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New Zealand director Taika Waititi finds success with 'Wilderpeople'

Edit The Oklahoman 02 Jul 2016
Taika Waititi demures when he’s called New Zealand’s most famous film director of the moment. Never mind that his new comedy, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, a film-festival favorite opening in North Texas on July 8, is the highest-grossing local film in his homeland ever ... “I did think people would really enjoy it ... Going for laughs ... For Ragnarok, Waititi cast African-American actress Tessa Thompson (Creed, Dear White People) to play Valkyrie....

Tessa Webb 'born to run'

Edit NZ Herald 01 Jul 2016
Tessa Webb stormed to an eye-catching victory in the senior girls' race at the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Cross Country Championships in Rotorua earlier this month. Steve Landells caught up the an emerging athlete to find out... ....

Tessa Hill Wants to Save the Bivalves

Edit The Scientist 01 Jul 2016
Growing up on the Pacific coast, Tessa Hill developed a fascination with the sea and its wildlife. In the late ’90s, eager to see another part of the country—and another ocean—she moved to Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida, to study marine science. There, she became interested in the relationship between oceans and environmental change ... T.M ... (Cited 80 times) B ... (Cited 115 times) L ... (Cited 2 times) ....

The Latest: Evans, Torres pay visit to swim trials

Edit Colorado Springs Gazette 01 Jul 2016
The Latest on the Olympics ahead of the Rio Games (all times local to Rio).. ___. 12.30 a.m. Janet Evans and Dara Torres are visiting the U.S. Olympic swimming trials with their young daughters in tow ... Torres and her 10-year-old daughter Tessa caught the action a night earlier when Michael Phelps joined Torres as a five-time Olympian. The young girls are both swimmers; Sydney in Orange County, California, and Tessa in the Boston area ... __ ... ....

Big dysfunction in 'Big Sky'

Edit The Examiner 01 Jul 2016
Jack is the over-achieving Wall Street kind of husband who thinks life is meaningful when he can provide a life of luxury for his wife and daughter, Tessa (Emily Robinson) ... Daughter, Tessa also has her own agenda with a young Indian, Catoni, who is a porter in their apartment building in New York ... Tessa arrives back at the ranch drunk and bruised....

Oysters At Risk

Edit The Scientist 01 Jul 2016
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Athletics: Secondary Schools Cross Country winner born to run

Edit NZ Herald 01 Jul 2016
Tessa Webb stormed to an eye-catching victory in the senior girls' race at the New Zealand Secondary Schools' Cross Country Championships in Rotorua earlier this month. Steve Landells caught up the an emerging athlete to find out... ....

The Earth's Changing Seas

Edit The Scientist 01 Jul 2016
July always puts me in mind of the doo wop refrain. Summertime, summertime, sum sum summertime (my favorite version) ... Much more is known about their denizens, thanks to marine scientists and advances in research technology ... Scientist to Watch Tessa Hill, of the University of California, Irvine, plots the corrosive effects of ocean acidification on mussels growing in the lab or in tidal pools on California’s coast....

Oscars Create Diversity With New Invites And Rule Changes

Edit Inquisitr 01 Jul 2016
Are the Oscars really making #OscarsSoWhite a thing of the past? It looks like they might be. As we know, the Academy Awards saw major backlash as they failed to nominate people of color for two years in a row in any major acting categories, despite there being plenty of options in both years ... Some stars even went on to boycotting the ceremony ... Oscars ... Vivica A ... Joe ... Tessa Thompson – “Creed,” “Dear White People”....

NSU awards WolfPACT Scholarships for 2016-17 (Northern State University)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jul 2016
(Source. Northern State University). ABERDEEN, S.D. - Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D., announces its WolfPACT Scholarship winners for 2016-17. The WolfPACT is the largest guaranteed, four-year scholarship in South Dakota. Students entering their freshman year at NSU are eligible for various funding amounts based on their ACT scores. (Details ... Tessa Buchanan, Irene High School; Russell and Susan Buchanan; history education....

World Pair Champions Duhamel and Radford headline 2016 Skate Canada International in Mississauga (Skate Canada)

Edit Public Technologies 30 Jun 2016
(Source. Skate Canada). ISU announces line-up for Grand Prix events. OTTAWA, ON ... Fans will also get to witness the homecoming of Olympic ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir; they will make their return to competition after taking a two-year hiatus ... TICKETS ON SALE NOW ... MEN'S ... LADIES ... Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN) ... Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier, Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam, Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir ... Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir....

Britain offers perfect conditions for growing tea leaves

Edit The Daily Mail 30 Jun 2016
Writer Tessa Cunningham is growing her very own tea bush. She grows, plucks, rolls and dries the tea leaves herself. Homegrown tea is gaining in popularity, with sales of tea bushes rocketing ... ....

Oscars announce new members added to improve diversity

Edit Atlanta Journal 30 Jun 2016
Maybe #OscarsSoWhite won't trend for a third year in a row. More than 600 new voting members, many of them artists of color, have been added to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' roster ... New members include Ice Cube, whose "Straight Outta Compton" was among the projects and casts seen as snubbed last go-round; Tessa Thompson and her "Creed" co-star Michael B ... ....
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