Bethany Joy Lenz is opening up about a heartbreaking experience in her personal life in her upcoming memoir. However, there are some personal situations she’s keeping mum about.The actress starred as Haley James-Scott on the beloved teen drama “One Tree Hill” from 2003 until 2012. The friendships between the cast members of “One Tree Hill” have remained tight both publicly and privately since the show wrapped 12 years ago; the cast regularly attends fan conventions around the show, often held in North Carolina, where the show took place.The friendship between the three central female stars has also endured the test…
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NATURAL SYSTEM “IN PERIL” The delegates have their work cut out for them. There are just five years left to achieve the UN goal of placing 30 per cent of land and sea areas under protection by 2030. So far, only 29 of 196 countries signed up to the UN biodiversity convention have submitted national strategies by the COP16 deadline, and funding is falling far short. A report on Thursday by a group of non-governmental organisations revealed that just 2.8 per cent of the world’s oceans were protected “effectively”. At current rates, the figure would not reach 10 per cent…
Maduro government announces detention of five foreigners, including three US citizens, amid post-election crackdown.The administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced the arrest of five foreigners suspected of antigovernment activity, as part of an ongoing crackdown after the country’s contested presidential election. Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Thursday that three people from the United States, one from Bolivia and one from Peru had been detained for alleged “terror” activities, without offering details. “The detained foreigners speak Spanish perfectly, a necessary requirement for them to involve themselves in communities,” Cabello said on state television, adding that one of those…
Mamadi Diakite’s shot to force overtime against Purdue in the 2019 Elite Eight — set up by a wacky series of bounces and a heads-up pass following a missed free throw — is the difference between Bennett being known as a college basketball legend and one of the sport’s most notorious chokers. The Cavaliers ultimately defeated the Boilermakers and went on to win the national championship the following week. But had Diakite missed that shot, Bennett’s career arc would’ve been forever altered.Instead of being remembered as a champion, Bennett would be remembered for UVA’s historic loss the previous year to…
Netflix posted its third-quarter earnings on Thursday and beat Wall Street predictions for both subscribers added and overall revenue. Meanwhile, analysts forecast that the streaming giant will soon raise its prices.Netflix’s revenue for the third quarter was $9.825 billion, slightly more than the $9.769 billion analysts had predicted. The company also added 5.1 million subscribers, well over the 4 million additional users investors expected.”Engagement, our best proxy for member happiness, remains healthy,” the report noted. “Through the first three quarters of 2024, view hours per member amongst owner households (the clearest view of engagement trends post the introduction of paid…
Non-fiction publishing is failing its readers. It is pumping out books with supposedly game-changing ideas, without bothering to ensure basic accuracy. These tomes have the appearance of academic work, but none of the rigour. My frustration about this has been building for years and finally exploded when I reviewed Yuval Noah Harari’s new book Nexus, which is full of ill-supported nonsense, including a hopelessly incoherent definition of the concept of information. Consider Johann Hari: formerly a journalist at The Independent, he was caught plagiarising and resigned. He has since produced a string of unreliable books about medical controversies. Lost Connections……
An execution in Texas scheduled for Thursday evening involving the nation’s first person to be executed for a “shaken baby” death appeared in limbo amid a legal showdown.Robert Roberson, 57, was scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. local time at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville.But with only hours to spare, Judge Jessica Mangrum in Travis County granted a temporary injunction in favor of state lawmakers who took the unusual step late Wednesday of issuing a subpoena for Roberson to testify at a hearing next week about his case — a move meant to obstruct Thursday’s execution.The…
Getty ImagesIceland is one of the world’s most volcanically active placesI’m in one of the world’s volcanic hotspots, northeast Iceland, near the Krafla volcano.A short distance away I can see the rim of the volcano’s crater lake, while to the south steam vents and mud pools bubble away.Krafla has erupted around 30 times in the last 1,000 years, and most recently in the mid-1980s.Bjorn Por Guðmundsson leads me to a grassy hillside. He is running a team of international scientists who plan to drill into Krafla’s magma.“We’re standing on the spot where we are going to drill,” he says.The Krafla…
ASIA: The major Asian stock markets had a mixed day today: • NIKKEI 225 decreased 269.11 points or -0.69% to 38,911.19 • Shanghai decreased 33.56 points or -1.05% to 3,169.38 • Hang Seng decreased 207.75 points or -1.02% to 20,079.10 • ASX 200 increased 71.20 points or 0.86% to 8,355.90 • SENSEX decreased 494.75 points or -0.61% to 81,006.61 • Nifty50 decreased 221.45 points or -0.89% to 24,749.85 The major Asian currency markets had a mixed day today: • AUDUSD increased 0.00297 or 0.45% to 0.66943 • NZDUSD decreased 0.00007 or -0.01% to 0.60574 • USDJPY increased 0.682 or 0.46%…
Credit: Lorie Shaull, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A newly released analysis of fiscal policy ranked all 50 states with Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ state coming in first and Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in last. The libertarian Cato Institute released the report, which graded states by spending, revenue and taxes. The top ten states in the rankings starting at the top are Iowa, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, South Dakota, Montana, Hawaii, Georgia, Idaho, and Vermont. The bottom ten states, according to the analysis, are New Mexico, Missouri, Oregon, Michigan, Wisconsin, Delaware, Washington, Maine, New York…