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The famous father and son will perform at 10 p.m. EST on Paramount Network.
Previews of the episode show the Los Angeles Lakers rookie pretending to be a rapper in front of dancers while mouthing Migos' "Bad and Boujee."
Lonzo Ball sports a studded black leather jacket, some sunglasses, silver chains and dreadlocks during the performance. The 20-year-old was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft out of UCLA. He is averaging 10.2 points, 7.1 assists and 7.1 rebounds during his rookie campaign. He is currently benched due to a sprained left MCL.
"When the camera is rolling, he gotta know he going to go down," LaVar Ball said in a clip for the episode. "The Big Baller ain't gonna let you stay around. Because there are only two bad suckers and I keep telling them, I'm both of them."
While the boisterous father has gained plenty of notoriety for his flurry of words, the oldest Ball brother is trying to make a lyrical name for himself. Lonzo Ball has released several rap singles.
On Friday, Lonzo announced he is releasing his first mixtape -- titled Born 2 Ball -- on Thursday.
His previous songs have included lyrics referencing police brutality, his brothers, diamonds and the Lion King.
FILE - Pro-Russian rebels, cossacks from the 1st Cossack Regiment, guard a checkpoint decorated by Russian national and Don Cossacks flags, just outside in Pervomaisk, eastern Ukraine, Dec. 6, 2014.
Ukraine's president said a "fragile" cease-fire is actually in place for the first time in his country's seven-month conflict between government troops and Russian-back separatists.
Petro Poroshenko said Friday that 24 hours had passed without any deaths or injuries of his soldiers.
"You simply can't imagine how important that this is for me. It's the first night when I don't have neither lost nor wounded a Ukrainian soldier. When we don't have any lost or wounded civilians," said Poroshenko.
Poroshenko said if the cease-fire held, it would be "a great step for peace and stability in Ukraine."
The president called for the truce Tuesday in a bid to revive a much-violated cease-fire agreement signed in September.
The Ukrainian leader made his comments in Sydney, Australia, on the second day of a three-day visit to Australia, a key Western ally.
President Poroshenko pleaded with Russia Thursday to remove its troops from war-torn eastern Ukraine.
"The truth is, that Russia are making a mistake of historic proportion. Ladies and gentleman, Ukraine, Russia and the whole world pay a price that is too high, fighting a war that is absolutely unnatural. So let's stop it," he said.
He also said that if Russia closed its border with Ukraine, there would be "peace and stability" within weeks.
"Within two or three weeks, if… Russian troops [get out] and close the border, it would be law, order, stability in Ukraine. We have no internal conflict at all. We have a humanitarian catastrophe," said Poroshenko.
Ukraine on Wednesday ruled out holding peace talks this week, saying the rebels are not interested in a negotiated settlement. It was not immediately clear if the new cease-fire would change that decision. The talks were expected to take place Friday in Belarus, but Kyiv had said this was impossible after the separatists had violated a cease-fire.
The Ukrainian military reported Wednesday that separatists launched 12 attacks just 24 hours after both sides began observing a halt in hostilities dubbed the "Day of Silence." It said the rebels used grenade launchers, anti-tank guided missiles, mortars, small arms and a tank weapon.
The "Day of Silence" was designed to encourage both sides to observe the wider cease-fire agreed to in September, which has been marred by sporadic fighting, and then begin pulling back their heavy weaponry from the front line to form a buffer zone.
Ukraine has repeatedly accused Russia of providing arms and soldiers to rebels who are fighting the Kyiv government. Russia has firmly denied the accusation. It says any Russian soldiers in the area are there on their own accord.
Lee Hyun-min, 31, frequents a small bookstore Mystery Union whenever he feels like reading a spine-chilling thriller book.
“The store is small and hard to find, but I bet almost every mystery lover in Korea would know this place,” Lee told The Korea Herald.
Just like Lee, a growing number of Koreans are hunting for books at small yet specialized bookstores.
While large bookstores continue to dominate the market, small players are discovering their own profitable niche.
According to research done by a bookstore map app FunnyPlan, about one out of four small bookstores in Korea in 2017 were newly opened ones, with less than a year in operation.
The research indicates that most of the small bookstores feature specific themes, including mystery stories, cats, poets, beers, travel and psychology.
Unlike the book displays of big offline bookstores, which tend to focus on titles from leading publishers, small specialty bookstores tends to reflect the owners’ tastes in their book title selection.
A “Today’s bookshelf” from the poetry bookstore Wit n Cynical, for example, shows the books selected by its owner and poet Yoo Hee-kyung, depending on his mood of the day.
The closer space between bookstore staff and book hobbyists is another reason to visit the small bookstores.
“The store’s compact space allows guests to initiate a conversation with the staff more easily, compared to the large bookstore chains,” Yoo Soo-young, the owner of Mystery Union, said.
Specialty bookstore staff also have more chances to offer professional help to customers on choosing books.
Cultural events hosted by these small bookstores also offer opportunities to meet people with similar reading preferences.
More than six out of ten small bookstores in Korea are holding cultural events regularly, according to the FunnyPlan’s research. Types of activities vary from a reading club to reciting sessions to drawing class to an author talk.
A cat-themed bookstore Schrodinger, for instance, regularly organizes events such as “How to draw cats” or “How to overcome pet loss,” targeting local cat-lovers. Event participants often become the book shop’s regular customers.
The following are some of the widely known specialty bookstores in Seoul.
If you are looking for books related to cats, you’ve come to the right place. Deriving its name from the quantum physics experiment “Schrodinger’s cat,” the bookstore has more than 500 books solely focused on cats.
With the rising popularity of cats as a pet in Korea, the store has also garnered great popularity among cat owners in Korea. In 2017, the store has doubled in size and moved to Ihwa-dong.
Schrodinger’s owner and manager, who themselves keep four cats respectively, visit Japan and other countries once a month to buy new books on cats. The staff proudly show off their rare collections of the books on “Boasting Bookshelf,” which stands at the corner of the store.
Even though Schrodinger has many books imported from Japan, most of its books are written by Korean authors and illustrators, according to manager Seo Ji-woo.
The bookstore also sells various stationery items related to cats while exhibitions take place on one side of a wall with the theme changing every three weeks.
Check out further information on Schrodinger’s official Instagram.
Address: 19 Naksan-gil, Ihwa-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul.
Hours: Opens 1:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Closed on Monday.
Just like Platform 9 3/4 from the book Harry Potter, it’s not easy to find this bookstore named Mystery Union. Hidden in a street corner near Ewha Womans University, the 16-square-meter store welcomes mystery buffs from Wednesday to Sunday.
The store has more than 1,700 titles in the mystery genre, including detective, thriller and crime stories.
Under the store’s theme “Rediscovering the forgotten mystery books,” Yoo carefully curates the books and regularly changes the display. By separating bookshelves according to the nations and authors, the owner aims to help customers find books easily.
Yoo said she rarely initiates conversation with customers looking for books to avoid disturbing them. The bookstore owner, however, is always ready to help them find a book if they want.
“I recommend books based on individual customer’s taste. The close relationship between the owner and guests is the best part of (running) a small bookstore,” Yoo said.
Mystery book lovers can create a network through various events such as author talks and mystery book reciting session. The schedules can be found on the bookstore’s Instagram.
Reading books while drinking some beers may sound like an unusual pairing, but some books indeed call for a sip of refreshing beer.
Book by Book, located in Sangam-dong, serves up various items including beers and chips. When an order was placed, a staff member was seen dispensing the booze from a draft beer tower installed at the counter. Guests can enjoy reading books and drinking beer at a bookstore lounge.
The bookstore offers almost every book genre, while the displays change depending on the trend and customers’ book tastes. The handwritten tags attached on bookshelves show the themes of the books.
Bookmarks made by customers are another feature of the bookstore. The readers can leave their comments about a book on a coated piece of paper and share it with others by putting the bookmark inside the book. The store offers free coffee to customers who make the bookmark.
Book by Book also acts as a bridge that connects creators and readers. Every blank on a calendar on a wall is filled with various sessions. About 10,000 customers took part in the authors’ talks, which was held more than 600 times at the bookstore.
The success of the bookstore led the owner to open the type of store in Pangyo, Gyeonggi Province and Gwanghwamun, Seoul.
Address: 19-4 Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul.
Hours: Opens 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on weekdays, Noon to 6 p.m. on weekends.
A poet, who had also worked as an editor for more than 10 years, quit his job and opened a bookstore named Wit n Cynical in 2016. It features about 1,600 books of poems. Most of the books are written in Korean, but translated poetry collections are also available.
“I opened (my bookstore) here as I needed a place to write. Also, I’ve always wanted to plan and hold cultural projects on my own,” said You Hee-kyoung, the owner of Wit n Cynical, in an interview with The Korea Herald.
Twice a month, You holds poetry reading sessions with local poets at the bookstore. About 50 people fill the seats every time, according to You. Famous poets including Park Joon, Kim Hyun and Lee Won have participated in the events.
“As a poet, I want poetry to thrive in the country with Wit n Cynical,” You said.
To find the store’s upcoming events, visit Wit n Cynical’s Instagram.
Address: 22-8 Sinchonnyeok-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.
Hours: Noon to 11:00 p.m.
Tomorrow is a huge day for SpaceX: It’s the first-ever flight of the company’s massive, reusable rocket, Falcon Heavy.
But will it go as planned? This one is just a test flight, so no one — even Musk himself — is truly certain how it’ll go.
It’d be a huge downer if its blows up, but hopefully we’ll have learned. This is a test mission; there’s so much that CAN go wrong.
If the launch is a success tomorrow, Elon noted that they should be able to turn around and prepare for another mission within 3-6 months (later during the call, he says “3-4 months”).
Well, if it blows up the pad… that’ll be a real pain in the neck. That’ll take us 9-12 months to get the pad back in action. Maybe 8 months. I don’t know, but that’d be the biggest problem. It won’t affect production. We’ve got a steady production line.
In light of the increasing number of mass shootings in the U.S., most recently in Orlando, FL, BBB felt it appropriate to offer the following tips on how to keep your employees safe should your organization ever be faced with an active shooter situation. It is not an easy topic to consider, but it’s one which needs to be discussed and practiced. The tips come from Mark Seguin, founder and CEO of TBG Solutions, Inc.
Active shooter response trainings teach businesses to be pro-active, not reactive, in making staff and employees aware of key principles that empower them to make life-saving decisions in the heat of the moment.
RUN: Your best possible chance of survival is to get out of harm’s way. Enhance your evacuation strategies to include breaking windows and established rally point.
HIDE: If it is not possible to get out, then hide out. But don’t just turn off the lights; barricade the door as best as you can. Make it impossible for the shooter to enter your room.
FIGHT: If the shooter steps into your room, then you need to be ready to disrupt his accuracy and keep him from taking another shot. Throw anything you have, move about the room, and be ready to subdue him until the authorities arrive.
Have active shooter kits throughout the building and at every desk which contain fire extinguishers, hammers (to use for getting out of a window or to throw at the shooter), rope (to tie doors shut), and long range pepper spray.
Oil companies saw their shares take a beating Thursday as crude prices slid to their lowest point in over four years after OPEC’s decision to maintain production levels even though prices have fallen sharply in recent weeks.
Oil prices plunged Thursday in reaction to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ decision to hold production targets unchanged despite a global oversupply.
The S&P/TSX composite index, which is heavily weighted in energy stocks, fell 115.97 points to close at 14,922.44.
West Texas Intermediate fell 6.3 per cent or $4.64 (U.S.) to $69.05, closing below $70 for the first time since 2010, with a more than 35 per cent decline since mid-June. Brent crude futures for January settlement dropped $5.17 to $72.58 a barrel.
Patricia Mohr, vice-president and commodity market specialist at Scotiabank, says OPEC’s move signals that major producers like Saudi Arabia have essentially decided to let oil prices decline.
She believes that the move is largely aimed at slowing development of shale production in the United States, which has shown remarkable growth, “in some ways, perhaps, too much growth because it has been difficult for the international oil market to absorb all of this new production,” Mohr said, adding she believes prices will stay low for a while.
The 12 OPEC members met Thursday in Vienna and announced they would keep their current 30 million barrel a day limit, in place since 2012.
The move wasn’t a surprise, given that there had been rumblings for weeks that the countries were unlikely to agree on a production cut, Cieszynski said.
“The concern has been growing that you could end up in a market-share war, where nobody wants to be the first one to cut back because other people can step right in and scoop it up,” he said.
Some suspect OPEC is trying to squeeze U.S. shale oil production, which experts say becomes too costly when crude prices hit $60 (U.S.) a barrel.
However, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, OPEC actually produced almost 1 million barrels more last month than its 30 million-a-day target.
For Canada, if oil prices stay low, there will be reverberations through the whole economy.
Consumers will win with lower prices at the pump, leaving them with extra money in their pockets. That won’t necessarily lead to more cross-border shopping, though, as the Canadian dollar generally trades in tandem with oil prices, due to our oil-exporter status. The Canadian dollar fell 0.75 of a cent to 88.25 cents (U.S.). A U.S. dollar is now worth $1.1332 Canadian.
That means imports become more expensive, although a lower loonies makes our exports more desirable, which could give the ailing manufacturing sector a boost.
Federal finance minister Joe Oliver says the government has already considered the dramatic slide in oil prices in its fiscal forecasts.
“When we took into account the oil price decline which had already occurred, we made the assumption that the prices would stay at the low level for the entire period,” Oliver told a news conference in Toronto Thursday.
Canadian energy companies took a hit in the markets Thursday, with shares in oil producers such as Suncor, the country’s largest oil producer, falling.
Cieszynski believes the Toronto market will likely feel pressure in the coming days, in part because U.S. markets were closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Some of those calls won’t get dealt with until Friday or Monday because of the U.S. holiday, he added.
The first two Toby Maguire Spider-Man films were celebrated by fans and then director Sam Raimi and Sony started butting heads and we ended up with a horrible third movie that forced too many characters and subplots into the film and killed the franchise. Sony rebooted quickly with Marc Webb directing and Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and the new film was good, but then the sequel forced too many characters and subplots into the film and killed the franchise. This is why we can’t have nice things. Now Sony is teaming with Marvel to reboot and bring Tom Holland and director Jon Watts to try it one more time. Hopefully Marvel can keep them from doing the too many characters and subplots mistake again.
Screen Junkies has take on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in their newest Honest Trailer and point out some really great things… like how come Electro didn’t get any Eel powers but a lot of electricity based powers? Why did Aunt May’s job suddenly become important? Andy why did Garfield repeat himself so much?
I didn’t hate ASM2 as much as they did, but I did think that Jamie Foxx’s character was by far one of the worst villains in the last twenty years. What could’ve been a terrifying origin of a super-obsessed fan turning into a super-power enemy was instead played for laughs and camp. I think that was the biggest mistake made and it cascaded through the rest of the film.
FOX has been working hard to try to establish Tuesday as a second night for their comedies. Unfortunately, the ratings for New Girl and Brooklyn Nine-Nine haven’t been impressive. Will new series The Mick be a hit for the network? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Stay tuned.