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LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — A 58-year-old Kauai man sentenced to life in prison in 2001 for killing his wife by setting her on fire has had the minimum amount of time he must serve before he can request parole doubled to 120 years.
The Flaming Lips are a weird bunch. tweetmeme_service = 'bit.ly'; tweetmeme_source = 'SPINmagazine'; Share But with their latest release, the "Miles Davis meets Joy Division" double album Embryonic , the Oklahoma boys are getting even weirder , with ringleader Wayne Coyne going naked and filming a giant, spherical vagina-type-thing giving birth to a bunch of other naked people, who then ride ...
A SECT OF enlightened individuals lives among us.Their beliefs encompass shamanism, a 2012 doomsday scenario, obscure psychedelic drugs, mysticism, yoga, UFOs, crop circles, occasional communication with Mayan deities and the lingering suspicion that Obama is part of a robot conspiracy.
SolarCity lets clients lease a solar-power system instead of buying it, and save up to 15% a month on the combined electric and lease bill.
By Joshua Emerson Smith.
Aerosols, very small particles suspended in the air, play an important role in the global climate balance and in regulating climate change. They are one of the greatest sources of uncertainty in climate change models. ESA's GlobAerosol project has been making the most of European satellite capabilities to monitor them.
Image 1: Desert dust blown from the Western Sahara towards the Canary Islands, seen in this 300-m resolution Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) image. The wind can move between 60 and 200 million tons of fine dust up from the Sahara each year. Credits: ESAImage 2: An example of a GlobAerosol product: aerosol optical depth for the year 2007, derived from Envisat AATSR data. Credits: ESA
In its latest Game Design Challenge, Gamasutra sister site GameCareerGuide asked its readers to create a game design based around a photograph -- and now you can see what they came up with. The photo, seen here, depicts a firefighter scaling the face of a clock -- an image that's wildly open to interpretation and re-interpretation. The best entries, as chosen by the GameCareerGuide staff, are ...
This work/life frappe has created a blended experience in which it's harder than ever to compartmentalize. Public image should equal private reality.
Madisonians will find many opportunities to go old school this week. The calendar includes: the celebration of the "On, Wisconsin!" centennial; a production of Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and a performance by Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana; talks by Dan Ariely, Bill Ivey, and Lama Ole Nydahl; and, live music by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Erin McKeown, Jeffrey Siegel, Enter the Haggis, Trampled ...
By Cecil Adams I have heard Thomas Jefferson traded marijuana blends with George Washington and the other founding fathers. I find this hard to believe, but the rumor is ubiquitous. Can anyone verify if it is true or false? I e-mailed the famous Jefferson scholar Clay Jenkins but got no response. However, on his podcast, The Thomas Jefferson Hour, he did admit to donning his Thomas Jefferson ...
When Jennifer Brazill comes back to town for her 20th East Aurora High School reunion next year, she’ll have some stories to tell: about managing the career of rising singer/songwriter/recording artist Samantha Stollenwerck and promoting her new CD “Carefree;” about co-founding a new record label, Dusty Peach Records, with Stollenwerck in Los Angeles; about rubbing elbows with the likes of Dave ...
Please join us for the dedication of Tree Spire a permanent ...
There was a whole lot more proof on Friday night, even if none ...
The Black Rock Arts Foundation presents our third annual fundraising ...
We were traveling along Route 80, and for once, Reno seemed almost ...
Cardboardia one of Black Rock Arts Foundation s 2009 Grantees! ...
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid We finally lost ACE Junkyard to ...
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