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"Nobody knew what they were doing." Behind the scenes of the 'Game of Thrones' pilot you never saw. | |
Submitted at 04-18-2021, 04:28 PM by Xiphias | |
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John Garvin also says his departure from Bend Studio was based on personality… | |
Submitted at 04-18-2021, 04:21 PM by Xiphias | |
But will he really end the United States’ other open-ended conflicts? | |
Submitted at 04-18-2021, 01:34 PM by Xiphias | |
The YF-23 was ready for a fight and armed with a fixed 20mm M61 Vulcan, while internal bays could house four AIM-7 Sparrow or AIM-120 AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missiles, as well as a pair of AIM-9 short-range missiles. | |
Submitted at 04-18-2021, 07:29 AM by somedongus | |
Submitted at 04-18-2021, 01:18 AM by Xiphias | |
Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scrapping the planned launch of her "America First" caucus after receiving blowback from leaders in her own party, despite confirming through a spokesperson on Friday that the caucus would launch. | |
Submitted at 04-18-2021, 01:16 AM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 06:55 PM by Wonko | |
Some 5,000 National Guardsmen will stay in Washington to protect the Capitol into March, according to the Pentagon. The Guard is seen as a reliable peacekeeping force – but it wasn't always that way. | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 06:33 PM by sleeppoor | |
Jonathan Freitag resigned while under internal Fairfax police investigation in May 2020, then joined the Brevard County Sheriff's Office three months later. He was fired earlier this month.
Fairfax County prosecutors are moving to throw out more than 400 criminal convictions based on the testimony or work of a former patrol officer who is accused of stealing drugs from the police property room, planting drugs on innocent people and stopping motorists without legal basis, court filings show. In a hearing Friday, a Fairfax judge said he was inclined to vacate felony drug and gun convictions against a former D.C. firefighter and order him released from prison next week after serving nearly two years because of the actions of former officer Jonathan A. Freitag.
Fairfax police said they began investigating Freitag after receiving a tip about him in July 2019. The police department took him off the streets. Freitag, now 25, resigned in May 2020 after the FBI had joined Fairfax County in a criminal investigation of him. But even after The Washington Post first reported the allegations against Freitag in June 2020, he was hired by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida in August 2020. The Fairfax human relations department reported to Brevard that the former officer had never been “subject to disciplinary action” and “there are no disciplinary records in his file.” | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 05:44 PM by sleeppoor | |
From there, Silla became one of Hollywood’s go-to costumed performers, elevated by his physical talents as a performer, his well-known sense of humor, and his willingness to spend hours on any given day in heavy or uncomfortable accoutrements. Over the next 20 years, he’d become a regular for Sid and Marty Kroft (appearing frequently on both H.R. Pufnstuf and Lidsville), take on the physical role of the robot Twiki on Buck Rogers, and serve as the alien who inexplicably serves as a plot point in Meatballs Part II. Through his stuntwork, he also continued to make connections and friends who would serve him well in his career, most notably George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who used him as a stunt performer in E.T. and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, and who made use of his numerous talents as the hang-gliding Ewok in Return Of The Jedi. (And when Mel Brooks wanted to poke fun at Lucas’ opus with Spaceballs a few laters, Silla got the call for that, too.) | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 06:29 PM by droog | |
NASA celebrated the achievement by pointing New Horizons’s camera at the spot in space where Voyager 1 is currently located. | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 04:30 PM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 09:47 AM by dueserpenti | |
It’s a full-time job, keeping track of the US/NATO campaign to start a fire somewhere on China’s borders. It’s like tracking an inept arsonist by satellite image: “Oh, there he goes again…the idiot started a trash fire next to a concrete wall.”
Of course, no one who matters in the defense business wants total war with China. They just want to keep those trash fires burning, hoping one of them will blaze up big, like a gender-reveal wildfire. And even if none of them do, it’s good for business, because most war scares are about funding. The US Navy always, always wants more ships. What’s scarce is plausible reasons to buy them. | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 09:11 AM by somedongus | |
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is said to be involved with the effort. | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 03:39 AM by Xiphias | |
Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright issued a temporary restraining order to prevent state law enforcement from impeding the work of journalists. | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 05:18 AM by Xiphias | |
During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex ever lived, and 20,000 individual animals would have been alive at any moment, according to a new calculation method we described in a paper published on April 15, 2021 in the journal Science. | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 03:17 AM by Nibbles | |
Ruan said the paint was not a risk to people’s eyesight: “Our surface reflects the sunlight diffusely, so the power going in any particular direction is not very strong. It just looks bright white, a bit whiter than snow.” | |
Submitted at 04-17-2021, 01:40 AM by Nibbles | |
There’s a notorious neo-Nazi political leader on the loose somewhere in Europe. Authorities say they can’t find him, but signs point to a commune of renegade conservative monks. | |
Submitted at 04-16-2021, 11:25 PM by Xiphias | |
Submitted at 04-16-2021, 10:54 PM by Spöklika | |
Submitted at 04-16-2021, 08:42 PM by sleeppoor | |

"Nobody knew what they were doing." Behind the scenes of the 'Game of Thrones' pilot you never saw.
John Garvin also says his departure from Bend Studio was based on personality…
But will he really end the United States’ other open-ended conflicts?
The YF-23 was ready for a fight and armed with a fixed 20mm M61 Vulcan, while internal bays could house four AIM-7 Sparrow or AIM-120 AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missiles, as well as a pair of AIM-9 short-range missiles.
Conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is scrapping the planned launch of her "America First" caucus after receiving blowback from leaders in her own party, despite confirming through a spokesperson on Friday that the caucus would launch.
Some 5,000 National Guardsmen will stay in Washington to protect the Capitol into March, according to the Pentagon. The Guard is seen as a reliable peacekeeping force – but it wasn't always that way.
Jonathan Freitag resigned while under internal Fairfax police investigation in May 2020, then joined the Brevard County Sheriff's Office three months later. He was fired earlier this month.
Fairfax County prosecutors are moving to throw out more than 400 criminal convictions based on the testimony or work of a former patrol officer who is accused of stealing drugs from the police property room, planting drugs on innocent people and stopping motorists without legal basis, court filings show. In a hearing Friday, a Fairfax judge said he was inclined to vacate felony drug and gun convictions against a former D.C. firefighter and order him released from prison next week after serving nearly two years because of the actions of former officer Jonathan A. Freitag.
Fairfax police said they began investigating Freitag after receiving a tip about him in July 2019. The police department took him off the streets. Freitag, now 25, resigned in May 2020 after the FBI had joined Fairfax County in a criminal investigation of him. But even after The Washington Post first reported the allegations against Freitag in June 2020, he was hired by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office in Florida in August 2020. The Fairfax human relations department reported to Brevard that the former officer had never been “subject to disciplinary action” and “there are no disciplinary records in his file.”
From there, Silla became one of Hollywood’s go-to costumed performers, elevated by his physical talents as a performer, his well-known sense of humor, and his willingness to spend hours on any given day in heavy or uncomfortable accoutrements. Over the next 20 years, he’d become a regular for Sid and Marty Kroft (appearing frequently on both H.R. Pufnstuf and Lidsville), take on the physical role of the robot Twiki on Buck Rogers, and serve as the alien who inexplicably serves as a plot point in Meatballs Part II. Through his stuntwork, he also continued to make connections and friends who would serve him well in his career, most notably George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, who used him as a stunt performer in E.T. and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, and who made use of his numerous talents as the hang-gliding Ewok in Return Of The Jedi. (And when Mel Brooks wanted to poke fun at Lucas’ opus with Spaceballs a few laters, Silla got the call for that, too.)
NASA celebrated the achievement by pointing New Horizons’s camera at the spot in space where Voyager 1 is currently located.
It’s a full-time job, keeping track of the US/NATO campaign to start a fire somewhere on China’s borders. It’s like tracking an inept arsonist by satellite image: “Oh, there he goes again…the idiot started a trash fire next to a concrete wall.”
Of course, no one who matters in the defense business wants total war with China. They just want to keep those trash fires burning, hoping one of them will blaze up big, like a gender-reveal wildfire. And even if none of them do, it’s good for business, because most war scares are about funding. The US Navy always, always wants more ships. What’s scarce is plausible reasons to buy them.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is said to be involved with the effort.
Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright issued a temporary restraining order to prevent state law enforcement from impeding the work of journalists.
During 2.4 million years of existence on Earth, a total of 2.5 billion Tyrannosaurus rex ever lived, and 20,000 individual animals would have been alive at any moment, according to a new calculation method we described in a paper published on April 15, 2021 in the journal Science.
Ruan said the paint was not a risk to people’s eyesight: “Our surface reflects the sunlight diffusely, so the power going in any particular direction is not very strong. It just looks bright white, a bit whiter than snow.”
There’s a notorious neo-Nazi political leader on the loose somewhere in Europe. Authorities say they can’t find him, but signs point to a commune of renegade conservative monks.