#Sean Stockton

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American financier Jay Bloom offered 'last minute' discounted price to sit in doomed Titan submersible with his son - but he turned it down over safety concerns

An American tycoon has revealed a text exchange with submersible chief executive Stockton Rush, who tried to convince he and his young son to pay for a reduced six-figure seat to see the Titanic by telling him: "It was safer than crossing the street."

By David Wu

June 24, 2023

An American tycoon has revealed how submersible chief executive Stockton Rush tried to convince he and his son to buy two tickets on the doomed Titan vessel.

Financier Jay Bloom shared the text exchange with Mr Rush months before the CEO died with four other passengers when the craft suffered a "catastrophic implosion."

He tried to offer his friend a "last minute price" of $AUD225,000, with the original cost of the seat valued about $365,000 in April for an expedition the following month.

The first messages started as far back as February, when the chief executive wondered if there was an interest to see the famous shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean.

Mr Bloom said his son Sean had been "put a little scare in him" after one of his friends researched the dangers of travelling in deep waters.

"I'm happy to have a video call with him. Curious what the uninformed would say the danger is and whether it's real or imagined," Mr Rush responded.

The financier said his son was worried about "perceived threats to the vessel," such as a sperm whale or a giant squid attack compromising Titan's hull.

"Yeah, very stupid. The pressure is over 100 million pounds. No sperm whale or squid is ever going to be able to mess with the sub," Mr Rush replied.

"While there's obviously risk, it's way safer than flying in a helicopter or even scuba diving. There hasn't been even an injury in 35 years in a non-military subs."

Three days later, Mr Rush would again try to reassure Mr Bloom and his son by sending a link to how deep sperm whales can go underwater.

Mr Bloom said he was not concerned about being eaten by a whale and decided to set up a Skype call, so his questions could be answered properly.

There would be limited text communication before Mr Rush sent a message on April 24, offering discounted tickets to see the Titanic wreck.

"Have a space on mission 1 (may 11-19) and 2 (may 20-28). Last minute price is $150k pp," the chief executive advised.

Mr Bloom said he would have to check his schedule to see if he could fit it in, as Mr Rush asked three days later: "Any luck?"

That trip would be later postponed to June 18 due to weather conditions.

Mr Bloom shared the messages to his Facebook page.

The financier even met face-to-face on March 1 with Mr Rush, who took him through the Titanic Exhibit at Luxor in Las Vegas before having lunch at a food court.

"He was absolutely convinced it was safer than crossing the street," Mr Bloom said on the post about his interactions with the creator of Titan.

Mr Rush also gave him a limited edition of a book of photos signed by him and French mariner Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, who was also aboard the submersible.

Mr Bloom advised he could not join them on the once-in-a-lifetime trip until 2024.

Their tickets were later sold to prominent Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, the latter who was "terrified" to go.

The fifth person was adventurer and British billionaire Hamish Harding.

The five men entered Titan and started their 3,800m journey down to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday morning.

However, less than two hours into the trip, mothership Polar Prince lost contact with the roughly six-metre long vessel, which sparked a large-scale international search.

The United States Coast Guard on Thursday (local time) confirmed pieces of debris found near the Titanic wreck belonged to the missing submersible.

"An ROV subsequently found additional debris, in consultation with experts from within the unified command, the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber (of Titan)," Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters.

Undersea expert Paul Hanken said five major different pieces of debris had led experts to conclude they were the remains of the OceanGate Expeditions craft.

"The initial thing we found was a nose cone, which was outside of the (Titan) pressure hull. We then found a large debris field and within that large debris field we found the front and back of the pressure hull," he said to reporters.

"Shortly thereafter, we found a second, smaller debris field and within that debris field we found the other end of the pressure hull.

"(It) ultimately contained the totality of that pressure vehicle. That was our first indication that there was a catastrophic event."

It was revealed the US Navy had detected an "anomaly consistent with implosion or explosion" where Titan was reported missing hours after the sub departed.

The Transportation Safety Board (TSB) of Canada announced on Friday (local time) it has launched an investigation, as Polar Prince was a Canadian-flagged ship.

A team of investigators will travel to St Johns in Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador where they will "gather information and conduct interviews."

It will also coordinate its operation with other agencies.

TSB will provide updates throughout the investigation.

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US Jobs Report Sparks 4% Bitcoin Price Drop Amid Market Uncertainty

Key Points

Bitcoin price has dropped 4% amidst global market anxiety due to the upcoming US jobs report.

Other major cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum and Solana, are also experiencing losses.

Bitcoin’s price has shown instability this week, declining to nearly a one-month low as global markets move away from riskier assets. On Wednesday morning, the top cryptocurrency saw a drop of over 4%, trading around $56,700.

This downturn isn’t confined to Bitcoin. Other prominent cryptocurrencies are also under pressure. Ethereum, the second-largest digital asset by market capitalization, experienced a 5% drop over the past 24 hours, hovering around $2,400. Similarly, Solana also reported losses this week.

Market Retreat and Investor Concerns

The current downturn is part of a wider market retreat prompted by concerns about the global economic outlook. Investors are keenly observing the US payroll data due on Friday, which will provide insights into the Federal Reserve’s next course of action. This could potentially impact various markets, including cryptocurrencies.

In the options market, demand for protection against further Bitcoin price declines has noticeably increased. In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Sean McNulty, director of trading at liquidity provider Arbelos Markets, said traders are particularly keen on hedging against potential drops following the payrolls report and after the November presidential election.

“We’ve seen renewed downside buying interest in Bitcoin options, especially for post-payroll strikes at $55,000 and lower,” McNulty stated. He also noted that a significant position has been opened for options expiring on November 29 at a $35,000 strike price.

Signs of Market Caution

Further signs of market caution are seen in the decrease in open interest for Bitcoin futures on the CME Group Inc platform, which has fallen to its lowest level since May. Also, US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have seen their longest five-day streak of net outflows since June. On Tuesday, these investment funds recorded a net outflow of $287 million.

Katie Stockton, a technical analyst at Fairlead Strategies LLC, recently changed her long-term outlook on Bitcoin to a “neutral bias.” She mentioned the increasing likelihood of a test of the $52,000 to $50,000 price range, a sentiment shared by Tony Sycamore, a market analyst at IG Australia Pty, who also warned of potential downside risks.

Despite this uncertainty, some investors see an opportunity. Rekt Capital, a renowned Bitcoin analyst, recently discussed the current market phase, explaining that Bitcoin is in a reaccumulation phase following its most recent halving.

Interestingly, the crypto market is 140 days after the halving. According to Rekt Capital, this phase usually precedes a major breakout, with the potential for a significant price surge as early as late September.

“We’re really getting close to that breakout point in late September, as the post-halving reaccumulation phase tends to precede the parabolic phase,” the analyst stated.

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When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Alan Partridge: Steve Coogan Patt Farrell: Colm Meaney Lynn Benfield: Felicity Montagu Michael: Simon Greenall Janet Whitehead: Anna Maxwell Martin Martin Finch: Darren Boyd Jason Cresswell: Nigel Lindsay Danny Sinclair: Dustin Demri-Burns Angela: Monica Dolan Dave Clifton: Phil Cornwell Sidekick Simon: Tim Key Don: Simon Delaney Steve Stubbs: Sean Pertwee Greg Frampton: Karl Theobald Bettie: Elizabeth Berrington WPC Ruth: Jessica Knappett Conner Scott: Simon Kunz Officer Rohan Kapoor: Peter Singh Tonia Scott: Lucy Briers TV Reporter: Eleanor Matsuura Girl in Crowd: Diane Morgan Armed Mangina Officer: Robert Whitelock Mangina Paparazzo: Martin Glyn Murray Old Man on Pier: Alan Rothwell Old Woman on Pier: Rita Davies Desk WPC: Katie Males Sarge: Dan Mersh Paramedic: Anna Stockton Executive: Kieran Hodgson Sky News Reporter: Jayne Secker Film Crew: Director: Declan Lowney Executive Producer: Peter Baynham Executive Producer: Steve Coogan Executive Producer: Armando Iannucci Executive Producer: Christine Langan Producer: Kevin Loader Producer: Henry Normal Executive Producer: Joe Oppenheimer Director of Photography: Ben Smithard Executive Producer: Neil Gibbons Executive Producer: Rob Gibbons Executive Producer: Jenny Borgars Executive Producer: Danny Perkins Music: Ilan Eshkeri Editor: Mark Everson Production Design: Dick Lunn Art Direction: Andrea Matheson Set Decoration: Anna Kasabova Costume Design: Julian Day Makeup Artist: Lesley Altringham Makeup Artist: Sally Collins Makeup Artist: Nikki Hambi Makeup & Hair: Lesley Noble Makeup Artist: Linda Wilson Supervising Sound Editor: Jack Gillies Movie Reviews:

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Fans converge to Sacramento, Stockton for a chance to see Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor

Feb 6, 2024

Warner Bros. continues filming a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall and Teyana Taylor in Northern California. Fans and onlookers watched a chase scene being filmed in downtown Sacramento. The production closed J and I streets from 6th and 7th streets.

[fictionz]

New Fiction 2023 - October

Another October in the can! And now I wish I could snooze through the real horror that is the holiday season. Maybe I'll stay in October forever... forever... forever...

Here's the long version (since Tumblr blocks too many links in one post).

The TL;DR:

Short Stories

"Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

"The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

"The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

"CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

"Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

"The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

"The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

"The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

"The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

"The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

"The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

"Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

"Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

"Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. James D. Jenkins (2020)

"Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

"The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

"The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

"The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

"The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

"Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

"Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

"The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

"The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

"The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

"The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

"The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

"The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Audio

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Comics

"Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

"The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

"Do You Know... the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

"Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

"For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

"Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

"Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

"The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

"Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

"A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

"The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

"The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

"Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

"Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

"The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

"Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

"Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

"Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

"Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

"Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

"A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

"The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

"Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

"The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

"The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

"The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

"Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

"Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

"The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

"Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Video Games

Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

D dev. Warp (1995)

Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Movies

It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Television

Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

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[ad_1] Even as a senator, Dianne Feinstein didn’t hesitate to share her gripes about San Francisco’s uneven sidewalks and dirty streets with the mayors who succeeded her.She was traveling in a car several years ago past the Sutter-Stockton Garage, a downtown parking structure, and was frustrated to see a ratty mattress propped up against a fire hydrant.“Ed!” she hollered over the phone to Ed Lee, who was mayor at the time. “There’s a mattress!”Days later, she returned to the neighborhood, and the mattress was gone, Sean Elsbernd, a former state director for Ms. Feinstein, recalled on Friday with a chuckle. “She was very pleased with herself.”To Ms. Feinstein, San Francisco was still a city that took pride in attention to detail and kept expectations high — or should try to anyway.She was born in San Francisco in 1933, the very same year construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge. She was central to some of the city’s greatest triumphs and its transformation into a financial and cultural capital of the West Coast.And she steered the city through some of its worst tragedies: the assassinations of her City Hall colleagues, the aftermath of the Jonestown massacre of hundreds of San Francisco-based cult followers in Guyana and the AIDS epidemic that ravaged the city’s gay community.The journey of San Francisco is inextricable from the 90-year life of Ms. Feinstein, who attended Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in the same Pacific Heights neighborhood where she kept her stately city residence until her death Thursday night.Many City Hall veterans said Friday that Ms. Feinstein’s brand of detail-oriented and demanding leadership resulted in a better San Francisco, a city where political infighting and governmental inefficiencies are now trademarks. Take, for example, the five-year quest to design a bespoke city trash can — a process that still has not resulted in many new bins being installed on the city’s infamously grimy sidewalks.Layers of well-intentioned laws and regulations have increasingly slowed city government, but some former colleagues fondly recalled that Ms. Feinstein’s mettle simply made government work.As mayor, Ms. Feinstein led meetings on Monday mornings during which every city department head had to answer her specific questions, such as how many more people were living on the streets compared with the week before, recalled Rudy Nothenberg, who served as her deputy mayor.She famously carried a firefighter’s coat and helmet in her car trunk so she could show up for every major blaze in the city.“The main takeaway for me was that the city needs to have competent, involved and energetic bureaucratic management at the top level,” said Mr. Nothenberg, who retired in the 1990s as the city’s chief administrator. San Francisco would look very different if Ms. Feinstein had not been its mayor: No more cable cars. No colorful street cars rumbling down Market Street. Perhaps no Pier 39, the kitschy spot on the northern waterfront.Launched in 1873, the entire cable car system was on the verge of collapse when she took office. She secured $60 million in federal funds and business donations and then led the rebuilding of the entire system in less than two years.“Other mayors had kicked the can down the road, but Dianne took that challenge and triumphed,” said Rick Laubscher, president of the nonprofit Market Street Railway, who worked closely with Ms. Feinstein as a businessman to save the cable cars. “She did an incredible job in a ridiculously short time.”While the cable cars were shuttered for repairs, Ms. Feinstein launched the colorful streetcars that rumble down Market Street in their place. That move eventually led to the creation of the city’s popular F-car line from the Castro district to Pier 39.(The myth that the F line was named for Feinstein, however, is not true.)Perhaps Ms. Feinstein’s biggest contribution to San Francisco was guiding the shellshocked city out of the 1970s, a decade marked with horrors that included several serial killers; the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, the newspaper heiress; the Jonestown massacre; and the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.Duffy Jennings recalled racing down to City Hall on Nov. 27, 1978 as a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle when word came that people had been shot. Ms. Feinstein, the president of the Board of Supervisors, appeared, flanked by an aide on one side and the police chief on the other. Looking wide-eyed and stunned, she paused for several moments in front of about 30 journalists.“When she said the mayor and Harvey had been killed, there was shouting of ‘Oh my God!’ and gasping. She couldn’t get out another word,” Mr. Jennings said.Ms. Feinstein delivered more shocking news. The suspect was Dan White, who served with her and Mr. Milk on the Board of Supervisors. It emerged later that Ms. Feinstein had seen Mr. Milk’s body, tried to find his pulse and stuck her finger in a bullet hole.Soon after, she was named mayor and led the city as it tried to find its bearings.“She was resilient in the face of this terrible tragedy,” Mr. Jennings said. “The city was in shock and reeling and really needed someone to pull it together, which she did so well over the next few years as mayor.”Ms. Feinstein, a staunch moderate, was not always a perfect fit for San Francisco, a city that sometimes pushed the boundaries further to the left than she was comfortable with. Over the years, her middle-of-the-road positions fell out of step with the city’s dominant liberal politics.In a city that has been essential to the L.G.B.T.Q. movement, Ms. Feinstein vetoed domestic partner legislation in 1982 and pushed for the closure of gay bathhouses as the AIDS epidemic grew, both of which were unpopular among many gay residents. She later supported gay marriage.Her moderate approach endured throughout her political career, a vestige from the era when compromise between Democrats and Republicans was more commonplace. She forged a bipartisan agreement in 1994 to accomplish one of her signature achievements in Congress, a 10-year ban on assault weapons.Mr. Elsbernd, the former aide, said Ms. Feinstein felt out of sync with today’s politics of instant gratification and fitting messages into quippy social media posts. “She kept her head down,” Mr. Elsbernd said. “And she just kept going.”She became the target of ideological San Francisco politics in 2021 when the city’s Board of Education considered changing the name of Dianne Feinstein Elementary School because, when she was mayor, her parks director responded to a protester taking down a Confederate flag from a display by putting another in its place. Ms. Feinstein had it removed permanently after a couple of days in response to a request from Doris Ward, a Black supervisor.The school board ultimately decided not to change the school’s name or 43 others under consideration after intense blowback.On Friday morning, a resident in Ms. Feinstein’s Pacific Heights neighborhood, Elizabeth Sturcken, recalled meeting the senator in 2016. Ms. Feinstein, sporting a track suit and walking her little dog, warned Ms. Sturcken that she should not allow her young son to scale a portico that sits on the city’s famous Lyon Street steps.The two women struck up a conversation about the state of politics and the presidential primary in which Donald Trump was doing surprisingly well. Ms. Sturcken said the senator lamented the lack of civics education and the crumbling bipartisanship in the nation’s capital.“I could sense a real, deep loss on her part for the civility of the Senate and ultimately doing what’s right for the people,” Ms. Sturcken said. “She was part of that era when the focus was on legislating, policy and getting things done. I think maybe that has died with her.”On Friday, Mayor London Breed ordered City Hall flags to fly at half-staff and visitors left bouquets at a statue of Ms. Feinstein that sat outside the mayor’s office.Ms. Breed, only the second woman to serve as San Francisco mayor, held a news conference in her office on Friday to mourn Ms. Feinstein’s death. She was flanked by two large portraits: one of herself, and one of Ms. Feinstein. Portraits of the city’s former male leaders hang in less-prominent positions.Ms. Breed said she has admired Ms. Feinstein ever since middle school, when she played the French horn in performances with her school band at City Hall while Ms. Feinstein was mayor.The senator never failed to call years later when Ms. Breed became mayor — about the uneven sidewalks, potholes and other pesky problems.“Dianne never stopped being mayor,” Ms. Breed said. [ad_2]

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Il Titan è imploso: morti i 5 passeggeri a bordo

Il Titan è imploso: morti i 5 passeggeri a bordo. Il sommergibile Titan ha avuto una “catastrofica perdita di pressione”: è imploso ad oltre 3mila metri di profondità nelle acque del Nord Atlantico. Non ci sono sopravvissuti. I cinque passeggeri all’interno del sommergibile Titan erano il milionario britannico Hamish Harding (58 anni), il businessman pakistano Shahzada Dawood (48 anni) col figlio Suleman (19 anni), l’esploratore e pilota di sommergibili francese Paul-Henri Nargeolet (77 anni) e Stockton Rush (61 anni), il patron di OceanGate, l’azienda proprietaria del Titan. “Crediamo che l'equipaggio del nostro sommergibile sia morto”. Lo afferma OceanGate in una nota, confermando la morte dei cinque passeggeri del sottomarino disperso da domenica. Fra i rottami trovati dal robot impegnato nelle ricerche ci sarebbero la parte posteriore e il telaio di atterraggio del sommergibile disperso sulle orme del Titanic. Lo riporta la Bbc citando un esperto e un amico dei passeggeri. Secondo i funzionari della Guardia Costiera Usa il campo di detriti del Titan è stato scoperto vicino al naufragio del Titanic, ma è troppo presto per dire esattamente quando si sia verificata "la catastrofica implosione”. Non è dunque chiaro se l'implosione sia avvenuta domenica o nei giorni successivi, durante la ricerca internazionale per ritrovare il sommergibile scomparso. Il campo di detriti del Titan si trovava a circa 488 metri dal Titanic. Rimangono dubbi sulle otto ore intercorse tra il momento in cui il Titan ha perso la comunicazione con la superficie e il momento in cui la sua nave di supporto canadese, il rompighiaccio Polar Prince, ne ha denunciato la scomparsa alla Guardia Costiera degli Stati Uniti. Il ritardo deve ancora essere spiegato dalla società proprietaria del sommergibile, OceanGate Expeditions. Sean Leet, capo della società comproprietaria della nave di supporto del Titan, non ha discusso la cronologia, dicendo solo che «tutti i protocolli sono stati seguiti per la missione». Ma gli esperti che hanno familiarità con l'esplorazione di acque profonde affermano che quelle ore perse sollevano molti interrogativi. Al Telegraph la famiglia del miliardario britannico Hamish Harding, che è a bordo del sommergibile Titan, accusa OceanGate di aver impiegato «troppo tempo» per lanciare l’allarme. Un ritardo di otto ore, è «troppo lungo», afferma Kathleen Cosnett, cugina di Harding. Il sommergibile ha perso il contatto con la nave di superficie Polar Prince intorno alle 9:45 ora locale di domenica, ma la Guardia Costiera degli Stati Uniti non è stata informata della sua scomparsa fino alle 17:40.... #notizie #news #breakingnews #cronaca #politica #eventi #sport #moda Read the full article

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Colors (1988)

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Head over to the site to check out this fun video Paul just put togther. 

A video loosely centered around the BMX and skate scene in San Diego, CA.  Here are a bunch of clips that I’ve been collecting for quite some time now.  Hope you like it!Featured Riders and Skaters:  John Stafford, Dominique Harris, Parker Heath, Matty Stockton, Sean Yarroll, Matt Coplon, Alex Jumelin, Jeremy Garcia, Matthias Dandois, Dustin Orem, David Clay, John Andrus, Webb Guy, Cody Sanders, Dave White, Justin Waterloo, Mike Montgomery, Alex Stokes, Roman Zapata, Beaver Fleming, Joey Cordova, Kenny Nguyen, Steve Woodward, Tyler Crocket, Austin Macintosh, Jeremiah Miller, and more. www.snakebitebmx.com/same-old-scene-a-video-loosely-centered-around-bmx-skate-in-san-diego-ca/

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Camden Fringe Reviews: Scruffy, Colloquium + The Party

@CamdenFringe reviews @sugartheatreco_'s #Scruffy + @ColloquiumPlay @TheHenChickens @FrangipaneProd's #TheParty @TheHopeTheatre #camdenfringe #camdenfringe2022

A first set of 2022 Camden Fringe reviews featuring Scruffy and Colloquium at the Hen & Chickens and The Party at the Hope Theatre “Ow, you’re making it worse” The 2022 Camden Fringe kicked off in fine style for me with Sugar Theatre’s Scruffy, written and performed by Rosie Hollingworth. Told from the perspective of precocious 9-year-old Maisie Evelyn Webster, we’re invited to find out all about…

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1996 NBA All-Star Game

Alamodome East 129 - West 118

EAST BENCH Terrell Brandon Reggie Miller Patrick Ewing Glen Rice Vin Baker Juwan Howard Alonzo Mourning WEST BENCH Gary Payton David Robinson Sean Elliott Karl Malone Mitch Richmond John Stockton Dikembe Mutombo

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‘Fargo’ Season Finale Recap: The Lady, or the Tiger?

The question facing us is simple. Does Varga walk away, or is he locked up? Will he exalt himself like the eagle and make his next among the stars, or will the Lord bring him down? Is Schrödinger’s metaphorical cat dead or alive? Is the ethical universe half-full or half-empty? The lady, or the tiger?

I want to focus on writer Frank R. Stockton’s extremely famous short story of that name here, because I think the ending of this episode will be similarly misconstrued. The gist of “The Lady, or the Tiger?” is simple enough: In ancient times, a barbaric king offers a condemned man a choice inside a gladiator-style arena where two doors stand before him. Behind one is a ravenous tiger that will devour him on the spot; behind the other is a beautiful woman who will marry him on the spot. The process is completely random, and the prisoner has a fifty-fifty chance of life or death. (“Call it.”)

At least that’s the version of the story you may recall from the dim recesses of memory of English classes gone by. In reality the situation’s a lot more complicated. For one thing, if you get lucky and wind up with the lady, the capricious king will insist you marry her no matter your previous familial commitments or romantic entanglements. Happily married already? Tough luck.

For another, the specific case at the center of the story is a unique one. The condemned man in question, described by the story’s narrator in a sardonic and self-aware voice not far removed from that of Fargo’s occasional voice-over commentators as “a young man of that fineness of blood and lowness of station common to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens,” has been sentenced to this ordeal for the crime of falling in love with the king’s daughter. Like her father, the princess is herself a barbarian by nature, and through sheer force of will has discovered the secret of what lies behind each door. But that same barbarian blood makes her intensely jealous of the other lady in the equation, to whom her suitor will be betrothed should he dodge that tiger-shaped bullet. It’s up to her to signal to the dude which door he should take, and up to us to guess whether she’s sent him to his death or to a life without her, a fate less bloody but possibly no less cruel, in the princess’ eyes anyway.

Apply these lessons to our current story, and the simple choice between good and evil we’re asked to make when we speculate about the outcome of Varga and Gloria’s meeting becomes way less simple.

I reviewed the finale of Fargo Season Three, and quite possibly Fargo itself, for Decider. I think it’s a far more complex episode than surface readings of its ending give it credit for, and I think overall it may be the season that haunts me most.

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We’re excited to share this fundraising event led by #SkowheganAlumni Class of 2015 to support the Cooperative Community of New West Jackson in Mississippi: www.coopnwj.org All artwork is personally offered by the artists directly, with 100% of the proceeds being donated to the cooperative. To view the available artworks and to support our alumni’s efforts, head over to www.skow2015forlife.com List of featured artists: Alex Jackson Ana Maria Gomez Lopez Anna Queen Annesofie Sandal Cal Siegel Charlotte Lagro Elisa Harkins Erica Wessmann Erik Patton Frank J. Stockton Garret Bradley Ginny Huo Gonçalo Sena James Maurelle Jamie Williams Jane Westrick Jeff Prokash Jesse England Jim Leach Jordan Seaberry Madeline Hollander Maia Cruz Palileo Mathilde Ganancia Matt Nichols? Neil Carroll Nick Fagan Nobutaka Aozaki Oscar Rene Cornejo Rachel Granofsky Scott Anderson Sophie Grant Steven Cottingham Sean Glover

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ECHL Transactions | Oct. 4

Adirondack Thunder Michael McNiven, G || assigned from Laval (AHL) by Montréal (NHL) [10/3] Conor Riley, F || signed contract, added to training camp roster Hayden Verbek, F || assigned from Laval (AHL) by Montréal (NHL) [10/3] Antoine Waked, F || assigned from Laval (AHL) by Montréal (NHL) [10/3]

Atlanta Gladiators Samuel Asselin, F || assigned by Providence Justin MacDonald, F || released from contract Tommy Marchin, F || assigned by Providence [10/3]

Brampton Beast Cam Bakker, D || released from PTO Matthew Barnaby, F || released from PTO Jake Ringuette, D || released from contract

Greenville Swamp Rabbits Jeremy Helvig, G || assigned from Charlotte (AHL) by Carolina (NHL) Chris Nell, G || signed contract, added to training camp roster

Indy Fuel Alex Krushelnyski, F || added to training camp roster Sam Kurker, F || signed contract, added to training camp roster

Kalamazoo Wings Chase Van Allen, D || ECHL rights relinquished

Kansas City Mavericks Jeremy McKenna, F || recalled by Stockton (AHL) Nick Schneider, G || recalled to Stockton (AHL) by Calgary (NHL) [10/3] Mario Vrab, G || signed tryout agreement, added to training camp roster

Newfoundland Growlers Lucas Bombardier, F || released from PTO Alex Carlson, D || released from PTO Sean Kacerosky, D || released from PTO Michael Kapla, D || assigned by Toronto (AHL) Josh Lafrance, F || released from PTO Nathan Perry, G || released from PTO Jimmy Soper, F || released from PTO

Norfolk Admirals Brandon Halverson, G || signed contract, added to training camp roster Matt Ustaski, F || signed contract, released from PTO

South Carolina Stingrays Steve Johnson, D || signed contract, added to training camp roster

Utah Grizzlies Patrick McGrath, F || loaned to Colorado (AHL) Yuri Terao, F || assigned by Colorado (AHL), released from PTO

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𝗚𝗢𝗗𝗟𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗧𝗢𝗣 𝟭𝟬 Big news. Matt Vaughn’s Bowery holds on to the #1 spot for the third week in a row. The Surrogate, Bluejay, and We Are Here to Hurt Each Other climb the charts. SIX NEW BOOKS debut in the Top 10… including all four of the Madness Heart Press Pocketbooks, the new McHardy & Hawker, and the new Godless/Darklit series Tales from the DarkLit. HOLY SMOKES.  I guess all the promotions and giveaways we’re doing are paying off. On that. Mick Collins won the signed Clive Barker Books of Blood Mega-Prize. And, he GRACIOUSLY donated it back to Godless. So, it’s back in play!!! Entries started at midnight this morning and will run through midnight on Sunday. Buy anything on Godless to enter. The more you spend, the better your chances are of winning ($1 = 1 entry). I’m sure this list is going to look really different next week. 1 Bowery by Matthew Vaughn (Indepedent/Self) 2 The Surrogate by Eric Butler (Indepedent/Self) 3 Bluejay by Megan Stockton (D&T Publishing) 4 The Bounce House by Edward Lee (Madness Heart Press)🔥NEW🔥 5 We Are Here to Hurt Each Other by Paula D. Ashe (Indepedent/Self) 6 Failure by Jay WIlburn (Madness Heart Press)🔥NEW🔥 7 We Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Simon McHardy & Sean Hawker (Potter’s Grove Press)🔥NEW🔥 8 The Hillels Have Eyes by John Baltisberger (Madness Heart Press)🔥NEW🔥 9 Tales from the DarkLit by John Durgin, Damien Casey, and Leeroy Cross James (DarkLit Press)🔥NEW🔥 10 Damned Lazy by Christine Morgan (Madness Heart Press)🔥NEW🔥 #godless #godlessapp #godlesshorror #godlesshorrrors #horror #horrorbooks #horrorbookstagram #indiehorror #indiebooks #indiehorrorbooks #indiebookstagram #supportindie #godless2023 #ebook #extremehorror #splatterpunk   (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpnrVAbvrpY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=