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Get it from Target for $10.
20. Stash your sweet treats in the cranium of this brainiac bust to ward off candy thieves.
Your new brain-candy hiding spot.
21. Cushion a favorite armchair with a simple skull throw pillow.
It almost looks prim and proper.
Get it from Grandin Road for $44.
22. Elevate tapers with black candelabras set for levitation.
Matte black = extra drama.
Get it from World Market. $24.99 (3-arm), $29.99 (5-arm).
23. Set out this salt-and-pepper duo for a ghoulish table.
"What do you have rattling around in your skull?" "Extra seasoning."
Get the set from Target for $6.
24. Prevent water stains with these slice-o-brain coasters that stack to assemble a great mind.
The only brain drain will be in your drinking glass.
25. Create the illusion of wax spillage with a candle holder that will protect your tabletops.
The creepy effect without the mess.
Get it from KinaCeramics on Etsy for $19.99.
26. Slip an all-seeing book in with your other tomes for a subtle addition amongst your favorite editions.
Get it from CraftMenagerieCA on Etsy for $25.
27. Create a dark glow with black-tinted string lights.
Get a set of 25-bulb string from Urban Outfitters for $34.
28. Sip out of a dainty sugar-skill tea set as festive drinkware.
The sugar skull is wearing a bow so you know it's dainty AF.
Get the set from AngiolettiDesigns on Etsy for $25+.
29. Show Edgar Allan Poe some love with this "nevermore" sign that'll look handsome by your book collection.
Not a bad excuse to revisit The Raven.
Get it from JandMoDesign on Etsy for $35.
30. Dare little hands to eat candy before dinner when it's housed in this gaping skull candy bowl.
The distressed surface makes this feel like it's been around for a while—and is staying that way.
31. Get wrapped up in chores with a graphic mummy tea towel.
Drying dishes won't feel so aimless.
Get it from World Market for $5.99.
32. Play Charlotte's Web by using this spidery placemat in your table settings.
One way to ensnare compliments over your cooking.
33. Hang a fanged skull as an intimidating greeter.
Guaranteed to blow your faux taxidermy out of the murky water.
Get it from KINGFOUR on Etsy for $59.99.
34. Shoot back stiff drinks with these skull shot glasses that manage to look top-shelf.
Sipping (instead of picking) someone's brain.
Get the set from Plow & Hearth for $11.99.
Leading life insurer Prudential has made a �9bn bid for investment group M&G.
M&G, the UK's second-biggest provider of unit trust investments and personal equity plans (Peps) to private retail investors, is supporting the bid.
The move signals a further strategic shift by Prudential as it diversifies away from its insurance-based business to offer investors trust-based investment products. The deal is expected to make Pru the biggest provider of unit trusts to UK investors.
Prudential's finance director Jonathan Bloomer said there were few job losses expected from either M&G's 1,100 workers or Prudential's 20,000 employees.
Sir Peter Davis, chief executive of Prudential said: "The combination of Prudential and M&G creates leading market positions in the UK retail insurance and investment product sectors.
The takeover will see extra �.5bn in funds under management and 725,000 investors come under Prudential's wing. The move will allow Pru to garner a larger share of the growing savings and pensions business, soon to be boosted in the UK by the advent of stakeholder pensions and individual savings account (Isas).
Pru's offer amounts to � per M&G share, a 40% premium to its closing share price on Wednesday. M&G shares surged 39% towards the offer price after the news.
Michael McLintock, chief executive of M&G, said: "The offer represents good value for M&G shareholders, whilst allowing M&G to retain its identity within the enlarged group.
"I am confident that Prudential is the right partner to provide the resources and distribution necessary to maximise M&G's potential."
Major shareholder Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust has accepted the offer leaving the approval of other shareholders including CU Investment Management, the investment arm of insurance group CGU and Royal & Sun Alliance, to be sought.
Prudential says when M&G is absorbed it will remain a stand alone fund manager alongside its existing fund management business PPM but that its smaller pensions and insurance lines will be integrated with Pru's.
Cost savings from the tie-up are forecast to amount to �m a year.
The deal represents a further step in the rapid expansion of the Prudential which has recently launched its "Egg" banking service and which bought the Scottish Amicable insurance company two years ago.
Managed comms outfit KCOM Group continues to power through the second half of its fiscal 2010, according to an interim management statement released today.
2010, according to an interim management statement released today.
The group's performance to the end of December 2009 was roughly in line with previous expectations, KCOM said in a statement, noting that performance was underpinned by the resilience of its Kingston Communications unit, and improvements at its managed services arm Kcom, known as Affiniti until last autumn.
KCOM claimed the progress it has made will see it exit the year in a much stronger position, both financially and competitively.
Executive chairman Bill Halbert said: "The group continues to make good progress, focusing on strengthening the profitability of the activities that we undertake and the delivery of higher value-added, recurring revenues."
The firm also announced a new five-year managed services contract with mobile phone retailer Phones4U, which will see it take over the chain's entire network function.
"The contact illustrates the new opportunities available to us following our agreement with BT," commented Halbert.
NORTHBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, UL, a global safety science organization, officially opened its new Consumer and Retail Services (CRS) Testing Laboratory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The state of the art laboratory spans over 1,300 square meters and expands capacity in the region to test toys and premiums, t...
Keith Williams, UL CEO & President, Sajeev Jesudas, President of UL Consumer Business and Weifang Zhou, President of UL Ventures business joined more than 100 government officials, representatives from local industry associations and clients for the grand opening.
The new laboratory marks a milestone in UL’s regional business expansion for testing, inspection and audit services, and charts the course for additional collaboration in other significant areas to Vietnam such as furniture.
The new laboratory opening follows the recent acquisition of U.S. based Consumer Testing Laboratories (CTL) to further expand UL capacity for consumer testing services. Together with Quatest III, the collaboration enables UL to provide technical training that deepens Vietnam’s scientific excellence and that builds out ...
The new lab is located at Lot C5, Conurbation 2, Cat Lai Industrial Zone, Thanh My Loi Ward, District 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The United States is mulling starting testing later this year types of missiles that were banned by a decades-old nuclear treaty, U.S. media reported on Wednesday.
The projects expected to be launched include a low-flying cruise missile with a potential range of about 1,000 km and a ballistic missile with a range of roughly 3,000-4,000 km, reported U.S. media citing anonymous Pentagon officials.
Neither of the missiles will be nuclear-armed, the officials added.
The cruise missile will possibly be flight-tested in August, according to one of the officials.
Pentagon's plan came over a month after the Trump administration announced in early February that the United States was withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in six months, starting from Feb. 2.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also signed a decree earlier this month suspending Russia's compliance with the INF Treaty with immediate effect.
Signed in 1987 between the Soviet Union and the United States, the INF Treaty marked the first-ever pact reached by Washington and Moscow on nuclear disarmament and a major step forward in restricting the arms race.
Leif Tilden will direct from a script by Marc Novak, based on the novel by Jeremy Jackson.
Booth stars as a rural teen who’s forced to transfer schools after a tragic accident claims the lives of his friends. Teegarden will play his hometown soul mate, while Robb will play an over-achiever who struggles to break through his grief and defenses.
Billy Crudup is set to co-star as Booth’s coach and confidante.
‘Speeds’ is the first film exec produced by Sam Rockwell, and Cinema Revival’s Scott William Alvarez is producing with Peter Holden and F.X. Vitolo. Pic is skedded to start production in late March in Mississippi.
Robb recently toplined “Soul Surfer” and is currently voicing a lead role in the 3D animal cartoon “Khumba.” Thesp is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.
Teegarden is repped by Innovative Artists and Felker, Toczek, Gellman, Suddleson.
Eurogroup, Greeks Reach Agreement On A Bailout Plan A frantic weekend of activity in Brussels resulted in a new financial rescue deal for Greece, preventing a near-term exit from the Eurozone.
A frantic weekend of activity in Brussels resulted in a new financial rescue deal for Greece, preventing a near-term exit from the Eurozone.
All-night negotiations between European leaders and Greece ended this Monday morning with this announcement by European Council President Donald Tusk.
DONALD TUSK: Today, we had only one objective - to reach an agreement. We have finally reached it. Someone can say that we have an aGreekment (ph).
MONTAGNE: A moment of humor after so much pain and effort. This new bailout agreement with Greece should save it from financial collapse. We go now to NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson in Brussels where the agreement was reached. Good morning.
MONTAGNE: Break down for us what the Europeans and Greece have come up with.
NELSON: Well, the document states in principle that negotiations will start for an actual bailout once this whole flurry of conditions are met. For one, the Greek Parliament tomorrow or Wednesday has to approve not only this agreement, but they have to legislate things they have already agreed to, for example, value-ad...
MONTAGNE: Well, Soraya, take us back for a moment and remind us how this saga played out and why it was so difficult for these leaders to reach a deal.
NELSON: Well, it comes down to one word, and that is trust. There was none anymore. I mean, basically, the Greek government that came into power earlier this year was just resisting anything that the eurozone leaders or that its eurozone partners were putting down as conditions for the bailout. They said, you know, we'...
But the - on the other hand, the eurozone leaders and the critics that were basically led by Germany were saying, you and Greece have never really maintained your pledges. We keep pouring money in, and it's going nowhere. And they really wanted some sort of agreement that would allow creditors to be repaid. And so this...
So the particular things that were very ominous this weekend is that there was a threat of expulsion for Greece from the euro, basically taking of assets to pay creditors. And Tsipras, the prime minister of Greece, held out. He wanted to make sure there were some - some measure of Greece sort of hanging onto it, if you...
MONTAGNE: And just briefly, banks in Greece have been closed, and they cannot wait for negotiations on details of this bailout. So what's going to happen? Is there going to be interim money coming in?
NELSON: There hopefully will be. That's the plan, anyway. Today the European Central Bank and the finance ministers in separate meetings will be talking about the so-called bridge financing because it's going to take weeks to negotiate an actual bailout program for Greece, which will also exceed the $60 billion that Gr...
So why bother being good? In a world where stinkers often get away with all sorts of terrible things and good people often get it in the neck, one might wonder.
For many faiths, there are the punishments and rewards of the afterlife to motivate us to be good on earth. But not everyone spends a lot of time pondering these future realms or even believing in them. So then, why bother to be good?
But there is a wonderful old Hasidic legend that addresses this issue, with the suggestion that more might be at stake in this life than you think.
According to a very old Jewish mystical tradition, at all times in history there are 36 righteous men who wander the earth unknown to everyone else, including one another. These are the Lamed-Vavnik, or the Tzadikim Nistarim.
These men, who wander the earth unknown, are absolutely critical to the existence of the human race, because as long as they continue to exist, the anger of almighty God is held back from the earth for their sake. Even if the world were to become completely depraved, for the sake of these few righteous men, doom will n...
The inspiration for this medieval idea certainly has its roots in the Bible. In Chapter 18 of the Book of Genesis, God descends to earth to visit Abraham, to inform the patriarch that his wife Sarah would bear a child in their old age. After this, the Lord announced that he intended to visit the city of Sodom because t...
Abraham interceded for the people of Sodom, asking the Almighty if he would not spare the city if only he found 50 righteous men there. The Lord agreed to this, whereupon Abraham argued God down to 45, and then 40, and then 30, and even down to 20 and then to 10.
Abraham’s debate with God is one of my favorite Bible stories, and it makes a gracious point – for the sake of the few God might spare the many.
In Genesis, God will spare Sodom for the sake of 10. The number 10 is certainly a sacred one and there are many examples of groups of 10 in the Bible, beginning with the 10 sons of Jacob who went down into Egypt. But while the unknown worthy men of Sodom accounts for the principle of hidden righteous ones, where does t...

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