Telepathy Is the Sixth Stage of Grief Jane Pek Share article Exercises in Thinking by Jane Pek I I chose my psychic for her name. Faith, or Hope—that would have been too much. But: Grace. Maybe she even heard me when I thought, Yes. I found her, like everything else, on the internet. All you have to do is google finding missing people psychic brooklyn and the true believers float to the surface, unable to sink despite themselves. The crystal healers, the Tarot readers, the ghost whisperers and demon exorcists, the astrologers and alchemists. Grace Banks. Grace’s website was also…
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Hot air: two US direct air capture pilot plants will be built, one in Kleberg County, Texas and the other in Louisiana’s Calcasieu Parish costing a total of £1.bn (courtesy: Battelle) The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to build two commercial-scale pilot plants that would remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through direct air capture (DAC). The $1.2bn effort represents the first phase of a 10-year, $3.5bn programme for four carbon dioxide removal hubs. Environmentalists, however, have criticized the plan saying DAC technology is expensive and its adoption would give oil and coal companies cover to continue…
In this articleADYEN-NLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTAdyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization .Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesSpirits were high when Dutch payments firm Adyen floated on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 2018.The company was riding a wave of growth in Europe’s technology sector and snapping up competition from its mega U.S. rival PayPal.Since then, the company has weathered a turbulent ride, including a global pandemic that knocked volumes from travel clients significantly.The firm expanded aggressively in North America, where…
Refresh for latest…: It’s been another very busy weekend at the international box office with milestones and great holds, as well as a new entry and local-language movies adding to the mix. Coming off of a record-breaking debut in Korea, Christopher Nolan and Universal’s Oppenheimer led the overseas frame for the studios with a $32M session in 80 markets, pushing the global cume well past $700M, as we noted would be the case yesterday. Warner Bros, meanwhile, has a lot going on. Barbie added $26.7M in 75 markets to lift worldwide to a high-heeled $1.279B. The studio’s China coproduction Meg…
WASHINGTON — SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions and Aalyria Technologies were selected for market-research studies on how commercial systems could add capacity to the military’s future low Earth orbit constellation. The U.S. Space Force’s Space Development Agency announced Aug. 17 that the companies will conduct three-month studies. The agency said it wants to better understand the industry’s capabilities to provide “LEO backhaul” services. The agency is paying a total of $1.6 million to the three companies to conduct the studies. SpaceX operates the Starlink giant broadband constellation. Kuiper plans to start deploying Amazon’s broadband constellation over the next few years. Aalyria…
Chinese smartphone brand Honor will relaunch in India through a licensing deal with a local company and is aiming to start domestic manufacturing by early next year, its country head told Reuters.Honor had stopped selling its smartphones in India and reportedly retreated last year amid limited marketing budget and less prudent portfolio management.”India was never a focus market for the Huawei Technologies-owned Honor until 2020 – when it was forced to spin-off the brand and reassess strategy,” said Neil Shah, vice president at Counterpoint Research.Honor’s comeback is underpinned by a licensing deal with a newly formed Gurugram-based firm Honor Tech…
Former U.S. President and Republican candidate Donald Trump makes a keynote speech at a Republican fundraising dinner in Columbia, South Carolina, Aug. 5, 2023.Sam Wolfe | ReutersFormer President Donald Trump has ramped up his rhetoric and vowed to keep speaking out in opposition to his criminal indictments as he campaigns for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.But his war of words in the court of public opinion could backfire on him in the actual courtrooms where judges will soon set his trial dates.Trump has targeted judges, prosecutors and potential witnesses in posts railing against his four active criminal cases, prompting some…
It’s been a couple days since Kid Rock was spotted sipping a Bud Light — and the reactions across Twitter have been just as unhinged as you’d expect … with people weighing in on both sides. For starters, accounts that usually push conservative views seem to feel betrayed in a sense … some writing, “TREASON” another wrote, “I am STRONGLY against CANCEL CULTURE but I am calling for a boycott of all Kid Rock products until further notice.” Others simply seem to be in disbelief, “C’mon Kid Rock, what are we doing?” However, some on the right are still sticking…
In this articleSTLAM-ITFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTUAW Vice President Rich Boyer addresses union members during a “Solidarity Sunday” rally on Aug. 20, 2023 in Warren, Mich.Michael Wayland / CNBCWARREN, Mich. – Automaker Stellantis has threatened to move production of the current Ram 1500 pickup truck from a factory in suburban Detroit to Mexico, a union leader said Sunday.United Auto Workers Vice President Rich Boyer, who heads the union’s Stellantis unit, said the automaker has discussed the move during ongoing contract negotiations that are occurring simultaneously but separately between the UAW and General Motors, Stellantis and Ford Motor.Boyer said the…
On Saturday, Angelina Jolie enjoyed a theater trip with her daughter Vivienne in New York City. The Eternals star was wearing a chic tan suit with wide slacks and a long blazer that swung around her body. Under the blazer, she wore a beige top with a scoop neck tucked in at the waist. She accessorized with nude pumps, black sunglasses, and a large leather tote in black and white.Robert Kamau//Getty ImagesVivienne was wearing khaki pants and a purple t-shirt with a pair of black Converse sneakers. The 15-year-old had her hair up and was smiling as she and her…
Joe Leaphorn can become a bit obsessed, can’t he, especially when he was chasing the man who he had been told staged the explosion that killed his son J.J. on Dark Winds Season 2 Episode 4. This has been the central metaphysical mystery in Joe’s life for the past few years. Why was his son taken from him at such a young age? When young Benny relayed to him that the blond man he had been pursuing was also the person who caused the drill-site explosion that claimed J.J., catching the killer took on greater urgency for Leaphorn. You could question…
The peculiarities of modern life make for a string of sweat-inducing experiences. It might be as innocent as accidentally cutting someone off while driving, as dumb as forgetting someone’s birthday, or as routine as trying to wrestle cash into your wallet after paying.Imagine this: you’re trying to smile and say thanks to the cashier, make way for the next customer, tell your mum on the phone that everything is going great, while picking up the item you just bought and shoving your cash into your wallet. The magic wallet is an easy fix for putting cash away quickly and the…
In this articleOUSTLAZRINVZOUSTLAZRINVZFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTA lidar sensor from Hesai company on top of a vehicle in Shenzhen, China on Jul. 10 2022.Jade Gao | AFP | Getty ImagesFor investors in lidar startups, this has been a long time coming.After years of talk — and a SPAC boom in the sensor sector — automakers have finally started incorporating lidar units into their vehicles. And many more lidar-equipped models are expected over the next few years.Lidar, short for light detection and ranging, is a sensor technology that uses invisible lasers to create a detailed 3-D map of the sensor’s…
Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the teaâ€Â on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk†live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their audience along for a fantastic ride. MargOH Channing will be a featured guest on “If These Walls Could Talk†with hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss on Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023 at 2 PM ET live from the infamous Pangea Restaurant. Wendy Stuart is an…
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Rock You Like A Hurricane†on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, August 22nd, at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more. Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm†is now available…
A technician checks on a stack of wafers at the Applied Materials facility in Santa Clara, California.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCheck out the companies making headlines after hours.Applied Materials — Applied Materials rose nearly 2% in extended trading after beating analysts’ expectations on the top and bottom lines in its fiscal third-quarter results. The semiconductor equipment maker posted adjusted earnings of $1.90 per share, greater than the $1.74 per share expected by analysts polled by Refinitiv. Revenue came in at $6.43 billion, more than the anticipated $6.16 billion.Ross Stores — The retail stock popped 5.7% in extended…
Neon’s re-release of Park Chan-Wook’s 2003 Oldboy grossed an estimated $495k on 250 screens this weekend for a total cume of $880k over five days. It’s set to cross the $1 million in its first week back – surpassing a cumulative North American gross of $707k with original distributor Metro Tartan Film. The classic revenge thriller came out in 2003 and was released Stateside in 2005. It was the first South Korean film to win the Grand Prix in Cannes in 2004 and took in $15 million worldwide. It’s rare for re-releases to top $1 million at the domestic box office. Others…
HELSINKI — Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has announced. A statement posted to the agency’s Telegram social media channel early Aug. 20 confirmed that an anomaly during an Aug. 19 maneuver to lower Luna-25’s orbit resulted in the spacecraft impacting the lunar surface. The spacecraft was scheduled to attempt a soft lunar landing Aug. 21, near Boguslawsky crater, located approximately 70 degrees south latitude in the vicinity of the south polar region of the moon. Roscosmos announced Aug. 19 that at 7:10 a.m. Eastern that day Luna-25 was instructed to fire…