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Each hour-long episode cuts back and forth between the fictional 2033-and-beyond Mars mission which successfully launches an outer-space land-and-resources rush and carefully culled footage of the contemporary efforts that lay the supposed groundwork for that mission. Call this duality the SciFi/SciFact effect.

Placed next to each other, the 11-inch Pro is just a little narrower and taller than the original iPad (above), while also being slightly wider and shorter than the prior 10.5-inch Pro (below), but both 2018 models are thinner than their predecessors. Apart from a larger camera lens and bulge, the new models are only 5.9mm thick, a relatively small dip from the prior iPad Pros’ 6.1mm (11-inch) and 6.9mm (12.9-inch) bodies, but a gigantic reduction from the first iPad’s tapered 13mm back.

… a Yeti Hopper 2 cooler, Costa Pescador glasses, a Huk Icon shirt, a pair of AFTCO gloves, a Shimano Saragosa, a pair of Cuda pliers, an Okuma Solterra, a Columbia hoodie and a Penn Battle II spinning reel.

Pig iron isn’t sponge iron. The name doesn’t refer on the process used (as many blast furnaces still produce pig iron) it refers to the carbon content. Pig iron has iron content above that of cast iron and thus needs further refined to be of use.

McLeansville Lions Club’s Cookies with Santa: 5-8 p.m. Dec. 8, 1124 Mount Hope Church Road, McLeansville. Cookies, hot cocoa, Santa and his elves. Lionsclub@Mcleansville.org.

Eufy built Alexa into its Echo Dot-sized Genie smart-home speaker, so it can do anything the Dot can, but sounds better when you ask Alexa to play your favorite music.

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Among 2017′s most memorable acceptance speeches was the earnest improvising from veteran character actress and real-life sweetheart Ann Dowd. Her name could be called again for portraying chilling Aunt Lydia on The Handmaid’s Tale. This summer, she gave yet another bloodcurdling performance in A24′s second-highest grosser ever: “When I read Hereditary, I read that first scene that Joan is in, I thought, Oh, I’m playing a nice person. She’s so kind. And I was intrigued!…Because my husband said, ‘You might want to consider playing a secretary or someone nice. A surgeon or someone who delivers the mail. Anything but the antichrist.’”  

Last but not least, the “Broadcast TV fee” is probably the most egregious of the whole set, with the “regional sports” fee running right behind. When the telecommunications act got its big fat upgrade in the 1990s, so did the rules pertaining to the carriage agreements between local broadcast stations (your NBC, NBC, and CBS affiliates and so on — the whole UHF and VHF gamut) and cable carriers. That change in regulation opened up the opportunity for broadcast stations to negotiate their own retransmission rates rates with cable companies. Since 1994, the cable companies have been permitted to pass those costs through to consumers. Similarly, companies charge extra for recouping the cost of carrying regional sports networks in your package, whether or not you want them. (Sometimes it can be almost impossible to get a bundle without.) Those are the “regional sports fees,” and cable companies say that it’s simply too expensive to carry whatever channel is playing baseball in your neighborhood. As a bonus: if you’re a Comcast customer, you’re paying regional sports fees for them to bring you… Comcast-owned stations. That is some chutzpah. The thing is, though, there’s already a pass-through charge for recouping retransmission fees, and it’s called “your entire cable bill.” Because that’s exactly how the system works: content companies, like Disney and Discovery and Viacom and so on, make agreements with distribution companies, like Comcast and Charter. For every cable subscriber that receives Channel X in their bundle, Cable Company Y will pay the content company that owns Channel X a small monthly fee. If the agreement is for $0.50, and 10 million subscribers receive that channel, then the cable company pays the content company $5 million per month. The cable company recoups those fees by getting paying subscribers in the door. So if you pay $100 per month for your cable bill, and you get Channel X, then nominally about $0.50 of your bill goes to that company. It’s not that direct, of course, and the cable company is using giant pools of fungible money on both ends, but that’s the idea. With “Broadcast” and “regional sports” fees added on — which can run $8 per month or more, combined — cable companies are simply increasing the rate you pay for cable TV while claiming not to be increasing the rate you pay for cable. It’s impressive, in its own way.

The annual walk through West Hartford Center and Blue Back Square attracts hundreds of supporters. The festival and 2.5-mile walk kick off at St. Peter Claver Parish Center, 47 Pleasant St. There will be crafts, music, children’s activities and Haitian food. The silent auction features gift cards from local businesses, hand-crafted items, event tickets and more.

Hi Jenny, I suggest you have a look at BABA, the British Artist Blacksmiths Association. There are quite a lot of talented people making a good living from blacksmithing in the UK today. I’m not one of them, since I live in Herefordshire, where we are literally awash with the world’s best blacksmiths, but since you’re down south, you could probably earn decent money just making decorative custom gates!

ON THE WORLD STAGE — “Kim Jong-un Focuses on Economy as Nuclear Talks With U.S. Stall,” by NYT’s Choe Sang-Hun in Seoul: “Since late June, Mr. Kim has devoted almost all his public activities to visiting factories, farms and construction sites, rather than the military units and weapons test sites that he frequented last year. And instead of boasting of his country’s military prowess, he is lashing out at poor management at the sites he visits, highlighting his intense focus on fixing his economy.