Tag: Journalism

  • After #MeToo, Anthony Bourdain stood ‘unhesitatingly and unwaveringly’ with women

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    In the eight months since the #MeToo movement resurfaced, the women coming forward with spectrum-spanning stories of mistreatment found an ally in a man that had previously been more associated with food than feminism. But Anthony Bourdain, who died Friday at age 61, was quick to admit that his passion for advocating on behalf of victims […]

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  • Yemen war: Government forces ‘not attacking’ Hudaydah port

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    Yemen’s government says its forces are not attacking the port of the rebel-held city of Hudaydah, the main entry point for aid to the war-torn country. “We are not planning to destroy the infrastructure,” Foreign Minister Khaled Alyemany said. Pro-government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, began an assault on the Red Sea city on […]

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  • ‘Ocean’s 8’ delivers playful all-female spin on heist caper

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    A reboot of a remake is about as meta a commentary of Hollywood’s current state of originality as one is likely to find. Still, “Ocean’s 8” brings a refreshingly unpretentious quality to this all-female, numerically scaled-down heist tale, yielding a movie that’s pleasant, mildly fun and the gender switch notwithstanding, a bit of an old-fashioned […]

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  • Swirling gases reveal baby planets in a young star’s disk

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    Baby planets growing in a disk of gas and dust around an infant star have been identified and weighed for the first time. In papers published June 13 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, two teams of astronomers describe a new technique to observe the newborn planets with unprecedented precision. One team, led by Richard Teague of […]

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  • Branding Your Business and Crafting Your Story in the Cannabis Industry

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    This article is part of our series on How to Start a Cannabis Business. We seek to promote financial inclusion through cannabis. In previous articles, we’ve looked into numerous aspects of getting into the marijuana industry, including questions you should ask yourself before jumping in and where to find funding. Until a few years ago, most cannabis brands […]

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  • The EOS Blockchain Is Now Live

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    The EOS blockchain is now live. What was perhaps one of the most hotly anticipated blockchain launches, after the company that developed its software, Block.one raised more than $4 billion during an almost year-long initial coin offering (ICO), is finally live as of 18:46 UTC on June 14. At press time, the blockchain has received […]

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  • New York sues Trump Foundation, alleging ‘extensive’ lawbreaking

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    New York’s attorney general is suing the Trump Foundation, as well as Donald Trump and his children, alleging “extensive and persistent” lawbreaking. Barbara Underwood said the charitable foundation had engaged in “unlawful political co-ordination” designed to influence the 2016 election. The lawsuit seeks to dissolve the foundation and $2.8m (£2.1m) in restitution. The foundation denied […]

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  • DOOH in the Supermarkets – Simplifies Shopping, Saves Time, Delivers Bigger Basket Sizes

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    By  Scott Brown DOOH is a wonderfully compatible technology with supermarkets. It can be used in different ways to nudge customers to make decisions beneficial to the supermarket and buyer. Communicating through digital displays comes with a clutch of advantages; in fact, when you consider that with VODXS you can communicate with people visiting a […]

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  • Half a day on Praslin, Seychelles

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    I flew to the Indian Ocean to discover Praslin, the second largest of the 115 granit islands in Seychelles. Take a short 15 minute inter-island flight or breathe the ocean air with a luxury 45 minute ferry ride. A Hotel The Raffles is a five star luxury resort with 3 private beaches. The private pool […]

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  • How Sleeping Beauty got woke: Meet ballet’s first male ballerina

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    The ladies of the court, wearing long dresses and hats with trailing veils, moved in a stately minuet across the stage of the Coliseum Theater in London on Wednesday night, in the English National Ballet’s production of The Sleeping Beauty. They tapped their canes on the floor as the Prince looked on, circling elegantly with uniform poise […]

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