Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Movies in theaters Movies at Home 100 Best Netflix Series To Watch Right Now (May 2025) Netflix’s 100 Best Movies Right Now (May 2025) What to Watch: In Theaters and On Streaming Weekend Box Office: Thunderbolts* Secures $76 Million Debut Movie Re-Release Calendar 2025: Your Guide to Movies Back In Theaters Bonhoeffer more or less gets the job done as a righteous thriller but its glossy treatment of history flattens this remarkable true story into a formulaic matinee A liderança indígena Tuíre Kayapó - Mídia Ninja Tuíre has always taken a stance about government attacks against forest peoples Tuíre raised international attention in 1989 was home to the First Meeting of Xingu Indigenous Peoples which gathered 600 Indigenous individuals all painted for war aimed at discussing the Kararaô Hydroelectric Plant later renamed Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant the then 19-year-old Tuíre put her machete on the face of the president of the Eletronorte company According to her recollections of the episode in an interview with the Socio-environmental Institute (ISA Tuíre said to the man: “White man You were born in the city and came here to attack our forests and rivers the woman who postponed the end of the world It is important to note that the Kayapó call themselves Mẽbêngôkre which means “the people who came from the water hole" in their native language the Mẽbêngôkre made a long journey reaching the surface of Earth through water which makes it easy to understand why this Indigenous people opposed so vehemently Belo Monte: a barred and deviated river would mean the end of fishing and navigation If rivers are the Mẽbêngôkre’s roots building the power plant would drain the people’s liquid roots another element profoundly marked the disputes surrounding the plant Belo Monte was going to be called Kararaô a war cry in the Mẽbêngôkre language courage and strength are sacred attributes expressed in war cries Preventing the power plant from being named Kararaô was a way of demarcating the limits between white people’s power – that is electric energy – and the Mẽbêngôkre’s power while white people’s power was to destroy the Mẽbêngôkre’s power was to protect the forest in an interview in the city of Belém last year but decided to talk to the press about the Temporary Framework and her partner cacique Dudu (“cacique” is a political leader among Indigenous peoples in Brazil) translated it into Portuguese Despite not being able to understand her words without translation I could feel the strength that came from them the steadfastness of her eyes and the conviction in her voice steadfastness and conviction were there until the very end of her life Thirty years after the First Meeting of Xingu Indigenous Peoples in Altamira Tuíre went to a meeting in the Chamber of Deputies and confronted Federal Deputy and Bolsonaro supporter José Medeiros the politician criticized NGOs working with Indigenous peoples and defended mining of minerals on Indigenous lands In 2023, she faced her last battle: marco temporal. In her interview with me, published in Brasil de Fato insist on saying what is best for it: "Because senators live in the city They just want to do their programs and projects inside our lands We're the ones who are going to create a project who are going to do something in our forest." These words echo those she said to the president of Eletronorte and express her discontent with the white men’s politics: to decide the fate of Indigenous peoples without listening to them there have been many attempts by the Brazilian state to silence Indigenous peoples Saudade [a Brazilian word whose closest translation into English is “to miss something or someone”] is an always present feeling in the lives of the Mẽbêngôkre leaves their body and begins a journey towards the village of the dead the karon lives a life similar to that of the living: they marry the karon of the dead often goes to the village of the living The mẽbêngôkre rituals are both a celebration of life and a tribute to the dead The Kayapó refuse to forget their dead The Mẽbêngôkre are so united that not even death separates them it's day there – always the opposite I hope the village of the dead is an enormous Amazon in which trees keep standing and rivers keep flowing free All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced provided it is not altered and proper credit is given All original content produced and editorially authored by Brasil de Fato may be reproduced Metrics details Rising CO2 emissions have pushed scientists to develop new technologies for a more sustainable bio-based economy Microbial conversion of CO2 and CO2-derived carbon substrates into valuable compounds can contribute to carbon neutrality and sustainability we discuss the potential of C1 carbon sources as raw materials to produce energy and food and feed using microbial cell factories We provide an overview of potential microbes natural and synthetic C1 utilization pathways and compare their metabolic driving forces we sketch a future in which C1 substrates replace traditional feedstocks and we evaluate the costs associated with such an endeavor The way we currently produce and utilize materials severely affects our planet and leads to serious environmental issues our mission is clear: We need to achieve rapid decarbonization across all sectors and thrive for cleaner production cycles of fuels To be able to make an impact on the carbon balance and mitigate the atmospheric CO2 levels two important questions need to be addressed: (i) Which products can we produce from C1 substrates that significantly reduce the carbon footprint and (ii) which production cycles need to be implemented to realize a C1-based bioeconomy for the future we give an overview of C1-assimilation pathways that are exploited and compare their thermodynamic efficiencies as well as their energy demand in the form of ATP and NAD(P)H we provide an opinion on how C1 substrates can be implemented for energy Note that the serine cycle and rGlycine pathway are mixed pathways that incorporate CO2 in addition to methanol and formate synthetically engineered strains cannot yet compete with natural producer strains Their metabolite yields are still low and need further metabolic engineering to overcome hurdles in cell energy and carbon utilization efficiency progress in synthetic biology is rapid and might soon generate yeast strains that may serve as a foundation for a production system of chemicals and enzymes from CO2 thereby aiding in CO2 mitigation in the future Given the unsustainable nature of fossil fuel supplies it is both ecologically and economically inevitable to search for more sustainable alternatives A hypothetical case where all aviation fuels would be produced with biotechnology via C1 feedstocks would bear the potential to save 1 Gt CO2 emissions per year requiring however electricity in a range of 10,000 TWh which equals one-third of the current annual global electricity production This huge electricity demand renders C1 based fuel production unfeasible in a foreseeable future even more when we consider that all this electrical power would need to derive from CO2 neutral sources While progress in catalyst technology will soon allow commercialization of CO2-derived fuels they will not be able to overcome the physical limitations of combustion engines and as plastic production will continuously increase in the future also the carbon footprint will get bigger not even considering CO2 release by decomposition or incineration Conventional polymers like polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) have a carbon content of about 85% (mass carbon per total mass) and thus form a potential carbon sink 300 megatons of carbon can be potentially stored in the annually produced plastics provided the material is used over a longer time and properly recycled The biobased plastic polylactic acid (PLA) with a carbon content of 50% offers a theoretical carbon storage potential of up to 200 megatons per year Using CO2 and CO2-derived carbon sources would render the production of plastics CO2 negative constituting a potential CO2 sink of several 100 megatons per year This scenario illustrates that CO2-based biotech processes to produce materials are in 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It was another declaration of #blessed from Bieber whose efforts to appear relatable were compromised by panoramic lifestyle porn Perhaps in an attempt to recompense, Bieber’s next single, “Holy,” painted the singer in a drastically different light The video stars Bieber as an oil worker who lives in a humble motel with his wife the boss informs everyone that the plant has to be shuttered “due to the current and ongoing global situation.” In a matter of seconds Bieber and his wife are aggressively evicted from their room and forced to wander the streets before a world-weary soldier (a hopelessly miscast Wilmer Valderrama) pulls up and invites them to dinner with his family Bieber spends most of the video smeared with a comical amount of “oil,” to the point that I wondered if he accidentally showed the makeup artist images of a chimney sweep for reference The star’s portrayal of a laborer in “Holy” is joyless and empty; his role as a working-class hero isn’t just absurd Her character in the video is strong and willful By tethering lowbrow products to aspirations of luxury the pendant added a layer of opulence to tempt customers Since Post has been building his every-guy brand over the past few years none of the above seemed particularly conspicuous amid the pandemic—perhaps due to the fact that he doesn’t try to disguise his success as good-old-fashioned hard work Or maybe it’s because his brand of everyman pandering has become so commonplace A far cry from HIMYM‘s genial playboy Barney the new character afforded Harris the opportunity to don myriad disguises—the villain adopts many personas as he stalks the Baudelaire orphans—and practice his maniacal laugh TIME: You hadn’t read the books before Harris: I was looking forward to acting as a character again and not as myself I’d spent a large chunk of the year before on a variety show How is this version different from the film adaptation starring Jim Carrey Daniel Handler [who uses the pen name Lemony Snicket] and Barry [Sonnenfeld the director] were both involved with the movie that came out And they both left for creative reasons before it was completed I feel like this is a redemption tale for the two of them you’ve taken on some villainous roles: Gone Girl but he’s villainous in a family-friendly way You don’t have to spend a lot of time with motivation or backstory There’s an absurdist freedom to Olaf Any theories as to why kids love this kind of darkness I’m thinking back now to Grimm’s fairy tales so I think creatively it’s fun to indulge in the sinister and it’s striking that both The Muppets and A Series of Unfortunate Events are children’s tales that also wink at adults we were playing the “Who would you want to have a conversation with Something like Sesame Street or The Muppet Show was brilliant because it plays on two levels: it teaches you the alphabet and then makes a joke for the parents The kids know it’s there but don’t quite get it Write to Eliana Dockterman at eliana.dockterman@time.com Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb Lost your password? 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There’s a too-brief scene late in Hunter Biden’s new memoir where Dr Jill Biden tricks the crack-addled lawyer and consultant to come for dinner at the family home in Wilmington Hunter sees the family gathered — along with counselors from one of the countless rehab facilities that pop up throughout his new memoir Future President Joe Biden is described as terrified and pleading with his son One of Hunter’s daughters takes his car keys away from him He eventually agrees to his family’s plea to try another round of rehab after 15 years of rounds of rehab and relapse Frantic phone calls follow and appointments are made for that evening Hunter’s brother’s widow (and his ex-girlfriend) Hallie ferries him to the front gates smokes the crack he had hidden in his bag and flies to Los Angeles for yet another bender This probably isn’t the portrait of the Biden family that the President and his advisers would have painted son of the current President and a mainstay on the Washington scene until the death of his brother sent him in a dark spiral It is a tragic tale that finally rounds the bend when his current wife Melissa tells him flat-out that his days as a crack user are over The book is a deeply personal account of his relationship with his brother probably the state’s future Governor and possibly a President Beau Biden Hunter Biden is careful never to blame his own struggles with addiction on Beau but the timeline of his waggon tumbles and Beau’s death at age 46 line-up neatly The fact that Hunter Biden is even alive to write it is enough There’s the 14-day bender during which he flipped one rental car and left his brother’s AG badge and a bunch of drugs in another He learns to cook his own crack — and he does so — at Chateau Marmont one of the many LA hotels that lost patience with Hunt’s party-loving entourage and suddenly didn’t have availability He chases a probably hallucinated barn owl through the California desert Hunter Biden has escaped what he calls “the Four Housemen of the Crackocalypse,” and he is here to tell us about it the book is sometimes tone-deaf in its handling of privilege with casual mentions of hanging out in the Senate steam room as a young man with the likes of Ted Kennedy Historians would murder to eavesdrop on Dan Inouye telling Hunter Biden stories from World War II over BLTs while a distracted Joe Biden practiced politics in the Senate dining room It treats out-of-control drug use as a matter-of-fact part of Hunter Biden’s life at one point saying Jim Morrison had nothing on his own “shenanigans.” He brushes over his relationships with women as something he has no memories of; his child with an Arkansas woman merits little more than a line Yet in an era of indulgent political memoirs that seek to promote a candidate’s platform and cast the family as picture-perfect Beautiful Things stands out for its raw truths no political fixer had a hand near this manuscript This is not the Instagram version of Hunter Biden’s life This is the version where every frame has a squint a leech taking advantage of the tab left open with room service Throughout the memoir Hunter casts himself not as the family screw-up but its shrewd savior. Where he went around his father’s embryonic presidential campaign for a series of phone interviews — while smoking crack alone in LA — with a New Yorker writer He saw himself doing a favor for his dad and family “Nobody was going to vote or not vote for my dad because his son is a crack addict,” he notes And when it came out that he was dating his dead brother’s wife he enlisted his dad to dutifully release a statement normalizing a potential situation where Uncle Hunt became Step-Dad Hunt to Beau’s kids After Hunter surprised his family with the news he was both engaged to Melissa after only a few dates Hunter explicitly rejects comparisons to the likes of Billy Carter and Roger Clinton perceived grifters who traded on their family connection While acknowledging his last name helped him win access to jobs and meetings he also puts up his own resume as a reason for hefty consulting fees He writes that his response to those who claim nepotism as “been to work harder so that my accomplishments stand on their own.” Yet six pages later he treats his lucrative consulting gigs as a way to advance U.S “Having a Biden on Burisma’s board was a loud and unmistakable f— -you to Putin,” Hunter Biden writes in one of the few passages where he addresses his ties to Ukraine that have been weaponized by former President Donald Trump and other Republicans against the elder Biden it may be tempting for a reader to throw the book across the room in anger complaining about how Fox News is covering his personal life A member of a family where unconditional love is not an ideal but rather the real thing grousing about the Trump campaign selling “Where’s Hunter?” T-shirts An individual with the means to get help but seemingly unable to make the initial ask is the great equalizer and doesn’t care about pedigree Biden got into the habit of taking his laptop and two coats to the garage of his house to drink heavily and watch Battlestar Galactica thinking he was hiding his addiction from his then-wife Hunter moved into a building just around the corner from me in Washington he talks about not being able to make it home from the corner liquor store with a plastic jug of vodka without taking a swig of it all while cashing huge monthly retainers from clients Days of 16-hour booze fests were just the start His live-in dealer would say he “graduated into crackology’s PhD program.” But Hunter’s sense of non-belonging starts much earlier way back in elementary school and continuing into college He was unwelcome as a walk-on at Georgetown’s football program and didn’t last a season Joe Biden would from time to time break his routine and stay overnight in Washington so Hunter cound share a hotel with him and get away from the dorms While his then-wife Kathleen became close to Michelle Obama and would join her for cocktails at the White House Hunter writes he never felt welcome and suspected folks were uncomfortable with him there The whole campaign feeding frenzy on his business dealings only left him feeling a victim of Joe Biden’s career Hunter is the first of three main characters in this story. The second of course is Beau Biden. His death was the singular topic of Joe Biden’s post-White House memoir, a heart-breaking work that chronicled that pained period in the Biden clan That loss is a running theme through Hunter Biden’s book But where Joe Biden used an Irish poet’s deft touch and deep introspection Hunter Biden deploys a millennial’s lack of filter The near-constant hum of profanity suggests this is Hunter Biden dictating authentically onto the page While he continuously grieves Beau in every page there’s also a brotherly competition that is present Beau worked desk jobs through college and kept banker’s hours while Hunter worked 6 a.m Hunter says he paid off Beau’s student loans You can feel some resentments in the writing Hunter decides against pursuing an MFA to support his unplanned family He then casts himself as having few better options than working as a credit card company and later as a lobbyist to pay off his own massive student loans He complains that he never was paid for his work with the World Food Program and his compensation as Amtrak’s chairman covered just his expenses And he writes that he was both worried and aggrieved when then-VP Biden got an emergency briefing on Beau’s experimental medical treatment elsewhere in the hospital while Hunter was waiting for an update in his brother’s room for whom you get a picture of as patriarch of a deeply loved but highly erratic family leaving the Bidens — who had already buried a mother and sister — panicked Hunter Biden likens it to Tom Sawyer attending his own funeral when Hunter was struggling with addiction in Washington Joe Biden convinced the Secret Service to slim down his detail so he could slip to visit Hunter at his Logan Circle apartment and make this dire assessment: “I know you’re not fine Hunter Biden dives into politics when it comes to his father Joe Biden ended his 1988 run for the White House in a plagiarism scandal that Hunter calls a “political hit job” over “loosely appropriated parts of a speech.” In the one chapter entirely devoted to politics he comes across as defensive and outraged that his swampiness got called out He says joining the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma was not a lapse in judgement although he admits he wouldn’t do it again He ponders whether his father owes him the apology for it becoming an issue Bidenologists will find some nuggets buried in here the Biden family home in Delaware — once owned by a du Pont — was too expensive to heat in the winter so the Bidens would put up drywall to close off half of it to reduce the energy bills And Hunter writes what many have suspected for years: Joe Biden was never going to retire until he won the Oval Office And now Hunter Biden has published a book worthy of that MFA he skipped to pay the bills Maybe America has a first son’s story of addiction to help it finally confront this deep problem that has haunted so many families across the nation It’s not a glossy version of Biden family lore that the President’s advisers might have preferred But maybe it’s what the country needed to see Make sense of what matters in Washington. Sign up for the daily D.C. Brief newsletter. Write to Philip Elliott at philip.elliott@time.com by Alex Billington November 30, 2021Source: YouTube "You have no idea who she is!" Universal Pictures has debuted the second trailer for the film Redeeming Love, a passionate romance story from filmmaker D.J. Caruso and adapted from Francine Rivers' novel of the same name Redeeming Love is a powerful retelling of the biblical book of Hosea against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush of 1850 Abigail Cowen and Tom Lewis co-star as Angel and Michael the two young lovers are the center of this story of love against all odds "Redeeming Love shows there is no brokenness that love can't heal." The ensemble cast also includes Famke Janssen This looks like a passionate story of true love but the religious aspects seem overwhelming Enough to turn me away from wanting to watch this Here's the second official trailer for D.J. Caruso's Redeeming Love, direct from YouTube: You can rewatch the first trailer for D.J. Caruso's Redeeming Love here Find more posts in: To Watch, Trailer Looks better than all the movies talking about divorce and breakups and cheating If a bible is the thing that turns people off then that's on them This looks like a feel good movie about someone getting out of a bad life and headed toward a better one New comments are no longer allowed on this post Add our RSS to your Feedly +click here+ Latest posts now available on Bluesky: Get the latest posts sent on Telegram Want emails instead?Subscribe to our dailynewsletter updates: 22 de June de 2020 FFMANIA The event Redemption II - The Revolt started to be announced today on the Brazilian Free Fire server and Garena has already announced the first package with the free Pest skin The peak of the event will happen on the 4th of July but as of this Thursday (25) we will have events available on our server For the youngest, know that the Redemption event has been through Free Fire exactly 1 year ago in June 2019 and now the event returns with skins very similar to the old ones Misery and Death skins that arrived in 2019 and were called "The 4 Knights of the Apocalypse" Now in 2020 the skins with the same theme are back From 06/25 to 07/9 there will be a global web event where players from all over the world will choose their team Players who choose the winning team will win: Carnage Missions will be available from 06/25 to 07/12 Each mission will make available a certain amount of Carnage Token and Carnage Points They will be used to redeem the new pack with the Fogo Faminto skin for free the evolution of the old " Pest " skin there will be the headline The Final Revolt which will also come free as a reward for another challenge within the Redemption event We will also have the new Redemption II mode from July 4th we will give more details when we are close to the opening of the new mode Want more news? 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