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Ice fishing fest opens in Inje after 2-year hiatus

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

INJE, South Korea, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- An annual ice fishing festival will open on the frozen Soyang Lake here on Saturday to reinvigorate this remote mountainous town bordering North Korea, organizers said Friday. The festival will continue in Inj

Minnesotans head for D.C. to march Saturday

«Star Tribune» (startribune.com) 

Hundreds of Minnesotans, mostly women, boarded buses before the sun rose Friday at departure points across the Twin Cities and around the state — bound for what’s expected to be a massive demonstration for women’s rights on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration.



David A. Brawn

«Gazette Times» (gazettetimes.com) 

Feb. 7, 1935 — Jan. 13, 2017

David A. Brawn

«Albany Democrat Herald» (democratherald.com) 

Feb. 7, 1935 — Jan. 13, 2017

A year later, Sundance grapples with 'Birth of a Nation'

«Seattle Post-Intelligencer» (seattlepi.com) 

No one foresaw the ultimate collapse of Nate Parker's "Birth of a Nation" after its stellar reception at the Sundance Film Festival last year, when perfect timing, immense hype and a vigorous bidding war resulted in a record-setting $17.5 million sale. [...] it remains a blemish that could affect how much distributors are willing to spend on a single film. The enthusiasm, abetted by the fact that it debuted right as Hollywood was grappling with a second year of "OscarsSoWhite," and the ambitious... Читать дальше...

Ohio sexual assault survey finds improvements over past year

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A state-administered campus climate survey finds significant improvements in sexual-violence prevention efforts over the past year among higher education institutions in Ohio. All the private, public and community-technical colleges surveyed reported offering prevention trainings to staff, faculty, campus police and students, up from 33 percent.

Stocks slide as Trump takes office

BusinessInsider.com 

Markets Insider

Stocks dove as Donald Trump took office on Friday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank as much as 70 points after Donald Trump took the oath of office at the US Capitol. Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also began to slide as Trump began his speech.

All three indexes are still in the green for the day, with the Dow rebounding slightly off of session lows at 19,788 as of 12:46 p.m. ET.

Additionally, US Treasury bonds have ticked off their lows after Trump was sworn in. Читать дальше...

How an Israeli psychic convinced the CIA he could read minds

BusinessInsider.com 

Wikipedia

Recently declassified documents from the CIA show that Uri Geller succeeded in convincing the intelligence agency of his psychic abilities.

In a small-scale operation, later given the code name “Stargate Project,” US intelligence organizations looked for potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The group’s week-long study of Geller’s mind-reading abilities was part of 13 million pages of documents declassified and released by the CIA this week. Читать дальше...





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