More than a quarter of a million people have fled in terror as opposition militias plot their return. Without international assistance a humanitarian disaster looms. Thierry wants to talk, but chokes on memories of blows and stabs punctuated by the sound of his father pleading for his life before masked men hacked him to death. He shrinks into himself, cold and small on a damp wooden bench just inside Tanzania... “We can never go back.” ... ....
In a bad news for astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life in deep space, NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler has gone into an emergency mode 75 million miles from the Earth. ....
SpaceX has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), delevering the world's first inflatable tent for astronauts. The US aerospace company's unmanned Dragon cargo ship, carrying lettuce seeds, lab mice and an inflatable pop-up room, arrived on Sunday at the space station where six spacecraft are now docked ... "It looks like we've caught a Dragon," said Peake ... Source. AFP. ....
At Iraq’s Mosul Dam, only one of the two bottom outlet gates is functioning, angrily spitting out water in a foamy white churn as birds fly above the spray, CNN reportsThe dam is considered by some experts to be among the most dangerous of its kind in the world. Completed in the mid-1980s, it was considered a necessity at the time ... – U.S. government. The lives of at least 1.5 million people could be at risk, according to U.S....
An Indonesian pop star died Sunday after a king cobra, which was part of her act, bit her onstage, The Inquisitr reports. IrmaBule was famous for using venomous snakes and other reptiles, but one of her snakes fatally bit her, mid-performance ... The king cobra’s bite wasn’t supposed to sting, as the pop star was sure the snake was defanged ... She was usually partial to a boa or a python ... She was usually partial to a boa or a python....
Cahoots in London. Sunday 10th April 2016 ...No age restrictions ... Event Info ... As well as serving classic cocktails, black market liquor and post-war favourites are also available, in particular rum and gin based drinks are furtively knocked back from old mugs, hip flasks, vintage milk bottles and tins, finished with ingredients half-inched from nana's pantry, picked from the allotment and foraged from the ruins ... ....
Ian Somerhalder from The Vampire Diaries has announced that Season 8 of the popular series will be his last season as Damon Salvatore... “Season 8 will be my last season ... She gets out of the car looking at this peculiar scene, a man lying in the middle the road drinking out of a flask … He is so distraught, missing being human, but he can tell no one his true feelings unless he compels them and kills them.” ... ET/PT on The CW....
Burned books, dirty nappies and stacks of oranges – conceptualism flew in the face of stuffy modernism, but is still often dismissed as pretentious. OliviaLaing explores a new exhibition at Tate Britain. In August 1966, a part-time tutor at St Martin’s School of Art withdrew a book from the college library ... Participants were asked to select a page, chew it to a pulp, and then spit the resultant “distillation” into a flask ... Twitter ... ....
Cahoots in London. Friday 8th April 2016. 11.00pm til 2.00am ... Venue ... As well as serving classic cocktails, black market liquor and post-war favourites are also available, in particular rum and gin based drinks are furtively knocked back from old mugs, hip flasks, vintage milk bottles and tins, finished with ingredients half-inched from nana’s pantry, picked from the allotment and foraged from the ruins ... ....
Ian Somerhalder has had his share of difficult moments on The Vampire Diaries... Surprisingly, it had nothing to do with Dobrev’s character ... She gets out of the car looking at this peculiar scene, a man lying in the middle the road drinking out of a flask… He is so distraught, missing being human, but he can tell no one his true feelings unless he compels them and kills them.” ... “Wow, two great scenes…”....
Springtime brings two blossom-filled celebrations of Dutch flower painting. In The Hague, the Mauritshuis is displaying its €6.5 million March acquisition ... In a special ensemble, Savery's painting hangs against a bright blue wall covering alongside Ambrosius Bosschaert's strikingly similar Vase of Flowers in a Window and Jacob de Gheyn's Flowers in a GlassFlask ... de Heem and later Rachel Ruysch become more natural and asymmetric ... ....
ITALIAN winemaker who put his nation’s wines on the global map. Giacomo Tachis, Italian winemaker who put his nation's wines on the global map ... Giacomo Tachis was considered by many as “the king of Italian winemakers,” taking his country's wines out of their old image as cheap vino di tavola (table wines, exemplified by the famous raffia-flasked Chianti), to become some of the best in Europe with a global reputation and demand....
Anyone in our house always knows when we're playing a From Software game ... "You died... Entering a Dark Souls game is about two loops ... To pair with these, you now have a secondary Estus flask, which replenishes focus - and as focus is now drawn on for magic attacks too, it's essential for all different sorts of builds. Deeper into the game, however, the difficulty level ramps up ... Bandai Namco ....
The following is an excerpt from You Died. The DarkSouls Companion, a book about Dark Souls and the delightfully mad people who play it by Keza MacDonald and JasonKillingsworth. You can buy it here ... The challenge is too intimidating, runs this line of reasoning, for anyone else to contemplate attempting ... are you tough enough to survive it? ... Not great ... It does 2 damage with every hit and she hasn’t found Oscar and his Estus flasks yet ... ....
(Source. Arts Council England). The free exhibition opens to visitors until Sunday 24 April 2016...Lucy + Jorge Orta are known for producing art that questions Earth's social and ecological sustainability ... Look out for customised buoyancy aids, water flasks, and individually made sleeping bags, as well as drawings and wall mounted vitrines ... OriginalDocument ... (noodl. 32927033) ....
Cynthia Rowley famously crested the fashion wave early, approached, as an 18-year-old art school student on an el train in Chicago, by a fashion buyer interested in the jacket she was wearing ... I still have it... I have a patent on our flask bangle that I used to joke about. ‘Oh, I wish I had my flask bangle at the school play (pretending to sip from a bracelet) or at this PTA meeting’ -- and then one day I was like ‘Wait a second ... ‘Whoa....
Season 2 . Episode 9 . “The ExFactor” . Aired Jan 20, 2005Related. 'The O.C.' nostalgia recap. This is what the truth feels like. 'The O.C.' nostalgia recap. The wicked witch of the West Coast. 'The O.C.' nostalgia recap. Simply having a wonderful Chrismukkahtime ... But when the awkward tension becomes unbearable at the Bait Shop, Lindsay reconsiders and tilts back the flask ... Gold ... Still, The O.C ... ....
It's believed that when important figures died in Mleiha, they took with them their most cherished treasures - pottery, swords and jewellery - for the after life. Sometimes they took their camel, horse - or even both ... "First, the pit was dug, and then the camel was guided into the grave, wearing its bridle and saddle and with a pilgrim flask, a sword and a quiver of arrows ... Mleiha suits all target audiences, he says....