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Also: Two more DOXA films (one of them Canadian), and a pair of amusing comedies. DOXA is the main attraction today. It kicked off yesterday, is on for another 10 days and offers all its titles to stream. Also, seven of its best in a drive-in format next week at the PNE Amphitheatre. Check out for details. The other big documentary festival, Toronto’s Hot Docs, is also still on. It ends Sunday and is also streaming. I review another film today that’s at both and a batch of others. Read on....

Warm-ish weather has arrived, and with it an itch to dig through your closet and purge anything that isn’t a pair of swim trunks or a white tee. After a year of trying to fill our homes with things that made them more tolerable to be stuck in, there is much to be purged. But there’s also a lot to be salvaged, including all the oil-stained, beat-to-hell, grimey sneakers of seasons past still taking up space on your shoe rack.  Even the most soiled white canvas sneaks can be saved wi...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 Last January, policy professionals from our K&L Gates Maritime Group published a long list of their predictions for the year ahead. This year we are coming back with one major prediction: In the next four years, issues related to climate change will pose the greatest challenges for the domestic maritime industry. Neither President-elect Biden nor his team have offered specifics on a maritime environmental agenda, but given the expectation of a dramatic depar...

Last January, policy professionals from our K&L Gates Maritime Group published a long list of their predictions for the year ahead. This year we are coming back with one major...

Pilates life. a group of samaritans arm themselves on a religious pilgrimage. >> the moment the samaritans chose to take up arms, there was no way that incident was going to end other than pontius pilate intervening. >> many people are killed, and the ringleaders of the movement are put to death. after the uprising is put down, the samaritans lodge an official complaint against pilate, and so hes recalled to rome to answer the charges. >> but before he can get there his patron, the emperor tiber...

Even further and we have even seen members smeared in reports by drive by political hacks. when they match numbers of the majority -- of the ranking member and the members of the press. that ought to concern every one of you as much as it concerns every one of us. nothing but a drive by hit. but you know something? this majority leader also just said wherever law ends tyranny begins. i will say this, in this house, wherever the rules are disregarded, chaos and mob rule actually begin and the maj...

Interpretation of minority rights. we saw the rise of partisanship because of things that have been done even further. and weve even seen members smeared in reports by drive by political hacks when they matched numbers of the ranking member and the members of the press. that ought to concern every one of you as much as it concerns every one of us. nothing but a drive by hit. but you know something this majority leader also just said wherever law ends tyranny begins. but i will say this in this h...

Which these days is not unimportant if youre running for office. maya, doug collins who has been running things for the republicans in the house said on the house floor, sort of threatened democrats and said, you are setting the stage for whats going to happen when one day house democrats are in the minority. lets play what he said. >> it has been said today where is bravery. ill tell you where bravery is found and courage in this minority who has lived through the last year of nothing but rules...

Phone away from his ear like this and ambassador sondland says hes going to do the investigation. >> what was ambassador sondlands response? >> he said "oh, yeah, hes going to do it. hell do anything you ask." >> juan: president trump tweeting his defense of that call. "ive been watching people make phone calls my entire life. my hearing is and has been great. never have i been watching a person make a call which was not on a speakerphone and been able to hear or understand the conversation. ive...

Harris, who are all, by the way, polling very favorably against president trump nationally and in several battleground states. look, i get that mike bloomberg has a lot of money and time on his hands but i think theres some progressive issues that a lot of progressives would rather he continue focusing on rather than disrupting the democratic primary. >> hell also have some things to answer for from his time as president. eleanor, we can already see the headlines, battle of the billionaires, ass...