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Giros stage 19 canceled due to snow on course
DANIEL DAL ZENNARO/EPA PONTE DI LEGNO, Italy (AP) -- The 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia was canceled Friday due to snow along the route and Saturday's penultimate stage was altered for the same reasons, leaving Vincenzo Nibali with a much milder finish to defend his lead. On Friday, organizers said there were "adverse weather conditions and, in particular, snow on ...
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Rapper Tim Dog faked death
An arrest warrant has been issued for veteran rapper Tim Dog - three months after his alleged death. The New York native, real name Timothy Blair, was a longtime diabetes sufferer and was widely reported to have passed away on February 14, following a seizure. However, Mississippi prosecutor Steven Jubera claims he has yet to receive any proof confirming the 46 year old’s death, so he ...
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Tim Curry has stroke report
Rocky Horror Picture Show star Tim Curry has reportedly suffered a stroke. The 67-year-old British actor is recovering after collapsing at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday. His longtime agent Marcia Hurwitz has refuted speculation Curry is struggling to speak after falling ill, telling Britain's Daily Mail, "Tim is doing great. He absolutely can speak and is recovering at this ...
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Nitehawk Cinema Serves Dinner With A Movie In Independent Theater Revival
BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- At the Nitehawk Cinema in New York's Williamsburg neighborhood, all the meals are served and eaten in the dark, lit only by the flickering images on the screen. Menu items like mussels, owner Matthew Viragh learned, don't go over so well in the dim lighting. But finger foods? A huge hit. The Nitehawk has been open for less than two years, but already the dine-in ...
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Brooklyn Bridge under construction - picture of the day
A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. The Brooklyn Bridge opened on this day in 1883 linking the two New York boroughs of Manhattan and ...
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Sweden Russia Nato and the theatre of military-industrial complex
Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...
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Ryan Hart’s Lawsuit Against Electronic Arts And Who Gets The Money From NCAA Games
wrote about the lawsuit against EA Sports, which creates avatars of college athletes that closely match their physical appearance and performances in games, but changes their names so they don’t have to pay up the way they normally would if they were benefiting from their use of a real person’s image. Now, Rutgers quarterback Ryan Hart has won an appeal against EA, after a 2011 ...
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Lois Lerner and the problems with not acting swiftly
IRS official Lois Lerner has been placed on administrative leave following reports she refused to resign as director of Exempt Organizations. But should Lerner be penalized for pleading the Fifth? And what has the public and administration learned from this controversy? The Morning Joe panel ...
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Mount Cashel abuse settlement sets stage for more suits
The Mount Cashel Orphanage, seen in 1989 when a scandal broke about systemic sexual abuse at the instution, was demolished three years later. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian ...
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Bachelors Bachelorettes still on TV
Everyone wonders about their old girlfriends and boyfriends. Are they in love? Where are they now? What are they doing? Similarly, it's hard not to ask the same questions about all the Bachelors and Bachelorettes we've come to know during the past decade. And with The Bachelorette returning for Season 9 Monday, one thing is for certain: even if they've given up on love, ...
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Fitch Downgrades StaGe Mezzanine
U.S. prime money market funds (MMFs) increased their exposure to eurozone banks in April. However, even at 15.1%, asset allocations to these institutions remain well below 2011 levels, according to Fitch ...
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Dean Brody Serena Ryder Sam Roberts Band among big names set for Stampede’s Coca-Cola Stage
The Stampede's free Coca-Cola Stage will once again be stacked with an eclectic array of national talent this year -- including some, as usual, that's homegrown. Organizers announced the lineup Thursday night during the Covert Concert event at Flames Central, which featured surprise performances from Dean Brody and Down With Webster.Taking the stage this year are artists that run the ...
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Whole new world for Arrested
The seven-year game of Bluth or Consequences finally has come to an end. Arrested Development, which follows the shenanigans of the Bluth family, is back with 15 new episodes, available exclusively via the internet on Netflix. All 15 instalments will be there for you to watch starting Sunday. Who would have predicted seven years ago that if Arrested Development ever did come back, it would not ...
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Dunham furious over Girls porn
Actress/director Lena Dunham has spoken out against plans to make a porn parody of her hit TV show GIRLS, insisting the video goes against the series' feminist ideology. Executives at Hustler have commissioned an adult film version of the show called This Ain't Girls XXX, with porn stars taking on the characters made famous by Dunham and her castmates. However, Dunham, who created ...
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Viktor Ullmanns opera written in Nazi concentration camp revived in Berlin
Viktor Ullmann wrote The Emperor from Atlantis while at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what is now the Czech Republic. Photograph: Radek ...
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The London art audit how well are female artists represented
How likely are you to see a piece of art in a London gallery created by a woman? An art audit by the East London Fawcett Group has attempted to find ...
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Women in art why are all the great artists men
An audit of the art world shows that every artist in the top 100 auction sales last year was a man, and just 8% of public art in central London was created by women. But things are ...
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Jordan Baseman Haroon Mizra Free Range the weeks art shows in pictures
From Haroon Mizra's sonic sculptures in Wakefield to Jordan Baseman's studies of death in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what's happening in art around the ...
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Giro dItalia stage cancellation boosts Mark Cavendish red jersey hopes
Giro d'Italia were given a significant boost when Friday's 19th stage was cancelled due to snow along the route, and Saturday's penultimate stage was recast with a ...
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Out and Riding High in Nashville
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What Jane Saw Is an Online Trip for Jane Austen Fans
On May 24, 1813, Jane Austen went to a crowded art gallery on Pall Mall in London looking for Mrs Darcy. ...
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Sport picture of the day engage
The moment before the forwards engage is perfectly captured in this beautiful photograph from the match between the Chiefs and the Crusaders in New Zealand. The use of symmetry and the steam rising from the players made it stand out from the ...
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North American birds made from Lego – in pictures
Here is the latest collection of birds from Lego enthusiast, avian admirer and professional tree surgeon, Thomas Poulsom. He hopes to persuade the toy company to make his birds into official Lego kits - vote for him ...
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Gay Mormon Characters In The Arts Step Out Of The Shadows
By Kellie Kotraba Religion News Service (RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches." Pitt lived in New York with a good reputation and a bad marriage to a woman addicted to Valium. As colleagues dealt with the devastation and ...
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Verification a GuardianWitness guide to making great video
Now everyone with a smartphone has the potential to be a video news reporter, how do we know who to trust? Claire Wardle from social news agency Storyful offers some advice on how to ensure your footage is findable, traceable and (hopefully) ...
A Look at Copenhagen
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Copenhagen leading the eco-charge
Copenhagen has, for many decades, been an extremely influential city in world affairs, most notably in the realm of environmental management and conservation activities. It is in Copenhagen that world leaders meet to agree on eco-friendly policies at the famous Copenhagen Accord, and the city will host mayors from around the world at the Copenhagen Summit. So what is the extent of the city’s leadership on such issues?
Copenhagen has long been considered one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the world. In 1973 Denmark was the first country in the world to implement a national Environmental Law, and this paved the way for a strong combination of national and municipal legislation aimed at limiting the cities carbon footprint. Read more
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