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At a US Senate hearing on Paramount-WBD, Mark Ruffalo said the merger threatens the free press and democracy; Sen. Chuck Schumer called the merger a "nightmare" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/mar

Mark Ruffalo Blasts Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger at Senate Hearing: 'Don't Trust Empty Promises from Billionaires'
Mark Ruffalo warned of "devastating" effects film TV and media if Paramount Skydance completes its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Large eddy simulation of turbulent swirl-stabilized flames using the front propagation formulation: impact of the resolved flame thickness
Ruochen Guo, Yunde Su, Yuewen Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.21940 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.21940
arXiv:2602.21940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work extends the front propagation formulation (FPF) combustion model to large eddy simulation (LES) of swirl-stabilized turbulent premixed flames and investigates the effects of resolved flame thickness on the predicted flame dynamics. The FPF method is designed to mitigate the spurious propagation of under-resolved flames while preserving the reaction characteristics of filtered flame fronts. In this study, the model is extended to account for non-adiabatic effects and is coupled with an improved sub-filter flame speed estimation that resolves the inconsistency arising from heat-release effects on local sub-filter turbulence. The performance of the extended FPF method is validated by LES of the TECFLAM swirl-stabilized burner, where the results agree well with experimental measurements. The simulations reveal that the stretching of vortical structures in the outer shear layer leads to the formation of trapped flame pockets, which are identified as the physical mechanism responsible for the secondary temperature peaks observed in the experiment. The prediction of this phenomenon is shown to be strongly dependent on the resolved flame thickness, when the filter size is used for modeling sub-filter flame wrinklings. Without proper modeling of the chemical steepening effects, the thickness of the resolved flame brush is over-predicted, causing the flame consumption rate to be under-estimated. Consequently, the flame brush detaches from the outer shear layer, resulting in a failure to capture the flame pockets and the associated secondary temperature peaks.
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Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
CHESKU: You keep talking like that, you'll get us both killed. [Two troopers show up.] Yes? What do you men want?
SULA: I'm afraid they want your security pass and your clothes. The rabble aren't quite as crushed as your speech suggests. [She point a gun at him]
https://blake…

Rewatching the two Tolkien film trilogies in chronological order, starting with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I like The Rings of Power, but I agree the series is ruefully inferior, especially considering the money they forgot to spend on cloning Tolkien himself and commissioning him to come up with a decent story. I still think they should have gone full on visualising the mythological legendarium. Which The Hobbit kind of does with the battle of the Stone Giants, and it's awesome.…

Information regarding the health of the justices, is often difficult to obtain.
The Supreme Court’s public information office previously declined to reveal that
Chief Justice John Roberts had fallen at a country club near his suburban Maryland home in June 2020,
injured his head and taken by ambulance to a hospital until it was reported by the Washington Post.
If Alito were to decide to step down, the opening would offer President Donald Trump a fourth appointment to…

Exclusive: Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital last month in previously undisclosed incident
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was taken to a hospital after becoming ill last month at a Federalist Society dinner in Philadelphia, according to people with knowledge of the March 20 incident.

In court docs, celebs and public figures targeted by a web of reputation-smearing sites blame a publicist, a digital fixer, and a well-known Hollywood lawyer (Gary Baum/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Inside the Secret Smear Machine That’s Targeting Hollywood
A shadowy network of anonymous slander sites is attacking players in high-profile entertainment scandals — from Blake vs. Baldoni to a Rebel Wilson film fiasco to an ugly K-pop feud. Critics allege they’re all the handiwork of a small circle of operatives.

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🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ClassicalMixtape
- Expand your horizons with classical music
Half an hour of back to back classical music including works by Ravel, Purcell, Elena Kats-Chernin, and a film score from John Barry.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qhpg

I remember watching the 2022 documentary
"Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm"
(Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya
with awe and shame at how much I had not known.
The film looks at the difficult lives of Turkish workers in Germany through the music they produced.
One widely popular song, sung by Yüksel Özkasap, included the lines:
“Germany, everything about you is a lie. You have stolen my life and taken my love.”
The language textbook
"Türk…