Month: February 2020

As the energy industry faces a time of reckoning — pressured by consistently low oil prices, high operating costs and a growing sustainable investing movement — oil and gas companies are increasingly turning to Silicon Valley for help streamlining operations and boosting efficiencies. By some estimates, the addressable market for digital oil and gas solutions
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Cardigans don’t have to be stuffy. (Photo: Zara) The humble cardigan is having its moment in the spotlight—remember Katie Holmes’ viral cashmere moment? Far from stuffy, the timeless knit is a flattering and practical wardrobe staple that’s perfect for layering. Opt for a style that’s cinched at the waist for a polished look, or go cool
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Disney/20th Century Studios feature adaptation of Jack London’s Call of the Wild drew $1M last night from 6PM previews while STX’s horror sequel Brahms: The Boy II saw $375K at roughly 1,800 theaters last night. They’re the two wide entries in a post Presidents Day weekend which will see Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog the winner with $29M-$40M in weekend 2.
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Seizing the opportunity to shed its reputation of producing conservatively designed automobiles, Japanese manufacturer, Toyota took a chance on the Yamaha Motor Company’s first-ever sports car. Dubbed the “best sports car you’ve never heard of”, the 1967 Toyota 2000GT is a sleek two-passenger coupe, incorporates a two-liter inline six-cylinder engine with a cast iron block
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Brandi Carlile has been named the Record Store Day 2020 Ambassador. She’s the latest in a line of artists selected by RSD organizers to represent the annual event, which falls on April 18 this year. Past artists to be named ambassador include Pearl Jam (2019), Run the Jewels (2018), St. Vincent (2017), and Metallica (2016).
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Weather, written from the perspective of a librarian living in Brooklyn with her husband and son (and, occasionally, her struggling brother), is a quick sprint of a novel. Author Jenny Offill’s agent has said of her previous book, Dept. of Speculation, a New York Times Notable Book, “If your average book is a body, this
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French writer/director Claire Denis co-wrote and directed the acclaimed but under-seen sci-fi movie High Life, which starred Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche. The Stars at Noon definitely sounds like a departure from The Batman but it does seem to be Pattinson’s pattern to balance big movies like Twilight, Tenet, and The Batman with smaller independent
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The Charity Retail Association has launched a new safeguarding scheme for charity shops that will allow them to display licences showing customers they conform to a minimum set of requirements. The CRA, which is a membership organisation for UK charity shops, developed the Charity Retail Safeguarding Scheme in conjunction with the children’s charity Barnardo’s. Charities
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The Routeburn Track is nearly as famous as the Milford Track, but many people think that it’s the nicer one of both. The countryside got more changes and something which is very important is that there are less sand flies, as most parts of the track are above the tree line. The distances between the
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Dutch and German government scientists Sjoerd Groeskamp and Joakim Kjellsson have written preparation plans for climate change mitigation failure. Their plan involves a super-structure named – Northern European Enclosure Dam (NEED). Since it is “impossible to truly fathom the magnitude of the threat that global sea level rise poses”, the scientists proposed building NEED to
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(CNN) — Sky climbers seem ubiquitous. They top Everest, Denali, Kilimanjaro, anything with a peak, and then prattle on about it forever. Yawn. Trade in the ice, frostbite and oxygen deprivation, bold travelers, for more elemental experiences, with bizarre histories, desert bandits, bubbling fires, searing heat, deadly chemicals, eerie shapes and strange life, as well
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Statement jackets and the latest sneakers are always going to be top of men’s lust lists, but don’t let high-wattage clobber blind you to the essentials. The right pair of trousers can be the most quietly powerful item you wear, but get it wrong and you’ll instantly dull the shine of the trending pieces you
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ridiculed the historic best-picture Oscar win for South Korean film “Parasite,” telling a campaign rally he wished for the return of Hollywood classics like 1939’s “Gone with the Wind.” “Parasite,” a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, earlier this month became the
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Reading, UK. February 20, 2020 – IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, today announced that Anthony Nolan, the pioneering blood cancer charity, has implemented UD3 desktops to support an organizational-wide implementation of Windows 10 and provide rich multimedia capability for over 300 employees. This will boost collaboration and teamwork by enabling
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The government is planning a major expansion of the dormant assets scheme with the hope of raising millions of pounds for good causes. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport today launched a consultation about expanding the scheme to include insurance and pensions, investment and wealth management, and securities. Dormant assets are defined as those
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