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'RIP black money': Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's latest sculpture lauds govt's demonetisation move

Edit The Times of India 12 Nov 2016
Renowned sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik's latest sculpture on the beaches of Odisha is dedicated to the government's demonetisation move ... Pattnaik's sand sculpture titled "Mahatma Gandhi- World Peace" won the people's choice prize at the ninth Moscow Sand Sculpture Championship 2016. That 15-foot-high sand sculpture conveyed a message of non-violence and peace....

Baliyatra fair: Dedicated zones for street vendors

Edit The Times of India 12 Nov 2016
CUTTACK ... To add attraction to the fair, sand artist Pramod Patnaik will sculpt a sand art on the fair ground. The surgical strike by Modi against black money is theme of the sand art. Adding to it, Patnaik will also highlight Odisha's culture and heritage through his sand art. The sand art will be inaugurated on November 14. The artist is hopeful that his sand art will win hearts of the revelers ... Click here to download it for your device....

Jazz keyboard wiz Christian Sands & his trio to debut at UCSD

Edit The San Diego Union-Tribune 12 Nov 2016
At 26, New Haven native Christian Sands is a rising jazz piano star and three-time Grammy Awards-nominee. A teen protégé of jazz keyboard luminary Billy Taylor, he currently leads his own band and is a member of bass great Christian McBride’s hard-driving trio. In either context, Sands demonstrates ... ....

Hundreds join Walnut the whippet on final walk on Cornish beach

Edit The Guardian 12 Nov 2016
Owner Mark Woods made an emotional Facebook appeal for people to join him and his beloved pet before he was put to sleep. Hundreds of people have joined a dog on his final walk on his favourite Cornish beach before he was put to sleep ... Woods carried Walnut on to the beach in a blanket and they were joined by hundreds of other people with their pets....

Sneaker wave season is here: How to stay safe on the Oregon coast

Edit The Oregonian 12 Nov 2016
In that time, at least at least 21 people have been killed by sneaker waves on the Oregon coast, and several others have been severely injured ... Tides also tend to be more extreme in the colder seasons, she said, drawing people to the beach when the water is low but pushing them back further come high tide ... The waves can sweep up people close to the ......

Absolutely Gorgeous Photos Reveal The Beauty In A Hard Life

Edit National Public Radio 12 Nov 2016
Last month, the winners and runners-up in 11 categories, including travel, nature, people and portraits, were announced ... Girls from a Mongolian tribe fetching water in China trek across shadowy sand dunes that dip and curve like the human body ... "I can feel how people live," says Gabriele Venturi, a contest organizer ... This year, 5,000 people from 130 countries submitted more than 45,000 photos — double the number from last year....

Demolition begins at Van Aken Center (photos)

Edit Cleveland 12 Nov 2016
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio – Hundreds savored the past and looked eagerly to the Future Saturday when demolition began on the Van Aken Center shopping area northwest of the RTA Blue Line rapid tracks. The tear-down was only symbolic as people watch from a safe distance ... Palmisano acknowledged that everyone had fond memories of long-gone fixtures of the old Van Aken Center' such as Noggins restaurant and Eddie >Sand's Blue Line Café ... ....

Woodland takes lead with series of late birdies in OHL Classic at Mayakoba

Edit Taipei Times 12 Nov 2016
Gary Woodland on Friday birdied three of the final four holes for a six-under 65 and a one-stroke lead in the OHL Classic at Mayakoba ... He won the last of his two tour titles in 2013 ... “The golf course is in great shape ... Marc Leishman eagled the par-five seventh and followed with a hole-in-one on the 134-yard, hitting a sand wedge for 134 yards ... High sand wedge and landed about a yard past it and zipped back into the hole....

TPP trade deal dies to environmental applause (Friends of the Earth USA)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2016
But after sustained pressure from a massive international grassroots movement including environmentalists, working people, consumer advocates and many, many others, President Obama appears to have dropped his push to approve the TPP ... It would have promoted 'free trade' in dirty energy products such as tar sands oil, coal from the Powder River Basin, and liquefied natural gas shipped out of West Coast ports....

Cannabis cocktails? Constellation sees it as laws ease

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 12 Nov 2016
Constellation Brands, the alcohol giant that sells Corona beer and Svedka vodka, is considering a new approach to livening up its beverages. marijuana. “We’re looking at it,” Constellation Chief Executive Rob Sands said in an interview. “There are going to be alcoholic beverages that will also contain cannabis.” The legalization of marijuana across much of the U.S ... Voters approved marijuana for recre... ....

New security measures ring Trump Tower

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 12 Nov 2016
New York • Being a midtown Manhattan neighbor of Donald Trump now that he’s president-elect has come to this ... The extreme security measures began going up around the landmark Fifth Avenue skyscraper on Election Day, when authorities brought in a fleet of heavy Sanitation Department trucks filled with sand to wall off ... ....

Steam Punks! Series 1 Ep 9

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 12 Nov 2016
Today's Inquisitives are probed on sand, superglue and the science of tracking. Next, their hearing is tested and then they'll need to figure out how big a splash a microwave produces during Bang, Crash, Splat, Splash ... ....

High schools: Sand Springs shuts down Midwest City in second half, advances with 23-14 win

Edit Tulsa World 12 Nov 2016
Sand Springs allows just 55 yards in the second half to move on to second round ... ....
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