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Newcastle United set for anxious injury wait as Eddie Howe updates on key duoAtria Investments Inc lowered its position in shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust ( NYSE:NSA – Free Report ) by 10.7% in the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 6,726 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 808 shares during the period. Atria Investments Inc’s holdings in National Storage Affiliates Trust were worth $324,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in NSA. Swedbank AB acquired a new position in National Storage Affiliates Trust in the first quarter valued at about $16,056,000. Long Pond Capital LP acquired a new position in shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $16,198,000. Manning & Napier Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $4,534,000. Leeward Investments LLC MA boosted its position in shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust by 30.9% during the 2nd quarter. Leeward Investments LLC MA now owns 414,734 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $17,095,000 after purchasing an additional 97,786 shares during the period. Finally, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans increased its holdings in National Storage Affiliates Trust by 3.8% in the 2nd quarter. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans now owns 2,514,908 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $103,665,000 after purchasing an additional 90,925 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.97% of the company’s stock. National Storage Affiliates Trust Stock Up 0.4 % Shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust stock opened at $44.35 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 0.72, a current ratio of 0.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.35. National Storage Affiliates Trust has a 52-week low of $32.42 and a 52-week high of $49.44. The company has a market capitalization of $3.38 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.94 and a beta of 0.99. The company has a 50 day moving average of $44.83 and a 200 day moving average of $42.69. National Storage Affiliates Trust Increases Dividend The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, December 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 13th will be given a dividend of $0.57 per share. This is a boost from National Storage Affiliates Trust’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.56. This represents a $2.28 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.14%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, December 13th. National Storage Affiliates Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 130.99%. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth A number of research firms have commented on NSA. Truist Financial upped their price target on National Storage Affiliates Trust from $38.00 to $41.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, August 16th. Jefferies Financial Group raised their target price on National Storage Affiliates Trust from $47.00 to $54.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, September 18th. KeyCorp lowered shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust from an “overweight” rating to a “sector weight” rating in a research note on Monday, September 9th. Citigroup raised their price objective on shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust from $36.00 to $44.50 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, August 30th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on shares of National Storage Affiliates Trust from $40.00 to $42.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research note on Monday, October 21st. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have given a hold rating and one has given a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $43.17. Get Our Latest Stock Report on National Storage Affiliates Trust National Storage Affiliates Trust Profile ( Free Report ) National Storage Affiliates Trust is a real estate investment trust headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, focused on the ownership, operation and acquisition of self storage properties predominantly located within the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2023, the Company held ownership interests in and operated 1,050 self storage properties, located in 42 states and Puerto Rico with approximately 68.6 million rentable square feet, which excludes 39 self storage properties classified as held for sale to be sold to a third party. Featured Stories Five stocks we like better than National Storage Affiliates Trust What Investors Need to Know to Beat the Market Tesla Investors Continue to Profit From the Trump Trade What is an Earnings Surprise? MicroStrategy’s Stock Dip vs. Coinbase’s Potential Rally ESG Stocks, What Investors Should Know Netflix Ventures Into Live Sports, Driving Stock Momentum Want to see what other hedge funds are holding NSA? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for National Storage Affiliates Trust ( NYSE:NSA – Free Report ). 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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — with a moment of silence before the Atlanta Falcons’ game at the Washington Commanders on Sunday night, hours after the 39th president of the United States in Plains, Georgia. Beyond being a Georgia native who led the country from the White House less than 8 miles (12 kilometers) away during his time in office from 1977-81, Carter was the first president to host the NFL's Super Bowl champions there when he welcomed the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1980. released by the team before kickoff said he was deeply saddened by the loss of his dear friend and mentor, calling Carter “a great American, a proud Georgian and an inspirational global humanitarian.” “He lived his life with great civic responsibility and took it upon himself to be the change he wished to see amongst other,” Blank said, recalling meeting Carter at The Home Depot. “President Carter’s kind and uniting spirit touched so many lives. He was a man of deep faith, and did everything with principal and grace, doing things the right way for the right reasons." AP NFL:Maryland Sens. Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, along with Sen.-elect Angela Alsobrooks, endorsed former Maryland Gov. and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley for Democratic National Committee chair. The endorsement comes on the heels of O’Malley’s recent chairmanship bid and ahead of the expected DNC chair election early next year. “As Marylanders, we are proud to support and endorse former Governor Martin O’Malley for DNC Chair. His leadership plan centers around a 50-state strategy focused on jobs, opportunity, and economic security for all. There’s no question that Democrats stand on the side of hardworking Americans. We need a DNC chair like Governor O’Malley focused on making it clear to voters that Democrats will listen to Americans’ concerns and deliver real solutions for their families and our country,” the lawmakers said in a joint statement. O’Malley revealed his plan to step down from his current position as Social Security Administration commissioner last Monday, Nov. 18, in an interview with The New York Times. In a social media post, O’Malley thanked President Joe Biden for his opportunity to serve as the leader of the SSA and praised the agency. “It has been a great honor to serve alongside the people of the Social Security Administration, who have turned around this agency and put it on a better path forward. For the dignity of every individual, social security works,” O’Malley wrote on X. “Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to have served so many Americans...with such a fine group of Americans. Stronger Together.” His bid for chairmanship comes at a chaotic time for the Democratic Party. On Sunday, Nov. 17, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Democrats are in the “wilderness” without a “clear leader” after President-elect Donald Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris. “We face enormous challenges and a lot of soul-searching,” O’Malley told The New York Times. “We need to focus on fixing the problem and not the blame.” O’Malley is expected to campaign on his experience as mayor, governor and one-time leader of the Democratic Governors Association to land the position as chair of the DNC. This is not the first time O’Malley has pursued the party’s leadership; he ran for DNC chair in 2016 but withdrew his candidacy early in the race. The current DNC chair, Jaime Harrison, is not expected to run for a second term. The former two-term governor is the first candidate to formally enter the race for DNC chair, though several state Democratic Party leaders have been rumored to want to join as well. The DNC chair election is expected to happen Feb. 1 at the party’s annual winter meeting in National Harbor, Maryland.
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Will Riley scored a game-high 19 points off the bench as No. 25 Illinois shrugged off a slow start to earn an 87-40 nonconference victory over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday afternoon in Champaign, Ill. Morez Johnson Jr. recorded his first double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds, Kylan Boswell posted 13 points and Tomislav Ivisic contributed 11 for Illinois (4-1). Coming off a 100-87 loss to No. 8 Alabama on Wednesday, the Illini led by as much as 52 despite hitting just 10-of-40 3-point attempts. Jalen Ware paced Maryland Eastern Shore (2-6) with 10 points before fouling out. Ketron "KC" Shaw, who entered Saturday in the top 20 of Division I scorers at 22.3 points per game, went scoreless in the first half and finished with seven points on 2-of-11 shooting. The Hawks canned just 22.1 percent of their shots from the floor. Illinois broke out to a 6-0 lead in the first 2:06, then missed its next six shots. That gave the Hawks time to pull into an 8-8 tie on Evan Johnson's 17-foot pullup at the 12:21 mark. That marked Maryland Eastern Shore's last points for more than seven minutes as the Illini reeled off 17 straight points to remove any suspense. Johnson opened the spree with a basket and two free throws, Ben Humrichous swished a 3-pointer and Tre White sank a layup before Kasparas Jakucionis fed Ivisic for a 3-pointer and an alley-oop layup. Jakucionis set up Johnson for a free throw, then drove for an unchallenged layup to make it 25-8 with 5:15 left in the first. Evan Johnson snapped the visitors' dry spell with a driving layup at the 4:56 mark, but Illinois went on to establish a 35-15 halftime lead on the stretch of 11 offensive rebounds that turned into 12 second-chance points and 13 points off UMES' 10 turnovers. Maryland Eastern Shore needed nearly four minutes to get its first points in the second half as Illinois pushed its lead to 42-15. The Illini margin ballooned all the way to 70-24 on Boswell's driving layup with 8:11 to go. --Field Level MediaNvidia Corp. ($NVDA) shares alternated between gains and losses as traders reacted to the artificial intelligence chip maker’s fiscal year 2025 third-quarter results released late-Wednesday. The market may have become skeptical regarding Nvidia following the results but sell-side analysts are unanimously positive about the near- and medium-term outlook. A slew of analysts upped their price targets for the stock, according to the Fly. Goldman Sachs, Barclays, JPMorgan, Needham and Wedbush hiked their respective price targets by $15 each. Uniquely Positioned: Nvidia is uniquely positioned in the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI), namely enterprise, in NeMo, which enables enterprise-level customization, and NIM micro-service offerings, said Baird analyst Tristan Gerra. Industrial AI in the form of Omniverse, is also part of the next-wave of applications, he added. Baird’s industry conversation echoed Nvidia’s sentiment that no severe issue such as overheating is impacting Blackwell demand. "No demand slowdown in sight, as Nvidia expects worldwide data center 'modernization' from coding to generating AI to be ongoing over the next five years," the firm said. Delving into the soft gross margin guidance, Gerra said the 12-month new AI product cadence has a slight compression effect on gross margin but it would help maintain Nvidia's AI market share above prior expectations and above 75%. Gerra reiterated an “Outperform” rating and lifted the price target for the stock from $150 to $95. Steep Blackwell Ramp In The Cards: Morgan Stanley analyst Joseph Moore said the September quarter proved to be a transitional period . "All indications continue to be that there will be a strong Blackwell ramp, though supply will be the limiter for Blackwell through CY25," he said. Moore maintained an “Overweight” rating and raised the stock price target from $160 to $168. Nvidia is Morgan Stanley’s top semiconductor picks, due to strong visibility into the Blackwell ramp and high conviction relative to peers. "On peak earnings power we still see the stock as less expensive than other AI beneficiaries, while everything else in semis continues to suffer from cyclical pressures," the analyst said. Over Achievement Continues: Daiwa Capital Markets’ Louis Miscioscia said Nvidia’s “over achievement” continues even as the Street estimates continue to go higher. The analyst said his impression is “positive.” He attributed the post-earnings sell-off to "high expectations," and previous stock price appreciation. "AI is big and could be bigger than world changing events like the PC, smartphone, Internet, etc," he said. Daiwa rates Nvidia an "Outperform." Another Earnings Performance For The Ages: Wedbush analyst Daniel Ives said he would characterize the results as "another earnings press release from Nvidia that should be framed and hung in the Louvre given these eye popping results and unprecedented growth from the Godfather of AI Jensen [Huang] and Nvidia." Calling Blackwell, as the "LeBron of chip releases," the analyst said the AI chip appears to be ramping even faster than expected. Ives called the guidance “conservative.” “We believe the path to $4 trillion market cap and beyond is now laid out by Nvidia and this is bullish for the broader tech rally into year-end and 2025,” he said. The retail crowd is firmly behind Nvidia. On Stocktwits, the sentiment meter was ‘extremely bullish’ (87/100), accompanied by ‘extremely high’ message volume. A retail watcher highlighted Huang’s statement on the earnings call in which he said, “we are not just creating a new piece of software, we are creating a new industry.” Another said once the stock crosses the $150 threshold, it could be upward and onward. “It’s a race to $200,” the user said. As of 2:40 pm ET, Nvidia shares rose 1.38% to $147.91.Maupay also had a dig at Everton when he departed on loan to Marseille in the summer and his latest taunt has further angered the Premier League club’s supporters. The 28-year-old said on X after Sean Dyche’s side had lost 2-0 to Nottingham Forest at Goodison Park on Sunday: “Whenever I’m having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile.” Whenever I’m having a bad day I just check the Everton score and smile 🙂 — Neal Maupay (@nealmaupay_) December 29, 2024 Former boxer Tony Bellew was among the Toffees’ supporters who responded to Maupay, with the ex-world cruiserweight champion replying on X with: “P****!” Maupay endured a miserable spell at Everton, scoring just one league goal in 29 appearances after being signed by the Merseysiders for an undisclosed fee in 2022. He departed on a season-long loan to his former club Brentford for the 2023-24 season and left Goodison for a second time in August when Marseille signed him on loan with an obligation to make the deal permanent. After leaving Everton in the summer, Maupay outraged their fans by posting on social media a scene from the film Shawshank Redemption, famous for depicting the main character’s long fight for freedom.
Moment of silence for former President Jimmy Carter held before the Falcons-Commanders game
NoneUtah Hockey Club (7-9-3, in the Central Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (7-11-4, in the Metropolitan Division) Pittsburgh; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Penguins -111, Utah Hockey Club -109; over/under is 6.5 BOTTOM LINE: The Utah Hockey Club look to stop their three-game slide with a win over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh has a 4-5-2 record in home games and a 7-11-4 record overall. The Penguins have a -28 scoring differential, with 57 total goals scored and 85 given up. Utah has a 3-5-2 record on the road and a 7-9-3 record overall. The Utah Hockey Club have a -14 scoring differential, with 49 total goals scored and 63 allowed. The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Sidney Crosby has scored seven goals with 13 assists for the Penguins. Vasiliy Ponomarev has over the last 10 games. Nick Schmaltz has 13 assists for the Utah Hockey Club. Jaxson Stauber has scored goals over the past 10 games. LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 3-4-3, averaging 2.2 goals, 3.6 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game. Utah Hockey Club: 3-5-2, averaging 2.4 goals, 4.2 assists, 4.7 penalties and 14.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.8 goals per game. INJURIES: Penguins: None listed. Utah Hockey Club: None listed. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar . The Associated Press
Will Riley scored a game-high 19 points off the bench as No. 25 Illinois shrugged off a slow start to earn an 87-40 nonconference victory over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday afternoon in Champaign, Ill. Morez Johnson Jr. recorded his first double-double with 10 points and 13 rebounds, Kylan Boswell posted 13 points and Tomislav Ivisic contributed 11 for Illinois (4-1). Coming off a 100-87 loss to No. 8 Alabama on Wednesday, the Illini led by as much as 52 despite hitting just 10-of-40 3-point attempts. Jalen Ware paced Maryland Eastern Shore (2-6) with 10 points before fouling out. Ketron "KC" Shaw, who entered Saturday in the top 20 of Division I scorers at 22.3 points per game, went scoreless in the first half and finished with seven points on 2-of-11 shooting. The Hawks canned just 22.1 percent of their shots from the floor. Illinois broke out to a 6-0 lead in the first 2:06, then missed its next six shots. That gave the Hawks time to pull into an 8-8 tie on Evan Johnson's 17-foot pullup at the 12:21 mark. That marked Maryland Eastern Shore's last points for more than seven minutes as the Illini reeled off 17 straight points to remove any suspense. Johnson opened the spree with a basket and two free throws, Ben Humrichous swished a 3-pointer and Tre White sank a layup before Kasparas Jakucionis fed Ivisic for a 3-pointer and an alley-oop layup. Jakucionis set up Johnson for a free throw, then drove for an unchallenged layup to make it 25-8 with 5:15 left in the first. Evan Johnson snapped the visitors' dry spell with a driving layup at the 4:56 mark, but Illinois went on to establish a 35-15 halftime lead on the stretch of 11 offensive rebounds that turned into 12 second-chance points and 13 points off UMES' 10 turnovers. Maryland Eastern Shore needed nearly four minutes to get its first points in the second half as Illinois pushed its lead to 42-15. The Illini margin ballooned all the way to 70-24 on Boswell's driving layup with 8:11 to go. --Field Level MediaWASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has identified what he sees as an all-purpose fix for what ails America: Slap huge new tariffs on foreign goods entering the United States. On Monday, Trump sent shockwaves across the nation's northern and southern borders, vowing sweeping new tariffs on Mexico, Canada , as well as China, as soon as he takes office as part of his effort to crack down on illegal immigration and drugs. In a pair of posts on his Truth Social site Trump railed against an influx of immigrants lacking permanent legal status, even though southern border apprehensions have been hovering near four-year lows. He said he would impose a 25% tax on all products entering the country from Canada and Mexico, and an additional 10% tariff on goods from China, as one of his first executive orders. He said the new tariffs would remain in place “until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!” The president-elect asserts that tariffs — basically import taxes — will create more factory jobs, shrink the federal deficit, lower food prices and allow the government to subsidize childcare. Economists are generally skeptical, considering tariffs to be a mostly inefficient way for governments to raise money. They are especially alarmed by Trump’s latest proposed tariffs. Carl B. Weinberg and Rubeela Farooqi, economists with High Frequency Economics said Tuesday that energy, automobiles and food supplies will be particularly hit hard. “Imposing tariffs on trade flows into the United States without first preparing alternative sources for the goods and services affected will raise the price of imported items at once," Weinberg and Farooqi wrote. "Since many of these goods are consumer goods, households will be made poorer.” High Frequency Economics believes the threats are not meant to support new trade policy and are instead a tool to elicit some changes along the borders and for imports from Canada, Mexico and China. Though Vice President Kamala Harris criticized Trump’s tariff threats as unserious during her failed bid for the presidency, the Biden-Harris administration retained the taxes the Trump administration imposed on $360 billion in Chinese goods. And it imposed a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles. Indeed, the United States in recent years has gradually retreated from its post-World War II role of promoting global free trade and lower tariffs. That shift has been a response to the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, widely attributed to unfettered trade and an increasingly aggressive China. Tariffs are a tax on imports They are typically charged as a percentage of the price a buyer pays a foreign seller. In the United States, tariffs are collected by Customs and Border Protection agents at 328 ports of entry across the country. The tariff rates range from passenger cars (2.5%) to golf shoes (6%). Tariffs can be lower for countries with which the United States has trade agreements. For example, most goods can move among the United States, Mexico and Canada tariff-free because of Trump’s US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. There's much misinformation about who actually pays tariffs Trump insists that tariffs are paid for by foreign countries. In fact, its is importers — American companies — that pay tariffs, and the money goes to U.S. Treasury. Those companies, in turn, typically pass their higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices. That's why economists say consumers usually end up footing the bill for tariffs. Still, tariffs can hurt foreign countries by making their products pricier and harder to sell abroad. Yang Zhou, an economist at Shanghai’s Fudan University, concluded in a study that Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods inflicted more than three times as much damage to the Chinese economy as they did to the U.S. economy Tariffs are intended mainly to protect domestic industries By raising the price of imports, tariffs can protect home-grown manufacturers. They may also serve to punish foreign countries for committing unfair trade practices, like subsidizing their exporters or dumping products at unfairly low prices. Before the federal income tax was established in 1913, tariffs were a major revenue driver for the government. From 1790 to 1860, tariffs accounted for 90% of federal revenue, according to Douglas Irwin, a Dartmouth College economist who has studied the history of trade policy. Tariffs fell out of favor as global trade grew after World War II. The government needed vastly bigger revenue streams to finance its operations. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the government is expected to collect $81.4 billion in tariffs and fees. That's a trifle next to the $2.5 trillion that's expected to come from individual income taxes and the $1.7 trillion from Social Security and Medicare taxes. Still, Trump wants to enact a budget policy that resembles what was in place in the 19th century. He has argued that tariffs on farm imports could lower food prices by aiding America’s farmers. In fact, tariffs on imported food products would almost certainly send grocery prices up by reducing choices for consumers and competition for American producers. Tariffs can also be used to pressure other countries on issues that may or may not be related to trade. In 2019, for example, Trump used the threat of tariffs as leverage to persuade Mexico to crack down on waves of Central American migrants crossing Mexican territory on their way to the United States. Trump even sees tariffs as a way to prevent wars. “I can do it with a phone call,’’ he said at an August rally in North Carolina. If another country tries to start a war, he said he’d issue a threat: “We’re going to charge you 100% tariffs. And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me, ‘Sir, we won’t go to war.’ ” Economists generally consider tariffs self-defeating Tariffs raise costs for companies and consumers that rely on imports. They're also likely to provoke retaliation. The European Union, for example, punched back against Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminum by taxing U.S. products, from bourbon to Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Likewise, China responded to Trump’s trade war by slapping tariffs on American goods, including soybeans and pork in a calculated drive to hurt his supporters in farm country. A study by economists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Zurich, Harvard and the World Bank concluded that Trump’s tariffs failed to restore jobs to the American heartland. The tariffs “neither raised nor lowered U.S. employment’’ where they were supposed to protect jobs, the study found. Despite Trump’s 2018 taxes on imported steel, for example, the number of jobs at U.S. steel plants barely budged: They remained right around 140,000. By comparison, Walmart alone employs 1.6 million people in the United States. Worse, the retaliatory taxes imposed by China and other nations on U.S. goods had “negative employment impacts,’’ especially for farmers, the study found. These retaliatory tariffs were only partly offset by billions in government aid that Trump doled out to farmers. The Trump tariffs also damaged companies that relied on targeted imports. If Trump’s trade war fizzled as policy, though, it succeeded as politics. The study found that support for Trump and Republican congressional candidates rose in areas most exposed to the import tariffs — the industrial Midwest and manufacturing-heavy Southern states like North Carolina and Tennessee.
A Monmouthshire writer and disability activist has been named in the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 2024. Bethany Handley, who is also a poet, was named as one of the ten most influential disabled people working in politics, law and media in the UK. She was recognised for her impact, innovation and influence in changing the perceptions and stereotypes of disability. Her award-winning writing, poetry and campaigning calls for better access to nature for disabled people. Bethany is an ambassador for Country Living’s Access for All campaign, for Wales Coast Path and for Ramblers Cymru. Bethany said: “I’m honoured to be featured on this year’s disability power 100 list alongside so many disabled change makers I look up to. "I’m looking forward to continuing campaigning for better access to nature, ensuring we can all help to create equality in the outdoors.” “When I became a wheelchair user, I found myself padlocked out of a lot of our countryside. I’ve since learnt that the physical and attitudinal barriers the most marginalised in our society face when accessing nature are removable. We can all help to open up the countryside to more people.” Head of Disability Power 100, Alona De Havilland, said: “The Disability Power 100 is all about creating change, it celebrates ambition and achievement, and plays a role in challenging society’s perceptions of disability by recognising the strengths, contributions and successes of 100 disabled individuals each year. “We all need role models. People who are pioneers and changemakers. This year we witnessed our Team GB Paralympians rightly celebrated for their elite athleticism, sporting prowess and determination to succeed. "The Disability Power 100 celebrates disabled roles models with the same determination, expertise and ambition in all sectors from architecture to construction; finance to healthcare; transport to music. It is a rallying cry to future generations of leaders and a call for employers and society to recognise the talents and skills of disabled people.” The awards are publicly nominated and judged by a panel of 25 disabled champions including international leader Dr Shani Dhanda, chief executive of Paralympics GB, David Clark and Coronation Street actor Cherylee Houston.
[Editor’s note: the following article contains spoilers for “Arcane” Season 2 .] The final three-episode arc of “ Arcane ” Season 2 is just as bold, experimental, and fiercely character-driven as the rest of the Netflix animated series , in no small part because it reflects the show’s construction. Showrunner Christian Linke and the rest of the writing team based with Riot Games were constantly opening hexgates (and/or Zoom calls) with the directors and animators at Fortiche Studios to amp up the visual expression of the emotional journeys. A key example is the first episode of this last arc, “Pretend Like It’s The First Time.” It transports Ekko (Reed Shannon) into a parallel universe where the undercity of Zaun gets to look more utopian, like its sister city of Piltover, and where many of the characters we’ve lost are still around, and where Vi’s sister Powder has never become Jinx (Ella Purnell). And it arose out of Fortiche wanting to have an episode that would live on its own — which the writing team felt would suit whatever experience Ekko (Reed Shannon) and Heimerdinger (Mick Wingert) have when they travel to Powder’s Zaun. “So we said, ‘OK, cool, let’s take a minute and explore this idea and see if we can make it work.’ That happened pretty early on when we started developing Season 2,” Linke told IndieWire. “They get inspired and they suggest things and we want to create the space for them to really have fun. [The writers] really try to think about the integrity of the story and the character stuff, and then it’s really about unlocking the artists.” Part of unlocking the artists is making sure the characters make big choices in situations that are engineered to really pull them in multiple directions — and that the consequences of their actions don’t necessarily need to line up logically or morally but puts them in a new situation where they have to make a really big, hard choice. A prime example is Jinx, who begins Season 2 adrift and done with the destructive mayhem that saw Piltover get wrecked. Her events in Arc 1 lead her to find the young Zaunite Isha (Lucy Lowe), “and now she has this little bubble of a world with Isha, like, ‘Maybe this can be my happy place. Maybe I don’t always need to become the villain,’” Linke said. “For the first time, she’s the big sister.” But as with any relationship, Jinx doesn’t just get to have a comfy bubbly where she and Isha play mutant bug wrestling for fun. No one can fully have another person as a toy to do exactly what they need them to do and no more — much as Ambessa (Ellen Thomas) and Viktor (Harry Lloyd) try to evolve his followers into such a state. Isha believes the mythmaking about Jinx as a hero of the undercity and believes in Jinx to save Zaun. Why wouldn’t she, when she saved Isha? “It takes Isha’s guts — she idolizes Jinx so much and she resembled some of [the innocence Jinx had], and she’s like, ‘Hey, you don’t get to hide. This is what you need to do,’” Linke said. So Jinx reaches out and tries to save her adoptive father, Vander (JB Blanc), and reconcile with her sister Vi (Hailee Steinfeld). She fails at the former, succeeds at the latter, and Isha dies in the battle for both. Then Episode 7 provides a little balm for that heartache — the reassurance that somewhere, some when there’s a version of Powder who is alive and at relative peace, a beautiful synthesis of Isha, Jinx, and Vi. Episode 8 and Episode 9 pull Jinx between the extremes of wanting to kill herself and stepping up to save Piltover and give both significant stylistic weight — with the animation dissolving into chaotic, sketchy line art in Jinx’s despair, with Ekko interrupting Jinx again and again (the joys of time-travel), and with the joyously colorful graffiti imposed on their final, spectacular entrance into the battle between Ambessa’s and Piltover’s forces. “You have that headline and then from there you go into, ‘OK, so what are the scenes? What do you do with this? What is happening?’ And so that’s where you work together with the storyboarders and Fortiche to say, ‘OK, what is this?’” Linke said. “The line work stuff, that’s Fortiche.” But in Episode 9, it’s Linke and fellow writer Alex Yee who provide the superstructure that the scenes are all built upon. Jinx’s ultimate sacrifice, saving Vi at the cost of her and Vander but promising that she’s “Always with ya, sis,” is something that arose organically in those early discussions about the end of the series. “One of the harder things about this kind of work is that — you know, ‘Arcane’ was the first project we’ve done of something like this, so when we started looking into [television writing], you’re looking for the golden formula. How do you craft seasons? How can you plan seasons? And quickly, the answer from every showrunner and every creator we talked to is, ‘No. You can’t. It’s too organic of an approach. When you build a story, it always kind of goes its own way,'” Linke said. Jinx’s ultimate choice is the sum of all her choices, of all her lucky and bad breaks, and also of the constant love and the fear that has motivated her throughout “Arcane.” Otherwise, Fortiche wouldn’t have put some streaks of pink in her hair for the final battle, a nice visual nod to the person she becomes in every universe. It’s heartbreaking and heroic, but Linke and the writing team pulled the trigger on it because it feels like a true expression of the character. “There’s an economy to animation [writing] that’s never really easy, and at the core, it is always about relationships and choices,” Linke said. “We always like to have bold choices from our characters and also have consequences feel like, you know, sometimes they’re satisfying, sometimes they’re not because life is not this perfectly constructed system of things where there’s always a gain to every cost.” It’s an important distinction that writers can keep in mind, especially now , to make stories like “Arcane” feel as meaningful as they do. The joy of expanding the original story of “Arcane” into two full seasons has been, for Linke, in getting to go deeper on the characters and have those ultimate choices feel even more earned. The final confrontation between Caitlyn (Katie Leung), Ambessa, and Mel (Toks Olagundoye) is just as much a product of the organic chain of events of the series — what all three women have learned from each other, want from each other, and want to destroy in themselves — as Jinx’s sacrifice. “The moment between Caitlyn and Mel and Ambessa, I think, is really fucking special and cool. Caitlyn is such a badass. I cannot get over how she has transformed into this super cool character, and I’m really happy about that,” Linke said. But the impact of Jinx’s story — and of Powder’s — is already being felt. Linke can’t get over the fact that the musical track “ Ma Meilleure Ennemie ” from Jinx and Powder’s dance in Episode 7 has shot up to the top of Spotify worldwide. “It’s like next to Billie Eilish and Kendrick Lamar. It’s so cool to see one of our songs next to these titans,” Linke said. “It’s a very special episode that’s close to everyone’s heart.” It is for the audience, too, because the writing team and Fortiche brought Jinx so close to our hearts. Her story is over. Long live “Arcane.” “Arcane” is now streaming on Netflix .ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s incumbent President Zoran Milanovic won most of the votes in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, but must face a runoff against a ruling party candidate to secure another five-year term. With nearly all of the votes counted, left-leaning Milanovic won 49% while his main challenger Dragan Primorac, a candidate of the ruling conservative HDZ party, trailed far behind with 19%. Pre-election polls had predicted that the two would face off in the second round on Jan. 12, as none of the eight presidential election contenders were projected to get more than 50% of the vote. Milanovic thanked his supporters but warned “this was just a first run.” “Let’s not be triumphant, let’s be realistic, firmly on the ground,” he said. “We must fight all over again. It’s not over till it’s over.” Milanovic is an outspoken critic of Western military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia. He is often compared to Donald Trump for his combative style of communication with political opponents. The most popular politician in Croatia, 58-year-old Milanović has served as prime minister in the past. Populist in style, he has been a fierce critic of current Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and continuous sparring between the two has lately marked Croatia’s political scene. Plenković, the prime minister, has sought to portray the vote as one about Croatia’s future in the EU and NATO. He has labeled Milanović “pro-Russian” and a threat to Croatia’s international standing. “The difference between him and Milanović is quite simple: Milanović is leading us East, Primorac is leading us West,” he said. Though the presidency is largely ceremonial in Croatia, an elected president holds political authority and acts as the supreme military commander. Milanović has criticized the NATO and European Union support for Ukraine and has often insisted that Croatia should not take sides. He has said Croatia should stay away from global disputes, though it is a member of both NATO and the EU. Milanović has also blocked Croatia’s participation in a NATO-led training mission for Ukraine, declaring that “no Croatian soldier will take part in somebody else’s war.” His main rival in the election, Primorac, has stated that “Croatia’s place is in the West, not the East.” His presidency bid, however, has been marred by a high-level corruption case that landed Croatia’s health minister in jail last month and featured prominently in pre-election debates. During the election campaign, Primorac has sought to portray himself as a unifier and Milanović as divisive. Primorac was upbeat despite such a big defeat in the first round. “I know the difference (in votes) at first sight seems very big,” said Primorac, who insisted that the center-right votes had split among too many conservative candidates. “Now we have a great opportunity to face each other one on one and show who stands for what,” he said. Sunday’s presidential election is Croatia’s third vote this year, following a parliamentary election in April and the European Parliament balloting in June.
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