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The U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran were described on Monday as a "massive, overwhelming attack" that came just hours after approval from U.S. President Donald Trump, the commander-in-chief of the military.
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The crowd got to their feet to give O'Hara a standing ovation when she was announced as the winner. Co-star Seth Rogen called O'Hara both kind and a genius in his speech while accepting the award on her behalf.
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Can AI systems reliably detect real threats? And where’s the line between safety and privacy? Following the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., questions are mounting about what artificial intelligence companies should do when users post disturbing content online.
icanhascheezburger_feed'Capitán', the Maine coon, was the king of his territory for five years, and he showed us what a true king does: he nurtures and protects, against all odds and with no excuses.
Strength is not always about how physically strong you are. Don't let those macho weirdos on social media try to convince you otherwise. It can be about the strength of your will or your ability to protect those who need help. If strength were just about how big your muscles are, them the leaders of the world would all look like Arnold Schwarzenegger (and we all know that's not true). Our stray Maine coon, 'Capitán', is showing us a different kind of strength, the purrfect kind that offers kindness instead of brute force.
He was the guardian of his neighborhood park, a tomcat no one dared mess. Neighbors noticed a new addition to their small stray cat community, a small white kitten. The kitten kept bumping into things, and didn't get surprised by sudden movements. That was when they all understood: the kitten was blind. Immediately, Capitán stepped in to become his guide. Even when the residents intervened and tried to rescue the blind baby, both of them would cry nonstop until they were safely back together. Because of Capitán, the kitten was able to survive in a world that would not have treated him kindly.
True strength is calm and collected. True strength protects those who are weaker. True strength encourages pawsitivity instead of dominance. True strength is Capitán's middle name.
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On the last Socrates joke, like a dozen people told me I should've called his nutritional supplements Himlock, and it just kills me that I didn't.
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A woman who claimed she was raped by Frank Stronach decades ago said she briefly struggled with the Canadian businessman before realizing she was overpowered and would just have to "let this happen.”
icanhascheezburger_feedAnother Sunday is here, and with it comes a purrfect collection of cat tweets!
There are a whole lot of things that we love about Sunday morning. It's a day during which we can sleep in as late as we want to. It's a day when we can forget all of our troubles. Today, we can snack as much as we want, spend as much time as we'd like with the people we love, work on our hobbies, go for a mental health walk - whatever we want. All the options are open. And yet somehow, we always find ourselves right here, wanting to do the same thing, which is start the morning with a whole bunch of pawfect cat memes.
Except that on Sunday morning, we don't bring you just any funny cat memes. Each and every single week, we bring you a brand new collection of the best cat tweets that twitter has to offer. Here, we put together the most viral cat content of the week - the funny, the cute, the ridiculous, all of it. With none of the fodder that normally surrounds it. You want twitter just for the cats, then there is no point of actually going on twitter. We do all the work for you. You simply need to scroll.
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A Winnipegger who spent years on a waitlist, and was in constant pain and unable to eat solid foods, says he's mostly back to normal after finally getting a jaw surgery procedure in Saskatchewan.
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Unpacking the seismic developments in the war between U.S., Israel and Iran and what could come next.
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The Public Service Alliance of Canada wants the federal government to suspend the early retirement program for public servants and has filed complaints to the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board. Announced in the last budget, the program is intended to help alleviate job cuts as thousands of public sector jobs are set to be eliminated by 2029.
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The four-year old girl who was injured when an adult fell on top of her on a cross-country ski trail north of Gatineau, Que., last week has died, police said Monday.
larryhammerThe Llano Estacado, John Poch
How much soil do you plow to soothe a conscience?
If you’re a staked plains, dry-land, long view man:
a sky’s worth. Some even sow the dry playa
mid-summer with sorghum, the cotton plowed under
after early hail. Thus, not every farmer keeps
an old broken homestead sacred as a graveyard.
Today, no Sharpshin on a pivot for an omen,
no stoic farmer on a turn-row changing water.
Among a little wind grit, in a grid on a grid, somewhere
like the crossroads of outer space and Earth, Texas,
a handful of ragged elms withstand a long sway
of heat and wind. These old guards of a home haunt
the field but wither even as ghosts must. Honor them
with a walk among homesick bricks, and prophesy good.
First published in Poetry issue July/August 2009. The Llano Estacado is a large mesa/plateau in west Texas and easternmost New Mexico, extending from Amarillo through Lubbock and down to Odessa. The name is often translated as “staked plain,” with a folk etymologies explaining that its dry grassland is so featureless that Native Americans supposedly put up markers to guide their way (and Coronado famously did find it confusing), but the actual origin is probably “stockaded/palisaded plain,” referring to the escarpments of its eastern and western edges. The sharp-shinned hawk is a common small hawk of the region. The elms, which are not native, would have been grown by a former homesteader by irrigation from wells.
---L.
Subject quote from Dreams, Fleetwood Mac.
prettygoodwordAnd as a short form for carbolic soap, a mildly antiseptic soap containing it, which was the first commercially available disinfectant soap. The name was coined in 1834 in German as Carbolsäure (modern German Karbolsäure), carbolic acid by the chemist, Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who first derived it, from coal tar -- thus the carbon connection.
---L.