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The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic POLITICO 2/23/2021 By Jack Shafer © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to Covid-19 victims, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. The medical holocaust that is the Covid-19 pandemic—500,000 dead in the United States and 2.5 million worldwide—hasn’t even hit our rearview mirror yet. But as acquired immunity and vaccinations take hold, as the death rate and hospitalizations taper, and as normality returns as a life option, what sort of cultural dent will the outbreak,...

Niven Govinden’s Diary of a Film is a beautiful, poignant novel of love and longing 5/5 This tale of a director beguilingly captures the agony of making a film – and letting the public see it 20 February 2021 • 6:00am Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, which parallels Diary of a Film  Credit: Film Review Call Me By Your Name “I flew to the Italian city of B. to attend the film festival in late March,” begins the unnamed narrator of Niven Govinden’s slender, beguiling new novel, Diary of a Film. This man is a director in his 50s, with a hefty back catalogue of ­well-rece...

Stannard Rock Lighthouse was completed in 1883. It is 39 kilometres from land, a desolate beacon guarding against an underwater mountain in a US lake, a place so unremittingly grim that it has been dubbed “the loneliest place in the world” ... welcome to the Stannard Rock Lighthouse. The 30-metre-high structure in Lake Superior, Michigan is the most distant lighthouse from shore in the US and one of the most remote in the world. US Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City The US Coast Guard had to make an emergency stop. Earlier this month the US Coast Guard had to make an emergency visit ...

View from the Bleachers By tim_jones on February 12, 2021 at 8:25 AM And now for the latest five-day Accu-Weather Solar System Forecast, we turn to our Cosmological Prognosticator, Venus-Ann Mars. Venus, I hope you have another sunny forecast in store for us. Thanks, Brad. A lot happening in this portion of the Milky Way galaxy for a Thursday. So let’s get started. Today’s weather on Mercury – I use the word “weather” loosely, since technically Mercury has no atmosphere – calls for intense radiation and scattered plasma tornadoes. Lows will be – 275 F with an ex...

Submitting... William Maxwell from Downpatrick makes friends with one of the calves at the Northern Ireland Belgian Blue Club's show and sale at the Automart, Portadown, in December 1990. Picture: Randall Mulligan/Farming Life archives PURCHASE OF PIGS The News Letter also noted that until further notice live pigs would not be accepted at collecting depots at Kilrea and Maghera. The collecting depots at Dungiven, Limavady, Londonderry, Victoria Bridge and Coleraine had all previously been closed. The News Letter reported: “Pigs on farms within the scheduled district, now extended, must n...