Elton John may be retired from the road for now, but that doesn’t mean the legendary rock star will stop releasing new music and films for his fans. Thank goodness for that. Elton John is set to unveil his new documentary at the Toronto Film Festival this coming September. The documentary, titled Elton John: Never Too Late, offers a deep dive into the iconic musician’s final tour, the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, which astonishingly grossed over $900 million. This film, co-directed by R.J. Cutler and Elton’s husband, David Furnish, aims to offer a comprehensive look at the legendary singer’s The post Elton John: Never Too Late Documentary To Premier In September appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Riding on the high of the Content Warning and Lethal Company hype, we now have Murky Divers to contend with. However, typically little is explained on how the mechanics work. If you’re left wondering how to even use the ship to reach a dive site in Murky Waters, here is your guide. How to operate the ship in Murky Divers First, you’ll want to head into this game with a few friends—the more, the merrier. Navigation alone is going to be a real chore, as there are a lot of elements at play. Two players are certainly possible, but to operate the ship effectively, I would suggest four players. The goal of Murky Divers is to locate a blue dive site on the compass and navigate the boat into it. You need to assess the risks involved and then dive into the site to collect resources. This is done using the four instruments. Navigation To the left of the large compass on the wall, you will see a green radar machine. This is what you must use to find a dive site in Mur...

As you make your way around the early game Pax Dei landscape, you will come across a lot of resources to gather. It is essential you pick up as many of these as possible, as they will unlock many new recipes. Here is where you can find the early game essential to kick-start your game. Where to find Pax Dei resources Each of these can be found in certain places. Use this guide to speed up the search. It is always a good idea to pay attention to the map; a lot of what you need is already marked there. Sticks and wood Sticks and wood are one of the first items you will want to pick up in Pax Dei. As soon as you have one in your inventory, you will be able to start crafting a whole selection of new tools like a hand axe and weapons. Image: YouTube Waydot Sticks can be picked up from the ground. However, they’re a very popular early-game resource in Pax Dei, so they may be hard to find. If you’re in an area that none seem to be spawning, travel further from th...

Murky Divers is a co-op horror game like Lethal Company, but as soon as you hop into the game you’ll quickly realize how strange the keybindings are. Let’s go over the best keybindings to use in Murky Divers and how to change them. Murky Divers: How to change to the best keybindings The default keybindings for Murky Divers are strange, to say the least. Instead of the usual WASD, you swim forward with the “Z” key and backward with “S”, which doesn’t make sense. Practically all the keybindings don’t make sense and aren’t intuitive, and you can change them by going into settings and selecting “Change Keybindings”. Screenshot: PC Invasion From here, you can see all the available keybindings, which can be pretty confusing if you don’t know how the majority of the controls even work. After spending some time changing the controls, I figured out the best solution to the keybinding problem and found a more int...

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Big Brother might be always “watching you” – but guess what, five (pairs) of eyes sound better than one. Especially when you’re a group of countries out to do mass surveillance across different jurisdictions, and incidentally or not, name yourself by picking one from the “dystopian baby names” list. But then again, those “eyes” might be so many and so ambitious in their surveillance bid, that they end up criss-crossed, not serving their citizens well at all. And so, the Five Eyes, (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK) – an intelligence alliance, brought together by (former) colonial and language ties that bind – has been collecting no less than 100 times more biometric data – including demographics and other information concerning non-citizens – over the last 3 years, since about 2011. That’s according to reports, which basically tell you – if you’re a Five Eye national or visit out of the UN’s remaining 188 member countries – expect to be under thorough, including biometric, surveillance. The program is (perhaps misleadingly?) known as the “Migration 5,” (‘Known to One, Known to All” is reportedly the slogan. It sounds cringe, but also, given the promise of the Five Eyes – turns out, other than sounding embarrassing, it actually is.) And at least as far as the news now surfacing about it, it was none other than “junior partner” New Zealand that gave momentum to reports about the situation. The overall idea is to keep a close, including a biometric, eye on the cross-border movement within the Five Eye member countries. How that works for the US, with its own liberal immigration policy, is anybody’s guess at this point. But it does seem like legitimate travelers, with legitimate citizenship outside – and even inside – the “Five Eyes” might get caught up in this particular net the most. “Day after day, people lined up at the United States Consulate, anxiously waiting, clutching the myriad documents they need to work or study in America,” a report from New Zealand said. “They’ve sent in their applications, given up their personal details, their social media handles, their photos, and evidence of their reason for visiting. They press their fingerprints on to a machine to be digitally recorded.” The overall “data hunger” between the 5 of these post WW2 – now “criss-crossed” – eyes has been described as rising to 8 million biometric checks over the past years. “The UK now says it may reach the point where it checks everyone it can with its Migration 5 partners,” says one report. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post New Reports Reveal Five Eyes’ Surge in Biometric Data Collection appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. TikTok has issued a permanent advertising ban on XX-XY Athletics, a feminist sportswear brand that also advocates for the protection of women-only sports. XX-XY Athletics, launched by former Levi’s executive Jennifer Sey, champions the cause of maintaining sex-based divisions in sports, prioritizing safety and fairness for female athletes. The ad features a group of women and girls who call for courage in upholding “reality.” Jennifer Sey revealed through a post on the platform X that TikTok had sent her a notification stating her account was banned from advertising due to non-compliance with their policies. The notification, a blend of automated and human moderation efforts, did not specify the exact nature of the offense but labeled the content as potentially offensive. “Your account has been permanently suspended because it does not comply with our advertising policies,” the message from TikTok detailed. The brand features sportswear items and graphic tees with slogans like “Team Women” and “Save Women’s Sports.” The advert that caused the ban: https://video.reclaimthenet.org/articles/JenniferSey-1803154775833453130.mp4 If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post TikTok Shuts Down Ads for Bold Feminist Sportswear Brand appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

Can Boeing Bring Its Astronauts Home From the ISS?

The lakes of liquid methane and ethane on Titan have shorelines that appear to have been shaped by waves on those hydrocarbon lakes, new evidence suggests, potentially settling an old argument. It could also shape the forthcoming mission to Saturn’s giant moon.When it comes to finding a world we can study for its resemblance to the early Earth, the best the Solar System has to offer is not another planet, but a moon. Titan is the only moon we know of with a substantial atmosphere, and one that is more similar to Earth’s than the wispy near-nothings of Mars or the boiling acidic hell of Venus. That atmospheric pressure allows lakes and seas of molecules that are liquid far below the freezing point of water, fed by rivers from hydrocarbon rains on higher ground.All these features created great excitement around the time the Voyager missions went past, but interest faded, other than around the time the Huygens probe touched down, as smaller moons took the spotlight. Now, as NASA prepares for the Dragonfly mission to explore Titan, the focus is swinging back, and planetary scientists want to know what to expect in order to tweak Dragonfly’s plans.As part of that process, MIT’s Professor Taylor Perron has sought to answer the question of whether large waves develop on Titan’s lakes, something that would have many important implications. Past investigations have produced conflicting answers.Perron and colleagues looked at the way waves erode the boundaries of large lakes on Earth, and compared this to images sent by Cassini of the outlines of Titan’s largest lakes. They acknowledge their results are not definitive – after all, Cassini only made flybys of Titan while orbiting Saturn, so the resolution of its images was not as good as we would like.“We can say, based on our results, that if the coastlines of Titan’s seas have eroded, waves are the most likely culprit,” Perron said in a statement. “If we could stand at the edge of one of Titan’s seas, we might see waves of liquid methane and ethane lapping on the shore and crashing on the coasts during storms. And they would be capable of eroding the material that the coast is made of.”Establishing the existence of waves has implications far beyond the shorelines. The occasional meteorite may trigger waves when landing in a lake, but such events would be even rarer on Titan than on Earth. Waves frequent enough to erode shorelines would be a sign of strong winds.First author of the paper reporting the findings, Rose Palermo, noted that efforts to see if waves occur had looked at Cassini’s images of the lakes themselves, trying to assess if they were still or choppy.“Some people who tried to see evidence for waves didn’t see any, and said, ‘These seas are mirror-smooth,’” Palermo said. “Others said they did see some roughness on the liquid surface but weren’t sure if waves caused it.” Besides the challenge of making these images out, we know Earth’s largest lakes can go from calm to storm so fast they seem enchanted. An absence of waves at any one time is hardly conclusive.If the work of Palermo, Perron, and co-authors is confirmed, it would allow us to improve models both of Titan’s atmosphere and how the lakes and seas move. Ideally, we might be able to determine how large a lake on Titan needs to be to develop shore-eroding waves, and whether winds and waves are stronger at certain latitudes, as they are on Earth.                 The team first sought to determine whether the shores were eroded at all, modeling their evolution from flooded river valleys. The next question was whether the erosion looked more like what would be created by waves or other processes, using what we know about Earth's lakes as a comparison point.A comparison of Titan's largest "sea" as viewed by Cassini with Lake Superior at the same scale.Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFCTo simulate wave-driven erosion, the authors needed to know wave height, which they modeled using what is known as “fetch”, which truly does happen, being the distance wind can blow unobstructed over water or another liquid.“Wave erosion is driven by the height and angle of the wave,” Palermo explains. “We used fetch to approximate wave height because the bigger the fetch, the longer the distance over which wind can blow and waves can grow.”The areas around four of Titan’s largest liquid bodies, comparable in size to North America’s Great Lakes, were then compared with these models.“We found that if the coastlines have eroded, their shapes are more consistent with erosion by waves than by uniform erosion or no erosion at all,” said Perron.“We had the same starting shorelines, and we saw that you get a really different final shape under uniform erosion versus wave erosion,” Perron added. “They all kind of look like the flying spaghetti monster because of the flooded river valleys, but the two types of erosion produce very different endpoints.”Now the quest is on to calculate the strength and direction of the winds required to create such erosion.We do space research because curiosity is natural to humans, but it can sometimes reveal unexpected benefits at home. By exploring how erosion occurs in the absence of humans, Palermo thinks we may learn how to better protect Earthly coastlines from damage.The study is published in Science Advances.

Meet Bandit, the Golden Retriever with a flair for drama and a love for napping. In a delightful video filmed in Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Canada, a professional dog walker captures Bandit’s antics after a long day of hiking. Bandit, known for his playful and sometimes stubborn nature, decides that napping next to the car is... The post Golden retriever absolutely refuses to leave park and it turns into ‘hilarious’ scene appeared first on Animal Channel.

Once in America – and in some parts of the world – we were gifted by great orators, men and women who could by the power and content of their words inspire, motivate and sometimes unify their nations. Today, we have politicians who mumble, slur their words, repeat themselves and in other ways make no sense. They neither inspire, nor unite. I don’t just mean President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, who recently added to her list of non sequiturs by saying community banks are good because “they’re in the community.” One of the articulate members in the Biden administration is Jared Bernstein, c hair of the president’s economic group. One sees him on TV spinning bad economic numbers, attempting to demonstrate that “Bidenomics” is working, despite visible evidence it is not. Still, he appears confident and speaks in complete sentences. Sometimes. In a recent social media interview, Bernstein was flummoxed trying to answer a simple question that anyone with a minimal knowledge of economics should know. His answer also exposes the phoniness many feel is projected from Washington instead of honest answers that give the public confidence that our leaders know what they are doing. What follows is a transcript of the exchange. Bernstein begins by saying the government can’t go bankrupt “because we can print our own money.” Interviewer: “It obviously begs the question: why exactly are we borrowing in a currency that we print ourselves…?” Bernstein (after a long pause): “Well, um, the uh, I mean, again, some of this stuff gets … some of the language that the … some of the language and concepts are just confused. The government definitely prints money and it definitely lends that money which is why the government definitely prints money and then lends that money by selling bonds. Is that what they do?” (seems confused).“ They, they um, they yeah, they, they sell bonds, they sell bonds, right, so they sell bonds and people buy the bonds and lend them the money, yeah.” (seeming more confident about his disconnected answer).“ So, so, a lot of times, a lot of times at least to my …” (unintelligible) … “the language and the concepts these concepts can be have unnecessarily confusing, but there is no question that the government prints money and uses that money to, um, uh, uh, so um, yeah I guess I’m just .. I … I can’t really.” (unintelligible) “I don’t get it. I don’t know what they’re talking about ‘cause, it’s like … the government clearly prints money. It does it all the time and it clearly borrows, otherwise you wouldn’t be having this debt and deficit conversation, so I don’t think there is anything confusing there.” Got that? Given our $34 trillion national debt, the refusal of Congress to cut anything, and demands by the administration to raise taxes on “the rich” and corporations, Bernstein’s stream of consciousness performance does not instill confidence that these people are capable of putting our economy back on the right track. China and Saudi Arabia have pulled back on the amount of U.S. debt they are buying. I asked financial adviser Ric Edelman what effect this might have. He responded: “ It could cause our interest rates to rise. But any such attempt would likely fail, partly because they really have nowhere else to go and because of the rise in stablecoins, which are already the ninth largest holder of U.S. debt and growing fast.” Still, no nation in history has been able to survive with such massive debt. Add to that the fact that Social Security and Medicare will soon run out of money unless reforms are made, an open border and the refusal by many to accept a shared moral value system and you have what happened to Rome and other empires that went from prosperity to decline, to the dustbin of history. Nothing in history indicates the U.S. can escape a similar fate if we don’t change our ways. Heed the warning of Thomas Jefferson: “… to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.”