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Yahoo
a day ago
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Pets of the Day: Putt up a place for Chip and Bunker
STOKESDALE, N.C. (WGHP) — Meet Chip and Bunker, our FOX8 Pets of the Day! If you're interested in adopting these pets or any other pets at Red Dog Farm, please call (336) 288-7006 or visit the . Red Dog Farm is based in Stokesdale. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
News.com.au
3 days ago
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- News.com.au
Bunker denies Verrills in key moment
NRL: A Sam Verrills try was ruled off from the bunker which left the Titans fuming in their clash with the Storm.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
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Bunker Talk: Memorial Day Weekend Edition Part 2
Welcome to Bunker Talk, Memorial Day Weekend Edition Part 2. For all our American readers/commenters, I hope you have a great Memorial Day weekend. And, of course, I want to give a huge thanks to all of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our country. No words are enough. No debt of gratitude can ever be paid off. We are going to break up the long Memorial Day weekend Bunker into two parts so we don't end up with 6,000 comments on a single post. The caption to this week's top shot reads: U.S. Army 101st Airborne soldiers (L-R in circle) Sgt. Christopher Harry from Las Vegas, Nevada, PFC Marc Leming from Atlanta, Georgia, 2nd Lt. David Reis from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sgt. Keith Amaral from Providence, Rhode Island, and PFC Victor Ferenzi from Chicago, Illinois relax February 11, 2002 in a forward perimeter bunker at the Kandahar Airbase in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The soldiers are part of a U.S. force that is continuing to pursue and fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda forces in the country. (Photo by) Also, a reminder: If you want to talk politics, do so respectfully and know that there's always somebody that isn't going to agree with you. If you have political differences, hash it out respectfully, stick to the facts, and no childish name-calling or personal attacks of any kind. If you can't handle yourself in that manner, then please, discuss virtually anything else. No drive-by garbage political memes. No conspiracy theory rants. Links to crackpot sites will be axed, too. Trolling and shitposting will not be tolerated. No obsessive behavior about other users. Just don't interact with folks you don't like. Do not be a sucker and feed trolls! That's as much on you as on them. Use the mute button if you don't like what you see. So unless you have something of quality to say, know how to treat people with respect, understand that everyone isn't going to subscribe to your exact same worldview, and have come to terms with the reality that there is no perfect solution when it comes to moderation of a community like this, it's probably best to just move on. Finally, as always, report offenders, please. This doesn't mean reporting people who don't share your political views, but we really need your help in this regard. The Bunker is open! Contact the editor: tyler@
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz & Pedro Almodovar Among Stars Signing Open Letter In Support Of Exiting Movistar Exec Domingo Corral
Pedro Almodóvar, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz have signed an open letter expressing support for departing Movistar Plus+ content chief Domingo Corral. It was announced last week that Corral would be exiting his role as Director of Fiction & Entertainment at the Telefónica-owned streamer – news that followed a spate of other major management changes. More from Deadline Penélope Cruz & Javier Bardem To Play Married Couple On Rocky Terrain In Florian Zeller's Psychological Thriller 'Bunker'; FilmNation Launches Cannes Market Hot Project Pedro Almodóvar Blasts Donald Trump As "The Greatest Mistake Of Our Time" As Director Accepts Lincoln Center Award Pedro Almodóvar To Receive 50th Chaplin Award From Film At Lincoln Center; Dua Lipa And John Waters Among Presenters The surprise announcement has now led 144 Spanish entertainment industry professionals to put their name to the open letter, which was reported in several local news outlets. 'In light of Domingo Corral's departure as director of fiction and entertainment at Movistar+, after 10 years working to bring Spanish film and series to the top of the national and international audiovisual scene, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to him and his entire team,' the letter begins. 'During a decade that has been revolutionary in the sector, thanks also to Telefónica's commitment to the creation of original content, Domingo Corral and his entire team have championed an idea: A project based on respect for creators, close collaboration with independent producers and listening to all the partners they have worked with, without ever neglecting their focus on entertainment. 'The achievements of their series and fiction projects, endorsed by critics and audiences, are evident. They have created series and produced films that are now part of Spain's audiovisual legacy and have won, year after year, the most prestigious audiovisual awards in Spain and abroad.' Corral had joined Movistar Plus+ in 2014 and oversaw its move into scripted originals. He was promoted to his current role in 2023, as his power at telecoms provider Telefónica grew. However, his exit closely followed Marc Murtra being named Telefónica's President in January and Daniel Domenjó installed as Movistar Plus+ CEO two months later. 'In addition to greatly benefiting the industrial fabric of the sector over these 10 years and helping to provide opportunities for new voices, Domingo Corral's team has also been an example for many of us when it comes to how to approach projects,' the latter added. 'Their dedication, honesty, and transparency have made this possible. #ThankYouDomingoCorral.' The signatories include Cannes Critics' Week Jury President Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Javier Cámara, Paco León, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, whose Movistar Plus+ series Querer was among Spain's most talked about and critically acclaimed of 2024, and Alejandro Amenábar, whose series La Fortuna for the streamer launched recently. On the scripted side, Corral is being replaced by Jorge Pezzi, the former CEO of Spanish production house Boomerang TV, while ex-ITV Studios Iberia exec producer Hugo Tomás will take on non-fiction and entertainment. El País reports that the open letter is a request to the new bosses to keep up the standards Corral and his team have set with series such as Querer and Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (the Javis)'s La Mesias. The company currently has projects in place with Sorogoyen, the Javis and Alberto Rodríguez, along with Cannes competition title Sirat, which is directed by Oliver Laxe. Movistar Plus+ couldn't be contacted before press time today. We've reached out to reps for Bardem, Cruz and Almodovar. Best of Deadline Book-To-Movie Adaptations Coming Out In 2025 TV Show Book Adaptations Arriving In 2025 So Far Everything We Know About 'Emily In Paris' Season 5 So Far
Yahoo
19-05-2025
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Malcolm X used reading to reach his full potential. Will kids now do the same?
Put yourself inside a 6-by-8-foot prison cell, no window, bare concrete walls. A concrete slab juts out from the wall with a mattress to lay on. There's a creaky desk and chair and, in the corner, a wooden pail to defecate in. For 17½ hours a day, this is your reality. You do have a pen and paper. And there is a library nearby, but only with books. No multimedia center here. No smartphone, no television, maybe one or two radio stations, but only for an hour at night. Those other six-and-a-half hours are spent either working in the laundry or walking outside in the yard. Could you do it? For 39 months? Malcolm X did, and if he hadn't endured this cruelly deprived reality, we would have never heard of him. At Charlestown State Prison (now Bunker Hill Community College), Malcolm Little, as he was called at the time, endured suffocating idleness and boredom. He turned to the books in the prison library for, at the very least, a distraction from the thought of being incarcerated. As he explained to Alex Haley years later: '…I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.' On May 19, 2025, Malcolm X would have been 100 years old. He only made it to 39. That itself is tragic, but it would have been even more so if his mother Louise had never taught him how to read. Louise gathered her seven children around the table during the Great Depression, her husband Earl killed after being run over by a streetcar, and asked them to read aloud from the dictionary, the Bible, and from newspapers established by Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey and Grenadian politician T.A. Marryshow. 'A strong-minded mother,' Malcolm wrote to his older brother Philbert while incarcerated, 'has strong-minded children.' According to the National Literacy Institute (NLI), not only are 21% of American adults illiterate, but also '130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children.' Imagine if Louise did not have the ability to read to Malcolm or teach him how to read aloud and hear his voice gain strength. Would he have been able to survive those hellish months in prison? Would he have been able to write his now-famous speech, 'The Ballot or the Bullet,' delivered at Cleveland's Cory Methodist Church on East 105th Street? In prison, as Malcolm read, 'months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned.' Reading, even in that tiny, ancient, decrepit cell, released him. 'I never had been so truly free in my life,' he wrote in his autobiography. 'Black Fourth of July': Before it became a federal holiday, Boynton activist knew Juneteenth needed a celebration Smartphones have the power to capture the mind of a child or teenager and place it on a hamster wheel fueled by dopamine, an imprisonment of distraction. In 2025, reading a book takes a backseat (is it even in the car?) to the eye strain required to take in a 15-second soundbite, watch a ball strike a line of dominos, enjoy a new music video or scroll an endless clothing catalog. At Charlestown, Malcolm threw himself into reading a wide range of titles. He cracked open an old copy of Shakespeare's Macbeth, unsure of what exactly he was reading. But he had time and little to no distraction, so he dug into the etymology using a dictionary. As he improved, he was eventually transferred to Norfolk Prison Library, and the prison library there was large enough for him to find more specific titles. He devoured Frederik Bodmer's The Loom of Language, studied Grimm's Law, read ancient Persian poetry and joined a Great Books discussion group, Machiavelli's The Prince being one of the 17 books discussed. Here's hoping it doesn't take prison for children to crack open a new book and learn about another world. Patrick Parr's third book is Malcolm Before X, published by the University of Massachusetts Press. He grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, and graduated from Cuyahoga Falls High School in 1999. This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: Malcolm X shows the power of reading, even decades later | Opinion
