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Dissatisfied with their new director, Henry Gyrich, Immortal Hulk's Gamma Flight are striking out on their own, becoming heroes once more.

Warning: contains spoilers forTheImmortal Hulk #42!

An offshoot of Canada's Avengers team Alpha Flight, the current Gamma Flight is a task force created for the sole purpose of locating the ever elusive Hulk.Beginning withformer Sasquatch Walter Langkowski, Gamma Flight grew to include Alpha Flight teammate Puck, villains-for-hire Absorbing Man and Titania, and Hulk ally Doc Samson. Together, the team repeatedly confronted the Hulk,oblivious until recently regarding his largely heroic intentions, and often complicating otherwise well-planned missions.

Recently, Hulk awoke imprisoned on the Alpha Flight Space Station, captured by the team. There, he met Gamma Flight's new boss, the infamous government agent Henry Gyrich. Gyrich's obssessive need for control and lack of research on the Hulk's new abilities allowed him to escape his restraints and the space station itself,risking the lives of a team who have already lost friends to their mission, and forcing a confrontation with Gyrich when the Absorbing Man refused to return.

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In Immortal Hulk #42 by Al Ewing with art by Alex Lins, Adam Gorham, Rachel Stott, Joe Bennett and others, Gyrich begins a team meeting by abusing his authority in hopes of forcing the team to pursueall gamma mutates, threatening to have Absorbing Man arrested.Gyrich then swings that judgmental pendulum at the new Doc Sasquatch, telling him he should have been killed the second he returned to life. While Gyrich tries and fails to threaten the superhero psychiatrist, Doc Sasquatch begins to carve the reinforced windows with his claws, putting everyone in the room in danger of being sucked out into space and asphyxiating. When Gyrich tries to call his bluff, the hero claims his experience with death and resurrection has left him willing to risk his teammates for his own freedom, andGyrichis forced to reluctantly let Gamma Flight go free. As the former government employees joke and return to being heroes, Gyrich plans on speaking to a "back-up team."

Gyrich's penchant for rules and obsessive agenda have not only forced him to be passed from position to position over the years but also made him very unpopular in the superhero community. With Gamma Flight, it was his fault that the Hulk escaped his incarceration, but instead of accepting blame, Gyrichprojected it onto the people whohaddone their job correctly. Whether it was threatening to incarcerate the Absorbing Man for past crimes or threatening to incarcerate or even kill the rest of the team, Gamma Flight had had enough and wanted nothing more to do with Gyrich and his gamma witchhunt. Although Doc Sasquatch may or may not have been bluffing in the moment, the former members of Gamma Flight will most likely continue their mission of locating the Hulk, but this time to join forces with himand stop the One Below All.

Having dealt with many insurrections in his career, Gyrich quickly moves past Gamma Flight's resignation by talking to his back-up team, the U-Foes, who have their own history and bone to pick with the Hulk. Promising money, amnesty and plausible deniability, this new Gamma Flight is simply a reflection of Gyrich's obsession, the same obsession that consumedGeneral Thunderbolt Ross and others like him: finding and capturing the Hulk with little to no regardof the consequences. Considering the current dilemma Hulk and his allies are dealing with, it looks like the former Gamma Flight picked the right time to quit asHulk willneed all heroes on deck to survive this incoming storm.

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Kendrick Nunn finished second in Rookie of the Year voting in 2019. He had 204 total points to Ja Morants 498, with no first-place votes. According to the Miami Heat guard, he should have won the coveted award, and now he plans to prove all his doubters wrong.

Nunn, who beat out Zion Williamson for second, revealed that of course he should have beaten out Morant for Rookie of the Year. But his long-term goals are higher than that as he seeks to join basketball immortality in Springfield one day.

Im an All-Star player. Im a Hall of Famer, Nunn told Alex Kennedy, via Basketball News. Thats my goal and I know thats what Im going to reach.

Nunn has caught fire of late for the Heat. Head coach Erik Spoelstra had been using the second-year guard sparingly to start the year, but a rash of injuries combined with COVID-19 health and safety protocol absences have turned Nunn into a key contributor off the bench. He has averaged 23 points in 34.5 minutes per game over the last two contests. Spoelstra praised him for not causing a ruckus after he pulled him from the starting lineup.

K-Nunn has an incredible competitive character, Spoelstra told reporters. He really does. He has a grit and a perseverance to him, that not only do you have confidence that hell be able to respond from this kind of adversity, but you respect him so much, that youre like really rooting for him, and you really want it for him.

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Back to that Rookie of the Year snub. Why did Nunn feel he deserved to win it? Well, he wanted to shock the world as an undrafted player beating out the No. 1 (Morant) and No. 2 picks (Williamson). No hard feelings, of course. Nunn was named Rookie of the Month three straight times in 2019-20.

Of course I shouldve won. Its really rare for an undrafted player to perform like that and have the kind of season that I had. Obviously, its expected that a lottery pick the No. 1 pick or No. 2 pick or No. 3 pick will win that award. So, just from a shocking-the-world thing, I feel like I shouldve won.

Thats all in the rear-view mirror for Nunn. The 25-year-old is gunning for a return to the NBA Finals this year to complete unfinished business for the Heat. They lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in six games despite being down key players like Bam Adebayo and Goran Dragic. All-Star forward Jimmy Butler recently caused a stir when he told GQ Magazine, we should have won. Nunn seemed to agree.

This season, my No. 1 goal is I want to run it back to the NBA Finals, Nunn told Kennedy. We gotta get that Finals win. That was kind of upsetting to me that we didnt get that win, and we could have.

Miami returns to action on Friday night (7:30 p.m., FOX Sports Sun) against the Toronto Raptors in Tampa. The Heat took the first game in their two-game set on Wednesday night thanks to 28 points (in 35 minutes) from Nunn.

The Heat will be without Butler (health protocols) for the fifth straight game, as well as guard Avery Bradley (health protocols) and center Meyers Leonard (shoulder strain). Tyler Herro (neck) is questionable while guards Goran Dragic (foot) and Gabe Vincent (knee) are probable to play.

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BENGALURU: The Shaman could only converse in the Limbu Language and requested Sonam to translate. We Limbus are the people of the snow and believe that the first man was created from the snow of the Sewalungma. It is the home of our goddess, Yuma Sammang and the other divine deities from our pantheon reside there. We have all descended from the mountain and for us, it is most sacred.

Our ancestors once resided in the Mayel valley, located somewhere in the upper reaches of the mountain and hidden from the world by a gigantic rock, immovable by all but divine force. Human beings are forbidden from entering the valley and the entrance is guarded by fearsome demons. The valley is the gateway to immortality for it contains a gigantic blue lake known as the lake of immortality.

When one dips into it, one ceases to be human and transcends into the divine to become immortal. Humans and gods once coexisted there but human arrogance and their penchant for anger, greed, selfishness and other baser instincts led to them being banished from the valley with a promise that they would never return. It is now solely a preserve of the divine.

For several millennia, the human race adhered to this rule and stayed away from the Sewalungma. The group was mesmerised by the story and listening with rapt attention. Helmut, however, considered myths to be obnoxious fairytales and sat there disdainfully. The shaman took a sip of his hot yak butter tea and continued, Lately, however, humans are increasingly reneging on their promise and are committing sacrilege by setting foot into the realm of the gods.

The all-powerful Yuma Sammangis incensed by the desecration of her home. She has kept silent for all these years, but soon, her rage will manifest itself into a destructive force and consume all those who dare offend her! The shamans eyes lit up as he said these words. The faces of the Sherpas and guides went pale with dread and the Europeans too experienced a degree of trepidation. Sonam ushered the shaman away and escorted him to his hamlet. The last thing he wanted was to scare away the mountaineers for they brought in the big bucks and were an important source of livelihood for the people of the region.

Helmut had observed this entire episode with immense derision and was annoyed with himself for having sat through what he considered to be mumbo-jumbo and the ramblings of a deranged old man. He stood up and retired for the night. The following day, the party recommenced their journey, trekking through several scree slopes and glacial moraines, past the stunning Kanchenjunga glacier, and enjoying spectacular views of the snow-capped mountain ranges. After two days, they finally reached the Kanchenjunga base camp. The group was at the South base camp on the Yulang glacier at an elevation of 5,400 metres.

From here, they would begin their climb to the summit of the Kanchenjunga, which, at 8,586 metres, was the third-highest place on earth. After a few days of training and practice, they began their climb to Camp 1. The terrain was mixedrock interspersed with iceand they encountered several grassy slopes, rock slabs and moraines. The most challenging part was an almost vertical climb up a section of rock and ice, past a moraine and onward onto a steep snow ridge.

While some of the group were struggling, the experienced mountaineer in Helmut waded effortlessly through even the most technical of climbs and impressed the Sherpas and guides. Over the course of the next week, they walked through ice and snow, braved cold and bone-chilling winds, climbed virtual ice walls using ladders and ropes set up by the Sherpas, jumped through narrow crevices and finally reached Camp 3, at a height of 7,300 metres. Helmut grudgingly admired the mountain climbing abilities, skills and untiring endurance of the

Excerpted with permission from The Rock Babas and Other Stories by Ameya Prabhu, published by Westland.

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The valley is the gateway to immortality - The New Indian Express

In the soundtrack of India, cricket is a running song. Tests, ODIs, T20s, IPL the willow seems always on air. But the glut of games has messed up our heads. Theres a melody to every riveting contest that needs time to ripen into memories. The furious rush to market every moment, sadly, reduces the best of bouts to a blur. They are our only permanent takeaways.

But this India-Australia Test series is destined for immortality. Anyone who engaged with it can watch the reruns in their minds eye for the rest of their lives. For this series wasnt just about scoring runs and scalping wickets. No scoreboard can capture the grand human drama that played out over four Tests. The final outcome, 2-1 in Indias favour, was far more improbable than what the scriptwriters of Lagaan had conjured. This was Indias greatest Test series win ever.

Heres why: The travellers were wrapped in a claustrophobic bio-bubble for months. Indias premier batsman and captain Virat Kohli went on paternity leave after the first Test. The team had been decimated for 36, their lowest score ever. The visitors were barracked by racist chants and abuses, ravaged by injuries. None of the five top bowlers on the tour Bumrah, Shami, Yadav, Ashwin and Jadeja were available for the final game in Brisbane.

India could hardly put 11 fit players on the ground. A record 20 players turned out for the four-Test series. The combined wickets taken by Indias makeshift bowling unit before the Gabba game was 13. The Australian quartet of Cummins, Hazelwood, Starc and Lyon had 1,013 between them. The Kangaroos had never lost a Test at the Gabba since 1988.

Adversity poses questions. It tests your character, gnaws at your self-belief. But in the chaos, captain Ajinkya Rahanes men found inspiration. Whenever the team ebbed, someone found the flow. The team on display wasnt just the positive New India that Kohli had spoken about. This was a blend of the Old and the New.

The unflinching obduracy of Pujara, who took more blows to his body than a heavyweight boxer and batted for 1,368 minutes, typified the tenacity of Mohinder Amarnath of yore. He was Indias unshakeable Mountain Man. Hardscrabble batters are second-rate citizens in a country seduced by sixes. Pujaras patience and application were fundamental to Indias replies at Sydney and Brisbane. Before the series, the teams dominant global image was one of pampered, million-dollar babies. This series recast them as the hardy boys of the game. Australia is known for its fighting spirit, a bunch that never gives up. This team offered a taste of Australia to Australia.

This was a collective effort. Captain Rahanes match-winning 112 at Melbourne was singular. But he also emerged as a smart strategist, whos good at field placement and who can maximise frugal resources. The team synergised under him. But Indias biggest pleasures came from unlikely sources. Hanuma Vihari wont send IPL bidders into orgiastic frenzy. But even with a hamstring injury, he battled like the boy on the burning deck in the third Test. R Ashwin, also harangued by pain, rediscovered himself as a batsman. Together they stitched a match-saving partnership. Neither could play the next Test.

India again had its back to the wall at Gabba, where visiting teams were regularly hacked and hung out to dry. And it looked like rinse, wash, repeat as India was precariously perched at 186/6 with one-Test-old Shardul Thakur and debutant Washington Sundar at the crease. But once again, everyone had underestimated this teams stomach for a scrap. In tandem with Thakur, 21-year-old Washington produced his own version of Gettysburg, the epic battle that changed the fortunes of the American civil war. Against the worlds most potent attack playing in its pocket borough, they counter-punched, raising a 123-run partnership to keep India in the hunt.

For some, this tour was like graduating from boys to men. Shubman Gill announced himself as the next big thing of Indian batting, as the latest pay-to-watch batsman in world cricket. At Sydney and Brisbane, Rishabh Pant finally played two game-changing knocks that everyone had been waiting for. He has now earned a seat in the playing 11 on his batting alone. Only Rohit Sharma continues to underachieve abroad. He averages 88 at home and 27 abroad. It is up to selectors to make cost benefit analysis of his value to the side.

If the batsmen put up their hand, so did the bowlers. The bowling attack at Gabba was Indias most inexperienced since the country gained Independence. And yet they bowled out the hosts twice. Thakur took 7 wickets, Mohd Siraj claimed 6, including a vital fifer in the second innings. It was these hard triers who stand at the heart of Indias resistance and revival, who ensured India retains the Border-Gavaskar trophy and who have given India a great chance to play in the World Test Championship final at Lords coming June. The series underlined the power of the collective.

In India and in many other countries as well, the coach is the favourite fall-guy when things go wrong. It is only fair that coach Ravi Shastri and his backroom staff be given some credit for the triumph. To rephrase Dickens, the tour started with the worst of times and ended with the best of times. The vaccine is here. Against all odds, the Aussies were beaten again at home. 2021 is getting better and better.

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Astronomers have excavated a galactic tomb: new discoveries, the most recent by the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) that observes the archaeological record embedded in hundreds of thousands of stars to explore the assembly history and evolution of the Milky Way Galaxy, have unveiled a stunning picture of our home galaxys successive mergers with neighboring galaxies.

Of the tens of thousands of stars we looked at, a few hundred had strikingly different chemical compositions and velocities. These stars are so different that they could only have come from another galaxy. By studying them in detail, we could trace out the precise location and history of this fossil galaxy, said astronomer Danny Horta-Harrington from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in the UK, about the effects of a fossil galaxy, Heracles, named after the ancient Greek hero who received the gift of immortality, that may have collided with the Milky Way ten billion years ago, when our galaxy was still in its infancy, changing understanding of how evolved into the galaxy we see today.

The Galactic Tomb

An all-sky image above shows the stars in the Milky Way as seen from Earth. The colored rings show the approximate extent of the stars that came from the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. The small objects to the lower right of the image are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two small satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. Because galaxies are built through mergers of smaller galaxies across time, the remnants of older galaxies are often spotted in the outer halo of the Milky Way, a huge but very sparse cloud of stars enveloping the main galaxy. But since our Galaxy built up from the inside out, finding the earliest mergers requires looking at the most central parts of the Milky Ways halo, which are buried deep within the disc and bulge.

The remnants of Heracles account for about one third of the Milky Ways spherical halo. But if stars and gas from Heracles make up such a large percentage of the galactic halo, why didnt we see it before, asks the researchers at APOGEE, who discovered the fossil galaxy hidden in the depths of our own Milky Way. The answer, they say, lies in its location deep inside the Milky Way.

The Ancestors Enigmatic Primordial GalaxyKrakenCollided with the Milky Way 11 Billion Years Ago

An artists impression of what the Milky Way might look like seen from above. The colored rings show the rough extent of the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. The yellow dot shows the position of the Sun.

A barred galaxy like the Milky Way. Just left of center, extending about 1/5 of the way out, is a series of red ellipses marking the location of Heracles. The location of the Sun is marked about halfway out, with a scale bar to the Sun saying 26,000 light-years.An artists impression of what the Milky Way might look like seen from above. The colored rings show the rough extent of the fossil galaxy known as Heracles. The yellow dot shows the position of the Sun.

The Chemical Makeup and Motions of Tens of Thousands of Stars

To find a fossil galaxy like this one, we had to look at the detailed chemical makeup and motions of tens of thousands of stars, says Ricardo Schiavon from LJMU, a key member of the research team. That is especially hard to do for stars in the center of the Milky Way, because they are hidden from view by clouds of interstellar dust. APOGEE lets us pierce through that dust and see deeper into the heart of the Milky Way than ever before.

Hiding in Plain Sight Milky Ways Ancient Merger With Fossil Galaxy Gaia-Enceladus

APOGEE does this by taking spectra of stars in near-infrared light, instead of visible light, which gets obscured by dust. Over its ten-year observational life, APOGEE has measured spectra for more than half a million stars all across the Milky Way, including its previously dust-obscured core.

Needles in a Haystack

Horta, the lead author of the paper announcing the result, explains, examining such a large number of stars is necessary to find unusual stars in the densely-populated heart of the Milky Way, which is like finding needles in a haystack. To separate stars belonging to Heracles from those of the original Milky Way, the team made use of both chemical compositions and velocities of stars measured by the APOGEE instrument.

Stars originally belonging to Heracles account for roughly one third of the mass of the entire Milky Way halo today meaning that this newly-discovered ancient collision must have been a major event in the history of our Galaxy. That suggests that our Galaxy may be unusual, since most similar massive spiral galaxies had much calmer early lives.

And this new age of discovery will not end with the completion of APOGEE observations. The fifth phase of the SDSS has already begun taking data, and its Milky Way Mapper will build on the success of APOGEE to measure spectra for ten times as many stars in all parts of the Milky Way, using near-infrared light, visible light, and sometimes both.

The Daily Galaxy, Sam Cabot, via Nature Astronomy and SDSS

Image credit: Danny Horta-Darrington (Liverpool John Moores University), ESA/Gaia, and the SDSS

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Announced in 2012, active development on CD Projekt Red's controversial Cyberpunk 2077 didn't actually begin until several years later.

Although CD Projekt Red'sCyberpunk 2077 was announced in 2012, active development on the controversial game didn't begin until much later.

According toBloomberg, CD Projekt Red employeesclaimed development didn't start until late 2016. At that time,Adam Badowski took over as director and the game underwent a massive overhaul.

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Cyberpunk 2077 has been marred with controversy. Even before its release, which was delayed on three separate occasions, CD Projekt Red made headlines for forcing employees to work overtime (aka crunch). Despite this, the final product was -- by CD Projekt Red's own admission -- not refined for last-gen consoles. Furthermore, players have reported that the game can cause epileptic seizures, with many requesting a warning, as well as a long-term fix for this issue. As such, Sony and Microsoft are now issuing full refunds to those who request them, while PlayStation even pulled the game from the PlayStation Store altogether.

"After 3 delays, we as the Management Board were too focused on releasing the game," CD Projekt Red Co-CEO Adam Kiciski explained. "We underestimated the scale and complexity of the issues, we ignored the signals about the need for additional time to refine the game on the base last-gen consoles. It was the wrong approach and against our business philosophy. On top of that, during the campaign, we showed the game mostly on PCs."

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CD Projekt Red has issued several apologies since the game's Dec. 10, 2020 release, with the most recent arrivingon Jan. 13. "We are committed to fixing bugs and crashes and will continue to work and improve the game via future updates to make sure you are enjoying the game regardless of the platform," thecompany wrote. "We will use this space to inform you about the progress being made on Cyberpunk 2077s further development, including information about updates and improvements, free DLCs and more."

Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a megalopolis obsessed with power, glamour and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality. You can customize your characters cyberware, skillset and playstyle, and explore a vast city where the choices you make shape the story and the world around you.

Developed by CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077 is available now on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and PC.

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Jon Arvedon is CBR's lead news editor and began working for the site in 2017. Hes been an avid superhero fan since he was a young child, though it wasnt until much later in life that he finally began venturing into the actual comic books that made those characters so popular in the first place. Nevertheless, he immediately developed a strong passion for the medium and began aggressively expanding his knowledge, using any and all downtime at his old office job to scour the depths of Marvel Unlimited, comiXology and the occasional wiki page to help fill in the gaps. His love of comics is rivaled only by that of his love for Star Wars. If you're so inclined, you can follow Jon on Twitter at @JonArvedon.

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