-wants-to-s-1782290344 Millers Flash can currently be seen in theaters, a sketcher sportschuhe s he has a brief scene in S adidas originals samba uicide Squad. Both his and Millers characters were first introduced in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Justice League will be the first time each gets a full, fleshed-out story however. The Flash, which co-stars Kiersey Clemons, opens March 16, 2018. [Variety] CyborgEzra MillerFlashMoviesRay Fisher

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Two years ago, a group of teens and pre-teens filed a petition with the United Nations saying five major emitters were violating their rights. On Monday, the UN committee tasked with reviewing their complaint basically handed them a participation trophy and then ruled largely in favor of the polluting countries. The case was filed against Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey, five G20 countries that have signed onto the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In the complaint, Greta Thunberg and 15 co-plaintiffs alleged that those countries were violating their rights but using the atmosphere as a carbon dioxide waste dump. Those countries responded by saying they had climate plans and were trying their best, and that if the children really wanted a solution, they should file lawsuits in each country so the courts there could handle it. After two years of hearings, the kids didnt get back the remedy they sought. The committe adidas yeezy e ruled that yes, climate change is a huge issue and yes, countries are responsible for winding down emissions because of the harm they cause to kids around the world. But it ruled that the kids had failed to exhaust legal avenues in the f adidas yeezyslide ive countries named in the complaint, and the committee wouldnt hol adidas samba adidas d those countries to account until that happened. I have no doubt this judgment will haunt the Committee in the future, said petitioner Alexandria Villasenor in a statement. When the climate disasters are even more severe than they are now, Nybp Sony s Video-Focused ZV-1 Wants to Help You Become a YouTube Star
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The Rise of Skywalker will be here in less than a month. And while were still eagerly awaiting the landmark film marking the end of the Skywalker Saga, were now extremely distracted by something tiny yet huge thats recently entered the Star Wars world: the internets new favorite infant, Baby Yoda. The Mandalorians breakout superstar doesnt say much, but Baby Yodas every gesture and expression are proof positive that sometimes, being the purest form of adorable is enough. http air max 1 s://gizmodo/the-third-episode-of-the-mandalorian-changed-everything-1839867291 Except, of course, when it can be improved, enhanced, or turned into a meme with the power of Photoshop, which is where you come in, using any of the photos weve shared in this post including the one up top. The instant we saw what was in the baby carrier, we knew the Force would be strong in The Mandalorian: Those big brown eyes contain multitudes. Or maybe theyre just scanning the immediate area for another frog-like creature to snack on And, of course, the nike dunk high now-familiar concept art for the character, which the studio shared as part of a group of illustrations from artists Christian Alzmann, Nick Gindraux, Ryan Church, Jama Jurabaev, and Doug Chiang. Show us all your Photoshop creations in the comments below, and well compile the standouts in a future post. May air max 98 the Force 8230;well, you know. The Mandalorian is now streaming on Disney+ and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker hits theaters on December 20. https://gizmodo/2 Dict An AI Created New Doom Levels That Are as Fun as the Game s Original Ones
Merry Christmas! Heart-related deaths spike right around the holiday season. And a happy New Year! The spike in heart deaths from the so-called Christmas Holiday Effect had been seen previously by American scientists, and has been attributed to the onset of winter for various reasons. But the new study is based on data from New Zealand, where the Southern Hemisphere summer b salomon speedcross egins right before the holiday season does. The researchers found that the kiwis, too, suffer from a yuletide spike in cardiac death. The study reviews New Zealand mortality data on over 700,000 deaths occurring between 1988 and 2013, just under 200,000 of which were heart-related. The team compared deaths in the period surrounding the holiday December 11鈥? adidas campus 00s 4 and January 8鈥?1 to the December 25-January 7 period, to make sure the effect was truly a Christmastime one and not simply seasonal. They found that 4.2 percent more people die from heart-related issues outside of hospitals in the period around Christmas and New Years than would be expected based on trends. Those who died around the holidays were also a year younger, on average, than those dying during the rest of the year. The scientists published their results in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The paper offers a few adidas originals hamburg possible explanations for the spike. The lower average age of those who die from heart problems around the holidays implies that some people may simply wait too long to receive care. They might not have access to car

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The first season of The Handmaids Tale has come to a close, and I feel like the latest episode and what it promises for the future can be summed up by none other than T.S. Eliot: This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. Night opens on a flashback to when June Elisabeth Moss was first brought to the Red Center and tagged, before she became Offred. In her inner monologue, she recalls the terror she could see on each of the other womens faces, just as on her own. Flash forward to the present, and Offreds not afraid anymore. Inside her shopping bag is a secret package that could change the course of the Gileadean world, and shes feeling pretty good about it. Offred stashes the package behind the tub before entering her bedroom, and its a hell of a lucky thing she does, as Serena Joy Yvonne Strahovski was waiting, and immediately smacks the shit out of her. At the end of the last episode, Serena had gone into the commanders office looking for proof of his infidelity, and she clearly found it 8230; meaning the dress Commander Fred Joseph Fiennes made Offred wear to Jezebels. This crushes her. Serenas only comfort has been the hope of having a child, to make the awful sexual slavery worth he crocs hausschuhe r while. The idea of her likely infertile husband fucking Offred for no rea nike air force son other than his own pleasure is too much for her to bear, so she needs to make the adultery matter. Serena Joy rips out a pregnancy test and issues an ultimatum: salomon wanderschuhe Be pregnant, or di

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Its difficult to critique the pilot of Batwoman. There are certainly issues with it. There are criticisms to spare. But theres something powerfully unique about the CWs l asics atest superhero show and it makes it really difficult to get too bogged down in the faults. This is the first solo superhero series centered on a queer character which makes it vitally important even if, sometimes, it gets caught up in its own mediocrity. CW screened the pilot last night for an audience at San Diego Comic-Con. Weve seen a rough cut of the same pilot and it should be noted that some things, like clunky edits in fights, weird musical cues, and crummy effects, could very well be changed by the time the show premieres on the CW later this year. As were still months away from most people seeing it and things chanclas yeezy could change Ill be avoiding major spoilers and theres at least one that is devastatingly lovely . Ruby Roses Kate Kane isnt the first queer superhero on TV. Shes not the first one on a CW show, and shes not even the first one on a CW show thats at the top of the call sheet. First, there was Caity Lotzs bisexual Sara Lance. She was introduced on Arrow back in season two and has been seducing ladies on Legends of Tomorrow since the pilot. Echo Kellum played the gay Curtis Holt for multiple se yeezy slide asons of Arrow too, and his introduction pre-dates the coming out of Chyler Leighs Alex Danvers on Supergirl by a few months. And while Black Lightning may exist in a weird place in CWs Arrowverse it Irnt Hundreds Stung as Extreme Storms Unleash Scorpion Plague in Egypt
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