RTMario Nawfal TESLA SERVICE CENTERS STRUGGLING TO KEEP UP WITH SURGING DEMANDReports out of Schaumburg confirm what many Tesla owners are seeing firsthandService Centers are slammed. According to a Tesla employee on the ground, demand is so high, theyre barely keeping up.Tesla vehicles are flying off the shelves faster than ever, with new buyers flooding in and pushing service teams to the limit. Wait times are climbing, bays are full, and the buzz is realTeslas growth isnt slowing down anytime soon.Source: @jonbbcMario Nawfal: MYSTERY DONOR GIFTS 10 CYBERTRUCKS TO LAS VEGAS POLICETen Tesla Cybertrucks have been "anonymously donated" to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for patrol and SWAT operations.Sheriff Kevin McMahill announced the vehicles will join their drone fleet equipped

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Dungeons and Dragons released a new Player's Handbook in late 2024, with the goal of introducing new players to the popular tabletop roleplaying game and adding ways for existing fans to enjoy the game. The updated version of the Dungeons and Dragonshandbook features 12 classes and 48 subclasses, with each class having exactly four subclasses. This is quite different from previous editions of the game, where the number of subclasses varied, and may make the release of future books and other supplementary materials complicated if publisher Wizards of the Coast wishes to keep the subclass numbers balanced.

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Disneys live-action Snow White movie has nothing on the 2012 live-action Snow White films. Yes, thats films plural, because in 2012 there was not one, but two different adaptations of the fairy tale. Tarsem Singhs audacious Mirror Mirror and Rupert Sanders indulgent, tropey Snow White and the Huntsman both came out in 2012. Theyre wildly different takes on the fairy tale, one a comedic fantasy and the other a dark action movie, and have visually distinct aesthetics. Both received mixed reviews in their time, but compared to Disneys disastrous new Snow White movie, theyre both phenomenal.Mirror Mirror director Tarsem is best known for The Fall (and also that Iconique Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears, Beyonc, Pink, and Enrique Iglesias). Like The Fall, Mirror Mirror is decadently gorgeous, with some of the most stunning costumes out there. Nothing exemplifies this more than the big costume ball sequence, where the guests all don ostentatious animal-inspired gowns and suits and prance around an extravagant ballroom.Lily Collins stars as Snow White, with Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen. Roberts version of the character isnt particularly evil just petty, frivolous, and concerned with her self-image more than anything. In fact, the whole try to kill Snow White with an apple thing is an afterthought at the end, after shes tried and failed to throw extravagant parties in order to woo the handsome prince (played by Armie Hammer).There are some hilariously over-the-top situations Prince Alcott keeps getting mugged by a band of thieves (the dwarfs) who strip him to his skivvies; the Queen undergoes a comically long and intense beauty regimen, which involves various insects and excrements slathered all over her; when Snow White dramatically locks Alcott and the dwarfs in their own house to go face the Queen on her own, they spend a stupid long time before realizing that they have their own key. Theres also a sexy banter-filled sword fight between Snow and the Prince, which doesnt quite fit the hilarious over-the-top situation bucket but I had to highlight it because its just so damn fun and adds some oomph to their romance. Fairy tales are all about larger-than-life scenarios, so leaning into larger-than-life comedic situations makes for an adaptation that keeps the general heart of the story told through a new lens.To cap it all off, Mirror Mirror ends with a big Bollywood-style dance number, because why not?While Mirror Mirror is ballgowns and bold colors, Snow White and the Huntsman is torn dresses and sharpened blades. Its no less visually stunning, but director Rupert Sanders opted for a darker take on the fairy tale. This Evil Queen, played by Charlize Theron, is evil very evil, preying on young women and sucking out their youth and beauty. Theron commands every scene with a sharp slice of her cheekbones and her cold, calculating presence. The fantasy vibes in Snow White and the Huntsman are cranked up, with more obvious dark magic conjured by the Queen and a magic forest full of trolls, fairies, and other creatures.Snow White (played in this version by Kristen Stewart) turns into a certified warrior princess, marching right into the final battle in full armor. Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland definitely paved the way for Snow White to pick up a sword, but Sanders makes the final confrontation an epic battle in its own right, giving all the movies major players a chance to shine.This Snow White is unique in that she gets two love stories (fitting for a Kristen Stewart character, since this was right in the Twilight heyday): Eric the Huntsman (Chris Hemsworth), who cant help but be charmed by Snows determination and her warm heart; and her childhood friend William (Sam Claflin), the son of a duke who risks his life when he hears Snow White is alive and seeks her out. Its ambiguous as to who she ends up with, if anyone (though, apparently, the sequel answers that), but the movie treats them both as viable options. It adds another fun twist to the familiar story, and if we ignore the sequel, we can pretend that Snow White took up the throne with two boyfriends. I love that for her.The phenomenon of twin films movies that come out the same year with a similar concept but from totally different studios has basically been around since movies were a thing. Sometimes, the connection is more vague, like biopics about the same person (Capote and Infamous, for instance); sometimes theyre incredibly specific, like two movies about 19th-century magicians where Nikola Tesla is also there for some reason (The Illusionist and The Prestige). And sometimes, its two Snow White movies that put a spin on the familiar fairy tale.Was it because Once Upon a Time was airing, and Snow White was a major player in that show? Was it because the success of Tim Burtons Alice in Wonderland signaled to studios that doing weirdo takes on familiar fairy tales could mean a lot of money? This was the era before Disney really started leaning into the direct live-action adaptations of its own works, meaning it was at least doing something fun with its remakes, be it putting beloved characters in a modern town or letting Tim Burton loose. Despite their middling reviews, both movies were popular at the box office, with Mirror Mirror debuting at No. 3 and Snow White and the Huntsman making back twice its budget. And unlike the new Snow Whites abysmal costumes, these two had such gorgeous wardrobes that they were also both nominated for Best Costume Design at the Academy Awards. The people were down for Snow White adaptations in 2012.Snow White and the Huntsman and Mirror Mirror cleary took the right lessons from Disneys initial approach at live-action reduxes if youre going to adapt a story everyone knows, youve got to have a vision that makes it stand out. Maybe thats making Snow White into a fearless warrior and giving her two boyfriends, while Charlize Theron commands an army. Or maybe thats stuffing Julia Roberts into an enormous ballgown and having her make snippy remarks and ending with a huge Bollywood-style dance number.Mirror Mirror is streaming on Starz, and available to rent or purchase on digital VOD vendors. Snow White and the Huntsman is available to rent or purchase on digital VOD vendors.

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Retirement should feel liberating rather than terrifying. But when an egg-salad sandwich costs more than your first bicycle, the stock market is making like Tom Petty, and economists are bending themselves into pretzels to avoid saying the word recession, retirement can feel hazardous to your financial health.In a perfect world, everyone would retire into a robust economy. But since we live in this world, theres no way of knowing in advance if your timing is right.Retiring during a downturn may not be ideal, but there are several ways to manage it. Heres how you can survive and thrive if you retire when the market is tanking.Know your retirement risksThere are two distinct risks facing you and your money if you retire during a down market.The first is a timing risk. Market downturns typically coincide with economic downturns, which often leads to wide-scale job loss. Workers approaching retirement tend to be in their peak earning years, which can make them vulnerable to cost-cutting layoffs. Getting laid off just before retirement can be a bit of a one-two punch, since you may need to fund a longer retirement than youd planned and your investments may have also taken a hit at the same time.The second potential risk is the possibility of cashing out some of your retirement portfolio while the market is down. If you have to access some of your retirement funds before the market recovers, you make any portfolio losses permanent. That leaves you with less money to live on now and less money invested that can continue to grow.Laugh in the face of riskInvoluntary retirement and loss of principal may be nothing for a pre-retiree to sneeze at, but you can protect yourself from the vagaries of the market and your employment. These four strategies can help anyone who is contemplating retirement in the next few years:Keep a flexible retirement scheduleIn the movies, any police officer or international art thief who is only one day or one job away from retirement usually doesnt survive the final act. These poor sods teach us the folly of tempting fate by setting a specific retirement date in stonenot to mention the importance of hiding behind whichever coworker is the hero and who therefore has impenetrable plot armor.Even if youre not worried about getting clocked by a minor villain the day before you retire, your planned retirement date could run afoul of another danger: It has a decent chance of coinciding with a market correction. The stock market has a pattern of crashing approximately every seven to eight years, with periods in between of flat growth, minor but significant dips, and other market turbulence that has investors reaching for the Mylanta.Rather than setting a date on your calendar and treating it as sacrosanct, make your retirement plans flexible. If the market is iffy, consider working longer to give your portfolio time to recover. That might mean pushing back your last day or finding part-time or consulting work so you can avoid dipping into your nest egg.Rebalance early and often as you approach retirementOf course, not everyone has the ability to work past their planned retirement date. If youre laid off, forced to retire, or simply need to retire right now because someone is microwaving fish in the office kitchen on a daily basis, you may end up leaving work at a bad financial time. But the investment decisions you make in the years before you retire can help protect you and your money from bad timing.Specifically, as you get closer to your planned retirement, you will want to regularly rebalance your portfolio to reduce your exposure to market risk. When you rebalance, you shift money from one type of asset to another to better meet your investment goals.As you get closer to retirement, you may want to move money from some of your higher-risk/higher-return investments (such as stocks) into lower-risk assets (such as bonds) or even cash equivalents (such as Treasury bills). Pre-retirees may want to rebalance as often as every six months or so.There are two benefits to regular rebalancing in the years before you retire. The first is that it allows you to lock in gains when the market is doing well. If you move money from stocks to bonds or T-bills when the stock market is going gangbusters, you get to capture those gains and put them safely into a lower-risk asset.In addition, capturing your gains and putting them in cash equivalents means you will not need to pull from your ailing investments if you retire during a downturn. You can easily access the money set aside in the cash equivalents and give your long-term investments time to recover.Make friends with your emergency fundAccording to conventional financial advice, every single person should have an emergency fund filled with enough money to cover three to six months worth of living expenses. The thinking is that such a fund will ensure you can keep afloat if you lose your jobbut almost nobody actually has that kind of money sitting in a savings account.The five years before you retire are a great time to commit to building an emergency fund of that size. A three-to-six month financial cushion in an easily accessible account can help you bridge the gap between a badly timed retirement date and a market recovery. And even if the market is doing fine right when you retire, having that fund available can help you smooth over any financial difficulties you face during the transition.Wait to take Social SecurityIt may sound counterintuitive, but one of the best things you can do if you retire into a market downturn is to hold off on taking your Social Security benefits. Even though Social Security is money that you can count on if the stock market is feeling funereal, most retirees are better off delaying benefits.Heres why: Your monthly benefits increase by approximately 8% per year that you delay benefits between age 62 and age 70. There is no investment that can offer a guaranteed 8% growth per year (plus cost of living adjustments) over an eight-year period.And remember that your benefits are guaranteed for life. Waiting as long as you can to take benefits will give you a larger monthly income stream foreveror at least until the day you go to the big Social Security office in the sky.Dont panicInvoluntary retirement and locking in market losses are a retirees biggest risks, but you can mitigate both risks with some savvy planning.Keep your retirement plans flexible so you can take the time to wait out a market correction. Commit to a regular rebalancing of your portfolio to help reduce your exposure to risk, and build up your emergency fund so you can avoid dipping into your portfolio at the wrong time. Delay your Social Security benefits to get a higher benefit that lasts the rest of your life.Retiring during a market downturn is bad luckbut it doesnt have to be a personal financial crisis.