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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J.R.R. Tolkien
April 19, 2018
conditions: Light Snow, 2.3°C, 101.1 kPa rising, wind at NW 24 km/h gust 38 km/h and 64 % humidity
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North American Top Movies
Rampage1-$35.75M
A Quiet Place21$100.01M
Blumhouse's Truth or Dare3-$18.67M
Ready Player One42$114.92M
Blockers53$37.4M
Black Panther64$674.23M
Isle of Dogs710$18.93M
I Can Only Imagine86$75.29M
Tyler Perry's Acrimony95$37.83M
Chappaquiddick107$11.04M
Sherlock Gnomes118$37.23M
The Miracle Season1211$7.04M
Beirut13-$2.11M

billboard top rock
1Imagine Dragons:Whatever It Takes
2Imagine Dragons:Whatever It Takes
3Imagine Dragons:Whatever It Takes
4Imagine Dragons:Whatever It Takes
5Imagine Dragons:Thunder
6Portugal. The Man:Feel It Still
7Imagine Dragons:Believer
8Imagine Dragons:Zombie
9Foster The People:Sit Next To Me
10Alice Merton:No Roots
11Panic! At The Disco:Say Amen (Saturday Night)
12Panic! At The Disco:Love Is Madness
13WALK THE MOON:One Foot
14Bishop Briggs:River
15Five Finger Death Punch:Gone Away
16Five Finger Death Punch:Broken
17Portugal. The Man:Live In The Moment
18Thirty Seconds To Mars:Dangerous Night
19Muse:Thought Contagion
20Godsmack:Bulletproof
21Godsmack:I Feel Like I'm Drowning
22Vance Joy:Saturday Sun
23Elton John:Rocket Man
slashdot
- The Higher Your Salary, the More Time Your Employer Will Pay You Not To Work
- Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta
- Microsoft Has Run Out of Windows Phone Stock
- Turn Right at the Burger King: Google Maps Begins Using Landmarks To Help With Guidance
- Marissa Mayer is Back
sportsnet
- Kapanen, Johnsson could be game-changers for Leafs in Game 4
- More grounders leading to less production for Blue Jays’ Travis
- Comparisons to Sidney Crosby not easy for Alexis Lafreniere to ignore
- Humboldt Broncos GoFundMe site stops accepting donations as planned
- IOC declares Canadian weightlifter Girard is Olympic champion
canoe
- Man behind Asperger research worked with Nazis to murder disabled children, study claims
- It’s (another) boy! Michigan family with 13 sons gets No. 14
- U.K. pushing Commonwealth countries to follow lead and enact ban on single-use plastic including straws
- No charges in Prince’s death: Minnesota prosecutor
- School administrators arrested in student ’fight club’ case
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reuters
- Apple, Philip Morris, chips lead slide on Wall Street
- AT&T CEO Stephenson says deal needed in content-dependent world
- Trump launches effort to boost U.S. weapons sales abroad
- BlackRock wants regulators to address unequal voting rights
- U.S. ban on sales to ZTE triggers patriotic rhetoric in China
cbc
- Warnings to Taipei and Washington: China takes real and verbal shots across Taiwan Strait
- 'We are sorry': Facebook execs grilled by Canadian MPs over Cambridge Analytica scandal
- Too early to talk charges in fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash, police say
- North Korea wants guarantee of security in return for 'complete denuclearization'
- Canadian weightlifter gets 2012 Olympic gold after top 2 stripped of medals
space
- Image: Lagoon Nebula
- New research seeks to optimize space travel efficiency
- SpaceX poised to blast off NASA's new planet-hunter, TESS
- Image: Sounding rocket launches CHESS mission to study the matter between stars
- Image: First light from HyperScout imager
science daily
- How to bend and stretch a diamond
- Natural selection gave a freediving people in Southeast Asia bigger spleens
- Neurons derived from super-obese people respond differently to appetite hormones
- Scientists identify connection between dopamine and behavior related to pain and fear
- Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do
new scientist
- Watch robots assemble a flat-pack IKEA chair in just 9 minutes
- Bioengineered freckle turns darker when it detects cancer
- There’s no way to tell for sure if child refugees are under 18
- Mavericks are belittling statins – here’s why they’re wrong
- Our grandchildren may never see the Great Barrier Reef recover
Thu Apr 19A few flurries or rain showers
A few flurries or rain showers
high: 4 c
 Fri Apr 20Chance of flurries
Chance of flurries
high: 7 c
pop: 40%
 Sat Apr 21A mix of sun and cloud
A mix of sun and cloud
high: 10 c
 Sun Apr 22Sunny
Sunny
high: 12 c
 Mon Apr 23Sunny
Sunny
high: 16 c
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Word of the Day
headlong

headlong • \HED-LAWNG\  • adverb

1 : with the head foremost

2 : without deliberation : recklessly

3 : without pause or delay

1 : with the head foremost


"Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others." - Ellen DeGeneres
science blog
- ‘Rip Van Winkle’ plants hide underground for up to 20 years
- Glowing silk can kill harmful bacteria
- Study shows rapid rise in mass school shootings in the U.S.
- Light at Night Can Disrupt Circadian Rhythms in Children. Are There Long-Term Risks?
Born on this day
- Georg Abraham Schneider, German composer
- Sybil Andrews, English/Canadian painter
- Cyril English, British educator
- Jan Helge Guttorm Bark, composer
- Jonathan Tunick, composer
- Mike Kelly, rocker (Duprees)
- Suge Knight, American record producer
- Rick Hamilton, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)

Weather fact of the day

Today in History
- Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
- 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
- 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10
- Jews refuse to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop, who then orders its destruction, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
- "Casino Royale" James Bond comedy film starring David Niven and Peter Sellers premieres. Based on the Ian Fleming novel.
- John S "Jimmy" Thach, US pilot/admiral (WWII)
- Dickie Goodman, parody singer (Flying Saucer)
- Mark "Flo" Volman, rocker (Flo and Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK)
- Roger Reinson, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)

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