Month: November 2019

As indie darlings and awards season contenders like Parasite, Jojo Rabbit, The Lighthouse, Waves and Dark Waters continue to impress, the Thanksgiving weekend has a handful of offerings at the Specialty box office. 63 Up This week will see the premiere of Michael Apted’s (Coal Miner’s Daughter, Gorillas in the Mist) 63 Up, the latest installment of
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Cover reveal: ‘Words on Fire’ Posted by Hilli, Assistant Editor on January 30, 2019 We couldn’t be more excited to reveal the cover for bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen’s upcoming middle grade historical, Words on Fire, which will be published by Scholastic on September 24, 2019! In a story that sounds perfect for fans of The
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The platform has seen a 116% increase in new user registrations, while the number of projects achieving full funding via the platform has jumped by 70% in the last year Newbury, 18th September 2019 – Not-for-profit, charity owned online charitable giving platform The Good Exchange has revealed significant growth figures as it celebrates its third
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Prefabricated houses are dynamic eco-friendly homes, pre-built in various forms such that time, manpower, money and other resources are effectively used without accumulating waste, while maximizing space. Its transferable yet stable structure, can withstand the harshest of climates. Stilt Studios, developed by Bali-based architect, Alexis Dornier, are an innovative variation of the atypical prefab house.
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The winning categories include ‘Most Innovative Recruitment Strategy’, ‘Professional Trainer of the Year’ and ‘Best Managed Training Programme: Under 50’. In addition to a team-led hat-trick, CEO, Kris Gumbrell picked up the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’. The NITA awards are held to celebrate the people and companies propelling the hospitality industry to ever higher standards. Since
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Extreme weather from the most severe El Niño on record already has affected millions of people around the world. From drought and cyclones to flooding and forest fires, its effects destroy crops and livelihoods, threaten water supplies and levy lasting hardships on millions of people, particularly the poorest households, which are vulnerable even in normal
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Wonderings: rambles through and reflections on travel… this month, James Kay considers tourism’s final frontier: space © Joe Davis / Lonely Planet Aside from a few forays to France, the furthest my maternal grandparents travelled was Pembrokeshire, Wales (repeat visits to a wind-buffeted static caravan in Croes-goch, if you must know). Just a generation later,
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A pedestrian passes in front of a Charles Schwab Corp. office building in New York. Gabriella Angotti-Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images Charles Schwab’s proposed acquisition of TD Ameritrade is stirring up worry among financial advisors. Schwab on Monday announced it would acquire TD in a $26 billion all-stock transaction. Together, the firms will serve
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Pop quiz: name one high-end designer brand that hasn’t recently added some sort of fleece jacket to their menswear roster. Struggling? That’s probably because there isn’t one. A few years back, the only way fleece would be inescapable was if you had somehow become trapped at an ornithological convention. Now it’s everywhere. In just a
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The Prince Estate and Warner Bros. Records have released a deluxe reissue of 1999, The Purple One’s legendary 1982 record. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. Today’s reissue features the first-ever remastering of the original 1999. It’s also highlighted by 35 previously unreleased tracks, like the preview track “Don’t Let Him Fool Ya” from
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Will 2020 be “the Battle of the Mayors,” in which former mayor Mike Bloomberg takes on Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be the 2020 Democratic nominee? Senior Hive correspondent Emily Jane Fox joins Nick Bilton to talk about why the Democrats hate each other, if impeachment will hurt or hinder Trump’s reelection bid, and if the
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We’re off for the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, but we’ll be back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming. In the meantime, we encourage you to get cozy and surround yourself with great reads (how about books by Native American authors). Enjoy this #BTS look at our day: via GIPHY Enter to win $250 to spend at
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Digital fundraising platform Donr streamlined the fundraising process, helping the global car rental company to achieve over half a million pounds in donations Newcastle, 28th November, 2019: Employees from over 450 Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK branches have raised almost six hundred thousand pounds for Children In Need this year, thanks in part to the bespoke solution
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Portico estate agents have commented on some key party policies and how they could affect landlords and the property market. Introducing open-ended tenancies (pledged by Labour)Robert Nichols, CEO of Portico, said: “The Labour party’s manifesto pledges radical reforms of the PRS, from creating open-ended tenancies and ending no-fault evictions, to limiting rent increases in line
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A war of words has broken out between The Challenge and the National Citizen Service Trust after the trust said it was not to blame for its former delivery partner’s collapse into administration.  Yesterday The Challenge announced it had entered into administration, owing to the ramifications of the loss of a £60m contract in August to deliver
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WASHINGTON (Nov. 12, 2019) – A bipartisan group of Congressional staffers traveled to Malawi with CARE to see how vital U.S investments in women’s and youth’s empowerment and health can equip families and communities with the tools and resources necessary to lift themselves out of poverty. The delegation included staffers from Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New
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Local youth charities and good causes encouraged to apply for grants totaling £150,000 from a North East charitable trust in latest funding round Newbury, 10th September 2019 – Not-for-profit cloud platform The Good Exchange has today announced that £150,000 of funding is available to support young people in the North East of England. County Durham
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Medium Duplex Dog House with Heater Boomer & George hayneedle.com $323.00 Humans aren’t the only ones who deserve a little pampering. If she treats her dog like her first-born child, she’s probably in the market for a swanky new dog house—and bonus points if it has heat to keep them toasty when the snow starts
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