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The Evolution of Tom Cruise, From Outsider to Jack Reacher (Photos)

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 19 Oct 2016
The actor then starred in 1986’s “Top Gun,” which cemented his role as a global superstar ... Cruise stayed on the awards train with “Born on the Fourth of July,” which earned him a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama as well as his first Best Actor Academy Award nomination....

Walkout over rubber growers’ plight

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
Members of the Opposition United Democratic Front (UDF) walked out of the Assembly on Tuesday in protest against the State government’s alleged failure in market intervention to support rubber growers as well as paddy and coconut farmers who are battling against a fall in price of their produce ... Mani, who gave notice for an adjournment motion, said rubber growers had remained neglected for the past 50 years....

Modern Matinees: The Body Politic (MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016
(Source. MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art) Modern Matinees. The Body Politic. November 2-30. The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters ... W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln (1930) offer a more reverential, obliging view ... Motion pictures broadly reflect the age in which we live, and that's certainly true of the films in Modern Matinees. The Body Politic ... (noodl....

Review: 'The Joneses' is another studio comedy misfire

Edit Times Union 19 Oct 2016
Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher play Jeff and Karen Gaffney, a regular suburbanite couple experiencing an empty nest for the first time with their kids away at summer camp ... "Keeping Up With the Joneses," a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sexual content, action/violence and brief strong language."...

Trumper, Hammond, Bedi and their iconic images

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
It wasn’t until Middlesex allrounder and photo enthusiast George Beldam made up in imagination what he lacked in technology that the first iconic picture was shot. ‘Jumping Out’, a brilliantly framed picture of the great Australian batsman Victor Trumper was captured by Beldam in 1905, three years after Trumper’s annus ......

Business News Roundup, Oct. 19

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 19 Oct 2016
and its Lucasfilm and Pixar units, plaintiffs’ attorneys said in a court filing Monday seeking approval of the accord. Two Sony Pictures units and Blue Sky Studios already have won preliminary approval for settlements totaling $19 million ... Apple, Google, Inc., Intel Corp ... Alphabet Inc. shares hit a record high on Tuesday after mostly positive reviews for its new Pixel phones, the first line of phones designed in-house by its Google unit....

Ecuador cuts Assange’s internet over leakage of Clinton emails

Edit Press TV 19 Oct 2016
Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has been engaged new releases against the former secretary of state and New York senator (pictured below) for what Assange described as “October surprise,” indicating it would change the state of the race in favor of Trump ... within its Embassy in the United Kingdom,” Quito said....

Facebook Is Letting You Endorse Candidates for Office

Edit Topix 19 Oct 2016
A big logo created from pictures of Facebook users worldwide is pictured in the company's Data Center, its first outside the U.S., on November 7, 2013, in Lulea, in Swedish Lapland. Facebook is letting you explain your picks for political office by publishing your own endorsements of political figures ... ....

City Council members propose pairing housing, job training for homeless

Edit LA Daily News 19 Oct 2016
The motion introduced by Councilmen Paul Krekorian and Marqueece Harris-Dawson calls for starting small, with 50 homeless participants in the program ... Those who receive the usual six months of housing assistance may find themselves back on the streets if they cannot secure a stable source of income, while someone who does not have a stable place to stay may find it difficult to maintain a steady job, according to their motion....

Renovo man who killed wife and then reported her missing wants jail term shortened

Edit Penn Live 19 Oct 2016
7 ... Salisbury Tuesday scheduled an Oct 31 hearing on the motion filed on behalf of William J ... Snyder's lawyer, David I. Lindsey, claims in the motion for reconsideration that the judge abused his discretion by ordering consecutive sentences for third-degree murder and abuse of corpse convictions ... The state attorney general's office, which handled the sentencing phase of the case, opposes Snyder's motion, spokesman Jeffrey Johnson said ... ....

Brendan Rodgers ‘wants to make history at Celtic’

Edit Scotsman 19 Oct 2016
Hartson, pictured right, recalls how, from his early weeks, he caught the Celtic bug; his determination to be recalled in the club's annals served when in 2005 he became the 20th, and most recent, player to reach the 100-goal threshold ... Picture ... Not Liverpool or Manchester United ... After my first goal, though, I wanted 100, because I wanted my name in that group and to create my own bit of history....

CM lied to Marathas: Rane

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016
He said his party would call for a no-confidence motion against the government in the upcoming winter session at Nagpur. Mr. Rane said talks would be held with the Nationalist Congress Party. A week ago, Mr ... On Tuesday, Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... We will also bring a breach of privilege motion against him.”. Tawde hits back. Rejecting Mr ... Mr ... He taunted Mr ... He said that the no confidence motion had to be brought in Assembly and not in Council ... Mr ... Mr ... Mr ... ....

Budding code-breakers put skills to test as GCHQ launches puzzle book

Edit Belfast Telegraph 19 Oct 2016
The Government's listening post, based in Cheltenham, is releasing its first puzzle collection on Thursday, as well as a Sudoku and picture board conundrum for its competition ... These will range from "easy" to "mind-bending" and include ciphers and substitution codes, tests of numeracy and literacy, picture and music challenges....
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