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Why Orcas Don't Kill Humans
ScienceYahoo4d ago

Why Orcas Don't Kill Humans

An article explores the reasons why orcas, despite their predatory nature, do not typically kill humans, delving into their behavior and interactions with people.

Mystery Surrounds Small Predatory Dinosaur's Size
Sciencetelexnewsbeast5d ago2 sources

Mystery Surrounds Small Predatory Dinosaur's Size

Scientists are still speculating why the small predatory dinosaur Alnashetri, weighing only 70 decagrams, did not grow larger. It was previously thought that its ant-based diet might have been a limiting factor.

Greek Court Rules on Predator Spyware Case
Politicsnewsbeast5d ago

Greek Court Rules on Predator Spyware Case

A Greek court has found four defendants guilty in the Predator spyware wiretapping case, a decision that politician Androulakis hailed as a vindication and a defeat for the 'parastate'.

Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan
Environmentastana-times10d ago

Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA — Three striped hyenas and two wild dogs have arrived at Karagandy Zoo. All the animals are young and are still acclimating to the new environment, Kazinform reported on Feb. 18. Striped hyenas have been listed in the IUCN Red List since 2008. They are the only hyena species found outside Africa.  Two female… The post Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan appeared first on The Astana Times.

Greek court convicts Predator spyware defendants, including Cyprus-linked businessman Tal Dilian
Politicsekathimeriniiefimeridain-cyprus4d ago3 sources

Greek court convicts Predator spyware defendants, including Cyprus-linked businessman Tal Dilian

A Greek court has convicted four people over the illegal use of Predator spyware, in a case with direct links to the Cyprus surveillance scandal first exposed by Phileleftheros in 2022 and 2023. The defendants — Tal Dilian, the Cyprus-linked founder of the Intellexa Group; Sara Hamou, reportedly his second wife; Greek businessman Felix Bitzios; […]

Chicago Blackhawks let late lead slip away in 4-2 loss to Nashville Predators in rusty return from break
SportYahoo4d ago

Chicago Blackhawks let late lead slip away in 4-2 loss to Nashville Predators in rusty return from break

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was 22 days since the Chicago Blackhawks played an NHL game. That changed Thursday night at Bridgestone Arena. The Hawks’ last game here against the Nashville Predators was a illness-plagued fiasco that saw the visitors win behind goaltender Drew Commesso’s first career NHL shutout. It wasn’t the flu that clouded the Western Conference matchup this time, but rather rust. ...

Jeffrey Epstein's global network and influence
Worldvijesti-me8d ago

Jeffrey Epstein's global network and influence

An article details how sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein built a global network and used manipulation to gain access to the global elite, maintaining influence even after his 2008 conviction.

Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan
Environmentastana-times10d ago

Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan

The Astana Times provides news and information from Kazakhstan and around the world. ASTANA — Three striped hyenas and two wild dogs have arrived at Karagandy Zoo. All the animals are young and are still acclimating to the new environment, Kazinform reported on Feb. 18. Striped hyenas have been listed in the IUCN Red List since 2008. They are the only hyena species found outside Africa.  Two female… The post Karagandy Zoo Welcomes Rare Predators from Yerevan appeared first on The Astana Times.

Tal Dilian conviction reopens Cyprus Predator surveillance scandal
Politicsin-cyprus3d ago

Tal Dilian conviction reopens Cyprus Predator surveillance scandal

A Greek court has handed down what is being called the first-ever criminal conviction of commercial spyware company executives — and the fallout is heading towards Cyprus. Intellexa founder Tal Dilian, his wife Sara Hamou, and two Greek businessmen, Felix Bitzios and Yannis Lavanos, were found guilty this week on three counts: unlawful interference with […]

Former IDF Officer Sentenced in Greek Spyware Case
Politicscyprus-mailjerusalem-post4d ago2 sources

Former IDF Officer Sentenced in Greek Spyware Case

Tal Dilian, a former IDF intelligence officer, and his partner, Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou, have been sentenced to prison in Greece for illegal surveillance using spyware, targeting government officials and journalists.

Bloody brilliant or toothless? Cynthia Erivo’s Dracula – reviews roundup
CultureBBCThe Guardiantimes-uk13d ago3 sources

Bloody brilliant or toothless? Cynthia Erivo’s Dracula – reviews roundup

The Wicked star plays all 23 characters in a hi-tech London staging of Bram Stoker’s novel by Kip Williams. Here’s a bite-sized look at the critics’ verdicts Dracula, the Ur-vampire and ultimate outsider of the literary canon, is played by Cynthia Erivo, along with every other character, in this deliciously wicked tale of the blood-sucking count. Except it’s not deliciously wicked in adapter-director Kip Williams’ stage reinvention. Williams has proven himself a Midas-touched spinner of old stories to new. His one-woman version of The Picture of Dorian Gray was deliriously original. His take on Jean Genet’s The Maids was punk inspired. What has happened here? Arifa Akbar, the Guardian As in the Australian director’s hit adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray (immaculately interpreted by the Succession star Sarah Snook), the stage is sometimes so crowded with camera operators and stage crew that it’s not always easy to see Erivo. The shallow rake in the stalls makes this theatre a less than ideal setting for Marg Horwell’s handsome scenic design: I spent at least half the evening watching the action on the large screen hanging overhead. Yet it becomes a hallucinatory experience all the same. Erivo dons wigs and skirts and recalibrates her voice to play Harker’s fiancee Mina and her friend Lucy; then spectacles to play psychiatrist Dr Seward and comic Saruman tresses for a guttural Van Helsing. It’s to her credit, and Williams’, that one sometimes loses track of which character is being broadcast live and which is recorded. The integration is mostly seamless. Personifications of Irish and American characters are knowingly ridiculous, but Dracula always had a vein of camp. It’s refreshing to see Erivo get to own her queerness on stage, licking her lips lasciviously as a lace-decked Lucy who’s in sexual thrall to an androgynous Dracula – or strutting confidently in a masculine vest with silver chains (a welcome escape from her feminine get-ups in Wicked). She unleashes her ethereal voice to haunting, vulpine effect in the final scenes, where she finally gets to embody Dracula’s power on a bare stage, unobscured by tech and crowds. The multi-faceted approach speaks to the way that Stoker cut between first-person perspectives using a document-sharing and epistolary form. Equally, Williams’ boundary-breaking artistic toolkit brings out the thematic heart of the matter; it emphasises the way in which the predatory count stokes fears but also embodies deep-rooted desires. Erivo seems ill at ease with the material. There’s a hesitancy about her performance, as if she were wrong-footed by the technology that surrounds her. A scattering of arch, self-conscious moments and sly humour are part of the deal in Williams’ interpretation, but nothing feels truly felt and, as she switches between characters, the individual voices are not always properly differentiated. The overall effect is slightly ramshackle, sluggish and, in the end, frustratingly short on dash and drama. Erivo’s range is remarkable – alternately placid, pert, prowling and predatory. A Tony award-winning star of musical theatre in The Color Purple, she despatches one melancholy torch song by Clemence Williams with wistful nonchalance. Otherwise, her athletic efforts are magnified by a filmic soundtrack encompassing Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, Chopin, Björk and even a bit of electro-trance music. For truly this is a mind-bogglingly complex show, which goes beyond the kitchen sink in its attempts to create an audio-visual hallucination. The effects, with Craig Wilkinson as video designer, are impressive: a vampire flying by, Dracula crawling down the wall. The camera operators, wig providers, stage managers and props assistants are all assiduous and wonderfully efficient. Marg Horwell’s design is effectively flexible, Nick Schlieper’s lighting and the sound design by Jessica Dunn suitably dramatic, though Clemence Williams’ score becomes increasingly over-emphatic. Despite stumbling over the odd line, Erivo is charismatic, game, and essentially does her best as a cog in Williams’ elaborate machine. But if you agree to tie your big comeback to a very specific directorial vision, there’s not much even a superstar actor can do if that vision is faulty. Continue reading...