CBC:
Lyssinum — also known as lyssin or hydrophobinum — is a homeopathic nosode made by repeatedly diluting the saliva of a rabid dog. The treatment is approved in general for use in Canada, but Helios is not among the companies licensed to sell it.
The name of the Guardians’ ship in #InfinityWar is The Benatar. https://t.co/5OZ2L0CCBd— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) April 30, 2018
NYP:
The Warren Street Dog Park was originally taken hostage by the Dog Owners of Tribeca (DOOT) in 2008 — after the 92-by-43-foot green space opened between Greenwich and West streets.
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Founders installed a keypad lock on the gate and sent members a secret 4-digit passcode after they paid a $120 annual fee over Paypal on the group’s Website. The code was updated every few months.
Members were to live by 22 strict rules
So, it turns out that human thighbones can be carved into daggers of exceptional strength: https://t.co/aGd2ctX48t #TIL pic.twitter.com/wfcQg4ey8e— Clive Thompson (@pomeranian99) April 30, 2018
This Shawarma sign has burned out in an extremely good way pic.twitter.com/1m7wSo2d4M— GP (@mousefountain) April 15, 2018
one more pic.twitter.com/7M84bMrMgZ— Mackenzie Schubert (@macschubert) April 30, 2018
Painted from memory. I just finished 3rd grade and my family was eating at a McDonald's in SC when we noticed this impossibly tall hooded homeless druid fella standing behind the glass door. After a minute one of the staff ran out and gave him a bag of grub and he wordlessly left pic.twitter.com/xQdoid3mHu— Jonas Goonface (@jonasgoonface) April 24, 2018
A thread on the creative and beautiful ways that the artists of the past repaired the flaws in torn and damaged manuscripts. pic.twitter.com/81YSAhKGot— Paul 🌹📚 Cooper (@PaulMMCooper) April 10, 2018
Shatterstar is a super good looking, karate-fighting alien from SPACE. And one member of the team Susan WON’T be meeting 😉 pic.twitter.com/uGbbVcNr78— Peter W. (@PeterW_1974) April 27, 2018
Meet Bedlam. It’s hard to not feel inadequate around a man with muscles for muscles and electricity powers. But Susan assures me that I’m great just the way I am! #LoveMyWife #MortalWifeMortalLife pic.twitter.com/EyFgLMrKi9— Peter W. (@PeterW_1974) April 27, 2018
Watch out for Zeitgeist’s acid breath! It’ll getchya if his kindness doesn’t kill you first! (Seriously. SUCH a nice guy) pic.twitter.com/GCeyHcKjKh— Peter W. (@PeterW_1974) April 27, 2018
Domino said she’s really lucky. I guess I’m just really lucky I get to hang out with such nice people. :) pic.twitter.com/CRSU1V3iVm— Peter W. (@PeterW_1974) April 27, 2018
First day of training! Glad I brought my #Nikon! These are four of the hardest working people I know! #MakingMemories #XForce pic.twitter.com/3jdBNJAmec— Peter W. (@PeterW_1974) April 27, 2018
— Peter W. (@PeterW_1974) April 27, 2018
Masterpiece! 🙆♂️— BabaGol (@BabaGol_) April 30, 2018
The GK shirt of Ferro de General Pico, Trecera División 🇦🇷🧤 pic.twitter.com/lmr65MIHnl
HP:
Remember, back in Season 1 of the HBO series, when Dolores’ (Evan Rachel Wood) father Peter Abernathy (Louis Herthum) short-circuited after discovering a picture of a woman posing in New York City’s Times Square?
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Mr. Abernathy’s frazzled moment was a pivotal “Westworld” plot point, so of course the internet went nuts when fans realized the show had apparently used a Getty stock image of a random woman, rather than hire an actress to play the role of Juliet.
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Von Weber’s stock images have been used by a variety of websites, including HuffPost, so his involvement in the show didn’t immediately raise red flags. But when fans looked closer at von Weber’s Getty photos, they noticed some other notable pictures: images of horses, cowboys and, most interestingly, samurai,
"The ugliness of April baseball personified by 7 teams on pace to lose 100-plus games"
Uruguay: Peñarol found out on arriving to Sunday's match against Progreso they had the wrong coloured keeper's shirt. A fan was pressed into lending his replica shirt to get the game going. pic.twitter.com/S6g5b3h2uZ— Daniel Edwards (@DanEdwardsGoal) April 29, 2018
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery forces you to pay - or wait - to save a kid from being strangledhttps://t.co/d2K5OI2oCN pic.twitter.com/5Uh4zZjyT8— Eurogamer (@eurogamer) April 30, 2018
Three faces, belts. (The Street Fighter figures from the same line are great.)
S.H. Figuarts Bucky (Infinity War) also available for preorder.
Seen a lot of odd brands in China, but Helen Keller spectacles might be the oddest. pic.twitter.com/Ah1GP5QG1w— Paul Gillis (@ProfGillis) April 29, 2018
WaPo:
he has dramatically increased his giving this cycle, pouring $21 million into races from Montana to West Virginia to ensure more conservative victories in the upcoming midterm elections, Federal Election Commission records show.
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Neither Uihlein nor his Pleasant Prairie, Wis.-based company, Uline, one of the nation’s largest packaging and shipping-supply sellers, has a media representative
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“Dick and I love reading newspapers and when we watch TV news, the channel is mostly set on Fox News,” she wrote.
"By the end of the week, the tree was gone from the lawn."
NPR:
After a $365,000 renovation, the town was set to celebrate the grand reopening of the museum bearing Terrus' name — one of Elne's main attractions. Instead, the big reveal was that 82 paintings attributed to the artist in the museum's collection were fakes.
Local mayor Yves Barniol announced at the opening that it was guest curator Eric Forcada who raised doubts about the authenticity of the paintings.
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Forcada, the art historian who first sounded the alarm, noticed buildings that appear in some of the paintings didn't actually exist in Terrus' time.
oh my god. pic.twitter.com/Ub6n93lryn— ｖｉｏｌｅｔ (@blipstress) April 28, 2018
NYT:
The smugglers are paid by the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s Office of Kidnapped Affairs. (Yes, there is such a thing, established in response to the captive-taking.)
I'm in tears... pic.twitter.com/fW5tecQgTs— Born Salty (@cjzero) April 27, 2018
Shazam but for whether someone is mad at you— Aparna Nancherla (@aparnapkin) April 21, 2018
Imagine banning the world's coolest dog. pic.twitter.com/LIyyRBVZQT— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) April 22, 2018
Playing D&D but @mynameiskeely can’t be here in person so we improvised pic.twitter.com/Ihe8IxxwxA— Noelle Stevenson (@Gingerhazing) April 22, 2018
Person who was supposed to man that fan is fired. #Beychella pic.twitter.com/T4LezJAJd1— Adultish Gambino (@LEBENFOUR) April 22, 2018
"jacked and tan" should be a drink. a vanilla muscle milk, two shots of dark rum— mbr (@balladreview) April 26, 2018
When I have no idea how to comfort my friends but I try anyway pic.twitter.com/nhV4ms1Sc1— give carly rae jepsen a sword (@nicksparks94) April 25, 2018
His title though lol pic.twitter.com/5oB9rf3x0t— Tressie Mc (@tressiemcphd) April 25, 2018
Careful out there today, folks. pic.twitter.com/kWiNloXmdz— Clinton van der Berg (@ClintonV) April 28, 2018
He was bored at the pub so we put squirrel videos on YouTube. pic.twitter.com/m74k2W2x2q— Addy (@adriana_lowe) April 27, 2018
Spent my weekend making a dumb joke game for #ldjam41— Jon Remedios (@JonRemedios) April 22, 2018
I present to you: GONE VROOM a Racing Game + Walking Simulatorhttps://t.co/X4x3410sLq pic.twitter.com/Xlbnw77YFa
SD:
The idea is especially controversial in Del Mar, where hundreds of multimillion-dollar homes are built near sea level on the northern end of town near the beach and the San Dieguito River.
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Residents fear their property values will plummet if word gets out that the city is considering managed retreat.
NYT:
Last year, Mr. Edwards, the former president, gave the green light for a marketing campaign for the fall launch of the VaporMax shoe for women; the female British singer FKA Twigs was given creative license for a shoot in Mexico City. The result, according a person who saw a rough cut of the commercial and another who saw the final cut, featured few shots of the shoes and instead had a woman twirling on what looked like a stripper pole and male athletes in sports bras striking odd poses. The campaign was killed, costing Nike millions of dollars.
Asked about the aborted campaign, Mr. Wilkins of Nike said the company was proud of its relationship with the singer. “We have a history of pushing the boundaries in marketing, just as we do in product development,” Mr. Wilkins said. “We create a lot of material that is not deployed in the marketplace.’’
Tool for installing doll eyes. pic.twitter.com/jbSlbK4Kr8— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) April 28, 2018
Falcons took Ito Smith. Ito's not his real name. It's his nickname, because when he was a baby his family thought he looked like Judge Lance Ito. In related news, the dudes getting drafted were babies during the OJ trial.— Dan Graziano (@DanGrazianoESPN) April 28, 2018
Qz:
Every morning I wake up to the same routine. I log into the Tinder account of a 45-year-old man from Texas—a client. I flirt with every woman in his queue for 10 minutes, sending their photos and locations to a central database of potential “Opportunities.” For every phone number I get, I make $1.75.
I’m what’s called a “Closer” for the online-dating service ViDA (Virtual Dating Assistants). Men and women (though mostly men) from all over the world pay this company to outsource the labor and tedium of online dating.
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Profile Writers follow strict guidelines, often recycling the same half-dozen clichés over and over again. If a client has a dog (jackpot!), all the Profile Writer needs to do is search for the word “dog” in their manual and choose from a list of dog-related one-liners
WaPo:
Qatar had entered secret talks to free 25 of its citizens from Iraqi kidnappers, yet the bargaining had turned into a kind of group shakedown, the official said, with a half-dozen militias and foreign governments jostling to squeeze cash from the wealthy Persian Gulf state.
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Qatar’s bargaining with militants over the hostage affair would become a flash point in a larger feud between the country and its Arab neighbors, some of whom have repeatedly criticized Qatari leaders over what they say are the country’s cordial ties with Iran and support for the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups identified with political Islam. Weeks after the hostages were freed, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined three other Arab states in severing relations with Qatar, triggering a diplomatic crisis that quickly escalated into a virtual blockade on shipping and air travel in and out of Qatar.
Seen at a Harbin restaurant: swinging cradle for your phone, I'm told to cheat the "10k steps/day" test & qualify for health insurance discounts, presumably while you relax, eat & drink more, or have another cigarette. pic.twitter.com/LV0leTduAU— 大山 Dashan (@akaDashan) April 28, 2018
For the photo I took of my #famicase I bought the cheapest purple FC game I could find, printed out a reusable sticker label (so I wouldn't ruin the game) and took a picture of it in the street outside my house. Then I did some work on the label in Photoshop afterward. pic.twitter.com/I2zabj1k2C— Philip Summers (@shamoozal) April 28, 2018
"Prosecutors say Eliabachus was principal officer and operator of a purported aviation parts trading business she ran from her home."
Nepal has one of the world’s most dangerous road pic.twitter.com/5GmwbrAOEA— Ken Rutkowski (@kenradio) April 24, 2018
Unused NEW MUTANTS #43 cover by Barry Windsor-Smith pic.twitter.com/ufJQ2fy1qV— Chris Arrant (@chrisarrant) April 27, 2018
avengers infinity war cast draws their characters 😂 i’m shookt 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/oKWTbKp6Ex— captain* (@iamgeekingout) April 27, 2018
The movies may have gotten better but the posters HAVE NOT! pic.twitter.com/DNwrmNrrnB— rico. (@whoisrico) April 26, 2018
i really love that Fritz Kahn infographic of how much hair your body produces during a day pic.twitter.com/zX9QjMGLOv— Sam Boucher (@MonsieurEureka) April 13, 2018
BF:
It's called Fuelgram and, for a few dollars a month and access to your Instagram log-in credentials, it will use the accounts of everyone who paid that sum to like and comment on your posts — and it will use yours to do the same to theirs.
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Fuelgram makes posts appear more popular than they are, tricking Instagram's algorithm into spreading them further, sometimes right into the service's high-profile Explore tab. And there's a reasonable chance there's one in your feed right now, because Fuelgram is just one of a number of Instagram-juicing services available today, and the photo-sharing platform's engagement-rewarding algorithm incentivizes people to use it.
TG:
Armed with a discreet notebook and pen, Gibbon aims to penetrate the “veneer of respectability” she says cloaks such events, revealing the vulnerabilities of those who make a living selling weapons of mass destruction. These include: the sales rep vomiting after starting on the champagne at 11am, the young woman in the tight dress bringing an incongruous glamour to a Scud missile stand, the string quartet serenading bomb-makers on the back of a military truck and the mannequins wearing gas masks.Her book is available for preorder.
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She got in using her real name but gave her occupation as “war artist” and said she wanted to practise drawing military hardware. The trick worked for a few years until an unusually observant security guard noticed that she was sketching not tanks but arms dealers. She protested her innocence but he was having none of it. “If you’re a war artist why don’t you go to Iraq and draw?” he said, and escorted her to the exit.
Unwilling to give up, she took the drastic measure of changing her name by deed poll to get back in. She also created a sham company and website to make her look legitimate. Her new fake identity was a passport to arms fairs all around the world until
HR:
One day after two women alleged Tom Brokaw sexually harassed them at NBC News in the 1990s, a cadre of female journalists including Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell and Maria Shriver have signed a letter characterizing the veteran journalist as "a man of tremendous decency and integrity."
Above is a picture of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke posing for a photo last week to promote a new children’s version of the National Park Service passport book. So far, so good, right? Well, upon closer examination, you might notice he’s wearing his hat backward.
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This is just the latest in a pattern of public gaffs by Zinke. Last May, he posed on horseback during a staged photo op with Vice President Mike Pence while wearing his cowboy hat backward. When Elliott Woods (who posted about the backward ranger hat on Facebook this week), met Zinke for a day of fly-fishing last year to profile him for Outside, the Interior Secretary rigged his fly rod... backward. Zinke posted a video on Twitter (above) of himself casting a fly rod as if it were a bait rod.
Already ready for lunch? #YellowFeverEats has you covered with fresh, customized bowls at our brand-new #LongBeach365 location - now open! pic.twitter.com/GCoHiMwMUW— 365byWholeFoods (@365byWholeFoods) April 25, 2018
As I savored each new and interesting flavor, I realized that, like the lucky pickles, the name “Yellow Fever” represented yet another way Kim was claiming her identity. She didn’t see a need to hide behind the term, typically used to describe White men who exclusively date Asian women; instead, in typical Texan-style, she wrangled it away from its negative connotations and displayed it publicly, confidently, and didn’t back down. She made it her own, positive phrase that was inclusive of all Asian cultures. It was strong. It was daring.
And it was strangely revolutionary.
“I don’t think we’re a safe brand,” she had said when asked about her bold decision. “One of our taglines is ‘be yellow’. This is because we want people to be comfortable in their own skin.”
Illustrations for 'EXO: Mankind Reborn, a #boardgame by @plastcraftgames coming to @kickstarter on May 2nd!https://t.co/mv4T3n0GN2 #exohttps://t.co/LnoJGW9wMg pic.twitter.com/cRlI1N2lZF— Xabi Gaztelua - Art (@XabiGazte) April 22, 2018
Commission for @plastcraftgames pic.twitter.com/LXURsdil0J— AngelGiraldeZ (@StudioGiraldez) April 27, 2018
VIDEO: Kim Jong Un is being escorted to the inter-Korean summit by a phalanx of bodyguards carefully chosen for their fitness, marksmanship, martial arts skills and even looks pic.twitter.com/rUW4xWGWqE— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 27, 2018
Kim Jong-un heading to lunch with 12 jogging bodyguards makes for a strangely hypnotic video clip. pic.twitter.com/iMY9YfzGxJ— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) April 27, 2018
I can finally show you my entry for this year's #FAMICASE Exhibition!— José Salot (ホセ) (@pepe_salot) April 27, 2018
It's called Olympic Curling.#illustration #drawing #famicom #curling #olympics #ファミコン #オリンピック #カーリング #イラスト #イラストレーション pic.twitter.com/Qg86eiTwNm
Darwin's Revenge 2: The Power of Motion in Plants is my entry for #famicase this year! pic.twitter.com/cCKShz6EWE— Paul O'Leary McCann (@polm23) April 27, 2018
So excited to have finally participated in #Famicase this year, but way more excited to see everyone else's submissions!! pic.twitter.com/awyLx4RHZH— Andrew Elmore (Shep Pettibone '93 Remix) (@AndrewElmore) April 27, 2018
My entry for the #Famicase expo by @meteor_club!— Yowan Langlais (@wyel) April 27, 2018
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The Friendly Dungeon is filled with loot items and monsters, each with their own soul and personality. Will you befriend everything you encounter, or will you make new enemies? Just remember, every decision has its cost. pic.twitter.com/5zcMkDqAVl
very excited to have been able to participate in this year's #famicase exhibition. thank you @meteor_club! https://t.co/CTK28KhDGw pic.twitter.com/ueAlusTSgc— rose b @ MOMOCON139 (@barachan) April 27, 2018
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Here's my entry for the 2018 Famicase exhibition at @meteor_club in Tokyo. Stoked to see all the insane entries. #famicase pic.twitter.com/zmhi4xnSIv— Rene Antunes (@reneantunes) April 27, 2018
DS:
With BC Vytautas needing to win their last two games to avoid relegation from the Lithuanian first division, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball are headed back to the United States
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LaMelo was no longer getting playing time
TO:
The group, which was founded in 1990, has discovered a way to outmaneuver even federal agencies like the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which say balloons pose a threat to the environment
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Though the Balloon Council does not promote balloon releases, which have resulted in an estimated 280,293 littered balloons in the U.S. from 2008 to 2016, they oppose efforts to enshrine a ban on releases into law, fearing that such legislation would frighten customers. “It’s a negative stigma on the product,” ... the Council’s executive director told The Outline. “There’s a lot of small mom-and-pops where this is their primary product.”
SB:
explored online family trees that appeared to have matches to DNA samples from the East Area Rapist's crimes, Grippi said. They then followed clues to individuals in the family trees to determine whether they were potential suspects.
The process finally came to fruition last Thursday, when the investigation focused on the possibility that DeAngelo might be a suspect, a suspicion that was bolstered by the fact that he had lived in areas where the attacks occurred and was in the right age range
"The jury in McCormick’s trial heard how he made millions of pounds from selling three models of detector – based on a novelty 13 golf ball finder – to Iraq and other countries."
"'I'm just being a revolutionary to wake everybody else,' said Pitbull, who is also opening up schools for youth."
BB:
refocusing the company around more lucrative trucks and SUVs is a crucial element of new CEO Jim Hackett’s rebound bid.
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Both are counting on gasoline prices remaining low. In the long-term, abandoning car segments could turn out to have been the wrong move if the Trump administration’s plans for weaker mileage standards don’t last long after his presidency.
The neural net eventually learned to sound like an NFL draft scout, if you ignore the fact that it makes no sense.https://t.co/0URaMP09VB pic.twitter.com/7UtH5xYGPC— Janelle Shane (@JanelleCShane) April 26, 2018
The Star Wars Legion core set is 20% off at Amazon. And here's the painter's Patreon.
The Peripheral in Italian pic.twitter.com/vv6MovsGUl— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) April 25, 2018
The result of tonight's live stream... a @robertliefeld creation - THE POUCH. Lines by @DonalTDeLay. Colors by me. pic.twitter.com/LWHGpdawmX— K Michael Russell 🎨 (@kmichaelrussell) April 24, 2018
— Erica Henderson (@EricaFails) April 25, 2018
— MONDO (@MondoNews) April 25, 2018
WSJ:
The combined salaries of previous hosts Al Roker and Tamron Hall were less than half of Ms. Kelly’s $23 million-a-year payday, according to several people familiar with the matter.
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When Diane Sawyer stepped down from anchoring ABC’s “World News Tonight” in 2014, relative unknown David Muir was given the job and ratings actually went up. After Katie Couric gave up anchoring “CBS Evening News,” she was replaced by the less-known Scott Pelley, who has subsequently been replaced by the even lesser-known Jeff Glor without a hit to ratings.
the researchers designed a skill that acts as a calculator, but has a lot more going on behind the scenes.
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Normally, the interaction would end there, and the mic would stop transmitting. But the researchers programmed their skill so that instead, a developer functionality called “shouldEndSession” would automatically keep the Echo listening for another cycle.
Even then, normally Alexa would give a verbal "readback" prompt, letting the user know that it was still actively engaged. The researchers found, though, that they could simply put empty values into this prompt instead of words, meaning the Echo would stay quiet and wouldn't let a user know that the session was continuing.
Face recognition commercialization:— Connie Chan (@conniechan) April 25, 2018
1. Upload a selfie to wechat official account.
2. Run Shanghai half-marathon.
3. Within hours get back photos of yourself (from 000's of pics by freelance photographers).
4. Pay $1 to buy unwatermarked images.
(c/o Neil Nand) pic.twitter.com/us94xWR1eN
TDB:
DeAngelo was at one point a policeman in Auburn, outside of Sacramento, according to a news clipping Jensen sent to The Daily Beast. DeAngelo reportedly was fired after he was accused of shoplifting a can of dog repellant and a hammer at a drug story in Sacramento in 1979. He was terminated after he “failed to answer any of the city's investigations and did not request an administrative hearing,” the city manager said at the time.
"We suspect this is a well drilled by the community ... and we suspect there was someone smoking in the area at the time," said police official Wahyu Kuncoro.
Such illegal drilling is common in Aceh, where Pertamina operates an oil field.
Gimana ya caranya padamkan api dari sumur minyak terbakar di Aceh Timur seperti ini? Sampai malam ini api belum dapat dipadamkan. Ada yang tahu? Ditunggu sarannya. pic.twitter.com/GnKEAmwjNM— Sutopo Purwo Nugroho (@Sutopo_PN) April 25, 2018
has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and CNBC, and is a fixture in the smaller, specialized blogosphere of student debt
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After The Chronicle spent more than a week trying to verify Cloud’s existence, the company that owns The Student Loan Report confirmed that Cloud was fake.
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Before that admission, however, Cloud had corresponded at length with many journalists, pitching them stories and offering email interviews, many of which were published. When The Chronicle attempted to contact him through the address last week, Cloud said he was traveling and had limited access to his account. He didn’t respond to additional inquiries.
Dan Curry reused this painting in two episodes of Buck Rogers, and once in Star Trek TNG, after slight retouch. pic.twitter.com/JwVoFNQvMV
— johnnyB (@agraphafx) June 30, 2016
CB:
Occasionally a bird falls through the fume hood.
Rubio likes to keep a bottle of lotion on her desk, but the rats that infest the building keep chewing through the plastic.
ESPN:
In December 2015, a female Florida student accused Callaway of sexually assaulting her, but a Title IX hearing officer cleared him of wrongdoing in August 2016. The woman and her witnesses boycotted the hearing because the university appointed an attorney who was also a Gators football booster to hear the case. Callaway was never criminally charged in the incident.
According to the hearing officer's ruling, Callaway testified that he was "high on marijuana" during the encounter with the woman and stated that he was "so stoned I had no interest in having sex with anyone."
Callaway also was one of nine Florida players last season who allegedly used stolen credit card information to fund bookstore accounts, and he was cited for
"Maintenance crews from the Blue Angels are still assessing the damage to one of the U.S. Navy aerial demonstration team's F/A-18 Hornets after a bird got sucked through one of its engines during a recent show."
Available on the on the BBC iPlayer, if you have access to it.
MN:
But they fear that many more plants have vanished, still unnoticed. A thriving black market in Asia means the California native plant is vulnerable wherever it grows, they say, from Oregon to the Mexican border. One variety, found in Santa Clara County, is endangered; local naturalists won’t disclose its locations, to protect it.
Investigators suspect that organized smuggling rings, based in Asia, where the stolen plants fetch up to $50 a pop, are behind the crimes. An ascending Chinese middle class, whose millions can now afford decorative plant arrangements, is fueling demand.
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The investigation was launched after an anonymous phone call in December to Patrick Freeling, a CDFW game warden known for his diligence.
The caller, frustrated at being stuck in a long line while trying to mail a package last December in Mendocino’s tiny post office, was suspicious.
A man in line ahead of her was shipping 60 packages to China.
“If they use the Spinal Tap analogy, we fire them.”— Chris Chapman (@retrohistories) April 24, 2018
Microsoft appoints an expensive market research firm to come up with a better name for their console than its internal codename, ‘Xbox’. From Game of X, available in a @StoryBundle for a few more days at https://t.co/BexuT1fgC0 pic.twitter.com/ITlwPQvnIV
Thoroughly enjoying @DeMaria's fantastic 'Game of X Volume 1', full of new information about the creation of the Xbox... like this story about how Ed Fries placated an irate Steve Jobs. Available in the Retro Wonder Storybundle for the next 10 days: https://t.co/BexuT1fgC0 pic.twitter.com/dJFqYiK6gp— Chris Chapman (@retrohistories) April 23, 2018
this is garbage pic.twitter.com/qkYp6NxStr— jess (@l1quidcryst4l) April 22, 2018
Duffy casts an eye into the ancient depths of the ocean, to dream up a dramatic Wall Sculpture, creating an Abyssal art piece that instantly puts you in mind to stories of a flat earth, introducing the majesty of the deep blue to the interior, and an Abyss that gazes back.
TA:
As impressive as 23andMe’s genetic database is, it still has noticeable gaps—especially among Africans, Middle Easterners, Central Asians, Southeast Asians, and indigenous Americans.
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The latest is the Population Collaborations Program, which allows U.S.-based scientists already studying underrepresented groups to apply for free spit kits and DNA analysis. In return, 23andMe gets to add the DNA to its database.
"At the current pace in 2018, they will strike out 43,163 times, which would obliterate the record of 40,104 set last year"
EG:
Vault 11 is my favourite vault in the Fallout series. When I first encountered it, in the thrilling days after Obsidian's wonderful Fallout: New Vegas came out in 2010, it took me by surprise. Its story unfolds like a horrific picture book, each room and corridor and terminal adding yet another layer of dread. And it made me think. It made me think about what it means to be human, the good, the bad and the very, very ugly. Eight years later, Vault 11 remains firmly rooted in my memory, as if it were a real place I once stumbled upon during a drug-fuelled road-trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the kind of trip you taste on your tongue when you remember it, so stark were the events.
BBC:
But in fact vetting began in the early days of the BBC and continued until the 1990s
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The fear was that "evilly disposed" engineers might sabotage the network at a critical time, or that conspirators might discredit the BBC so that "the way could be made clear for a left-wing government".
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If staff came under suspicion only after they had been employed by the BBC or applied for transfer to a job that needed vetting, an image resembling a Christmas tree was drawn on their personal file.
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The Christmas tree was eventually dropped in 1984 because it was said to attract too much attention.
The European Stone Stacking Championships, Europe’s largest championships for all Stone Stacking and Rock Balancing artists and practitioners, took place today in Dunbar, Scotland pic.twitter.com/tWOZY1Ss9F— AFP news agency (@AFP) April 22, 2018
Here are all 21-pitches Brandon Belt saw in a single plate appearance in all its glory pic.twitter.com/R1h9OFMNB8— Jesse Foster (@Jesse__Foster) April 22, 2018
$133.28: What Brandon Belt cost the Angels by fouling off 16 balls in one at bat. Home teams pay a wholesale rate of about $8.33 per ball. pic.twitter.com/lrmRkplKQ7— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) April 22, 2018
They took regular Forged in Fire and replaced all the forging with blade-wielding on obstacle courses. In the first episode, a ninja, samurai, and cowboy face off.
— Magic: The GIFening (@MTGIFening) September 30, 2017
— Magic: The GIFening (@MTGIFening) April 22, 2018
