The maps at right show snow anomalies in April (left), May (center) and June (right) of 2013 in the Northern Hemisphere compared to the long-term average (1981-2010) based on the number of days in the year where a location was covered in snow. Shades of brown indicate places that experienced up 100 percent fewer snow-covered days than average, while blue shows areas that experienced up to 100 percent more snow-covered days than average.
Marijuana, motorcycles, and mayhem. Deep Cover is the true story of an FBI agent in Detroit who goes undercover in an outlaw motorcycle gang and makes a series of bizarre discoveries that inadvertently lead to the US invasion of foreign country. Hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jake Halpern. Launching July 13th.
Detroit FBI agent Ned Timmons busts Toby Anderson, a violent criminal who also fancies himself a budding country music star. Ned flips Toby and goes undercover as a biker, but Toby quickly goes out of control. He uses the newfound protection of the FBI to commit robberies and perhaps far worse. Most agents would give up, and send Toby to jail, but Ned has a feeling Toby might be his key to the criminal underworld.
As Ned goes deeper undercover with Toby, making busts and infiltrating biker gangs, his wife Kathy begins to worry that things are going too far. But Ned is hooked, hearing chatter about a smuggling syndicate, a massive drug warehouse, and a source nicknamed Shine, who might have intel on the whole operation. Meanwhile, down in Louisiana, an abandoned smuggling barge turns up, and local authorities find a single clue: the name Shine, etched into a notepad belonging to the smugglers.
Shine takes Ned to Beaufort, North Carolina, where an abandoned boat full of marijuana had been discovered years prior. Locally, that case had gone cold, but Shine knows all about it. It was the work of an activist turned marijuana importer named Steven Kalish AKA Skip AKA the Gentleman Smuggler, a nickname earned because of his charismatic personality and distaste for violence.
As Ned goes deeper undercover with Toby, making busts and infiltrating biker gangs, his wife Kathy begins to worry that things are going too far. But Ned is hooked, hearing chatter about a smuggling syndicate, a massive drug warehouse, and a source nicknamed Shine, who might have intel on the whole operation. Meanwhile, down in Louisiana, an abandoned smuggling barge turns up, and local authorities find a single clue: the name Shin...
Born Again and the subsequent comedy of errors that happened during its touring cycle have become a thing of legend. While the music and concert stage props have been discussed ad-nauseum, the weird devil baby on the cover of the album is more of a mystery.
Teenage angst pays off well, as Nirvana's Kurt Cobain sang. But a lawsuit from a man who appeared as a naked baby on the band's landmark Nevermind album still isn't paying off: a federal judge has once again dismissed the lawsuit.
Spencer Elden is appealing the dismissal, his lawyers told NPR, arguing that the judge in the case has misinterpreted the federal child sexual exploitation law known as Masha's law. Elden says Nirvana and its record label have profited from child pornography by selling the album that famously features him on the cover.
But Judge Fernando Olguin of the Central District Court in California dismissed Elden's suit with prejudice, ruling that he had waited too long to file suit. The judge cites the law's statute of limitations, which requires a child pornography victim to bring a claim either 10 years after they discover the violation or injury against them, or 10 years after they turn 18.
"Here, plaintiff does not dispute that he knew of injuries arising from defendants' activities related to their use of his image on the Nevermind album cover more than ten years before he filed this action," Olguin said.
Elden's lawyers argue that the damage done to him is ongoing, and has persisted in the years after he ceased being a minor. They note, for instance, that the band and its label rereleased Nevermind last year, with him on the album cover, to mark its 30th anniversary.
Earlier this year, I was browsing Amazon for a few last-minute carry-on essentials when I saw the Airplane Pockets tray table cover pop up as a suggested item. I had never seen such a thing, and my first thought was that it's actually pretty genius. Would this mean I never have to touch or eat off a dirty plane tray table ever again? I turned to my fellow Condé Nast Traveller editors to see if I'd been missing out on the tray table cover trend. In a room full of frequent fliers, no one had seen or used anything like this before, but our editors were equally intrigued. I was sold. I purchased this 35 travel essential, and now, a few flights later, I will never fly without it again.
The slim, lightweight cover slips over your seat tray, like a pillow case or book cover, offering travellers a clean surface to eat and work on. My days of aggressively wiping down my seat tray with antibacterial wipes before it feels sort of clean enough to use are over. Now when I board my flight, I slip on the tray table cover and immediately feel at ease.
After each flight, I've tossed the reusable cover into the washing machine and voilà! Clean and good as new. It's also water-resistant, so if you're prone to in-flight spills like I am, there's no need to worry.
Medtronic issued another recall of its HeartWare HVAD heart pump, this time due to problems with the driveline cover that protects the connection between the pump and the controller. Medtronic said the cover can harden over time, making it difficult to slide the cover back to fix an urgent problem with the connection or controller.
In a Nov. 29 communication to healthcare professionals, Medtronic said it has received 33 complaints about this problem as of September 22. In four of the events, patients were hospitalized to fix and remove the driveline cover, but no critical injuries or deaths were attributed to the issue, the company said.
In May, the company recalled the HVAD system because of a welding defect that affected internal battery components, resulting in two injuries and one death. In June, Medtronic recalled the device again due to electrical faults, this time caused by an interaction between battery software and an internal component, resulting in six injuries and one death, according to an FDA notice.
Medtronic recommends that clinicians examine the device during routine visits to ensure that the driveline cover is not stuck or hardened. If it is stuck, the clinician should contact a field representative with the company to evaluate the device.
What you want, if you do a white cover, is a big, clean, obvious image, hopefully something interesting, or some big clear text that fills most of the space. You need something there. But the border itself is pretty much irrelevant.
The venerable institution that is Sports Illustrated has once again seen fit to select Tom Brady as its cover boy this week. This marks the 27th time the Patriots have graced SI's cover, and the second time already this year (Brady was on one of four regional covers previewing the Divisional Round).
The New England Patriots announced their full 2023 season schedule. The slate features five nationally-televised games, including their Week 10 regular season home game in Frankfurt, Germany on Nov. 12 against the Indianapolis Colts.
I can honestly say that when I started my journey, I would never in my wildest dreams believe that I would ever make it onto the cover of a magazine. I feel incredibly lucky and privileged to be able to now say I have done it twice. This means I get to experience the surreal feeling of seeing my own face smiling back at me from the shelves of supermarkets and newsagents all over again.
Hi Laura Well done . Love reading your blog. Is this a full time job for you because it must take a long time to calculate all those dishes especially now we have smart points. Which wt watcher group do you go to. Love the front cover.
Other pro-Russian hacktivist groups include AnonymousSudan and the Wagner Group, while CyberArmyofRussia_Reborn (CARR) has been flagged by Mandiant as another notable Russian hacktivist groups observed since early 2022, conducting DDoS attacks against Ukraine. Another high-profile pro-Russian hacktivist collective is KillNet, which consistently targets the U.S. and Europe with DDoS attacks.
Groups claiming to hack for good should not be automatically taken at their word; even those that frame their work as moral missions might be using the framing as a cover for other activities and intentions.
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