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  • A Civil Action

    A Civil Action: Directed by Steven Zaillian. With John Travolta, Robert Duvall, Tony Shalhoub, William H. Macy. A tenacious lawyer takes on a case involving two companies responsible for causing several children to be diagnosed with leukemia due to the town’s water supply being contaminated, at the risk of bankrupting his firm and career.

    “A Civil Action” was released in 1998, directed by Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List, Money Ball), and stars John Travolta, Robert Duvall, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, John Lithgow, James Gandolfini, and has an appearance by world renowned comedian Stephen Fry. The plot follows a hot shot lawyer (John Travolta) fresh off a case in which he was able to secure a settlement of $2 million dollars for his client. He’s then doing a victory lap / advertisement on a local radio program when he’s ambushed by a woman that says she’s his client but he’s done no work for her and she wants him to come up to her city to explain why. Turns out that one of his partners had taken on a case from a group of people in a small town, but ignored them in favor for cases that made the firm money. The group had suffered several leukemia deaths, they were suspicious that the water from their wells was causing the deaths due to possible contamination from local businesses, and wanted help getting to the bottom of the situation, and if possible security an apology. The group is told that there isn’t much that can be done, because they’ve not present any “deep pockets” for the law firm to go after, but after a classic Hollywood moment, Travolta’s character has the first of several epiphany moments in which he puts pieces together to forward the story.

    After he puts together an official complain the case immediately goes to trial, an interesting turn events that skips right over any alternative methods like arbitration or mediation, moving right to a jury trial. During the trial there’s several moments of judiciary intrigue in which the judge (John Lithgow) seemingly sides with the defendants several times, even going so far as asking for a summary decision from the jury on if the case itself should move forward. The scientific specifics are left for montages and are quickly moved past, a shame because it’s the science that the entire case seems to rest on. After nearly an hour and a half of film, we finally get a decision on the case, which is to say that it’s settled out of court for far less than they should have settled and none of the families that originally brought the complain are happy with the results. There’s no apology, there’s a limited financial settlement, and no one is required to clean up the dumped chemicals. In what feels like an after thought, it’s discovered that there were some shenanigans afoot, some lies to the EPA, and a new case was brought by the federal government, resulting in the closure of the offending businesses and a clean up of the affected areas.

    Throughout the film Travolta’s character is poised to be a classic “hot shot learns his lesson about what’s really important in life” character which he does do, but only after financially ruining his firm, losing his home, and putting himself into considerable debt. On a technical level this is a well made film with some exceptionally well done camera angles (particularly when Travolta first finds the chemicals in the first act), with well it scenes, and a sound mix that worked well for the locations and topics highlighted throughout the movie. The acting on Travolta’s part was on brand for him, with a slightly over the top attitude about his character, but the rest of the cast performed their roles exceptionally, I particularly thought William H Macy did well as an exasperated financial-man who was at his limit with the case’s expenditures.

    As for the legal aspects of the film, this is very much a Hollywood movie with the actual legal matters being glossed over or ignored for the more dynamic and entertaining “man on a mission” style story that really is fun to watch, but ends up lacking substance. The courtroom drama that we did see was largely in montage form, with some backroom confrontations that were entertaining, but not likely realistic.

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    Bottoms

    Bottoms: Directed by Emma Seligman. With Dagmara Dominczyk, Ayo Edebiri, Nicholas Galitzine, Rachel Sennott. Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.

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    She Said

    She Said: Directed by Maria Schrader. With Lola Petticrew, Katherine Laheen, Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan. New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

    An emotionally exhausting but somehow still dry account of the recent scandal that burned through Hollywood, starting with film producer Harvey Weinstein. All the pieces are there and you’ll welcome to watch, but there’s not a whole lot of new or groundbreaking content to be had. Maybe we didn’t need new views on the sexual assault scandals though, maybe just having a beat for beat accounting is what’s best for future viewers.

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    The Last Fantastic Four Story #1

    Written by STAN LEE Pencils and Cover by JOHN ROMITA JR. Legendary writer and Fantastic Four co-creator Stan Lee unites with artist John Romita Jr. to tell his final story of the team that started the Marvel age!

    A perfectly enjoyable FF story that feels like a classic Stan Lee adventure with the gorgeous and appropriate art by John Romita Jr. The story itself revolves around a seemingly unstoppable force that’s arrived at Earth to inform humanity that it’s time is up, like a much more decided alien from “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. There’s a classic Stan Lee resolution to the story involving phoning a friend who in turn phones his creator and it’s all wrapped up in a neat bow in which the heroes prevail and all of humanity is saved. It’s a good book and a great modern story by Lee.

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    Joyeuse Guard (Wearing the Cape Book 9)

    Repercussions ended with victory, at a cost. A Sentinel is dead, Megaton lies grievously injured, and Astra is no longer a member of the Sentinels, America’s premier cape-team. Beyond the personal consequences, both the US and Europe must recover from crippling attacks. Now Astra and her Joyeuse Guard must find their footing in the world after the Chicago and Brussels Attacks. Mal deals with an unexpected complication to his recovery. A journalist is invited to ride along with the new team. Ozma and the rest pursue their campaign to liberate Oz. Santa Claus comes to all the towns. Shell and Shelly engage in a little side-conspiracy to ensure a happier ending than history would allow.

    A bundle of loose ends get dealt with, storylines end and a potential future is begun, but this appears to be the end of the 9 book series that focuses solely on Astra, the tiny powerhouse who’s had some pretty incredible adventures over the course of a decade of books that I was lucky to be able to read over the span of just a month and a half. The entire series is on Kindle Unlimited, so it cost me maybe about $20 to read them all, and there wasn’t a stinker in the entire main series of books! There was one spin off book that I just didn’t care for, but that was more because I’m not a huge vampire fan I think.

    If you want to check out one of the best superhero book series that’s ever been released, this it is right here. I’m looking forward to more books, which apparently are going to start coming out this year!

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    A ton of things, it’s been too long, so here’s a non-descriptive title!


    This was good, but super sweet.  I was hoping for more sour, but it was good for what I needed at the time.


    I added yet another screen to my office setup, this one is to more better monitor twitch chatter when I’m doing the twitch thing.  I can also just take it down and use it to read comic books.


    Odo testing out the new setup.  He doesn’t care about the screen.


    I dropped a tool on my foot and my god it stung.  I then proceeded to do a ton of yard work with no pain whatsoever, but then. . .


    when I took my shoe off, I had so much pain it was incredible, I couldn’t put any weight on it at all.  Went to urgent care and got 3 x-rays of my foot and was told that there’s no break, but I should stay off it for a couple days.  24 hours later I felt no pain at all, weirdest thing ever.


    The power of the sun HIDDEN from my EYES.  my new black out goggles for use while I’m using my CPAP machine.  They’re different and it took me a week to get used to them, but now that I’ve settled into them they’re working out great.  Not sure if they’re all so much better than my normal sleep masks though and maybe one day I won’t need the CPAP?

     


    I used to have Mondays off, but my corporate overlords have decided that was impossible to support, so now I’m back to working 5 days a week.  This is the opposite of progress and my twitch career is tanking now 🙁


    Miles has chicken legs at 7:20pm.


    Miles and Charlotte in their reclined glory.


    Miles is staring.


    MILES IS STARING.


    The 240 twitch aquarium now has a night light, it looks pretty cool.


    if you notice in that last picture, I have a monitor hanging up over the fish tank with the time, temperature and calendar on it.  Well, it used to be a full “All in one” computer that was hanging off the wall and I was using that to run the twitch feed for the fish tank, but it couldn’t do it very well, so now it’s just a (larger) monitor hooked up to a laptop under the tank.  It works so much better now.


    Star Trek comic books!


    Tofu, rice, and mixed veggies, this was a delicious meal and I loved every moment of it.


    I was wondering why I was enjoying some cauliflower dip so much, turns out the first ingredient is cheese!  I think I’m going to keep eating it, but I’m gonna have to eat much less than I have in the past.


    I’m growing tomatoes!

    I’m growing green peppers!


    Regula 1 from Star Trek 2.  A bit of movie trivia, this same model was used as a space station in the first Star Trek film, but it was flipped upside down!


    This is the version of the Enterprise from the pilot episode named “The Cage”.  There’s not a whole lot of difference between this version and the one used in the series, but there’s enough that spaceship nerds like me enjoy having them both on a shelve together.


    This is the USS Titan from the Lower Decks series, but I think I may already have this specific model, just packaged differently and not damaged during shipping.


    $50 for a fantastic book collection, Miles helped me sort through them, turns out that nearly all of them are new to my collection in some way or another.


    Collectors edition of a game I own digitally, it’ll sure look nice on a shelf.


    I bought a matching hoodie and sweat pants set from a school that I’m going to.  what a nerd, right?

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    Fast X

    Fast X: Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Statham, Jordana Brewster. Dom Toretto and his family are targeted by the vengeful son of drug kingpin Hernan Reyes.

    Things move very fast in this, the 11th movie in the franchise (don’t forget to remember to not forget about Hobbes and Shaw!) and is the start of a trilogy of movies that might could possibly finish up this furious story that they’ve been telling for over 20 years.

    Jason Momoa is a breath of fresh air in terms of bad guys for these films, we’ve seen many mustache twirling baddies doing bad things just for the sake of being bad, getting rich, or getting incredible world controlling power, but Momoa is the first psychotic bad guy that we’ve had where yes, there’s mustache twirling and an over abundant amount of monologuing, but it’s all done in an over the top entertaining way that I didn’t know just how to deal with while seeing the flick. I think my final opinion is that I like the character? Like, as is, he’s a good villain, but he’s not “like” I want to buy him a beer any time soon.

    Everyone from the franchise makes appearances, they’ve added a couple new ones (Momoa, Brie Larson) and there’s a nice mid credit scene that teases the next film in the franchise which may or may not be an official entry. I bet it’ll be a “Fast and Furious Presents” film.

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    Top 10 reasons to use mockups

    Top 10 reasons to use mockups

    In today’s fast paced world, almost everything around us is digital. Thus, most of the actions are done online. That is why laptop mockups are so popular and easy to use. Digital images are used for various purposes, such as marketing, website design, and product presentations.

    Designers have probably heard about such a thing as a mockup. Understanding what it is and why it is used is really important. After all, a mockup is an effective way to complement the corporate identity, as well as see your achievements on a live product.

    What a mockup is
    A mockup is a full-size model of a design used to showcase and evaluate the style of an unreleased product. This can be either a mockup of a 3D model or a photo PSD file. The purpose of the layout is one: to impose your design on the template.
    In this article, we will look at the top benefits of using mockups.

    Improved Presentation
    Transforming your product presentation is one of the main benefits of using laptop mockups. You can display your product on sale in different ways with laptop mockups. Thus, a potential buyer will see the product on the laptop screen in action to assess whether it is suitable for purchase. This is especially useful for website designers who want to show their clients how their website will look on different devices, including laptops.

    Cost-Effective
    Another benefit of using mockup laptops is their cost-effectiveness. With mockups, you do not need to create a physical model of your product from scratch. A digital representation of a product or website will not only save your business money, but valuable time as well. Thus, there is no need to create a product or website from scratch.

    More effective communication with the client
    You no longer need to explain to the customer in text what his idea will look like. A mockup on a laptop is the most convenient way to visualise an idea at the start of its implementation.

    How different parameters fit
    Another important feature of mockups is that at the development stage they allow you to see virtually how all the objects fit together and how comfortable they will be for perception. For example, when you have a mockup of a site, you can use a laptop mockup to evaluate its usability: how beautiful it looks on a laptop, is the font readable, and so on.

    Automate routine tasks
    Using standard templates, you can save time on drawing designs and photographing products. This is true, for example, for packaging designers. If mockups did not exist, then to show the design of the finished product, the designer would have to print and photograph test samples, which is time-consuming and labour-intensive.

    Simple Personalization
    Mockups for laptops can also be easily customised. Your laptop mockup may be customised to meet your needs by changing the background, adding text, and changing the dimensions and location. As a result, you can create an unusual and personalised mockup that will differentiate you from other competitors. This is especially helpful for companies that wish to establish a distinctive and recognizable brand identity.

    Time-Saving
    A laptop mockup can be made considerably more quickly than a physical prototype or a website from scratch. You can create a digital illustration of your product or website quickly and easily using laptop mockups. By doing this, you may save time and concentrate on other crucial facets of your company.

    Simple Sharing
    It is simple to share laptop mockups. Anyone, wherever they are in the world, can access your laptop mockup through social media or email. This gives you the chance to gather opinions on your service or website from a variety of people, which can be helpful for enhancing the design.

    More attractive
    Layouts are more appealing to the person viewing your presentation. In addition, they engage the audience. more than standard presentations. Mockups show a mini-copy of the real thing, that is, how it will look in the future when used. Thus, with the help of mockups, you can fully convey your idea and concept.

    Improved visualisation
    With the help of a mockup, you can fully show how the website will look on a real user’s laptop.

    In conclusion, there are many advantages to using laptop mockups. They are cost-effective, easy to customise, time-saving, great for communication, and more engaging than traditional presentations. If you are a business owner, website designer, or marketer, you should consider using laptop mockups to improve your presentations, communicate your ideas more effectively, and create a brand identity that is unique and recognizable.

     

    Amouranth to Perform Live Show on Jerkmate Friday AVN

    First-ever AVN Favorite Creator Site Star Amouranth is slated to perform her debut live show on Jerkmate this Friday, May 26, at 8 p.m. PT.

    RIP Ray Stevenson

    Thor and Punisher: War Zone star Ray Stevenson has died, aged 58. Stevenson is about to co-star in the new Star Wars Disney+ series Ahsoka, which arrives later this summer. As well as Volstagg in three Thor movies, his genre roles included King Arthur, The Book of Eli, GI Joe: Retaliation, the Divergent series, Star…

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    Data, cats, comics, toilets, and fizzy waters


    I got this from Goodwill, it’s a four VHS set of Star Trek TNG episodes that feature Data.  On the cover there’s a spinner with various scenes and trivia about Mr Android.


    Miles having a nap.  he’s a very good napper.


    I got a new ornament for my aquarium


    Since I’m not drinking alcohol at the moment, I still have an inclination to buy and consume unique beverages and Aldi is helping me out with all these goofy ciders and other assorted fizzy drinks. I’ve only had the lemonade one so far and it was delicious if much smaller than I was expected for a bottle of that size.


    I got a cgc 8.5 of the first appearance of “Echo” from a comic show that I went to last weekend.  It was a very good show to me, I picked up a ton of Trek comics as well!


    Odo posing for the camera, he’s a very good poser.


    I replaced wtf ever this thing is called in a toilet and I felt damn accomplished for about an hour or two!


    Here’s all those Trek comics I mentioned, there’s about 60 of them, nearly full runs on all these series, all for just $1 each!  I picked up a random box of variants too, but I’m not going to show you those for reasons.


    Here’s some more random fizzy stuff from Aldi, these are good, but very sweet, and exceptionally full of ginger.   Shockingly so.


    Another goodwill purchase, I got all these for just $15 and on top of that I haven’t read a single one of these yet.

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    Giga

    Ever since their world-shattering war ended, the slumbering mecha called ‘Giga’ have been both gods and habitats for the surviving humans. Then disgraced engineer Evan Calhoun discovers a murdered Giga, and the very fabric of society stars unraveling around him.

    This was a monthly series until issue #5, which took 8 months to come out and as the final issue it was good enough that I can recommend the story as it is right now. I had completely forgotten that I was even getting the series though and I didn’t know that the fifth issue was even out, so I was a few months behind on getting to it.

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  • Recursion (Wearing the Cape #7)

    It’s been just weeks since the state funeral for the Sentinels, Atlas, Ajax, and Nimbus, lost in the Whittier Base Attack. Astra, Hope, is recovered from her own injuries. At least physically. Mentally . . . not so much, but she feels ready to actively wear the cape again. Which is good since, between the revelation of her short-lived relationship with Atlas (nine years her senior) and her virally pungent public comments on the current political debate over breakthrough registration (the National Public Safety Act), she needs to raise her profile. But she’s better now, steady, ready for anything.Or is she? First her quantum-ghost BF Shell reveals that something’s off. Hope’s CHANGED. Unaccountably and impossibly changed, she’s not the Hope she was even just last week. Confronted with Shell’s evidence, Hope recovers an impossible memory and follows it to the realization that she’s really not the Hope of last week. She remembers three years of memories of a life she hasn’t lived yet. She remembers the fight with Villains Inc., the addition of the Young Sentinels, her adventures in Littletone, Japan, and across a dozen extrarealities. The one thing she doesn’t remember is how she got here.How did she get here? WHERE is here?Worse, things here are already starting to happen differently. Is her presence here messing things up? Or is she supposed to fix something already messed up? And what does Kitsune have to do with everything?

    This is a refreshingly Aasimov-esque rule breaking story about time travel to the past in a universe that explicitly does not allow for time travel to the past. I didn’t catch a few hints about what was going on, but I eventually figured it out right before the big reveal.

    I’m going to be sad when I’m done with these ten books.

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    The Sun Used to Be Yellow, According to This Cosmic Conspiracy Theory

    Move over, Flat Earth, it’s a star’s time to shine

    High Desert

    High Desert: With Patricia Arquette, Weruche Opia, Jayden Gomez, Christine Taylor. Peggy, a former addict, who decides to make a new start after the death of her beloved mother with whom she lived in the small desert town of Yucca Valley, California, makes a life-changing decision to become a private investigator.

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    Team-Ups and Crossovers (Wearing the Cape Book 6)

    Astra was done traveling, or so she thought. Benched for physical rehab and retraining, she’s in LA dating movie stars (not as fun as you might think) when the Department of Superhuman Affairs asks for help catching a superhuman serial killer. When what should be a simple job develops…complications, she finds herself catapulted into another reality—one with its own history and superheroes! As her teammates scramble to find out where she’s gone and what’s become of her, Astra embarks on a cross-world journey in search of a way home. It’s going to be a long trip.Team-Ups and Crossovers follows Astra and her teammates through multiple stories on multiple worlds, and includes a story co-written with David Barrack (writer/artist of Grrl Power), an original story by K.F. Lim, and the graciously permitted use of Velveteen and friends by Seanan McGuire.

    Just as I thought the series was going to have the opportunity to get stale, along comes a collection of stories of Astra bouncing from reality to reality, pulling in characters from other franchises ranging from interesting to amazing to strangely boring. There’s a vacation story tacked on at the end that feels out of place from the other stories, but on the whole this is a great collection and it exposed me to a few superhero universes that I’m determined to check out now.

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    Wish

    Wish: Directed by Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn. With Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Ariana DeBose. Wish will follow a young girl named Asha who wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.

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    I’ve lost about 40 pounds and am now under 290!

    I’ve been comfortably living my life since high school (1999!) at around 315 – 330 pounds, then a medical thing came up and it turns out that I’m supposed to be like…100 pounds less than that.  So I’ve been on a weight loss “journey” which essentially meant to me that I’m giving up red meat, eating 10 times the amount of veggies than meat, no refined sugar, and I’ve completely dropped coffee from my daily routine.  Honestly that coffee thing was a long time coming because I’m so super sensitive to caffeine, just walking past a pot will wake me up, and if I drink any after 2pm I’m awake until 2am.

    Oh, and I’m using our treadmill that we bought using the last bit of covid money that Donny sent out, which had been sitting in my wife’s office for the better part of two years.  Since she’s no longer working from home, we’ve turned that room into a fun gym and I’ve been doing 2 or 3 miles a day on it.  It took me a couple months to get to that though, as I had to start at 30 minutes of 2mph and slowly worked my way up from there.  I still have plenty of room to improve on it though, I haven’t been able to keep a “run” going for more than about a minute.  One day though!

    My goal is 220, we’ll see how quickly I get there, I had said I was going to eat some pizza for the first time again after I get under 290 and here I am, under 290 and no pizza yet.  I can only assume that I’ll be back over 290 after I get that coveted pizza.

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    Imgur to ban explicit images and delete uploads not tied to an account | Engadget

    Starting on May 15th, Imgur will be deleting “old, unused, and inactive content” that’s not tied to a user account and removing “nudity, pornography and sexually explicit content.”.

    Scream VI

    Scream VI: Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett. With Courteney Cox, Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega, Jasmin Savoy Brown. In the next installment, the survivors of the Ghostface killings leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter in New York City.

    My wife and I watched all five of the Scream films in an exceptionally coordinated effort in the 3 days leading up to our AMC reservations for Scream VI. Watching them all nearly back to back like that really shows how the franchise and the genre itself has evolved from a navel-gazing, self referential treatise on slashers to something that’s more than the sum of it’s goofy parts. There’s a few things that make no sense whatsoever in #6, but those things are within the wrappings of a well made film, with some serious star power doing their best to be the most alluring targets of Ghostface yet.

    Honestly, this was a good film, just sad that they’ve started to reduce the body counts so low now.

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    Cats, LEGO, Delicious Snacks, and Chairs


    I thought Bella was stuck behind the futon, but turns out that she’s still 90% fluid, so she just poured herself out when she got bored being back there.


    Sleepy Miles


    I’m moving this chair out of my office due to my butt hurting on it and Odo decided that he needed to be on top of it.  Turns out that it wasn’t the chair’s fault though, I was pushing myself a little too hard on the treadmill.


    This is the last one of these that I’ll be eating for a while. They’re delicious but apparently all my numbers are wacked out and I need to cut sugar out from my diet, nearly completely.


    This is the 7th Large format LEGO clock that I have in my collection.  I have no clue why I like them so much?


    Mile using Bella as a head rest, it was adorable!


    THIS NOT MY CAT.  But she started hanging around my house a couple years ago and now I’ve managed to convince her to hang out with me in my office for a few minutes every few days.


    Syrah IS my cat and is happy to be here.

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    3 law enforcement officers shot while responding to domestic call in western Minnesota

    UPDATE: Three law enforcement officers were shot, the Pope County Sheriff’s Office said.

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    Amazon.com: Young Sentinels (Wearing the Cape #3)

    The reward for a job well done is another job. After the Sentinels’ takedown of the second incarnation of Villains Inc., things are relatively quiet in the great metropolis of Chicago. Astra, aka Hope Corrigan, is able to breathe a little, to hang out with her friends, and even to attend classes (where her professors are starting to think she is a myth). But Blackstone is loading more training and responsibilities on her, and converging events threaten the compromises she has made to balance her superhero career and student life and to protect her family and friends. Worse, a new supervillain has come to town, and it will take all of Chicago’s capes to defeat the threat of the Green Man — if he can be defeated at all. When a new supervillain group begins targeting anti-superhuman groups, it becomes apparent that even the Sentinels are going to need help. Because one thing is certain: Chicago is going to have a very bad day.========================Young Sentinels is the third book in the high-rated series begun by Wearing the Cape and continued in Villains Inc. and Omega Night.

    I’m going to assume that my bad experience with the vampire book (that isn’t even a part of the numbered WTC series) was a fluke, because this third book in the series is right back to being amazing with limited opportunities for me to put it down in a timely manner. I’ve stayed up way too late reading these and I don’t see any reason for that to stop.

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    Women in Trouble

    Women in Trouble: Directed by Sebastian Gutierrez. With Carla Gugino, Adrianne Palicki, Dan Mailley, Connie Britton. A serpentine day in the life of ten seemingly desperate women: a porn star, a flight attendant, a psychiatrist, a masseuse, a bartender, a pair of call girls, an actress, a masseuse. All of them with one crucial thing in common. Trouble.

    I knew what I was in for, but I wasn’t expecting Adrianne Palicki to openly say “I really want to eat your pussy.” while playing a porn star who has issues with cars backing into her and some PTSD from a self inflicted sexual event from her youth.

    What I also wasn’t expecting was to enjoy this film as much as I did, the story was engaging and the actors were all great, despite the decidedly puerile topics they cover at times, interweaved with some really heavy stuff about adulthood and finding your way to where you want to be in life. There’s no nudity, but a whole bunch of pretty ladies in various stages of undress and sexual situations, so I enjoyed it like the 13 year old boy I still am.

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    Wearing the Cape

    WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO? Hope did, but she grew out of it. Which made her superhuman breakthrough in the Ashland Bombing, just before starting her freshman year at the University of Chicago, more than a little ironic. And now she has some decisions to make. Given the code-name “Astra” and invited to join the Sentinels, Chicago’s premier super-team, will she take up the cape and mask and become a career superhero? Or will she get a handle on her new powers (super-strength has some serious drawbacks) and then get on with her life-plan?In a world where superheroes join unions and have agents, and the strongest and most photogenic ones become literal supercelebrities, the temptation to become a “cape” is strong. But the price can be high—especially if you’re “outed” and lose the shield of your secret identity.Becoming a sidekick puts the decision off for awhile, but Hope’s life is further complicated when The Teatime Anarchist, the supervillain responsible for the Ashland Bombing, takes an interest in her. Apparently as Astra, Hope is supposed to save the world. Or at least a significant part of it.

    Super hero stories are better known for being told through a comic book medium, so I’m always happy to run into a long form novel that attempts to tell a story, and boy howdy am I happy that I found my way to the “Wearing The Cape” series. It’s always a fantastic feeling when you love a book, then find out there 10 more in the series, and to top it all off, they’re all on Kindle Unlimited.

    The universe that Marion Harmon has created feels fully fleshed out from the first novel, with novel interpretations of classic super powers and a singularly unique take on a classic science fiction trope that I’ve never run into before. I’ve seen literally hundreds of hours of content involving that concept and this is the first time I’ve ever seen this particular version of it, which blew my mind. While reading this first book I was constantly reminded of Max Brooks’ “World War Z”, less for the content and more for the writing style and considerable back stories that happen throughout, with some in depth thoughts on tried and true superhero situations that I’ve started to take for granted.

    I can’t recommend this enough if you’re a superhero fan.

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    Can You Transfer Cryptocurrency to Your Bank Account?

    Can You Transfer Cryptocurrency to Your Bank Account?

    Crypto trading has the potential to generate remarkable returns on investment because of the volatility of cryptocurrencies. It also provides a decentralized way to transfer value that doesn’t require intermediaries, like banks. What’s more, crypto trading can ensure greater anonymity and privacy than traditional financial transactions. Finally, it is accessible to anyone with an internet connection, meaning that it’s a more inclusive option for investing and trading.

    An important tool needed for crypto traders and investors is the possibility to trade fiat-crypto pairs and work with bank cards. It would allow you to quickly deposit and withdraw money and be efficient in trading. In this article, we will propose the fastest withdrawal crypto exchange and explain how to withdraw crypto to bank account.

    What is WhiteBIT?

    If you are just starting in the crypto-sphere, WhiteBIT is your go-to destination. Established in Estonia and renowned for its user-friendly interface, this platform offers a broad selection of trading pairs that cover all the popular cryptocurrencies among many other lesser-known tokens, accounting for over 450 pairs With an array of features and services at hand – navigating WhiteBIT has never been easier. At WhiteBIT, security is the utmost concern and several precautionary measures have been taken to keep user accounts and funds safe such as two-factor authentication and offline storage of resources. On top of that, users can take advantage of low trading fees along with speedy transaction processing times.

    WhiteBIT is a regulated centralized platform, which means it allows clients to connect bank cards to their accounts and trade fiat-crypto pairs, as well as deposit and cash out money fast and safely. Let’s see how to take money out of crypto.

    To withdraw crypto to bank account from WhiteBIT, you will need to follow these steps:

    1. Log in to your WhiteBIT account, and click on the “Withdraw” button to quickly access your funds.
    2. Choose the cryptocurrency that you wish to transfer and enter the desired amount.
    3. To withdraw money, simply select “Card” as the withdrawal method and enter your bank card details, such as the card number, expiration date, and CVV code.
    4. Carefully review the withdrawal details, such as the amount and any applicable fees, then click “Confirm” to proceed.
    5. WhiteBIT will quickly fulfill your withdrawal request, and you should expect to receive the funds on your bank card within a couple of business days.

    It’s essential to remember that not all bank cards may be able to process cryptocurrency withdrawals, so it is wise to contact your issuing bank prior to making any transactions. Furthermore, fees associated with the withdrawal of cryptocurrencies could potentially arise and will vary in accordance with the currency chosen and its related amount.

    Trees Lounge

    Trees Lounge: Directed by Steve Buscemi. With Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Steve Buscemi, Bronson Dudley. Tommy is an unemployed mechanic who spends most of his time in a bar (Trees Lounge) in a small blue collar town. He seems to always be thinking, “If only X then I could stop drinking”.

    Written and directed by Buscemi, this movie has no plot or moral at the end of the story, but it does join other films that let the lens linger slightly longer than usual after the final scene, ala ‘The Graduate’. There’s a ton of big names in this film, Debi Mazar, Sam Jackson, Chloe Sevigny, Carol Kane and Mark Boone Junior all make substantive appearances, but every single one of them are believable as just regular people going about their regular lives trying to reach their goals. Those goals are something that the main character doesn’t have, doesn’t know he needs them, but is constantly looking for fulfillment in a world that only gives it to people that take it.

    I’m going to be going on a huge wave of movies like this, with people struggling to find their way due to either their own weaknesses or because of things they can’t control and “Trees Lounge” was a great start to that list.

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    My Adventures with Superman

    My Adventures with Superman: Created by Jake Wyatt. With Jeannie Tirado, Jack Quaid, Kiana Madeira, Alice Lee. Clark Kent builds his secret Superman identity and embraces his role as the hero of Metropolis, while sharing adventures and falling in love with Lois, a star investigative journalist, who also takes Jimmy Olsen under her wing.

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    Tulsa King Season 1

    Tulsa King: Created by Taylor Sheridan. With Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will. Following his release from prison, Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a group of unlikely characters.

    All the big movie stars are moving from the silver screen to the boob tube and Sly’s move has been one of the better ones. It’s essentially a wise guy fish out of water type of story, just that this wise guy isn’t really all that fishy at all and is actually pretty smart about the illegal shenanigans that he and his fellow recruits are getting up to in Tulsa. There’s a couple fun side stories that all seem to wind their way back to the main plot in a very satisfying way.

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    Tulsa King Season 1

    Tulsa King: Created by Taylor Sheridan. With Sylvester Stallone, Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will. Following his release from prison, Mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is exiled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he builds a new criminal empire with a group of unlikely characters.

    All the big movie stars are moving from the silver screen to the boob tube and Sly’s move has been one of the better ones. It’s essentially a wise guy fish out of water type of story, just that this wise guy isn’t really all that fishy at all and is actually pretty smart about the illegal shenanigans that he and his fellow recruits are getting up to in Tulsa. There’s a couple fun side stories that all seem to wind their way back to the main plot in a very satisfying way.

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