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May 12, 2021 During the pandemic we watched a lot of TV... If you need something new to watch, CNet put together a list of the 31 best documentaries to binge watch. Some of them I probably wont watch because they are just not something that I am into... but the list is pretty solid and it has something for everyone. Some of them I have already seen and I can agree they are worth the watch... Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal - I just watched this one. It does a good job o...

Apple has landed an original podcast series about Siegfried & Roy. The series is set to premiere exclusively on Apple Podcasts later this year. Apple Podcasts next move for original content is a series about Siegfried & Roy. As reported by Deadline, Apple has landed the exclusive rights to a new podcast about Siegfried & Roy. The series is being produced by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Leckhart. The Siegfried & Roy podcast comes from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Steven Leckhart, a produc...

  (NAPSI)—A story of hope and the indomitable will of the human spirit. This is a popular fiction saga of a pandemic—written well before the COVID-19 virus was ever heard of—and the actions taken by people around the world to fight it. The story is told from the viewpoint of several key characters in various countries and walks of life. It includes realistic descriptions of the disease and heartfelt sub-stories of the characters as they deal with the pandemic.      A woman of science ...

On Saturday March 6, 2021, an 83-year-old man living in Ogden, Utah died from the effects of a fall. His name was Allan J. McDonald, and you may never have heard of him, but he did something remarkable. Allan McDonald received a degree in chemical engineering in 1959 from Montana State University, then went to work for Morton-Thiokol, who manufactured the rockets for the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile and later, the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) used by NASA in its space shuttle. A...

Allan McDonald, engineer who refused to approve Challenger launch, dies in Utah     OGDEN, Utah (KSL) — Allan McDonald, the whistleblower and engineer sent by contractor Morton Thiokol to approve the 1986 Challenger space shuttle launch but who refused to sign off, has died in Ogden at age 83, according to NPR. McDonald was overruled by NASA and company management prior to the Challenger explosion 73 seconds after its launch on Jan. 28, 1986; all seven astronauts aboard were killed, incl...

Utahn Allan McDonald dies at 83; tried to stop the Challenger launch (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Allan McDonald of Ogden picuted in 2016. McDonald, a Morton-Thiokol engineer, was director of the program that made the rocket boosters that included sets of o-rings between the rocket sections for the Space Shuttle. He refused to sign off on the Challenger launch in 1986, though NASA launched anyway and the shuttle blew up shortly after launch. By Clay Risen | The New York Times  ...

An engineer for the maker of the shuttle’s booster rockets, he opposed letting it take off, worried that cold weather might affect them. He was right.

Grantham singer Holly Humberstone went stateside for a performance and interview on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Thursday. Holly, 21, performed her hit single Falling Asleep At The Wheel remotely from a dimly lit road in an unknown location. The special performance piece was broadcast on the American talk show on Thursday night, and depicted Holly sat in the middle of a dimly lit road with her keyboard. Before the performance, she was interviewed by the show’s host James Corden and...

Fort Rucker, Army Aviation bid bittersweet farewell to TH-67 Creek By Jim Hughes, Fort Rucker Public Affairs | February 19, 2021 Estimated reading time 7 minutes, 15 seconds. Army Aviation bid a bittersweet farewell to an old friend that an estimated 90 percent of its aviators learned to fly in when it hosted its TH-67 Creek Final Flight ceremony at Cairns Army Airfield Feb. 17. The fire department at Cairns gives one of the TH-67s at the ceremony a farewell hose down. This aircraft has th...

Glen Zipper ( Sean Stuart ( Tread, Whats My Name: Muhammad Ali) to film the  Four Seasons Total Documentary about the funniest press conference to be held by a major politician. Described as “an apolitical and feel-good” documentary, “ Four Seasons Total Documentary will give a firsthand account of the rollercoaster journey that one well-meaning small business in Philadelphia went through when they agreed to host a political press conference in the midst of the most hard-fought Amer...