Religion: No Sunday Funerals | TIME

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  128 words  |  Tandra Barner

TIME July 25, 1932 12:00 AM GMT-4 Jews hold no funerals on their Sabbath. Funerals are too mournful; the Sabbath should be a day of reverent rejoicing. Some Christians, however, take a mournful pleasure in funerals. Lately, a Christian group banned Sunday funerals, but not with the purpose of depriving any one of Sunday pleasures. For three years the Ministerial Association of Lincoln, Neb. has worked for a city ordinance prohibiting Sunday funerals. [Read More]

Rihanna wants to collaborate with Tems & Ayra Starr

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  168 words  |  Billy Koelling

Nigerian Grammy-nominated singer Ayra Starr was one of the guests who graced the recent Fenty event in the United States where she met Rihanna the owner of the multi-billion dollar beauty brand. As the duo exchanged pleasantries, Rihanna was captured asking Ayra Starr if she had a song with Tems yet to which she replied "Not yet but soon". Rihanna didn't hesitate to share her desire to collaborate with Ayra Starr and Tems. [Read More]

Sara Duterte Leads Philippines 2028 Presidential Polls

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  417 words  |  Billy Koelling

2024 may be the world’s biggest-ever election year, but in the Philippines, voters are already looking ahead to 2028. While current President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., elected in mid-2022, hasn’t even reached his second year in office yet, the country’s constitution currently permits only a single presidential term of six years, opening up early speculation about whom his successor may be. And based on a new poll, provided to TIME on Thursday, by local public opinion firm WR Numero Research, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, appears to command a significant lead. [Read More]

Sex Tape Movie Review: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel Star in Bawdy Rom-Com

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  961 words  |  Kelle Repass

With her blond good looks, her knowing cheer, and a smile that spreads across her face like an earthquake’s fault line, Cameron Diaz is a natural for romantic comedy. In her new, R-rated Sex Tape, she plays Annie, wife of Jason Segel’s Jay, and 10 years after they fell in love, she finds that their routine of work and parenthood has sapped the erotic ecstasy they once felt just by staring at each other. [Read More]

Sophie Alakija wants everyone to stop calling her Wizkid's ex-girlfriend

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  330 words  |  Kelle Repass

Sophie Alakija wants everyone to stop addressing her as Wizkid's ex-girlfriend. Apparently, Sophie is tired of being addressed that despite the fact that she is happily married. She made her frustration known during a scene from a reality tv series 'Being In Nollywood.' "For those of you that keep referring to me as Wizkid's ex-girlfriend, I have a name, my name is Sophie Alakija and I am an actress, not Wizkid's ex-girlfriend, I am somebody's wife at home," [Read More]

Spinning a New Strategy | TIME

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  984 words  |  Patria Henriques

The President of Patrick Yarns is a bit of an odd duck these days. While most domestic manufacturers are consumed by cutbacks and layoffs, Gilbert Patrick is looking to add to his North Carolina workforce. “We have been very fortunate to never lay off a single associate due to the economy in 45 years,” says Patrick. Just what economy is he working in? Patrick’s roots in the North Carolina textile industry stretch back more than a hundred years. [Read More]

Sport: Businessman Boxer | TIME

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  16 minutes  |  3307 words  |  Kelle Repass

(See Cover) For the professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of other days. It is a time for early morning prayer, which Sugar Ray makes in any handy church, denomination immaterial. It is a day for not shaving (to keep the skin tough), a day for a tea & toast breakfast—nothing more. [Read More]

The Faces of Alzheimer's | TIME

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  858 words  |  Martina Birk

The day after the first anniversary of my sister Maureen Reagan’s death, Charlton Heston announced that he had been diagnosed with “symptoms consistent with early stages of Alzheimer’s.” Sometimes in life, there are odd juxtapositions of events–an interplay of circumstances that makes one pause and wonder what forces are at work. This was one of those times for me. Maureen was so committed to defeating the scourge of Alzheimer’s, to getting more funding for research and increasing understanding of the disease that she sometimes delayed her own treatment for the melanoma that eventually killed her. [Read More]

The History of Joker Movies and Character's Origin Story

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2126 words  |  Tandra Barner

Joker is shaping up to be the most controversial movie of the year. The film was received rapturously at the Venice Film Festival and broke the October opening weekend box-office record with an estimated $93.5 million. But it also has some critics worried about how moviegoers will interpret the story of a man struggling with mental health issues who is pushed to violence — and at least one “credible” mass shooting threat was made, according to military officials. [Read More]

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION: Secretary of State

 Posted on August 19, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  712 words  |  Martina Birk

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION JOHN FOSTER DULLES, 64, lawyer and diplomat. Family & Early Years: He was born in the Washington, D.C. home of his maternal grandfather, John Watson Foster, veteran diplomat who was President Benjamin Harrison’s Secretary of State (1892-93). Dulles’ father, Presbyterian Pastor Allen Macy Dulles of Watertown, N.Y., wanted eldest son John to follow the ministry, but grandfather Foster swayed the boy to international law and diplomacy, sending him to Switzerland for six months to study French, a few years later taking him along to an international conference at The Hague. [Read More]