When Otto Warmbier’s parents first seen their son after he was detained by North Korea and finally released in June, they were confronted with inhuman groaning so horrifying Warmbier’s mother fled the plane, according to Fox News. While they waited for the plane to bring their son back to Ohio, his parents — Fred and Cindy — hoped proper medical care in the United States would make him better, the report said ... “He was blind ... ....
“Their No. 1 concern is Trump. They can’t figure him out.” – Unidentified person ... Trump does not have any known interactions with Klingner personally.North Korean intermediaries have also approached Douglas Paal, an Asia expert on the national security councils of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W ... He also declined the North Korean request, the report said. . “The North Koreans are clearly eager to deliver a message....
A couple was arrested for murder in the southwestern city of Krasnodar in Russia on Tuesday with local media reporting that the couple admitted to killing up to 30 people, according to BBCNews. Dmitry Baksheev, 35, and his wife Natalia, 42, were arrested after authorities discovered a dismembered body at the military base where they live ...The Russian interior ministry confirmed the man in the images had been identified and arrested....
U.S. authorities said that they were charged 10 people, including four coaches and an Adidas AG executive, with fraud after a multi-year corruption probe into the some of the country's top college basketball programs, according to Reuters ... Some bribes also went to high school players as an attempt to win them over to committing to play for a particular school, prosecutors said ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
SPECIM, SpectralImagingLtd. has agreed to an investment of EUR3.5 million by Bocap SME Achievers Fund II Ky, with the aim to double its . current 10 M€ revenues by 2020 ... With this move it will take full commercial advantage of its superior knowledge, the entire R&D investment, and the new camera family,” explains Specim’s Chairman Risto Kalske, who has brought several high-tech companies into rapid growth ... http.//www.specim.fi/....
Although J.R.R. Tolkien is best known for The Lord of the Rings, he wrote many other stories during his life. Over the years, several of his earliest works have been released that give a glimpse of Tolkien's first attempts to construct fantasy tales and worlds ... J.R.R ... Titled The Story of Kullervo, it shows a different attempt by Tolkien to take many influences from Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon folklore and turn it into a fantasy story ... ....
The new account of Kullervo is conceived very much along the same lines as his first, with an absolute command of the 80-minute span, with its elements of symphony, cantata and opera ... As on the previous recording, the mezzo soloist in the central scena for Kullervo and his ......
Nokia is planning to fight its way back to the top of the mobile phone industry after years of lagging behind several of its competitors. Nokia was once the world’s “dominant” cell phone manufacturer, a recent article from Fortune recalls ... Now, the Finnish company is looking to regain some of the ground it lost ... That’s not deterring Nokia ... — Päivi Kalske (@kalske) December 6, 2016 ... The InquisitrNews ....
The Middle-earth tale tells of the love between the mortal man and the immortal elf ... Read more ... Although no further Middle-earth titles have been published since The Children of Húrin, a host of previously unpublished works by The Lord of the Rings author have been released, from his retelling of a Finnish legend, The Story of Kullervo, to his poem The Fall of Arthur and his translation of the 11th-century Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. ....
In the fourth in our series, we look at the Finnish capital and its music. Next up. Prague – leave your suggestions for the Czech city below. @StephenMossGdn. I chose Helsinki as our next port of call on a whim ... “The trouble … is that not a lot of Finnish music has an urban feel to it ... Facebook. Twitter ... My number one piece of Finnish music is Sibelius’s Kullervo, an everyday tale (based on the national epic) of incest, murder and suicide ... ....
Tolkien fan looking for a new "Lord of the Rings," or even "The Silmarillion," "The Story of Kullervo" will probably disappoint you. But, if you have an interest in the origins of Tolkien's storytelling, and the underpinnings of his mythology of Middle-earth, "Kullervo" may be just what you are looking for ... Until this year, "The Story of Kullervo" ......
"THE STORY OF KULLERVO," by J.R.R ... According to editor Verlyn Flieger, "The Story of Kullervo" is not only J.R.R ... Flieger, who is a specialist in comparative mythology with a concentration in Tolkien's work, wanted to introduce Tolkien fans to "The Story of Kullervo," a story Tolkien himself called his "germ of an attempt to write legends of my own."....
Two works by the Lord of the Rings author discovered in the 1936 annual of Our Lady’s School in Oxfordshire... Twitter ... My excitement when I saw them was overwhelming ... Related ... Fans of the novelist have been given a wealth of previously unpublished material to enjoy in recent years, from last year’s release of his retelling of the Finnish epic poem The Story of Kullervo, to the unfinished Middle-earth story The Children of Húrin ... ....
A non-invasive technique designed to send chemotherapy medication through the protective barrier surrounding the brain has been successfully trialed for the first time on a patient with brain cancer ...It's very good at doing its job, but unfortunately that represents a hurdle in medicine ... implanting ultrasound emitters into the brain ... Kullervo Hynynen at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, is more precise and non-invasive ... ....