Interview with British Vert skateboard champion Jake Anderson
Interview by Laurie Barnes At just twenty years old Jake Anderson has been making a name for himself in the world of vert skateboarding for some time now, with two British championship titles already under his belt. He’s also had a good year so far bagging two consecutive wins in the UK vert series. ...
Wedding Traditions & Superstitions: 50 Wedding Facts & Trivia
The Knot shared these wedding traditions & superstitions. We thought they were pretty interesting and wanted to share them! Good Luck & Bad Luck 1. Hey, brides, tuck a sugar cube into your glove -- according to Greek culture, the sugar will sweeten your union. 2. The English believe a spider found i ...
Danish police mystery
Someone, somewhen recommended Jussi Adler-Olsen's The Keeper of Lost Causes. It ended up at the top of my alphabetical "to read" list. Adler-Olsen's whole name is Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen. An online biography notes that he grew up in "several mental hospitals" in Denmark. (His father wa ...
Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Nightcrawler' Will Close Fantastic Fest
Alamo Drafthouse's Fantastic Fest has added Open Road's "Nightcrawler," starring Jake Gyllenhaal, to its already strong Austin genre programming as the closing night film. Veteran Hollywood scribe Dan Gilroy's directorial debut about a freelance writer thrust into LA crime journalism will first bow ...
Denmark - no sense to remove MRSA from infected farmers
We are sure that the Danes are right. Denmark (and Britain) can now do little, except get the culprits before the courts with a view to removing their influence and assets to try to help the victims and to pour into genuine research. Some British politicians, from both Houses of Parliament, and from ...
ICELAND is apart of Europe
Coat of arms of Iceland Íslenska : Skjaldarmerki Íslands (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Iceland is a Nordic country between the North Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean. It has a population of 325,671 and an area of 103,000 km², making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Wikipedia. The National ...
Rising And Rising.
The Rising Irish Population. The population of the Republic has topped four million for the first time in over 130 years, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have shown . The total population in April 2004 was 4.04m, the highest figure since 1871, when it stood at 4.05m, and up 64,9 ...
I'm not that standardized
Here's a new proposal. Give surgeon's a black box to help prevent medical errors, like they have in air planes. The proposal: "Inside the operating room, video cameras track every movement. Outside, a small computer-like device analyzes the recordings, identifying when mistakes are made and providin ...
He Who Sings, Prays Twice
Catacoustic Consort begins its fourteenth season September 21 by reaching into one of the most rarely-visited corners of the German Baroque and finding treasure within. Membra Jesu nostri patientis sanctissima—it sounds impenetrable, but its rewards are profound. L'abbaye de Villers-la-Ville Arnulf ...
Badminton News
At Li Ning BWF World Championships 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark [R1] Srikanth K. (IND,23) bt Iztok Utrosa (SLO,114) 21-11 11-21 21-12 [R1] Kashyap Parupalli (IND,20) l Dieter Domke (GER) 24-26 21-13 18-21 [R1] Ajay Jayaram (IND,89) bt (4) Kenichi Tago (JPN,4) w/o [R1] (11) P V Sindhu (IND,12) bye [R1] ...
