Blog entry by Madie Deschamps
Pictures taken today show the massive boat, which has a 25-meter swimming pool, surrounded by scaffolding and waterproof covering as it sits in the dry dock of Blohm Voss Dock; where it has been since late October for a refitting job.
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Two movies named The Call came out in 2020. Watch the South Korean one, a time travel thriller revolving around, yep, a phone call. Twenty-eight-year-old Seo-yeon finds a phone buried in a closet in her childhood home. It rings -- and the caller, it turns out, is living in the same house 20 years earlier. Twists right up to the final moment, plus a wild cat-and-mouse chase that alters the past and present make this a must-watch.
Lindsey Graham walked out of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearing Tuesday after arguing with Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin over the release of Guantanamo Bay detainees following his line of questioning of the Supreme Court nominee.
A person who was trying to flee with his family lies on the ground after the shelling of the Russian army at the evacuation point of Irpin, several members of the same family have been killed in this attack today
'Well, how would you feel if a senator up here said [of] your faith: 'A dogma lives loudly within you and that is a concern'?' Graham asked, referencing a comment that was made toward Judge Barrett during her confirmation hearing by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.
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Spanning the lives of its mobsters over multiple decades, The Irishman pulls off a 3-and-a-half-hour crime saga. But don't worry -- you can break up this tour de force if you need to. Always clever and entertaining, with Martin Scorsese favorites Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci commanding the screen, The Irishman creeps up on you, offering a haunting look at aging mobsters and the havoc they wreak.
So far Britain has banned Russian ships and aircraft from the UK, imposed restrictions on a number of Russian banks, successfully lobbied for Russia's removal from the Swift banking system, and personally sanctioned at least five oligarchs with known links to the Kremlin.
'The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region', the Russian defence ministry said Saturday.
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Rebecca Hall makes her directorial debut in magnificent fashion with her adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing. It tells the story of two light-skinned Black women, one of whom chooses to "pass" as white. Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga embody the duality at the heart of this delicate story, shot in black and white. Gracefully handled, Passing is a tender portrait revealing powerful psychological depths.
'So part of my sentencings was about redirecting the defendants attention. It's not just about how much time a person spends in prison. It's about understanding the harm of this, this behavior. It's about all of the other kinds of restraints. That sex offenders are ordered, rightly to live under at the end of the day. The sentences in these cases include not only prison time, but restraints on computer use sometimes for decades, restraints on ability to go near children, sometimes for decades. All of these things judges consider in order to affect what Congress has required, which is a sentence that is sufficient but not greater than necessary for the purposes of punishment.'
While Sir Tony's view offered much needed encouragement, he told the BBC's Sunday Morning show he feared the violence could get much worse because Russia's tactics were failing and Putin was becoming more desperate.
'I'm suggesting the system has failed miserably and advocates to change the system, like she was advocating, would destroy our ability to protect this country. We;re at war, we're not fighting a crime. This is not some passage of time event.
'Judge he was 18 these kids are eight!' Hawley said furiously. 'I don't see in what sense they're peers. I've got a nine year old, a seven year old and a 16 month old at home, and I live in fear that they will be exposed to let alone exploited in this kind of material.'
The Russian defence ministry said: 'Unmanned aerial vehicles of the Aerospace Forces carried out missile strikes on a self-propelled artillery battery of 122mm howitzers and military hardware of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The strike comes as Ukraine's forces continue to put up a fierce resistance against the invading armies, which have been forced to resort to seemingly indiscriminate artillery strikes on population centres.
Britain is still on course to bolster the Kremlin's coffers with £2billion-a-year for imported Russian liquefied natural gas as Brent crude oil today topped $119 per barrel, is now up almost 20% on the week and is expected to rise even higher because of the war in Ukraine;