Despite the Texas Winter Storm, Weddings Went On
The pandemic has already thrown weddings into a tailspin, but a sudden and devastating storm was one more hurdle to overcome for vendors and couples.
On Feb. 14, when winter storm warnings and an increase in snowfall began in Texas, Julia McEwen and Chris Keton had just four hours to change wedding plans.Credit.Kendall Peters Photo
By Jenny Block
March 2, 2021
Battered already by a year of coronavirus devastation and postponements, couples in Texas who had hopes of marrying in mid-February had another unexpected hurdle to overcome before finally having their wedding day.
Media blackout: Why Facebook pulled the plug on news in Australia
28 Feb, 2021 08:53 PM
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The battle between Facebook and Australia has cooled down after the social media giant initially blocked all news in the country. Photo / Getty Images
The battle between Facebook and Australia has cooled down after the social media giant initially blocked all news in the country. Photo / Getty Images
Financial Times
By: Hannah Murphy, Richard Waters, Alex Barker and Jamie Smyth
High stakes talks with Rupert Murdoch s News Corp pushed social media giant into taking a stand. It was cast as a battle between Facebook and Australia, as the world s largest social network stripped all news
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 1 (ANI) Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday said that the massive power outage in Mumbai last October was an attempt at "cyber sabotage" according to a preliminary report.
This Is a Play About Shades : Jeremy O. Harris Revisits Slave Play Script
Playwright s Tony-nominated play addresses colorism, Southern accents, and not making the audience comfortable
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After playwright Jeremy O. Harris’ hit show
Slave Play had its final performance at the Golden Theatre on January 19th, 2020, he was applauded by some for changing the way audiences engaged with Broadway theater but also found many detractors. Harris had insisted on being a co-producer of the show, made sure to offer more affordable tickets ($39 rather than the average $124), and hosted a “Black Out” performance, which reserved all 804 seats for black students, performers, journalists, and artists. It seemed a shoe-in for Tony accolades, then the coronavirus pandemic shuttered Broadway and live performances around the globe. With everything in disarray, it was unclear whether the theater awards would happen due to the protracted seaso
https://www.afinalwarning.com/497817.html (Natural News) One of the two reactors at the South Texas Nuclear Power Station tripped because the facilities are not winterized to withstand extreme cold weather. Station officials submitted a report on Monday to the
“It’s very rare for weather issues to shut down a nuclear plant,” said Brett Rampal, director of nuclear innovation at the Clean Air Task Force. “Some equipment in some nuclear plants in Texas has not been hardened for extreme cold weather because there was never a need for this.”
The reactor’s shutdown posed no risk to safety and was part of normal operations protocol. It also made up only 1,280 megawatts of the 30,000 megawatts of outages on Monday, which caused at least 2 million homes to lose power.