Every time a filmmaker or showrunner takes a gamble on a big Western, a million journalists and critics start tippety-typing about how “The Western is back!” or “The Western never went away!” or “The Western is the genre we need now!” or even just—apropos of the enormous popularity of Yellowstone—“At last the ‘older’ audience gets the Western it craves and deserves!” It will be easy for those writers to apply most of those truisms, if not all of them, to Kevin Costner’s Horizon: An American Saga, an ambitious four-part epic about white people pushing into the west—and, with barely a moral qualm, taking for themselves land that had been inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years. Read More...
His strategy was so effective that regulations were introduced to make it harder for him to continue playing. Mandel, wanting to escape poverty in Romania, devised a strategy that allowed him to win the top prize twice in a local lottery similar to the popular Lotto. The winnings allowed him to move to Israel, then Australia and the US, where he continued to refine his method. His strategy was simple: he entered large-scale lotteries, when the value of the top prize exceeded the cost of purchasing all possible combinations. Read More...
A player and two officials of Akwa United Football Club have been injured in a fatal accident along the Ezionye Expressway in Enugu State. According to a statement via its official Twitter handle on Friday, the club said the accident occurred when the team bus had a head-on collision with a trailer on the expressway.
The statement said the team was traveling to Kaduna to honour Nigeria Professional Football League Match Day 15 against Jigawa Golden Stars. Read More...