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According to the date stamps scattered along the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps map, the Australia-based Striker Eureka is the latest and most advanced model of Jaeger, joining the fight in 2019. By that same metric, the Japanese apparently pioneered Jaeger design with the Coyote Tango in 2015. Does this mean that the Coyot... |
Of course, it's not guaranteed that all – if any – of these Jaeger designs will appear in the final film. While it would be awesome to see the massive Cherno Alpha and four-armed Crimson Typhoon take on horrors from beyond, there's only so much time and budget to work with. As such, it's probable that few of these feat... |
At the moment, the most those looking forward to Pacific Rim can glean from these blueprints is that the effort to defeat the Kaiju will be an international and ever-evolving one. As we wait impatiently for the film's first trailer to be released, this will have to be the thin gruel that we nourish ourselves upon. |
Pacific Rim will smash its way into theaters on July 12th, 2013. |
ARSENE WENGER has warned his players they are playing for their Arsenal futures after threatening a summer clearout. |
The Arsenal manager says a top-four finish is an absolute must and that failure will spark a massive sale of dead wood. |
Arsenal, at home to Reading today, are fifth, four points behind Tottenham but with a game in hand. |
Wenger is demanding his players repeat what they did last season and overhaul their neighbours to reach the Champions League for a 16th successive season. |
"What is important is we look at how we finish the season, how well we play and make the decisions who to buy and who to sell at the end of the season," he said. "This will be influenced by the way we play in our last nine games." |
So is the challenge for Wenger's squad to convince him that they are worth a place next season? "Yes," he said. "We have five players for the England national team and 22 international players. But what will decide our attitude, my attitude, is how we do now until the end of the season." |
Goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny and captain Thomas Vermaelen, both dropped for recent matches, look to be in the firing line. |
"We need a player to take the game by the scruff of the neck," said Wenger. |
Away from home we are one of the two strongest teams, so where we have a deficit of points is at the Emirates. |
"Away from home we are one of the two strongest teams, so where we have a deficit of points is at the Emirates. We haven't done it this season in the big games. It's strange because last season we were top of the league with the big teams. This year we are bottom. |
"Not because we have been dominated. We were never inferior Wenger is ready to swing axe possession-wise but just because after 20 minutes we were chasing in every game." |
Wenger did not name individuals under the spotlight, but there are several whose places are in deep jeopardy. Goalkeeper Szczesny and Vermaelen have both been dropped for the past two games at Bayern Munich and Swansea, which Arsenal won. |
Vermaelen has vowed to fight for his place and said: "I have played many games in my career and come back strongly." |
That choice - and Szczesny's - may be taken out of their hands with Wenger having a £70 million transfer chest to build a team capable of mounting a serious title challenge. |
Abou Diaby's latest injury, which will rule him out for up to nine months, means Wenger is also likely to strengthen in central midfi eld. And a proven striker remains a top priority, with Olivier Giroud having a hit-and-miss spending two on the bench does not mean the world is on fi re. " |
The only thing to do is keep going and make sure you When everyone is here we have a strong team"What is important is to analyse where we can improve at the end of the season." |
In this edition, on this day that a total eclipse of the heart sun will be seen in certain parts of the world, take a look at the history of eclipses in film and television. Plus, go behind the scenes of the disco music video for “Guardians Inferno” from the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundtrack and watch a Game of... |
First up, in honor of the solar eclipse happening later today, Birth.Movies.Death and Alamo Drafthouse take a look back at the history of eclipses that have appeared in film and television over the years. It spans from Bugs Bunny to CSI: Miami and everything in between. And remember, don’t stare directly into the sun, ... |
Next up, following last night’s episode of Game of Thrones, this fanmade trailer for the series cut in the style of the first Justice League Comic-Con trailer, mixed with the theatrical trailer for Thor: Ragnarok, really sells us on a Seven Samurai meets Suicide Squad kind of movie. Using a bunch of footage from the cu... |
Finally, you’ve seen the psychedelic music video for the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 soundtrack song “Guardians Inferno,” and now you can go behind the scenes and see all of the film’s cast members, as well as director James Gunn, in their 1970s wardrobe without all that grainy, faux VHS quality. |
All assignments for enlisted Airmen in the ranks of senior master sergeant and below and officers, lieutenant colonel and below, will now go to unit commanders through their Military Personnel Flights seven days before the official notification to Airmen. The seven-day window also allows for discussion of the Airman’s ... |
For complete guides to military bases around the country, visit the Military.com Base Guide. |
Systemic themes such as trade wars and slower economic expansion will take a backseat for this upcoming trading week. Monetary policy will return to the forefront with the Fed decision on tap with four other central bank meetings while Brexit faces yet another ‘crucial’ week. |
With Euro-area March PMI reports due on Friday, traders’ attention for most of the week will be the latest Brexit developments, the BOE rate decision, and the Fed meeting. |
The Australian Dollar may well face renewed pressure if the week’s central bank speeches again highlight the utility of a weaker currency. Stronger data may help the bulls’ cause though. |
The dominant uptrend in crude oil prices face a cloudy week ahead. Potential gains on the weekend OPEC+ joint meeting may be offset by US Dollar strength on the Fed rate decision. |
British Pound Forecast: Brexit Meaningful Vote - Third Time Lucky? |
Brexit will continue to dominate the domestic scene, putting the latest Bank of England policy decisions in the shade. Meaningful Vote 3 is expected to be voted down again, leaving PM May increasingly isolated. |
The EUR/USD rebound following the ECB meeting appears to have stalled ahead of the FOMC interest rate decision, with the Fed slated to unveil its updated forecasts. |
Gold Forecast: Gold Price Forecast: Where Will XAUUSD Breakout Next? |
While the spot gold price chart shows consolidation at its current level, looming fundamental drivers could ignite the next move in XAUUSD. |
With the major equity indices simultaneously testing technical resistance, catalysts will be found from fundamental developments in the week ahead. |
LONDON — Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage was just trolled in a big way by a fellow EU Parliamentarian. |
The Brexiteer was addressing the elected body in Strasbourg, France on Wednesday afternoon when Labour MEP Seb Dance was caught on camera holding a sign that read "he's lying to you" complete with an arrow pointing in Farage's direction. |
Farage is generally an unpopular figure in the EU's elected body, having used his seat in Parliament to criticise the 28-nation bloc and gloat when Britain voted to leave in the June referendum. Dance had clearly heard enough. |
Speaking to Business Insider shortly after the incident, Dance said: "I'm amazed UKIP suddenly want to play by the rules. I took a risk — but I'm happy to accept whatever consequences the Parliament decides on." |
He added: "I was frustrated at the lack of opportunity to challenge Farage on his populist, nationalist bile. As leader of the EFDD group he gets an automatic 3 minute speech that no-one can respond to owing to time limits on the debate. Trump, Farage, Wilders, Le Pen - they are selling a false prospectus to the people... |
UKIP MEP Bill Etheridge has since launched a formal complaint to the Parliament's President Antonio Tajani, Business Insider has learnt, due to the failure of officials to remove Dance after the incident. |
During the debate today regarding the USA border controls, a member of the British Labour party sat behind Nigel Farage MEP during his speech with a sign making a defamatory personal remark. |
The officials failed to remove him until the end of the speech and when I raised the matter it was not treated with sufficient seriousness by the acting chair. |
Column: Are Panthers a playoff team? |
I was in Charlotte the weekend of Sept. 21 and 22. I was a groomsman, sporting a snazzy Vera Wang tuxedo, in my cousin's wedding. |
It was a beautiful event, one I was blessed to be apart of, in the incredible Queen City � one of my favorite places. |
While in town, I wanted to see this year's version of the Carolina Panthers. |
I've never had an interest in the Panthers before, but I've never had anything against them. To me, they were just another team in the National Football League. |
I received press credentials for their home game against the New York Giants, the same G-Men led by quarterback Eli Manning and are two seasons removed from a Super Bowl Championship. |
What I expected to see was the winless Giants wake up from their early-season futility and pound the Panthers. |
What I actually saw was a Panthers' team with potential, really good defense, big-time playmakers and a quarterback with unlimited talent. |
Carolina defense recorded seven sacks, forced three turnovers and pitched a shutout in a 38-0 drubbing over New York. |
�The front four, those guys are doing awesome,� said Panthers' second-year linebacker Luke Kuechly. �I felt like Eli never really had a chance to get comfortable back there. |
The Panthers haven't been to the playoffs since 2008. In fact, over the past three seasons, they have a record of 14-36. |
After opening the season with back-to-back losses to Seattle and Buffalo, by a combined six points, I convinced Carolina was on its way toward another sour year. |
The Panthers next four games are against Arizona (1-2), Minnesota (0-3), St. Louis (1-2) and Tampa Bay � all winnable match-ups. |
�I like the team and I like where we are headed,� said Panthers' wide receiver Domenik Hixon, who played five seasons with the New York Giants. �People ask me why I went to Carolina, and I say I see a team that plays together and plays well. |
1. The Panthers are led by former Heisman quarterback Cam Newton. Newton can crush opponents with his arm strength and his legs. |
Newton passed for three touchdowns and ran for another against the Giants. The former No. 1 draft pick has back-to-back seasons in which he passed for more than 3,800 yards. |
This season, he has six touchdown passes to just two interceptions. |
2. Carolina is loaded with offensive weapons. At wide receiver, Steve Smith is a legitimate No. 1. Brandon LaFell, who grabbed two touchdown receptions against the Giants, is a solid No. 2 option. Ted Ginn Jr., who has two touchdowns of 40-plus yards, is a big-play threat. |
�(Cam) gave me a chance and that's all we ask for is to give each other a chance,� Ginn said. �Whether it's Brandon, Steve, Armanti (Edwards) or (Domenik) Hixon, we all can do it. |
The Panthers also have running back DeAngelo Williams and tight end Greg Olsen as key offensive playmakers. |
3. The defense is playing lights out. Aside from their shutout against the Giants, they limited Seattle to 12 points. |
Kuechly, a second-year linebacker, was the Associated Press Defensive Rookie of the Year last season. Add him to linebackers Jon Beason, Thomas Davis and Chase Blackburn, as well as linemen Charles Johnson, Greg Hardy and Star Lotulelei, and the defense is sturdy. |
4. The Panthers are looking good on the offensive line. They have former first-round draft pick Jordan Gross and former second-round selection Ryan Khalil. |
They've allowed eight sacks in three games. |
The Panthers have a schedule in which they could win 10 games and challenge for one of the two Wild Card positions. |
From here on out, they have my attention. |
In this interview from Writers & Company in 2000, Eleanor Wachtel talks to J.K. Rowling about the complex world of magic in the Harry Potter series. |
Since first meeting Harry in 1997, readers across generations have celebrated the wizarding world created by Rowling over seven books, spin-offs and an award-winning play. |
In 2000, Rowling was riding high on the success of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in her bestselling series. She came to Toronto to promote the book, which included speaking to Eleanor Wachtel for an episode of Writers & Company. |
"There are certain themes within the books that are perennial and recurrent, particularly in children's literature. I've always said I think the appeal of magic is particularly profound to children because of their powerlessness. The idea that you would be given extra powers and be able to organize the universe accordi... |
"I set down certain rules and boundaries for what can and can't be done. Every now and then, you'll stumble across one of your own rules and feel an urge to cheat and bend it. But you can't do that. One of the earliest and most important boundaries I put down was to do with death. Whether they could overcome death, or ... |
"A thread running through Voldemort's followers, or at least most of them thus far, has been a particular kind of moral weakness. Professor Quirrell [a Hogwarts teacher in the first Harry Potter book] is a huge coward, and he's gravitating towards someone he sees as powerful enough to protect him. And he was wrong. |
"But the important piece for me is at the end of book four, when Dumbledore is speaking about the death of a character, and he says, 'Remember him if ever you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy.' That really is the key for me — it is so much easier not to stand up and protest. It's much easier... |
"The thing I would most like to think I had imparted to anyone is a love of reading. I mean that. If I felt that even one person had grown to a better appreciation or to a love of books, and that had started with Harry, I think I would die happy. That's all I wanted." |
J.K. Rowling's comments have been edited and condensed. |
“Buried Child,” Sam Shepard’s 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning oddball take on the American family drama, operates on multiple realities. |
According to the aging, immobilized patriarch Dodge (played in this Writers Theatre revival by a great Larry Yando, taking cantankerousness to an extreme) and his wife Halie (Shannon Cochran, also great, declining to go to extremes and making it work just as well), the backyard of this rural Illinois farmhouse has been... |
Welcome to the offbeat world of Sam Shepard, who died last year at the age of 73. In his writing heyday, which most certainly included the creation of “Buried Child,” he was a modern theatrical poet of American mythic themes, of demented and blackly comic battles between fathers and sons and brothers, of damaged, yearn... |
Done well, the rewards of a Shepard play can be extremely high, lingering with you as the images, language, sense of danger and deep thematic contemplations swirl in memory. Done not so well, his plays can be awkward and feel like they’re giant mistakes, empty of meaning (since the plot itself won’t help you much, if t... |
You can see Shepard done well and not so well, experience a degree of awkwardness, and be rewarded all in the same evening at this Writers production, directed by Kimberly Senior and starring a who’s who of ace Chicago actors. It runs on all cylinders in the first act, with the remaining two acts having an uneasy combi... |
The production is stronger the more concentrated the conflict. In the first act, where Yando, Cochran and Montgomery lay the foundation of the world and inhabit characters with deep inner lives, the play crackles. Montgomery, looking a bit like Shepard himself, is actually the most compelling of all as Tilden, the wand... |
But when Vince and Shelly show up — the outsiders arriving from the city, where, according to Dodge, the “stupid people” live — it’s not just the reality that shifts. Senior’s production suddenly feels forced and hesitant, as Kenyon and Ishak pitch their reactions at 11 on a scale of 10 right from the start, finding li... |
With an ending that provides one of the great images — dark, puzzling, sad, sometimes (but not here) presented as a bit hopeful — “Buried Child” certainly retains its power 40 years after it was written. And the production does seem to nod (subtly enough) to how Shepard’s view of rural America possesses particular reso... |
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department recently granted a tariff exemption to oil major Chevron for its imports of 4.5-inch Japanese steel tubes for oil exploration. |
But the department rejected a similar request from Borusan Mannesmann Pipe to exclude 4.5-inch steel pipes imported from Turkey for casing used to line new oil wells. |
The reason: multiple U.S. steelmakers objected to Borusan’s application, arguing they could supply the product, according to the department. Chevron drew no such objections. |
When U.S. President Donald Trump slapped a 25 percent tariff on imported steel this spring, his administration allowed companies to apply for exemptions if needed metals were not available in sufficient quality, quantity or in a reasonable time. |
But the process for seeking relief is proving slow and controversial as a deluge of applications has buried the small staff initially assigned to the task, prompting the department to hire dozens of extra contract workers. The limited number of decisions made so far are drawing protests from rejected applicants and spa... |
Commerce has received more than 37,000 exemption requests, far more than it planned to handle. Although 130 employees and contractors are now evaluating the applications, the agency had only ruled on 2,871 of those requests as of August 20. |
The department has so far approved 1,780 of the applications and denied 1,091. Separately, the department turned back more than 6,000 requests for what it called “filing errors” by applicants, who can fix and resubmit their requests. |
Rejected applicants have criticized the department for taking sometimes misleading objections by domestic suppliers at face value and for not allowing importers a chance to rebut their arguments. |
“The Commerce Department is now hard-pressed to spend more than a few minutes reviewing each application,” said Bernd Janzen, a partner in Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, which is working with companies pursuing tariff exclusions. |
Commerce acknowledged its staffing issues and said it has requested permission from Congress to reallocate $5 million of its own funds to accelerate the review process. Congress has so far only approved a reallocation of $2 million, the agency said. |
“We will continue to run behind unless we are allowed to divert more Commerce resources to the process,” the department said in a statement to Reuters. |
The agency is also revising its evaluation process. |
“The Department fully acknowledges that the information provided in an objection may not be correct,” the agency said. |
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