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Baby Yoda’s Origins Explained in an Old Star Wars Comic?

February 23, 2021 by movieweb.com Leave a Comment

An old Star Wars comic may offer some clues to Grogu’s past. Better known as Baby Yoda, the character debuted in The Mandalorian and has since become a true fan-favorite within the franchise. But much remains mysterious about the beloved little alien. Where, exactly, did he come from? What is the name of his species? Many answers are sure to come but the comic book in question may offer at least some hint as to what happened to the Child before he and Mando crossed paths.

The issue in question is Star Wars Tales #13, which was written by Fabian Nicieza, Jim Krueger and W. Haden Blackman. The series was published by Dark Horse Comics around the time the prequels were being released. They are no longer canon as Disney opted to throw everything out and start from scratch after purchasing Lucasfilm in 2012. But these tales, now dubbed Legends, have often been used to inspire the official canon. So they can be a helpful guide.

Star Wars Tales #13 centers on Mace Windu. It features a collection of short tales involving the Jedi. The final tale in the book is titled Children of the Force . This is of particular interest to those who are curious about Grogu’s mysterious origins. It sees Mace taking his padawan, Depa Billaba, to a Jedi nursery. Depa is conflicted about the fact that these children were taken from their homes to be trained in the ways of the Force. A bounty hunter by the name of Vianna D’Pow enters the fold, attempting to steal these babies from the nursery. It turns out she was hired by parents of the children in the nursery. These parents regretted allowing their children to be taken by the Jedi.

Amid the chaos as Mace is dealing with Vianna, we see a shot of the Jedi nursery. In the bottom, right-hand corner of the panel, we can see a familiar-looking, green baby alien in a crib. It is, indeed, a baby hailing from the same species as Yoda. While this isn’t Baby Grogu , seeing as the character didn’t exist when the comic book was written. But it could be a window into where the Baby Yoda we’ve come to know in The Mandalorian came from. Perhaps the Jedi Order took him in as a child and placed him in one of these nurseries. We know that Grogu is 50 in the timeline of the show, as Yoda’s species ages differently than many others. So the timeline could easily work out.

With The Mandalorian season 3 set to enter production later this year, not to mention all of the other Star Wars shows in the works for Disney+ , we are sure to learn much more about Grogu in the future. Especially given everything that took place in the season 2 finale. It seems inevitable that the character’s past will be explored. Will executive producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni decide to take some inspiration from this particular story? Time will tell. This was previously reported by Inverse .

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Giroux, Flyers top Rangers 4-3 despite Kreider hat trick

February 25, 2021 by www.foxnews.com Leave a Comment

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Sidelined two weeks because of COVID-19 protocols, Claude Giroux had enough of watching Flyers games on TV.

“It’s not that fun watching the guys play when you’re at home,” he said.

Giroux made it fun playing with the Flyers. His 903rd career game tied him with Bill Barber for most in the regular season with Philadelphia. He also had three assists in his return from a coronavirus absence to lead the Flyers over the New York Rangers 4-3 on Wednesday night.

“Surprised would be an understatement,” coach Alain Vigneault said. “I didn’t really know what to expect, but you could tell early on he had his game tonight.”

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Giroux, who played his first game since Feb. 7, led the Flyers with eight shots on goal, 12 total shot attempts, three points and was 8 of 11 on faceoffs.

“This was one of his better games all year,” Vigneault said.

James van Riemsdyk and Shayne Gostisbehere each scored a power-play goal for the Flyers, who are 0-3-2 against Boston and 9-1-1 versus the rest of the East Division.

Chris Kreider scored a hat trick for the Rangers on three tap-ins in front.

“He’s a huge part of our team He got rewarded tonight,” New York center Mika Zibanejad said. “He works obviously incredibly hard and he goes to the net. He does an unbelievable job, probably one of the best guys in the league in front.”

Giroux, the Flyers’ captain, sat out two weeks after testing positive for coronavirus and missed their loss Sunday to Boston at Lake Tahoe. But the 33-year-old played as though he never lost a step during his layoff and helped set up goals for Erik Gustafsson and Gostisbehere in the first period to give Philadelphia a 2-1 lead.

“I wasn’t thinking too much out there,” Giroux said. “Just playing the game and having fun.”

The Flyers counted on a return home to steady the team after they were humbled in a 7-3 loss to the Bruins and had dropped four of five overall. Carter Hart allowed six goals on 23 shots in the first two periods against Boston and hit the bench Wednesday night. Brian Elliott stopped 24 shots for the Flyers, who start a rugged stretch Saturday of six games in nine days — including three straight games at Pittsburgh.

Philadelphia also played again without Jakub Voracek, Travis Konecny, Oskar Lindblom and Scott Laughton because of COVID protocols, while the Rangers had the same issue with K’Andre Miller and Kaapo Kakko.

“We’d love to have all of our guys healthy and ready to go,” Rangers coach David Quinn said before the game. “We’re no different than most teams in the league. We don’t have that luxury right now.”

The Flyers got an NHL-high seventh power-play goal of the season from van Riemsdyk to make it 3-1 early in the second. Giroux hit Kevin Hayes, who went top shelf against Igor Shesterkin to make it 4-2 late in the second.

The Rangers posted video of Kreider playing the piano and then watched him hit all the right notes in his third career hat trick and first since December 2016.

Kreider’s first two goals were on the power play and his third one (eighth of the season) made it 4-3.

“The effort was there, no question,” he said.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE

The Rangers played without star winger Artemi Panarin, on a leave of absence for personal reasons. Panarin’s former KHL coach levied abusive allegations against Panarin. He has denied the accusations and believed the KHL coach made the claim because Panarin has been outspoken about Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Quinn said he was “very, very confident” Panarin would be cleared and could soon rejoin the Rangers.

IRON MAN

Flyers D Ivan Provorov set the NHL record for the most consecutive games played by a defenseman from the start of a career for the same team with 331. Former New York Ranger Dan Girardi held the mark at 330.

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The Rangers host Boston on Friday and Sunday.

The Flyers play Saturday and Sunday at Buffalo.

Pope Francis’ New Physician Downplays Uniqueness of Coronavirus

February 25, 2021 by www.breitbart.com Leave a Comment

ROME — Pope Francis’ new personal physician is a geriatric specialist who has downplayed the peculiarity of the coronavirus, calling it an “ordinary disease.”

Vatican News announced Wednesday the pope has appointed Professor Roberto Bernabei as his new attending physician, following the death of his previous doctor, Professor Fabrizio Soccorsi, who died on January 9 from cancer and “complications related to the COVID-19.”

For his part, Dr. Bernabei has underscored the virus’ predilection for the elderly, which makes it an “ordinary disease,” the National Catholic Register has pointed out.

“If this disease targets old people it is a very serious thing, of course,” Bernabei said on Italian television last November. “But it is, so to speak, an ordinary disease. Unfortunately, infectious diseases attack the most fragile.”

Bernabei also emphasized the importance of comorbidities, noting that the vast majority of Italians who died from the disease had two or three other chronic illnesses.

“Only 0.2 percent of deaths have occurred to people under the age of 40,” he said.

“Practically only and exclusively old people die,” he said, noting that “the average age” of those who had died “exceeds 80 years and they have at least three pathologies.”

Originally from Tuscany, the 70-year-old Bernabei is a professor of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome as well as Director of the Department of Aging, Neurological, Orthopedic and Head and Neck Sciences of the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital in Rome.

Among his new responsibilities as papal physician, Bernabei will be asked to accompany the pope on papal trips and will likely be joining Francis on his upcoming journey to Iraq.

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Music Industry Leaders Pledge to Participate in ‘Blackout’ to Show Solidarity with the Black Community

June 1, 2020 by www.voanews.com Leave a Comment

Leaders of the music industry have pledged to “disconnect” from business to support communities fighting against racial inequality as part of “Black Out Tuesday.”

In response to a massive wave of outrage following the death last week in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of George Floyd in police custody, major record labels denounced racial injustice on social media. They are calling for a “day of action” on June 2 to reflect and promote accountability, contemplation and change.

“We stand together with the black community against all forms of racism, bigotry, and violence. Now, more than ever, we must use our voices to speak up and challenge the injustices all around us,” Ron Perry, chairman of Columbia Records , a subsidiary of Sony Corporation America, said Thursday night.

Warner Records made a similar announcement, pledging that activity at their labels will not continue to operate as usual, and committing to help Black Lives Matter and other organizations battling injustice.

Universal Music, part of Vivendi, said on its Twitter account that they “stand with the black community,” under the hashtag #TheShowMustBePaused. Interscope Geffen A&M, part of the Universal group, said it would release no new music this week.

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— Universal Production Music US (@UniversalPM_US) June 1, 2020

Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge issued a memo to staff over the weekend outlining plans for a task force to “accelerate our efforts in areas such as inclusion and social justice.”

“This week, yet again, we saw our society’s most painful realities about race, justice, and inequality brought — cruelly and brutally — into the harsh light of day,” he wrote in the note, according to Reuters.

Protests were ignited by a video showing white police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating Floyd, a black 46-year-old man, by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes shortly before his death May 25.

Chauvin has been fired and is facing third-degree murder charges.

Many influential artists have also spoken out on social media about Floyd’s death.

Beyoncé posted a video to Instagram calling for her followers to sign a petition seeking “justice for George Floyd.”

“We’re broken, and we’re disgusted. … I am not only speaking to people of color. If you are white, black, brown, or anything in between, I am sure you feel (left) hopeless by the racism going on in America right now,” she said to her fans.

“Watching my people get murdered and lynched day after day pushed me to a heavy place in my heart!” Rihanna wrote on Instagram.

Other celebrities, including Ariana Grande, J Cole, Yungblud, Camila Cabello, Shawn Mendes and Nick Cannon joined protests over the weekend.

Singer Hasley was among the artists seen protesting in Los Angeles and shared her experience via social media.

“We were peaceful, hands up, not moving, not breaching the line,” she tweeted, along with photos of police in protective gear. “They opened fire of rubber bullets and tear gas multiple times on us,” the singer said.

fired rubber bullets at us. we did not breach the line. hands were up. unmoving. and they gassed and fired. pic.twitter.com/K8YauF0APn

— h (@halsey) May 31, 2020

National Guard Troops have been deployed in 15 states and Washington, D.C., as tensions at the protests rose.

Reuters contributed to this report

US Race Solidarity Protests Erupt in Cities Worldwide

June 2, 2020 by www.voanews.com Leave a Comment

LONDON – Protests have erupted in cities around the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the United States.

The protests follow the death in Minnesota of George Floyd, a 46-year old black man, last week in police custody.

In central London, demonstrations turned violent Sunday as police tried to clear a road junction outside Parliament. Police made 23 arrests. Protesters accused the police of triggering the violence, an accusation that authorities denied.

“We came out here peacefully to protest the injustice in the U.K.,” one demonstrator told reporters. “It’s now a global issue with the murder of George Floyd, everything that’s going on in the world.’

Hundreds of people also gathered in central London’s Trafalgar Square chanting, “George Floyd, Say His Name.”

Demonstrators also chanted, “I Can’t Breathe” as they marched on the U.S. Embassy — the words spoken by Floyd as Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes as Floyd lay handcuffed and prone on the ground after he was arrested on suspicion of using a counterfeit bank note. He was pronounced dead later that day. Chauvin was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.

Smaller protests broke out in the south London suburbs, home to many ethnic minority communities.

“Can you imagine, we are in a whole world pandemic, and people are still brutalizing innocent people,” said a protest organizer named Aba. “When they stop, when police stop brutalizing innocent black people, then we’ll stop.”

The U.S. protests resonate with minority communities in Britain, said lawyer and activist Shola Mos-Shogbamimu.

“Police brutality exists in the United Kingdom. Racial profiling exists in the United Kingdom, and it’s existed for the longest time,” Mos-Shogbamimu told VOA in an interview Monday. “And it means for a lot of black people, particularly young black men, that they are targeted simply because of the color of their skin. What you are seeing right now is we’re getting more mobile phone (video) evidence. And social media platforms have become the wireless platform to communicate this information worldwide, in real time, instantly.”

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Sunday that the government wants to see a de-escalation of tensions in the United States and for people in the U.S. to “come together.”

Some critics, including many British lawmakers, argue the demonstrators were putting lives at risk by not adhering to social distancing guidelines amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“Racism did not stop when (the) coronavirus hit the planet,” Mos-Shogbamimu said.

Hundreds of protesters also gathered in Berlin over the weekend. Remnants of Germany’s Berlin Wall were daubed with graffiti mourning the death of Floyd and demanding justice.

Several thousand people marched in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, and in the capital, Wellington, and other areas Monday to show solidarity with U.S. demonstrators.

In Amsterdam’s city center, crowds swelled from what was expected to be a few hundred demonstrators, to a turnout of several thousand protesters on Monday, according to Reuters.