LUFC supporters Paul and Jack Riley had the concept of organising a signed soccer shirt to boost cash for household pal and Cedarbarn proprietor Karl Avison’s Journey of Their Lives enchantment. Fellow LUFC supporter Bob Batty then supplied two company hospitality tickets to the Bremner suite within the West Stand for any fixture within the 2024/25 season that would see Leeds return to the Premier League.

Bob stated: “All it’s a must to do is e-mail KarlAvison@icloud.com with a dedication to bid as a lot as potential -minimum £500 – earlier than the top of the Leeds v Blackburn match on Saturday, April 13.

“The profitable bid would be the highest timed provide, and Karl will make the ultimate resolution. The funds will probably be transferred to Karl’s Simply Giving account, and the fortunate winners will have the ability to choose a recreation of their alternative immediately from me and my son Sam, who’re long-standing Bremner suite season ticket holders.”

The beneficiant provide from each households is the newest in a sequence of gestures from the local people, which is behind Mr Avison’s second try on the difficult Journey of Their Lives. Native companies have sponsored occasions, Norton racehorse coach Brian Ellison is loaning him a horse, and the Douglas household has opened up their AD plant to boost funds for his or her farming neighbour.

Karl stated: “We’re humbled and grateful for all of the assist we now have obtained. From neighbours, native companies, individuals attending occasions and donating to our e book trade, we now have been blown away by the degrees of generosity.”

The Journey of Their Lives takes place at York Races on the June 15 and Karl will make historical past as the one jockey within the 52 12 months outdated race to compete for a second time.

Karl is considered one of 12 newbie riders who will compete within the nine-furlong race across the iconic Knavesmire course, the primary race of the Macmillan Charity Raceday, which has raised over £10 million since its begin in 1971.

April 8, 2024

Pricey Colleagues:

I’m happy to announce that the Senior Management Staff has advisable a wage benefit pool, pending Purdue Board of Trustees approval, for advantages eligible school and workers for the upcoming 12 months. Our dedication to reward PNW workers for regularly pursuing excellence displays PNW’s monetary and operational power.

Profit eligible workers employed previous to March 31 could also be included within the pool, which is:

• 3.0% for recurring benefit will increase (added to base pay) efficient July 1, 2024.

Managers will decide the allocation of the benefit pool amongst eligible workers in every division and enterprise unit. Supervisors will obtain info from the Workplace of Finance and Enterprise Companies to speak to particular person school and workers members by mid-June.

The recurring benefit will increase can be mirrored on the July 24 pay assertion for biweekly workers and July 31 pay assertion for month-to-month workers.

I’m extraordinarily proud to work with the devoted school and workers of PNW. Thanks for all you do to make sure the college and our college students are powering onward to new heights.

Kenneth C. Holford

Chancellor, Purdue College Northwest

London — Nameless on-line supporters of the Islamic terror group ISIS have issued a risk to soccer stadiums throughout Europe forward of main video games within the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League — European soccer’s greatest membership competitors.

A put up disseminated this week by the pro-ISIS on-line media outlet Al Azaim Basis confirmed graphic imagery of a gunman in a balaclava, with the message, “Kill all of them,” in massive textual content. The put up lists London’s Emirates Stadium, Paris’s Parc de Prince (sic), and Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu as targets.

All three stadiums are set to host main Champions League video games, with tens of hundreds of followers in attendance.

There have been no associated threats conveyed through any of the official social media accounts run by or recognized to be linked to ISIS.

UEFA, the physique that runs the Champions League competitors, stated in an announcement despatched to CBS Information on Tuesday that it was “conscious of alleged terrorist threats made in the direction of this week’s UEFA Champions League matches and is carefully liaising with the authorities on the respective venues.”

“All matches are deliberate to go forward as scheduled with applicable safety preparations in place,” the assertion stated.

Richard Barnes, a counterterrorism adviser who leads stadium safety for London’s Metropolitan Police, confirmed that the drive was wanting into the net threats forward of the Champions League sport between Arsenal and Bayern Munich at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday night.

He informed CBS Information, nonetheless, that the net threats had been “not a brand new tactic utilized by varied terrorist teams to trigger or increase alarm.”

Barnes stated the London police counterterrorism unit was “investigating this and they’ll even be participating with inside and exterior companions and stakeholders to make sure this night’s fixture at Emirates Stadium just isn’t affected.”

French Inside Minister Gerald Darmanin stated safety can be “significantly strengthened” round Wednesday’s Champions League sport between Paris Saint-Germain and Barcelona, within the French capital, in response to the risk, in keeping with the AFP information company.

The threats and heightened safety measures come simply weeks after the bloody assault on the Russian capital’s Crocus Metropolis Corridor, which noticed gunmen storm the live performance venue earlier than setting it on fireplace.

A beforehand unheard-of ISIS Russia department claimed accountability for the assault, which left virtually 200 folks useless.

It additionally comes simply days after an 18-year-old man from Idaho was arrested and accused of plotting to kill churchgoers in his city within the title of ISIS, in keeping with courtroom paperwork unsealed earlier this week.

ISIS has a historical past of bloody assaults on European soil, together with the devastating, well-orchestrated assault on a number of places round Paris in 2015. France’s nationwide soccer stadium, simply north of Paris, was the one location outdoors the capital metropolis that was attacked by the ISIS militants throughout that siege. It’s not the identical venue that was talked about within the put up on the pro-ISIS web site this week.

CBS Information’ Khaled Wassef contributed to this report.

April 8, 2024

The Purdue College Northwest (PNW) Arithmetic and Statistics Membership scholar group just lately helped share the enjoyment of math with the campus group by internet hosting an Worldwide Math Day celebration.

Worldwide Arithmetic Day helps have fun mathematicians’ achievements all through historical past and encourage new generations of problem-solvers. The scholar group facilitated hands-on and interesting actions meant to share a ardour for arithmetic and its significance in folks’s day by day lives. Actions included math puzzles, trivia, calculus with Kahoot, card video games, chance bingo and extra. Over 100 college students, college and employees attended.

“We had been thrilled to have fun Worldwide Math Day and showcase the wonder and relevance of arithmetic and statistics to our group,” stated Gowrisree Juttiga, PNW Arithmetic and Statistics Membership president.

“The PNW Arithmetic & Statistics Membership orchestrated an distinctive celebration of Worldwide Arithmetic Day,” stated Nicoleta Tarfulea, chair for the division of Arithmetic and Statistics and interim chair for the division of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. “In recognition of the worldwide significance of arithmetic and its pivotal function in shaping our world, the membership crafted an occasion with charming actions geared toward instilling a profound appreciation for the aesthetic and sensible functions of arithmetic and statistics. We prolong heartfelt gratitude to all individuals for his or her enthusiasm and dedication to celebrating the wonder and significance of arithmetic.

PNW’s Arithmetic and Statistics Membership was established in 2022 and actively organizes varied actions, together with visitor discuss sequence by alumni and college students and film nights. Membership members purpose to encourage a ardour for arithmetic and statistics.

Supervisor Pep Guardiola praised Manchester Metropolis’s potential to “adapt rapidly to chaos” of their 3-3 first-leg draw in opposition to Actual Madrid within the Champions League quarter-finals.

However deflected strikes from Eduardo Camavinga and Rodrygo helped 14-time European champions Actual overturn the deficit on the Bernabeu.

“We had been 2-1 down, taking part in right here with out a lot composure,” Guardiola mentioned.

“This recreation, within the first three seasons collectively, we might have misplaced 4-1 or 5-1 as we weren’t secure emotionally.”

Metropolis, who received this competitors for the primary time final season as a part of a historic Treble, got here into this recreation with Kevin de Bruyne on the bench after the Belgium midfielder fell ailing earlier than kick-off.

Guardiola mentioned: “One of many secrets and techniques on the excessive ranges is to adapt rapidly to chaos. There is no such thing as a time to complain.

“You want time to study and now we’re extra secure and hopefully sooner or later we will do higher and higher.”

Metropolis had lacked high quality within the closing third till Phil Foden, who had been on the periphery of the sport, discovered area simply outdoors the realm to show and hearth into the highest nook to drag Metropolis stage.

Moments later left-back Josko Gvardiol minimize in and located the far nook with an outstanding right-foot shot to attain his first purpose since becoming a member of Metropolis from RB Leipzig in the summertime.

Nevertheless, Madrid equalised with a surprising volley from Federico Valverde to arrange an intriguing second leg on Wednesday, 17 April at Etihad Stadium, the place Metropolis beat Madrid 4-0 in final season’s semi-finals.

“We take the outcome and in a single week in Manchester, with our individuals, it is going to be offered out and they’re going to assist us,” Guardiola added.

Metropolis present resolve

Metropolis received the right begin when Silva cleverly curled within the opener after Aurelien Tchouameni, who will now miss the second leg, fouled Jack Grealish.

Guardiola’s group had been rocked by Madrid’s quickfire response, however confirmed endurance of their build-up with Madrid completely happy to sit down off the Premier League champions, solely urgent when Metropolis received close to the penalty space.

It labored for big elements of the sport and opened up counter-attacking alternatives for Carlo Ancelotti’s facet, however Metropolis’s high quality finally advised.

Foden had been quiet, drifting between extensive proper and attacking midfield, however his excellent season continued when he neatly turned and fired an unstoppable drive into the top-right nook of the purpose.

When Gvardiol put the guests forward, only a second win on the Bernabeu regarded on for Metropolis, earlier than they had been pegged again by Valverde’s great low drive.

Nevertheless, Metropolis now have the possibility at residence to progress to the semi-finals for the fourth consecutive season, the place in recent times they’ve blown sides away within the Champions League.

Madrid exploit Metropolis’s lack of tempo

It is a very totally different Actual Madrid group to the all-conquering sides which dominated the event this century.

Their common form, usually with 11 males behind the ball, confirmed Metropolis a variety of respect, and maybe vulnerability on the again of final season’s chastening defeat in Manchester.

Nevertheless, their strong defensive form allowed them to take advantage of one of many few weaknesses Metropolis have.

On the again Guardiola’s facet lack tempo, particularly with the continued absence of Kyle Walker, and that allowed Rodrygo to get in down the Metropolis proper for the second Madrid purpose.

It was a weak spot that Madrid, who’re high of La Liga and had 9 days off coming into the sport, continued to focus on however Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and Rodrygo all noticed efforts saved or go extensive.

It’s a tactic they’re probably to make use of on the Etihad in eight days’ time, however final season Ancelotti’s facet struggled to realize possession within the second leg in opposition to a fired-up Metropolis, so alternatives could also be few and much between.

It will likely be fascinating to see if Guardiola’s group, who’re one level off high spot within the Premier League and into the FA Cup semi-finals, can do it once more and proceed their march in the direction of one other Treble.

The Clown Prince of Crime and Harley Quinn need you to know that what the world wants now could be… love.

That’s the message of the primary trailer for “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which sees Joaquin Phoenix reprise his Oscar-winning position as Arthur Fleck (who later turns into Batman’s infamous foe) and conspire with Woman Gaga because the equally twisted Harley Quinn.

The darkish and gritty footage begins at Arkham Asylum — the place Joker is locked up on the finish of the primary movie — as Arthur Fleck has a deranged “meet cute” with one other affected person (you guessed it, Gaga’s Harley Quinn). After the possibility encounter within the halls of jail, they fall madly, deeply in love and plan to interrupt out of their straight jackets to tackle the world past their padded cells. It brings them to the streets of Gotham, the place they manically dance and twirl across the metropolis.

“I’m no person. I haven’t completed something with my life like you’ve,” Harley Quinn tells Joker as she mimes capturing herself within the head.

The primary movie served as a moody origin story for the Joker, a reclusive, struggling humorist and part-time clown. Within the sequel, he takes his act on the street and performs on every kind of levels with Harley Quinn as his demented muse — and she or he’s sporting his signature make-up. On this cinematic journey, although, he doesn’t appear so lonely.

“I’ll inform you what’s modified,” Joker says within the trailer. “I’m not alone anymore — that’s what we ought to be speaking about!”

The trailer ends with Harley at Arkham Asylum as she attracts a cheerful face with crimson lipstick on the glass partition between her and Joker. “I wish to see the actual you,” she tells him.

Director Todd Phillips debuted the footage at CinemaCon, the annual conference for movie show homeowners. Though the unique 2019 “Joker” was billed as a “one-off,” Phillips mentioned he and Phoenix all the time talked about making a sequel.

“We beloved the character of Arthur an excessive amount of, however we didn’t wish to jinx the [original] film,” Phillips mentioned. “We solid Gaga as a result of she’s magic.”

Little is thought in regards to the precise plot of the sequel, which is reportedly a jukebox musical. Phillips mentioned that categorization isn’t totally correct, although it would function loads of tune and dance numbers.

“I wish to say it’s a film the place music is a vital ingredient,” says Phillips. “It doesn’t veer too removed from the primary movie. Arthur has music in him. He has a grace to him.”

Earlier than introducing the trailer, Phillips thanked the room of theater homeowners for taking part in “Joker” on the massive display regardless of experiences that the grotesque, blood-soaked movie would encourage violence.

“A few month earlier than the primary ‘Joker’ got here out, the narrative on the movie actually turned and there [were] these weird warnings in regards to the film,” he mentioned. “It was wonderful that exhibitors didn’t budge an inch, and when the film got here out, it did big enterprise. That perspective was an enormous purpose for our success.”

As Phillips alluded, “Joker” grew to become a large blockbuster with $1 billion on the world field workplace. It grew to become the primary R-rated movie to move the billion-dollar mark and earned 11 Oscar nominations, together with greatest image.

“Joker 2” will debut on the massive display on Oct. 4, 2024 — precisely 5 years after the primary movie. The unique price $62.5 million to provide, an unusually conservative finances for a comic book ebook adaptation. Given its runaway monetary success, the follow-up was granted a a lot extra substantial $200 million price ticket.

Footage of “Joker” debuted as a part of Warner Bros.’ presentation to exhibitors. The studio additionally has “Beetlejuice 2,” “Horizon: An American Saga” and “Mad Max” prequel “Furiosa” on its 2024 slate.

As J. Cole put a bow on this 12 months’s Dreamville Competition, he labored an apology  heard-’round-hip-hop into the introduction to one in every of his greatest and most sentimental songs, “Love Yourz.” “The previous two days have felt horrible,” he mentioned, earnestly admitting he’s misplaced sleep over “7 Minute Drill,” his nuanced however ill-received jab again at Kendrick Lamar for dissing him and Drake (principally Drake) on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That.” 

On stage, Cole defined that “Love Yourz” signified a turning level a decade in the past, one the place a religious enlightenment — “I acquired extra in tune with God,” he says — helped him launch the general public strain and concern that clouded his climb to the highest. “I rattling close to was fascinated by and listening to folks’s expectations of me after which responding off of that,” he mentioned of that point.

He doesn’t specify what, however condemns the “goofy sort shit” he was doing forward of “Love Yourz.” Well-known in Cole’s lore is a first-rate instance of his battle with expectations: the story of his 2013 observe “Let Nas Down,” the place he bemoaned the strain to make a pop-rap hit that formed his debut single, 2011’s “Work Out” — which Cole later discovered that his idol Nas discovered beneath him (to Cole’s credit score, it did its job as a catchy introduction to the as soon as underground MC and he shined because the music’s producer, too). He explains that in making “7 Minute Drill,” he deviated from the previous decade of working his personal race to satiate a bloodthirsty crowd of rap followers — together with folks near him — and ended up with “the lamest shit I ever did in my fuckin’ life.” 

As a Cole fan, I didn’t want “7 Minute Drill,” however I loved it — his willingness to maintain a rap beef about rap, his invocation of a deeply apt meme, his fixed need to each flex and provides flowers. He’s gotten sharper, smoother, and extra relaxed over the course of his discography. I used to be most excited that “Drill” dropped as part of a complete physique of labor — May Delete Later, a shock album and his first since 2022’s D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape along with his label. After an uncomfortable celebration of Dave Chappelle thriving at Netflix on the again of transphobic specials on the May Delete Later intro “Expensive,” he utterly misplaced me at “Pi,” a observe some see as additionally conniving in the direction of Lamar by that includes a standout (and unrelated) verse from his longtime collaborator and former labelmate Ab-Soul (in addition to one from precise battle rapper Daylyt). 

On it, Cole raps: “His album dropped, it was trash/I litter it like I can’t spell it/Is you the demon or is that demeanor for ‘Gram? Inform us/They plead the fifth, I’m seeing hints of a trans fella/In cancel tradition’s neighborhood, he’s no killer, belief me/Beneath his chosen id/There’s nonetheless a pussy, interval.”

I want I might say that utilizing trans id to insult somebody, diminishing it as alternative, after which dismissively lowering it to intercourse organs was beneath Cole — nevertheless it’s additionally indicative of who he’s been all through his profession. On 2013’s Born Sinner, the identical album the place he pined for Nas’ approval, he repeatedly hurled a homophobic slur on “Villuminati” in a convoluted rap urging of us to not be delicate about him utilizing the time period. On the identical album, he slipped transphobic taunts evoking the sexuality of former Sizzling 97 persona Mister Cee in “Forbidden Fruit.” Quick ahead to 2021, and he opens his final album, The Off-Season, with the dig, “Examine your genitalia, pussy-niggas bleedin’ on your self.” Cole doesn’t appear overtly motivated by concern or hatred, however time and again, he makes use of transness, gayness, and concepts of womanhood as websites of disgrace. “Pi” is simply the wackest factor he’s accomplished of late. Why hasn’t Cole’s path of enlightenment additionally led him to raised gender politics?

That’s to not say he has not tried — however it’s to say his efforts are sometimes sullied. Born Sinner boasts “Crooked Smile,” a touching ode to self-acceptance the place he empathizes with girls underneath strain to covet their look and discover love in an excruciating panorama. However then, his arguably-biggest hit, 2014’s “No Function Modelz” (the music he closed Dreamville Competition out with for no less than the final two years), is a reductive lambasting of “hoes” versus “sisters” navigating that very same terrain. In 2020, he acknowledged Noname as a “chief in these instances” for her social justice efforts, however solely after the 2 exchanged focused tracks following her coded critique of “top-selling” rappers sitting out of the motion and discourse round police brutality that spring. Cole responded with “Snow on Tha Bluff,” which criticized her tone and strategy. That they had spoken privately in between her tweet and his music — he didn’t point out the observe. Noname then clapped again along with her personal, however later apologized for it. He didn’t. (They’re cool, although.)

In his “Center Baby” period, he importantly acknowledged that traumatized males have been “hurting our sisters,” however he did in order he divisively took up for Tekashi 69, Kodak Black, and the late XXXTentacion — rappers with disturbing allegations (and within the case of the previous two, responsible verdicts) of gender-based violence, together with sexual assault. In his personal work, he’s constructed a small library of bars pointing to his romantic faithfulness and obligation, however his perspective in the direction of girls and themes of sexual conquest on May Delete Later are ill-fitting and regressive. They arrive as he makes his most fervent alignment with Drake at a time that additionally finds the Toronto rapper at his most gender–antagonistic. 

As Cole described his regrets round “7 Minute Drill,” he additionally detailed a local weather that fanned the flames. “I don’t know if y’all can really feel that, however the world desires to see blood,” he mentioned, chatting with our notably conflict-driven, controversy-powered environments, each on-line and off. Queerphobia, transphobia, and misogyny are nonetheless highly effective norms, too, regardless of the strides visibility actions towards them have made. It’s commendable that as Cole apologized to Lamar, he framed himself as a work-in-progress and product of intense and intentional progress. It’s unlucky that the methods he’s caught folks in contrast to him in his rap crossfire hasn’t additionally warranted an apology. 

Joker: Folie à Deux’s teaser trailer options Joaquin Phoenix and Girl Gaga at their chaotic greatest.

Followers lastly received their first prolonged take a look at what to anticipate from the sequel to 2019’s Joker when the movie’s first trailer was launched Tuesday night time. Warner Bros. and DC Studios tipped off followers of the pending launch of the primary full trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux Tuesday morning by posting 27 seconds of footage.

Within the temporary first clip, Phoenix’s Arthur Fleck — aka Joker — is proven standing stationary in what seems to be a jail yard and laughing maniacally as he’s drenched in a rainstorm. Joker: Folie à Deux is without doubt one of the movies the studio is highlighting from its 2024 film roster at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The movie might be launched in theaters on October 4.

The teaser trailer, naturally, options each Arthur/Joker and Harley Quinn (Girl Gaga) and the way they met whereas they had been each institutionalized. As soon as their bond is fashioned, they determine to interrupt out of the power and all hell breaks unfastened.

Girl Gaga Brings Music To Joker’s Demented World

Whereas the villainous Joker has been lengthy part of DC’s Batman lore because the Caped Crusader’s arch-enemy, Margot Robbie’s model of Harley Quinn has carved out an antihero standing as part of DC Studios’ two Suicide Squad films and Birds of Prey.

Joker: Folie à Deux appears intent on separating itself from Robbie’s model of the character by bringing film musical sensibilities to the Joker’s demented world. As such, the strategic casting of pop star Girl Gaga within the function guarantees followers a really totally different model of Harley Quinn.

Within the trailer, Arthur Fleck/Joker explains of why music is pivotal to his and Harley’s story — and composer Burt Bacharach’s and lyricist Hal David’s traditional tune What the World Wants Now performs over the motion.

“We use music to make us complete … To stability the fractures inside ourselves,” Fleck says originally of the trailer.

Simply how grandiose a film musical Joker: Folie à Deux will find yourself being is but to be seen. In the interim, music seems to play a major half within the Joker sequel. Selection reported that 15 cowl tunes might be featured in Joker: Folie à Deux and extra authentic songs could also be added.

Don’t be shocked if Warner Bros., DC Studios and director Todd Phillips determine to implement at the least one authentic tune in Joker: Folie à Deux. In any case, Girl Gaga received a Finest Unique Music Oscar for co-writing the ballad Shallow for A Star Is Born — a tune little doubt aided by the pop star’s highly effective efficiency of the tune with Bradley Cooper within the movie.

After all, Girl Gaga isn’t the one Oscar winner featured in Joker: Folie à Deux. Joaquin Phoenix received his Finest Actor Oscar for his portrayal within the first Joker film.

Final yr we wrote that Star Wars Outlaws appeared like the very best factor Ubisoft has made in years, and it hinted at a sufficiently big scope that I used to be somewhat skeptical it might truly be launched in 2024. However not solely is it really coming this yr, it is coming this summer time: Ubisoft introduced an August 30 launch date in a brand new trailer that is heavy on cutscenes, characters, and numerous very Star Wars-y motion moments.

In about two-and-a-half minutes of trailer, we get all the following: 

• An absolute smorgasbord of alien races
• A Mon Calamari doing the gravelly voice
• A ridiculous Star Wars title within the villain, “Sliro”
• AT-STs, aka hen walkers
• A Jabba and Han Solo in carbonite cameo
• Stealing a ship from an Imperial hangar
• Spaceship dogfighting
• The Sarlacc pit

Outlaws is Star Wars by means of and thru, however what actually caught my eye is the abundance of aliens Ubisoft has packed into these worlds. It is hardly the primary Star Wars recreation to tug on the movies’ varied races—Rodians like Greedo, Twi’leks with their lengthy head tails, yada yada. However even on this brief look they appear actually nicely represented right here, which is sensible given Outlaws’ concentrate on the prison underworld and people on the galactic rim.

Within the lore the Empire is fairly racist and favors people over aliens, and this Outlaws trailer opens with a roundtable of largely alien crime lords and we see a Stormtrooper flagging down a random Rodian just a few seconds later. Aliens truly appear to outnumber people altogether within the trailer, although it is exhausting to say how consultant this cutscene-heavy have a look at the sport is of the entire expertise.

For me it is a nice shock, although. We have had loads of Jedi vs. Empire video games; I hope this one seems like a real journey down the galaxy’s lesser-trod paths.

In line with Ubisoft’s press launch, Outlaws will launch on August 30 on the Ubisoft Join app and Amazon Luna cloud platform, along with consoles. It makes no point out of both Steam or the Epic Video games retailer.

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