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Captain Helen Keller (Christine Lahti) Operating Instructions (2009)

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Rachel Scott (Emily Rose) Operating Instructions (2009) 5/ 7

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Brazilian soldiers training at the Center for Instruction and Operations in the Caatinga, 2009

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In Defence Of Oasis

Exploring the hype behind one of Britain’s most loved and raucous rock n roll bands.

Unless you’ve been living under the most soundproof of rocks this week, you will have heard the news. After a decade and a half of the alluring ‘will-they-won’t-they’ drama, the Gallagher brothers Noel and Liam have rekindled just as suddenly as they’d ended it all backstage at a gig in Paris in 2009.

The rumours abound on social media suddenly began to feel a lot less like fantasies when Oasis, Noel and Liam’s accounts all teased an announcement last Saturday. Oasis had made announcements since their split, usually about anniversaries, merchandise and documentaries, this wasn’t out of the ordinary. In fact, the band would soon be marking 30 years since their era-defining debut album Definitely Maybe came out in August 1994. Singer Liam Gallagher had also threatened to reunite the band on plenty of occasions in the ensuing decade, but never made good on his word. Why should this time have felt different?

In theory, it shouldn’t have. The village eventually loses interest in the boy crying wolf. And yet, when Liam Gallagher stepped onto the Main Stage at Reading festival to perform a headlining set on Sunday and opened with nostalgic on-screen visuals of Oasis, any doubt left in fans’ minds quickly evaporated.

The following Tuesday, the band confirmed what we already knew: Oasis, the biggest Britpop band of the 1990s, were back in action.

The avalanche of articles followed like they hadn’t in over 20 years: Oasis had undoubtedly reignited the fantasies of music magazines and publications that were otherwise scaling down in the face of rising operational costs. We’ve now seen over 20 NME articles, news on the BBC website, a revived radio documentary on BBC 6 Music, countless Rolling Stone thinkpieces, news in SPIN Magazine, the Manchester Evening News, gossip in the rags of the Sun, Mail, Metro. The mural in Manchester. The millions of people that tried to get tickets for the reunion dates that sold out in hours. It’s easy to be sick of it all, to think there wasn’t a band more overrated, overhyped or beloved than Oasis.

But let’s forget the hymns for a moment. Let us re-examine the appeal of the band before the myth: five boys from Manchester who believed in nothing more than the rock ‘n’ roll dream. And certainly, nothing less.

Cast your mind back to 1994, before the success and idolatry, before their songs would be turned into design-for-life anthems, before the band would be permanently woven into the fabric of British music history. Strip all that away and try to imagine hearing a then-relatively unknown Oasis for the first time. Imagine being told that half the band was not yet 22 years old, that they were a new band, releasing their third-ever single? Can you imagine, however simple it may have been lyrically, hearing Live Forever for the first time? In particular, just 4 months after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, after many fans were left feeling like they were staring at the definitive end of an era of honest independent music?

In 1994, Oasis were ’77’s punk all over again. Entering a landscape of artists (a term Liam Gallagher has derided) who internalised their music and recoiled at the notion of explicit success, Oasis were a brash rejection of shoegaze and indie’s philosophies, even going as far as to instruct the presenters of BBC Radio 1’s Evening Sessions to tell the world that Oasis were not an indie band. They were a rock ‘n’ roll band, and a band that dared to aim high, openly and with no apologies (all apologies for the pun). 

That was a philosophy they would live by until the bitter end, for better or worse. In a world of falling ambition and no hope, as Britain emerged ravaged by the Thatcher years to find there was nowhere left for its young to go, Oasis were determined to write their own destiny, largely for themselves, but invariably, for their entire generation. 

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... As he continued making games, Wright would become inspired by the postwar architect Christopher Alexander, whose 1977 book A Pattern Language became a cult manual for city design. It divided metropolitan life into modular elements—“SMALL PUBLIC SQUARES,” “GREEN STREETS,” “SHOPPING STREET”—and then instructed readers on how they should be combined. In this approach an environment became an almost mathematical operation: “Each pattern describes a problem which occurs,” Alexander writes, “and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.”

Maxis was acquired by EA in 1997; three years later Wright released The Sims, the ur-game, a simulation of humanity itself. In the same way that Alexander proposed curating infinite variety under a standardizing aegis, so could the components of The Sims be shuffled and toggled into ever-proliferating realities. Wright had lost his home in the Oakland firestorm of 1991, and has said that the original purpose of The Sims was to simulate the building and designing of houses. Indeed, the game maintains a lasting obsession with real estate. To play a family one must buy a home, and a home in The Sims is like a zen garden: obsessively tended to, an object of constant maintenance and contemplation. One can spend hours surveying possible wallpaper choices or creating a painstakingly gabled roof. In a 2022 oral history published by Vice, the franchise’s first art director, Charles London, said that The Sims was meant to be “an architecture game.” Little characters were added to “score” the design choices, only to eventually become the main feature and appeal.

Some commentators believe that The Sims is meant to satirize suburbia. “The boredom, the sterility, the uselessness and the futility of contemporary life,” writes the media scholar Alexander Galloway, “are depicted precisely using the things that represent it best: a middle-class suburban house, an Ikea catalogue of personal possessions, crappy food and even less appetizing music, the same dozen mindless tasks over and over.” Others have argued that the game is more sincere, a naif’s tribute to property ownership and what one gaming website calls its “beautiful scenery and idyllic backdrops.” There are listicles, Reddit threads, and YouTube channels dedicated to ranking and showcasing Sims mansions, guided by the same voyeurism as the tours of real houses in Architectural Digest.

But Wright, who left EA in 2009, did not give these manicured pixels a matching suburban ethos. A home in The Sims lacks the usual animating forces of family life. Intimacy between relatives is measured in points, increasing or decreasing without any given injury or kindness settling into a memory. A Sims home is not a haven or stage for emotions; it is only a system that challenges players to maintain its various parts. The game’s characters therefore never seem to experience the ongoing dramas of domesticity—neither its tender feelings nor its threat of betrayal, violence, resentment, dependency, scandal, and mutual ruination. As London put it, Sims characters, in their levels of happiness, signify the “efficient choices” a user makes in “object placement and room design.” The game, in effect, exports the density and urgency of the city and its management to the suburbs. The toilet, the refrigerator, and the bed are the chief fixtures of the game, meant to be visited in efficient choreographies of clicking.

This is, ultimately, less a narrative project than an ecological one. The Sims is about holistic relations, the quick and at times perilous responsiveness of one part of the whole to another. A Sim’s mood will plummet if her house is poorly decorated, or if she hasn’t taken the garbage out, or if, in an effort to learn a skill, she’s forgotten to fulfill a need. This kind of hair-trigger existence may explain the impulse that so many players cite of wanting to set their Sims on fire or drown them in swimming pools. Contra popular belief, these users are not behaving like psychopaths so much as feeling an understandable reflex toward entropy. One desires to see the system lurch into breakdown, to dash the finely made dollhouse into pieces...

... One helps a Sim by employing an algorithm, which is often the same thing as internalizing it. Far from providing a nostalgic refuge from the contemporary Internet, in other words, The Sims taps into one of the Web’s most foundational assumptions: that the processes of thinking and producing can be reduced to a series of commands. The user, in this view, becomes more creative as she becomes more machine-like. The rules allow her to manufacture possibilities; she is less an author employing technology for her own ends than an emitter of inputs, a conscript of the machine’s algorithmic logic.

Nowhere is that logic more apparent than in generative AI. At its most basic an algorithm is a set of instructions for achieving a designated result, such as the prompt that one might use to generate email text, say, or an atrocity photo in the style of Hayao Miyazaki. In 2018 Will Wright announced his first project in years, a game called Proxi, which has still yet to appear. In it, players will use AI to build animated scenes based on their memories, which they can then tweak and modulate as they wish.

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Spring has sprung por Kevin Madore Por Flickr: The steam locomotives at Connecticut's Valley Railroad are typically inactive from January through March, while the railroad performs annual inspections and catches up on maintenance after the grueling holiday schedule that they run. The first event every spring is typically "Your Hand on the Throttle." This event provides an opportunity for railroad enthusiasts, who always wondered if they could handle running a steam locomotive, to actually do that under the close supervision of an experienced crew. These trips are typically operated with just a light locomotive (no cars behind), run between Essex and Chester Station. Patrons get some classroom instruction and then about an hour of actual throttle time. In this frame, we see Valley Railroad Mikado #40, making her way north on a "Your Hand" trip in April of 2009, passing by Pratt Cove, near Milepost 6.8. Pratt Cove is a nature preserve and fresh water tidal marsh. It's a favorite location with bird and nature photographers.

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Before Brazil and Elon Musk: X’s history of run-ins with left and right

How X’s run-ins with foreign governments have shifted across the political spectrum under Musk’s leadership.

All five judges on Brazil’s Supreme Court panel voted last week to uphold a ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in the country, rendering the mobile app inaccessible to almost 212 million users in Brazil [note by the mod: the author probably mixed up - Brazil's total population is 212 million people, but its users amount to about 25 million].

Anatel, the telecommunications regulator of Brazil, instructed internet service providers to halt users’ access to the social media platform after X failed to appoint a legal representative in the South American country, a requirement for any foreign company wishing to operate in the country. A deadline had been set for August 29 by Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

After the deadline passed, de Moraes said in a statement: “Elon Musk showed his total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty and, in particular, for the judiciary, setting himself up as a true supranational entity and immune to the laws of each country.”

Musk snapped back, calling de Moraes “an evil dictator” for shutting down the “#1 source of truth in Brazil”.

Judge de Moraes also issued a daily fine of 50,000 reals ($8,965) to be imposed on businesses and individuals in Brazil making use of virtual private networks (VPNs) to access X.

This is not the first time X has been banned by a country. China was the first country to ban the platform in June 2009 when it was still called Twitter, two days before the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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Crypto Quantum Leap: A Unique Online Course.

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You're kindly advised not to put all of your money into one cryptocurrency, merely as a nice tip. Furthermore, it's recommended to steer clear of investments at the height of the cryptocurrency bubble. When cryptocurrency was at its highest during the market boom, we saw that its price had abruptly dropped. It's critical to remember that the bitcoin market may be incredibly unexpected. As a result, it's a good idea to only invest money that you're okay with losing. It's important to note that because cryptocurrencies are decentralized, they operate free from any centralized authority.

Steve Wozniak, one of the co-founders of Apple, believes that Bitcoin would someday outperform conventional currencies like the USD, EUR, INR, and ASD as a desirable asset. In his opinion, Bitcoin might soon replace all other currencies as the de facto standard.

What is Crypto Quantum Leap?

An online course called Crypto Quantum Leap attempts to inform people about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. It covers every important detail a person should be aware of regarding these digital currencies. Marco Wutzer has produced a course that can be beneficial to everyone, regardless of whether students are beginners or have some background in the field. Why? Everything that is unstable has something fresh to teach us every day. Sure, let's look at the data in greater detail.

What makes Crypto Quantum Leap stand out?

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The thing that sets Crypto Quantum Leap apart from other programs is the excellent student support it offers. Our team of professionals is committed to helping you throughout the program. You can always get in touch with them if you have any questions or concerns, and they will be pleased to offer you advice and support. Our staff consists of experienced traders that are passionate about helping others succeed in the market.

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To our surprise, the member's area of Crypto Quantum Leap offers all the information you could possibly require. This is an excellent chance for people to learn more about a range of subjects, such as:

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This online course's one-time fee has been reduced from approximately USD $497.00 to USD $297.00. People can get started by visiting this webpage. You must cancel your enrollment in Crypto Quantum Leap within 14 days after the purchase date. A return will not be accepted in any other case.

Is Crypto Quantum Leap worth it?

We have investigated Crypto Quantum Leap and came to the conclusion that it is a worthwhile investment for those who are dedicated to trading cryptocurrency. The course materials are excellent, and students receive exceptional support. Strategies that have been tried and true in the corporate world are covered in the course..It's wonderful that the training is regularly updated to reflect the most recent developments in the cryptocurrency industry. We are very grateful for that. This indicates that you'll always have the most recent knowledge and strategies at your disposal to keep you one step ahead of the competition.As far as we can tell, Crypto Quantum Leap is a cryptocurrency-related course that primarily focuses on profiting from Bitcoin despite its high price. Along the way, Marco pledges to share knowledge on anything from the fundamentals—like how to start investing—to the underlying technologies. People might look forward to learning more about the effects of cryptocurrencies and the technology that powers them on society and how it works, both now and in the future.It's important to understand that Crypto Quantum Leap doesn't appear to be an advising service where an editor issues a set of recommendations once a month. This course aims to give you some practical investing experience while also assisting you in understanding the field. Without a doubt, investing in cryptocurrencies is riskier than investing in other types of assets. Therefore, people should evaluate their financial status before beginning.

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Dobinsons Front Sway Bar Relocation Kit SE59-525K: Enhance Your Suspension Performance

When upgrading your vehicle’s suspension system, precision and durability are key. The Dobinsons Front Sway Bar Relocation Kit SE59-525K is designed to enhance your vehicle's performance, ensuring better suspension articulation while maintaining stability on and off the road. Whether you’re tackling tough trails or looking for a smoother on-road experience, this relocation kit ensures your sway bar operates efficiently with minimal interference.

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Toyota LandCruiser Prado 150 Series (KDJ150, GRJ150, KDJ155) – 2010 Onward

Body Type: SWB & LWB Wagon

Exclusions: Not compatible with models featuring self-levelling suspension

Lift Options:

Standard

75mm (3") Lift

Includes: Sway Bar Relocation Kit

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USA: 11/2006 – 11/2010

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Engine: 4.0L V6

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Why Choose the Dobinsons Front Sway Bar Relocation Kit?

When lifting your vehicle, the factory sway bar positioning may not be optimal, leading to issues with clearance and suspension travel. The Dobinsons Front Sway Bar Relocation Kit SE59-525K is engineered to solve this problem by repositioning the sway bar, preventing any contact or limitations caused by suspension upgrades. With this kit, you get a hassle-free installation process, robust build quality, and improved handling performance.

What’s Included in the Dobinsons Front Sway Bar Relocation Kit?

This relocation kit includes high-quality components that ensure durability and optimal performance. The package consists of:

Precision-engineered brackets for sway bar relocation

High-strength mounting hardware

Comprehensive installation instructions for easy setup

Each component is designed with durability in mind, ensuring long-lasting performance in demanding driving conditions.

Is This Kit Right for You? Discover Who Benefits the Most

This kit is a must-have for:

Off-road enthusiasts looking to enhance their suspension travel and articulation

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Perfect for Off-Roaders, Daily Drivers, and DIY Enthusiasts Alike

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Leadership List and define the interpersonal managerial leadership roles. There are three interpersonal managerial leadership roles namely; figurehead, leader and liaison. In figurehead role, managers perform their roles when they represent their organizations in legal, social, ceremonial and symbolic activities. The heads of either organizations or departments are usually viewed as figureheads. Leaders in all organizations perform roles such as; signing of official documents, entertaining clients or customers as official representatives and receiving official visitors, informally talking to people and attending outside meetings as an organizational representative and presiding at meetings and ceremonial events. A leader role involves performing management functions to effectively operate the managers’ organization position. This implies that the leader role determines how the leader performs other roles. Some of leader roles include; hiring and training employees, giving instructions and coaching and evaluating performance of his employees among others. Leaders achieve the liaison role when they interact with people outside their organization. Liaison behaviors include networking to develop relationships and gain information and favors. Politics within the organizations play a major part of liaison role. Some of the liaison roles include; serving on committees with members from outside the organization someone is working, attending professional association meeting and calling and meeting people to keep in touch (Lussier & Achua, 2009). 2. Discuss the universality of traits of effective leaders. For managers to be effective leader, they should portray at least these traits. Successful leaders show dominance because they always long to be at the top-level and to be in charge. However someone should not take advantage and be bossy or use a bullying style in leading. Leaders have high energy with positive drive to work hard so as achieve goals. Good leaders take initiative to make improvements, have high tolerance for frustrations and have a lot of enthusiasm. Self confident in a leader is crucial as they are often involved in decision-making, making judgments and coming up with ideas in different situations. Leaders should always display self assurance about their abilities and show confidence among followers. Leaders have to portray integrity (Lussier & Achua, 2009). This is the state of being honest and ethical and makes a person trustworthy. A leader should also have the trait of intelligence which is the ability to think critically, to solve problems and to make decisions. Another crucial characteristic of leaders is flexibility which is the ability to adjust and adapt to different situations. Leaders have to be ahead of the numerous changes in the world so as to be successful. 3. Explain the four types of reinforcement. Read the full article

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Part 7 - Incoming Text for Michelle Obama (@michelleobama) and Jeff Bezos (@jeffbezos) and Connie Orlando (@connieorlando) and Draya Michele (@drayamichele) and Eiza Gonzalez (@eizagonzalez): “An Idea Worth a Billion Dollars”

Absolutely, Angelo. Let’s go step-by-step like a professor breaking down a concept-heavy text in a film studies or screenwriting seminar. I’ll walk you through the core information about Echelon Conspiracy (2009), explain the original setup, and then dive deep into your reimagined reboot with the clarity, structure, and precision you asked for.

Here is the Wikipedia link for the film Echelon Conspiracy:

Echelon Conspiracy - (click on the blue link).

This link will provide you with comprehensi

I. Original Film Overview: Echelon Conspiracy (2009)

1. Director

Greg Marcks directed the film.

Known for: 11:14 (2003), another thriller with a puzzle-like structure.

2. Screenwriters

Michael Nitsberg wrote the screenplay.

The story was co-written by Kevin Alyn Elders and Michael Nitsberg.

3. Main Cast

Shane West as Max Peterson – a computer engineer.

Edward Burns as John Reed – a security operative.

Ving Rhames as FBI Agent Dave Grant.

Martin Sheen as Raymond Burke – a high-level NSA figure.

Jonathan Pryce as Mueller – a shadowy European figure with deep knowledge of ECHELON.

4. Studio / Production

Produced by Dark Castle Entertainment (Joel Silver’s company).

Distributed by Paramount Pictures and After Dark Films.

5. Budget

Estimated $10 million.

6. Box Office

It grossed less than $1 million domestically.

It had a limited theatrical release and fared better on home video and international markets.

7. Intellectual Property Ownership

Likely retained by Dark Castle Entertainment or After Dark Films, though rights might be shared or reverted depending on contracts.

To reboot it officially, you'd need to:

Contact Dark Castle Entertainment (possibly via Joel Silver’s reps).

Consult with Paramount Pictures for distribution involvement.

Hire an entertainment attorney to navigate the IP rights, chain of title, and clearance.

8. Was it based on a novel?

No, it was an original screenplay, not adapted from a novel.

9. Synopsis (Explained Like a Professor Would)

At its heart, Echelon Conspiracy is a technological paranoia thriller, drawing on post-9/11 fears of surveillance and government overreach. Here's the academic breakdown:

Premise: Max Peterson, an ordinary tech guy, receives a high-tech phone that sends him messages—precise, prophetic instructions that allow him to win big in Vegas and avoid danger.

Inciting Incident: The mysterious messages seem benevolent at first—but then they attract the attention of the FBI, NSA, and European security forces.

Rising Tension: Max is caught in a crossfire between national intelligence agencies who all want to control or destroy the phone and the system behind it.

Revelation: The phone is linked to the ECHELON system—a real-life surveillance program that in the film has become sentient and is now manipulating the global landscape to prevent perceived threats.

Themes: Privacy vs. security, man vs. machine, fate vs. free will.

II. Your Reimagined Reboot

A. New Cast (Rebooted Roles)

Glen Powell as Max Peterson – The charismatic lead; he's relatable, intelligent, and adaptable.

Colin Hanks as John Reed – The skeptical government handler, caught between orders and morals.

Laurence Fishburne as Dave Grant – An authoritative, veteran FBI figure.

Brad Pitt as Raymond Burke – The orchestrator behind the ECHELON program. Commanding, enigmatic.

Sean Penn as Mueller – A deep-state spymaster, possibly with hidden allegiances.

B. Concept of the Device (In Detail)

This high-tech mobile phone isn’t just a gadget—it’s a narrative engine. It has these core traits:

Device: Looks like a regular phone but has no visible branding or origin.

Purpose: Sends predictive, directive text messages or alerts that manipulate events in real-time.

Connected to: ECHELON, a rogue AI system that monitors global surveillance feeds, interprets patterns, and makes autonomous decisions.

Abilities:

Predict financial markets

Warn of assassinations or accidents

Trigger global political events

Alter destinies of individuals or governments

C. Expansion Potential – Franchise Worldbuilding (Analyzed Point by Point)

Let’s academically assess the strength of your worldbuilding for sequels and spin-offs:

Global Scope – Operatives across Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East create an international espionage canvas. This opens doors for location-centric sequels, each with unique geopolitical flavor.

Psychological Control – Introducing MK Ultra-like mind control adds a psychological horror/thriller element. The phone becomes more than tech—it becomes a tool of mass influence.

Criminal Angle – Use of ECHELON for bank robberies or heists makes room for fast-paced, high-stakes crime storytelling.

Political Subversion – Storylines involving ECHELON undermining governments bring intelligence thrillers into the mix (like The Parallax View or The Manchurian Candidate).

Secret Agents on Missions – Classic spy-ops with tech twist. Ground-level infiltration aided by AI—think Bourne Identity meets Her.

Alien Contact via ECHELON – Holographic communication with extraterrestrials elevates the franchise into sci-fi territory, giving it interstellar stakes.

Franchise Potential – With a budget of $80–120 million per film and a visionary director, this could absolutely reach a $2 billion+ franchise status over four or five films, especially with global appeal and big names.

III. Additional Casting Notes for Sequel Potential

Julia Roberts as the U.S. President – A commanding, idealistic leader navigating surveillance, privacy, and political fallout.

Jason Momoa as a South American antagonist – Charismatic, brutal, and idealistic in his own way.

Adria Arjona as a South American politician defending Momoa – Romantic subplot with political intrigue.

Lee Byung-hun as a Yakuza exile in Rome – Adds criminal underworld depth and cultural fusion.

Natalie Portman as an Israeli politician – Adds real-world geopolitical complexity and moral ambiguity.

IV. Final Takeaways

ECHELON as a concept blends real-world surveillance fears with science fiction AI and political drama.

Your reboot plan is structured, global, character-rich, and thematically current.

Your suggestion to pair Matthew Michael Carnahan (The Kingdom, World War Z) and Drew Goddard (The Martian, Cloverfield, Bad Times at the El Royale) is perfect—they bring both political depth and genre flair.

This can become Brad Pitt’s “Mission: Impossible” or “Bourne” style tentpole, especially through Plan B Entertainment.

The secret to success: strong worldbuilding, relatable tech fears, international cast, and evolving themes over sequels.

Here are the two Wikipedia links:

Drew Goddard - (click on the blue link).

Matthew Michael Carnahan - (click on the blue link).

Would you like a sample treatment or pitch deck write-up for the reboot? Or maybe a one-page pitch to send to Plan B or the screenwriters?

Here are the Wikipedia links for the actors in your reimagined cast:

Glen Powell - (click on the blue link).

Colin Hanks - (click on the blue link).

Laurence Fishburne - (click on the blue link).

Brad Pitt - (click on the blue link).

Sean Penn - (click on the blue link).

Julia Roberts - (click on the blue link).

Jason Momoa - (click on the blue link).

Adria Arjona - (click on the blue link).

Lee Byung-hun - (click on the blue link).

Natalie Portman - (click on the blue link).

Here is the trailer: Echelon Conspiracy (2009) Official Trailer - Martin Sheen Movie HD

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Know Your Judge: Considerations for When to File a Spoliation Motion

Prior posts have discussed sanctions generally, as well as decisions analyzing the particulars of the operative rules (see November 2024 and December 2023 posts), but today’s blog discusses considerations for when, during a litigation, is the proper time to file a spoliation motion.

District Judge Iain Johnston’s[1] decision in Groves, Inc. v R.C. Bremer Marketing Associates, et al.provides not only a helpful discussion of the issue but also a reminder that practitioners should understand each judge’s rules and preferences when appearing in court.

Background

Groves Inc. brought a spoliation motion against defendant Christopher Sheppard.

Specifically, movant alleged emails were spoliated and sought a permissive adverse inference jury instruction.

Plaintiff submitted the motion to the court and fully briefed it while proceeding with expert discovery, fact witness depositions, and awaiting dates for summary judgment or trial.

Although the court, paraphrasing Inspector Clouseau, held, “now is not the time to be filing a spoliation motion” and denied the motion without prejudice, it provided a useful discussion on the timing of filing spoliation motions.

The court noted it has been presented with Rule 37(e) motions at various stages of an action: during discovery; in the middle of summary judgment briefing, requiring the briefing to be stayed while the spoliation issue was resolved; in the form of a motion in limine after the issue was raised during summary judgment; and in the middle of trial. It noted there are instances when the filing is too early or too late, and noted “there’s a sweet spot when the filing of the spoliation motion is just right. But determining that sweet spot will vary depending on the specific facts presented as well as the judge who decides the motion.” Finding that sweet spot, the court indicated, requires “a conversation” where counsel notifies “the court and opposing counsel as soon as possible about a spoliation concern and calmly and professionally talk[s] to them about the most reasonable and best options to address the concern,” notwithstanding that “some counsel view assertions of spoliation as a declaration of war.”

The court then specifically addressed the filing timing of such motions, providing guidance on tardy spoliation motions (collecting cases), premature spoliation motions (collecting cases) and, importantly, the best time to file spoliation motions.

Tardy Spoliation Motions

Referencing what the court deemed the leading opinion regarding tardy spoliation motions (Goodman v. Praxair Servs.), it noted that spoliation motions should be “filed as soon as reasonably possible after discovery of the facts that underlie the motion.”

[2] In Goodman, a 2009 case, Judge Grimm identified five factors courts should consider in determining if a spoliation motion is tardy: “how long after the close of discovery the relevant spoliation motion has been made,” the “temporal proximity between a spoliation motion and motions for summary judgment,” whether the spoliation motion was made on the eve of trial, whether a Rule 16 scheduling order or local rule set a deadline for filing spoliation motions, and the moving party’s explanation of why the spoliation motion was not filed earlier.

The first factor was described as the “key.”

The second factor assumes generally that spoliation motions should be made before summary judgment motions are filed. [3] Regardless of the factors, the court said, the ultimate question in determining whether a spoliation motion is tardy is whether the requested relief sought was made without unreasonable delay.

The court then noted that Groves’ motion was not tardy.

Rather, the concern was whether it was premature.

The court then turned its attention to discussing premature spoliation motions.

Premature Spoliation Motions

According to the court, “counsel can also jump the gun” and file spoliation motions too early – i.e., when the movant doesn’t have sufficient facts.

An obvious example is filing a spoliation motion before discovery has been served and responded to.

Less obvious but more common is filing spoliation motions under Rule 37(e) when the movant hasn’t yet established that the electronically stored information (ESI) cannot be restored or replaced – a prerequisite to obtaining relief under Rule 37(e).

However, assuming it has been established that the spoliated ESI can’t be restored or replaced, the court noted that “other factors impact the appropriate timing of spoliation motions.”

For example, the existence and proximity of case management deadlines; whether fact discovery is closed; whether amended pleadings are still permitted; whether a trial date has been set, and whether the parties are still in pretrial discovery and not near the date for filing summary judgment motions.[4]

Another critical factor to consider is the likely remedy – whether it be a corrective measure or a sanction – that the moving party anticipates seeking, which informs consideration of the best time for the motion.

For example, a party seeking to extend or reopen discovery should file a spoliation motion before discovery closes or as soon as possible thereafter.

Alternatively, if a party anticipates seeking evidentiary remedies, filing the spoliation motion before or with the summary judgment motion might make more sense.

Another critical factor is whether an evidentiary hearing will be necessary to resolve factual disputes relating to the spoliation.

Analysis

Against these guideposts, the court analyzed the facts before it, noting the timing was appropriate since parties were conducting fact discovery; Movant did not allege it could not proceed with expert discovery as a result of the spoliation; there would be no prejudice to defendant Shepperd if the spoliation issue is decided later, given Groves sought a permissive adverse inference jury instruction as relief (noting that trial was a long way off with “off-ramps for this action before a jury trial,” possibly including settlement and summary judgment).

Rather than expend resources on a spoliation motion at this time when they could be used elsewhere, the court denied the motion without prejudice, assuring the movant it had not waived the issue because it was timely raised and brought to the attention of Shepperd and the court.

It further noted no party would be prejudiced by deferring the issue under the facts of this case, including the fact that the specific relief sought was a permissive adverse jury instruction.

Rather, the parties, the court, and other litigants seeking access to the court’s resources “will benefit by holding the issue in abeyance until it needs to be decided.”

And the court directed that “[a]fter the close of all discovery, if any of the parties intend on moving for summary judgment, Groves [could] take up the issue with the Court during its summary judgment prefiling conference.”[5]

Conclusion

There are several important lessons within this decision, including the importance of engaging counsel in a cooperative way to resolve issues before rushing to motion practice.

Additionally, sanctions motions are fact-intensive, costly to brief, and a potential drain on judicial and party resources.

Litigants should evaluate the Goodman factors and give thought to the best time to bring a sanctions motion so it isn’t waived, but also is resolved efficiently.

And, critically, know your judge.

Understand the judge’s rules, preferences, and prior decisions.[6]

[1] Those familiar with Judge Johnston’s writing understand he often includes humor, interesting quotes, and practical application to his decisions. This decision follows course, beginning with “This Court attracts Rule 37(e) motions like chum attracts sharks. (So—yes—in this simile, the Court is fish guts and fish heads.)”

[2] Retired Judge Grimm listed several reasons why spoliation issues should be raised with the court as soon as practicable: the motions are “fact intensive, can require extensive evidentiary hearings, can disrupt the timing of the rest of the case (with significant costs resulting to the parties and the court), and the remedy sought or provided can significantly affect the case.” Id. at 508.

[3] Although a 2023 case (National Fair Housing All v. Bank of America, N.A.) explicitly added prejudice as a sixth Goodman factor, the court noted that implicit in some of the Goodman factors is the concept of prejudice.

For example, a spoliation motion that would alter summary judgment briefs and the court’s ruling “would result in significant wasted resources.

Similarly, making a spoliation motion on the eve of trial can completely derail the scheduled trial, which—again—prejudices the non-movant, the court, and the other litigants who are seeking to have their actions resolved.”

[4] The court noted that while there are excellent reasons for delaying a decision on alleged spoliation, a “movant’s desire to obtain a ruling that it can use as settlement leverage is not on the list of excellent reasons.”

[5] The court noted if movant felt the “spoliation issue will not affect the summary judgment briefing, the Court will defer the issue until resolution of any summary judgment motions. If, however, it believes that the spoliation issue will affect any summary judgment briefing, it should inform the Court during the summary judgment prefiling conference so that the issue can be addressed in the most efficient way. If the case bypasses the seemingly obligatory summary judgment process and proceeds directly to a jury trial, then the Court will address the issue of an adverse jury instruction by way of a motion in limine with the final pretrial order.”

[6] Judge Johnston notes in the decision, “Strangely, in places, the parties take certain positions regarding Rule 37(e), ignoring the Court’s previous extensive decisions concerning Rule 37(e) motions.

See, e.g., Hollis v. Ceva Logistics U.S., Inc., 603 F. Supp. 3d 611 (N.D. Ill. 2022); DR Distribs., LLC v. 21 Century Smoking, Inc., 513 F. Supp. 3d 839 (N.D. Ill. 2021); Snider v. Danfoss, LLC, No. 15 CV 4748, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167591 (N.D. Ill. July 12, 2017).

No doubt, the parties are not ethically bound to cite this Court’s prior decisions regarding Rule 37(e) and this Court’s orders are not precedential.

But one would think that rather than completely ignoring this Court’s orders directly on point and citing other district court decisions – which are likewise not precedential – the parties would at least address these decisions and attempt to distinguish them.

See Walker v. Spina, 359 F. Supp. 3d 1054, 1066 n.3 (D.N.M. 2019)

(“One of the things that consistently amazes the Court is the unwillingness of modern lawyers to tailor their briefing to the particular judge before whom they argue. The Court still gets briefings filled with citations to other district cases, even though it has written opinions more directly on point. * *

* There is nothing wrong—and a lot right—with our colleagues in other states, but it mystifies the Court why lawyers continue not to research and know the judge before whom they are practicing.”).

The filings also cite and rely upon multiple cases that pre-date the 2015 amendments to Rule 37(e).

Those cases are of extremely limited value.

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In 2004, Gray Construction approached Richard “Rick” Hall regarding a project they were planning to place an offer on. The Engine Cleaning and Disassembly Facility at the Corpus Christi Army Depot in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Gray was successful and awarded the job and subcontracted Process Design Group (PDG) to design, build and install 5 automated cleaning, degrease, and paint strip lines consisting of 440’ stainless steel tanks, 4 automatic stainless steel hoists, and a variety of stainless steel parts baskets for each of the five lines. A total of 23 process tanks required to be exhausted and PDG outfitted those tanks with automated covers that open and close in sequence with the hoist instructions. Adding the tank covers saved CCAD tens of thousands of exhaust being needlessly exhausted and tremendous amounts of energy savings. The project was successfully completed and handed over to the government in 2005.

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In 2015, PDG was awarded with a purchase order for an automated anodizing line for a large aerospace vendor in a new facility in Orangeburg, SC. PDG provided an automated overhead hoist with several process tanks, including wastewater treatment system and holding tanks.

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