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U.K. NEW RELEASE ROUND UP – 03/12/18
By Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins 21st July 2019 Updated: 21st July 2019 No Comments3 Mins Read
As the title suggests this is a list of the new releases coming out in the U.K., week beginning 3rd December 2018. This is the new genre releases that could be of interest for you this week.
UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB
Unfolding in real-time UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB is the most terrifying horror yet from the producer of GET OUT, HAPPY DEATH DAY and THE PURGE, and the makers of UNFRIENDED. When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to protect the dark web.
DVD https://amzn.to/2AFf3r6
THE BLOB
THE HORROR CULT CLASSIC OOZES ITS WAY TO BLU-RAY! A cult classic of gooey greatness, The Blob follows the havoc wreaked on a small town by an outer-space monster with neither soul nor vertebrae, with Steve McQueen (The Great Escape) playing the rebel teen who tries to warn the residents about the jellylike invader. Strong performances and ingenious special effects help The Blob transcend the schlock sci-fi and youth delinquency genres from which it originates. Made outside of Hollywood by a maverick film distributor and a crew whose credits mostly comprised religious and educational shorts, The Blob helped launch the careers of McQueen and composer Burt Bacharach, whose bouncy title song is just one of this film's many unexpected pleasures.
Blu-ray https://amzn.to/2Rr0ZJ2
WESTWORLD SEASON TWO
In the first season, the hosts didn't understand the nature of their reality. They didn't have an element of choice. All that changes with the pull of a trigger. In Season Two, chaos takes control as the rancher's daughter, Dolores Abernathy (series star EVAN RACHEL WOOD) takes charge, Maeve Millay (series star THANDIE NEWTON) is on a mission and the mysterious Man in Black (series star ED HARRIS) is back. A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life on Earth, and the evolution of sin, the series also stars JEFFREY WRIGHT, JAMES MARSDEN, TESSA THOMPSON, LUKE HEMSWORTH, RODRIGO SANTORO and more.
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Blu-ray Steelbook https://amzn.to/2Ph9wg1
WESTWORLD SEASON ONE & TWO
DVD https://amzn.to/2zFGilN
Blu-ray https://amzn.to/2BLPQgI
PREVIOUS WEEK RELEASES CAN BE FOUND HERE
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Ryan Hurd (RCA Nashville)
WHAT IT IS: The songwriter-turned-artist connects with his growing audience on a deeply personal level, whether it's by hitting the road to headline his sold-out To a T Tour or clocking an impressive 100m audio and video streams worldwide. A Grammy-nominated writer, Hurd found his voice and compelling point of view recording his own material. His ability to relate with clarity and intimacy captured the attention of various entertainment tastemakers, including Amazon Music, Esquire, ET, HuffPost, Pandora, People, SiriusXM, Vevo and Rolling Stone Country, which lauded him for "generating major buzz." He's currently recording his debut full-length, which will include "To a T" and "Michigan for the Winter."
ALBUM: TBA
SINGLE: "To a T"
LIVE: Additional shows added in March and April following major success of To a Tour—capacity crowds at some of the most respected music rooms in the country
RADIO: At Country radio now; has already seen two #1s on Sirius XM's The Highway Hot 30 Country Countdown
PRESS: Only country artist named on Sirius XM's all-genre "Future Five for 2019"; a top pick on red carpets with newlywed wife Maren Morris; has received raves for his style and good looks from ET Online, Country Living, Hollywood Life and E!
BOOKING: Joey Lee, Braeden Rountree, WME
PUBLISHING: UMPG
MANAGEMENT: Janet Weir, 42 Entertainment

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On behalf of The Law Office of Lynnette Ariathurai, A Professional Corporation posted in Contract Disputes on Monday, June 2, 2014.
Wine is an important part of cultural sophistication to many, which is why it is essential to pay close attention to even the smallest details when creating a high-end wine. Therefore, obtaining help from the experts is critical for anybody looking to enter the wine business. However, even the experts are not perfect, which is what one entrepreneur found out after hiring a consultant winemaker. The failed business collaboration recently ended in a business contract dispute in California.
The problems began after the entrepreneur -- owner of Potelle, a wine manufacturing company -- hired a consultant winemaker to help create a high-end bottle of wine. The owner of the company is now suing the consultant for breach of contract and negligence. The winemaker consultant was supposed to help make a wine that could be retailed for as much as $200 per bottle. However, the plaintiff claims that the consultant allowed the wine to literally turn into vinegar.
The court documents filed by the entrepreneur claim that the plaintiff had agreed to pay the defendant $120,000 to be paid in installment payments over a 10-month period. The winemaker consultant was supposed to make the wine at his own vineyard where he also produced his own wine. However, the project began to go badly due to volatile acidity in the wine reaching high levels.
On the other hand, there are two sides to each business contract dispute in California. The defendant in the case denies the allegations regarding his alleged failure to fulfill the contract. The consultant winemaker claims that the wine is marketable and that he also worked for free for a significant amount of time to help save the project. However, it will be up to a judge to decide who will ultimately prevail in this court case.


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New Coventry EV battery factory secures backing from council
January 13, 2022auto
Warwick District Council and Coventry City Council have approved an early-stage planning application for a £2.5bn EV battery factory at Coventry airport.
Approval of the outline planning application – an agreement in principle to the development of a site – takes the 530,000 sq m facility one step closer to reality. Outline planning permission is expected to be officially granted in March, when the government has been consulted on the plans.
Final planning permission will be submitted once the necessary investment has been achieved and an end user for the facility identified.
The West Midlands Gigafactory, as it is known, is a public-private joint venture between Coventry City Council and Coventry Airport, who are seeking £2.5bn of investment over the next four years. They are pursuing investment opportunities with "battery manufacturers from around the globe", and Autocar understands discussions are ongoing with the government-backed Advanced Propulsion Centre, which has £1bn of funding available for UK-based mobility projects.
It has not been confirmed how close the project is to reaching its fundraising goal.
Ultimately, the site will cover 530,000 square metres, have an annual capacity of 60GWh, add contribute a claimed £434 million in gross value to the regional economy.
The proposal also claims that 6000 new jobs will be created, with tens of thousands added to the supply chain, and that the factory will be powered by 100% green energy, including solar and wind power.
The applicants say too that Coventry Airport is an ideal location for an EV battery factory, because it's adjacent to the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, which is the UK's largest battery research centre.
"It's mission critical that the West Midlands secures a gigafactory, both for the future of our region's automotive industry and the huge economic and job benefits it would bring, as well as the future of our planet," said West Midlands mayor Andy Street.
"The West Midlands is already home to the country's biggest car manufacturer, Europe's largest research centre of its kind, the UK's only battery industrialisation centre and a world-leading supply chain. A gigafactory therefore is the natural next step for the UK's automotive heartland, and I will not rest until we have secured one."
The proposed factory has also been backed by local MPs, Warwick District Council, Warwickshire County Council, the West Midlands Combined Authority and the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership.
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Letter: Record doesn't sit well
Voting record proves Gary Peters fails at most basic duty to protect life
Letter: Record doesn't sit well Voting record proves Gary Peters fails at most basic duty to protect life Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: http://bcene.ws/1wn4hgw
BCE Published 3:04 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2014 | Updated 3:14 p.m. ET Oct. 23, 2014
Gary Peters(Photo: AP)
On Nov. 4, we have an opportunity to elect change in Michigan's Senate representation.
During Sen. Levin's 36 years as our senator, not once did he vote to protect the unborn, the ones who have no voice. It is disturbing to me that the person seeking to replace him on the Democratic side has shown, by his record, that he will continue these anti-life policies.
Gary Peters has voted in favor of the barbaric procedure called partial birth abortion, not just once, but three times (1996, 1998 and 1999). He agrees with sex selection abortion as demonstrated by his vote in May 2012. He has voted three times for tax payer funding of abortions (2009, 2011, and 2014).
For me, if government officials cannot protect the weakest among us, then they fail in their most basic duty. That is why I will vote for Terri Lynn Land.
Many issues clamor for our attention in the campaign ads — economy, taxes, education, etc. But for me, the starting point is the value of human life and Gary Peters' record does not pass the test.
Jennifer de Araujo
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Time to Applaud the "New" EPA
One year ago in this column, I called on Environmental Protection Agency chief Stephen Johnson to resign for letting politics, not science, guide his agency's decisions. Nor was I alone—10,000 EPA employees were in open revolt for the same reason. Johnson was defying the Supreme Court's ruling that his agency should move forward on climate change and was refusing to approve California's forward-looking controls on climate-altering pollution.
By Trip Van Noppen | March 19, 2009
Today, I am calling on all Earthjustice supporters to join with me in thanking his successor, Lisa Jackson, for steering the EPA back on course with a string of good decisions, especially her action last week aimed at regulating one of the most toxic side effects of burning coal for power: coal ash.
Coal ash, as you'll recall, became a national story just before Christmas when 1.1 billion gallons of it burst out of a holding pond in Tennessee, flooding more than 300 acres up to 25 feet deep with toxic levels of arsenic, lead, mercury, selenium, and boron. Earthjustice has been working for years to prevent this from happening, but not even this Exxon Valdez-scale disaster moved the Bush EPA to act.
Fortunately, Jackson sees things differently. Only days after getting a letter signed by Earthjustice and 108 other green groups, she has promised to issue proposed coal ash regulations. She will be assisted by draft regulations we wrote and submitted to the EPA about two years ago.
Getting the federal government to take coal ash seriously is a major victory as we push forward with our goal of ending coal's toxic life cycle from how it is mined to how it is used. And we are optimistic about our coal work despite last months disappointing decision by federal judges, allowing the most destructive form of coal mining—mountaintop removal—to continue without regards for its devastating effects on communities and mountain streams. Across the land, there are numerous signs that King Coal is in retreat.
We successfully blunted coal's expansion in Kansas and in Florida, and we are challenging plants proposed in New Mexico, Wyoming and elsewhere. Our legal, policy and public education work has helped fuel a national trend away from coal as evidenced by the 100 or so permits for plants nationwide held up because of growing opposition.
Moreover, public resistance to new coal plants and the promise of tighter federal regulation has led investors to back away from new coal plants, just as the federal government's Rural Utilities Service has.
Now it's time for the new EPA and Congress to make dramatic investments in renewables, conservation and efficiency ... and it's our job to make sure that the coal industry's considerable money and influence and the false hope of "clean coal" don't sidetrack government action.
Amid the vigilance, however, let's not forget to be grateful. Join me in dropping Lisa Jackson a note, thanking her for the good work on coal ash, and encouraging her to keep mending an agency that for the last eight years abandoned its mission and the people and resources it was established to protect.
Tags: Air, Bush administration, Coal, Coal Ash, Environmental Protection Agency, Mountaintop Removal, Obama administration, science, U.S. Supreme Court, Water
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Trip Van Noppen served as Earthjustice's president from 2008 until he retired in 2018. A North Carolina native, Trip said of his experience: "Serving as the steward of Earthjustice for the last decade has been the greatest honor of my life."
"Household air pollution alone kills more people every year than malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS combined."
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Most of us, especially those from the test playing nations have a short term memory. Not as short as Ghajini's protagonist but it could get shorter than that if situation demands. Match fixing controversy happened long back, so long that there were not even 25% of the news television channels we have today. And we had other things to focus on like, whose going to lead the team, who will replace him, why did he cry on TV etc.
We never worried if those who were implicated in the match fixing scandal showed any remorse. I don't think anybody did, everybody who was involved was so very focused on getting his name exonerated. This process of exoneration went on till you and I got bored and the news channels failed to rake that extra 1% viewership.
And now you see him in that same TV channel which showed him as a villain who spoilt a sagely games image. He is now the expert on anything cricket with respect to that channel. I vividly remember the days when he touched upon discipline & integrity among other things.
The other gentleman is now seen in designer kurta's, he is a lawmaker now. Doing rounds in the parliament rubbing shoulders with an young brigade and its leader. The most disgusting thing in all is the fact that it is you and me who voted him in, what a shame. And we talk about corruption in politics, a joke.
Just across the fence, they had three or four who were as equally infamous as their Indian counterparts. Now these gentlemen want to be the senior statesmen – coaches, administrators and what not. The irony is that some already are. In this case I don't blame them, their board is equally shameless. Their Champions Trophy team would say why.
In what was the undisputed "Numero Uno" cricket team in all forms till sometime ago, there were a couple of them. One was born with another who calls Calcutta his second home these days. And the other was and is one of the best players international cricket has ever seen (and would ever).
And there were people who refused to go to other countries to play cricket, the reason being a probe. This required the the influential people from both the countries intervened and at the end of the day circumvent or short-circuit law.
Today there are souls trying to rest in peace, lawmakers trying to have a peaceful sleep in a parliament in session, head coaches in national academies trying to make a quick buck or a good face on camera, there are also some who have just finished playing cricket on the snow just after washing their news channel make-up down the drain.
Did any one of them show any remorse ?
Did any one of them own up ?
Forget what they said, did we say they are bad role models? We voted for them, asked questions about discipline on live TV and even dreamed about being coached by them in the national academy.
So why do we make a huge hue and cry when a third, or rather a fourth world cricketer wants to comeback after a match fixing ban?
Because Maurice Odumbe is a Kenyan and they are only associate members?
I am not trying to justify what Maurice did, what he did is a crime and the world of cricket needs to get rid of that. But that "getting it rid" process needs to be a level playing ground, one yardstick for all.
If we think Maurice needs be confined to his home and he is a bad role model. Let us speak about the other models too.


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Bernie Sanders Has 'Nothing Polite To Say' About Election Outcome
By Alec MacDonald
Donald Trump won the presidential election, and everyone at the Elite Daily office looks like they just got divorced.
All day, I've watched people wander to and from the kitchen, clutching giant cups of coffee — their only anchor to the real world.
A few minutes ago, a cluster of writers huddled around a computer to joylessly look at a video of a bat eating a banana.
It was supposed to cheer them up, but all it did was make them jealous of creatures who don't understand what happened last night.
I've seen three editors suddenly start crying at their desks.
As for me, I'm on four hours of sleep, and I would have rather gotten a colonoscopy without sedation than come in to write anything for Mother Internet today.
It is not a pleasant scene.
But there is one man who has refused to even say anything today.
Bernie Sanders' team, when asked to comment on Trump's victory, responded simply by saying they "have nothing polite to say right now."
It is a sentiment many of us can sympathize with at this juncture.
Although for everyone around me, at least for today, anger has widely been beaten out by a shell-shocked malaise, punctuated once every couple minutes by stabs of utter terror and foreboding.
As Complex reports, Bernie put out this video soon before the election, insisting people get out and vote.
Now, he remains silent.
On Twitter today, #DontBlameMeIVotedForBernie has been trending.
In ways, these people have a point. Bernie Sanders could very well have won against Donald Trump. According to several polls earlier in the race, he had better odds of defeating Trump. And it was the Democratic establishment that, we now know, fought to prevent him from getting the nomination.
On the other hand, (and aside from the fact that saying "I told you so" is as unproductive as it is what children say) many believe that it was Sanders' hard-fought primary campaign with Hillary that turned public favor against her — simply because she seemed to pale in comparison to many.
But that primary campaign also cultivated certain overtly misoginistic undertones when it came to a Clinton presidency (undertones that have lingered ever since her race against Obama).
These sentiments were encouraged not by Bernie Sanders, of course, but from a certain sect of his supporters, and members of the media.
As The Washington Post points out, white men, especially, from all over the country, vastly preferred Bernie to Hillary, regardless of their politics.
One of the groups that votes against Hillary Clinton most consistently is white men. In 20 of 23 contests for which we have exit poll data, white men have preferred Sanders to Clinton... In Vermont, Sanders saw one of his most dominant demographic performances: White men in the state favored him by 83 percentage points over Clinton.
There were certainly many problems with her as a candidate, but the caliber of revulsion from her detractors speaks volumes.
After all, look at Obama, who ran for president while still against gay marriage, deported more illegal immigrants than George Bush, kept Guantanamo Bay open and has killed hundreds of innocent civilians in drone strikes.
They give him a pass. They take the bad with the good. But Hillary's flaws makes their blood boil.
This heightened bias, some argue, never shook off her after the primary, even when she stepped up to face a candidate who had a veritable treasure trove of scandalous, offensive and dangerous traits.
America tripped over itself giving him the benefit of the doubt while jeering at her for every fault, flaw or misstep.
It was a long and difficult campaign, and many of us feel disgusted or just depressed.
But it not as simple as "I told you so."
In fact, it's not simple at all. Thinking it could be was our mistake all along.


Doc Wong's '98 KTM 200 EXC first ride report!
Suspension and handling: So far too new to truly evaluate but it is and does handle like a 125! The bike is extra skinny and I feel like I could throw it around like no other bike I've had. I found it very confidence inspiring.
Turns fast and easy and I could hit bumps, rocks and other trail obstacles without the bike getting me into trouble.
Motor: Quite incredible for a 200 cc motor. Though I haven't really explored the top part of the powerband, it seems to have pull quite well. What really surprised me was the amount of low end. I tested it on a particularly tight root infested up hill single track. I was quite surprised when I was able to ride it in first gear, lugging the motor.
It just kept on pulling and pulling. I couldn't believe it.
Range: I'm checking it out, but I suspect that I got the small 2.4 gallon motor. I only went 45 miles when I ran out of gas. I was leaking gas from either a sticky float bowl or improperly set float bowl though.
Seat: Made of wood. Serves me right, I should be standing more.
With my '95 KTM 300: Made the 300 feel like a slow turning Cadallic. But the 300 motor is hard to beat in the tight stuff. The 200 is definitely a zappier, revier motor and may be a slight disadvantage in less tractable conditions but more on this later.
240 lbs). I personally ride the 200 faster than the 360 because it's so much easier to manage.
With my friend's '97 CR 250: Feels smaller than the 250 and has more low end. Of course the midrange and top end does not compare with the CR motor. I'm sure the CR would climb big hills (we've got big ones out here in California) better, but the 200 on tight, slippery single track would work better.
With my buddy's '92 KDX 200: Turns quicker and much more precise than the KDX and much more confidence inspiring. The KDX though is more plush and user friendly. The KTM is much more at home going faster with more agressive riding.
The motor of the KTM feels more like a 250 than a 200, so it has gobs more power than the KDX.
So on my next ride, I'll explore the top end, do some hill climbing and generally abuse the bike more and see how it goes.
I find myself riding much more agressively on this bike. So far I absolutely love the bike.
FYI, I'm 45 years old, B level enduro rider, moderately fast with a love for tight nasty trails with plenty of trees, rocks, roots, etc. I also ride trials and have a '96 KTM 300 and did have a '97 KTM 360 which I sold. The '97 360 was too big, too heavy for my tastes and kind of riding.
I'm 5′ 7, 180 lbs, so not being a big guy the smaller 200 really suits me.
Now that I've had many rides to explore the attributes of this bike, I can easily say it's the best bike for me thus far! The bike continues to handle like a small 125 with almost the power of a 250. I climb hills on this bike better than with my 300 or 360! This bike rips!
As a result, I'm selling my KTM 300, something I thought I'd never do.


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Anti-smoking programs, if effective, would immediately pay for themselves by reducing the number of low birth weight babies and cutting the incidence of heart disease, according to a new study by UC San Francisco researchers. The evidence on low birth weight babies adds to a 1997 report by the researchers projecting significant short-term health care savings from reduced incidence of stroke and heart attacks if smoking is cut just one percent.
Most people think health care savings from smoking cessation programs will only show up many years later with a lowered risk of cancer and lung diseases, said the study's author Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and researcher at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), and the Cardiovascular Research Institute. But Glantz and his colleagues decided to see what the short-term effects of an anti-smoking programs would be - a perspective a politician or HMO manager might use to assess a program's value.
In the new study, they estimated the immediate monetary savings from smoking cessation, in terms of the reduced number of low birth weight babies born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy.
"We wanted to talk to the HMO manager or short sighted politician who only cared how much money smoking cessation would save right now," Glantz said.
Their results are published in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics.
Collaborators on the research and co-authors with Glantz on the paper are James Lightwood, PhD, assistant adjunct professor in UCSF's Department of Clinical Pharmacy and IHPS, and Ciaran Phibbs of the Department of Health Research and Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The researchers analyzed the 1990 California Linked Perinatal Data, which shows the percentage of low weight births in the state for that year, and the added short-term cost of caring for those babies. Low weight infants are more likely to be put immediately into an intensive care unit, and they are more vulnerable to illnesses, such as respiratory tract infections, the paper explained.
The researchers then factored in the nationwide smoking rate for pregnant mothers (13%), and the likelihood that an infant's low birth weight is caused by its mother's smoking - roughly 10% as measured by a 1990 study.
They found that each pregnant woman who smokes after her first trimester costs an average of $511 more during the pregnancy hospitalization than a non-smoker. That adds up to $263 million per year, and doesn't include the cost of any later hospitalizations or care for other problems that smoking might cause the child or the mother.
Health insurance plans, which usually pay this added cost, would save $21 million in direct medical costs for each one percent drop in the smoking rate, Glantz said. A seven-year anti-smoking program that successfully promotes annual one percent reductions in smoking rates would prevent 57,200 infants from being below normal in birth weight, and would save $572 million in direct medical costs. The researchers based the seven-year/one percent model on the success of California's anti-smoking program, which helped reduce smoking rates during its first seven years.
"If you can promote smoking cessation, there are substantial immediate, short term benefits, both in health, and in medical cost savings," Glantz said.
Smoking cessation also saves money over the short term in heart disease care, according to the earlier study by Glantz and Lightwood. That study showed that cutting the smoking rate by one percent would save $44 million dollars in the first year alone through reduced risks of heart attacks and strokes.
"If you look at the short term savings from both low birth weight babies and heart disease, that more than pays for the cost of a major tobacco control program like the one we've had in California," Glantz said. California's anti-smoking program, begun in 1989, has used money from a 25-cent-per-pack cigarette tax to pay for anti-tobacco television and billboard ads, as well as anti-smoking campaigns in communities and schools.
The new study in Pediatrics is the first to be conducted since lung surfactants were introduced to neonatal care, dramatically improving the chances of survival for low birth weight babies.
The research was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute, and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.