Friday, September 27 is World Tourism Day, which will be celebrated with a wide-variety of activities and events, including free access to museums and galleries around Malaga City. The Picasso Birthplace Museum, the Russian Museum Collection, and the Centre Pompidou Málaga will open their doors free of charge, offering visitors the opportunity to enjoy their…
September has brought a variety of new releases on streaming services, but sometimes the best of the best can be hard to sift through. Whether you’re in the mood for a new film, series or documentary, here are some of the highlights from new releases across streaming services.Netflix has kicked off their fall movie season with a few high-profile original films that will have legs throughout the rest of the year, so be sure to catch up with these titles. It’s been the No. 1 release on the platform for a couple of weeks since its release on Sept. 6, but if you have yet to catch up with Jeremy Saulnier’s action thriller “Rebel Ridge,” do so now (or queue up the rewatch). Featuring a breakout star turn from Aaron Pierre as a man who seeks revenge on a small-town police department after a civil asset forfeiture during a traffic stop, this slow-burn thriller is an exercise in control and simmering rage. Don Johnson turns in a menacing villain performance, while AnnaSophia Robb has never been better as a gritty legal assistant who teams up with Pierre’s Terry. Stream it on Netflix now.In a very different vein, Azazel Jacobs’ family drama “His Three Daughters” premiered on Netflix Sept. 20. Starring Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne, this film, set in a New York City apartment, follows a tense few days as a trio of sisters gather to be by their father’s side while he passes. A lifetime of resentments bubbles to the surface as the sisters try to navigate their emotional needs and responsibilities in relationship to each other and the situation at hand. Coon, Olsen and Lyonne deliver incredible performances, but it’s Lyonne who emerges as the unlikely, and stealthy MVP. Stream it now on Netflix.Launching Friday, Sept. 27, on the service is the new documentary “Will & Harper,” which premiered at Sundance earlier this year. The documentary, directed by Josh Greenbaum, follows a road trip taken by comedy superstar Will Ferrell and his close friend and collaborator Harper Steele, whom he met at “Saturday Night Live.” During the road trip, the two friends navigate their relationship after Harper’s transition, and explore the America Harper loves so much, though she’s not sure if it still loves her back. It’s a funny, and touching film about friends, transgender identity and contemporary American culture, but it also tangles with the fascinating element of visibility — the visibility as a trans person that Harper is figuring out, and the visibility of Will’s fame that both shields Harper and draws attention to her as well, a conundrum they have to manage during their journey. The film also features a terrific song by Kristen Wiig. Stream it starting Friday, Sept. 27, on Netflix.As for series, try Hulu’s new “English Teacher,” from creator and star Brian Jordan Alvarez (you may know him from “M3GAN” or his viral social media videos as his character TJ Mack). This funny half-hour comedy is a bit of a rare breed these days, both sassy, heartwarming and incisive, it follows Alvarez’s character Evan Marquez, a high school English teacher, managing friendships, relationships and work. “English Teacher” hits just the right tone. Stream the first five episodes on Hulu.Over on Max, check out the new docuseries from Alex Gibney, “Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos,” about the creation of the iconic HBO series and the creator behind it. The two episodes are available now on Max.———©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
Beijing (Gasgoo)- Dongfeng Motor’s luxury electric off-roader brand, MHERO, officially put a movie-themed special edition of the MHERO 917 model, named Jiaolong Zhanjia (translating to “Dragon Armor” ) onto the market.Coming with two variants, the MHERO 917 Jiaolong Zhanjia is priced at 768,000 yuan, and the MHERO 917 Jiaolong Zhanjia MAX at 868,000 yuan.Photo credit: MHEROThe vehicle was a co-branding with Chinese film company BONA Film Group, drawing inspiration from the movie Operation Leviathan (named “Jiaolong Xingdong” in Chinese Pinyin). The MHERO 917 Jiaolong Zhanjia is a key achievement of the MHERO brand’s “one vehicle, one price; one person, one ride” premium customization service. Its bold, Chinese dragon-inspired design conveys power and presence, while its imposing size underscores its rugged appeal.Inside, the vehicle features upgraded materials, including standard Napa leather seats and a suede roof liner, ensuring a luxurious experience for passengers. Buyers can also opt for carbon fiber interior trim, enhancing the vehicle’s high-end feel.Photo credit: MHEROPowered by a range-extended electric powertrain, the MHERO 917 Jiaolong Zhanjia delivers a formidable 816 maximum horsepower, with 1,050 N·m of peak torque, and an incredible 12,938 N·m of wheel torque. Thanks to the M TECH off-road architecture, the vehicle is capable of navigating a wide range of terrains.Photo credit: MHEROTo further enhance off-road performance, the 917 Jiaolong Zhanjia is equipped with top-tier features such as K-MAN nitrogen shock absorbers, T-MAX professional electric winch, and a multifunctional spare tire rack. Additionally, it includes protective elements like carbon fiber bumpers and high-strength carbon steel guards, offering enhanced durability and safety for off-road adventures.
Alan Jackson and Chris Frye started the Footcandle Film Society with a focus on independent movies, but the duo still enjoy cult classics.“If I’m ever having a rough day or something, I can always watch ‘The Big Lewbowski’ and it makes me laugh,” Frye said. “There’s a character in there played by John Goodman, Walter, and he just makes me laugh, the way he acts, the ways he says things. It’s just so over the top.”Jackson had to look at a list of his favorites before thinking of two movies that stood out.“There’s ‘Anchorman,’ that’s one of my favorite comedies ever,” Jackson said. “And I do like the original ‘Ghostbusters.’”The Footcandle Film Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. For Frye and Jackson, it is about celebrating what began as two guys talking about movies in theater parking lots in the early 2000s.
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“Right after we started the (Footcandle) film society, probably two or three years after that, people started saying, ‘Hey, we want a film festival,’” Frye said. “I was like, ‘We just got this society going, give us a year or two.’ In 2015, we said we’ll give it a shot.”The 10th festival received more than 300 entries. A committee of 10 people watched the submitted films. Jackson and Frye compiled scores from movies watched by at least three committee members.
Chris Frye and Alan Jackson with a poster promoting the Footcandle Film Festival.
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“I tell the committee to watch as many as they can, because it’s a lot,” Frye said.Frye watched all 300 submissions.Of the 300 submissions, 10 feature-length films (five documentaries and five narrative films) and 20 short films were chosen for the festival.Frye said one of his favorites is “All You Hear is Noise.”“It follows three Special Olympians through their process of trying to practice, getting to go to the World Special Olympics and then, most importantly, what happens after they come home,” Frye said.The festival kicked off Saturday night with an event at The Hum. Wednesday will feature a screenwriting competition award and the FilmLAB Short Film Showcase at 7 p.m. at Drendel Auditorium.What is the FilmLAB competition?For the second year, groups of independent film makers came together to make a short film from scratch in 60 hours. The teams received a prop, some dialogue and a genre. No previously prepared material could be used. Jackson said six teams, three from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, one from Western Piedmont Community College, one from an Episcopal high school in Virginia and an independent team, participated in this year’s film lab. He said most of the films were comedic, but a couple were more serious. Thursday will feature the Youth International Film Showcase at 4 p.m. followed by the Hickory premier of “A Song for Imogene.” Writer and director Erika Arlee received a grant in 2021 from the Footcandle Film Society to help make the North Carolina based film.“It’s about a lady who’s in a small town, and she’s in kind of a bad relationship,” Frye said. “She doesn’t see any way she can move out of her circumstances. The film is about her struggle to figure out, ‘How am I going to get out of this?’”Screenings of feature length and short films eligible for awards from the festival will happen Friday through Sunday. The festival will conclude with awards from judges and audiences at a ceremony Sunday night.“It being our 10th anniversary, we’re trying to make it a little more of a party this year, like a birthday party,” Jackson said. “We’ll have cake and balloons and champagne-ish stuff.”Jackson said about eight filmmakers will be in attendance at film screenings and available after to answer questions.“Watching movies is awesome, but watching movies with that added component really means a lot to Alan and I, and it means a lot to our attendees of the festival,” Frye said.Most Thursday through Sunday events will take place at the Hickory Community Theatre.To see the entire schedule for the film festival, visit footcandlefilmfestival.com.Origin of Footcandle Film SocietyThe Footcandle Film Society began in 2008, but Jackson and Frye trace their love of movies back to their youth. Jackson and Frye met in 1996 after Frye started working at Jackson’s business, Jackson Creative. “We would go see movies, and then stand around in the parking lot and talk about it,” Frye said. “One time we went to see one in November, and it was really cold, and we were standing around in the parking lot talking and thought, ‘There’s got to be a better way to do this.’”“We started (the society) in a conference room … and then we decided to open it up and make it an organization people can join,” Jackson said.The society shows popular, independent films monthly that would otherwise not make it to theaters in the area. Jackson and Frye said films are chosen based on availability and what is popular in other communities like Hickory.Jackson said the society started small, with less than 50 people attending monthly film screenings.The society now has close to 600 members. Jackson said about half come out to monthly events.Frye said the most popular films from this year’s film society screenings were “Thelma,” “We Grown Now,” and “Ghostlight.”Jackson said following each screening, the audience can discuss the film with Frye or Jackson.“Most of the time, we have not seen the film until we actually watch it with the audience, which is kind of nice,” Jackson said. “We’re discussing it and reacting to it with the audience and getting their thoughts.”
Billy Chapman is a reporter with the Hickory Daily Record. [email protected]
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Bhubaneswar: In an achievement in the field of research and innovation, six faculty members from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar have been recognized among the top 2 per cent of scientists worldwide, as per the prestigious ranking released by Stanford University in collaboration with Dutch academic publishing company, Elsevier.
This annual ranking, widely respected across the global academic community, acknowledges scientists based on the impact of their research work, citation index, and other critical academic parameters. The inclusion of faculty members from IIT Bhubaneswar not only highlights the institution’s excellence in research and innovation but also showcases the impactful contributions made by Indian scientists on the global platform.
The recognised faculty members for the year 2024 are:
1. Prof. Subhransu Ranjan Samantaray, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences2. Prof. Rajan Jha, School of Basic Sciences3. Prof. P. Dinakar, School of Infrastructure4. Prof. Manas Mohan Mahapatra, School of Mechanical Sciences5. Dr. Pattabhi Ramaiah Budarapu, School of Mechanical Sciences6. Dr. Barathram. Ramkumar, School of Electrical and Computer Sciences
These faculty members have been acknowledged for their significant research contributions and high-impact publications that have set benchmarks in their respective domains. The Stanford-Elsevier ranking evaluates the performance of scientists over their careers and also emphasizes their recent contributions, making this recognition particularly notable for the selected scholars.
It is noteworthy that four of the faculty members have been ranked in the career-long research category. Prof. Subhransu Ranjan Samantaray has been recognized for his research in the field of Energy; Prof. Rajan Jha for his work in the field of Optics; Prof. V. R. Pedireddi for his research in the field of Inorganic & Nuclear Chemistry and Prof. P. Dinakar for his work in the field of Building and Construction Engineering.
The subject-wise bibliometric analysis was conducted by a team of scientists from Stanford University and Elsevier BV – a leading scientific publisher. Scientists have been classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 sub-fields, according to the standard Science-Metrix classification.
Prof. Shreepad Karmalkar, Director, of IIT Bhubaneswar, conveyed his congratulations to the faculty members, stating, “This recognition is a testament to the high-calibre research being conducted at IIT Bhubaneswar. Our faculty members continue to push the boundaries of knowledge and innovation, and their inclusion in this elite list reflects the institute's commitment to excellence in research and development. We are committed to advancing scientific inquiry and supporting our faculty as they contribute to solving real-world problems through their work.”
The Stanford-Elsevier global ranking is a prestigious accolade in the academic and research community, identifying researchers across multiple disciplines who are driving scientific progress and innovation worldwide. This recognition not only highlights individual achievements but also reinforces India’s growing role in global research and development.
Dr. Jeffrey A. SingerIn 2003, a Texas court sentenced Robert Roberson to death after he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki, by shaking her so forcefully that he caused irreversible brain damage and death from so-called shaken baby syndrome, also called abusive head trauma.Roberson’s appeal is based on new evidence that doctors misdiagnosed the cause of death and scientific doubts on whether shaken baby syndrome even exists.The government plans to put Roberson to death on Oct. 17 unless he is granted clemency. Last week, a bipartisan majority of legislators in the Texas House asked the state Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend clemency. The final decision will rest with Gov. Greg Abbott.Pronouncements from the medical establishment strongly influence politicians and courts, leaving lasting marks on public policy. In less than a month, such pronouncements may cause the first-ever execution of a man based on dubious medical science.Science of shaken baby syndrome is questionableIn a 1971 British Medical Journal article, pediatric neurosurgeon Norman Guthkelch hypothesized that aggressively shaking a baby can cause what has come to be known as “the triad” of intracranial hemorrhage, brain swelling and bleeding behind the retinas.His hypothesis gradually became accepted wisdom by the medical establishment. The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome claims that law enforcement authorities process at least 1,300 cases of SBS/AHT per year.The center points to a consensus among elite medical institutions, from the American Academy of Pediatrics to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the World Health Organization, that shaken baby syndrome is genuine and a significant problem. Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic websites explain the syndrome to lay readers.Opinion:Incarcerated women struggle against a criminal justice system built around the needs of menYet researchers have challenged the hypothesis since the 1980s. Some studies have concluded that shaking cannot biomechanically cause the injuries Dr. Guthkelch described.A 2016 systematic review by the Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services concluded that there is “limited scientific evidence that the triad and therefore its components can be associated with traumatic shaking (low quality evidence),” and that there is “insufficient scientific evidence on which to assess the diagnostic accuracy of the triad in identifying traumatic shaking (very low quality evidence).”A study published last year in Forensic Science International found that a significant number of patients were misdiagnosed with abusive head trauma, citing other conditions that can cause clinical and imaging “findings commonly associated with AHT.”Shaken baby syndrome ‘too often’ diagnosedDr. Guthkelch himself called to rethink the shaken baby syndrome. In 2011, the pediatric neurosurgeon told a National Public Radio reporter that he “worries that it is too often applied by medical examiners and doctors without considering other possible causes for a child’s death or injury.”Writing in the Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy in 2012, Guthkelch called his hypothesis into question and disparaged the medical community’s “level of emotion and divisiveness on shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma interfered with our commitment to pursue the truth.”In that same journal, an article by legal and medical scholars concluded: “Over the past decade, we have learned that this hypothesis fits poorly with the anatomy and physiology of the infant brain, that there are many natural and accidental causes for these findings, and that the onset of symptoms does not reliably indicate timing.”Shortly before he died, Dr. Guthkelch told The Washington Post in 2015 that he was struck by the high proportion of diagnoses of shaken baby syndrome he reviewed that were attributable to natural causes and not abuse: “I was absolutely horrified when I came back 20 years later to hear all this rubbish about incarcerating mothers, et cetera, et cetera.”Opinion:Texas lawmakers halting Melissa Lucio’s execution was the right callA decade later, the medical establishment and the law have yet to catch up with the science. At best, shaken baby syndrome is rare yet remarkably overdiagnosed. However, enough research has been done to place the hypothesis in doubt.In 2005, Stanford professor John Ioannidis published his landmark study, “Why Most Published Research Findings Are False.” The distinguished scientific journal Nature reported a record 10,000 published papers were retracted in 2023, and that may just be “the tip of the iceberg.”Nature separately reported on researchers’ propensity to fudge or falsify data, claiming that in some fields, “at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up.”Despite these facts, “narrative inertia” can mean years before medical organizations change their positions on diagnoses and treatments.During the COVID-19 public health emergency, the public learned the hard way how dogma, groupthink and the suppression of scientific debate describe the culture of the modern medical establishment. One year after the CDC declared the public health emergency was over, people still suffer from collateral damage to mental and physical health, education and socioeconomic conditions caused by the pandemic policies.It will take a long time for the medical establishment to fix its scientific sloppiness and groupthink. In the meantime, prosecutors and courts should avoid cases based on uncertain scientific theories, regardless of pronouncements by members of the medical profession, to prevent the incarceration of innocent people.Unlike a research paper, the government cannot retract a person’s wrongful execution.Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer practices general surgery in Phoenix and is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
Riyadh, SANA- Syria’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr. Ayman Sousan, met Wednesday morning Director of Regional Office of UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) for the Middle East, Samer Al-Kharash.
The two sides discussed means of cooperation between Organization Regional Office and Syrian Tourism Ministry in all domains related to tourism, as al-Kharash stressed readiness to bolster cooperation with Syria in all fields.
In turn, Ambassador Sousan underscored the importance of tourism sector particularly in the investment field.
He noted that cooperation with the regional office will enhance the Syrian efforts in this regard, especially in terms of qualifying the cadres working in tourism sector and promoting tourism.
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