Donate Life Rose Parade floats have proceeded down Colorado Boulevard for nearly 20 years, wowing crowds with 50-foot petal-and-seed sculptures and dazzling ornaments. But the floral finery pales in comparison to the courage, strength and compassion exhibited by those who ride on or march alongside the float on New Year’s Day. Heart transplants, weeks-long comas
Up to 100 people are feared dead in Kentucky after the “deadliest tornado storm ever” unleashed catastrophic damage in several US states. Four tornados ripped through the state, with the largest on the ground for more than 227 miles (365km). Image: The deadly weather is feared to have claimed the lives of up to 100
Boris Johnson has been accused of presiding over a “culture of disregard for the rules” after a picture emerged of him hosting a virtual quiz flanked by two colleagues in Downing Street last Christmas. The image, obtained by the Sunday Mirror, shows the PM on screen in his office reading out questions for Number 10
Russia has stepped up its censorship efforts in the country by fully banning access to the Tor web anonymity service, coinciding with the ban of six virtual private network (VPN) operators, as the government continues to control the internet and crackdown on attempts to circumvent locally imposed web restrictions. The Federal Service for Supervision of
On June 29, 2014, at 8:02 p.m. ET, a user named NooYawkCity made the first of what would come to be many posts to a popular martial-arts forum on reddit.com. It was titled “58 year old white belt”: I’ve been training about a year, and only recently gotten solidly hooked. From once every few weeks,
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Good Lord, Carrie Underwood can SING. Although we all know she’s the one of, if not the, best vocalists in country music, I am still consistently amazed by her angelic vocals. She absolutely lit up (pun very much intended) the 2021 Christmas tree lighting in Rockefeller Center in New York City a couple weeks ago with
US inflation has hit a 39-year high in the latest sign of a cost of living squeeze for consumers in the world’s biggest economy. Figures from America’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed consumer price index (CPI) inflation hit 6.8% last month, the biggest year-on-year surge in prices since June 1982. The reading, which was
Although The Expanse rearranged the order of some character introductions over the years, each season for the most part followed the conflict of each successive book in the James S. A. Corey series. Season one followed Leviathan Wakes, season two followed Caliban’s War, and so on. But with the ninth and final novel recently released,
OnePlus 9 and OnePlus 9 Pro’s OxygenOS 12 update is being reportedly suspended till OnePlus fixes the bugs faced by users. The Chinese tech giant has also apparently issued a statement regarding the suspension of the rollout of the Android 12-based update. Many users reportedly complained that the update did not bring all the promised
Steven Spielberg‘s rendition of ‘West Side Story’ might be a hit with critics, but it tanked at the box office … something many are taking joy in, all because of Ansel Elgort. The numbers are in for the film, and it doesn’t look like people were flocking to catch it on the big screen —
Paul Thomas Anderson was helping Haim prepare for their headlining set at Coachella in 2018 when the Academy Award-winning director of Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, and Phantom Thread turned to guitarist-singer Alana Haim with a thought. “He said, ‘I’m going to put you in a movie,’ ” says Alana, the youngest of the
EXCLUSIVE: Headspace, a global leader in mindfulness and meditation, announced today the promotion of Morgan Selzer to Chief Content and Studios Officer. Selzer will be responsible for overseeing all content strategy and production and that live both inside and outside of the mindfulness app, along with overseeing all brand, talent and content partnerships. Since joining
A “Jazz Vespers” service is presented on Dec. 12 at Northridge United Methodist Church. (Google Street View) Here is a sampling of religion events in the San Fernando Valley area. Dec. 11 Las Mañanitas musical tribute and Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe: The feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Dec. 12, gets an
At least 50 people are thought to have died as tornadoes and storms hit several US states, toppling buildings and trapping people inside. Kentucky’s Governor Andy Beshear said the state had “experienced some of the worst tornado damage we’ve seen in a long time”. He said the number of deaths would likely “exceed 50” and
Some staff at the Treasury had office drinks while England was in lockdown last year. The Times reported that around two dozen civil servants were present for the drinks on 25 November, 2020. The group had been working on the Autumn Spending Review, the Treasury said. UK could see one million infections – COVID latest
Tom and Jerry have fans talking again as people are shocked to learn that Jerry’s real name is Gerald. A couple of weeks ago the duo was added to Multiversus. The fighting game showed off their origins and full names. Well, in 1940, they showed up in “Puss Gets The Boot.” But, social media users were
As many as 1.6 million WordPress sites have been targeted by an active large-scale attack campaign originating from 16,000 IP addresses by exploiting weaknesses in four plugins and 15 Epsilon Framework themes. WordPress security company Wordfence, which disclosed details of the attacks, said Thursday it had detected and blocked more than 13.7 million attacks aimed
Death’s door may just lead to the Internet. As the world continues to run out of burial space, a new option for memorializing loved ones presents itself: NFT designers are developing metaverse cemeteries. On Thursday, Dec. 8th — the same day the New York Times wrote about a metaverse wedding — a group called Remember
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, sent “Good Morning America” host Michael Strahan, the daughter of famed astronaut Alan Shepard, and four paying customers to the edge of space. #CNN #News