Author: catfish

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – West Indies stalwart Kieron Pollard will lead MI Emirates and Afghan all-rounder Rashid Khan will captain MI Cape Town in the two new T20 leagues beginning next month, the owners of the franchises said yesterday.The owners of the Indian Premier League team Mumbai Indians expanded their footprint this year, acquiring franchises in the International League T20 (ILT20) in the United Arab Emirates and the SA20 in South Africa.“We have an amazing mix of talent, experience, and passion in both our captains,” Akash Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm, which owns the three teams, said in a…

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The new look incorporated many important elements for the district, such as the El Palo Alto redwood tree the area is named for. The next step involved updating the district’s website. Previously, the site was hosted on a platform that was difficult to use, which created a bottleneck in the IT department when only a single staff member knew how to make site updates. This also resulted in various groups and departments making their own websites, rather than waiting for a webpage on the main site. “We ended up with a forest of content and an alphabet soup of unmemorable URLs,” Patanroi…

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Jenna Ortega stars as Wednesday Addams in the Netflix series ‘Wednesday.’ (Courtesy of Netflix) Premiering the day before Thanksgiving, Netflix’s Wednesday is a big hit. We’re talking bigger than Stranger Things here, making Tim Burton’s Addams-family series the record-holding English-language program on the streaming platform for its debut week. And it’s a Latinx show! That’s pretty significant because we’ve become accustomed to cancelations. You know, when something like HBO’s Gordita Chronicles earns strong viewership numbers, gets rave critical reviews, and meets the network’s stated goal of creating more Latinx content—and they still cancel it. But Wednesday seems destined for a different…

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WORTHINGTON — District 518 is asking for parents to help after an increase in Worthington Middle School students being caught vaping — about half of them with marijuana-based cartridges. “We’re here to educate parents,” said Casey Hertz, WMS assistant principal. “We feel that a community working together is the only way we can help reduce and hopefully, eliminate the struggle.”The school had meetings on Thursday at Worthington’s Memorial Auditorium Performing Arts Center for English- and Spanish-speaking parents of students at WMS, Worthington High School and the Learning Center. A third meeting for Karen-speaking parents is scheduled for 9 a.m. Dec.…

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Fifty families in western Marin are set to receive free satellite internet service for the next three years as part of a new project to address disparities in internet access for students in rural communities. The initiative, led by a partnership of the county government, the Shoreline Unified School District, the Marin County Free Library and service organizations, has already set up SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink, for 25 families, with another 25 to follow in the coming months. The “Shoreline Connectivity Project” is intended to help families with poor internet access or a lack of computer skills who fell…

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Occasionally there comes along a cultural artifact so peculiar that adequate vocabulary does not yet exist to describe it. That was certainly the case with HBO’s “Los Espookys,” a program whose narratives so effectively eschewed Hollywood convention that even its authors had a tough time coming up with an elevator pitch.On an interview on “The Tonight Show” in September, co-creator Ana Fabrega glossed it as “a show about a group of friends who have a business where they stage different types of stunts to people who need it.” Fellow co-creator, comedian Julio Torres, explained on NPR that the friends live…

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DJUSD Area 1 has found its Trustee in none other than Hiram Jackson. As a bilingual parent whose kids attended Davis’ schools, Jackson is eager to bolster the equity and opportunity of the district’s diverse student population. Jackson first came to Davis in 1988 to attend grad school at UC Davis. His focus was in geology, and in 1991 he had the opportunity to study abroad in Chile for a year. He returned and a few years later met his wife at UCD who happened to be from South America herself. The two — like so many others who meant…

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The U.S. men’s national team makes its return to the knockout stage on Saturday after nabbing a nervy but momentous 1-0 victory over Iran earlier in the week. The Americans will be greeted by a buzzsaw of a Netherlands team in the Round of 16, one that sits among the strongest sides left in the tournament. La Oranje are led by lanky starlet Cody Gakpo. Gakpo, just 23 years old, has made this World Cup his, bagging a goal in each of his three appearances. The PSV man, who has been regularly linked with some of Europe’s top sides, has…

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Bar Pintxos, a Spanish tapas bar that sits in Preston city centre is owned and run by Anthony Smith aged 46. The Preston-born and bred entrepreneur opened up to The Post as part of our Spend Lancashire campaign to share the story behind Bar Pintxos and how important the independent business he owns is to him and his staff. Boasting a traditional Spanish theme throughout, Anthony utilised his first skills taught from working with Spanish chefs as a young lad to design his menu and set the style for Bar Pintxos. He said: “I messed up my time at school…

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There is a short, but informative biography of the real woman who inspired the book: Saudi human rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, who was imprisoned for daring to learn to drive a car. Co-written by Loujain al-Hathloul’s sister, Lina Alhathloul, the book has incredibly beautiful illustrations as well as a short letter to readers about summoning the courage to dream and create a better world. “Eyes That Speak to the Stars.” Courtesy HarperCollins. • “Eyes That Speak to the Stars”by Joanna Ho, illustrated by Dung Ho; HarperCollins; $18.99; ages 4-8. When friends at school create a hurtful drawing of him, a…

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