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Will Mitsubishi’s Ralliart return lead to Evolution XI? Brand boss reveals when the iconic performance model could make its comeback – CarsGuide

Posted: June 28, 2021 at 10:05 pm

Mitsubishis president and CEO, Takao Kato, has revealed when the brand could start offering the cars that fans are waiting for, Evolution XI included, with its returning Ralliart sub-brand to lead the way.

According to Japanese publication Response, Mitsubishi shareholders had asked for the Evolution series to be revived, although Mr Kato told them at their annual general meeting on June 23 that firm plans for an 11th instalment remain off the table for now.

Electrification costs a lot of development costs, and the company is still not strong enough. We had a big deficit in the previous fiscal year, so we first revived the company and then put out the cars that fans are waiting for, he said via translator.

Needless to say, Mitsubishi is obviously prioritising its financial health, with its ongoing electric vehicle (EV) transition key to its long-term future. That said, once the ball is well and truly rolling there, the door is still open for the eagerly anticipated Evo XI.

In the meantime, the brand committed to the Ralliart sub-brands return in May, with Mr Kato having now confirmed we plan to expand it to a wide range of models as genuine accessories first. As reported, the Triton ute is set to be the first to receive the treatment.

And if the Evolution series is revived down the line, its increasingly unlikely to be based on the Lancer small car, as per the previous 10 instalments, although there are conflicting reports as to what form it would take.

Autocar claimed in June 2019 that Evo XI would share its CMF-C/D platform with the next-generation Megane RS hot hatch, which still makes a lot of sense given Mitsubishi and Renault make up two-thirds of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance.

The UK publication also said the Evo XI was due around 2022 and would be motivated by a 2.0-litre turbo-petrol four-cylinder engine with about 255kW of power and 450Nm of torque, and a 48V mild-hybrid system. Again, all of that sounded plausible.

That said, Mitsubishi heavily hinted at a very different direction for the high-performance Evolution series when it revealed the e-Evolution concept, an all-electric SUV, at the Tokyo motor show in October 2017.

Fast forward to January this year,Response reported the production version of the e-Evolution concept would be revealed later in 2021, but with two electric motors instead of three.

It goes without saying that this potential new model is likely to be mechanically related to the zero-emissions Nissan Ariya mid-size crossover, which is available with a 290kW/600Nm powertrain that wouldnt be out of place in the Evolution series.

Adding fuel to this fire is Mr Kato, who also said: We would like to create a car that allows customers to experience the electrification technology, SUV technology with high off-road driving performance, and the comfort performance in a functional and enjoyable space.

Its easy to put two and two together there, but time will tell if this model will be part of the Evolution series. Either way, fans will have to wait that little longer to find out what does or doesnt happen.

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Jurassic World Evolution 2 will focus on "enhanced creativity, deeper management" and more – TrueAchievements

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The Jurassic World Evolution 2 team recently discussed the four key areas that the sequel will focus on: an authentic narrative, deeper management, enhanced creativity, and realistic dinosaurs. Game director Rich Newbold said that everything in the game should be working towards at least one of those key ideas. With an authentic narrative, the teams wants to push the narrative aspects of the sequel, with a story set after Fallen Kingdom. It's the idea of enhanced creativity that's most interesting, however one of the drawbacks of Jurassic World Evolution was its limitations with customisation and terrain tools, but Newbold says they're adding extra tools and opportunities for you to really customise... and build those parks of your dreams."

Another issue with the first game was the limits of its management mechanics, but Newbold says they're aiming for deeper management with the sequel. We wanted to add a lot more levers, a lot more things that the player is doing whilst theyre managing their parks, when it comes to the guests, the dinosaurs building that park and managing that park and dealing with the moment-to-moment aspects of running a dinosaur theme park." By the time you got to grips with the first game you'd often have quite a bit of downtime while new dinosaurs were being created, research was being completed, excavation teams were off fossil-hunting, or new buildings were being constructed. From the sound of things, the sequel will bring us more to do, and hopefully cut out some of that downtime. Frontier recently detailed a few of the new features coming with the sequel, such as a territory system and wild dinosaurs, tying into the game's fourth pillar: realistic dinosaurs. Newbold adds that the game features over 75 different prehistoric species," and that this realism will be achieved with "a lot more depth in their behaviours, in the way they move around your landscapes and environments, how they interact with each other." We had a glimpse of dino behaviour in two new Species Field Guide videos, where we also saw another of Jurassic World Evolution 2's new features, as two Amargasauruses were released at the same time.

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Anne Hathaway’s style evolution in 55 photos: from ‘The Princess Diaries’ to red carpet queen – The National

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Anne Hathaway, in hot pink cargo trousers and a knitted cardigan, attends the Fox Teen press junket at Planet Hollywood in Los Angeles, California, on July 23, 1999. Globe Photos

Anne Hathaway, in a strapless LBD, attends the 'Nicholas Nickleby' premiere at Warner Village Cinema on June 22, 2003 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Christian Lacroix, arrives at the 59th annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall on June 5, 2005 in New York, US. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in a lace-trimmed strapless dress, attends a photo call for 'Brokeback Mountain' at the 62nd Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2005 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in an asymmetric tiered dress, attends the premiere for 'Brokeback Mountain' at the 62nd Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2005 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in a teal mini dress, attends a party for 'The Devil Wears Prada' at Casino di Venezia on September 6, 2006 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in a polka-dot dress, attends a photo call for 'The Devil Wears Prada' during the 63rd Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2006 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Alberta Ferretti, attends the premiere of 'The Devil Wears Prada' at the 63rd Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2006 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, in a gold-trimmed LBD, attend 'The Devil Wears Prada' premiere at the 32nd Deauville Festival on September 9, 2006 in Deauville, France. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, arrives at the Valentino in Rome: 45 Years of Style gala dinner at the Imperial Forum on July 6, 2007 in Rome, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Marchesa, arrives for the 80th annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, on February 24, 2008. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in a red dress with voluminous sleeves, attends the premiere of 'Get Smart' at Movie World on June 22, 2008 in the Gold Coast, Australia. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, attends the 'Get Smart' premiere at Warner Moderno Cinema on July 7, 2008 in Rome, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Lela Rose, attends a 'Rachel Getting Married' photo call at the 65th Venice Film Festival on September 3, 2008 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Versace, attends the premiere of 'Rachel Getting Married' at the 65th Venice Film Festival on September 3, 2008 in Venice, Italy. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Armani, arrives for the 66th annual Golden Globes at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 11, 2009. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Gianfranco Ferre, attends a photo call for 'Bride Wars' at Hotel George V on January 19, 2009 in Paris. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Armani, arrives at the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, on February 22, 2009. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Armani, attends the Giorgio Armani show during Paris Fashion Week on January 25, 2010 in Paris, France. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Marchesa, arrives at the premiere of 'Valentine's Day' in Los Angeles, California, on February 8, 2010. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Vivienne Westwood, arrives for the 'Alice in Wonderland' after party at The Sanderson Hotel on February 25, 2010 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, arrives at the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US, on May 3, 2010. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Oscar de la Renta, and Jake Gyllenhaal attend the premiere of 'Love and Other Drugs' at Event Cinemas George Street on December 6, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Giorgio Armani, arrives for the 68th Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on January 16, 2011. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, arrives for the 83rd annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California, on February 27, 2011. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Gucci, arrives for the premiere of 'Rio' at Grauman's Mann Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on April 10, 2011. EAPA

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, attends the White Fairy Tale Love Ball at Chateau de Wideville on July 6, 2011 in Crespieres, France. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Alexander McQueen, attends the premiere of 'One Day' at The Vue Westfield on August 23, 2011 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Giambattista Valli, arrives at the Kennedy Centre Honours at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2011. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Gucci, attends the premiere of 'The Dark Knight Rises' at Odeon Leicester Square on July 18, 2012 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Givenchy, attends the 'Les Miserables' premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on December 5, 2012 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Chanel, arrives for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, California, on January 13, 2013. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Giambattista Valli, arrives for the 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on January 27, 2013. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Prada, attends the 'Les Miserables' premiere at Cinema Gaumont Marignan on February 6, 2013 in Paris, France. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Chanel, attends the 'Les Miserables' photo call during the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival at Grand Hyatt Hotel on February 9, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Burberry, attends the Baftas at The Royal Opera House on February 10, 2013 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Prada, attends the 85th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on February 24, 2013. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, and Valentino attend the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US, on May 6, 2013. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Gucci, arrives for the 86th annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, on March 2, 2014. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Calvin Klein, arrives for the Met Gala at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US, on May 5, 2014. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Richard Nicoll, arrives for the premiere of 'Interstellar' at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on October 26, 2014. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Wes Gordon, attends the premiere of 'Interstellar' at Odeon Leicester Square on October 29, 2014 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Chanel, attends the 'Interstellar' premiere at UME Cinema on November 10, 2014 in Shanghai, China. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Ralph Lauren, attends the Met Gala at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US, on May 4, 2015. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Jonathan Simkhai, attends the premiere of 'The Intern' at Vue West End on September 27, 2015 in London, England. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Naeem Khan, attends the Vanity Fair After Party following the 88th annual Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, on February 28, 2016. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Christopher Kane, attends the premiere of 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, on May 23, 2016. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, attends the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, US, on May 7, 2018. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Jean Paul Gaultier, arrives for the premiere of 'Ocean's 8' at Alice Tully Hall in New York, US, on June 5, 2018. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Givenchy, attends the Givenchy show as part of Paris Fashion Week on September 30, 2018 in Paris, France. Getty Images

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, arrives for the 22nd annual Hollywood Film Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on November 4, 2018. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Elie Saab, arrives for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on January 6, 2019. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Valentino, receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California, on May 9, 2019. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Versace, attends the 25th annual Critics Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, on January 12, 2020. EPA

Anne Hathaway, in Michael Kors, arrives for the premiere of 'The Last Thing He Wanted' at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on January 27, 2020. EPA

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Shifting sands, creeping soils, and a new understanding of landscape evolution | Penn Today – Penn Today

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A new study published in Nature Communications finds that piles of sand grains, even when undisturbed, are in constant motion. Using highly-sensitive optical interference data, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University present results that challenge existing theories in both geology and physics about how soils and other types of disordered materials behave.

Most people only become aware of soil movement on hillsides when soil suddenly loses its rigidity, a phenomenon known as yield. Say that you have soil on a hillside. Then, if theres an earthquake or it rains, this material thats apparently solid becomes a liquid, says principal investigator Douglas Jerolmack of Penn. The prevailing framework treats this failure as if its a crack breaking. The reason thats problematic is because youre modeling the material by a solid mechanical criterion, but youre modeling it at the point at which it becomes a liquid, so theres an inherent contradiction.

Such a model implies that, below yield the soil is a solid and therefore should not flow, but soil slowly and persistently flows below its yield point in a process known as creep. The prevailing geological explanation for soil creep is that it is caused by physical or biological disturbances, such as freeze-thaw cycles, fallen trees, or burrowing animals, that act to move soil.

In this study, lead author and Penn Ph.D. candidate Nakul S. Deshpande was interested in observing individual sand particles at rest which, based on existing theories, should be entirely immobile. Researchers have built models by presuming certain behaviors of the soil grains in creep, but no one had actually just directly observed what the grains do, says Deshpande.

To do this, Deshpande set up a series of seemingly simple experiments, creating sand piles in small plexiglass boxes on top of a vibration isolation worktable. He then used a laser light scattering technique called diffusing-wave spectroscopy, which is sensitive to very small grain movements. The experiments are technically challenging, Deshpande says about this work. Pushing the technique to this resolution is not yet common in physics, and the approach doesnt have a precedent in geosciences or geomorphology.

Deshpande and Jerolmack also worked with long-time collaborator Paulo Arratia, who runs the Penn Complex Fluids Lab, to connect their data with frameworks from physics, materials science, and engineering to find analogous systems and theories that could help explain their results. Vanderbilts David Furbish, who uses statistical physics to study how particle motions influence large-scale landscape changes, provided explanation for why previous models were physically inadequate and inconsistent with what the researchers had found.

The first experiments were seemingly easy: Pour a pile of sand into the box, let it sit, and watch with the laser. But the researchers discovered that, while intuition and prevailing theories say that the undisturbed piles of sand should be static, sand grain piles are in fact a mass of constant movement and behave like glass.

In every way that we can measure the sand, it is relaxing like a cooling glass, says Deshpande. If you were to take a bottle and melt it, then freeze it again, that behavior of those molecules in that cooling glass are, in every way that were capable of measuring, just like the sand.

In physics, glass and soil particles are classic examples of a disordered system, one whose constituent particles are arranged randomly instead of in crystalline, well-defined structures. While disordered materials, a major focus area of Penns Materials Research Science & Engineering Center, share some common behaviors in terms of how they deform when stressed, there is an important difference between glass and a pile of sand. The molecules that make up glass are always moving randomly at a rate that depends on temperature, but sand grains are too large to do that. Because of that, physicists expect that a pile of sand would be jammed and unmoving, but these latest findings present a new way of thinking about soil for researchers in both physics and geology.

Another surprising result was that the rate of creeping soil could be controlled based on the types of disturbances used. While the undisturbed sandpile continued to creep for as long as the researchers observed, the rate of particle motion slowed through time in a process called aging. When sand particles were heated, this aging was reversed such that creep rates increased back to their initial value. Tapping the pile, in contrast, accelerated aging.

We tend to think of things that drive soil toward yield, like shaking from an earthquake that triggers a landslide, but other disturbances in nature potentially drive soil further away from yield, or make it harder for a landslide to happen, says Jerolmack. Nakuls ability to tune it further or closer to yield was like a bomb that went off for us, and this is an all-new area.

In the near term, the researchers are working on follow-up experiments to recreate the impacts of localized disturbances using magnetic probes to understand how disturbances could lead a system further away from or closer to yield. They are also looking at data from field observations, from natural soil creep to catastrophic landslide events, to see if they can connect their lab experiments to what observers see in the field, potentially enabling new ways to detect catastrophic landscape failures before they happen.

The researchers hope that their work can be a starting point for refining existing theories that rely on a paradigm that, like a hillside whose soil particles have shifted over time, no longer holds weight. When you observe something really counterintuitive and new, its going to now take a long time before that turns into a model to use, says Jerolmack. I hope on the geoscience side that people with sophisticated tools and techniques and experience will pick up where weve ended and say, I have a new idea for seeking this signature in the field that you wouldnt have thought ofthat natural handoff of scales and abilities and interests.

Paulo Arratia is a professor in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nakul S. Deshpande is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Earth & Environmental Science in Penns School of Arts & Sciences.

Douglas Jerolmack is a professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Science in Penns School of Arts & Sciences and holds a secondary appointment in the departments of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

This research was supported by Army Research Office Grant W911NF-20-1-0113 and National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Grant DMR-1720530.

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See Khloe Kardashians Beauty Evolution Since the Start of KUWTK – Us Weekly

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From dark bangs to platinum blonde waves, theres no denying that Khlo Kardashian has had quite the beauty evolution since stepping into the spotlight.

Rewind to 2007, when Keeping Up With the Kardashians premiered, and the 37-year-old reality star was hitting red carpets with jet black hair and heavy smoky eyes.

Fast forward to today, and the Good American founder has had quite the transformation. Shes gone through an amazing fitness journey, switched up her hair color more times then we can count, had a nose job and mastered her contouring technique.

If you ask Us, Kardashian looked fabulous at every stage of the game. But, shes certainly had to face her fair share of critics when it comes to her appearance and it hasnt always been the easiest to deal with.

During part two of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians reunion, the reality star admitted to Andy Cohen that speculation around her plastic surgery has gotten under her skin through the years.

Everyone says, Oh my gosh, shes had her third face transplant. But Ive had one nose job Dr. Raj Kinodia and everyone gets so upset, like, Why dont I talk about it, she said during the special. No ones ever asked me. Youre the first person in an interview thats ever asked me about my nose. Ive done, sure, injections not really Botox.

While the businesswoman admitted to the above, internet trolls always have something to say about Kardashians appearance, claiming that she looks different, had her eyes pulled back or that her forehead looks bigger in recent years.

Earlier this month, one critic even said that she looked like an alien in a commercial for Nurtect. Kardashian responded: Sorry you feel that way. You have every right to block/mute me. I am trying to help many out there who suffer in silence I dont think you should refer to yourself as a feminist if you are attacking a woman unprovoked.

Haters aside, the Revenge Body host always knows how to bring it when it comes to glam. She frequently works with hair colorist Tracey Cunningham and hair stylist Andrew Fitzsimons.

She switches up her style fairly frequently, going from tight braids to big bouncy waves. Her hair color chances on the regular as well, but blonde will always be her personal favorite.

My heart is with blonde. But sometimes a girl just needs to change. Ill always go back to blonde I Just think I need a little something different right now, she wrote via Twitter in 2020, after dyeing her hair brunette.

As for makeup? KoKo frequently works with makeup artist Ash K. Holm. The duo has created looks ranging from soft neutrals and coppers to summery peaches. But, without fail, Kardashian is always rocking a set of falsies and a lined lip.

So, in honor of her 37th birthday, keep scrolling to take a look back at Khlos beauty transformation, from the KUWTK premiere to present day.

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Bosch: The Evolution of Jerry Edgar and Maddie Over 7 Seasons – TV Insider

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[WARNING: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Bosch Season 7.]

Titus Wellivers Harry Bosch witnessed two of the most important people in the homicide detectives life reach a crossroads. A daughter in Maddie and a long-time partner in Jerry Edgar.

TV Insider chatted with stars Madison Lintz and Jamie Hector respectively to talk about their Bosch journey during the Amazon series seventh and final season.

Maddie was inadvertently put into the crossfire of a hitman during a case investigation. One that left her mentor Honey Chandler [Mimi Rogers] shot and fighting for her life in the hospital. Ultimately, a shootout in the parking lot of a courthouse followed. The experience further motivated Maddie to follow her dad into law enforcement.

It was a shock to me, Lintz said, upon reading the script. I just thought she was just going to be a prosecutor. That was fine with me. I thought it was incredible and loves Honey Chandler. That would have been a really great path for her. Deep down, I always hoped she would become a cop. On my Pinterest board for Maddie Bosch, I feel like I manifested it a little bit. Just kidding. It was the incredible writers and producers who decided that. It felt like a surreal moment filming the scene.

The actress believes Maddie also came to the realization that things happen to the people in her life that were out of her control. Becoming a cop is a way to bring change.

Being a prosecutor is not enough. I have to get closer, Lintz added. In a way, that is very valiant and a testament to who her father is and who she is. They are protectors who do the right thing. In other ways, it is how she has dealt with her own grief.

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One of the most emotional scenes comes when Madie opens up to her boyfriend Antonio (Jonny Rios). She breaks down about missing her late mother Eleanor (Sarah Clarke), a former FBI agent who was murdered years prior.

I think what happened to Honey opened up a lot of that, Lintz said. Her mom died when she was 16 or 17. That is hard and dealt with the best she could. Now that she is an adult, it spurred out an opening of grief, which was necessary for her to deal with it in an adult way.

Maddie is making moves, literally, leaving dads house to share a place with her boyfriend. She meets Harry at Musso and Frank to tell him the news of her career aspirations.

What I dont think Maddie realizes is she is becoming more of her own person, Lintz said. She is becoming her fathers daughter, but becoming her own person is making these decisions without telling anybody. That shocks Harry a little bit, which is funny to watch. Its part of growing up. I think she wanted him to be excited but understood how the news coil is jarring.

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Lintz was delighted to find out Maddies story is just beginning with the not-yet-titled Bosch spinoff on the horizon. She is grateful to spend the summer months working on the project, as well as further digging into the role.

One of the things I love about Maddie is she has grown up in that world. She knows the darkness. She has seen what happens to people in law enforcement, yet chooses to go into it anyway. Ive been working with (real detectives) Mitzi [Roberts] and Tim [Marcia] the last couple of months. They are on set.

Ive gained so much from them and they are so much about what they do. Being able to experience and learn and sink your teeth in a different profession for the sake of your own profession is the craziest thing ever. Ive been watching bodycam footage on YouTube. I watched End of Watch with Jake Gyllenhaal because a few producers told me that was a good one to watch. It has been an incredible experience. I find it so fascinating all the facets of the job. I just want to portray it as real as possible. That is my main angle for all of this. I want to do it justice.

Jerry is still deeply affected by his decision to fire on and kill Haitian drug kingpin Jacques Avril (Treva Etienne). Did he let revenge get the better of his judgment? A question that leads to the normally straight-laced J. Edgar to unravel, looking to the comfort of strippers and nicotine to ease the pain. Its impacting not only his personal life but compromising cases as well.

Sometimes its not what you affect. Its what affects you, Hector said. Him grappling, having to take a life. Even though that person was on the other side of the law, its showing up at his doorstep. Its affecting him emotionally, physically, mentally. He always has his suit tailored and ready to go.

There are people who experience what he goes through in their lives. There is still hope for him and there is still another day. Hopefully, it can show other people that its very possible to get beyond your hurt with time and support and seeing the world a little differently.

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Jerry lets his emotions get the better of him during questioning, which puts Maddie in danger. He ends up being the saving grace at the courthouse, helping stop the hitman and providing some kind of redemption. It was also a wake-up call Harry wanted him to have long before the incident. Though for Hector, Jerry remains a work in progress.

He doesnt want the responsibility of having lost another life based on the choices and decisions that he made. And not just another life, but someone who is like another daughter, Maddie, he said. For him to be the one who almost causes her death because he couldnt keep his mouth shut. The fact Harry and everyone almost lost their lives in an ambush, which would have been because of him. He knew what he needed to do. This all also pulls him out of that dark abyss. Knowing if he stayed in that place things will only get worse if he keeps making these foolish moves.

With Jerry reassigned to RHD (Robbery-Homicide Division) and Harry going private, the series finale marks the end of an era for this partnership. Hectors focus is now on his next project We Own This City where hell play Sean M. Suiter, Baltimore, well, a homicide detective. In Hectors eyes, the job is similar but the role is someone new.

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Youre dealing with different people. It focuses on the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Departments Gun Trace Task Force. They are both detectives but its really about the human behind the profession. Its about the ups and downs, the ins and outs. Its not just about solving a crime, but how he solves the crime. How he thinks and sees the world and impulses. My approach to this new character is to understand who he was and not judge him, but express him as best I can.

The project will see him reunited withThe Wire EP David Simon and producer George Pelecanos. Hector enjoyed the wink to the show when Jerry revealed to be a fan.

I called my family and said, Listen to this line. It really brings it back, he said. Shout out to Eric Overmyer and Michael Connelly for having that into the script, our showrunner, and executive producer. Eric also worked on The Wire as well and we knew each other, so to bring that into it here in the last season of the season, I loved it.

Thanks to the IMDB TV spinoff, this isnt the end of Boschs story. And Hector isnt entirely sure its the end of Jerrys either.

Im looking forward to that call one day because come on, its Bosch, Hector said. It would be fun to play in that sandbox again.

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Its An Evolution Not A Revolution: Matthew Williams On Taking His Alyx Vision To Stromboli – British Vogue

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As a designer, Matthew Williams switches between two different thinking caps. Being at the helm of two very different brands Givenchy, a house steeped in history, and his own street-infused venture, 1017 Alyx 9SM means his design style is inherently versatile.

1017 Alyx 9SM spring/summer 2022.

Each season, Williams caters to the distinct character of both brands. For his Alyx spring/summer 2022 presentation, he harked back to influences he has experimented with in the past. The results were unveiled in a film directed by Jordan Hemingway, set against the backdrop of the mystical volcanic Aeolian island of Stromboli.

Models traversed the dramatic landscape wearing slinky maxi and mini dresses, unzipped oversized hoodies and Alyxs trademark metallic hardware. Hand-embroidered glass bead dresses, tops and skirts were dressed down in classic Williams fashion, with chunky, clog-like flats and angular sunglasses.

To mark the release of his spring/summer 2022 collection, British Vogue caught up with Williams to talk inspiration, progression, and fashions post-lockdown mood.

We dont really work with a moodboard or references, [were] more designing the collections as a continuation of the previous one an evolution not a revolution. Its about perfecting and evolving the garments from one season to the next.

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This deep-sea brittle star survived 180 million years of evolution – Big Think

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Let me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal found in 2011 by scientists from the French Natural History Museum, while trawling the summit of a secluded seamount called Banc Durand, 500 metres below the waves and 200 kilometres east of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean.

Ophiojura is a type of brittle star, which are distant cousins of starfish, with snake-like arms radiating from their bodies, that live on sea floors around the globe.

Being an expert in deep-sea animals, I knew at a glance that this one was special when I first saw it in 2015. The eight arms, each 10 centimetres long and armed with rows of hooks and spines. And the teeth! A microscopic scan revealed bristling rows of sharp teeth lining every jaw, which I reckon are used to snare and shred its prey.

(J. Black/University of Melbourne, Author provided)

Bristling teeth poke out from all eight jaws, ready to pierce and shred prey. The colour in this micro-CT scan reflects the density of the skeleton.

As my colleagues and I now report in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Ophiojura does indeed represent a totally unique and previously undescribed type of animal. It is one of a kind the last known species of an ancient lineage, like the coelacanth or the tuatara.

We compared DNA from a range of different marine species, and concluded that Ophiojura is separated from its nearest living brittle star relatives by about 180 million years of evolution. This means their most recent common ancestor lived during the Triassic or early Jurassic period, when dinosaurs were just getting going.

Since then, Ophiojura's ancestors continued to evolve, leading ultimately to the situation today, in which it is the only known survivor from an evolutionary lineage stretching back 180 million years.

Amazingly, we have found small fossil bones that look similar to our new species in Jurassic (180 million-year-old) rocks from northern France, which is further evidence of their ancient origin.

Scientists used to call animals like Ophiojura living fossils", but this isn't quite right. Living organisms don't stay frozen in time for millions of years without changing at all. The ancestors of Ophiojura would have continued evolving, in admittedly very subtle ways, over the past 180 million years.

Perhaps a more accurate way to describe these evolutionary loners is with the term paleo-endemics" representatives of a formerly widespread branch of life that is now restricted to just a few small areas and maybe just a single solitary species.

For seafloor life, the centre of palaeo-endemism is on continental margins and seamounts in tropical waters between 200 metres and 1,000 metres deep. This is where we find the relicts" of ancient marine life species that have persisted in a relatively primitive form for millions of years.

Seamounts, like the one on which Ophiojura was found, are usually submerged volcanoes that were born millions of years ago. Lava oozes or belches from vents in the seafloor, continually adding layers of basalt rock to the volcano's summit like layers of icing on a cake. The volcano can eventually rise above the sea surface, forming an island volcano such as those in Hawaii, sometimes with coral reefs circling its shoreline.

But eventually the volcano dies, the rock chills, and the heavy basalt causes the seamount to sink into the relatively soft oceanic crust. Given enough time, the seamount will subside hundreds or even thousands of metres below sea level and gradually become covered again in deep-sea fauna. Its sunlit past is remembered in rock as a layer of fossilised reef animals around the summit.

While our new species is from the southwest Pacific, seamounts occur worldwide and we are just beginning to explore those in other oceans. In July and August, I will lead a 45-day voyage of exploration on Australia's oceanic research vessel, the RV Investigator, to seamounts around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean.

These seamounts are ancient - up to 100 million years old and almost totally unexplored. We are truly excited at what we may find.

Seamounts are special places in the deep-sea world. Currents swirl around them, bringing nutrients from the depths or trapping plankton from above, which feeds the growth of spectacular fan corals, sea whips, and glass sponges. These in turn host numerous other deep-sea animals. But these fascinating communities are vulnerable to human activities such as deep-sea trawling and mining for precious minerals.

(S. Samadi/MNHN/KANADEEP2, Author provided)

The Australian government recently announced a process to create new marine parks in the Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) regions. Our voyage will provide the data required to manage these parks into the future.

The New Caledonian government has also created a marine park in offshore areas around these islands, including the Durand seamount. These marine parks are beacons of progress in the global drive for better environmental stewardship of our oceans. Who knows what weird and wonderful treasures of the deep are yet to be discovered.

Tim O'Hara, Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Rallying to save their patronage jobs – Investigative Post

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The show of support for Mayor Byron Brown at the downtown ballpark Thursday wasn't exactly a grassroots effort. Numerous members of Brown's senior staff participated and spoke.

Wondering whether Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown is giving serious consideration to mounting a write-in campaign to keep his job in November?

The answer might have been in plain sight Thursday night at Sahlen Field, where Brown threw out the first pitch before the Toronto Blue Jays went on to drop the Baltimore Orioles, 9-0.

Outside the park, a crowd of Byron Brown supporters gathered in front of the main entrance to make a pitch of their own. They wore T-shirts bearing Browns name and carried signs reading Keep Byron Brown.

This was no extemporaneous, grassroots expression of support for the four-term incumbent, who lost the Democratic primary election Tuesday to upstart India Walton, sending shockwaves through the regions political and business establishments.

A lot of the people there, including many who spoke to the TV cameras capturing the event, are members of Browns inner circle. Others occupy important, high-paying bureaucratic jobs.

These included:

Petrucci is also an elected member of the Buffalo Board of Education. Also present was South District Council Member Chris Scanlon.

Browns spokesman, Mike DeGeorge who made $110,054 last year was spotted among the demonstrators, too, but he was at the ballpark to make sure the mayors ceremonial game-opening pitch went smoothly.

(For the record, it did: The mayors delivery was slow, but he got it right over home plate.)

Also there was Tom Smith, who earned $110,805 in 2019 as chief of staff for the Buffalo Sewer Authority. Smith was previously head of the Mayors Impact Team and has been an aide to Brown since he was a state senator. Smith is married to Jessica Maglietto Smith, a top aide to the mayor she made $96,477 in 2020 and his campaign treasurer.

The man who the demonstrators offered to TV cameras as a community spokesperson was R.J. Ball. Hes the brother of Betsey Ball and Tim Ball, the citys top attorney. R.J. Ball works for Empire State Development as director of industry development, a patronage gig that paid him $104,000 in 2019. Unlike his siblings, Ball serves at the pleasure of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, not the mayor.

As deputy mayor, Betsey Ball runs operations for the mayor inside City Hall the role once occupied by Steve Casey, who previously ran the mayors election campaigns. As such, Ball was responsible, at least in part, for the campaigns disastrous rose garden strategy: Until the week before election day, Brown acted as if there were no primary election, no opponent, no need to engage in the usual politicking at which Browns previous campaigns have been so adept.

In the final week, money poured into Browns campaign but it was too late.

The result of Browns blunder: Walton beat the four-term incumbent by 7 percent of Tuesdays low turnout. It is too late for Brown to get his name on another ballot line in November, leaving a write-in campaign his only option other than conceding his loss, which he has not done. Brown indicated on election night that hed wait until every vote had been counted and the results certified by the Board of Elections.

At the same time these riders of the patronage merry-go-round were agitating for their boss to keep the job he lost Tuesday night, developer Carl Paladino had called an emergency conclave of wealthy businessmen to discuss how to prevent Walton from taking office in January.

Paladino told those he invited his goal was to raise $1 million to fund a write-in campaign to keep Brown in office in Novembers general election. The meeting was postponed after Buffalo News political reporter Bob McCarthy wrote a piece calling attention to the planned meeting.

Paladino has a long history of clashing with Black elected officials, and until recently that included Brown. In 2009, he helped bankroll the mayoral campaign of South District Common Council Member Mickey Kearns, who lost in a landslide to Brown in the Democratic primary.

Paladino ran for governor in 2010, but his campaign was derailed by the publication of racist and pornographic emails hed shared with an email list of friends and business associates.

He later was elected to a seat on the Buffalo Board of Education, but was removed from office in 2017 after he made racist remarks about Barack and Michelle Obama to a weekly newspaper. He was an early supporter of Donald Trump and remains a hero of the regions conservative and alt-right movements.

Walton, meanwhile, has been receiving national attention for her victory. Shes been congratulated by prominent progressive figures including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

That raises a fascinating prospect: Will Byron Brown, Buffalos first Black mayor, accept the backing of a guy like Paladino in an effort to defeat Walton, who is also Black and poised to become the citys first woman mayor?

If he does, what national figures and organizations will rush with money and volunteers to aid Waltons cause?

It could be a long, hot summer. And fall.

Paladino affirmed Friday to WGRZ-TV and other reporters that he had spoken to Brown and pledged his financial support, should Brown agree to a write-in campaign.

The mayor has not said whether he will do that, or whether hed accept Paladinos support if he does. But he told WGRZ-TV in a statement he was weighing the outpouring of support as he considers his next steps.

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Alt-rock band Cracker happy to be back on the road, heads to Harmar this week – TribLIVE

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Its a long way from performing socially distant, one-man private acoustic shows in driveways to being back on stage with a full six-piece band. But thats the road David Lowery, front man for the classic alternative rock group Cracker, has traveled in just one month of pandemic time.

Cracker, led by lead singer Lowery and virtuoso lead guitarist Johnny Hickman, embarked on a 15-city summer tour that brings the group to Harmar on Wednesday for a concert at Pittsburgh Shrine Center Pavilion. The band will play fan-favorite songs like Low, Euro-Trash Girl and Get Off This from Crackers chart topping album Kerosene Hat and deep cuts from its 29-year recording career.

I did the acoustic shows in the Bay Area back in May and that was pretty interesting, said Lowery. When we booked them in advance, we didnt know how those shows would be.

Other than that, Lowery and his band havent performed live in 15 months. He admits there is plenty of rust to shake off. So much so that Cracker, which normally doesnt do extensive rehearsals, has actually been rehearsing for this tour.

Weve been trying to get back up to speed. I dont remember the last time I had that long of a period of time without playing shows. Were really looking forward to getting back on the road and playing shows and seeing people, Lowery said.

Lowery teaches music business at the University of Georgia. Along with doing some solo recordings, he managed to stay pretty busy during the pandemic.

I did them kind of virtually with most of the guys in Cracker, at least the ones that live in Georgia and we could send files back and forth and do a little bit of studio stuff together, Lowery said. So, I made like an album-and-a-half during that time and just hung out with my sons and my wife.

Lowery said the covid lay off gave him a chance to do things he hasnt been able to do, like adopting a shelter dog a pit bull named Gypsy that is making the trip with Cracker to Pittsburgh.

Shes in the car with us right now, Lowery said during a phone interview with the Tribune-Review. Shes actually a tour dog. Weve been training her, getting her ready to be a band dog so that shes comfortable being in a vehicle and being on the road. Shell actually be in Pittsburgh.

Cracker made numerous Pittsburgh appearances over the years with its most recent stop happening in November 2019 at Moondogs in Blawnox as part of the groups Turkey Hangover Tour.

Lowery had one memory that stood out from a Cracker show at the old Metropol Dance & Night Club in Pittsburgh.

They had live shows with bands early and then it would flip to a dance club, said Lowery. I remember being backstage at the Metropol and pushing through a door thinking it was going out back and then finding myself in the middle of this dance club and the door locked behind me. I was in a totally different reality.

We went to Pittsburgh every tour. It was a good, solid town for us.

On this tour, Cracker also plans to play songs from its most recent double-album Berkeley to Bakersfield, which is part punk and part country. Though it was released seven years ago and not nearly as well known as Kerosene Hat, its a record their fans should be excited to hear.

Berkeley to Bakersfield showcases the alternative rock sound of Californias better known coastal areas on one album as well as the Americana indigenous to the inland area Lowery grew up in. He admits to the song California Country Boy being somewhat autobiographical.

That is kind of my life. I grew up in the orchards in the Inland Empire of Southern California, said Lowery. I put myself through college by driving a truck or being the production manager for this farm just south of Santa Cruz in the Salinas Valley. When you talk about being from the Inland Empire its with some pride and if people think that were a little rougher, were not going to disabuse you of the notion.

All of that of course came before Lowery became a rock star, first with the alternative band Camper Van Beethoven and then in a major way with Cracker, a band that received a lot of air play on rock radio and MTV back in its early to mid 90s heyday. Lowery said a lot has changed in the music industry since then.

I wouldnt want to be a young band today because, the way the revenue streams work, its really drastically different and it tends to overpay the top artists and underpay the younger artists, said Lowery.

The algorithms rule now, he said. You used to be able to walk into a radio station and there was a music director and she might go I like this song. Were going to play it. I dont know how you negotiate with an algorithm. The thing about human curation, which we lack, is the things you dont know that youre going to like.

Lowery said he still likes playing live shows but limits his touring to breaks in his teaching schedule, mainly holidays and during the summer.

Its a clich but we play for free, you pay us to travel.

Paul Guggenheimer is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Paul at 724-226-7706 or pguggenheimer@triblive.com.

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