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Fast-forward to late last year, and Flaig instead created an exchange-traded fund (ETF) he dubbed the American Conservative Values ETF, which trades on the New York Stock Exchange and is a basket of S&P 500 stocks, minus the ones he deems so “woke” that they attack traditional values of free speech and individual liberty. As of the end of September, the ETF boasts more than 5,000 investors and in its first 11 months it has nearly matched the performance of the S&P 500, which is up 33....

Since 2019, the Crackdown franchise has not had any new content. After Crackdown 3 was met with mixed reception, fans of the franchise have been left wondering whether a fourth entry will ever happen. If Xbox Game Studios were to make another game then maybe it should go backward instead of forward. It has been 15 years since the first entry in the series was released, and it is the perfect candidate for a full-on remake....

In speaking with city officials in 24 states, Otonomo found that 62 percent of those cities are using vehicle data to improve their citizens’ quality of life. That translates to improved roadway management, road usage monitoring, parking issues and other issues important in city management. Despite these improvements, the study found that only 8 percent of these cities are using connected car data when making these decisions. Ben Volkow, CEO of Otonomo, told Newsweek that that’s because connected car data is a relatively new concept and governments are slow to adapt emerging tech....

The story of these firefighters is a familiar one from last Tuesday morning. The call came in at around 9:10 a.m. Although Ladder 7 was out on another call, they headed downtown to the World Trade Center. “They were probably here within the first 20 minutes,” says Vincent Pickford, a former Ladder 7 firefighter who hopes to help find them. Kross, who was heading up Engine 16 that day, says his truck followed them soon after....

On ‘Battle Hems of the Republic’: “As a historian who specializes in the history and role of clothing, I must say you’ve convinced me: drab can be good, even if 18th-century American dress was more colorful than what we see on HBO’s ‘John Adams’.” Patricia Campbell Warner Belchertown, Mass. Hillary and America’s Women I’m a 38-year-old female executive who is embarrassed to admit that I cannot remember the last time I voted (“What Women Want,” March 17)....

Last week, however, the once cloudy future of futures took a sunnier turn. In the all-important first round of trials stemming from a showy FBI sting, a federal jury returned guilty verdicts on only a few lesser counts. On Capitol Hill, a battle pitting more conservative Wall Street interests against the freewheeling futures markets appeared to be swinging Chicago’s way. The Merc’s Leo Melamed says of the tussle in Washington, “We’re looking to put this issue behind us so we can get back to business....

The gravelly deep voice states that the Alaskan was “born in the wake of an avalanche” and killed a “grizzly bear in self-defense.” He “prospected for gold” and offered up a chance for donors to join him for “an Alaskan adventure” while he was skiing down a mountainside. You wouldn’t peg the man on your screen for a wannabe-United States senator. But not only does Dr. Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who has become a health care policy wonk, want to become just that, he also wants to do it against higher odds: As an independent in a state that has not elected one to Congress since 1906....

is a thriller, but it’s a thriller like no other. Maybe a le Carre novel comes closest, with its brainy characters enmeshed in deliciously intricate conundrums fraught with moral, emotional and geopolitical dangers. But le Carre, whose view of women can most charitably be called old-fashioned, could never have created a narrator as daring and self-sufficient as Smilla. Most extraordinary of all is the setting: this novel takes place in the snows of Greenland, the ice floes of the North Atlantic, the endless dark of a Copenhagen winter....

The news comes from Variety Magazine, which details the announcement, the ride specifics, and the outlook for the future given the health risks presented by COVID-19. John Wick: Open Contract is a roller coaster set to open in Dubai’s Motiongate park, and it appears to be a wing-type roller coaster, allowing the passenger to board on either the left or right sides of the track. Depending on which queue they choose, riders will either participate in hunting John Wick or protecting him....

Part of the problem is that Szpilman, as played by Adrien Brody, isn’t a hero or a villain. He’s a survivor. Eluding capture by the Germans because of the courage of friends and strangers and several near-miraculous escapes, he witnesses the trauma of Warsaw under occupation, from the debasement and deportations of Jews (including his entire family), to the Warsaw ghetto uprising of 1943 and the general Warsaw uprising of 1944....

The Odyssey by Homer. The mother of all stories, with the most human themes: fear of aging and death. " Don Quixote " by Miguel de Cervantes. A book that dignifies our small attempts to behave with honor. " Tristram Shandy " by Laurence Sterne. It opens wide the gates of fiction and invites everyone in. " Moby-Dick " by Herman Melville. A masterpiece about our need to conquer nature even as we worship it....

The new implant, to be marketed as Clairvoyeur, is a far cry from the crude “high-density microelectric array” devices that researchers started testing in the early part of the century. People using those contraptions had to attach a large pair of goggles to a wire that extended through the skull. And because the implants contained just 100 needlelike electrodes, which communicated sporadically with 200 to 300 neurons, users saw only a faint keyhole image....

There is no doubt that Frank J. Biondi Jr., the CEO of Universal Studios until last November, needed to watch a lot of movies at home to really excel at his job. And a fancy TV and VCR clearly wouldn’t suffice. In its most recent proxy, Universal’s parent, Seagram, says it spent more than $1.7 million to build a screening room at Biondi’s L.A. home. The company owns it, mind you, and therefore has paid the costs associated with it, including property taxes, insurance and regular dusting of the screen....

This is a new role for Depp: grown-up. And he has a good reason to play it. He has a grown-up movie opening Friday, ““Donnie Brasco,’’ the story of an FBI agent who goes undercover in the mob, befriends an aging toughie (Al Pacino) and unexpectedly finds himself torn between the home and family he’s left behind and the semiglamorous world of violence he’s joined. ““Donnie Brasco’’ is a departure for Depp, a step away from the gentle misfits, camp rebels, deranged paramours and cross-dressing B-movie legends he’s played in films like ““Edward Scissorhands,’’ ““Cry-Baby,’’ ““Don Juan De Marco’’ and ““Ed Wood....

After her performance during the ABC’s Disney Family Singalong earlier this month, many Twitter users have pegged Ariana Grande to play the female lead, Megara. Danny DeVito’s name popped up frequently as well, since fans want him to reprise his role as Phil. (If the casting got Phil right the first time, why change it now?) Jon Favreau (who recently directed the live-action Lion King and Jungle Book), and Gore Verbinski (of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) are among those who are rumored to direct....

Tactically, ATKMB was pretty sound at the back. Tiri partnered Sandesh Jhingan and Pritam Kotal in a three-man backline ahead of Arindam Bhattacharya in goal. They only had the occasional dip in communication and concentration. The key issues that Antonio Lopez Habas’s side faced were in possession. Other than the men upfront, the team displayed performances which were defensive to say the least. Much of the hard work upfront was on the shoulders of Roy Krishna, who was in fact lethal on most occasions....

Well, they don’t have “easy access” anymore. And neither do the other 13,000 investors, since the BFA declared bankruptcy in November, four months after state regulators forced the nonprofit to freeze its assets. The fund is $590 million in debt, far outstripping the $158 million Jim and Tammy Bakker bankruptcy scandal–and regulators believe it is among the nation’s largest cases of “affinity fraud,” preying on a group of people with a common background....