Month: January 2021

Bond Girl & That 70s Show Star Tanya Roberts Dead at 65 – TMZ
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Bond Girl & That 70s Show Star Tanya Roberts Dead at 65 – TMZ

Tanya Roberts -- a one-time Bond girl and cult classic '80s star -- has died ... TMZ has learned. Tanya's rep tells TMZ, she was on a walk with her dogs on Christmas Eve and when she returned home she collapsed. She was taken to the hospital and put on a ventilator but never got better. We're told it was NOT COVID-related. Tanya died today. In the days leading up to her collapse, we're told Tanya appeared perfectly healthy ... even doing video chats for her fans. Tanya was a go-to model and actress in her heyday -- so much so, she even appeared as one of the Bond girls, Stacey Sutton, in "A View to a Kill," opposite Roger Moore. She also starred in campy adventure fantasy flicks like "Sheena" and "The Beastmaster," plus a bunc...
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Now that the Swedish model has failed, its time to ask who was pushing it – Hot Air
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Now that the Swedish model has failed, its time to ask who was pushing it – Hot Air

All this talk of Sweden appears to have influenced the decision-making in Downing Street. A recent report in the Sunday Times suggested Johnson chose not to impose a circuit-breaker lockdown in September after a meeting with chancellor Rishi Sunak and three proponents of a herd immunity strategy: Sunetra Gupta and Carl Heneghan of the University of Oxford and Anders Tegnell, the epidemiologist behind Sweden’s laissez-faire approach to the pandemic. (When openDemocracy asked for details of Tegnell’s correspondence with the prime minister’s office, it was told that any release could compromise the formulation of government policy.) The ubiquity of contrarian voices on Covid played into Boris Johnson’s well-documented tendency for indecision. As anyone looking to influence the prime minist...
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Cant face Dry January? You dont need to, says a top Japanese doctor – Daily Mail
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Cant face Dry January? You dont need to, says a top Japanese doctor – Daily Mail

After the year we’ve all had, are we really going to do Dry January when raising a glass with members of our bubble seems like one of the few treats left to us? The next few weeks will be hard enough without a vino or cocktail to look forward to. No, what we need this January is not to stop drinking but to drink differently, so we minimise the damage to ourselves while maximising the relief from anxiety-inducing news. And, hurrah, that is entirely possible, according to a book called The Japanese Guide To Healthy Drinking, co-written by a sake-loving doctor — and liver specialist, no less — called Dr Shinichi Asabe. Already a huge hit in Japan, the book offers scientifically backed advice on how to drink your way through a long and healthy life, with no abstinence required. Of course, the...
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Los Angeles mayor says virus spreading within households – KCRA Sacramento
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Los Angeles mayor says virus spreading within households – KCRA Sacramento

The pandemic is getting worse in Los Angeles as the coronavirus spreads rapidly within households and Californians let their guard down, according to Mayor Eric Garcetti, who said Sunday that the nation's most populous county is recording a new COVID-19 case every six seconds. Garcetti said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that he's concerned news of a vaccine rollout “has made everybody so hopeful” that they feel they can relax their behavior. “We cannot. We cannot let up,” the mayor said. “This is a virus that preys off of our weakness, preys off of our exhaustion." Overall Los Angeles County is seeing high compliance of mask-wearing and people abiding by stay-home orders, Garcetti said. Despite that, the state is reporting enormous numbers of new cases, including more than 12,...
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Mark Hamill “Literally Speechless” After ‘The Mandalorian’s Ming-Na Wen Praises ‘Star Wars’ Legend – Deadline
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Mark Hamill “Literally Speechless” After ‘The Mandalorian’s Ming-Na Wen Praises ‘Star Wars’ Legend – Deadline

Mulan icon and The Mandalorian actress Ming-Na Wen took to Twitter on New Year’s Eve to praise Star Wars legend Mark Hamill on the Emmy-winning Disney+ series after he made a very memorable cameo in the Season 2 finale that is still on people’s minds. Wen retweeted Hamill’s excitement for seeing fan reactions to his appearance in the season finale. “You (& Luke) have been immensely inspirational & impactful to my childhood & as an adult,” she wrote. “To have shared a scene with you in @themandalorian is truly one of the biggest highlight, not just in my career, but in my life. Thank you. 😍❤️ Your fan always, Ming-Na aka Fennec.” Hamill responded with equal praise: “So this happened & I’m literally speechless, other than to say: the pleasure was all mine @Mi...
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Bean dad viral thread opens a Twitter can of worms – CNET
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Bean dad viral thread opens a Twitter can of worms – CNET

Education Images / Getty Images Manual can openers aren't exactly intuitive. Over the New Year's weekend, Seattle musician and podcaster John Roderick discovered this when the kitchen gadget stumped his young daughter. Roderick, founder of The Long Winters and onetime candidate for Seattle City Council, explained the events in a Twitter thread that has since sparked plenty of online debate, and earned the singer...
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Coronavirus in Oregon: 1,421 new cases Sunday as state’s death toll hits 1,500 – OregonLive
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Coronavirus in Oregon: 1,421 new cases Sunday as state’s death toll hits 1,500 – OregonLive

The Oregon Health Authority on Sunday announced 1,421 new positive or presumptive COVID-19 cases, along with eight more deaths, bringing the state’s death toll to 1,500 since the pandemic began. A total of 117,745 people have now tested positive in Oregon. Health officials said 3,400 doses of vaccine were recorded yesterday, including 1,700 new shots given and 1,700 documented from earlier days. To date, 48,725 Oregonians have received their first dose of coronavirus vaccine out of 190,500 doses that have been distributed, the health authority said. Oregon’s vaccine deployment pace trails 40 other states, federal data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show. Where the new cases are by county Baker (3), Benton (9), Clackamas (202), Clatsop (6), Columbia (14), Coos (20)...
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Kylie, Kendall & Kris Jenners Aspen Rental is a $450k a Month Winter Wonderland – TMZ
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Kylie, Kendall & Kris Jenners Aspen Rental is a $450k a Month Winter Wonderland – TMZ

The Jenner girls have hit the slopes to ring in the new year -- and they're shacking up in the Colorado Rockies inside what might as well be a castle ... which costs an absolute fortune. Kylie, Kendall, Kris, Corey and some other pals -- plus young Stormi Webster -- are all on a winter retreat right now in Aspen ... where they're doing some snowboarding and taking in the fresh mountain air, while also kicking their feet up in a fortress of a rental home. The 20,000-plus square foot, 4-story mansion comes equipped with 7 bedrooms, 9 baths, a massive deck, a patio, a fireplace, an in-home theater, a pool and spa, a bowling alley and a 4-car garage. It's also brand spanking new ... the place was just built in 2020. If you're wonder...
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Kylie, Kendall & Kris Jenners Aspen Rental is a $450k a Month Winter Wonderland – TMZ
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Kylie, Kendall & Kris Jenners Aspen Rental is a $450k a Month Winter Wonderland – TMZ

The Jenner girls have hit the slopes to ring in the new year -- and they're shacking up in the Colorado Rockies inside what might as well be a castle ... which costs an absolute fortune. Kylie, Kendall, Kris, Corey and some other pals -- plus young Stormi Webster -- are all on a winter retreat right now in Aspen ... where they're doing some snowboarding and taking in the fresh mountain air, while also kicking their feet up in a fortress of a rental home. The 20,000-plus square foot, 4-story mansion comes equipped with 7 bedrooms, 9 baths, a massive deck, a patio, a fireplace, an in-home theater, a pool and spa, a bowling alley and a 4-car garage. It's also brand spanking new ... the place was just built in 2020. If you're wonder...
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