True Blood Watch: Fractured Fairy Tales

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  281 words  |  Kelle Repass

A little heads-up for the morning and the rest of the day: There was a hell of a lot of TV Sunday night—the VMAs, Rubicon, Mad Men, the season finales of HBO’s Hung, True Blood and Entourage—and I’ll have to get to what I can, when I can, especially since I need to get up at the crack of dawn for a non-blogging commitment. My review of Rubicon, which I saw in advance, will be up after the show’s West Coast airing. [Read More]

Twenty Gymnasts to Watch in the Womens All-Around and Event Finals

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  127 words  |  Patria Henriques

With the spotlight focused on teammates Wieber and Douglas, Aly Raisman had room to breathe. Apparently she took a very deep breath. The 18-year old from Needham, Mass. tumbled past her fellow Americans to qualify second behind Komova. Her mouth dropped when she saw the scoreboard. If Komova wavers and Raisman brings her famed consistency, she could leave with gold. She also leapt into the event finals on beam and floor exercise. [Read More]

U.S. At War: The Profiteering

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  632 words  |  Billy Koelling

The House Naval Affairs Committee, chairmanned by Georgia’s dumpy, turtle-faced Carl Vinson, had set itself a tedious task: to investigate progress of the Navy building program, discover the profiteers and blast them. Congress and the nation remembered that in World War I many corporations had made staggering profits out of ships and munitions.* For weeks Washington had been on the alert for the Vinson report, nerved itself this week to hear the report go off, dynamiting the profiteers of World War II. [Read More]

UNYP - Live & Study

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  233 words  |  Martina Birk

The University of New York in Prague has received an accreditation from the European Mentoring and Coaching Council for its MBA Coaching and Mentoring course. The recognition is valid from February 1, 2021 for a period of five years at the European Quality Award level. The MBA Coaching and Mentoring course is part of UNYP […] read more Future Females Prague is the local branch of the global organization Future Females, which focuses on educating and supporting the development of female-led businesses. [Read More]

USA Men's Basketball Olympic Gold Was No Dream Team. But It Demands Our Respect

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1357 words  |  Tandra Barner

It was no thing of overwhelming beauty, the Team USA men’s Olympic basketball team’s 87-82 win over France in the gold medal game on Saturday in Saitama, north of Tokyo. This was no Dream Team or Redeem Team or any other collection of superstars who will be wistfully remembered in books or documentaries three decades from now. They didn’t have to be. At an Olympics that at times have felt like more of an obligation than a celebration, the U. [Read More]

VIET NAM: The Exotic Mob

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  268 words  |  Kelle Repass

TIME January 3, 1955 12:00 AM GMT-5 In their mustard-colored uniforms and jaunty green berets, the Binh Xuyen of Saigon are probably the most exotic mob of hoodlums in Asia. Four thousand strong, they are the shock troops of the Saigon police, an empire of their own within the South Viet Nam state. Each day the Binh Xuyen (pronounced bin soo yen) pays the Vietnamese government about $10,000 in “taxes,” and gets in return the monopoly control of Saigon’s brothels, gambling casinos and opium dens (which are called “clinics of disintoxication”). [Read More]

Westminster Abbey Consecrated (Famous Drawing)

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  231 words  |  Tandra Barner

Historical Context One of the most famous and well-known buildings in all of Britain (and quite possibly the world) is Westminster Abbey, the site of numerous royal weddings, coronations and funerals over its 1000 year history. The construction of the present church began in 1245 during the reign of Henry III, who selected the site for his burial, but an abbey of various sorts has existed on the site since around 1060, and an order of Benedictine monks occupied the area since at least 960 or 970. [Read More]

Why I'll Never Apologize for My White Male Privilege

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1423 words  |  Kelle Repass

There is a phrase that floats around college campuses, Princeton being no exception, that threatens to strike down opinions without regard for their merits, but rather solely on the basis of the person that voiced them. “Check your privilege,” the saying goes, and I have been reprimanded by it several times this year. The phrase, handed down by my moral superiors, descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laser-like at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, and the nerve I displayed in offering an opinion rooted in a personal Weltanschauung. [Read More]

Why Is Walgreens Selling Sushi? The Changing Business of Drugstores

 Posted on August 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  680 words  |  Tandra Barner

Getty Images Drugstores are generally considered as little more than necessary and convenient. But now that some Walgreens boast nail salons, cafes serving sushi and smoothies, and impressive selections of beer, wine, liquor, and cigars, can a drugstore be thought of as “crazy awesome”? A 23,500-square-foot new Walgreens in Hollywood—which replaced an old Borders location—has indeed been described by a Los Angeles Magazine writer as “deep breath—crazy awesome”: This, the most beautiful Walgreens I’ve ever seen, has daily hand-rolled sushi, a fro-yo bar and a soda fountain with 130 different Coca-Cola drinks. [Read More]

7 subtle signs of heart attacks in women

 Posted on August 15, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  285 words  |  Patria Henriques

ADVERTISEMENT November 29, 2018 10:15 PM There are some signs of heart attacks, but they can differ depending on sex. Here are the signs of heart attacks in women. The ways that many women may experience heart attacks can be very different than the ways that many people expect people would experience them. Because the signs of heart attacks in women can be far more subtle or vague than those traditionally associated with heart attacks, women may not always get the care they need when they need it. [Read More]