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1 month, 1 week ago

‘Sorgavaasal’ movie review: RJ Balaji’s ambitious crime drama withers in effect

In the latest RJ Balaji-starrer Sorgavaasal, an analogy likening a prison to hell reminded me of a popular quote: “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.” Debutant director Sidharth Vishwanath’s meticulously written and assembled crime drama wishes to be a clinical exploration of the existential, moral and social conditions this quote speaks of. …

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3 months ago

Yanchep and Two Rocks residents call for improved health services, with some travelling vast distances for cancer treatment

ABC

Yanchep local Pauline Wimsett has been fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer since 2003. Two Rocks Yanchep Assisted Cancer Travels provides an important service for cancer patients. As its name suggests, Two Rocks Yanchep Assisted Cancer Travels provides an important service for cancer patients needing to get to Perth for treatment. Providing 'a listening ear' In the meantime, TRYACT …

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4 months ago

Fears students will suffer as burnout contributes to 'unprecedented' teacher shortages

ABC

After 25 years of teaching across several Perth and country schools, both public and private, the workload and pressure became too much for Hayley Gale in the middle of last year. Scale of shortages 'unprecedented' Dr Karnovsky has noticed a direct correlation between the current teacher shortages and increasing burnout — something he predicts "will only get worse". Shortages nationwide …

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9 months ago

US woman seeks Facebook's help to find husband who ghosted her a year back, within a day netizens track him down

Hindustan Times

Ashley McGuire, a single mother, was left in the lurch when her husband, Charles Withers, disappeared during her pregnancy with their youngest child. According “I'm trying to track him down to get his signature on a few papers so I can finally close this chapter and move on with my life,” Ashley wrote. Soon after he was found Ashley wrote …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

UNC found the fight, and the set play, to beat Michigan State and make Sweet 16

New York Times

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hubert Davis was furious. As Ingram said, invoking the program’s most famous player: “We took it personal.” What ensued is the stuff of March Madness lore, the single-game swings you look back on as turning points in a title run — and if this Tar Heel team, which ultimately won 85-69 to advance to the Sweet 16, …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Bacot, Withers help No. 1 seed North Carolina beat No. 16 seed Wagner in March Madness

Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Elliot Cadeau saw Jae’Lyn Withers running the court and sent a lob his way in transition. That helped the Tar Heels finish the game shooting 55% from the field against a short-handed upstart aiming to pull off only the third opening-round takedown of a 1-seed in March Madness history. typically challenges us before the game and sometimes …

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11 months, 1 week ago

After TMC, AAP & SP, now seat-sharing tensions emerge between DMK-Congress as INDI Alliance withers

Op India

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections are fast approaching and the INDI Alliance is withering away just as fast. A minister of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government in Tamil Nadu took a dig at the Congress saying that the party was running only to get the seats for its own in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Calling the Congress party “big …

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1 year, 1 month ago

John Hancock, Bianca Rinehart maintain united front against mother Gina Rinehart over Hope Downs riches

ABC

Gina Rinehart's two oldest children appeared in WA's Supreme Court together for the second day as they continue their very public legal feud with their mother over mining riches they claim their grandfather left for them. Key points: John Hancock and Bianca Rinehart say they are entitled to riches from the Hope Downs mines They say their grandfather Lang Hancock …

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1 year, 2 months ago

‘Tiger Nageswara Rao’ movie review: Director Vamsee’s biopic-style film starring Ravi Teja begins with promise and withers into an overdrawn, generic tale

The Hindu

When director Vamsee’s ambitiously mounted Telugu film Tiger Nageswara Rao begins with a note ‘inspired from true rumours’ and a voiceover informs us that it is a tale of blood and tears, it indicates the tone of the film. Ravi Teja plays the title character inspired by the real-life dacoit of Stuartpuram in Andhra Pradesh, Nageswara Rao who earned the …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Biden, alone at the top table as the UN withers

Hindustan Times

Come September, come the gridlock to Manhattan as leaders gather for the UN General Assembly. And Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, took the spotlight, warning that Russia’s invasion threatened all: “Many seats in the General Assembly Hall may become empty if Russia succeeds.” Granted, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin rarely attend the talkfest. America regards the smaller G7 group of industrialised …

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1 year, 4 months ago

As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power

Associated Press

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Douglas Guzmán’s TikTok feed was dotted with workout routines and videos showcasing his favorite parts of his country. Such governments use influencers because their content “doesn’t look as much like propaganda and is more about shaping the narrative in more subtle ways.” Under Bukele, El Salvador constructed a sophisticated communications machine. With it, an “entire …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops

The Hindu

The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks across dry farmland that should be green and lush this time of year. “This year’s drought was extreme,” the agricultural engineer said this week at the farm where he works in Urquiza, a town about 230 kilometers from Argentina’s capital. “There are no words to describe the impact of a campaign marked by …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops

Associated Press

URQUIZA, Argentina — The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks across dry farmland that should be green and lush this time of year. “This year’s drought was extreme,” the agricultural engineer said this week at the farm where he works in Urquiza, a town about 230 kilometers from Argentina’s capital. “There are no words to describe the impact of a …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Gangs take control of Haiti as democracy withers

LA Times

Jimmy Cherizier, the leader of the “G9 Family and Allies” gang, talks with members of his gang while taking a ride on the back of a motorcycle in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday. Internationally, he’s known as Haiti’s most powerful and feared gang leader, sanctioned by the United Nations for “serious human rights abuses,” and the man behind a fuel blockade …

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1 year, 11 months ago

In Haiti, gangs take control as democracy withers

Associated Press

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Jimmy Cherizier zips through Haiti’s capital on the back of a motorcycle, flanked by young men wielding black and leopard print masks and automatic weapons. Internationally, he’s known as Haiti’s most powerful and feared gang leader, sanctioned by the United Nations for “serious human rights abuses,” and the man behind a fuel blockade that brought the Caribbean …

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2 years, 8 months ago

WATCH: Punjab Kings pacer Kagiso Rabada dedicates song to ex-Proteas teammate, bowls out fans with his voice

Hindustan Times

Punjab Kings speedster Kagiso Rabada was superb with the ball in the Indian Premier League clash against Mumbai Indians on Wednesday evening. Kagiso Rabada sings a verse from Bill Withers’ – Ain’t No Sunshine His efforts along with Arshdeep Singh helped Punjab trump Mumbai by 12 runs, which was the latter's fifth defeat of the season. The incident took place …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Call for mandatory COVID-19 face mask rules to be scrapped as Perth's CBD withers

ABC

COVID-19 restrictions may have been eased, but after almost a month of heightened restrictions, dozens of shops in Perth's city centre remain empty or shuttered, and crowds on the streets are thin. Key points: Many city employees are choosing to work from home New, softer restrictions are not tipped by some to make a big difference Some businesses say the …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Story of the song: Ain’t no Sunshine by Bill Withers

The Independent

At 32, Bill Withers, originally from rural Slab Fork, West Virginia, was something of a latecomer to a world dominated by twentysomething performers. It’s very difficult to make things simple and understandable.” His early demo bounced around various labels in the late Sixties, until it reached the ears of the Stax keyboard player and producer, Booker T Jones. It didn’t …

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3 years, 1 month ago

Highest-earning MP starts new £400,000-a-year job outside parliament

The Independent

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former attorney general Sir Geoffrey Cox has declared a new contract …

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3 years, 4 months ago

In ‘COVID-Zero’ China, paranoia thrives as tourism withers

Al Jazeera

As the Delta variant of the coronavirus spreads to more than half of China’s provinces, the whole country hunkers down while economic forecasts go south. “Tolerance is very low.” Forecasts go south The outbreak and restrictions imposed have already led Wall Street to start trimming its China growth forecasts for the year, with Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs all …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95

LA Times

Actress Jane Withers arrives at the premiere of the newly restored feature film “A Star Is Born” in Los Angeles. Withers, also known as “Josephine the Plumber” from TV commercials in the 1960s and ’70s, died Saturday, her daughter Kendall Errair said. After a series of minor roles as a child actress, Withers was cast by Twentieth Century-Fox in the …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Review: ‘MLK/FBI’ explores the roots of an American ill will

Associated Press

There’s an iconic photograph of the Rev. That the FBI wanted someone close and watching King is at the heart of director Sam Pollard’s engrossing documentary “MLK/FBI,” a film that artfully explains how the two sides of that slash came to be enemies. Pollard is a veteran producer and filmmaker who co-directed two episodes of “Eyes on the Prize” and …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Trying to cope with despair? Take solace in the compassion and empathy of Bill Withers and John Prine

LA Times

One came back with a hole in his arm where all the money goes; the other came back with no arm at all. Such were the soldiers John Prine and Bill Withers wrote into existence nearly 50 years ago to illustrate the horrific toll of the Vietnam War — Prine in “Sam Stone,” about a drug-addicted veteran with “a hundred-dollar …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Bill Withers death: ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ and ‘Lean on Me’ singer dies aged 81

The Independent

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy US singer-songwriter Bill Withers, whose …

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‘Sorgavaasal’ movie review: RJ Balaji’s ambitious crime drama withers in effect

Yanchep and Two Rocks residents call for improved health services, with some travelling vast distances for cancer treatment

Fears students will suffer as burnout contributes to 'unprecedented' teacher shortages

US woman seeks Facebook's help to find husband who ghosted her a year back, within a day netizens track him down

UNC found the fight, and the set play, to beat Michigan State and make Sweet 16

Bacot, Withers help No. 1 seed North Carolina beat No. 16 seed Wagner in March Madness

After TMC, AAP & SP, now seat-sharing tensions emerge between DMK-Congress as INDI Alliance withers

John Hancock, Bianca Rinehart maintain united front against mother Gina Rinehart over Hope Downs riches

‘Tiger Nageswara Rao’ movie review: Director Vamsee’s biopic-style film starring Ravi Teja begins with promise and withers into an overdrawn, generic tale

Biden, alone at the top table as the UN withers

As free press withers in El Salvador, pro-government social media influencers grow in power

Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops

Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops

Gangs take control of Haiti as democracy withers

In Haiti, gangs take control as democracy withers

WATCH: Punjab Kings pacer Kagiso Rabada dedicates song to ex-Proteas teammate, bowls out fans with his voice

Call for mandatory COVID-19 face mask rules to be scrapped as Perth's CBD withers

Story of the song: Ain’t no Sunshine by Bill Withers

Highest-earning MP starts new £400,000-a-year job outside parliament

In ‘COVID-Zero’ China, paranoia thrives as tourism withers

Jane Withers, child actor turned commercial star, dies at 95

Review: ‘MLK/FBI’ explores the roots of an American ill will

Trying to cope with despair? Take solace in the compassion and empathy of Bill Withers and John Prine

Bill Withers death: ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ and ‘Lean on Me’ singer dies aged 81