Esther

BARCELONA, Spain — Gerard Piqué’s Kings League, a new soccer league that just three months ago debuted to jokes and scorn, came to a glorious, dramatic finish in FC Barcelona’s famous Camp Nou stadium on Sunday. As Piqué handed the glittering gold trophy to the winner, Adri Contreras’ “El Barrio,” a perpetual underdog whose team was the only one without a sponsor, one thing became clear: The Kings League is here to stay. A total of 92,522 spectators attended the Kings League’s Final Four matchup and managed to sell out…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has a message for employees: Loyalty means nothing. Over the weekend, Musk laid off more than 50 employees at the social media company, including one of his most vocal supporters, product head Esther Crawford.Crawford famously made headlines back in November when she quote-tweeted a photo of herself sleeping at the office days after Musk took over Twitter in order to meet his crazy deadlines. Despite criticism from folks who said Musk was making Twitter employees work round the clock to prove…

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Image Source : INDIA TV Elon Musk And Twitter again started the layoff rounds again, and this time it targeted someone senior who helped the firm to get the foundation. The musk-owned micro-blogging platform has laid-off Esther Crawford, Twitter's product manager who led a number of projects at the platform, including the Blue with verification subscription fees and…

Twitter has laid off at least another 50 employees, according to a report from The Information and posts on social media from former workers. And apparently not even Elon Musk loyalist Esther Crawford, the chief executive of Twitter payments who oversaw the company’s Twitter Blue verification subscription, was spared, according to Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer. Alex Heath of The Verge also confirmed that Crawford and most of the remaining product team were laid off this weekend, leading many to…

For at least the fourth time since he said the company was done with layoffs, Elon Musk is reportedly cutting more of Twitter’s workforce. According to The Information, the social media website laid off “dozens” of employees on Saturday evening. The outlet put the number of affected staffers at approximately 50, a number Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer later said was likely much higher. “Hearing that the Twitter layoffs last night were well above 50 and hit multiple departments including engineering,” Schiffer tweeted on…

Esther Freud’s ninth novel begins in 1991 with Kate and her young daughter Freya arriving by taxi at a convent in rural Ireland. As they wander around in the grounds reading the inscriptions on gravestones, a nun emerges from the house and demands to know what they are doing there. “My mother, she was here,” says Kate, who was adopted shortly after she was born. But the nun claims she is confused and ushers her off the property.The actor Niamh Cusack delivers a smart and tender reading of this multigenerational tale,…

via Paramount Players Isabelle Fuhrman is set to reprise her role as the chilling and murderous Esther in Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to the 2009 psychological horror, and is sharing just how difficult it was getting into the role 13 years later.  In a chat with Movie Web, the Orphan actress explained that so much time has passed since the original film was released that she had a hard time getting into the character of a nine-year-old.  “For me, a lot of the preparation for the new thing was kind of…

x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YexURhHowdE We’re just 10 days away from the long-awaited theatrical release of Orphan: First Kill, the prequel to the widely successful and critically acclaimed psychological horror opening installment. As we count down the days to discovering Esther’s (or should we say Lena’s) backstory, Empire have shared an exclusive clip that allows Lena — not Esther as we know her — to steal the spotlight for a chilling minute and 40 seconds. Just under a month ago, we received the official…

My earliest reading memoryWhen I first went to school, aged six, copies of The King of Ireland’s Son by Padraic Colum were handed round. Too embarrassed to admit I couldn’t read, I sat staring at the illustrations.My favourite book growing upI was living in a stepfamily of five girls when I read Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. I adored it, identified with each of the sisters and couldn’t wait to read the sequel – my disappointment was extreme!The book that changed me as a teenagerI’d decided early I wanted to be an…