Sep 30
People donned their best cooking wardrobe and finest Saul Goodman side-part for the Breaking Bad series finale Sunday night at Will Call in Downtown Miami.
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Sep 30
HEGEWISCH — Chicago’s last wild cacti reside in a smidgen of space in the city’s extreme far Southeast Side.
There are less than 100 eastern prickly pear cacti left inside less than an acre of land in an isolated area of the 183-acre Powderhorn Prairie Marsh Nature Preserve in Hegewisch.
The preserve, surrounded by industrial plants and train tracks, holds some of Chicago’s rarest animals, including nesting osprey, and hard-to-find flora, including the cacti.
Sep 30
WASHINGTON — A top House Democrat on Monday indicated that if the federal government shuts down Tuesday, it could be some time before disagreements between Republicans and Democrats are resolved and the government opens back up.
“The scary thing about the period we’re in right now is there is no clear end point to a shutdown,” said House Budget Committee ranking member Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor.
“Once you go down this road, it’s not clear how it comes to an end,” Van Hollen told reporters. He added, “So let’s not head down this road.”
Sep 30
Canada is kicking off a $1.3 billion medical marijuana initiative on Tuesday that it hopes will serve nearly half a million residents by 2024, The Canadian Press reported Sunday.
The new system, known as the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations, will “provide access to quality-controlled marihuana for medical purposes, produced under secure and sanitary conditions, to those Canadians who need it,” said the government’s health agency, Health Canada, which announced the plans in June.
It will be a huge change for medicinal weed in Canada.
Sep 30
Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we’re using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment.
Smartphones, tablets, smartphones, repeat. We tend to come back to the same sorts of gadgets here in “IRL,” but this week we’re shaking things up with a fitness device. Associate HD Editor Ben Drawbaugh is one of the few mountain biking enthusiasts on staff, which means he was one of the only people qualified to test out a bicycle computer, something we normally wouldn’t review. After the break, find out if a $60 Bluetooth Low Energy sensor is worth the investment.
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Sep 30
Ohio University’s Marching 110 backed down from performing Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” due to pressure from the administration and criticism over playing what some argue is a song that promotes rape culture.
The marching band’s director, Richard Suk, made the decision to pull the plug on the hit song after four days of practicing it, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Other college marching bands at schools like Southern University, Jackson State University and the University of Indiana have performed “Blurred Lines” mostly without incident. But British universities have voted to ban the song in campus bars.
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Sep 30
In a breakthrough that could vastly improve life for college students—and their parents—around the world, Tide has developed what could very well be the world’s first self-cleaning t-shirt.
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Sep 30
WASHINGTON — In his Friday op-ed in The New York Times, titled “My State Needs Obamacare, Now,” Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear said he had a simple message for Republicans who don’t like the law: “Get over it.”
“Frankly, we can’t implement the Affordable Care Act fast enough,” Beshear wrote. “As for naysayers, I’m offended by their partisan gamesmanship, as they continue to pour time, money and energy into overturning or defunding the Affordable Care Act. It’s shameful that these critics haven’t invested that same level of energy into trying to improve the health of our citizens. … So, to those more worried about political power than Kentucky’s families, I say, ‘Get over it.'”
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Sep 30
LONDON — British police are charging a journalist as part of an investigation into allegations of computer hacking and privacy offenses, marking the first charges under Operation Tuleta, one of three police probes triggered by the U.K.’s phone-hacking scandal.
Police said Monday that Ben Ashford, 34, has been charged with possessing criminal property between Oct. 11, 2009 and Oct. 16, 2009, and unauthorized access to computer material.
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Sep 30
‘Ark Nova,’ The World’s First Inflatable Concert Hall, To Tour Earthquake-Devastated Japan
Posted in: Today's ChiliFrom the outside it resembles a giant, plushy purple jelly bean, while on the inside it looks more like a glowing, colored seashell. Actually, this balloon-like form is the world’s first inflatable concert hall, entitled “Ark Nova.”
Iconic British sculptor Anish Kapoor and Japanese architect Arata Isozaki have teamed up to create one of the more otherworldly structures in recent history — a pneumatic structure made from an elastic shell that can be quickly inflated and dismantled. We agree with Roberta Smith when she said “Anish Kapoor has always been a kind of magician.”
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