Interviews - Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Muslims | FRONTLINE

 Posted on August 9, 2024  |  26 minutes  |  5416 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

But the message is one: that God is one; that the creator is single; that the creator has no partner; that the creator is described by the perfection of a number of attributes, which Muslims call the divine names. So God is one; God is almighty; God is all-seeing; God is all-knowing; God is all-hearing. God is compassionate, merciful, forgiving, loving. God is just. And so forth. So we are forbidden to ascribe to God attributes of weakness or imperfection. [Read More]

4 hilarious Hunger Games spoofs

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  358 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Tomorrow, “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” opens at long last. The second installment in the wildly popular series finds heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and hero Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) dealing with the aftermath of having won the 74th annual Hunger Games, a bloody battle-to-the-death set in an apocalyptic future world. But the battle isn’t over for Katniss and Peeta. They’ve angered the evil overlords by inciting a rebellion, and they’re forced to fight again. [Read More]

Amazon Prime Video ads are here, unless you pay $2.99

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  884 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

When William Millsap heard Amazon was going to show advertisements on its Prime streaming service unless he paid an extra $2.99 a month, he canceled his membership. An occasional television watcher, Millsap already has access to Netflix, Hulu and Max and says he has gone too long without ads on his shows to turn back now. The company refunded most of his annual fee. “I’m just at a stage in my life where I try to be mindful about what I do, and constant interruptions just wear me out,” says Millsap, 66, a retired Episcopal priest in Reno, Nev. [Read More]

Mark Ruffalos Wife: Meet Sunrise Coigney, His Partner For Over 20 Years

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  620 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Mark Ruffalo, 56, may be a successful actor, but his wife Sunrise Coigney is every bit as impressive as he is. The beauty and supporter of the star got married to him in 2000 and has led her own successful life and career over the years. Mark once admitted that their love story began when he was struggling and she is the one that turned things around for the better. “I was living in a dump and didn’t even have a driver’s license or a credit card,” he told Closer Weekly in 2014. [Read More]

Zhanna DArt cause of death: How did Zhanna DArt die?

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  170 words  |  Fernande Dalal

The food influencer, Zhanna D’Art whose real name is Zhanna Samsonova, Zhanna was an influencer who was an active promoter of a raw food vegan. Zhanna previously told her followers, “I eat simple food, although I have a lot of experience as a raw food chef, I love creating my recipes and inspiring people to eat healthier. Zhanna D’Art’s cause of death: How did Zhanna D’Art die? Vegan Instagram influencer, 39, ‘died of starvation’ say friends after exotic fruit diet. [Read More]

How to stop a mattress topper from sliding

 Posted on August 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  956 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Q: I have an expensive, full-size, three-inch-thick latex mattress topper with a zip cover that is 64 percent polyester and 34 percent cotton. I place a full-size mattress pad on top that tucks under the mattress on all sides before I put on the sheets. I'm convinced my husband wrestles a bear every night, because within three days, the mattress topper starts to slide over the edge of the mattress along with the mattress pad. [Read More]

Oath Keeper from North Carolina pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy during Jan. 6 insurrection

 Posted on August 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  652 words  |  Patria Henriques

A North Carolina man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring with other members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group to forcefully halt the peaceful transfer of power after President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. William Todd Wilson, 44, of Newton Grove, North Carolina, is the third Oath Keepers member to plead guilty to a seditious conspiracy charge stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Brian Ulrich, 44, of Guyton, Georgia, pleaded guilty to the same charge last Friday. [Read More]

Pelosi says Trumps doctors need to be honest

 Posted on August 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  819 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

WASHINGTON — The Latest on coronavirus infections hitting President Donald Trump and others in his circle (all times EDT): 1:30 p.m. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the doctors treating President Donald Trump for the coronavirus must provide trustworthy information to the public. Pelosi said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation”: “We need to have trust that what they’re telling us about the President’s condition is real.” Her interview aired before the president’s medical team held a news conference at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he is receiving treatment. [Read More]

What is the significance of the closing scene in Their Eyes Were Watching God?

 Posted on August 7, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  288 words  |  Fernande Dalal

Significance of the ending/closing scene Janie is finally able to come to terms with what has happened to her in her life. She realizes that although Tea Cake is dead, the impressions he left upon her and the happiness he gave her will never go away. He was her first true love, and that will always be a part of her.Click to see full answer. Then, what does the ending of Their Eyes Were Watching God mean? [Read More]

How one couple converted a split-level into a home they could live with

 Posted on August 6, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1508 words  |  Tobi Tarwater

Leanne MacDougall and Jeremy Strauss have lived all over the world. They had no desire to live in a split-level home, but they did want to live in Somerset, the storied 180-acre neighborhood adjacent to Chevy Chase, Md. “We were overseas for a long time,” says MacDougall, 47, who works as a communications specialist for Cape Fox, a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). “We moved to Washington in January 2015 and stayed in a nearby apartment while we were doing the house-hunt. [Read More]