Orville Peck to Make Broadway Debut in Cabaret
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
The Monkees of Invention
Mike Nesmith and Frank Zappa switched places on 'The Monkees' - Episode 57 (out of 58) titled 'Monkees Blow Their Mind' which was filmed in April 1967, and first aired on 11 March 1968.
Bonus clip of Tim Buckley (aged 20) performing 'Song To The Siren' on 'The Monkees' after the jump...
Bonus clip of Tim Buckley (aged 20) performing 'Song To The Siren' on 'The Monkees' after the jump...
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Menthol: The 'gateway' cigarettes?
If he has a beef with the family, Candlers is puffing away.
And if his late model Ford Explorer breaks down on the Atlanta freeway, as it did recently, Candlers will be headed to the corner store to re-up on the nicotine sticks.
"It just died on me," Candler says between long drags off a cigarette. "So I was like real stressed and I think I smoked half a pack of cigarettes waiting on the tow truck."
Like about 19 million other Americans, Candlers smokes menthol cigarettes - for now. The Food and Drug Administration is currently considering whether to ban menthol from cigarettes. Candlers, a stocky man with a beard and a wide smile, says that would be a bad decision.
"They gonna have a war on their hands," Candlers says of the FDA. "I know a lot of folks that smoke menthols, and it would be wrong just to ban one type of cigarette."
But the U.S. government has already banned other types of cigarettes. Flavored beedies, cloves, cigarettes with spices, peppermint and vanilla have all been banned in an effort to discourage teenagers from picking up the habit. Basically, anything that makes tobacco easier to taste or inhale has been targeted by the FDA and Congress.
The FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee is recommending menthol be banned. The committee issued a report earlier this year finding that menthol cigarettes are overwhelmingly smoked by the poor, the young and African-Americans...
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Taliban blames US for Mullah Omar death reports
Two Taliban spokesmen have said their phones had been hacked and messages sent out that their leader Mullah Omar was dead, media reports say.
One of the spokesmen Zabihullah Mujahid told Reuters that the "Americans have hacked our cellphones with advanced technology and sent the messages".Mullah Omar's death was reported in May by sections of the media, including an Afghan TV channel.
Pakistani and US officials had dismissed the reports.
Mullah Omar has evaded capture, despite one of the largest manhunts and is believed to be guiding the resurgent Taliban.
The AFP news agency said that a message went out from Zabihullah Mujahid's phone announcing the death of Mullah Omar.
The spokesman denied this, and said the Taliban would take "revenge on the telephone network providers".
A second spokesman, Qari Yosuf Ahmadi, also told AFP that phones had been hacked.
"That's a false message. The Westerners hacked into our cellphones and sent the message from our numbers to everyone. They want to deceive the Afghan people. It's wrong. [Omar] is not dead and is alive," he said.
@'BBC'
House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Report:
Unauthorised tapping
into or hacking of
mobile
communications
into or hacking of
mobile
communications
Mission Control - Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere
Check out our Live updates from Kennedy Space Center.
This is a mission audio live feed, so there may be extended periods of quiet between events and astronaut sleep periods.
STS-135 Space Shuttle Atlantis Mission Coverage live now through landing. NASA's crew for STS-135 is: Chris Ferguson, commander; Doug Hurley, pilot; Rex Walheim and Sandy Magnus, both mission specialists. The crew is set to arrive at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility at approximately 2:45 p.m. on Monday, July 4th.
Atlantis will carry the Raffaello multipurpose logistics module to deliver supplies, logistics and spare parts to the International Space Station. The mission also will fly a system to investigate the potential for robotically refueling existing spacecraft and return a failed ammonia pump module to help NASA better understand the failure mechanism and improve pump designs for future systems.
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