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Arts & Theater
When the Tallest Person in the Room Sits Directly in Front of You… — OnStage Blog
by Chris Peterson Good morning. I would like to begin today with a message of solidarity for a very specific group of people: those of us who have paid full price for a theatre ticket only to spend the evening staring directly into the back of someone’s head. As a short person, I know this experience well. Too well. I…
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Business
U.S. hotels call World Cup a ‘non-event’ and 80% see bookings below falling short of expectations
Last year, FIFA president Gianni Infantino hailed the upcoming World Cup as the equivalent of “104 Super Bowls,” quantifying just how big the sport known as football worldwide is—or, at least in comparison to America’s football version. With the average Super Bowl getting 125.6 million views annually, Infantino expects the World Cup to attract the equivalent viewership of three Super…
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Education
What Is A Whataboutism? | TeachThought
What Is Whataboutism? Whataboutism is a rhetorical move in which a person avoids responding to a criticism, claim, or question by pointing to a different problem, usually with a response such as, ‘What about this other thing?’ Whataboutism matters because it can sound like fairness while functioning as avoidance. Instead of answering the question in front of the discussion, it…
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Gambling
Ex-West Virginia Federal Prosecutor Accused of Identity Theft in Online Gambling Case
Posted on: May 11, 2026, 06:59h. Last updated on: May 11, 2026, 06:59h. Former federal prosecutor accused of using stolen identities for online gambling Plea deal could erase charges after two years of supervision Court records suggest gambling account restrictions may have driven scheme A former federal fraud prosecutor in West Virginia has admitted using stolen personal data to open…
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Gaming
Amy Hennig’s Uncharted 4 Details Revealed
A new video has revealed a ton of exciting new information on the original, scrapped version of Uncharted 4 by Amy Hennig. For those that don’t know the history, Amy Hennig was the writer and creative director of the first 3 Uncharted games. She was working on a fourth game for the PS4, but abruptly left the project in early…
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Celebrity
The Endlessly Frustrating Mystery of What Happened to Madeleine McCann
Three days after the announcement that they were no longer suspects, Gonçalo Amaral—the PJ’s former chief investigating coordinator who had stepped down from the McCann investigation in October 2007 and retired from the force in June 2008—released a book about the case that floated the theory that Kate and Gerry had covered up what really happened to their daughter, as…
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Science
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa
Aerial view of the Kafue Rift southern boundary fault zone. The hot springs where researchers sampled gases lie in the green thickets Michael Daly The African continent may have begun tearing itself apart in a new location. Gases emerging from an arc of hot springs in Zambia appear to be coming from deep below Earth’s crust, in a sign that…
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Mobile
Fourth vivo X500 family member breaks cover
Last week three upcoming members of vivo’s X500 family were spotted in the GSM Association’s IMEI database: the X500, X500 Pro, and X500e. But there’s a plot twist: it turns out that there’s a fourth member coming this year too (before the X500 Ultra will presumably arrive in early 2027). Ladies and gentlemen, vivo is going the Pro Max route,…
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Gadget
Digg Is Back Again, This Time To Aggregate AI News
Digg is back again and has taken on yet another form: A website that aggregates news about artificial intelligence. “[T]he internet has more noise than ever, and the people who can sort signal from it have never been more valuable,” Digg CEO Kevin Rose explained in his announcement. “Digg’s job is to find that…
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Market
Data Communications Management declares CAD 0.025 dividend
Data Communications Management declares CAD 0.025 dividend Source link
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