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SOMI WINE CELLARS

Most wine collectors would love to have a dedicated cellar in their home. When that's not possible, Somi Wine Cellars are the next best thing. Made by hand in Portland, OR from regionally-sourced wood, they're designed by engineers, resulting in a robust, arch-topped structure that's kept at an optimal temperature by a top of the line cooling system. They're lined with high-performance insulation and filled with a two bottle-deep universal rack system, then covered with salvaged barn wood, outfitted with handcrafted hardware, and finished to match your decor. Available in capacities ranging from 120 to nearly 450 bottles.

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Pepsi

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Mountain Dew

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More Super bowl Commercials Part 3:

Amazon Echo

Axe (Lynx)

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More Super bowl Commercials Part 4:

Snickers

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More Super bowl Commercials Part 5:

Butterfinger

Wix.com

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More Super bowl Commercials Part 6:

Super Bowl Babies

Death Wish Coffee

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More Super bowl Commercials Part 7:

Skittles

Bud Light

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Jason Bourne Is Back, And He's Angry

There’s a new Jason Bourne film coming out on July 29, and it’s called Jason Bourne. Here’s the trailer for the fifth film in the Bourne series, and brings back Matt Damon as the titular badass.

Today is the first day we’ve actually known the title of Paul Greengrass’ new Bourne film. Jeremy Renner as Alex Cross will be back, but not in this particular flick. Jason Bourne will be released in the US on July 29 — and likely Australia soon after.

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Captain America: Civil War Trailer

The new spot for Captain America: Civil War aired just before the big game, and we’re fully expecting a longer trailer somewhere in the middle. If one does appear, we’ll let you know all about it ASAP.

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Van Buren Sunglasses

Garrett Leight and Black Optical have joined forces for this special collaboration, these sleek foldable shades. The Van Buren Sunglasses are classic, minimal, lightweight, progressive, completely original, and fold in half for ultimate functionality. Available in four styles, and comes with a compact round leather case.

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Exolens

Exolens is a new offer on the market for all iPhone 6 photo buffs that just need more to fully explore their Apple device´s potential. Featuring professional grade lenses that include a 165 wide-angular and a 3x telephoto for more dynamic shots, Exolens comes with an aluminum machined bracket that has a soft lining to fit perfectly on the iPhone and make sure it won´t scratch its surface. The integrated mount enables you attach a tripod or other handling accessories that will take your iPhone on to a whole nother level of image production. Nowadays, smartphone picture taking is at a very high level of quality, Exolens just brings on some extra features to the table.

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THE YAMAZAKI SHERRY CASK WHISKEY - 2016 Edition

Even though it's been a staple of the Suntory Whiskey portfolio for nearly a century, sherry and Spanish Oak flavors can easily overpower a whiskey. The Yamazaki Sherry Cask Whiskey has always managed a delicate balance, in large part due to the expert guidance of Chief Blender Shinji Fukuyo. For the 2016 vintage, Fukuyo has once again selected casks that bring out the complex flavors that helped the 2013 vintage be named World Whiskey of the Year. And this year's 5,000 bottles use the same lot of whiskies that the 2013 vintage used for its base, suggesting another batch of awards may be in its future.

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A Suspected Meteorite Has Killed A Man In India

An 11 gram object, believed to be a meteorite, has killed a 40 year old bus driver in Tamil Nadu, India.

Two gardeners and a student were also injured by the impact, which created a 1.5 metre crater and shattered nearby windows at the Bharathidasan Engineering College.

Local authorities have concluded a meteorite is to blame, after the discovery of a “blue stone the shape of a diamond” alongside a lack of evidence of explosives. Further investigation is under way, as it could be debris from a rocket or space shuttle — among other objects. A team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics is expected to visit and study the site in the next day.

“A meteorite fell at a private engineering college… and claimed the life of a college bus driver,” Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister Ms Jayalalitha said in a statement of the death of the victim, Kamaraj.

Sujan Sengupta, an associate professor at the institute, told the Wall Street Journal that there was “extremely little possibility of a small meteorite falling to the ground” and harming anyone.

“If a bigger asteroid enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it will disintegrate and travel in different directions, and because most of the Earth’s surface is covered in water, it is most likely to fall into the ocean,” he added.

International Comet Quarterly reports that the last recorded human fatality caused by a meteorite was also in India, in 1825.

In 2013 a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk in Russia, resulting in over 1,000 injuries but no deaths.

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The Impacts Of Climate Change Will Be Felt For 10,000 Years, Chilling Study Finds

If humans don’t stop burning fossil fuels soon, we’ll be paying for it for the next 10,000 years. That’s the conclusion of a perspective paper penned by nearly two dozen leading Earth scientists, which was published today in Nature Climate Change.

“The long-term view sends the chilling message [about] what the real risks and consequences are of the fossil fuel era,” Thomas Stocker, a climate scientist at the University of Bern and a co-author on the new report, said in a statement. “It will commit us to massive adaptation efforts so that for many, dislocation and migration becomes the only option.”

Earth scientists typically focus on 21st century climate change impacts when running models and communicating with policymakers. But according to the new report, focusing on such a narrow slice of geologic time has created a false public perception, “the impression that human-caused climate change is a twenty-first-century problem, and that post-2100 changes are of secondary importance, or may be reversed with emissions reductions at that time”.

To put our predicament in a broader context, the authors looked at the impact of four possible levels of carbon pollution — 1280 to 5120 billion tonnes — emitted between the year 2000 to 2300. (We’ve already put 580 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, at a current rate of 10 billion tonnes per year.) Drawing on paleoclimate datasets that describe the relationship between carbon dioxide, temperature and sea level over the last 20,000 years, the researchers projected what will happen to global temperatures, sea level and ice cover over the next 10,000 years.

While each scenario has carbon emissions falling to zero by 2300, in all cases the impacts of industrial society last for up to 10,000 years. For instance, in the high-emissions scenario, global temperatures rise 7C by 2300 AD. By 12,300 AD, the planet has only cooled off a single degree.

One of the most disturbing aspects of the new report is the long-term march of sea level rise, which is likely to continue unchecked for thousands of years after carbon emissions fall to zero. “The amount of sea level rise was startling and chilling,” study co-author Peter Clarke of Oregon State University told Gizmodo in an email.

Last winter, NASA announced that Earth is probably locked into at least 90cm of sea level rise over the coming generations. But according to the new report, even an optimistic emissions scenario that limits global warming to 2C could ultimately cause global sea levels to rise by 25m. That’s a mind boggling amount of sea level rise — enough to drown Florida and most of the Eastern seaboard.

On the other end, under a high-emissions scenario, we melt Antarctica and sea levels rise over 61m over the long-term.

These figures, the authors note, exceed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sea level predictions by two to three orders of magnitude, “reflecting the inappropriateness of that timescale for addressing long-term responses”.

It might seem foolish to worry about the distant future when so many problems — war, poverty, disease, famine — demand our attention now. But over the long-run, climate change may be the single greatest threat to our survival, not least because it compounds most of the other threats we face. Unless we want to condemn many future generations to living in a harsher world, the authors say we need to end our dependence on fossil fuels immediately.

“To avoid the worst impacts [of climate change], we need to start decarbonizing now and get to zero or negative emissions as soon as possible,” Clarke said. “Reducing emissions alone is not enough.”

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Makers Of Marlboro Laying Off Workers To Invest In More Vaping

Altria Group, America’s biggest tobacco company and makers of the iconic Marlboro brand, is laying off workers to save $US300 ($425) million per year. Where are they going to put all that money? Into a true growth market: electronic cigarettes.

Today Altria, formerly known as Philip Morris, controls just over half of the traditional cigarette market in the US. But its sales volumes are down 2.6 per cent since last quarter. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company wouldn’t go into specifics about the layoffs, but said that it would definitely be putting more money into e-cigarettes:

When asked during the call what the company planned to do with the $US300 ($425) million in savings, [Chief Executive Marty] Barrington declined to offer specifics but did say the company continues to invest in “reduced harm products” such as electronic cigarettes and in its brands.

With American smoking rates plummeting over the last half-century, tobacco companies have scrambled to find ways to increase profits. The most popular strategy as of a decade ago was to expand in developing countries (especially in Asia) with less stringent laws about workplace smoking and cigarette advertising. More recently, the largest tobacco firms have been both buying up and starting their own e-cigarette brands.

Altria, has been behind the curve when it comes to the vaping market. The company is currently developing its iQOS e-cigarette, but competing tobacco companies have snapped up firms with some of the best brand recognition. For example, Reynolds, the second largest which recently acquired Lorillard, has the VUSE brand of e-cig. Before Lorillard was acquired they had purchased and then spun off one of the most popular e-cigarette brands, Blu.

The electronic cigarette market is still the Wild West in a lot of ways, with regulators debating over how to control the relatively new technology and public health advocates unsure about whether to promote them as harm reduction products or condemn them as just another harmful nicotine-delivery device.

Private businesses and local municipalities have come down hard on vaping in public over the past few years, and if history is any guide, we’ll see more government regulation coming soon. But for now, businesses like Altria certainly see electronic cigarettes as a more palatable product than their old-fashioned cigarettes.

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New York's Nuclear Power Plant Is Leaking, But (Apparently) You Shouldn't Freak Out

Buchanan New York’s Indian Point Energy Center, a three-unit reactor power plant, reported yesterday afternoon that radioactive tritium has been detected in groundwater testing wells near the facility.

Three groundwater monitoring wells surrounding the plant have reported radioactive samples. Despite the discovery at the site, the risk to the public in this instance is low: the discovery is far removed from drinking water systems. That said, tritiated water is often diluted and routinely released from nuclear power plants.

According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, “tritium emits a weak form of radiation, a low-energy beta particle similar to an electron. The tritium radiation does not travel very far in air and cannot penetrate the skin.”

Instead of a single proton and neutron, Tritium has a proton and two neutrons. As it decays, beta particles travel only about 6 millimetres, and can’t penetrate human skin. However, if it is inhaled or more often, ingested, it can present a radiation hazard. This can be worrisome, because tritium can bond with oxygen to form water molecules: because of its chemical structure, it can’t be filtered out, hence the dilution.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office released a statement that emphasised that the leak didn’t post a threat to the public:

Our first concern is for the health and safety of the residents close to the facility and ensuring the groundwater leak ‎does not pose a threat.

This latest failure at Indian Point is unacceptable and I have directed Department of Environmental Conservation Acting Commissioner Basil Seggos and Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker to fully investigate this incident and employ all available measures, including working with Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to determine the extent of the release, its likely duration, cause and potential impacts to the environment and public health.

After the revelations that the water systems of Flint, Michigan and other major cities across the United States have serious issues with lead and other heavy metals, there’s a real concern when it comes to public infrastructure.

Several of Entergy’s nuclear plants have experienced similar leaks of radioactive tritium: The Vermont Department of Health has noted ongoing investigations into leaks at Vermont Yankee since 2010, while New York’s FitzPatrick Plant has been “plagued by water leaks” in 2014.

The Indian Point facility is owned by the Entergy Corporation, which operates ten nuclear power plants across the United States. Several of its plants in the Northeast, including Vermont’s Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Massachusetts’ Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station and New York’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant have closed or are slated for closure, due in part to increased competition with cheaper oil and natural gas energy supplies.

As nuclear power has become less competitive with other energy sources, they are becoming less profitable as they become more expensive to maintain.

While Entergy has been motivated to close down its power plants due to increased competition from other energy sources, many of the plants under its control are have reached the ends of their forty-year licenses: Indian Point’s Units 1, 2 and 3 were activated in 1962, 1974 and 1976, respectively, while the Fitzpatrick plant was brought online in 1975. Pilgram and Vermont Yankee were brought online in 1972.

These plants are facing more expensive upkeep in the years ahead, and that pressure has pushed the company to begin shutting down their nuclear plants. While Indian Point has had a decent service record over its, Governor Cuomo has called for the plant to close as of late last year.

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THESE GLOWING WHALES HOLD THE WHOLE WORLD INSIDE

These glowing, translucent whale sculptures by Isana Yamada are placed in a perfect circle to tell a fascinating story about the cycles of life.

Each whale is held aloft by a thin rod and represents a different stage in the the circle of existence found in Buddhist traditions. For example, the whale which features a shipwreck is meant to represent the human dimension. The image of a sunken boat refers to a difficult voyage.

Other glowing whales features graceful clouds, underwater volcanoes, and even polar bear skeletons. Each scene leads to the next as the cycle of life, death, and rebirth continue until enlightenment is achieved.

Yamada 's project is on display at the Artcomplex Center of Tokyo from March 1st through 6th.

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A PRICELESS, 150-YEAR-OLD ANTIQUE GUITAR WAS DESTROYED DURING FILMING OF THE HATEFUL EIGHT

What is the furthest length you’ve gone to in pursuit of artistic authenticity? Nicking your dad’s black cashmere scarf for that 2K6 Windows movie-maker hood video was pretty mental, true. Raiding SportsDirect for ankle-socks, batty riding velvet shorts and a whistle for your ‘supply P.E teacher’ Halloween costume showed clarity of vision, no doubt. Congratulations, you are an artist. But whilst you may be an artist, Quentin Tarantino is an auteur. Quentin Tarantino is an auteur because he loans priceless musical artefacts in the pursuit of authenticity, only for them to be destroyed on set.

The bald facts are that during filming of The Hateful Eight, Tarantino loaned a 150-year-old Martin guitar for filming and it was smashed into splintered fragments by a frothing, very much up for it, Kurt Russell. The offending scene is the one when character Daisy Domergue (played by Jennifer Jason Leigh) starts warbling over the still intact instrument and John Ruth (Russell’s character) decides he’s heard enough of her noise. In a slice of bitter, and soon-to-be infinitely memed, irony, he actually says, “Music time’s over,” before belting the guitar into pieces against a solid oak support. "We were informed that it was an accident on set," said **** Boak, director of the Martin Guitar Museum. "We assumed that a scaffolding or something fell on it.

According to the film's sound mixer, Mark Ulano, the guitar was supposed to be swapped out for a dummy before it was savagely murdered, but it seems Kurt Russell is so method he just couldn't stop. This is obviously incredibly **** news for Martin, who lent the seemingly priceless guitar for filming with the reasonable expectation that it wouldn’t be returned as a mess of masking-taped up splinters and a "Whoops, sorry lads" note. Reports suggest that they took it fairly well though, remarking: "As a result of the incident, the company will no longer loan guitars to movies under any circumstances.” I think it's gonna blow over guys.

So it transpires that Jennifer Leigh’s reaction of horror isn’t genius acting, but the genuine grimace of a person who has seen a slice of musical history senselessly destroyed before their eyes in the name of Kurt Russell’s improbable late career renaissance. I guess that's the sort of authenticity Tarantino was going for.

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The Coen Brothers' 'Hail, Caesar!' Is a Hilarious and Surprisingly Dark Take on Old Hollywood

Most long-running television shows, at some point, will fall back on that trusty trope known as the "clip show"—an episode that consists primarily of excerpts from previous episodes (Friends, for example, had six spread over its ten seasons). Joel and Ethan Coen have been making feature films about America and its oddball inhabitants for 32 years now, and their latest offering, Hail, Caesar!, feels like their own idiosyncratic riff on that format. It's an enjoyably meandering compendium of tics, references, and themes (particularly religion, fate, and the movies) culled from their impressive canon and marshaled into a surprisingly coherent, curiously haunting whole.

Hail, Caesar!'s setting is Hollywood circa 1951, and our main man is Eddie Mannix (a gruffly likable Josh Brolin), head of physical production at Capitol Pictures. He's also a "fixer," tasked with making problems disappear. Coen aficionados will recognize (the fictional) Capitol as the same studio that employed Barton Fink (John Turturro) as a screenwriter in the 1991 film of the same name, set roughly a decade earlier. The tortured Fink was the consummate outsider: a lefty, intellectual, East Coast playwright whose mind disintegrated under pressure from the demands of the mainstream machine. Mannix, unlike Fink, is an inside man, and (no need to ask) a smooth operator—having him as our central character makes for a more comfortable viewing experience than Barton Fink.

However, Mannix also carries a weight on his shoulders: We first meet him in a confessional booth, where he bends the ear of his long-suffering Catholic priest about his failure to give up smoking, and his guilt at keeping the fact from his wife. In another amusing early scene, we see him focus-grouping with bickering religious leaders of different faiths about the best way to represent God onscreen—Mannix is, you see, supervising production on Hail, Caesar!, which is also the name of the main film-within-the-film, a big-budget yet chintzy-looking Biblical epic starring starring nice-but-dim matinee idol Baird Whitlock (George Clooney, in pleasingly self-effacing mode).

The plot, such as it is, kicks into gear when Whitlock is poisoned on set by an extra (a marvelously furtive cameo from Seinfeld alum Wayne Knight), then spirited away to a coastal hideout. Any fears we might have for Whitlock's safety are dispelled when we discover the identity of his captors: "The Future," a garrulous, genteel, kinda funny-lookin' group of Communist screenwriters clad in 50 shades of beige. As new film Trumbo highlights, the Hollywood anti-Communist blacklist, first established in 1947, was a very serious deal indeed, so the Coens' imagining of these earnest, banished men collecting by the sea is both surreal and oddly touching. Their ramshackle kidnap plan, meanwhile, is every bit as whimsical as the one woven through The Big Lebowski.

The rest of the movie consists of a loosely interlocked series of vignettes peppered with eccentric characters. The constant is Mannix, whose predicament—that of a decent guy struggling to keep numerous plates spinning in the face of larger, unpredictable forces—recalls that which troubled Larry Gopnik, the protagonist of A Serious Man, a bleak comedy that transposed the Old Testament narrative of Job to the Minnesota suburbs of the 1960s.

Instead of Larry's apocalyptic bad luck, however, Mannix must contend with some very human problems. He's under pressure to accept a job that would make his life easier but rob him of the challenges on which he thrives. He must deal with posh British director Laurence Laurentz (a hilariously flighty Ralph Fiennes), who is desperately unhappy with the casting of the new romantic lead in his film, pretty boy Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich), a stuntman palpably uncomfortable with speaking roles. There's DeeAnna Moran (Scarlett Johansson), an ingenue who sparkles in front of the cameras as a synchronized-swimming mermaid (wearing a "fish ass," as she bluntly puts it), but has a bewilderingly complicated personal life. And Mannix is also pestered by twin-sister journalists (Tilda Swinton, times two: haughty and haughtier) who threaten to undermine him in their own devious ways. Equally notable, by the way, is Michael Gambon as the embodiment of another classic Coen device: the unseen, omniscient (one might say godly) narrator. The Irish actor's stentorian purr is simultaneously authoritative, amused, and vaguely lascivious: a fitting tone-setter.

Smartly edited by "Roderick Jaynes" (who doesn't exist: It's the Coens!), Hail, Caesar! moves at an easy but never draggy pace, and soars in sequences that invite viewers to lose themselves in the magic of the movies, only for the curtain to be pulled back, revealing the artifice. This trick is best exemplified in a wonderful soundstage sequence depicting the filming of a scene from fictional musical Swingin' Dinghy, starring hunky Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) as a tap-dancing sailor. While Gurney hoofs and hollers (rather tunefully) through a happily homoerotic seafaring shindig entitled "No Dames!", the Coens chop up the scene, cutting between how it would be viewed by a paying audience (i.e., as envisioned by its director, swaggeringly played by Christopher Lambert), and how they themselves see it: a mess of complicated set-ups by the camera crew. While doing so, the Coens also cleverly point us toward some sinister, plot-sensitive background details. In moments like these, the Coens' directorial prowess is dizzying, at once cerebral, emotional, and narratively propulsive.

Hail, Caesar!'s tone is generally light, but, as in so much of the Coens' work, darkness loiters at the fringes. It uses the patina of flagrant, joyous artifice—and a cavalcade of well-judged star cameos—to mask a critique of shady dealing in the film industry, and cinema's enormous potential to operate simultaneously as an ideological weapon and a tool of suppression. On the shortcomings of the Hollywood "Dream Factory," it's not as vicious as, say, Robert Altman's The Player, or as luridly sour as David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. It is, however, a brilliant companion piece to Barton Fink, leaving the viewer with plenty to ponder once the laughs have subsided.

MIKA: Looks and sounds good to me

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2017 FERRARI GTC4 LUSSO

Want to take the kids to school in style? How about Ferrari’s new 4 seater, the GTC4 Lusso. The legendary Italian auto-maker will be showing its follow-up to the Ferrari FF this March at the Geneva Auto Show, but has released some specs about the new car ahead of its debut.

This sleek beast comes with a 680 horsepower, 6.3 liter V12 engine that can rocket you from complete standstill to 62 miles per hour in 3.1 seconds. While the GTC4 Lusso has the guts of a track car, it has all the control you need for it to safely handle on the road. Ferrari’s new model comes with all rear wheel steering for handling the car’s huge amount of torque on wet and snowy roads. As if that wasn’t enough, the car’s design exhibits the attention to detail that Ferrari is known for. Tell the kids no food.

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And whilst on the topic of Ferrari: 1957 Ferrari 335S Sells for Almost $35 Million

Vintage car auctions tend to draw buyers who are willing to pay in the hundreds of thousands, millions or tens of millions for storied pieces of automotive history. We might not be able to bid on any of them, but that won’t stop us from ogling everything that comes across the block—especially when it’s something as storied as this vintage 1957 Ferrari 335S that sold for around $35 Million US at auction recently. The beaut you’re currently making love to, chassis 0674, won the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix, was raced by Mike Hawthorne and Sir Stirling Moss, placed second at the Mille Miglia, sixth at the 12 Hours of Sebring and recorded the fasted lap at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This glorious piece of machinery might not hold the absolute highest record for cars that have crossed the block, but it’s pretty close and extremely unattainable for most of us. It sure is pretty, though.

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Arctica: The Vanishing North

Arctica: The Vanishing North, is a new book that pays tribute to one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and surely, the last true wilderness - the North Pole. The beautifully illustrated book is by internationally renowned photographer, author and activist Sebastian Copeland, whom is working to try and save this splendor before it vanishes for good. The comprehensive visual record is filled with over 200 rich photographs taken as he explored North Pole´s unforgiving terrain, and the end result is spectacular. A must have for anyone that is fascinated with nature photography.

MIKA: Gotta feel for the Polar Bear who IMO are a shadow of their former selves. These days no matter where I see them, various documentaries, picture stills etc, they are so much more slender comparative to documentaries I watched as a child and young adult. A real shame on so many levels.

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Bus Explosion Scares Londoners Who Don't Know It's A Movie Stunt

Yesterday Londoners got a fright when they saw a double-decker bus explode on a bridge over the Thames River. Some people immediately thought it was a terrorist attack. Thankfully it was just a scene for a new movie starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan.

Production crews attempted to give some residents in the area warning that they were filming a movie, titled The Foreigner. But some people took to social media to complain that there weren’t adequate procedures in place to let everyone know that this was all a movie stunt.

Hey film types next time you blow up a bus on Lambeth Bridge maybe tell us first so children in park aren't freaked?

The visibility of this bridge to so many people in London can make giving proper notification difficult. That being said, simply saying that a bridge will be closed arguably isn’t enough warning:

Lambeth Bridge shut for filming tomorrow morning. Beware of controlled explosions!

When you live in a place like Los Angeles you more or less get used to streets and buildings being blocked off from the public for movie stunts. And residents are often given warning about the specific nature of the filming so that people aren’t alarmed when they hear gunshots or explosions:

Some gangster movie starring George Clooney. #PasadenaLife

According to IMBD, the tagline for the film is, “The IRA took his family. The police looked the other way. Now he must get revenge.” Perhaps next time the producers will think about shooting the bus scene on a studio in front of a green screen.

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I remember when I was living in London in '96 there was a very similar IRA bus bomb that went of on a bus on the Aldwych. I could definitely see how this could disturb some people. And thinking about it, this is just days short of the 20 year anniversary of that event.

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