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One of the strangest yet most well-known court cases blaming a band for a fan’s suicide concluded 30 years ago, on Aug. 24, 1990. On trial was the British heavy metal band Judas Priest, who released the album Stained Class in 1978. That record came out several years before the group broke internationally with British Steel, yet in legal circles Stained Class remains far more significant, since it spawned the precedent-setting case Vance v. Judas Priest. After a court battle that lasted more than six weeks, the band emerged victorious. “It was crazy for us, because we were a British metal band being taken to trial in a country that we loved so dearly over an incident that we thought was preposterous,” frontman Rob Halford tells Yahoo Entertainment. “And we had to go through the motions of this monthlong trial. It was absolutely ridiculous. It really was. We love our fans. We would never put anything in our music with the intent of harming them.” Here’s the background story: On Dec. 23, 1985, after repeatedly listening to Stained Class, Sparks, Nev., residents James Vance, 20, and Raymond Belknap, 18, grabbed a 12-gauge, sawed-off shotgun and entered the nearby courtyard of the Community First Church of God to carry out a suicide pact. Belknap shot himself and died instantly; Vance was severely facially disfigured from his subsequent self-inflicted shotgun blast, but he survived. Four months later, Vance wrote his mother a letter, which read in part, “I believe that alcohol and heavy metal music, such as Judas Priest, led us or even mesmerized us into believing that the answer to life was death.” Vance’s mother immediately contacted several lawyers to see if she had a case. Since the First Amendment of the Constitution protects free speech, and would therefore render inadmissible any claims that Judas Priest’s lyrics caused Belknap and Vance’s suicidal acts, attorneys looked for a back door. They examined Stained Class forward and backward — literally. When they played the record backward they decided “Better by You, Better Than Me,” a cover of a song by the English hard rock band Spooky Tooth, contained subliminal messages, including the phase “do it,” which “mesmerized” Belknap and Vance into wanting to take their own lives. During a pretrial hearing, Justice Jerry Whitehead ruled that “non-decipherable sounds below the conscious threshold of awareness” are not protected by the First Amendment. Almost five years after the tragedy, the members of Judas Priest were subpoenaed to appear for a hearing in Washoe County Court House in Reno, Nev. “As we got off the tour bus, we were told that we were going to be subpoenaed by the local police department and that we didn’t have to say anything,” recalls Halford. “We just had to take the envelope that was handed to each of us and carry on walking into the gig. We walked in single-file and the sheriff came up and said to each of us, ‘You’re served.’ That’s when the official legal process kicked in.” Vance’s mother, Phyllis, sued the band and CBS Records for $6.2 million. Her suit alleged that the backward “messages” in “Better by You, Better Than Me” were responsible for her son and Belknap’s actions, and that the record company shared the blame, since Stained Class was a “defective product” that attacked the listener’s subconscious and compelled them to commit acts against their will. Before the trial, Judas Priest insisted that there were no subliminal messages on the song, but Phyllis Vance refused to drop the case. With the court date pending, Judas Priest were given an option of having the trial heard by a jury or a single judge and opted for the latter. On July 6, the case began and Judas Priest entered the Nevada courtroom. Originally, James Vance was scheduled to take the stand against one of his favorite bands. However, on Nov. 29, 1988, he died from a methadone overdose during a stay at the psychiatric unit of the Washoe Medical Center. Still, the prosecution felt it had enough evidence to win the case. Judas Priest thought the whole experience was surreal and Kafkaesque. “It was just like being in a movie,” Halford says. “It didn’t seem real. The opening accusations by the prosecution started off with some guy going, ‘Your honor, the whole point of this is to receive justice and we will be screaming for vengeance and standing by the sad wings of destiny as we will ram it down.’ We just looked at each other going, ‘Oh my God, the prosecution is starting their accusations using our album titles in their argument!’ We were just stunned.” To win the case, the prosecution would have had to prove that an inaudible message was willfully hidden in the recording, that the message was subliminal, and that it clearly caused Vance and Belknap to shoot themselves. During the case, Vance’s attorneys relied on expert witnesses in the field of subliminal persuasion, including researcher Howard Shevrin and author Dr. Wilson Key. Some who were present felt that Key, who wrote four books about subliminal advertising, damaged his credibility by stating in his opening argument that subliminal messages could be found “on Ritz crackers, the Sistine Chapel, Sears catalogues, and the NBC evening news.” The case became stranger as it progressed. Members of Priest have said that between sessions some of the lawyers asked the members of the band for autographs to give to friends and family members. In addition, while Halford was on the stand, he was asked to sing an a cappella version of “Better by You, Better Than Me,” as performed on the album. The expert witness for the defense was Anthony Pellicano, who had previously analyzed the Watergate tapes and the video of the Kennedy assassination. Pellicano testified that the backward passage that sounds like the phrase “do it” was a fluke caused by the combination of Halford exhaling after a vocal line, coupled with the noise of an effects-laden guitar. Halford says the turning point in the case came when the he took the stand and played various backward passages from Stained Class that the band members scrutinized, using their imaginations in an effort to detect anything that sounded like a sentence. After finding a handful, including, “I-I-I asked her for a peppermint/I-I-I asked for her to get one,” “Hey ma, my chair’s broken,” and “Help me keep a job,” they played them for the judge, advising him what to listen for before they played the backward passages. “We wanted to prove to the judge that these sounds and ideas can be manufactured in the mind more than anything else,” Halford says. “If you can drop a seed of what something might be, then you can convince your brain that that’s exactly the sound or the phrase that you’re listening to. And as we played those passages back, you could see the judge’s mannerism change on the spot. He realized that the phrase [‘do it’] was there as a trick of the mind more than anything else. And I think he realized you can take anything from anybody and play it backward and create these imaginary phrases and sentences. Everything seemed to change that day.” In the end, Judge Whitehall ruled that Vance and Belknap were predisposed toward self-destructive behavior long before they heard Stained Class, and that even if the album contained backward masking, there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that the messages in and of themselves were enough to cause the young adults to consider suicide. “The scientific research presented does not establish that subliminal stimuli, even if perceived, may precipitate conduct of this magnitude,” Whitehead said. “The strongest evidence presented at the trial showed [that subliminal messages would cause] no behavioral effects [on an individual] other than anxiety, distress, or tension.” Judas Priest won the case, but the victory wasn’t as overwhelming as defenders of the First Amendment might have hoped. Judge Whitehead may have ruled that Judas Priest and CBS Records played no role in the suicide pact between Vance and Belknap, but he stated that the Stained Class contained subliminal messages, even if the messages were mere audio anomalies. In addition, it cost the band approximately $250,000 in legal costs and the judge ordered CBS to pay $40,000 to the prosecution, since the label did not provide master tapes of Stained Class to Vance’s lawyers. In 1992, director David Van Taylor released Dream Deceivers, a documentary about the story of Vance and Belknap and the lawsuit that followed, which features interviews conducted with Vance before his death. “Going to court is still a strong memory, because at the heart of it for us was a great sadness that these young guys who were hardcore Priest and metal fans had lost their lives through a combination of drugs and alcohol,” Halford says. “And we’ll have to live with that for our whole lives. 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IT'S AN ENCOURAGING SIGN AFTER MONTHS OF WONDERING WHETHER ANTIBODIES ACTUALLY HELPED. A smattering of new research offers good news during the ongoing pandemic: It seems that COVID-19 survivors do build up a decent immunity to the disease after all. In the last month, five different studies at varying stages of completion — most await formal review, but one has been accepted by the prestigious journal Cell — have all found that even mild cases of COVID-19 can prompt the immune system to build up resistance to future infections, The New York Times reports. While every preliminary study should be taken with a grain of salt, it’s an encouraging development after months of not being sure whether antibodies would actually be able to fight off the coronavirus. “Things are really working as they’re supposed to,” University of Arizona immunologist Deepta Bhattacharya, who worked on one of the preprint studies, told the NYT. One of the major challenges in fighting the pandemic has been the uncertainty surrounding what it means to have coronavirus antibodies. Back in June, research showed that those antibodies might fade away after just a few months, suggesting that survivors were vulnerable to reinfection. But the new finding, in contrast, is good news for survivors. One expert even told the Times that it was a good sign for the long-term efficacy of an eventual COVID vaccine. “This is exactly what you would hope for,” University of Washington immunologist Marion Pepper, who worked on a different study currently undergoing review by the journal Nature, told the NYT. “All the pieces are there to have a totally protective immune response.” Time will tell if these preliminary studies hold up to academic scrutiny. Even Pepper warned the NYT against putting too much stock into the findings for now. But if they end up being correct, it would suggest that coronavirus survivors may be better equipped against the disease than we thought. BY DAN ROBITZSKICool #Articles & #original #gift #designs are what www.UnmincedWords.com is all about. #immunity #immunesystem #science #doctors #covid #covid19 #health #healthnews #scientificresearch #recovery #fashion TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

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It’s been nearly 40 years since the Go-Go’s came out with their first album, “Beauty and the Beat.” Their many hits remain staples of any good 1980s playlist. The Go-Go’s released their first new song in decades last month. Now the band’s origin story and struggles are shown in a new documentary  called “The Go-Go’s.”  KCRW speaks with Alison Ellwood, director of “The Go-Go’s” film, and Jane Wiedlin, guitarist and backup vocalist for the Go-Go’s. Before reaching 1980s pop rock stardom, the Go-Go’s first formed in LA during 1978 as a punk rock band.  “We were doing like the Buzzocks, and the Ramones [were doing] what was essentially pop music played at a breakneck speed,” Wiedlin says.  She says it makes sense that the Go-Go’s eventually morphed into a pop rock band.  “In the 70s, I don't know that anyone felt like punk was going to be something that we did forever,” Wiedlin says. “It was more of like, of the moment, in the way that glitter rock was. … I was a full-on glitter rocker, all the clothes, all the music. And then the punk scene came along and I was like, ‘Oh, that's what I am now.’” Wiedlin met future Go-Go’s lead singer Belinda Carlisle at the Masque, an underground punk club in the basement of an adult entertainment theater in Hollywood. Within years in the underground scene, other members, such as Charlotte Caffey and Gina Schock, joined the band. She says the punk scene became a spot where young people could share deep anger and frustration. Growing up in a strict Catholic midwestern family, Wiedlin says punk music turned into an outlet.  “Part of the game there is like the girls are just supposed to be seen and not heard. You're not allowed to be angry or any of that stuff. You're just supposed to be sweet all the time,” she says. “I was like, Oh my god, I'm pissed off too. I got in touch with my angry side, and I just started writing all these super angry songs. And it was really, really liberating and really fun to play that kind of music.” (L-R): Jane Wiedlin and Belinda Carlisle performing in 1978. Photo by Melanie Nissen.  Wiedlin says that during the 1970s, the punk scene wasn’t popular in the eyes of society. “Punk rockers were really really hated. I mean, we were like the hippies when the hippies first came around and everyone hated them.” She cites a 1979 clash between the LA Riot Squad and local punk rock bands as a prime example.  On the band’s big hits As the band transitioned into mainstream pop rock, some members of the Go-Go’s were concerned that  “We Got the Beat” too “pop-py.” However, Wiedlin didn’t see it that way.  “When I first heard it, my heart started racing, and it was very exciting,” she says. “And when we started playing it together in the rehearsal room, and Gina [Schock] started playing those pounding drums, it was like ‘oh my god, this is a monster.’ [It] was just really good.”  Wiedlin says “Our Lips are Sealed” was influenced by her romance with Terry Hall, the lead singer of a ska band called the Specials. They would write letters to one another, and one turned into the beginning of the song.  New discoveries Wiedlin says that she’s learned a lot about her bandmates through Ellwood’s documentary. That includes Charlotte Caffey’s addiction to heroin. She says that after performances, the band would need to use the bathroom backstage, and Caffey would stay in there for 20 minutes. “We were very suspicious. In fact, it's terrible, but we used to call her the alien, because she was so alienated from everybody,” she says. “We'd be like, ‘well, she's probably doing drugs.’ But what are you going to do when someone just consistently over and over says, ‘No, I'm not, no, I'm not, no, I'm not?’”  Ellwood notes that drug use, especially cocaine, was common in the band. “Our band was doing too much of it and using it to sort of cope,” Wiedlin says.  But looking back, Wiedlin says she has no major regrets. “This is all just a journey. And to a certain extent, you don't really have total control over where your journey goes. And I just feel lucky that my life's been so damn interesting,” Wiedlin says. “It was really fun being a rock star for 10 seconds.” — Written by Danielle Chiriguayo, produced by Rosalie Atkinson Women who #rock celebrated at www.UnmincedWords.com  #JaneWiedlin #TheGoGos #GoGos #BelindaCarlisle #rockmusic #music #somgwriter #chickband  TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

Oracle has expressed interest in buying TikTok from Chinese-based tech company Bytedance according to a new report from the Financial Times. The move comes after President Donald Trump’s threat to ban the popular video app. The Trump regime is allegedly concerned about the privacy of Americans on TikTok and the ways that the Chinese government might exploit the data of U.S.-based users. But Oracle is a odd suitor if you know anything about the company’s history. Larry Ellison created Oracle in 1977 as a CIA-backed project and the company’s software was a key part of the the modern surveillance state. President Trump initially declared that he would ban TikTok in the U.S. before it was revealed earlier this month that both Microsoft and Twitter have explored purchasing the company. Oracle is interested in buying not only TikTok’s U.S.-based operations but its offices in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Oracle’s real history is often obscured whenever the mainstream press writes about how Larry Ellison created the software giant back in the 1970s. Vox, for example, wrote an entire article about the history of Oracle back in 2014 that didn’t mention the CIA, an elision that hides the company’s long history. Oracle’s ties to the CIA and the broader U.S. intelligence community are deep, even if that fact is frequently ignored by people who like to pretend Oracle was just another humble Silicon Valley startup. Ellison chose the name Oracle because he worked on the CIA’s database networking plans, also called Oracle, back in 1975. Ellison, who is now a billionaire, worked at a company called Ampex, building a terabit memory system for the CIA at the time—an absolutely enormous amount of computing storage space for the mid-1970s. Ellison and his business partners Bob Miner and Ed Oates started their own company and created a relational database called “Oracle Version 2,” for the CIA in 1977, despite the fact that it was the first version of the software. “The first version of our database was called Oracle Version 2. I didn’t think anyone, not even the government, would buy Version 1 of a database from five guys in California,” Ellison was quoted as saying in the 2003 book by Matthew Symonds. “The news about our hot little database traveled around the intelligence community pretty quickly,” Ellison told Symonds. “I’d make a presentation at one agency on Monday, which would result in a phone call on Tuesday to visit another agency on Wednesday. One week I flew to and from Washington, D.C. three times. In a little over six months’ time we had won several deals—the CIA, Navy Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence, and the NSA.” Oracle’s integration with the U.S. intelligence community didn’t stop in the 1970s. Symonds was writing his book Softwar before and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, so it’s filled with asides about how Ellison left after one of their interviews to have dinner with Michael Hayden from the NSA on September 13, 2001 or to have lunch with President George W. Bush’s Attorney General John Ashcroft on that same trip. We don’t know exactly what was said at those meetings between Oracle and America’s top spies, but we can take an educated guess. Ellison wanted to create a national security database that collected everything possible to identify someone, from thumb prints and hand identification to iris scans. Ellison even said as much publicly at the time. “Creating such a database is technically simple. All we have to do is copy information from the hundreds of separate law enforcement databases into a single database. A national security database could be built in a few months,” Ellison wrote in the New York Times in January of 2002. Ellison made a lot of money with the government in the years following the 9/11 attacks. The federal government accounted for roughly a quarter of Oracle’s billions in revenue in 2003, according to the 2004 book,  by Jeffrey Rosen. And Ellison has repeatedly defended the tactics of the intelligence community whenever controversies have arisen, telling CBS News in 2013 that NSA’s domestic spying program is “essential.” Unsurprisingly, there’s a revolving door of employment between Oracle and the CIA. Leon Panetta, who served as CIA Director from 2009 to 2011 and Secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013, joined Oracle’s board in 2015. Oracle’s website even has testimonials from people who successfully moved from the world of covert intelligence gathering to Oracle, like Andrew C., who isn’t given a last name, presumably as a signal that you can fly under the radar in the private sector just as you had in the CIA. David Carney, the former third-highest ranking official within CIA who spent 32 years at the agency, went to work for Oracle and was pretty blunt when talking with Jeffrey Rosen about the business environment. “In some ways, 9/11 made business a bit easier. Previous to 9/11 you pretty much had to hype the threat and the problem,” Carney said in , explaining that after 9/11, everyone was “clamoring” for their business. There’s still plenty we don’t know about Oracle’s relationship with the intelligence community after the 1970s. CIA documents that were declassified in 2004 and only posted online in 2016 help give some of the background on the CIA’s Oracle plans before Ellison named his company after the project. But it will likely be decades before we understand the true scope of Oracle’s role in building tools for the government in the 1980s and ‘90s, to say nothing of the post-9/11 environment. For now, we just have to take Ellison’s own word for how much information Oracle is helping store and speculate about what did and did not happen after Ellison’s meetings with leaders of the U.S. government. “The Oracle database is used to keep track of basically everything,” Ellison told Rosen in the early 2000s for The Naked Crowd. “The information about your banks, your checking balance, your savings balance, is stored in an Oracle database. Your airline reservation is stored in an Oracle database. What books you bought on Amazon is stored in an Oracle database. Your profile on Yahoo! is stored in an Oracle database.” Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden would help expose many of America’s spying tactics in 2013, but given journalist Glenn Greenwald’s decision to close up the archive of Snowden’s documents in 2019, we may never get the full story. Tik Tok, Tik Tok No one knows for sure whether Oracle will wind up buying TikTok, but the clock is ticking. 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DreamWorks Animation Poppy in Trolls World Tour Hasbro is pulling one of its toys from shelves after a Change.org petition alleged that the placement of one of its features could have "long term affects on a child's mental/physical health." In the petition, Jessica McManis wrote that the Dreamworks Trolls World Tour Giggle and Sing Poppy doll — which "gasps and giggles" upon activation of a sensor between the toy's legs underneath its skirt, as shown in a video shared on Twitter — "needs to be removed from our stores." "Our society is conditioning our children to think pedophilia is ok," she added. "What will this toy make our innocent, impressionable children think? That it's fun when someone touches your private area? That pedophilia and child molestation are ok?" "It's not ok!" McManis continued in the petition's description. "It's not fun! It's damaging and has long term affects [sic] on a child's mental/physical health!" Hasbro spokeswoman Julie Duffy gave a statement to the Providence Journal, insisting that the placement of the sensor "was not intentional." "This feature was designed to react when the doll was seated, but we recognize the placement of the sensor may be perceived as inappropriate," she said in her email to the publication. "This was not intentional and we are happy to provide consumers with a replacement Poppy doll of similar value through our consumer care team," Duffy added. "We are in the process of removing the item for purchase." Dreamworks Branch and Poppy in Trolls World Tour By Jen Juneau #hasbro #trolls #trolldoll #trollrecall #recall #idiots #wtf #unminced TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

Taking Stock NASA has an unfortunate history of granting insensitive and bigoted nicknames to stars, galaxies, and other stuff in space. Because of that, the space agency announced on Wednesday that it’s taking stock of all the various nicknames it’s assigned and eliminating any that don’t pass muster. In those instances, NASA says that going forward it will only use the official, acronym- and numeral-heavy names instead. Clean Slate According to NASA’s announcement, it’s already made some progress. Racist nicknames like the “Eskimo Nebula” and the “Siamese Twin Galaxy” are out the window, and the space agency is still looking for other insensitive and harmful terms. “Our goal is that all names are aligned with our values of diversity and inclusion, and we’ll proactively work with the scientific community to help ensure that,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said in the announcement. “Science is for everyone, and every facet of our work needs to reflect that value.” Spotty Past This isn’t the first time NASA had to reckon with its nomenclature. Last year, the space agency had to rename the asteroid Arrokoth because its former name, Ultimate Thule, has a strong association to Nazism. “These nicknames and terms may have historical or culture connotations that are objectionable or unwelcoming, and NASA is strongly committed to addressing them,” Stephen T. Shih, Associate Administrator for Diversity and Equal Opportunity at NASA Headquarters, said in the new announcement. “Science depends on diverse contributions, and benefits everyone, so this means we must make it inclusive.” By DAN ROBITZSKI #nasa #space #naming #jpl #unminced #racism #makingammends #galaxies #astronomy TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

Any gamer who’s had 5+ sorority sisters ask their advice on buying a Nintendo Switch can confirm: Videogame companies had a monster quarter amid the pandemic. Here’s the breakdown from their Q2 earnings this week:  Nintendo had its best April–June quarter since the Wii hit peak popularity in ’08. Its profit surged 428% yearly thanks to Animal Crossing converts who bought almost 6 million Switch consoles...all so they could spend 60 hours pulling virtual weeds. Activision Blizzard demolished revenue expectations, because when gardening didn't provide a sufficient escape from reality, people turned to Call of Duty: Warzone, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch. However, some Blizzard employees were disappointed their petition for better pay and benefits wasn’t included in the optimistic earnings call.  Electronic Arts (EA) reported a 21% uptick in revenue. In the same way that Arby’s has the meats and FX has the movies, EA has the sports: FIFA Soccer and Madden NFL both increased their player bases by more than 100%. The Sims 4 also now has more than 30 million players.  Take-Two Interactive’s revenue surged 54% to a company record of $831 million. Its most popular title, Grand Theft Auto V, has sold 135 million copies to date.  Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and the Unreal game engine, is private so it didn’t report earnings...but it couldn’t be left out of this week’s action. Epic closed a funding round with big-name investors such as Sony and Fidelity that boosted its valuation to $17.8 billion. The thread tying it all together? With the exception of Animal Crossing, last quarter’s growth was fueled by consoles and games released as many as seven years ago. Players have been running red lights in GTA V since 2013 and devising elaborate Sims 4 cheating scenarios since 2014. Microsoft and Sony’s earnings reports confirmed the pattern. Both said their profits were buoyed by sales of current-generation consoles and games sold on them.  Looking ahead...Activision Blizzard’s CEO predicts “economic uncertainty” could end the gaming industry’s speedrun. But any Q3 slump could be reversed by a huge Q4: Microsoft and Sony will release their latest consoles—the Xbox One X and PlayStation 5, respectively. By Jamie Wilde #nintendoswitch #activision #activisionBlizzard #EA #TakeTwo #EpicGames #nswitch #xbox #gaming #gamingnews #business #Unminced TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

If you're being confronted by a bear, there's a few things you should know before running away. As people across the country visiting parks and taking trips to the mountains find themselves in terrifying encounters with bears, the National Park Service (NPS) has offered a few tips on what to do if you're face-to-face with the furry beasts. The first tip? "Please don't run from bears or push your slower friends down in attempts of saving yourself," the NPS joked in a Facebook post Wednesday.⁣⁣ The best thing to do to safely remove yourself from a bear confrontation is move away slowly and sideways so you can keep an eye on the bear without tripping. Bears are not threatened when you move sideways, but like dogs, they will chase fleeing animals. "Do not climb a tree. Both grizzlies and black bears can climb trees.⁣⁣ Do not push down a slower friend (even if you think the friendship has run its course)," the NPS added. "Stay calm and remember that most bears do not want to attack you; they usually just want to be left alone. Don't we all?" Another tip is to identify yourself by making noise, specifically your voice, so the bear doesn't confuse you for an animal and knows you're human. While a curious bear might come closer or stand on its hind legs to examine and smell you, it is not threatening. While bear attacks are rare, their behaviors can be unpredictable and an attack can lead to serious injuries or death, according to the NPS. To avoid an encounter with a bear, hike and travel in groups, do not allow bears access to your food and leave the area if you see a bear. If you are attacked by a brown or grizzly bear, leave your backpack on and play dead by laying flat on your stomach with your hands behind your neck and legs spread. If the bear continues to attack you, fight back by hitting the bear in the face. If you are being attacked by a black bear, do not play dead but instead try to escape to a secure place or if you can't, fight back using any available object, according to NPS.⁣⁣ By Alaa Elassar, CNN #yosemite #trump #thelincolnprojest #biden #berniesanders #resist TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

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White House aides reached out to South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem last year about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, the New York Times reported. According to a person familiar who spoke with the Times, Noem then greeted Trump when he arrived in the state for his July Fourth celebrations at the monument with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included his face. Noem has noted before Trump's "dream" to have his face on Mount Rushmore, the Coolidge-era sculpture that features the 60-foot-tall faces of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. According to a 2018 interview with Noem, the two struck up a conversation about the sculpture in the Oval Office during their first meeting, where she initially thought he was joking. "I started laughing," she said. "He wasn't laughing, so he was totally serious." "He said, 'Kristi, come on over here. Shake my hand, and so I shook his hand, and I said, 'Mr. President, you should come to South Dakota sometime. We have Mount Rushmore.' And he goes, 'Do you know it's my dream to have my face on Mount Rushmore?'" Trump also toyed with the idea of adding himself to Mount Rushmore in 2017 at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio. During his July Fourth speech to supporters in South Dakota, Trump fiercely defended Mount Rushmore -- which activists and native tribal leaders have long criticized for its history and purpose -- saying it will "stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers, and to our freedom." "As we meet here tonight there is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for," Trump warned. A White House official noted to the New York Times that Mount Rushmore is a federal, not a state monument. By Jamie Ehrlich, CNN #ego #psychology #therapy #mental #trump #unminced #donaldtrump #rushmore #MountRushmore TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

MRA issued 14-day suspension to 3843 Euclid LLC in Bay City for possible contamination The Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) announced Thursday a recall on contaminated pre-rolls from retail outlets at Bay City, Hazel Park, Detroit, Traverse City, Ann Arbor, Lansing, River Rouge, Ferndale, Quincy, Lowell, Negaunee and Lapeer. The MRA issued a 14-day suspension of medical and adult-use processor licenses to 3843 Euclid LLC in Bay City, pending an investigation after receiving information that someone licked a pre-rolled product while assembling it. According to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA), the investigation was initiated on July 31. “In the interest of the public health and safety, the MRA issued an order which placed all marijuana products in the business’ inventory identified in the statewide monitoring system as a “pre-roll” on an administrative hold during the ongoing investigation and prohibited the sale or transfer of any marijuana products on administrative hold,” read a news release from LARA. The news release stated that 3843 Euclid LLC ceased all production as of July 31 and will remain inactive until further notice from MRA. A statement from a representative of 3843 Euclid LLC reads: “3843 Euclid Processor can confirm that one of our products has been recalled due to a quality control issue. While an unacceptable lapse, we can also confirm that we have received no reports of any adverse effects of any kind from these products. We would also like to assure all of our valued retailers and customers that any employee that came into contact with these products has received a negative Covid-19 test as recently as August 4, 2020, and that all of the marijuana used passed testing. Our companies core mission is based on providing exceptional cannabis products to our valued retailers and consumers. We regret that in this particular case, we fell short of our goal for excellence in quality control. We would like to thank you for your past and future support as we continue improving both our company and the Michigan licensed cannabis industry.” Consumers who have any of the contaminated pre-rolls in their possession should return them to the retailer where they were purchased for proper disposal. Provisioning centers must notify patients and caregivers who purchased the pre-rolls of the recall. Consumers who have experienced symptoms after using these products should report their symptoms and product use to their physician. Consumers are also asked to report any adverse product reactions to the MRA via email at MRA-Enforcement@michigan.gov or call 517-284-8599. By DeJanay Booth #marijuana #cbd #potnews #stoned #cannabis #cannabiz #unminced #sohigh #music #highAF TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

The explosion that gouged a crater in Beirut's portside and sent a devastating shockwave through the city would have been a catastrophe for any country. But it was especially cruel timing for Lebanon — where it killed at least 135 people, injuring more than 4,000 and making another 250,000 homeless. It came right when the country is already buckling under a stack of economic, political and healthcare crises. The city is no stranger to conflict. On social media people shared photos of the red mushroom cloud hanging over the city following Tuesday's blast, alongside eerily similar images from the country's civil war 1975-1990 and the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel. But all the early evidence suggests it was not an attack — despite the unsubstantiated comments by President Donald Trump and numerous conspiracy theorists online. Rather it appears to be a disaster caused or at least enabled by the very forces of negligence and perhaps even corruption that have been responsible for bringing the country to its knees. Image: Smoke rises after an explosion in Beirut (Social media via Reuters) The explosion was triggered when a warehouse fire ignited 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical used in fertilizer and bombs, according to Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab. He said the stockpile had been stored at the port for six years without any "preventive measures" to protect it. Other officials said they have tried to sound the alarm about this deadly chemical being quietly stored in the heart of a city of more than 2 million people. The head of Beirut port and the head of customs both said Wednesday that several letters were sent to the judiciary asking for the dangerous material be removed, but no action was taken. "We requested that it be re-exported but that did not happen," Badri Daher, director general of Lebanese Customs, told broadcaster LBCI. "We leave it to the experts and those concerned to determine why. NBC News attempted to contact Albert Serhan, Lebanon's former justice minister until, to ask him about the allegatins but did not get a response. ‘The ship couldn’t take it’ The ammonium nitrate arrived in fall 2013 on a Russian-owned cargo ship, the Rhosus, the ship's then-captain, Boris Prokoshev, told NBC News. It was en route from the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi to Mozambique where it was to be used as fertilizer, he said. It stopped off in Beirut but was impounded for safety reasons because it was overloaded and listing, Prokoshev said. "The ship couldn't take it," he said. The ship's Russian owner, Igor Grechushkin, abandoned the ship, refusing to pay docking fees, fines, and even salaries and food for the crew, according to the captain and Natalia Sokolova, a representative for the Seafarers Union of Russia, which represented the crew during its dispute with the owner at the time. NBC News tried but was not able to reach Grechushkin for comment. Image: The cargo ship Rhosus (Hasenpusch/dpa via AP) Authorities in Beirut kept the crew aboard for 11 months to tend to the cargo, according to the captain, who said they felt "trapped" on board, and the labor union representative Sokolova. "The Beirut port authority would not give them permission to abandon a ship carrying this type of cargo," Sokolova said. "In the end, a court seized the vessel to sell it as a means to pay off the ship owner's debts, and a port agent found locals to unload the cargo and the crew went home." Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud backed up this account, telling the country's LBCI television station that the chemical was kept in the port under "judicial order" and that "there was nobody who took the responsibility to make a decision to remove it." 'Incomprehensible' Various Lebanese leaders have promised to bring those responsible to justice. The presidency tweeted that anyone who "managed the affairs" of the chemical, guarded it or "examined its file" since June 2014 would be put under house arrest. Diab, the prime minister, said that he "will not rest until we find the person responsible for what happened." But many residents and commentators see the disaster as symptomatic if not directly caused by the general state of upheaval into which the country has slid. It is currently suffering its worst economic crisis in its modern history, with prices, unemployment and hunger skyrocketing and its currency, the lira, plummeting. Anti-government protests in recent months have called for a change to what they see as decades of corrupt leadership, with sectarian politics and patronage networks enriching the elite and creating grave inequality. Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy officially designated a terrorist organization by the U.S., is a political group with unrivaled influence in the government. Image: Police scuffle with protesters in Beirut (Hassan Ammar / AP) The country was already struggling to cope with the 1.5 million refugees who have fled there from the war in neighboring Syria. These displaced people now make up 30 percent of its population — the highest proportion in the world. Add to this the coronavirus pandemic, which has shuttered businesses, left thousands unemployed and threatens to overwhelm the country's beleaguered health system. Tuesday's explosion ripped through a city on its knees. Not only has it wrought widespread damage, it has cripped the country's main port and immolated a month of grain reserves. Human rights groups were among those to call for an international team to lead the inquiry into how this could have happened. "The level of devastation in Beirut is incomprehensible, and the responsible authorities should be held accountable," Aya Majzoub, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement. "Given the Lebanese authorities’ repeated failure to investigate serious government failings and the public’s distrust of government institutions," Majzoub added, "an independent investigation with international experts is the best guarantee that victims of the explosion will get the justice they deserve." Alexander Smith reported from London, Matthew Bodner reported from Moscow, Charlene Gubash reported from Cairo and Mustafa Kassem reported from Beirut. Reuters contributed to this report. 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An unfinished compendium of Trump’s overwhelming dishonesty during a national emergency. President Donald Trump has repeatedly lied about the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s preparation for this once-in-a-generation crisis. Here, a collection of the biggest lies he’s told as the nation endures a public-health and economic calamity. This post will be updated as needed. On the Nature of the Outbreak When: Friday, February 7, and Wednesday, February 19The claim: The coronavirus would weaken “when we get into April, in the warmer weather—that has a very negative effect on that, and that type of a virus.”The truth: It’s too early to tell if the virus’s spread will be dampened by warmer conditions. Respiratory viruses can be seasonal, but the World Health Organization says that the new coronavirus “can be transmitted in ALL AREAS, including areas with hot and humid weather.” When: Thursday, February 27The claim: The outbreak would be temporary: “It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle—it will disappear.”The truth: Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warned days later that he was concerned that “as the next week or two or three go by, we’re going to see a lot more community-related cases.” When: Multiple timesThe claim: If the economic shutdown continues, deaths by suicide “definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about” for COVID-19 deaths.The truth: The White House now estimates that anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000 Americans could die from COVID-19. Other estimates have placed the number at 1.1 million to 1.2 million. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suicide is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. But the number of people who died by suicide in 2017, for example, was roughly 47,000, nowhere near the COVID-19 estimates. Estimates of the mental-health toll of the Great Recession are mixed. A 2014 study tied more than 10,000 suicides in Europe and North America to the financial crisis. But a larger analysis in 2017 found that while the rate of suicide was increasing in the United States, the increase could not be directly tied to the recession and was attributable to broader socioeconomic conditions predating the downturn. When: Multiple timesThe claim: “Coronavirus numbers are looking MUCH better, going down almost everywhere,” and cases are “coming way down.”The truth: Coronavirus cases are either increasing or plateauing in the majority of American states. Increases in state-level testing do account for some of the increase in cases and, on average, the country’s positive-test rate is lower than it was in March and April. But those numbers obscure the situation in more than a dozen states where, as of this writing on May 27, cases are still increasing. When: Wednesday, June 17The claim: The pandemic is “fading away. It’s going to fade away.”The truth: Trump made this claim ahead of his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, when the country was still seeing at least 20,000 new daily cases and a second spike in infections was beginning. When: Thursday, July 2The claim: The pandemic is “getting under control.”The truth: Trump’s claim came as the country’s daily cases doubled to about 50,000, a higher daily case count than seen at the beginning of the pandemic, and the number continues to rise, fueled by infections in the South and the West. When: Saturday, July 4The claim: “99%” of COVID-19 cases are “totally harmless.”The truth: The virus can still cause tremendous suffering if it doesn’t kill a patient, and the WHO has said that about 15 percent of COVID-19 cases can be severe, with 5 percent being critical. Fauci has rejected Trump’s claim, saying the evidence shows that the virus “can make you seriously ill” even if it doesn’t kill you. When: Monday, July 6The claim: “We now have the lowest Fatality (Mortality) Rate in the World.”The truth: The U.S. has neither the lowest mortality rate nor the lowest case-fatality rate. As of July 13, the case-fatality rate—the ratio of deaths per confirmed COVID-19 cases—was 4.1 percent, which places the U.S. solidly in the middle of global rankings. It has the world’s ninth-worst mortality rate, with 41.33 deaths per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University. Blaming the Obama Administration When: Wednesday, March 4The claim: The Trump White House rolled back Food and Drug Administration regulations that limited the kind of laboratory tests states could run and how they could conduct them. “The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing,” Trump said.The truth: The Obama administration drafted, but never implemented, changes to rules that regulate laboratory tests run by states. Trump’s policy change relaxed an FDA requirement that would have forced private labs to wait for FDA authorization to conduct their own, non-CDC-approved coronavirus tests. When: Friday, March 13The claim: The Obama White House’s response to the H1N1 pandemic was “a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now.”The truth: Barack Obama declared a public-health emergency two weeks after the first U.S. cases of H1N1 were reported, in California. (Trump declared a national emergency more than seven weeks after the first domestic COVID-19 case was reported, in Washington State.) While testing is a problem now, it wasn’t back in 2009. The challenge then was vaccine development: Production was delayed and the vaccine wasn’t distributed until the outbreak was already waning. When: Multiple timesThe claim: The Trump White House “inherited” a “broken,” “bad,” and “obsolete” test for the coronavirus.The truth: The novel coronavirus did not exist in humans during the Obama administration. Public-health experts agree that, because of that fact, the CDC could not have produced a test, and thus a new test had to be developed this year. When: Multiple timesThe claim: The Obama administration left Trump “bare” and “empty” shelves of medical supplies in the national strategic stockpile.The truth: The 2009 H1N1 outbreak did deplete the N95 mask supply and was never replenished, but the Obama administration did not leave the stockpile empty of other materials. While the stockpile has never been funded at the levels some experts have requested, its former director said in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, that it was well-equipped. (The outbreak has since eaten away at its reserves.) When: Sunday, May 10The claim: Referring to criticism of his administration’s response, Trump tweeted: “Compare that to the Obama/Sleepy Joe disaster known as H1N1 Swine Flu. Poor marks ... didn’t have a clue!”The truth: It is misleading to compare COVID-19 to H1N1 and to call the Obama administration’s response a disaster, as my colleague Peter Nicholas has reported. In 2009, the CDC quickly flagged the new flu strain in California and began releasing antiflu drugs from the national stockpile two weeks later. A vaccine was available in six months.   Another claim: Trump later attacked “Joe Biden’s handling of the H1N1 Swine Flu.”The truth: Biden was not responsible for the federal government’s response to the H1N1 outbreak, as Nicholas has also explained. On Coronavirus Testing When: Friday, March 6, and Monday, May 11The claim: “Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. We—they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful” and “If somebody wants to be tested right now, they’ll be able to be tested.”The truth: Trump made these two claims two months apart, but the truth is still the same: The U.S. does not have enough testing. When: Wednesday, March 11The claim: In an Oval Office address, Trump said that private-health-insurance companies had “agreed to waive all co-payments for coronavirus treatments, extend insurance coverage to these treatments, and to prevent surprise medical billing.”The truth: Insurers agreed only to absorb the cost of coronavirus testing—waiving co-pays and deductibles for getting the test. The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the second coronavirus-relief bill passed by Congress, later mandated that COVID-19 testing be made free. The federal government has not required insurance companies to cover follow-up treatments, though some providers announced in late March that they will pay for treatments. The costs of other non-coronavirus testing or treatment incurred by patients who have COVID-19 or are trying to get a diagnosis aren’t waived either. And as for surprise medical billing? Mitigating it would require the cooperation of insurers, doctors, and hospitals. When: Friday, March 13The claim: Google engineers are building a website to help Americans determine whether they need testing for the coronavirus and to direct them to their nearest testing site.The truth: The announcement was news to Google itself—the website Trump (and other administration officials) described was actually being built by Verily, a division of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. The Verge first reported on Trump’s error, citing a Google representative who confirmed that Verily was working on a “triage website” with limited coverage for the San Francisco Bay Area. But since then, Google has pivoted to fulfill Trump’s public proclamation, saying it would speed up the development of a new, separate website while Verily worked on finishing its project, The Washington Post reported. When: Tuesday, March 24, and Wednesday, March 25The claim: The United States has outpaced South Korea’s COVID-19 testing: “We’re going up proportionally very rapidly,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall.The truth: When the president made this claim, testing in the U.S. was severely lagging behind that in South Korea. As of March 25, South Korea had conducted about five times as many tests as a proportion of its population relative to the United States. For updated data from each country, see the COVID-19 Tracking Project and the database maintained by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. When: Monday, May 11The claim: America has “developed a testing capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world, and it’s not even close.”The truth: The United States is still not testing enough people and is lagging behind the testing and tracing capabilities that other countries have developed. The president’s testing czar, Brett Giroir, and Fauci confirmed the need for more testing at a May 12 Senate hearing too. They said that the country won’t be able to perform 50 million tests, about what the country needs to safely reopen, until the fall. Another claim: The United States has conducted more testing “than all other countries together!”The truth: By May 18, when Trump last made this claim, the U.S. had conducted more tests than any other country. But it had not conducted more tests than the rest of the world combined. (As of May 27, more than 14 million tests have been administered in America.) When: Multiple timesThe claim: “Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country.”The truth: COVID-19 cases are not rising because of “our big-number testing.” Outside the Northeast, the share of tests conducted that come back positive is increasing, with the sharpest spike happening in southern states. In some states, such as Arizona and Florida, the number of new cases being reported is outpacing any increase in the states’ testing ability. And as states set new daily case records and report increasing hospitalizations, all signs point to a worsening crisis. On Travel Bans and Travelers When: Wednesday, March 11The claim: The United States would suspend “all travel from Europe, except the United Kingdom, for the next 30 days,” Trump announced in an Oval Office address.The truth: The travel restriction would not apply to U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, or their families returning from Europe. At first, it applied specifically to the 26 European countries that make up the Schengen Area, not all of Europe. Trump later announced the inclusion of the United Kingdom and Ireland in the ban. Another claim: In the same address, Trump said the travel restrictions would “not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo but various other things as we get approval.”The truth: Trump followed up in a tweet, explaining that trade and cargo would not be subject to the restrictions. When: Thursday, March 12The claim: All U.S. citizens arriving from Europe would be subject to medical screening, COVID-19 testing, and quarantine if necessary. “If an American is coming back or anybody is coming back, we’re testing,” Trump said. “We have a tremendous testing setup where people coming in have to be tested … We’re not putting them on planes if it shows positive, but if they do come here, we’re quarantining.”The truth: Testing is already severely limited in the United States. It is not true that all Americans returning to the country are being tested, nor that anyone is being forced to quarantine, CNN has reported. When: Tuesday, March 31The claim: “We stopped all of Europe” with a travel ban. “We started with certain parts of Italy, and then all of Italy. Then we saw Spain. Then I said, ‘Stop Europe; let’s stop Europe. We have to stop them from coming here.’”The truth: The travel ban applied to the Schengen Area, as well as the United Kingdom and Ireland, and not all of Europe as he claimed. Additionally, Trump is wrong about the United States rolling out a piecemeal ban. The State Department did issue advisories in late February cautioning Americans against travel to the Lombardy region of Italy before issuing a general “Do Not Travel” warning on March 19. But the U.S. never placed individual bans on Italy and Spain. When: Multiple timesThe claim: “Everybody thought I was wrong” about implementing restrictions on travelers from China, and “most people felt they should not close it down—that we shouldn’t close down to China.”The truth: While the WHO did say it opposed travel bans on China generally, Trump’s own top health officials have made clear that the travel ban was the “uniform” recommendation of the Department of Health and Human Services. Fauci and Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the coronavirus task force, both praised the decision too. When: Multiple timesThe claim: The Trump administration’s travel restrictions on China were a “ban” that closed up the “entire” United States and “kept China out.”The truth: Nearly 40,000 people traveled from China to the United States from February 2, when Trump’s travel restrictions went into effect, to April 4, The New York Times reported. Those rules also do not apply to all people: American citizens, green-card holders and their relatives, and people on flights coming from Macau and Hong Kong are not included in the “ban.” On Taking the Pandemic Seriously When: Tuesday, March 17The claim: “I’ve always known this is a real—this is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic … I’ve always viewed it as very serious.”The truth: Trump has repeatedly downplayed the significance of COVID-19 as outbreaks began stateside. From calling criticism of his handling of the virus a “hoax,” to comparing the coronavirus to a common flu, to worrying about letting sick Americans off cruise ships because they would increase the number of confirmed cases, Trump has used his public statements to send mixed messages and sow doubt about the outbreak’s seriousness. When: Thursday, March 26The claim: This kind of pandemic “was something nobody thought could happen … Nobody would have ever thought a thing like this could have happened.”The truth: Experts both inside and outside the federal government sounded the alarm many times in the past decade about the potential for a devastating global pandemic, as my colleague Uri Friedman has reported. Two years ago, my colleague Ed Yong explored the legacy of Ebola outbreaks—including the devastating 2014 epidemic—to evaluate how ready the U.S. was for a pandemic. Ebola hardly impacted America—but it revealed how unprepared the country was. On COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines When: Monday, March 2The claim: Pharmaceutical companies are going “to have vaccines, I think, relatively soon.”The truth: The president’s own experts told him during a White House meeting with pharmaceutical leaders earlier that same day that a vaccine could take a year to 18 months to develop. In response, he said he would prefer if it took only a few months. He later claimed, at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, that a vaccine would be ready “soon.” When: Thursday, March 19The claim: At a press briefing with his coronavirus task force, Trump said the FDA had approved the antimalarial drug chloroquine to treat COVID-19. “Normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it’s—it was approved very, very quickly and it’s now approved by prescription,” he said.The truth: FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, who was at the briefing, quickly clarified that the drug still had to be tested in a clinical setting. An FDA representative later told Bloomberg that the drug has not been approved for COVID-19 use, though a doctor could still prescribe it for that purpose. Later that same day, Fauci told CNN that there is no “magic drug” to cure COVID-19: “Today, there are no proven safe and effective therapies for the coronavirus.” When: Friday, April 24The claim: Trump was being “sarcastic” when he suggested in a briefing on April 23 that his medical experts should research the use of powerful light and injected disinfectants to treat COVID-19.The truth: Trump’s tone did not seem sarcastic when he made the apparent suggestion to inject disinfectants. Turning to Birx and a Department of Homeland Security science-and-technology official, he mused: “I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning? … It would be interesting to check that.” When he walked this statement back the next day, he added that he was only asking his experts “to look into whether or not sun and disinfectant on the hands [work].” When: Friday, May 8The claim: The coronavirus is “going to go away without a vaccine … and we’re not going to see it again, hopefully, after a period of time.”The truth: Fauci has repeatedly said, including during a Senate hearing on May 12, that the coronavirus’s sudden disappearance “is just not going to happen.” Until the country has “a scientifically sound, safe, and effective vaccine,” Fauci said last month, the pandemic will not be over. When: Multiple timesThe claim: Taking hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 is safe. “You’re not going to get sick or die,” Trump said on one occasion. “It doesn’t hurt people,” he commented on another.The truth: Trump’s own FDA has warned against taking the antimalarial drug with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, which Trump has also promoted. Several large observational studies in New York, France, and China have concluded that there is no benefit from taking the drug. Another recent study found a greater risk of death or heart-rhythm problems among hospitalized patients who took hydroxychloroquine than among those who did not. Another claim: “One bad” study from the Department of Veterans Affairs that found no benefit among veterans who took hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 was run by “people that aren’t big Trump fans.” The study “was a Trump-enemy statement.”The truth: There’s no evidence that the study was a political plot orchestrated by Trump opponents, and it reached similar conclusions as other observational reports. The VA study was led by independent researchers from the University of Virginia and the University of South Carolina with a grant from the National Institutes of Health. Another claim: Many frontline doctors and workers are taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent COVID-19.The truth: Multiple trials are under way to determine if health-care workers should take the drug as a preventative. But there are no conclusive numbers for how many workers are taking the drug outside of those studies. On the Defense Production Act When: Friday, March 20The claim: Trump twice said during a task-force briefing that he had invoked the Defense Production Act, a Korean War–era law that enables the federal government to order private industry to produce certain items and materials for national use. He also said the federal government was already using its authority under the law: “We have a lot of people working very hard to do ventilators and various other things.”The truth: Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor told CNN on March 22 that the president has not actually used the DPA to order private companies to produce anything. Shortly after that, Trump backtracked, saying that he had not compelled private companies to take action. Then, on March 24, Gaynor told CNN that FEMA plans to use the DPA to allocate 60,000 test kits. Trump tweeted afterward that the DPA would not be used. When: Saturday, March 21The claim: Automobile companies that have volunteered to manufacture medical equipment, such as ventilators, are “making them right now.”The truth: Ford and General Motors, which Trump mentioned at a task-force briefing the same day, announced earlier in March that they had halted all factory production in North America and were likely months away from beginning production of ventilators, representatives told the Associated Press. Since then, Ford CEO James Hackett told CNN that the auto company will begin to work with 3M to produce respirators and with General Electric to assemble ventilators. GM said it will explore the possibility of producing ventilators in an Indiana factory. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose company Trump highlighted in a tweet, has said that the company is “working on ventilators” but that they cannot be produced “instantly.” On States’ Resources When: Tuesday, March 24The claim: Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York passed on an opportunity to purchase 16,000 ventilators at a low cost in 2015, Trump said during the Fox News town hall.The truth: Trump seems to have gleaned this claim from a Gateway Pundit article. That piece, in turn, cites a syndicated column from Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, which includes a figure close to 16,000. The number comes from a 2015 report from the state’s health department that provided guidance for how New York could handle a possible flu pandemic. The report notes that the state would need 15,783 more ventilators than it had at the time to aid patients during “an influenza pandemic on the scale of the 1918 pandemic.” The report does not include a recommendation to Cuomo for additional purchases or stockpiling. Trump “obviously didn’t read the document he’s citing,” a Cuomo representative said in a statement. Another claim: Trump also repeated a claim from the Gateway Pundit article that Cuomo’s office established “death panels” and “lotteries” as part of the state’s pandemic response.The truth: The 2015 report and the accompanying press release announced updated guidelines for hospitals to follow to allocate ventilators. The guidelines “call for a triage officer or triage committee to determine who receives or continues to receive ventilator therapy” and describes how a random lottery allocation might work. (Neither should be the first options for deciding care, the report notes.) Cuomo never established a lottery. When: Sunday, March 29The claim: Trump “didn’t say” that governors do not need all the medical equipment they are requesting from the federal government. And he “didn’t say” that governors should be more appreciative of the help.The truth: The president told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday, March 26, that “a lot of equipment’s being asked for that I don’t think they’ll need,” referring to requests from the governors of Michigan, New York, and Washington. He also said, during a Friday, March 27, task-force briefing, that he wanted state leaders “to be appreciative … We’ve done a great job.” He added that he wasn’t talking about himself, but about others within the federal government working to combat the pandemic. When: Sunday, March 29, and Monday, March 30The claim: Hospitals are reporting an artificially inflated need for masks and equipment, items that might be “going out the back door,” Trump said on two separate days. He also said he was not talking about hoarding: “I think maybe it’s worse than hoarding.”The truth: There is no evidence to show that hospitals are maliciously hoarding or inflating their need for masks and personal protective equipment when reporting shortages in supplies. Although Cuomo reported anecdotal stories of thefts from hospitals early in March, he was referring to opportunists trying to price-gouge early in the pandemic. Reuters has reported a handful of stories of nurses hiding masks to conserve supplies amid shortages, but not wide-scale thefts as Trump claimed. On China When: Tuesday, April 14The claim: Asked about his past praise of China and its transparency, Trump said that he hadn’t “talk[ed] about China’s transparency.”The truth: Trump lauded the country in tweets he sent in late January and early February. In one, he highlighted the Chinese government’s “transparency” about the coronavirus outbreak. When: Friday, May 29The claim: The WHO ignored “credible reports” of the coronavirus’s spread in Wuhan, the Chinese city that first reported the new virus, including those published in The Lancet medical journal in December.The truth: The Lancet said it did not publish such reports in December. Its first reports on the virus’s spread in Wuhan were published on January 24. Another claim: Taiwanese officials had warned the WHO about human-to-human transmission of a new virus by December 31.The truth: Taiwan did not cite “human to human” transmission in the communications Trump referenced, but it did ask for more information and compared the virus to SARS. Another claim: In mid-January, the WHO said the coronavirus could not be transmitted between humans.The truth: The WHO did say on January 12 that early investigations by China could find “no clear evidence” of human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, but it did not rule such transmission out. Two days later, a WHO official said during a press conference that “it is possible that there is limited human-to-human transmission” among families, and warned hospitals around the world to prepare for a greater outbreak. On Democrats When: Multiple timesThe claim: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged people to attend “parties” and a parade in San Francisco’s Chinatown to “show that this thing doesn’t exist.”The truth: Pelosi did visit San Francisco’s Chinatown in late February to encourage residents not to fear the coronavirus in the city. “Precautions have been taken” and the city was “on top of the situation,” she said. But Pelosi did not urge people to attend a parade or parties. San Francisco reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 5, a week later, and the Bay Area ordered residents to shelter in place three weeks after the speaker’s visit. Another claim: Pelosi was “dancing in the streets of Chinatown, trying to say, ‘It’s okay to come to the United States. It’s fine. 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The characters were intriguing, the stunts were exhilarating, and every frame was bursting with incredible, how’d-they-do-that nerve. “Mad Max: Fury Road” set a new high-water mark for action filmmaking when it came out in 2015, and no summer blockbuster since has been able to match its turbocharged ingenuity. Even Oscar-winning auteurs have been awed by George Miller’s operatically staged spectacle. “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho said last year that the scale of the movie brought him to tears, while Steven Soderbergh put it more bluntly: “I don’t understand how they’re not still shooting that film,” he said in a 2017 interview, “and I don’t understand how hundreds of people aren’t dead.” So how did Miller and his cast pull it off and survive to tell the tale? Five years after “Fury Road” was released, I asked 20 of its key players what making it was like. Though its post-apocalyptic plot is deceptively simple — road warrior Max (Tom Hardy) and the fierce driver Furiosa (Charlize Theron) must race across the desert to escape the vengeful Immortan Joe and his fleet of kamikaze War Boys — filming the movie was anything but easy. “Like anything that has some worth to it, it comes with complicated feelings,” Theron said. “I feel a mixture of extreme joy that we achieved what we did, and I also get a little bit of a hole in my stomach. There’s a level of ‘the body remembers’ trauma related to the shooting of this film that’s still there for me.” “It was one of the wildest, most intense experiences of my life,” said the actress Riley Keough, while her co-star Rosie Huntington-Whiteley added, “You could have made another movie on the making of it.” As for Hardy? “It left me irrevocably changed,” he said. Here, in the cast and crew’s own words, is how a nearly impossible project managed to become an Oscar-winning action masterpiece. After making three progressively bigger “Mad Max” movies — the 1979 original as well as “The Road Warrior” (1981) and “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” (1985) — Miller let the franchise he created lie dormant until 1998. GEORGE MILLER (director) For so long, whenever the idea of another “Mad Max” movie came up, I thought there wasn’t much more I could do with it, but I specifically remember the moment that changed. I was crossing the street in Los Angeles and this very simple idea popped in my head: “What if there was a ‘Mad Max’ movie that was one long chase, and the MacGuffin was human?” I was flying back to Australia a month later, ruminating on it, and by the time I landed, I called Doug Mitchell and said, “I think I’ve got an idea.” George Miller with the producer Doug Mitchell on the set.Credit...Jasin Boland/Warner Bros. via Everett Collection DOUG MITCHELL (producer) There were a number of names thrown out for the female lead back when we first started, [like] Uma Thurman. MILLER I remember we were talking about Charlize even then. Her agent said she wasn’t interested, but I mentioned it to her over a decade later, and she said, “No one ever told me!” With the series’ star Mel Gibson set once again to play Max, the plan was to shoot “Fury Road" for 20th Century Fox. Dozens of expensive vehicles and set pieces were built for a shoot scheduled for March 2003. MILLER Then 9/11 happened and everything changed. We couldn’t get insured, we couldn’t get our vehicles transported. It just collapsed. COLIN GIBSON (production designer) I was in Namibia in 2003 when I got the call to stop spending money. I don’t know whether [the studio] decided to reroute their money back to the Iraq war, or if it was the email I got from Mel Gibson’s wife asking me how many Muslims there may or may not be in Namibia and, therefore, how interested she may or may not be in the whole family coming to visit. Miller pivoted to directing the animated film “Happy Feet,” and when it proved to be a box-office success for Warner Bros., he was able to convince the studio to take on “Fury Road.” Still, his longtime leading man Mel Gibson was now in his 50s and considered a Hollywood pariah. Miller and Mitchell decided to search for a new Max. MITCHELL Mel is obviously blighted by a number of things that everyone in the world knows about, even though he’s a highly gifted filmmaker and a brilliant actor and a lovely guy behind that demon that sometimes pops out. But he was too old at that point. It just didn’t make sense. ZOË KRAVITZ (Toast, one of the five “wives” fleeing Immortan Joe) I did a chemistry test with Jeremy Renner reading for Max, because they hadn’t hired Tom yet. MILLER I had the same feeling about Tom that I had when Mel Gibson first walked into the room: There was a kind of edgy charm, the charisma of animals. You don’t know what’s going on in their inner depths, and yet they’re enormously attractive. TOM HARDY (Max) I hadn’t done that much action at that time, certainly not with this level of involvement. The nature and sheer scale and volume of action set pieces was unlike anything I had experienced. CHARLIZE THERON (Furiosa) I grew up on all the “Mad Max” movies — they’re very popular in South Africa. I remember being 12 and my dad letting me watch it with him. So I was like, “Oh yeah, I wanna be in a ‘Mad Max’ movie. Are you kidding me?” Charlize Theron’s Furiosa was initially envisioned as less androgynous, with long hair.Credit...Warner Bros. RILEY KEOUGH (Capable, another one of the Immortan’s escaped “wives”) They were holding crazy, nontraditional auditions in Australia. They’d have bunches of us, five to six girls, go through this audition process with no scenes from the film but a lot of improv, a lot of acting-class stuff. We had no idea if we’d get chosen or not, and out of my group, I was the only one who got selected. KRAVITZ When they cast me, I was brought to a room that I wasn’t allowed to leave, and I sat there and read the script. It was one of the strangest scripts I’d ever seen, because it was like a really long comic book. JOHN SEALE (cinematographer) I couldn’t make head nor tail of it, so I gave up. I thought, “They’ve been in preproduction for 10 years, let’s just go make it.” With his cast in place, Miller set a late-2010 shoot in Broken Hill, Australia, the desert mining town where he had filmed the first two “Mad Max” movies. THERON The roughest moment was when we were in Australia, two weeks away from shooting, and they pulled the plug on us. MITCHELL During preproduction, the weather pattern changed in Australia and it rained and rained in Queensland, the sort of weather that happens once in a century. GIBSON Slowly, what was desert turned into beautiful flowers. So we put everything into storage and slunk away yet again. KEOUGH It was the first time I had experienced a big push on a film, and I was heartbroken. I was like, “Is it really because of the weather? Am I fired?” MITCHELL We were basically defeated. How do we move on? But Miller refused to give up on the film. MILLER I said, “Let’s wait a year and see if it all dries up.” And when we saw that it wouldn’t, I decided we should to go back to Namibia, where it never rains. MARGARET SIXEL (editor and Miller’s wife) It was kind of nuts to take all those people and all those vehicles to Namibia. Who would do that? I guess that’s George. He isn’t like other people, really — which is what I love. In July 2012, a year and a half after the planned Broken Hill shoot, filming finally commenced on “Fury Road” in the Namibian desert. KEOUGH It was the craziest thing you could imagine, and the craziest thing I’ve ever experienced. For one, it felt very real, which is why it looks so incredible. Everyone in this film was so excited to be their characters that walking around on set was like actually walking around in that world. It was almost like a cosplay thing. NICHOLAS HOULT (Nux, one of the Immortan’s War Boys) Hugh, who played the Immortan, would put photos of himself all around the stunt gym where the War Boys trained. Hoult as Nux. He was actually put under the War Rig in a harness.Credit...Warner Bros. HUGH KEAYS-BYRNE (Immortan Joe) It was a wonderful thing to feel everyone around me crashing about in their costumes and absolutely living it. COURTNEY EATON (Cheedo, another “wife”) I had never acted in my life before, except for drama class in school. When I got to set and they asked me to stand on my mark, I turned around and said, “I don’t know what that means.” KRAVITZ There was something really beautiful about how inexperienced a lot of us were — we were so down for the cause. I don’t know what it would be like if you had five actresses who’d been working for a long time that would call their agents and be like, “What the hell is going on here?” ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY (the “wife” Splendid) I’ve lived with Jason [Statham] for 10 years, and I’ve never known him to have an experience like it. I remember explaining it to him, and he said, “Wow, this is so different from how I’ve ever gone to work.” The spectacular action sequences were difficult to stage, but they had a sense of actual weight and physics that had been lost in a decade and a half of CGI spectacle. GIBSON All the action had to be real. The hair can’t stand up on the back of your neck — not for me, anyway — watching Vin Diesel drag a three-ton safe down through perfect right-angle turns on the street. The whole rationale was to make it as real as possible so that as much as possible was at stake. HARDY As we dug in, it was dangerous, or certainly could have been extremely so, if it weren’t for the methodical professionalism and preparation of the experts: stunt coordination, stunt team and riggers. Tom Hardy recalled that the scale of the action set pieces “was unlike anything I had experienced.”Credit...Warner Bros. BEN SMITH-PETERSEN (stunt performer) On most films like this, you’re working your way up to a stunt — maybe there’s one a week. But on this film, from the time your day starts, you’re already doing a stunt and then there’s another one on top of that. It was a stuntman’s dream. HOULT I remember turning up one day, and they strapped me under the War Rig in a harness. KRAVITZ Everything you see is really happening, there’s no green screen. I’m really being pulled out of the truck and going super high in the air — and I’m pretty sure that’s Riley’s husband, Ben, who grabbed me and pulled me out. They met on the movie. KEOUGH We ended up falling in love. So my husband’s a War Boy. Many of the young actresses were cast as the sex slaves Furiosa was trying to smuggle to freedom. To help them better understand their characters, Miller engaged a surprising recruit: “The Vagina Monologues” playwright Eve Ensler, who was working with Congolese survivors of gender violence. EVE ENSLER It was really surprising for me, too! George would send me pieces of the script for feedback, and we began to get into a dialogue about the women who were going to play the sex slaves and how they would know what that lived experience was. Eventually, he invited me to Namibia to spend time with them in workshops, and my contribution was really to help those actresses become confident in that world. I think it was a really radical thing that he asked me to do that. KRAVITZ Even if a lot of the women’s history wasn’t in the dialogue, it was really important to George that we understood what we were running from. HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY The workshopping process was really emotional. Having grown up with a very pleasant childhood in a middle-class family in the U.K., it was a big shock to the system. Clockwise from front, Rose Huntington-Whiteley, Zoe Kravitz, Abbey Lee, Courtney Eaton and Riley Keough worked with Eve Ensler for their sex-slave roles.Credit...Warner Bros. KRAVITZ We would do exercises like writing letters to our captor, really interesting stuff that created deep empathy. I’m glad we had that, because it was such a crazy experience — so long and chaotic — that it would be easy to forget what we were doing if we didn’t have this really great foundation that we could return to. KEOUGH I thought it was amazing that George cared so much. It could have just been like, “This is a big Hollywood movie, now put on your bathing suits and get outside.” But the film’s centerpiece character was the determined, resourceful Furiosa. HARDY Charlize arguably laid down the finest lead character in an action movie, and that credit is much deserved, in my opinion; both to her as a phenomenal talent and also to George for recognizing from the very start that it was time to pass Mel’s shoes onto Furiosa. THERON At first, Furiosa was this very ethereal character, with long hair and some African mud art on her face. It was a different costume designer back then, before Jenny Beavan, and the costume felt a little more Barbarella-y. I worried about it. JENNY BEAVAN (costume designer) I am not into fashion, and I don’t particularly care what people look like — the clothes have to come out of the stories they tell. Since she travels long distances, Furiosa needed very practical clothing, and when I met with Charlize, that was one of the things we talked about. That, and what on earth would she do with her hair? THERON George was really incredible in just hearing me out. I called him and said, “I don’t know how she’s getting by in the mechanics’ room with all this hair. I think we need to shave my head, and she needs to be a more androgynous, grounded character.” You know, he trusted me so much that it kind of makes me emotional. In that sense, I feel like I let him down. Tensions could run high on the set, where the principal cast was crammed into one vehicle for most of the blockbuster-length shoot. THERON The biggest thing that was driving that entire production was fear. I was incredibly scared, because I’d never done anything like it. I think the hardest thing between me and George is that he had the movie in his head and I was so desperate to understand it. SIXEL It was very difficult for the actors, because there’s no master shot, no blocked-out scenes. Their performances were made of these tiny little moments. SEALE (cinematographer) It was tough for them. The crew can be protected by the elements — the cold and wind and sand — but they can’t. They’re wearing a wardrobe that is very specific. ABBEY LEE (the Dag, another “wife”) It looks warm, but we shot it in the winter and it was blisteringly freezing. Us girls weren’t wearing much, and Riley got hypothermia. KEOUGH There were night shoots that were brutal, and there was so much dust that your face would be covered with three inches of sand by the end of the day. We kept it together pretty well, I think, for the first five months. KRAVITZ By the end, we wanted to go home so badly. It had been nine months, and not nine months where you’re in a city and you hang out in your trailer. It was nine months of the environment you’re seeing in the movie, with nothing around. You really do start to lose your mind a little bit. MILLER There was a high degree of difficulty on the film, and unless you are entirely rigorous about safety, something is inevitably going to go wrong. That was my biggest anxiety — it’s something I’d experienced before [when a stuntman broke his leg], and it gnaws at you. I guess the actual working process of the actors, I probably should have paid more attention to. Tension on the set stemmed in part from the different approaches Theron and Hardy took in their work.Credit...Warner Bros. THERON All of those young girls kind of turned to me as someone who would problem-solve for them, and this is not anybody’s fault — I only say this now because I know George and I’ve experienced this with George, so I’d fully trust him. But I’ve also trusted directors fully when I didn’t comprehend what they were trying to do, and it just turned into a mess. HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY There was a lot of tension, and a lot of different personalities and clashes at times. It was definitely interesting to sit in a truck for four months with Tom and Charlize, who have completely different approaches to their craft. HARDY Because of how much detail we were having to process and how little control one had in each new situation, and how fast the takes were — tiny snippets of story moments were needed to make the final cut work — we moved fast, and it was at times overwhelming. One had to trust that the bigger picture was being held together. KRAVITZ Tom really had moments of frustration, of anger. Charlize did, too, but I feel like he’s the one who really took it out on George the most, and that was a bummer to see. But you know, in some ways, you also can’t blame him, because a lot was being asked of these actors and there were a lot of unanswered questions. THERON In retrospect, I didn’t have enough empathy to really, truly understand what he must have felt like to step into Mel Gibson’s shoes. That is frightening! And I think because of my own fear, we were putting up walls to protect ourselves instead of saying to each other, “This is scary for you, and it’s scary for me, too. Let’s be nice to each other.” In a weird way, we were functioning like our characters: Everything was about survival. HARDY I would agree. I think in hindsight, I was in over my head in many ways. The pressure on both of us was overwhelming at times. What she needed was a better, perhaps more experienced, partner in me. That’s something that can’t be faked. I’d like to think that now that I’m older and uglier, I could rise to that occasion. LEE The grueling nature of the shoot really served it, in my opinion. The characters are supposed to be exhausted, they’re supposed to be searching for strength. I just don’t think that any of the performances would have been the same had it all been green-screen and we did it in a controlled environment. The fact that it was a huge mess is why it’s so brilliant. As the shoot continued into late 2012, the Warner Bros. studio head Jeff Robinov prepared to intercede. The stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen said that most films involve one stunt a week. On “Fury Road,” it could be one a day, for a start.Credit...Warner Bros. GIBSON There’s a lack of control you have when you’re sitting in Los Angeles and 600 people are wandering the desert with what’s left of your money. KRAVITZ We were behind schedule, and we heard the studio was freaking out about how we were over budget. SEALE The president of Warner Bros. flew to Namibia and had a gold-plated fit. MILLER Jeff was in a bake-off with Kevin Tsujihara about who was going to head the studio, and he had to assert himself to show his superiors that he was in command and a strong executive. I knew what he was going through, but it wasn’t going to do anybody any good at all. [Robinov could not be reached for comment.] MITCHELL He said, “The camera will stop on Dec. 8, no matter what you’ve got, and that’s the end of it.” We hadn’t shot any of the scenes in the Citadel yet, where the opening and closing book ends of the film are set, and we had to go into postproduction without them. It was almost incomprehensible. SIXEL I was worried about George. You wouldn’t even know the half of it, let me tell you. You should have seen him by the end of the shoot, he was so thin. IOTA (the Doof Warrior, a War Boy who wields a flame-spewing guitar) I saw him deteriorate over that six months. He looked so shattered by the end. Still, Miller could not lose faith: He had to continue searching for a way to complete his film. MILLER A younger filmmaker who has done very well called me before his first feature and said, “Any tips?” I told him, “The day will come on the shoot when you think you’re completely crazy and what you’re doing makes no sense. Just keep going.” When he finished that film, he told me, “Remember what you said? What you didn’t tell me is that it’s going to happen every day.” And it’s true. SIXEL It was really difficult to spend that year cutting a film that didn’t have an opening or closing. I kept thinking, “How am I going to make this work? Are we going to write voice-over and try to fill in all the gaps during the opening chase?” MITCHELL What happened then is that Jeff lost his job and Kevin Tsujihara was appointed, and he decided later that year, “You know what, let’s do this properly. We need to shoot these scenes at the Citadel.” So we brought back all these vehicles from Namibia, reassembled the team in late 2013, and brought Tom and Charlize to Australia. It could have been completely different, had the gods not been shining down. Though Tsujihara permitted Miller a month of additional shooting, studio executives remained skeptical as he worked on the final cut. SIXEL There was this constant thing from the studio: “How much shorter is it?” That’s all they wanted to know. I just got so sick of it. They were just obsessed with getting the film under 100 minutes, which I knew was impossible. MILLER When someone is directing a film, they’re thinking about it every waking hour, and even processing it in their dreams. The problem is, if you’re a studio executive, you tend to think about it for 10 minutes on a Wednesday. SIXEL It was an incredibly painful film to cut. I think the studio didn’t believe in it, so it was really difficult to keep going. Eventually George and I decided, “We’re just going to make the film we want to make, and if no one else likes it, that’s fine.” And that last four months is when the film really came together. In May 2015, “Fury Road” was released to rave reviews, starting with its Cannes Film Festival premiere. At a news conference there, Hardy apologized to Miller for the times he felt frustrated during the shoot: “There is no way George could’ve explained what he could see in the sand when we were out there. I knew he was brilliant, but I didn’t quite know how brilliant.” HARDY As the reality of his accomplishment soaked in for me, I felt it was the right thing to say in the moment. “Not for a moment did we think ‘Fury Road’ would be anything like an Oscar movie,” Miller said.Credit...Warner Bros. KRAVITZ As an actor, you make a lot of movies — some of them are good and some of them are bad, and you have to kind of let that go. But with this one, it really felt like we put our actual blood, sweat, tears and time into it, and if it hadn’t been good, I would have been devastated. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my life, but it was absolutely worth it, and I would do it again if George asked me to. SIXEL When we actually finished the film and it was a success, that was the best year we ever had. We’d repeat the stories of making the film to each other over and over again: How did we get to the other side? We still kind of marvel at it. MILLER In Japan, there was a critic who was telling me about the film, and I was astonished by the degree to which he read the subtext, all the stuff you hope is there. I said, “How many times did you see the film?” He said, “Only once. Can I show you something?” And he opened up his shirt, and he had the logo of the Immortan tattooed in red on his chest. So when you see things like that, you’re sort of humbled by it. “Fury Road” earned $374 million worldwide and was nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and best director. Though it didn’t win either of the top prizes, the film took six Oscars in categories like editing, production design and costume design. MILLER Not for a moment did we think “Fury Road” would be anything like an Oscar movie. SIXEL Half the time, I thought I was going to get fired off the film, and then I win an Oscar! How about that? We were just disappointed that George didn’t win, but basically, they were all his Oscars in a way. SEALE We had a lovely guy in England come up to us and say, “I voted for you guys, and I’ll tell you why: I look at a film and think, ‘In 20 years’ time, will I remember that film?’ And in 20 years, I know I’ll remember ‘Fury Road.’” Years after its release, the film’s themes of female empowerment, class inequality and environmental collapse are more relevant than ever. MITCHELL What an extraordinary experience to have a film that was so difficult, that may never have been made, and at the end of the day it wins Academy Awards and is called one of the best films of the decade. MILLER When the ideas that you start off with are then comprehended by an audience at large out there, that’s ultimately what redeems the process for you. The Swahili storytellers have this quote: “The story has been told. If it was bad, it was my fault, because I am the storyteller. But if it was good, it belongs to everybody.” And that feeling of the story belonging to everybody is really the reward. 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"[Spielberg and I] shared a house together and spent every waking moment together for the next four months because I was either rewriting or acting in the movie," says Carl Gottlieb. In 1974, Carl Gottlieb was the story editor on ABC's The Odd Couple when he was asked by his friend, a then relatively unknown director named Steven Spielberg, to give him notes on the script for his movie about a shark. "[Spielberg] was anxious to do a rewrite before they started shooting — they were about two or three weeks before principal photography," Gottlieb tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I was sent the script with a memo saying, 'Eviscerate this.'" After reading Gottlieb's extensive notes, Spielberg asked if he would join the Jaws production and help to redraft the troubled script adaptation of Peter Benchley's best-seller. Gottlieb quit his day job. "We shared a house together and spent every waking moment together for the next four months because I was either rewriting or acting in the movie," remembers the 77-year-old scribe, who also played the small onscreen role of Ben Meadows, the town's newspaper editor, in the film. The infamous line from Jaws, "You're gonna need a bigger boat," which landed at No. 3 on Hollywood's Top 100 Movie Quotes, came about during those rewrites. "It was an overlap of a real-life problem combined with the dilemma of the characters onscreen," Gottlieb says of the origins of the line. The real-life problem being a barge (named by the cast and crew S.S. Garage Sale), which carried all the lights and camera equipment and craft services, was steadied by a small support boat that was too tiny to manage the job. Gottlieb recalls: "[Richard] Zanuck and [David] Brown were very stingy producers, so everyone kept telling them, 'You're gonna need a bigger boat.' It became a catchphrase for anytime anything went wrong — if lunch was late or the swells were rocking the camera, someone would say, 'You're gonna need a bigger boat.'" Roy Scheider, who played Brody in the movie, ad-libbed the line at different points in his performance throughout filming. But the one reading that made it in to the final cut of the movie was after the suspenseful first look at the great white shark. Says Gottlieb, "It was so appropriate and so real and it came at the right moment, thanks to Verna Field's editing."  Gottlieb has heard the line pop up in a lot of strange places, but he says the most memorable time it was quoted back to him was in a casino: "I was playing poker and thought I had a winning hand, 'cause I had a full house, which is referred to as a 'full boat,' and the guy across the table from me said, 'You're gonna need a bigger boat,' and he put down a larger full house." by Mia Galuppo #jaws #writer #author #screenwriter #literary #lit #zanuck #spielberg #movies #unminced #dialogue #actor #shark #movies TRENDING COLLECTIONS           

Will Carroll of Death Angel says, “I don’t think Satan’s quite as cool as I used to.” As the coronavirus pandemic continues, researchers are discovering new symptoms and side effects of the disease. Some people who have recovered from COVID-19 are still reporting lingering chest pain and shortness of breath, and in some cases people are reporting a rash disgustingly referred to as "COVID toes." And in at least one case, the novel coronavirus has caused visions of a Dante-like trip to Hell. According to the San Francisco Chronicle's Datebook, the thrash metal band Death Angel was in Europe for a tour in early March when the outbreak went global. They cancelled the tour and headed back to the U.S., but on the flight back drummer Will Carroll started showing symptoms. After testing positive, he spent 12 days in a medically induced coma. When he finally woke up on March 30, the staff at California Pacific Medical Center applauded. "(The medical staff) couldn’t believe it," he told the Chronicle. "They were ecstatic because it was a success story." Carroll had more reason to celebrate, not just because he was returning to good health, but because those 12 days were full of some pretty upsetting visions. Per the Chronicle: While in the coma, Carroll said he had dreams of visiting the afterlife. He saw himself leave his body and plummet down to hell, where Satan—a woman in his case—punished him for the deadly sin of sloth, morphing him into a Jabba the Hutt-like-monster who vomited blood until he had a heart attack. "I woke up on the hospital bed with tubes coming in and out of me, and there was a nurse right there and my first words were, 'Am I still in hell?'" Carroll said. "She ignored me." It takes a very professional nurse to take a patient rambling about hell in stride. In Carroll's case though, the experience has him reevaluating some things. "I’m still going to listen to satanic metal, and I still love Deicide and bands like that," he told the Chronicle. "As far as for my personal life and my experience of what I went through, I don’t think Satan’s quite as cool as I used to." BY LUKE DARBY #metal #thrashmetal #metalmusic www.UnmincedWords.com #satan #hardrock #WillCarroll #DeathAngel #NoSatan #moshpit #playmetal #slamdance #unminced #pandemic #covidsurvivor #epiphany #fuckSatan  TRENDING COLLECTIONS             

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Even when German fans are stuck at home, they can still be seen in the stadium. Around 13,000 cutouts filled the stands on Saturday as Borussia Mönchengladbach hosted Bayer Leverkusen in a Bundesliga game which could help decide Champions League qualification. Gladbach fans took pictures at home in a shirt or scarf and paid 19 euros ($20.70) to be turned into one of the “Pappkameraden” or “cardboard companions.” Season-ticket holders have their cutout placed in their usual spot, though some fan groups denounced the idea. “It’s better to play in front of dolls than nothing at all,” Leverkusen coach Peter Bosz said before the game. A banner reading “against ghost matches” is pictured aheadthe German first division Bundesliga football match Borussia Moenchengladbach and Bayer 04 Leverkusen on Saturday, May 23, 2020 in Moenchengladbach, western Germany. (Ina Fassbender/pool via AP) It was Gladbach’s first at home since the Bundesliga restarted without spectators amid the coronavirus pandemic. The cutouts didn’t do Gladbach much good on Saturday. Leverkusen won 3-1 to overtake Gladbach for third in the table, as Gladbach missed good chances to score late on. “Despite that it still looks really super,” Gladbach right back Stefan Lainer said. “It creates a certain atmosphere.” Coach Marco Rose and some of his players were also in the stands in two-dimensional form, along with greats of the club’s past. They include Günter Netzer, who won the West German title with Gladbach in 1970 and 1971 and the World Cup in 1974. There’s even an away end with pictures of supporters from Leverkusen and other clubs. Gladbach said it was a nonprofit initiative with proceeds going to charity. Gladbach’s form this season has echoed its golden age from the 1970s. The club led the table early in the season and is still fighting for a Champions League spot. Not all of the real-life fans like their cutout counterparts. Some groups oppose continuing the season without spectators and feel the cutouts legitimize that. “Football without fans is nothing,” read a large banner placed at one end of the stadium on Saturday. “For Borussia, against ghost games,” read another. “The bleak backdrop of empty stadiums is exactly what these games represent and deserve,” the Sottocultura group of Gladbach fans said in a statement. “We consider the initiative with the cardboard figures to be counterproductive. We understand the well-meaning, charitable idea behind it, but we consider the signal to be the wrong one.” Gladbach isn’t the first club to try replacing fans with doppelgangers during the coronavirus pandemic. Before the Bundesliga restarted, Belarus was the only country in Europe playing league games. Champion club Dynamo Brest printed off photos sent by supporters abroad and attached them to shop mannequins wearing a motley variety of old shirts. #football #gladbach #bundesliga #nchengladbach #bvb #borussia #schalke #dortmund #sseldorf #borussiam #fck #bmg #fussball #borussiadortmund #rbleipzig #ball #effzeh #fu #fohlenelf #fifa #fcbayern #leverkusen #bayer #unminced TRENDING COLLECTIONS             

Get answers to your questions about face masks, including how to use them properly. Can face masks help slow the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes COVID-19? Yes, face masks combined with other preventive measures, such as frequent hand-washing and social distancing, help slow the spread of the virus. So why weren't face masks recommended at the start of the pandemic? At that time, experts didn't know the extent to which people with COVID-19 could spread the virus before symptoms appeared. Nor was it known that some people have COVID-19 but don't have any symptoms. Both groups can unknowingly spread the virus to others. These discoveries led public health groups to do an about-face on face masks. The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now include face masks in their recommendations for slowing the spread of the virus. The CDC recommends cloth face masks for the public and not the surgical and N95 masks needed by health care providers. How do the different types of masks work? Surgical masks Also called a medical mask, a surgical mask is a loose-fitting disposable mask that protects the wearer's nose and mouth from contact with droplets, splashes and sprays that may contain germs. A surgical mask also filters out large particles in the air. Surgical masks may protect others by reducing exposure to the saliva and respiratory secretions of the mask wearer. At this time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved any type of surgical mask specifically for protection against the coronavirus, but these masks may provide some protection when N95 masks are not available. N95 masks Actually a type of respirator, an N95 mask offers more protection than a surgical mask does because it can filter out both large and small particles when the wearer inhales. 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I ate nearly identical meals at In-N-Out and Fatburger and found the lesser-known chain had an even better burger Eternally hip and effortlessly photogenic, In-N-Out is the retro farm-to-table fast-food chain of young America's dreams. But somewhere in the shadow of In-N-Out's glory is Fatburger, an LA-based chain with a following of its own.   Fatburger is the Jonathan Byers to In-N-Out's Steve Harrington. But gravity-defying style doesn't mean the latter has more substance. On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I ate at both Fatburger and In-N-Out. While I loved both, Fatburger's burger was bigger, juicier, and just plain better. Here's the burger breakdown: First, I stopped by an In-N-Out restaurant in Hollywood, California. Irene Jiang/Business Insider In-N-Out is cheery inside, with bright tiles, vibrant fake plants, and neon signs. Irene Jiang/Business Insider Its menu is simple, featuring just three kinds of burgers. Pretty much everybody knows about animal style, though — it adds grilled onions and extra spread. Irene Jiang/Business Insider In-N-Out keeps an iron grip on its supply chain, ensuring that its beef and veggies are always fresh. Irene Jiang/Business Insider I got a Double-Double animal-style ($4.35), animal-style fries ($3.95), and a medium lemonade ($1.75). In total, my meal cost $10.05 before tax. Irene Jiang/Business Insider The Double-Double is beautiful on the outside and on the inside. Irene Jiang/Business Insider It's two cheese-smothered beef patties layered with crunchy veg, grilled onion, and drenched in special sauce, all packaged immaculately inside two toasted buns. Irene Jiang/Business Insider I was in love at first bite. In-N-Out's $4 burger is no cheap date. Irene Jiang/Business Insider Juicy, flavorful beef, fresh-as-fall veggies, and zingy sauce require one to savor each bite slowly. Irene Jiang/Business Insider Of course, it's hard to savor something slowly when you're wolfing it down. Irene Jiang/Business Insider The juices leaking out of the taut wrapper were a ticking time bomb. Irene Jiang/Business Insider As soon as they reached my elbow, I'd have to take a napkin break. Irene Jiang/Business Insider A burger chain must not be judged by the taste of its fries, but by the taste of its burgers. Irene Jiang/Business Insider But soggy, flavorless fries really put a damper on an otherwise excellent meal. Irene Jiang/Business Insider I tried my fries both animal style and plain, and both styles engendered the same result: disappointment. Irene Jiang/Business Insider Even though In-N-Out's potatoes are fresh-cut every morning, a fresh potato does not a good fry make. Not necessarily. Irene Jiang/Business Insider For the rest of my meal, I stuck with my burger. Irene Jiang/Business Insider Alas, it was gone much too fast. Irene Jiang/Business Insider My fries, however, remained largely untouched. They went in the trash. Irene Jiang/Business Insider At the end of my meal at In-N-Out, I felt full but refreshed. It was everything I wanted from a burger — or so I thought. Irene Jiang/Business Insider The next day, I went to a Fatburger in the same neighborhood. Seeing its unlit signs and peeling paint, I thought it might be closed. Irene Jiang / Business Insider But inside was a normal, albeit nearly empty, fully functioning restaurant. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Fatburger's style is also colorful and retro, but in a different way from In-N-Out. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Its menu is also simple, but it includes nifty extras like onion rings and the Impossible Burger. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Like In-N-Out, Fatburger prides itself on its fresh, never-frozen ingredients. But it also prides itself on how big and filling its burgers are, hence the name "Fatburger." Irene Jiang / Business Insider I ordered an original Fatburger meal ($10.50), which came with a side of fries and a drink. Before tax, it was just 45 cents more expensive than my In-N-Out meal. Irene Jiang / Business Insider A Fatburger has just one patty, but it's a big, beefy patty. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Between these toasted buns is one-third of a pound of meat, relish, onions, pickles, tomato, lettuce, mayo, and mustard. Irene Jiang / Business Insider I noticed that the patty had an incredible brown layer of caramelization on the outside. Irene Jiang / Business Insider But everything else on the burger was just as stunning. Irene Jiang / Business Insider The patty's delicate outer layer of crisp hit a tender patty that just oozed with juice. Irene Jiang / Business Insider That juice melded with a marvelous mélange of crisp and tangy vegetables for the perfect burger experience. Irene Jiang / Business Insider I could hardly believe it, but this burger was even better than In-N-Out's Double-Double. Irene Jiang / Business Insider It was juicy without being saucy — the defining quality of a top-notch burger. Irene Jiang / Business Insider I went for a fry break, and this time I wasn't disappointed. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Fatburger's fries are the crispy-outside, soft-inside potato miracle any good burger needs as a companion. Irene Jiang / Business Insider I had trouble deciding between golden fries and a gut-busting burger. Irene Jiang / Business Insider But true love waits for no one. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Still, I was soon reminded that nothing lasts forever — especially not a delicious burger. Irene Jiang / Business Insider Love, like a hungry belly, is all-consuming. And just as I consumed Fatburger, Fatburger consumed me. Irene Jiang / Business Insider In-n-Out will always have a special place in my heart. And I'll definitely be back for more. Irene Jiang/Business Insider But Fatburger's the burger I'll dream about on cold, hungry, New York nights. Irene Jiang / Business Insider I grew up a big #Tommysburgers fan. www.UnmincedWords.com has ur next new #shirt. #unminced #burgers #fastfood #innout #fatburger #hamburger #comparison #loveburgers #eatingout #burgercontest  TRENDING COLLECTIONS