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"We're very happy to become a partner with Namaste through their investment," said Randy Rolph, CEO of Pineapple Express Delivery Inc. "Pineapple Express has made great strides and works with some of the top cannabis companies in Canada, and we look forward to continue to grow our network with the support of Namaste."
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It has been a whirlwind nine months for writer/director James Gunn. Gunn wrote and directed Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, which became a hit when it was released in 2014. He returned to write and direct the sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, in 2017. He was set to return for the third film, but certain bad taste jokes Gunn made on Twitter before directing Guardians of the Galaxy resurfaced when he became the target of politically-motivated online activists. Disney removed Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, putting the film’s future in question. Months later, Warner Bros. hired Gunn to write and direct The Suicide Squad, a reboot of the film series based on the DC Comics team. Weeks after that, after an ongoing campaign from Guardians of the Galaxy actors and fans, Disney announced it would reinstate Gunn as director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
Gunn will direct The Suicide Squad first before going back to the Marvel to direct the third Guardians movie. Gunn is the first director to have a Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Extended Universe project in the works simultaneously. DC Films producer Peter Safran sees Gunn having a foot in both franchises a unifying form for Marvel and DC’s fandoms.
"And you know what I love about James directing for both Marvel and DC is he has always espoused the view that that which unites comic book and superhero lovers is much greater than that which divides us,” Safran tells JoBlo. “Because, there’s always been this Marvel/DC rivalry, which he has said, and I agree, is absurd. There’s room for everybody and certainly that which unites us all is far greater than that which divides us, so hopefully they’ll see that you can be both a Marvel and a DC fan and the world won’t spin off its axis."
Safran also made it clear that Gunn having two superhero project on his plate doesn’t mean he’s going to rush through either one or the other. He said, "No, it was all handled incredibly elegantly and everybody knows on both sides that Suicide Squad is the priority today and he’ll finish that movie and then everybody knows that his next film will be Guardians. It’s the best of all possible both worlds, I think, for fans and for James Gunn himself."
He also teased that fans should be excited about Gunn’s reimagining of Suicide Squad, saying "First of all, we don’t call it Suicide Squad 2 ‘cause it’s a total reboot, so it’s The Suicide Squad and I think people should be extremely excited about it. It’s everything you would hope from a James Gunn script and I think that says a lot and that promises a lot and I know that we will deliver a lot."
Are you excited about The Suicide Squad and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3? Let us know in the comments.
Upcoming DC Extended Universe movies include Shazam! on April 5th, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn) on February 7, 2020, Wonder Woman 1984 on June 5, 2020, and The Batman on 25, 2021.
Hunter Scott pitched a four-hit shutout in the opener and three pitchers combined on a five-hitter in the second game as No. 1 Lubbock Christian University swept the University of Texas-Brownsville 7-0 and 4-0 Saturday in baseball at Hays Field.
The Chaparrals (8-5) had split their first five doubleheaders this season.
Sophomore lefthander Shane Ingram (2-0) pitched 31/3 innings of three-hit middle relief in the second game for the victory. Batterymate Joe Staley drove in two runs with a double and a homer.
Scott (1-1), a senior transfer from Houston Baptist, struck out six and walked one in the opener. His teammates supported him with eight extra-base hits.
Doug Kroll hit an RBI triple in a two-run first. In the second, Brett Kazmierski doubled, Richard Bohlken tripled him home, and David Cruz added an RBI double for a 4-0 lead.
J.J. Muse’s third-inning homer made it 5-0. A Staley double and a Ross Blondin single, both in the sixth, drove in LCU’s final two runs.
In game two, the Chaps took a 2-0 lead in the third on doubles by Marc Gomez, Staley and Blondin.
Staley unloaded his first homer in the fifth, and Gomez’s sacrifice in the sixth was good for an insurance run.
Ralley and Henggeler; Scott and Neumann. W—Scott (1-1). L—Raley (0-1). 2B—UT-Brownsville, Camorlinga; LCU, Cruz 2, Staley, Kazmierski, Neumann. 3B—LCU, Bohlken, Kroll. HR—Muse (2).
Chapman, Bustamante (5) and Hengeller; Vickers, Ingram (3), Gaines (7) and Staley. W—Ingram (2-0). L—Chapman (1-2). 2B—LCU, Gomez, Staley, Blondin, Chenworth. HR—LCU, Staley (1). Records: UT-Brownsville 7-9, LCU 8-5.
FORT WORTH — Alyssa Gutierrez pitched her second career no-hitter at Lubbock Christian University, and the Lady Chaparrals went on to win the Cowtown Classic softball tournament Saturday for the second year in a row.
In three victories Saturday, LCU first baseman Kim Frazier went six for 12 with four home runs and 10 runs batted in. Center fielder Priscilla FaGaines went six for 12 with four homers and seven RBIs.
The Lady Chaps (10-0) went 5-0 in the two-day tournament.
Gutierrez struck out three and retired all but one of the 22 batters she faced in a 13-0 rout of Northwestern Oklahoma State. A fifth-inning error cost her a perfect game.
Gutierrez and Parsons; Hines, Lack (7) and Vasquez. W—Gutierrez (5-0). L—Hines. 2B—LCU, Eltsosie 2. HR—LCU, Frazier, FaGaines 2.
Bergstrom and Faas; Gutierrez and Parsons. W—Gutierrez (6-0). L—Bergstrom. 2B—LCU, J.Frazier. HR—UH-Victoria, Pettit; LCU, K.Frazier 2, FaGaines.
Rodgers, Luck (6) and Maldonado; Beach, Henderson (2) and Holden. W—Rodgers (4-0). L—Beach. 2B—LCU, K.Frazier, Maldonado; Oklahoma Baptist, King, Johnson. HR—LCU, Van Dieren, K.Frazier, FaGaines; Oklahoma Baptist, King.
Rodgers, Luck (4) and Maldonado; Miller, Kirk (4) and Proudfoot. W—Rodgers (2-0). L—Miller (0-1). 2B—LCU, Frazier. HR—LCU, K.Frazier, FaGaines, Myers.
Bergstrom and Faas; Gutierrez and Parsons. W—Gutierrez (4-0). L—Bergstrom. HR—LCU, K.Frazier.
Trinidad, Stramel (2) and Peters; Rodgers, Luck (4) and Maldonado. W—Rodgers (3-0). L—Trinidad. 2B—LCU, Phelps. 3B—LCU, Myers. HR—LCU, K.Frazier 2.
Veteran clown Jerry Lewis and the young actor Oliver Platt, each giving a performance of rare humor and feeling, dig for the bleak roots of comedy in this hypnotic whatsit from Peter Chelsom, the British writer and director of Hear My Song. The film is overlong and flawed by disorienting shifts in mood and pacing. No matter. Funny Bones is provocative entertainment that blends mirth and malice with startling results.
Platt stars as Tommy Fawkes, a comic whose career is dwarfed by that of his father, George (Lewis), a funny-bones comedian who doesn’t rely, as Tommy does, on the spoken word. Tommy is a wreck before opening in Vegas. All show business is out there, and George’s warm-up bit has already stolen Tommy’s dim thunder. Dejected, Tommy jets to Black-pool, the English seaside-resort town where he grew up and watched the great comics perform. Tommy is looking for a new act. Actually, he’s looking to steal one. What he discovers instead are family secrets that deeply shake him.
Tommy finds a woman (the vibrant Leslie Caron) from his past, a half-brother (Lee Evans, the British acrobatic comic, is a revelation) he never knew he had and evidence that his dad might have done a little act stealing himself. Since the film also unravels mysteries about dismemberment and murder, the less revealed in a review the better. But as Tommy and his father face off, Funny Bones packs an emotional wallop that will haunt you long after memories of conventional comedies fade.
It began as a lofty venture to give pedestrians a walkway above 14 lanes of highway, linking the GO station south of Hwy. 401 to downtown Pickering north of the highway.
The pedestrian bridge was supposed to be a sleek statement for Pickering, a functional and beautiful bridge that would glow at night with LED lighting.
More than five years after the bridge was supposed to be completed, it is still unfinished and Metrolinx still doesn’t know when it will be.
Dozens of curved metal panels are stacked up with rope along the bridge, outside the glass windows of the catwalk.
“Construction will resume once the contractor is ready to move ahead on all of the structure’s components: the structural steel, the metal cladding and the exterior lighting system,” said Anne Marie Aikins, a spokesperson for Metrolinx.
The pedestrian bridge was plagued with construction delays and errors, as highlighted in the 2016 Ontario Auditor General’s annual report released Wednesday.
The original contractor, Aplus General Contractor Corp, was given a $19-million contract to complete the first phase of the bridge by Metrolinx, because it was the lowest bidder, the report noted.
However, soon after the work began, problems began to crop up, the report noted. Aplus was, nevertheless, awarded the contract to complete the second phase of work on the bridge, worth $8 million, as well as a third contract worth $39 million.
The bridge is costing an additional $1.4 million to complete since the contract with Aplus was terminated, said Aikins.
The Star reached out to Aplus for comment and was told by an employee they would be releasing a statement “very, very soon,” but the employee declined to comment beyond that and wouldn’t give her name.
“We completed the work as designed, and the reason the work on the bridge is still not complete is because of material limitation(s) as designed,” Aplus project manager Fiaz Kara told CP24.
In her report, Ontario auditor general Bonnie Lysyk wrote Aplus “performed so poorly that Metrolinx staff had to take over performing many of its duties.
However, during the second phase, which Aplus was awarded because its bid was, again, the lowest, the contractor was not up to the task, Aikins agreed.
Although the contract was terminated, Aplus was still paid almost the full $8 million of its contract, the report noted.
Metrolinx was also criticized in the report for awarding Aplus a third contract, worth $39 million, to build a GO and Union-Pearson Express station on Bloor.
“That was built around the same time (as the second phase of the pedestrian bridge), so it’s not like we knew there were problems with this contractor when we awarded them another contract,” said Aikins.
Apple's emoji library could expand into the world of "Star Trek" with a Spock Vulcan salute emoji.
Emoji, those little digital pictograms, are here to express sentiments when words fail us (or simply take too long to type out). When a close friend is caught in a high-radiation environment after restoring the warp drive and saving your starship, you can either have a long conversation through radiation-proof glass, or you can simply text a Vulcan salute emoji using your Apple device.
Quartz reports that it has confirmed the presence of a Vulcan salute emoji in Apple's most recent OS X beta release, though the symbol currently doesn't appear in the system's emoji keyboard. It's unknown if the emoji will be included in the final release or if it will also appear in a future update of Apple's mobile iOS. If the salute ends up in the wide release, Apple users will be able to quickly say, "Live long and prosper, you illogical human" to each other.
The Emojipedia, an online reference source for emoji, notes that the "raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers" is coming soon to iOS 8.3 and OS X 10.10.3. Emojipedia also shows the hand icon with a variety of skin-tone modifiers to cover the gamut from Spock to Tuvok.
Vulcan salute emoji were in the works before Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played Spock on "Star Trek," passed away in February. The Unicode Consortium introduced 250 new emoji in June 2014. On that list is a hand with fingers splayed in the middle.
"Star Trek" lovers and geeks everywhere will no doubt embrace the Vulcan emoji, especially as fans continue to mourn Nimoy's passing and find ways to pay tribute to his legacy in everyday life, one emoji at a time.
Dean Corbin of Fox River Grove and Master David Garrison practice martial arts. Tiger Martial Arts of Barrington is celebrating its 30th anniversary this November.
BARRINGTON – When he was 16 years old, both David Garrison’s father and his tennis coach were in agreement that Garrison needed to work on his focus.
They had heard about Grand Master Ken Ok Hyung Kim, and Garrison became part of the first generation that studied kyuki-do – a mixed martial art that combines elements of many traditional martial arts styles – under the grand master.
Following college, Garrison spent several years as a professional fighter. He was awarded Kyu Ki Do Black Belt man of the year in 1996, Hapki Do instructor of the year in 2007, and in 2008, Garrison was inducted into the U.S. Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
For the past 30 years, he also has trained children and adults from the Barrington area in the martial arts.
Tiger Martial Arts, 28686 W. Northwest Highway (Route 14), is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month. It offers training in kyuki-do, jujitsu, hapki do, MMA training, weapons training, kickboxing, TNT private lessons and nutrition programs. Tiger Martial Arts has been at its current location for about seven years.
Kim also is responsible for Garrison becoming a martial arts teacher. He asked Garrison to fill in for him and teach a class in Barrington for one month.
Garrison teaches people from the ages of 4 years old and up. He even has a student who is nearly 70. It takes children about seven years to reach black belt level through his training, and adults about five years. Garrison has very high standards when it comes to moving students through the different levels.
Fox River Grove resident Dean Corbin has been a student of Garrison’s since he was 15 years old. He’s now 23 years old and achieved his black belt about two years ago.
When Corbin first started studying martial arts, he had epilepsy and was on medication to keep it under control. Through his study of martial arts and the exercise, as well as the concentration and healthier eating that came along with it, he was able to get off medication and has been epileptic-free for four years.
Corbin also has been an instructor at Tiger Martial Arts for about three years. He just recently tested for his 2nd-degree black belt.
Holly Zastrow is a senior instructor at Tiger Martial Arts and a 3rd-degree black belt. Zastrow has been studying under Garrison for 15 years. While she studied martial arts in high school, she stopped for about 20 years before finding Tiger Martial Arts.
“I never completed getting my black belt, and that was one of my goals back then,” she said.
She also is a holistic nutritionist and offers nutrition counseling and planning at Tiger Martial Arts.
She focuses on eating more fruits and vegetables and raw foods. She counsels people to stay away from food colorings and preservatives, and to drink plenty of high pH water.
As if you weren't nervous enough in the airport. The Transportation Security Administration has started to hunt for technologies that'll secretly spot "suspicious behavior" in passengers.The request for information, filed by the minds of the William J. Hughes Technical Center in the Atlantic City Airport, hopes to find ways to "sense patterns of individuals' physiological response(s) and/or overt behavior that are reliably associated with malicious intent."
Proposed technologies may be applicable to the screening of travelers or of employees of transportation facilities (e.g., airports, rail stations, and bus terminals) and carriers.Ideally, proposed technologies will be non invasive, remote, covert, passive, automatic, and suitable for area, as well as portal use. However, alternatives requiring contact, interaction (challenge-response, for example), manual operation, etc. will also be considered.
MILAN, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Italian gas group Snam expects to deliver higher earnings and dividends under a new plan which will see it spend more on its network and new green businesses.
Europe’s biggest gas pipeline operator said on Wednesday it expected net profit to rise by an average of more than 4 percent per year and dividends by 5 percent to 2022.
It said it would invest around 85 percent of its 5.7 billion euro ($6.5 billion) spending programme on its transport network, while earmarking 200 million euros for new green businesses.
The group, controlled by Italian state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, said it would be converting 3.2 billion euros of credit lines into loans that would fund sustainable projects.
Snam, which has said it is ready to play a leading role in integrating Europe’s grids, makes most of its revenue from gas transport and is looking to make Italy a European gas hub.
The first trailer for the new series of Great British Bake Off has been released.
Channel 4 took to Twitter on Thursday to share the exciting 2018 teaser, which sees various animated cakes singing about their insecurities.
Viewers were immediately sent wild by the clip - with some even left in tears by the 'emotional' Christina Aguilera backing track - and lauded producers for the 'epic' advert on social media.
The funny clip sees an array of cakes, biscuits and pastries singing the pop star's 2002 hit Beautiful, after their own bakes in the oven went wrong.
A chocolate hedgehog takes centre stage with his teary rendition of the track, while mismatched scones and squashed cupcakes vow to stay strong in the face of criticism, as they are put up for sale.
Building to a big finish, the clip ends with an impressive three-tiered wedding cake belting out a high note, as it is presented to judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood, and hosts Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding.
The trailer immediately sent show fans into a frenzy, who took to Twitter to praise the 'hilarious' but also 'emotional' advert.
The advert gave no more detail about when the show will return, but confirmed the original Channel 4 judges and hosts will be making a comeback.
Producers will no doubt be delighted by the reception to the trailer, after receiving lukewarm reviews for last year's teaser.
The 2017 edition was branded 'creepy' by fans, after it saw an assortment of pastries including croissants, doughnuts, loaves and tarts similarly singing Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus's We All Stand Together.
The trailer only added to fan woe at the time, as the show was also moving from its home channel of the BBC.
Channel 4 paid £75 million for three years of the hit show, with beloved hosts Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc pulling out, as well as national treasure and star baker Mary Berry.
However, the reboot was an immediate hit with fans, and the final even scored Channel 4's highest ever viewing figures in 32 years.
Housing secretary James Brokenshire, who launched the reworked policy document yesterday (24 July), said the new rules would make it easier for councils to challenge ‘poor quality and unattractive development’, and give communities a greater voice about how developments should look and feel.
According to the government, the six-year-old NPPF has been redrawn following extensive consultation to provide stronger emphasis on high-quality design of new homes and places, increase the protection for the environment, and introduce a new methodology which aims to deliver more homes in the areas where they are most needed.
The document includes a new Housing Delivery Test for local authorities focused on ‘driving up the numbers of homes actually delivered in their area, rather than how many are planned for’.
The new framework also calls on councils to make use of ’innovative new visual tools to promote better design and quality, which will also make sure new homes fit in with their surroundings’.
Yet Matt Swanton, a partner at Re-Format, said his practice welcomed any measure that would prompt proposals to be shown in a ‘more visually transparent way’.
He said: ’All too often planning design presentation is cloak and dagger stuff, including elevations presented with scant information, and no real understanding of how proposals sit in context.
James Arkle of Yorkshire and London-based ArkleBoyce, which works mainly on new-build residential development, agreed: ’The principle of promoting ‘high-quality design’ is one that we welcome and would obviously wholeheartedly applaud. Our reservation is in relation to how this is achieved and implemented in the current planning system.
‘Design is incredibly subjective and as a practice we have first-hand experience of both: our perception of design being different to that of the planning authority and local communities; and design that is supported by the planning authority but not successful at committee.
Meanwhile Mark Rowe, partner at Penoyre & Prasad, also picked up on how good design would be judged. He said: ‘It’s refreshing to see that the Framework addresses “unattractive” development – although wouldn’t it be great to see talk of ‘beauty’ in the positive sense rather than just the negative?