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Tame Impala make psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music intended for moving one's body to and for keeping still and observing other
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forms of movement. The Perth based band consists of members Kevin Parker, Dom Simper and Jay Watson. An EP of five home recorded tracks: Beginning with Desire Be, Desire Go's, Slide Through My Fingers, Half Full Glass Of Wine and 41 Mosquitoes Flying In Formation's is due out soon.
The Vines greet the world with the kind of blinking, wide eyed enthusiasm of a band just out of the garage band when in reality they experienced an accelerated career, lived out very publicly in a whirlwind of brilliant pop records, legendary gigs and gruelling world tours. In six short years released four albums: Highly Evolved, Winning Days, Vision Valley and Melodia. Melodia features fourteen new songs, including new single He’s A Rocker.
In 2006 Grizzly Bear released their first album Yellow House. One year ago band members, singer/songwriter Ed Droste, drummer Christopher Bear, bassist Chris Taylor and singer/songwriter/
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A suit seeking the disqualification of the Peoples Democratic Party senatorial candidate for the Osun Central Senatorial District has been filed before the Federal High
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Court in Osogbo.
The plaintiff in the suit, Ibraheem Khalid of Ward 7, Olorunda Local Government Area of Osun State, alleged that the PDP senatorial candidate, Ganiyu Olaoluwa, lacked the requisite academic qualification to stand for election.
Khalid, in the suit, claimed that Olaoluwa did not attend Ikosi High School, Lagos State, between 1982-1988, contrary to the information he allegedly supplied to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
“From the records available in the school, the individual in question, Ganiyu Ayobami Olaoluwa, was not sighted in the school’s register, most especially between the years 1982 and 1988 as claimed by him,” Khalid averred in the affidavit supporting his suit.
The defendants in the suit are Olaoluwa and INEC.
The court has yet to fix a date to hear the
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Ashton Sautner will be in St. Louis on Saturday, but his heart will be 2,400 kilometres away.
The Vancouver Canucks
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face the Blues in their regular-season finale and the significance of the date is not lost on anybody with a connection to the sport and the human spirit.
Sautner had close ties to the tragic Humboldt Broncos bus collision on April 6, 2018, that claimed 16 lives, injured 13 and resulted in 29 charges against a tractor-trailer driver, who received an eight-year jail sentence.
The Canucks defenceman knew Broncos assistant coach Mark Cross, who died in the crash. He knows of the Humboldt arena where his father, Blaine, coached in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League. And he knows what his uncle, Kevin Garinger, endured as team president in four agonizing months of being the public face of the tragedy before stepping down from the position last summer.
Sautner also knows how small-town pride and compassion can lead to remarkable resolve and leave a lasting impression with inspiring initiatives — including a highly successful organ-donation drive —
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Is Marvel's fascist Captain America losing command of his fans?
Marvel has had a tough year. Embroiled in controversy after controversy over its
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current Captain America storyline, the comic book studio has been in damage control mode since last July, when it revealed that their stars-and-stripes-adorned hero was actually part of Hydra, a crypto-Nazi group.
The superhero was created by two Jewish men back in the 1940s, and made his debut by socking Hitler across the face, so readers were shocked to learn that the once proudly all-American Steve Rogers had sided with a fascistic terror group. This twist, which was masterminded by comic writer Nick Spencer, has run through various Marvel comic series, including Captain America: Steve Rogers, Captain America: Sam Wilson and the ongoing Secret Empire.
As Marvel’s own in-universe history says, Hydra and the Nazis aren’t exactly one and the same – but amid the backlash, readers won’t necessarily have recognised the distinction between the Nazis and a proxy group founded by a Nazi (Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker). Petitions
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COEUR d'ALENE - The nonprofit Coeur d'Alene Glass Recycling Co. founder said recycling will continue in 2014
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Founder Ben Mello said last month it looked like operations would cease, as the pulverized glass - called cullet - was building up in the warehouse and there weren't enough takers of the free material.
"This past month, we have started working with a number of local individuals and agencies to use the glass cullet," Mello said. He started the nonprofit with his wife, Melissa, earlier this year.
Local Boy Scout troop 201 is among the consumers of the cullet who have emerged since Mello said the nonprofit was on the verge of going under.
The scouts are bagging the cullet for traction bags, which are being sold at Ace Hardware and Big R. The scouts are receiving money to benefit the troop.
"Also, the city of Coeur d'Alene has expressed an interest in using the cullet," he said.
In November, Mello said the nonprofit was sitting on approximately 60 18-gallon bins filled
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Turkey fraud probe: Tip of the iceberg?
With a high-level corruption scandal embarrassing the prime minister, we ask what it means for him
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and his AK Party.
A wide-ranging corruption scandal has engulfed the highest levels of the Turkish government.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reshuffled his cabinet, and replaced 10 ministers, after the three who were implicated in the scandal resigned.
Erdogan had long ago announced that the cabinet was due for a reshuffle. But it has not stopped talk of a deepening crisis at the heart of the government - one that the prime minister is failing to control.
If the resignations had come just after the probe started they would have been more meaningful.… There is an impression among the society that actually what we have seen is the tip of the iceberg. People think there is more to the story.
Of the three ministers to quit, Environment Minister Erdogan Bayraktar has the potential to hurt the prime minister the most. Despite being Erdogan's long-time ally, he refused to go quietly, saying the prime minister should follow suit.
But Erdogan insists his government is
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Fluffy, furry and warm. Sounds like pets would make pretty good pillows.
When Patty Moore says she has found comfort in her pet
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dog’s death, she means it quite literally.
She made the 10-pound terrier into a pillow. Well, the dog’s ashes at least. Moore hasn’t stopped there and now runs a company that furnishes tons of worldwide orders for dead pet pillows.
The company is called Soft-hearted Pillows, and Moore has been making a killing. She takes the ashes of dead dogs, cats, birds and even rabbits and sews them into embroidered pillows with the animal’s name on it. It’s a treasured keepsake, albeit a creepy one, Moore admits.
Most pet lovers can’t seem to let go of their dead four-legged friends so the idea isn’t so far fetched. Many pet owners cremate their pets and others go so far as to have the animals stuffed so they can still touch their furry friend.
So, in a sense, pet pillows are
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This just in: Donald Trump is still a moron.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, POTUS doubled down on his insane
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conspiracy theories concerning the ongoing Florida recounts. Trump claimed U.S. elections have been undermined by widespread voter fraud—a myth that has been consistently debunked—and that the only way to combat these alleged crimes is to implement stricter ID laws.
"The Republicans don't win and that's because of potentially illegal votes," Trump whined, presumably about the GOP's recent midterms defeat. "When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It's really a disgrace what’s going on."
Oh, but it gets worse. Trump went on to suggest that the U.S. voting process should be similar to—wait for it—the process of buying a box of cereal. No, really.
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This is the most important decision the Wild will make this season because the roster figures to be pretty similar to what it was last year. Will it
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be a retread, a fresh talent or someone else?
The Star Tribune’s Michael Russo outlined several key issues facing the Wild this offseason in a great piece today. Of particular note to me, though, is the impending coaching search. This is the most important decision the Wild will make this season because the roster figures to be pretty similar (again) to what it was last year. It will be up to a new coach to get more consistency and production out of the same group of players.
Russo tossed out several names of potential candidates and divided them into categories. I won’t pretend to attempt to add to this list, but let’s work through those names a bit in an attempt to guess what direction the Wild will and/or should go.
Randy Carlyle: The 60-year-old won a Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007 and would bring a strong voice to the locker room. His all-time coaching record of 364-260
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The couple will be taking their custody battle before a judge.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been in a bitter custody battle over their
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six kids since they split in 2016. They’ve fought over money, child support and custody. After a temporary agreement expired, the stars are now headed to court regarding their children. Keep reading for more details.
Angelina and Brad’s custody showdown is set to begin on December 4, according to court documents obtained by Radaronline.com. The hearing is going to be in front of a temporary judge and won’t be public.
The documents also state that they’ll split the cost of the judge’s services.
According to ET, the Hollywood A-listers had reached “an interim custody arrangement” that allowed the actor to have custody of the kids through the summer.
The estranged couple is fighting over their brood of six: 17-year-old Maddox, 14-year-old Pax, 13-year-old Zahara, 12-year-old Shiloh and 10-year-old twins
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Net profit was down to Rs 301 crore from Rs 421 crore in the corresponding quarter in 2017.
The company's net profit in the same quarter
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of 2017-18 was at Rs 421 crore.
Mumbai: ICICI Prudential Life Insurance posted a 28.5 per cent decline in net profit during the quarter ended September 30, 2018. Net profit was down to Rs 301 crore from Rs 421 crore in the corresponding quarter in 2017. Net income is up 16 per cent while income from investment was down 56.35 per cent in the quarter.
Income from investments declined from Rs 2,812 crore in the quarter ended September 2017 to Rs 1,227 crore in the quarter ended September 2018 due to volatile market conditions.
“Despite volatile markets, opportunities in both savings and protection continue to be robust for life insurers,” said NS Kannan, MD & CEO, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance. “This underlines the long-term nature of the business.” The value of new business of the insurer grew by 41.5 per cent to Rs 590 crore for the
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The run-up to Dover was the most tumultuous week in Chase history.
The run-up to Dover was the most tumultuous week in Chase
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history. First, the car of New Hampshire winner Clint Bowyer failed inspection three days after the race. While Bowyer got to keep the win, he was docked 150 points. So in terms of the standings, Bowyer’s “win” was the equivalent of a 40th-place finish. Then points leader Denny Hamlin, the New Hampshire runner-up, took a dig at Richard Childress Racing, declaring that he’d had “the fastest legal car” at Loudon. That prompted a skirmish at Dover between Hamlin and Bowyer’s Richard Childress Racing teammate, Kevin Harvick. During practice. But after all the bluster, there was a sense of same ol’, same ol’ by the time Dover’s AAA 400 ended. As he’s done in so many other Chase races during his four-year reign as champion, Jimmie Johnson ruled. He won the pole
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The Senate Ethics Committee said Thursday that Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez, who avoided conviction in a federal corruption trial last year, violated federal law and
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Senate rules in accepting unreported gifts from a friend and political ally.
The Ethics Committee findings complete a winding, six-year saga in which the New Jersey senator was accused of corrupt dealings to benefit a political donor, Melgen, only to see his prosecution end in a mistrial in November after 10 weeks in court.
As long as Menendez repays the gifts, he is unlikely to face further official sanctions. But the stern reprimand stands to cloud his pending campaign for a third Senate term, though he retains an advantage as a Democratic incumbent in a liberal-leaning state.
“With the Ethics Committee process now concluded, Sen. Menendez looks forward to continuing to serve the people of New Jersey,” Elias added.
After the mistrial, most jurors told reporters that they believed Menendez had not committed the crimes federal prosecutors alleged and a grand jury had charged him with. On Jan. 31, a judge dismissed all charges against Menendez after prosecutors decided not to
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HIGH living costs continue to prevent Slovaks from moving for work. In turn, due to the low mobility of the workforce in Slovakia, industrial
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companies expect that in the future they will suffer from shortages of qualified labour.
The PSA Peugeot-Citroen car plant in Trnava, for example, has noticed a lack of interest among people from central and eastern Slovakia in working at its new plant, with only 15 percent of the 41,000 job applications it has received coming from these areas of the country, the Hospodárske noviny reported.
According to PSA's human resources director, Barbora Šípošová, over the next four years more than 50,000 new workers will be needed in the mechanical engineering and automobile industries. "The unwillingness of people to move is not only influenced by the Slovak mentality, but also by the high costs of living and the lack of housing," said Šípošová.
The property price boom in Trnava and Žilina, the sites of the country's large new auto factories,
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In response to explosive sales interest and the need
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for future development, Cipherloc Corporation (OTCQB:CLOK) announces the upcoming opening of its new Office of Development and Sales location in Texas, near Austin.
Austin is sometimes referred to as the "Silicon Hills", mainly due to the large number of technology companies who make their home there. The Austin area includes such top companies as 3M, Dell, Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard, Google, Facebook, AMD, Applied Materials, Cirrus Logic, Cisco Systems, eBay/PayPal, Bioware, Blizzard Entertainment, Hoover's, Intel Corporation, National Instruments, Samsung Group, Silicon Laboratories, Oracle Corporation, Hostgator, and United Devices that have operations in this Central Texas technology hot spot.
"This is the next logical step for Cipherloc. Our new facility positions us right in the midst of this high-tech hot spot. Austin is the perfect place for such an endeavor, and the timing couldn't be more perfect, as Cipherloc,
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Missy Elliot, Morgan Freeman, Busta Rhymes and Peter Dinklage have appeared in a new commercial set to be screened at the
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Superbowl.
In it, Missy Elliott coaches Freeman and Busta Rhymes coaches Dinklage ahead of the actor’s head to head challenge.
The full battle between Freeman and Dinklage is set to premiere during the full commercial.
The rappers give them a series of tongue-twisters to practise with often hilarious consequences. You can watch the teaser for the commercial below.
Justin Timberlake is set to perform at next month’s Superbowl, causing rumours that his former boyband N-Sync could reunite at the event.
JT and his bandmates went their separate ways in 2002. Though they announced their split as a “temporary hiatus” at the time, they haven’t recorded together since. Five years later, Lance Bass confirmed they had “definitely broken up”.
The group did however join Timberlake on stage during his MTV VMA performance in 2013.
Now, ahead of
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Intel Corp. agreed to sell a majority stake in its computer-security unit to private-equity firm TPG, partly reversing a five-
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year-old acquisition that has largely proved disappointing.
TPG will take a 51% stake in the business in a deal that values it at $4.2 billion including debt, Intel said in a statement Wednesday confirming an earlier report in The Wall Street Journal. The business, recently called Intel Security, will use the McAfee name originally associated with it.
Intel's security business was originally known for antivirus programs. But it has branched into other varieties of software aimed at preventing attackers from breaking into corporate networks. In the first half revenue rose 11% to $1.1 billion.
Intel bought McAfee for $7.7 billion in 2011 as the chip giant sought to diversify. It paid a lofty 60% premium, causing some analysts to worry the technology giant was overpaying and moving too far beyond its expertise in designing computer chips.
The move is now generally regarded as a disappointment. Intel, which has long looked for successful franchises beyond the
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Chippewa Falls freelance photographer Tony Wilder captured the northern lights over Lake Wissota last night. The solar flare activity causing the northern
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lights is expected to continue tonight.
A small solar flare erupted from the sun early Sunday, shooting out a burst of plasma like milk blown through a straw at 2.5 million miles an hour.
Headed toward Earth, the solar activity - called a coronal mass ejection - created a beautiful aurora borealis Tuesday night and Wednesday morning captured by photographers in northern Wisconsin and elsewhere on the planet. Conditions are ripe for a repeat of the show the rest of this week.
If you live in southern Wisconsin, you'll need conditions to cooperate to get a look at the aurora borealis. The best viewing requires clear skies.
In Chippewa Falls, freelance photographer Tony Wilder grabbed his camera and tripod and headed out around 11 p.m. Tuesday.
"You could definitely see the bright green," Wilder said. "You drive along the highway, you could see this bright green halo to the north. We had cloud cover but it didn't matter
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Opportunity for a qualified ACA/ACCA Audit & Accounts Executive to develop their career with a Top 20 firm.
As Audit & Accounts
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Executive you will be working in a team, reporting to Manager and Partner level working closely with clients, managing junior staff and developing your technical, commercial and people management skills.
Candidates matching the requirements or Audit and Accounts Executive position looking for a part-time or flexible role, which is workable around other commitments, will be considered for this opportunity alongside full time applicants.
Planning Audit assignments for multi million turnover SMEs.
Managing and supervising junior staff with involvement in their training and development.
Significant client contact, being an integral part of the communication process with clients.
Involved with business advisory requirements and an opportunity to work on projects for clients.
ACA or ACCA fully qualified with practice experience at Audit and Accounts Executive level.
For this role as Audit & Accounts Executive It is essential that you have relevant Practice experience and in particular already have a sound knowledge of auditing Owner Managed Businesses.
If you are fully qualified ACA or ACCA with
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After months of rumours, Amazon confirmed that it’s now officially launching its Alexa smart assistant to Canada.
Amazon Echo – the original voice
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-controlled speaker that provides Alexa access will be available in Sandstone, heather grey, and charcoal. It will be available at launch for an “introductory price” of $99. Regular price is $129.99.
Echo Dot – the compact device that is designed to extend Alexa into multiple rooms, or connect with a better speaker, is available in black and white. It’s being introduced for $49.99 and its regular price is $69.99.
Echo Plus – The recently-introduced sequel to the original Echo features all the Alexa features, plus ZigBee wireless smart home connections. Its introductory price is $169.99 and regular is $199.99.
Air Canada will allow customers to check for information on flights, ticket prices, and baggage carousel updates.
In addition to the Echo hardware, Amazon is releasing its Prime Music service to Canada. That allows members of the Amazon Prime service to access the cloud music service
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One glance at the Hope Café in Midland, Dimapur can easily make anyone fall in love with its structure and interior designing. However,
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the enthralling factor of the café happens to be something else, unknown to those apart from its customers. A visit was made and the discovery injected in a realization that a 500 words article wouldn’t be able to contain its cosmic sublime nature.
Welcomed with a smile, our orders were taken by a woman who was particularly very silent, yet vigilant and little was it known that, we’ll be leaving the café knowing Khareimy was not just a quite woman, rather an extraordinary person who possessed covetous potentials. The next thing our eyes fell on was the frames hung on the wall, opposite to the painting of the café’s logo and a motivational bible verse neatly written. The basic sign language and motivational quotes were the ones framed and that was enough for the light bulbs to go off in our heads.
Although from the Tangkhul tribe, Khareimy was born and brought up in Dimapur and found education in,
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How tough is this stuff?
Have you ever seen a paper skyscraper? Probably not, because paper is not strong enough to withstand the forces
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acting on a skyscraper. Hold a "tug-push-twist-o'war" to find out which materials can best withstand different forces.
Before you test the materials, predict which ones will be strongest in tension, which in compression, and which in torsion.
1. First make a table to record your results. You�ll rate each material for each type of stress.
2. Tug: To test the material in tension, pull on it from both ends. Record your rating and any observations in the table.
3. Push: To test the material in compression, push it together from both ends. Record your rating and any observations.
4. Twist: To test the material in torsion, twist the two ends in different directions. Record your rating and any observations.
5. Repeat Steps 24 for each material.
1 Very weak! It crumples or breaks with hardly any force.
2 Only
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European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso, left, alongside Atle Leikvoll, Norwegian Ambassador to the EU, after the Nobel Peace
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Prize was announced Friday.
Russian human rights activists expressed dismay at the news that the EU will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
"First they give [it] to Obama, then to the European Union. Who is next? Maybe the Shanghai Cooperation Organization," veteran campaigner Lyudmila Alexeyeva quipped to Interfax, referring to a regional security watchdog dominated by Russia and China that is widely seen as ineffective.
U.S. President Barack Obama won the prize in 2009, triggering widespread criticism because he had been in office for only nine months then.
Observers and oddsmakers had said ahead of Friday's announcement of the 2012 prize winner that the Nobel Committee could choose to highlight human rights issues in Russia with the award.
Instead, the committee announced that the prize would go to the European Union for promoting unity on the Continent, in what was seen as an attempt to boost morale amid an abiding debt crisis in member states.
Alexeyeva, who co
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“You were as responsible for everything you saw as you were for everything you did,” wrote Michael Herr in his Vietnam memoir Dis
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patches. I’m not sure he was right, but in the early 1990s, I wanted to find out. I was working as a journalist in Boston and the Vietnam War still hung in the air. The POW-MIA flag flew over the local police station. Psychologists and journalists were writing at length about post-traumatic stress disorder and the veterans who had it. I never went to Vietnam — I was only four years old when President Johnson sent his first troops — but I had an inkling of what it had done to Americans’ image of themselves. I began to wonder if the country’s growing fascination with veterans and trauma reflected a loss of something cultural too, of the myths that up till then had organized our national identity. And if it did, I thought, then perhaps Americans were suffering from a species of collective trauma. Perhaps our civilian memories were as disordered in their way as those of our traumatized combat veterans. Perhaps those of us at home
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Session fixation attacks rely on poorly managed Web application cookies. Rob Shapland answers a reader’s question on session fixation protection.
Question
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: What is session fixation and how can I protect my users from it?
Session fixation is a vulnerability caused by incorrectly handling user sessions in a Web application. A user’s session is usually tracked by a cookie, which is assigned when the user visits the page with the Web application for the first time. The problem occurs when this cookie does not change for the duration of the browsing session; users authenticate and log out, but their session cookie remains the same. This is often the default behaviour of an application.
This introduces a flaw into the authentication process. If a malicious user visits the Web application (usually from a shared computer, for example in a library), he or she would be assigned a session cookie. The malicious user could then record the cookie’s value and leave the browser open. If another user then arrives and authenticates from the same machine, the malicious user would now have the session cookie of an authenticated user, and, using simple tools, could send a
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Standardized test opt-out: Senate says kids still have to show up for tests.
If only a random fraction of the students supposed to
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take the tests do so, many of the kids most at risk will be encouraged to stay home.
Should annual standardized testing be required—or as required as No Child Left Behind made it—or should parents be allowed to keep their kids at home on testing days? As both houses of Congress attempt to rewrite the controversial bill and update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that was one of the bigger questions being lobbed around the two chambers recently.
Current federal law mandates that at least 95 percent of students at every school participate in the controversial standardized assessments. Schools that receive federal Title I funds can (at least in theory) be dinged if they fail to meet this threshold; for other schools, there are no such hard-and-fast consequences. So what happens if, say, an eye-popping 1 in 6 eligible kids opts out of the testing, as they did in New York state this year? Pretty much nothing—for all the threats, there is no real mechanism
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LA Fleet Week kicked off Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, with visitors taking in military exhibits, touring active-duty ships and enjoying some music
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, food and cold brews at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro.
Because it is a work and school day, Friday made for a perfect opening, said Arley Baker, senior director of communications for the port. “It’s an ideal ramp-up day,” he said. “Today we provided some limited mobility tours that went well.” Crowds typically build through the weekend and more than 200,000 people are expected to attend the festivities that run through Monday, Labor Day. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. On opening night Friday, a red carpet premier featuring cast members of the Amazon Prime series “Jack Ryan” was planned on board the Battleship Iowa. Among the most-anticipated highlights will be Saturday night’s sold-out Beach Boys concert followed by a laser show. “This is our third year at it and I think each year it’s a
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BALANCED FLAVORS: The gorgonzola adn basil-roasted hamachi was served with peppery radicchio
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Since it opened in 2003, Mike Selig's Vermillion has joined the shining stars on Little Rock's culinary map, and not just because the food is good. The modern space is comfortable and unpretentious but dressed up, lovely. Here is where the movers and shakers eat, but you don't have to be a bigwig to be welcomed.
Back to the food. Just past the gleaming black granite bar at the front of the restaurant is the raw bar, where there's a delectable assembly of fresh tuna flown in from Hawaii and served sashimi style, oysters on the half shell, shrimp, mussels and clams. Vermillion was formerly named Vermillion's Water Grille, and the raw bar and the murals on the walls (originals by John Deering) hearken back to Selig's first love — fish.
Take the insalada caprese. The fresh Arkansas tomato was served with a tr
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Catholic Charities of Buffalo officials and volunteer leaders announced an $11 million goal for the 2016 Appeal Jan. 6. Monsignor David S.
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Slubecky, Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Buffalo, representing The Most Reverend Richard J. Malone, Bishop of Buffalo who was unable to attend, made the announcement at a kick-off event held at the new Catholic Charities Health Care Center for refugee clients and the community, located in the former Nativity Roman Catholic Church on Buffalo’s West Side. The theme for the 2016 Appeal is “Find Good Within” and the patron saint of the 92nd annual Appeal is St. Nicholas.
The Appeal helps fund Catholic Charities’ 70 programs across 61 sites in the eight counties of Western New York along with Bishop’s Fund for the Faith.
Two important dates during the 2016 Appeal include First Report Sunday on March 13 and the culmination of Appeal Week on Palm Sunday, March 20. Although Appeal Week marks the strongest push for parish donations, volunteers will work to achieve the final goal by the conclusion of the organization�
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At the heart of the “stay forever” arguments that Beltway elites tend to make is the belief that to withdraw any troops from the
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Middle East is to invite attack against the United States. That is not true.
National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both recently made overt assertions that despite President Donald Trump’s declarations to the contrary, U.S. troops should remain until “every last Iranian boot” is out of Syria. In other words: forever.
Despite what establishment Washington voices say, the perpetual deployment of U.S. combat troops in Syria (and Iraq and Afghanistan) not only fails to keep us safe here, it damages our ability to effectively defend ourselves against potential threats elsewhere.
At the heart of these “stay forever” arguments is the belief that to withdraw any troops from the Middle East is to invite attack against the United States. Former Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Mac Thornberry, claimed that to withdraw from Syria or Afghanistan is to invite ISIS and other terror organizations to “spring back to life.” Sen.
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BEACHWOOD, Ohio - How fitting that Corus Fitness makes me think of choirs and music. After my first workout at the just-
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opened facility last week, every muscle in my body was singing.
No reason I should be surprised. Even though I work out almost every day, I don't generally do anything like what I did there. Namely, push myself to the max on a high-end Pilates machine.
That's not all that sets Corus apart. Unlike those of its competitors (I'm looking at you, JetSet Miami), the workout at Corus was one I was actually able to keep pace with, and therefore to enjoy. I may have gone home a sweaty mess, but at least I went home happy.
I credit Hillary Zashin, owner of Corus Fitness. A former representative of Beachbody home exercise videos, she's been around the fitness block a few times and has a sense of what works and what doesn't. What people want and what they definitely don't.
Have a suggestion for an activity you think I should try? Send me an e-mail.
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One of the silent killers attacking the developing world is the lack of quality basic education for large numbers of the poorest children in the world’s
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poorest countries — particularly girls. Yet unlike many of the world’s most grievous ailments, this is a disease with a known cure. We know what tools are needed and what models are proven to work. We also know that the cost of that cure – perhaps $7.5 billion to $10 billion per year — is minuscule compared with the enormous benefits such education would bring for health, economics, women’s empowerment, and basic human dignity.
An estimated 110 million children — 60 percent of them girls — between the ages of six and 11 will not see the inside of a classroom this year. Another 150 million are likely to drop out before completing primary school.
More than half of all girls in sub-Saharan Africa do not complete primary school, and only 17 percent are enrolled in secondary school. Rates in rural areas are even worse. For instance, a 1996 study in Niger found that only 12 percent of girls in rural areas were enrolled in primary school, compared
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Jose Padilla, who the government alleges was part of an al Qaeda plot to set off a radiological bomb, has refiled his lawsuit against
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the federal government.
Padilla, who is being held at the Navy brig near here, filed a complaint in U.S. District Court here after the U.S. Supreme Court in a narrow ruling last week decided Padilla's original case should not have been brought in federal court in New York, his attorney Donna Newman said.
"We have to just move forward. It's just a matter of time now," said Newman, who filed the lawsuit Friday.
The justices, in a June 28 decision, ruled the New York court did not have legal authority over the brig's commander, Melanie Marr, who was named in the original suit.
The Brooklyn-born suspect initially was held as a material witness in the investigation following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks. Within days the government designated him an enemy combatant and he was moved to the brig near here and prevented from challenging his detention.
Attorneys for Padilla later sued and, last December, the
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This story has been updated to include comment from Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam.
FLINT, MI - The Flint mother who told federal
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lawmakers her house was "ground zero" for lead-contaminated water has filed a lawsuit against those she says are responsible for poisoning her children.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday, March 3, in Genesee Circuit Court by LeeAnne Walters, names multiple corporate entities and three current and former government employees for their role in the city's water crisis.
Walters claims her four children have been exposed to extremely high levels of lead and have experienced brain development injuries, cognitive deficits and other problems.
"It's time for the kids to be heard," Walters' attorney, Corey Stern said. "With so much talk among officials, heads of corporations, and the media, the reality of what happened to these children - and how it will affect each of them for the rest of their lives - has been drowned out in the noise."
The lawsuit alleges the companies hired evaluate and review the city's water services, Rowe Professional Services Company, Veolia and Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam
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Few things are as important as neighborhood schools. They can help reinforce a sense of identity and belonging. Many people can relate to this important experience of
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youth through either being able to walk to school each day because of its proximity or coming away from the school with significant memories of teachers, staff, classmates and surroundings.
It is those kinds of important developmental moments the Amarillo Independent School District is embracing with proposed revisions to a voluntary desegregation plan that will emphasize the unique attributes and advantages of having a neighborhood school. Actions are specifically focused on the city’s North Heights Neighborhood, according to our story Sunday.
By way of background, the original plan dates to 1975, when the district received a letter from federal authorities saying the “concentration of African-American students in North Heights schools were disproportionately concentrated in the black community.” The notification prompted school trustees then to address the issue, which resulted in busing students out of the neighborhood to other schools in the city.
One consequence was children who lived near each other often did not attend school together. Neighborhood residents recently asked the board to re-visit this issue
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A lover tried to commit suicide and to kill his ex-beloved by stabbing her with a knife in a building where she used to work as
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a maid, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.
JKK, 32-year-old Indian guard is accused of attempting to kill NBA 40 because she broke up with him.
The victim NBA, 40, works for a family who stays in a building in the Al Nahda area and was allowed to stay in a flat on the eighth floor of the same building – with her employer’s relatives.
“After I finished cleaning my employer’s house, I went down to the other flat in the eighth floor where I was allowed to stay. When I left the house to go back, as I opened the door and saw JKK standing in front.
“He pulled a knife from a laptop bag and stabbed me on the neck saying: “I’ll kill you” and stabbed me again in my belly. I tried to stop him by holding the knife, but he stabbed my arm. I held the knife and started screaming for help. The
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Over the last several years the DA developed a narrative which saw the party targeting 30% of the vote in 2014, victory in both Gauteng
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and the Northern Cape and laying the basis for the DA to be part of the government by 2019. Naturally, this involved a great deal of talk about the "terminal decline" of the ANC. Sometimes DA speakers got quite carried away by these targets and even started talking of "winning" by 2019 or, in Lindiwe Mazibuko's case, of becoming President by 2024.
It all made for an extraordinary spectacle: political parties do not normally give such hostages to fortune. The rationale for all this was, apparently, that the DA was engaged in a race against time before the ANC could effectively reduce South Africa to failed state status. The strategy which this implied was a frantic competition for the black vote, with concession after concession made to ANC policy - on BEE, on affirmative action, on using race as a factor, on the lunatic new land reform bill and even on surrendering the party's even-handed position on Israel/Palestine.
To top it all off
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Think your morning cup of coffee is too small to make a difference? Most Americans (56 percent) drink coffee every day, according to the National
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Coffee Association of USA. This volume is what makes coffee beans the world’s most-traded commodity after petroleum. It’s not difficult to green your daily jolt of caffeine, whether you brew your own or hit up your neighborhood coffee shop.
Organic, fair-trade coffee beans are widely available at grocery stores, specialty shops and coffee houses. Since coffee is a major cash crop in many developing countries, the “fair trade” certification means the farmers growing the coffee beans get paid a living wage. These products must also meet certain environmental standards.
Some coffee harvesters rely on chemical pesticides and harvesting practices that involve removing overhanging tree canopies. Stripping away these leafy habitats for migratory birds wreaks havoc on the region’s biodiversity. Coffee labeled “shade-grown” or “bird-friendly” avoids these practices.
If coffee isn’t your thing, look for organic and fair
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ICC chief executive David Richardson interacts with the media at the end of the ICC board meeting in Kolkata this week.
As things stand
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, if voting happens on the 2021 Champions Trophy switch to a World T20, India would very likely lose it 16-1. It’s not that the rest of the cricket world is out to humiliate the BCCI. Like any corporate structure, the International Cricket Council (ICC), too, is money-minded and the reality is, T20 cricket has become the game’s biggest money-churner.
The ICC’s official broadcaster wants the scrapping of the 2021 Champions Trophy, to be replaced with a World T20. The logic is simple. A World T20 will have 16 teams compared to eight in the Champions Trophy. It means more matches, wider global coverage and a lot more money. Fatter broadcast revenue will, in turn, add to the ICC’s bank balance and will subsequently come to its members. India is the host of the CT 2021 and a section of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
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TVLINE | It’s been three months since the events of Season 1. How’s Audrey holding up?
Externally,
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she’s handling it extremely well — possibly too well. She’s got a job, a new look and a new hobby, but that’s all on the surface. Internally, she’s still trying to pretend nothing happened, and that what’s happening now has no connection to what happened three months earlier. She’s keeping up a stoic appearance for her friends.
TVLINE | It seems like Audrey is the new target this season, more so than Emma. How do you feel about stepping into that role?
I have to say, being the target is tricky. It’s rough. And now I understand what Willa [Fitzgerald] went through last year. It’s absolutely nerve-racking, but it’s been so fun to play around with that, because Audrey reacts differently than most people would. Sure, she gets paranoid, but her instinct is to mask that.
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Q: The soffits on the addition to our house rot out after only a few years. The soffits themselves are not vented
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, but there is a large gable vent. There are identical gable vents on the main part of the house. The soffits on that portion of the house are not vented, yet they are still in great shape after nearly 30 years. Since the roof of the addition meets the side wall of the house, could the problem be that the soffits trap condensation because the gable vent does not have a free outlet at both ends? When we install new soffits this summer, should we have vent holes in them?
A: Yes. The new soffits should be vented. Although I do feel that the attic is not properly ventilated, I suspect that moisture is also being introduced into the attic from interior sources. A typical source of interior moisture is a bathroom exhaust fan that discharges into the attic rather than outside.
On the exterior, check the roof to be sure that damaged shingles aren't allowing moisture to penetrate and that there are
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Since we last met, the United States has chosen a new president. A number of the views articulated and policies proposed in the course of the campaign
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and the ensuing weeks pose significant challenges for Harvard and its most deeply held commitments. At the same time, eruptions of frightening expressions of hatred, bias, and violence have targeted members of our own community as well as thousands more across the country.
I want to say a few words today about how the University is responding to these new realities and to reaffirm our essential values and responsibilities as an academic institution in these unsettling times. I have distributed two messages—on November 15 and 28 [both appear below]—designed to begin to address some of these questions. The most recent message considered the possibility of more aggressive enforcement of federal immigration laws and detailed the heightened support and protection we are offering students, faculty and staff. I urge you to read those communications if you have not already. As an early and fervent public supporter of the DREAM Act, I feel particular concern about our undocumented students and as an update to my letter last week, I want to report that I have been in contact over
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At last - a new urgent care service has finally launched in Wisbech, almost two years later than previously planned.
The pilot scheme has
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been launched at the North Cambs Hospital in Wisbech.
The Local Urgent Care Hub (LUC) aims to keep people out of hospital A&E departments thanks to the support of GP expertise supporting practitioners at the Minor Injury Unit (MIU) at the North Cambs Hospital.
The aim is to treat more patients in Wisbech, reducing the need for people to travel to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital at King's Lynn or one of the area's other hospitals.
The LUC pilot was due to launch in April 2017 but a lack of GP capacity put the scheme on hold in both Wisbech and Doddington. There is still no launch date for the Doddington pilot, but it is hoped it will go ahead later this year.
The LUC pilot at the Princess of Wales Hospital in Ely did successfully launch in 2017 and has been a huge success, so much so that the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group - which funds the scheme
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Cowboys WR Allen Hurns was carted off after suffering a dislocated ankle and fractures. He underwent surgery and will miss the rest of
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the playoffs.
ARLINGTON, Texas — A gruesome injury to Allen Hurns cast a shadow on an otherwise celebratory night for the divisional round-bound Cowboys.
The veteran receiver was carted off the field, fist raised, halfway through the first quarter after an awkward tackle from strong safety Bradley McDougald on a 14-yard reception up the middle. Replay video showed Hurns banging his fist into the ground in pain, his left foot turned 180 degrees outward after it was crushed beneath McDougald.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said after the game that Hurns suffered a dislocated ankle and fractures. He underwent surgery Saturday night and will miss the rest of the playoffs.
Cooper led Cowboys receivers with 106 yards in the 24-22 win.
But he, too, was slow to get up on a first-half tackle. Slot receiver Cole Beasley needed medical attention on a 14-yard catch before Hurns’ injury in the
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GREENWICH — The town of Greenwich is asking for the public’s help in spreading holiday cheer by making sure that every resident can enjoy
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a holiday meal.
Under the Holiday Aid program, gift cards are purchased at Stop & Shop and Acme and given to needy residents and families so they can purchase all the ingredients required for a holiday meal.
The number of residents served by the program increased again this year, with 436 households in Greenwich receiving help, Brush said. About two-thirds of those are families, which increases the need for larger gift cards. That prompted the call for additional help from the community, she said.
“We get a lot of families through this program, so we need a lot of support so we can get these cards for everyone in the program,” Brush said. With gift cards, a family can purchase whatever they enjoy the most for their holiday meal.
Town residents who earn no more than 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines are eligible for the program.
Brush was quick to thank the regular donors for their help over the years and was hoping to sign up new supporters.
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The Oscars are the most glamorous night of the year. But just because you have an invite — or even a nomination — doesn’t give
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you license to rock the fanciest frock you can find.
In fact, industry insiders tell The Post that wearing a custom princess pouf or glittering gold when you’re not up for one of the evening’s top prizes could be as much of a faux pas as wearing off-the-rack Zara.
It’s not just the plus-ones who have to worry about ruffling feathers, either.
Lady Gaga experienced this last month, when she arrived at the Golden Globes in a periwinkle Valentino confection that required two wranglers to manage the lengthy train — only to lose the acting prize to Glenn Close, dressed in an understated black cape.
Dressing a Best Actress winner in the right outfit starts months before the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences even announces the nominees.
According to a VIP fashion publicist, who spoke on condition of anonymity, brands are paying attention as early as the spring and
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MANCHESTER UNITED are eyeing four summer transfer deals.
Express Sport understands Manchester United will splash the cash this summer.
United executive vice
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-chairman Ed Woodward is willing to back Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the transfer market.
The Red Devils are expected to pursue Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho, while United are also in the hunt for a centre-back.
Real Madrid’s Raphael Varane and Kalidou Koulibaly of Napoli are targets for United.
MEN add that Crystal Palace star Aaron Wan-Bissaka is a target for United, with the 21-year-old impressing this season.
A central midfielder is also being eyed as a long-term replacement for Nemanja Matic.
Express Sport understands West Ham star Declan Rice is also a target for United this summer.
The midfielder has been tipped to join Manchester City, with West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini admitting every player has a price.
And former United coach Rene Meulensteen urged Solskjaer to sign Rice this summer.
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CHESTER >> Connecticut River Artisans Cooperative members are hosting an open house on Sunday June 1, 1-4 p.m.
If
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you are a Connecticut artist looking for a new venue to showcase your work, CT River Artisans might be it. Located in Chester, a well known haven for art and a “Shopper’s Destination, the group has been established since 1980.
Stop in, enjoy the refreshments, chat with one of our artists and find out what we are all about. Learn about the advantages of a cooperative versus consigning your work to a gallery or selling at shows. Bring your portfolio, pictures or samples of your work.
The cooperative is looking for wall art, baskets, fabric work, soaps, high-end designer knit-wear, all handcrafted, art-inspired work. Items must be quality originals made by the artist, no imports, wholesalers or reps. It is not accepting jewelry or candles at this time.
Call CT River Artisans at 860-526-5575 or Gay Petruzzi Ritter at 860 578 9595
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October 31, 2004 To make sure your Halloween costume is authentic, try consulting A Field Guide to Monsters: This Book Could Save Your Life
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before you head out the door. NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks monster facts and history with the book's co-author Dave Elliot.
October 31, 2004 After horror writer H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937, his friends founded a publishing house to preserve his legacy. Obscure but influential, Arkham House gave sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury and others their first big break. Wisconsin Public Radio's Brian Bull reports.
October 30, 2004 Ken Wells is the author of the book Travels with Barley, in which he recounts his journey through the southern United States in search of beer people and beer culture. Hear Wells and NPR's Scott Simon.
October 28, 2004 In the wake of the curse-busting World Series victory by the Boston Red Sox, NPR's Noah Adams talks with renowned poet Donald Hall about the verses he's dedicated to baseball.
October 27, 2004 Geeks, gangsters, and the birth of the comic book
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Traditionally, nature shows offer a soothing escape into the beauty of the natural world. But with ‘Our Planet,’ the creators
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aim to bring new layers of honesty and environmental responsibility to the genre.
In the new series ‘Our Planet,’ producers counterpoint gorgeous shots of the natural world and animal behavior with information about the threats to those ecosystems from climate change, deforestation, and other human activity.
For decades, the velvety lilt of David Attenborough has served as a soothing backdrop to nature documentaries. But Mr. Attenborough’s latest project isn’t your average nature show.
“Our Planet,” which begins airing Friday on Netflix, has plenty of jaw-dropping imagery, from humpback whales bubble-net feeding to flamingos flocking to a desolate salt pan after a rain. But those shots are couched in a narrative that underscores just how much humans are destroying the Earth. In the past, there’s been a divide between nature shows that highlight the wonders of the animal kingdom and documentaries with a more activist agenda. “Our
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More than four decades after starting out in the business, and two decades after more or less retiring from the hit parade, songwriters Jerry Leiber
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and Mike Stoller still stand as the most successful non-performing writing partnership in the history of rock 'n' roll.
Imagine that no one else but these two had ever written a rock song. There'd still be more than enough to go around to keep a pretty terrific oldies station in business: "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Treat Me Nice," "Loving You," "Kansas City," "Stand by Me," "On Broadway," "Yakety Yak," "Love Potion No. 9" and "Ruby Baby," just for starters.
To KRTH-FM devotees, the crucial parts of the canon may carry a certain sacrosanctity--but not necessarily to the writers themselves, whose legacy was not arrived at without a faculty for self-criticism.
It seems the four-time Tony-winning director wanted to include the 1959 Drifters hit "There Goes My Baby" in the show but couldn't seem
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We check in with OHL grad and former Buffalo Sabres draft pick Mike Martone, who’s now a school teacher.
This week
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, a 1-on-1 with Portland Winterhawk and Vegas Golden Knights propsect Cody Glass, who could be an impact player at this year's World Junior Hockey Championship.
In this week's edition of CHL Leaders, we talk to WHL grad Zach Hodder, now the league's manager of player development.
We talk to OHL grad Adam Campbell, who used the CHL Scholarship Program to get his degree and now he runs his own management business.
He's the centrepiece of the Max Pacioretty trade and will be counted on as a key part of Canada's offence at the World Juniors. Gino Reda goes 1-on-1 with Nick Suzuki of the Owen Sound Attack.
It’s the season premiere of our 28th year of the show! Half the current NHL rosters are comprised of CHL grads, so what’s the key? We discuss that and much more with CHL President & OHL Commissioner David
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30 Gleason con tin ued, turning to Miss Hughes, on her other side "What fatigue?" Miss Hughes said, hid- eously
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embarrassed. It had, indeed, fled awa) like the trolls and the nIXIes L L 'L- T HERE was an extra air of mys- tery about what was inside the living room, thjs ChrIstmas Eve. A great deal of whis- pering and nodding went on between Miss Strasser and Karl dur- Ing dinner; then they disappeared. I twas Mrs. Martin who cleared away the dessert dishes while the patients drank theIr coffee at the table. When at length the double doors were thrown open and the patients went slowly into the darkened living room, they not only saw what the mystery had been about but heard it. The only light came from the enor- mous decorated spruce standing in the corner by the door to the porch. Wreathing its trunk were presents of every size and shape, wrapped In tin- sel paper, in tissue paper, in white paper with red ribbon And seated fac- ing each other at
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of a man shot to death at a Whitehaven apartment complex is opening up after his accused killer
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was arrested.
Eric Monger, 26, was gunned down at the New Horizon Apartments on Thursday.
Terry Moton, 18, was arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder.
One of Monger's loved ones agreed to speak to WREG under the condition we not show his face or use his name.
He said the family knew Moton well, and that he had spent a lot of time with them.
“[He's] a child himself. Don’t even know what he’s done," he said. "All because of guns that you could replace."
Investigators say Moton shot and killed Monger, a father of five, because he thought he had stolen his 9-mm handgun.
Monger's loved ones were at the complex Thursday when police say Moton gunned him down as he was leaving his ex-girlfriend's apartment.
Monger’s kids were also inside when it happened,
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SMALL businesses have been left in the lurch by Government officials who promised to help them prepare for tough new EU data law, The Sun can
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reveal.
A hotline for entrepreneurs has gone into meltdown - with callers facing a wait of up to half an hour and officials urging businesses NOT to contact them for help.
Bosses of small firms are having “sleepless nights” worrying about the new rules on data handling, known as GDPR, with business lobbies slamming the “sorry situation”.
The law - coming into effect in May - makes it illegal for companies to contact most customers without their explicit consent and imposes fines as large as £18million on firms which break it.
Four months ago, the Information Commissioner’s Office announced it was setting up a dedicated helpline for small firms worried about adapting to GDPR.
But business sources told The Sun they’ve had to wait up to half an hour on hold before getting through to the Government body.
The ICO admitted the helpline has been overwhelmed - and said anyone who needs help fast should get it online
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Erdogan's adviser says his country will cut ties with Israel in response to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem.
Yasin Aktay,
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an adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel would have a direct and negative impact on Turkey's relations with Israel.
In an interview with the Hamas daily Al-Risala, Aktay said that Turkey intends to sever the diplomatic relations with Israel in response to Trump’s declaration, which he called "aggression against Palestinian rights and complicity with the crime of the occupation."
"The United States plays a hostile role against the Palestinians - and today it committed a political and moral crime that cannot be reconciled with it at all," said Aktay.
He further claimed that the U.S. decision would lead to the exclusion of the United States from the peace process.
"Every Islamic and Arab country that participated with Washington in this decision," said Aktay, "will lose its legitimacy because it chose to join with injustice and aggression
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BMW says that the car it intends to field with self-driving tech by 2021 will have Level 3, Level 4 and Level 5 capabilities,
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according to the automaker’s SVP of Autonomous Driving Elmar Frickenstein, who shared the info during a panel in Berlin on Thursday, Reuters reports. Level 5 autonomy would mean that the vehicle requires zero input from a driver to navigate city and highway roads, at least on par in terms of performance with a human driver.
Level 3 and 4 are considered much more achievable in the near-term: Level 3 cars still require drivers, but their intervention is only required in certain situations and they aren’t obliged to be watching things constantly and ready to take control immediately as with lower levels. Level 4 is the first level of “full autonomy,” which means it can handle a whole trip – just not in all possible conditions and environments.
Most automakers talking about autonomous vehicle deployment plans in the next few years are discussing Level 3 and 4 vehicles – Ford’s goal of putting a fleet of self-driving cars into service in 2021 specifically involves Level 4
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ISLAMABAD, Jan 30 (APP): The Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, Sartaj Aziz, Monday reaff
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irmed Pakistan’s commitment to regional cooperation under the umbrella of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) for acceleration of economic and commercial growth.
Talking to a delegation of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) led by President of the SCCI, Suraj Vaidya who called on him here the Adviser recognized the efforts of the SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry in promoting economic, trade and investment linkages across the region.
He underscored Pakistan’s support for enhancement of trade and business amongst the countries of the SAARC region.
The President of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry appreciated the positive approach Pakistan has been following to strengthen regional cooperation under the SAARC process.
He assured the commitment of SAARC Chamber of Commerce in further strengthening the SAARC.
The SCCI delegation is visiting Lahore and Islamabad for Pakistani component of its 68th Executive Committee Meeting after having met in Amritsar on January 26-
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Dartmouth YMCA: Offers several adult fitness classes, including yoga, pilates, senior stretch, zumba, cardio kick
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boxing, boot camp and more. For information or to reserve a coupon to attend a class for free, contact Brittany Lestage at (508) 993-3361 or blestage@ymcasouthcoast.org. Gulf Road, Dartmouth.
Fairhaven Recreation Department: Zumba drop-in, 5-6 p.m. Mondays, registration not required, $7, $5 members. (508) 993-9269. http://fairhavenma.virtualtownhall.net (click on "Departments" for Recreation). 227 Huttleston Ave., Fairhaven.
Light Yoga-Deep Meditation: Weekly class including chanting, breathwork, gentle pose sequences, mindfulness techniques and meditation, 6-6:45 p.m. Sundays for four weeks starting June 7. $10 per class or $30 for all four classes; discount for teens. To register, call Stephanie Lawrence at (508) 990-2346 or register
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Chairman Pat Breen is leading a delegation of the Joint Oireachtas (Irish parliament) Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade on a visit
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to Washington D.C. today. The group is holding a series of meetings with influential members of Congress in the hope of encouraging comprehensive immigration reform in the U.S.
According to the Irish Embassy in Washington, the Irish Ambassador to the United States Anne Anderson will also accompany the delegation at each of their high levels meetings with predominantly Republican Congress members.
Breen told the Irish Voice: “It’s an opportunity to lobby our U.S. counterparts to garner bipartisan support for the immigration reform legislation.
“We’re targeting Republican Congress members because at the moment there is a high degree of uncertainty among them as regards their capacity to engage in immigration issues,” Breen added.
The cross party delegation includes Deputies Sean Crowe (Sinn Fein), Gerald Nash (Labour) and Senator Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) as well as Chairman Breen (Fine Gael).
Breen says he’s well aware of the positive impact
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DECATUR, GA (WXIA) -- The family of a DeKalb County man shot and killed by police has convinced the district
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attorney to keep the case open.
The attorney for the siblings of Kevin Davis insists the civil grand jury that met last week did not hear all the evidence in the case.
Davis’ family members asked for this sit-down with DA Robert James, and they emerged from the DeKalb County Courthouse Thursday afternoon feeling – in their words -- cautiously optimistic.
“We miss our brother, we know he didn't deserve what happened to him,” said Davis’ sister, Delisa Davis.
Despite the civil grand jury's recommendation to close the case, the family of 44 year-old Kevin Davis has apparently convinced the DeKalb district attorney to keep investigating his death. Almost one year ago, Kevin Davis called 911 to report that his girlfriend had been stabbed by a roommate who then ran from the apartment.
He stayed on the line to help treat her, then heard gunshots outside.
DeKalb County Police Officer Joseph Pitts had arrived and shot Davis
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Seattle sits first overall for the first time since March 23, 2012. After spending 17 weeks outside of the playoff picture, Sounders FC catapulted to
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the top spot, taking 24 of the past 27 possible points. The No. 1 ranking is the highest position Seattle has held this late in a season, and the club is just the third team in league history to erase a 15-point deficit to gain first overall.
The Rave Green now shifts its focus to the Western Conference clash on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Already holders of the longest winning streak of the season at five games, Seattle could set the club record with a win against the Galaxy. A victory on Saturday would also mark the most road wins (6) in MLS this season.
The LA Galaxy (13-10-5, 44 points) sit fourth in the West after a 2-2 road draw against D.C. United on Saturday. The Galaxy attack is led by Robbie Keane, who has six goals and two assists in the past four games, and Landon Donovan, who is two goals from matching Jeff Cunningham's league record of 134 career goals.
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Facebook has hired a former aide to Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsForget the spin: Five unrefuted
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Mueller Report revelations Sessions: It's time to accept the results of the Mueller report and move on Trump poised to roll back transgender health protections MORE to serve as the company’s director of executive branch public policy, Axios reported Thursday.
Sandy Luff was the legislative director of Sessions’s Senate office before the Alabama Republican was tapped as the Trump administration’s top law enforcement official earlier this year. Luff was also on President Trump's transition team.
Facebook also hired Nu Wexler, a former Democratic congressional communications aide who had been working in Twitter’s PR shop until March, Axios reported.
Facebook appears to be trying to increase its influence with the Trump administration. Sessions has been one of President Trump’s closest advisers, and his earliest supporter in Congress during the campaign.
"Sandy's experience and understanding of the political landscape will make her an invaluable asset to our team. We are excited to have her aboard," Facebook's vice
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MONTREAL – The bells of an Italian Renaissance-style church in Montreal chimed softly Saturday as pallbearers carried the gold coffin of
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the son of the reputed head of Canada's most powerful Mafia family.
There was a heavy police presence in the city's Little Italy neighborhood at the funeral service for Nick Rizzuto, the son of Montreal Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto.
Nick was standing next to a black Mercedes last Monday when a gunman approached and fired several shots, killing him. Police have not yet arrested the unidentified gunman.
Most of the mourners at Notre-Dame-de-la Defense church remained tightlipped as they filed out of the church, refusing to speak to reporters assembled outside.
Family friend Ricardo Padulo recalled the younger Rizzuto as "a gentleman."
"This turnout shows respect," Padulo said. "In the eye of God he's a great person. It was a beautiful service."
Vito Rizzuto, who is serving a sentence in Colorado for racketeering related to three Mafia murders
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Results focused graduate account manager needed for growing sports brand.
The client is the most innovative and progressive mouthguard company in the world with associations with
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national sporting body's around the world including the sports of Rugby, Field Hockey and Taekwondo.
Founded by a former dentist, the company grew out of his belief that all children should have the best possible protection during sport for their teeth and gums. They now supply over 1,000 schools and clubs nationwide with Custom-Fit mouthguards, which are made in their Hemel Hempstead laboratory.
Each guard is created through innovation and technical expertise lie at the heart of everything they do.
The company is spilt into three areas and this role fits within the retail department and purely focuses on custom mouthguards.
The Account Manager will work within the Customs department managing 650 school and club account alongside one other person. The work will be varied but focusing on maintaining existing relationships with school all around the UK. You will report directly to the Custom Admin Manager and work closely with the Custom Admin team.
There is a lot of logistics within this role liaising and organising the dental
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APRIL 6: Women’s Institute and Gallery: 916 E. Granary St., New Harmony, “Recent Work�
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� by Mary Ann Michna and Martha Kaplan, through April 30 (artist reception, 4-7 p.m. April 8 during the Spring Gallery Stroll). Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday or by appointment. Call 812-682-3799.
APRIL 6: Audubon Museum, Henderson, Kentucky, "March Madness" Invitational Exhibit, through April 9; "A Fresh Perspective," April 19 through July 5. 270-827-1893.
APRIL 8: Moonlight Walk at the Cathedral Labyrinth, New Harmony. 812-682-3935.
APRIL 8-9: Heritage Federal Credit Union Home Show, Old National Events Plaza, 715 Locust St., Evansville, presented by the Evansville Courier & Press. courierpressexpos.com.
JUNE 17-SEPT. 16: Franklin Street Bazaar,
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A powerful new broadcaster for the DISH Network satellite television system was successfully shot into space today aboard a multi-national Sea Launch Zenit 3SL
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rocket.
The booster began its hour-long ascent carrying the EchoStar 11 spacecraft at 0520:59 GMT (1:20:59 a.m. EDT), roaring skyward shortly after sunset trailing the flickering flames from its four-nozzle first stage engine.
The 20-story, million-pound rocket pitched eastward and headed downrange from the Odyssey launch pad, a floating platform positioned in equatorial waters of the Pacific, about 1,400 miles south of Hawaii.
The two Ukrainian-made lower stages of the Zenit performed their firings to propel the Russian Block DM-SL upper stage and satellite out of the atmosphere during the initial eight-and-a-half minutes of flight.
The upper stage then took over, completing an initial engine burn to reach a preliminary orbit less than 14 minutes after launch. The rocket coasted for a half-hour, flying over South America, before re-igniting for a seven-minute firing to accelerate the payload
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ATLANTA (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 33 points, Eric Bledsoe added 24 points and 10
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assists, and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Hawks 133-114 on Sunday in Mike Budenholzer's return to Atlanta.
Khris Middleton finished with 17 points and 11 rebounds to help the Bucks improve to 30-12, second-best in the NBA. Coming off a loss at Washington that Antetokounmpo missed with injuries, Milwaukee is 12-0 following a defeat and remained the league's only team not to drop consecutive games.
Budenholzer, making his first appearance at State Farm Arena since leaving the Hawks after last season, said before the game that he wished his former team well as it rebuilds with youngsters John Collins, Trae Young, Kevin Huerter and Omari Spellman.
The Bucks are soaring, thanks mostly to the 6-foot-11, 242-pound Antetokounmpo, who scored 14 on free throws and had two dazzling assists early in the fourth. He first smothered Young to steal the ball
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Kindsight reports that 8.7 per cent of all covered home networks experienced a malware infection during the quarter. That's down from 9.6
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per cent the previous quarter, but wow, it still must represent a lot of infections.
The infection rate for mobile devices is up from last quarter, to 0.55 per cent. That figure may seem low, but Kindsight estimates that it represents 11.6 million mobile devices infected with malware at any given time. Over 60 per cent of those are Android devices.
At the start of 2013, Windows devices with a mobile connection made up over 60 per cent of the infected mobile devices detected by Kindsight. By the end of the year, Android had taken the lead, and not just by a little bit. December's figures show Android at well over 60 per cent of the total. As for BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian, and Windows Phone, well, taken all together they still don't come to one per cent of the total.
The report calls Android "the Windows XP of mobile," and notes several reasons that Android is the preferred platform for mobile malware. First, it
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Casey's is fifth largest pizza chain in U.S.
It sells more than 19 million whole freshly made pizzas a year along with
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62 million individual slices.
Editor's note: The numbers of pizzas sold each year has been updated from an earlier version of this story.
For more than 57 years, Casey's has been selling gas, cigarettes and soda pop from its chain of stores best known by the folksy red roofed logo with the rooster wind vane and its simple commercials.
Then in 1984 it hit on a jackpot: pizza.
The company is the fifth largest pizza chain in the U.S. It sells more than 19 million whole freshly made pizzas a year along with 62 million individual slices. It’s been a growing part of the company since it was first introduced.
“When we look at competition, it’s not just the convenience store competition, but because we are so prevalent in the food service industry, we compete against quick service restaurants and other pizza chains as well,” said William Walljasper, Casey’s senior vice president and
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A night of looking for something to watch on Netflix took me down some weird rabbit holes on the internet that I couldn’t not share.
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Scrolling through my app looking for something to cast onto my television it recommended that I would like a show called “Happy!” The preview image grabbed me and the synopsis was bizarre enough to peak my interests – “A boozy ex-cop turned hit man thinks he’s losing his marbles when a cartoon unicorn only he can see urges him to rescue a girl kidnapped by Santa.” So I looked up a trailer and it said it was based on a graphic novel, so I looked that graphic novel up and two words sold me on it: “Grant Morrison.” Needless to say that I binged the show pretty quickly.
The Syfy/Netflix show ‘Happy!’ has a surreal bizarreness that you adapt to quickly. It’s sort of like if you took Sin City, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and My Little Pony and put them into a blender. It’s extremely graphically violent
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Several hundred thousand vehicles that were submerged in floodwaters after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas are expected to wind up being resold to unsuspecting consumers.
News
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Channel 5 Investigates put shoppers to the test to see if they could spot the flood car next to two other cars.
Flooded cars can have all sorts of problems. But, they can be cleaned up, so you don't know what you're really getting.
Some half a million cars went through Hurricane Harvey filled with water, mud, even debris. But if you saw one of these flood cars today, you probably couldn't tell that what it had been through.
"It's extremely hard," Chris Basso with Carfax told NewsChannel 5 Investigates, adding, "Flood cars show little signs of physical damage usually which makes it easy for con men to clean them up, dry them out and resell them to people around the country."
Carfax got a 2013 Ford Focus from Houston.
Before pictures show a compact car covered in mud with puddles of water still in it.
Basso told us, "We know this car was flooded all
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HONOLULU – The Coast Guard rescued a man and woman in the ocean off Hawaii on Friday, nearly a day after the plane they
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were in disappeared from radar.
"What a way to celebrate aloha Friday," Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer 2nd Class Tara Molle said of the relief in finding the two alive. "We all had big smiles on our faces in the office when we heard the news."
A helicopter crew hoisted them out of the water about 11:30 a.m. Friday, Molle said. They were a mile and a half offshore near Kona, the Coast Guard said.
Paramedics met them at Kona airport and treated them for minor injuries, Molle said. They were identified as David McMahon, 26, and Sydnie Uemoto, in her 20s.
There was no immediate word on the plane. The plane's pilot radioed about an air emergency at 3:15 p.m. Thursday. After that, air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilot and the plane no longer appeared on radar, the Coast Guard said.
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Scientists found students born in September boast a higher yearly average score.
Being born in September puts children in the older end of the spectrum in the
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school year, giving them an advantage.
Being in this older spectrum also reduces the likelihood of a child's incarceration for juvenile crimes.
Being one of the older ones in the year group gives children an advantage in school, a new US study published in the National Bureau of Economic Research has found.
Scientists looked at the cognitive development of more than 1.2 million public school students in Florida between the ages of six and 15, all of whom were born in different months.
They found that students born in the month of September, putting them at the older end of the spectrum of kids in their school year, boasted a higher yearly score average than those born in August, who would be the youngest in their year group.
September-born children are more likely to get into good colleges.
Researchers noted that the increased scores could build over time and subsequently increase September-born students' likelihood of getting into a good college.
The study, titled "School Starting Age and Cognitive Development,"
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Long ago, Korean department stores perfected the art of the all-in-one-stop.
Upper floors catered to the shopah
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olic with a bevy of clothes, accessories and beauty products. Top floors boasted restaurants, and basement floors a food court and supermarket.
It looked like that set-up was the only way to do premium dining and grocery shopping in one-go. Then, the gourmet food hall arrived.
Starting May, a revamped version of prominent French fine food brand, Fauchon, rolled out in Lotte department stores throughout the country.
Then, in late July, food and media giant CJ Group launched its take on the slow food shopping experience with CJ Foodworld in northern Seoul.
Next up is Dean and DeLuca.
According to Hwang Kyung-sun, 31, the director for Dean and DeLuca’s Korean business, last October Shinsegae signed a contract to bring in the famous American gourmet food store chain.
The first store is slated to open in Shinsegae Gangnam this September.
Once that happens, it will
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Some previously sealed documents and evidence from the sexual assault case against Kobe Bryant will be released Friday, the Eagle County, Colo., sheriff's office said
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Thursday.
The records could include a transcript of the NBA star's interview with investigators, statements from some witnesses, an arrest affidavit and investigators' reports. They also could include phone records and other documents.
LOAN LOOPHOLE TARGETED: Congress is trying to end a practice that gives lenders a guaranteed return of 9.5 percent on student loans financed by tax-exempt bonds. The government must pay lenders the interest that is not covered by students. A bill introduced Thursday shifts the spending to teachers, giving them $17,500 in loan forgiveness.
MT. ST. HELENS TO ERUPT?: The flurry of earthquakes at Mt. St. Helens in southwest Washington intensified further Thursday, and one scientist put the chance of a small eruption happening in the next few days at 70 percent.
RIGHT-TO-DIE LAWYER QUITS: The lead attorney for the parents of a woman at the center of a right-to-die dispute announced his
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Sevilla sports director Joaquin Caparros has confirmed they have targeted wantaway Celtic defender Dedryck Boyata as one of their main
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summer targets.
The Belgian World Cup star’s future is up in the air after he reportedly refused to play in Celtic’s Champions League exit in Greece to AEK Athens - a claim denied by the player, who insisted he was injured.
He’s now back in training with the Champions and could be brought back into the team by manager Brendan Rodgers.
Boyata has been linked with a £10 million move to La Liga heavyweights Sevilla since his World Cup performances in Russia, where Belgium finished third.
And now Sevilla have broken their silence on their interest on the 27-year-old, who is in the last year of his contract.
Sevilla have already snapped up eight new signings for Pablo Machin’s squad and they opened their La Liga campaign last weekend with an impressive 4-1 win at Rayo Vallecano.
And they have made it clear they see Boyata as a priority.
Caparros
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Real Housewives Of Miami star Herman Echevarria has been found dead in his hotel room.
The 61-year-old Miami businessman
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's body was discovered inside Miami's Epic Hotel on Monday morning.
His family and employees contacted police after he failed to show up for work. Miami police are now investigating the cause of death.
Sources told E Online he may have died in his sleep after suffering a heart attack.
Herman starred on RHOM with ex-wife Alexia, 49, with whom he founded Venue magazine.
They separated last year and finalized their divorce in May.
She said in a statement: 'The Echevarria family is heartbroken over the sudden passing of our patriarch Herman Echevarria this morning.
'He was a family man, a hardworking businessman, dedicated to helping others and a pillar of his community that was loved by everyone who's life he touched.
Despite their split, the couple continued to work together on Venue magazine and remained friends.
Herman raised Alexia's two sons from her first marriage, Peter and Frankie.
Their biological father
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Economists call them the "Bric" countries. Hiding behind the obscure title are some of the world's fastest growing and potentially largest economies
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- Brazil, Russia, India and China. Now the leaders of these countries are meeting in Brazil's capital Brasilia for the second Bric summit.
The inventor of the acronym Bric is Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill. In 2001 he argued that "over the next 10 years, the weight of the Brics and especially China in world GDP will grow" and as a result "world policy making forums should be reorganised" in favour of the Bric countries.
Since then this economic grouping has taken on greater significance, culminating in a summit last year in Russia where the four nations talked about how they could best tackle the economic crisis.
The location of the first summit was poignant, because some critics say that Russia's economy is not strong enough to justify its presence in the group.
Others question whether the Bric states have a common agenda at all.
But Russian President Dimity Medvedev stresses the grouping's importance: "In recent years Bric contribution to
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Welcome to Midweek Madness, our Wednesday self-hating celebacchanal ritual. In which we "read" the weekly tabloid magazines.
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So you don't "have" to.
Okay, first off, this is not the actual epic Midweek Madness post; it's simply a preview, because we are still going through the magazines and hating ourselves more and more because of it. But a cursory glance at this week's US, Star, InTouch, et. al. reminds us what true mirth feels like, thanks to an overabundance of celeb weight loss news about Angelina, Kelly Clarkson, and Jessica Simpson. Because, you see, the only thing more boring than news about a celebrity who isn't drinking because she might be pregnant with a baby is news about a celebrity who isn't drinking because she actually has a baby; and the only thing more boring than that is news about a celebrity wedding; and the only thing that ever pulled us through the drudgery of that is the delicious morsel known as the dramatic celebrity weight loss or gain. Done correctly, and not a glorified ad for
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The food maker readjusted after putting profits ahead of sales growth for a few years.
After a disappointing winter, General Mills righted the
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ship this spring with better-than-expected profit and a third consecutive quarter of sales growth.
The Golden Valley-based company closed the book Wednesday on another turbulent year — the new norm for packaged-food companies — as it strives to balance sales and profit growth amid big shifts in what people eat.
General Mills is beginning to see revenue growth following several years of deep cost-cutting that boosted its profit and profit margins sharply. Executives last year said they had cut too far and needed to spend more on product innovation and marketing to stimulate sales.
The plan appears to be working as sales improved 2 percent to $3.89 billion in the three months ended May 27, the fourth quarter of its fiscal year. Organic net sales — or those that don’t include the impact of acquisitions — rose about 1 percent.
Its profit amounted to $354.4 million, down 13 percent from a year ago but better than analysts predicted and a positive note for investors.
In
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BAYOG, Zamboanga del Sur, Jan 13 (PIA) -– As the new year starts and to give emphasis on its
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peace and order situation, Municipal Peace and Order Council (MPOC) of Bayog, this province convened on Wednesday, January 11 at Glupa Gulian Agro-Tourism Park, Sitio Quibranza, Barangay Kahayagan, this municipality.
Mayor Leonardo Babasa, Jr. gave his welcome message to some 73 participants composed of the council’s regular members, local government employees and some invited local residents. Also present are Col. Gerardo Barrientos, Brigade Commander, 53rd IB, Philippine Army and Lt.Col. Nasser Pendatun, Battalion Commander 53rd IB,PA and men.
After his presentation, he urged the participants to work hand in hand to attain real peace in the locality and in our country as well.
During the meeting, the most significant concern brought out to the council members is the reported citings of New People’s Army (NPA) in some barangays of the municipality.
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According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Brooklyn-based artist Paul Ingrisano was granted a registered trademark on the
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3,000 year old mathematical constant (and sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet) near the end of January.
He had originally filed for a trademark on the Pi symbol in November of 2012 on the grounds that his company "Pi Productions Corp" produced t-shirts featuring the symbol, followed by a period.
Wired reports that when Ingrisano discovered a wide array of apparel containing the Pi symbol on Zazzle.com, a massive online retailer that allows users to create their own merchandise, he contacted his lawyer.
"It has been brought to our client's attention that your business, Zazzle Com/AKA Zazzle Inc., has been using the mathematical symbol 'pi,' referred to herein as the 'PI trademark,' in association with the marketing or sale of your products or of products offered through your services," wrote Ingrisano's lawyer, Ronald Millet, in a cease-and-desist letter sent to the company on May 16.
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As quickly as the Platt football team’s season was on the rise, it appeared to be over.
After starting the season 6
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-1, the Panthers lost to Bristol Central, 21-20. They then lost again the following week to Middletown, 21-18.
“Just coming off the loss, it was a heartbreaker,” coach Jason Bruenn said of the Bristol Central game.
The 6-3 record in Class L would make it an upward climb to get into the playoffs. Last year, not a single three-loss team made the tournament in Class L. If Platt had any hopes of playing late into November, everything had to roll the Panthers’ way.
Then, Bruenn got the call from Bristol Central coach Jeff Papazian. The Rams had an ineligible player on their roster, who started the season playing soccer and switched sports halfway through the fall. Bristol Central reported it to the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and was forced to forfeit two games — one of which being the win over Platt.
Suddenly, the Panthers had life.
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¨ The Authority did not have a disaster contingency plan to promote recovery of its computer systems. In addition, a recovery test had not been performed and
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an alternative power source to safeguard against data loss in the event of a power failure did not exist.
(1) Excludes contractual employees: ’07 - 3; ’06 - 4; ’05 - 8.
The Authority did not have a disaster contingency plan to promote recovery of its computer system. In addition, a recovery test has not been performed and an alternative power source to safeguard against data loss in the event of a power failure did not exist.
The primary mission of the Authority is to improve the administration of justice by enhancing the information tools available to State and local criminal justice agencies and administrators. To accomplish this, the Authority maintains several essential computer systems. The loss of computer services will make these services to State and local law enforcement agencies unavailable. This finding has been repeated since 1987.
We recommended the Authority develop a comprehensive disaster contingency plan to address issues relevant to the continuance of services to users.
The other finding pertains to the failure to perform employee
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MUMBAI: A chapter on space missions has been included in Class X science textbooks of Maharashtra board. The Pune-based Maharashtra Bureau
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of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research in a note said: "Permission is granted for enforcing this text book from the academic year 2018-19 in the meeting held on the date 29.12.2017."
The space mission chapter, number 10, will be found from pages 135 to 144 in the book named Science and Technology. The text has a brief note on Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to fly into space and Nasa's Indian-American astronauts Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams. The chapter also mentions names of Isro's rockets and satellites, and on page 140 there are details of the space agency's workhorse-the four-stage Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (Pslv). However, teachers said that two other Indian rockets, Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (Gslv) and its advanced version Gslv Mark 3, have not been highlighted. "Instead, they have found a place for Nasa's space shuttle which was phased
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The chipmaker is collaborating with other companies to create inexpensive "host-based" cable modems that rely on a PC's main processor and memory
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High-speed cable modems may become cheaper in the near future as a result of an Intel initiative now coming to light.
Intel is working with Libit Signal Processing and possibly other partners to produce a futuristic breed of devices called "host-based" cable modems.
The devices would use the computer's main microprocessor and memory for some functions, rather than requiring the separate processor, memory, and operating system normally needed by a stand-alone modem. Because fewer chips are needed, they are potentially less expensive and easier to upgrade than traditional hardware modems.
The effort comes at a propitious time for the cable movement: After a long and arduous process, cable modems based on industry-approved standards should be available by the end of the quarter. As a result, the long hoped-for move to sell cable modems in a retail market may finally start to develop in 1999.
Cable companies are moving to provide high-speed Internet access with lower service
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But China is looking to strengthen its economic ties with the kingdom, as Beijing pursues its ambitious Belt and Road trade infrastructure initiative, while Riyadh rolls
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out Saudi Vision 2030 -- the crown prince’s major programme to diversify the national economy away from oil.
Beijing: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met Friday with China’s President Xi Jinping and bagged a $10 billion oil deal, pressing on with his diplomatic charm offensive in Asia following a global outcry over the Khashoggi killing.
"Is the crown prince’s tour symbolic of Saudi Arabia’s pivot to the East? Yes," Najah al-Otaibi, a senior analyst at the pro-Saudi think-tank Arabia Foundation, told AFP.
"Riyadh wants to strengthen alliances in Asia -- especially now with the continuing fallout with the United States over Khashoggi’s murder and other issues and attempts by the EU to put Riyadh on a black list over money laundering allegations," she said.
But China is looking to strengthen its economic ties with the kingdom, as Beijing pursues its ambitious Belt and Road
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Is Aphria Inc. a Bad News Buy Right Now?
Here's what bargain shoppers sniffing around this former high-flying marijuana stock need
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to know.
Aphria Inc. (NYSE:APHA) isn't the only marijuana stock that's tumbled since adult sales began in Canada, but a 63% loss since Oct. 17 seems a bit extreme. Aphria will soon be capable of producing enough cannabis to fill stadiums, or at least enough to gain a large share of a global market for legal cannabis expected to reach $57 billion by 2027.
A recently depressed stock price has attracted some bargain shoppers and investors who missed out on this stock's tremendous run-up earlier this year. Has bad news pressured Aphria shares down to a lower price than they deserve right now? Let's measure reasons for and against adding this former highflier to your portfolio to find out.
Aphria's market cap peaked at $3.3 billion on Oct. 17 and has since fallen to just $1.2 billion. That means you can scoop up the shares at around 29 times trailing sales. That's a
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Roseate House in New Delhi has also revamped itself as an airport hotel.
A few years ago, producer Christina Wayne decided to close out a
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trip to Rome by spending a night at La Posta Vecchia, a Renaissance villa once owned by John Paul Getty that features marble staircases, stone fireplaces, and silk drapes that frame views of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Airport hotels—those properties in or next to an airport that cater specifically to people in transit—have upped their game in recent years. The Fairmont Vancouver Airport, which sits directly above the U.S. departures terminal, has a soundproofed spa and serves afternoon tea. Adjacent to the Denver International Airport’s Jeppesen Terminal is a Westin that offers mountain views and a rooftop pool. Next year, the TWA Hotel will debut in the Eero Saarinen-designed terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to provide retro-styled relief to tired travelers.
But for the most part, airport hotels feel like utilitarian sleep boxes; even the best have
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He sat with them for an hour in prayer. Then he pulled his gun out and started shooting.
Roof’s roommate told ABC
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News the next day that he was “big into segregation and other stuff” and “he wanted to start a civil war.” And this is America, where we have the freedom to manifest our lethal fantasies.
But this is bigger than racism and the pathetic monster of white supremacy. Racism is a name for one of the currents of righteous hatred that coils through our collective unconscious, and over the decades and centuries it has motivated terrible crimes against humanity. But the “civil war” that Roof participated in is, I think, much larger and much more meaningless. And not all the participants are loners.
America, America, land of the mass murderer.
Mass murders have increased 14-fold in the United States since the 1960s, sociologist Peter Turchin wrote two and a half years ago, after the Sandy Hook killings. In his essay, called “Canaries in a Coal Mine,” Turchin made a disturbing comparison
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A law that comes into effect in Russia on Friday will place tighter controls on the blogosphere, one of the few remaining places where people can freely
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criticise the government.
The federal mass media watchdog has said the law is meant to "de-anonymise popular websites". Prominent bloggers argue it is yet another step to crack down on free expression and will be wielded against critics of the regime.
Popularly known as the "law on bloggers," the legislation requires users of any website whose posts are read by more than 3,000 people each day to publish under their real name and register with the authorities if requested. It also holds popular bloggers to the same standards as the mass media, forbidding false information and foul language, although it doesn't guarantee them the same rights. Violators could incur fines of up to 50,000 rubles (£800) and be blacklisted.
Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal and other social media sites regulated under the new law played an instrumental role in organising the protests against president Vladimir Putin in 2011-13 and have provided a vital platform for critical voices, since most nationwide television and print
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I have known Bob Stewart for more than 25 years and I have considerable knowledge of his background.
In the piece by Ranavio, Dr
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. Stewart's background and the basis for his compensation must have been either ignored, only superficially reviewed, or omitted on purpose in favor of a sensational opening to a story.
Bob is one of the most valuable assets that West Texas A&M University, and in fact the entire Texas A&M University System, has - and very probably ever will have. Bob was not hired as "teaching faculty," and his compensation does not come from that budget item. His compensation comes from research funded by the state through a special items appropriation.
Bob is one of approximately 70 scientists named to the USDA Agricultural Hall of Fame. He is one of the world's foremost soil scientists and hydrologists, and he is the co-author of what is considered the encyclopedia of hydrology. Bob was hired to design and lead the Dry Land Agriculture Institute, which is world- renowned. WT has one Ph.D. program, in the field of agriculture, and its existence at WT is due
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Hema Malini says director Ramesh Sippy, with whom she has worked on Seeta Aur Geeta and is now working on Shim
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la Mirch, makes her do weird stuff in all his films. In the 1972 comedy, Hema sat on a ceiling fan.
Hema Malini is making a comeback to the big screen after a gap of three years — her last release was Bbuddah... Hoga Terra Baap (2011).
In her next, she will be working with film-maker Ramesh Sippy after 40 years. The duo has in the past collaborated on projects like Andaz (1971), Seeta Aur Geeta (1972) and Sholay (1975).
Talking about working with Sippy, Malini says, "When my brother Mohan told me that Rameshji wanted to meet me, I thought he wanted to discuss some issue relating to our film industry. And that he wanted me to take it up in the Parliament. So I agreed to meet him. It was only then that I realised that he wanted to meet me for a film."
The veteran
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TORONTO — It’s the end of a love story, not the beginning, that fascinates photographer Caitlin Cronenberg and set
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designer Jessica Ennis.
They wanted to detail the raw, messy, gut-wrenching emotions of a breakup in an elaborate new photo book, enlisting actresses including Julianne Moore, Keira Knightley, Tatiana Maslany and Imogen Poots.
Each of the 28 stories in “The Endings” could have been films themselves, acknowledges Cronenberg, who took a cinematic approach to crafting the book by drafting elaborate back stories and leaning on Ennis for detailed sets and props to build entire worlds for each scene.
It all began with the two Toronto friends sharing their own stories of heartbreak, and hearing the “universal” experiences of friends and colleagues who had similar accounts of being overwhelmed by emotion upon losing love.
“As Jess and I were exploring the topic we realized just how much it bonds people together. You can talk about your insane breakup and your ex and a person you just meet will say, ‘Oh my God,
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I first met Amanda Vickery ten years ago - her book, 'The Gentleman's Daughter' had just been published, and she gave an interview
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to our local paper. Something about the interview made me think she would be good on the radio - her liveliness and her sense of fun came across, even in a print interview. I was right - when I called her, and we met for coffee, I realised that her warmth and her quick wit made her a radio natural. It took another ten years before we would work together - meanwhile, I was promoted to a job where I was no longer making radio programmes, and Amanda was winning prizes for her books, appearing as a regular contributor on programmes like 'Saturday Review', and becoming a Professor. When I went back to making radio programmes as a freelance producer, she was one of the first people I called.
I have always been fascinated by the history of domestic life. I often think of my grandmothers and great-grandmothers and their lives at home, the hard labour of it all, but also the real creative pleasure. On my study wall I have framed some of the
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Margaret Thatcher's coat from this 'tank' photo, taken Sept. 17, 1986, is up for auction.
LONDON — The
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Victoria & Albert Museum has turned down the chance to display late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's clothes, saying they only collect "fashionable dress," instead the clothes will be auctioned by Christie's in December.
The V&A Museum, which has displayed fashions from David Bowie and Alexander McQueen in blockbuster exhibitions in recent years, said Monday it had been offered some of Thatcher's items but had "politely declined."
“The V&A politely declined the offer of Baroness Thatcher’s clothes, feeling that these records of Britain’s political history were best suited to another collection which would focus on their intrinsic social historical value.
Auction house Christie's posted the prices and details of items to be sold Dec. 15. Her midnight blue velvet wedding dress from 1951 is estimated to fetch between £10,000-£15,000 ($15,375-$23,063).
The "Tank" raincoat and headscarf by Aquascut
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In The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, acclaimed investigative journalist and poet Eliza Griswold tread
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s the geographical and ideological middle ground where the world’s largest faiths meet. But as Griswold reports, many places along the latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator are less a middle ground than a battlefield, where global political forces and trends are pushing Muslims and Christians towards increasingly extreme versions of their faiths.
Citing esteemed scholars, local journalists, religious leaders, and members of militant religious organizations in six countries lying astride the tenth parallel, Griswold grapples with the local and global politics of the collision of Christianity and Islam. But she also explores the many factors that continue to raise the stakes of the collision higher and higher—the war on terror and American foreign policy vis-à-vis the Muslim world, climate change and resource conflicts, to name a couple of these elements.
It follows that in such places, religion may be the only guiding principle, the only social, moral, even legal code to abide by. Somalia, for example,
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Geraldine Buck MacGregor, 84, passed away early Sunday morning (Oct. 30, 2011) at the Livingston County Center for Nursing
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and Rehabilitation in Mt. Morris.
She was born in Dansville on Feb. 3, 1927, a daughter of the late Clarence and Marjoretta (Huff) Buck.
Gerry was a member of the Dansville United Methodist Church and Daniel Goho Post No. 87 of the American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. She was retired from Eastman Kodak in Rochester.
She is survived by her sister, Frances Demyan of Auburn; a brother, Charles C. Buck of Rochester; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
Friends may call from 2-4 p.m. Tuesday at the Hindle Funeral Home, Inc., 271 Main St., in Dansville, where services will be held at the completion of calling hours. Interment will be in Greenmount Cemetery, Dansville. An American Legion Auxiliary prayer service will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday at the funeral home.
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