Author: kumbhorg

After watching The Perfect Tomato, I realized something. While I always write in English because it’s the language I mostly feel comfortable writing in, there are some things that simply can’t be translated. No matter what you try, the message sometimes doesn’t arrive unless you use the proper medium. It’s the reason why I will switch to Spanish. The Perfect Tomato was good and compelling enough to convince me that this is the best way to address the heartwarming nature of the film. El Tomate Perfecto nos muestra a Nacho, un abuelo que sabe perfectamente cómo se cosecha un buen…

Record companies like to release compilations long after a band has broken up as it keeps the band relevant and another opportunity to grab some cash. Unlike most greatest hits compilation, this one has some meat on the bone. EMI records released ‘Anthology’ on February 25, 2003 and it isn’t a one disc type of compilation. No! You get 3 CDs of goodness. The booklet gives us a nice biography of the band plus credits for all the songs on the 3 discs. And it also gives 51 tracks from the Generation X catalog. But before we get in to…

The tide of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) causes has been ebbing rapidly. Many of the largest corporations in America have partially or fully reversed course, and large financial institutions have decided to pull back from their international alliances and coalitions. The Trump administration has begun an all-out war on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, a subset of the ‘Social’ in ESG, within the federal government. But the most interesting contest over ESG and DEI has been at the state level. Red states have been warring over ESG policies for years. Texas and Florida led the charge in 2022 and 2023…

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Pakistan opening batter Fakhar Zaman injured himself while fielding during the ongoing match against New Zealand in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Fakhar Zaman walked off the field after sustaining some damage to his knee in the tournament opener at the National Stadium in Karachi on Wednesday, February 19. Pakistan skipper Mohammad Rizwan opted to bat first after winning the toss in the tournament opener. Haris Rauf returned to the playing XI after missing two matches in the recent tri-series. Rachin Ravindra failed to make it into the playing XI of New Zealand, with Will Young opening alongside Devon Conway.…

Ahead of the second leg of a modern-day European classic in Real Madrid vs Manchester City, one of the best UK bookmakers, William Hill, is offering all new customers signing up for the first time the chance to claim a whopping £60 in free bets when they stake £10 on the game and enter the promo code T60!Real Madrid takes a narrow 3-2 lead into the second leg at the Bernabéu tonight, with Manchester City looking for not just one but two goals in order to progress to the round of 16. Who will come out on top in this one?18+…

Boston Bruins Morgan Geekie gaining interest James Murphy of RG.org: Boston Bruins pending RFA forward Morgan Geekie is getting some interest. From an executive source on the weekend: “I’d say the market is continually growing for him. I’m hearing both playoff contenders and teams not likely to make the playoffs are interested. He’s still young enough to even intrigue teams in a rebuild or teams who want to retool and get younger doing so.” The source adds that the Bruins may want to re-sign him but has he priced himself out of Boston? It may make more sense for them…

UK inflation rose sharply in January after airfares failed to fall as quickly as expected and private school fees jumped. The unexpected rise to 3% in the year to January, from 2.5% in December, means that consumer prices rose at the fastest rate for 10 months.Private school fees grew by 13%, according to the Office for National Statistics, as VAT was added from 1 January after the government removed the tax exemption. The cost of meat, bread and cereals also contributed to rising prices and inflation is forecast to rise further in the coming months, with higher energy prices pushing…

We’re already starting to see the seeds of second layer potential develop from the base layer primitives that have been added or optimized in the first decade. Lightning, while still subject to some pretty big limitations, is really starting to thrive. And that is just the limited first version that is currently specified and deployed. There are now sidechains of various kinds deployed: Liquid, RSK, and even token chains tied to Bitcoin developed by Commerceblock. This is just the start.Schnorr and TaprootJust over the horizon, we have the combination of Schnorr and Taproot. On the Schnorr side of things, this…

Actress Swara Bhasker has once again found herself at the centre of controversy after commenting on the audience’s emotional and impassioned reactions to a gruesome torture scene in Vicky Kaushal’s historical drama ‘Chhaava’.Taking to social media, Swara compared the audience’s intense emotional response to the film’s depiction of Sambhaji’s torture by the Mughals to what she described as the silence surrounding real-life tragedies like stampedes and mishandling of corpses.Swara tweeted, “A society that is more enraged at the heavily embellished, partly fictionalised filmy torture of Hindus from 500 years ago than they are at the horrendous death by stampede &…