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Sunday, December 31, 2017

Twelve Titans Music - Fractured.. the opening music to Oliver Stone / Louis Letterier co-directed, "The Incredible Hulk"... the music to the opening scene of that movie... Edward Norton: ...".. I am David Banner.. I have a cousin named ... named Bruce.. Robert Bruce Banner.. and another cousin.. named.. Jennifer... Jennifer.. Walters..?.. sorry.. inexplicably I'm not sure of her last name.. but it's Walter's, isn't it.. she's .. my other cousin is.. Jennifer.. Walters..?.. (Winona Horowitz ryder)... The conflict between North and South Korea is HUGE, a HUGE plot-arc, plot-point in Oliver Stone's / Louis Letterier's co-directed, "The Incredible Hulk" movie... South Korea seizes second ship....

























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SEOUL - South Korean authorities have seized a Panama-flagged vessel suspected of transferring oil products to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, a customs official said on Sunday.
The seizure was the second to be revealed by South Korea within a few days, as the United Nations steps up efforts to squeeze essential oil supplies to the reclusive North following its nuclear or ballistic missile tests.
The ship, KOTI, was seized at Pyeongtaek-Dangjin port, the official told Reuters, without elaborating, due to the sensitivity of the issue. The port is on the west coast, south of Incheon.
A marine official also confirmed the seizure, which he said was done "recently."
The KOTI's estimated time of arrival at the port was Dec. 19, according to VesselFinder Ltd., a tracking service provider,
The ship can carry 5,100 tonnes of oil and has a crew mostly from China and Myanmar, Yonhap News Agency reported, adding that South Korea's intelligence and customs officials are conducting a joint probe into the vessel.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed the probe, declining to provide details.
"The government has been in close consultations with related countries and ministries to thoroughly implement the sanctions by the U.N. Security Council," the spokesman said. 
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On Friday, South Korea said that in late November it seized the Hong Kong-flagged Lighthouse Winmore, which is suspected of transferring as much as 600 tons of oil to the North Korea-flagged Sam Jong 2.
The U.N. Security Council last month unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea for a recent intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil.
The United States has also proposed that the United Nations Security Council blacklist 10 ships for transporting banned items from North Korea, according to documents seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
The Lighthouse Winmore is one of the 10 ships proposed to be blacklisted. The KOTI does not seem to be included on the list.
On Thursday, China blocked a U.S. effort at the United Nations to blacklist six foreign-flagged ships, a U.N. Security Council diplomat said.
China's Foreign Ministry, responding to a question from Reuters on the blocking, said Beijing always fully and strictly implemented Security Council resolutions.
"At the same time, any measures taken by the Security Council must have a basis in conclusive and actual proof. China will continue to participate in the work of the relevant Security Council sanctions committee on this principle," it said in a short statement, without elaborating.
China also denied reports it had been illicitly selling oil products to North Korea in defiance of U.N. sanctions, after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was unhappy that China had allowed oil to reach the isolated nation.
Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, breaching U.N. sanctions, sources told Reuters.
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(Reporting by Yuna Park and Hyunjoo Jin; Additional reporting by Hyonhee Shin in SEOUL and Ben Blanchard in BEIJING; Editing by Kim Coghill and Richard Borsuk)





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Did North Korea Rocket Its Own City? On Accident? ........... In Oliver Stone's "The Incredible Hulk"..?.. Starring James Callis as Robert Bruce Banner and David Burzstein as Rick Jones... and Edward Norton as David Banner.. William Hurt as General Ross.. and Betsy Russell as Betty Ross.. and Liv Tyler... as Betsy Ross...?...
Did North Korea Rocket Its Own City? On Accident?
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In its relentless pursuit of nuclear strength, North Korea's first land target may have actually been itself. The Diplomat reported Wednesday that an intermediate range ballistic missile launched by the regime last spring accidentally hit the city of Tokchon, which has a population of more than 200,000.
North Korea fires a ballistic missile.© STR/AFP/Getty Images North Korea fires a ballistic missile. The missile was launched from an airfield just over 40 miles north of North Korea's capital city of Pyongyang. An unnamed U.S. official explained to The Diplomat that due to an engine malfunction, the projectile made it only a minute into its test flight and traveled about 25 miles northeast before hitting the ground.
The Diplomat cross-referenced the failed missile's approximate landing site with Google Earth and other satellite imaging to find that the suspected landing area did indeed seem to show signs of "considerable damage to a complex of industrial or agricultural buildings." Several structures appeared damaged in satellite images, reportedly by debris from the failed launch.
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While there have been no confirmed reports of deaths in Tokchon as a result of the failed missile test, the images published by The Diplomat seem to show that the missile came perilously close to exploding in more densely inhabited areas, marking the risk of test launches. North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles since August, both of which flew over Japan and landed cleanly in the Pacific Ocean — but one concerning possibility put forward by The Diplomat is that a future missile could explode prematurely over Japan, which would "spark a serious crisis in Northeast Asia."
NBC News reported Tuesday that U.S. officials believe North Korea may be preparing for another missile test "in the next week or two." Read more about the failed missile at The Diplomat.
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1)  Jessica Chastain and Benicio del Toro in Matt Damon / Winona Ryder's Romance Date Movie "GOTHAM!!!".. a movie by Tim Burton...




Position music - Orion, a hero... and music to the Jessica Chastain / Benicio del Toro / Willem Defoe Press Junket in Tim Burton's "Gotham; chapter 0"...

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“Emotion has become the new punk.”
Those prophetic and poetic words, spoken by Guillermo del Toro, resonated loudly with the Hollywood heavyweights and cinema aficionados gathered inside the Palm Springs Convention Center Tuesday eve for the 29th annual Palm Springs Film Festival opening night gala, considered a plum stop on the Oscar season trail.
“The Shape of Water” director, who along with Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones, Alexandre Desplat and J. Miles Dale, were recipients of the gala’s Vanguard Award celebrating the fantastical, ethereal drama, spoke candidly and eloquently about the confounding and anxiety-inducing state of political affairs in the world.
“Art works at its best when it’s closest to failure,” he told the crowd of “Water,” a film that struggled to gain traction in the studio system and that for a long time nobody wanted to make. “There was no reason for this movie to work at all except for faith and love.”
“I wonder everyday what is going to become of us,” he went on to say. “And this is where film and fairy tales can help restore some of the faith we have lost.”
Jessica Chastain, recipient of the Chairman’s Award for her starring role in Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut “Molly’s Game,” also waxed philosophical about the societal sturm und drang that seems to have taken hold of the world.
“I want to acknowledge what a difficult year 2017 has been for all of us,” said Chastain, who applauded the need for continued diversity in the film industry. “Major change is coming. Change is good. Change is needed. Through a joint effort we will make things better. We must be better. And we will.”
While the news has been saturated with stories of sexual assault and harassment, Chastain made a pointing of sending “some well-deserved love to some of the good guys,” listing such iconic filmmakers and actors as Christopher Nolan, Terrence Malick, Al Pacino and John Madden and the late producer-director Dan Ireland, who passed away in 2016.
Other Awards Gala honorees were Allison Janney, who won the Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in “I, Tonya,”; “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot (Rising Star Award, Actress), who told her husband that she loved him in Hebrew during her thank you speech (Ani ohevet otcha); “Darkest Hour” star Gary Oldman (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor); “The Big Sick” lead Holly Hunter (Career Achievement Award); Mary J. Blige, feted with the Breakthrough Performance Award for her supporting role in “Mudbound”; Sam Rockwell, honored with the Spotlight Award, Actor for his performance in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”; “Lady Bird” lead Saoirse Ronan (Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actress); “The Florida Project’s” Willem Dafoe (Icon Award); and “Call Me By Your Name” star Timothée Chalamet, who took home the Rising Star Award, Actor.
“Who wouldn’t fall in love with Timothée Chalamet?” asked award presenter Armie Hammer, Chalamet’s co-star in Luca Guadagnino’s coming-of-age drama, considered an Oscar frontrunner in the best picture category. “I was made better by his presence and his passion.”
In turn, Chalamet playfully thanked Hammer’s wife, Elizabeth Chambers, “who let me crawl all over your husband for two months.” He also gave a good-natured shout out to Gadot and the superhero juggernaut that’s planted her firmly on the pop cultural map: “You’re film literally made 250 million times more money than mine did.”
Other highlights of the night included Kumail Ninjiani’s witty Holly Hunter introduction — “what’s ironic is that this is my highest career achievement, presenting Holly Hunter with this career achievement award” — and Hunter’s recollections of her experience starring opposite William Hurt in “Broadcast News,” the 1987 film for which she was nominated for best lead actress.
“I know you’re scared and you’re probably going to be scared for the rest of your career,” she remembers Hurt saying to her. “[He then told me] ‘It won’t always be this bad. Accept it. You will probably never lose your fear.’ And that was the moment I fell in love with Bill.”
Blige spoke about “the power of the human spirit,” and admitted that she “didn’t realize how vain [she] was until [she] had to play a character like Florence” in “Mudbound,” a searing look at race relations in the South during World War II.
“I had to leave a lot of Mary J. Blige behind,” she said. “I had to leave behind a lot of fake lashes and a lot of nails.”
Dafoe, who stars as a cranky but compassionate motel manager in Sean Baker’s “The Florida Project,” a film that explores the heartbreaking effects of poverty on children living in a welfare motel outside Disney World, poked fun at the gala’s run time.
“It’s been a nice evening — long but nice,” said the actor, who went on to call his latest film “funny, emotional and human. If you haven’t seen it yet, please go see it.”
Sorkin, who presented Chastain with her award, helped end the evening on a humorous note, self-consciously pointing out his business-professional attire, which stood out in a sea of tuxedos.
“I meant no disrespect,” he joked of his suit and tie. “I was told it’s black tie optional. Apparently, I’m the only person in the entire building who took that instruction. It’s a confusing instruction. Every day is black tie optional.”













2) Christian Bale in Matt Damon's / Winona Ryder Date Romance movie,.. "GOTHAM".. by Tim Burton...








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Christian Bale was a guest on the latest episode of the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast with Josh Horowitz. During the interview, Bale was asked if he saw any of Ben Affleck’s Batman movies.
“I have not,” Bale replied. “Yes I’m interested, my son seemed like he was really interested, but then I realized he just wanted to see the trailer and that was it. I tend to go see films that [my kids] want to see. I have to confess I’m not a huge superhero film fan. People seem surprised at that, I don’t know why. I’ve not seen any of the Avengers films or any of those films at all. I hear they’re very good, but I’m quite happy just hearing they’re very good.”
Something Bale said he is a huge fan of is Star Wars. He confirmed that he was in talks for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and hopes to be in talks for another Star Wars movie again in the future.



An Alien infrastructure in deep, deep outer space... The Matt Damon /Winona Ryder Romance Date Movie.. "GOTHAM!!!"... a movie by Tim Burton...








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  • In 2015, citizen scientists found weird dimming and brightening from a star called KIC 8462852, or Tabby's Star.
  • Astronomers at the time said they couldn't rule out alien activity as an explanation.
  • However, an exhaustive new study by more than 200 astronomers mostly debunks this wild possibility.
  • The mystery of Tabby's Star remains unsolved.

The mystery of a star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth is finally coming into clearer focus — and it's not aliens.
A strange brightening-and-dimming behavior of Tabby's Star, or KIC 8462852, was first studied by professional astronomers in 2015. The researchers hadn't seen anything like it, and said they could not rule out alien activity as one remote yet possible cause, such as a Dyson sphere or "alien megastructure" built around the star to harvest its energy.
"It's been called the most mysterious star in the galaxy," Jason Wright, an astronomer at Penn State University who's studied Tabby's Star, told Business Insider. "We call it the 'WTF' star" (an abbreviation, he added, that stands for "where's the flux?").
Following a crowdfunded campaign to observe Tabby's Star in the most detail ever recorded, however, Wright and more than 200 scientists are now debunking the wildest explanation.
"There's no reason to think aliens have anything to do with Tabby's Star, given these data," Wright said. He helped coauthor a new study about the star, published Wednesday in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The most likely explanation, according to the new report, is that the phenomenon is caused by dust.

The mystery of Tabby's Star

NASAThe weird dimming of Tabby's Star was first detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which stared down about 145,000 stars and measured their brightness from 2009 through 2013.
But the actual discovery was made in the 2010s by the "Planet Hunters," a group of volunteer citizen scientists who combed through Kepler data looking for tiny, characteristic dips in brightness caused by orbiting worlds. The project helped discover thousands of planets beyond the solar system, including a few dozen Earth-size and potentially habitable worlds.
During this effort, multiple volunteers described KIC 8462852 as an "interesting" and even "bizarre" star. Over periods ranging from five to 80 days, its brightness would dip a whopping 22% — an amount far greater than any planet in the solar system could cause by passing in front of the sun (and Tabby's Star is 50% larger and 1,000 degrees hotter than our sun).
By September 2015, professional astronomers took a close look at the data and confirmed the never-before-seen oddity.
Over the past two years, scientists have floated a number of possible explanations (beyond the improbable suggestion of alien activity), including debris left by a destroyed planet, an oblong star that appeared to dim as it rotated, swarms of giant "exocomets", huge dust clouds, and dramatic changes within the star itself.
Without new observations, however, no one could be certain.

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Lacking quick access to a government observatory or a large source of funding for private observations, Wright turned to amateur astronomers and crowdfunding for help.
"If we can catch it in the act of getting dimmer, then we can point our telescopes at it, and we can study the material that's blocking the starlight," Wright said in a video for his 2016 Kickstarter campaign.
The effort ultimately raised over $107,000, and Wright and others purchased time on the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, which uses observatories contracted all over the world to continuously monitor an object of interest in space.
Observations for Wright's "Where's the flux?" project, conducted from March through December 2017, measured Tabby's Star in a variety of wavelengths or "flavors" of light. The data show that whatever anomaly is obscuring Tabby's starlight doesn't block it completely — much more red light gets through than blue light, for instance.
"Whatever is passing between us and the star is not opaque, as would be expected from a planet or alien megastructure," Tabetha Boyajian, an astronomer at Louisiana State University who helped author Wednesday's study, said in a press release."Dust is most likely the reason why the star's light appears to dim and brighten."
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The observations also suggest that the star, which is nicknamed after Boyajian, is not oblong-shaped. And it's unlikely that a planetary collision is causing the dimming, since a spike in temperature that such an event would cause hasn't been seen.
Wright likes the idea that a black hole surrounded by a bunch of dust is to blame, yet said it's a "dark horse idea." Not much else is yet known, he added, since the research team has analyzed only about 10% of its mountain of new data.
"It's overwhelming," Wright said. "It sort of feels like a Christmas where everyone gets you books, and at the end of the day you have this enormous stack — but you have no idea where to start or how long it's going to take to get through it all."

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However long it takes, Wright says it's important to solve the mystery of Tabby's Star.
"Kepler only looked at one part of the sky, and this was one of 100,000 stars. But there are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy," he said. "So there could be billions of these out there, too."


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October 11, 2017 09:04 AM

Angelina Jolie is speaking out about a good cause close to her heart: the environment.
Jolie, 42, penned an open letter from the African country of Namibia in the 150th Anniversary collector’s edition of Harper’s BAZAAR, in which she discusses her passion for wildlife and humanity’s responsibility toward each other and the environment.
“For me, Namibia represents not only ties of family and friendship but also the effort to the balance between humans and the environment so crucial to our future,” she wrote.
Along with stressing her message that “wild animals belong in the wild,” Jolie also shared photos of herself with three orphaned rescued cheetah’s that she’s sponsored since they were tiny cubs in 2015. 
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The photo shoot took place at a wildlife sanctuary in Namibia, the N/a’an ku sê Wildlife Sanctuary, which is run by Jolie’s friends of 16 years, Marlice and Rudie van Vuuren.
The foundation has a special relationship with the Jolie-Pitt family. In 2010, four years after Shiloh was born in Namibia, they created the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Foundation to help theN/a’an ku sê Wildlife  Sanctuary with its efforts.
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The foundation named one of the cubs after Shiloh, who in turn named the second cub Wonder after her favorite book. Pax named the third cub Odyssey.
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With her roots in Africa, Jolie’s passion for protecting wildlife runs deep.



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