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| Jennifer Lawrence |
If you're a Jennifer Lawrence fan, the Internet is urging you to be upset. Apparently, there's a massive, vicious wave of J-Law hatred that's about to sweep the country, and it shall be so. ("How much longer before people are tired of [her]?" asks Vulture in their piece, Is Jennifer Lawrence Katniss-ing Us?)
"The Sound of Music Live!" has become the new definition of "hate-watching."
Anyone with a Twitter account has noticed the tidal wave of tweets about NBC's TV event, which aired for three hours on Thursday night, but that can't exactly be taken as a good sign. (You know a TV show isn't going well when
FIFA has switched the starting times of seven World Cup matches, including the U.S.-Portugal game on June 22 in the Amazonian jungle city of Manaus.
FIFPro, the international soccer players' union, had pressed FIFA to avoid the earliest kickoffs in the hottest and most humid weather.
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| Creigh Deeds |
Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds has improved from critical to fair condition Tuesday after sustaining stab wounds at his Bath County home. His 24-year-old son, Gus, died from a gunshot wound at the scene less than a day after receiving a emergency mental health evaluation.
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| Amazon Drone Transfrom |
On Monday morning, everyone was talking about Amazon’s future plans to use personalized drones to deliver purchases within 30 minutes to certain destinations. Several years ago, prognosticators started proclaiming that drones would be as ubiquitous as cell phones and would be used for everything from deliveries to data collection. Indeed, last year at the Consumer Electronics Show, I was introduced to about 15 startups focused on consumer drone applications. The University of Alaska at Fairbanks is developing a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem around drone technology.
