America is becoming an under-the-radar hub of sumo wrestling
In Long Beach this past week, 70 men and 15 women from more than a dozen countries participated in a sport that isn’t commonly associated with Southern California: sumo wrestling. The US Sumo Open has grown to become the largest amateur sumo competition ...
FierceBiotech’s 2014 “Fierce 15” Announced Today at BioPharm America™ 2014 International Life Science Partnering Event in Boston
“It’s always a lot of fun to look over a new group of Fierce 15 companies,” said John Carroll, Editor-in-Chief of FierceBiotech. “This year in particular you’ll find quite a few examples of longtime biotech execs, experienced investors and some ...
Regardless of the vote, Zach Rance is Big Brother 16's America's Favorite
Voting has officially closed for this year's Big Brother America's Favorite Houseguest. The competition for the $25,000 prize on the perennial CBS summer hit seems to be a race for second place as one of the houseguests, Frankie Grande, had the support of ...
Miss America Was Kicked Out of Her Sorority for Abusive Hazing
On paper, Miss America 2015 Kira Kazantsev reads like a forward-thinking person's dream of what a beauty queen could be. She's a trilingual honors student who's publicly passionate about women's health and down to clown with Jimmy Kimmel; she's got a ...
Deutsche Bank Strengthens Trade Finance and Cash Management for Corporates Group in Latin America
Deutsche Bank Strengthens Trade Finance and Cash Management for Corporates Group in Latin America Business Wire NEW YORK -- September 22, 2014 Deutsche Bank today announced that Lilian Camera has joined as Head of Client Development for Multinational ...
Former DGA President Michael Apted Heads to Indiegogo For ‘Married in America’
Prolific filmmaker says people being able to contribute what they want to see is “an empowering experience” Michael Apted, prolific filmmaker and former president of the Director's Guild of America, launched a campaign Monday on Indiegogo to fund the ...
What Reparations in America Could Look Like
Ta-Nehisi Coates made the case that America owes reparations to its black community. But he purposely left out the details of what a reparations program might look like. We will now make a proposal, for your consideration. First, though, let's briefly ...
John Oliver on Miss America | Video
The Miss America pageant is known for its crazy onstage moments, swimsuit parade, and must-see talent performances, but the organization that puts on the pageant prides itself as being a scholarship fund — or so it would have you believe. Last Week ...
Casting Society of America Honoring Rob Marshall, Ellen Lewis
The Casting Society of America will honor director Rob Marshall with its New York Apple Award and casting director Ellen Lewis with its Hoyt Bowers Award at the 30th annual Artios Awards, which will be held Jan. 22. Traditionally, the Artios Awards have ...
WATCH: John Oliver hates everything about the Miss America Pageant
The Miss America Pageant brought its sideshow of beautiful people back to Atlantic City last week, with hopes that its presence would help reinvigorate the city's ailing economy and clean up its increasingly negative image. Unfortunately, though, as a ...
LJ Idol -- Week 22
Crossed Cultures I'm fascinated by cultures when they cross. There’s a example in one of Tony Hillerman’s books. They’re investigating the disappearance of a climber. It’s been long enough that everyone has assumed that he’s dead. Someone mentions a funeral service in front of Jim Chee, a Navajo pol ...
Spokane Wiki
The area is considered to be one of the most productive mining districts in North America. [80 ] Natural resources have historically been the foundation of Spokane's economy, with the mining, logging, and agriculture industries providing much of the region's economic activity. After mining declined ...
Accommodatheism I: Let’s all stop going after the low-hanging believers
I decided to Coyne a new world to replace “faitheism,” and it’s in the title. “Accommodatheism.” It’s the tendency of some nonbelievers to try to make common cause with believers, or at least to stop criticizing them. (Watch Chris Stedman steal this word the title of his next book!) A prime example ...
Walking Through the Art of “Black Radical Brooklyn”
(Photo by Brady Dale) You could tell it would be a while before the deejay was going to get much response from the crowd at the opening party for “Funk, God, Jazz and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn” at the Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights. That’s how it goes for deejays: the long wait u ...
FOX News’ Eric Bolling says: “The enemy is Islamic, it’s time to start profiling Muslims”
Deemed the “most controversial” topic ever discussed on Fox’s Cashin’ In, all the guests seemed to agree: It’s time to start profiling Muslims in America. Mediaite (h/t GD) “While the administration buries its head in the sand,” host Eric Bolling said of alleged jihadist … Continue reading →
Making the Next Economic Crisis Worse
The U.S. economy clearly faces some major challenges. The issue is whether or not we, as a society, are preparing to meet those challenges, and the most obvious way to do that is to give the whole society the best possible foundation. Unfortunately, since the Recession of 2008, exactly the opposite ...
How DNA Testing Can Reveal Jewish Ancestry and Bolster the Zionist Narrative
This summer, the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) presented a set of recommendations on genetic testing to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and the Israeli cabinet (pictured here at its weekly meeting on June 29, 2014). JPPI recommended that the Israeli government, Jewish communities, a ...
11 Reasons People Are Obsessed With Shake Shack
Shake Shack is the hottest burger chain in America right now. The fast-expanding company is preparing an initial public offering that could be worth up to $1 billion. Shake Shack is known for long lines at its 34 locations in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Florida and Massachusetts ...
$30 per aspirin, $83,000 to treat an insect bite, and most of personal bankruptcies in the US are people who have health insurance…
Whenever you visit a hospital, it is your wallet that may end up hurting the most. All over the United States, it has become common practice for hospitals to wildly inflate medical bills. For example, it has been reported that some hospitals are charging up to 30 dollars for a single aspirin pill. A ...
Emma Watson Gives A Kickass Feminist Speech
She was my childhood sweetheart, she graduate from college in america, took a break from acting, went back to acting, and now... she's in the UN doing what she apparently does best - Standing up for her fellow women. Its important for us women to support each other through all the hardships that lif ...
