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Owners reject healthy offers for boom colt Posted by: RS NewsWire+ at 11:49am on 4/3/2021   Image: Bruno Cannatelli Owners have rejected some healthy offers for Oxley Road who will continue to race in Australia Singapore-based New Zealand trainer Stephen Gray has a happy knack of landing a good horse, but he may have unearthed his best yet in Oxley Road who chases a third straight win when he runs at Flemington. Gray described Oxley Road, a brother to Group 1 winner Exceedance, as “backward” when purchased as a yearling on the Gold Coast and elected to send ...

The Setup being filmed at The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel before lockdown hit production - Credit: Luke Roberts A self-funded movie about East End gangland that was hit by the pandemic before filming was complete, is finally being released this week.  Much of The Setup was filmed in The Blind Beggar in Whitechapel, the once-notorious pub where Ronnie Kray shot dead rival gangster George Cornell in 1966.  But production had to stop when London first went into lockdown almost a year ago.  “I wanted to capture the spirit of classic London gangster films,” first-time director Ala...

By Stephen Gray, Vertical Research Manager at Facebook With more people staying home due to shelter-in-place and social distancing measures, 2020 brought disruption to many industries. And despite a surge in new and lapsed players, gaming was no exception. More people were playing, watching and streaming than ever before. This growing demand for gaming has meant finding fresh ways of connecting with new players, bringing in new gamers as well as reengaging lapsed ones. To understand the behavior of these new mobile gamers and the evolving game motivations of existing gamers, we surveyed cons...

The Tatmadaw alleged widespread election fraud in Suu Kyi’s landslide victory in November, a charge dismissed by the country's electoral commission in recent days. The military had previously ruled directly for five decades after a 1962 coup, and used deadly force to quash an uprising in 1988 and the Saffron Revolution of 2007. Protests throughout Myanmar and around the world have been ongoing since the takeover, while significant numbers have also turned out in New Zealand. Martin De Ruyter/Stuff Hundreds of protestors marched in Nelson on Saturday, protesting the military coup in Myanm...

Editorial | Despite confusion, progress evident locally in vaccination rollout Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) Feb. 5—The announcement Thursday that one of the leading health care providers in Santa Cruz County is now taking appointments among patients 65 years and older was welcome news. Sutter Health/Palo Alto Medical Foundation had lagged behind Dignity Health -Dominican vaccinating this age group, after a directive last month from Gov. Gavin Newsom that vaccinations would be age-based, with the most vulnerable 75+ population first. Many residents (and Sentinel readers) have expressed confus...