PRAGUE (Reuters) - A fire tore through an apartment building in northern Czech Republic on Saturday, killing 11 people, including three children and five others who jumped from the upper floors to
It didn’t take Amy Reisch long to realize she wanted to work with kids. What began as a childhood dream to become a pediatrician or child psychiatrist transformed into a career of helping children and others through nonprofit work.
An intimate study in scale, this compact 450 square-foot cabin makes the most of its remote site on a forested bluff overlooking the water in the San Juan Islands. Consisting essentially of a single room, the wood-framed cabin offers flexible space as a painting studio or a guesthouse. The back of the structure gently nestles into the hillside bounded by existing trees and boulders, enclosing a micro kitchen and bathroom.
How to pandemic proof your retirement, how to offer unsolicited advice without being annoying, and man who spent 267 days sailing solo during the pandemic returns home.
Every few years, The Powers That Be in Formula One sit down to redraw the rules of competition and the prize money distribution. Known as the Concorde Agreement, this little document has caused a fuss ever since the first agreement was signed in 1981. And with the newest iteration coming up in 2021, it’s no surprise…
This week in 2015, we wrote about how the TPP would override five years of democratic discussion about patents in New Zealand, and then got a look at the latest leak of the agreement which showed the US fighting hard to permit patent and copyright abuse, opposing provisions in support of the public domain, trying to include rules that would kill any future Aereo clones, and generally making copyright mandatory but public rights voluntary — but then, after missing a key... Читать дальше...
Business associations are urging companies to continue seeking alternative energy sources in light of Eskom’s court judgement which would allow the utility to bump up electricity prices up to 15% from next year April 2021.
With its breed quickly becoming extinct, the Audi TT is as close as you’re going to get to a bad boy. This flashy player has one last run in the team before they are replaced by a new practical, statistical-friendly crop.
The revolution of 1776–1781 converted thirteen provinces, practically as they stood, into thirteen autonomous political units, completely independent, and they so continued until 1789, formally held together as a sort of league, by the Articles of Confederation. For our purposes, the point to be remarked about this eight-year period, 1781–1789, is that administration of the political means was not centralized in the federation, but in the... Читать дальше...
Canceled galas, auctions and fundraisers undermine giving; “we’re not in position to survive another couple of years of this,” says the director of a nonprofit.
In this week’s top stories: Google sends notices for a Google+ class action lawsuit settlement, the Pixel 5 may have gotten its launch date leaked, OnePlus teases Android 11 based HydrogenOS, and more.
It’s been a wild and bumpy ride for OPEC+ this year. The consortium, consisting of the traditional members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plus oil and gas superpower Russia, was largely responsible for the huge collapse in oil prices toward the end of April. After a huge drop in oil demand corresponding with the devastating spread of the novel coronavirus around the world, an OPEC+ strategy meeting turned into a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia which then turned into... Читать дальше...
Time to do some comparisons from our favorite killers in Westeros to some real-life weapons of war.
Here's What You Need To Remember: We can be thankful some aspects of Game of Thrones remain strictly fantastical, even in our conflict-prone world.
In addition to well-realized characters and shocking plot twists, one of the compelling aspects of The Game of Thrones series is that it situates itself in a rules-based fantasy world. Success... Читать дальше...
ASUNCION – Former World Cup winner Ronaldinho Gaucho moved a step closer to ending his Paraguayan ordeal on Friday when prosecutors said they would not oppose a “conditional suspension” of the case that...
Champions Mercedes are not ready to sign Formula One's new 'Concorde Agreement' because it hurts them most, team boss Toto Wolff said on Friday as the sport's owners vowed to press on anyway. The commercial agreement, setting out the terms under which teams race and the share of revenues, expires at the end of this year with the new one running until 2026. Ferrari and McLaren have indicated they are ready to sign but Wolff... Читать дальше...
DUKE can deliver in Salisbury’s 3.25. DUKE OF HAZZARD (nap) has been hammering at the door and ran another big race at Glorious Goodwood. Returning to a mile looks a wise move. 1.40 SALISBURY HAPPY POWER was third to the classy Space Blues at Haydock last time on the back of a close third in […]
Prince Harry was allegedly left furious at a comment his brother Prince William made about Meghan Markle before the Sussexes got married and a royal expert believes the Duke of Cambridge “would probably take it back” if he could