UN blames Syrian forces for shelling Houla

Source: Sify

The U.N. Security Council on Sunday blamed the Syrian government for attacking residential areas of the town of Houla with artillery and tank shelling and also condemned the close-range killings of civilians there — but avoided say ...
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Source: Vanity Fair

Everything else may be falling to pieces, but we are fortunate to be living in the golden age of field guides, and in the weekend edition of the Wall Street Journal Laura Jacobs (a Vanity Fair contributor and the mother of our two ocicats) examines ...
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Guthrie leaving mark at Illinois

Source: Chicago Tribune

It wasn't long after Zach Guthrie discovered he liked golf that his younger brother decided he wanted to tag along. And it wasn't much longer until Luke Guthrie was hanging around Westview Golf Course in Quin ...
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UN confirms heavy artillery, tank shells used in Houla

Source: Stuff.co.nz

Syria's government denies killing at least 109 people in Houla as protesters take to the streets and the international community condemns rising violence. UN observers in Syria have confirmed that artillery and tank shells were fired at a reside ...
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'The Dead Eight' by Carlo Gébler

Source: Reading Matters

Fiction - Kindle edition; New Island Books; 404 pages; 2011. Don't be fooled by the menacing image on the cover of this book: this is not hardboiled noir, as I had mistakenly thought, but historical fiction o ...
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TV: The Simpsons (Classic): “New Kid On The Block”

Source: The A.V. Club

I will be the first to concede that my writeups for the fourth season of The Simpsons have so far been suspiciously devoid of criticism. That is for a very good reason: they don’t give writers, or slobbering fanboys, as i ...
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Small is Beautiful: Hunters and Gamblers by Ryan Ridge

Source: Orange County Weekly

Happily, I have found them all, so apologies to Ridge, who is a grad of the UC Irvine Creative Writing MFA, lives in Long Beach and, I hope, is a patient, forgiving guy. The collection, from Dark Sky Books, arrived in July of ...
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Bright idea puts Kiwi farmer on the global map

Source: Stuff.co.nz

X MARKS THE SPOT: Colin Brown's TracMap can tell you exactly where all the fertiliser has been spread, and a lot more besides. Getting your car serviced isn't normally a life changing experience, but for Colin Brown the 2005 routine check on his M ...
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Chicago man charged with murders of 2 roommates

Source: Belleville News-Democrat

Authorities say a 52-year-old Chicago man has been charged in the shooting deaths of his two roommates. Michael Myrieckes faces first-degree murder charges in the deaths of 49-year-old Lori Inman and 68-year-old Avelino Sanchez. The ...
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