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I've posted the part that gets me mad at the CW all over again because, like us, Jared was under the impression it was all down to performance for renewal and Walker was the best-performing show on the network. (Sounds like CBS may have been just as blind-sided.)

However, this is great interview and Jared talks a lot about filming 4x11, having his kids and family around, set life, and in general, about producing and his thoughts on Walker as a whole, so go give it a read!

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Sunday Digest: Bitcoin Price Saunters And Ripple Steals Headlines

This week saw the World Economic Forum in Davos. What better opportunity for US Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, to take a dig at 17-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg? Of course, many took the opportunity to discuss important things like Bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Bitcoin Price: Meh… Okay, so I’d like to just write ‘meh!’ and move on, but apparently I’m contractually obliged to give you a little more than that… Bitcoin’s heroic ascent of the $9k peak was over before they’d even got out the sandwiches. In fact, it had fallen back to $8650 between last week’s Sunday Digest being written and being published. At least fees were still low. Price trundled along sideways until Thursday when it took another hit down to the $8300s. On Friday we saw another push upwards towards $8500, but that faltered and BTC price returned to the $8300s, where it has remained ever since. Let’s finish with a round-up of some pretty diverse bitcoin price predictions from this week. We have had fairly moderate forecasts, such as not revisiting $7k in our lifetimes and $12.5k by May. And of course, we have had more ambitious possibilities, like $100k in 2021, and even $424k in 2021, although to be fair, that last one was more of a ‘what if’ than an actual prediction. Probably best to see what happens in the next week before we overcommit ourselves, eh? XRP And Ripple In The News This Week Netherlands-based fiat-XRP on-ramp XRParrot was forced to close this week due to the country’s strict interpretation of the latest EU anti-money-laundering directive. Later in the week, XRParrot developer, Wietse Wind’s XRPTipBot for Twitter also got blocked, apparently for impersonating itself. Ripple-backed Moneygram also confirmed a push towards achieving dominance in the Indian remittances market. Ripple CTO, David Schwartz, defended the company on Quora, claiming that the XRP network was indeed decentralized, and Ripple cannot block XRP transactions. The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) chief told the World Economic Forum in Davos that cross-border payments are a top priority, leading many to hope that this could finally be XRP’s hour in the sun. At the same event, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse sort of confirmed the company’s intention to go public with an IPO in the next 12 months. We learned that Ripple secured $200 million in round C funding last year, making it the biggest fundraiser in the blockchain space in 2019. We also found out that in Q4 2019, for the first time ever, Ripple returned 2.7 billion of the 3 billion XRP released from escrow. Some suggested that if US Courts eventually recognize XRP as a commodity, the price could soar to $500. Bitcoin and Crypto News In Brief With US authorities still dragging their heels, it’s nice to see the Australians taking a lead. The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) this week approved Raiz Bitcoin investment retail fund. Sure it took 95% of sugary ETF to swallow just 5% of Bitcoin goodness, but it’s a start. During the ongoing Indian Supreme Court hearing, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) denied that it had ever banned Bitcoin and virtual currencies. A number of major central banks including Canada, England, Japan, Switzerland, and the ECB have formed a think tank on CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies). Bahrain also looked at joining the CBDC party, being the first nation to trial a new CBDC toolkit developed by the world economic forum. Bitcoin SV had another mini-pump this week. Its mid-week gains were lost again by the weekend, but it still stands 150% up on the price a month ago, leaving many still waiting for the big crash back down. Facebook’s Libra Association lost another of its founder members in Vodafone, who explained: “We have said from the outset that Vodafone’s desire is to make a genuine contribution to extending financial inclusion. We remain fully committed to that goal and feel we can make the most contribution by focusing our efforts on [mobile payments platform] M-Pesa.” Ethereum 2.0 actually seems to be making some visible headway towards becoming a reality, as an important smart contract was successfully verified this week. Furthermore, the eventual move to proof-of-stake gained further proof-of-support, when it was revealed that up to a million ETH could already be staked in anticipation of Beacon Chain. And Finally… New York gaining the dubious honor of being crowned the world’s crypto-litigation capital, with twice as many blockchain-related cases as any other venue. It’s no wonder the city never sleeps. It doesn’t have time. What was your favorite bitcoin and crypto news story of the week? Let us know in the comments below!  Image via Shutterstock The post appeared first on Bitcoinist.com. from Cryptocracken Tumblr https://ift.tt/2O1aFKA via IFTTT

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RE-UPLOAD — AWK News 1.2.20: The Anti-Benghazi. [DS] novices no match for @realDonaldTrump

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Russia's navy parade: Big show but how much substance? Brad Lendon-Profile-Image By Brad Lendon, CNN

Putin announces 'invincible' new missile (March 2018) A US Navy P-8 Poseidon   (Photo credit should read GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images) US: Russian jet intercept 'unprofessional' Russia releases 'Satan 2' missile test footage

A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft makes a very-low altitude pass by the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) April 12. Donald Cook, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward deployed to Rota, Spain is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe. Putin announces 'invincible' new missile (March 2018)

This year's version of the country's annual Navy Day parade was expected to feature the first public appearance of Russia's new stealth frigate, the Admiral Gorshkov. The 4,500-ton warship is the lead ship of six of the type planned to become part of the Russian fleet by 2025, the state-run news agency Tass reported.

However, Tass said the Gorshkov and 11 other vessels were too big to sail into the Neva River, where the main part of the parade took place, and that President Vladimir Putin had instead greeted their crews at Kronshtadt, St. Petersburg's seaport, where they anchored in parade formation. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends Sunday's parade. Russian President Vladimir Putin attends Sunday's parade. "The Russian fleet successfully resolves the tasks of the country's defense capability, makes a significant contribution to the fight against international terrorism, plays an important role in ensuring strategic parity," Putin said at the parade. "For more than 300 years, the fleet has been defending the status of the Russian Federation as a naval power capable of protecting with determination its national interests." The Russian president said dozens of ships and submarine supported Russia's interests in the World Ocean every day. "We are rightfully proud of our navy, our naval forces, their highest level of combat readiness, strategic, tactical and operational capabilities, the strength and beauty of our fleet," he said. Gorshkov-class frigates Defense Minister Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu calls the new class of frigates the "mainstay" of the Russian fleet for years to come, according to Tass. Analysts say Gorshkov-class frigates will be fast and formidable. "The new frigate is incredibly well armed for such a small warship," analyst Paul Schwartz of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) wrote in a 2016 study of the program, adding the frigate "would add significant combat capability to the fleet." "It's a significant upgrade over its predecessors," said Carl Schuster, a former director of operations at the US Pacific Command's Joint Intelligence Center, who points out that the new Russian frigates will carry supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles that can find their targets much more quickly than their US counterparts. That gives the Admiral Gorshkov-class an advantage over the US ships, including the much heavier Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers and the US littoral combat ships, which are of a similar size but more lightly armed than the Gorshkov, said Schuster. The Admiral Panteleyev Destroyer takes part in a parade marking Russian Navy Day. The Admiral Panteleyev Destroyer takes part in a parade marking Russian Navy Day. Other notable ships in Sunday's parade include the brand-new amphibious assault ship Ivan Gren -- capable of carrying 13 main battle tanks -- the 10,000-ton guided missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov, and the guided-missile submarine Oryol, at 24,000 tons the largest vessel in the parade, according to Tass. While those ships join three dozen others in the waters off St. Petersburg, noticeably absent will be the country's lone aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov. The 58,000-ton carrier went in for repairs and refit in May, more than a year after it returned from a mission off Syria that saw it spewing thick black smoke while at sea and also losing two of its 15 aircraft to crashes. The Russian carrier is not expected to be back on active duty until 2021, Tass reports. Spectators watch the naval parade marking Russian Navy Day. Spectators watch the naval parade marking Russian Navy Day. Schuster said that shows a problem with the Russian navy -- maintenance. "The Russians typically focus on construction first, operations a distant second, training third and maintenance a very distant fourth," the former US Navy officer said. "The Kuznetzov needs far more upgrading and maintenance than the Russians have publicly stated they will undertake. It means she will be approaching obsolescence when she departs the yards in 2021," said Schuster, now a professor at Hawaii Pacific University. Asked about claims from Russia's deputy defense minister this month that Moscow will this year add 19 ships to its fleet of about 280 ships, Schuster was circumspect. "The Russians count every ship commissioned, including patrol craft and units coming out of shipyard overhaul," he said. "It gives the impression of a major buildup, but only about six of them will be modern warships." And Russia's shipbuilding has its share of problems. Tass reported in early July that the delivery of the second frigate in the Gorshkov class, the Admiral Kasatonov, will be delayed by almost a year. The report cited "engine problems" with the frigates. A Russian warship sails past the Dvortsovy drawbridge rising above the Neva River during rehearsals for the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg. A Russian warship sails past the Dvortsovy drawbridge rising above the Neva River during rehearsals for the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg. In a May 2018 research paper, Britain's Chatham House noted the delays in the Gorshkov class, among a wide range of shortcomings in Russia's attempt to build its naval fleet, especially surface forces. For the next decade Russia's navy will be relying on older, large vessels undergoing constant renovation and overhaul -- as in the case of the Kuznetzov -- and smaller, newer vessel facing production challenges like the Gorshkov, the report said. Schuster said even when ships join the Russian fleet, that doesn't mean they are necessarily something for foes to worry about. "Russia has always been good at building but typically put less than 10% of their ships at sea at any one time," he said. "The ships that deploy spend more time at anchorage than operating at sea." Though Russian press this month has featured numerous stories touting the country's naval buildup and previewing Sunday's parade, the event pales compared to the 2017 version. That was celebrated with events in all corners of the sprawling country, from Vladivostok in the west to Baltiysk, the western base of Russia's Baltic Fleet. The year since has also seen Putin putting a new emphasis on weapons development.

In March, Putin boasted new weaponry he claimed will render NATO defenses "completely useless" while delivering a warning to the world about Russia's resurgent military might. And shortly after this month's summit with US President Donald Trump, Putin's Defense Ministry released a series of videos on YouTube highlighting some of the same weapons from his March speech.

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The X-Files, Fight Club, and More – The Weekend Chill

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The X-Files, Fight Club, and More – The Weekend Chill

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Last Friday, Syfy gave us a new image and premiere date for Krypton, the Superman prequel series set on his native planet about 200 years before his birth. It’ll arrive March 21.

Over the weekend, John Williams revealed in an interview that he’d be composing a theme for Solo: A Star Wars Story. The rest of the score is still being handled by John Powell. The standalone Han Solo film releases May 25.

The 32 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018

On Tuesday, Netflix released a brief teaser for A Series of Unfortunate Events season 2, starring Neil Patrick Harris as Count Olaf. The show returns March 30, and adapts books five to nine.

Later that day, Paramount announced that the next Cloverfield movie – which may or may not be called God Particle – has been moved back to April 20 from February. The film stars Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw among others.

On Wednesday, Netflix said that a Bright sequel is in the works, with stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton along with director David Ayer all attached. This confirms the Bloomberg report from two weeks ago.

That’s all the entertainment news for this week. Welcome back to The Weekend Chill, your one-stop destination for what to watch, play, or listen to this weekend. Here are the best picks:

TV: The X-Files Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny reprise their roles as FBI special agents for an eleventh year in the second year of the show’s revival era, whose rating success (despite negative critical reception) convinced Fox to greenlit a 10-episode new season. The premiere and finale will focus on the long-arc storyline, with the other episodes being standalone.

Recurring and guest stars include Annabeth Gish, Robbie Amell, Lauren Ambrose, Karin Konoval, Barbara Hershey, and Haley Joel Osment. Scully (Anderson) and Mulder (Duchovny) attempt to locate their son at the beginning of the series, while battling a mysterious organisation led by Erika Price (Hershey).

The X-Files season 1 has gotten average to good reviews from critics, with Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff surprised “how rejuvenated it feels”, and terming it “a damn sight better than the 2016 one”. Uproxx’s Alan Sepinwall concurred with VanDerWerff that it’s not anywhere near its season-three peak, but “it’s much better than it has any business being, particularly given what we got two years ago”.

The Gadgets 360 Winter 2018 TV Guide

How to access: Hotstar Time commitment: 40 minutes

Grown-ish In the penultimate episode of the third season of ABC’s popular African-American family sitcom Black-ish, the eldest daughter Zoey Johnson (Yar Shahidi) went off to college. Usually, audiences would just see less of her from the next season – as has become the case with the ongoing season 4 – but here, she’s gotten her own spin-off.

Stylised like the original, Grown-ish follows Zoey as she begins her freshman year at Southern California University. Joining her is Charlie Telphy (Deon Cole) – now part of Black-ish’s main cast – f and Aaron (Trevor Jackson), who has a recurring role on Black-ish. New cast members include Francia Raisa, Chris Parnell, Emily Arlook, and Jordan Buhat.

Reviews for the show’s first season – critics have seen a few episode – are mostly positive, with EW’s Dana Schwartz praising Shahidi’s chemistry with her Latina Republican roommate Ana (Raisa) and the snappy dialogue, while Variety’s Maureen Ryan called it “a smart, breezy expansion of the Black-ish family”.

How to access: Freeform Time commitment: 1 hour first week, 30 minutes thereafter

Rotten Do you like true crime shows and are concerned about food production? This Netflix original documentary series is tailored especially for you then. Rotten focuses on the growing global food industry, exposing the corruption, waste and dangers of your everyday eating habits. “The food industry is under full-scale assault,” the trailer narrates. “The crisis is global.”

Episodes will look at the honey industry – a scam known as Honeygate that involved smuggling in inferior honey from China via Australia to the US – alongside the rise of severe food allergies, chicken farms, organic and unpasteurized milk, and regulation of the fishing industry. The show comes from the same production company that regularly collaborates with Anthony Bourdain.

“In a world where huge global supply-chains are increasingly intertwined and consolidated, this series starts on your dinner plate��� and follows the money to the shocking consequences – intended or not – of regulation, innovation and greed,” Netflix’s official description for Rotten reads.

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How to access: Netflix Time commitment: 6 hours

Movies: Fight Club We’re going to talk about Fight Club (sorry). The film that gave the world’s youth endlessly-quotable lines, that gave the generation some good values and some screwed-up ones, and that inspired foolish individuals to start their own fight clubs, completely missing the point the film – directed by David Fincher, and based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel – was trying to make.

For the unaware, Fight Club stars Edward Norton as the unnamed protagonist and narrator, who’s disgruntled with his white-collar job. He visits support groups for terminal disease patients just to have someone to talk to. He meets Brad Pitt’s soap salesman on a flight one day, and starts a “fight club” with him, where they organise bare-knuckle boxing matches for people like them.

Fight Club was one of the most controversial films of the year in 1999, and though it received polarising reception from critics, it has gone on to become one of the greatest films of its time. Pitt’s acting, Fincher’s work, and the anti-consumerism message make it a must-watch.

How to access: Amazon Prime Video Time commitment: 2 hours and 19 minutes

L.A. Confidential Two decades on, it’s still a surprise that L.A. Confidential – a brilliantly written, powerfully acted, and gritty depiction of 1953 Los Angeles mixing police corruption and Hollywood – lost most Oscar categories it was nominated in to Titanic. (If you love Titanic, please go away.) But it did pick up two very well-deserved awards, Best Screenplay and Kim Basinger for Best Supporting Actress.

Basinger plays a call girl who looks a lot like a popular film star, and she becomes central to an investigation into a multiple murder at a coffee shop after two detectives – Bud White (Russell Crowe) and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) – discover ties to the call girl service operator. The film also stars Kevin Spacey as a “Hollywood” detective, so whether that influences your decision to watch it given the recent revelations, is up to you.

L.A. Confidential is one of the best films of its era, with a 99 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 90 score on Metacritic. It’s dark, cynical, pessimistic and twisted, and it manages to craft compelling characters and wade into their psychology, while still being a taut crime thriller.

How to access: Amazon Prime Video Time commitment: 2 hours and 17 minutes

Fantastic Mr. Fox Wes Anderson has a new stop-motion animated feature on the way, and his previous venture – a comedy based on Roald Dahl’s children’s book about a fox who steals food from three mean and wealthy farmers – is a fantastic (pardon us) family adventure all-around. It’s also got a terrific voice cast: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, and Owen Wilson among others.

Clooney and Streep voice Mr. and Mrs. Fox, who’ve built a peaceful life for themselves after time as thieves. But after 12 years, Mr. Fox’s animal instincts pull him back into his old life as a chicken thief, which puts not just his family but the whole animal community at risk. The farmers are determined to catch him at any cost, which forces the Foxes underground.

Fantastic Mr. Fox is a whole-hearted funny romp for people of all ages, full of personality, charm, wit and emotional undercurrents, and brought to life beautifully by set designers and animation directors, alongside a wonderful score by Alexandre Desplat.

How to access: Amazon Prime Video Time commitment: 1 hour and 26 minutes

Other mentions: For those who’ve seen every movie listed above, and want something more recent, there are a few choices on Blu-ray: the Tom Cruise-starrer American Made, based on the true story of a pilot who became a drug smuggler for the Medellín Cartel in the 80s; Emma Stone and Steve Carrell in Battle of the Sexes, which is loosely based on the 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs; and Ben Stiller in Brad’s Status, where he re-examines his life while on a college tour with his son.

If you’re on the lookout for more new TV, Showtime has a coming-of-age drama from Lena Waithe – Emmy-winner with Aziz Ansari for Master of None season 2’s “Thanksgiving” episode – called The Chi, with rapper Common as an executive producer. It’s set in the South Side of Chicago with Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton) in the lead, who dreams of opening a restaurant. It starts Sunday in the US, and might be available on Hotstar in India, given the latter’s deal with CBS.

There’s also BBC One mini-series McMafia, inspired by journalist Misha Glenny’s book of the same name, which focuses on the British-raised son of a Russian mafia boss who’s trying to get away from the family business. You can watch it via BBC iPlayer.

Star Trek: Discovery, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, One Day at a Time, and More on Netflix in January

Beyond that, given it’s the start of the month (and year), all streaming services have added tons of new content. On Netflix, you can find the third season of Jane the Virgin; the first and only season of One Punch Man, the anime about a superhero who can kill anyone with one blow and how that depresses him, and both versions of Fullmetal Alchemist, the 2003 one that was made before the manga was complete, and the 2009 edition Brotherhood that’s more faithful to the source material.

Meanwhile, Hotstar now has every single episode of The X-Files, starting from the first episode in 1993 to the latest one that came out this week (as mentioned earlier). It has also brought back The Wire – one of the greatest series of all-time – in addition to all nine seasons of 24, and all 12 seasons of Bones.

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Looks like we know why Librarians was pulled now (and its not the smart thing you suggested about holding it so they had basically one anchor show in the spring):

https://tvline.com/news/tnt-drama-series-librarians-the-next-chapter-1235322458/

TNT Grabs Librarians Reboot From The CW as Part of Plan to Replenish Drama Slate

So basically they had one show that people were looking forward to that had an at least somewhat established fanbase (I never watched the og so I don't know how big the fandom is, but I know they're there), and they.... sold it.

I get needing an influx of cashflow but its sooo short sighted! If you continue to sell off, cancel, or just never air the shows that people are interested in just to get cash then yea, you have cash now, but when no one watches your network in the upcoming years because you have ruined it and cancelled or sold off all the shows people want? Then you're going to be in even more trouble because a network with no one watching is making less money than the CW was already struggling to make. They aren't "making the cw profitable" they are trying to get fast cash as they make the network completely unrecognizable to its loyal fans thereby destroying all good will they had.

Yes, to everything you said! I always side-eyed the "make the CW profitable by 2025" because it forces whoever's in charge to make the kinds of decisions that generate immediate cash for investors, but don't allow for an extended growth plan. Nexstar may be able to pay off investors in the short-term, but their long-term prospects are dwindling with every short-term decision they make.

(But yea, for TNT bringing the Librarians back home! I might even watch it now knowing that the CW won't get my views for ad revenue.)

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https://www.tvinsider.com/1092684/walker-season-3-finale-cordell-geri-jackal-renewed-jared-padalecki/

I kind of told them yesterday, I talked to Brad Schwartz [the new CW president] and they totally tricked me. I was doing hyperbaric chamber stuff…after my TBI last year, I try to get hyperbaric [therapy] when I can for brain health and I got out to all these missed messages, like “Hey, we need to do some press for the finale,” and “Hey, will you call into The CW because they have some reporters that want to do this.” And I was like, “Oh, s**t, sorry! On it!”

So the CW President talked to Jared directly and asked him to do interviews/make statements and Jensen got..... nothing?

Um, they got a generic thank you directed towards TW and Kung Fu casts, lol! I guess Jensen could have gotten a phone call from the president, but since he's not talking to the press, who knows!

What's especially awesome is how casual Jared sounded about their conversation. He's already established relationships with the new leaders, which I'm not surprised by. I just love this whole exchange:

So, I call Brad Schwartz and some of the gang at The CW and [was like] “Hey, I’m so sorry. I haven’t had my phone for the last two hours, I’m here, I’m ready to answer whatever.” And they were like, “Well, we’re sure you’ve heard the news.” I was like, “The news? What?” They imagined maybe Anna [Fricke] had called or my manager Dan Spilo or whatever. And I was like, “No, I saw a bunch of missed texts and phone calls, but I figured I’d try and call back soon as possible.” [Then they’re] like, “So you don’t know that we’re picking up Walker for 13 episodes?” “What?! No, I don’t know that. I literally thought I was going to answer some questions about what the finale was about and what I’m excited for the audience to see and whatnot.” [laughs] I was certainly not in the headspace to think I was having a work conversation. But they told me how excited they were to have Walker back and have us back once all the negotiations are done with the unions and AMPTP, and get working on what will be our fourth and best season so far.

I had asked Brad Schwartz on the call, “When is this going to be announced?” And he said, “Well, we’d love it if you could add a quote or a statement in the press release.” And I was like, “Of course, I’ll grab my computer right now.” And so they were like, “Well, once you send back your quote, we’ll give it to trades.”