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NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that's he's preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect's threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park." Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn't a trolling-free zone for Trump's adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A." In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden's spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump's taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.Wema Bank emerged overall winners of the 2024 Nigeria Bankers Games with a total of 18 medals, made up of ten gold, six silver and two bronze, as the annual multi-sport event climaxed on Saturday at the University of Lagos Sports Complex. In the second place was First Bank with six gold, seven silver and four bronze medals, while Access Bank finished third with six gold, five silver and thirteen bronze medals. In the football event that climaxed the months-long events that featured several sports to include football, athletics, chess, Scrabble and table tennis, among others, Sterling Bank won cart home the gold after they defeated FCMB via penalty shootout when the full time produced only one goal apiece. Speaking on the 2024 edition and journey so far, Mr Fela Bank Olemoh, founder of MediaVision Limited, said they are excited to see the climax of the 2024 edition of the games and how competitive it has been leading to the final. “We are just excited that the Nigerian Bankers Game has come this far and has come to stay; it shows what we have been doing all these while,” he said. “For this year’s final, we have two competitive teams, Sterling Bank and FCMB. It is exciting to see that people are coming with their families, their children to watch these games and we look forward to it becoming stronger and stronger every year,” he said. On what keeps them going with this competition, he said; “I think it is the intent. The Nigerian Bankers Games affords banks the opportunity to meet and interact, they have timeout from their usual work and make new friends. For them they look forward to this and that excites us.” On the possibility of incorporating more sports in the Game, he said the Nigeria Bankers Games has a lot of sports already, while not ruling out such. “I think Nigerian Bankers Games has a lot of games already like football, athletics, Chess, Scrabble, table tennis and a whole lot of them. For us, it is to strive and make it a lot more better but anything is still possible. “Next year, we plan to make it more bigger with addition of one or two sports like that. For us, the excitement is that the bankers and their families are coming and there are a lot of enthusiasm in the Games,” he said. Meanwhile, some of the bankers who won for their financial institutions spoke on their experiences. Awotiri Segun, the Head of Operations, Etiebet Branch of Access Bank, who won 100m men’s gold, said it was exciting winning the race, saying he looked forward for greater challenges in the Games. “Winning the one 100m makes me feel very humbled and I also feel so excited about the fact that I can run this fast. “I haven’t really been into athletics although I did a little of it in primary school and secondary school days, as well as during my NYSC. “With this, I am looking forward to more competitive games in this Nigeria Bankers Game.” On how the competition has impacted their wellbeing, he said; “In banking, we always focus on what we do inside and outside the banking hall but this has helped to balance our work and physical fitness. It is a good recreation for us as bankers. “It helps us in our social life because we get to meet and interact better. Because we do very rigorous training in order to compete, it helps our fitness and off-work balance,” he said. On her own, Oluwaseun Adewunmi, a marketer with Wema Bank who clinched women 200m, said she was happy that her and that the Games worth every efforts put into preparations wor “It is not easy to win this game but I trained a lot and was determined,” she said. “This is my first time of participating in this this Game and I can tell you that the experience is huge; I thank God for this.” On whether the Bankers Games are worth all the efforts, she said; “Absolutely, it is worth every effort because this is an opportunity for us to synergise outside the ever busy banking activities, it is worth every preparation,” she said. Bukola Olurunmaye of Wema Bank, who won three gold medals in tennis single, women double and mixed double, was excited and said Nigeria Bankers Games worth all the stress. “It feels great to win after all the efforts. I feel very happy to be winning it back to back and is something that excites me. “Honestly Nigerian Bankers Game is worth every stress and preparations put into this and I can tell you that they have been trying in this Games. “This Games brings about bonding and making new friends which can hardly be experienced in the office,” she said. On whether she had been an athlete before, she admitted being one before joining the bank, hence her passion for winning. Miracle Henry, a Customer Experience Officer with Sterling Bank, a women 400m gold winner, said she waa happy that her efforts in the preparations have been rewarded. “I am very happy and delighted to have won this because I put in a lot of effort towards this and I thank God that I have a medal to show for my hard work “I have always been a volleyball player and it has been a long time I did that. Last year I trained to be part of the Games but I didn’t make it perhaps because I didn’t have experience. “But from the beginning of this year, I have been training hard for this and apart from winning, this Game has helped my total wellbeing because you know sports generally helps in overall wellbeing.” On whether the Bankers Game is worth all the efforts, she said; “Sure it is worth all the efforts, the training, as well as preparations; honestly it is worth it,” she said.
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Late Late Toy Show viewers all have the same complaint about audienceStock up on batteries for the holiday seasonCanadians face a fresh wave of scams as fraudsters seize on the Canada Post strike to try to trick victims out of their cash. The last few weeks have seen an “exponential” rise in attempted fraud, ranging from phishing emails to deepfake phone calls, says Octavia Howell, chief information security officer at Equifax Canada. “Any time there is a major political event, a major strike or anything like that, we’ll see an uptick,” she said in a phone interview. “Not only is there a Canada post strike ... it’s the holidays.” Scams related to parcels and deliveries typically tick up in step with online shopping orders this time of year, but the work stoppage at Canada Post has led to even more fraud attempts amid the confusion around shipments, Howell said. Comprehensive figures on the latest batch of scams are not yet available from Equifax Canada, but the credit bureau’s daily updates have marked the rise nonetheless. Rather than the roughly half-dozen daily consumer fraud reports of previous increases, Equifax Canada’s investigations team is filing up to “87 in one report in one day coming from the same IP addresses,” said Howell. She called the trend “insidious.” “We’re seeing exponential growth in the amount of scams that are actually happening ... because, one, holidays, and then two, people aren’t able to get their shipments out.” Mail carriers walked off the job on Nov. 15, halting deliveries of letters and packages at the start of the holiday shipping season. Canada Post cautions users that it never reaches out about a delivery via text or email unless it has been requested to. The Crown corporation has asked Canadians to be on guard for telltale signs of a phishing scam or fraud attempt, including poor grammar, imagery inconsistent with Canada Post logos and a tracking number at odds with its standard format. The Better Business Bureau similarly cautioned users when the strike kicked off. “Watch out for fake package delivery offers during Canada’s postal strike,” the non-profit said in a release last month. It advised potential victims to verify delivery services, avoid unsolicited shipment offers from little-known companies and check for accreditation by the bureau before selecting a service. It also noted that scammers may send false messages claiming to be from Canada Post or another carrier asking for payment for undelivered items or offering “priority service.” “Do not click on links in unsolicited emails or texts. Instead, visit the official website of the courier service for updates,” the bureau said. Canada Post recommends customers contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre if they receive a suspicious email, text or call related to the postal service.
Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to apologize for saying Biden wouldn't pardon Hunter as she's asked why anyone should believe the president By NIKKI SCHWAB, CHIEF CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Published: 21:59 GMT, 6 December 2024 | Updated: 22:41 GMT, 6 December 2024 e-mail 67 View comments White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to apologize for repeatedly saying that President Joe Biden would not pardon his son Hunter. Jean-Pierre was peppered with pardon-themed questions during Friday's White House briefing, her first chance to field reporters' questions in the briefing room since Biden announced Hunter's pardon on Sunday. She was given the opportunity to both apologize - and say that the president owed her an apology - for the president's major flip-flip, which she excused by arguing that 'circumstances have changed.' Jean-Pierre didn't apologize for the president's change of heart and said in her case: 'there's no apology needed.' 'Look, if you look at his statement, it's pretty comprehensive. It's in his own voice. I think it takes you through his thinking. And he did - he wrestled with this. He wrestled with this,' Jean-Pierre said. 'And again, he said, in his statement, in his own voice, that he made that decision this past weekend.' 'And the fact is, when you think about how the president got to this decision, circumstances have changed. They have,' she argued. She didn't point to the most obvious change - Vice President Kamala Harris losing the 2024 election - but instead pointed out how Republicans 'have said they are not going to let up.' Jean-Pierre also pointed out that Hunter's sentencing was coming up, so the president decided 'that Hunter and his family had been through enough.' White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not apologize for repeatedly saying that President Joe Biden would not pardon his son Hunter Biden announced the decision after spending some intense family time on Nantucket over the Thanksgiving break with first lady Jill Biden , Hunter and daughter Ashley Biden. Hunter brought his wife Melissa Cohen to the tony Massachusetts island and their son baby Beau, but none of the other grandchildren were in attendance this year. DailyMail.com reported Monday on the family's push to have Hunter pardoned. Jean-Pierre repeatedly pointed to one of Biden's top political allies, Rep. Jim Clyburn, previously the highest ranking black member of Congress, who argued that the president should pardon his son. When Jean-Pierre was initially asked about an apology - if she was owed one - or did she owe one to the American people, she responded, 'I just laid out the president's thinking.' 'And I know what I said. I know what the president said. That is where we were at the time. That is where the president was at the time,' she argued. 'I am his spokesperson.' 'This weekend he thought about it, he wrestled with it, he wrestled with it and made this decision. That's what I can tell the American people,' she continued. 'I think the American people understand and I think they understand how difficult this decision would be,' Jean-Pierre added. President Joe Biden (left) pardoned his son, Hunter Biden (right), on Sunday after repeatedly telling reporters that he would not do so One journalist in the room asked if Biden's pardon for Hunter made it easier for President-elect Donald Trump to come into office and pardon the January 6th rioters - as the Republican has pledged to do. 'Look I'm not going to get into what the incoming administration is going to do or not do,' the White House press secretary said. Jean-Pierre was asked about other pardons too. On Wednesday, Politico reported that White House aides were mulling whether Biden should give preemptive pardons to some of Trump's top political enemies - with former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney , Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen.-elect Adam Schifl mentioned - though Schiff said he'd rebuff the offer. 'I'm not going to get ahead of the president,' Jean-Pierre answered when asked about preemptive parons at the top of the briefing. Joe Biden White House Karine Jean-Pierre Share or comment on this article: Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to apologize for saying Biden wouldn't pardon Hunter as she's asked why anyone should believe the president e-mail Add comment
NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s recent dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his visit to Paris for the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral were not just exercises in policy and diplomacy. They were also prime trolling opportunities for Trump. Throughout his first term in the White House and during his campaign to return, Trump has spun out countless provocative, antagonizing and mocking statements. There were his belittling nicknames for political opponents, his impressions of other political figures and the plentiful memes he shared on social media. Now that's he's preparing to return to the Oval Office, Trump is back at it, and his trolling is attracting more attention — and eyerolls. On Sunday, Trump turned a photo of himself seated near a smiling first lady Jill Biden at the Notre Dame ceremony into a social media promo for his new perfume and cologne line, with the tag line, “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist!” The first lady’s office declined to comment. When Trudeau hastily flew to Florida to meet with Trump last month over the president-elect's threat to impose a 25% tax on all Canadian products entering the U.S., the Republican tossed out the idea that Canada become the 51st U.S. state. The Canadians passed off the comment as a joke, but Trump has continued to play up the dig, including in a post Tuesday morning on his social media network referring to the prime minister as “Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada.” After decades as an entertainer and tabloid fixture, Trump has a flair for the provocative that is aimed at attracting attention and, in his most recent incarnation as a politician, mobilizing fans. He has long relished poking at his opponents, both to demean and minimize them and to delight supporters who share his irreverent comments and posts widely online and cheer for them in person. Trump, to the joy of his fans, first publicly needled Canada on his social media network a week ago when he posted an AI-generated image that showed him standing on a mountain with a Canadian flag next to him and the caption “Oh Canada!” After his latest post, Canadian Immigration Minister Marc Miller said Tuesday: “It sounds like we’re living in a episode of South Park." Trudeau said earlier this week that when it comes to Trump, “his approach will often be to challenge people, to destabilize a negotiating partner, to offer uncertainty and even sometimes a bit of chaos into the well established hallways of democracies and institutions and one of the most important things for us to do is not to freak out, not to panic.” Even Thanksgiving dinner isn't a trolling-free zone for Trump's adversaries. On Thanksgiving Day, Trump posted a movie clip from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with President Joe Biden and other Democrats’ faces superimposed on the characters in a spoof of the turkey-carving scene. The video shows Trump appearing to explode out of the turkey in a swirl of purple sparks, with the former president stiffly dancing to one of his favorite songs, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A." In his most recent presidential campaign, Trump mocked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, refusing to call his GOP primary opponent by his real name and instead dubbing him “Ron DeSanctimonious.” He added, for good measure, in a post on his Truth Social network: “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will.” As he campaigned against Biden, Trump taunted him in online posts and with comments and impressions at his rallies, deriding the president over his intellect, his walk, his golf game and even his beach body. After Vice President Kamala Harris took over Biden's spot as the Democratic nominee, Trump repeatedly suggested she never worked at McDonalds while in college. Trump, true to form, turned his mocking into a spectacle by appearing at a Pennsylvania McDonalds in October, when he manned the fries station and held an impromptu news conference from the restaurant drive-thru. Trump’s team thinks people should get a sense of humor. “President Trump is a master at messaging and he’s always relatable to the average person, whereas many media members take themselves too seriously and have no concept of anything else other than suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director. “President Trump will Make America Great Again and we are getting back to a sense of optimism after a tumultuous four years.” Though both the Biden and Harris campaigns created and shared memes and launched other stunts to respond to Trump's taunts, so far America’s neighbors to the north are not taking the bait. “I don’t think we should necessarily look on Truth Social for public policy,” Miller said. Gerald Butts, a former top adviser to Trudeau and a close friend, said Trump brought up the 51st state line to Trudeau repeatedly during Trump’s first term in office. “Oh God,” Butts said Tuesday, “At least a half dozen times.” “This is who he is and what he does. He’s trying to destabilize everybody and make people anxious,” Butts said. “He’s trying to get people on the defensive and anxious and therefore willing to do things they wouldn’t otherwise entertain if they had their wits about them. I don’t know why anybody is surprised by it.” Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie reveals suicidal depression as second wife Molly Holm files for divorce 18 months after lavish weddingNone
NoneWhen filmmaker Chris Sanders began to imagine what his fifth animated film, might look like on the big screen, he was stuck on one crucial idea: how to turn Peter Brown’s deep-feeling and beautifully rendered YA novel about a caring robot and the baby goose she adopts into a movie for everyone. “One of the things we talked about a lot, was for a broad audience?” Sanders said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “We’ve talked a lot about who you work to not , but you also don’t try to target anybody specifically. Anytime I’ve been near that, when you try to deliberately target any particular group of people, I think inevitably you miss and it throws things into a very strange place.” That meant crafting a film that could appeal to all ages, not just the built-in audience of kiddos who would naturally gravitate toward a colorful world mostly populated by chatty forest animals and the charming robot ( ) who brings them together. “One of my most critical concerns from the very beginning was making a movie for adults,” the filmmaker said. “I absolutely knew by nature of the story that kids were going to be interested. A robot in the wilderness and these really adorable animals? It’s naturally going to be interesting to kids, very kid-friendly. I was really concerned that the style of the movie and the storytelling be something that adults would really engage with in a big way, and that’s where the whole style of the island came from.” For Sanders, the recipient of this year’s , dedicated to honoring those who advance and delight in the craft of animation, that meant a combination of both the look and the feel of his lauded film. “Visually, I think that was the biggest challenge: to find an artistic and aesthetic altitude that was worthy of the story,” Sanders said. “It’s just natural for me to operate in those kinds of zones because I came from ‘Mulan,’ ‘Lilo & Stitch,’ ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ where I love to attend to the big emotional wavelengths of these things and to not shy away from it.” Sanders, who has directed animated hits like “Lilo & Stitch” (he even voices the cuddly blue alien) and “How to Train Your Dragon,” pointed to a wide variety of other animated classics as his creative waypoints: everything from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” to “My Neighbor Totoro” and the “always inspiring” classic “Bambi.” Even during production on a new film, Sanders said he likes to watch other movies to keep his brain fresh and his imagination bold. “You get so busy on your particular film, you get so into the details, sometimes you just need to remind yourself what a movie is,” he said. “I’ll go to see a movie, it can have nothing to do tonally with the thing I’m working on, it can be a drama, it can be a comedy, it can be almost a near documentary. It could even be a horror film. It just reminds you of what a movie is, the audacity of it, the boldness of it.” Mostly, Sanders and his team — as you can see, the filmmaker nearly always says “we” when chatting about his creative choices, rarely just “I” — wanted to tell a story they would all enjoy. Perhaps that was the ticket. “We were just so busy making a movie that entertained ourselves, because I think we’re very representative of the core audience,” he said. “All of the things that people were feeling when they watched it, we felt when we were making it. ... Our wish was that, when the movie was over, people would walk out of the theater and just have a moment of, ‘Oh, I’m back,’ to really try to immerse people and beguile them with the environment.” Sanders, who also adapted the script for the film from the first book in Brown’s beloved trilogy about the wondrous robot Roz and the lush forest (and all its furry friends) she eventually makes her home, was so struck by Brown’s book that he could instantly “see” some of the key scenes he wanted to bring to the big screen while reading. “It absolutely happens,” he said when asked about those “lightbulb moments.” “As I’m reading a book, if I see [even one moment] very clearly in my head, I get very anxious that other people will see what I just saw. In ‘The Wild Robot,’ there were several places like that. One of the most notable would be in the very middle, the migration. It isn’t the climactic finish of the movie, it’s just the midpoint, and yet it’s one of the most compelling things I’d ever worked on.” In the film, Roz is unexpectedly shipwrecked on an uninhabited island while she’s out for delivery to the wider, decidedly human world. While the animals that live on the island — foxes (like one voiced by Pedro Pascal), squirrels, bears, beavers, falcons — are initially scared of their new mechanical citizen, Roz finds sanctuary when she adopts young Canadian goose Brightbill (voiced by Kit Connor) after she (oops) accidentally kills his entire family. Ever driven by her programmed directives, Roz makes it her job to get Brightbill ready for an upcoming migration. “I liked the complexity of it, the spectacle, the scale,” he said. “I always work to music and immediately as I was reading this, music was going through my head, visuals were going through my head. What an incredible moment.” Of course, Roz and Brightbill (plus Pascal’s fox Fink) eventually come to love each other, seeing each other as their own chosen, slightly weird but deeply adorable family. And while Brightbill is, at first, angry at Roz for forcing him to migrate (and thus, take him away from his new clan), his goose mentor Longneck (voiced by Bill Nighy) offers him some key context to her choices as his surrogate mom, just as they — and hundreds of other geese — finally take to the skies. “At that moment of truth, when Longneck lays this big last piece of information on him to consider, there’s no longer time for him to apologize, there’s no time left to make things right,” the filmmaker said. “This is something that I have experienced in my life, that I’ve waited too long to say something, and the regret that I carry is huge. So I love the complexity of the moment and these two characters are doing their best to navigate that moment while this really huge thing is going on and time has run out and the train is leaving the station and Brightbill has to be on that train.” What was thrilling for Sanders was “not only these big, magnificent events that were visually compelling, but the incredible complexity and power of the emotional wavelengths that were flowing” through them. And, yes, those first sparks of an idea, those lightbulb moments, are very close to what we see onscreen. “In the case of the migration, pretty close, because I actually [story] boarded it,” he said when asked about how closely his vision and the final product align. “I thought, ‘I know exactly what I want, let me just jump in there, I’ll board it, and I’ll get it up there.’ I had a very specific series of shots that I really wanted to get up on screen, some of those high angles with all the birds and Roz running with her arms out and stuff like that. I usually have a pretty clear thought for what I want, and in that particular case, I took the extra step of, I’ll just board it. That one didn’t shift very much at all, it pretty much stuck.” That look is essential, because while “The Wild Robot” was computer-animated, it also comes with a distinctly painterly look. A combination of technological advancements and old-school attention to details, which included hand-painted elements (artists used styluses, not brushes, in a 3D environment, but the look and feel are wonderfully familiar), made it possible. “I hadn’t been on a film that did that since ‘Lilo & Stitch,'” Sanders said of the hand-painted elements. “The idea that we had matte painters painting the sky, painting the trees, . It made such a gigantic contribution to the emotional resonance of that film. It cannot be understated. We are so at the verge of another Renaissance, as far as seeing new styles of things now. I’m really thrilled by it.” Given the tremendous success of the film — it has so far made nearly $320 million at the global box office, with glowing reviews from both critics and audiences to boot — talk of a sequel is only natural. After all, “The Wild Robot” part of a trilogy of novels. We have not yet begun to do anything on a sequel yet,” Sanders said. “I think we’re very hopeful. I’ve definitely read the second book, and I plan to actually re-read it because his books have many, many chapters. When I read it the first time, I just it. I just needed to digest it. And the second time through, I’m actually going to make some notes to myself that, perhaps, may come in handy.” Whatever the filmmaker tackles next, Sanders believes animation is returning to “more handmade-looking things.” “I am not somebody who is lamenting the disappearance of traditional animation,” he said. “I love traditional animation and I know it’ll always be there. I was just watching ‘Robot Dreams,’ and it’s hand-drawn and it’s the perfect style for that story, but the fact that we have now finally broken away from that gravitational hold that we were under technologically is the thing that’s so thrilling to me about where we are right now. I feel like we’ve come through a tunnel and we are looking at a big open field and mountains, and we can finally see the sky, and now we can finally go back to more broad, stylistic choices.” He credits “with a Sherman tank.” “That was such a revelation, that film worked so well because of it, it got the Oscar,” Sanders said. “It so deserved it. That just let everybody know, ‘Oh, we are open and free to maneuver, should we be able to get our software to the point where we can do it.'” While audiences might not be too fussed about the mechanics that make this all possible, they do it in the final product. That’s what really gets Sanders going. “People noticed the difference on ‘The Wild Robot,'” Sanders said. “I was wondering, well, we are so attuned to it within the studio, saw it as looking like a radically different thing, and I actually wasn’t sure, when we show this to a general audience, are they going to see the same things that we are? And they sure did, people would comment on it, and , that made me happy.” Sign up for . For the latest news, follow us on , , and .
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RAHIM YAR KHAN: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Saturday expressed concern over the use of ‘brute force’ against political workers of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in Islamabad, describing the incident as unfortunate. Speaking to the media during his visit to Khanpur, he emphasized that banning any political party is not a viable solution, adding, “I am not a fortune-teller to predict how long the government will last, but it has no justification to remain in power even for a single day.” Commenting on the possibility of the governor’s Rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Maulana Rehman said that while the constitution provides for such a measure, the current circumstances are not conducive to its implementation. Fazlur Rehman also criticised the possibility of foreign interference in Pakistan’s internal matters. Referring to former US President Donald Trump, he remarked, “Trump will not make Pakistan’s decisions. His involvement in facilitating the release of the PTI founder will be unacceptable. Maulana Fazlur Rehman also met with Mian Masood Ahmed, the custodian of Darbar-e-Aliya Deenpur Sharif. On the release of PTI’s founding leader Imran Khan, he stated that the decision rests with the courts, stressing the importance of judicial independence in such matters. JUI head reiterated that the government must resign, as it lacks the moral and political grounds to continue in power. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 2, 2024-- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS): WHO: Anirudh Devgan, president and chief executive officer, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS). WHAT: Devgan will participate in a fireside chat at the Nasdaq 51 st Investor Conference held in association with Morgan Stanley on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. WHEN: The talk will be available live by webcast at 9:00 a.m. GMT on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. The presentation will be archived on the Cadence website and will be available for replay for 180 days after the event. WHERE: The webcast will be available online at cadence.com/cadence/investor_relations . About Cadence Cadence is a pivotal leader in electronic systems design, building upon more than 30 years of computational software expertise. The company applies its underlying Intelligent System Design strategy to deliver software, hardware and IP that turn design concepts into reality. 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Category: Financial View source version on businesswire.com : https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241202029810/en/ CONTACT: For more information, please contact: Investor Relations Cadence Design Systems, Inc. 408-944-7100 investor_relations@cadence.com KEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SOFTWARE HARDWARE ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING OTHER TECHNOLOGY SOURCE: Cadence Design Systems, Inc. Copyright Business Wire 2024. PUB: 12/02/2024 04:15 PM/DISC: 12/02/2024 04:17 PM http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241202029810/enBy Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -The euro faltered on Monday against a strong U.S. dollar on growing concerns about a possible government collapse in France, which would stall plans to curb a burgeoning budget deficit. The greenback, meanwhile, extended gains after strong U.S. manufacturing data from both the Institute for Supply Management and S&P Global reports. However, despite the generally upbeat data, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Monday he was inclined to cut the benchmark interest rate at the Dec. 17-18 meeting as monetary policy remained restrictive. Monday’s rise in the dollar against a basket of currencies followed the U.S. unit’s first weekly fall posted on Friday since November 2023. In Europe, the risk premium investors demand to hold French debt rather than benchmark German bonds jumped after France’s far-right National Rally (RN) President Jordan Bardella said his party would likely back a no-confidence motion in the coming days unless there were a “last-minute miracle”. Leading RN lawmaker Marine Le Pen has given Prime Minister Michel Barnier until Monday to meet her party’s budget demands. The euro fell 1% to $1.0469, on track for its largest daily fall since early November. “Crashing political sentiment in France and another activity data beat in the U.S. have handed the euro a dire start to December,” wrote Kyle Chapman, FX market analyst at Ballinger Group, in emailed comments. Ballinger provides currency risk management and trading services. “As expected, the interim government now faces a vote of no confidence that it is likely to lose, and with a new election not allowed until the summer, there is no clear path to reducing the deficit in the near term.” The yield spread between French and German 10-year government bonds – a gauge of the premium investors demand to hold French debt – rose 7.6 basis points to 87.3 bps after hitting 90 bps last week, its highest level since 2012, during the euro area’s sovereign debt crisis. POSITIVE US DATA; WALLER BACKS FED CUT IN DECEMBER Monday’s data once again showed a resilient American economy, with U.S. manufacturing activity improving in November, orders growing for the first time in eight months, and factories facing significantly lower prices for inputs. The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing PMI increased to 48.4 last month from 46.5 in October, which was the lowest level since July 2023. The S&P Global final manufacturing PMI also rose to 49.7, from the initial 48.8 estimate. “With a solid economic situation in the United States, it makes sense of the U.S. dollar to be thriving as the economies on the other side of the pond face more headwinds,” said Juan Perez, director of trading at Monex USA in Washington. “(Positive data) only makes for higher Treasury yields and even lower expectations of the Fed exercising looser monetary policy.” Fed’s Waller, however, noted on Monday that monetary policy remains restrictive enough that a further cut later this month at their meeting “will not dramatically change the stance of monetary policy and allow ample scope to later slow the pace of rate cuts, if needed.” Following Waller’s comments, the markets raised the odds of a 25-bp easing this month to 79%, from 66% late on Friday, according to CME’s FedWatch. At the same time, rate futures reduced the chances of a Fed pause to 21% from 34% on Friday. The greenback had earlier gained as President-elect Donald Trump marked a shift from his prior advocacy of a weaker dollar by demanding BRICS member countries commit to not creating a new currency or supporting another currency. The Kremlin said on Monday any U.S. attempt to compel countries to use the dollar would backfire. The U.S. dollar index – a measure of its value relative to a basket of its main peers — rose 0.3% to 106.33. Key to the outlook for rates will be the November payrolls report due Friday, where median forecasts favor a rise of 195,000 following October’s weather and strike-hit report, which could also be revised given the low response rate for that survey. The jobless rate is seen edging up to 4.2%, from 4.1%, The dollar slipped 0.2% versus the yen to 149.37, having shed 3.3% last week in its worst run since July. Over the weekend, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the next interest rate hikes are “nearing in the sense that economic data are on track,” following figures showing Tokyo inflation picked up in October. Currency bid prices at 2 December 09:05 p.m. GMT Descripti RIC Last U.S. Pct YTD Pct High Low on Close Change Bid Bid Previous Session Dollar 106.38 106.04 0.34% 4.94% 106.73 106. index 02 Euro/Doll 1.0498 1.0576 -0.74% -4.89% $1.0587 $1.0 ar 461 Dollar/Ye 149.54 149.49 0.04% 6.03% 150.755 149. n 15 Euro/Yen 1.0498 158.35 -0.85% 0.89% 158.64 156. 39 Dollar/Sw 0.8863 0.8813 0.58% 5.32% 0.8889 0.88 iss 14 Sterling/ 1.2651 1.2741 -0.7% -0.58% $1.2745 $1.2 Dollar 619 Dollar/Ca 1.4046 1.4001 0.33% 5.97% 1.409 1.39 nadian 86 Aussie/Do 0.6473 0.6519 -0.69% -5.05% $0.6527 $0.6 llar 443 Euro/Swis 0.9303 0.932 -0.18% 0.18% 0.9324 0.92 s 9 Euro/Ster 0.8295 0.8304 -0.11% -4.3% 0.8305 0.82 ling 71 NZ 0.5882 0.5924 -0.57% -6.79% $0.592 0.58 Dollar/Do 65 llar Dollar/No 11.103 11.0181 0.77% 9.55% 11.1578 11.0 rway 626 Euro/Norw 11.657 11.662 -0.04% 3.86% 11.6899 11.6 ay 37 Dollar/Sw 10.993 10.8844 1% 9.13% 11.0383 10.8 eden 868 Euro/Swed 11.5413 11.521 0.18% 3.74% 11.5552 11.5 en 165 (Reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Additional reporting by Stefano Rebaudo in Milan; Editing by Shri Navaratnam, Gareth Jones, Toby Chopra and Jonathan Oatis) Disclaimer: This report is auto generated from the Reuters news service. 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