![]() ![]() ^ 2020: Activities in fiscal 2020 were severely reduced by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.^ 2018: Because of the restructuring of the business, financials for 2018 were reported as 'Predecessor' activity (January 1 through April 10) and 'Successor' activity (April 11 through December 31).(which include the passenger operations of Sun Country Airlines and its cargo business for Amazon Air) are (years ending December 31): ![]() Recent key figures for Sun Country Airlines Holdings, Inc. On March 17, 2021, Sun Country became publicly listed and traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker SNCY. The airline operated their first cargo flight for Amazon in May 2020. Sun Country will initially operate ten cargo jets for Amazon Air. In December 2019 Sun Country announced they would begin operating cargo flights for Amazon. As Sun Country's passenger model is heavily leisure focused, this deal is designed to help stabilize revenues during non-peak seasons. On December 17, 2019, Amazon Air bought a minority stake in Sun Country from Apollo, with plans for the airline to operate cargo flights under the Amazon Air brand. On December 14, 2017, the Davis brothers announced they would be selling the airline to funds affiliated with New York Based Apollo Global Management for an undisclosed amount. Apollo Global Management ownership (2017–present) As part of its strategy, Sun Country had begun to move towards being a "no frills" airline. Jude Bricker, previously of Allegiant Air, was appointed as CEO one week after Erani stepped down. In July 2017, after more than a year of missed monthly earnings projections, Davis replaced Erani as interim President and CEO, with Erani moving to other duties within the Davis family of companies. The airline had a net income of $27 million in 2015, followed by a 41% drop to $16 million in 2016. In 2015, the Sun Country board hired Zarir Erani as president and CEO. Marty Davis, CEO of Cambria, became chairman. In July 2011, Sun Country was bought out of bankruptcy for $34 million by the Davis family, owners of Cambria, a Minnesota-based countertop company. Rebuilding and Davis brothers ownership (2011–2017) Following this, the airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for the second time, on October 6, 2008. Tom Petters resigned after an FBI probe discovered that the airline had suffered financial fraud on a massive scale. At the end of September 2008, Gadek called for a 50% pay-deferral to all remaining employees. ![]() It also began charging for the first checked bag. In September 2008 the carrier reduced, and in some cases eliminated, flights to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sun Country indicated it had hoped to get up to $50 million in loans or other financial help from the state of Minnesota and the airports commission. The airline furloughed 45 of its 156 pilots and scaled back its summer schedule due to rising fuel costs. įollowing the replacement of interim CEO Jay Salmen by Stan Gadek, former CFO of AirTran Airways, Sun Country was nearly finished by the major recession of 2008 and the revelation of financial fraud. In July 2006, the airline was acquired by Petters Group Worldwide and Whitebox Advisors. In 2001, the company suspended operations due to financial troubles. In 1988, its headquarters were located on the grounds of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport. His wife, Joan Smith-Olsen, acted as Chief Flight Attendant and Head of Inflight Operations. The company's founder and first President/CEO was Captain Jim Olsen, who also acted as Chief Pilot. A number of the original employees had previously worked for Braniff International Airways, which ceased operations on May 12, 1982. The airline's original staff consisted of sixteen pilots, sixteen flight attendants, three mechanics and one office person. Sun Country began flight operations in January 1983 with a single Boeing 727-200 jetliner. History One version of Sun Country's early logo A Sun Country McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 at Las Vegas International Airport in 1992 wearing the original livery Early years and bankruptcies (1983–2008) On the cargo side, Sun Country is a contract cargo operator for Amazon Air. The airline has focus city operations at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Harry Reid International Airport. Based at Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport with headquarters on airport property, Sun Country operates more than 120 passenger routes between 94 destinations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. Sun Country Airlines is an American ultra-low-cost passenger and cargo airline, and the eleventh largest in the US by passengers carried. ![]()
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![]() The Yatate team combined the English word "gun" with the last syllable of the word "freedom" to form the portmanteau Gundom. Early production had a number of references to freedom: the White Base was originally "Freedom's Fortress", the Core Fighter was the "Freedom Wing" and the Gunperry was the "Freedom Cruiser". The series was originally entitled Freedom Fighter Gunboy (or Gunboy) for the robot's gun, with teen boys the primary target demographic. Mobile Suit Gundam was developed by animator Yoshiyuki Tomino and a changing group of Sunrise creators with the collective pseudonym of Hajime Yatate. Overview Concept RX-78-2 Gundam by Hajime Katoki By 2022, the annual revenue of the Gundam franchise reached ¥101.7 billion per year, ¥44.2 billion of which was retail sales of toys and hobby items. The Gundam franchise had grossed over $5 billion in retail sales by 2000. Īs of March 2020, the franchise is fully owned by Bandai Namco Holdings through subsidiaries Sotsu and Sunrise. ![]() ![]() Īcademics in Japan have viewed the series as inspiration in 2008, the virtual Gundam Academy was planned as the first academic institution based on an animated TV series. The popularity of the series and its merchandise spawned a franchise that includes 50 TV series, films and OVAs as well as manga, novels and video games, along with a whole industry of plastic model kits known as Gunpla which makes up 90 percent of the Japanese character plastic-model market. The franchise began on April 7, 1979, with Mobile Suit Gundam, a TV series that defined the " real robot" mecha anime genre by featuring giant robots called mobile suits (including the original titular mecha) in a militaristic setting. Created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Sunrise (now Bandai Namco Filmworks), the franchise features giant robots, or mecha, with the name "Gundam". Gundam Series) is a Japanese military science fiction media franchise. Gundam ( Japanese: ガンダムシリーズ, Hepburn: Gandamu Shirīzu, lit. ( August 2023) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)īandai Namco Filmworks (directly and through Sotsu) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. Truly a masterpiece of a MS, and thoroughly representative of Zeon.This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. ![]() The Zaku II's versatility and ease of production led to many custom variants and on-site modifications, the number of which is further proof of the exceptional fundamentals of this suit. While its inadequacies started to become apparent after the emergence of Federation MS, many veteran pilots still preferred it to the newer suits. It continued to be used as the primary weapon in the invasion of Earth, proving versatile enough to suppress territory at astonishing speed. Due to its striking first impressions, this is often the MS that comes to mind for many considering the first combat-ready MS. The Zaku II achieved a great deal, especially in the early war period, such as an incredible raid against and Earth Federation Forces fleet. The mass production MS created by the Principality of Zeon Forces as the successor to the Zaku I, which it successfully outclassed in every aspect. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gwynplaine in Victor Hugo's novel, The Man Who Laughs.The titular characters in Lord Byron's narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein.Darcy in Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice Edmond Dantès in Alexandre Dumas ( père)'s adventure novel, The Count of Monte Cristo.Andrei Bolkonsky in Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace.The titular character in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's novel, Moby-Dick.Alexander Romance account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great.As Napoleon, the "living model of a hero", became a disappointment to many, the typical notion of the hero as upholding social order began to be challenged.Ĭlassic literary examples of the Romantic hero include: The Romantic hero first began appearing in literature during the Romantic period, in works by such authors as Byron, Keats, Goethe, and Pushkin, and is seen in part as a response to the French Revolution. (See Tatyana Larina, Elizabeth Bennet, Eugenie Grandet, et al.) Usually estranged from his more grounded, realist biological family and leading a rural, solitary life, the Romantic hero may nevertheless have a long-suffering love interest, him or herself victimised by the hero's rebellious tendencies, with their fates intertwined for decades, sometimes from their youths to their deaths. However, another common trait of the Romantic hero is regret for their actions, and self-criticism, often leading to philanthropy, which stops the character from ending romantically. Other characteristics of the Romantic hero include introspection, the triumph of the individual over the "restraints of theological and social conventions", wanderlust, melancholy, misanthropy, alienation, and isolation. Literary critic Northrop Frye noted that the Romantic hero is often "placed outside the structure of civilization and therefore represents the force of physical nature, amoral or ruthless, yet with a sense of power, and often leadership, that society has impoverished itself by rejecting". The Romantic hero is often the protagonist in a literary work, and the primary focus is on the character's thoughts rather than their actions. ![]() The Romantic hero is a literary archetype referring to a character that rejects established norms and conventions, has been rejected by society, and has themselves at the center of their own existence. Literary archetype referring to a character who rejects established norms ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re on to Memphis tonight and another game tomorrow night. Our guys are trying to be the best version of ourselves at the end of the year, Snyder said. 7 in the Eastern Conference playoffs by beating the Miami Heat 116-105 in a play-in tournament game Tuesday night. So, the main thing is we keep plugging away. Trae Young scored 25 points, Clint Capela grabbed 21 rebounds and the Hawks earned the No. But you can always say that at the end of every game. We had a couple of plays that we’d like to have back. ![]() We had a couple of tough plays, but I think we had a couple of turnovers down the stretch as well. We live with that all the time,” Kerr said via the NBA Interviews YouTube channel. He said that they’ll always live with Curry and Klay Thompson shooting threes, but he threw Donte DiVincenzo into the mix, too. After the contest, head coach Steve Kerr spoke about their late-game shot selection. The Warriors were simply unable to get the job done against the Hawks, despite having a chance late in the game. He finished the game with 31 points, six rebounds, and five assists on 12-of-27 shooting from the floor and 4-of-13 from beyond the three-point arc. In 2017, he tied the then-record in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I single-game assists with 22. He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners. Meanwhile, Curry also played fairly well, but he was relatively inefficient from deep. Rayford Trae Young (born September 19, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Hawks star ended the night with 25 points, six rebounds, and 12 assists on 8-of-18 shooting from the field and 3-of-6 shooting from behind the three-point line. Young played extremely well against the Warriors, dominating in multiple facets of the game. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lastly, let me tell you about this AMAZING buttercream!!!!! Holy smokes, it’s the hero of the cake. It helps them stay together, not turn into something that’s far to hard to cut into, but still keeps that crust-like texture. I bake my cake batter right onto the crust (no pre-bake is necessary). I added a bit of cinnamon, and that was it! Everything else is my normal white cake recipe.įor the crumble on the inside, I used crushed up cereal and butter – the result was just a like a lovely pie crust. The result was like that last little bit of milk you have in your bowl at the end of eating your cereal (only sour because, buttermilk). I crushed an entire cup of Cinnamon Toast Crunch into little crumbles, let it sit in my buttermilk for almost 30 minutes. But I wanted to try infusing the cake layers with that classic cereal taste – and the trick was adding it to my buttermilk. I originally wanted to either make a powder out of the cereal and add it to my white cake recipe, or maybe even skip that altogether and go with just adding that cinnamon flavor with well, just cinnamon. I was going to do a cinnamon drip with cinnamon chips, but decided to skip the drip on this one (the drip is my favorite, but hey, we’ll all survive, I promise). The cake, crust, and buttercream all have cinnamon. With this specific flavor, I’ve actually already made Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cupcakes with Maple for my upcoming cookbook – and those will ROCK YOUR WORLD! For this cake, we keep the flavors throughout, and I’ll make you wait for that maple addition (it’s to die for, really). However, when I saw the double box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch at Costco, I knew the Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cake on my cake bucket list needed to happen asap. So we stopped buying it every week, and reserve it for special occasions like birthdays, holidays, lots in the summer, etc. It’s mostly me just absent mindedly grabbing yet another bowl of cereal to eat while we watch another episode of Suits (we’re in the last season!). The cereal we’d bring home wouldn’t last even a couple days before we were scraping the bottom of the box for the last little bit of crumbs. We used to buy cereal every week at our house on our usual Friday grocery day. I crammed as much of the cereal flavor into everything that I could, and the result was an instant hit at our house.Īnyone else a total cereal addict? *Guilty* Stephanie (aka Girl Versus Dough) + this dessert = summer besties.I’ve turned one of our favorite cereals into a cake, and we can’t stop stealing bites from the fridge! Layers of Cinnamon-Toast-Crunch-Infused cinnamon cake, a Cinnamon Toast Crunch crumble, Cinnamon Toast Crunch Buttercream, and plenty of cereal on top and the sides to bring it home. *OK but for real, I hope your face didn’t melt off in amazement. We made dessert lasagna, we ate dessert lasagna, we don’t need to bake dessert lasagna hey hey hey hey! Top your frozen creation with more crushed-up Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, cut into squares and serve. ![]() Top everything with yet another layer of whipped topping (go big or go home, right?), then freeze until firm. Drizzle melted peanut butter all over that magic. Spread another layer of whipped topping, then sprinkle it with Reese’s Puffs cereal. Melt the Nutella and drizzle it over the cereal. Then sprinkle some Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal on top. Spread a generous layer of thawed whipped topping in the bottom of your pan. We’re going to use Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Reese’s Puffs cereal for the cereal layers, but feel free to use your own favorite Big G cereals. If this doesn’t melt your face off in amazement, I don’t know what will.*įirst, round up your ingredients. Oh, AND it’s no-bake - perfect for the summertime. Not to mention that in this delicious dish there are layers of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, Reese’s Puffs cereal, Nutella and peanut butter between layers of creamy whipped topping. And my life never again will be the same.Ĭan we just talk about how this recipe is a dessert, but also a lasagna? Mind = blown. Just when I thought dessert couldn’t get any more awesome, I discover Cinnamon Toast Crunch Dessert Lasagna. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their decency is part and parcel with their role in society, whereas no such prerequisite exists for Barton Fink the playwright. Marge and Ed Tom probably share this, too, but that sort of gets lost in their characterization because they’re officers of the law. But Barton stands out in another way: he’s a decent guy. Only Fargo‘s Marge and No Country for Old Men‘s Ed Tom really fit with Reagan in their quiet intelligence. Reagan stood out because he had a brain in his head, which makes him opposed to the classic Coen “hero”: the hapless, lovable idiot. We actually said the exact same thing in our review of Miller’s Crossing, the prior Coen flick, in reference to hat-chasing protagonist Tom Reagan. That said, a retrospective rundown does underscore how different Barton is from the usual Coen protagonist. If there’s anything to read into with certainty in Barton Fink, it’s likely the ways in which the most oblique elements subtly inform the main character. Importantly, Fink‘s power - not unlike that of the Coens’ later effort A Serious Man, which shares a great many qualities with this film - does not rely on you “getting” it. ![]() As with the rest of our Coen Brothers Director Series, revisiting Fink in the context of the Coen oeuvre is more of a hunt for commonality (or deviation) across the retrospective, rather than a prescriptive lens by which to “get” the given film. If you’re interested in movies about movies, Film Plays Itself represents a kaleidoscopic cross-section of Hollywood artistry that encapsulates pretty much everything you could want.įor a pair of writer/directors with a consistent knack for inscrutable cinema - and general inscrutability as just, y’know, people - Barton Fink might be the most head-scratchingly opaque effort from Joel and Ethan Coen. Here, film artists are by turns inspiring, insipid, visionary, avaricious, down on themselves, full of themselves. Here, Tinseltown is by turns cynical, magical, savage, surreal, everything you could possibly hope for, anything you could possibly imagine. Not long ago we lauded the Film Plays Itself series on the Criterion Channel, a collection of films about films that includes everything from Sunset Boulevard to 8½ to Hollywood Shuffle to Adaptation. ![]() ![]() ![]() No signup required – just connect, choose an opponent and do your best. SparkChess has a very quick and intuitive online multiplayer mode. If you feel confident with chess, test your skills against other human players. Or just start over and downgrade from Boris to Cody, whatever works best for you. Provoac Joac împotriva prietenilor ti, online în multiplayer sau în modul cu 2 juctori. Exerseaz Îmbuntete-i abilitile împotriva personajelor AI cu personaliti unice. Overwrite a saved game or add an additional saved game at any time. Înva Studiaz ahul cu lecii interactive, rezolv puzzle-uri i joac partide celebre. If you end up losing (\”Arggggh!\”), you can pull the saved game from the archives and replay it from that point. Don\’t worry–your computer opponent won\’t complain.Īnother helpful feature is the ability to \”freeze\” your game at any point by saving it, then continue playing as before. With a choice of boards, computer opponents and online play it. Finally, if you\’d like to set up the board in a particular way and play from there, just tap Edit Board and adjust the pieces. SparkChess is the only chess game that puts fun first. You can also tap Undo Move as much as you want to back up and try a different strategy. If you are not sure what version of SparkChess you have, please read this. If you own a previous major version (15.x.x, 14.x.x, etc.), you will download that one please consider upgrading Versions older than 5 years are not supported and cannot be downloaded. Want to go back and see how you got to this point? The Replay function allows you to go back as far as you like in the game (even to the start), then hit the Play button to recreate the action. The latest version is 17.1.0, released on April 10, 2023. You can download the game on the official website. Select Show Visual Aids for an overlay that shows which squares are safe to move to and which aren\’t. Spark Chess is developed by Armand Niculescu. Hit Analyse to render a color-coded view of the board that indicates which side has control of what squares. Tap on Help Me Move, and the app shows you the optimal move. You can use it to learn the game and improve your skills. All moves are recorded in the upper-right box and captured pieces show up under the player\’s name at the top. If you change your mind, it\’s easy to switch to a different piece or undo your move. Please note that this page is exclusively. In case you have misplaced the Transaction ID, you can retrieve it and have it sent to your registered email address. ![]() To upgrade your SparkChess, please provide us with the Transaction ID that you received when you purchased SparkChess from our website. Touch the space you want to move it to and the piece appears there. SparkChess 17 is the latest available version. Touch the piece you wish to move, and the spaces where it can be played instantly light up on the board. The game interface is extremely intuitive. Choose black or white pieces, pick from four opponents of varying skill levels (beginner Cody, clever Claire, or masterful Boris), and start playing. If you're brand new to the checkerboard, you're looking to improve your game, you want to teach your kids to play, or you’re ready to progress to the next challenging level, everyone can find the perfect balance in SparkChess.Ĭomplete with online play and a chat system that's entirely child safe, you can also import and export of your SmartChess game using the standardized FEN system that allows you to recreate any board configuration to continue your game elsewhere even using a physical chess set!With SparkChess, there are no layers of menus to navigate or settings to check – -it\’s all right there on one screen. It’s here that the award-winning SparkChess excels. The real test of a truly intelligent chess game isn't how hard it is to beat, but how able it is to accommodate players of all skill levels. Too many chess games are impossible for anyone but the experts and masters to win. SUPPORT NOTE: Please use for support - this ensures that we read and respond in due time. With a choice of boards, computer opponents and online play it delivers a first-class game of chess that's as accessible to experts as it is to novices, kids and anyone else who wants to discover how enjoyable this ancient strategy board game really is. SparkChess is the only chess game that puts fun first. ![]() |
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