New E-SAKUGA ibook dedicated to Denno Coil will be released on August 22th in English and Japanese.
A multi-touch book that allows users to view animation key frames in motion, like a flipbook. You can see the completed animation, timesheets, and layout all at once. Also includes illustrations, character references, and other artworks.
Denno Coil TV series is written and directed by Mitsuo Iso.
The impressive craftsmanship of "Kubo and the Two Strings" is currently on display in Los Angeles.
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kateAmateur sleuthing by YT commenters? I'm SHOCKED things went wrong.
When Marina Joyce uploaded a YouTube video advertising some dresses, the last thing she expected was that it would put her at the centre of a conspiracy
What do you do when the internet decides you’ve been kidnapped?
It sounds like a strange question, and it is. Yet that’s what happened to the 19-year-old Marina Joyce. Somehow, a video about some dresses turned into a huge conspiracy theory involving her friends, family and even the police. Then people online turned on Marina herself, accusing her of planning the entire thing. How did it happen?
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Let's be honest — telling your children to do their chores and actually getting them to do them are two very different things. The first is far easier than the latter.
But one mother, whose excellent parenting technique is going viral, does not give her Internet-obsessed kids any other option but to do what they're asked. Unless, of course, they want to stay away from the cyber world all day — which they don't.
How on Earth does she do it though? If she's not home, she certainly can't guarantee that their bedrooms will get tidied or the laundry will be folded, right? Wrong.
This mother's clever trick will have you thinking 'why didn't I think of this sooner?' See below for the very reason this brilliant mother has a perfectly clean kitchen today.
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Not since Matthew McConaughey showed up on Guy Fieri’s show has there been such an exciting alignment of star power in food television. VH1 has ordered an unscripted series starring — no joke...More »
Ambitious new cities Songdo and Masdar may not have lived up to their promise, but smaller projects in the US aim to be laboratories for sustainable city planning
Masdar, on the edges of Abu Dhabi, was billed as the world’s first sustainable city when it was conceived in 2006. It was intended to be a zero-carbon, zero-waste city, with smart technology embedded across all the city’s functions. A decade on and ambitions have cooled. The completion date has moved from 2016 to 2030 and city authorities have said it won’t achieve the original aim of being a net zero-emissions city.
Related: Masdar's zero-carbon dream could become world’s first green ghost town
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(note: No Type-Moon Weekly News Round Up or All Points Bulletin this week)
This is the year Otakon says goodbye to Baltimore.
One of this year’s most exciting guest is probably Kazuki Akane. Directing The Vision of Escaflowne alone probably enough to make him a tent-pole guest but his work on Heat Guy J, Noein, Birdy the Mighty Decode and Code Geass: Akito the Exiled add some variety.
On top of that are some senior staff members from P.A. Works in attendance along with an exhibit. Nobuhiro Kikuchi, Kazuki Higashiji, and Kenji Horikawa will surely have a lot of insight into the studio behind Canaan, The Eccentric Family, and Shirobako.
The main players behind Under the Dog Jiro Ishii, Koji Morimoto, and Muneki Ogasawara should have a lot to say now that they have released their Kickstarted project. And speaking of Kickstarter, LeSean Thomas will also be a guest fresh off of the co-pro debut of the pilot for Cannon Busters. His experience in the western and eastern animation industry gives him a unique insight into animation production.
Kasumi Fukagawa’s work on mobile games should give her an extra dimension on top of her being a character designer. Shiro Dogu and Shunsuke Wada are an unknown quantity but they might have some enlightening information as employees of TakaOtacraft.
If you’re coming to Otakon this year, remember to party extra hard so we can properly send off the city that has welcomed the con for so many years, and say hello to the nation’s capital. Remember it is your last chance to eat some crab, make The Wire jokes, or get a bottle of ice cold water for a dollar when your at Otakon so make it count!
Be sure to attend Kate’s Panel!
Such Dog. Much Anime. Wow.
Saturday, 8:15PM, Panel 5
Our tentative schedule for the convention:
Friday
09:00AM Girl Power: Feminism and the Magical Girl Genre
10:15AM P.A.Works Autograph Session
12:00PM Jojo’s Posing School
02:00PM When Gundam Goes Bad
03:15PM Brave Series
04:30PM PA Works
05:45PM Jiro Ishii Q&A
07:00PM Haiku and Beyond
08:15PM Women in Anime
10:45PM History of Detective Conan
Saturday
09:00AM 1999: Otaku Time Machine
10:15AM Sports Anime History
10:15AM A Wizard Did It! The Mechanics of Fantasy in Anime and Literature
11:30AM Cannon Busters Exclusive Screening w/ LeSean Thomas
12:45PM MAPPA w/ Maruyama
02:00PM Awesome Women Making Anime
02:00PM Anime and Dice: Turning Cosplay into Roleplay
03:00PM Koji Morimoto Q&A
04:30PM TakaOtacraft: Otaku Craftsmen
05:45PM P.A.WORKS Anime Live Drawing: feat. Kazuki Higashiji
07:00PM Gattai! Giant Robots of 198X
08:15PM Such Dog. Much Anime. Wow.
08:15PM CLAMP Multiverse
09:30PM Victorian Japan
10:45PM Anime’s Appearances in Non-Anime
11:45PM Greater Uglier Manga
Sunday
09:00AM The Visual Novel: History of the Unrecognized Narrative Art
10:15AM 37 Years of Gundam Anime
12:00PM Gundam Thunderbolt w/ Q&A
12:45PM Otakon: The Road to DC Panel
02:00PM Aniplex Gameshow Hosted by Team AoA
03:00PM Con Feedback Session
Humans waste 1.3 billion tons of food per year, a considerable amount of which is the, frankly, still-delicious stuff restaurants toss at the end of the day — bread freshly baked that morning, chopped produce that didn’t get used, sauces, leftover soups, and so on. A new app...More »
East Fork wolf pack, found near Denali, was first researched in the 1930s and had shrunk significantly this year – and it’s now believed all may have perished
The world’s longest-studied wolf pack may have been wiped out, wildlife officials fear amid an escalating battle between federal and state authorities in Alaska over the aggressive hunting of predators such as wolves and bears.
The East Fork wolf pack, found near Denali, North America’s tallest mountain, was first researched in the 1930s and provided the first detailed accounts of wolf behavior and ecology. But years of hunting, trapping and habitat disturbance reduced numbers to just one known female, a male and two pups earlier this year. It’s now believed all may have perished.
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The goal is to get people in and out as quickly as possible
A quick-service steakhouse chain that’s wildly popular in Japan — known for its lack of chairs and fast turnover — is debuting its first U.S. outpost in New York. The Ikinari Steak, owned by chef and restaurateur Kunio Ichinose, is expected to debut in the East Village at 90 East 10th St. later this year. The concept is to feed people steak as quickly as possible. It’s not yet clear if the new outpost will also forgo seating in favor of stand-up tables, a method that helps with the speedy turnover. Ichinose’s company applied for a liquor license this month, and the application notes that the restaurant will have 50 seats and 15 tables.
Ichinose first opened the stand-up steakhouse in Tokyo in 2013, according to a profile of the "steak zealot" chef in the Financial Times. Ikinari now boasts more than 50 locations, with more on the way. He developed the restaurant specifically to feed people steak as quickly as possible, for a population with high tastes but middling incomes. FT explains:
Customers stand at 1m-high tables and order the precise number of grammes desired. The cost — Y5/gramme for rib-eye to more than Y10/g for sirloin — gives customers what Mr Ichinose claims is a vital sense of control.
Everything is calculated for speed of throughput and optimal use of limited ground floor spaces in key city locations. The height of the tables, Mr. Ichinose demonstrates by jumping up and miming, has been calibrated so that diners are unlikely to put their knives and forks down between mouthfuls. He pulls out a smartphone, which funnels him real-time CCTV footage of all the restaurants, to show this happening.
The steakhouse offers a variety of cuts, and the application for the NYC location also notes that soup, salad, and rice will be served. An online menu for the chain lists the price for about seven ounces of top rib steak at 1600 yen, or about $16.
It’s a hit in Tokyo for the lunch crowd, FT reports. In places with offices, people wait 45 minutes to get in on weekdays. People stay in the restaurant for about 30 minutes or less, and the original location, which is about 200-square-feet, reportedly serves about 500 people per day. Besides the turnover, Ikinari also offers a loyalty program that Ichinose is particularly proud of — a "beef milage card" app that allows diners to track how many pounds of steak they’ve eaten and ranks them against other regulars. As of August 2015, the top Japanese diner had consumed 37,000 grams, or 81 pounds, of steak at the restaurant, according to FT.
It's possible that the East Village location won't be the same speedy lunchtime meal that the Japanese outposts are. East Village isn't known for its office workers, and a liquor license suggests Ikinari Steak may want people to hang out for longer at this location. Eater has reached out to the chain; stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
Paul O’Neal, 18, shown unarmed in body camera footage from 28 July despite accusations that he was opening fire at officers, who fatally shot him in the back
Chicago police called a black teenager a “bitch ass motherfucker” as he lay dying from a police gunshot wound, “shocking and disturbing” body camera footage released on Friday showed.
The footage also revealed that officers gave each other handshakes, complained they would be relegated to desk duty having shot at 18 year-old Paul O’Neal and accused the unarmed teenager of opening fire on them in the moments after O’Neal was shot in the back.
Continue reading...With 1bn smartphones lying idle in the US, meet the companies repurposing old smartphones into sensors and security cameras in a bid to tackle e-waste
If Jim Poss hadn’t dropped his phone in the bath while bathing his son, he might never have hit upon the idea for his business. While researching a cheap replacement for his waterlogged iPhone, he had an epiphany: the used phones sold online for $60 (£45) or less could be repurposed as Internet of Things sensors and used to form flexible, low-cost security and vehicle telematics systems.
Related: Apple announces new recycling program as interest in green gadgets grows
Continue reading...California startup’s robot isn’t quite ready to take on Kuratas but founders confident ‘Team USA’ can win as Japanese firm accepts challenge
They’ve been popularized in movies, television and video games, but giant fighting robots still haven’t left the realm of science fiction. That will soon change.
Megabots Inc, an Oakland, California-based startup, has built a 15ft (4.5m) mechanical gladiator called the Mark II and challenged a Japanese firm to an international battle for robot supremacy.
Continue reading...The record company is trying to force the website to hand over a user’s details as it seeks to sue over the leak of a song featured in the DC Comic movie
Atlantic Records is on the hunt for the identity of a Reddit user who leaked a Twenty One Pilots single, and is taking legal action in order to find out.
According to court records, a copy of the song, Heathens, was posted to Reddit on 15 June, nine days before Atlantic planned to release the single, which was to be featured on the soundtrack to the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.
Continue reading...The problem with Black Lives Matter, its detractors will tell you, is that its activists are “disrespectful.” Critics have described BLM’s tactics as “childish and off-putting”; some have accused activists of showboating for personal gain; others have disparaged the personal appearances of activists and the “guys with sagging pants” at BLM rallies. BLM should be ignored, critics argue, until their participants can be “appropriate.” This is respectability politics. This is the same logic that tells us that women would be raped less if they didn’t dress so provocatively, that Black men would have less trouble with cops if they didn’t act like criminals. If BLM activists can’t act with decorum, these critics argue, the whole movement is reduced to shameful, ineffective, and even counterproductive rabble-rousing.
None of these claims are true. The biggest challenge faced by BLM activists is not one of decorum. The real challenge for BLM is that society’s default response to systemic trauma is amnesia, a void of memory filled by the false narrative that we live in a post-racial society. The real challenge is that, when faced with the reality of anti-Black racism, America always forgets.
“The real challenge for BLM is that society's default response to systemic trauma is amnesia.”
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It doesn’t matter whether BLM is polite. It matters that BLM finally makes us remember.
The Social Amnesia Of Systemic Trauma
In her book, Trauma and Recovery, psychiatrist Judith Herman describes the history of research on post-traumatic stress disorder and shows that society’s response to widespread trauma is always to forget. In the 1890s, for example, Sigmund Freud discovered that “hysteria” was a psychological response to women’s experiences of sexual abuse and violence in childhood. “Hysteria” was so widespread, however, that Freud’s findings had to implicate extraordinary numbers of men in the rampant sexual assault of women and children across all social classes. At the time, this conclusion was considered too unbelievable to be true. The scientific community refused to accept the strongest evidence ever produced of the violence that women regularly face at the hands of their most intimate relations. Freud’s discovery was ultimately suppressed, leading him to propose the alternate theories of psychoanalysis as an explanation.
“Society's response to widespread trauma is always to forget.”
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Thirty years later, psychological trauma responses were “rediscovered” as soldiers returned from World War I with “shell shock.” Yet public acknowledgement of the systemic violence of military action was again stymied by a lack of will. The provision of lengthy psychological treatment, which traumatized veterans needed, would have meant acknowledging the true horrors of war long after public enthusiasm for those wars had ended. Disinclined to endorse such a message, the army standardized hypnosis and sodium amytal injections as short-term treatments for PTSD, justifying the rapid return of traumatized soldiers to duty and reducing “shell shock” to an afterthought in the public imagination of war.
These histories reveal that sustainable responses to systemic violence will fail without the support of political movements in support of its victims. Herman writes:
“The study of war trauma becomes legitimate only in a context that challenges the sacrifice of young men in war. The study of trauma in sexual and domestic life becomes legitimate only in a context that challenges the subordination of women and children.”
Similarly, the study of systemic violence against Black bodies in the United States will only be effective in a context that challenges anti-Black racism and white privilege.
“Anti-violence movements cannot be concerned with maintaining respectability.”
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Anti-violence movements, therefore, cannot be concerned with maintaining respectability. They are, by their nature, exercises in the violation of social privilege. In the words of BLM activists Marissa Johnson and Mara Willaford, “We honor Black lives lost by doing the unthinkable, the unapologetic, and the unrespectable.”
Social Movements Create Social Memory
Social movements have periodically disrupted the amnesia of anti-Black racism throughout U.S. history. In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till was beaten and shot, bound with barbed wire, and thrown into Tallahatchie River in retaliation for flirting with a white woman. Till’s mother, grieving and indignant, insisted on an open casket funeral. Photographs of Till’s mutilated body circulated widely. Till is remembered as a martyr today not only because of the publicity surrounding his death, but because his death coincided with the public beginnings the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks was arrested on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, four months later, and civil rights activists publicly championed for victims like Till for more than a decade afterwards.
“Social movements have periodically disrupted the amnesia of anti-Black racism.”
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Nearly forty years later, in 1991, Rodney King became a household name after four Los Angeles police officers were filmed pulling him from his car and beating him, leaving him with multiple skull fractures and damage to several internal organs. King’s tragedy is seared into American memory, however, not because of the violence caught on film, but by the massive riots in Los Angeles that followed the 1992 acquittal of the officers who attacked him. After the judicial system failed to recognize the severity of the violence that King and other Black residents of Los Angeles had suffered—and had been suffering—the public response was immediate. A state of emergency was declared in the city less than six hours after the verdict was announced.
By today’s standards, the Civil Rights Movement and the Los Angeles riots arguably represent the highest highs and the lowest lows of the “respectability” of public responses to anti-Black racism in the United States. Yet, despite significant differences between them, there remains considerable overlap. Both turned an unwavering lens on systemic racism, which exists within and beyond individual acts of violence, and both achieved lasting effects. The Civil Rights Movement bore witness to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the L.A. riots ultimately lead to the publication of the Christopher Commission Report, which provided some of the earliest institutional documentation of systemic and violent racism in American police forces. Both actions cemented the names of the victims that inspired them in our nation’s historical memory.
“The Civil Rights Movement and the L.A. riots cemented the names of the victims in memory.”
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The BLM movement has been singularly instrumental in fostering public acknowledgement of violent anti-Black racism through collective remembrance of its victims. One example of this work is the the hashtag #sayhername, which was inspired by the July 2015 death of Sandra Bland in police custody in Waller County, Texas. That same summer, Seattle BLM activists cited Bernie Sanders’ refusal to acknowledge the #sayhername campaign in his comments at the 2015 Netroots Nation convention as motivation for their infamous disruption of his public rally in Seattle’s Westlake neighborhood. Recently, at a press conference held by the family of Alton Sterling, a Baton Rouge man shot by police at point blank range, one of Sterling’s relatives wore a shirt bearing the name and portrait of Trayvon Martin. This unwavering refusal to tolerate forgetting is BLM’s constant refrain.
Change Is Uncomfortable
Accusations of incivility were as common in the Civil Rights era as they are today. Martin Luther King’s critics accused him of “inciting hatred and violence” with his public demonstrations, even as they voiced support for the Civil Rights Movement that he led. Gallup polls conducted throughout the 1960s reveal a deep ambivalence about Dr. King as a leader, with 25% to 44% of the general public reporting “highly unfavorable” views. In June 2016, the Pew Research Center released the results of a public opinion poll on the BLM movement with shockingly similar results. Though the movement has garnered much public support, animosity towards BLM remains prevalent, with 28% of white adults voicing opposition. Thankfully, as history has shown, it doesn’t matter whether BLM’s messages are pleasing to white ears; it only matters that they are heard at all.
“It doesn't matter if BLM's messages are pleasing to white ears; it only matters that they are heard.”
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The discomfort BLM generates is the result of new awareness that the socially powerful among us also do violent things. If anything, the attacks on BLM’s “respectability” are the growing pains of a better, more equal society. They are a measure of how effectively activists have interrupted white life and forced the disinterested to listen.
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Dogged by allegations of abuse, members of the group have been named in more than 20 federal lawsuits – yet have won repeated praise from department
When Ebony Buggs followed the noise of commotion to a vacant unit below her apartment on Chicago’s West Side, she found a group of men beating teens from the neighborhood.
“I’m like, ‘Who the eff is you?’” she said of the February 2012 incident.
Continue reading...Driver says he realised the bear was on the truck when he heard a squeal, before driving close to a tree to give it an escape route
A bear has hitched a ride on top of a garbage truck in the American state of New Mexico, travelling at least five miles on the vehicle before it was able to make its escape up a tree.
The driver was picking up a dumpster last week when he heard a squeal then realised the bear was on top of the truck, said a spokeswoman for Santa Fe national forest, Julie Anne Overton.
Continue reading...Restaurant customers will be encouraged to use doggy bags as part of move to save 1m tonnes of food a year
Italy has made it easier for companies and farmers to donate food to charities and is encouraging greater use of “doggy bags” at restaurants as part of a legislative push to curb the epidemic of food waste.
A law passed in the Senate on Tuesday will help Italy recover 1m tonnes of food a year for the needy, according to the law’s chief sponsor, and comes six months after a similar bill was passed in France.
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The federal government has officially approved the first private, commercial space mission beyond the Earth’s orbit, Ars Technica reports. And by “federal government,” we mean a combined review from NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration, the White House, the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Defense, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the FCC. Moon Express intends to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon by the end of 2017 in the hopes of winning Google’s Lunar XPRIZE.
The Lunar XPRIZE awards $20 million to the first company to land a mostly-privately-funded (90 percent) spacecraft on the Moon, travel 500 meters, and send hi-res images and videos back to Earth. There are 16 companies in contention for the prize, with two—Moon Express and SpaceIL—having secured the necessary launch contract. (The others have until December 31, 2016 to secure contracts.) The documentary series Moon Shot follows several XPRIZE hopefuls.
“We’re opening up the Solar System,” Bob Richards, co-founder and chief executive of Moon Express, told Ars Technica. “This is a real breakthrough, and it’s being recognized by the US government as a breakthrough. They’re very excited about this, while being respectful of US obligations to the Outer Space Treaty.”
The reasoning behind the 90 percent funding requirement is to incentivize entrepreneurs to discover affordable access to the Moon, and eventually beyond. Moon Express has already raised $30 million and is now seeking to raise another $25 million to finish production on their MX-1E lander. (You can see some very optimistic concept art of the MX-1E on the Moon above.) Furthermore, the MX-1E will contain recent innovative technology, in the form of 3-D printing and CubeSat (miniaturized satellites) to keep the weight down.
“Space travel is our only path forward to ensure our survival and create a limitless future for our children,” Moon Express co-founder and Chairman Naveen Jain said in a statement. “In the immediate future, we envision bringing precious resources, metals and moon rocks back to Earth. In 15 years, the moon will be an important part of Earth’s economy, and potentially our second home.”
Moon Express also tweeted this image:
For more information, check out the FAA’s press release.
kateOMG WHY HAVE I NOT GONE HERE YET.
In a city overrun with Cronuts and dough’ssants, it’s tough to make a croissant that stands out (and that’s saying nothing about all of the excellent traditional versions). Yet the bakers at Union Fare — the food hall just north of Union Square — managed the task when...More »
Battery status indicators are being used to track devices, say researchers from Princeton University – meaning warnings of privacy exposure have come to pass
A little-known web standard that lets site owners tell how much battery life a mobile device has left has been found to enable tracking online, a year after privacy researchers warned that it had the potential to do just that.
The battery status API was introduced in HTML5, the fifth version of the code used to lay out the majority of the web, and had already shipped in Firefox, Opera and Chrome by August 2015. It allows site owners to see the percentage of battery life left in a device, as well as the time it will take to discharge or the time it will take to charge, if connected to a power source.
Continue reading...Glitch causes random substitution of Pokémon types at point of capture, turning rarities into common-as-muck Rattata, Pidgey and Ekans for unlucky players
The latest bug to affect Niantic’s smash-hit Pokémon Go Android and iOS game has players swearing at their phones, as rare monsters become common beasts after capture, with Blastoises turning into Rattata and Ninetails into Ekans.
The glitch appears to have appeared in the last 48 hours following an update to the game that removed distance tracking and blocked third-party Pokémon mapping services.
Continue reading...kateTHIS: "In Siberia, an anthrax outbreak is raging through the human and reindeer populations because infected corpses locked in permafrost since the last epidemic in 1941 have thawed."
The media largely relegate the greatest challenge facing humanity to footnotes as industry and politicians hurtle us towards systemic collapse of the planet
What is salient is not important. What is important is not salient. The media turns us away from the issues that will determine the course of our lives, and towards topics of brain-melting irrelevance.
Related: This year's wildfires are bad. Climate change will make future ones worse | Anthony LeRoy Westerling
Continue reading...On last night's episode of Full Frontal, Samantha Bee tore into the double standard the nation's first female presidential nominee has endured compared with any other nominee, especially her opponent, "Agent Orange."
Bee aired a clip of Hillary Clinton accepting the nomination and then followed it with images of male commentators' and their observations that her historic speech was "shrill" and a "very average scream."
"We have waited our whole lives to hear a woman to say those words," Bee said, "and then, immediately get criticized for the voice she said them in."
She pointed out how pessimistic and laden with fear and mistrust the tone of the Republican National Convention was in contrast to the refreshingly upbeat Democratic Convention—filled with speeches about a promising future of inclusion and acceptance, only if Clinton wins in November.
Bee played clips from the rousing endorsements by Vice President Joe Biden, vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, former Attorney General Eric Holder, former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, several seasoned police veterans, "just for good measure, half the fucking Pentagon," the current first lady and president, and even Sen. Bernie Sanders, and suggested that Clinton's win in the general election should be a sure thing.
But, Bee noted, even after President Barack Obama said there is no person more qualified—not him, not Bill—than Hillary Clinton to be president, doubts remain that she will be able to secure the presidency come November.
"That is how good you have to be if you're a woman running for president," an incredulous Bee said. "And she still might lose!"
Hollywood is visiting to the Hoosier heartland in the form of Academy Award winning actor Nicholas Cage.
