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Missing Hong Kong bookseller ‘in Chinese detention’ – BBC News
The wife of Lee Bo said her husband had called her from a telephone number in Shenzhen to say he was helping with an investigation. Mr Lee is the fifth person linked to the same bookshop to go missing in the past two months.
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Alex Honnold Isn’t Fearless—He Just Accepts Death
Every time he does one of his heart-stopping climbs, Alex Honnold defies gravity – and death. Like Spider Man, he can climb almost vertical surfaces, using only his hands and feet.
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Crime Blotter: Rhino Horn, Lion Claws, a Gazelle, and More
Every Sunday, Wildlife Watch notes some of the previous week’s wildlife crime busts and convictions around the world. GAZELLE AND BIRD POACHING: Police in the Persian Gulf state of Oman arrested seven people accused of poaching wildlife, reports Gul…
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Fushimi Inari-Taisha, Japan’s most iconic shrine – Al Jazeera English
Kyoto, Japan – The orange gates, known as “torii”, of the Fushimi Inari-Taisha shrine are one of Japan’s most iconic landmarks. Overlooking the former capital city of Kyoto from Inari Mountain, they dot the landscape, attracting thousands of visitor…
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January 3, 1925: Benito Mussolini Assumes Dictatorial Powers in Italy | The Nation
In a speech to the Italian parliament on this date in 1925, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini officially marked the country’s transition from a constitutional monarchy to a fascist dictatorship.
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US: Unearthing the dark past of Native boarding school – Al Jazeera English
Marsha Small used ground-penetrating radar to survey beneath the cemetery on the Chemawa Indian School campus near Salem, Oregon.
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The mighty Mississippi overflows – Al Jazeera English
Floodwaters have continued to rise across central parts of the United States, from the Southern Plains to the Midwest. At least 31 people have lost their lives so far in a series of violent storms that started to sweep across the region prior to Chr…
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Even in expensive cities, the sharing economy may just have its limits | Business | The Guardian
I’ve never been a fan of the “sharing economy”. Not that there’s anything intrinsically wrong with Uber, Airbnb and their peers, it’s just that there doesn’t really seem to be much “sharing” going on. It’s more like adding a technological middleman …
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San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer Shows How to Be an Urban Republican Mayor – The Atlantic
San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer is currently the great urban hope of the Republican Party—thanks to Bob Filner’s spectacular failure.
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2016 US presidential election: what happens when … and how | US news | The Guardian
After a seemingly endless parade of campaign announcements and abandonments, debates and stump speeches – not to forget weekly controversies born from the mouth of Donald Trump – the 2016 presidential election is finally upon us.
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Fiction highlights for 2016 | Books | The Guardian
Once the Star Wars tie-ins (my favourite was Slave to the Empire: An Erotic Star Wars Adventure) and novelty Christmas books for people who don’t read (remember A Simples Life: The Life and Times of Aleksandr Orlov?) are safely remaindered, it’s tim…
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Hell and High Water by Tanya Landman – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
Caleb and his father are inseparable, two showmen bound by the tie of their beautiful new puppet theatre, described in rich and evocative detail.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: So here we are in the future
Barton Swaim has noticed that some people say that what some people say is getting too much attention. When I was young, my friends and I would support our more improbable factual claims by following them with the words “ask anyone.
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The best nonfiction for 2016 | Books | The Guardian
Glance at the avalanche of nonfiction titles now heading our way and the trends are quickly apparent. The search for the new H Is for Hawk is, for instance, clearly not over yet, for which reason publishers are sticking very firmly with nature writi…
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Velázquez on Broadway: an extract from The Vanishing Man by Laura Cumming | Books | The Guardian
There is something intensely romantic in the fact that while walking up Broadway in the midst of a busy noonday crowd – made up of Bulls and Bears, rattling omnibuses, express wagons, Fifth-avenue carriages, railroad ticket offices, big hotels, big …
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Oregon militia threatens showdown with US agents at wildlife refuge | US news | The Guardian
Tensions over the treatment of two cattle ranchers in Oregon escalated into an armed confrontation over the weekend when members of a rightwing militia occupied a wildlife refuge and threatened a showdown with federal authorities.
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Cate Blanchett and Matt Damon top Palm Springs Festival awards – BBC News
Oscar hopefuls Cate Blanchett and Matt Damon were among the winners at Palm Springs Film Festival, with Damon saying director Ridley Scott deserved an Academy Award. Damon, who starred in Scott’s film The Martian, said of Scott: “I hope that this is…
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Beyond Ebola: The virus hunters – Al Jazeera English
In today’s hyper connected world, viruses can spread faster than ever, but thanks to science some of the worst infectious, microscopic agents like smallpox have been eradicated. Some, like the measles, continue to plague us, and then there are newe…
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Portland installs turbines in their city water pipes, powers city by flushing toilets : nottheonion
No shit. This seems pretty obvious in hindsight.
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Iran and Saudi Arabia wage war of words – Al Jazeera English
A war of words has broken out between Iran and Saudia Arabia after Riyadh announced that Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr was among 47 men it had executed on terrorism charges.
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Oregon: Armed protest at US wildlife building – BBC News
Armed protesters have occupied a US government building in Oregon to support father and son ranchers who have been ordered to return to jail. Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven, 46, were convicted of arson in 2012 but a court ruled their origina…
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Girls: Silent majority for how much longer? – Al Jazeera English
When it is a proven fact that girls matter more to the health of families than boys, why do we persist in helping them less?
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Government defends flood defences funding after cuts warning revealed | Environment | The Guardian
The government has defended its funding of flood defences after it emerged ministers were told spending cuts could leave 240,000 extra households facing a “significant risk” of flood damage within 20 years.
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Assad forces ‘build up’ troops in Syrian Golan – Al Jazeera English
Fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and armed opposition groups has continued in the Quneitra province of the country’s southwest as locals report a massive build-up of troops and pro-government militias in several towns.
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Bernie Sanders Knocks Donald Trump’s Scapegoating Strategy : Liberal
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Trump: ‘Hillary Clinton created ISIS with Obama’ : worldnews
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Pathankot: Fresh gunfire and blast at India military base – BBC News
Fresh gunfire and an explosion have been heard at an Indian air force base at Pathankot near the Pakistani border, as an operation continues to secure the facility after a deadly attack. At least four attackers and seven Indian soldiers have died so…
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On the frontline in Ramadi as families flee fighting – BBC News
Iraqi government forces say they are gradually overcoming the last resistance by Islamic State militants in Ramadi, a week after the city was said to have been liberated.
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Ben Stokes hit the fastest double century for England and the second quickest in history on day two of the second Test against South Africa. The all-rounder, 74 overnight, raced to 200 in 163 balls in Cape Town to beat Ian Botham’s 220-ball England …
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Upon receiving an invitation to address the Women’s Institute in the remote village of Upper Bottom, Richard Dawkins, “the greatest philosopher-scientist of his age”, immediately sets off to enlighten its benighted inhabitants.
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Protesters storm Saudi embassy in Tehran – BBC News
Unverified footage posted on social media appears to show part of the Saudi Embassy in Tehran under attack and on fire. Protests in the Iranian capital follow the execution of a prominent Shia cleric, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, in Saudi Arabia.
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Indian air force base rocked by fresh gunfire – Al Jazeera English
An Indian airbase in the northwestern state of Punjab has been rocked by fresh gunfire and blasts, hours after authorities announced that a day-long gun battle was over.
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Key environmental developments ahead in 2016 : environment
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Palestinians in Israel accuse Netanyahu of incitement – Al Jazeera English
Arab political leaders and rights groups have decried Israeli Prime Minister’s vow to “dramatically increase” the police presence in Palestinian communities in Israel following a fatal shooting in Tel Aviv.
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Haiti poll date set after being delayed on fraud charge – Al Jazeera English
Haitian President Michel Martelly has announced that a postponed presidential runoff vote will be held more than two weeks late, on January 17.
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Two Israelis charged over deadly West Bank arson attack – Al Jazeera English
Israeli prosecutors have filed murder charges against two citizens for a July 31 arson attack in the occupied West Bank that killed three members of a Palestinian family.
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Gull by Glenn Patterson review – fictionalised take on the doomed DeLorean | Books | The Guardian
In Glenn Patterson’s colourful novel about John DeLorean’s infamous, gull-winged sports car manufactured in Northern Ireland, the enigmatic entrepreneur-engineer dreams of seeing his futuristic creation in a movie.
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Australian Nick Kyrgios warmed up for a meeting with Andy Murray by recording an opening-day win in the Hopman Cup. Kyrgios, fined £16,200 for remarks about Stan Wawrinka’s girlfriend in August, beat German Alexander Zverev in the mixed teams event …
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How Iraq recaptured Ramadi and why it matters – Al Jazeera English
For Iraqis the year 2016 has been ushered in with their military’s capture of ISIL’s headquarters in Ramadi, capital of the nation’s Anbar province.
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makedepend – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
makedepend was developed as part of MIT’s Project Athena. It was used extensively in building X11 and ancillary packages, but has since become superseded by the dependency generation facilities of various compilers, and is now used primarily as a wo…
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New laws on e-cigarettes to be introduced across EU – BBC News
To some, they are the perfect way to quit smoking. For others, they are a new health risk. Laws on electronic cigarettes will change across Europe this year, with new health warnings and controls on how they are sold.
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Trump: ‘Hillary Clinton created Isis with Obama’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump uses his campaign rally in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Saturday to accuse Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of being responsible for the rise of Islamic State. Focusing then on Clinton’s candidacy, he said: “The last person that Hillary Clin…
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Donald Trump defends Muslim ban call after al-Shabab film – BBC News
Donald Trump has again defended his call for a ban on Muslims entering the US after it was used in a propaganda video by Somali militant group al-Shabab. The Republican presidential hopeful said people had praised his courage in truthfully highlight…
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Donald J. Trump shrugged off his appearance in a recruitment video posted Friday by the Shabab, an Al Qaeda affiliate, saying there was little he could do about it. The remarks were Mr. Trump’s first concerning the Shabab’s video.
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Prince William says fatherhood made him ‘more emotional’ – BBC News
The Prince of Wales has said people initially “didn’t see the point” of the Prince’s Trust – his charity which marks its 40th anniversary this year. The trust’s early history had been the “same story of my life”, Prince Charles added – of having to …
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Mohamed Bouazizi- Was the Arab Spring worth dying for? – Al Jazeera English
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia – Around noon on December 17, 2010, Ali Bouazizi’s phone rang. It was his uncle Salah. At the time, Ali, now 43, was active in the opposition against former Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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UK soldiers may face prosecution for Iraq war crimes – Al Jazeera English
The head of a special team investigating alleged abuses by British soldiers in Iraq has said he’s confident there will be sufficient evidence for prosecutions.
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Israelis charged over fatal West Bank family arson attack – BBC News
Israeli prosecutors have charged two suspects over an arson attack on a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank last year that killed three. An adult has been charged with murder, while a second suspect, a youth, as an accessory to murder.
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MEXICO CITY — The mayor of a city south of Mexico’s capital was shot to death on Saturday, less than a day after taking office, officials said. Gunmen opened fire on Mayor Gisela Mota at her house in the city of Temixco, said the government of Morel…
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Sussex cricketer Matthew Hobden has died at the age of 22. Born and educated in Eastbourne, Hobden made his first-class debut for Sussex in 2014 and represented the county in all formats of the game.
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Double standards cited amid armed protest in Oregon – Al Jazeera English
In this special edition of Counting the Cost, we look at the biggest business stories to watch in 2016. One young Iranian woman challenges her family and traditional values as she dreams of becoming an astronaut.
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The Oregon militia standoff, explained – Vox
A militia protesting the “tyranny” of the federal government seized the headquarters of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon on Saturday and in a video posted to Facebook, called on “patriots” from all over the country to come to the refuge with thei…
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Russian censors target children’s books that break the mould | Children’s books | The Guardian
I wrote my first children’s book, The Land of Good Girls, in 2009 for my then five-year-old daughter Sasha for quite a banal reason: I’d already read to her everything that was worth reading in Russian for children her age.
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Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller review – a justly lauded debut | Books | The Guardian
“There are things that drift away like our endless numbered days.” So goes the song lyric that lends this sensuous debut novel its title, from the album of the same name by the American singer-songwriter Sam Beam, aka Iron & Wine, who was the author…
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This book is funny and peculiar. I would describe it as a comic book about a hamster who is selfish, idle, greedy and enjoys being the centre of attention. I liked this book because it is split into lots of different little stories but its also one …
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Delhi’s cars and the odd-even formula – Al Jazeera English
The Indian capital has started the trial phase of a new initiative which will see private cars allowed to operate only on alternate days from January 1-15, depending on whether their license plates end in an even or an odd number.
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Chris Brown Suspected of Battery and Theft in Las Vegas. : Music
articleChris Brown Suspected of Battery and Theft in Las Vegas. (hollywoodreporter.com)submitted 5 hours ago by loading…[–]mytodaythrowaway 234 points235 points236 points 3 hours ago(61 children)the whereabouts of her phone at the time of the alle…
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Gas pipeline runs through South Asia’s tensions – Al Jazeera English
When – or if – completed, a new natural gas pipeline would carry 33 billion cubic metres of gas from Turkmenistan through three South Asian countries. Pakistan and India would each purchase 42 percent of the gas; the remaining 6 percent would go to…
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Somebody hold this damned thing still! : funny
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The Observances review – a collaboration with the waves | Books | The Guardian
In The Observances, Kate Miller elevates the art of looking into something that is, if not strictly religious, devotional. This is a brilliant debut.
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When Sex Made a Commercial Airline Pilot Go Blind – The Daily Beast
Among the myriad pleasures of certain television series’ are the new terms they introduce into your lexicon. Law & Order: SVU taught us “exsanguination” and “ligature marks,” while The O.C.
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Iran: Saudis face ‘divine revenge’ for executing al-Nimr – BBC News
Saudi Arabia will face “divine revenge” for its execution of a prominent Shia cleric, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned. Ayatollah Khamenei described Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr as a “martyr” who acted peacefully.
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Unforbidden Pleasures review – taking liberties | Books | The Guardian
The Notting Hill psychoanalyst Adam Phillips sets aside one day a week from practice to write; Unforbidden Pleasures is his 20th book.
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A Militia Has Taken Over A Federal Building In Oregon : politics
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ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits : worldnews
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Ascension Island to become marine reserve – BBC News
The government is to create a marine reserve almost as big as the UK in the Atlantic waters of Ascension Island. Just over half of the protected area will be closed to fishing.
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‘Affluenza’ teen: The lawyer taking on Ethan Couch’s case – BBC News
He has been called a rock star because of his track record in winning cases for high profile clients. It is a label that lawyer Fernando Benitez finds amusing, but no doubt his latest client Ethan Couch will want a bit of rock star treatment to get …
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Cameron’s cosy Christmas with Murdoch makes you admire Trump’s fighting talk | Media | The Guardian
Watch David Cameron start dropping round for seasonal drinks with Rupert and Rebekah again and it almost makes you warm to Donald Trump. The Donald wasn’t endorsed by New Hampshire’s most powerfully portentous newspaper for the coming primary test.
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The Prose Factory by DJ Taylor review – a lament for Grub Street | Books | The Guardian
To Dr Johnson, it was Grub Street, where “no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money”. To Thackeray, it was “the Corporation of the Goosequill”.
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Replacing the Apple Logo on the back of my iPhone 6 Plus with an LED : DIY
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They could have warned us : environment
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Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters : news
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You think you’ve got lingering questions about Making a Murderer, Netflix’s ten-part documentary about wrongfully convicted Wisconsin man Steven Avery and his eyebrow-raising 2005 trial for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach?
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: January 1 – January 3 · AVQ&A · The A.V. Club
We’ve expanded the definition of AVQ&A—our weekly thought-starter—by asking you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or sm…
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Begin 2016 within the walls of Downton Abbey · What’s On Tonight · The A.V. Club
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Sunday, January 3. All times are Eastern. Downton Abbey (PBS, 9 p.m.): It seems odd to think of a time when Downton Abbey could make a claim to legitimately being one of the best (or at least most entertaining…
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Bruce Campbell on the Tragedy of ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ – The Daily Beast
When the gleefully gory first season of Starz horror comedy Ash vs Evil Dead wraps up Saturday, its bumbling hero will have doomed the world to hell for a chance to visit the vacation spot of his dreams: Jacksonville, Florida.
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Protests as Saudi Arabia executes 47 on terror charges – Al Jazeera English
Iranian protesters have broken into the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran after Riyadh announced the execution of Shia religious leader Nimr al-Nimr, one of 47 men killed on terrorism charges.
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The eco guide to packaging | Lucy Siegle | Environment | The Guardian
In the mid-noughties my inbox was full of images of shrinkwrapped fruit and veg: readers were incensed that supermarkets wrapped coconuts (which famously provide their own husks) with layers of non-recyclable film. The debate has been repackaged for…
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When Bad Weather Gets Worse – The New Yorker
Seven hundred years ago this month, people across northern Europe saw a comet in the sky and feared the worst. They were already running out of food. It had rained too much in 1315—sometimes every day for weeks at a stretch.
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My 2 year journey of becoming fit, healthy and happy. (31/F, 5’5″, 220lbs – 145lbs) : Fitness
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APOD: 2016 January 2 – Sky Lights in the New Year
Explanation: Triggered by the impact of a coronal mass ejection on New Year’s eve, a moderate geomagnetic storm brought a celebration of sky lights to planet Earth’s high latitudes yesterday.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama created Isis, says Donald Trump | US news | The Guardian
Donald Trump has used his latest campaign rally to accuse Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama of being responsible for the rise of Islamic State.
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Armed Intruder Shoots at Homeowner Inside Home, Homeowner Shoots, Kills Intruder : news
The cycle of life continues.
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Slack Promotes Former Twitter Boss April Underwood To VP Of Product | TechCrunch
Slack’s rocket ship has a new co-pilot. April Underwood, Slack’s former head of platform who just launched its App Directory and Slack Fund, has leveled up to become the startup’s VP of Product.
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Mexico mayor killed less than a day after taking office – Al Jazeera English
The mayor of a city south of Mexico’s capital was shot to death less than a day after taking office, officials said. Gunmen opened fire on Mayor Gisela Mota on Saturday at her house in the city of Temixco, said the government of Morelos state, where…
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HIFW i post after over a year of lurking : reactiongifs
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Meet The Press: Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R); Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Others TBD.
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Vietnam-China row over South China Sea plane landing – BBC News
Vietnam has accused China of violating its sovereignty by landing a plane on an artificial island it has built in a contested part of the South China Sea. The Vietnamese foreign ministry said the airfield was built illegally on a part of the Spratly…
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Samsung’s ‘Rink’ Motion Controllers For Gear VR Look Pretty Great | TechCrunch
If you remember, Oculus just shared that their own motion controllers, the Touch, will be delayed until the second half of 2016. HTC and Playstation also have their own flavor of controllers.
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Dead Trees Image, Namibia – National Geographic Photo of the Day
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His first snow- he likes it!! : aww
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Half Dome on Christmas Day [OC][2071×2758] : EarthPorn
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Solstice Sun at Lulworth Cove
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MATH was never my strongest subject, so maybe I’m just not crunching the numbers right. But the more I stare at them, the less sense Marco Rubio makes.
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From The Colorado River, Grand Canyon. [OC] [2448X3264] : SkyPorn
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Yosemite in all its glory [OC] [5472×1984] : EarthPorn
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Wall Street Journal offers a free tool that lets you measure your reading speed and comprehension. (projects.wsj.com)
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Scores of reporters from the Boston Globe are preparing to personally hand out Sunday’s edition after a distribution crisis left readers across the city without their daily paper.
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In New York, gyms, commitments to which swell every January before being forgotten by Presidents’ Day, can trace their history to a man named Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, who began teaching outdoor athletics classes in Berlin early in the 19th century.
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I Love Brooklyn Nine Nine So Much : television
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BERLIN — One Syrian woman who joined the stream of migrants to Germany was forced to pay down her husband’s debt to smugglers by making herself available for sex along the way. Another was beaten unconscious by a Hungarian prison guard after refusin…
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Silicon Valley Lies And Those Who Tell Them | TechCrunch
We are now in a new year. Like most people, you’ll likely start 2016 setting a bunch of resolutions.
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Someone quick, give me some ones!
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This is why my clothes are full of cat hair : cats
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Yosemite can’t beat everyone [OC][3453×4597] : EarthPorn
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150 Armed Militia Members Take Over Federal Building | ThinkProgress
A group of 150 armed militia members have broken into and occupied a federal building in Oregon. The group reportedly includes three sons of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who had a tense standoff with federal officials in 2014.
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Saw this couple today at Disney World : aww
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A beginner’s guide to wingsuit base jumping – BBC News
Wingsuit base jumpers have been explaining the basics of the popular extreme sport. It involves jumping from cliffs or mountains wearing a suit with wings that inflates during the jump, enabling the person wearing it to fly.
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Playwright Mike Bartlett’s ‘astounding’ year – BBC News
For playwright Mike Bartlett, 2015 was a remarkable year. In the Spring came twin Olivier awards – one for his ‘future history play’ King Charles III and the other for the short drama, Bull.
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Are Bisexuals Shut Out of the LGBT Club? – The Daily Beast
No, bisexuals don’t have twice as much sex as everyone else. But there is mounting evidence to suggest that they experience double the types of discrimination as their gay and lesbian peers.
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How Trump is Like Liberace – The Daily Beast
Send the illegal immigrants home. Bar the door to Muslims. Kill the media. Mucho macho Donald Trump loves to talk tough. Real tough for a guy who deferred his way out of serving his country in the Vietnam War and then made shameful comments about a …
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Star Wars ’90s Throwback: How ‘Shadows of the Empire’ Changed the Galaxy – The Daily Beast
Star Wars: The Force Awakens left moviegoers with a lot of big questions over the holidays, but one was on people’s minds long before the film was released: what does the title mean? How does the Force “awaken”? It was a question that brought forth …
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Words We Should Stop Using in 2016 – The Daily Beast
England may have invented, well, the Queen’s English…but their former colonies perfected the art of using said language to avoid saying anything at all. Every generation has its verbal crutches and initially-fresh-but-eventually-flakey slang.
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More Kids For Will and Kate in 2016? The Year Ahead For The Royals – The Daily Beast
The Queen and Prince Philip: More time in Balmoral The Queen turns 90 next year, Philip will be 94 and it seems that at last a sense of reality about Her Majesty’s packed schedule has been allowed to intrude.
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Why We All Dream of Being Jewel Thieves – The Daily Beast
Billed as the “biggest burglary in English legal history,” the April 2015 Hatton Garden heist in central London is already the stuff of legend—from the silver-haired suspects and their Ocean’s Eleven-style intricacies to the loot discovered in a gra…
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How Liberals Are The New Autocrats – The Daily Beast
This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends. World leaders—the super-rich, their pet non-profits, their media boosters, and their allies in the global apparat—gather in Paris to hammer out a deal to transform the planet, …
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When Christians, Muslims, and Jews Loved Magic – The Daily Beast
In 2014 a paper-thin metal scroll was discovered in the ruins of a city destroyed by an earthquake in Jerash (Jordan) in the mid-8th century. The scroll was unearthed in a battered lead case, but was too fragile to be unfurled.
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Navajo Blame EPA Inaction For Suicides – The Daily Beast
For most Americans, the third week of December is about wrapping up Christmas shopping and prepping for a whirlwind of family gatherings. But for the leaders of the Navajo Nation, it’s about something much heavier: suicide prevention.
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Inside Colombia’s (New) Cocaine Explosion – The Daily Beast
TORIBÍO, Colombia — Steep hills rise out of the morning mist like a junky’s dream of paradise: the slopes teeming with lush, illicit vegetation. Palm and banana trees only half conceal the towering coca bushes.
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The Media Are Bored, but Below the Radar, Clinton Is Connecting – The Daily Beast
As we go into the New Year mesmerized by Donald Trump and his politically incorrect rants, it’s worth noting that among all the candidates in both parties, the one with the best odds of becoming the next president is Hillary Clinton.
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How to Make Presidential Gumbo and Pecan Pie – The Daily Beast
“Old Rough and Ready” President Zachory Taylor was old, yes, rough, for certain, but not so ready to make it through the Presidency. A career military man, he earned his nickname from his victories in the Mexican-American war, most notably the Battl…
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Forget Margaritas, It’s Time For Mexican Wine – The Daily Beast
There’s something about watching tumbleweeds roll through vineyards that makes you appreciate a good wine. On the horizon, farms, mountains and an empty, two-lane road go as far as the eye can see.
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Chris Brown: Vegas Assault Accusation ‘Unequivocally Untrue’ | Rolling Stone
Chris Brown has denied that he was involved in an alleged assault that occurred following the singer’s Friday night concert at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas.
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Trump’s New Enforcers Are Buff As Hell – The Daily Beast
Last Monday night, a young, blonde-haired protester attended a Donald Trump campaign rally in New Hampshire for the sole purpose of yelling “fascist!” at the man on the stage.
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‘Ash vs. Evil Dead’ Season Finale Recap: Ashes to Ashes | Rolling Stone
This is the way the season ends: not with a bang but a road trip. After nine-plus installments of ever-escalating mayhem — Deadites, demons, drug trips, and enough fake blood to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool — Ash J.
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Camouflage level: EXPERT : aww
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I’ve been doing this living thing for 26 years, and there really is nothing quite like being alone in a quiet house, and reading a good book. (self.books) I’ve been all over the world, traveled to some of the best of bars, and feel I have “lived” my…
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It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Ash feels fine. All season, we’ve watched our Midwestern hero come to terms with his past by dismembering his present demons–both literally and metaphorically. Now that we’ve seen his future, we know he …
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Larry Gordon, surfing visionary who created foam boards, dies at 76 | Sport | The Guardian
Larry Gordon, who revolutionised surfing when he created foam boards at his California company in the late 50s, has died. He was 76. Gordon’s wife, Gayle Gordon, told Associated Press on Saturday that her husband died peacefully on New Year’s Day at…
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Lion cub gets yelled at : gifs
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Trump Appears in Islamist Recruitment Video; Breitbart Blames Hillary : Liberal
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US warns Saudi execution of Shia cleric Nimr could fuel tensions – BBC News
The United States has expressed concern that Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr could further exacerbate sectarian rivalry in the Middle East. The US State Department urged leaders throughout the region to redouble…
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MRW I see the disapproving look of people seeing me dancing : reactiongifs
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Couple wraps home in greenhouse to grow food and stay warm during cold Swedish winters
Baby, when it’s cold outside, wrap your home in a greenhouse …. Talk about thinking outside the proverbial box! When the going gets cold, the smart sustainability devotees experiment with …. greenhousing a whole structure.
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TIL that the strawberry attached to a typical tomato pincusion is filled with abrasive emery, and used to sharpen pins and needles. (en.wikipedia.org) Now I’ll just repeatedly stab them under the guise of sharpening efficiently.
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LG’s LCD TV lineup at CES 2016 goes heavy on HDR compatibility | The Verge
If last year’s Consumer Electronics Show was the moment TV manufacturers went all-in on 4K, this go around will be when those companies do the same for HDR. Short for high dynamic range, HDR boosts a TV’s contrast ratio and color accuracy for a rich…
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Environmental Peace Ecology is out! https://t.co/oNTkQzUutC
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Mayor of Mexico city murdered one day after she took office : worldnews
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Migrant crisis: Lesbos microcosm of Europe’s difficulties – BBC News
2015 was a record year for migrants crossing to Europe by sea – and the winter weather is unlikely to slow arrivals for long, writes the BBC’s Paul Adams, on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Spearfisherman stable after shark attack off central Queensland coast | Environment | The Guardian
The 31-year-old man was bitten on his arms and legs while swimming near Miall Island off Yeppoon just before midday on Saturday. It is understood he had speared a trout when he was attacked, which attracted a school of mackerel and, in turn, the sha…
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How the world was changed by the slogan ‘Je Suis Charlie’ – BBC News
A year ago, millions rallied for free speech after the first Paris attacks, by posting “Je Suis Charlie” online. Here’s what happened next. Roncin was at work as an art director at a magazine on in central Paris on 7 January.
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A Point of View: Is there any such thing as a wise person? – BBC News
An orgy of Shakespeare celebration is about to occur. The bard can tell us a lot about what it means to be wise, writes Howard Jacobson. As we’ll soon be putting our Three Wise Men away in their boxes for another year, it might be a good time to tal…
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Gary Powers: The U2 spy pilot the US did not love – BBC News
Steven Spielberg’s most recent movie, Bridge of Spies, tells the story of a Cold War prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and the US. The deal allowed US spy plane pilot Gary Powers to return home – but once there he faced a chorus of criticis…
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Christoph Waltz will return in TWO more Bond movies – but ‘only if Daniel Craig does too’ : movies
Didn’t Craig very openly say he had no intentions of returning? So this article can just be retitled “Christoph Waltz will not return for TWO more Bond movies” A couple of things to keep in mind. After Skyfall Craig made it sound like he was hesitan…
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SAHARA DESERT, Niger — A group of light armored vehicles skated over the moonscape of the Sahara, part of one of the largest detachments the French military has deployed here since colonial times.
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Spam-fighting mail-rule / Boing Boing
If body contains “unsubscribe” and From: is not any of my addressbooks, then move message to folder “Spam.” You’re welcome.
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Goat and tiger’s unlikely friendship – BBC News
It is the story of an animal friendship that was never meant to be. Things haven’t turned out as might have been expected for Timur and Amur – and now fans are following the pair’s progress via a live webcam.
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2016: what lies in store? | Opinion | The Guardian
Chris Riddell 03/01/2016
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There is nothing more festive than an unexplained death, it seems, at least if it occurs in the pages of a seasonal whodunnit. Among a number of crime novels that did surprisingly good trade this Christmas was a title with an extra element of myster…
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New year, new love life. It’s a resolution that hundreds of thousands will make this month and January 2016 is expected to see the highest ever number of sign-ups to dating apps.
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The Observer view on the floods and budget cutting | Observer editorial | Opinion | The Guardian
Inundated; crumbling; overwhelmed: there could hardly have been a more graphic physical representation of the fragile state of Britain’s infrastructure than the floodwaters surging down the streets of our towns and cities and into shops and living r…
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MRW my 15 year old daughter introduces her boyfriend : reactiongifs
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Statue of Liberty via /r/pics http://bit.ly/1OrBodB | Peace Beauty Life Light Love Balance Wisdom
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Every week, we share a number of downloads for all platforms to help you get things done. Here were the top downloads from this week.
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In 1989, in the closing pages of his novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes imagined what heaven might be like.
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Allow This 3D-Printed Triple Gear To Blow Your Mind – Digg
4 diggs Design Normal, round gears are so boring. What we really need are interlocking, 3D-printed triple gears.
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Christmas Twee | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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ELI5:Why do so many tech companies move to such expensive areas like in Cali? Do you really need a fancy office to build apps or Facebook? Why not be located somewhere cheaper cost of living. (self.explainlikeimfive)
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‘She Captivated You’: Casey Cole Remembers Her Sister, Natalie Cole : NPR
Music lovers were shocked and saddened to hear of the death singer Natalie Cole on New Year’s Eve. Cole was 65. She was the daughter of jazz icon Nat King Cole but went on to create her own legacy, selling millions of albums across a wide range of g…
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Bernie Sanders, 1971. : OldSchoolCool
Bernie Sanders, 1971. (imgur.com) Of all the pictures for a face comparison, you picked that one?
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A Meteor Gave Spain a Fireworks Show on New Year’s Eve | Motherboard
New Year’s Eve fireworks have nothing on what the universe can throw our way. In Spain, many people got a cosmic fireworks show thanks to a re-entering meteor. The images were captured by Erbo Observatory, showing an event just a few seconds long.
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You want some of this?! …Oh, fuck. : aww
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Cate writes, “I came across a collection of snapshots at a thrift store and recognized the historic nature of the photos, which documented the 14th World Science Fiction Convention. I purchased the photos from a thrift store in Santa Barbara, Califo…
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Protesters storm Saudi embassy in Tehran, set it ablaze : worldnews
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Petite nyctale | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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CringeMDb Helps You Find Safe Movies to Watch With the Whole Family
If you’re looking for a movie you can put on for kids, or something you can comfortably watch with your grandma, CringeMDb can help. When you’re browsing through Netflix, a rating and some cover art isn’t always enough to know what you’re getting in…
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The Alphabet from Orbit: Letter B : Image of the Day
Today’s Image of the Day is derived from our newest feature: Reading the ABCs from Space. Bonjour B…what begins with B?
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Disney princesses, reimagined as cement mixers. : funny
Disney princesses, reimagined as cement mixers. (imgur.com) Wow, that artist had a concrete vision and really poured himself into it. He didn’t let social norms get set in stone. It must have been hard.
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Never adopted a cat before & never saw a cat smile before. : aww
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He has no eyes, but he handles the stairs like a boss : gifs
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Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms, CA [3264×1836] [OC] : SkyPorn
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The #1 cat GIF on Imgur for 2015 : aww
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Ahhh!! Hand!!! via /r/cats http://bit.ly/1Vxo7BL | Peace Beauty Life Light Love Balance Wisdom
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Imagination Star Tower Station Library.02
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Jill Stein: US Has to Nationalize Energy Companies : Liberal
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Saudi Arabian mass execution sparks outrage : worldnews
Saudi Arabian mass execution sparks outrage via /r/worldnews https://t.co/mCoyU3EhxV https://t.co/JvaiKw9u0L
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The Website Obesity Crisis, why the modern web is so slow : technology
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Al Shabaab terror group uses Trump clip in propaganda film: analysts : Liberal
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Hawaii Sees Fewer Humpback Whales Returning for Winter : environment
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Will China’s new law tackle terror? – BBC News
China’s long-discussed counter-terrorism legislation, passed this week, frames the way the country will counter terrorist threats at home and abroad. But it is capable of getting to the root of the problem?
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Real Solutions For On-Demand Worker Classification | TechCrunch
This past year will be remembered as the year of the on-demand economy. For many people, especially those outside of Silicon Valley, it seemed to come out of nowhere. On the consumer side, this was almost universally a welcome surprise. The impact o…
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Many of us think of the holidays as the giving season. I think of it as the stalking season. That’s because I have been relentlessly followed online by advertisements for shapewear. The emails have poured in, and every sales site I frequent — Zulily…
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With Samsung’s ‘Bio-Processor,’ Wearable Health Tech Is About To Get Weird | Motherboard
On Tuesday, Samsung announced that it would begin mass producing its first-ever “Bio-Processor.” This is a new processor specifically designed for the monitoring and computing of physiological metrics such as heart rate, skin temperature, body fat, …
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‘Black Panther’ Will Set Up ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ Says Marvel President : movies
So with Feige saying that ‘Doctor Strange’ is a movie dealing with “time” travel…does that mean ‘Black Panther’ is gonna have “soul”? This worries me a bit. Age of Ultron was received with mixed reaction because of this. I prefer Black Panther bei…
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Saudi Arabia’s ISIS-Like Justice – The Daily Beast
Most countries ushered in their new year by hosting increasingly beautiful displays of fireworks. Others, by increasingly archaic displays of public execution.
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New perspective of the systematic genocide of Europe’s white population. : Liberal
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Russians Find Favored Holiday Destinations Suddenly Off Limits : Parallels : NPR
Russians became enthusiastic travelers after the Soviet Union broke up, and two of their most cherished winter getaways were the sunny resorts of Egypt and Turkey. But those countries are now off-limits, and Russia’s sagging economy and sinking curr…
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New Year, New Laws: States Diverge On Gun Rights, Voting Restrictions : NPR
With the New Year comes a long list of new laws taking effect across the country. In some cases, those laws show states moving in starkly different directions on polarizing issues — especially voting and gun rights.
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The Rise Of The Mega-Mosque In Turkey : NPR
The country has been undergoing a building spree of massive places of worship, which not all the residents are thrilled about. Borzou Daragahi, who’s been writing of the boom for Buzzfeed, explains.
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Barbershop: Bill Cosby, And Violence On Network TV : NPR
In the Barbershop, Goldie Taylor of The Daily Beast, Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post and NPR’s Eric Deggans discuss the latest in entertainment news, including the charges against Bill Cosby.
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Absorbing Mystery Novel Offers A Glimpse Into Mormon Utah : NPR
The second mystery by Mette Ivie Harrison boasts details about contemporary Mormon life that most of us aren’t privy to. NPR’s Karen Grigsby Bates says His Right Hand is is her “one that got away.”
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Texas Businesses Adapt To Open Carry Law : NPR
The celebrations for the new year also marked a new open carry gun law taking effect in Texas. Handgun license holders in Texas will now be allowed to carry their guns in visible holsters on their hip or shoulder.
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Saudi Arabia Executes Dozens, Exacerbating Sectarian Tensions : NPR
The country executed 47 people today, including a prominent cleric for the minority Shia in the Kingdom. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was a vocal critic of the Saudi monarchy and was arrested in 2002.
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Bowie And Beyond: Looking Ahead To The Music Of 2016 : NPR
You’re probably still digesting the best music of 2015, but now that the calendar has officially turned over, it’s time to look ahead.
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Dad got a new kitten, this is Henri! : cats
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Homeowners count the cost as floods force prices to plummet | Environment | The Guardian
Homeowners trying to sell their properties in flood-hit parts of north-west England have begun dramatically dropping their prices amid fears that houses in some roads have become virtually unsellable.
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Revealed: how Tory cuts are wrecking UK flood defences | Environment | The Guardian
Many of Britain’s flood defences are being abandoned or maintained to minimal levels because of government cuts that could leave almost twice as many households at “significant risk” within 20 years, according to a leaked document submitted to minis…
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They were still removing sodden drum kits and waterlogged guitar amps from York’s Melrose Yard Studios yesterday.
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ISIL counterattacks target Iraqi troops in Ramadi – Al Jazeera English
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has continued to launch a series of deadly counterattacks against Iraqi government forces on the edges of the western city of Ramadi, days after they were driven out of the city centre.
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Stern message from Saudi Arabia – Al Jazeera English
Saudi Arabia has executed 47 people on terrorism charges in a day, prompting condemnations by human rights groups and its neighbour, Iran. Those executed include Fares al-Shuwail, al-Qaeda’s “top religious leader” in the kindgom, and Nimr, al-Nimr, …
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Build a Magic Mirror with a Raspberry Pi and an Old Monitor
One of the trademark devices in nearly every Hollywood blockbuster version of the future is a smart mirror that shows off a daily schedule, clock, weather, and other important updates. Blogger Dylan Pierce built his own powered by a Raspberry Pi.
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Mexico shooting: Mayor Gisela Mota killed in Temixco – BBC News
Gisela Mota was killed at her home in the city of Temixco, 85km (52 miles) south of the capital Mexico City, hours after taking her oath of office on Friday, police said. Reports said she was attacked by four gunmen. Police shot two of the attackers…
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France Wrestles With Revoking Citizenship | Al Jazeera America
The push by France’s Socialist government after the Paris attacks to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists with dual nationality has turned into a harsh political dispute, with the far right applauding the move while some on the left expres…
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Scalia dismisses religious neutrality: ‘nothing wrong’ with state invoking God | Law | The Guardian
God is good to the US because Americans honor him, according to supreme court justice Antonin Scalia, who added on Saturday that he does not believe the country’s constitutional traditions enshrine the idea of religious neutrality.
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SpaceX’s Vertically Landed Rocket In Shape to Fly Again | Motherboard
On New Year’s Eve, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted a tantalizing bit of news in the wake of the company’s historical vertical landing: not only did the company pull off the vertical landing, but the rocket can be used again.
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The roller coaster arms race heats up
Thrill seekers rejoice. The booming roller coaster industry will reach new heights in 2016 as a record number of rides are set to open.
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Ricky Gervais has already apologised for being offensive at the 2016 Golden Globes : movies
Then I discovered the Graham Norton Show and wow, I legitimately wish I lived in London. Maybe not London, but just England in general – what’s wrong with London? Too expensive?
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Angry Protesters Ransack and Torch Saudi Embassy in Iran After Mass Execution | VICE News
Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 47 prisoners — including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr — triggered unrest across the Middle East on Saturday, particularly in Iran, where protesters stormed and ransacked the Saudi embassy in Tehran.
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Have I got nudes for you: Emer O’Toole on the art of being naked | Art and design | The Guardian
Towards the end of a bizarre period of my life when I was famous for having hairy armpits, the artist Camilla Cannon got in touch to ask if I would sit for a nude oil painting.
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Chris Rock is hosting the 2016 Oscars : movies
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Chemists Develop Fully Recyclable Polymer | Chemistry : environment
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Galavant is back tomorrow everyone! : television
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Bernie Sanders campaign raises $33m as candidate sees strong finish to 2015 | US news | The Guardian
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders raised more than $33m in the last three months of 2015 from a record 2.5m individual donations, his campaign said Saturday.
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Your Amazon Echo can now tell you how to work out | The Verge
Amazon’s Echo personal assistant (powered by Alexa) is an unusual device that’s had a very beta-existence since its launch last summer.
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Missouri Residents Tally Flood Damage | Al Jazeera America
The worst of the dangerous, deadly winter flood is over in the St. Louis area, leaving residents of several water-logged communities to assess damage, clean up and figure out how to bounce back — or in some cases, where to live.
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Forest Keeps Your Phone From Being Distracted By Growing a Virtual Garden
Android/iOS: Your phone is distracting. If you have a hard time resisting the impulse to check notifications, Forest helps balance out that impulse with a gamified virtual garden. The app has a very simple basic premise: once you start the app, you …
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Edward Gorey’s Wonderfully Illustrated Envelopes And Letters – Flashbak
“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just hav…
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Maybe you keep a budget. If you do, perhaps you have entries for travel or even specific entries for your hobbies. But even if you are not tracking every dollar and are lucky enough to have money left over beyond your basic needs, it is worth rethin…
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Watch Coldplay’s Colorful, Soaring ‘Birds’ Video | Rolling Stone
Watch Coldplay’s Colorful, Soaring ‘Birds’ Video Latest ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ clip filmed at California’s Salvation Mountain
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Afghan Special Forces Stormed a Taliban Hideout and Freed 59 Prisoners | VICE News
VICE News is covering the ongoing fight for the future of Afghanistan. Click here for more from the Enduring Freedom blog.
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TV ratings for New Year’s Six Bowls down 13% from last year | Sport | The Guardian
Lopsided games and having the College Football Playoff semifinals on New Year’s Eve for the first time led to a 13% drop in TV ratings for the New Year’s Six Bowls from last year. The Rose Bowl on Friday drew its lowest rating (7.9) since it became …
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Dubai firm vows to restore gutted luxury hotel – Al Jazeera English
Dubai property giant Emaar Properties has promised to restore its luxury 63-storey hotel which was damaged in a huge fire on New Year’s Eve.
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The anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has waded into controversy over President Obama’s attempt to bypass Congress on gun control, with an invocation of Star Wars’ evil empire.
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We are Flight Attendants, AUA! : IAmA
We are Flight Attendants, AUA! (self.IAmA) Hey everyone! My housemates and i have been working as flight attendants for about 2 years combined on seperate rosters. Ask us stuff!
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BitPay’s Bitcoin Bowl in St. Petersburg is dead
Walk around downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, and you’ll mostly notice how good everything seems. The weather’s great. There’s a healthy stream of tourists. Downtown businesses, once struggling, have rebounded in the past year.
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Rooney reaches landmark in Manchester United’s win – Al Jazeera English
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney rose to second place on the all-time Premier League scoring list with a clever winner against Swansea City.
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Heroin vs. opioid painkiller deaths
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Sanders raises $33M in fourth quarter of 2015 : politics
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Today I decided to share the story of my one-eyed Jack with reddit : cats
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Walking back to a hotel in Romania. : pics
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BBC Sport – Watford 1-2 Manchester City
Brilliant late goals from Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero rescued Manchester City as they came from behind to beat Watford in an entertaining finale.
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Police on Saturday recanvassed an eastern Pennsylvania neighborhood where a five-year-old boy with autism wandered away from a New Year’s Eve party without shoes or a coat. Allentown police captain Glen Dorney said 20 search-and-rescue dog teams wer…
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Witness Rick Springfield’s Glorious 2016 In The Music Video For Human Touch
For some reason, Rick Springfield decided to freeze himself in the 1980s, only to be accidentally woken up in 2016. It’s a glorious future with strange aliens and dance moves.
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Pianu Teaches You to Play the Piano, Right In Your Web Browser
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to play the piano, Pianu can help. All you need is a web browser, and an internet connection—whether you’re on a PC using a mouse and keyboard, a tablet or smartphone, or actually have a keyboard to plug into your comp…
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This week at progressive state blogs: The end for Roy Blunt? Tax system for the rich by the rich
Reducing methane emissions now will significantly slow the rate of climate change almost immediately. This is because methane is more powerful at warming the planet than CO2.
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India says air force base secured after deadly siege – Al Jazeera English
A pre-dawn raid on an Indian air force base in the northwestern state of Punjab has ended after a 15-hour gun battle that left all five attackers and three soldiers dead, according to Indian police and security forces.
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Camille Cosby Will Have to Testify in Bill Cosby Defamation Case | Vanity Fair
There have been several significant updates this week regarding ongoing sexual-assault allegations against Bill Cosby. On December 30, an arrest warrant was issued for Cosby in connection with an alleged 2004 assault on former basketball player and …
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Every Frame A Painting Shows Why Ensemble Staging Is A Lost Art In Film
Tony Zhou is back with a new episode of Every Frame A Painting, this time looking at how directors can use ensemble staging to their advantage when it comes to conveying the story in a scene.
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Someone Got Windows 95 Running on a Nintendo 3DS | Motherboard
If you’re nostalgic for the days of MS Paint and Internet Explorer 1.0, one aficionado has discovered a method to run Windows 95 on your Nintendo 3DS. In a post to a Game Boy forum, the retronaut posted screenshots and a video showing Windows 95 boo…
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BBC Sport – Former Wigan defender Steve Gohouri dies at the age of 34
Former Wigan Athletic defender Steve Gohouri has died at the age of 34. Gohouri made 42 appearances for Wigan between 2010 and 2012 and also won 12 caps for Ivory Coast.
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Kentucky’s New Governor Wastes No Time in Revoking Ex-Felons’ Right to Vote : politics
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Calls for calorie labels on alcoholic drinks to help fight obesity : worldnews
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Thousands Of New Jersey Residents Will Lose Food Stamps Thanks To Christie Decision | ThinkProgress
About 11,000 New Jersey residents are set to lose their food stamps after Gov. Chris Christie (R)’s administration said it won’t seek any waivers from the program’s work requirements.
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Robert Mysłajek stops dead. Between two paw prints on a muddy mountain track, the scientist finds what he is looking for. “Scats!’’ he enthuses. Wolf sightings are so rare that a flash of faeces marks a good day, even for a seasoned tracker. But it …
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Department of Defense Nudges Contractors to Patch Juniper Backdoor | Motherboard
In December, everyone was starkly reminded of the dangers posed by backdoors in security products: Juniper Networks, a massive company that creates popular networking equipment, found “unauthorized” code in its ScreenOS software which would allow an…
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Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn’s reaction to Captain America: Civil War screening: ““It’s one of the best Marvel movies ever.” (ew.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading…[–]machinegunsavvy 34 points35 points36 points 1 hour ago(6 childre…
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Which subreddit has the most over-the-top angry people in it (and why)? : AskReddit
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dState Department Falls Behind Schedule With Latest Release of Hillary Clinton Emails | VICE News
The US Department of State released the latest batch of Hillary Clinton’s emails from her tenure as Secretary of State last night, but still failed to meet the number of documents a federal judge required the government to make public by the end of …
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This is NOT a Propeller – YouTube
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Samsung is sticking a massive touchscreen on its next smart fridge | The Verge
Samsung is well-known for having some crazy ideas about how to integrate technology into people’s lives, and CES is undoubtedly ground zero for the strangest of them.
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Evan Thomas, the best-selling biographer of Robert F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower and the author of a half-dozen other books, has seen those books reviewed over the years by The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.
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Ever since telecommuting became a viable option for a broad spectrum of workers, some companies have offered it as a tempting perk.
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View from the left—will ‘pro-gay’ GOP donors finally face down their anti-LGBT candidates in 2016?
“Any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed,” Rubio said. None of this appears to be troubling Singer, whose gay son married his partne…
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The Ars 2015 pictorial year in review | Ars Technica
Not all that long ago, Ars was the rare outlet where your 5,000-word-plus treatise on some scientific techniques or operating system would be scant (or completely devoid) on images. In fact, it was only 2013 when a redesign required a new focus on v…
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New Rules For Our Health’s Digital Future | TechCrunch
Technology promises to transform healthcare. It’s redefining how we interact with, and act on, our health data, and reshaping how care is delivered and coordinated.
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Two New Jersey newspapers denounce Chris Christie’s ‘abysmal’ performance | US news | The Guardian
Two New Jersey newspapers on Saturday called Governor Chris Christie a failure for his state, rejecting the Republican presidential candidate’s sales pitch to Americans that he has an accomplished record and sound judgment.
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Bernie Sanders’s new fundraising numbers are really amazing – Vox
When 2015 began, few would have expected that a “democratic socialist” could seriously compete on fundraising with Hillary Clinton, the near-unanimous choice of the Democratic Party establishment. But that’s just what Bernie Sanders has managed to d…
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One evening in the 1960s, Donald J. Trump, still in college but eager to make it big, met his older brother, Freddy, for dinner in a Queens apartment complex built by their father. Things went bad fast.
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Love Everyone Often Peace Beauty Balance Life Light Magic: Photos of the Week: 12/26-1/2 (35 photos)
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Despite ban, Iranians consume 60 million litres of alcohol each year : worldnews
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Considering the population of Iran is 80million that equates to less than 1litre per person per year. That’s about .25 of a teaspoon a day. Raving alcoholics I think not. I haven’t read the article and wonder what is the point of it. Maybe someone w… -
My sister got this cute little Tyson at Christmas : cats
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A white loaf on ancient Maltese ruins : Catloaf
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Were Roman slave-owners the first management theoris…
Vedius Pollio, a rich Roman, once invited his friend the emperor Augustus to dinner. The entertainment was interrupted when a slave broke a valuable crystal cup. Trying to impress with his toughness, Vedius ordered the slave boy be thrown to the hug…
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Home made roller coaster : gifs
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Okay Yosemite, you win. [OC] [1920×1282] : EarthPorn
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Portugal, sun set. | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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British Soldiers Could Face Charges for Alleged War Crimes Committed in Iraq | VICE News
British soldiers could face charges for war crimes that were allegedly committed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to the head of a UK government unit that handles claims of torture and unlawful killing.
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Lindsay Lohan Has Already Done More In 2016 Than Any Of Us | Vanity Fair
Like many of us, Lindsay Lohan celebrated Christmas with a FaceTime session with Oprah and New Year’s with a luxurious trip to Costa Rica, which she only occasionally confused with Mexico.
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Trump Calls His Al Qaeda Recruitment Video Highest-Rated Terror Video Ever – The New Yorker
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Just minutes after the Somali-based Al Qaeda affiliate Shabaab group released a propaganda video featuring a clip of Donald Trump, the Republican Presidential front-runner boasted that the video would be the highest-ra…
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Young Boy Eats a WHOLE Watermelon Including The Skin At a Cricket Match – YouTube
Young boy eats a WHOLE watermelon – including the skin – at a cricket match and becomes an internet sensationA young boy was shown on television eating a whole watermelonHe had been in the crowd at a big bash match in Melbourne on SaturdayHe became …
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The Emotion and Artifice of Medical Actors – The New Yorker
For her series “The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death,” the Brooklyn-based photographer Corinne May Botz made pictures of exquisitely detailed miniature crime-scene dioramas from the nineteen-forties and fifties.
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Tel Aviv Shooting Suspect’s Family Denounces Attack as Manhunt Widens : worldnews
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Shostakovich’s symphony played by a starving orchestra – BBC News
In the summer of 1942, Leningrad was starving. It had been under siege and bombardment by German forces for nearly a year. And yet an orchestra managed to perform a new symphony by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and broadcast it across the city.
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MRW I finally beat a hard boss, and it has a second form. : reactiongifs
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On the heels of Bill Cosby’s arrest on sexual assault charges, a federal judge in Massachusetts has delivered further bad news for the entertainer, ruling that his wife of almost 52 years, Camille, can be deposed in a civil case filed against him by…
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Just minutes before midnight on Thursday, Erude Sanchez and her 10-year-old nephew stepped into an elevator on the third floor of her apartment building with a bag of trash, squeezing in alongside New Year’s Eve revelers and other residents.
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Postal Service honors NASA with stamps that are out of this world | The Verge
Having taken over the internet in 2015, NASA’s next communication frontier is apparently snail mail. The US space agency announced this week that the Pluto flyby — arguably one of the most important scientific achievements of the past year — would b…
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How I made the Manchester New Year’s Eve photo go viral – BBC News
It’s already been billed as the image of 2016 in some quarters. It’s been called art and hailed for its beautiful composition. Others have singled out how it depicts 21st century Britain.
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May your graze be merry and bright: goat farms enjoy Christmas treet | US news | The Guardian
If you are seeking an alternative to tossing your Christmas tree on the curb this weekend, consider the lowly goat. Goat farms across the US have begun accepting natural, tinsel- and bauble-free Christmas trees, in a program they say keeps the trees…
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Banana on a banana : mildlyinteresting
Seriously, this is too calculated to be a coincidence. Banana stamp? Imprint gone wrong? We need to investigate. REDDIT TEAM ASSEMBLE!
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Obama to Explore Bypassing Congress Gun Control | Al Jazeera America
President Barack Obama, frustrated by Congress’ inaction on gun control, will meet with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways of reducing gun violence unilaterally through measures that do not require congressional approval.
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Donald Trump Featured In Jihadist Terror Recruitment Video : Liberal
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Star Wars 7 Will Break Avatar Box Office Record By Monday : movies
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Chewey blue loaf straight from the oven : Catloaf
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“Clean for the Queen” Campaign Prompts British Twitter’s Snark | Vanity Fair
Thanks to a viral photo from Manchester’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, we know that our U.K. brethren know how to create total chaos in the streets. And thanks to a newly viral campaign, we know that they do not appreciate being told to clean up sai…
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George R.R. Martin: ”The Winds of Winter’ Is Not Finished’ | Rolling Stone
The sixth season of Game of Thrones may serve as one big spoiler for George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire book series as the author revealed in a post on his Live Journal that he has not completed work on the next installment of his epic saga.
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Malaysia Issued a Fatwa on Vaping | Motherboard
E-cigarettes have been making headlines recently thanks to a slew of studies which suggest that they might not be such a great alternative to smoking good ‘ol fashioned cigarettes.
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Weekly Address: Making America Safer for Our Children – YouTube
“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one?” —President Obama https://t.co/tdBzeGr8kC
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Maine Coon in the snow [x-post from r/mainecoons] : cats
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A clear sign you are losing badly. : gifs
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Why the Porter Ranch gas leak could take months to fix : environment
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Baguette loaf via /r/Catloaf http://bit.ly/1TvL32N | Peace Beauty Life Light Love Balance Wisdom
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Tamir Rice Protestors March To Home Of Cleveland Prosecutor, Demand Resignation | ThinkProgress
Protests continued on Friday following a grand jury’s recent decision not to indict the two white police officers who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
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Indian Military Base Attacked by Gunmen | Al Jazeera America
Combatants infiltrated an Indian air force base near the border with Pakistan on Saturday and exchanged fire with security forces for hours, leaving at least four gunmen and two Indian troops dead, officials and news reports said.
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George R.R. Martin confirms: Game of Thrones book 6 won’t be out before season 6 premieres – Vox
It’s a new year, and Game of Thrones season six is only a few months away, but as author George R.R. Martin confirmed Saturday morning, there will not be a new Game of Thrones book any time soon.
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There’ll Be No Winds Of Winter Before Game Of Thrones Season 6
Earlier this morning, George R.R. Martin broke some bad news: his next long awaited installment of the Song of Ice and Fire series, Winds of Winter, won’t appear in bookstores before the debut of the sixth season of Game of Thrones.
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BBC Sport – Arsenal 1-0 Newcastle United
Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini could play after a minor ankle injury. Alexis Sanchez remains out but is nearing a first-team return, while Jack Wilshire and Santi Cazorla are amongst a host of other absentees.
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TIL Alexander the Great cried when he heard the astronomer Anaxarchus talk about the infinite number of worlds in the universe. One of Alexander’s friends asked him what was the matter, and he replied: “There are so many worlds, and I have not yet c…
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Floods have submerged towns, roads, casinos and shopping malls around the south and midwest for more than three days, prompting governors in Illinois and Iowa to call in the national guard. Sixteen states issued flood warnings covering some eight mi…
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Photos of the Week: 12/26-1/2 – The Atlantic
Fireworks from London to Rio, terrible weather in Europe and the Americas, the arrest of the ‘affluenza’ teen in Mexico, New Year’s Day swimming in freezing waters, a glyptodont found in Argentina, and much more.
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Piracy putting Guyana’s music industry at risk – Al Jazeera English
Musicians and singers in Guyana have called on the government to crack down on copyright infringement, warning piracy is putting the country’s unique music industry at risk.
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BBC Sport – Leicester City 0-0 Bournemouth
Leicester’s Jamie Vardy has been struggling with a virus this week but the Premier League’s joint top goalscorer is expected to play. Jeffrey Schlupp and Matty James remain the Foxes only certain absentees due to respective hamstring and knee proble…
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Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr: Anger at execution of top Shia cleric – BBC News
Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr has sparked anger and protests in Shia communities across the region. Shia-led Iran, Sunni-led Saudi Arabia’s main regional rival, has led the official condemnation of the executi…
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Slightly creepy experiment with ants shows that drugs can permanently alter behavior | Ars Technica
Carpenter ants live in a caste system, where some members of the colony grow into large, strong worker guards known as majors and others grow into small, inquisitive food scouts known as minors. Scientists have long been fascinated by how majors and…
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Turns out Medicare spending isn’t a good way to predict all healthcare spending
Medicare, the government-run healthcare system for retirees and many disabled people, has been the primary laboratory for the government in figuring out all sorts of healthcare things, like how much we spend on it and how to make that spending more …
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Pencil ART done by artist Diego Fazio : pics
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Untitled | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Open Channel: What’s Your Geeky New Year’s Resolution?
Yesterday was New Year’s, and with it comes the time when everyone resolves to change somehow. We want to lose weight, eat better, have more fun, and so forth. What did you resolve to do in 2016? I’m aiming to read more, and to read widely.
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So said Bill Clinton himself in February 1992, when a second-place finish behind the now largely forgotten Paul Tsongas in the state’s Democratic primary revived his fortunes. Later that year he would unseat George HW Bush in the presidential electi…
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Wind, solar power soaring in spite of bargain prices for fossil fuels : worldnews
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Saudi-led Coalition Ending Yemen Ceasefire | Al Jazeera America
The ceasefire began in tandem with peace talks sponsored by the United Nations, but it was repeatedly violated by both sides. Nearly 6,000 people have been killed since the Saudi coalition entered the conflict in March, almost half of them civilians.
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Songs From My Hit Off-Broadway Musical About Getting Tickets to See “Hamilton” – The New Yorker
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The Year in Jelani Cobb – The New Yorker
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Game of Thrones: George R.R. Martin Says No Winds of Winter Before Season 6 | Vanity Fair
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Somali Militant Group al Shabaab Uses Donald Trump in Video to Recruit New US Followers | VICE News
Donald Trump has continued to dominate the airwaves in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination — but the GOP frontrunner might not be thrilled with the latest outlet to publicize his controversial speech calling for a ban on Muslims enter…
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Why wait for VW’s new electric Microbus when you can have this classic instead? | The Verge
In the never-ending automotive auction circuit, every event has a handful of stand-out cars that immediately catch your eye — which is particularly impressive when you consider that automotive auctions are, in their essence, nothing but stand-out ca…
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Cosby Accuser Slimed For Spending Settlement Money On An Apartment | ThinkProgress
The New York Post has some shocking news: a woman who accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault used money from a previous settlement with him to buy an apartment.
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Why sex workers don’t fear the virtual reality revolution
In the next few weeks, as more than 170,000 people travel to CES for the annual tech conference, techies will indulge in the offerings of Sheri’s Ranch. The Pahrump, Nevada brothel is about an hour’s drive from the Las Vegas strip, and it fulfills S…
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American Goldfinches in Heavy Snowfall | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Oran, Algeria — IT might have been an occasion for collectors of omens to rejoice: For the first time in nearly five centuries, in 2015 the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday coincided with Jesus’ birthday. A cause for hope? Too little, it turns out.
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Spectacular Concept Art for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” | Flavorwire
If you’ve seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens — and if you haven’t by now, come on, just do it, the film’s great — you’ll know that it’s visually spectacular, and a lot of that is attributable to the impressive locations.
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On a true Cape Town batting surface, Alex Hales (60), Joe Root (50) and Nick Compton (45) all failed to kick on and England slipped to 223-5. But Stokes flayed the second new ball in 74 not out from 93 balls to take the tourists to 317 without furth…
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Ted Cruz’s reputation as an arrogant, grating, in-your-face ideologue has dogged him throughout the Republican presidential race. But it hasn’t stopped the Texas senator’s rise in the polls.
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I hear crows are among the smartest of birds : gifs
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meow_irl via /r/MEOW_IRL http://bit.ly/1YWd22C | Peace Beauty Life Light Love Balance Wisdom
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This is joint work with Saul Schleimer. The triple gear is available at http://shpws.me/mQ6F. The baseplate and axle are available at http://shpws.me/nIjE. The 15cm axle is at http://shpws.me/nIjA and the 30cm axle at http://shpws.me/nIjC. Thanks to…
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Over the nine years I’ve spent trying to persuade business leaders to embrace sustainability, the question I’ve most often been asked is, “What’s the business case for sustainability?” This question is always delivered in a skeptical tone, carrying …
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TTIP: the key to freer trade, or corporate greed? | Business | The Guardian
Cheap American olive oil could, in a few years’ time, be sitting on supermarket shelves next to the Tuscan single estate varieties loved by British foodies. At present a prohibitive tariff on US imports effectively prices them out of contention.
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8 Parts of the Star Wars Expanded Universe That Should Have Stayed Canon
Now that we’ve seen Star Wars: The Force Awakens, we’ve also seeing how a galaxy far, far away has changed from what had been put together by hundreds of authors over the last two decades.
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Israeli Police Search Gunman Killed Two Tel Aviv | Al Jazeera America
Israeli police are searching for a gunman who killed two people in an attack in Tel Aviv. Spokeswoman Luba Samri says police remained on “heightened alert” Saturday. She says police and special forces searched for the shooter throughout the night.
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Top 10 TED Talks That Could Change Your Life
There’s no time like the present to grow or refine ourselves a little bit more, and few resources are as helpful as TED talks. In that vein, here are the top 10 TED talks we’ve featured on Lifehacker or that have been popular on TED.
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Japanese Scientists Become First From Asia to Name a New Element | Motherboard
On New Year’s Eve, a team of researchers at RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Japan were notified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) that they would have the honor of naming element 113.
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BAGHDAD — Saudi Arabia carried out a mass execution on Saturday, putting to death dozens of militants linked to Al Qaeda as well as a prominent cleric who had criticized the government’s treatment of the country’s Shiite minority.
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Are energy-saving settings bad for the environment? – Vox
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Originally published on Ensia. Volkswagen’s deceptive engine controls, uncovered a few months ago, gave its cars a dual personality: one for everyday operation and a secret greener one used to rank higher than warranted on vehicle emissions tests. -
More than nutrition is delivered in Meals on Wheels programs, study finds
It’s not just the food, it’s the deliverer. A new study shows that the break in social isolation may be nearly as important as meeting the nutritional needs of seniors when weighing the importance of benefits of Meals on Wheels programs.
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Askreddit is like my wife. Ask one simple harmless question and recieve and angry torrent of abuse and negative criticisms. (self.Showerthoughts) Don’t assume you know what people are going to say! Why do you always put words in other people’s mouth…
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A most successful face swap : funny
Yeah but his black sack makes up for it. That’s really on point.
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Wife sheds light on missing Hong Kong publisher – Al Jazeera English
A missing Hong Kong employee of a publisher of books critical of China is “assisting in an investigation”, his wife says, as police also probe the disappearance of his four colleagues.
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Google to develop new chat app to compete with rivals like Facebook : technology
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Inside Out: Outside Edition on Vimeo
User rickroy37 requested an edit of Pixar’s Inside Out without any of “inside”. Here ya go! Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/3yzit2/request_inside_out_with_none_of_the_inside_scenes/ All clips and music from Inside Out.
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“The Big Bang Was a Mirage” –Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (2015 Most Popular)
“For all physicists know, dragons could have come flying out of the singularity,” said Niayesh Afshordi, an astrophysicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Big Bang was a mirage from collapsing higher-dimension…
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John Scalzi’s Next Novel Drops In 2017
While he typically releases a book every year, John Scalzi dropped some interesting news on his blog earlier this week: he won’t have a new novel coming out in 2016. Instead, his next will come in 2017:
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Quick, Download This Free Mario Maker for PC Before Nintendo Takes It Down | Motherboard
Super Mario Maker, Nintendo’s bottomless user-generated Mario game for the Wii U, lets you create a lot of things. You can put a cannon in a clown car and have the cannon shoot goombas that can fly.
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Saturday’s Best Deals: Cheaper Tax Software, Better Posture, Sharper Knives, and More
Balance ball chairs, H&R Block tax software, and a $6 knife sharpener highlight today’s best deals. Bookmark Kinja Deals and follow us on Twitter to never miss a deal.
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The Year in Theatre and Farewell to a Friend – The New Yorker
As is my usual habit with year-end lists, I wait until the actual end of the year to write to you, dear friends and readers, because it takes that long, usually, for me to reflect on, and to synthesize, all the actors, directors, production designer…
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Al-Shabab Uses Trump in Recruiting Video | Al Jazeera America
Somali group Al-Shabab has released a recruitment film in the form of a documentary about racial injustice in the United States featuring Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, SITE Monitoring reported Saturday.
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The Ceasefire in Yemen That Everybody Kept Violating Is Officially Over | VICE News
The Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen for nine months announced on Saturday that the ceasefire that began on December 15 has officially ended. The ceasefire began in tandem with peace talks sponsored by the United Nati…
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Ted Cruz really, really loves the death penalty – Vox
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Ted Cruz would represent a lot of firsts should he be elected president: He’d be the first Hispanic president, and the first president to be born in Canada (or anywhere outside the 50 states, for that matter). But he’d also be the first president ev… -
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“I’ve made a huge mistake” : aww
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Trumpeter Swan | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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Yemen conflict: Saudi-led coalition ends ceasefire – BBC News
But the coalition is still “keen to create the right conditions to find a peaceful solution”, the statement said. The 15 December ceasefire began at the same time as UN-brokered talks aimed at ending Yemen’s conflict.
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An ex-convict arrested in a plot to carry out a pro-Islamic State attack at a bar on New Year’s Eve is a panhandler who had been asked to leave in the past, the bar’s owner said. The man’s family said he had a long history of mental problems.
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George R.R. Martin says latest book won’t make it in time for Game of Thrones season six | The Verge
Author George R.R. Martin has bad news for his hordes of fans. “The Winds of Winter is not finished … The book’s not done. Nor is it likely to be finished tomorrow, or next week,” the author wrote on his blog on Saturday.
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Searchers find Seattle philanthropist Doug Walker’s body near mountain | US news | The Guardian
Search and rescue officials near Seattle on Friday found the body of a snowshoer who was identified as a locally well-known philanthropic leader and software entrepreneur. About 60 search and rescue members searched through the night and found his b…
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Larry Summers, Brad DeLong, and yours truly are having a bit of a three-cornered dialogue about the role of models in policy, set off by Larry’s initial post about why he believes the Fed is making a mistake in raising rates.
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Over the past decade, advertisers have spent untold millions trying to turn Talia Kocar and her peers in the millennial generation into loyal customers. But on a recent afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., in a kind of consumer torch-passing, Ms.
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Deep Clean Your Mattress with a Steam Cleaner
You spend a lot of time with your mattress and yet you probably don’t clean it all that often. (If only we could throw it in the washing machine.) If you’ve got a steam cleaner—mop or handheld device—put it to use getting your mattress like new.
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Republicans have put his face in their campaign commercials and spat his name as an insult on the debate stage. Presidential candidates and talk-radio hosts have invoked him as a kind of comic-book villain, thwarting Republicans at every turn.
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Girl behind a cafe window : pics
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Six Dead After Gunmen Attack Indian Air Force Base Near Pakistan Border | VICE News
Four gunmen and two guards were killed when unidentified militants attacked an Indian Air Force base near the Pakistan border on Saturday in an apparent challenge to attempts to revive a dialogue between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks Sunday night. Here’s how to watch it. – Vox
On Sunday night, the Earth will pass through a field of debris left behind by an extinct comet. That debris — bits of rock and dust — will ignite when it enters our atmosphere, streaking across the night sky.
The Quadrantid meteor shower peaks Sunday night. Here’s how to watch it. https://t.co/LTFqwnzrsz https://t.co/MWomoMMY2b -
TIL: Vultures Have to Eat Animals Butt-First – YouTube
Depending on your beliefs (and luck) when you drop dead, there are a variety of things that potentially await what’s left of your handsome corpse. If you are Christian, you might be put in a box, and your friends will come by to tell each other how …
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The Auschwitz Violin by Maria Àngels Anglada – review | Children’s books | The Guardian
The Auschwitz Violin is a beautifully written novel, translated from Spanish, that makes the reader empathise with the horrors of the Holocaust and the concentration camps very well.
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Time-lapse of the Space Shuttle Endeavor being moved through LA to its new home at the California Science Center (qvid.co)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading…
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The Most District: Which district has the most households earning over $200,000? California’s 18th
Like most Bay Area districts, the 18th is strongly Democratic: Barack Obama carried it 68-29. The seat has been represented by Democrat Anna Eshoo since 1993.
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The Top Five Trends For The Connected Car In 2016 | TechCrunch
Many years ago, car predictions focused on what near-future vehicles would look like. Would they be bigger or smaller and how fast would they get from 0 to 60 mph? Cars will be much more personalized in 2016, thanks to algorithms and context-aware …
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tramonto portovenere | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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BBC Sport – Scottish Premiership: Dundee 2-1 Dundee United
Dundee forward Greg Stewart is banned for Saturday lunchtime’s derby against Dundee United at Dens Park. Scott Bain, Nicky Low, Thomas Konrad, Kane Hemmings, Kevin Thomson and Gary Irvine are doubtful while Julen Etxabeguren remains out.
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‘The book’s not done’ – New Game of Thrones book Winds of Winter delayed again – BBC Newsbeat
George RR Martin says the new Game of Thrones book will be delayed because it “isn’t done yet”. The Winds of Winter had been due to be published to coincide with the sixth series of the TV show in April.
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New York City’s Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge – in pictures | US news | The Guardian
Skip to main content New York New York City’s Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge – in pictures An estimated 2,000 people leapt into the ocean off Brooklyn, New York on Friday – many racing in bikinis and speedos toward seawater only about 40F Saturday 2…
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This whole “Uber for doctor house calls” idea is basically doomed – Quartz
Back in September 2007, I created a new kind of doctor practice. The iPhone had come out three months prior, and Google had enabled you to embed your Google Calendar in a website just the month before.
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Arab coalition announces end of Yemen ceasefire – Al Jazeera English
The Arab military coalition assembled by Saudi Arabia has announced the end of a repeatedly violated ceasefire agreement with Yemen’s Houthi fighters and their allies. The ceasefire began on December 15 last year and coincided with UN-sponsored peac…
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Obama considers executive actions over ‘epidemic of gun violence’ – video | US news | The Guardian
Barack Obama says he will meet with attorney general Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss executive actions he could take on reducing gun violence.
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BBC Sport – West Ham United 2-0 Liverpool
Dimitri Payet has been named in West Ham’s squad after two months out with an ankle injury. Aaron Cresswell faces a fitness test on his hamstring, while Nikica Jelavic, Winston Reid and Victor Moses are all back in training but not ready to play.
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Jason Wingreen, Voice of ‘Star Wars’ Villain Boba Fett, Dead at 95 | Rolling Stone
Jason Wingreen, Voice of ‘Star Wars’ Villain Boba Fett, Dead at 95 Longtime television actor also had roles on ‘All in the Family,’ ‘Star Trek’ and ‘The Twilight Zone’
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ELI5:”Citizens United” court case ruled corporations as “people”, so how come they can avoid taxes on income made in other countries while US citizens living abroad have to pay taxes on all income made abroad? (self.explainlikeimfive)
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Quentin Tarantino says ‘it’s about damn time’ US discussed its racist past | Film | The Guardian
Quentin Tarantino considers the Confederate flag the “American swastika” – and feels it’s “about damn time” people questioned its place in the American South.
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This guy knows how to stay relaxed in bad traffic : pics
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Natalie Cole, daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole and award-winning singer in her own right, has died aged 65 due to complications from ongoing health issues, says her family. The singer had battled drug problems and hepatitis for many years. She …
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A real Osiria rose that hasn’t been photoshopped : pics
That’s a very brave rose to publish an untouched photo of itself. Sends a strong message to all the young roses out there.
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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new guidelines 18 months ago regarding the radiation risk from cellphones, it used unusually bold language on the topic for the American health agency: “We recommend caution in cellphone …
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Past sunset, a small beach in Gujarat, India. [2787×1881] (OC) : SkyPorn
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First Snippets of Footage from Disney Animation’s ‘Moana’ : movies
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Over 800 cars set ablaze in France on New Year’s Eve : worldnews
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15 new original Netflix series coming in 2016 : television
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A friend who used to enjoy Sherlock but now finds it tiresome once said to me that the mystery show’s third season, which aired in 2014, was the series disappearing up its own ass. Rating 1.
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Saudi Arabia Kicked Off the New Year With 47 Executions, Including a Top Shiite Cleric | VICE News
Saudi Arabia executed a prominent Shiite Muslim cleric and dozens of al Qaeda members on Saturday, signaling it would not tolerate attacks by either Sunni jihadists or minority Shiites seeking equality, but stirring sectarian anger across the region.
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CES 2016: cars, virtual reality and a lot of hype | Technology | The Guardian
Twenty years almost to the day, on 6 January 1995, Nintendo revealed its new Virtual Boy virtual reality headset at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Charlie Brooker’s 2015 Wipe: the only roundup you need to watch / Boing Boing
As always, Charlie “Screen Wipe/Nathan Barley/Black Mirror” Brooker manages to sum up every single terrible thing about the year that was with gut-busting hilarity.
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There’s a Simple iPhone Feature That Defines All Those Weird-Looking Emoji | Motherboard
Whether or not you’re a fan, there’s no escaping emoji. They’re everywhere—the Oxford English Dictionary even chose an emoji for its Word of the Year, the first time it’s ever selected a pictogram.
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This Ice Cream shop I visited does not put up with shit. : pics
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Free Stanford course on surveillance law / Boing Boing
Stanford is offering a free online course by computer scientist/law professor Jonathan Mayer that surveys the baroque, interleaved world of US surveillance law through the Coursera MOOC platform. No legal or computer science knowledge is required, t…
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Saudi Arabia Executes 47 Prominent Shia Cleric | Al Jazeera America
Saudi Arabia announced on Saturday it had executed 47 prisoners convicted of so-called terrorism charges, including Al-Qaeda detainees and a prominent Shia cleric who rallied protests against the government.
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Thinking Rationally About Terror – The New Yorker
Earlier this winter, in the first week of December, I set sail for Antarctica. During the cruise, which was arranged by the Origins Project, an academic institute that I run, I was to give a series of lectures about cosmology and other topics.
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What does 2016 hold for the global economy? – Al Jazeera English
In this special edition of Counting the Cost, we are looking at stories we expect to dominate the world of business in 2016. The jury is still out on whether the world is heading for steady growth or if we could slip back into recession.
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The best new board games we played in 2015 | Ars Technica
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here—and let us know what you think. What do we do on the Ars Orbiting HQ to while away the lonely holiday hours? Play board games, of c…
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India’s telcoms regulator says it will ignore Facebook’s astroturf army / Boing Boing
Facebook’s misleading, high budget, astroturf campaign sent over 14 lakh (1.4m) comments to TRAI, the Indian telcoms regulator, almost none of which responded to the questions raised in the regulator’s Net Neutrality consultation paper. TRAI Chairma…
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Top Winner: NASA New Horizon’s team.
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LAST month, President Obama inaugurated yet another way to encourage Americans to save for retirement. In the new myRA accounts, workers can save up to $15,000 in a low-fee investment plan that, like a government savings bond, guarantees the princip…
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Why Bitcoin Matters | TechCrunch
The most epochal financial transaction of this century, to date, occurred on May 22, 2010. It did not involve Wall Street, or the City of London; it took place in Jacksonville, Florida. It did not feature collateralized debt obligations, or credit d…
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MRW I wake up as a stoner on New Years : reactiongifs
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My boyfriend’s 16 year old Queen of the house, Joey. : cats
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I think my dog might be the offspring of a wolf and a fox : aww
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Buying a pre-release game : gifs
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Winter | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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We Need Three Planets to Keep the Human Race Alive, NASA Scientist Says : environment
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Winter by JMEseattle http://flic.kr/p/BHjzYn | Peace Beauty Life Light Love Balance Wisdom
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What a wonderful, funny, weird, frustrating mess. First things first: Sherlock’s back, and while it might be only for 90 minutes, it’s a welcome return.
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Anne Frank’s diary is in the public domain; editors aren’t co-authors / Boing Boing
Anne Frank’s father, Otto, edited Frank’s diary before publishing it. He also endowed two foundations — one Swiss, one Dutch — to administer her legacy.
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Neckbeards of Reddit, behold your king! : funny
Neckbeards of Reddit, behold your king! (i.imgur.com)
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A suspect in an attempted murder who was fatally shot by Las Vegas police was holding a cellphone that was mistaken for a gun during the deadly confrontation, authorities said in a statement.
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Sunset from a beach in Andamans [OC] [3771×2121] : SkyPorn
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[OC] Sunset at Andamans [5312×2988] : SkyPorn
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Al Qaeda’s branch in Somalia released a recruitment video on Friday that criticized racism and anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States and contained footage of the Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump announcing his proposal to bar M…
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How to Save the Internet from Ads—and Ad Blockers – Scientific American
This month my Scientific American column contemplated the new world of ad blockers. It’s a world where a huge percentage of Web visitors never see the ads that pay for everything they read and watch.
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Radio La Colifata: Argentina’s ‘loony radio’ – Al Jazeera English
This week, we hear what the Colifatos have to say in a special collaboration between and .
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Taylor Swift, ‘The Dress,’ and Drake Memes: The Best of 2015’s Best of Lists – The Atlantic
2015 Pop Culture Time Capsule | Vox “Either you saw a black-and-blue dress, a gold-and-white dress, or a useless exercise that represented all the worst the Internet has to offer.
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Team Hillary via /r/pics http://bit.ly/1NXfihx | Peace Beauty Life Light Love Balance Wisdom
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The Unicorns Of Southeast Asia | TechCrunch
I have spent most of my life living and traveling in Southeast Asia; the last two years as the mentor to Asian startups.
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Footage shows Dubai hotel damaged in New Year’s Eve fire – BBC News
Footage showing the damaged insides of a Dubai hotel which caught fire on New Year’s Eve has been released by the authorities. The Address Downtown hotel in central Dubai was engulfed in flames hours before the city’s annual firework display.
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Movie of the Week: “Christmas Holiday” – The New Yorker
It’s apt to post this discussion of Robert Siodmak’s 1944 film noir “Christmas Holiday” after the Christmas holiday, because it’s anything but a bearer of good cheer.
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Al-Shabab militant group uses Donald Trump in propaganda film – BBC News
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has released a propaganda video featuring footage of the US presidential hopeful, Donald Trump. It shows his recent call for Muslims to be barred from entering the US.
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American companies risk missing out on a “gold rush” in Iran if sanctions are lifted as expected next year under the controversial nuclear deal, experts have warned.
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Year’s end means an election year to come.
Jeb Bush and his supporters still have a pile of money to spend — remnants of $100 million raised when he seemed early this year to be a sure bet. They have an expansive ground operation in New Hampshire. And allies have just began a new ad campaign…
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ISTANBUL — Turkey issued a statement on Friday saying that comments by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — in which he cited Hitler in response to a question about whether a strong presidency was possible in Turkey — had been misinterpreted. Mr.
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The Great Barrier Reef will have a robotic protector beginning this winter. The underwater autonomous vehicle is programmed to patrol the massive living structure in search of destructive crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS), which it then kills by letha…
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Missing Hong Kong bookseller ‘in Chinese detention’ – BBC News The wife of Lee Bo said her husband had called her from a telephone number in Shenzhen to say he was helping with an investigation. Mr Lee is the fifth person linked to the same bookshop to go missing in…
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