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Vancouver divers to reach new depths in local freediving competition
Divers will hold their breath while diving to depths between 15 and 60 meters! This weekend, local divers will attempt to reach the deepest depths of Howe Sound, some descending to around 60 meters below the waves, the equivalent of an 18-story building. The two-day event called Howe Deep? The AIDA deep freediving competition takes …
Ern Malley has been hailed as one of Australia’s greatest poets. But it didn’t exist
In 1944 Max Harris, 23, was an Adelaide-based poet and co-editor of the modernist and literary art review Angry Penguins. In that year’s edition, it featured the poems of Ern Malley, who was said to have died the previous year at the age of 25. But while posting these poems, he fell in love with …
Bad weekend. The world of comics is also used to make detective novels – CVBJ
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips the great couple who seem destined for all rewards do not lower the level and offer us, Bad weekend, a black work dedicated to their own company, the world of comics. A convention, a controversial artist, his ex-assistant (whom he managed to drive mad during my time working for him), …
Unable to clear his loans, a rickshaw driver sets his vehicle on fire in Hanamkonda
Warangal: A rickshaw driver, who could not pay off a loan taken out to buy his vehicle due to low income given the sharp rise in fuel prices, set his vehicle on fire at the Kaloji center in Hanamkonda Saturday. – Advertising – Srinivas, a resident of Gundlasingaram village on the outskirts of Warangal town, …
Rights of an artist in a protected work
With the growth of the Internet and social media, and the importance they place on content, copyright has become more important than ever! Copyright covers all types of created content – physical or digital, written, videographic, sound recordings, paintings, photographs, etc. In legal jargon, the term “copyright” is a legal right that protects the interests …
Extreme flooding in Europe ‘up to nine times more likely’ due to climate change | Smart News
The extreme rainfall that devastated parts of Europe last month has been made more likely and more severe by climate change, according to a new report. The showers, which swept through Germany and Belgium in July, were 3 to 19% more intense and 1.2 to 9 times more likely due to human-caused warming. “It is …
Blog: Amelia Earhart’s Bizarre and Minor Theories, and How to Get Involved in Real Scientific Research, Part 2
Last week we looked at the main plausible theories behind Amelia Earhart’s July 1937 disappearance in her magnificent Lockheed Electra. But there are other minor theories, and some really weird ones, as follows. First: Amelia has become Tokyo Rose. This is the dumbest theory of all. There was no one broadcasting as Tokyo Rose, although …
The 4 best WWII novels celebrate women as spies and resistance fighters
The courage and ingenuity of humans when pushed to the limit is a lingering theme in the literature. What are we capable of? What hidden reserves can we tap into? Also familiar: authors confronting these questions against the backdrop of World War II. Its oppressive threats, obnoxious actors and vast imprint provide countless settings and …
Everyone’s Critic – Alison Healy on One Star Book Reviews
Have you ever suspected that some of the facts of the day on those desk calendars are made up? I imagine someone in an office saying, ‘Quick, we don’t have a fact for April 22, give me one’, and a colleague suggesting, ‘Just say whoever made up the point interrogation was born on this day …
Back to Basics, Continued — Have you ever wondered how your credit score is determined? | Dentons
Part of everyday life in the consumer credit industry is about credit and credit scores. We look at our potential customers based on their repayment capacity, and nothing measures that capacity as well as the customer’s credit rating. So what exactly are the factors that go into formulating the score? FICO, formerly known as Fair …