![]() ![]() May 16, 2023: Sheikh Jassim goes in with fourth bid close to £5bn.Ratcliffe also makes his offer before the deadline. April 28, 2023: Sheikh Jassim makes world record bid valuing Man Utd.April 11, 2023: The Glazers take the sale process to a third round with interested parties asked to submit final offers by end of April.March 24, 2023: Sheikh Jassim makes his second bid.March 23, 2023: Ratcliffe makes his second bid.Elliott Management did make minority stake offer before the soft deadline. Ma:Raine extend deadline for second bids after requests from Sheikh Jassim and Ratcliffe.March 16 & 17, 2023: Qatari group and Sir Jim Ratcliffe meet Raine Group at Old Trafford before being given access to detailed financial information.March 10, 2023: Elliott Management make it through to the second stage of the Man Utd sale process.March 5, 2023: Sheikh Jassim and Ratcliffe make it through to next stage of the process along with unnamed bidder.February 28, 2023: Glazers split on sale after bids fail to meet £6bn valuation.February 18, 2023: US hedge fund Elliott Management lodge proposal for investment in Man Utd. ![]() Qatari wants to buy 100 per cent of the club. ![]() February 17, 2023: Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani make rival bids for Man Utd takeover. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() release alongside its Chinese debut, is something even less likely than a disaster-movie sequel: a disaster-movie prequel. But Gwo must have grown attached to the less icy version of his home planet, because The Wandering Earth II, receiving a somewhat wider U.S. (In the U.S., it had a limited theatrical run, then premiered on Netflix a few months later.) Wandering Earth’s extensive, sometimes convoluted world-building, drawn from a short story by The Three-Body Problem author Cixin Liu, left plenty of room for a follow-up. The film’s enormous scope helped the movie become a Chinese smash, though it fell short of a worldwide phenomenon. Astronauts must steer the spaceship-planet to a new home, while the surface freezes and its diminished inhabitants huddle underground. 2019’s The Wandering Earth, a sci-fi disaster adventure that became one of China’s biggest-ever box-office hits, takes place in a future world where Earth has been implanted with thrust rockets and piloted out of orbit to avoid a solar disaster. To successfully imitate the kind of mega-budget worldwide blockbuster most closely associated with Hollywood productions, filmmaker Frant Gwo literally went global. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the earlier versions this man is named Eriol and is of some vague north European origin. In the frame story of the book, a mortal Man visits the Elvish Isle of Tol Eressëa where he learns the history of its inhabitants. The original usage of "Teleri" would eventually change until the name became "Vanyar", while the house of Elves called "Solosimpi" would inherit the name "Teleri". For example, the house of Elves called "Teleri" in The Book of Lost Tales is not the same as that of The Silmarillion (see Teleri). Confusingly, sometimes the name applied to one thing is later used to refer to something quite different, the original use abandoned. Tolkien changed names rather frequently, sometimes with several new variants (rejected in turn) written in a single manuscript. ![]() While many of the names in the book are identical or close to those in the later versions, some of them bear almost no resemblance to their final forms. Thus when Thingol feels disdain for Beren it is because the latter is a gnome (not a mortal human) and therefore a thrall of Melkor. ![]() Secondly the interaction between the different elf-races is profoundly different: the exiled Noldoli (or "Gnomes", the Noldor of the later histories) suffer decisive defeat much earlier and become slaves of the enemy they had sought to punish. Firstly the Tales are more complex and detailed than The Silmarillion: they are written in a less formal but more archaic style and include many obsolete words and phrases. Though they cover a broadly similar history, the Tales are very different from The Silmarillion. ![]() ![]() ![]() It pained, O readers, it pained! Persevere, I thought. ![]() I turned these pieces of former tree, the midnight ink recounting a narrative tumefied by metaphoric wanderings. ![]() If I were to write a review in the style of this book, it would begin something like this: "The three suns hanging on a chain about his throat tried to gleam, but the clouds in the crying sky told them no." Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge? But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic-the Red Church. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined. ![]() Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.ĭaughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() This encompasses all Relativity partners including legal service providers, technology partners and consulting firms. She is responsible for leading all go-to-market partner motions and will work cross functionally with Relativity's executive team to drive alignment to deliver partner success. Starting May 1, Usewicz will oversee Relativity's technology partnerships, commercial partnerships, and corporate and business development teams. Laurie is just the person to bring the heightened executive level attention necessary to further elevate our approach to strategic partnerships and I know she'll be a tremendous asset." ![]() "The partner and customer experience is at the center of everything we do and as such, it's mission critical we have a dedicated leader who brings a wide depth in overall executive level channel expertise, partner program management and cross-functional know-how to harmonize our company's partner motions. "Partners are an essential part of how Relativity brings its purpose to life for our customers," said Phil Saunders, CEO of Relativity. ![]() ![]() Show them a blank chart with 7 columns and tell them they are going to help you fill in the days of the week. When you are finished reading, ask the class which days they heard in the book and call on a few students to tell you. ![]() As you read use your highlighter tape or Wikki Stix to highlight the words for the days of the week in the book. You might have them raise their hands when they hear one of the days. Tell the class that you are going to be looking for the days of the week as your read. Gather the students around you and read the big book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Review the days of the week using your calendar or a days of the week song they might already know. They also should have already been read The Very Hungry Caterpillar at least one time before this lesson so that they are familiar with the story. Students will have been introduced to the days of the week and calendars during morning circle time or calendar time. Handout with 7 columns and the days of week written at the top of each column, 2 per child Use these activities to give your students more experience with them. If you have a daily calendar time, your students will probably have some familiarity with the days of the week. ![]() Use this The Very Hungry Caterpillar lesson plan to teach or review the days of the week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why Didn't They Ask Evans? stars Will Poulter (The Revenant, Detroit, Dopesick) as Bobby Jones, a young naval officer, and Lucy Boynton (Sing Street, Murder On The Orient Express, Bohemian Rhapsody) as Frankie Derwent, a prototype It Girl with a taste for adventure and good hats. In so doing, they hit upon a dark conspiracy of deceit, betrayal and - perhaps unsurprisingly - murder. The story then follows Bobby Jones and his childhood friend, Lady Frances “Frankie” Derwent, who resolve to honour the dead man by deciphering, and then answering, his final question. The three-part adaptation of the 1934 novel is about a mysterious death (of course) with a man lying dying at the foot of a cliff, apparently the victim of an accidental fall with his final breath, he utters the mysterious question of the title and promptly expires. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? is the latest Agatha Christie novel to be adapted for primetime TV, airing on ITV this spring after first streaming on BritBox UK in 2022 and it was shot around the UK, including Wales. ![]() ![]() ![]() The differences between the women are chasmic. ![]() This book, with its heft rivaled only by its depth, follows two parallel narratives: One is that of Marian Graves, a fictional Earhart-esque pilot who disappeared over the Arctic in the 1950s the other, set in modern-day, is that of Hadley Baxter, a disgraced actress trying to salvage her career by starring in a biopic about Marian. Paradoxically, I’ve only come to realize this while trying to write a review of Maggie Shipstead’s “Great Circle,” shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Is it even possible to write a book review? Or, a review of anything, for that matter? As a writer for The Michigan Daily, I review books regularly, so this was a troubling question to ponder, but the impossibility of distilling anything into a review has become increasingly clear. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The river snakes down from the mountains unabated and spills out into the valley floor, branching into little braids of creeks and sloughs before coalescing to the southwest in Tulare Lake. As the general manager of the Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District, his job is to help manage the water coming out of the Terminus Dam.Ī map on the wall of his office's conference room shows the Kaweah watershed as it was in 1885, before people controlled the river's flow. Mark Larsen is one of the tens of thousands of people living downstream from Lake Kaweah. The emptier the reservoir, the bigger the speed bump, and the less likely people downstream are to have high flows of water coming their way. A tall strip of chalk-white rock showing where water levels used to be rings the rock shores of Lake Kaweah - the reservoir that's filled behind the dam. ![]() Watson and dam operators up and down the Sierra Nevada continue to dump water downstream in preparation for the big melt, essentially emptying the bathtub before the faucets turn back on. ![]() NPR The reservoir just before the Terminus Dam has been emptied to make space for the expected water from the coming snowmelt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Too bad they pick Bad Blintz, a town in the wild and woolly Überwald region that has its own problems. The rats - guided by strong leaders like Hamnpork and Darktan, deep thinkers like Peaches and Dangerous Beans, and a tap-dancing ne’er-do-well named Sardines - are saving to buy a boat and sail away to a desert island, where they can build a new society of sentient rats.īut their newfound conscience is troubling them, so they decide the next town will be their last. The cat wants the money to save up for his retirement. As Maurice points out, they’re giving value for money - and charging a fraction of what the real rat piper does - and no one gets hurt. ![]() Together they visit town after town, creating a bogus “plague of rats,” then waltzing out of town in procession behind the pipe-playing boy and, later, splitting up the money the townspeople paid him to do his thing. To start with, the piper is a stupid-looking boy named Keith who travels around with a cat named Maurice and a clan of rats that have somehow been given the ability to think and talk like people. Based loosely on the classic tale of the Pied Piper, it takes off in a completely new direction. This Carnegie-Award-winning children’s book is another stand-alone tale based in the fertile soil of Pratchett’s legendary Discworld, though not a part of the Discworld series as such. ![]() |