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"REPUBLICANS MUST KILL THIS BILL": Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom bill
1 month ago

"REPUBLICANS MUST KILL THIS BILL": Trump orders GOP to snuff out press freedom bill

Salon  

Donald Trump is asking Republicans in the Senate to squash a bill that would protect journalists from being forced to reveal their sources. The Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act would make a current Department of Justice rule barring prosecutors from compelling the release of journalists' sources into federal law. Currently held up in the Senate, the bill came …

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Mohali roads snuff out another life, this time a BTech student
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Mohali roads snuff out another life, this time a BTech student

Hindustan Times  

A 20-year-old motorcyclist was crushed under a truck while his friend was injured in the accident that took place on the Airport Road near Bathlana village on Sunday. “When we reached Bathlana village, a rashly driven truck, bearing a Punjab registration number, hit their bike following which my son and his friend fell on the road. Rights panel takes cognisance …

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BMW, Merc snuff out two lives in Mohali’s Zirakpur
6 months, 3 weeks ago

BMW, Merc snuff out two lives in Mohali’s Zirakpur

Hindustan Times  

Two luxury cars snuffed out two precious lives in separate accidents in Zirakpur on Tuesday night. In another accident, an international kabaddi player died after his Mahindra Scorpio collided with a Honda Amaze taxi near Amity School in Sector 79 at 11.25 pm on Wednesday. In the first case, an 18-year-old boy, riding a motorcycle with two friends, was killed …

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Final Four serves up the usual menu of fun stories -- and UConn looks to snuff out all of them
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Final Four serves up the usual menu of fun stories -- and UConn looks to snuff out all of them

Associated Press  

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Final Four this week delivers the last entry in college basketball’s heartwarming yearbook, an annual assortment of legendary longshots, coaches looking for hugs and magic oozing from every corner of the bracket. —Alabama, which plays UConn on Saturday, is in the program’s first Final Four after a complete rebuild of a roster that was supposed to …

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Young artist helps further inner painting tradition
9 months, 4 weeks ago

Young artist helps further inner painting tradition

China Daily  

Li Huitong exchanges insights into inner painting with daughter Li Shaoyue in Zibo, Shandong province, on Jan 24. "I also particularly wanted to inherit his profession because I knew that fewer young people were continuing to learn inner painting, and if it were to be discontinued here, it would be a pity." Zhang Luhua, a fourth-generation inheritor of the Lu …

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Why are Israeli soldiers sharing snuff videos from their genocide in Gaza?
11 months ago

Why are Israeli soldiers sharing snuff videos from their genocide in Gaza?

Al Jazeera  

Decades of impunity, not only for the Israeli regime but also for Israeli individuals guilty of war crimes, has led us to this point. Since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza in October, Israeli soldiers have been posting what can only be described as snuff videos on social media platforms. Other videos show Israeli soldiers setting alight Palestinian food …

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Madras Day | Made in Madras
1 year, 4 months ago

Madras Day | Made in Madras

The Hindu  

Be it Milagutawny soup, Madras terrace, Madras checks, Madras gaana or Madras baashai, this folder takes you through everything that originated in Madras also known as Chennai, and travelled across India and around the world. Madras Curry Powder Long before Indian companies ventured out to foreign shores, one Indian brand was already truly a global brand. The brand name was …

World Chennai Powder Saidapet Madras Checks Madras Curry Madras Baashai
In the future, we could snuff out cyclones. But weather control comes with new risks
1 year, 4 months ago

In the future, we could snuff out cyclones. But weather control comes with new risks

ABC  

Right now, people in coastal China are fleeing successive typhoons. During Project STORMFURY, planes flew high above cyclones out at sea and sprayed them with silver iodide, a chemical which could encourage water droplets to clump together and fall as rain. Other research has found aerosols could reduce cyclone intensity while boosting rainfall on the rotating outer edges of cyclones. …

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Bottling up their talent
1 year, 5 months ago

Bottling up their talent

China Daily  

Li Shaoyue's painted snuff bottles feature themes such as human images and landscapes. CHINA DAILY With surgical precision artist produces fantastic images inside a tiny vial, Yang Feiyue reports. Seen from afar, Li Shaoyue wields a thin bamboo stick up and down inside a tiny glass vessel secured steadily in her left hand, as if trying to fish something out …

Art Bottle Interior Painting
Bottling up their talent
1 year, 5 months ago

Bottling up their talent

China Daily  

Evolution of the craft The development of snuff bottles was closely related to interior painting, says Zhang Guangqing, a national arts and crafts master. "Interior painting once relied on a bamboo brush dipped in pigments, making it difficult to control the thickness of lines and variations in solidity," Zhang says. Li was exposed to the charm of the art since …

Art Chinese Zhang Wang Her Father Snuff Bottles Interior Painting
Bottling up their talent
1 year, 5 months ago

Bottling up their talent

China Daily  

Li Shaoyue's painted snuff bottles feature themes such as human images and landscapes. CHINA DAILY Evolution of the craft The development of snuff bottles was closely related to interior painting, says Zhang Guangqing, a national arts and crafts master. But a surprising turn of events happened when the snuff bottles gradually lost their practical value. The aristocrats started to see …

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Bottling up their talent
1 year, 5 months ago

Bottling up their talent

China Daily  

Li Shaoyue's painted snuff bottles feature themes such as human images and landscapes. CHINA DAILY The craft requires artists to use a special bamboo pen with a hook-tipped brush inside a glass container that usually features a very small opening. "The inner wall of those containers is often frosted, providing a rough surface for coloring, as a smooth surface cannot …

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11 films they tried to bury: from dinner with DiCaprio to Johnny Depp’s snuff story
1 year, 5 months ago

11 films they tried to bury: from dinner with DiCaprio to Johnny Depp’s snuff story

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In this vein, The Independent has compiled a list of 11 …

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Traditional handicrafts thrive in Licheng district
2 years, 7 months ago

Traditional handicrafts thrive in Licheng district

China Daily  

Licheng district in Jinan, Shandong province is promoting the preservation of its traditional handicrafts by integrating with local tourism, cultural creative product development, intangible heritage cultural workshops, and rural vitalization. The district is rich in cultural resources, especially traditional handcrafts and intangible cultural heritages such as the gourd pyrography technique, the pottery seal making technique, and the traditional snuff processing …

Cultural Chinese District Shandong Seal Pottery Gourd
Jinan artist draws portraits of space heroes inside snuff bottle
2 years, 8 months ago

Jinan artist draws portraits of space heroes inside snuff bottle

China Daily  

Wang Yanbao, an inheritor of the snuff bottle painting technique, created an artwork based on the three Shenzhou XIII mission crew members. Wang spent 15 days sketching the portraits of the three space heroes using a curved hook pen in a snuff bottle with its mouth's diameter measuring just 12 millimeters. A snuff bottle painting created by Wang Yanbao features …

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Jinan artist draws portraits of space heroes inside snuff bottle
2 years, 8 months ago

Jinan artist draws portraits of space heroes inside snuff bottle

China Daily  

Wang Yanbao, an inheritor of the snuff bottle painting technique, created an artwork based on the three Shenzhou XIII mission crew members. Wang spent 15 days sketching the portraits of the three space heroes using a curved hook pen in a snuff bottle with its mouth's diameter measuring just 12 millimeters. A snuff bottle painting created by Wang Yanbao features …

Wang Jinan Snuff Wang Yanbao Snuff Bottle Bottle Painting
LAUSD’s health screening system fails on first day but can’t snuff out excitement
3 years, 4 months ago

LAUSD’s health screening system fails on first day but can’t snuff out excitement

LA Times  

Hundreds of thousands of Los Angeles-area students started school Monday, a massive return to in-person education that was marked by pandemic-driven anxiety, a sense of excitement and early-morning frustration over the failure of the district’s health screening system, which caused long waits to enter campuses. “You’ve got the normal chaos of the first day of school, with the added COVID …

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How easy would it be to snuff out humanity this century?
3 years, 8 months ago

How easy would it be to snuff out humanity this century?

The Independent  

Make no mistake, Covid-19 should not have struck us so unawares. open image in gallery Climate change is forcing polar bears to feed at rubbish dumps But – to insert a bit of good cheer – there’s a win-win roadmap to a low-carbon future. If we’re sentenced to a term in prison, recommended for surgery, or even given a poor …

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The AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff
4 years ago

The AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff

Wired  

The makers of a third coronavirus vaccine announced positive results in clinical trials on Monday, setting off yet another round of excited news reports. Instead, Oxford-AstraZeneca’s data came out of two separate studies: one in the UK that began in May, and another in Brazil, which got started at the end of June. These two studies were substantially different from …

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Xi challenges Biden with move to snuff out Hong Kong dissent
4 years, 1 month ago

Xi challenges Biden with move to snuff out Hong Kong dissent

Live Mint  

President Xi Jinping effectively neutered the most democratic institution under China’s rule, sending a message to Joe Biden that no amount of pressure will prompt him to tolerate dissent against the Communist Party. The NPC’s move “is conducive to safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development interests and Hong Hong’s long-term stability, security and prosperity,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told …

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