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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office announced the impending change on Sunday. “The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” the statement reads. “The city supports the museum’s request. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.” The statue’s origins make it clear that the two men of color are not representative of real people at all....

The Monday following Easter Sunday, traditionally sees the White House open its South Lawn to crowds of children young and old, for the annual Easter Egg Roll. Such is its popular appeal, the White House Easter Egg Roll has over time, become one of the biggest annual events organized at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Newsweek delves deep into the tradition’s and history of the White House Easter Egg Roll. What Is The White House Easter Egg Roll?...

One such fan felt that the soul of Tolkien’s original work was still in there somewhere, but had been clouded by the host of new characters, ridiculous fight scenes and needless backstory, He decided to do something about it. Thus, he created ‘The Tolkien Edit,’ a rendition of The Hobbit movies that combines all three films into one, but without all the added complications that were written into the films by the directorial team....

However, many fans have noticed that in The Hobbit films, the most inspirational quotes and lines don’t tend to come from Gandalf, but from surrounding characters instead, including Bilbo, Thorin, Balin and surprisingly Bofur. The grey wizard seems strangely laking in his beautiful, sentimental wisdom that fans have grown accustomed to, and many fans feel that he is missing the most essential part of what made him Gandalf. When watching the Making Of’s there’s one particular scene in The Hobbit that was filmed, but not included in the final release, including even in the extended editions, which definitely should have been kept in....

The horror genre is one that is infamous for its big franchises and soulless sequels. Something about the stories within horror allow for these big worlds and expansions. The tropes make it easy to develop cookie-cutter sequels and prequels. And almost always, these sequels and prequels are big failures. It’s pretty much expected at this point that anything with a franchise drastically loses its quality. Look at A Nightmare on Elm Street or Texas Chainsaw Massacre....

Leija’s dramatic rescue was captured on film by local television stations. By the next day he was hailed as a hero. “Good Morning America” had him as a guest. Local stations and newspapers clamored for exclusive interviews. But the love of the limelight that led Leija to give interview after interview has now earned him a very different type of attention. On Monday, Leija was arrested on an outstanding warrant after a sheriff’s deputy recognized him on the news....

And their trouble was just beginning. Two of the Humvees became disabled. Aguero yelled at one driver to gun the engine to get his Humvee moving. The engine fell out. As they’d been drilled to do, the soldiers set out to strip the disabled vehicles of sensitive items and to “zee off the radio”–to see that codes and equipment don’t fall into enemy hands. When another group got ambushed nearby, an enemy round came through the Humvee’s right rear door–through retrofitted panels that the soldiers had been told would repel AK-47 rounds....

The Northern Superchargers are placed in sixth position in the standings with five points to their name. They have managed to win only two out of six games and lost three with one being washed out. The Superchargers need a win in their next match to stay alive in the competition. They are coming into this game on the back of a loss in their previous match. The batsmen faltered as they managed to score 128 in the first innings and the bowlers failed to defend it....

The agents quietly brought the dogs to various locations frequented by a dozen people they considered possible suspects–hoping the hounds would match the scent on the letters. In place after place, the dogs had no reaction. But when the handlers approached the Frederick, Md., apartment building of Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, an eccentric 48-year-old scientist who had worked in one of the Army’s top bioweapons-research laboratories, the dogs immediately became agitated, NEWSWEEK has learned....

Maybe, maybe not. On the most basic question-did Lopez & Co. leave GM with more than they should have? The circumstantial evidence seems overwhelming. German authorities have uncovered evidence of document shredding by Lopez aides, and have hauled thousands of files out of private apartments and VW headquarters. But answering the bigger question-whether and how much VW profited from GM’s prized papers-could take months of boring testimony from economists. Says Furman Selz analyst Maryann Keller: “There’s no one number you can point to....

And thus sprouted a very big weed in Martha Stewart’s well-manicured life. In the past few weeks, Stewart has found herself drawn deeper and deeper into another one of those Wall Street scandals that turn the rich and powerful into losers. Martha isn’t accused of setting up phony off-balance-sheet companies like the Enron boys, or of borrowing an obscene amount of money from her own corporation like the guy at WorldCom....

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What Does the Orange Dot on iPhone Mean? The orange dot at the top of your iPhone’s screen activates whenever an app on your phone uses the device’s microphone. The orange indicator light is one of a few new privacy features Apple introduced with iOS 14. The iPhone’s orange dot will appear whenever you use apps like Voice Memo or third-party applications that require your microphone to be activated. You will also see the orange indicator whenever making phone calls or even using voice-to-text to dictate text messages to your friends and family....

Sweaty Sands is the latest POI to barricade certain areas. Prior to this POI, Pleasant Park and Misty Meadows had also barricaded themselves in an attempt to fortify their locations from something. That something just might be an upcoming Primal War. It’s almost clear that whatever is coming, it’s gonna be big if all these locations have to barricade themselves. Fortnite Island Prepping for Battle The barricades are big enough to either try and stop, or delay, a large army....

Neither Trump or DeSantis has formally declared their intentions for the White House in 2024, but both have long been thought as the two main frontrunners who will eventually be battling for the GOP nomination. As the January 6 hearings continue to put Trump at further risk of being the first-ever former president to be charged with a crime, DeSantis looks set to escape completely unharmed by the committee’s presentations....

Runs, centuries and enemies: Pietersen has accumulated all three during his international career. Now bereft of the luxury of choice, the current quandary is whether his adopted country should accept him, not the opposite. For the past year, England’s management have erred on the side of rejection, telling him he was no longer part of their plans following the humiliating 5-0 Ashes defeat to Australia in early 2014. But as the team’s torrid patch in all three formats stretches on - a group stage exit at the World Cup provided the latest embarrassment - it’s a stance which appears increasingly flimsy....

The dealsters involved say this is all about business and strategy. Their pitch is that Morgan is merely competing with rivals Citigroup and Bank of America by buying a large commercial bank to even out the swings of its businesses, like trading and advising on mergers and underwriting stocks and bonds. But as with all deals, there’s ego here–not all of it Dimon’s. William Harrison Jr., who runs Morgan, was on the rocks a year ago, with the stock way down, the company enmeshed in the Enron scandal and employees demoralized by job cuts....

It’s doubtful that there’s a more sheerly entertaining playwright in the English language than Bennett. He was the quiet bloke in the ’60s quartet that revolutionized comedy with “Beyond the Fringe” (Jonathan Miller, Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke were the noisy ones). In the colonies, Bennett is known mainly for plays seen on public TV like “An Englishman Abroad,” about the spy Guy Burgess, and a superb series called “Talking Heads,” in which Maggie Smith played a vicar’s alcoholic wife....

title: “The Kingston 7 In 1 Record Player Puts My Smart Speakers To Shame” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-07” author: “Michelle Burge” I’ve been listening to music from iTunes and other services for so long that it’s been decades since I put a needle on vinyl. When I began playing a Billie Holiday record with the Kingston, I was overwhelmed by the deep, rich sound. I felt like I was at a live concert....

One underlying theme running through all of Kohli’s previous controversies is the fact that he is not going to lie down while taking uncalled for blows, even if it means being politically incorrect. Political correctness at times is highly overrated, and especially for a cricket team captain cockiness is not necessarily an area of improvement but a virtue. Sourav Ganguly making Steve Waugh wait for the toss, Ian Chappell’s perpetually in your face attitude or even the icy cool’s MS Dhoni’s witty but cocky retort to a reporter when asked about his retirement plans are great examples of legendary cricket captains violating what often is considered the ideal code of conduct....