 Not kidding, apparently the best shows get gold medals", wrote the jocks.
Congrats, and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for the finals in October!
"Absolutely thrilled that Netflix has acquired Last Madame, expanding our reach to an even wider audience," wrote Joanne.
Last Madame, as well as 27 other movies, series and documentaries will be launched on the platform between August 4 and August 9. For now, you can catch the series on meWATCH here.
MicroStrategy Loses Michael Saylor as CEO. But Here’s Why the Stock May Be Set to Spike.
MicroStrategy could be poised for major gains. This time, it might not be because of Bitcoin.
News that MicroStrategy founder and CEO Michael Saylor is stepping down to assume an executive chair role has sent shares in the software company lower on Wednesday. But the stock may be poised to spike for a completely unrelated reason.
which has played an increasingly important role in how investors view MicroStrategy (ticker: MSTR) stock, because the company holds a significant amount of the cryptocurrency on its books. Shares in the business intelligence and analytics company move largely in step with swings in the crypto market—and that has played havoc on the stock of late.
Bitcoin has lost around two-thirds of its value since November 2021 — when the largest digital asset was trading at an all-time high near $69,000 — amid a wider cryptocurrency crash that has come in tandem with a milder stock market selloff. MicroStrategy stock has dropped an eye-watering 66% in nine months.
Saylor’s departure as CEO was announced alongside the company’s dismal financial results, which included a $1.1 billion loss in the second quarter driven by a Bitcoin-sized hole worth some $918 million. The company held 129,699 Bitcoins on its balance sheet as of the end of June at an average purchase price of $30,664, which makes MicroStrategy firmly underwater given the token’s current price around $23,000.
Shares in MicroStrategy dropped 1.5% in US premarket trading on Wednesday—but the stock remains up by almost 50% over the past month, roughly in line with a rally in Bitcoin prices and a rebound in tech stocks. And there is reason to believe that the stock is poised for more gains, or potentially violent volatility—and it has very little to do with Bitcoin, or Saylor, or demand for business analytics.
More than half of MicroStrategy shares are on loan for short positions, Neil Wilson, an analyst at broker Markets.com, wrote in a note Wednesday, citing data from S3 Partners. Short positions are bets that a stock will fall and involve investors borrowing shares and selling them with the intention of buying the stock back at a lower price.
But this strategy can backfire dramatically if the stock moves up, not down. Traders with short positions may have to “cover their shorts,” which involves buying back the stock at an unfavorably high price, taking a loss on their bets and adding buying pressure into an already upward-trending market.
With MicroStrategy stock up by so much in such a short period of time, a short squeeze could be on the horizon, according to Wilson.
Wilson added that it will be important to see what kind of options activity might be in play in the derivatives market, where bets can be magnified with leverage.
Beautifully dynamic sketches! Good variety. I really, really, really like your gestures lines, and I need to do some of these myself!!

I would say the biggest issue with these is the line quality. It's hard to critique something when there are so many potential lines to chose from. Some are right, some are wrong, but I, personally, can't tell which ones you're going to chose to keep in a final form. 

The second matter I noticed was a tendency for you to go long on the thighs and short on the torsos.The SPCA of Central Florida is celebrating big this year. Their 20th anniversary of “Paws in the Park” will feature Victoria Stilwell, star of Animal Planet’s “It’s Me or the Dog.” The fundraiser is scheduled for February 8, 2014, at Lake Eola Park from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
There is a lot in store for participants that day. The fundraising walk kicks off the event at 9 a.m. The free dog training series "Positively, Live!" starts at 10 a.m. located in the Walt Disney Amphitheater.
Walt Disney World Resort will host the Disney Kids and Family Zone. The activities are meant to be fun for the entire family including their pets.
The famous Splash Dogs will also be participating in dog diving competitions for the first time at special dog diving facilities built just for Paws in the Park.
A $10 Canine Sports pass can be purchased at the event which allows your dog to participate in all of the Canine Sports activities.
"We are pulling out all of the stops to celebrate the powerful relationships between dogs and people for the 20th anniversary of Paws in the Park," said Kerri Burns, CEO, SPCA of Central Florida. "More than 5,000 human party animals are anticipated joining in the fun at this year's event, which for the first time includes a Food Truck Rally at Lake Eola."
Walt Disney World Resort, Merial, and Banfield Pet Hospital join with WFTV's 9 Family Connection and the Orlando Sentinel as Leader of the Pack sponsors for the 2014 event. with public participation opportunities. Petango is sponsoring a $10 microchip clinic for dogs during the event.
Paws in the Park is free to attend. Those who wish to participate in the fundraising walk should register online here. Specialty vendors will also be featured at the event.
The SPCA of Central Florida provides shelter for animals in crisis, disaster response efforts, and "Meals on Wheels" for dogs and cats in need. Their efforts help thousands of animals each year. Their programs are supported entirely by donations from the communities that they serve, and they receive no funding from national organizations. Visit to learn more.
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As he has every year, President Obama outperformed the very funny comedian that had the unenviable task of following the leader of the free world. If Obama wins a second term, the organization might consider dropping the comedian slot altogether, and instead have President Obama do twice as long a set. Pragmatic and moderate as president, he is edgy and fearless as a comedian. In an election year when conventional wisdom would have him playing it safe, the president gleefully, skillfully and hilariously went after Gingrich and Santorum, who were in the audience, and even his opponent Mitt Romney.
Obama is a master at defusing negative Republican talking points about his administration with cuttingly funny responses, that are more effective than a more lengthy, serious response would be. Last year, with Donald Trump dominating the media with his inane birther rants, the president methodically and uproariously took him down with his witheringly funny put downs of the unamused Trump. And it's not simply the case that Obama scores comedically just because he has great writers. The funniest lines in the world can be rendered humorless in the wrong hands. Obama has the timing not of a pretty funny President, but of a professional comedian at the top of his game.
This is not to say that a person must be funny to be a good president. Which explains my past support for John Kerry and Michael Dukakis. But a president must at least have a self-deprecating sense of humor, that allows him to be a serious person without always taking himself too seriously. Without that, you have a president who is not humble enough to recognize his flaws and try to do better.
One could picture Newt Gingrich doing comedy with such an inflated sense of himself, that his act would go over almost as well as his failed candidacy. If a joke bombed, Gingrich would continue to insist to the audience, with a straight face, that the joke was indeed funny, that he knew better than them, and that Callista thought it was sidesplittingly funny.
There is hope for Rick Santorum as a comedian. First, there was his self deprecating response when a shirtless picture of him was posted online, Santorum quipped, "I know, I probably should lose about 15, 20 pounds, but I'm working on it. I apologize to all of us, because I'm sure it's not a pretty sight."
And on Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Santorum flashed a thumbs up, after the president joked about Mitt Romney's two degrees from Harvard, and said "What a snob." The very word Santorum had called Obama for saying he wanted kids to go to college. Maybe the thumbs up was a way of Santorum acknowledging that his own comment had been ridiculous. Either that or he just wanted people to know he was there.
But the person who really needs comedy the most is Mitt Romney. I can picture him opening his WHCD routine, with "Here's an amusing story about several people who were laid off in the newspaper business."
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