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Skateboard

Watch How Stefan Janoski’s Stubbornness Led to Nike SB Stardom

“I’m really good at being stubborn,” said pro skateboarder Stefan Janoski as he explained the once-tumultuous amount of back and forth that it took to create his famed Nike SB sneaker. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the popular shoe, but as Nike and…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Hiroshima

Brave new worlds, on view at the Mead Art Museum

We could go on Neo-Expressionism undercutting Conceptualisms heady astringency, Neo-Conceptualism trashing Neo-Expressionisms bacchanalian excess but you get the idea. Dimensionism, a keen-eyed vision of a new-world cultural order informed by the fast-moving…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Scotland

Phil Neville ready for taste of history as England Women face Argentina

When Phil Neville took his England players to Qatar last winter, he sat them around a camp fire in the middle of the desert and related how it had felt to miss the final cut in the World Cup squads of 1998 and 2002. He made light of it, in…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Julian Assange

British Official Signs U.S. Extradition Order For Julian Assange Before Court Hearing On Friday

Britains Home Secretary Sajid Javid told BBC Radio today that he has signed the extradition order for Julian Assange, paving the way for the WikiLeaks founder to be sent to the U.S. to face charges of computer hacking and espionage. Theres an extradition req…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Obamacare

Trump’s team

Price, a Republican representative from Georgia, was confirmed as health and human services secretary Feb. 10, 2017, by a Senate vote of 52-47. He resigned on Sept. 29, 2017, amid scrutiny over his use of private planes at taxpayer expense and three days aft…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Monsanto

Charles Schiffner’s House of the Future predicted Smart Home technology more than 40 years ago

Over the past several years, home automation and smart home technology have become exceedingly popular and are now more commonplace than ever before. In the not so distant past, these concepts were hard to grasp, and felt out of reach for the average homeowne…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Electric Car

Why Chinese Electric-Car Maker NIO’s Stock Has Slumped 37% Since Earnings

Shares of Chinese electric-car maker NIO (NYSE:NIO) have fallen sharply since the company reported on May 28 that it lost $395.23 million in the first quarter of 2019. NIO's first-quarter revenue and deliveries both declined significantly from the fourth quar…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Hrant Dink

US gets new archbishop from Istanbul’s Bakırköy

pek Yezdani ISTANBUL For the first time in history, a Turkish citizen has been chosen as the archbishop of the U.S. to lead the GreekOrthodoxArchdiocese of America. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis, who was born and raised in the Bakrköy district of Istanbul, is c…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

SCI-FI & FANTASY

A BRIGHTNESS LONG AGO by Guy Gavriel Kay (Hodder £19.99, 448 pp) A BRIGHTNESS LONG AGO by Guy Gavriel Kay (Hodder £19.99, 448 pp) Prepare yourself for a heady distillation of gore and glory Italian Renaissance-style, but not quite as you know it. By making…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Skateboard

Skateboarders raise their game as Olympic qualifiers begin

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) Being an Olympic sport is starting to bring a different vibe to skateboarding. With a promise from the IOC to keep the spirit of the sport intact as it makes its debut at the Tokyo Games next year, skateboarders are raising their game…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Watch How Stefan Janoski’s Stubbornness Led to Nike SB Stardom

Brave new worlds, on view at the Mead Art Museum

Phil Neville ready for taste of history as England Women face Argentina

British Official Signs U.S. Extradition Order For Julian Assange Before Court Hearing On Friday

Trump’s team

Charles Schiffner’s House of the Future predicted Smart Home technology more than 40 years ago

Why Chinese Electric-Car Maker NIO’s Stock Has Slumped 37% Since Earnings

US gets new archbishop from Istanbul’s Bakırköy

SCI-FI & FANTASY

Skateboarders raise their game as Olympic qualifiers begin

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