Whether we’re consciously aware of it, most of us have some sort of bookish goals and/or habit. These can range from wanting to read more, to read more diversely, or finally start trying to make a dent in an established TBR pile. Whatever the goals are, they’re there. I know I’ve mentioned some of mine
Month: May 2023
Pentecost will be celebrated on May 28 at First Christian Church of North Hollywood (Disciples of Christ) on Colfax Avenue at Moorpark Street in Studio City. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of upcoming faith gatherings in the San Fernando Valley area. May 27 Sherman Oaks Lutheran Church: The Rev. Titus Utecht delivers the
A 22-year-old woman has had her leg bitten off by a shark while snorkelling in the Caribbean. The woman, who is from Connecticut in the US but has not been named, was taken to hospital in a serious condition on the Turks and Caicos Islands, police said. She and her friend were snorkelling outside the
The “doorstep”. It’s an often necessary but rarely tidy journalistic exercise – locating and asking pertinent questions of an unwilling participant who has gone to some effort to avoid them. Boris Johnson had been on a lengthy US trip, through Texas to Las Vegas in the west and Washington DC in the east. Boris Johnson
Nicholas Gray, whose Gray’s Papaya hot dog shop was a Manhattan fixture for 50 years, has died at 86. Gray died May 19 at a New York hospital from Alzheimer’s complications, the Wall St. Journal reported. Located near the corner of Broadway and 72nd Street in Manhattan, the shop was known as a quick and
Target has long carried LGBTQ Pride-themed merchandise for the month of June. Sure, they’ve received some angry comments from the right, or even been called out as cringe by the left. But this year — as LGBTQ organizers brace for a particularly hate-filled Pride — Target began receiving intense backlash. Then, following intense scrutiny from
Roger Waters has defended himself against a “smear” campaign that accused the singer of wearing a “Nazi-style” outfit during his recent concert in Berlin, which subsequently prompted a police investigation. “My recent performance in Berlin has attracted bad faith attacks from those who want to smear and silence me because they disagree with my political
Xiaomi 13 Pro was announced during this year’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in February. Details of the smartphone’s successor, expected to debut as the Xiaomi 14 Pro, have now surfaced online. A render of the unannounced smartphone has been leaked, and the image hints at the design of the purported handset. The Xiaomi 14 Pro
Security researchers have shared a deep dive into the commercial Android spyware called Predator, which is marketed by the Israeli company Intellexa (previously Cytrox). Predator was first documented by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in May 2022 as part of attacks leveraging five different zero-day flaws in the Chrome web browser and Android. The spyware,
Gabe Lee is on a straight track to country music success, and his new song “Property Line” shows how his narrative songwriting and old fashioned style singing (peak of country sound) still manages to stay incredibly modern. Lee has come out swinging in his country music career, simultaneously setting both the tone and the framework
The government finds its hands somewhat tied at present on measures it can take to boost economic growth. The parlous state of public finances – the government borrowed £25bn alone in April – means that neither meaningful tax cuts nor increases in public spending that lift productivity are feasible just now. So it is no
I’m a fierce defender of the idea that books don’t have to be hard to be good. I understand writers might prefer to take a deep literary approach when working on their manuscripts, but being hard to read doesn’t always reflect a more meaningful work of literature or worthy read. In certain circumstances, especially in
Sunscreen has only been around a century but pharmacy shelves are now lined with an assortment of sunscreens with a variety of active ingredients aimed to please everyone from the outdoorsman to the beauty-conscious shopper. The timeline below from the National Library of Medicine tells a brief story of sunscreen. 1798: Robert Willan, the father
A member of the Oath Keepers extremist group was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for participating in the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Jessica Watkins was convicted in November by a federal jury in Washington DC of obstruction of an official proceeding after storming the Capitol, which
Boris Johnson has insisted the fresh claims he broke lockdown rules are “total nonsense” and that elements of his ministerial diary were “cherry picked and handed to police”. The former prime minister was confronted by Sky News about the allegations as he made his way through the Dulles International Airport in Washington following a brief
The Writers Guild of America West received the most robust support from their sister unions in Los Angeles at the “Unions Strike Back” Rally on Friday evening. In solidarity with WGAw President Meredith Stiehm stood Hollywood Teamsters Local 399 secretary-treasurer and chief negotiator, Lindsay Dougherty; SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland; UTLA President, Cecily
The National Butterfly Center — a nature preserve in Mission, Texas, just north of the Rio Grande — has been threatened for years by the potential construction of a border wall and even far-right QAnon extremists who falsely claim it’s a hub for human trafficking. In that time, the sanctuary’s director, Marianna Wright, has developed
A few hours before midnight on Friday, Taylor Swift surprised the audience at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, where she was kicking off a three-night stint of her Eras tour, by welcoming rapper Ice Spice to the stage. The two women performed their new collaborative version of “Karma” together for the first time live. Swift and
Lenovo Tab M9 has been launched in India on Friday. The new Android tablet by the Chinese company comes with a metal body with a dual-tone design and supports facial unlocking. The Lenovo Tab M9 runs on MediaTek Helio G80 SoC, coupled with up to 4GB of RAM and a maximum of 64GB of onboard
May 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Safety / Cloud Security A new security flaw has been disclosed in the Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP) Cloud SQL service that could be potentially exploited to obtain access to confidential data. “The vulnerability could have enabled a malicious actor to escalate from a basic Cloud SQL user to a full-fledged sysadmin
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