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Uptown and downtown collide at this year's Tribeca fest

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

"The First Monday in May" delves into Met curator Andrew Bolton's mounting of a mammoth exhibit of influential Chinese fashion, an undertaking that coincides with Anna Wintour's annual Met Gala, the fashion extravaganza that benefits the Met's Costume Institute. The festival will close with a 55-minute documentary called "the bomb," which will be staged with screens surrounding the audience and scored live by a band. [...] expansions and experimentation are common on the festival circuit, but they... Читать дальше...

Brazil's President Pretty Much Accused Her VP Of Launching A Coup

BuzzFeed 

So that happened.

For those of you who aren't caught up, Brazil's political scene is totally nuts right about now. Like, absolutely on fire.

Seen here: an accurate depiction of Brazilian politics.

Nickelodeon Pictures

Dominating the landscape are the closely linked Operation: Car Wash scandal — in which dozens of politicians and the state-owned oil company are accused of corruption — and the threat of impeachment proceedings... Читать дальше...

Let medical boards, not doctors claim disability in accident cases, says HC

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Ruling out the possibility of false or exaggerated disability claims from road accident victims, and pointing out that most of these case appeals happen due to disagreement over percentage of disability, the Madras high court has said that henceforth, disability certificate will be issued by medical boards.

Susan Roback's GPS Guide For Inner Stillness

The Huffington Post 

Feeling stressed? You’re not alone. We all have a center of wisdom and balance within us, but sometimes life takes over and we can feel all over the place! We all need a course-correcting tool — A “GPS for the Soul” — to help us find our way back to center. The guide below will give you the tools you need to reach that calmer state of mind.

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High outbound flows slow deposit growth

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

A surge in outbound remittances following a hike in the limit of money that Indians are allowed to send abroad could be one of the causes behind slower deposit growth. In FY15, the total amount sent out of the country was $1.3 billion.

Residents team up to address civic problems

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Fed up with authorities turning a deaf ear to their complaints, city residents are increasingly taking a more proactive stance. They have laid their own bitumen roads, taken to the streets over the lack of water and even elected their own resident councillors.

Texas police arrest suspect after ring stolen from corpse

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Police have arrested a woman suspected of stealing a ring from a corpse at a Texas funeral home in an incident captured on surveillance video. Police on Monday released security video of a woman seen entering a viewing room at Sunset Memorial Gardens & Funeral Home, reaching into an open casket and fumbling to remove something from the female corpse.

Just in: Boko Haram terrorists fleeing Sambisa forest, running to other parts of Nigeria

NAIJ.COM (Nigeria News) 

– Terrorists deserting Sambisa to other parts of the country following aerial bombardment by Nigerian troops – Army spokesperson says no cause for alarm NAIJ.com cam authoritatively report that Boko Haram terrorists have started fleeing their base in Sambisa forest as Nigerian troops continue aerial bombardment. According to a press statement made available by the […]

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Click Here to Visit Hell: An Interactive “Garden of Earthly Delights”

The New Yorker 

No one knows for sure when the late-medieval Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch was born—the date is usually given as circa 1450—but he definitely died five hundred years ago, in 1516. Considering that Bosch saw earthly life as a brief, sinful prelude to the many elaborate forms of suffering that would follow it for all eternity, this seems the more important date to commemorate, and his home town, the city of ’s-Hertogenbosch, is celebrating accordingly with a major exhibition of his work. But his most famous painting... Читать дальше...

Paul Ryan just gave a big speech to officially rule out a late bid for the presidency

BusinessInsider.com 

Reuters/Gary Cameron

House Speaker Paul Ryan announced on Tuesday that he's ruling out a potential late bid for the presidency.

"I do not want, nor will I accept, the nomination for our party," Ryan said in the Tuesday speech from the lobby of the Republican National Committee office in Washington, DC.

"I want to put this to rest once and for all," he continued.

Ryan said that the eventual nominee should come only from someone who participated in the GOP primary race. Читать дальше...





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