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I lived in Hollywood, once upon a time, on Poinsettia between Fountain and Santa Monica Blvd., not far from Melrose.  It was the early '80s and I was working at a radio station on Sunset at North Genesee, across from the Screen Actors Guild. Ed Asner was the president of the guild then and I met him one afternoon, along with most of my co-workers, when SAG hosted an open house in ...

The Serb dispelled any fears that he might still be suffering with the abdominal injury that bothered him during his win over Taylor Fritz, dispatching the big-hitting Raonic 7-6, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in just under three hours.

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump's second impeachment trial followed a very predictable partisan path in the U.S. Senate last week, with Democrats voting to convict and most Republicans voting to acquit. There is a long list of reasons behind that breakdown, but one of them is the increasingly tidy alignment between the Senate and the presidential partisan maps.

Investigators from the World Health Organization looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the outbreak was much wider in Wuhan in Dec. 2019 than previously thought. They are urgently seeking access to hundreds of thousands of blood samples from the city that China has so far not let them examine.

WASHINGTON - The lead House impeachment manager, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., criticized Republicans like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for "trying to have it both ways" by voting to acquit former President Donald Trump on charges he incited last month's attack on the Capitol, arguing that history will deem the president responsible nonetheless.

"Live!" airs tonight on W9. Initially, this culinary film should have been directed by David Fincher with Brad Pitt then Keanu Reeves in the cast. Explanations.

 When we moved to Dushanbe back in 2014, I geared myself up for a long, cold winter.  After all, Dushanbe is right next to the mountains and in Central Asia, so that meant that I was going to actually have to learn how to cope with winter.  

A voluntary liquidation is an independent self-induced wind-down and liquidation of a business which has just been formally approved by its shareholders. Such a decision is taken by the leadership of a company when they feel that the business has no longer any commercial reason to continue running. It is not prompted by a regulatory body (necessarily). When a business is in trouble, there are various options open for the management team. They can choose to do nothing or to carry out the winding-up procedure. Читать дальше...

After disappearing from her room in the Los Angeles hotel in February 2013, the 21-year-old's body was found two weeks later drowned inside a water tank on the roof of the hotel.

As we all know AC has become a necessity these days and as we approach summer a lot of us might be planning to rent AC. If you are planning on buying an AC for rental purposes, then this article will give you clarity as to whether you should opt for split or Windows AC. For those who are in a dilemma to buy what type of AC this article will surely help you in making the right choice.

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For a few years now we've been curating the Waveriders Unite Facebook group. It started as a place to discuss Ripple bands but has since evolved into an amazing community to talk stoner rock.

We take a trip to South Korea when we review Winter in Sokcho.

Winter in Sokcho – the blurb

It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The cold slows everything down. Bodies are red and raw, the fish turn venomous, beyond the beach guns point out from the North’s watchtowers. A young French Korean woman works as a receptionist in a tired guesthouse. One evening, an unexpected guest arrives: a French cartoonist determined to find inspiration in this desolate landscape. Читать дальше...

Your funny Valentine: February pets featured in a Valentine from their pet parents

Getting fast routers is an absolute necessity these days. However, some people will try to take advantage of that. If you are a Cox internet subscriber, you know how much they try to rent you their routers. However, you can save plenty of costs if you can only get a high-quality third-party router.

Gross (1700 m.s.l.) and Chli Aubrig on the left, behind the Bockmattlipass (1,800 m.s.l.), Vorder Glärnisch (2,300 m.s.l.) and the Glärnisch (2,900 m.s.l.) on the right

TurkStream (Russian: Турецкий поток; former name: Turkish Stream) is a natural gas pipeline running from Russia to Turkey. Russia–Turkey intergovernmental agreement for TurkStream was signed in October 2016. Construction started in May 2017 and gas deliveries to Bulgaria via the pipeline began on 1st January 2020. 

Once again, Trump is not impeached.

No surprise since the process is 100% political. Maybe one could attempt to get a grand jury to issue an indictment, but I wouldn't put money on it.

On the other hand, the people who have been pushing to impeach Trump have engaged in willful ignorance of Hillary Clinton's, and even worse, Joe Biden's corruption issues. The link below isn't to a right wing rag, but is from a op-ed by Zephyr Teachout published in the UK guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/20/joe