Page 27 - Roy Batty News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

I am pleased to report that we survived the Christmas. It’s always a trying time of year — in among all the wonder and joy there are a lot of pressures, financial and otherwise, which make it challenging. Add to this the fact we had some sort of shapeshifting Rubik’s Cube of a virus doing the rounds like Krampus in the days leading up to the 25th, and it all got a lot more complicated. Dropping an auld box of biscuits to the neighbours suddenly becomes fraught with terror as you try to fight those social norms of coming in for a cup of tea — ah go on, you have to, we haven’t seen yo...

Dave Rubin has three words in response to California’s stay-at-home order being extended three more weeks Posted at 3:57 pm on December 29, 2020 by Brett T. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the statewide stay-at-home order that’s currently in place will likely be extended for another three weeks, citing the increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday that the stay-at-home order that is in effect for the majority of the state likely will be extended for another three weeks, citing a continued increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitali...

Infinitely Repeatable: The Movies We Can Watch Over and Over Again Tom Jolliffe on the films he could watch over and over again and never tire of… We all have our favourite films. There are some that have a deeply profound effect. There are some that get deep within our bones and leave us in awe, or take a heavy emotional investment. You could watch  Requiem For a Dream or Schindler’s List and place them high in a list of greatest films you’ve watched, but feel so exhausted by the process that it may be years before you get back for another go (or potentially, never). We can also love...

Even though it’s been nearly three decades since I joined the Observer, if I close my eyes I can still see my colleagues from yesteryear … Jane Bown looking at a contact sheet by the lightbox, using her monocle eyeglass. Motorcycle couriers flirting with picture researchers. Reporters massaging the egos of alpha-male photographers, vying to become the next Don McCullin, the great photojournalist whose career began here. Men in shabby suits from now-defunct picture agencies, cigarette in hand as they hawked photo-essays from battered suitcases. The picture librarian ferrying files of blac...

In fiction sad and meaningful deaths are more likely to be remembered, study reveals ANI | Updated: Dec 18, 2020 23:35 IST Washington [US], December 18 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers have found that though in fiction people might cheer the death of an evil villain, the only deaths that they do remember are the ones which they perceive as sad and meaningful endings of the character they love. In the study conducted at the Ohio State University, researchers found out that people are more likely to mention deaths perceived by them as 'meaningful' than...