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Man finds hidden attic in new house full of valuable antiques This is every homeowner’s dream. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/3gR4RSn

https://ift.tt/2WFWhPA More than a million people across Louisiana and Mississippi, including much of New Orleans, remained without power on Tuesday morning after Hurricane Ida tore across the coastal states on Sunday into Monday. By Monday afternoon, it was clear that New Orleans’ levees would hold, sparing the city the worst of the devastating flooding experienced when Hurricane Katrina hit exactly 16 years ago. But the damage from the Category 4 Hurricane Ida—one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the region—has been extensive. At least four people have died and ten people have been injured by the storm; on Monday, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said the death toll could grow “considerably.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Emergency response teams have fanned out across coastal communities suffering from the dangerous storm surge and subsequent flooding, rescuing hundreds of people. Thousands more remained in shelters, and in addition to the widespread power outa

https://ift.tt/3Dwzh65 The latest installment of Ryan Murphy ’s FX anthology American Crime Story is not exactly well timed. Impeachment , which revisits the investigation that threatened to end Bill Clinton’s presidency, was originally intended for release before the 2020 election. Instead, it premieres on Sept. 7—months after the twice-impeached Donald Trump left office, taking the immediacy of the title with him. The season is based on a nonfiction book whose author recently faced his own extremely public sex scandal . And it follows years’ worth of high-profile reconsiderations of the Clinton impeachment, from Monica Lewinsky ’s reclamation of her good name in a 2014 Vanity Fair essay to A&E docuseries The Clinton Affair and a buzzy season of the podcast Slow Burn , both tied to the 20th anniversary of the story in 2018. There may always be an appetite for content around this salacious tale of sex, politics and media, but what is there to say about it that hasn’t

https://ift.tt/3gJcfzh Rising extreme heat will make it increasingly hard for workers to do their jobs, shaving hundreds of billions of dollars off the U.S. economy each year. That’s according to a report published Tuesday by the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, a Washington D.C.-based think tank focused on climate adaptation. It’s a stark warning about the costs of failing to act on climate change. Productivity losses due to heat currently cost the U.S. an estimated $100 billion a year, the report claims. As days of extreme heat become more frequent in the years ahead, that figure is projected to double to $200 billion by 2030—around 0.5% of GDP. By 2050, annual losses are projected to hit $500 billion, around 1% of GDP. These national losses are expected to come primarily from the southeast and midwest. But the effects will be felt across most of the country, with annual losses of at least 0.5% of economic activity projected for 62

Newlyweds create $240 'invoice' to teach wedding no-shows RSVP etiquette: 'It's about integrity' Last-minute cancelations from wedding guests often leave brides and grooms with cash-burning food waste. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/2WESKkw

https://ift.tt/3kI4IBO Whether you know it as vacation season, hurricane season or wildfire season, August is a time when our natural surroundings can take on outsize importance in our daily lives. The same is true of this month’s best new TV shows, each of which conjures a vivid sense of place, from the brick edifices and manicured lawns of East Coast academia to the flat expanses of an Oklahoma reservation to desolate, gray beaches in France’s Nantes region. There are also two very different takes on a city that contains multitudes: New York. For more suggestions, here’s some of my favorite TV from July , June and the first half of 2021 . [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The Chair (Netflix)   N etflix’s perceptive black comedy The Chair opens at what should be the proudest moment of Professor Ji-Yoon Kim’s career. She has just been named the first-ever female Chair of the English Department at venerable (and fictional) Pembroke University, where she’s also one of v

Texas couple celebrates their kids leaving the nest in viral photo shoot A Texas-based couple had a hilarious way of celebrating their kids moving out of the house. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/3jurmOE

https://ift.tt/3mO2RhG There must be few opinions more widely held, when it comes to the art of time management, than that procrastination is always and exclusively a bad thing. Naturally, history’s annoyingly over-productive types—the Benjamin Franklins of the world—have always disdained the tendency to procrastinate . But then so have most procrastinators themselves. The inner struggle to eradicate the trait has driven many a celebrated genius to desperate measures, as when Victor Hugo had his clothes locked away, so that he couldn’t wander the streets of Paris, and instead was obliged to keep writing The Hunchback of Notre Dame in a state of near-nudity. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] But there’s another way to think about procrastination—one that’s arguably more relevant than ever today when it comes to the challenge of managing our daily time. We live in a world of “infinite inputs”: there’s no meaningful limit to the number of emails you could receive or demands you

https://ift.tt/2WIgnIR (NEW ORLEANS) — Rescuers in boats, helicopters and high-water trucks brought hundreds of people trapped by Hurricane Ida’s floodwaters to safety Monday and utility repair crews rushed in, after the furious storm swamped the Louisiana coast and ravaged the electrical grid in the stifling, late-summer heat. Residents living amid the maze of rivers and bayous along the state’s Gulf Coast retreated desperately to their attics or roofs and posted their addresses on social media with instructions for search-and-rescue teams on where to find them. More than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi — including all of New Orleans — were left without power as Ida, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. mainland, pushed through on Sunday. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The damage was so extensive that officials warned it could be weeks before the power grid was repaired. President Joe Biden met virtually on Monday with Lo

https://ift.tt/3zvtH1D (WASHINGTON) — The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members, some barely older than the war. Hours ahead of President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline for shutting down a final airlift, and thus ending the U.S. war, Air Force transport planes carried a remaining contingent of troops from Kabul airport. Thousands of troops had spent a harrowing two weeks protecting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans, Americans and others seeking to escape a country once again ruled by Taliban militants. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In announcing the completion of the evacuation and war effort. Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said the last planes took off from Kabul airport at 3:29

Hurricane Ida forces dogs and cats to be airlifted from Louisiana, Mississippi to shelters across US As Hurricane Ida hits the South, animal shelters nationwide have been helping cats and dogs escape affected areas. via FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/3kHFCmR

https://ift.tt/3yphYAl Forget summer reading—fall is the season of literary bounty. The next few months bring with them a starry landscape full of returns from the buzziest names in the business as well as bold newcomers with hotly anticipated debuts. There’s a crime novel set in 1960s Harlem from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead , a posthumous novel from British master John le Carré, the very first book from acclaimed television creator Michaela Coel and the latest narrative of young people stumbling their way through romantic strife from superstar Sally Rooney . That’s all to say: there’s truly something for everyone in this jam-packed season. Here, the 34 most anticipated books to read this fall. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Misfits: A Personal Manifesto , Michaela Coel (Sept. 7) Michaela Coel, creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum , makes her literary debut with a slim manifesto written with the same perfect balance of sentiment,