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Nick movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Time: 10 December 2001 Netflix / Amazon / HBO: N/A Duration of the movie: 178 M Trailer:

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Unlike their spiky cousins, these tiny hedgehogs have soft fur and are shaped like teardrops. A Hylomys dorsalis soft-furred hedgehog in Gunung Murud, Borneo. Scientists identified five new species of soft-furred hedgehogs in Southeast Asia. Two of the species are entirely new to science, while the other three have been upgraded from the subspecies level after DNA analysis and physical characteristics helped researchers from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History describe and categorize the animals. The study, published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, analyzed physical specimens and genetic samples obtained from museum loans as well as specimens collected during field expeditions to Borneo, an island in Malaysia. These newly described mammals are furry, distinguishing them from the more familiar spiny hedgehogs found in Europe. Furry hedgehogs are teardrop-shaped, with faces ending in a long, narrow snout, not unlike a mini armadillo without a shell, or something halfway between a mouse and a shrew. Previously, there were two known species of furry hedgehogs, but the study increases the total to seven. It can be hard to tell small mammals apart, and detailed studies, like the one conducted by the Smithsonian researchers, can lead to discoveries that previously known specimens are indeed different species, as with these furry hedgehogs. Two Hylomys dorsalis soft-furred hedgehogs in Gunung Murud, Borneo. Three of the new hedgehog species were upgraded from subspecies of Hylomys suillus and are now named H. dorsalis, H. maxi and H. peguensis. The other two are new, Hylomys vorax and Hylomys macarong, and specimens of both had been in the museum collections for decades before they were identified. H. macarong are endemic to South Vietnam, are dark brown and about 5.5 inches long. The males have fang-like incisors, and the scientific name is derived from the Vietnamese word for vampire, ma cà rồng. H. vorax are found only on the slopes of Mount Leuser in North Sumatra, Indonesia. They are also dark brown and slightly smaller, at about 4.7 inches long. The name is derived from a description of the hedgehogs as “voracious,” written by a mammalogist named Frederick Ulmer, who collected the specimens that led to the description in 1939. “They were voracious beasts often devouring the whole bait before springing the trap. Ham rind, coconut, meat, and walnuts were eaten,” Ulmer wrote. One “partially devoured the chicken head bait of a steel trap before getting caught in a nearby Schuyler trap baited with ham rind.” The Smithsonian said on X that the study indicates that “even in well-studied animal groups like mammals, there are still discoveries waiting to be made, showing what is possible when modern techniques such as DNA analysis are applied to museum collections.” During the research, scientists collected over 300 physical specimens and tissue samples. Tissue samples for genetic analysis were obtained from historical or modern specimens in 14 museums across Asia, Europe and the U.S., as well as from specimens collected during three field trips to Borneo. Link

Think Bugatti, and you can think of only one car: this Noughties speed freak People must’ve been confused in 1998 when Volkswagen snapped up the high-performance European trio of Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti like it was playing a round of Monopoly, but there wasn’t too long to wait. The Veyron was previewed by the third of three concepts trailed by VW during 1999, the 18/3 Chiron appearing at that year’s Frankfurt motor show. A sports car, rather than a saloon like the others, it was immediately the more enticing option. The 18/3 (18 litres, three turbos) Chiron would become the 16/4 Veyron by the Tokyo show, a format that would stick. VW supremo Ferdinand Piëch wanted the first car with over 1,000 metric horsepower (the production car in 2005 managing 1,001PS [986bhp]), and his engineers in essence fused two V8s to create the W16 format engine with its 8.0-litre capacity. The seven-speed twin-clutch auto sounds quaint by today’s standards, but Piëch ensured the prototypes were punishingly tested to ensure the car was tough enough to meet its full potential. Like the brakes – the Veyron didn’t just rely on discs. Slam on the anchors at high speed and the air brake would deploy, contributing a third of the stopping power by rotating the rear wing to create massive drag. The car needed the extra help – official top speed was 213mph, but a special ‘speed key’ would unlock a further 40mph if you were good. The Veyron kicked off a speed race that’s only got more intense with the advent of overblown electric hypercars that seemingly anyone can knock together, but the Veyron showed finesse in its crass display of excess, a commitment to the fine art of engineering. Almost everything about it is pub quiz material – for instance, it was named after a real racing driver, Pierre Veyron, who raced for Bugatti in the Thirties and won Le Mans in 1939 then joined the French resistance. Or the fact Bugatti reportedly lost just over £3m on every Veyron sold, having spent over £1bn on developing the car and selling 450 of them. Or maybe that the Veyron needed 10 radiators to keep the 8.0-litre W16 quad-turbo engine from blowing up. Link

In its first major decision, the court's new liberal majority ordered lawmakers to draw new maps ahead of the 2024 elections in the battleground state. Justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court listen during a redistricting hearing at the state Capitol, in Madison, Wis. on Nov. 21. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state’s heavily gerrymandered state legislative maps are unconstitutional and ordered lawmakers to draw new maps ahead of the 2024 elections. The case over the Republican-drawn lines, which emerged as a political flashpoint in the closely watched swing state, was the first major one to be heard and decided on by the court’s new liberal majority. In a 4-3 ruling along ideological lines, justices tasked lawmakers with drawing new maps, but wrote that, if they fail to do so, the court could move forward with a preliminary “remedial” map-drawing process itself. The ideological balance of Wisconsin's high court swung to liberals for the first time in 15 years in April after Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the court being vacated by a retiring conservative justice. During the race, Protasiewicz criticized the state’s maps as being “unfair” and “rigged” — comments that conservatives said proved that she'd forecast how she would rule on the issue. Following her victory, Republicans in the state subsequently demanded that she recuse herself from the case, with some threatening to impeach her for refusing to do so. The state’s current legislative map — which experts have said is one of the most gerrymandered in the U.S. — was approved last year by the state Supreme Court’s previous conservative majority after Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, and the GOP-controlled Legislature couldn’t agree on boundaries. The freshly tossed legislative maps had heavily favored Republicans: They control 64 of the 99 seats in the state Assembly and 22 of the 33 in the state Senate, despite the fact that the last two presidential elections have both been decided by less than 1 percentage point in the state and the last two gubernatorial races have both been decided by less than 4 points. In their challenge of the map, Democratic attorneys contended it was unconstitutional because it violates the state constitution’s requirement that districts be contiguous — a complicated and poorly defined rule mandating that legislative districts be physically adjacent to one another. Critics of the current maps have noted that some Wisconsin districts include “islands” (or detached areas) within other districts, with some comparing them to Swiss cheese. In their decision Friday, the court’s liberal justices agreed, writing that the Wisconsin Constitution holds that “state legislative districts must be composed of ‘contiguous territory.’” “At least 50 of 99 assembly districts and at least 20 of 33 senate districts violate this mandate, rendering them unconstitutional,” they wrote. “Remedial maps must be adopted prior to the 2024 elections. We are hopeful that the legislative process will produce new legislative district maps. However, should that fail to happen, this court is prepared to adopt remedial maps based on the criteria, process, and dates set forth in this opinion and the concurrent order,” the justices continued. The liberal majority ordered state lawmakers to have the new maps in place before the Aug. 13 legislative primary elections. The ruling will require every member of the state Assembly, and half of the members of the state Senate, to run in a redrawn district. In a blistering dissent, conservative justice Annette Ziegler reiterated criticisms thrown at the court's liberal majority by Republicans in the state, writing that "this deal was sealed on election night" — an apparent reference to Protasiewicz having won in April after campaigning in part on criticism of the maps. "No longer is the judicial branch the least dangerous in Wisconsin," Ziegler wrote. State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican who's been among Protasiewicz's most vocal critics, suggested on X that Republicans could appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. "The case was pre-decided before it was even brought," Vos wrote. "Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court will have the last word." Progressive groups lauded the ruling. “Wisconsin is one of the worst gerrymandered states in the country, and Republicans have robbed voters of true representation for far too long,” said Heather Williams, the president of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee. “We applaud the Wisconsin Supreme Court for finding these maps unconstitutional and urge that the next set of maps fairly reflect communities across the state. Make no mistake: this decision is a game-changer.” Further underscoring the significance of the decision is the fact that it wasn't just the maps that were at stake: Potentially, the fate of decades of conservative laws in the perennial battleground state are as well. While the ruling almost certainly won’t swing Republican control of either legislative chamber to Democrats, it is likely to weaken the GOP’s 12-year hold in both, according to recent analyses of the maps by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Associated Press. That, in turn, could help boost future efforts to reverse years of conservative policies in the state on issues related to election administration, unions and abortion. New maps could also shift Republicans further away from a supermajority (the party currently has one in the state Senate and is only two seats short of having one in the state Assembly), and with it, the ability to overturn Evers’ vetoes. Meanwhile, the ruling could prompt a resumption in calls among Republicans to impeach Protasiewicz. Wisconsin Republican lawmakers began openly talking about the possibility of impeaching her just days after her April victory. Vos directed a panel of former members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court to provide him with an analysis regarding whether impeachment of Protasiewicz was possible. Members of the secretive group assembled by Vos, however, eventually advised him to not move forward with impeachment. And while Vos, in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week, appeared to back down somewhat, he also said that impeachment was “not off the table.” Link

More than 700 Airbus Atlantic staff are believed to have fallen ill following the company's Christmas dinner, health authorities in France have said. Workers from the aerospace group's site in western France were left suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, according to the ARS health agency. It is unclear what was on the menu at the festive feast turned nightmare before Christmas. Airbus did not immediately respond to the BBC's request for comment. Airbus Atlantic is a subsidiary of the world's largest aircraft maker, Airbus, and employs 15,000 people in five countries. ARS did not provide details about exactly what food might have made people ill at the dinner, which took place last week, but it did say earlier on Friday that diners showed "clinical signs of vomiting or diarrhoea". An investigation was being launched to find the source of the mass food poisoning, the organisation told the AFP news agency. The wider Airbus group employs 134,000 people and provides products and services in the aircraft, helicopter, defence, space and security industries. In a separate incident in France earlier this year, a number of people fell ill and a Greek national died, after contracting the rare food-borne illness botulism at a restaurant in Bordeaux. Link

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Nick movie: A Christmas Carol Time: November 3, 2009 Netflix / Amazon / HBO: N/A Duration of the movie: 96 M Trailer:

The carnivores’ planned release in Colorado, voted for in a 2020 ballot measure, has sharpened divides between rural and urban residents. GRAND COUNTY, Colorado — Somewhere on a remote mountainside in Colorado’s Rockies, a latch flipped on a crate and a wolf bounded out, heading toward the tree line. Then it stopped short. For a moment, the young female looked back at its audience of roughly 45 people who stared on in reverential silence. Then she disappeared into the forest. She was one of five gray wolves wildlife officials released in a remote part of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains on Monday to kick off a voter-approved reintroduction program that was embraced in the state’s mostly Democratic urban corridor but staunchly opposed in conservative rural areas where ranchers worry about attacks on livestock. The wolves were set free from crates in a Grand County location that state officials kept undisclosed to protect the predators. It marked the start of the most ambitious wolf reintroduction effort in the U.S. in almost three decades and a sharp departure from aggressive efforts by Republican-led states to cull wolf packs. A judge on Friday night had denied a request from the state’s cattle industry for a temporary delay to the release. The group watched as the first two wolves — 1-year-old male and female siblings with gray fur — were set free. The male bolted up the golden grass, running partially sideways to keep an eye on everyone behind, then turning left into the trees. The crowd watched in silence, then some hugged each other and low murmurs started up. When the latch on the second crate flipped, the wolf didn’t budge. Everyone waited as Colorado Gov. Jared Polis peeked into the cage. After roughly 30 seconds, those around the crates stepped back, giving the wolf space. The female slowly rose then bounded up a snowy divot in the dirt road, looking back before disappearing into an aspen grove. Wolves “have larger-than-life places in human imagination, in the stories we all grew up with and tell each other,” said Polis. “To see them in their natural habitat, and turn around look curiously at us ... is really, really a special moment that I will treasure for my entire life.” The other three wolves released were another pair of 1-year-old male and female siblings, as well a 2-year-old male. The wolves were all caught in Oregon on Sunday. When the final crate opened, the 2-year-old male with a black coat immediately darted out, making a sharp right past onlookers and dashing into the trees. He didn’t look back once. When it all ended, a small round of applause broke out. Colorado officials anticipate releasing 30 to 50 wolves within the next five years in hopes the program starts to fill in one of the last remaining major gaps in the western U.S. for the species. Gray wolves historically ranged from northern Canada to the desert southwest. The carnivores’ planned release in Colorado, voted for in a 2020 ballot measure, has sharpened divides between rural and urban residents. City and suburb dwellers largely voted to reintroduce the apex predators into the rural areas where prey can include livestock that help drive local economies and big game such as elk that are prized by hunters. The reintroduction, starting with the release of up to 10 wolves in coming months, emerged as a political wedge issue when GOP-dominated Wyoming, Idaho and Montana refused to share their wolves for the effort. Colorado officials ultimately turned to another Democratic state — Oregon — to secure wolves. Excited wildlife advocates have started a wolf-naming contest, but ranchers in the Rocky Mountains where the releases will occur are anxious. They’ve seen glimpses of what the future could hold as a handful of wolves that wandered down from Wyoming over the past two years killed livestock. The fear is such attacks will worsen, adding to a spate of perceived assaults on western Colorado’s rural communities as the state’s liberal leaders embrace clean energy and tourism, eclipsing economic mainstays such as fossil fuel extraction and agriculture. To allay livestock industry fears, ranchers who lose livestock or herding and guard animals to wolf attacks will be paid fair market value, up to $15,000 per animal. Hunting groups also have raised concerns that wolves will reduce the size of elk herds and other big game animals that the predators eat. Meanwhile, Colorado residents who backed the reintroduction are going to have to get used to wildlife agents killing wolves that prey on livestock. Some wolves were already killed when they crossed from Colorado into Wyoming, which has a “predatory” zone for wolves covering most of the state in which they can be shot on sight. Joanna Lambert, professor of wildlife ecology and conservation biology at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said she lost her breath when she saw the wolves gallop into the woods on Monday. For years, Lambert and wolf advocates have been working to get wolf “paws on the ground” and “all the sudden, it happened.” “This is a moment of rewilding,” Lambert said, “of doing something to stave off the biodiversity extinction crisis we are living in.” Link

It will also boast a completely revamped interior and upgraded brakes, tyres and suspension, with a starting price of £369,000 Are you a (very) wealthy JDM fanatic who’s looking for an alternative to the Singer 911 or Alfaholics GTA-R? Look no further, because London-based Artisan Vehicle Design is creating the Skyline just for you. Using the soon-to-be-retired R35 GT-R as its base, Artisan begins by replacing the original body panels with carbon-fibre alternatives before reimagining the exterior with Noughties-inspired R34 goodness. Is anyone else hearing ‘Act a Fool’ by Ludacris in the background? Up front, the rectangular landscaped headlights are back along with a more aggressive vented bonnet, while the rear gets a new two-pronged wing and ditches the quad exhaust for a two-tip arrangement. An F1-inspired central light can also be seen, and while these are often adopted by Volkswagen Golf GTI enthusiasts they do look considerably less cringeworthy here. The streamlined silhouette remains distinctly R35, but thanks to the new aero-focused bits, six-spoke alloys and generally boxier design, this GT-R is actually giving us major R33 GT-R LM vibes. Artisan has also said customers can request specific exterior changes to suit their taste. No harm in asking for neon underglow and a healthy serving of nitrous, then. A range of colours which nod towards the GT-Rs of yesteryear can also be chosen, including similar (and shinier) variations of ‘Bayside Blue’, ‘Midnight Purple’ and ‘Silica Brass’. The reason? Artisan is committed to coaxing every bit of heritage it can from the GT-R badge. Mechanically, the car will retain the twin-turbocharged 3.8-litre V6, but will be completely rebuilt from the ground up by a ‘specialist’ tuning house which will then enable customers to choose from two power bands: an 800bhp ‘Track Edition’ and a 1,000bhp ‘Ultimate Edition’. We have a sneaking suspicion said specialist could be Dacia. But we could be wrong. It’s also worth noting this won’t just be like any other drag-strip conquering GT-R either. Artisan has stated its intentions to upgrade the brakes, tyres and suspension to ensure the brute force can be managed around corners, while new exhaust components should channel a more aggressive variation of that familiar R35 rumble. The cabin has had just as much attention as the exterior and is headlined by a complete carbon fibre and Alcantara overhaul. With all due respect, there’s very little left to suggest you’re inside a Nissan. Further enhancements include a custom gear selector, steering wheel, door cards and bucket seats. "I feel like when the R35 came out, it somehow strayed away from the design of the previous generation Skyline GT-Rs," lead designer Roman Miah tells TG. "I understand that Nissan may have wanted to go for a different design direction, but I always missed that original design language. I wanted to bring it back with this car because even up until now, the R32, R33 and especially the R34 Skyline GT-R, look so good and remain so po[CENSORED]r. I believe this sort of styling will speak to a lot of the fanbase who grew up with the original GT-Rs." The first full concept version will be readied by the end of summer 2024, which will then be showcased at the SEMA show in Las Vegas towards the end of 2024. Production will commence in Hannover, Germany shortly after, with prices for the base model set to start at approximately £369,000. Paul Walker would be proud. Link