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Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, speaks to reporters on Friday about the civil rights' organization's strategy to contend with President-elect Donald Trump's second term. (Allison Kite/Kansas Reflector) Civil rights activists in Kansas are staffing up and engaging with local officials to prepare for a second Donald Trump presidency, the ACLU of Kansas said Friday. Executive director Micah Kubic told reporters the organization has a three-part strategy for Trump’s second term, including attempting to expand civil rights protections at the local level, preparing for ultra-conservative bills in the Kansas Legislature and filing strategic lawsuits to stop “extremist” policies. Working proactively at the local level to expand voting rights and other civil liberties, Kubic said, will be more effective than simply reacting to Trump policies the ACLU opposes. “It really does show folks that we need not live in a defensive crouch,” Kubic said. “We need not be despondent about attacks that we may see from Washington, but instead that we have some control over our own destiny, we can make lives better here.” That will let “those in power know to not collaborate in the extremism,” Kubic said. Kubic said he anticipates that Trump’s second term, which begins in January, will bring “more attacks on civil liberties and civil rights ... than any of us have seen in our lifetimes,” including policies about immigration, voting, LGBTQ rights and abortion access. Working at the local level, Kubic said, will help if the federal government seeks to compel local officials to assist with policies like mass deportations. “When the Trump administration comes calling,” Kubic said, “we want there to be a firewall in place at the local level from elected officials who know that is not something that their own voters, their own constituents, the residents of their places want them to do.” At the same time, Kubic said, the ACLU will keep working to mobilize state lawmakers to block legislation the organization opposes. He said the organization had success defeating “attacks on voting rights” and a proposed ban on gender-affirming healthcare. Kubic said he also expected abortion rights to be an issue in the Kansas Legislature, despite the state’s 2022 vote to keep abortion enshrined in the Kansas Constitution. “We’re able to defeat them because there is a large number of Kansans who don’t want that stuff. ... Regardless of how they voted on Election Day, we know that Kansans don’t want bodily autonomy to be restricted,” he said. The ACLU of Kansas’ fledgling political action committee, Kansans United for Civil Liberties, will continue, Kubic said. The ACLU spent money educating voters in opposition to candidates in 10 legislative races in November, but only one of those candidates was defeated. The ACLU’s most prominent work, its litigation efforts, will also continue, he said. “We will sue anybody who needs suing when the time comes,” Kubic said. “ ... We have been preparing for the Trump administration in particular for a very long time.” While the ACLU’s views on those issues often align with those of Democrats, Kubic said the organization has worked to pursue its priorities no matter who is in power. He noted the ACLU criticized Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, for signing legislation stopping Wyandotte County from issuing identification cards to undocumented immigrants.
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Slate Office REIT ( TSE:SOT.UN – Get Free Report )’s stock price rose 53.7% during mid-day trading on Friday . The company traded as high as C$0.65 and last traded at C$0.63. Approximately 754,588 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 749% from the average daily volume of 88,912 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$0.41. Slate Office REIT Stock Performance The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of C$0.51 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of C$0.44. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 329.26, a quick ratio of 0.14 and a current ratio of 0.47. The stock has a market cap of C$50.64 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -0.19 and a beta of 1.35. Slate Office REIT Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Slate Office REIT is an open-ended real estate investment trust. The REIT's portfolio currently comprises 43 strategic and well-located real estate assets located primarily across Canada's major population centres including one downtown asset in Chicago, Illinois. The REIT is focused on maximizing value through internal organic rental and occupancy growth and strategic acquisitions. See Also Receive News & Ratings for Slate Office REIT Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Slate Office REIT and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Senate Republicans recommended on Friday that the state write laws banning transgender girls and women from participating in high school and college sports, setting the stage for action in the 2025 legislative session. The vote by a committee that was studying the issue is hardly a surprise. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones — a possible Republican contender for governor in 2026 — announced almost identical goals at the panel's first meeting in August . Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings. Get updates and player profiles ahead of Friday's high school games, plus a recap Saturday with stories, photos, video Frequency: Seasonal Twice a weekNoneCUSA championship game: Jax State puts tickets on sale
Manikbabur Megh —The Cloud and the Man—is a film about a lonely man falling helplessly in love with a cloud. Or the other way around. It boasts of a captivating performance by Chandan Sen, a stage and screen veteran who, despite his staggering talent, continues to be Bengal’s best-kept secret. The film marks the debut of a remarkable directorial voice in the form of Abhinandan Banerjee, who also wrote the screenplay. The central character of Manikbabu is an exceptional role, etched with extreme care and performed with great virtuosity by Sen. Manikbabu revels in his loneliness—his isolation is not imposed but self-inflicted. He loves nothing more than to be left to himself, tending to his dying father and to the plants on his terrace. When his father dies, the distraught but stoic Manikbabu feels a presence, a shade overhead. It seems to follow him wherever he goes. Thus begins one of the most bizarre but moving love stories to be filmed in recent times. Sen’s parents were involved in the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA), so theatre flourished in him organically. He has been a part of Bengali theatre ever since the late 70s. Among his teachers was the late great Utpal Dutt. It was in the mid-1980s that Sen started doing television and then graduated to the movies. Whether it was a key “supporting” role or bit parts, Sen managed to leave his mark. But barring one film called Aloy Phera , where he played a member of the Lodha tribe, there have been no significant lead roles coming his way. Until now. From the first scene to the last, Manikbabur Megh sparkles with Sen’s delectable performance. So, how did he approach the role of Manikbabu, a recluse who is supposed to be in a relationship with a wisp gliding through the ether? “I imagined that it was a person I was falling in love with. To me, she was a person, not merely a cloud. I thought it best to look at it that way, at least in the beginning. But gradually, as we progressed, I began seeing it/her as a cloud,” says Sen. Throughout several interviews, Sen has been insisting that the film is, at its core, just a good old love story. But when the script reached his desk, he could immediately see it for what it was. “Fortunately, I have a bad habit of reading the likes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Bibhutibhushan Banerjee and Rabindranath Tagore. As a result, I am aware of magic realism, and how rare it is that one encounters it in a screenplay. But when that happens, nothing could be more pleasurable,” he says. The screenplay of Manikbabur Megh had such subtlety and nuance that when he read it, Sen looked at the 23-year-old Banerjee sceptically. “I actually gave him a suspicious look. Had this boy really written THIS script?” For Banerjee, etching out the character of Manikbabu has been a lifelong quest. “The story idea wouldn’t have come to me if it hadn’t been for this character (of Manikbabu). For me, the cloud is a harbinger for the liberation of the character.” Cinema has, for the longest time, examined loneliness in all its hues. Right from Travis Bickle ( Taxi Driver ) and Theodore ( Her ) to Fern ( Nomadland ), there has been a long line of lonely men and women on screen. But it is seen as an undesirable state, with characters finding ways of avoiding it or reeling from the impact of it. It is supposed to invoke pity or empathy. But for Manikbabu, loneliness is celebratory. “This character was brewing in me for a long time, and it was embedded with loneliness, but not how it is normally portrayed. It’s about the acceptance and celebration of loneliness. Very spontaneously and naturally, he likes to avoid crowds. If a lift is crowded, he would gladly take the stairs. On a bench, he would shift a little only to have some space between him and the other people. It’s these choices of the character that will create the resonance where a man can find that kind of connection with a cloud,” explains Banerjee. This is a hypersensitive man, one who is able to perceive things other “normal” people can’t. He takes care to avoid stepping on a flower, picks it up and tucks it beside his father’s old tape-recorder. One outcome of his self-imposed isolation is that he barely speaks, if at all. He is not taciturn; he just doesn’t feel the need to talk. In this respect, Manikbabu’s solitudinarianism brings to mind Hirayama, the central character in Wim Wender’s Perfect Days . Much like Manikbabu, Hirayama likes to keep to himself. Koji Yakusho, while speaking about his performance in Perfect Days , said: “Films are expressed more powerfully in those moments that don’t have the words.” Sen, whose layered performance of Manikbabu predated Yakusho’s work by at least four years ( Perfect Days was shot in Tokyo around 2023, while Manikbabur Megh was filmed in Kolkata in the peak summer of 2019), says what drew him to Banerjee’s script was the scope for “onuchcharito shonglap” , which roughly—and inadequately—translates to “unpronounced dialogue”. What he refers to is the ability to convey the contents of dialogue without uttering a word. “One of the things that attracted me to the script was that I had to speak an infinite number of such unpronounced dialogues. In a 97-minute-long film, I got to do that for 90 minutes. It is the dream of any actor,” Sen says. For Sen, Manikbabu has been, quite literally, the role of a lifetime. “Because of their political affiliations, my parents had to often be underground and leave me to do things on my own. From a very young age, I was able to travel to school by myself or go out on the streets alone,” he says. This experience of being comfortable in his own company equipped Sen with the kind of mindset that prepared him for Manikbabu. It was as if life had been. Besides, it is his belief that the sacred duty of the actor is to observe, and especially observe those who are slightly different in some way. “An actor must see such people with a keen eye and then when the time comes, not imitate them but capture their essence,” he avers. As far as Banerjee is concerned, Manikbabu also harks back to one of Bibhutibhushan’s abiding creations, one that was immortalised on the screen by another “Manik”—little Apu. In a poignant episode from Bibhutibhushan’s Pather Panchali , Apu’s father Harihar scolds the child for staring with his mouth wide open all the time. “A person like that, whose eyes are not merely recording devices, sees more than we ever can,” says Banerjee. “This ability shapes their psyche,” he adds. He sees himself as a smarter version of Manikbabu, he elaborates, the one who could sail through societal norms to make things happen. But why a cloud? The only parallel that comes to mind is Ritwik Ghatak’s Ajantrik , in which a taxi-driver is in a dysfunctional relationship with his Chevrolet jalopy. “The film is an allegory of liberation through the force of nature. That force could very well have been a tree,” explains Banerjee, “but a cloud is a mobile thing. Its shape changes, mood changes, it evolves according to seasons and times of the day.” In the end, Sen reminds us, Manikbabu is a part of us, with some notable exceptions “There’s a bit of Manikbabu in all of us, except politicians and the likes of Elon Musk,” says Sen. Amborish Roychoudhury is A national film award-winning writer, biographer and film historian
1,827 Shares in Floor & Decor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:FND) Acquired by Townsquare Capital LLCCloud security provider Wiz announced on Thursday that it has entered into a deal to acquire Dazz, a Israeli startup specializing in security remediation and risk management. The cash-and-share deal is worth $450 million, TechCrunch reported, and the acquisition beefs up Wiz’s product portfolio. Earlier this year Wiz launched Wiz Code, a cloud application security product to help security and development teams identify and fix cloud risks directly in code before they become critical issues. “Everything we do is rooted in customer need. Wiz has always been driven by a desire to help organizations actually improve their security posture—not just by reporting risks, but by prioritizing and resolving issues where it matters most,” Wiz CEO and founder Assaf Rappaport wrote on the company’s blog post announcing the deal. With the addition of Dazz’s remediation engine, Wiz will now enable security teams to work with data from multiple sources and manage risk in a single platform. “In today’s world, organizations must connect risks across the entire application lifecycle—from code to cloud and on-prem infrastructure. They need tools that prioritize issues with precision and make collaboration effortless. Dazz delivers on this need, simplifying remediation and empowering teams to act quickly and decisively,” Rappaport wrote. Earlier this year Wiz raised $1 billion for strategic acquisitions, and rejected a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google. Jennifer Lawinski is a writer and editor with more than 20 years experience in media, covering a wide range of topics including business, news, culture, science, technology and cybersecurity. After earning a Master's degree in Journalism from Boston University, she started her career as a beat reporter for The Daily News of Newburyport. She has since written for a variety of publications including CNN, Fox News, Tech Target, CRN, CIO Insight, MSN News and Live Science. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two cats.Netmarble and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment have revealed Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a newly announced action-adventure RPG set to launch in 2025. The first trailer for the upcoming title debuted Thursday night during The Game Awards, offering a glimpse of the game’s original storyline set during the events of HBO’s acclaimed fantasy series. Developed for mobile platforms with additional versions under consideration, Game of Thrones: Kingsroad places players in the role of a fresh protagonist who unexpectedly becomes heir to House Tyre, a lesser-known noble family in the North. Starting during Season 4’s timeline, the narrative has players forging their legacy while navigating Westeros’ political upheavals and its perilous frontiers, including the threats lurking beyond the Wall. Players will have access to a robust character creator and can choose between three distinct classes: Sellsword, Knight, and Assassin. Each class features unique combat abilities that will be essential to surviving the game’s challenges and seizing the opportunities the Kingsroad presents. According to Netmarble CEO Young-sig Kwon, the studio aims to expand the Game of Thrones universe by inviting fans into new stories and experiences that capture the show’s complex themes and dramatic tension. Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is slated to launch across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and the Middle East in 2025, with release plans for Asia to follow at a later date. Fans can expect more details in the coming months, including platform availability and regional releases.
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