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  • Yahoo to buy Tumblr in $1.1bn deal

    Yahoo Inc. has approved a deal to buy New York-based blogging service Tumblr for 1.1 billion dollars. The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as Monday. The deal was unanimously voted for by the board, tech blog AllThingsD reported, citing sources close to the matter. According to the BBC, the deal will be CEO Marissa Mayer's largest deal since taking Yahoo's command in July ...

  • Alabama Legislature targets elder abuse

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Alabama Legislature is making it easier to prosecute people who abuse, neglect or financially exploit senior citizens. The House and Senate passed different versions of the bill earlier in the Senate and then agreed on the same version on Monday night shortly before the 2013 legislative session ended. The Protecting Alabama's Elders Act was pushed by Republican ...

  • Alabama governor offers help to Oklahoma

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's governor says the state stands ready to help Oklahoma recover from a deadly tornado. Gov. Robert Bentley says he's been in touch with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin's office and offered whatever assistance Alabama can provide. He said other states helped Alabama rebuild after deadly tornadoes hit on April 27, 2011, and Alabama is ready to do the same ...

  • Autopsy shows Moss Point fisherman drowned

    http://bit.ly/10RyfaJ ) an autopsy Monday confirmed the cause of death for 56-year-old Timothy Gordon Sr., of Moss Point. Broadus said the autopsy showed no other causes contributing to his ...

  • Alabama Legislature lifts limit on corporate campaign donations

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama lawmakers have agreed to a litany of changes to state election law, including eliminating the cap on corporate political contributions, The compromise version of Senate Bill 445 emerged on the session's final day Monday .The Senate approved the final version 27-4 and the House 90-3. The bill now goes to Gov. Robert Bentley for his consideration. The bill ...


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Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) [DVD]

Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna) [DVD]

Hiroshi Teshigahara has said there are three main characters in Woman in the Dunes (Suna no onna)--the man, the woman, and the sand--and it is testament to Teshigahara's visual and thematic audacity that the tiny, inanimate granules of rock that constitute the th ... ...

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  • Annual Shroud Award given to Rep. Todd

    MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The annual light-hearted humorous jab known as the Shroud Award was presented in the Alabama House of Representatives Monday night. The award, replete with runners up and less honorable mentions, is given yearly to the state representative who proposed a law that had little, if any, chance of passage. The empty suit mounted in an open cardboard box accompanied by a ...

  • Governor Bentley offers support to everyone in Oklahoma

    Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was ...

  • American Cancer Society celebrates 100 years

    BIRMINGHAM– On Wednesday, May 22, 2013, the American Cancer Society will mark its milestone of 100 years of medical breakthroughs and saving lives. In fact, experts with the organization, credited as the largest volunteer health group in the U.S., say ACS is the reason for hundreds of birthdays. "The American Cancer Society has played a role in nearly every cancer research ...

  • Ala. House approves legislative consolidation bill

    The consolidation measure passed the House on a 72-26 vote Monday night. The bill returned to the Senate to sort out differences between House and Senate versions of the legislation with slightly more than two hours left in the legislative ...

  • The Birmingham Bands You Need To Know

    Birmingham, Alabama's music scene is blowing up: Homegrown bands are playing major music fests such as Banditos at this weekend's Hangout Music Festival , while a new music venue, Iron City , is bringing bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel to the ...

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