Nocturnal Remissions

Need will rear its head despite any conscious desire

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EXCLUSIVE: Spurned Oscar winner strikes back at alma mater | PCC Courier

Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black responds to having his invitation rescinded as PCC's 2014 commencement speaker due to a 2009 sex "scandal." Continue reading →

This is the exclusive story that broke by the student paper, the PCC Courier, which is now national and across the pond.

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A bottle of red made with data. Finding the perfect wine used to mean going to a good wine store, discussing your future meal with a sales person and trying to remember the wine the next time you buy. Now all you have to do is go to a website, like that of Bordeaux-based fine wine merchant Millesima. With data, they can help any customer, anywhere in the world, select the right bottle, for the right meal, the right climate, time of year, you name it. Plus you don’t have to soak off the label to remember the name and vintage when you want to buy it again. Explore more stories →

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Courtney Love blasts Bruce Springsteen, “Saxophones don’t belong in rock & roll.”

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I guess Courtney doesn't recognize Morphine either.

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"Mobile Lovers," the haunting street painting in Bristol, is now confirmed to be a Banksy. 

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Mom, this might be my last chance to tell you I love you.

A text from a high school student who was aboard the ferry that capsized today off South Korea’s southern coast. Four passengers were killed, 55 were injured and more than 280 are missing. (via latimes)

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“Say Anything is 25 years old, as are all the unfulfilled hopes and aspirations of your youth, including but not limited to the dream you had of making a difference in the lives of people other than your friends and family and the vague ideas that at some point in your life the work you would be doing would have meaning in and of itself and not merely be the thing you dragged yourself into each morning because you became a prisoner to status and possessions and the ever-increasing series of compromises and “temporary” positions you took with the delusion that you would only do those things until you got yourself to a place where you were able to follow your bliss, and now when you look back on that idealistic kid from 1989 you are stricken with a mixture of disgust for the ignorance of youth and sadness about the hard realities of life. But of course this is only true for people of a certain age; if you are much younger, don’t worry, I’m sure everything will work out exactly the way you expect it to.”

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A message in a bottle tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago and believed to be the world’s oldest has been presented to the sender’s granddaughter, a museum said on Monday.

A fisherman pulled the beer bottle with the scribbled message out of the Baltic off the northern city of Kiel last month, said Holger von Neuhoff of the International Maritime Museum in the northern port city of Hamburg. “This is certainly the first time such an old message in a bottle was found, particularly with the bottle intact,” he said.

Researchers then set to work identifying the author and managed to track down his 62-year-old granddaughter Angela Erdmann, who lives in Berlin. “It was almost unbelievable,” Erdmann told the German news agency DPA.

She was first able to hold the brown bottle last week at the Hamburg museum. Inside was a message on a postcard requesting the finder return it to the writer’s home address in Berlin.

"That was a pretty moving moment," Erdmann said. "Tears rolled down my cheeks."

Message in bottle arrives after 101 years

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Cancun’s underwater museum boasts over 460 sculptures by Jason de Caires Taylor. See photos of more of these sea sculptures here.

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BREAKING NEWS: 8 million Americans have now signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, President Obama says

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Gabriel García Márquez Dies: Famed Colombian Author And Nobel Laureate Dead At 87

Gabriel García Márquez, the famous Colombian journalist, novelist, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist has died at the age of 87.

One of the most significant authors of the 20th Century, Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. [MORE]

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R.I.P. Gabriel García Márquez

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U.S. workforce more concentrated in large — and largely low-paid — occupations | Pew Research Center

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The latest trend rocking Tokyo: full-on body suits, called “zentai.” 

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Michaels says 3 million cards impacted by security breach

NBC News: Arts and crafts retailer Michaels confirmed Thursday that about 3 million credit and debit cards were affected by a security breach at its stores. 

The retailer said the breach affected approximately 2.6 million cards at its namesake stores between May 8 and Jan. 27 and another 400,000 at its subsidiary Aaron Brothers between June 26 and Feb. 27. The company says it has received “limited” reports of fraud.

Follow updates at BreakingNews.com.

Photo: Michaels Stores has confirmed it was the target of a data breach. (Sam Hodgson / Reuters)

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“Years ago, I walked away from Hollywood partially because I didn’t stand up to the bullies,” she wrote. “I caved in to the pressure instead of fighting for what I felt was right.”

Kim Novak responds to post-Oscars ridicule: ‘I was bullied.’ (via washingtonpost)

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South Korean ferry captain taken into custody

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The captain of the sunken ferry in South Korea was taken into custody Friday and is facing five charges, including criminal negligence.