Brie Larson announced as Captain Marvel at last year's SDCC Hall H panel.
On the eve of the release of the long awaited climax to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Disney's top tentpole studio has decided to skip Hall H and bypass Comic-Con this year. But is this because they have nothing new to hype because Avengers Infinity War will have already been out, or is it that Marvel is leaving Hall H for good in favor of the Mouse House's own D23 Fan Expo?
Brie Larson announced as Captain Marvel at last year's SDCC Hall H panel.
And while it's not unheard of for Marvel to skip a major Comic-Con presence (they've done it before), while Feige says that Marvel will return to SDCC in 2019, the big question is … WILL THEY? My guess is that Marvel's parent company, Disney, wants to carve out a permanent home for the MCU at their own fan event, the D23 Expo, and use that event to showcase any upcoming news worthy of hyping. Disney did the same thing with Star Wars, with the exception of the launch of The Force Awakens in 2015, and it has its own panels for The Last Jedi at Star Wars Celebration. So that, coupled with D23, and there's just no need get everyone together again to hype what's already been hyped.
But also, if you think about it, this would be an ideal way to clothe what happens after Infinity War in secrecy, with huge cliff hangers that will have us speculating until Avengers 4 comes out in 2019. But we do know that what's coming will be Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, and Spider-Man (Homecoming) 2. Beyond that, we're expecting sequels to Black Panther and Doctor Strange.
There's also rumors flying fast and furious that as Phase 3 begins to close out, that Feige may actually be ready to leave Marvel Studios altogether and strike out on his own, to perhaps take on another challenge. Could Warner Brothers lure him to fix the DC Universe? I don't think that'll happen. More likely he'll just want to do his own stuff and have his own challenges.
Lastly, there's the undiscovered country that is the merger of Disney and Fox. This merger will bring tentpoles like the X-Men, Fantastic Four, and DeadPool back to the MCU, and that waiting a year while the merger gets approved and completed will provide new elements to the entire MCU, right when Phase IV heads back out into space.
I have to say, I've been expecting this for quite some time, and was surprised it didn't happen last year. Disney wants to drive wants towards their own expos for financial reasons, and it's eventually going to happen that Marvel will only have a token presence in San Diego. Meanwhile, we'll just have to settle for the Jason Momoa show during the DC/Warner Brothers Aquaman panel. And hopefully, Jodie Whitaker's Time Lordian first visit for Doctor Who? Here's hoping.
Comic-Con 2018, Day 3: Aquaman, Buffy, The Expanse and More!


Nintendo is restoring their 16-bit video game console in an amazing portable form-factor (as previous year's NES Classic) letting you delight in the same retro video games that stole your youth throughout the early 90s. Indeed, it recreates the similar look like the original console, however in a smaller console model that hardly seems larger than the packed controllers, which means you should find a place for it pretty much anywhere.
The Super NES Classic Edition comes with 21 games preinstalled, so you can immediately start playing once you connect to the family room TV. Just like last year's retro system, there's no way to quickly add new video games to the combination (or have fun with cartridges you were able to still keep after all these ages), so you are mainly stuck playing with the installed games from here to all eternity. Obviously, the collection is pretty decent, so it's still an important investment.


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"A conversation with cultural critic/Jeopardy champ Arthur Chu on nerd culture, Asians, and media
The Awl:
Since Arthur Chu's historic win streak on Jeopardy! early last year, he's shrewdly turned his still-minty viral celebrity into a regular gig as a cultural critic and, as some have put it, "the ombudsman of the nerd community."
At Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Manhattan's Chinatown, we talked about milking his fifteen minutes, the crisis of nerd culture, and becoming an unlikely Asian-American male icon over a plate of chicken feet. (For me, since he politely declined.)
Is online celebrity strange?
It is, because stuff that's happening on Twitter, you feel like it's the whole world and you step off for a few minutes and it doesn't matter to the majority of people. Even to the extent that it does, there's a huge decoupling of what makes you important online. A lot of times, I just throw up my hands and say, "I don't even know what my follower count means anymore." You just have to keep that in perspective. It affects the real world but it's something separate from the real world.
What did you do after Jeopardy!?
Call up publicists and PR firms, and said straight up, "Hey, do you work with viral celebrities?" Then I'd ask, "If you were me, how would you hang on to the fame, how would you monetize it?" I got good answers—they weren't bad answers—but it was stuff I couldn't imagine myself doing. It was stuff like, "Well you should take the whole idea of game theory and you should become an advice kind of guy, you should do lifehacker stuff, stuff like how-tos on how to invest, get a mortgage." I said, "That stuff doesn't interest me." I didn't want to keep talking about that for the rest of my life.
You started writing for the Daily Beast. There was that piece that was a critique of nerd culture, and specifically the misogyny in nerd culture, which seems to be a topic you're obsessed with talking about.
I was the weird smart kid when I was in school, and it sucks being isolated for any reason. But especially guys in our culture, when you feel like you have no romantic prospects, the girls look down on you. It's baked into our TV, books, and media, that validation comes from girls who like you, and being rejected by girls is sort of being rejected by society. I didn't date much, and when I'd have fights with my girlfriend in high school, it would always come back to me feeling this sense of being judged. Like, you're a girl, you're attractive, you're automatically on this higher level than me, on this pedestal. People always talk about this like it's a good thing. The nice guy narrative—"Oh, I admire you so much. I would lavish so much attention on you"—that quickly becomes about getting what you want. Resentment.
I feel like what happened with Jeopardy! was that I got public recognition of my membership in this club. The nerd club. I was specifically lambasted online for being a nerd. If you want to talk about nerds being an oppressed class, a ton of people attacked me in public for being socially awkward, the way I came off. And yet I still have a huge problem with the narrative of the nerd underdog that's being used to justify all of these things. Awkward guys have taken a lot of abuse, but we are not the actual victims right now in society. We're taking our past victimization and using it to justify the terrible things that we do. Weirdly enough, I started saying this, and this past year become the year of the big events that highlight that. Elliot Rodger, Gamergate, the low-level nastiness that's in gamer culture just blows up, and starts drawing attention to itself. That's not unique there. You see it everywhere when people say, "Oh Christians are oppressed in the US. Or white people are oppressed." Everyone wants to have that victimization narrative.
How do you see this affecting Asian-American men?
Speaking of horrible things on the Internet, there was a forum called AutoAdmit. One of their memes was this guy who would get really mad and post a photo every time he saw a white guy with an Asian girl. You know this is a long simmering issue in our community. That blog "Stuff White People Like" had a post that said, "What do white guys like? Asian women."
Everyone thought that he was an Asian guy for a while because of how angry he sounded about that. Anytime there's a fracture between Asian man and Asian women, it's always like, Well who are you trying to date? Why are you trying to date white guys? Why are you trying to date white girls?
I'm in this Facebook group that's basically just Asian guys railing about why Asian women don't date Asian men, and their perceptions about how Asian men are emasculated in the media. There's all of this anger and resentment.
Yeah! I mean, I can speak to this. When The Joy Luck Club, way back when, was a bestseller, the one woman's story whose life most closely mirrored Amy Tan's—she marries a white guy. And it's the happy ending. Every Asian man in this story is a horrible abuser, or he's an unloving cold fish that gets dumped for a white guy. It was a small part of what the book was about. But for a lot of Asian guys, it hit pretty hard. Some guys make it a whole part of that men's rights activist thing, saying Asian women are privileged relative to Asian men—Asian men are almost an unnecessary demographic.
A lot of the positions you take perhaps aren't mainstream Asian-American positions. Talking about race, talking about police violence, talking about sexism.
You get raised to run away from politics. That was how I was raised, in an evangelical Christian family. People from our backgrounds, you want to be just like everyone else. You want to integrate into American culture, you want to be invisible, you want to be the same as your white friends. For me, that was very much true. For a long time I'd say things like, "Why bring up race? Why not try to be colorblind? Why not have an identity that's distinct from any racial background you have?" I was one of those guys. I'm an American. No hyphen.
There's just a point—the more you confront what America actually is and how America works—you can't say that America is apart from race. America is race. It's a series of colonies that were founded by people taking land away from people who they felt didn't deserve it. Because of race and then working the land with people who were enslaved because of race. It's built on that. Do you look at your black friend and say, "I don't see your race. It's just a coincidence that you get stopped by cops when my white friends don't. It's just a coincidence that this black kid got shot"? When you try to be an actor and you look around and say, "Hey, there's no other Asians here. Weird"? There are all these spec sheets that they put out, audition sheets, and they all say, "Whites or other race." I'd like to keep thinking that it's just merit, but gosh, it feels like, once you actually have your eyes open, you can't keep lying to yourself about that stuff anymore.
What does it feel like to become a bit of an Asian-American icon?
I thought it was weird. I compared it to Linsanity when I first started thinking about it. It's not just that there is a successful Asian-American that's in a field that we're not used to—we get sick and tired of the same narrative, someone with a web-based business, some computer scientist, an engineer. To see someone become successful in a different way, it's liberating. I didn't think an Asian-American winning on Jeopardy!by itself would be a big deal. The funny thing being there've been very few champions who are Asian-American—the contestant pool has been overwhelmingly white. So it was funny when it happened and people were like, "an Asian guy winning Jeopardy!, that's predictable."
The idea of an Asian in the news for being controversial and unapologetic, for having strong opinions… Asians are supposed to work hard and do well but not to make waves. Not to create controversy. When you're raised to think that's not your place, to me, it's important to make that space. It's okay to be loud and rude and opinionated as an Asian. It's a good thing.
Margaret Cho comes to mind.
Yeah, like Margaret Cho! Her show, her standup is so good, and her show, as soon as they gave it to her, they were like, "We can't let this happen, we have to shape it into something that we're comfortable with." Pat Morita did stand up his whole life, he was a very outspoken, profane, funny guy. But America remembers him as Mr. Miyagi.
That's how I remember him too, to be honest.
Exactly. That's what they want to see. So it's always fighting to see something else, to push some other narrative.
Did this influence you as a kid? This lack of a different narrative about Asian-Americans.
I often grew up in communities where there weren't many Asian kids, so I tried to identify with my white friends.Then there was the flip side, in high school, when we moved to California, and there were a lot of Asians. I didn't fit in with them either. My dad always had this idea, once you're with other Asians who won't reject you because of your race, you'll fit right in. I was like, "No! I'm still a weird person." Most Asian-American kids in LA are like white American kids in LA—they have certain tastes, and it was very, very different from me. It was always me kind of feeling like, whatever community I'm in, I'm always different. Having spent a lot of my life feeling alienated from the Asian-American community, it's weird to be welcome back.
In retrospect, I know there's been Asian-American activists being very loud and political even before I was alive, but where I lived, it just wasn't visible. That's not something we do, that's something that Black activists do. I think it would've made a lot of things easier for me if I'd had those messages—like it's okay to be mad about racism, it's okay to talk about it, it's okay to think about and analyze things in terms of race, instead of just pretending like you don't notice.
Would you describe yourself as an Asian-American activist?
I'd like to think of myself as one. A slacktivist, maybe. I haven't put in as much work as people who've put in work, but it's something I care about.
So what's next for you?
I'm looking at writing a book about my journey on Jeopardy! and the idea of success around nerdy guys in America.
Any title ideas yet?
No, not yet.
Time to get on the Chu-chu train? I can tell from your face that you're not really into that.
Ken Jennings likes Chu-phoria.
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Was 2014 a banner year for Asian on network television?
On paper, it looked like a rough year for Asian-Pacific Islanders on network television: The Mindy Project was on the verge of cancellation. NBC axed Community, and confirmed the end of Parks and Recreation for 2015. Sandra Oh officially left Grey's Anatomy. Glee edged closer and closer to the end of its run while slowly pushing its Asian characters out of the credits.
According to an annual report on television diversity released by GLAAD, the number of Asian-Pacific Islanders on network television had been on the rise.
In the 2013-2014 season, 6% of broadcast series regular characters were Asian-Pacific Islander, but in the upcoming year, only 4% of characters will be Asian–the only ethnic group to see a decrease in diversity from the previous year.
Ken Jeong, left, and Danny Pudi attend the "Community" panel on Day 5 of Comic-Con International.
"Aside from the need for more representation despite the real progress we've made, I was disappointed that we lost some really great Asian-American representation this past year," Philip Chung, co-founder and blogger at YOMYOMF, said, listing Oh and Community's Danny Pudi and Ken Jeong as examples.
But while the number of Asian characters appears to be shrinking next season, the quality of roles, Chung points out, has noticeably changed. Asian-Pacific Islanders in 2014 were cast in more prominent roles than the previous year, giving actors like John Cho, Ming-Na Wen, and Nasim Pedrad (who previously made headlines as Saturday Night Live's first west Asian cast member) opportunities to step beyond smaller supporting and guest appearances on TV.
John Cho's casting in a romantic, male lead on ABC's "Selfie" was revolutionary. But the show was cancelled after just seven episodes.
The leaps forward in casting choices have not come without their setbacks. After months of anticipation among critics and bloggers about the casting of John Cho, an Asian male, to play the lead in a romantic sitcom, his show Selfie was canceled after just seven episodes.
"It's rare to see an Asian-American male as a lead in a comedy, especially one that has romantic possibilities," said 8Asians editor Joz Wang, who called Selfie's cancellation the biggest disappointment for Asian Americans on TV in 2014. "While the show didn't catch on as quickly as the network would have wanted, many Asian Americans watched the show specifically for John Cho."
"Getting [a show] about an Asian American family on the air is a frickin' miracle."
Even though Cho never received top billing in Selfie, many felt ABC's choice to cast him as the show's male romantic lead was long overdue. His elevation to "leading man material" appeared to be the first step in seeing more Asian-Pacific Islanders as true television stars, not just supporting characters.
To date, few Asian actors have ever been cast in lead roles on a network level. The first to break through was Pat Morita, in the 1976 show "Mr. T and Tina" (it was considered a flop, and went off the air after five episodes).
Pat Morita led the way for Asian Americans on television. Four decades later, how much has changed?
Today, Lucy Liu plays a prominent character in Elementary, though not the lead, as does Kal Penn in the upcoming CBS drama Battle Creek. Even Hawaii Five-O, which Wang noted has been "great because it's set in Hawaii and there are many opportunities for Asian-American actors," stars two Caucasian leads. "All the Asian Americans still play second fiddle in terms of billing," said Wang.
The last network show to cast an Asian male with top billing was CBS' Martial Law starring Sammo Hung in 1998. Hung, who spoke little English, had just a few lines in each episode, and was reportedly paid half of what his co-star Arsenio Hall made.
Lucy Liu plays Joan Watson on the CBS drama "Elementary."
Currently, the total number of Asian actors to receive top billing on a network primetime series is one: Mindy Kaling. Since the 2012 premiere of The Mindy Project, Kaling has received praise for being the first woman of color to write and star in her own show since Wanda Sykes in 2003.
But Kaling has come under fire for what some see as her failure to leverage her influence for push for more diversity on network television.
In a letter to Fox, Media Action Network for Asian Americans President Guy Aoki said the show lacked diversity–particularly when it came to romantic interests. "We are concerned that in the course of two seasons, [Kaling's] character, Dr. Lahiri, has had a 'white-only' dating policy involving about a dozen men," Aoki wrote. "And except for this season's addition of African American Xosha Roquemore the cast continues to be all white…She's creating the impression that by surrounding her character with mostly white people and dating only white men that Lahiri's become more accepted by the white population."
Kaling defended the show at a SXSW panel early in the year, saying, "I have four series regulars that are women on my show, and no one asks any of the shows I adore — and I won't name them because they're my friends — why no leads on their shows are women of color, and I'm the one that gets lobbied about these things."
Despite any criticism and low ratings, Kaling herself saw a year filled with successes in her own career, from being named a Glamour Woman of the Year to the announcement of her second book, Why Not Me?, which will be released next year. In November, Fox also added six episodes of The Mindy Project, stretching the season from 15 episodes to 21, and fueling speculation that the show will be renewed for a fourth season.
Kaling won't carry the mantle for Asian network primetime leads alone much longer. She will soon be joined by Korean-American actor Randall Park, who will star in ABC's Fresh Off the Boat–the first network show to feature an all-Asian American cast since Margaret Cho's 1994 series All-American Girl, which was canceled after one season. Following a slate of recurring roles on television (including The Mindy Project), Park will receive top billing when the series premieres in 2015.
"Getting a television series on the air is an incredible feat," Park wrote in a post for KoreAm Journal online in June. "Getting one with no bankable name stars in today's television climate is damn near impossible. Getting one about an Asian American family on the air is a frickin' miracle."
Randall Park plays the father figure in the new ABC comedy "Fresh Off the Boat."
The series, based on the memoir of celebrity chef Eddie Huang, has received its share of praise and criticism since ABC added it to its mid-season lineup. Park is one of the targets of the early backlash because his character is Taiwanese (not Korean like Park is) and speaks with an accent (which Park does not naturally have).
But in the same KoreAm post, Park acknowledged he raised that same issue himself, but was repeatedly assured he was the right actor for the role.
"Hopefully audiences and the network will give it a chance."
"In an ideal world, I would never have to play a character with an accent," he wrote. "But this is a character based on a real person. So it's something that I have to honor and try to perfect as the series moves forward."
Early viewers of the pilot have been defensive of the series, hoping to save it from suffering the same fate as All-American Girl and Selfie. "I thought it was very funny and despite some of the early backlash from people who haven't yet seen the show," YOMYOMF's Chung said. "Hopefully audiences and the network will give it a chance."
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Meet the "Expendable Asian Crewmember": From "Godzilla" to "X-Men" to "Total Recall," why does every blockbuster need a single Asian guy to kill off?
Ken Watanabe in "Godzilla"
Fans of the original "Star Trek" television series, which aired from 1966 to 1969, are familiar with the old trope of the expendable Asian crewmember. Every week, one or two unlucky marginal characters, wearing the red shirt of a Security Officer, would join a landing party that usually consisted of Captain James Kirk, First Officer Spock, and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy from the starship USS Enterprise. The trio would beam down to the planet's surface along with the Expendable Crewmember – who would promptly get killed off by a space monster/mysterious sentient cloud/primitive hostiles. The Expendable Crewmember became such a routine part of the storyline that it was spoofed on the animated television show "Family Guy," and became a running joke in the 1999 film "Galaxy Quest," in which Sam Rockwell's character, "Crewman no. 6," is a nervous wreck named Guy, so forgettable to everyone that even he knows he's doomed to die.
As little kid, I found it a bit odd that the Klingons always missed Kirk and hit the guy in the red shirt standing next to him. And as I got older, I couldn't help but notice two strange trends beginning to pop up in Hollywood summer blockbusters: 1) Random storylines would detour to someplace in Asia for no particularly good reason, and 2) One useless Asian character – only one – would show up and stick around just long enough to make a vague impression as a villain. Then he or she would die at the hands of the good (white) guys, who would then march off victoriously into the sunset.
Now, it has been pointed out to me that the business of killing off villains is an equal-opportunity plot device, and Asian people are not being singled out for horrible deaths. Which is true. It's long been the case that Hollywood casts ethnic minorities as bad guys so their heads can be blasted off. In horror films, there is also the bimbo rule, which requires hot blondes to get killed off first. This is neither racist nor sexist (see no. 7 on this list, John Cho, hot blond), but the norm.
The Expendable Asian Crewmember is different from the phenomenon known as the "Asian sidekick," whose ranks include Cato in the "Pink Panther" film series from the '60s and '70s and remade in 2006; Kato in the "Green Hornet" television series from the '60s, remade as a film in 2011; Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid," 1984, remade and moved from California to China, 2010; and the mutant Yukio in "The Wolverine," 2013. But the vast majority of blockbuster film franchises have no Asian characters in them at all. In general, both New York City and The Future are curiously free of Asians except for Maggie Q, whose time-traveling powers enable her to pop up briefly in "Divergent," 2014. There are so few Asians in the galaxy inhabited by Star Wars that a hilarious blog, "You Offend Me You Offend My Family," has scoured the entire franchise for signs of Asian life. The results were: one rebel officer, and a dubious claim that Admiral Ackbar, fearless cephalopod leader of the Rebellion, was "Asian-like."
Which brings me to the 2013 "Star Trek" reboot, with Zoe Saldana as Lt. Uhura and John Cho as Lt. Sulu, plus loads of "Asian-like" aliens, including Vulcans. When the most diverse cast in a Hollywood summer blockbuster happens to be based on a television show that debuted a half century ago, it's better to be the Expendable (Asian) Crewmember than not be allowed on board at all. But I'm hoping it won't be another 50 years before Mr. Sulu not only takes the helm but gets his own ship – and can star in his own film.
Here is a mere sampling of the Expendable Asian Crewmembers I've spotted over the years:
"X-Men 2: X-Men United," 2003. Yuriko. The perfectly coiffed, impeccably manicured and silent assistant to evil mastermind Stryker, Yuriko turns out to be a super-villain called Lady Deathstrike whose abilities closely parallel those possessed by the Wolverine. Wolverine kills her by injecting her with the rare metal adamantium in its liquid form.
"X-Men 3: The Last Stand," 2006. Kid Omega. As the Mutant Brotherhood organizes against humans, Kid Omega becomes one of Magneto's new recruits. Played by Ken Leung, he can project spikes out all over his body in the manner of an angry porcupine. He dies in a blast of psychokinetic energy unleashed by the super-mutant, Jean Grey/Phoenix.
"Mission Impossible III," 2006. Zhen Lei. Played by Maggie Q, this femme fatale joins the "Impossible Mission Force," experiences a staged death, and disappears from the story. The fact that she is Chinese does not explain why the action relocates to Shanghai as opposed to, say, Southern California, which is also inhabited by white heroes plus a few Chinese people eating noodles.
"Live Free or Die Hard," 2007. Mai Lin. Once again played by Maggie Q, Mai Lin is a cyber-terrorist with nefarious plans that vaguely involve computer hacking. Bruce Willis blames her for the awful script and throws her down an elevator shaft.
"The Dark Knight," 2008. Lau. Played by Chin Han, Lau is a mob accountant who hides the mob's money and flees to Hong Kong for the express purpose of getting Batman to Asia for an extended tourist commercial involving many tall, sleek skyscrapers. Batman brings Lau back to the U.S., where he is killed by the Joker.
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine," 2009. Agent Zero. A mutant expert marksman, Agent Zero, played by ethnic Korean actor Daniel Henney, not only looks fine in a tailored black suit, he has better hair than Wolverine. After many tries, Wolverine finally succeeds in mussing his rival's hair by downing his helicopter and blowing it up.
"Total Recall" (remake), 2010. Bob McClane. Played by John Cho, better known as Lt. Sulu from the "Star Trek" reboot, Bob gets killed off when he stupidly asks secret agent Doug Quaid about his feelings. This taboo question prompts a police raid that results in everybody except Quaid getting shot.
"Pacific Rim," 2013. My friend Minsoo Kang, who is an expert on the history of automatons, told me that not one but "two Chinese robot operators" show up and get crushed when monsters mash their robots. (They die at the same time and don't have names, so I will count them as one.) Not only does this film have a female lead played by Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi, but it's set in Hong Kong, which gets smashed by machine-monsters. This film didn't do very well in the U.S. but did extremely well in Asia (e.g., China, Korea and Japan). As summed up by Forbes, Pacific Rim was "the rare English-language film in history to cross $400 million while barely crossing $100 million domestic."
"Red 2," 2013. Han Cho-Bai. He is an international assassin sent to kill retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses. Moses is played by Bruce Willis, so you know he doesn't get killed off. Neither does Han Cho-Bai (played by Korean actor Lee Byung-Hun), because he's a red herring who is really a disguised sidekick. Though I enjoyed the display of his martial arts skills, he's got no business being in this film except to sell tickets. It made nearly twice as much in foreign receipts as it did in the U.S., and the bulk of those tickets were sold in Japan and South Korea.
Could there be a theme developing here? Why, yes! And it leads directly to…
"Godzilla" (remake), 2014. Dr. Serizawa. Played by the legendary Ken Watanabe, the Serizawa character appears in the 1954 version set in Japan, where he unexpectedly dies. Crucially, the original Godzilla hit U.S. theaters around the same time as the first wave of Asian immigrants, in the aftermath of WWII and the Korean War. Sixty years later, the newer, sexier version of the giant lizard suggests that Godzilla is a strong, charismatic, assimilated Asian-American who wants his own starring role in a summer blockbuster without so much goofy metrosexual makeup. And just as some of the funniest Internet memes focus on the giant lizard's new Hollywood look, it's not a done deal that Serizawa's character gets killed off this time around, even if he is the only Asian character with a name, thus adhering to the one-Asian rule. I guess you could call that progress.
Meet the "Expendable Asian Crewmember"
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Here I am including top 6 Museums through which we can see the best of the city, a chance for us to view our culture and heritage. If you are visiting Ahmedabad, take out some time to visit these museums and for this, you can just book a taxi to for your trip to Ahmedabad. OneWay.Cab as it provides the best service along with the cheapest price in the city. You may also avail Rs. 100 OFF by booking through its mobile app. The driver will guide you to these famous museums.
I can say this Museum is best as here you can see the complete textile history of India. Here you will get to see textiles preserved from more than 100 years which resemble the history of Gujrat. The museum is basically an old house where Textiles and wood works are showcased which will give you a feeling of old times.
Photography is not allowed inside the museum.
Who doesn't loves vintage cars and World Vintage Car Museum is the place to have a look on the Pranlal Bhagilal Patel collection in Ahmedabad. The youngest care in this museum is Lincoln of the year 1972 and the oldest is Minerva of the year 1906. It will take more than 5-6 hours to roam in this museum. The best part is that you can rent these cars for wedding and other parties.
Entry is chargeable in the museum.
Photography is allowed inside the museum.
In Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum you can view a nice collection of Indian sculptures, miniature paintings, manuscript paintings and drawings, carving wood pieces, ancient coins and beadwork. This museum was opened for public in 1984 and the collection belongs to Seth Kasturbhai Lalbhai. while you are visiting this place, don't miss some of the displays in the garden.
Colourful kites can be seen in Indian festival Sankranti which comes in middle January. You can also see the variety of colourful kites in this kite museum of Ahmedabad. Roaming in the entire museum will not take more than an hour.
The museum building is just like a fort dedicated to the iron man of India – Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Here you may see personal belongings of Sardar Patel which makes to remind their lifestyle they lived and fought for freedom.
You may visit the museum anytime between 9:30 AM to 05:00 PM and Closed on Monday.
If you are in Ahmedabad then Vechaar Utensils Museum is a must see recommendation. OneWay.Cab taxi service will guide you to the place. Here you can see a collection of more than 3000 utensils. The size and shape of utensils are the things to see from which you can get an idea of how many people were fed at a time, this connects directly to Gujrat heritage.


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Chapter 42 – The First Place Candidate
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Lin Ming was just able to resist the overwhelming evil aura from the vicious beasts, but he also knew that it was impossible to pass this floor.
Let alone the two second-level vicious beats, he could not even deal with the eight little brothers that crowded around them. Even if his physical condition was restored to top shape, the situation would be untenable! And he had even consumed the majority of his true essence.
He knew in his heart that although he had managed to reach the fifth floor, his ability ultimately fell short of that sixth-grade talent Qin Xingxuan. Half a year ago, Qin Xingxuan was able to overcome these ten vicious beasts and attain victory. As he looked at the overwhelming presence that the vicious beasts exuded, Lin Ming sighed with emotion.
She was truly someone who possessed a sixth-grade talent, that worthily beautiful and arrogant girl.
By his conservative estimate, Lin Ming guessed that he needed to increase his cultivation over an entire level, and at least achieve the peak of the Third Stage of Body Transformation to stand a chance. Only then could he have a possibility of passing, and that was considering a life and death struggle to his life's limit.
But Qin Xingxuan had already passed through this hurdle half a year ago.
No wonder that middle-aged examiner was so confident when he said that it was impossible to pass.
If it truly was impossible to pass, then such being the case, he would kill as many vicious beasts as he could.
Lin Ming would not give up without a fight. This was a rare opportunity to improve and hone his combat ability while dancing on the edge of death, the feeling where his strength and will were pushed to their limits in a life or death situation where any mistake could be fatal. This was a true rare and valuable experience.
"Come on!" Seeing the vicious beasts rush at him, Lin Ming shouted and stabbed his knife outwards at a silver tiger. His mind was clear; he knew that he had no chance of injuring the two second-level vicious beasts, so his goal was their eight little brothers. Some had thick meat and fur that he could not hope to penetrate this late in the game, so he chose those that had high attack power but had an equally low defense, like this silver tiger.
"Pah!" A knife stabbed into the silver tiger's abdomen. At the same time, Lin Ming felt a tremor pass up his arm. The silver tiger's thick flesh held the knife tight and Lin Ming almost let go.
In a split second, a whip-like tail lashed out at Lin Ming's belly. This was an attack from the two second-level vicious beasts. Its speed was quick like lightning and it was sharp as a knife; a strike from this would bisect any normal martial artist. Lin Ming twisted in the air and barely dodged the tail, but it still scratched his thigh and left him bruised and lacerated.
Lin Ming felt as if someone had branded his thigh with a heated iron bar, it burned with an aching pain. He grimaced. Even a gentle touch felt like his skin was sloughing off.
During this time the eight first-level vicious beasts surrounded Lin Ming. In the blink of an eye, he was in the center of a deadly circle. As long as these vicious beasts attacked together they would instantly tear Lin Ming apart.
"Not good!" Lin Ming was very clear; as long as these vicious beasts pounced on him together, there was nowhere he could run. In that crucial moment, Lin Ming kicked his feet against the ground and thrust his knife at the silver tiger; he who struck the first blow had the advantage!
"Roar!" The silver tiger howled with anger and also rushed at Lin Ming. In this dream land, the wild and vicious beasts here knew not fear within their heart.
"Poh!" The knife jabbed straight into the silver tiger's throat. However Lin Ming was also caught by its claw and drew a gaping hole in his abdomen. His Second Stage Flesh Training's true essence barely protected him from being eviscerated in one strike.
"One down!" Lin Ming clutched his bloody abdomen that was dripping red. He had finally suffered a severe wound now and his true essence was at less than a single percent. He had not thought that the fifth floor would be so difficult; compared to the fourth floor it was at least ten times the trouble.
"A quarter of an hour! Lin Ming has already been on the fifth floor for a quarter hour. This Lin Ming is still persisting on the fifth floor, it's truly unbelievable."
"Mm. Although he could only be running, but he probably does not have much true essence left. Even running for a quarter hour is an achievement."
"There will probably be some great forces that will try to recruit Lin Ming. Muyi, you had talked about him earlier, is your Marshal Quarter's not interested in the boy?"
Muyi smiled but did not say anything. This group of fellows did not know as he did that behind Lin Ming was an incredible master. He probably came here for his own experience. Perhaps this mysterious master of his would soon bring him back to the mountains for painstaking cultivation. How could his Marshal Quarters possibly hope to attract him?
But Muyi did not say these thoughts out loud. By now, an elder surnamed Xu who was playing with two jade balls in his hand slowly said, "Elder Sun, you had a somewhat high opinion of him. I acknowledge that this Lin Ming has done well, but with only a grade-three talent, to achieve this accomplishment so far, he probably had a fortuitous encounter of some kind and ate some rare and precious material and because of this, experienced an increase in his strength. As for his future accomplishments…ha-ha, I don't see much need for flattery."
The elder surnamed Xu heard these words and knew they held some truth. If a person's luck was good, and blessed by the heavens, he might be able to eat some precious and rare object or material and experience an increase in his cultivation or strength. But that sort of superiority by ingesting these things had its limits and would slowly be worn down by time, until it vanished and became not too rare.
The elder surnamed Xu rationally said, "This Lin Ming is good but his cultivation speed will not be able to follow him in the future. He'll be easily overtaken."
Several elders echoed this. Muyi faintly smiled and said, "There's no need to say anything more. Lin Ming's future achievements, everything will be seen in the future."
As Muyi's voice fell, he looked up and saw the fifth floor of the Exquisite Pagoda begin to tremble. The runes flashed and suddenly a person's shadow was ejected and floated downwards like a slip of paper.
"That boy Lin Ming finally came out!"
Lin Ming had killed a silver tiger on the fifth floor and taken a serious wound in exchange. However even on the verge of death, in his dying moment he had brought down a wind wolf and finally killed two first-level vicious beasts.
He was already proud of this result. It had to be known that on the fifth floor, being able to kill two vicious beasts while being surrounded on all sides was incomparably more difficult than the fourth floor.
In the distance, Lan Yunyue looked at Lin Ming as he was caught by people waiting for him underneath the Exquisite Pagoda. In her heart she did now know why she felt a tiny tremble. She pursed her lips, and without a pause, turned around and quietly left…
"Mm? Lin Ming is already awake?"
Death in the dream realm is only the imagination of the mind. The candidate's true body would be shot out of the Exquisite Pagoda upon death, but they would have already thought they were dead, thus they would be unconscious for a period of time. But Lin Ming had unexpectedly awakened so quickly, and his complexion only showed a bit of paleness. This caused the elders of the Seven Profound Martial House to feel a bit startled. Compared to Wang Yanfeng, he had still been unconscious even after a while. This was the disparity that came with such a pure heart of martial arts.
"This Lin Ming should be the first place candidate of this entrance exam." Elder Sun said.
"You say that but the award for first place is a Crimson Gold Dragon Marrow Pill. You do not think it is wasted on a boy with a mere grade-three talent? How much of it do you think he would be able to absorb? The final assessment does not depend on just the results but also on the candidate's own talent." Elder Xu responded to Elder Sun's proposal in a hoarse voice.
Elder Sun said, "It is true that we must also account for talent, but that is only if there is a close tie in the final results of the exams. This Lin Ming took first place in all three trials, how can his assessment not be first in the final assessment? Otherwise everyone would only think that we are corrupt and unfair. Regarding the waste of the Crimson Gold Dragon Marrow Pill, its only use is for the main sect to attract top tier talents to come to the Seven Profound Martial House entrance exams. Can it be that you thought the main sect would create just a Crimson Gold Dragon Marrow Pill to enter into the main sect as a core disciple?"
"Moreover, as far as I know, aren't Elder Xu and the head of Yuelu City's Wang Family good old friends?"
As Elder Sun finished his words, Elder Xu's eyes twitched and he let out a cold humph, "Sun Sifan, I was only considering all angles of the exam for the sake of argument. If you wish to guarantee this Lin Ming as the first place candidate, then I have no objections. How about we make a bet? We shall see six months from now who is stronger between Wang Yanfeng and this boy Lin Ming and who will enter the Heavenly Abode. How about it?"
Elder Sun felt shocked by Elder Xu's words and was somewhat speechless. He began to feel an angry stirring in his heart. He was only trying to act impartially for this entrance exam. He did not think much of Elder Xu and did not normally have any dealings with him, He also could not get used to his self-serving nature that only tried to advance his own interests in the guise of helping with this entrance exam, which ultimately led to this struggle.
But even as Elder Xu challenged him, Elder Sun did not dare to meet it. Lin Ming's talent was limited and only at the third-grade. It was a very real possibility that Elder Xu was correct with his guess that Lin Ming had some sort of fortuitous encounter and ingested some rare herb or something of that nature, thus resulting in his accomplishments today. But Wang Yanfeng in comparison was actually a rare person within a hundred thousand people, with a superior fourth-grade talent. In that case, it could really be Lin Ming that would be left in his dust.
Seeing Elder Sun backing down, Elder Xu sneered and said, "How could you not accept? If you really think that this Lin Ming should be first place then we might as well make a bet. I remember that Elder Sun has a treasure of the human-step…"
As Elder Xu mentioned this human-step treasure, Elder Sun's complexion twisted. Human-step treasures were extremely rare and valuable in the Sky Fortune Kingdom; not even with several tens of thousands of gold taels would you be able to purchase one. This was handed down and granted by the Seven Profound Valley, and was also Elder Sun's most valuable belonging. How could he use it in a gamble, much less one with such an uncertain chance of success.
Seeing Elder Sun so dumbfounded, Elder Xu had a smug and arrogant look plastered on his face. He knew that naturally Sun Sifan would not dare to take up this bet, so he said this because he wanted to ruin Sun Sifan's prestige and reputation.
But at this moment, Muyi opened his mouth and said with a smile, "How about I take up that bet with Elder Xu?"
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POLL: Was the Pirtek Perth SuperNight a success?
By Daniel Herrero
Sunday 5th May, 2019 - 3:56pm
The first lap of Race 12
Supercars took its SuperNight concept to the other side of the continent this weekend, with Races 11 and 12 run under lights at Barbagallo Wanneroo Raceway.
The first Pirtek Perth SuperNight came after Sydney Motorsport Park, which last year hosted the first night time Supercars racing on Australian soil in more than two decades, was dropped from the calendar.
The event marked not only a change of venue for the SuperNight but also a change of format, and fans responded both at the circuit and in their living rooms.
According to Supercars, the three-day attendance was 31,160, a rise of 23 percent on the 25,333 crowd at Barbagallo 12 months prior despite Saturday night's race clashing with the West Coast Eagles versus Gold Coast Suns AFL fixture in the city (The Saturday afternoon race also clashed with an Eagles home match last year).
Television was a more close-run thing on pay television compared to the Perth SuperSprint of 2018.
Figures reported across Mediaweek and TV Tonight show that Saturday night's Race 12 attracted 183,000 viewers on Fox Sports 506 while Friday night's Race 11 was watched by 131,000.
Last year, 120,000 watched Race 11 when it fell on Saturday afternoon and 184,000 when it was run on Sunday afternoon.
However, the Barbagallo event had no live free-to-air component last year, whereas Network 10 drew 226,000 (five-city metro) on Friday night and 261,000 on Saturday night.
By comparison, only two of the day's five AFL matches rated higher on Fox Sports channels, led by Brisbane Lions v Sydney Swans pulling in 198,000 viewers.
The two matches which overlapped with Race 12, Western Bulldogs v Richmond Tigers and West Coast versus Gold Coast, drew 189,000 and 70,000 respectively on pay television.
The National Rugby League match which Race 12 went up against, in part, being the Sydney Roosters v Wests Tigers fixture, recorded 212,000 viewers.
Barbagallo's undulating, 2.42km layout arguably provided a better setting for the SuperNight, with fans closer to the action than in Western Sydney, including the tricky climb through Turns 2 and 3 and a key passing zone at Turn 7.
Supercars also illuminated the circuit far better than it did Sydney Motorsport Park last year, perhaps aided by having almost 1.5km less track to deal with as well as some pre-existing lighting for local racing in the West.
The format was essentially a standard SuperSprint (but for the omission of one practice session), as opposed to Sydney's single-race schedule, although holding qualifying and two of the weekend's three practice sessions at daytime did seem anomalous.
While having twice the number of races (albeit totalling only 20km more than the Sydney SuperNight 300) was a popular move, the lack of a single focus and dispersal of fans away from the main straight meant that the highly acclaimed driver introductions were also watered down significantly.
As much as Sydney was a spectacle in 2018, the busy nature of Barbagallo seems to make the best of night racing, which highlights its features better than it does the expanses of Eastern Creek.
Was the Pirtek Perth SuperNight a success? Cast your vote in this week's Pirtek Poll.
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May 11, 2016 (LBO) – Crescent Global Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers are the first Lloyd's of London broker to open office and invest in Sri Lanka, the company said.
'Crescent Global is proud to be the first and the only Lloyd's of London broker to invest and establish a Reinsurance company in Sri Lanka. We view Sri Lanka as a key hub for the Crescent group in South Asia and are attracted to the quality of its work force, favorable investment climate, and proximity," Jamil R Bahou founder and Chairman of the group said.
The Group manages an annual Insurance and Reinsurance portfolio of over USD 500 million in premiums. Its offices have collectively recovered over 1 Billion USD in disputed property, and marine claims, the company said.
'It's not every business entity in the global Insurance and Reinsurance realm that can boast of being tied to the Lloyds network by way of accreditation, while handling business from over fifty countries. 'The Company has friends in high places, in worldwide Insurance trading. Crescent Global is a part of the Global Broker Network. (GBN.),' said Director Indrajith Fernando.
Crescent Global provides specialist insurance, reinsurance and risk consulting services in the Eastern Hemisphere, and in terms of regional achievements, manages over 100 million USD in assets in the Middle East region.
Products offered include: Insurance, Reinsurance, Risk Consulting, Employee Benefits, Human Capital Consulting, Risk Engineering and Supply Chain Management Consulting services to private and public entities, and consumer marketplace, local insurers and reinsurers services.
Crescent Global's headquarters is situated in the City of London opposite the most important insurance marketplace in the world, Lloyd's of London, the company said. The business handled by the firm emanates from more than 50 countries, via its global office network.


3M is "a global technology company delivering innovative solutions to life's ever-changing needs." The company invents and manufactures everything from glue to dog shampoo.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of businessmen on the North Shore thought they discovered a deposit of the mineral corundum, a valuable abrasive used for making sandpaper and grinding wheels. The group of five included the owner of a meat market, a lawyer, a doctor and two prominent railroad men. They incorporated the Minnesota Mining and Manufacture Company in 1902 and immediately started constructing the expensive infrastructure necessary to mine the abrasive. They made their first sale in 1904.
But the men did not do their research. That first sale would be their last. The abrasive was not corundum at all; it was the almost worthless mineral anorthosite, also used for making sandpaper. According to an article in Lake Superior Magazine, if it wasn't for the intervention of Lucius P. Ordway of St. Paul, 3M would have ended there. Ordway took over the company's debt and provided capital so they could manufacture sandpaper. He moved the company to St. Paul in 1910. 3M's leaders did not admit their mistake to investors until 1913.
William L. McKnight was hired in 1907 as an assistant bookkeeper. He rose through 3M's ranks to become president and CEO and shaped what the company would become. His management philosophy encouraged individuals to take initiative and innovate without worrying about making mistakes. According to 3M's website, the idea helped turn 3M into the highly diverse company it is today.


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The latest numbers from suicide rates are in, and they are shocking. According to the CDC, 1 person commits suicide every 12 minutes, and for every death, SAMSHA reports there are 25 more attempts. This means more than 1,125,000 Americans attempted suicide in 2016. Here's a guide on what to look for and how you can help.
What Leads To Suicide?
Most people think mental health problems, such as depression, schizophrenia, PTSD, or borderline personality disorder, are the top indicators, but the CDC found 54% who of people who committed suicide did not have any known type of mental illness.
Suicide attempts and deaths are usually caused by a combination of risk factors. The more factors one has, the more likely one is to attempt suicide. The CDC points to the following factors (besides mental illness):
Relationship problems (42%)
Recent crisis (29%)
Substance use disorders (28%)
Physical health problems (22%)
Job and/or financial problems (16%)
Criminal/legal issues (9%)
Housing issues including homelessness (4%)
To this list we add other factors including:
A previous history of a suicide attempt(s)
A family history of suicides
History of abuse and trauma
Loneliness and lack of a family or support system
End-of-life problems such as severe health problems, terminal illness or chronic pain
Suicide Warning Signs
How can you tell if someone is contemplating suicide? According to helpguide.org, most suicidal individuals give warning signs or signals of their intentions. The best way to prevent suicide is to recognize these warning signs and know how to respond if you spot them.
Major Warning Signs Include:
Talking about killing or harming oneself
Writing or talking a lot about death or dying
Seeking out things that could be used in a suicide attempt, such as weapons and drugs
Feelings of hopelessness - talk about "unbearable" feelings - this is a strong predictor of suicide
Other warning signs that point to a suicidal mind frame include dramatic mood swings or sudden personality changes, such as going from outgoing to withdrawn or well-behaved to rebellious. A suicidal person may also lose interest in day-to-day activities, neglect his or her appearance, and show big changes in eating or sleeping habits.
If you spot the suicidal warning signs in someone you care about, you may wonder if it's a good idea to say anything. What if you're wrong? What if the person gets angry? In such situations, it's natural to feel uncomfortable or afraid. But anyone who talks about suicide or shows other warning signs needs immediate help—the sooner the better.
Talking To A Person About Suicide
Talking to a friend or family member about their suicidal thoughts and feelings can be extremely difficult for anyone. But if you're unsure whether someone is suicidal, the best way to find out is to ask. You can't make a person suicidal by showing that you care. In fact, giving a suicidal person the opportunity to express his or her feelings can provide relief from loneliness and pent-up negative feelings, and may prevent an attempt.
Ways to start a conversation about suicide:
"I have been feeling concerned about you lately."
"Recently, I have noticed some differences in you and wondered how you are doing."
"I wanted to check in with you because you haven't seemed yourself lately."
Questions you can ask:
"When did you begin feeling like this?"
"Did something happen that made you start feeling this way?"
"How can I best support you right now?"
"Have you thought about getting help?"
What you can say that helps:
"You are not alone in this. I'm here for you."
"You may not believe it now, but the way you're feeling will change."
"I may not be able to understand exactly how you feel, but I care about you and want to help."
"When you want to give up, tell yourself you will hold off for just one more day, hour, minute—whatever you can manage."
If you or your loved one is in immediate danger, go to the nearest hospital or call
The Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
And always remember, there is hope. Please seek help for yourself or a loved one. Suicidal thoughts do not have to progress to an attempt.
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Carol Anderson, D.Min., ACSW, LMSW, is a licensed clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience in the fields of mental health, addictions, and co-occurring disorders. Her other specialties include grief and trauma, women's issues, chronic pain management, holistic healing, GLBTQ concerns, and spirituality and transpersonal psychology. Dr. Anderson has been educated and trained in the fields of education, social work, and spirituality, and she holds a Doctor of Ministry degree (non-denominational/interfaith) specializing in spirituality.
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If you're like many new landlords just starting out in the property rental business, you have probably already made the decision to just "wing it" when it comes to the majority of your starting off points. After all, what could go wrong, right? Right?
The truth is that there are way more pros than cons in hiring a lawyer who specializes in landlord / tenant law from the start to get yourself going in the right direction. You shouldn't only consider hiring one only once when you really need one and already neck deep in water. Prevention is the best problem solving technique in my book.
Here are some good reasons why you should hire and build a relationship with a good landlord lawyer to help you navigate the legal and expensive liabilities a landlord can incur with their real estate without a clear understanding of the law that can have a major impact on the profitability of your property investment.
Nothing gets you off the hook easier than having a solid lease agreement with your tenants. Having a solid lease in my book is one of the best investments you can make. Make sure you provide the landlord lawyer you have chosen all of your concerns and points you want covered in the lease clauses. Remember that the lease is your safe way out of any potential future problems and small claims court hearings and that it is never finished. You will need to revise and revisit this item from time to time and when new issues arise.
Most states try to promote an easy going and stress free eviction process, but the ugly truth is that it's simply not the way they make it seem. Many landlords try to go in it alone only to find out that the form they submitted was not the right form. The date on which the form was filed was wrongfully filed a day before it was supposed to be filed. Then, once you actually figure out that jig saw puzzle of paperwork, you get to meet a judge who's having a bad morning and just decides he doesn't like the color of the shirt you are wearing.
There's no doubt that some potential tenants you reject through your vigorous tenant screening process will feel, well discriminated against. You will receive the very common "I will sue you for discrimination!" every now and then, but the fact is you need not worry 9 times out of 10.
While most of the landlords consciously follow HUD's guidelines to assure they are practicing fair housing policies to the best of their abilities, every now and then you will get the court order in the mail when a tenant decides to take the matter to court. If this is the case, you should think about lawyering up.
If HUD decides to investigate the case, you are looking at a minimum fine of up to $16,000 per violation if it's your first offense plus damages, fees and other fines. Hiring a lawyer can possibly help you resolve the issue before an administrative law judge sees your case and it can also help you stay away from bad press and bad business reputation.
Any time a tenant or a guest of theirs claims they got hurt or ill because of your recklessness it is definitely time to hire a lawyer. Personal injury claims are almost always high case and very emotional, and the lawyers that take care of the prosecution know their way around the ropes a lot better than the average landlord. A good lawyer will refrain from attaching themselves to the case on a personal level and keep emotion out of the court room.
These claims often arise when say a roof collapses due to weather or for not having the proper maintenance done to the roof and the tenant's personal property gets damage such as appliances and furniture. While your liability insurance should cover the majority of these cases, it is a good idea to consider hiring a lawyer when the stakes are high. If the stakes are low, there is probably a solution before getting the case heard in small claims court. Hiring a coaching session to see how you should proceed is always a better idea than going into it alone.
Let's face the facts: a bad reputation is bad for business. Sometimes, things happen and you'll need help crawling your way around the negative publicity and possibly straightening out your name so that the negative headlines are removed or changed.
A lawyer can coach you through the process by telling what you should and shouldn't say or even speak on your behalf. A good lawyer can also guide you to take actions to draw positive attention to your damaged property or business.
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Travis Scott Recognized Kylie Jenner's 'Forbes' Cover In A Super Rare But Sweet Tweet
In a super rare show of public affection, rapper Travis Scott recognized Kylie Jenner's Forbes cover with a short but simple message. "CANT BE MORE PROUD," Scott tweeted, with a series of heart emojis. Though Scott and Jenner have been in a relationship for over a year, it's extremely unusual for him to address her on social media.
Though Scott took to social media occasionally to feature Jenner, especially when she was pregnant, both of them tend not to feature one another in their social media accounts. But it seems like Jenner's massive almost-billionaire milestone was certainly a worthwhile reason for Scott to tweet about her.
Jenner is on the cover of Forbes because she is poised to become the youngest female billionaire in history. At 20 years old, Jenner is worth an estimated $900 million, and she's moving rapidly toward the billionaire mark.
Of Jenner, Forbes staff writer Natalie Robehmed wrote, "What her half-sister Kim Kardashian West did for booty, Jenner has done for full lips. Like Kardashian West, she has leveraged her assets to gain both fame and money. But while her sister is best-known for the former, Jenner has proved adept at the latter. In historic fashion."
Though Jenner has made an almost-billion dollar makeup empire largely through her social media posts, very few of her posts are ever directed towards Scott, and he has an even quieter social media presence.
In comparison to Jenner's 25 million Twitter followers, Scott has just under 4 million. On Instagram, Scott's 9 million followers have seen him post about Jenner just once in the last year, posting a photo of the two of them at the Met Gala last May. He also posted one photo of their daughter Stormi at the time of her birth.
While it may be unusual for celebrities to keep their private life actually private, it's unlikely that anyone would underestimate Jenner or Scott's ability to keep a secret at this point, after they both kept Jenner's pregnancy under wraps through to the birth of her child.
After giving birth, Jenner explained their decision to keep her pregnancy out of the limelight.
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The 2015 NBA All-Star starters and reserves were announced Thursday night, which inevitably means there were those deserving of the honor left on the outside looking in.
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Of course, an ultra-competitive Western Conference leads to tougher decisions between players at the same positions, and sometimes fan voting leads to stars getting in over players whose statistics are simply more deserving.
Here are the top five NBA All-Star snubs for 2015:
Damian Lillard, Trail Blazers
Twitter was buzzing because Lillard was not named an All-Star starter nor a reserve. Portland's do-it-all point guard is averaging 21.8 points per game (13th in the league) and 6.2 assists (16th in the league). Plus, as a point guard he's still securing 4.6 rebounds per game.
Lillard has helped the Trail Blazers ascend to the No. 2 spot in the West, and he's playing at a higher level than last season, when he did earn a nod to the All-Star Game.
Lillard should be the top choice to replace an injured Kobe Bryant. Otherwise, Twitter might just explode.
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Kyle Korver, Hawks
The Eastern Conference-leading Hawks got some serious recognition when it came to the All-Star voting, as three members of the team earned bids to the game. However, the sharp-shooting Korver did not.
Perhaps fans were weary about voting nearly the entire starting lineup, though, you can make the case they each deserve it.
Korver is on pace for a historic 50-50-90 season. He's averaging 13 points, 4.2 boards and 2.9 assists per game. Many expect the 3-point specialist to replace Dwyane Wade, and rightfully so. There's no shame is voting in four Hawks when they're dominating the NBA right now.
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DeMarcus Cousins, Kings
There have always been questions about Cousins' energy and focus on and away from the court, but this year the big man has put it together and has posted the statistics worthy of being an NBA All Star.
Cousins is in the midst of a career year, averaging 23.8 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 1.6 blocks and 1.4 steals per game. Simply, he's a stat-sheet filler.
However, with Lillard likely in line to replace Bryant, Cousins is in the line to be the biggest snub of them all. It's understandable fans would be skeptical about voting in the top player on a Kings team that's floundering in the standings and one who was injured for part of the year, but didn't Kevin Love get respect when he was still in Minnesota? And didn't Kevin Durant get in despite missing half the year?
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Brandon Knight, Bucks
Right behind Korver in the Eastern Conference snubs in Knight, the Bucks' standout, who somehow, someway has lifted his team to a winning record.
Milwaukee is the only team above .500 that will not be represented at the All-Star Game, and that just feels wrong. Especially because it's the Bucks!
Knight has averaged 17.9 points, 5.1 assists, 4.2 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game, and has single-handedly carried the Bucks while Jabari Parker has been sidelined due to injury. However, in the East, he's competing for the same spots as John Wall, Kyle Lowry, Jeff Teague and Kyrie Irving, which made him a long-shot from the start.
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Mike Conley, Grizzlies
While Memphis' outstanding front court usually gets the headlines, Conley has been thriving yet again at the point and is a huge reason for the team's success this season.
Conley is putting up 17.4 points and 5.6 assists per night, with a 20.1 Player Efficiency Rating. He's also a standout on the defensive end of the court.
But because he plays in the West and has to compete with Steph Curry, Chris Paul, Russell Westbrook and Lillard for this position on the All-Star ballot, he never really stood a chance.
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Nashville Predators center Mike Fisher announced his retirement on Saturday after 18 NHL seasons, with no plans to return for another cameo.
"I've milked this cow as long as it'll go," he told reporters. "It's bone dry."
Fisher came out of retirement in January to take one last shot at a Stanley Cup title as the Predators' fourth-line center, after spending the previous season as the team's captain. Nashville was eliminated by the Winnipeg Jets in Game 7 of their second-round series on Thursday, a contest Fisher missed with a lower-body injury. A to Z Sports Nashville reported the injury led to a Wednesday surgery on the meniscus in his left knee.
Fisher, who turns 38 next month, tallied two goals and two assists in 16 regular-season games before posting one goal in 12 playoff games, averaging 11:14 of ice time in the postseason.
He spent the past seven-plus years of his 18-year career in Nashville after arriving via trade from the Ottawa Senators, going on to total 241 points in 429 games for the Predators. In 10-plus years in Ottawa, he had 348 points in 675 games. He scored at least 18 goals in a season 10 times in his career and topped 40 points seven times.
Fisher told reporters Saturday that he would consider returning to the Predators' organization in some form down the road.
"We'll see," he said. "I'm sure we'll have some conversations in the future. Right now, I don't really know what that's going to look like. But we'll see."