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10 bands who changed the face of music in the 1990s
NY legends Life of Agony guitarist Joey Z picks his top 10 bands that changed heavy music in the 90s
NY legends Life of Agony emerged from big apple's music scene in the early 90s, catapulting to fame with their 1993 metal crossover debut River Runs Red. This album garnered the band a die-hard, cult following and a place on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.
In the 30 years since their formation Life of Agony may have only recorded five records, but the band has sold over one million albums to date. Now, the band are back with their highly anticipated forthcoming new record, The Sound of Scars – out October 11 via Napalm Records – and the album promises to act as "chapter two" to that groundbreaking '93 introduction, River Runs Red.
We caught up with founding member, guitarist Joey Z, to find out which of his contemporaries he feels shaped the world of heavy music in the decade running up to the millennium.
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A compact AEG for vehicle crew use!
WHO MAKES IT: Classic Army USA
GUN NAME: VCW – Vehicle Crew Weapon
TYPE: Field Use (CQB with spring change)
WHO IT’S FOR: Mid-high level player
HOW MUCH: $279.00
FPS: 365 w/ .20g BBs
Classic Army USA’s latest and greatest guns have been a pretty steady feature on our pages over the last year, and that’s because they keep spitting out high quality, affordable, and well performing replicas. For this issue, we’re looking at an M4 variant that is designed for use by vehicle crews due to its short length and easy handling. Now, most players won’t exactly be shooting this out the door of an MRAP, but its stubby, yet still realistic design makes it a great option for CQB use. Let’s go through the long list of features of this AEG to see if it deserves a place on your gun truck rack.
BUILD RIS (RAIL INTEGRATED SYSTEM): T-marked 20mm railed handguard
STOCK: Crane style unit with battery storage
BARREL LENGTH: 7 in.
TRIGGER GUARD: Standard metal unit
MAG RELEASE: Standard M4 style unit, screw retained
OPTIC SPACE: 20mm top rail
MAGAZINE: 2×300 round capacity metal hi-caps
WEIGHT: 6 lbs.
HEIGHT: 10.5 in.
LENGTH OF PULL: 11.25″ – 14.75″
BUILD GEARBOX VERSION: V2
MOTOR: Standard power longlength
GEARS: Wire cut steel 21:1 ratio
BUSHINGS/BEARINGS: 9mm steel bushings
WIRING HARNESS: Rear wired, MOSFET and Deans plug equipped
PISTON & HEAD: Polymer piston with bore up head
SPRING: Feels like M110 Strength
ANTI-REVERSAL LATCH: Standard
SPRING GUIDE: Ball bearing equipped – quick change design
INNER BARREL: 6.03mm tightbore
HOP-UP UNIT: Rotary adjustable
CONTROL OPERATION: 3 position switch, safe-semi-auto
BATTERY STORAGE: Stock, nunchuck style
RANGE/ ACCURACY: 145 ft. “Torso” accurate
ROF 11.1V – 21 RPS
CHRONO .20g- 364.7 FPS .25g- 329.1 FPS
BATTERIES: 11.1v 20C 1100 mAh G&G LiPo
CHARGER: G&G LiPo Balance Charger
BB’S: .20/.25g Elite Force BBs
At first glance, the VCW is pretty much a standard M4 with some nice external parts chosen in its construction. The whole package, however, makes for one cool looking little gun. Classic Army has finished it in a high quality matte black color with nicely textured polymer furniture.
The stock is a Crane style polymer unit on a six position metal buffer tube. The butt
pad is removable to access the two battery channels which hold the battery powering your gun. Normally, you can use a buffer tube LiPo, however, the MOSFET limits your space drastically. Where the buffer tube meets the receiver, you’ll find a dual sided sling mounting point for single point slings.
A standard forged style receiver has controls located in all the normal places, no fancy ambidextrous controls here. The upper receiver fits without any wobbles or free play and gives the whole gun a very professional and realistic look. The pistol grip is a TD style unit with texturing on the sides to help keep your hand in place. A heat sink, flat head adjustable motor base lets you fine tune the motor height for peak performance. You can lock the bolt carrier back by pressing down on the bolt catch while pulling back the charging handle.
A CNC machined free float handguard gives you plenty of real estate for accessories. Unlike most current guns from manufacturers, this has some classic 20mm rails instead of Keymod or MLOK. I’ve always been a sucker for standard rails, so I like this small touch. On the sides of the handguard, you’ll find QD sling mounting ports, however, there are no included sling points to install in them. CA threw in a stubby polymer vertical grip to help you keep a handle on things.
The outer barrel is metal and is about 7” long, ending right around the end of the rail. From the factory, the VCW is fitted with an orange plastic flashhider, but CA USA includes a full metal sound amplifier that is easily installed once you remove the old one. The muzzle is 14mm-, so you can install pretty much any muzzle device you’d like.
Aiming the VCW is accomplished using the included flip up iron sights. They are made of metal and lock very solidly in place once lifted into position. The rear is adjustable for windage, while the front can be tweaked for elevation. You have plenty of rail space for adding optics such as a red dot or reflex sight.
No fancy PMAG lookalikes here, Classic Army USA includes two standard style STANAG magazines in the package. They are full metal, hi-cap designs that hold 300 rounds each. A standard bottom mounted winding wheel is immediately familiar for anyone who has used an M4 AEG before. The magwell is quite forgiving and allows for a wide range of aftermarket magazine compatibility, without suffering from wobbles.
Like all M4 replicas, this gun is fitted with a V2 gearbox. Unlike most M4s, that gearbox is filled with some super sexy Gucci parts from the factory. 9mm ball bearings, wire cut steel 21:1 ratio gears, a bore up cylinder made out of stainless steel, a quick change spring system with a metal spring guide, and an aluminum cylinder head. This setup will run some pretty powerful springs without issue, so feel free to run it high or low velocity, depending on the field.
Like all recent CA USA AEGs, the VCW comes with a simple MOSFET designed to protect your trigger contacts with high voltage battery use. This gun is certainly “LiPo Ready”, a marketing term that I’m not a fan of, but hey, it works. While the MOSFET doesn’t have any fancy features like burst mode or shot completion, it is a proper MOSFET that will keep your gun running smoothly. The wiring is a silver low resistance setup terminated in a Deans plug for peak performance. If you don’t run a Deans equipped battery, the kit does come with a Tamiya adapter.
What good is a sexy gearbox filled with great components if the hop-up and barrel is crap. Luckily, this AEG comes equipped with a 6.03mm tightbore barrel fitted in a metal one-piece rotary style hop-up. Accessing the hop-up is easy to do thanks to the functional bolt catch that holds the faux bolt carrier until you press the release. You can use any sort of TM compatible hop-up/barrel components you’d like if you like to tweak your gun a bit.
- Full metal, high quality body
- 9mm ball bearing gearbox
- Quick change spring system for easy velocity adjustments
- Full MOSFET system for LiPo use
- Deans plugs installed from the factory
- Includes accessories such as the stubby foregrip and muzzle device
- CNC Machined free-float rail system
- Comes with two mags and Tamiya plug adapter
- Has plenty of old school charm
- Shoots a little hot in stock form, but the velocity can be easily adjusted with a new spring
- Doesn’t have much visual “presence”
- Standard AR controls – I’d love to see ambidextrous units like CA has spoiled us with on other models
An M4 like this is a blank canvas for a customizer like myself, and I can see some fun ideas in my head with it. Externally, this gun has some delicious old school charm, so I think I’ll be jumping head first into that look. Period correct optic and rail mounted accessories will complete the look nicely. Inside, I’ll be dropping in a lower velocity spring to get this running right under 300 FPS, with a noticeable bump in rate of fire.
THE LAST WORD
While the VCW may not turn any heads with its somewhat plain design, its performance and quality go a long way towards making this a real contender on the field. It does have a look like a stubby MK18, and the ability to trick it out a bit with the included accessories is a very nice touch. The body has gorgeous molded-in trademarks and the furniture is made of high quality polymer material. While the VCW doesn’t really bring anything new or flashy to the table, what it does do is present a very well made, somewhat old-school design with some excellent internal components. The small details like the markings on the dust cover just add to the package.


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Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2014-06-24 05:24 PM
During his first official trip to Taiwan June 25-28, the Chinese government official will visit several cities and counties and hold at least two meetings with Wang, during which officially no agreements will be signed.
Zhang’s visit comes as a response to Wang’s own trip to China last February. Their first meeting was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. The Taiwanese minister said the topics for discussion were cross-straits relations, regional economic integration and the eventual setting up of MAC and TAO representative offices in each other’s territory.
A handful of Taiwan Independence supporters protesting outside the MAC Tuesday morning demanded that Wang emphasize Taiwan’s sovereignty during his encounters with Zhang. They also described the MAC and the TAO as domestic organizations not suited to conduct talks between two different countries.
Zhang’s visit has also been condemned by other groups, especially after his ministry’s spokeswoman recently commented that Taiwan’s future should be decided by “all Chinese people.” Government and opposition in Taiwan responded by saying that only the people of Taiwan had the right to change the island’s status and decide its future.
The opponents of Zhang’s visit also questioned its timing as it comes while a special session of the Legislative Yuan might review the controversial trade-in-services pact with China. The critics interpreted his visit as an effort to raise pressure on Taiwan to pass the accord, which triggered an occupation of the legislative compound by students last March to April.
The main opposition Democratic Progressive Party said Tuesday it welcomed normal interaction between Taiwan and China, but only if the principles of equality and sovereignty were respected and the interests of Taiwan were not harmed. No political negotiations could take place during the meetings, DPP Chinese Affairs Department chief Chao Tien-lin said.
All meetings, talks and itineraries should be open to general scrutiny, the opposition official warned.
“The future of Taiwan must be decided by the 23 million of Taiwan,” Chao said, describing it as the long-standing position of the DPP backed by a consensus of the nation’s people. Wang should clearly relay the stance of the Taiwanese public to his Chinese counterpart, he said.
Since Zhang had said he was planning to meet with ordinary people in Taiwan and to understand grassroots opinions, he should use the opportunity to listen and hear what the public really thought, Chao said.
The DPP official said that since Taiwan was a democratic country, it was possible that some leading party members would turn out at protests against Zhang’s visit. Since the Chinese official was planning to visit Kaohsiung City, its DPP mayor, Chen Chu, was likely to meet him, reports said.
Earlier, DPP lawmakers said the Chinese minister should be expelled if he mentioned the “One China” framework. An association of Taiwanese business people who lost money in China promised it would follow Zhang everywhere he went and try to hand him a petition.
Wang said earlier he would relate common opinions in Taiwan to his counterpart. On Tuesday, he told reporters that an eventual summit between President Ma Ying-jeou and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would not feature on the agenda for discussion. Taiwan suggested this year’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in China as a possible venue for a cross-straits summit, but Beijing responded by saying an international event was not suitable.
During a visit to the opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union legislative caucus, Wang said there were no plans either to sign a joint declaration or to conclude a political agreement. The meeting served to start up a regular sequence of exchanges with visits and return visits between Taiwanese and Chinese officials, the minister said.


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Nick found and said I could share with you this cute little friend that he found about a week ago. He has made it a really nice habitat to observe it for a while at home before he releases it back into the wild. He has a nice stick in there and even added fresh rainwater. The frog is only about 3/4 inches long and likes to cling to the glass side of the habitat. At first Nick thought it might be an albino of some sort but given the black eyes is now hypothesizing that it is a gray tree frog. What species do you think it is? Do you think it is at its full adult size?
… your light shines straight to me. When glass or ___?___ bend your line your colors I can see 🎼. Hopefully some of you remember this song I shared with you when we were learning about refraction. It was a song I sang to wake up my boys when they were little. The way the sun would shine through their window they would get a little rainbow on the wall.
Catching fish wasn’t the best, but fishing for fish at sea for days provided many magical moments enjoying the natural world. We saw pods of hundreds of the Common Dolphin species and even a pod of about 7, rarer, Bottlenose Dolphin. Check out the video!! It’s about 1 1/2 minutes long but worth the watch for the jumper close to the end.
As for catching fish, we certainly didn’t ” Catch ’em all” but we did lure from the deep and then release a few Bonita and Calico Bass. Only one fisherman, Mark, in our group of 3 boats prowling the sea ,came back to port with the big prize, an 80lb Yellow Fin Tuna.
Hard earned fresh sushi was enjoyed last night by all.
Day 2 of a 4 night deep sea fishing trip with my dad. The fish are winning. We have beautiful live bait (sardines and mackerel), an arsenal of rigged rods
and “the secret” weapon fish lure.
We are on my dad’s friend’s boat, Genesis, nicknamed “the Fishing Machine”. Yet the fish elude us!
We are cruising along the Catalina ridge 26 miles off the coast of Southern California. Thank goodness it is breathtakingly beautiful.
We will be at sea. No dock. No foot on land. Not even at night, for 2 more nights. We are after the infamous Blue Fin Tuna which are just moving in from Mexico’s warmer waters. These fish can reach 100++ pounds but the ones we seek are in the 40-70 lb range. We have seen them churning on the Pacific surface like crazy chasing up gigantic bait balls but have yet to hook one up for dinner. Last night we had chicken 😁
Still working hard and hoping for the freshest of sushi.
On this day, July 20th, in 1969 humans first set foot on the Moon. NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong piloted the Apollo 11 Lunar Module to the surface and announced to Mission Control, “Houston, the Eagle has landed.” at 3:17pm CT (Central Time). After several hours of rest and preparation at 9:56pm CT Neil Armstong stepped onto the lunar surface. His famous first words were broadcast around the world… “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” He was joined by Buzz Aldrin minutes later. The “unsung hero”, Michael Collins, remained in orbit piloting the Command Module around the moon to safely capture Neil and Buzz when the Eagle’s accent stage launched for the return to Earth.
The title of today’s post comes from the words on the plaque of the descent stage of the Lunar Module that is still on the moon undisturbed today.
The last Apollo mission to land on the moon was Apollo 17. It landed on December 19,1972. No humans have left Earth’s orbit since. Remarkably, only 12 humans have walked on our moon. All men. All Americans.
I wonder when humans will once again leave the “little blue marble’s” orbit. Will you be the one to go on the next great space adventure? Red planet here we come! http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/apollo11.html
Two of Cookie and Brownie’s babies have found a home right next door in LC4. So exciting that we will be able to watch them grow and develop! Mrs. Mclean, LC4’s awesome science teacher, is adopting our first born amelanistic corn, Rainbow, and a very healthy okeetee patterned baby yet to be named.
Rumor is that they are considering the name Curie for the okeetee to honor the famous scientist, Marie Curie. Ms. Curie was awarded a Nobel prize in physics in 1903 and again in 1911 for her discovery of two radioactive elements (radium and polonium) and her work with radioactive elements to treat cancerous tumors. She was the first woman ever to receive the Nobel Prize. Let’s hope this name sticks!
Today’s featured photo is of the Trumpetfish. I stumbled upon this attractive critter at a depth of about 45 feet at a location known as Blue Peter Reef on the Grand Cayman North Wall. The cool thing about Trumpetfish is that they are often found hovering vertically in the water like this one. They camouflage themselves with the vertical soft coral fingers keeping very still. This is how they surprise their prey, unsuspecting small reef fish like the wrasses. This guy obviously thinks I can’t see him either which is why I was able to get so close with my GoPro. Good link to info on the trumpetfish below.
The yellow tube sponges featured above are about as close as I got to seeing “Sponge Bob” while scuba diving. Yellow Tube Sponge Link
As much as sponges look like plants, they are really animals. They are filter feeders that consume microscopic plankton. They come in many different shapes, sizes and colors.
Here is a link to some great information on sponges. I love photographing sponges… they don’t run away 🙂
While strikingly beautiful, Lionfish, with their venomous fins, are a harmful invasive species in the Caribbean Sea. Cayman island reefs have become infested with these animals. Non-native Lionfish are fierce predators that can wipe out large numbers of indigenous reef fish very quickly. They reproduce frequently and in large numbers. The Lionfish population explosion is dangerously throwing Caribbean coral reef ecosystems out of balance. Thus, it is the legal practice of dive operators to kill these animals when they are discovered. On four dives this month we found and killed 12 Lionfish. After spearing the animals they are either removed and returned to land where local restaurants prepare them for meals or are fed to the large snapper fish on the reef in an attempt to train them to become predators of the Lionfish. So far, Snapper will gratefully eat the Lionfish but unfortunately do not yet hunt them on their own. They have learned to follow divers however. Step 1? You will notice several large snapper trailing us on our dives.
June 15, 2016 was the first time I have ever come upon a Loggerhead sea turtle in the wild. Named for their very large, and thick log-shaped heads, Loggerheads are bigger than the Hawksbill species and are primarily carnivores. Yum Yum Jellyfish 🙂 Can you see the barnacles on its shell? This one must be pretty old. I wonder how long they live?
Here is a link to info. on the Loggerhead sea turtle.
It is always the hope when diving along the edge of a wall (an underwater cliff) where you drop from the “shallow” 100 ft deep protection of the coral reefed underwater mountain top to the darkness of the sea floor (6,000 feet plus) that you will see something BIG. Like a hammerhead shark (I haven’t seen one… yet) or a manta or eagle ray. Well along the North Wall of Cayman at a dive site called Hammerhead Hill we were treated to a pair of Eagle Rays swimming by over the deep abyss. I wish I had a closer view in this VIDEO for you but we respectfully kept our distance.
Here is a link to more information about these graceful “birds” of the sea.

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How a 'Wizard of Oz moment' led Dwolla back to Iowa
For the first time in six years, Ben Milne sits at one desk and sleeps in one bed.
For the founder of Dwolla, a darling of the Iowa tech startup scene, it's a welcome change from the years he and his team spent traveling between Silicon Valley and downtown Des Moines.
"I've never had this consistency during this project," Milne told The Des Moines Register. "For me personally, I feel like I’ve never been more productive, and I've never been more optimistic."
His confidence comes amid a time of fundamental change for Dwolla, whose core business has shifted from its well-known consumer application to a behind-the-scenes software provider for other companies.
"It’s kind of: You innovate, or you die," Milne said. "You adapt or you die. You evolve or you die."
Dwolla's changing focus has brought with it a renewed emphasis on the Midwest. A fresh round of investments totaling $6.85 million that were announced in January is prompting the company to hire more people here.
After laying off several workers in 2015, the company is now poised add another 20 workers.
"At this point we, not just as people, but as a company, have boomeranged back to the Midwest," he said. "We really built this company for the second time."
Dwolla's 'Wizard of Oz moment'
When Dwolla launched nationally in 2010, it frontiered mobile payments, allowing consumers to easily and affordably transfer money from their bank accounts to friends or family.
In 2013, Milne and several others opened a San Francisco office with plans to build out the company's leadership team in the heart of the tech industry. Milne said his team needed to get out of its comfort zone and learn new things.
But they discovered that their cutting-edge payment technology had become mainstream. Dwolla leaders decided they would have better luck empowering corporate giants working in the space, rather than competing with them for market share.
Now, Dwolla makes its application programming interface, or API, available to other businesses and developers to build into their own native applications.
"Markets do not stay the same," Milne said. "Dwolla had a great opportunity — when the market needed a way to move money around with the internet, Dwolla was a great solution. Now there are banks giving that away for free."
This transition has been underway for several years: In September 2015, Dwolla launched its white-label payments processing system, which allowed other businesses and banks to buy into Dwolla's money-transfer system without putting Dwolla's name on it.
In December 2016, the company dropped its consumer app, underscoring its move away from consumer-facing technology.
In the process, they've come full circle and have brought back to Iowa the wisdom they gathered in Silicon Valley.
"It's kind of like we had our own Wizard of Oz moment," said Jordan Lampe, the company's head of communications and policy affairs, who has worked for Dwolla in Des Moines and San Francisco. "We’ve had a lot of the things that are making us a really strong successful company. We just didn’t know we had it."
The 'humbling' course of change
For years, Dwolla has been a poster child for successful tech startups among central Iowa entrepreneurship circles.
Mike Colwell, executive director of entrepreneurial initiatives at Square One DSM, a startup accelerator from the Greater Des Moines Partnership, said the company's consumer-facing technology afforded it a higher public profile than other startup phenoms such Ames-based Workiva and West Des Moines-based Funnelwise (Workiva's cloud-based software makes it easier for companies to file SEC reports, while Funnelwise's software visualizes sales and marketing data for clients).
"I think they garnered a lot of attention and maybe more than their share, per se," Colwell said. "But to me it’s all a positive for Des Moines."
That's because companies such as Dwolla show potential entrepreneurs that success can be had in Iowa.
And each round of investment — Dwolla's most recent round included commitments from some of the biggest venture capital names in the business — gives potential investors more reason to look at central Iowa companies.
Moving forward, Colwell said Dwolla should benefit from having most of its team members in one place, rather than splitting staff between offices here and on both coasts. And the new focus means the company doesn't have to worry as much about mass marketing or retail public relations.
"Certainly, it's always humbling to have to change paths. But a lot of startups don’t see that as bad," he said. "I think the mark of a good startup is the one that listens to their customer. And sometimes as the market changes, the customer changes."
'The entire state is rooting for them'
Dwolla, which counts actor and Iowa native Ashton Kutcher among its investors, has raised some $35 million over the years, before last month's infusion of another $6.85 million.
Next Level Ventures, an Iowa-based venture capital fund, was among the latest round of investors. Craig Ibsen, managing principal at the firm, said the decision to invest in Dwolla was easy. Next Level Ventures specializes in growing Iowa tech companies.
"For us, it was not a difficult decision," he said. "We invest in great Iowa tech companies. This is without a doubt a great Iowa tech company."
On paper, Dwolla has a lot going for it: Since October 2015, its month-over-month revenues have increased an average of 15 percent.
It's always difficult to start a new company, Ibsen said. But he thinks it might be a little easier in a place such as Iowa, where community and business leaders are accessible and willing to offer advice and support to budding entrepreneurs.
"There’s been a long history and I would say even a long love affair with Iowa and Dwolla that goes back a long time," he said. "They’ve got a great support group. The entire state is rooting for them. And that speaks to why it's great to build a tech company here in Iowa."
'It's very similar to Silicon Valley'
On the 18th floor of the Financial Center, Dwolla's office epitomizes the casual approach to work that has come to define tech startups.
Shiny concrete floors and exposed ductwork frame the mostly open office, which is decorated with bright orange furniture and contemporary art.
While the aesthetic is casual, Dwolla leaders are adamant that the company is serious about the task at hand: They wear suits when they need to. And they put away the ping-pong paddles for serious meetings in the office.
Employees pulled long hours as Dwolla got off the ground six years ago, but the expectations have now settled to more manageable schedules.
Hours are flexible: some employees work from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., getting off in time to pick up their kids. Others don't come in until noon and stay until 8 p.m.
During last week's hackathon, a collaborative programming event, employees cracked open beer bottles and gathered around on bean bags, picnic table benches and rolling office chairs.
Various groups, most wearing hoodies, T-shirts and jeans, took turns pitching various ideas to improve the business: One project suggested even more advanced security measures for Dwolla's software, while another sought to build a sales demo for prospective clients.
The atmosphere here is on par with offices in Silicon Valley, said Genny Couch, a Dwolla saleswoman since June. She would know: Couch, a 25-year-old from the Quad Cities area, previously worked as an account executive at Yelp in San Francisco
"I think that we are a very thoughtful company. ... All the members of our team are really valued," she said. "And everybody's opinions really matter."
Couch knew Dwolla mostly because of its iconic stickers she saw around town during her time studying at Iowa State University. She originally thought San Francisco might be a permanent move.
But the high cost of living there — one Dwolla employee was forking over $2,000 a month for a 285 square-foot apartment while stationed in the bay area — made her view the job as a temporary gig.
The timing worked out, and in 2016, she moved to Des Moines to work for Dwolla.
"I missed the Midwest. I missed the people here," Couch said. "There's a genuineness that you don't find on the West Coast."
Dwolla at a glance
- Launched: December 1, 2010
- Headquarters: Des Moines
- Employees: 38 in Des Moines, 42 total
- Investments: More than $40 million


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Wolverine has built its reputation as ferocious animals having the strength to drive away animals even bigger than its size whether it would be a bear or a mountain lion. While being the ancestral brother of modern-day dogs; grey wolves are elegant apex predators which live in closely knitted packs. However, if you are an animal enthusiast then a question might have come to your mind that who would have won if an animal duel ever happened between them. To determine the winner let’s know about these two closely.
- 1 Physical traits:
- 2 Behavioral Traits:
- 3 Diet: Wolf vs Wolverine
- 4 Habitat and Geographical Distribution:
- 5 Fun Facts for kids:
- 6 Can a Wolverine Kill a Wolf? Who Would Win?
- 7 Comparison Chart: Wolf and Wolverine
- 8 Comparison Video: Wolf Vs Wolverine
- 9 FAQ’S: Frequently Asked Questions
What do Wolverines look like?
Wolverines are the largest member of the Mustelidae family similar to which weasels also belong. A wild carnivorous mammal that belongs to the family Canidae. Wolverine, Due to their small size, they are often attributed as “small bear” or “skunk bear” or “glutton”. A heavily built short legged rounded heads and rounded ears mammal, Wolverines are 36-45 cm in height having body length ranging between 65-105 cm and can weigh between 9-330 kg. Wolverines have a furry coat which is usually brown or brownish-black having yellow or golden stripes. They have stocky-built, powerful short legs, round ears, large heads, and sharp claws. Wolverines can outrun any big animals in snow as they have semi-plantigrade locomotion and wide clawed paws; however, the wolverine isn’t fast animal on land;
How do Wolves look like?
Grey wolves are the largest member of the family Canidae. Males are bigger than females having an average body length ranging between 5-6.5 feet while females are 4.5-6 feet long. An adult male can weigh between 30-80 kg whereas females are around 23-55 kg. They have a long snout, length furry tail, short ears, strong legs, and a muscular neck. Grey wolves have fur which can be white, grey, brown, cinnamon, and rarely black. Wolves have sharp teeth with 4 large canines that are 1 inch long and are sharp clawed.
Are Wolverines aggressive?
Wolverines are solitary animals, they usually live alone and meet during mating season. They are very territorial and intolerant to intruders of same-sex. Wolverines are nocturnal; they hunt during the nights. Snow doesn’t affect wolverine much, they don’t go in hibernation like bears and are active year-round.
How do Wolves Behave?
Grey Wolves are very social, they live in packs having 2-25 individuals. Each wolf pack has an alpha male and an alpha female and their young ones. There is a strong hierarchical structure in wolves packs, alpha male is dominant over others and eats first taking whatever he wants. Wolves are identified with their tall stature, longer legs, and pricked ears. while The color of the fur depends on the habitat, Alpha female is subordinate to the alpha male, the resemblance of wolves is that of dogs, but with thicker fur and pricked ears they are far apart from dogs. They have higher IQ and are much more intelligent than wolverines.
Diet: Wolf vs Wolverine
What foods do Wolverines eat?
Wolverines are omnivorous; wolf would eat foxes, birds, coyotes, squirrels, rabbits, porcupines, beavers, moose, reindeer, roots, seeds, etc.
What do wolves eat other than meat?
Grey Wolves are carnivores their diet includes large hoofed animals like caribou, elk, reindeer, bison, moose, and other small mammals like beavers, rodents, hares.Wolves will eat non meat items (such as vegetables), but not often
Habitat and Geographical Distribution:
Where do Wolverines live?
Wolverines live in grasslands, tundra, alpine forests; during the winter season, they live in dens made of snow or rock crevices or burrows. As mentioned earlier they are mainly found in a cold region. Wolverines are found in the region of North America and Northern Eurasia. They prefer to live far away from the human settlement in undisturbed habitats. Grey Wolves are found in the Northern hemisphere till the Arctic.
Where do we find Wolfs?
Grey Wolves are found in varied regions from arctic tundra to forests, prairie, and grasslands.Grey wolves have a significant population living in United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and Eurasia.
Fun Facts for kids:
- Grey wolf can run at a speed ranging between 55-70 km/hr. While Wolverine upto 30 km/h.
- Wolverines are good climbers and excellent swimmers.
- The wolverine usually pounces on its prey from trees.
- Bullets might penetrate Wolverine’s skin, but wouldn’t kill him.
- Bite force of a wolverine is 224 Newtons
Can a Wolverine Kill a Wolf? Who Would Win?
The fight between grey wolf and wolverine would be the interesting one. wolf, could easily kill the nasty critter. But wolf packs have no interest, in such small yet aggressive mammals. Wolverine is extremely ferocious; it can attack animal way larger than their size. When a grey wolf encounter the wolverine and try to attack; wolverine will prove to be the strong opponent.
Wolves are above wolverines on the food chain cause for a fight will be a dispute over a food item or for defense of cubs, on the contrary Should the wolf Pack have another target for food, they would surely leave the wolverine alone except for A highly tempting food item changes the foregoing scenario.
Although, grey wolf is bigger in size; wolverine will not be afraid of it. In one-on-one fight wolverine can give fatal blows to the grey wolf. Wolverine is very agile when attacked upon it can dodge the wolf. wolverine cannot kill a gray wolf since it is larger in size. But can inflict heavy injuries on wolf with their sharp-long claws which will lead to death of the wolf. Hence, wolverine grabs the winning position of this animal duel.
Comparison Chart: Wolf and Wolverine
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|North America and Eurasia
|Grasslands, forests, arctic tundra
Comparison Video: Wolf Vs Wolverine
FAQ’S: Frequently Asked Questions
Which animal can kill a wolverine?
Bears, Wolverines are usually killed and eaten by wild bears, wolves and other carnivores
Can a wolverine kill a tiger?
If wolverine were to go for the tiger’s throat, it is possible to hold it against the big cat
Can a wolverine be tamed?
Despite their bad reputation, wolverines can be easily trained and domesticated.
Do Wolverines eat humans?
Wolverines are omnivorous scavengers. but there are no documented attacks on humans.


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Mechanic caught red-handed at Northern Ireland farm with enough explosives for a device twice as deadly as Omagh bomb is jailed for 11 years
- Haul included 1100lbs of nitro-based fertiliser that is used in homemade bombs
- The 1998 Omagh device contained between 330 to 550lbs worth of explosives
- Previous court sitting heard Petticrew attended funeral of an Omagh suspect
Barry Petticrew was caught red handed at a major bomb making factory on a rural farm in Northern Ireland
A mechanic caught red handed at a major bomb making factory on a rural farm in Northern Ireland has been handed an 11-year jail sentence.
Barry Francis Petticrew, 45, was filmed in October 2014 moving a haul that included 1100lbs of high grade nitro based fertiliser used in homemade bombs.
The father-of-two tried to escape from the farm near Kinawley, Co Fermanagh, but officers caught up with him and made an arrest.
The weapons haul included 1100lbs of high grade nitro based fertiliser used in home-made explosives, three timer power units, ammunition, improvised explosive devices, a mortar base, detonator cord and disposable suits and gloves.
For context, the 1998 Omagh bomb - which killed 29 people - contained between 330 to 550lbs of home-made explosives.
Petticrew pleaded guilty in the autumn to three charges in relation to the find.
In addition to his 11-year imprisonment, he will serve a further three years on licence.
He was filmed in October 2014 moving a haul including 1100lbs of high grade nitro based fertiliser used in homemade bombs at the farm (pictured) near Kinawley, County Fermanagh
The weapons haul included 1100lbs of high grade nitro based fertiliser used in home-made explosives. Pictured: One of the timed power units that were also discovered
Petticrew, who has been on remand in Maghaberry high security jail in Co Antrim since his arrest, denied being affiliated to any terrorist organisation and claimed he had been pressurised into his actions.
While he has not been held in the dissident republican wing of Maghaberry, judge Gordon Kerr QC said the find was made in an area synonymous with dissident activity.
A previous court sitting heard Petticrew also formed part of a guard of honour at the 2013 republican funeral of Seamus McKenna - a man suspected of involvement in the Omagh bomb.
Petticrew admitting possessing explosives with the intent to endanger life; possessing articles that would be of use to terrorist; and possession of ammunition.
Passing sentence, judge Kerr said the farm was being used as a 'bomb factory'.
He said all the various items could be made into a series of smaller bombs, but added: 'Or a large device of the size of some of the largest devices ever used in Northern Ireland.'
Petticrew pleaded guilty in the autumn to three charges in relation to the weapons haul
Petticrew, who has been on remand in Maghaberry high security jail in Co Antrim since his arrest, denied being affiliated to any terrorist organisation
The judge said associates of Petticrew may have been the ones intending to deploy the terrorist arsenal.
'Serious injury of death were contemplated by those he associated with,' he added.
Bespectacled Petticrew, dressed in a grey and orange jacket and jeans, gave the thumbs up to family members and supporters in court as he was led away after sentence was passed.
After the hearing at Antrim Crown Court, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) outlined further details around their investigation.
Detective Inspector Davy Lowans, from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch, said: 'This haul contained many of the components used by a terrorist grouping - everything from timer power units and fertiliser to a coffee grinder, ammunition and forensic suits.
The judge said associates of Petticrew may have been the ones intending to deploy the terrorist arsenal
A police spokesman said: 'We believe this was for use by dissident terrorists in Fermanagh and other parts of Northern Ireland'
'We believe this was for use by dissident terrorists in Fermanagh and other parts of Northern Ireland.
'The quantities and range of items recovered would have enabled a number of explosive devices to be constructed.
'The seizure will have had an impact on the terrorists' capabilities and undoubtedly has saved lives.'
HOW THE TERROR UNFOLDED ON A BUSY SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN 1998
On August 15, 1998 Northern Ireland's fragile peace was shattered when a dissident republican car bomb ripped through the Co Tyrone market town of Omagh.
The attack, which came four months after the signing of the historic Good Friday Agreement, was the single deadliest atrocity in the history of the Troubles.
This is a timeline of the main events leading up to and beyond the Real IRA bomb explosion, which claimed the lives of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins.
Thursday August 13 1998: A red Vauxhall Cavalier - registration 91 DL 2554 - is stolen in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan, in the Irish Republic.
Saturday August 15:
2pm - The same car, now carrying the fake Northern Ireland registration MDZ 5211, is driven into Market Street, Omagh, and parked outside SD Kells clothes shop. Two male occupants are seen walking away in the direction of Campsie Road.
2.30pm - A man phones Ulster Television (UTV) newsroom with a bomb warning: 'There's a bomb, courthouse, Omagh, main street, 500lb, explosion 30 minutes.' The caller gives the Real IRA codeword 'Martha Pope'.
A massive cross-border manhunt was launched after the bombing and no one has yet been convicted
2.32pm - The Samaritans office in Coleraine is called with another warning. 'Am I through to Omagh? This is a bomb warning. It's going to go off in 30 minutes.' The caller said the bomb was 200 yards from the courthouse. He also gave the codeword 'Martha Pope'.
2.35pm - UTV receives another phone warning: 'Bomb, Omagh town, 15 minutes.' Two of these warnings were phoned from a call box in Forkhill, south Armagh. The third was made from a phone box in Newtownhamilton, also in south Armagh.
2.41pm - 5.10pm - UTV and the Samaritans both place emergency calls to the Royal Ulster Constabulary control centre. The message is immediately passed to officers in Omagh and an evacuation operation commences.
There was no street named Main Street in Omagh. The only target specified was the courthouse, which was at the top of High Street at the west end of the town. The car had actually been parked at the east end of the town, on Market Street, more than 500 yards from the court.
Police cordon off High Street and move shoppers and shop owners down to Market Street before commencing a search round the courthouse.
As a result all the people who had been in Omagh town centre when the warning came through had now assembled in Market Street, yards from the red Cavalier.
Among those gathered was a group of Spanish students who were spending the summer in Buncrana. They had gone to Omagh for the day along with a number of local children from the Co Donegal town.
3.10pm - A 500lb bomb packed in the Cavalier is detonated with a remote trigger. The explosion tears through Market Street. Shop fronts on both sides are blown back on top of customers still inside. Glass, masonry and metal tears through the crowd on the street as a fireball sweeps out from the epicentre.
Twenty-one people are killed instantly - some of their bodies were never found, such was the force of the blast. A water main under the road ruptures. Gallons of water gushes out. Some of the dead and badly injured are washed down the hill.
3.10pm - The emergency operation begins. The two ambulance crews on call at the nearby Tyrone County Hospital arrive at the scene within minutes. Survivors are already tending to the injured and covering the dead.
Civilians who had been on nearby streets also rush to the scene to help. People grab medical supplies from a chemist's shop while linen from a draper's is used to cover the victims.
The funeral of Mary Grimes, one of the victims of the Omagh bombings. The cortege is pictured moving through the streets of Beragh
Buses are commandeered from the nearby Ulster bus station to help take the injured to hospital. Shelves and doors are used as makeshift stretchers. As news of the attack filters through, off-duty medical personnel head for the hospital. As well as those who died, more than 300 people are injured in the blast.
Army helicopters are scrambled to help the ambulance service ferry patients from the swamped Tyrone hospital to other medical centres.
Omagh's leisure centre is transformed into an incident centre, with hundreds of relatives gathering there waiting for news on loved ones.
Inundated with calls, the Tyrone County Hospital phone system crashes. Staff ask members of the public for mobile phones to contact other hospitals. A temporary morgue is set up in a British Army base in the town.
Sunday August 16:
Relatives of those people still unaccounted for wait at the leisure centre overnight.
12pm - The identity of the 28th victim who died on the day is revealed. Sixty-one-year Sean McGrath would die a month later from injuries suffered in the blast.
12.45pm - RUC Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan addresses the world's press at the scene.
'This is an attack, not carried out against the police or the Army, but against the people of Omagh.
'We have had men, women and children slaughtered, slaughtered by murderers who want to murder, slaughtered by murderers who have nothing else to offer but murder, people who gave us a totally inaccurate warning, people who phoned to say there was a bomb close to the courthouse and as our officers searched and moved people from the area of the courthouse, a bomb detonated some 400 yards away.'
An ambulance carrying one of the injured from the Erne hospital to Belfast collides with a car. The car's driver, 38-year-old father-of-three Gary White, is killed.
The Queen, then prime minister Tony Blair, then Irish president Mary McAleese, then Irish taoiseach Bertie Ahern, then US president Bill Clinton and local politicians all voice their condemnation.
Significantly Sinn Fein figures such as Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness also condemn the attack - the first time they had unequivocally denounced a republican terrorist bombing.
Tuesday August 18:
The Real IRA admits responsibility for the attack. The group claims its target was commercial and not civilian and blames loss of life on failure of RUC to respond to 'clear' warnings.
Then Northern Ireland secretary Mo Mowlam describes the statement as 'a pathetic excuse for mass murder'.
Saturday August 22:
One week after the attack a day of reflection is held. An estimated 60,000 people gather in Omagh with thousands more attending vigils in other towns and cities across Ireland.
In Omagh, a service is conducted by church leaders on the steps of the courthouse. The event is best remembered for a moving performance by local singer Juliet Turner, whose ballad Broken Things was beamed across the world.
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Your question is based on a false premise. That photo is not of gas masks from WW2. It is from a site called "How I remember it" which contains doctored photos. Here is the link to yours.
Here are another couple of sci-fi examples from the same site:
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Then, you email the fax machine whenever you want to send a fax to a recipient. Brother: Can I Use Voice Mail on the Same Line as My Brother Machine? If you’re only sending a small number of faxes, then you might not even have to pay for faxing – many providers offer free trials or let you send a small number of faxes for free.
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If you would like to install both, connect the answering machine to the fax and then connect the extension telephone line to the answering machine. Mindi Orth began writing in 1996 as a technical writer for a consulting firm.
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Install an answering machine or extension telephone line by plugging its cord into the second jack that is labeled TEL. We’re going to break down each of these faxing options down below and explain everything you need to know about wireless faxing.
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This type of wireless fax machine is ideal for situations where you don’t have a phone line but have good cell service. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. Since I live in a small town and my primary “computer” is just my iPhone, I use my phone to take screen shots and fax with the RingCentral mobile app.
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If you dont hear a dial tone or the fax connecting, check the connection. Plug the fax machines telephone cable into one of the ports on the splitter, and then plug the other end of the telephone cable into the splitters other port.
However, some fax machines allow you fax line hookup set a delay to give you time to answer before the fax does. Another option includes unplugging the cord from the back of the fax machine and connecting it dating scan mbs a telephone.
What can I do to prevent this in the future? Do I Need an Additional Fax line hookup to Fax From a Printer? Fxa Davis is a freelance writer specializing in technical, travel and entertainment articles.


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A U.S. appeals court has sided with cable provider Cablevision in allowing the company to offer its network-based DVR service despite arguments from the movie and TV industry that it infringes on their copyrights.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York, ruled that Cablevision's proposed new service that allows movies and TV shows to be recorded on remote storage servers in Cablevision's network "would not directly infringe plaintiffs' exclusive rights to reproduce and publicly perform their copyrighted works." The appeals court overturned a lower court's decision that was issued in March 2007.
The ruling could have a major impact on new entertainment services that cable companies and other video providers can offer customers, and it could also help reduce the price of DVR services.
Up until now, video providers have offered DVR services that allow people to record, store, and play back movies and TV shows on their set top boxes.
Cablevision's Remote Storage DVR or RS-DVR service would allow people to have all the same functionality they have with their existing DVRs, but it doesn't require them to have a special box to do it. Instead, all that functionality is in Cablevision's network rather than on a box sitting in the subscriber's home.
By putting the functionality in the network, Cablevision could reduce the cost of offering the service. Today, cable operators spend about 10 percent of their capital investment on providing DVR boxes to customers, according to Craig Moffett, an analyst at Bernstein Research. And if Cablevision can reduce its cost, it could offer the service at a lower price, which in turn could make the service appealing to many more subscribers. It also means that Cablevision can roll out the service to new subscribers much more quickly.
"This is a tremendous victory for consumers, which will allow us to make DVRs available to many more people, faster and less expensively than would otherwise be possible," Tom Rutledge, Cablevision's chief operating officer, said in a statement.
A networked DVR service, might also allow people to get rid of their set-top boxes altogether or at least get smaller devices that don't take up as much room as the bulky DVR boxes of today. And because the DVR function is housed in Cablevision's network instead of at home, consumers also won't have to deal with the hassle that often comes along with housing a relatively complex piece of networking equipment in their homes.
But the film studios and television networks that brought the suit against Cablevision, including Time Warner, News Corp., Walt Disney, and CBS, which owns CBS Interactive, the publisher of CNET News, argued that this remote storage infringed their copyrights. Specifically, they said that Cablevision's remote storage DVR operates more like a video on-demand (VOD) service than a DVR. Therefore, Cablevision should obtain licenses from content owners before people can record and store content on the remote DVR.
The appeals court didn't buy this argument. In fact, it saw no difference between the in-home DVRs and the ones that sit in the network to record and store TV shows and movies. In its written ruling, it also sent the case back to the U.S. District Court in New York for further proceedings.
"We appreciate the court's perspective that, from the standpoint of existing copyright law, remote-storage DVRs are the same as the traditional DVRs that are in use today," Rutledge said in his statement.
The court's decision could pave the way for other video providers to offer similar services. So far, none of the major players has said whether they plan to offer networked DVRs. But Verizon, which is building a new fiber-to-the-home network, could be in a perfect position to offer such a service, since its network is fast and has very low latency.
Joe Ambeault, director of consumer product development for Verizon, said Verizon might offer networked services in the future in addition to services that take advantage of hardware installed in the home.
"We are going to take advantage of both (centralized and distributed) approaches where it makes sense," he said. "We could develop a centralized service that is similar to Cablevision's. But it doesn't preclude us from also leveraging hard drives in the home to do other things."
But he emphasized that the company has not had to change any of its plans for new DVR services based on the legal dispute between Cablevision and the TV and movie producers.
"There isn't a service we've considered that couldn't be offered without the court's ruling (in the Cablevision case)," Ambeault said. "It's more a matter of it giving us more options as we go forward."


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Runtime: 90 Minutes
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Writer(s): Nic Pizzolatto (screenplay), Gustav Moller (based on original by), Emil Nygaard Albertsen (based on original by)
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Riley Keough, Eli Goree, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard
Antoine Fuqua is quickly becoming a writer/director that needs no introduction with the high-level thrills he delivers with films like “Training Day,” “Southpaw”, and both “Equalizer” films, but his latest film for Netflix, an American remake of Gustav Moller’s 2018 film “The Guilty”, isn’t something that he fully makes his own.
Fuqua’s version of the same name is basically a carbon copy of the original as it follows the same story beats of a police officer named Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) attempting to help an abducted woman named Emily (voiced by Riley Keough) while working as a 911 operator as a punishment for his actions in the field. Replace some of the names with more Danish variations and some small story moment executions, and this American version is basically the same as its Danish counterpart. It’s just a shame that Fuqua and writer Nic Pizzolatto couldn’t make some distinct changes from the original just to make something different for those that have seen Moller’s original film. With Fuqua showing his potential for creating great remakes and original thrills, it’s a shame that his overall approach isn’t anything more than a typical American remake.
This approach also doesn’t help the film’s ending as the minor changes made have big ramifications for the overall impact of Joe’s verdict. Throughout the film, a drastic decision that Joe made in the field haunts him and propels him into a hero complex after getting this abduction 911 call. There’s a lot of discussions he has about an upcoming court case on the matter and the real details of what happen eventually come out, but in an inferior way. There’s just something that’s not as strong about this ending compared to the original’s and frankly, it just lets Joe continue his hero complex by taking his verdict in his own hands. Rather than have his colleagues or the justice system solely hold him accountable, Joe basically holds himself accountable. While this change creates some good emotion in the film’s final moments, it just takes away from Joe having to face his actions and continues to make him look heroic when the point of his big character turn was to flip the script on how you perceive him.
It’s definitely a shame that Fuqua’s version of “The Guilty” doesn’t do much different for anyone who’s seen the original, but that doesn’t mean it’s a total loss. If anything, Fuqua definitely proves the strengths of this material and still manages to create a thrilling experience. Every call really ramps up the tension and adds a new little detail to what we already know about this abduction and Joe’s case. Fuqua keeps everything from Joe’s perspective in the 911 operator room, so you feel very immersed into the environment and situation. The pacing is also great as the Joe’s panicked desperation and growing direness of the situation really drives the film and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
The voice performances of every on the phone calls are excellent and Fuqua’s direction really makes them cut deep with emotion. Not to mention, he really brings together an ace cast to make these phone calls stand out. I mean, when you pull together top talent like Keough, Peter Sarsgaard, Eli Goree, Ethan Hawke, Paul Dano, and plenty others, you can only expect top-tier performances and boy do they deliver. Still though, it’s the reunion between Gyllenhaal and Fuqua that makes “The Guilty” a tense and compelling experience. Gyllenhaal delivers an explosive and fast-paced performance that keeps you hooked on the situation and he manages to maintain the emotional turmoil that’s swirling with Joe’s inner demons throughout to create an emotionally gripping performance. It’s Gyllenhaal and Fuqua doing what they do best, and it alone makes “The Guilty” a must-watch.
Most importantly, for first timers, there’s a legitimately enticing mystery that’s weaved excellently throughout “The Guilty” that provides shocking and wildly unpredictable conclusions. It’s a film that’s constantly shifting perspectives and making you question everything you’re seeing and hearing. There are plenty of wild turns and gut-wrenching reveals that’ll leave you shook and are well-executed by Fuqua and the performances. Even the truth behind Joe’s actions is peppered nicely throughout and is revealed in a heartbreaking and devastating fashion that flips the script on his display of heroism. It’s honestly the perfect type of taut and exciting thriller for Netflix and certainly shows the potential to be a big hit.
Maybe Fuqua’s “The Guilty” can’t do much for those that have seen Moller’s version, but it shows a lot of promise to be a favorite amongst Netflix subscribers looking for an emotional thrill ride full of excellent performances and shocking turns.

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