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1 week, 5 days ago

"Booksellers save lives": James Patterson plays Santa to hundreds of bookstore employees nationwide

Salon

James Patterson has given 600 booksellers $500 holiday bonuses just in time for the holiday season. This year, bookstore staffers at stores like Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco's City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa are all at the center of Patterson's initiative, ABC News reported. I’m happy to be able to acknowledge them …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Hundreds of bookstore staffers receive holiday bonuses from author James Patterson

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco’s City Lights Books and The Nook in Cedar Falls, Iowa, are among 600 booksellers receiving $500 holiday bonuses from James Patterson, t he bestselling novelist who has been awarding independent store employees since 2015. “I’m happy to be able to acknowledge them and all their hard work …

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1 week, 6 days ago

Browns waive Kadarius Toney, place Greg Newsome II on IR

New York Times

Cleveland Browns cornerback Greg Newsome II’s season is over due to a hamstring injury, and the Browns also waived wide receiver/punt returner Kadarius Toney on Tuesday. With the Browns at 3-10 and headed toward an uncertain future in large part because they still have more than $170 million in salary-cap commitments to quarterback Deshaun Watson, both of general manager Andrew …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Gilmore Girls fan favorite couple reunites for Walmart holiday ad: ‘Full circle moment’

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. He then gifts his caffeine-obsessed wife the Walmart box, which contains a Keurig machine, and …

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3 weeks, 6 days ago

Ulysses by James Joyce: My unhinged friends are rawdogging it, and it’s tearing our book club apart.

Slate

Don Gifford’s Ulysses Annotated is 694 pages long and retails for $35 on Amazon. The conventional wisdom states that Joyce’s prose is almost unintelligible, and in order to parse it, you must purchase one ancillary Ulysses guidebooks and references. Stuart Gilbert’s James Joyce’s Ulysses: A Study, advertised as an “analytical and systematic guide” to the novel, made landfall in 1932, …

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1 month ago

The curious history of life-saving viruses

Salon

Pharmacies in the nation of Georgia have something ours don’t: vials of viruses in neat rows. “Because making potent phages took considerable time and work, the quality often suffered,” Zeldovich writes. Eastern scientists such as Alexander Sulakvelidze, one of Zeldovich’s main modern characters, who left Georgia after the fall of the Soviet Union, brought the message of phage’s potential. She …

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1 month ago

Georgia mom arrested after son, 10, walks alone less than a mile from home, netizens defend her, ‘This is absurd’

Hindustan Times

A Georgia mother was arrested on child endangerment-related charges for letting her 10-year-old son walk into town alone, less than a mile from home. Georgia mom arrested after son, 10, walks alone less than mile from home The Fannin County Sheriff’s Department arrested Patterson on October 30 after she left her son, Soren, alone at home and he wandered less …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Alex Cross: Prime Video’s adaptation of James Patterson’s books nails his appeal.

Slate

The most frustrating thing about James Patterson’s 2022 memoir, James Patterson by James Patterson, is that there’s not really enough in it about James Patterson. Cross is also the hero, played by Aldis Hodge, of a new series from Amazon Prime Video, the third shot at bringing the Washington psychologist and detective to the screen, after he was played by …

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1 month, 1 week ago

A Mom Was Arrested After Her 11-Year-Old Walked Into Town Alone. She Says They Did Nothing Wrong.

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING A Georgia mother was arrested last month after her 11-year-old walked about a mile from their home to a town while she was at an appointment for her other child. Eventually, the deputy called Patterson and told her that her son was found walking alone, but the incident report noted that she “seemed very unsurprised or concerned …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Jets could have their 4th kicker in 4 games after losing Shrader to the Chiefs

Associated Press

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — The New York Jets’ kicking carousel is spinning again. That’s because Spencer Shrader, who made both of his field-goal attempts last week in his New York debut, was signed by Kansas City off the Jets’ practice squad Thursday, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press. Carlson, who was signed to the Jets’ practice …

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1 month, 1 week ago

North Texas leads Minnesota most of the way, holds off Golden Gophers 54-51 to move to 3-0

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! MINNEAPOLIS — Rondel Walker scored 14 points and undefeated North Texas led for most of the way and held off Minnesota for a 54-51 victory on Wednesday night. Isaac Asuma blocked Brenen Lorient’s layup attempt on the ensuing possession, but Lu’Cye Patterson’s 3-point shot hit …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Cast of TV series Cross discuss fresh take on James Patterson crime thriller novels and earlier movies

ABC

When ABC News caught up with the cast and crew of Cross, Aldis Hodge who plays the titular decorated homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross was quick to point out that the new TV series is nothing like the two movies starring Morgan Freeman or the one starring Tyler Perry, saying he didn't draw from them to portray his …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Obituary: U.S. congressman, Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson left indelible mark

LA Times

Attorney and former U.S. Congressman Jerry Patterson — a career Democrat who built political inroads in staunchly conservative Orange County in the 1970s and ’80s and served locally as mayor of Santa Ana — died Friday at his Fountain Valley home. Congressman Jerry Patterson served on the Coast Community College District from 1996 until his death on Friday. He was …

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1 month, 1 week ago

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson's "Dark Age"

Salon

“All men are created equal,” wrote slaveholder Thomas Jefferson, in words that have been a source of consternation ever since. Roy focuses in particular on how these Black writers responded to the experience of the Middle Passage — the traumatic journey from Africa to America made by newly enslaved people — which he describes as “cheating social death,” and on …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Smriti Mandhana fails to impress on debut for Adelaide Strikers in WBBL

India Today

Star India cricketer Smriti Mandhana failed to impress on her debut for the Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League 2024. "A big welcome and congratulations to Smriti Mandhana for making her debut with your Adelaide Strikers! Mandhana debuts for Strikers A big welcome and congratulations to Smriti Mandhana for making her debut with your Adelaide Strikers! ð ð …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Rebecca Patterson, Former Bridgewater Associates

Bloomberg

00:00 I think our bond market to your point $27 trillion is too big for even the biggest traders out there to move the market. I mean, it's hard to know exactly to quantify it, but I do think you can say there's some probability of a Trump victory being priced into markets here with the dollar and with Treasuries. …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

California regulators are pressed to come clean on gasoline prices

LA Times

California regulators are poised to vote Friday on a measure intended to accelerate the state’s transition away from fossil fuels by imposing tougher carbon-reduction requirements for gasoline and diesel. She wants “an independent review to ensure transparency and accountability in the regulatory process.” On Friday, the air board will vote on tighter carbon-reduction rules that, according to the board’s own …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

SHOW: Bloomberg Open Interest 11/05/2024

Bloomberg

00:00 Today is the day. It'll get extended to late spring or summer, but that's going to be a lever in this political fight that I'm afraid we're also going to be facing next year, whoever wins. I mean, and as one of your previous guest said, we don't know for what's actually going to pass. So even when the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Los votantes latinos de California se están inclinando por los republicanos. Por qué es positivo | Opinión

LA Times

Víctor Roche, residente de Palmdale, deposita su voto en una urna en el parque Domenic Massari en Palmdale. El consultor político Mike Madrid, en su libro “El siglo latino: cómo la minoría más grande de Estados Unidos está transformando la democracia”, expone el argumento de que los demócratas han ignorado al votante latino. Cuando se les preguntó si alguien del …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Thousand Oaks nursing home resident arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate

LA Times

The badge of the sheriff of Ventura County, where resident Thomas Buckley, 58, was arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate. A resident of a Thousand Oaks nursing home has been arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies responded at 4:40 a.m. Friday to a call from the Silverado memory care facility on …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Nathan McSweeney top scores for Australia A against India A

ABC

Nathan McSweeney has become the latest Australian Test hopeful to falter in his push for the top-order vacancy, denied a half-century in Australia A's first match with India A. Konstas, Bancroft, Harris fail for Australia A with a Test opening spot up for grabs Photo shows Marcus Harris and Cameron Bancroft running between wickets while out batting Test hopefuls Sam …

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2 months ago

Pistons conversation: What to expect in Detroit and how we’ll cover this team

New York Times

Hunter Patterson, news editor by day and part-time Sacramento Kings coverage-provider by night, is stepping into a new role this season as a staff writer for The Athletic covering the Detroit Pistons, filling the shoes of James L. Edwards III. Edwards and Patterson recently connected about the latter’s transition to the Pistons, how he plans to cover the team and …

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2 months, 1 week ago

U.S. Supreme Court considers Biden administration regulation of ‘ghost guns’

Raw Story

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court justices Tuesday grappled with whether the Biden administration exceeded its authority when it set regulations for kits that can be assembled into untraceable firearms, and a majority of justices seemed somewhat skeptical the rule was an overreach. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that there has been an “explosion in crimes” with untraceable guns …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Did Giants hit home run with 2024 draft class? It’s early, but returns are promising

New York Times

Joe Schoen could not have scripted it any better. Of course, the New York Giants general manager would have preferred his star rookie, Malik Nabers, not miss Sunday’s road game against the Seattle Seahawks with a concussion, but having the rest of the rookies from his 2024 NFL Draft class step up in a momentous win was a pretty good …

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"Booksellers save lives": James Patterson plays Santa to hundreds of bookstore employees nationwide

Hundreds of bookstore staffers receive holiday bonuses from author James Patterson

Browns waive Kadarius Toney, place Greg Newsome II on IR

Gilmore Girls fan favorite couple reunites for Walmart holiday ad: ‘Full circle moment’

Ulysses by James Joyce: My unhinged friends are rawdogging it, and it’s tearing our book club apart.

The curious history of life-saving viruses

Georgia mom arrested after son, 10, walks alone less than a mile from home, netizens defend her, ‘This is absurd’

Alex Cross: Prime Video’s adaptation of James Patterson’s books nails his appeal.

A Mom Was Arrested After Her 11-Year-Old Walked Into Town Alone. She Says They Did Nothing Wrong.

Jets could have their 4th kicker in 4 games after losing Shrader to the Chiefs

North Texas leads Minnesota most of the way, holds off Golden Gophers 54-51 to move to 3-0

Cast of TV series Cross discuss fresh take on James Patterson crime thriller novels and earlier movies

Obituary: U.S. congressman, Santa Ana Mayor Jerry Patterson left indelible mark

How pioneering Black liberals battled Thomas Jefferson's "Dark Age"

Smriti Mandhana fails to impress on debut for Adelaide Strikers in WBBL

Rebecca Patterson, Former Bridgewater Associates

California regulators are pressed to come clean on gasoline prices

SHOW: Bloomberg Open Interest 11/05/2024

Los votantes latinos de California se están inclinando por los republicanos. Por qué es positivo | Opinión

Thousand Oaks nursing home resident arrested on suspicion of killing his roommate

Nathan McSweeney top scores for Australia A against India A

Pistons conversation: What to expect in Detroit and how we’ll cover this team

U.S. Supreme Court considers Biden administration regulation of ‘ghost guns’

Did Giants hit home run with 2024 draft class? It’s early, but returns are promising